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PeterL: What would
a useful search engine entail, or do you see that as even possible?
mircea_popescu: and that said, i am probably in the top 1% when it comes to understanding the higher level issues involved, which means i canhammer together
a search string like few others. so google would probably be lot more useful to me, were it to be useful at all, than to the general population.
mircea_popescu: and right now, im doing (atypically)
a foray into discussions of
a topic im not particularly familiar with (indie game devel). i read upwards of fifty pages, i did not use google at any point throughout. because, here's the snatch : you try googling something to get you these results.
PeterL: another example, I am watching
a movie and I want to know who the actor is. I google "cast of movie whatever", most likely it links to IMDB, I could have gone straight to IMBD, but it is easier to just start all searches from one place rather than trying to start at each individual site depending on the search
mircea_popescu: there's
a difference between these two classes of questions, you know, like in tech support.
PeterL: You ask at
a restraunt for
a recipe of their dish and they give you something?
mircea_popescu: but see, the only reason i could conceivably be interested in is because
a woman made them and i liked. then i ask her, such as my mom, or the chick in the cofee shop, or whoever. i don't think i ever wanted to make
a random item.
PeterL: another example, I wanted to try to make homemade bagels, I type in the box "bagel recipe", and it gives me several sites with recipes to try. Clearly, these are not all of the same quality, but I only have to look through
a couple to find one wotrh trying
mircea_popescu: i don't think i've used style templates in the past twenty years. conceivably this may be
a difference of style.
PeterL: okay, today I wanted to refresh my memory on writing
a letter of resignation. I type in the box "how to write
a letter of resignation", and 3 of the first four links had nice examples
mircea_popescu: if it's
a complex enough graph it really doesn't matter where you start.
PeterL: I find google useful as
a starting point for finding things on the web
mircea_popescu: do you now go through life with the notion in your head that chicken broth is
a fuel oil ?
mircea_popescu: but in general, what sort of information do you obtain by putting words in
a box ? suppose you search for "chicken broth" and they explain to you it's
a heavy fuel oil. do you believe that ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i dunno, i'm not the sort of hayseed that needs to search the web. but i assume there isn't, because it's
a hard problem. there not being, however, does nothing for google, imo.
cazalla: you can't create
a subreddit without an aged account?
cazalla: shame you didn't ask last night :\ just deleted one this morning after it was banned from
a bunch of subreddits
mircea_popescu: o btw, do you have
a reddit acct that's aged enough to make subreddits ?
☟︎ punkman: oh and they can't live on 70k
a year?
mircea_popescu: i have my doubts indie efforts can manage more than ~4, really, which is essentially
a double date
punkman: what is it like
a 10-person team for an indie game?
mircea_popescu: "We ended up operating for five months without money or payments to the team here. It was
a difficult period, where some of us were awkwardly standing in front of cashiers having our credit cards declined, drawing from any possible savings, and borrowing money from our friends and family. But we made it to the other side!"
trinque: been shedding the notion that people can be improved without force for
a while
trinque: first time was
a journey with
a babe, second time I moved one up while working on that db thing
trinque: and derpy projects like "if we just dumb down
a database an idiot will blossom"
trinque: mircea_popescu: feels like home. perhaps someday there'll be
a place outside the states I like more, but for now, this'll do
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 01:59:29; mats: it was due for
a few weeks
mircea_popescu: the mutatis mutandis equivalent of this nonsense has existed for
a longtime. doesn't even need that much mutation.
pete_dushenski: and as much as anything, derps wanna ~buy~ inspiration. it might as well come in
a tin with
a pull-off top.
mircea_popescu: “I used to play
a lot of complicated games like Dungeon Keeper " oh come the fuck on. dungeon keeper's main appeal was that is simplicity incarnated.
mircea_popescu: "but it enhanced my creativity" "so get
a blowjob, eat
a cookie, whatever".
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 00:34:46; gabrielradio: thanks, i'm gonna be lurking in the #b-
a irc yeshiva for
a while
mircea_popescu: "This feeds directly into Hall’s development process. Pac-Man 256 –
a new version of Pac-Man that, if you’re good enough, literally never ends. Pac-Man as an endless runner. Or Crossy Road, an endless version of Frogger. In both games you are never punished for dying. Often you are rewarded.
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 23:02:38; mircea_popescu: omfg seth godin still exists.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/icn.seths.head.png now
a visibly old man, trying to stick to the orange background in
a green shirt. practically speaking
a parody of itself (not that it didn't start off as
a parody - but by now it's not even intentional anymore).
mircea_popescu: "Penny’s hatred of losing is legendary in the Hall household. Every time there was
a possibility of her losing
a game, she’d close the app and toss the phone away. Every time
a game threatened to kill her she would quit. Immediately."
mircea_popescu: anyway, the ever more feverish pitch of desperation is lulzy. "sell bitcoin to me". dude... why the fuck would i be selling anything to you ? fuck you, your approval is not required, your desires don't matter, you're not being persuaded here. you're being raped. nobody gives
a shit about your consent, let alone excitement to use bitcoin. you'll use it to survive, and marginally at that.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: might be
a while, but hey, until then, more psycho material to examine will be produced.
pete_dushenski: aha. the ol' plastic cover under the sheets trick. (with an electric pump and
a hose feeding back overhead)
pete_dushenski: "
A woman goes to the gynecologist for an exam. She puts her feet into the stirrups and the doctor begins his exam. After
a moment, he says, "You have an unusually deep vagina." The woman replies, "You don't have to say it twice." The doctor says, "I didn't."
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 17:49:14; mircea_popescu: check out bizarro tx rewriting. i issued fca843c0b40a1755eee073a719c856baa7fbf5ac28db84804a44a91f52638632 which worked as expected, but apparently there's
a 5269a0e862876040db21706a7849ffd1b7d63e72d6dd61b1d2431a51698bb007 restatement of it
☟︎ trinque: got pretty far on the buy/sell board this eve but it'll be
a couple more days. colorado's attempt at murder slowed down my travels
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 14:49:43; ascii_field: perhaps it was
a case of 'soviet elephants are the biggest elephants'
pete_dushenski: and i've been digging for names or connections on that wem chick but nothing's turned up. though it's entirely possible that she was visiting from out of town. the mall is
a tourist trap extraordinaire.
mircea_popescu: ly couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe it. Finally, I felt redeemed. This was
a path that was more than
a dozen years in the making, but I had finally made it."
mircea_popescu: "On October 8th, 2013, just
a few days shy of one year since CSD officially launched, the game landed on Steam. And in just one day, I had made nearly $15,000 in gross sales, which was almost as much as I made in the entire last year on PC/Mac/Linux for CSD. In two days, I surpassed it. In one week, I had made over $50,000 in gross revenue… more than I did in the last three years as
a game maker and barista. My fami
mircea_popescu: it's pretty cool. not really translucent.
a little around the edges.
mircea_popescu: i have some obsidian i took out of
a guatemalan pavement wiht my own hands.
mircea_popescu: there is that. pretty much my objection to reddit is "all the stupid i stomp out on
a daily basis minus the toe suckling and etc"
ascii_field: if i needed arbitrary and tedious nonsense for anything, i'd visit
a church
mircea_popescu: has nothing to do with brain power. it's
a matter of language. youth culture, it's just its own kind of arbitrary nonsense.
ascii_field: in the sense where everyone who touches such
a thing shares the sin - yes.
ascii_field: also 'everything is shit' is
a sane and correct attitude for anyone involved in kompyooting.
trinque: I saw
a great deal of that
trinque: you will find people here that give
a shit about their name
BingoBoingo: <trinque> and I maintain that there's something far better about these people than any other state in the US, such that it stands
a hair of
a chance to survive it << I'm telling you Missouri is even more Texan than Texas
trinque: and I maintain that there's something far better about these people than any other state in the US, such that it stands
a hair of
a chance to survive it
trinque: this state has
a gigantic port
trinque: I'm in
a $50/day hotel room with king sized bed, indoor pool, it's lovely
trinque: Amarillo's
a pretty boring town and even the gas station was spotless, workers there were goddamn on point and asking me what I needed, sir
mircea_popescu: my theory is that the bumps are from aged female nostalgia for their earlier time in
a car. which
a male owned, like he owned their teenaged ass.
mircea_popescu: punkman that's pretty stupid. the only reason they even have the half
a shot they have currently is the rape.
mircea_popescu: let's shake everyone that passes through
a street because hey, we can't just shoot whosoever speeds and kills
a kid or whatever.
mircea_popescu: while its true that security contraptions never deliver any security, it is nevertheless the case that they do require
a rent. because everything that exists des.
ascii_field: the interlock thing is actually
a rather harsh punishment, as i understand - for instance, it sometimes demands
a blow... while the car is moving
mats: it was due for
a few weeks
☟︎ gabrielradio: thanks, i'm gonna be lurking in the #b-
a irc yeshiva for
a while
☟︎ btcdrak: there's
a real reason why
a nasty and sustained crash in the bitcoin price would be good for Bitcoin, it would flush out all these idiot companies and their VCs.
btcdrak: mircea_popescu: LOL, what has litecoin's spam handling got to do with tx malleability? maybe they paid for
a fiverr extra for that gem.
better: i won
a bet at bitbet.us
ascii_field: --'why do you go there?' --'i am
a fisherman.'
mircea_popescu: or moreover, it's
a consequence of the bizzaro uncivilised yet hypocritical nature of the us.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the 'war on trailers' is
a consequence of the 1960-70s upheaval and the prohibition of filtering people on any variable other than 'how much can he afford to pay for house'
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: ah then i don't expect to do this even if i were to live for
a thousand years.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: re: 'camping': the thing in question is part of
a campaign by just about every half-respectable usa jurisdiction to squeeze out 'trailer trash'
ascii_field: (one CAN use openssl to sign
a string of bits in the customary way)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu et al: ~this~ is one of the things proving bitcoin was designed by
a tard
mircea_popescu: check out bizarro tx rewriting. i issued fca843c0b40a1755eee073a719c856baa7fbf5ac28db84804a44a91f52638632 which worked as expected, but apparently there's
a 5269a0e862876040db21706a7849ffd1b7d63e72d6dd61b1d2431a51698bb007 restatement of it
☟︎