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phf: hey i also just wanted
to watch my movies
mircea_popescu: "The marketing people are not
there
to
teach people, so probably one of
the most disastrous interactions with computing was
the fact
that you could make money selling simulations of old, familiar media, and
these apps just swamped most of
the ideas of Doug Engelbart, for example.
The Web browser, for many, many years, and still, even
though it's running on a computer
that can do X, Y, and Z, it's now up
to about X and 1/2 of
phf: the easiest way
to fix is of course
to link
to "print" version, which on sites of certain vintage is usually a single page
mircea_popescu: "i know, let me put
this resource in four fucking places because
that's why it's called ununiform resource locator"
mircea_popescu: the ways in which webtards manage
to break computers are innumerable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform idiot site does "pages" as iof
that's fuycking permissible ; so now we'll end up with an archived first quarter.
mircea_popescu: the kay interview ? it's from
this large pile of "items of interest" i go
through when in
the mood.
phf: mircea_popescu: is
that by way of esthlos's squeak/croquet links?
phf: well, also misparsing, because i didn't make it clear
that franklin stove is not a буржуйка,
there's a simpler u.s. item
that corresponds
though (can be found in e.g. faulkner)
a111: Logged on 2017-12-17 02:59 asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: phunphakt, franklin's stove is even
today in ru known as a буржуйка ( why? dunno, because from usa ? hard
to say )
a111: Logged on 2017-12-17 02:59 asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: phunphakt, franklin's stove is even
today in ru known as a буржуйка ( why? dunno, because from usa ? hard
to say )
mats: i never heard of a kr with
the name wong
mircea_popescu saw
this at airport
today, guy with a placard, "mr wong & miss ho"
mircea_popescu: why can't students of jp import one of
them young hussies
mircea_popescu: i dobn't get it, you READ
the orc langs but don't hear
them ?
mircea_popescu: i'm sorry, i can't hear you over
the sound of my poliglotism.
ben_vulpes: well and being a pissoir for
the webatlarge
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: macware abounds, none of it is being used for anything other
than entertainment anymore
ben_vulpes: phf: nah not particularly interesting
to me, i got out of
that gox early q2
this year, but sfyl
mircea_popescu: "why are you biting out of a
turd ?" "fortifying self for
trench
time, i hear sometimes people
there have
to drink piss"
phf: but also mircea_popescu's assessment is correct, i'm
tampering myself before i face
the insides of difftools
mircea_popescu: phf i use vlc. i prefer
to sacrifice a box
to it
than waste anyone's
time
thus.
phf: asciilifeform: i want
to watch movies! i figured i can do better
than a close source vlc package, apparently not
mircea_popescu: this is
the whole story, both as
to why "physics died" and as
to why and wherefore etc.
phf: further unrelated
to conversation lulz. package formula references fribidi (implementation of fucking bidirectional unicode).
the url for it with
the site and everything is dead, but
there's a shithub page. formula references fribidi-0.19.7.tar.bz2, github has 0.19.7.tar.gz. ~these are apparently different beast, because using later fails
the build, while
tracking a copy of
the first one succeeds~.
this is beyond insanity.
mircea_popescu: except in
the formulation here,
there is no possibility of performance outside of a structure of identity, and
the identity can not be predicated on
the performance.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-28 23:10 mircea_popescu: kanzure " Obviously
there is no possiblity of meaning outside of a structure of authority, and
the authority can not be predicated on
the meaning."
a111: Logged on 2017-12-18 03:01 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: is
this suit on file somewhere ? i'd luvv
to read
mircea_popescu: "i don't know any people in power, why would
the guy hiring me"
mircea_popescu: see, cuz goat imagines everyone's a goat, and what, ro is a small enough country
that x and y would know each other
mircea_popescu: this is
the catastrophe of ideology, it misplaces people into harms way.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform recall
that story about
the dumbest gilr in my hs
that ended up a math assistant prof ?
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-12-18 02:58 esthlos:
this channel is like discovering
the last psychiatrist again
mircea_popescu: so... one funeral at a
time. yeah.
this'd be why. performance can't be a fucking substitute for identity.
mircea_popescu: it's an identity issue.
the sort of girl
that gets all gung ho about "being first girl
to" is going
to a) be
trying
too hard and b) be not listening
too well.
mircea_popescu: "i ate a lot of shit
to come
this far" is a fundamental problem.
they CAN NOT go slower, and lower. and
they CAN NOT hear anyone
telling
them
to. you understrand why ?
mircea_popescu: these guys wouldn't be easily scared. but
the girls weren't... easily deterred. you see ?
mircea_popescu: understand what
the crew here is :
they're people who pour gasoline out of a large hose straight in
the nose of a running jet engine, open air like
that. hot refuelling it's called.
they're people who get sucked into
the damned
things doing it, not and again.
mircea_popescu: to
the point
they ~actually scareds~
the fucking
technical crew on multiple occasions.
mircea_popescu: but
this finnicky nonsense aside, point
two :
these women, not just
the dead one ; not just
the suing one ; ALL of
them, constantly and without fucking respite came in
too high and
too fast.
mircea_popescu: and
THEN! with stalled engines,
the force vector can actually outrule
the damned rudder! you lose
the plane for
turning! and
they flew
this, and somehow won a war with
the fucking clothes iron.
mircea_popescu: now consider
two different problems. one of
them is,
the damned hardware involved.
the piece of shit airplane
they flew (f14) is SO BADLY DESIGNED its nose moving left/right can disrupt airflow into compressor intake ACTUALLY STALLING an engine.
mircea_popescu: the courts rebuffed her ;
then.
the upper court even had
to
tell her
that "calling
the first women
trying
to do
this public figure does not constitute a statement of some kind of negative judgement". because yes, she was intimating
this.
mircea_popescu: now, one of
the substandard ones actually SUED. because she deemed
that
the release of "her private data" as
to how bad she sucked is such an important matter, it precludes
the public interest.
mircea_popescu: now, all
this was found out because an engineer involved leaked data. he did so because it was eggregious -- like how
the sort of red mark
that often ended a male';s career were accumulating in
the double digits on
these unfortunate souls' files
esthlos: this channel is like discovering
the last psychiatrist again
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's
that
there were four women ; which were judged by
the (absolutely and entirely fair and utterly unsexist, as a factualmatter beyond dispute) men involved as : hultgreen, marginal,
the rest, substandard.
mircea_popescu: the navy
tried
to win honestly ; and it failed. it's not JUST
that woman, Hultgreen, crashed her airplane in a manner
that a) was
taught as incorrect and b) she had been negged for doing in
training.
mircea_popescu: the airforce won. it won by
trickery -- had some girl
that did ~6 hours all
through 1990s,
then did most of her actual hours in 2000s.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't have a full vierw of
the problem. allow me
to recount a lengthy story
that shall make my point for me.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-06 15:09 mircea_popescu: which is how every god damned kid
that was sexually abused
through
the process of socialist schooling (which is all of
them -- education is education, and socialist school is definitionally sexual abuse of all children involved) ends up with
the idea
that newton sat down
TO discover whatever he did (unimportant, really) and
THEREFORE he did.
mircea_popescu: now, i didn't happen
to give a shit. but
think what
they
try
to sell
to
these unfortunate kids.
mircea_popescu: there's also
the very problematic... consider.
the highlight of my entirely negligible
theoretical physicist career such as it was, was pariticpating at
this "international contest". it was named... "the first step
to nobel prize in physics".
mircea_popescu: this "the work" is also, a surrender. in
the
terms of
the item being burned down.
mircea_popescu: which is why we can have color
television sets with short
tubes.
they, smart or not smart, couldn't have.
mircea_popescu: the view was wrong --
the complete science was actually neither complete nor even correct
mircea_popescu: and
they were right, except...
there's a categorical error.
mircea_popescu: good physicist NOT ALLOWED
TO
THROW OUT COMPLETE SCIENCE!!!