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mod6: Did you ever read
A Natural History Of The Dead - short story?
mod6: And yeah, BingoBoingo, Hemingway was an ambulance driver, wounded on the Italian front, so the story goes. He wrote about it in
A Farewell To Arms.
mircea_popescu: jesus who knew fiction is
a doomed entreprise. this would actually make literature not art, outright.
mircea_popescu: but the other edge is to observe that fiction HAS to be predictable specifically because it isn't nonfiction. there not being
a reality to feed from other than what emerges from the fact that the reader can follow, you're stuck.
assbot: Logged on 23-11-2015 20:26:41; mircea_popescu: "What often deters writers from going through with the above plan is the fact that, well, Most Writers Are Writers. They're writing
a character who's supposed to be
a musician, but they don't know the particulars of meters or chords. They have
a character who is
a military expert, but they don't know how long an infantry division can fight until it needs to be resupplied. They have
a character who's
mircea_popescu: so i come back to find that xchat is seeking permission to download "sol.desktop", supposedly
a 498 byte file sent by someone from... 192.168.0.29 (port 50234).
mod6: the charts are kinda interesting -- they start from
a fully sync'd node so there isn't any full-sync to witness, only the draw down of mem until oom.
jurov: if you set big enough size with ulimit, it should drop
a core automatically
mod6: finally died, was started on the 1st of november. left me with
a 73Mb nmon file.
mod6: so my compiled version of TEST2 (running on
a m3.medium instance) died again, finally. i saw it die twice within about 15 days of eachother in october. so this time I ran nmon the entire time.
jurov: ppl who used to go to bars and saunas, mostly still do. it's
a boon to everyone else
jurov: i can't move to
a country where grindr is illegal
shinohai: Heres
a novel idea: Get over yurselves, move back to Qatar like you were planning on, and NEVER LOOK BACK!
shinohai: I hope BingoBoingo does
a Qntra take on Achmed the clock boy's parents filing civil suit for
a cool 15 mil
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> weren't h
a grunt in ww1 ? << Ambulance driver?
phf: it seems like people use cffi as
a trivial-ffi compatability layer, which mostly just gives you least common denominator ffi (it was
a pain to work with after cmucl's native alien facilities)
phf: asciilifeform: you were right re gossip prototype in common lisp. it was
a needless distraction, i spent
a long time getting lisp gpgme bindings working, and the end result was still pos. i'll just send the patches to gnupg ml, and maybe they'll update upstream, but that's not gotten me anywhere closer. i learned that cffi is mostly
a mess. (someone worked some improvements on cffi recently, which resulted in cffi documentation being
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no see, it's not that the war started, he should have fought but he hightailed it, so he covers up for it. it's that he's
a murican not an ottoman so he figures he CANT be man enough. so to assuage his own neuroticism (why the fuck couldn't he be ?! what, manhood now comes with formal tags on it ?) he makes up
a supportive story in
a land far away.
mircea_popescu: even brought
a joke booklet to school once to prove it!)
mircea_popescu: (when i was
a kid there was this other kid that got REALLY angry whenever i told
a joke. "ITS NOT LIKE THAT".
mircea_popescu: it all depends what it's for. i add shit to every joke as
a matter of course.
mircea_popescu: fucktard doesn't know "the particulars" nevertheless thinks he can write up
a musician
mircea_popescu: this is why it's fucking culture : so you either know, quite well and exactly, what kind of problem
a genius would approach and how, or YOU MAY NOT USE THE FUCKING WORD IN YOUR STUPID PILE OF DRIVEL.
mircea_popescu: no, dumbass, "writers aren't writers". i don't give
a shit "you just want to".
mircea_popescu: of convincing detail means the reader does not believe, whether it is fixing an engine or presenting the actual philosophy of
a character purported to be wise, and can make the readers long for the informed ability."
mircea_popescu: One choice the writer has is to go ahead and show the supposed "ability". But if they don't do the research, this leads to such laughable characters as the scientist who spouts Hollywood Science, the tactician who comes up with the sort of tactics
a five-year-old would think of and the "genius" who is only
a genius because they're the only one coming up with any plan at all, and everyone else is downright stupid. Lack
mircea_popescu: On occasion, the ability cannot adequately be portrayed by the medium used for the work. For example,
a comic book cannot show how good
a character's singing voice is, and
a radio show would, at best, be forced to merely describe
a character's great paintings.
mircea_popescu: haven't
a clue what kind of problem only
a genius would be able to work through, or how. If they actually attempt to show the ability in action they take
a very real risk of the portrayal falling completely flat.
mircea_popescu: "What often deters writers from going through with the above plan is the fact that, well, Most Writers Are Writers. They're writing
a character who's supposed to be
a musician, but they don't know the particulars of meters or chords. They have
a character who is
a military expert, but they don't know how long an infantry division can fight until it needs to be resupplied. They have
a character who's
a genius, but they
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Se trata de una suma equivalente
a un tercio de las reservas brutas que declara el ente monetario que conduce Alejandro Vanoli o al total de lo neto propio que tenía (los analistas coinciden en que ahora sólo quedan dólares de los ahorristas y la porción invertida en oro)."
mircea_popescu: "De esta manera, liquidó US$ 560 en la semana y lleva vendidos US$ 1750 millones en lo que va del mes. Así, el proceso electoral presidencial, tomando el lapso que va desde las dos semanas previas
a las PASO hasta ayer y el propósito de mantener el status quo cambiario (aunque no sea sustentable), insumió US$ 8015 millones de las reservas."
mircea_popescu: (i'm not asking emptily. i know he's nobody, because i don't know who the fuck he is. i googled, and the only hit is
a 2014 article in which forbes is pushing the same name on the same topic. so really, worse than nobody. so then ?)
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: In truth Brodin, the All Spotter and bringer of the Whey does no have
a throne. He does though have
a squat rack and
a bench.
phf: "came home last night full'
a fifth of old crow
BingoBoingo: From another review: "It smells very heavily of alcohol first off, but the taste is surprisingly sweet, like candy corn and pears (but mostly bourbon:)... It is my go-to whisky, and being
a Kentuckian of discerning taste, I'd like to think that says something towards it's character. Two of Ulysses S. Grant's fellow Generals were said to have complained to Lincoln personally of Grant's drunkenness and it's detriment in the line of
BingoBoingo: "Hear hear. When you buy Old Crow, you know what you're getting. Old Crow is not
a night on the town with
a beautiful young debutante. Old Crow is not
a conversation with
a craggy and learned professor. Old Crow is half an hour in
a motel room with
a fifty year-old prostitute who maybe doesn't look like much but still gets the job done, dammit, and sometimes that's all you want. Sometimes that's exactly what you want."
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> o ffs. japanese whiskey ? << I knew I picked
a good time to try sobriety
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> dude get the fuck out, missouri has
a park with
a view. << Truefax. There's even
a tiny tram you can ride to the top of the Arch for more view
mircea_popescu: ;;google the guy with short fingers that quit duke lawschool and made
a horrible movie
mircea_popescu: in other news,
a "368 page book" reads in
a coupla hours, and consists of 90% recycled website material + some letters from weird.
hanbot: asciilifeform by now, i dunno. old friend is about there, relegated to san jose armpit, and last i checked the only thing in his house was
a box of cheezeits.
mircea_popescu: if you're going to throw half
a million
a year on living expenses why the fuck would you not just rent
a raj palace in india and install human powered ac.
assbot: Fuck you and your stupid epub. Also, David Thorne's 2nd book (it isn't really very good). on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1LuN21d )
mircea_popescu: everything in the us was much better in the 90s. buffett-style "i believe in america" merely sounded overoptimistic, hadn't yet caught this greenish hue of past-ridiculous senility like something found in
a fridge on the side of
a demolishing yard.
mircea_popescu: dude get the fuck out, missouri has
a park with
a view.
phf: sf is nicer then dc though, they got
a giant park with
a view, and food is much better. (actual japanese and mexican foods)
kakobrekla: so i google 'google parking lot' and get 'Google employee lives in
a truck in the parking lot ' as first hit.
mircea_popescu: you can't drive
a truck and be in tech, it's like being an efette wwf fan
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> as it stands now, all ''german manufacturers' are using 'us tech' and no 'us tech firm' is using
a 'german manufacturer' << you ever looked in the parking lot of these "tech giants" ?
kakobrekla: as it stands now, all ''german manufacturers' are using 'us tech' and no 'us tech firm' is using
a 'german manufacturer'
pete_dushenski: also, does anyone have
a suggestion for viewing/using the tumblr dashboard that doesn't involve this latest invasion of spamz. every second fucking post is some derpy 'trending' meme that completely kills teh mood !
mircea_popescu: wait, is it actually
a different story ? ie, not with these ?
mircea_popescu: i had
a great pic up lemme see if i can ever find anything again in this smoldering pile of everything that's my blog
mircea_popescu: supposedly (ro) intinate = (en) defiled, but im not too happy to it. tina is
a derrogative for earth, soil. it's expected to be barren, powdery (but noit outright sand) and in generaly the equivalent of dirt.
mircea_popescu: either that or possibly doesn't give
a shit about caryatids.
pete_dushenski: one of these aggressors has too much money in their pockets, while the other knows full well the value of
a dollar.
mircea_popescu: well, the ~$65 in box cutters the terrorists spent did bring down
a 8-10bn piece of real estate.
mircea_popescu: here's
a primer on airstrike efficiency : the brits did 7 (SEVEN!) mid-air refuellings for one of their rustbuckets to manage to drop ONE bomb on the one runway in the faulklands, "disabling" it
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