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a111: Logged on 2018-04-13 16:20 mircea_popescu: spyked how about THIS definition for the operating system : "that set of code that is trusted implicitly". this then makes EVERYTHING on a windows machine operating system, which i contend is right and proper -- the necessary result of opaque
monolith systems design is universalization of the os.
spyked:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-16#1799833 <-- but! the a, b examples I gave were *not* in any sense subtractive, read again. and by "eliminate" I mean, the words from vocabulary, unlearn them, throw to trash bin (hence "systematically"!), *not* "take
monolith and prod it with toothpick"
☝︎ mircea_popescu: spyked how about THIS definition for the operating system : "that set of code that is trusted implicitly". this then makes EVERYTHING on a windows machine operating system, which i contend is right and proper -- the necessary result of opaque
monolith systems design is universalization of the os.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-01-06 04:31 mircea_popescu: but yes, there is no other kind of code besides
monolith ; i've had enough "bazaar" for three lifetimes of other people i don't particularly like ; and moreover code ambiguity is fucking nuts.
mircea_popescu: but yes, there is no other kind of code besides
monolith ; i've had enough "bazaar" for three lifetimes of other people i don't particularly like ; and moreover code ambiguity is fucking nuts.
☟︎ Framedragger: yeah that's one reason i'm not too attracted to trb, tbh, the amount of sewage gruntwork required to decouple shit from the
monolith.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the divorce is required and continuing in the current
monolith sheer nonsense.
mircea_popescu: mixing these into a single frail
monolith is very much satoshism, but we're not supposed to stick to stupid.
BingoBoingo: lol, cuban american in Florida won it for Trump. Pls tell me more about "hispanics" as a
monolith mircea_popescu: phf yes but it seems it was at least tacitly agreed a package of tools is acceptable rather than
monolith.
BingoBoingo: Anyways GOP "conservatism" imagines itself a
monolith where buying into one part means marketing target buys into whole scamatron.
BingoBoingo: AHA. The rules.txt file and sprite files were great introduction to "Computer Game is not opaque
monolith"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because "everything together"
monolith ?
thestringpuller: i'm more specifically pointing out formative moments like in 2001 when the monkeys encounter the
monolith mircea_popescu: strategically i'd rather have it a set of interoperating parts than a single monster
monolith.
BingoBoingo: That was the moment where the transition went from every individual computer manufacterer's branded Microsoft DOS to the unified Windows
monolith. It really is no wonder... considering what was going on at IBM in retrospect... that people though OS/2 had a chance
trinque just brought "
monolith" up on gentoo
assbot: Logged on 19-10-2014 18:32:52; asciilifeform: engineers, who (as shown by the '
monolith' gedankenexperiment, search logs) often do not really apprehend how lizard-reich and its subordinate bureaucracies really think.
assbot: Logged on 21-01-2015 01:41:29; asciilifeform: speaking of diamonds (specifically of the synthetic variety), one possible observation here - not concerning the idiocy of the wood thing as such - is that anyone demanding a specific 'colour' (as per the '
monolith' essay) - i.e. provenance - of object, is begging to be chumped
BingoBoingo: I need to get rid of this
monolith because the squirrels are starting to play nigga golf
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: I might have one in the garage. Would you escrow the sale of a
monolith to the unidentified gunmen?