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(trilema) ben_vulpes: by virtue of writing the crud once and driving oodles of business through it.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-09-2015#1260178 << the mythical software company pulls in vastly more revenue than it takes to tame the complexity of producing the revenue.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: frame probably has a few strands of cf
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trinque: no fibers even?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: straight up fractured and popped out. not even deformation: catastrophic fracture propagation.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i ripped a part of the nominal 'metal' out of a compressed air nailgun two weekends back
(trilema) ben_vulpes: this 'macbook' is zamac.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trinque: cat hair?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and not, to hit the other end of the spectrum, gabriel_laddel
(trilema) ben_vulpes makes various gestures of distress
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-09-2015#1260077 << this has not escaped my notice and has blown my tiny mind
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ("how's the water today, boys?" "water?!")
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trinque: examples of unixisms deeply rooted in python?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and WE HATE KV STORES
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what's the difference between "everything is a file" and "global variables" anyways
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trinque: imagine nic internals as clos objects
(trilema) ben_vulpes: phf: one day i'll find an interesting question, i swear
(trilema) ben_vulpes is not a lisper
(trilema) ben_vulpes: setq an alist that shit you care about uses to look things up?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it's just a file on a server somewhere mang
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the impl handls the dns parts of pathnames
(trilema) ben_vulpes: cl is such a delightfully crazy mindset
(trilema) ben_vulpes: > dns resolutino
(trilema) ben_vulpes: > pathname spec
(trilema) ben_vulpes: how is /etc/hosts a cl data structure?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: some other 15 year old bitcoin wizard however long ago
(trilema) ben_vulpes: buenos noches
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: would you elaborate on "own the machine" and a) why it should and b) how python does not?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: more lines is all you can be guaranteed of.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: so why python and not cl, out of curiosity?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: idem gpg, client braindamage...
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it's software that i must run that does not fit in my head!
(trilema) 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.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: wait, piss-cycle?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "shop all day, pick it up on your way home!"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the correct solution here is drive-by order pickup on arterials.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: achtung logreaders!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and lol can anyone actually drive to your place from the depot in less than two hours?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trinque: is clearly not buying the nice frozen stuff.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: regarding that ancient optimization of expenditures thread, in america the ceo will have to report his place of residence if purchased/rented by the company as income, correct asciilifeform, mircea_popescu?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: incantations and built in furniture
(trilema) ben_vulpes: shinohai: cascadian witch
(trilema) ben_vulpes: hanbot: i once cooked up a wiki page on the topic. has since languished, rotted, died.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: work on this thing cannot be marshalled. must be self-organized, by the selves so involved.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-09-2015#1258801 << you and i i think are coming at this from the wrong angle.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "every software development company eventually ends up writing their own issue tracker, time tracker, and billing system."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: since when have i implemented anything, hanbot?!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mod6 probably has his own as well.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-09-2015#1258779 << i'm aware of "tx dumper" as a TODO item that alf gives a shit about and that's more or less all. everything else is in his and mircea_popescu's heads.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: he also fought entrenched interests, and they won. as they do.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-09-2015#1258703 << he fought the law, foolishly, and the law won. as it does.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what's new, indiancandy1?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: for argument, how is this 'slicing' different from what we're doing with bitcoin?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and the 'open source world' went along with this for how long?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: so not just technically challenging to call into the c code of but actually deliberately obfuscated?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform has referred to rms doing this with i believe a compiler as well, and i would hear the story. 'cawsmic rayz and shitgnome bitrot' isn't the kind of story to scare children into losing sleep over.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i'm asking specifically about the conspiracy, mats.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: /why/ was gpg written to be unlibrarizable?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: anyways, simplify routines/fix oddities/tidy up implies a 'git' style megapatch. u vant it should be engranularized?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: why i find this amusing is left as an exercise to the logreader.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: my working copy is called "v2.py"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: you overestimate my familiarity with the 'art'
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "Memoize" means to store in memory during the course of a run?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ascii_field: long lines of octothorpes denominate sections, correct?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: things that "professional pythonistas" bitch about all day that impact execution approximately nil.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: myriad pepeightteries at first glance
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ascii_field: just started reading. no running without reading.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ascii_field: didja ship 99K with the 100K version string still in or am i misunderstanding something?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: also, pain! who doesn't like honest signals.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: haha i was writing that one
(trilema) ben_vulpes: quelle privilege
(trilema) ben_vulpes: timely fucker!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: how long did he gestate?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: more curious about the lifestyle change, but that's good to hear as well.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: how's the first week going?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: bwaha the trousersnake oglaf
(trilema) ben_vulpes: kidding aside, congrats señor
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i'll give it a read-through later today.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: congrats on V, asciilifeform.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what's wrong with the teat?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: telling me how to put my own furniture designs to use
(trilema) ben_vulpes: leftleftleft
(trilema) ben_vulpes: bottom-right, actually.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: plus, fun projects with the babe!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i'd be irate about all of this value evaporating as soon as i move out of this place, but it's saving me the cost of relocating to a larger apartment next year and the associated switching costs.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: previously, lady v put up crushed foam panels on the ceiling, and i installed the seam and crown molding: http://imgur.com/yevDNKh
(trilema) ben_vulpes: don't be chewing tacks over there.
(trilema) ben_vulpes is having a blast nesting with the girl. today, we finished scaffolding the builtin to house the dog and spawngear: http://imgur.com/Z9iBUv3
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;later tell gabriel_laddel so've you asked her out yet?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: phf: holy hell it runs
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i do not get the 'non serviam' routine. we all serve the khan.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: call it 3K then.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: eg 'fully annealed'
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: can't, you'd poison 'em.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: vdiff is 0k!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: in a healthy relationship, the consultant keeps the customer from making bad decisions in areas in which the customer has no business making decisions.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: go talk to the cfo about the cat pictures.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: this is rank nonsense.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: sometimes one goes to a cafe to meet a customer instead of demanding they come to ones office.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: a la deedbot
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-08-2015#1255824 << no per-user work, just a single pubkey to which anyone could find the corresponding privkey
(trilema) ben_vulpes: some sort of parity with extant licensing schemes.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: degenerate case.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: regarding the "may i" spamola, you could issue a license to a trivially-generated pubkey.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it has to be commercially viable in this wot.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: oh it's even harder than that, asciilifeform
(trilema) ben_vulpes: market, admittedly, is /tiny/.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: you've not made anything worth paying for, then.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: no but if they pay.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: as, of course, verified by your signing a license to their key.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: perhaps "you may not share your patches with anyone else who does not have a license for my original copy of $p"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the wot solves another problem.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: right, and there's why.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: nah, we don't traditional courts.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: myeah, i can see that. how would it have handled modern nixy proggies?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: but c in lispm
(trilema) ben_vulpes wonders at the notion of runtime debuggability of c-through-lisp
(trilema) ben_vulpes: as well*, right? many other languages too.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and the symbolics machines could run c as we
(trilema) ben_vulpes: sounds eminently reasonable.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: how tyrannical /were/ the Symbolics licenses?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: why mathematica?!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "time and materials".
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: just doesn't understand How The Werld Werks (tm)
(trilema) ben_vulpes: WITH PEOPLE.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: well until trinque writes his database-inspecting UI generator, i'm stuck building machines that write software to extract data from databases and render it and manipulatory widgets for it.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it is a very useful contract for writing code with other beebul!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what do you have against the delegateHoldingMyHandWhileComplexThingsHappenThatNeedToCallTheSystemStateMachineWithSpecificInformation pattern, eh?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: !s symbol from:asciilifeform
(trilema) 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".
(trilema) ben_vulpes: when i go full scammatronics vc bezzle the office campus will be navigated with 'solowheel' 'orbits'
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trinque: mircea_popescu's gist here is eerily similar to mr W's
(trilema) ben_vulpes: speedup from modal editing would be negligible.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: as it is, the bulk of my time is spent performing archaeology.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trinque: if i actually wrote code, i'd be more inclined to use evil.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: oh, find and replace?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and that does?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-08-2015#1255342 << why not less, then, if we're not editing things.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: where do you think intel gets its cheap post docs?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: girls resorted to passing each other notes out of boredom once we descended into the crystal structure.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: saw the guy speak a month or so ago. rather entertaining.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: crappy link, i know
(trilema) ben_vulpes: pigment, not dye
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: dja hear about the new indigo compound?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trinque: dancehall caballeros is another excellent track of theirs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYg9omPYx_M
(trilema) ben_vulpes: seeed is amazing
(trilema) ben_vulpes: d-e-r-p-i-n-g
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ninjashogun and luke-jr sitting in a tree
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trinque: knows a thing or two about pulling that hat trick off
(trilema) ben_vulpes: bulk of the project is a mongo -> postgresql conversion
(trilema) ben_vulpes: thestringpuller i'm bidding on a coffee script + mongodb + mongoose + nodejs + angular rescue project
(trilema) ben_vulpes: across html tags*
(trilema) ben_vulpes recently broke control blocks a in php
(trilema) ben_vulpes can't imagine 'phun php'
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "suit up kid. we're putting your laptop into production."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what's dev other than your laptop?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-08-2015#1254179 << asciilifeform, breaking the tradition of bitcoin crapware and now the b-a 'test in production only' deployment philosophy!
(trilema) ben_vulpes muses on the notion of hanbot wearing something ill-fitting
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-08-2015#1254018 << the whole thing's a small nudge or ten away from people with guns realizing that cops hate getting shot at, the state hates cops getting shot at, and generally anyone with the stones to make an effort to rack up up a body count on their way out stands an even chance of not even having to go out
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski congrats, boss
(trilema) ben_vulpes: khakis and polos.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-08-2015#1253235 << the americans who stopped the guy shooting up a train in france received their legion of honor medals in...
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i stopped reading at "so if just one XT node..." the other day.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: entomological
(trilema) ben_vulpes: etymological interest?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: fast molecular dynamics tools he didn't care to rewrite himself.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: claims that his lisp works with force fields and constrait systems as first class concepts
(trilema) ben_vulpes: among other gems
(trilema) ben_vulpes: guy is rewriting class and pointer locations in memory on the fly
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "the wife'd never let you"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-08-2015#1252300 << reducing the tyke to starvation wages at 18 is the pressed shitboard stand in
(trilema) ben_vulpes: marvel of marvels, still leaking IP.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-08-2015#1251301 << input parsing is hard yo just ask the pygpg people
(trilema) ben_vulpes: c4: "python so that the world might participate"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i'd probably sweat through a shirt taking it
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i'll be puzzling over that quiz for a bit. wonderful fun!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: 'factory girl' is close
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ghost galleon in orbit. everyone fears it and doesn't know how it works.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: has been limping along since 2007
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-08-2015#1251096 << i actually ran into a client thing that looks 90% hand rolled
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski not really my jam.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: wordpress ca. 2014 iirc when you set your thing up
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/55617 << product of the local 'feel good and have bad ideas' woodchipper
(trilema) ben_vulpes: considered harmful.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ty asciilifeform
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: regarding el gran teatro, have you been to a proper milonga yet?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: righteously.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: basically, conformal's public thinger got hacked.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: even more lulzy, pete_dushenski
(trilema) ben_vulpes: disease wasn't intentional at all, some vast majority was wiped out by unrecorded initial explorers of the americas
(trilema) ben_vulpes: solve my system of equations goddamnit don't try to intuit what i mean
(trilema) ben_vulpes: which i suppose are nominally the same but raaaaa
(trilema) ben_vulpes: does actually have a notion of part-level constraints but only "joints"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: dude autodesk fusion 360 does the DUMBEST POSSIBLE THING for EVERY constraint
(trilema) ben_vulpes: new theory: mpex price correlates with stans work on foundation client
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i was not reading messages at the time
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ^^ asciilifeform
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