Re: [silk] An anniversary

2020-12-20 Thread Tomasz Rola
uot; or "be liked" just does not make sense to me). -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home** ** directo

Re: [silk] Founder's Day!

2020-10-23 Thread Tomasz Rola
pa and Udhay, in no particular order :-) -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home** ** directory. And then the C program

Re: [silk] (no subject)

2020-09-11 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 09:08:12PM +0530, Nisha Susan wrote: > Hello all! > > I am a writer based in Bangalore. I recently wrote a book of short stories > called The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook. Looking forward to > conversations here. > > Nisha Hi there! --

Re: [silk] Spammer attack

2020-08-29 Thread Tomasz Rola
n-free MUAs. Only had to plow through multitude of discussion threads broken and ripped apart by incompetent programs. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home** *

Re: [silk] Spammer attack

2020-08-28 Thread Tomasz Rola
d. What you mean, satire, caricature, what is that. Delete. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home** ** directory. And then t

Re: [silk] Spammer attack

2020-08-28 Thread Tomasz Rola
such case I am unhopeful, all bets are lost and I would expect much more work - unless someone already made a solution, and it can be downloaded and used fer freeah. Tools beat solutions, for each species who can use tools. Evolution vs devolution. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programm

Re: [silk] One unusual take on UBI etc

2020-06-22 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 04:33:41PM -0700, Heather Madrone wrote: > Tomasz Rola wrote on 6/21/20 9:13 AM June 21, 2020: > >On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 07:37:56PM -0700, Heather Madrone wrote: > >>Tomasz Rola wrote on 6/14/20 10:33 AM June 14, 2020: > >>>On Mon, Jun 08, 2

Re: [silk] One unusual take on UBI etc

2020-06-21 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 07:37:56PM -0700, Heather Madrone wrote: > Tomasz Rola wrote on 6/14/20 10:33 AM June 14, 2020: > >On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 07:28:38AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > >>Kim Stanley Robinson's work has been discussed on silk multiple times >

Re: [silk] One unusual take on UBI etc

2020-06-14 Thread Tomasz Rola
ipedia.org/wiki/Limes_inferior [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_from_the_Stars -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the program

Re: [silk] test

2020-04-01 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 11:15:41AM +0530, Biju Chacko wrote: > Failed > Fail passed. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home** ** directory. And then

Re: [silk] How do you collect and retrieve information from what you read?

2020-02-27 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 11:55:40PM +0100, Tomasz Rola wrote: [...] > > the memorable ones, long after the participants had passed. This is from > > the Davangere region of Karnataka. > > This is interesting. it reminds me of Flynn Collective from Charles > Stross' &qu

Re: [silk] How do you collect and retrieve information from what you read?

2020-02-27 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 12:56:14AM +0530, Alok Singh wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:52 PM Tomasz Rola wrote: > > > BTW, is there (or was there) a similar concept in other > > cultures/civilisations? > > > Sort of tangential but there is an oral tradition called

Re: [silk] How do you collect and retrieve information from what you read?

2020-02-26 Thread Tomasz Rola
st in Europe). I guess it would be hard to invent something better. BTW, is there (or was there) a similar concept in other cultures/civilisations? I mean, a kind of personal encyclopaedia, collected from scraps of knowledge. In Japan, they have hobonichi, but as I understand it, it is more like daily planner and diary

Re: [silk] What did you change your mind about in 2019?

2020-01-21 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 04:52:33AM +0100, Tomasz Rola wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:19:09AM -0800, Heather Madrone wrote: > [...] > > > > Many people would point to money or power as being the king. > > The way I perceive it, a success in war, or making money (

Re: [silk] What did you change your mind about in 2019?

2020-01-20 Thread Tomasz Rola
I like to reason about various things (whatever comes to my mind). I might be an animal, in some part at least, but reasoning is fun. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the progra

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2020-01-19 Thread Tomasz Rola
I have not read yet. - Neil Gaiman "American Gods" "Anansi Boys" This is already known to everybody, I guess. - Arthur Schopenhauer "Eristic Dialectic: The Art of Winning an Argument" Interesting small book. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C progr

Re: [silk] What did you change your mind about in 2019?

2020-01-19 Thread Tomasz Rola
or making everybody believe in same thing. I myself do not really give much about beliefs of other people (as long as they do not start to believe it would be a good thing to come after me with pitchforks and burning torches). -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddh

Re: [silk] Random thought of the day

2019-06-08 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 11:12:14AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 4:44 AM Tomasz Rola wrote: > > > > > Measured purely on clock speed and RAM, my current cellphone (2017 model) > > > has better specs than my last laptop (2012 model). > >

Re: [silk] Random thought of the day

2019-06-07 Thread Tomasz Rola
one has at least a fighting chance - switch to console, add more swap or maybe even more ram etc. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home** ** di

Re: [silk] Random thought of the day

2019-05-25 Thread Tomasz Rola
use they get more and more shorter and shorter messages faster and faster. Overally, if you ask me a question which cannot be answered with conventional explanation/wisdom, I will recall some conspiracy theory or make up one on demand. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked wh

Re: [silk] From 35 years ago, Asimov's predictions for 2019 (and anxperiment for this list)

2019-01-25 Thread Tomasz Rola
ive in harmony > with its environment or it will die when it kills its host. I do not see it quite the same way and I oppose the idea that I am bacteria. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif

Re: [silk] From 35 years ago, Asimov's predictions for 2019 (and anxperiment for this list)

2019-01-25 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 01:04:38PM +0100, Tomasz Rola wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 09:37:30PM -0500, Bruce A. Metcalf wrote: > [...] > > The longer we put it off, the worse it will be when it does come. > > Perhaps central Africa and the middle east have it right, get it >

Re: [silk] From 35 years ago, Asimov's predictions for 2019 (and anxperiment for this list)

2019-01-25 Thread Tomasz Rola
ight. But I will only say, it is metastasing and whoever thinks that he can easily control it is in huge error. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home** ** directory. And then

Re: [silk] it may not be well-done; is it becoming rare?

2019-01-05 Thread Tomasz Rola
handwriting": http://www.styluslabs.com/ (source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17858641 ) They take a two kilobytes of text and blow it up to two megabytes by replacing each handwritten letter by a multiple lines of Javascript whose purpose is to render a line on a canvas object. Looks like

Re: [silk] In Defense of Puns

2018-12-10 Thread Tomasz Rola
ful with that approach. For decades I was making puns of my buddies (is it how I should say it?) and now they all pretend to not know who I am. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" o

Re: [silk] Being an ally

2018-11-18 Thread Tomasz Rola
nformation on my hands, erred about the ending. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home** ** directory.

Re: [silk] How many phone numbers do you remember?

2018-08-21 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 10:51:56AM +1000, Thaths wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 9:36 AM Tomasz Rola wrote: > > > > > > > Other skills missing in action: > > > > - programming anything in assembly (or any level below C, or even at > > level of C - i.e

Re: [silk] How many phone numbers do you remember?

2018-08-20 Thread Tomasz Rola
n I was driving, I used to memorize my routes by looking at city plan or other maps (when driving beyond city limits). I also keep making fun of people driven into rivers and plowed fields by their gps. I know I am bad. > Tomasz Rola wrote on 8/20/18 2:06 PM August 20, 2018: > >&g

Re: [silk] How many phone numbers do you remember?

2018-08-20 Thread Tomasz Rola
e is using card catalogues in libraries. I have not lost it and I still do many of the things mentioned in this subthread. -> "talking to strangers in order to ask for way" I am thrilled that some people might be loosing ability to talk with their voices. -- Regard

Re: [silk] Fuel from air

2018-06-17 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 08:34:53AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 2:07 AM Tomasz Rola wrote: > [...] > > Question: who did more to save the planet during this last > > thirty-something years? How much more could have been done if people > > stuck

Re: [silk] Fuel from air

2018-06-16 Thread Tomasz Rola
about 15 meters high, my grandpa is no more. Question: who did more to save the planet during this last thirty-something years? How much more could have been done if people stuck to simple things instead of inventing geeky-freaky schemes? -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whet

Re: [silk] ‘Kind’ technology?

2018-02-09 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 09:04:28AM +0200, Bharath Chari wrote: > On 02/09/2018 04:11 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 7:22 AM, Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.pl> wrote: > > > >Lo and behold, my connection has been cut off for few hours... > >​It look

Re: [silk] ‘Kind’ technology?

2018-02-08 Thread Tomasz Rola
out it. You are very kind (ahem!) but I emulate realist on this issue: some peple will want to know, the rest will think it does not matter. > On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 9:26 AM Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.pl> wrote: > [...] > > I guess it would be kinder to confine me and cut off m

Re: [silk] ‘Kind’ technology?

2018-02-07 Thread Tomasz Rola
cept this one day when he went around, picked a passerby randomly (including his family members) and broke his nose, then I could call him few words, but kind is not one of them. Actually, describing such guy as "kind" smells very much like Stockholm syndrome. Ok, I do not think we

Re: [silk] ‘Kind’ technology?

2018-02-06 Thread Tomasz Rola
ots. So, I would like people to be kind enough towards future people and pay huge attention about what words we are using. I think it is better to get one thing and be 100% content rather than to get two things and be 50% content. It is not the same, because this other, unwanted thing will keep stinging p

Re: [silk] ‘Kind’ technology?

2018-02-06 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 11:54:51AM +0530, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > On Feb 6, 2018 8:57 AM, "Tomasz Rola" <rto...@ceti.pl> wrote: > > > Frankly, the whole thread reads a bit surreal to me, to the point > > where I wonder if my English... > > > On

Re: [silk] ‘Kind’ technology?

2018-02-05 Thread Tomasz Rola
te position? "Luddite" as opponent of technological progress? Where progress is defined as technological regress, such as stupid-smart devices prevent everybody from doing anything useful. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature.

Re: [silk] Few MacOS questions [was: What's your primary computing device?]

2017-10-04 Thread Tomasz Rola
will have a look at aquamacs. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home** ** directory. And then the C programmer

Re: [silk] Few MacOS questions [was: What's your primary computing device?]

2017-09-29 Thread Tomasz Rola
nd I would have to redesign good part of my dataflow, and not quite for the better. I have kind of suspected that, but it is good to have some info on the subject. On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 03:38:23AM +, Alok Singh wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 at 02:22 Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.pl>

Re: [silk] eggogology [was: silklist Digest, Vol 94, Issue 24]

2017-09-24 Thread Tomasz Rola
significant digits - maybe some more quirks, as it claims to be bit-for-bit compatible, and there were errors in original hardware (again, if memory serves). But I like it. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, ma

Re: [silk] Few MacOS questions [was: What's your primary computing device?]

2017-09-24 Thread Tomasz Rola
"every sane and smart person could and should learn Linux and then use it for her own and greater good" - oh I was very young. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer

Re: [silk] chips on our shoulders and bells on our toes (was: Renaming Aurangzeb Road)

2015-09-17 Thread Tomasz Rola
stings here. > > And now the shit has hit the fan and we have a regular shitstorm. For us the people of intellect, shit is a spice. Or it should be, because there is plenty of it and... I'm not sure, why. But, it sits out there, unused. And we are supposed to be innovative. dammit. --

Re: [silk] The High Cost of Cynicism

2015-06-01 Thread Tomasz Rola
except when I am right? :-P What kind of science is this? Scientists got very cynical these days. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did rm -rif on the programmer's home** ** directory. And then the C

Re: [silk] Books and libraries (OT)

2014-11-09 Thread Tomasz Rola
. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did rm -rif on the programmer's home** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened

Re: [silk] Why email newsletters won't die ...

2014-08-24 Thread Tomasz Rola
stopped). http://www.csl.sri.com/users/risko/risksinfo.html Subscribe and enjoy the darkest secrets of our so called civilisation. And watch how the rest of humans downloads screensavers and background wallpapers. ;-) -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had

Re: [silk] Pop says farewell (Re: Your take on this?)

2014-04-06 Thread Tomasz Rola
is. Two weeks later I received a letter from my father informing me of Pop's death. It was at the day and hour that the mechanic in Senegal fixed the car with the clogged fuel line. jrs What a story. Thank you for sharing. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer

Re: [silk] One more reason to not care about movies

2013-06-11 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Indrajit Gupta wrote: One hadn't really thought about it, but on reflection, and on reading this past exchange, one finds oneself rather agreeing with Tomasz Rola. Particularly after his painful jab about the historical authenticity of American movies

Re: [silk] One more reason to not care about movies

2013-06-11 Thread Tomasz Rola
to be disconnected from reality. If I am wrong, I really wonder in what way. Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did rm -rif on the programmer's home** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened

[silk] One more reason to not care about movies

2013-06-10 Thread Tomasz Rola
and harder to watch (with some notable exceptions). Now, here is even better, less subjective proof that US film industry is sinking. Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did rm -rif on the programmer's home

Re: [silk] And introducing for the first time on silk: Tomasz Rola!

2013-04-03 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Wed, 3 Apr 2013, Charles Haynes wrote: On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:40 PM, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 00:31 +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did rm -rif on the programmer's

Re: [silk] And introducing for the first time on silk: Tomasz Rola!

2013-04-03 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Wed, 3 Apr 2013, Tomasz Rola wrote: For the record, I believe there was at least one rm implementation which would have asked a question (-i) but instead of waiting for answer, removed a node just after asking (-f). Strangely, I cannot tell if I ever used that particular rm

Re: [silk] And introducing for the first time on silk: Tomasz Rola!

2013-04-03 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Wed, 3 Apr 2013, Charles Haynes wrote: Does a dog have buddha nature? If you answer yes or no you will lose your own buddha nature. Much worse, the master will break his stick on me, unless I do something entertaining, like spiting in his tea. Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer

Re: [silk] Intro

2013-04-03 Thread Tomasz Rola
the show (did I really), I thought my act would be long forgotten when the next guy shows up (like in a karaoke bar). But your intro is something concrete, so it defends itself without additional make up. Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature

[silk] And introducing for the first time on silk: Tomasz Rola!

2013-04-02 Thread Tomasz Rola
Hello, My first post here. I was told introducing oneself is a good sign, was too afraid to ask questions. Here goes, you will have to find some matching rap melody (rap melody? if there is something that fits): Yo, my name is Tomasz Rola I'm a programmer from Poland I like learning