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mircea_popescu: meanwhile at reality ranch, training a sex fied takes me six weeks, training a perfect soldier takes six months, and training a PASSIBLE intel summarizer takes six years.
mircea_popescu: yes the result is directly equivalent with "enemies control the decision process at all points and at all levels". but the cause is much more pedestrian : the innate MISTAKEN belief that "anyone can make a summary".
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/11/the_cia_has_the_same_problem_m.html << if anyone was curious as to HOW blunders to the scale of "hussein has wmds" a decade ago or "assad used wmds" last year happen, and to the whys and wherefore bacalaureat-level educated folk such as obama, rice etc come up with ridiculous nonsense like "putin doesn't understand" or "nobody could have predicted", here is why.
phf: i think canonical example of solving that sort of problems (i.e. generating command language from a higher level lisp solution) comes from cltl2 section on trig functions for complex values, where guy steele for whatever reason decided to include pretty graphs of function behaviors. he also included the program that he used to generate the graphs, by producing .ps from lisp
phf: ben_vulpes: for something like gnuplot i've discovered that learning all kinds of fancy ways you can output a string with #'format is a lot more useful skill then learning a specific library. short of writing an equivalent of gnuplot command ast you're going to run into impedence mismatch one way or another
asciilifeform: the EPROMs were placed flat, so were being irradiated at an angle to the optimum angle. However, this was in New Zealand which has a higher UV level than most other countries. [If you expose unprotected skin to say 2 to 4 hours full sun here in midsummer you can expect extremely severe and painful burns with the possible need for medical treatmemnt.] One hour will often leave you sore and sorry the next day.'
asciilifeform: 'In the late 1970s we found that on a reasonably sunny day a batch of "windowed" EPROMs exposed to sunlight for a day on a sunny windowsill through glass with the EPROM horizontal would invariably erase reliably. We probably had some idea of how little time it took but it was no so long ago that such fine detail escapes me. Note that the erasing was with light passing through standard window glass (a reasonable UV filter), and
cazalla: mircea_popescu, can you revise a copy of the contract with correct date in historical recitals (2015, not 2014)
ben_vulpes: any point to using a cl wrapper/bridge to gnuplot or just pipe out?
asciilifeform: what's the problem, we count those when weighing a laptop
ben_vulpes: not even a package manager.
ben_vulpes: a yeah well apple machines don't really come with anything
trinque wonders aloud what a half-ton desktop looks like
asciilifeform: functions largely as a remote terminal for it.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck did you get a laptop that supplants a half ton desktop ?
asciilifeform: yes, it is. the example i am sitting on right now weights perhaps half a tonne, occupies most of a small room...
mircea_popescu: and "i want one like joe has" is a perfectly valid definition file.
mircea_popescu: actual community maintained game client ius such a fucking all-obliterating win...
mod6: I saw a mining map that seemed to be autogenerated by the bot?! Looked fantastic.
mod6: it's how I found a whole 'nother patch of Elusive Snails.
mircea_popescu: we've come a long way, a lot richer now.
mircea_popescu: i did a bunch myself, like 100 or so sticks.
mircea_popescu: it's ten minutes to set up and ten minutes of use to make itself indispensable. the chick can code, i don't remember a tool becoming THIS FUCKING NEEDED in recent times.
mod6: i like manual mining though... in a way, it's just some time for me to do some clicking and thinking about other things.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no srsly, it's a box right here.
asciilifeform: i recall, mircea_popescu's 'laptop', a skeleton with a handle!
mircea_popescu: i'm playing it. but it's a desktop
mod6: i just need to get a fantastic display array like asciilifeform
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: there was that eulora demo for which you had a whole computer set up.
mod6: ben_vulpes: yeah, i couldn't imagine trying to do the same with a tablet or something. but i like the desktops that I have at home for stuff too.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'Moreover, have you watched their software and hardware quality degrade phenomenally over the past decade? I certainly have. All of the old laptops, selections from the eMac and iMac line are total design and fabrication winners—solid and reliable. My ENTIRELY RECENT "Macbook Pro" is rotting as I watch...' << eh, it was not 'solid until jobs died.' but rather reached a short-lived peak in 2010 or so. have you alr
mod6: lol, we didn't see one, just a lot of books that probably never get read.
mircea_popescu: maybe the kid place has a pole ?
mod6: In minneapolis they'd have never let them put that in the same neighborhood. So Iowa is a bit cooler? Still shocked by this.
mircea_popescu: maybe the managers were like "hey, b-a luminary and trb maintainer mod seeks is coming over, EVERYONE ON ATTENTION!!1. Joe, call your wife, I know we said we'd never put her on but man... THIS IS TMSR!"
mod6: Ahah. You know.. it was funny how this place was zoned... there was a Library with a childrens place across the street. few other bars. Post office.
mircea_popescu: so it was more like a hole in the mall ?
asciilifeform: mod6: phun phakt: google has reviews for, e.g.: nsa campus. federal prisons. 'a+++, would rot again!' etc.
mod6: And for a hole-in-the-wall, it actually had 4 pretty hot strippers.
mircea_popescu: i've yet to find a strip joint that's not really a kindergarten of the retarded.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'This working stiff is required to use all sorts of radioactive waste in the pursuit of his daily work. HTML, CSS, JS…functional programming languages that incomprehensibly compile from one AST to another in a vain attempt to keep my mind safe from the radiation of the underlying…' << could be worse. you could do all of this and also be poor.
mod6: there was a tall blond with a nice rack-of-lamb that was just for you Mr. P. You would have liked her I think. :]
mircea_popescu: oh dude... am i going to hear cca 2500 that i had a sideline in "poetry writing" ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha. had a day job.
mod6: this weekend was going to take a long road trip.... my buddy pussed out in Des Moines so we stopped at a hole in the wall stripclub then proceeded to drive directly back.
mod6: oh yeah, i see now, those three things are in a line of my ls output in one of my term windows.
asciilifeform: mod6: i assumed it was a stray paste, aha
ben_vulpes: mod6: i thought it was a sneaky release
mircea_popescu: this is a fair situation.
mircea_popescu: you are promised at birth a life on your own terms, or to the breaking of your bones, whichever comes first.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you are not promised at birth a "good" life.
mircea_popescu: (the reason is that mine's really the affirmative - the dictum masquerades a negative as a pop-positive, is all)
mircea_popescu: tbh i think the inverse is a stronger statement.
mircea_popescu: ansd you know, the universal supreme goat council (USG) had a secret conspiracy to import wolves into the forest, to keep the baby goat herding behaviour going\
asciilifeform: the point i was trying to make then, as now, is that mri - like fingerprints - is a confession-inducer and evidence-planter apparatus, let's say 'guiltwashing', rather than necessarily a fact-finder. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: derstanding of the ethical progressivism of society-- better than lawyers or engineers or teachers or priests or anyone else-- ethics which they admit are constantly evolving-- but have thankfully, magically, and conveniently reached their culmination with today. The end of history. 4000 years of ethics, useless; they got it all right with a grant from the NIH and a subscription to The New Yorker."
mircea_popescu: "Do you want to live in a world where the criminality of an act-- the culpability of a person-- is based essentially on the moral ADHD of a bunch of doctors with third hand understanding of MRI results? Strike that-- on a very select bunch of doctors who purport to speak for these other doctors, who claim to have the greatest grasp of the science, and who claim in complete and absolute seriousness to have the best un
mircea_popescu: trying to package and sell stupidity as racism is mostly a symptom of that same problem.
mircea_popescu: "TYRANNY IS A PREREQUISITE FOR QUALITY, APPLE RETCONNERS." << holy shit this may even actually be defensible.
mircea_popescu: there is a very fundamental difference between constructed complexity ("web technology", astrology, political science etc) and actual complexity (protein folding, moving bodies in grav fields, etc)
mircea_popescu: "The Monte-Carlo approach to engineering, if you will, but with humans doing a really bad job of playing RNG." << how mp's view of VC world sounds, without any of the bile.
ben_vulpes: short walk? or did the walk end in a shart?
ben_vulpes: "but i can see the coke bits floating in it. and it shatters when i hit it with a hammer."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ah, not defending it for a second.
ben_vulpes: yes, crack propagation under vibratory load is a thing, but shouldn't this shit be deforming instead of chipping?
pete_dushenski off for a walk avec stroller. bbl.
mircea_popescu: as to archeology : find a source. that is the only way archeology works. you must find someone who remembers the history.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one potential difficulty is that we have not yet invented death. (or rather, analogue death does not perfectly correspond to the necessary notion of electrical death - a man can die and his keys end up in the hands of just about any kind of idiot, after this he must be 'killed' again, manually, by some process not yet defined)
mircea_popescu: trinque yes. imagine there's a millenium worth of deedbot, in the library of republixandria ; and imagine this is burned. now, we aim to reconstruct it.
mircea_popescu: see, it creates a procedural layer of memory
trinque: "if I was a part of this bundle, my backup has the whole bundle" ?
mircea_popescu: trinque well, yes, some. if you shared a bundle.
mircea_popescu: trinque pull out the whole bundle with a fingerprint in it, not just the deed
trinque: potentially it would but not as a rule
trinque: so if I then pulled by fingerprint and dumped them out, would not have anything a spend referred to
trinque: sqlite backs it all, just queries and loops and a call out to gpg
mircea_popescu: and it delivered a blob consisting of all matter signed by that fingerprint, encrypted to that fingerprint
trinque: mircea_popescu: sure; easy cron job. I'll provide a URL for that
trinque: I'll fiddle with this in private a bit and let ya know when it goes through.
mircea_popescu: cuz i've not yet come up with a year scheme
pete_dushenski: "3. On October 16th, 2014 cazalla notified the board of his intention to take a vacation. " << it's 2015
mircea_popescu: "So I bought a sewing factory makes a good title but the truther is that I bought a near perfectly sized industrial building and remodeled it to become a sewing factory."
assbot: So I bought a sewing factory | Fashion-Incubator ... ( http://bit.ly/1Kghg7F )
mircea_popescu: vaguely related : http://fashion-incubator.com/so-i-bought-a-sewing-factory/
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 23:45:19; mircea_popescu: tis a problem.
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/10/greys_anatomy_kill_me_now.html << in which we find ballas is not only amusingly sophomoric when it comes to finance&investment, but also animated by a rather hick sexual philosophy. down to the very typical "i'm not a raceyst but dem niggars!" formulation, even.
asciilifeform: https://www.tindie.com/products/ubldit/truerngpro << why did this fella insist on putting a voltage boost converter right on the pcb!?! 100-200kHz harmonics... and he soldered down the shields, go and see what is under...
pete_dushenski: re : burial : "When a human dies naturally, make sure the corpse is properly disposed of. The corpse is a liability because a predator will associate even a scavenged meal (of human meat) with 'profitability'."
pete_dushenski: re : song : "My suggestion is that our ancestors turned loud singing into a central element of their defence system against predators. They started using loud, rhythmic singing and shouting accompanied by vigorous, threatening body movements and object throwing to defend themselves from predators."
pete_dushenski: though hopefully a dose or two of quaaludes are thrown in to spice it up a bit 'wolf of wall street' style
pete_dushenski: http://econjwatch.org/articles/two-ideological-ships-passing-in-the-night << for those interested in mainstream fiat economics, such as it is, this isn't a bad look at pro-marketists vs. pro-statists vis-a-vis their preference for and beliefs in models
pete_dushenski: this might seem like a loss for the lonely business traveler, but until hyatt offers 'safe' internet with the 5 'safest' websites and those alone, i wouldn't worry about it too much
pete_dushenski: "Forget Colorado, stoners. The real frontier of narcotic edibles is in Shaanxi province, China. A restaurant owner there just confessed to police that to keep customers coming back, he had infused his noodles with 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of pulverized poppy buds—which can contain narcotics like morphine and codeine—that he bought in August for 600 yuan ($98)"
pete_dushenski: holy lolz that's a first, i just had an entire half-hour convo between myself and assbot
mircea_popescu: trinque hey, is there a url to download deedbot's db, i forget ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla give a sig ^
funkenstein_: i'd like to have a thousand bitcoins, but somebody else to hold and spend them for me
HeySteve: so he wants to be a sperm donor
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