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trinque: makes traversing lots of relationships at once harder to fit in head
jurov: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-06#1578252 << as long as they fit into the head (like alexandria), fine for me. why are you asking? ☝︎
mircea_popescu: Framedragger re automation angle - i dunno, i suppose varying amounts of elbow grease could be employed, entirely as a mechanical gearbox, in lieu of actual automation. just it doesn't fit in my head - the same people who wouldn't read ten words would then go through the motions, orders of magnitude more complex, of making screenshots etc ?
jurov: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-11#1565865 layering "expressive" abstractions is not the only way to fit thigs into head. ☝︎
asciilifeform: stupid folk cannot resist the urge to actually try an' cut the world to fit in stupid head.
asciilifeform: anyone who followed along and was able to (or not...) to fit-in-head, please let me know.
mircea_popescu: the part where you can spec things that don't actually fit in head. for instance, i can specify "a good fuck", or "an acceptably behaved slut" or "a boring housewife"
asciilifeform: let's revisit thread - what part of 'fits in head, and speccable, or doesn't-fit-in-head, unspeccable, t. non d.' does mircea_popescu disagree with ?
asciilifeform: c++ does not fit in head.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, the "crypto-contract", fit in head or not, is just an avatar of lazy thinking, much like any amulet. ignorant nonsense and no more.
mircea_popescu: if you can't say what it is, you have no fucking idea what it is, and it's not currently fit in your head.
trinque: and so then your program will never fit in your head
mircea_popescu: you don't fit in your own head.
trinque will try to fit this in head after a cycle in his regeneration pod
nubbins`: no kidding, i can only fit one broken contract in my head at a time
mircea_popescu: but congrats on being the nth lazy thinker who has a simple theory in his head, cut ~80% of the facts or so that fit it, and is ready to reddit about the matter.
mircea_popescu: forget fits in head, this doesn't even fit in ass.
jurov: arbitrary text transformations like you dream of do not fit in head
danielpbarron: heh, my list was getting a little too long to fit in my head so to speak
punkman: does ChaCha fit in head? it did fit in those tweets
thestringpuller: problem arises when people can barely fit 3 bits in head before wandering off.
thestringpuller: the rule of thumb "fits in head" helps with the notion of owning device which when understood could "fit in head".
mod6: was tinyscheme a beter alt than minischeme simply because of its size and ability to fit in head?
thestringpuller: yes yes. "fit in head"
asciilifeform: punkman: when the standard does not fit-in-head and yields 200kB of heathen code - it can go die
asciilifeform: how does altering whitespace do anything for fit-in-head.
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-01-2016#1379618 << dunno about this. laborious for certain, and would make the whole thing 10x more likely to 'fit in head'. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: how's it gonna fit in your head ?
phf: my impression of traditional education is that when everything doesn't fit in your head, you continue cramming it, until in the flash of insight, a way of restructuring the tree comes to you. in this case notation allows for a caching mechanism. somewhere on a blackboard there's a cluster of meaning, that you no longer have in your head, because head is full, so having that cluster contain higher density of information allows for a more
asciilifeform experimented with erlang at great length, on multiple occasions, but cannot bring himself to use it for anything on the battlefield because 1 ) ONE IMPLEMENTATION and 2) IT DOES NOT FIT IN HEAD
phf: doesn't cathoic church has a deedbot of some sort? i'm more familiar with orthodox system, but presumably they come out every once in a while to updates for canon and the catechism, "we found the previous belief that 10 angels can fit on a head of a needle invalid, and on the account of recent scientific developments in nanotechnology, we are now convinced that the correct number is in fact 17" sort of thing
ascii_field: program verification is 1) provably unsolvable in the general case 2) to the extent it adds complexity and overall logical mass and subtracts from fit-in-head-ability, it is ~an evil~
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 14:48:09; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-09-2015#1273976 <<< wwwwait. they fit in head ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-09-2015#1273976 <<< wwwwait. they fit in head ? ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: it is even conceivable that the guts would have fit in your head, had they been exposed
BingoBoingo: C can fit in head
mircea_popescu: it just... it doesn't fit in my head.
ben_vulpes: it's software that i must run that does not fit in my head!
asciilifeform: bitcoin fit in your head ?!!
ben_vulpes: well i've not parsed v in its entirety into my head yet, and after bitcoin i'm loath to run software that doesn't fit in my head.
assbot: Logged on 29-08-2015 17:44:04; ben_vulpes: regarding graham, the focus on macros in his (published) work puts me off a bit. "look at the monstrous edifice of complexity i can hold within my mind!" instead of "look at this useful and easily fit-into-head thing i made".
ben_vulpes: regarding graham, the focus on macros in his (published) work puts me off a bit. "look at the monstrous edifice of complexity i can hold within my mind!" instead of "look at this useful and easily fit-into-head thing i made". ☟︎
funkenstein_: trinque, ones that fit in head?
assbot: Logged on 07-08-2015 13:29:10; mircea_popescu: fuck alf's "fit in head". if it's large enough to ever need updating it shouldn't have made in the first place.
mircea_popescu: fuck alf's "fit in head". if it's large enough to ever need updating it shouldn't have made in the first place. ☟︎
asciilifeform: and that there is not a magical elixir that absolves you of the need to 'fit in head'
mircea_popescu: ie, fit it in head.
decimation: yeah, recipe needs 'fit code in head' too
phf: in my experience it's cheaper to literally go a log file and reconstruct data manually the one time your system crash, then introduce uknowable redundancies that tend to increase complexity and ultimately result in the crash, because doesn't fit in head
ascii_field: about items which 'fit in head', there can - on rare occasion - be reasoning.
decimation: how to fit std::map and std::vector in head? bastards designed by committee
decimation: but these are precisely what you want to 'fit in head'
asciilifeform: alternatively 'i need to fit the code in head'
ben_vulpes: my problem is finding the things that fit in my head
mircea_popescu: an' i dun think they fit my head.
asciilifeform: (no, cn, ru, etc. are not 'free world' in this sense, they run winblows toolchains and operate overwhelmingly on designs cribbed wholesale without any attempt whatsoever to fit in any head)
mircea_popescu 's trick to "fit in head" is chopping off the details.
trinque: if you cannot fit it in your head, you are a liar if you point to it and say you know it to be secure
trinque: Naphex: it takes some humility to be able to see that while you may be able to reason about ipsec in the abstract, neither you nor anyone else can take the current computing stack and fit it in his head
asciilifeform: as if this did something tangible beyond making it even -less- fit-in-head.
nubbins`: they're all small enough that you can fit each one inside your head enough to understand it
Adlai: (which were supposed to be one book, but eventually didn't 'fit in head')
asciilifeform: if correctly built, apparatus will remain standing. but the notion that no one will see it fit to pour excrement upon the head of the early incarnation - is a mistake.
punkman: this zpaq thing could almost fit in head
mircea_popescu: stuff that does that will never fit in any head, much like bridge pillars don't fit in any cunt.
jurov: asking of anything to fit into head is a tall order
ben_vulpes: what parts need to fit in head?
decimation: well, the systems were small enough to 'fit in the head' as ascii might say
mircea_popescu: punkman this dovetails with asciilifeform's "fit in head" ideas.
mircea_popescu: veloper using Selenium to exercise his hand-cobbled JavaScript to those of Netflix and their Chaos Gorilla), but to distill the reference implementation into something that can fit in a single human’s head and rip out braindamaged code-arson like the moronic “wallets” and their change behavior."
asciilifeform: a theoretically minimal bitcoinator will not fit in 'avg head,' no.
kakobrekla: 'fits in head' < meh, some folks fit 50k digits of pi in ther head.
asciilifeform: meaning, does not fit in head.
asciilifeform: ultimately, looking for vulns in a system that doesn't fit in a head is rather like looking for particular health problems in a fresh corpse.
ben_vulpes: related to asciilifeform's "must fit in head" problem
asciilifeform: my argument, for many years, is, roughly 'it has to fit in a head.'
mircea_popescu: "but there is some ambiguity in this bet depending on the time zone..." <<< "I'm the last person on earth to not know what timezone bitbet uses through no fault of my own and also not having bothered TO READ THE MOTHERFAQING FAQ! and so therefore there's ambiguity in this bet. Not in my dumb fucking head that wouldn't be fit to grace a gargoyle. "
moiety: well the thing is, you can fit a six foot person in np, because there is nothing inside. ther foot wells are bare. so seat right back and you can fold a large person in. their head sort of skiffs the roof though
BingoBoingo: benkay: Nah, storage capacities are growing too fast and have too much of a head start. It will probably fit on a single hard drive for at least another decade. It's just... Parsing the block chain as a full node will probably require more thoroughput than a single drive offers.
mircea_popescu: if those two fit you're basically saying that anally inserting a pea and a horse's head is roughly similar.