@hipsterelectron do u think linus knows that most kernel mantainers are being paid to get backdoors in there or is he just blissfully unaware
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@fiore i was going to specify my v2 bidirectional parallel async coroutine parsing algorithm in cpython, after i got pip down to 0.35 seconds to complete a massive resolve of tensorflow and its dependencies, and i was finally blocking on URL and json parsing performance just to deserialize the highly structured caching protocols (plural) i had developed to codify the global mutable state of pypi, when i found my new code to parse the METADATA text format used for dependency resolution was erroring over a wheel file from google, which pip and uv and poetry and everything else silently accepted
@fiore it took me 3 years to realize that when i presented at packagingcon 2023 about using HTTP range requests to read the zip file internal metadata table and extract dependencies instead of downloading the whole thing (tensorflow is almost 2GB), that pypi's sudden breakage of negative range requests and subsequent stonewalling of my further work https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/12208 as they replaced every single pip maintainer i had worked with was not just "them's the breaks" of open source diplomacy
- why has github never provided
Content-Lengthfor their tarball downloads? - why use
Transfer-Encoding: chunkedto send over a file with a checksum? - why is
git archivea distinct command you have to run fromgit clone --depth 1? - why does git demand you
--unshallowbefore you can push your own unrelated additions anywhere else? - why isn't git the same thing as a torrent file?
- why do you have to resolve the same merge conflicts twice, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce, whenever you revert your own commit and insolently retain the actual history of changes?
@fiore the overwhelming amount of nazi gold poured into the tech industry and their academic collaborators since the 1960s (after IBM finished laundering ther profits from providing adolf hitler the database system for the nazi census, using data entrusted to the government by its citizens) makes it difficult to accept that the filesystem fuckboys who cream themselves over claude shannon's "information theory" are really catastrophically incapable of doing anything other than backdoors.
backdoors are the only thing that require zero skill to perform--all you need is someone else's trust
@fiore what links together discrete states in finite fields with polynomial derivatives in relativistic spacetime?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov%E2%80%93Arnold%E2%80%93Moser_theorem
you could say either "periodicity" or "the infinitesimal baller known as andrei kolmogorov". either answer is correct
@fiore this book fucked with my head so badly as a kid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does_God_Play_Dice%3F i was completely unaware until like a month or two ago that the iterated discrete mapping x -> x^2 (mod n) used as the first example of chaotic dynamics and bifurcation diagrams wasn't just a prelude to perusing the tumbling orbit of hyperion and experiencing the thrilling finale describing ~xXx~the vague attractor of kolmogorov~xXx~
@fiore the first time i read it i thought it was describing problems that were just too hard for anyone else to solve and i assumed people just got bored of them and i had resolved to one day figure out the literal three-body problem, which along with differences between pairs of prime numbers has taken up so many hours of my time rearranging symbols on paper. i thought i was simply not educated in the ways to attack them with mathematics. along with intense dyslexia it was a major reason i decided numbers and figures were artificial difficulty
@fiore less than a month ago on august 9th https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/117067803163018004 i still believed P = NP was the problem and the goal was to solve it [this post was expressing major internal cognitive dissonance]
now i am confident the sum total of backdoors reduce to a logarithmic factor at best in asymptotic time (which is like if geological time had an equally hot sibling in the cosmic microwave background and they both wanted to hang out with you so you compromised and developed an orthogonal basis composed of exponential memory and computation bounds of equivalent magnitude. and that was called spacetime. and linus torvalds is meaningless amongst the star fields)
@fiore ian stewart is so cute in the chaos theory book he's like "i have made special arrangements with the publisher in order to transfer these little diagrams from the computer to the page." he's like you literally do not understand this shit is coming to you hotter off the page in your hands than anything else has ever been hot off of any page in history. he gets so serious he talks like he's leaving one of those deus ex voice recordings you find in an empty laboratory abandoned after some mysterious cataclysmic event
@fiore this is kinda why godel escher bach was very underwhelming to me. i liked the first half when he talks about periodicity but as i just now looked up his incredibly basic bitch interpretation of cyclic generating sets in finite field arithmetic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_loop) i realized i took the complete opposite interpretation i was intended to from bach's endlessly rising canon. i thought "oh shit infinity is real you can make infinity out of nothing in your head"
@fiore but apparently it's like oh cycles are good??? like groundhog day isn't supposed to be a literal divine punishment like prometheus and sisyphus except at least they get to experience the passage of time around them??????
A strange loop is a hierarchy of levels,
i'm sorry i can't believe he tried to sell "when you're sad because you finished a really good book that's actually the secret of intelligence, you're supposed to circlejerk yourself to death after reading this book i just wrote"
A strange loop is a cyclic structure that goes through several levels in a hierarchical system.
now i know at least one person who will be unbelievably pissed about my inodes for directory hardlinks and nothing could possibly motivate me more
A tangled hierarchy is a hierarchical system in which a strange loop appears.
they're trying so hard to make it sound like it's not the most boring thing imaginable
@fiore literally he begins the second half of the text and starts saying the most incredibly fucking bland bullshit about "intelligence" and i literally could not make it through three fucking pages of that shit
@fiore i remember thinking the first 15 pages of infinite jest was genuinely some of the most compelling shit i had ever read and kept meaning to get back to it
@fiore oh fuck OH FUCK
The novel gets its name from Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1, in which Prince Hamlet holds the skull of the court jester, Yorick, and says, "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!"[20]
I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT LINE IS ONE OF SHAKESPEARE'S BEST EVER AND I JUST READ IT NOW FOR THE FIRST FUCKING TIME
@fiore WHAT IF I NAMED MY TERRIBLE LITTLE DIFFIE-HELLMAN BIGNUM EXPONENTIATION SOFTWARE "HORATIO" HOLY SHIT
