@nyanide This one is rather direct.

@scathach @Suiseiseki @jeffcliff

> a standardized mechanism for exchanging structurally complex data that doesn't require writing ad-hoc parsers on both ends

A parser is just a means of transferring wire-format data into an internal data structure. You cannot have what you are suggesting unless the data structure is the same on both sides, and you cannot get that without coupling the programs so tightly that you may as well abandon pretense at this being IPC.

You don't need to exchange structurally complex data anyway. You need distributed CSP, and you already have it.

@scathach @jeffcliff @Suiseiseki Thanks to Pythagoras, mathematics will forever be stuck in the fifth century B.C.

@jeffcliff @scathach @Suiseiseki This is why Plan 9 is so nice.

@nyanide @kakafarm I want tempered glass that doesn't shatter. East Germany created it and the patent's expired so anyone can do it now. That glass still breaks is a cynical decision pushed by companies that have since moved to man-made horrors with plastic.

@judgedread

> go along with a plot to exterminate the White race

I don't think that's Warren Buffet's plot. There's a simpler explanation and I wrote it already.

> The answer is that a hostile anti-White power now has almost complete control of all power chokepoints,

If that were the case, there would be no need for pretense.

The monolithic "they" doesn't exist. As noted previously, the compulsion to try to convince people that it does actually hurts buy-in for what would be (absent a purity spiral) a shared goal. The reason I started freelancing was that the people signing the checks don't expect me to sit through--let alone feign excitement--when they talk about a company being a unicorn and everyone getting rich. A soldier has to love his country, a mercenary just has to be good at his work.

I am happy to participate in the shared goal of, e.g., burning the IMF to the ground and having them all hanged for treason, but anyone that wants my belief in their cosmology is not likely to get it.

@nyanide

> It's nice if you are stuck in the past since it includes everything a 1993

goddamn what a year!

> I am a zoomer

goddamn, what a year! i'm old enough to be your grandfather, jit

> and I'm fine with settling for something like Gentoo which makes me grab all my stuff from a centralized much bigger repository of software. I can roll out my own portage overlays if I wanted to maintain extra repositories for software that's missing from the official stuff.

you think gentoo is fun? you should have seen when it was released and we ran emerge on 256mb (yep, you read it right) of ram.

if i'm getting what you're putting down, you sound like you'd benefit from a minimal system and just maintain your own vcs and pkg repo?

i'm currently running a mix of alpine and bsd and doing exactly that. i'm close to saying "fuck you carl" to packagers. btw i have no idea who carl is

@nyanide then why consider it? roll your own or pick another distro that doesn't require "cool points"

@FantasticalEconomics it's a good graph, but there have been a lot of Presidents since then, and there's a much more impressive halt in improvement with Obama.

@sun look around for smaller cities with a lot of bike paths, check those out on satellite view, shop for a nice place within walking distance. I've lived in cities for years and years and hated it because I lived in a bad area, and I've lived in overall worse cities that I enjoyed more because at any time I could walk out the door and start skating/biking/walking through nature, over bridges, along waterways, dodging group bike riders, dodging women walking a large dog.