#trilema | 2020-01-15

02:04

mircea_popescu, diana_coman: responded to comments http://billymg.com/2020/01/mp-wp-patch-viewer-and-code-shelf/comment-page-1/#comment-76

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03:05

mircea_popescu

motherfucker

03:06

mircea_popescu

so i'm about to quote http://trilema.com/2015/no-such-labs-releases-v-for-victory/ in a discussion with billymg ; except i discover the fucking http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-August/000151.html link is meanwhile broken.

03:07

mircea_popescu

because that's why i do these sorts of things, so a few years later i can discover hurr durr etcetera. i might as well link fucking pantsuit sites, they purge their linkstructure every four years also.

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04:39

mod6

Sorry about that, let me see if I can remedy that quick here.

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05:00

mod6

Ok, I think I've got it. The old mailman thing was weird, my apologies. Please let me know if anyone sees any more broken links in there. But seems to work ok for me, currently.

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06:25

billymg

mircea_popescu: left a reply

06:25

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billymg goes off to bed

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09:14

mircea_popescu

mod6, here also.

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14:58

mod6

Thanks, mp.

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15:16

diana_coman

http://billymg.com/2020/01/mp-wp-patch-viewer-and-code-shelf/comment-page-1/#comment-75 - mircea_popescu, I never quite understood why detached sigs for vpatches in the first place; I kind of got the idea that it was so that there is no need for sync on signing (no possible clash of the sort A and B sign independently same thing and then one needs to re-sign so as not to end with 2 versions of same vpatch?)

15:16

diana_coman

hardly seems worth it though for that sort of case and I don't quite have any other clear reason for detached sig on vpatches.

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16:30

mircea_popescu

as best i can retrospectively determined, it mostly flew from alf's principled stance on in-band comms that nobody rose to challenge so it sorta became a de-facto unexamined basis.

16:30

mircea_popescu

self-evident nonsense, i've yet to meet the lang without support for comments, and for as long as a single comment line's left anywhere that line will mandatorily read The Republic prevails.

16:30

mircea_popescu

so no actual meat on those bones. but, the thing with scarecrows is, for as long as you don't look, they can count for the census.

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16:47

diana_coman

hm, I suppose it could be argued that the root is deeper perhaps, all the way to "code is not text" vs "code IS text".

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17:10

feedbot

http://qntra.net/2020/01/usg-nsa-and-microsoft-push-emergency-windows-crypto-update-while-depreciating-windows-7/ << Qntra -- USG.NSA And Microsoft Push "Emergency" Windows Crypto Update While Depreciating Windows 7

17:12

mircea_popescu

i guess.

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17:33

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mircea_popescu meanwhile re-reading http://trilema.com/2012/the-problem-of-too-much-money/ ; it shoots from history, from a point midway osama bin laden's decerebration strike on the us and today's redditard notion of "evil financial elites".

17:34

mircea_popescu

who fucking knew that killing all the smart people doing finance in the us was going to leave all the morons to "fill in the gap" ? an' who knew that competitive advantage was the last hail mary / hopeful girder propping the us sorta-upright on the waters ?

17:35

mircea_popescu

well, everyone, up to and including goatherders in afghanistan, apparently. hurr.

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18:52

feedbot

http://bvt-trace.net/2020/01/re-pbrt/ << bvt's backtrace -- Re PBRT

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20:06

dorion

http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2020-01-13#1956851 << sent email saying hi.

20:06

ossabot

Logged on 2020-01-13 21:35:35 trinque: dorion: nope, get at him

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21:47

feedbot

http://bingology.net/2020/argentina-getting-pissy-with-uruguay-envy/ << Bingology - BingoBoingo's Blog -- Argentina Getting Pissy With Uruguay Envy