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trinque: makes traversing lots of relationships at once harder to
fit in
head 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 ?
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"
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 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.
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?
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
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~
ben_vulpes: it's software that i must run that does not
fit in my
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".
☟︎ 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.
☟︎ 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'
ben_vulpes: my problem is finding the things that
fit in my
head 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 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')
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
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 humans
head and rip out braindamaged code-arson like the moronic wallets and their change behavior."
kakobrekla: 'fits in
head' < meh, some folks
fit 50k digits of pi in ther
head.
ben_vulpes: related to asciilifeform's "must
fit in
head" problem
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.