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mircea_popescu: merits–thereby distorting their aesthetic and ethical understanding–is
a great evil, as is every untruth."
mircea_popescu: ve, he has once again re-read the entire works of Shakespeare, including the historical plays, and I have felt with an even greater force, the same feelings–this time, however, not of bewilderment, but of firm, indubitable conviction that the unquestionable glory of
a great genius which Shakespeare enjoys, and which compels writers of our time to imitate him and readers and spectators to discover in him non-existent
punkman: on an interesting note, Zeiss was
a pioneer in lithography optics for chip manufacturing
punkman: there's
a few soviet factories that still make decent lenses by the way
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it went nowhere. but i guess if the govt gets involved it'll be
a great success.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> seems pretty hopeless << actually some derpy "artists" were airing this nonsensical scheme
a few years ago. it basically reduces to "isn't it unfair that only some 6/7 chicks get to pretend like they're artists on daddy's dime ? why shouldn't i have
a daddy like that!"
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 07:15:06; fluffypony: I have
a 36x zoom on one of my drones
punkman: I worked on
a project that involved predicting future student income for such purposes couple years back.
pete_dushenski: ^sounds like williamdunne's scheme from
a few months back
punkman: "Beginning in 2016, University President Mitch Daniels wants to allow private investors to invest in the success of Purdue students using
a new financial model: Income Share Agreements (ISA)."
punkman: fluffypony: big lens is too expensive, better get
a small telescope
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 23:10:57; trinque: tax avoidance is
a foolish move if you're dealing in their currency
mats: er: '
a purely fiat'
mats: BingoBoingo: re: bip-101-syndicate-shares-fiat-ties-opposition-to-actual-bitcoin some corrections: '... damning VC behind the [reins]', some commas here: 'Goldman Sachs, purely fiat institution, is
a majority shareholder of Moneygram,
a cash ...'
fluffypony: I'd get WAY better shots from
a DSLR with
a telephoto zoom lens
mircea_popescu: sane uni admin would just hire
a few dozen models to walk around the campus nude all day.
mircea_popescu: i forgot this world exists where "download" = "here's
a binary"
mircea_popescu: "AutoHotkey (AHK) is
a free, open-source macro-creation and automation software for Windows that allows users to automate repetitive tasks."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally it occurs to me - one theory that'd very well fit the soviet ibm insanity would be, "the captive thief". ie,
a guy so enamoured with the idea that "this calculator is hot (ie, stolen)" that he'll gladly expend $1500 to get
a shitty pocket calculator, instead of $1100 to get
a 10x as powerful desktop.
assbot: Logged on 03-03-2014 22:19:37; mircea_popescu: matheny needs to be out of
a job.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 05:34:43; mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> and just about everybody, right, left, center, happily buying in. << i'm buying in because i do not believe local resistence is
a good idea. the whole thing should burn, and pockets of sanity just make the burn last longer and hurt more.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> and just about everybody, right, left, center, happily buying in. << i'm buying in because i do not believe local resistence is
a good idea. the whole thing should burn, and pockets of sanity just make the burn last longer and hurt more.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
a tiny group of second rate twerps THAT KNOW they're second rate band together, and because the world is so sick on this "everyone's equal" jizz, they can't be repressed effectually.
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> "Contrary to the myth that 97% of climate scientists believe we are headed toward
a man-made climate doom, the truth is that
a very small group of second rate climate scientists have captured the attention of some prominent political and media figures. " <<< this is how "gamergate" happened too, and everthing else. "race relations", "gender issues", you name it.
Vexual: recycling stuff for
a purpose
pete_dushenski: except people who actually give
a shit have never had better tools at their disposal
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: the line-up to be
a merc ~on us soil~ must be shallower than obama's veil of intelligence
pete_dushenski: it's not clear to me that the fedcops are enjoying such
a sterling reputation these days
assbot:
A detailed review of the book: ‘
A Disgrace to the Profession’, by Mark Steyn | Watts Up With That? ... (
http://bit.ly/1VviPqz )
pete_dushenski: "Contrary to the myth that 97% of climate scientists believe we are headed toward
a man-made climate doom, the truth is that
a very small group of second rate climate scientists have captured the attention of some prominent political and media figures. "
pete_dushenski: "Basically, Mann had mined many series of numbers looking for hockey stick shapes and gave each series that had the shape he wanted
a much higher weight, up to
a weighting factor of 392!"
mats: got
a suggestion? I'll lay out
a couple coins for it
mats: I am considering how to word the terms of
a bet regarding the fall of Baghdad in
a year's time
mircea_popescu: they got 5-10k elite, and they're playing heroes of might and magic with them around the map. because even one lost is
a horribru disaster. not replenishable.
mircea_popescu: they got
a good plane, which keeps the us in check. but infantry wise...
mats:
a denial of any troop movements in country, in fact
mats: it appears ru is now operating
a combat outpost in syria
mod6: ima go and try to catch up on these logs and get some extra zzzs. have
a good evening all!
mod6: (19:17) <+ben_vulpes> mod6 probably has his own as well. << mine is basically
a by hand list. it really needs some attention/tlc. I gotta get something more structured.
mod6: and i'm running
a fever now. annoying.
mats: it may be that i remembered it incorrectly, i am only partially literate and recall the phrase from
a translation of
a ming text
mircea_popescu: meanwhile it's more like "we've been using temporary shelter in
a permanent manner for the past decade and why is this insulation falling off"
assbot: Successfully added
a rating of 1 for VariaVarietatis with note: Euloran
mircea_popescu: tis the truth. i personally wouldn't work with
a rogue entity even if it promises "rly for srs" to cover my legal costs.
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 23:50:16; mircea_popescu: i have
a mile of logs showing the behaviour without exception.
kakobrekla for
a second thought magick packet rebooted phuctor
mircea_popescu: i have
a mile of logs showing the behaviour without exception.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: because maximally, we accidentally found
a magic packet.
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 23:10:57; trinque: tax avoidance is
a foolish move if you're dealing in their currency
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 22:19:12; mircea_popescu: trinque note that, importantly, you also need
a particular sort of helpless population. the afghani have been bombed pretty much constantly since the 70s, did nothing.
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 22:21:22; phf: asciilifeform: what about something like this
http://paste.lisp.org/display/154647, put
a flag on sighup, put
a couple of checks (i'm not sure if my guess as far as mainloop is correct) for the flag, do
a stop the world snapshot. can have it running normally, periodically send kill -HUP ...
ben_vulpes: hanbot: i once cooked up
a wiki page on the topic. has since languished, rotted, died.
hanbot: it's
a full day just following along the ml, honestly.
trinque: well, I should say, it is
a move you ought to be prepared to back up.
trinque: tax avoidance is
a foolish move if you're dealing in their currency
☟︎☟︎ assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 17:16:07; ascii_field: i can't help but wonder if someone is getting
a red star pinned on his uniform in moscow, for having planted this bug
phf: asciilifeform: what about something like this
http://paste.lisp.org/display/154647, put
a flag on sighup, put
a couple of checks (i'm not sure if my guess as far as mainloop is correct) for the flag, do
a stop the world snapshot. can have it running normally, periodically send kill -HUP ...
☟︎ mircea_popescu: trinque note that, importantly, you also need
a particular sort of helpless population. the afghani have been bombed pretty much constantly since the 70s, did nothing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: when you beat
a slave, it is educative because she knows that this is strictly reality, and the only way out is internalised change.
mircea_popescu: i think i said it before, but anyway : the important thing about
a beating isn't the actual beating, but the part that forces the recipient to internalise he has no recourse.
mircea_popescu: the important point about bombs is not the destruction. it's that they are loud and enforce in the recipient
a taste of his own powerlessness.
trinque: gonna need
a hashtag for this shit; it's trending
trinque: I am prepping to move cross-country, so I can't make hard commitments re: time this week or next; however I don't mind taking
a look at phuctor's db use at all.
mircea_popescu: The dearth of actually successful Open Source companies (where Open Source is part of
a permanent rather than an exit strategy) makes it pretty clear that this "realistic" advertising strategy is not actually founded in much realism.
mircea_popescu: Uh, Eric Raymond explicitly created the "Open Source" label exactly to appeal to industry players who considered bothering with principles suspicious. So yes, Open Source is for people without principles. That's not Stallman's pitch, but an explicit design goal of the Open Source agenda. To replace the appeal to principles,
a bunch of technical and marketing criteria are propounded.
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2015 22:07:54; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the llvm thing, prior to career as apple crud, had
a previous life as
a darling plaything of u.s. 'comp sci' academitardia
assbot: Logged on 15-02-2015 21:43:42; asciilifeform: 'but Richard is seemingly frightened about the compiler competition from LLVM that is out under
a permissive free software license.' << fud artist lies through his teeth. rms is not 'frightened of competition under permissive licenses', but is pointing out that organized attack by shitgnomes flying (as always) flags of convenience, is under way.
ascii_field: (incidentally, it ~is~ possible to do this faster by splitting multiplications into
a tree and distributing between machines. but this is considerably more moving part than what we have now, and quite enough for ph.d. thesis)
mircea_popescu: i don't care about the site being down an hour
a day, to save its guts.
ascii_field: jurov: problem is that it takes
a while to - reliably - save or load
a GB.
ascii_field: potentially folks could even submit 'i know
a factor for modulus m!' into
a box somewhere, regardless of why
mircea_popescu: it occurs to me this;d be
a fine project for
a young gent. "here's this code alf himself wrote (in two hours). here's the problem. fix it without breaking anyhing!"
ascii_field: jurov: appreciate, the thing was written in
a coupla hours.
mircea_popescu: what does your factorizer do if the db returns "wait" or w/e it returns if
a lock's active