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phf: despite the references to brooks, nobody's actually practicing what brooks advocated, so the name and the books are reduced to a charm. yet another
cargo cult
BingoBoingo: Then there's always going to be some incredibly time insensitive goods needing moving, which will preserve some form of shipping. Hence riverboats still traveling the Mississippi, but rarely with
cargo that isn't bird attractant.
elaineo:
cargo cult arguing-on-the-internet
kanzure: trained it on 80k hours of audio books. admittedly, 'machine learning' is 98%
cargo cult bullshit.
mircea_popescu: there's a very strictly defined ingredient which distinguishes the
cargo cult scavenger worlds from the renaissance scavenger worlds.
mats: (cn's first
cargo spacecraft, Tianzhou-1, performs autodock with Tiangong-2 spacelab)
mircea_popescu: even at a time people couldn't be arsed to ~physically inspect~ russkis anymore, just paid for the
cargo whole.
trinque: fusion powered emdrive starship with quantum computing
cargo knapsacker!1!11
mircea_popescu: originally my "trei ani de experienta" (three years' experience) was a stab at the deeply illiterate,
cargo-cultish third world shithole that was romania.
phf: movie is sort of an absurdist take on
cargo cultism. in this case the quotes are instructions on social ritual on a backwards planet, that are obviously meaningless. a su viewer would see parallels to own life
phf: lars bak used to work on high performance smalltalk virtual machines, then java. v8 is still the case "ok, let me write some semblance of sane technology for this shit language of yours". since then everything that's happened around javascript is
cargoculting v8
a111: Logged on 2016-11-01 21:29 asciilifeform: trinque: consider: a 'saturn' and the maersk
cargo fleet cost similarly. but they are unlike: 'saturn' is a cult/religious object (in the sense where nobody seriously attempts to calculate its roi) , rather more like the great pyramids.
ben_vulpes: now see for
cargo plane to remotish location...
mircea_popescu: that it's used for exactly the sort of ritualized,
cargo cultish bullshit a la "purge males!11 womenz can be suit people too!!1" is far from surprising. what the fuck else would it do
phf: trinque: mechanics of padmasana doesn't put weight on knees. i don't know what that lady is doing (that picture is straight up
cargo cult), but even in her caise majority of her weight is on the lower buttocks
mircea_popescu: this model is built on some axioms. one of which is "dumb people". not smart people. the moment you turn around and try to apply it to engineers you plainly demonstrate you have absolutely no connection to the people who come up with this, but merely
cargo cultist, following motions.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform suddenly puts the japanese "music afficionados" in their proper context.
cargo cult of something from the 40s.
mircea_popescu: same thing, throughout. buenos aires has a night life, god help you if you try to go out. it has shops, god help you if you try to you know, find the most common industrial product in deployment over the whole country (ie, the heating element from
http://trilema.com/2016/cargo-cults-a-case-study/ )
mircea_popescu: especially his discussion of kqueue and the hashtable/array duality + fd_getfile workings strictly indicates a) he's an idiot ; b) that
http://trilema.com/2016/cargo-cults-a-case-study/ 's "This is what
cargo cultism is, you see : memetic stupidity, inescapable for the aculturated. Even if they try. Especially if they try." is exactly right and, sadly, c) that alf is exactly correct : we can't have computers as a continuation
mircea_popescu: "The House bill, for example, includes $1.5 billion for an unrequested modern “amphibious” warship for dual land and sea missions, $400 million for four unrequested C-40 aircraft to carry
cargo and commanders, and $1 billion worth of unrequested National Guard equipment, a perennial pork-barrel favorite, the Taxpayers for Common Sense report said. " << so basically, 1`000`000 smartphones.
mircea_popescu: and to best understand HOW the turkeyization works, consider the case of argentina, wherein exist both an old cuckold by the name turner as well as a young rapist by the name popescu. now, for whatever imponderable
cargo cult reasons (see
http://trilema.com/2014/la-florida-and-other-places/ for discussion), the local cunts want "dollars". there's a huge difference between situation 1, where turner has 100, and situation 2, wh
mircea_popescu: if you knew your plane would end up on
cargo cult island anywya, would you bother with anything serious ?
a111: Logged on 2016-05-30 18:05 asciilifeform: and i imagine it must suck to be the owner of a real airplane landed on
cargo cult island, it will promptly be ripped apart for parts to decorate straw planes the moment you look away
mircea_popescu: that right there is
cargo cultism at its peach pit core.
mircea_popescu: whether you are or aren't : the notion that what nadia heninger did is in any way related to what nadia heninger "got" is the core and the root of
cargo cultism.
phf:
cargoculting /proc and disabling almost everything. on mbp issue is mostly with discrete ATI card
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 18:29:41; asciilifeform: no amount of travel or whatnot can cure a man who experienced western civilization in 1960, and believes that we can bring back the airplanes by
cargoculting to what he perceives as the rules of the era.
mircea_popescu: understand this "can" correctly : can
cargo cult tribe build any item out of straw and mud that they wish ?
copypaste: except instead of just letting potentially thousands of people stick around in an airport, they'll just be loaded in a
cargo plane and dumped over whatever remains of the midwest :p
assbot: Logged on 29-09-2015 19:37:55; jurov:
cargocult masonry aside, i surmised they invented structured discussion, i.e. it was clear at all times whose turn is to speak
BingoBoingo: Aren't they notorious for killing their entire crew and
cargo?
mircea_popescu: in other news, "Shouldn’t we be surprised to learn that an importer owns and operates its own ships? It’s probably not the comparative advantage for even the largest importers. And here’s the thing: Dole isn’t one of the country’s top three importers of containerized
cargo. Instead it’s the fifth, after Walmart, Target, Home Depot, and Lowe’s. But you won’t see boxes or ships owned by these companies. I
ascii_field: 'The Coast Guard said the fire occurred as the ship was loading a
cargo of liquid ethylene.'
punkman: as long as we don't end up with
cargo-cult footnoting
mircea_popescu: the problem with
cargo cultism being, of course, that the only thing it produces is frustration.
mircea_popescu: it is, to them, the reality of the daytime tv drama. the scholarly term for this is, "
cargo cult".