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Mon Dec 16 22:51:00 UTC 2013 <asciilifeform> unrelated: crypto-auction! https://groups.google.com/d/msg/urbit-dev/KNkFS_34P_I/RQmpPTkP2tcJ
Mon Dec 16 04:29:22 UTC 2013 <asciilifeform> re: urbit: anyone curious about my answer to the quandary 'so, how the hell /should/ we build a computer' is invited to read:
Mon Dec 16 03:38:06 UTC 2013 <benkay> ah so you object to urbit's low-level immutability
Mon Dec 16 03:23:51 UTC 2013 <asciilifeform> author of urbit wrote some pretty good screeds on why he quit academic cs: (http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/07/my-navrozov-moments.html and http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/08/whats-wrong-with-cs-research.html) and then proceeded to... well, do what he did.
Mon Dec 16 03:17:28 UTC 2013 <asciilifeform> urbit (or any other graph-reduction machine with 'immutable data') is exquisitely unsuited to hardware. at least in this universe.
Mon Dec 16 03:08:59 UTC 2013 <BingoBoingo> ng to Urbit and the thing that highlights its futility is Clojure.
Mon Dec 16 03:08:58 UTC 2013 <BingoBoingo> benkay: Well You can spec a Turing complete language on a napkin in the bar. What takes time is building an implementation that runs on something. For most applications now, the various *nix's are going to be the best things available. If you want to write a new future of computing though instead of inventing Urbit someone could have just as well made a *nix that only offered as a Userland GNU Guile. It seems to me the Closest thi
Mon Dec 16 03:04:49 UTC 2013 <benkay> BingoBoingo: i don't know that i buy asciilifeform's ball-o-mud argument on urbit yet. given enough traction wouldn't it make sense to rewrite the important bits for fpgas or what have we?
Sat Dec 14 13:44:13 UTC 2013 <BingoBoingo> I hope I did well asciilifeform et al: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2013/12/14/the-failure-of-urbit-and-the-bitcoins-future-of-computing/
Fri Dec 13 23:00:37 UTC 2013 <Apocalyptic> urbit is dead I heard
Fri Dec 13 23:00:26 UTC 2013 <jurov> oh, and will it run urbit?
Fri Dec 13 22:37:25 UTC 2013 <asciilifeform> high-quality flamefest: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/urbit-dev/PvXo1t7uNrY/RL7DLpg1v9QJ
Fri Dec 13 16:30:14 UTC 2013 <jurov> Lol so mike gogulski is onto urbit? Will prod him for you,sure.
Fri Dec 13 15:41:17 UTC 2013 <BingoBoingo> Lol, and he'd rather have the Urbit than the BTC?
Fri Dec 13 14:56:12 UTC 2013 <asciilifeform> the 'dukedom' / KYC thread: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/urbit-dev/PvXo1t7uNrY/ik5e-9b-cNwJ
Fri Dec 13 14:22:13 UTC 2013 <asciilifeform> and also https://groups.google.com/d/msg/urbit-dev/4B12WpF1rL0/hYF3YPuqvR8J (rest of thread)
Fri Dec 13 14:20:56 UTC 2013 <asciilifeform> see also: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/urbit-dev/utp3H7F78so/Dt24fpiT3xcJ
Fri Dec 13 14:15:25 UTC 2013 <asciilifeform> and he put me on the urbit-dukes mailing list back in '10.
Fri Dec 13 11:50:37 UTC 2013 <BingoBoingo> Sure, urbit was from scratch, but it can't find anyone capable of actually building anything from scratch. Minix is that ancient thing, couldn't sell textbooks anymore and then they just ripped NetBSD and people still don't care about it.
Fri Dec 13 11:49:00 UTC 2013 <mircea_popescu> not really related tho, from what i gather urbit was actually a from-scratch thing