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vulpes_a_hopital: BingoBoingo: i think you want to insert
a [sic] there and not correct the quote.
pete_dushenski: vulpes_a_hopital your hospital, canadian banks, what's next !
mircea_popescu: vulpes_a_hopital do yourself
a favour and read something else.
pete_dushenski: vulpes_a_hopital i'm missing something, not the least of which was that i read 42 and thought "oh, that's term!" lol
mircea_popescu: vulpes_a_hopital those don't exist. if she goes over 42.5 or so the doctors usually go in.
pete_dushenski: vulpes_a_hopital i'll get you the name of the book in the morning
BingoBoingo: vulpes_a_hopital: Baby's prolly going to give pete's
a run for the money on size, or already has mommy issues
mircea_popescu: what i mean is. for as long as it stays under half
a day it's not even
a moderately big deal.
mircea_popescu: vulpes_a_hopital seriously, labour under 12 hours is not even uncommon. can start worrying next month.
mod6: vulpes_a_hopital: i've been told first babys take time. hang in there :]
mircea_popescu: is the assassin eating cake for breakfast at 11 am with
a well oiled, well cleaned rifle in his lap - that he cleans and oils properly, every time, and has, irrespective of howp his profession makes it
a dispoasable item - conscientious or not conscientious ?
BingoBoingo: Oh, so it wasn't
a twee portland meeting of two bicycles
phf: "There are some uncontrolled variables which may have affected the validity of the experimental results. One of these was students’ previous programming experience. We noticed that some of the students who already had
a few years of programming experience achieved high scores in their test, but scored somewhat low on conscientiousness. They were strong programmers with appropriate knowledge and know-how of programming as compared with
mircea_popescu: "Real Men Don't Buy Girls" pretends to be
a PSA against child sex slavery. What it really is an effort in rebranding. In this clip, you see Ashton Kutcher. If you had to find 300M Americans to be on
a list of "Real Men," and every person in America except for Ashton Kutcher had been eaten by
a giant squid, Ashton Kutcher would still not make that list, ever.
mircea_popescu: although
a meta-study conducted in 1999 showed him to be no worse than average
mircea_popescu: vulpes_a_hopital you know the medieval cases of undelivered babies calcified in the woman and found at autopsy ?
phf: shoulder pads,
a "perm" and yellow cigarette nails? "do you like our owl?"
mircea_popescu: for any 5yos reading b-
a : do this. the women love it, and then later they'll be like, in your exams and shit. plus mothering the chicks you actually DONT want to marry.
mircea_popescu: vulpes_a_hopital ages 5 to 7 or so, yeah. half my mother's friends!
vulpes_a_hopital: mk. well as someone who actually reviews, teaches and issues canings over code, and knows the personalities involved intimately, i'm going to not give
a shit.
mircea_popescu: phf one of the numerous women i proposed marriage to was actually
a chainsmoker fortran programmer.
pete_dushenski: vulpes_a_hopital how long's the labour been thus far ?
phf: includes such wonderful papers as Personality predictors of performance in an introductory computer course. (1982), MBTI personality type and student code comprehension skill., Predicting student success in an introductory programming course., The effects of openness to experience on pair programming in
a higher education context., Identifying predictors of programming skill.
pete_dushenski: "Prozac was found to be superior to placebo in only
a third of studies." Boom-- Associate Professor. When meta-analyses look at only
a few studies (e.g. N=4), if even one of them is
a poorly designed study you can overwhelm-- or purposely extinguish-- what might actually be
a real effect." << this one phf ?
pete_dushenski: "But how can the author will
a meta-analysis to show what he wants it to show? Maybe he could manipulate an individual study, wouldn't
a "study of studies" be immune to his dark sorcery? Imagine
a study of Prozac vs. placebo in 10000 patients, and Prozac is awesome. Imagine two more studies, each with 6 patients, and Prozac doesn't beat placebo in those. I now have three studies. My meta-analysis concludes:
pete_dushenski: jack's something of
a musician so he's never short of usian 60s-present musical references, most of which are lost on me, but he's still
a pretty astute cultural anthropologist
pete_dushenski: "To be in the middle class is to perennially be under threat. But to be the main character of
a Dylan or Grateful Dead song is to be poorer, and lower, and free."
mircea_popescu: seems dubious. moreover what happened is, "back in 1965, people could actually code - and those people who could actually code were disagreeable neurotics. 50 years later we turned coding into
a sort of welfard subdepartment of the ushs, and now those 'coders' are exactly like the rest of the welfare population : open and conscientious. which is why the line before the tsa anal fingering office consists of middleaged w
assbot: Immigration policy is about barriers to entry, not fairness; or how Paul Graham thinks programmers are inventors | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1MVn3kX )
pete_dushenski: "
A meta-analysis on 19 independent samples (total N = 1695) highlighted that programming aptitude was associated with three personality traits, conscientiousness, openness, and introversion."
pete_dushenski: "the personality trait most strongly correlated with programming ability was not introversion or conscientiousness, but openness:
a trait that's related to being creative and imaginative"
BingoBoingo: "The first reason was that woman's abdominal body fat decreased their own sexual desire on
a hormonal level, which would hamper libido. The second reason could be that men simply found slimmer women more attractive and thus had fewer problems in the bedroom."
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 28-10-2015 07:29:28; mircea_popescu: "This tension in anon culture, that every single person is empowered by the whole of the group and thus merits treatment as
a peer, turns these individual hostile challenges into
a storm of entitled demands for attention. Anons see themselves as peers to everyone, empowered by the support of the group, and thus entitled to participate in any conversation they aren’t forcibly prevented from entering."
mircea_popescu: meanwhile
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=28-10-2015#1309798 is
a much deeper problem than realised. yes, it's true that the adolescents see themselves as peers to the adults. NOT IT IS NOT TRUE THEY ARE. yes it is this false, unfounded identification that drives both DK and the insane notions of the adolescents as to the failures of both "the world" and adults (these two aren't even really different).
☝︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the reason this putative is seemingly without answer is because it is castrated. what tlp would do if he realised what's wrong with his head depends on WHY HE REALISED. what would the pubescent girl do if she matured ? nothing the pubescent girl can do BECAUSE maturation is DRIVEN by the VERY DEED! once she finds
a boy she loves she will both be
a woman and know what to do ; once tlp ACTUALLY understands
☟︎ mircea_popescu: on one hand, juan has real bullets in the gun. on the other hand, the state is
a theatrical performance.
punkman: "on
a key point they concur: In Bin Laden’s final moments, he neither resisted nor surrendered."
mircea_popescu: maybe if they gave bin laden
a forgetfulness potion they could muster the balls to approach him
punkman: "They discussed possible situations in which it might still be lawful to shoot Bin Laden even if he appeared to be surrendering — for instance, if militants next to him were firing weapons, or if he could be concealing
a suicide vest under his clothing"
kakobrekla: i can only plug in 6 x27 monitors before i need
a second gpu
ascii_field: how many pixels does kakobrekla need to display #b-
a ?!
ascii_field: perhaps some schmuck once showed him
a crapple $2k panel and he took
a crowbar to it in disgust
punkman: I'd like
a colorimeter so I can skip the uncomfortable period when changing monitors
ascii_field: anyway this part is optional and only for fanatics (artists, folks who actually ~need~ to reproduce
a colour)
mircea_popescu: motherfucker, i gotta go around with
a colorimeter now.
mircea_popescu: alright. well... i got
a new lg, which hopefully now no longer power saves.
punkman: eizo has
a square monitor btw
mircea_popescu: i guess. i'm just not of the mind that there can be such
a thing as
a good lcd anyway.
ascii_field: (i have
a b&w one that is not in service currently)
ascii_field: naturally anything can 'turn out to be
a dud'
mircea_popescu: jurov if i was looking to buy one. but as it is, fuck it, what can he do if it turns out to be
a dud, make the eizo ceo do my dishes ?
mircea_popescu: exactly like i'm going to rape their daughters with
a muskrat.
ascii_field: why does mircea_popescu have
a shitmonitor ?
mircea_popescu: no, seriously. why the fuck is
a monitor turning off by itself.
BingoBoingo: Then she makes Jess
a Backpage ad with
a $500 minimum and shit goes to all hell
mircea_popescu: <davout> i can't wait for this to actually be
a thing on TV once 3D printing is advanced enough << when i was
a kid there was
a 1hour midnight show that actually played z80 tapes
BingoBoingo: that or
a twee portland bicycle on bicycle accident
davout: i can't wait for this to actually be
a thing on TV once 3D printing is advanced enough
davout: "would you download
a car??"
davout: trusted printing, sounds like
a cool application for blawkchain technologee
davout: aha, so far i thought it was limited to
a simple counter in the printer itself
davout: i kindof remember you being there like what,
a year ago, maybe i'm mistaken