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mircea_popescu: drill and polish, i'd say, rather than etch. smoother holes this way\
mircea_popescu: "so make it discountinous!" "HOW!!!" "dude drill a hole" "omfg how wise you are mr!"
mircea_popescu: right because discontinuous media is THE metamaterial for matter-wave interaction.
mircea_popescu: only works on specified x-ray, i expect ? not exactly "lens" in the broad sense.
mircea_popescu: don't tell me "czech glass, dummy. if you polish it like-so.."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can i has link to the story in question for completeness btw ?
mircea_popescu: like all crystalline mindmatter -- it grows on ya over time :D
mircea_popescu: i guess one doesn't strictly speaking need it for trophycase/tchotchkecase/whatever, give the slavegirls something to do, dust it biweekly. however books get infected.
mircea_popescu: in lighter news, diana_coman 's latest suggests the last indisputable use for the bookshelf.
mircea_popescu: fucking "localized keyboards". that's what i fucking need in the 90s, "let's make computers useful and accessible to the bureaucracy!" "imagine mp, vast fields of fat minnesota cows derping on the computer all day long!"
mircea_popescu: they do. it's what they fucking are, first to last, and fuck them all for being so fucking stupid. "oh, mit forced". nobody fucking forced them, they betrayed their kind because of what they are.
mircea_popescu: we can talk of power rangers in bitcoin because they got fucking squashed. but nobody before thought "o hey, you know what knight, stallman, richie etc ALL have in common ?! FUCKING POWER RANGERS JESUS FUCK."
mircea_popescu: fucktarded socialists hijacking computing for their own ends. just like they tried to hijack bitcoin, because that's what they fucking do, sit around all day trying to come up with some way to tie the sun to their chariot.
mircea_popescu: what, i ask you, WHAT is a worse stain than having spent a minute on the needs of the poor ? they're fucking poor for a reason! step on their faces, there's rich people that you could be helping instead.
mircea_popescu: fucking get it already -- if you work with the monkeys people will spit in your eye.
mircea_popescu: THIS IS IN-FUCKING-TOLERABLE, and FUCK YOU ALL IMBECILES.
mircea_popescu: ie, EXACTLY these dead horses smart people are dragging around on their own fucking power to sheer exhaustion.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: computers were supposed to be intelligence amplifiers, these devices that make the smart ~more effectual~.
mircea_popescu: you and naggum might've been the only ones left by then
mircea_popescu: (if anyone wonders why all those r00 r01 etc slices back in the day)
mircea_popescu: you don't even have to ascii armor, if that bothers you.
mircea_popescu: because www server will attempt to feed any clients at any time
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform like this you can do it on an as-available basis.
mircea_popescu: you "shit-item-5 ; shit-item-6 ; shit-item-7" > tar > gpg -aer pubkey > joe.ftp.server
mircea_popescu: the correct way is reverse : take ~ftp login~, dump it in there.
mircea_popescu: when joe blow did enough for you that it overwhelms the headache, he can has.
mircea_popescu: nothing wrong with "here's a list of things you can have ~by request~ in my castle"
mircea_popescu: when realised that i do not like the "community" enough to pump 1k/mo into it or anything.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wasn't a tracker, just a large box with the entire collection of trilema reviewed films. on for a year or so, but turned it off recently.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the first step in the wonderful world of language is the kid's "what incantations do" rather than "what does this mean". takes a considerable time exposed to "she is your genie, ask what you will, she'll produce it" sorta situation for the former to mutate into the latter, "what the fuck am i asking these genies to do here!"
mircea_popescu: memory management in c is one of the weirdest things. this is not directly obvious first off, but if you stop to think about what you're saying ~actually means~ it's a guaranteed starseeing moment.
mircea_popescu: Mocky we're in the same time distortion field. i recall people dead for centuries as if we just interrupted a coffee conversation days ago ; i forgot idiots i met yesterday as if milennia had passed.
mircea_popescu: poor danielpbarron, i'm starting to understand his problem : specifically because
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-18#1881534 ie much lower intellectual bar, it is actually WAY THE FUCK EASIER to sell his church than the republic, to the sort of random interneteer. memory vs thought, hands down easier to memorize than structure the world.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: and "most irc people" is an undefined symbol. there's the lordship and absolutely nothing else. there's no "irc people".
mircea_popescu: random schmuckette futzing with her phone "losing" her nudes is of no consequence, she is a party favour anyway, whether she knows this or not.
mircea_popescu: stratum we are only interested in destroying the capacity of posturing of the "state actor" known asw the usg.
mircea_popescu: (and yes, republican bot is ==== imperial "we the people", no question about it.)
mircea_popescu: there's no serious reason to write our poor people in the way THEIR poor people would like our poor people to work [for the transparent reason that thusly, our poor people won't outcompete and drown out their poor people].
mircea_popescu: obot sent to broom will broom individual items" sorta bs.
mircea_popescu: specifically : the oldest illustration of "robotics" in the charlie chaplin deeply misguided
http://btcbase.org/log/2015-03-06#1043874 approach (and yes, i am very unimpressed by charlie chaplin as the "intellectual great" pantsuit make him out to be, specifically because this sort of deliberate stupidity to cater to pantsuit nonsense dun count as wisdom) is an amelia bedelia-esque "person sent to broom will broom the room, r
☝︎ mircea_popescu: Mocky but the important part is "resilient design" so to speak : it should keep polling after doing what it thought it did. same exact thing as with the "put stuff in inv" : put all you find of the type you're putting, if you miss some on one cycle, catch up on next. sorta thing.
mircea_popescu: anyway, many people took yearish hiatuses, mats recently emerged after a slumber for eg.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-03#1884081 << any reason you believe this ? (i have nfi, there's some obligation to participate in the sense of weighing in on decisions for the lordship, but afaikl dude never was/wanted to be, and for the citizenry at large there's no such thing is there ?)
☝︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i believe, but maybe deep link to the something useful.