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Framedragger: ftr i didn't every say it was
the right thing for bitcoin with uniformly distributed hashspace
a111: Logged on 2017-03-10 17:16 asciilifeform:
the Right Thing would probably be to have a very simple kernel driver that takes a specially-marked disk partition and gives userland trb linear use of it, as plain array
a111: Logged on 2017-03-10 17:16 asciilifeform:
the Right Thing would probably be to have a very simple kernel driver that takes a specially-marked disk partition and gives userland trb linear use of it, as plain array
mod6: agree. just trying to be 100% positive I'm doing
the right thing, before I do it. And it is discussion worthy imho.
phf: also you don't want to concatenate paths, because that's how you end up losing separators and getting injection attacks and such. (merge-pathnames ...) will still work on strings, but will do
the right thing mircea_popescu: if the thing you're shelling to is actually
the right thing, take the code put it in a lib or in your application.
mircea_popescu: let me approach this matter from a different pov. do you agree that a string S consisting of computer code can be, depending on the context in which it is patched,
the right thing or a deliberate subversion ?
mircea_popescu: married woman in brunei, a traditionalist society, expects to be fucked, in the way which fucking goes (ie, indifferent), by her husband but not by another man. and if her husband fucks with a stick, or with electrified vaginal pears, it's none of her business ; much like the belgian woman might fuck another woman, or a cat or a bit of plastic, just as long as it DOES
the right thing - the brunei woman will fuck in whichever
mircea_popescu: (but there is also the case of the dutch raid when they literally burned down london - except in a strange case of premonitory japanese misbehaviour, failed to bomb
the right thing. this is in the logs.)
mircea_popescu: incidentally i'd say the arrangement as present is also
the right thing. bot should send raw bytes ; wwwtron should send escape codes.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: Not quite
the right thing for this Right time yet.
mircea_popescu: they're patching the error of lynx doing
the right thing in 2016 as it did in 1996 ; except meanwhile everyone else went fucking clueless.
BingoBoingo being a selfish prick and very sick individual must naturally vote for myself. My second preference would be diana_coman's for the subtle twist, though hanbot did
the right thing by fanfic law and made the sex gay.
mircea_popescu: "To make use of such a key, the owner hashes the payload being signed, and for each bit that is equal to 0 in the resulting hash, reveals the original pre-hash string from column A, whereas if it is equal to 1 he reveals a pre-hash string from column B." << this is
the RIGHT THING.
phf: well, you write your heathen-octet-stream wrapper around your default sb-internal::binary-trit-tryte-input, so that read-byte on a stream gives you
the right things
mircea_popescu: heh. mno. he fails to say "wolf does
the right thing - farmer is a fucking idiot for not shooting it. law ? what fucking law."
phf: when i started using emacs there was an almost ideological aversion to DWIM in the community, instead of having say smart context "search" thing you'd have a dozen search-foo-in-bar combinations, and that was thought
The Right Thing. emacs has long been dragged in the dwim direction by the usual suspects, but the vogue elsewhere is now dwiw, i.e. do what i want. as explicit/"want" gap gets bigger, you're going to have all kinds of attack vectors o
mircea_popescu: well... odds are he's a principal in a charity somewhere that cooked the books. "seemed
the right thing to do" "i just took people's word" "i just wanted to" etc.
mircea_popescu: yep, i am certain it is exactly
the right thing bwahahaha
trinque: asciilifeform: seems exactly
the right thing to happen right before another power vertical is established
phf: mircea_popescu: gosling, the guy who designed java, is notable for recognizing
the right thing, but intentionally committing an atrocity of java as a language for the corporate programming. in one of his interviews he says something along the lines of "at least we got ~them~ to use a garbage collector". before java gc was an explicitly lisp thing, which is also gosling's pedigree
mircea_popescu: well, poverty is an absolute bar to the workings of law in the us, if you're poor you're priviledged. nevertheless the way this works is that you either say something or go to jail ; and if they decide you didn't say
the right thing at some previous point you also go to jail.
mircea_popescu: phf it also happens to be
the right thing to do, other than buying bitbet.
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 13:11:28; asciilifeform: the 'reddit appeal' of what we do is ~0, and this is PROPER, and it is in many ways a barometer of doing
The Right Thing mircea_popescu: yes, lordlist was seeded, like everything else (bitcoin included) with very low effort , and very low bars, which is how people like nubbins made it in. this is both fine and
the right thing.
trinque: faced with "shut bitbet down" or "gift bitbet the funds to keep running" or "loan them", what's
the right thing to do?
mircea_popescu: stop worring about what things mean and what may come and so forth, focus on doing
the right thing at each juncture i say.
danielpbarron: or more than one; does it make sense to make a raid? and for that matter what's
the right thing to buy for that?
mod6: so that looks like its doing
the right thing, and the log was updated as well.
ben_vulpes: I personally don't understand the reasons beyond "it's
the right thing to do with the reference implementation, dummy. also, fuck drepper."
mircea_popescu: "
The right thing to do was to carefully implement one, common base mode for process interaction, and to carefully put in hooks for customising this base mode into language-specific modes" << and in today's installement of intelligence is no defense from stupidity news, "if you tried wrestling with a wild pig in some mud you found in the forrest and got raped, the correct thing is to buy some earth from the supermarket,
mircea_popescu: punkman note the "concept squatting". they're specifically NOT doing
the right thing.
BingoBoingo: Now in other news... It's
the right thing to refer to segregated witness as "Jim Crow" for signatures?
phf: jurov: so original interpretation was that mapTransactions.clear(); doesn't deallocate individual instances (i.e. boost doesn't do
the right thing), attempting to iterate over mapTransactions and do explicit del on instances results in crash. so the new assumption was that mapTransactions instances are somehow used elsewhere. i don't think there's much else insight on the subject
mircea_popescu: you're only in it for the money, why do more work for the same pay? F#@$ that. It would take things like morals and integrity to do
the right thing in the juvenile system in this country; two of the many virtues this system has little to none of. Corrupt judges receiving kickbacks and facility owners buying jets and boats with money obtained by falsely imprisoning minors is all business as usual in the juvenile justice
ascii_field: 'The piecemeal approach of requiring individual borrowers to apply for loan forgiveness seemed unacceptably burdensome. “
The right thing to do would be to issue a classwide discharge and understand that this happened to a group of people,” says Ann Larson, 41, one of the organization’s leaders.' << win !
danielpbarron: it's
the right thing to do, to offer the ex-virgin's father payment for her hand in marriage
mircea_popescu: check out gavin from 2011 : "What's the extra CPU cost for recovering the public key? Current bottleneck for bitcoin transaction processing is the CPU cost of ECDSA signature verification, not disk space or bandwidth, so saving bytes at the expense of more CPU is not
the right thing to do."
mircea_popescu: you don't do
the right things TO be paid. you do them BECAUSE they're
the right things.
mircea_popescu: which also happens to be
the right thing, incidentally.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i meant - the lot of us. nobody wants to really break a sweat for channel housekeeping because gossipd is '
the right thing'
decimation: asciilifeform: I can already hear jwz saying that he doesn't want politics, just to do
the right thing assbot: Logged on 02-07-2015 16:19:40; decimation: I'm sure that if you met the leaders of the average usg institution they would strike you as nice people trying to do
the right thing. they are just imprisoned by their choices, making them into figureheads
mats: rashida jones knows exactly what she's doing, and she believes she's manipulating folks into doing
the right thing by preying on the viewer's instinct to protect women and children
decimation: I'm sure that if you met the leaders of the average usg institution they would strike you as nice people trying to do
the right thing. they are just imprisoned by their choices, making them into figureheads
☟︎ phf: it's doing all
the right things, i.e. wouldn't connect until explicitly given addnode, discurding bastard blocks, hovering at 62mb. block count 129821 right now
williamdunne: I think I've been hearing about identifi recently, let me check I'm on about
the right thing one sec
mircea_popescu: by now it's mostly "shit, another bug. no, wait a minute, this is
the right thing."
mod6: using 'default' just isn't
the right thing.
trinque: runit is the only service supervisor thing I've encountered that *does
the right thing by default*
decimation: "As King put it: "Winston Churchill once famously observed that Americans will always do
the right thing, only after they have tried everything else.""
trinque: sees whether it's a key or message, does
the right thing ben_vulpes: probably
the right thing to do is to draw the parallel between braindead altcoin 'creators' and braindead copypasty ransomware operators. script kiddies, the lot of 'em.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: re portotronic, what's
the right thing to do with CROSS_PREFIX for non-arm builds? omit from script entirely?
mod6: i still don't think i did
the right thing there..
mircea_popescu: "this is
the right thing and in your best interest, and we're so certain of this we'll pay you to do it."
mircea_popescu: Congrats for figuring it out, and doing
the right thing.
danielpbarron: when i was in college, i sorta made a fool of myself by giving a presentation about irc in some computer class; the presentation was supposed to be about some online business we were supposed to have come up with in a semester. In retrospect, it was exactly
the right thing to present; kids growing up without awareness of irc is not helping them
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, re maximillian : he hung of his own hand, basically. man lands in mexico at the invitation of the elite, sees the conditions of the poor and figures "hey, this shocking difference i perceive from the situation in europe is in no sense and to no degree a warning to me!
the right thing to do is obviously ignoring reality and behaving according to imagination!!!"
mircea_popescu: The media explains how things relate to him, and as long as he understands what's going on, he feels empowered. He is given an ideology without even knowing it. Now he doesn't actually have to do anything, indeed, it's way the hell better if he does nothing. All that's required is support, and through his support not only will "
the right things" happen but he'll share in the credit.
mircea_popescu: "We don't mess with anybody. All we want to do is play games, share healthy ideas. We don't try to influence the government or what's happening in Cuba ... We do
the right thing and they let us keep at it."
adlai: why not? i've written something useful, i'm trying to make it more useful, and i _believe_ (ie, an opinion more grounded in emotion than evidence) that
the right thing to do is share this
adlai:
the Right Thing™ would be to use cl-json instead of st-, and schematize everything
mircea_popescu: it is a matter of doing
the right thing. it's about people, not code.