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ben_vulpes: all
i have to do is make one misstep with the SJW mob.
ben_vulpes: Using 'if' or the ternary operator as a function is quite common in perl. Using data structures to control flow is common in perl. Trying to learn C# after learning perl was like running head first into a brick wall.
I'm really glad this guy is trying to make programming a bit more perl-like."
☟︎ ben_vulpes: "Throughout this whole thing,
I keep thinking "perl does that, perl does that, perl does that."
ben_vulpes:
i do dream of having a workstation though, and the lifestyle to support it.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 00:18:24; asciilifeform: cabbie: 'this ford is a piece of shit. stalled again.' mircea_popescu: '
i have a solution!' cabbie: 'oh???111' mircea_popescu: 'here, have this broomstick.' cabbie: 'how do
i drive customers on that, feed my family' mircea_popescu: 'you misunderstand, my good man. you stuff it in your arse.' cabbie: 'and... how does this feed by family?' mircea_popescu: 'no, you sit there with it in.'
funkenstein_:
i too had cantor's diagonal proof "taught" in jr. high
shinohai:
I still love playing Mario Kart for 64. Had it on an emulator but my current lappy doesn't support the graphics
shinohai:
I kind liked the wii, used to play drunken golf and bowling with an ex gf.
shinohai:
I feel better knowing the Federal Bumbling Idiots kept me safe from a college professor.
punkman: not too hard to find a proper stone oven around here, though
I don't have one at home
punkman:
I have some kilos of artichoke hearts in the freezer
mircea_popescu: the former home made because srsly
i have never seen a restaurant that made edible white pizza
cazalla:
i'm not even sure if you can buy proper meats like prosciutto down under
mircea_popescu: most recently
i've had white pizza with fried chicken and artichoke and margherita with extra anchovies
mircea_popescu: phf they can go discover the moscow school of psychology for all
i fucking care. idiots.
phf: mircea_popescu: "Fractal -- from Wolfram MathWorld mathworld.wolfram.com/Fractal.html A fractal is an object or quantity that displays " << wolfram's "new kind of science" is all about "this one thing
i generated kind of looks like this complicated process, maybe they are related?
i feel like they are!"
mircea_popescu:
i somehow doubt people who call salami "pepperoni" ever had proper salami anyway.
punkman:
I'd rather have bacon than pepperoni
mircea_popescu: well on the other front,
i just got taken to the only actual pizzeria in buenos aires
phf: ascii_field: mircea_popescu: go give ben_vulpes a unix and laptop co-designed with it, then he can throw away the crapple << there's three apples in my mind, 90s one, the early 2000s one when programmers migrated from linux to a unix that Just Works, and the post iphone explosion apple. the first two are dead (10.10 is the final reason
i froze my setup and migrating my entire stack away). but my point is that maybe you guys are just arguin
☟︎ phf: last time
i was there, friends lamented that you can't get real parmesan for real pasta and have to make do with inferior russian knockoffs. if
i make it to moscow in the next few weeks, will be curious to see where the whole party is at now.
phf: mircea_popescu: iirc that was before ukraine. << that was indeed before ukraine.
i saw a few of my well trained, but otherwise bummy friends with "business" go oh well party is over and switch to sberbank financial analyst positions or somesuch.
mircea_popescu:
i also have cherysse which apparently is my own invention
trinque:
I believe you've made the point many times in your work that language creation/alteration is *not* for everyone.
mircea_popescu:
i don't think as many people lived the bible as a whetstone in their life during the whole history of christianity
trinque: so this will keep the guy going until
I find time to write a better IRC handling core
trinque: gonna fiddle with it a bit, but yeah,
I'm getting a little observer going that'll go kick him in the ass when appropriate
mod6:
I created this basic svg graph map of all vpatches to modified files. lol, thing is huge. ridiculous looking.
mircea_popescu: (
i am not even all that keen on toom's obviously very geometric take on fractals. they're an analytic construct, which yes can be graphed, like any other function. you don't need "dimensions", you need numeric theory.)
mircea_popescu: if you want fractals, first go away and get rich
i mean, figure out what a number is, then come back
mircea_popescu: "
I asked several school teachers who were enthusiastic about teaching fractals to define a fractal and none of them mentioned the idea of dimension, least defined it. Usually they emphasized “repeating patterns”. When
I asked why they were not satisfied with wall-paper, they took offence." << yes, because who needs to take a breather and think when they could take offence instead and flail!
mircea_popescu: the idea to use this as a heat source is older than the aeroplane.
i had perfectly functional schematics in books published in the fucking 60s.
mircea_popescu: Oh, god. Such pain and suffering. When
I took usian slavegirls, attempts to discuss art and philosophy and so forth quickly floundered over a basic inability to remember sentences and build logic trees, which resulted in beatings and many tearful hours spent over grammatical analysis of sentences. Something they should have spend their 12th and 13th year of life on, back before anyone could possibly want to fuck them,
mircea_popescu: "When
I came to America,
I taught several classes of problem solving and started to appreciate much more the basic education, because my new students dramatically lacked it. They understood advanced ideas but floundered in algebraic transformations, which turned solution of interesting problems into painful struggle with basics."
mircea_popescu:
i mean for fucks sake, what's even the point of knowing math like that
mircea_popescu: trinomial. Most American students whom
I ever met were not even aware of most of these facts.
mircea_popescu: anything too advanced. Let me give an example. When
I was in high school, we studied the quadratic
mircea_popescu: because TIMSS followed the anti-theoretical bias of American educators. By “theory”
I don’t mean
mircea_popescu:
I think that the real situation in American mathematical education is even worse than TIMSS shows
mircea_popescu: "
i used to be an entrepreneur but then
i took a fatter to the knee"
mircea_popescu: it's that they do not show up for work, they get the same per hour pay (which on the strength of that alone they should not, for the record, as
i'm not paying the same an hour the guy who works 16 hours and the gal that works 6.5) and so logically at the end of the year they get less.
pete_dushenski: Bingo_VACAY:
i'm gonna go out on a limb and say that you're away atm and that there's no point in sending you the same piece
pete_dushenski: @realDonaldTrump: "
I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special date, September 11th."
pete_dushenski: me and youtube, gmail, and facefraud. oh the company
i keep.
mircea_popescu:
i know bunches of late 20s earlky 30yos with insurance for the shiot they make
shinohai: Items in my safe are insured, but that was too much trouble for what
I am guessing was methheads.
shinohai:
I got called an idiot for not calling the cops when my house got broken into yesterday.
shinohai:
I am also pleased to see that dogecoin seems to be declining. That scam sure had some steam.
mircea_popescu: derplet's got these feelings almost like he's a thing, "
i am a tractor, it makes no sense
i can't pull odwn this wall, please explain mechanics to it!"
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 17:28:23; ascii_field: 'Please inform Mr. Toom about the grading system and instruction methods of THIS country.:..
I earned a grade of A in my college algebra and trigonometry courses so it makes no sense for me to be doing so poorly in this course. Please straighten this man out.'
mircea_popescu: it does "something" and for as long etc,
i'll fail to understand why it remains a thing.
ascii_field: ben_vulpes can prolly explain much better than
i can
mircea_popescu: ascii_field
i dunno, women
i know hate the inept cocksure ones more than the neurotic pay-for-it ones
trinque: cazalla: yep, back up now; as long as they are that responsive
I'm pleased
assbot: Logged on 21-08-2015 03:58:42; mircea_popescu: fun fact, since for some reason
i'm doing history now. romania's head rabi (niemirower) died in 1940. he was succeded by one alex safran, who was 29 at that time. and by virtue of being head rabi, the young man also had an ex officio seat in the romanian senate. but for not being yet 40 years of age as the senate required, he asked for, and obtained, a special derrogation from the high chamber of cas
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 14:20:34; phf:
i was in moscow few weeks after iphone 5 release and saw status games golden youth would play with it, polished girls coyly extracting iphones to pretense that bought it in new york just last week, iphones on tables at expensive cafes, etc.
i've seen more iphones over a weekend out then in moscow then
i've ever in the states. nothing like that was happening after 6 came out, of course it's my impressions, but
i trinque:
I have no interest in continuing this postfix hobby
mircea_popescu:
i refer you to your classical history studies. why do you suppose the atom count of gold per monetary item kept decreasing ?
mircea_popescu: and the next day after
i start making obscure chinese statements on trilema you run off from home to live in xiang-fuck or some shit
ascii_field:
i know strictly enough of it to not crash an elevator
mircea_popescu: but now
i write in english and people who know russian read and wtf amd
i gonna do.
mircea_popescu: you know alfie, back when
i was writing for romanians in romanian it was easy
mircea_popescu:
i suspect the deep driver there is "idiots" vs "enemies"
ascii_field: unfortunately doesn't work in english, but
i'll try:
mircea_popescu: PinkPosixPXE
i'm fine now! weren't you going to do a dc at some point ? :D
ascii_field: ;;later tell jurov last night
i saw operetta version of 'r.u.r.' at czech embassy. it was spiffy
shinohai:
I need a drink, what a stressful day.
fluffypony: those were the ones
I took on my phone,
I have other pics (somewhere)
I took with my camera
shinohai: Have been for a few months
I think.
trinque: junior high
I guess it was, 6th or 7th
ascii_field: 'Please inform Mr. Toom about the grading system and instruction methods of THIS country.:..
I earned a grade of A in my college algebra and trigonometry courses so it makes no sense for me to be doing so poorly in this course. Please straighten this man out.'
☟︎ shinohai: lol ascii_field so
I guess
I can't let my guard down.