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a111: Logged on 2018-01-23 20:22 phf:
trinque:
the function used
to be performed by a
teacher with a ruler
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-23#1774947 <<
this is not clearly so.
teacher with ruler function was
to
teach
them bravery (more properly, unteach
them
the innate cowardice of human race).
this is subtly different ;
there's also a subtle difference between empathy as "capacity
to model" and
the bare capacity
to model as such -- yes
the similarity between mouse
that loves a mouse and spider
that eats a mouse is
that
they both
☝︎ mircea_popescu: in other news, apparently yahoo owns
tumblr ? i had no idea.
mircea_popescu: THIRTEEN was
the age of majority for french kinds. by
then "they had seen a few wars, fucked a few horses, rode a few women, ready
to rule"
mircea_popescu: ideal humanity would have constructed ladder of pseudouseful ("hey, make your own V!")
to support
the kids until
they grow
the fucking graybeard spontaneously on 3xth birthday so
they don't go off
the deep end as antsy 16yos/26yos with no release
a111: Logged on 2018-01-23 20:04
trinque: which, it's sorta appropriate for
the age. it's frankly someone else's fault
the strapping lads aren't being forced into productive activity.
mircea_popescu: and ffs is more fundamental math
than << ffa, obviously.
mircea_popescu: what clouds your eyes is
the notion
that "civillian dun need
to understand why, it will work for him". yes, but he has
to understand why ~TO USE IT~. see ?
mircea_popescu: you are a
terrible classifier, you know
that ? seriously, ffa, 3rd grade ? what next,
telekinesis, preschool ?
mircea_popescu: the notion of number requires a phd. and ffs is more fundamental math
than
things such as infinitesimal calculus.
mircea_popescu: the notion of gravity is not elementary.
the notion of magnetism is so fucking elementary it was observed 1k years before electricity and it still lacks a proper model.
mircea_popescu: this is not because
the notion of number "is light on math -- 3rd grade". but specifically because it is not. nothing odf
the fucking sort.
mircea_popescu: you understand, in frege's day "inquiries into
the nature of numbers" were VERY uninteresting
to kids in
teh gymnasium
phf: which 3rd grade is
that?
a111: Logged on 2018-01-23 20:03
trinque: kid was virtue signaling hard, "am strapping lad, going places!"
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-23#1774921 << amusingly i read it as a "well, gotta put best foot forward and don best suit", kinda unconvinced of why or what
the fuck subjhectively, "but what can you do". which is why i just ignored it,
triggered none of my
tripwires. while apparently hitting
TWO DIFFERENT!!! immune system protein pathways in
two different people.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2018-01-23 19:54 lobbes: It appears such
to someone with actual skills such as phf. But for one for whom it is a "well, what else is
there?", it seems like
the rational move
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-23#1774916 << he has it exactly ; for all
the "intrinsic humanity" blah blah, humans are contextual automatons. "it would have never occured me
to x" is
the most common comment in all natural languages, unvoiced because so fucking
trite.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2018-01-23 19:52 phf: i can see
the education angle, and how it fails
these people, but what i'm surprised about is
the lack of personal drive? it's some kind of learned helplessness
a111: Logged on 2018-01-23 19:47 lobbes: Never once did I encounter "interested in something? Here's how you could keep following
that interest"
mircea_popescu: anyway,
trident was actually a pretty great maker, in q/$
terms at least.
mircea_popescu: now
this is going
to run on loop in my house and
the girls will lose
their mind and come seek you alf and
tear your liver out before your eyes
phf: that was cm-500, it's got flatter soundbank
than mt-32. but
to be honest first
time i heard either was after i moved
to us, and it's frankly weird
to hear all
those classic
tunes in such epic renditions.
though i guess soundblaster
that everyone had in ru wasn't bad either
mircea_popescu: anyway, it was
the rondeau by mouret. but it never heard a proper variant played on like yopu klnow, actual fucking musical instruments,
that i even half as much liked.
mircea_popescu: in
THAT specific variant, imo it gains a lot from
the speaker.
mircea_popescu: but yes it was
the damned intro. maybe it comes
to me.
mircea_popescu: now if only i had a blog from 1993 i could dig in and find what
the fix was.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no,
that actually was a known problem at
the
time! i REMEBER
THIS
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform where's your logline saying "well, of course office drone is going
to build by parts, wtf else is he gonna do"
mircea_popescu: lotta wasted
time. phf has it, where's your edited civ savefiles ffs.\
a111: Logged on 2018-01-23 19:23
trinque: fees have come *way* down.
mircea_popescu: did we do an "ye olde dacs on serial port"
thread yet ?
a111: Logged on 2018-01-23 19:25 phf: if you're in
the first category, you're going
to be paid peanuts
to do bitch work, if you're in
the later category
then by 19 (or whatever) "how
to pentest career!1" is going
to be ~the last fucking question~ you're going
to ask a channel full of autodidacts
a111: Logged on 2018-01-23 18:39 phf: afair
though,
the subset of commands
that we have in vdiff can be reduced
to portable awk (i had it working on mac os x), but i don't remember what
the necessary changes are. someone mentioned
that busybox awk fails..
mircea_popescu: also fyi, "faculty" is how you say
the body of
teachers, maybe. it dun has
the ro meaning at all whatsoever. university would work, campus, whatever.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-01-23 18:29 spyked should
take some photos next
time he goes
to
the faculty; maybe grab some docs for
the archaeologists
shinohai: "Benebit, one of
this year’s most hyped ICOs, has pulled an exit scam ....
The fraud only came
to light after someone noticed
that
the
team photos had been stolen from a school website."
a111: Logged on 2018-01-23 18:26 asciilifeform: in su also folx made boxes like
this.
mircea_popescu: we gotta have a conversation about gender balance and bias in
this republic.
mircea_popescu: mod6
top of
the list of potential inductees for
this year methinks.
mod6: lobbes is doing good
things huh
mircea_popescu: has nfi what
the holes do but can
tell you
the bell rang at an unexpected
time.
mircea_popescu: that's
the modern "computer user" :
the punchcard girl of ibm days.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-23 17:59 spyked: re naggum article, "programming is both similar and different. whether you are a user or a programmer
these days is often hard
to
tell (this has good qualities
to it,
too)" <--
this user/programmer dichotomy being a direct consequence of
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-22#1774116 maybe? ftr, /me started with a microcomputer and first
thing he could do with it, by nature, was program it. even if
the "program" consisted merely of LOAD ""
a111: Logged on 2018-01-23 17:53 lobbes:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-23#1774737 << btw,
ty ben_vulpes for writing
this article. After I get archive .zip delivery up and running I will be
taking
time
to get my castle in order.
This will include: 1) learning 'v' 2) get a working
trb 3)
testing my damn fgs already 4) ffa chapter 1 (at least)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform romanian has it. it's mostly used
to denote
taking
the bus w/o a
ticket / going
to exam with a cheating mind.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile "programming", in
the sense (and i quote exactly), "I'm working in corporation in finance and procurement department, so I can sum up my life with : excel, excel, excel, SAP, a little bit more excel" is not actuially a job 90% opf
the walkers can do.
mircea_popescu: ie,
there's
two ways
to control overabundant supply :
through price and
through convention.
the union is
the latter mechanism.\
mircea_popescu: which is
the
traditional point of
the expression "union
town" : a job you ~could~ do, but won't be allowed
to.