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trinque: decent as
a learning tool and not much else.
mircea_popescu: ~CARING~ about the otherwise irrelevant item is ALSO rare and costly and difficult to produce. moreso than
a battleship.
mircea_popescu: fortunately, it is not MERELY the atomic bomb that is rare and costly and as difficult to produce as
a battleship.
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2014 07:02:37; asciilifeform: 'Had the atomic bomb turned out to be something as cheap and easily manufactured as
a bicycle or an alarm clock, it might well have plunged us back into barbarism, but it might, on the other hand, have meant the end of national sovereignty and of the highly-centralised police state. If, as seems to be the case, it is
a rare and costly object as difficult to produce as
a battleship, it is likelier to p
mircea_popescu: in
a very "sf" take of the thing - actually workable, and perhaps miniaturizable laser-initiated compression would put the nuclear issue on about the same terms the war on drugs finds itself.
mircea_popescu: they're both where virgin teen is on prom night. is it going to be
a good experience/marriage/life ? who knows ?
mircea_popescu: note that cold fusion has been approx where rocketry was in 1930 for
a good century now.
mircea_popescu: which makes it perhaps
a substantially different bojum.
mircea_popescu: but you UNDERSTAND the meta point, which makes you lie to yourself about your capacities, because you really really want things to be
a certain way.
mircea_popescu: you'll have to one day tell me what's the "operative difference" between peach and pear, but not in the sense of "one has
a wooden pit". instead, in the sense of "what do the trees do differently"
kakobrekla: yeah, his talks have been
a carbon copy for
a very long time on all the confs.
mircea_popescu: well wtf, i get the same results from my dog. i don't make the dog
a strategist. FOR THIS REASON.
mircea_popescu: you have to BUY
A LICENSE to run
a public house and be protected by this "publichouse" theory.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla tell you what, if maddof has
a talk there as well as obama, it'll be the ponzi conference.
mircea_popescu: and i do mean street urchins quite literally, the sort of mostly-nude eastern flesh that'd follow europeans begging for candy, either as
a freebie or in trade for butthole.
mircea_popescu: to put this in proper perspective : "genjix" is the garbage-eating, underage-cousin-pimping, imbecile on
a stick amir taaki.
trinque: rms strikes me as
a few rounds of imitation back from poettering and that ethereum kid
mircea_popescu: also, the proper quote is "modern real-world technical issues and the bigger picture". gotta get that MODERN in there, it is
a key element of the belief system of idiots that the problems they encounter are novel.
punkman: "Here at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he has made his home - literally, sleeping for 13 years on
a narrow cot in
a cubbyhole that resembles
a nest, littered with candy wrappers, food containers, papers and magazines. Garbage tumbles off every surface, piles up in corners, allowing only
a narrow track through which to navigate
a life."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how does
a man work who can't support himself ?
mircea_popescu: and if
a community vote is held to silence the complaints for racist and whatrever,
mircea_popescu: he basically saw himself as
a sort of jimbo wales. except forgot the part where tardpedia can contain anything, epistula non erubiscit, but the compiler doth complain.
mircea_popescu: or if you prefer, poorly socialised. still entertains the delusion that he'll make
a nice woman out of marble and invent
a lock that'll keep rats out of his granary.
mircea_popescu: and to take the discussion up
a coupla levels of abstraction : this is not
a technical problem in any sense. in fact, the only thing that
a classification of problems into technical and otherwise says is that ~the classifier~ is broken in the head.
mircea_popescu: but it also means you needn't worry about it - as
a consumer, it'll just be done for you, automagically!
mircea_popescu: the reasoning goes, that if arabs have no way of knowing they're arabs, such as for instance if the use of THEIR script happens transparently everywhere, then they won't be able to maintain
a sense of nationality and consequently jena bush's tush will remain unmolested.
assbot: “Has Linux lost its way?” comments prompt
a Debian developer to revisit FreeBSD after 20 years | The Changelog ... (
http://bit.ly/1LPWGNH )
phf: of course fact that emacs supports dbus but not
a generic ffi goes back to thread about rms and wreckers
thestringpuller: PeterL: prob why they used to make
a lot of escape from new york movies.
assbot: Logged on 29-02-2016 13:35:07; asciilifeform: 'Do I really have to be forced to use accessibility if I want just the gtk gui? I don't have the time needed to learn to modify ebuild, and keep
a separate overlay... I want to use Gentoo, not keep building it forever. Do I really have to accomodate for remote seat to be able to use Gentoo? '
jurov: there's
a nzi leader in slovakia but im not doing his bfs
mircea_popescu: think about it - by the time
a nuclear plant starts crying out for lack of maintenance, how badly maintained was everything else ?
assbot: Logged on 25-08-2014 03:08:03; asciilifeform: busy as
a bee << funny that they show an idiot sow scrubbing, and not, e.g, paul erdos crapping out theorems
assbot: Logged on 29-02-2016 07:13:02; mircea_popescu: contrary to
a whole lot of gargle, the list of +ev usage is ~empty.
assbot: Logged on 29-02-2016 06:37:37; phf: it was mostly
a rhetorical question, i just think that once you cross certain line with
a substance, perhaps it's worthwhile to try something different. but since coffee guzzling is mostly done from lack of attention, perhaps it's not
a good idea
punkman: "basically, Grsecurity fixes what Linus leaves open and unprotected for whichever reason in the GNU/Linux kernel, and that seems to annoy the genius very much... It's
a real though subdued war out there, and Grsecurity had
a moment of mild failure for
a few days, exactly after
a major contribution by, wait, wait!... by the Dear Leader himself..."
eth2: i guess you've had quite
a lot of visitors today haha
b6: Found you guys in
a weird way, not gunna lie.
mircea_popescu: contrary to
a whole lot of gargle, the list of +ev usage is ~empty.
☟︎ phf: BingoBoingo: oh i wasn't saying it's harmful, i was saying that when coffee stops working, perhaps it's time to take amphetamines, since it's
a cleaner and longer productive high. of course with
a history of substance abuse of any kind it is perhaps not
a good idea (same people who drink coffee by the litre, start eating amphetamines, etc.)
BingoBoingo wonders what could be so harmful about drinking less coffee con
a daily basis than I often did vodka
phf: in
a correlation/causation world of pop medicine here's ten things that you need to know about new use for an old drug that's all the rage
phf: it was mostly
a rhetorical question, i just think that once you cross certain line with
a substance, perhaps it's worthwhile to try something different. but since coffee guzzling is mostly done from lack of attention, perhaps it's not
a good idea
☟︎ BingoBoingo: How would I know if I did have
a history of that?
phf: i thought aa mostly object to other substances only as much as they trigger alcohol abuse. unless you have
a history of mixing alcohol and speed, there shouldn't be any crossover
phf: that evokes images of
a decisive cup, rationed coffee as
a boost for man's will in harsh conditions. most of the coffee experience i'm surrounded with is not like that at all. office workers on
a litre
a day, hipsters with artisanal pourovers, three jobs just to keep up crowd on
a dunken donuts extra large. not much keeping up with nature
phf: i'm always reminded of that movie where i guy was living among wolves, every morning he'd drink
a lot of coffee and make rounds
BingoBoingo: Nah, just smoke
a cigarette and pissed on some bushes
phf: BingoBoingo sets own yard on fire to settle
a long running dispute between cat and fox in favor of man
BingoBoingo: I go out front to see what the fuss is and the cat shoots out of the tree and under
a car while the fox shoots off into
a the park
BingoBoingo: the turf, one well lit front yard. The combatants
a vocal orange neighborhood cat and
a fox
BingoBoingo relishes in that feeing of power that follows one's presence ending
a turf war.
phf: maybe i can get away with running 10.9 for the next five years at which point b-
a will have its own scheme-81 clean room, yeah?
phf: but the whole exercise feels
a bit hair shirt