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mircea_popescu: anyway ; it's pleasant to see fiat exchanges migrate to being more like mpex.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i gues yet-another of these events where the whole bar talk is about us.
mircea_popescu: might explain all the effort the derps are putting into talking around the matter, i guess.
mircea_popescu: i forget the exact score, but the part where it is three digits to ZERO is kinda seared in my memory.
mircea_popescu: he can try and paper over it with "should be" and "similar" and whatnot until teh cows come home.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, no, looky : For GnuPG 2.1 things are different because there is a long running process (gpg-agent) which creates all keys.
mircea_popescu: i fondly recall the brief push by sm derps of the "mp is right occasionally" angle. i suppose someone stopped and counted meanwhile.
mircea_popescu: so in the case of the lebanon thing : yes, they own the upstream, and YES some derps expect to be paid for their "contribution" succeeding "for the first time" blabla.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform same people who check the gpg rng unwhitened.
mircea_popescu: which is how a huge thorny tree of "programs" that ate in excess of 300bn in 15 years has produced exactly ZERO any sort of results of any kind whatsoever to date.
mircea_popescu: their very tpical hockey sticks machines work just as well over climate data as they work over washing machine readings.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform softness of the target is not even half the story - what helps more is that half the time the derps don't even know if they got noise or signal.
mircea_popescu: which is more a result of blind statistics than of institutional management
mircea_popescu: whole shebang has a lot more to do with absurdist theatre than with technological process.
mircea_popescu: ok. so basically, they vaguely are aware that project P is made out of parts P1... Pn, although if you take them to task they can't really explain it ; and for that matter they're not really aware that "we made n parts for P" really means "we made part 1 six times and part 3 nine times because they were easy to make, we don't have any 2, 3, 7, 8 or 9 which means P ain't ever EVER working"
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-19#1525750 << your mental model of a functional monolithical sensible "meta-nsa" is contradicted by the practice. a lot of redundancy is baked in by legions of mindless, not terribly intelligent, here today and gone tomorrow "analysts", "experts", "contractors" and whatnot, with management broadly unaware of what the situation is.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: you're going to have to pay a fine if you do more than a dozen lines in succession you hear ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally, speaking of "medieval" organs, everyone knows the hysterical "notre dame des courants d'air" scene i trust ?
mircea_popescu: "nevertheless, my aunt berthie lost her virginity on one"
mircea_popescu: i suppose there is merit to this point, which is to say, "nutty central command economy mp wouldn't have ever come up with harmoniums, because they are stupid."
mircea_popescu: why not you know, play a harmonica like a normal drunk.
mircea_popescu: well i do think it's pretty stupid, other than for the endearing/cultural value.
mircea_popescu: yes. moreover, "thinking about my things as things rather than as extensions of my identity is VERY BAD SCARY AND EVIL"
mircea_popescu: the other possibility, however, is that it comes from the same place a love of tchotchkes comes.
mircea_popescu: just for kicks /me imagines alf becoming a talk show host, having 45 different microphones implanted in his ears. for science.
mircea_popescu: and the contention is that not only not all cuts are worth making in software : this one definitely isn't.
mircea_popescu: more over : it was over the merits of implementing a specific cut in hardware vs software.
mircea_popescu: again, the discussion was re a specific bit of software.
mircea_popescu: but if i add panels, i tend to also add boxes for them.
mircea_popescu: twenty years ago people were petrified of naught more than having to call me on the phone.
mircea_popescu: i have some notifications, but the penalty for fucking with it idly is indeed high.
mircea_popescu: unless im doing something on other display, in which case it scrolls on this screen
mircea_popescu: often it actually is analyst-produced, because yes, phf intuitscorrectly, the ~only thing a "process" in the sense of, bash window is, is a very cheap version of mazarin's informants. who wrote him letters. which he read... on a non-tiling display.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well it depends, what process ? maybe it'sfiltered. maybe its...
mircea_popescu: but anyway, yes, phf has it, ~most if not all training for high performance human operator could be summarized as "how to merge multistream in your head"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that sounds like uniquely poor design and you should butcher the whoeverts did that to you.
mircea_popescu: 45 different scrolling shits aren't specifically better tyhan one.
mircea_popescu: moreover, the point is that human brain is human brain and you're not changing it. it has ONE attention flow. you use it as best you can.
mircea_popescu: wars have been won over army one having 3 buttons and army two having 7 buttons.
mircea_popescu: you know, contrary to the tv version of blinkenlichten, in cockpit design, and ESPECIALLY for combat or any sort of emergency situation, more items are regarded as a serious liability.
mircea_popescu: i tell you though, whenever i came into the office of some dude who was literally fucking around with 45 different pieces of paper at the same time, i wouldn't think "oh this guy is such a super hero" but rather "ok, this guy's getting fired first."
mircea_popescu: phf not like i'm saying it's verboten. heck, i fuck around with ipads on occasion. but sin does not change doctrine.
mircea_popescu: ~same as heroin, in practice. "oh i feel so good and relaxed"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only thing this "tiling" bullshit does, in your case as exemplified, and in general as a matter of necessity, is that it allows you to hide your poor cognitive performance in minutious labour. IF you are encountering certain classes of problems (wood splinters in glans penis), it is because you are doing certain things wrong and should revise your process. a signal proper pagination does give you, and tiling
mircea_popescu: anyway ; anyone is free to jack off with whatever technique he prefers. let it be clearly stated though that a) underhand is perfectly valid and b) that the first time you were unsupervised as a 9yo you did it with sharpened pencils does not mean sharpened pencisl are required to jack off.
mircea_popescu: because YOU, a single guy, IS WATCHING IT. apparently.
mircea_popescu: "it would be so terribly hard and difficult to pipe all the shit into a single file and tail that omaygerd."
mircea_popescu: i am seriously sitting here flipping between log and xchat, and i wouldn't care to do it another way.
mircea_popescu: phf what the fuck is wrong with just flipping pages / adding more panels if flipping is THAT big a deal
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "i don't need grenade pin safety for anything" "put grenade in your ass, pull it out by pin and write back"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i've yet to use a "non-full-screen window" for anything.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, so is any woman you meet. in a few brief years she'll have to be redone, by some woman, painfully, from zero.
mircea_popescu: ie, you're constructing this experiment to miss out on the stuff that didn't exist in 1990.