phf: ben_vulpes: you call that thing like void foo(args) { IMPLEMENT_RANDOMIZE_STACK(foo(args)); ...}, static makes nLoops shared, so the logic is, you set it to some random value between 1 and 21 and then recurse down that many times, "randomizing" the stack ☟︎

phf: they randomize all the stacks that are exposed to the network

phf: so in case you get a stack overflow in the exposed code, doing a shellbuffer return becomes mildly trickier

phf: maybe? gcc does TCO, but the code does foo(); return; rather then return foo(); so who knows..

phf: i've noticed that arab lipton yellow label is much better then lipton you get at a general store in u.s. i've made turkish tea for myself with arab lipton in a pinch, but twice i was in a situation where i was brewing tea for random people, so i bought drug store lipton and no matter what i tried doing with it, it just was not drinkable.

phf: i go through 3-4 kg of tea a year

phf: i have a wood samovar, but i only use it on camping trings. no, i use iranian method, put a porcelain teapot on top of the kettle

phf: *trips

phf: http://www.fengshuidana.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/securedownload_insert.jpg

phf: it's mostly the variety and availability. i can combine various kettles/teapots and get a decent result

phf: well wood samovars are out for home use, electric ones i think are mostly gimmicks, i mean i might as well have a trained bear at home

phf: hmm, that's actually worth a try. you still need to heat up the teapot though, so it goes on top of samovar, which means that whatever you burn is going to change the flavor of tea

phf: so fully depends on how smokeless that charcoal actually is, and those that i saw used for grilling tend to produce a nasty chemical miasma

phf: i'm not surprised that that's a thing, but that sounds awesome

phf: my redneck friends took me to a state fair once, probably best "american" food i've had around DC area. icecream reminds me of the soviet one, that doesn't exist anymore. rich, fatty, none of them "substitutes", they were probably milking cows straight into the icecream mixer

phf: it's an interesting idea, but the kind of stuff their girlfriends eat, i prefer cow milk

phf: i once saw a rope suspension of a rather large lady done by a dedicated kinbaku student, instead of pretending like she's not fat, he worked with the material with honesty, and the result was so grotesque that the image got stuck in my head. that's what "milking their girlfriends" brings up in my head, a bunch of docile, suspended cows being

phf: i recently talked to a 15 year old, who told me that 2015 was more culturally significant then all the years since 1970 combined, he then proceeded to name things that happened in 2015 that i've never heard of. i said "excuse me" and walked away, but i still can't grok it.

phf: that's the problem, i don't know anything on the list. someone released some album, someone else said something to someone else during something

phf: that's a safe bet

phf: i think it's starting to happen, i've heard from a few new york socialites now, that they've been going to carefully crafted versions of burning man like events. sort of coachella or edc, but smaller, with a pretense to roughing it, and with more psychedelics

phf: i'm saying it's decidedly not burns, but event planner organized concerts, that have burn like activities also planned. morning yoga, games, camps all done by professionals. but "like you stay in a tent, and it's like nature" hence roughing it

phf: more kazantip, then afrikaburn

phf: can usually spot an eastern european or an american nature freak by how orderly their setup is. "this is where i cook my morning egg, just like i've been doing for the past 30 years"

phf: very true

phf: i like to have fire when camping, i spent formative years with su engineers doing ural hikes so as long as there's fire something can be cooked, where's grill has its own rules of engagement

phf: goes back to that thread about fucking and math

phf: eliade's "yoga immortality and freedom" is still best exposition

phf: !up Chesterly

phf: huh, not the first time somebody joins during a thread to demonstrate thread's point

phf: i was referring to what you said about bayesian thinking and then chesterly talking about his experience

phf: hmm, bayesian thinking is sort of like if you walk looking at the ground and all you see are tiny twigs and then gradually all you see are tiny rocks and you don't have an ability to pull away and notice that you were walking through forest first and then you're at a base of a mountain. it sometimes "works", becase you've been taught that the two classifications exist so you call first forest and the second mountain, but of course

phf: you've not ~seen~ either. you come across rocky patch in the forest and call it mountain, you call wood chipper pile forest, etc.