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mircea_popescu: and no, "anything is content for someone" dun fucking hold.
this is
the direct equivalent of
the "dating site" fallacy, whereby "eveyone has a special someone matching
them put on
this earth by our infantile protestant notion of god" becomes a "scientific blabla" (ie,
http://trilema.com/2015/the-lulz-in-dating/#selection-69.0-89.459 ). bullshit. most people are broken, and
the idea
that
they'll be "harmoniously broken
togeth
mircea_popescu: i mean, if i bother
to pick it up and mock it it maybe becomes content, on a slow day. but
there's one of me and at last count >50mn of
the idiots.
a111: Logged on 2018-03-31 16:58 mircea_popescu: "Four years ago
this month, I found out
that Jane Pratt —
the editor
that had made me want
to be an editor since I was 12 years old — had chosen me
to be
the beauty director of her new xoJane beauty spinoff, xoVain. OK, so I was actually her second choice — her first had fallen
through — but
that was OK. I had previously not even pitched
to xoJane because I was so intimidated and sure I'd be rejected, so getting hired
mircea_popescu: why exactly is
this needed, vice couldn't handle
the volume of all
the useless crap fat ugly whores spewed out for $5 a
title ?
mircea_popescu: their
top stories being... "i grepped reddit for a string", "here is some shannonized nonsense about a
topic
too large for enric durany
to
touch", "how a kid from sf started a school in india" and ON AND ON.
mircea_popescu: what fucking content, hackernoon is pompously "where hackers give a shit" except omitting
to discuss how slashdot sold
to spammers for exactly
the sex
traffic value above, and slashdot ACTUALLY WAS a place hackers gave a shiot about, unlike hackernews, say, idle pretense aside.
mircea_popescu: and
they're all
there because a bunch of business school majors
truly imagine
they can compete for gatekeeping ; and "content will come"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there's also an endless supply of
the "totally not
the same
thing as
this" "platforms", medium,
that shitty
thing with "i made $0.05 with
this post" reddit
tip bot extension and so on.
douchebag: I'm not saying it was impressive what
they did, but it was rather comical
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what REALLY happened was
that rms got in everyone's way with his usual "i'm dumb and slow" routine, so
they
took a decade
to route around him
mircea_popescu: and it's exactly
the reason "sex
trafficking" is a problem, also. >99% of females have entirely no value whatsoever, as pigs are cheaper
to butcher. of
those, 14% or so have some resale value as fucktoys, generally in
the bitcent
to 0.1 btc range.
mircea_popescu: the problem is
that people have absolutely nothing
to say
to anyone.
mircea_popescu: the "problem" of "social media" isn't
that people lack
the place, methods and mechanisms whereby
to communicate
their interesting, valuable etcetera verbiage.
mircea_popescu: in
the sense
that spending your life going
through battlefields looking for sellable scrap metal is fun. africa's fulla
this fun.
douchebag: well, it's always fun pwning
that group of idiots
mircea_popescu: and i include greenspun in
the idiots pile. along with
the rest of
the "luminaries".
mircea_popescu: it only exists because a group of idiots
that had no business
touching computers nevertheless got some, and
their only "idea" was "hey... we should
try and control how people display data on
their own machines"
mircea_popescu: anyway, re earlier discussion : i find it fucking hilarious
that
the webtards are actually
trying
to rebuild bulletin boards. "great improvement over php, ruby!". douchebags, php only exists because of your shit-headed "web" hallucination!
phf: i wonder if it's
the phone itself
though, but i fail
to see how
the reception quality would degrade :o
a111: Logged on 2018-03-26 07:31 phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-03-19#1788278 << i've discovered similar, my 3g phone barely has signal and doesn't last more
than a day in san francisco. presumably because
the number of 3g supporting
towers is significantly lower here
mircea_popescu: it
turns on i'm not
the first one
to have done
this
then ?!
ben_vulpes: the
transmission web interface is fine
mircea_popescu: PLUS you get for
the first
time now
the best
thing ever : your guy can a) learn (say, spells) and b) equip, items. because
there's meaningful effects
to have.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "move
that crate
to
the left, but NOT YET or else
that weird plant shoots you as it's exactly diagonal"
mircea_popescu: phf
the spec here is "have a library of good films accessible
to friends" rather
than "i want
to watch something between blowjobs"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, here's an idea :
think sokoban, but extended so
that 1.
there's enemies, which can kill you, and 2. you can actually shoot projectiles at
them.
take advantage of diagonal/straight piercing/exploding and of course destroyable/nondestroyable movable/non movable environment.
phf: aria2, i
think it has a web interface even, but
the whole
thing is entirely automatic. cron
to hoover up
torrents from ~/Downloads, ssh
them into a box folder, sleep based script picks it up on other end, feeds it
to aria, when finished downloading writes it
to an rss and also
to a directory
that's expose
through apache
mircea_popescu: phf what are you using btw ? i'm
thinking deluge, apparently has a web interface can just get
the girlies set up with.
mircea_popescu: phf
the notion
that you'll have a local capable of
the delivery of any arbitrary actor... really ? kozlov gonna sound like marylin ? slim ? etcetera ?
mircea_popescu: 481 * 9 = 4329, ie more
than
the hd i bought. not cheap.
phf: but yeah dub world is funny. heated debates over whether
translation by say borodinsky or kozlov are better
phf: i don't at present recode
them because space is cheap
phf: well, i download
the 9gb versions, and have a script
that keeps only one specific audio
track.
the whole
thing is a semi manual process
though, since i have
to select
the right
track by ear, etc.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i don't
think we have a machine
that is even free for
this purpose; and so don't understand why we'd ship hdds down without a machine
to put 'em in, although i could be being
thick and not seeing something
mircea_popescu: kinda why i have 0 interest in
teh ruworld
torrents, nfi who
told
these folks it's ok
to hire some
tolomak
to do say richard burton. wtf.
phf: mircea_popescu: well, sometimes quality does suck, when you do e.g. a wall projection.
those 9gb prints are usually done by obsessive people. but main reason is
that i'm pulling from slav sources, where 800mb version is slav audio
track only. "original audio
track" is a bonus on
those "archival" prints
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: all of
the machines in
the rack are being used; i was asking if one of
the rockchips can handle
this kind of duty.
mircea_popescu: lobbes you added gopher
to your hopper ?! what did grace say ?
phf: (but also
this is a
thin pipe for 2-9gb customary
torrent sizes, i know mircea_popescu is partial
to 750mb prints)
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: and what machine
to hook it
to?
mircea_popescu: phf suppose
tomorrow you decide you want
to see $item you read on
trilema. should it
take you a week ?
phf: don't need fat pipe
to
torrent for backups, will just
take long
time. my
torrent box is on a very
thin line, and i just set
the upload/download max clients seed ratio etc. appropriately
mircea_popescu: holy shit
they're expensive now. i just bought a 4tb
toshiba for ~100 bux locally ; seems item is like 120 or so online ?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: please
to spec it out, yr
the hardware guy. would
this get attached
to one of
the rockchips?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's a low spec computer (mostly,
two huge disks, otherwiuse modest) ; but anyway, something
to grow into.
mircea_popescu: al schwartz's "believe it or not ketamine dun work" has a lot
to do with "well... you've been
to
the dentist all
these many years ?"
mircea_popescu: "well... apparently it hurts you ? i've seen women go
through gangbangs with less extrapyramidal effects"
mircea_popescu: anyway, and she wanted
to put me under! and i was naw, go ahead.
took some convincing, and by
the
time she was halfway
through she was sweating profusely and had
the shakes. "but doesn't it hurt ?!?!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not just usian disease anymore. i had some work done recently, very pretty girl, quite competent (sadly, being a good dentist requires
the steady hand only a properly developed brain can produce. retards can't ever be sharpshooters, dentists, surgeons etc because dubious genetics -> dubios fenotype ->
too ungaitly assymetric
to perform)
mircea_popescu: if dentists were programmers
they wouldn't have any need for drills, just cement over cavities and
then cement over
that.
mimisbrunnr: Logged on 2018-04-09 15:10 mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes : is
this a contract you folks want, incidentally ?
a111: Logged on 2016-12-27 18:18 mircea_popescu: oh, hey, I KNEW
this was gonna be in
there. a) "I recommend using quaternion variables
to represent
two
things: an object's rotation, and/or a rotation which you'd like
to apply
to some object." ; b) "You cannot represent rotations of greater
than 180 degrees with Quaternions, and when doing a Slerp() or MoveTowards() rotation with Quaternions,
the rotation always
take
the shortest path. So if you need
to rotate more
than 180