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mircea_popescu: phf most people who spent as much as i have with computers a) wear glasses b) have various complicated nerve and tendon damage, esp wrist, elbow etc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i will confess i almost never use the fs and rarely if at all the modifiers.
mircea_popescu: there's worse things i could be doing with my time than handcopying teh masters.
mircea_popescu: i did this gladly, and i consider myself well gained from the exercise.
mircea_popescu: btw asciilifeform : above, I TYPED!!11, by hand, the whole fucking lengthy thing.
mircea_popescu: "in america is type from arsenal of name arsenal. is funny name to me. is like american cheese of name american cheese." ahh this guy is fucking epic.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1507789 << possibly because you never design computer in whole life. you look at fine desktop, think it need crazy shit stick on all sides of unit. you have disease of american capitalist, change thing that is fine for no reason except to look different from comrade. you put cheap rubber of chinese slave factory in keyboard, you put bad crt of mexican drug empire on other side, you put propel
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: "clicked traffic" as the thing is called in the [porn] biz being about 500k to the bitcoin last i looked, sometime last year. meaning the entire yearly value of the global "online advertising" market is equivalent to a few bitcoin blocks, meaning in turn that a choice to occupy yourself with that thing is equivalent to a deliberate choice not to matter. nttawwt.
mircea_popescu: qntra made more than gawker at any point of their respective existence.
mircea_popescu: take gawker. really, "billion pageviews a year" ? where is it ?
mircea_popescu: but no need to reference my materia obscura. take gigaom. on the basis of "internet knowledge" would you have said he certainly makes "more from ads than ukr polish guy" ? yes. did he ? no. turns out he made less from advertising than freelaqncer makes from fixing python code.
mircea_popescu: there's actually a lot of valuable data re eeuropean "advertising market" there as a result of me running a large intel project on the topic at the time.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile irl, silk road can't dispose of a kg of coke for 3 weeks over xmas ; and the "ad revenue guy" can't pay for his coffee.
mircea_popescu: this is no actual proof, of course, "somewhere in the sky there may be". but from 100s of actually checked cases, every one turned to be an outright lie.
mircea_popescu: i have personally chased the "Estimated ad revenue" of such people, for years. it never came through.
mircea_popescu: you know, from my personal experience this "estimated" is exactly like "silk road did an estimated billion dollar drug trade".
mircea_popescu: yeah well your warm saltine box that moves around molecule designs in a hologralcd is not yet on sale.
mircea_popescu: so yes, "gui" is for lamerz. there's no point in having a fucking button to click on like im serving mcfucksticks. there's no need to "shade" the "part of the window that shows you how to move it"
mircea_popescu: if i wanted multiple viewports i'd have bought more screens.
mircea_popescu: even the fucktardation of "resizable windows". you know i never used that stupid shit ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you understand that there's no difference between an "utf-8 character" and a number of ascii characters yes
mircea_popescu: i guess they call the words "int" and the bytes "char"
mircea_popescu: and ftr, the c notion of "char" is exactly equal to the notion of byte. the thing uses words and chars.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes a prime example of why "helpers" aren't helpful
mircea_popescu: ahahahaha ahahaha omfg that "o noes snow" vid is priceless
mircea_popescu: you can always tell an anthropologist by that womenz and bikers are in a confederacy against him!
mircea_popescu: hanbot it's an anthopological fact. if woman could outran man the species would not be here.
mircea_popescu: hanbot nah, human female is built to not be fast enough.
mircea_popescu: phf his question is not really formulated. "best" what, "least likely to be fucked up by the c compiler" ?
mircea_popescu: "of fucking course you can paste sql results into grep. it's called a pipe. and alternatively... you could just write your sql correctly"
mircea_popescu still recalls the utter "holy shit" face of chick when shown this magic
mircea_popescu: alternatively, phpmyadmin is also just a script you can get standalone. tho in generall it's a case of "people haven't actually ever tried to cli mysql because nobody ever told them they could"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they have a point. when i cant get a bottle of nitric acid to carelessly spill on table, there's not going to be any inventions.
mircea_popescu: shit dun work, but it's all they know how to do, so it's all they're doing. "should be good enough".
mircea_popescu: and no, it's not autism, they're hatching the cornel derp as "expert" for teh future.
mircea_popescu: in any case, we're way the fuck better off with you putting in the medium-skilled 100s of hours to get this working ; and then gradually improving on that basis - than to wait for someone to put in the 10`000s of hours of very highly qualified work to replace lamp&all.
mircea_popescu: if i ran a culture of cinema phd programme i'd spend a few hours with that thing.
mircea_popescu: one of the very best offerings in comparative cinematography, btw, is imo
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1422122/ ; a collection of 5 or so shorts - coupla of which made by exceptional directors, which shows ; the rest made by inept derps (hanno hofer worst of the lot), and they look exactly like "someone filmed 80 30second ad clips and spliced them together)
mircea_popescu: fetishism, you understand me ? "i like this book because of the way capital letters are drawn at beginning of paragraph"
mircea_popescu: anyways. ima just mark down that you really liked the hats an' move on.
mircea_popescu: i suppose "rzeczpospolita" may substitute for the perverse ?
mircea_popescu: like porn, exactly. except without the redeeming value of cunt.
mircea_popescu: i mean it's vignettes of no internal sense, designed to appeal to the emotional brain of middle aged women, strewn together by no glue other than the happenstance of having been so presented.
mircea_popescu: i managed to crawl up to the part where the weird woman reads auspices in water wheel.
mircea_popescu: tho it starts and ends with credits, so im guessing prolly stolen from some polish tv ?