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(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2021-03-05 21:52:40
gregorynyssa: for those who like software-history, the former Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky has been publishing his memoirs in serial form
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2021-03-05 21:48:05
gregorynyssa: asciilifeform: have you read PJ Plauger's three "software essay" books?
(alethepedia) thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: I never tried Jiu Jitsu, so I can't explain the difference. All I know is that my Judo instructor said it was more dangerous.
(alethepedia) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-04 11:14:17 thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: having not read Burke it's quite possible I missed any and all queues.
(alethepedia) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-04 11:28:17 thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: perhaps you are right in one respect - the Boomers have successfully consumed all the capital generated by previous generations, and the only way forward for the next generation if it wishes to survive is to take *reality* into account.
(alethepedia) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-04 11:18:44 thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: it's hard for me to muster up the will to read much of it, given how the movement has so spectacularly failed.
(alethepedia) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-04 10:59:28 thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: I didn't get that from HBD at all - If I could summarize it it would be: You can't have the benefits of Western Civilization w/o the nations that generated it in the first place.
(alethepedia) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-04 10:12:34 thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: I can't recall them mentioning Bitcoin once. They must have, I'm sure, but it certainly hasn't been a focus of theirs.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-22 14:14:33
gregorynyssa: asciilifeform: suppose we don't use any FPGA. suppose you directly owned a fabrication-facility and could perform your own runs on whim. how low does the process-width have to be, for it to be worth your time?
(alethepedia) thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: perhaps you are right in one respect - the Boomers have successfully consumed all the capital generated by previous generations, and the only way forward for the next generation if it wishes to survive is to take *reality* into account.
(alethepedia) thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: it's hard for me to muster up the will to read much of it, given how the movement has so spectacularly failed.
(alethepedia) thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: My sources are all second hand, referenced mainly in podcasts like Freedomain radio. He references and interviews several IQ researchers.
(alethepedia) thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: What I've read has mostly been observational rather than theoretical. Just case after case of western civ failing to take hold in non-european populations with full access to european literature and science.
(alethepedia) thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: I didn't get that from HBD at all - If I could summarize it it would be: You can't have the benefits of Western Civilization w/o the nations that generated it in the first place.
(alethepedia) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-04 10:43:59 thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: spandrell is a white dude though
(alethepedia) thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: In any case, I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on CCP thinking vs. HBD/NRX thinking.
(alethepedia) thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: I can't recall them mentioning Bitcoin once. They must have, I'm sure, but it certainly hasn't been a focus of theirs.
(alethepedia) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-04 10:07:32 thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: and I am also disturbed by the near universal rejection of Bitcoin amongst them. Smells weird.
(alethepedia) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-04 10:05:15 thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: while I don't disagree with the theory that different groups of people have different IQs on average, I also have to look at how ineffective the hbd crowd has been at accomplishing anything.
(alethepedia) thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: and I am also disturbed by the near universal rejection of Bitcoin amongst them. Smells weird.
(alethepedia) thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: while I don't disagree with the theory that different groups of people have different IQs on average, I also have to look at how ineffective the hbd crowd has been at accomplishing anything.
(alethepedia) thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: I think we were speculating about how the people who actually control China (CCP) think vs. Duke of Qin and spandrell.
(alethepedia) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-02 16:13:00 thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: have you ever met any CCP members?
(alethepedia) thimbronion: I received an update on
gregorynyssa's progress on alethepedia, but will save the details for later.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-11-08 10:34:00 trinque:
gregorynyssa: eh, there's a bit of irony in naggum's discussion of what "vertical" folks tend to do. he's doing it.
(asciilifeform) trinque:
gregorynyssa: eh, there's a bit of irony in naggum's discussion of what "vertical" folks tend to do. he's doing it.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-10-22 09:42:43 thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: also surely there was some discussion of the dao hack and the reprecussions. Nothing fundamentally has changed about ETH since that particular smart contract was violated.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-10-22 12:02:36 asciilifeform:
gregorynyssa: the technical details of the flimflammery could fill a hefty book. all sorts of wonders, from the uncapped monetary base, to the jawdroppingly-complicated and porous 'smart' instruction set, to... i've no intention of writing the book.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-10-22 01:04:37
gregorynyssa: would you mind briefly explaining? also, do you still consider smart contracts in general to be a worthwhile area of study?
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-10-22 01:03:34
gregorynyssa: asciilifeform: I wasn't able to find a comprehensive explanation in #trilema concerning why the Ethereum project is fraudulent.
(asciilifeform) thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: also surely there was some discussion of the dao hack and the reprecussions. Nothing fundamentally has changed about ETH since that particular smart contract was violated.
(asciilifeform) Apocalyptic:
gregorynyssa, I read "Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011)" many years ago and still remember the impression with which I closed the book, highly recommend as well
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-12 13:42:24 asciilifeform:
gregorynyssa: or didja mean graeber ? (who i also haven't previously heard of)
(alethepedia) adlai:
gregorynyssa: indeed, I found it good enough to be surprised when a friend said the book (supposedly, it is closely inspired by some fellow's autobiograph-ish novel of the same name) was crap
(alethepedia) snsabot: Logged on 2020-10-10 13:15:02 thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: in wordpress, bidirectionality is implemented via pingbacks. Any time you mention someone elses' article, you create a link on their article back to yours with a snippet of context.
(alethepedia) snsabot: Logged on 2020-10-11 21:43:43
gregorynyssa: there is some problem with my client. sorry.
(alethepedia) snsabot: (asciilifeform) 2020-10-08
gregorynyssa: are the George Floyd riots still happening? really?
(alethepedia) snsabot: (asciilifeform) 2020-10-10
gregorynyssa: interesting fact: nearly every country is mentioned at least once in the logs of #trilema
(alethepedia) snsabot: Logged on 2020-10-11 20:10:14 thimbronion: alethepedia project status:
gregorynyssa has done some work implement some heuristics to generate a map of encyclopedia entries by line number in a db. There is more work yet to be done as the heuristics have yet to be applied to all available volumes.
(alethepedia) thimbronion: alethepedia project status:
gregorynyssa has done some work implement some heuristics to generate a map of encyclopedia entries by line number in a db. There is more work yet to be done as the heuristics have yet to be applied to all available volumes.
(alethepedia) thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: regarding encyclopedia-3446.txt, I believe I will also need the line number db to do anything with this.
(alethepedia) thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: 组合 is a new word for me, but having another go: Miao Wang thinks - "these four people who came to find him are a strange combination (of people)"
(alethepedia) thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: in the unidirectional shitweb we have today, only the site owner, host, or google knows what links to any given page. In a bidirectional web, this incoming links are explicit.
(alethepedia) thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: in wordpress, bidirectionality is implemented via pingbacks. Any time you mention someone elses' article, you create a link on their article back to yours with a snippet of context.
(alethepedia) snsabot: Logged on 2020-10-08 08:14:27 thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: 他的这四个人 is very probelmatic for me. Best I can do is "Miao Wang feels that to find these four people of his is a very strange combination."
(asciilifeform) BingoBoingo:
gregorynyssa: Well, in Uruguay's case asian means cattle amenable to herding like post-war Japan. Except here it didn't take a war. Just a flood of Italians arriving in ranching country
(alethepedia) thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: 他的这四个人 is very probelmatic for me. Best I can do is "Miao Wang feels that to find these four people of his is a very strange combination."
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-10-07 18:54:46 thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: maybe they'll achieve some Chinese version of first world.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-10-07 18:44:47
gregorynyssa: now that the Southeast Asian countries are approaching first-world conditions, I wonder if South America will follow.
(alethepedia) thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: I don't quite understand how to use 让. I most often hear it used as a way to express something like "He caused me to do <x>", but I also get the impression it can be used to express "allow?" Is this true? Is there a way to know the difference other than context?
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-10-01 15:00:29 asciilifeform:
gregorynyssa: there's not a thing that'd rise to the level of 'plan'. asciilifeform in particular wrote 3 things:
'nqb', a largely-complete coder/decoder for the formats used in trb;
ffa, with which possible to perform the cryptonumerics; and
'cryostat', to implement a o(1) db .
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-10-01 19:08:15 asciilifeform:
gregorynyssa: so, what? to write emulator (for whatever current or future irons) in which these can live, is
trivial exercise .
(alethepedia) snsabot: Logged on 2020-10-01 16:11:35
gregorynyssa: intelligent people across the world still immigrate to America in the race to enter
(alethepedia) snsabot: Logged on 2020-10-01 16:14:37 asciilifeform:
gregorynyssa: most of usa's 'spacious home and cars' people are in abject debt , and 1-2 missed paycheques from penury.
(alethepedia) snsabot: Logged on 2020-10-01 16:02:28 asciilifeform:
gregorynyssa: admittedly asciilifeform not a cn expert. but afaik cn culture suffers from severe 'worship of wealth' as concept; and catastrophically underdeveloped concept of 'motherland' (in sense of 'not to betray')
(alethepedia) snsabot: Logged on 2020-10-01 16:01:01 asciilifeform:
gregorynyssa: the anglos pulled their usual 'integrate'em into (controlled) 'global market', then kill'em w/ financial machinations' stunt.
(alethepedia) snsabot: Logged on 2020-10-01 15:07:35 asciilifeform:
gregorynyssa: he was also, in asciilifeform's pov, a laughable ignoramus re: all sovok-related subjs
(alethepedia) snsabot: Logged on 2020-10-01 15:07:01 asciilifeform:
gregorynyssa: fella wasn't particularly consistent. so impossible to 'agree w/ all'
(alethepedia) thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: honestly haven't read Gatto since the early 2000s, while trapped in a government cube farm.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-09-27 16:17:40
gregorynyssa: something about it seemed troubling when I was reading it.. couldn't put my finger on it.
(alethepedia) thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: also in this case I'm not clear on what 了 indicates. It's not like the monster didn't want to kill him *before* coming to find him.
(alethepedia) thimbronion:
gregorynyssa: There's something odd about the use of 了here: 我只记得那个姑娘是个妖怪，它来找我，要杀了我。Why isn't the 了after 我?
(asciilifeform) Aerthean:
gregorynyssa, asciilifeform: As a poor hypothesis, I think that the more software practitioners abstract away from hardware the worse things become.
(alethepedia) thimbronion: adlai: This channel is mostly about lekythion, secondarily about alethepedia, and tertially about mandarin chinese study. If
gregorynyssa ever joins, there will be many great discussions of Chinese languages to be had.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-24 14:43:55
gregorynyssa: asciilifeform: btw. since you seem to be a fan of science-fiction, maybe The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin would interest you.
(asciilifeform) trinque:
gregorynyssa: I'd have no context for an opinion, but you'd say the simplified script had no political (e.g. orwellian) aim?
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-23 05:32:43
gregorynyssa: in other news, a tutorial was released relatively recently, trying to use glossy demonstrations to help modern-minded programmers understand the design of X Window.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-22 14:14:33
gregorynyssa: asciilifeform: suppose we don't use any FPGA. suppose you directly owned a fabrication-facility and could perform your own runs on whim. how low does the process-width have to be, for it to be worth your time?
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-22 01:11:29
gregorynyssa: nuclear engineering students today know how to rebuild 1940s atomic bombs at a fraction of what it had cost that era. someone should likewise re-trace the machinery of 1985 from first principles.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-22 01:04:21
gregorynyssa: (1) some universities have small VLSI facilities. see if you can get a deal to use those. (2) start your own coarse-grained fabrication-facility. 100-500 nm is fine for the next ten years of Lisp Machine revival. I don't think < 100 nm is necessary. presumably the costs of building such a facility have decreased compared to the 1980s.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-16 10:47:08 trinque:
gregorynyssa: the point at which I tune out is when I offer an avenue of research, and the creature baws, gets strangely emotional, and repeats the simpleton question.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-16 02:25:46
gregorynyssa: it semes to me that kiwi_58 was worried that a legal crack-down against USDT would harm the price of BTC.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-16 02:21:27
gregorynyssa: asciilifeform: Tether (USDT) is a Bitcoin-like currency supposedly pegged 1-1 to USD. widely used by online exchanges. market cap. of 10 bil. USD. however, there have been continual allegations of insecurity and fraud, but the trading public mostly turns a blind eye.
(asciilifeform) trinque:
gregorynyssa: the point at which I tune out is when I offer an avenue of research, and the creature baws, gets strangely emotional, and repeats the simpleton question.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-15 03:05:51
gregorynyssa: do you think the 1971 cancellation of the gold standard played a role?
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-15 03:04:22
gregorynyssa: I mean, why buying power has plummeted, and working hours have not decreased.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-15 03:04:56
gregorynyssa: Mill once noted that labor-saving devices never end up saving labor.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-12 12:32:01 asciilifeform:
gregorynyssa: the much larger scale thing that happened in 1980s usa, is that there was a shift in the values of the elites. went from 'built sr-71 blackbird' to 'liquidate, merge, move 100% conveyor to asia, buy 9000x yacht'
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-12 02:24:01
gregorynyssa: and how do you view the purported ongoing AI Renaissance, catalyzed by DeepMind and TensorFlow?
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-12 02:15:29
gregorynyssa: asciilifeform: what exactly happened during the Lisp Winter? always wondered.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-11 01:38:09
gregorynyssa: asciilifeform: if I understand correctly, MacIvory was like a graphics-card containing a LISP environment, which could be plugged into the Macintosh, is that right?
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-08 23:14:39
gregorynyssa: verisimilitude: the data-model of Emacs gets uglier the more you study it, not unlike Git.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-08 23:06:10
gregorynyssa: one of the catalysts for my disillusionment was when I decided (as a college student) to exhaustively read all the available documentation for GNU Emacs, front-to-back (thousands of pages) to better understand this platform which I was using every day. unlike many systems Emacs does reward learning... up to a point...
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I'm truly not seeing the issue here,
gregorynyssa. If wanting to read documentation devoid of any humanity, why not visit Github's official documentation?
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: They were what I deem ``intelligent idiots'',
gregorynyssa. They may have been physicists, but that doesn't mean they'd any place designing a computer system.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-07 11:33:57 trinque:
gregorynyssa: busybox also has a tiny wget, might be worthwhile to take a look and see how bad it is
(asciilifeform) trinque:
gregorynyssa: busybox also has a tiny wget, might be worthwhile to take a look and see how bad it is
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-07-26 04:55:30
gregorynyssa: what is stopping us from writing our own implementation of Ada, if I might ask?
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-07-25 12:07:37 asciilifeform:
gregorynyssa: ... or, read just about any ball of py liquishit on shithub. all the thoroughly redundant oop you could ever want, in there .
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-07-19 12:31:14 asciilifeform:
gregorynyssa: outta curiosity -- didja ever actually program in that horror, or simply find appealing in theory ?
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-07-19 13:10:45 adlai:
gregorynyssa: re:unorthogonality, C++ is also unorthogonal to the point of eating its own spine, yet somehow one or two blubhubs still seem to hire C++ programmers
(asciilifeform) adlai:
gregorynyssa: re:unorthogonality, C++ is also unorthogonal to the point of eating its own spine, yet somehow one or two blubhubs still seem to hire C++ programmers
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-07-19 10:59:36
gregorynyssa:
http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-07-19#1016727 << before 8.5, everything was either: a string, a (nestable) list of strings, or a hashmap. lists of strings were encoded as strings (like JSON but simpler; the AST of every program itself was represented this way). a hashmap was a (one level) mapping from string to string. file-handles and sockets were represented as strings (such as "file1," "file2," ...) which were understood
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-07-19 09:36:47
gregorynyssa: for instance, Tcl follows Smalltalk in not having control-structures. conditions and loops are just function-calls with delayed evaluation. that makes the semantics more concise.
(asciilifeform) trinque:
gregorynyssa: the marketing people latch onto any meme they can; this one's distinct in no way.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-07-07 16:30:03
gregorynyssa: very interested in 9th and 11th editions of Britannica.