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mircea_popescu: thestringpuller you realise you're about the only reader ver actually has ?
mircea_popescu: all the machining i ever had done was presented in essay form.
mircea_popescu: find me a computer programmer - a practicing, professional wwwtronicist, who will not barf at v.
mircea_popescu: but then again stop fucking pushingyour doodles on other people. they are the exact equivalent of used condoms.
mircea_popescu: it may not be the most convenient format for doodling,
mircea_popescu: and if you don't, i'm not underwriting the eventual wreck.
mircea_popescu: if not, why not and what does this say about his mental organisation.
mircea_popescu: but the point is : literacy is a skill not a blessing. does this architect know how to present the tree IN PROPERLY SORTED ORDER ?
mircea_popescu: you'd be surprised how much you find about an architect with this simple process.
mircea_popescu: most all of them reached for the paper, which i wouldn't give back.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i used to pick architects by the criterion : "nice plan, now tell it to me".
mircea_popescu: your head works principally when its tendency to disregard natural complexity is well supported.
mircea_popescu: and i knew i failed within minutes specifiucally because not using the fucking pictures.
mircea_popescu: "from organic chemistry take an item that is with carbons linked like so, where * can be anything ie free radical and = at the end links back to origin"
mircea_popescu: i find that especially in organic chemistry the drawings are counterproductive.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile : i want a tag to turn numbers into images ; which i arbitrarily call svg ; and i want a tag to turn strings into scientific notation (which does not JUST mean math, i want chemistry also.)
mircea_popescu: so i guess you can have a fat 8 lines of buttons in the mp-wp thing ; and i'll continue to type tags in directly.
mircea_popescu: much like kids or bureaucrats aren't to be allowed to decide how to measure their performance.
mircea_popescu: the criteria is any notation i choose, not any notation you choose.
mircea_popescu: if you can't say what it is, you have no fucking idea what it is, and it's not currently fit in your head.
mircea_popescu: 3 yos point "dat!!!" but 5yo is expected to be able to say "the item resting atop the history of fucking in the roman empire please, what is it?"
mircea_popescu: i have no idea what your parents did to you people, but this is unseemly. first fucking task of the urchin in an intellectual household is to learn how to put his shit in words.
mircea_popescu: you can see logs all you fucking want, they're all WORDS.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you want to publish something you can't say in words you're part of the problem.
mircea_popescu: fuck that stupid ass google auto-search as you type idiocty
mircea_popescu: and ftr, auto-repl is for the dogs. i want proper repl : string evaluated when I say, either by clicking the preview button or typing enter or w/e.
mircea_popescu: and i absolutely do not have alf's mental issue where i can't think of math in words.
mircea_popescu: i want to have alphabetic notation. such as : graph-this-so-and-so,1,1,4,this.csv
mircea_popescu: i don't want any guy at all. even now i <em> by hand rather than clicking the fucking buttons
mircea_popescu: (author types shit in) -> (blog processes it into form) -> (server serves form)
mircea_popescu: the idea being that the server does not serve the result of the process directly.
mircea_popescu: also, the idea isn't to "realtime" ; the idea is to take user input and spit out html i think
mircea_popescu: anyway, google also has some sort of api where you GET it data and it sends back a graph. i recall bitbet using it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not to mention that you almost always also have, or can easily get a db, and after an import you can then sql repl.
mircea_popescu: every computer (well, except for windows and apple i guess ? but they're not computers) has a repl built in as some sort of bash. in most cases you also have both perl and python out of the box. how could it possibly be faster to first upload a chunk of data to some webserver somewhere ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Framedragger i dun get it, do you have to first upload your data ?
mircea_popescu: mats 40% tax on 10.5 dollars an hour 8 hours a day for a year's workdays
mircea_popescu: the majority of the us population is not currently employed ; nor has any prospects of ever being employed.
mircea_popescu: you'll get a shocking 40%ish which happens to also be correct.
mircea_popescu: to obtain correct unemployment figure in these circumstances, do (count of all tax returns paying more than 0.4 * 10.5 * 8 * 320 in tax) / (us population as per census).
mircea_popescu: nowadays "unemployed" = "number of people who jump through X Y and Z hoops more recently than 2 weeks ago and for not a longer total interval than 11 weeks , and also who aren't in any of these 58 excluded categories. such as "white"."
mircea_popescu: i suppose look into how the data is defined and collected one day when run out of other online entertainment.
mircea_popescu: but as it is, entirely meaningless to put those on same map, they're not in any sense the same thing
mircea_popescu: mats if that figure wasn't coming straight out of an ass, the table might be more interesting.
mircea_popescu: this is just about the most self-flattering nonsense ever, but hey.
mircea_popescu: well, the-woman-that-won't-make-it walked from very similar to nixon's case, so...
mircea_popescu: i cut mine, but then again i was the only one on the street.