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mircea_popescu: i dunno how familiar you are with 1930s german art - but it's pretty damned bad.

mircea_popescu: Chillum i don't think that's the shade of caring he had in mind.

Chillum: decimation: as an astronomy enthusiast I disagree most firmly

Chillum: mircea_popescu: If I must

mircea_popescu: Chillum if that thing's information i'm a sort of misunderstood pope.

Chillum: I am a wiki dude because I have bond villian like ambitions. One needs to control information, being a wikipedia admin is a good start

Chillum: I did not even consider getting married till I met someone who would not try to control me but rather support my bond villain like ambitions

Chillum: I admit though, I went through a lot of shit women before I found a good one

asciilifeform: anyway, i'll concern myself with this detail soon after i decide whether to use xenon or argon in the maneuvering ion engines for my mars lander.

assbot: Logged on 21-02-2015 01:19:34; mircea_popescu: "she's been going through 6-7k each month since autumn, but i get to go visit p diddy whenever i feel like it. it's a wash"

asciilifeform: (is PeterL around? i bet he'd appreciate this image)

mircea_popescu: not that i care, i'll be making money on this deal, but from a systemic perspective it sucks.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah i know, i'll be suing a dc, moving the thing etc.

asciilifeform: i will not re-tell the 'vagrancy laws' thing here, it is amply covered in the literature.

assbot: Logged on 16-02-2015 04:18:04; decimation: the 'forced exercise' idea reminds me of a passage in the 'rise and fall of the third reich': "The young in the Third Reich were growing up to have strong and healthy bodies, faith in the future of their country and in themselves and a sense of fellowship and camaraderie that shattered all class and economic and social barriers. I thought of that later, in the May days of 1940, when along the road betwee

decimation: I suspect the 'men-as-parts' strategy is primarily implemented by the aforementioned engineer managers with poor social skills

mircea_popescu: i don;t think "men as parts" is actually all that good.

Cummerbund: mircea_popescu: Do you mean if the subject matter is poor? I'm merely referring to sentence structure. I would at least like to pretend that the subject matter is okay

asciilifeform: decimation: i have no idea what kind of hell he is presently roasting in. ask'im.

asciilifeform: eers seemed to work reasonably well there. It's just not a business model in which I wish to be involved, at least not on the component-provider side. So after a year at Google I quit and returned to JPL.' << the once well-known erann gatt, aka ron garrett.

asciilifeform: a local frustration maximum. ... One of the reasons I decided to go work for Google was that they were not using Java. So of course you can guess what my first assignment was: lead the inaugural Java development at the company, what eventually became Google AdWords. ... And that was the end of Lisp at Google. In retrospect I am not convinced that he made the wrong decision. The interchangeable component model of software engin

asciilifeform: gramming in Java means a life of continual and unremitting pain. So I vowed I would never be a Java programmer, which pretty much shut me out of 90% of all software engineering jobs in the late 90's. This was OK since I was managing to put together a reasonably successful career as a researcher. But after Remote Agent I found myself more and more frustrated, and the opportunity to work at Google just happened to coincide with

asciilifeform: word "training" in relation to professional activities. Training is what you do to dogs. What you should be doing with people is educating them, not training them. There is a big, big difference.) To my mind, the hallmark of the interchangeable component model of software engineers is Java. Without going into too many details, I'll just say that having programmed in Lisp the shortcomings of Java are glaringly obvious, and pro

asciilifeform: 'One of the reasons I stayed at JPL for twelve years was that I was appalled at what the software industry had become. The management world has tried to develop software engineering processes that allow people to be plugged into them like interchangeable components. The "interface specification" for these "components" usually involves a list of tools in which an engineer has received "training." (I really detest the use of the

funkenstein_: but hey i learned .. thanks ::)

mircea_popescu: so when do i get to read your pdf ?

mircea_popescu: but srsly, i can't for the life of me imagine a different way to run a tech corp these days.

mircea_popescu: i meant meta-google

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have (or rather had) a mole there.

asciilifeform: 'Using such inferior languages is like asking a chef who could have done wonders with any kind of raw materials, to use a dirty kitchen, a broken refrigerator with food that is about to die a second time, broken tools, and brownish tap water that tasted of swamp land. His first task would be to clean up the place. Creating food in there would be the furthest from his mind. That's how I feel about Perl and C++. I prefer to

asciilifeform: decimation: i did not say that nobody solves problems at 'google.' merely that no one is hired to 'solve problem.' rather, folks are hired as fungible meat robots.

whaack: I interned at Google in NYC

Cummerbund: It was more naivety before learning what needs to be learned, so rightly I was embarrassed (As opposed to just wrong)

Cummerbund: Yes, I typically work Australian hours

mircea_popescu: o i c.

Cummerbund: William Dunne, I embarrassed myself here previously.

decimation: I suspect what happens at google: many people write and re-write the same bits of software

decimation: asciilifeform: by "nobody solves problems at google" I assume you mean in the "from first principles" sense?

mircea_popescu: speaking of which yo funks! can i rewad that yet ?

zooko: I discovered this channel because of http://vixra.org/pdf/1504.0072v2.pdf

decimation: for one thing, I doubt he's being charged for a felony as a juvenile

Chillum: I am feeling a little hyper today

Chillum: at least I did not say "loo"(british for toilet)

Chillum: not what I meant

Chillum: I think defendants should be allowed to permit the offended party to smack them in lue of charges

mircea_popescu: Chillum when i was about that age kids got all uppity ran lard all over blackboard.

Chillum: I would hope that the sentence reflect the seriousness of the crime... 48 hours probation and a stern "Don't do it again!"

mircea_popescu: i do.

Chillum: The island I am on has logging everywhere but with a 30 year recovery period. So there are logging roads everywhere that are abondoned for the last 10-29 years

Chillum: BingoBoingo: I see

decimation: mircea_popescu: I would note that singapore exhibits all the signs of burning through their 'stored fuel'

BingoBoingo: Chillum: This is a rural/Suburban border town. Deer cull very effective here. Now when I lived in Carbondale... Deer raided the garbage dumpsters more than the raccoons did.

Chillum: I used to do a bit of deep forest gardening. I would use capsicum liquid all over to keep the deer away

assbot: Logged on 10-04-2015 19:43:33; ascii_field: because the only approach that i believe to be correct, will result in something tangible only long after we are all dead.

Chillum: BingoBoingo: I saw a device that automatically sprayed water at birds and deer. Modify it a bit and it will work against humanbs

mircea_popescu: i mean nuts.

BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Nah, I want serious "get off my lawn" power. Also tilling the garden hydraulicly would be pretty sweet.

Chillum: I saw it, so funny

Chillum: I was 12 when my dad invited me to come along to a fire. When we got there he made me get out fo the truck then pushed a car away from a fire hydrant with the truck

BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I need to get in far better shape. Volunteers get Illinois "pensions" so very competive.

mircea_popescu: i hear they get free sex shows.

Chillum: I thought that was obvious

mircea_popescu: "ascii_field: the only thing i can promise for the $trillion is: more material for the next fella to work with" << oddly, this sounds exactly like social studies.

mircea_popescu: Chillum from what i hear it's the same process they use to "detect terrorism" nowadays.

BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I mean fire's favorite direction is up. That and Lithium batteries have a shit lifetime anyways.

Chillum: I am wracking my brain to think of a good use for machine learning, I like to play with all the new AWS toys

mircea_popescu: i mean biological compouters

Chillum: I do

mircea_popescu: well i don't hack pws, so that's a safe bet.

Chillum: I doubt you could guess it

Chillum: "I went out the door and got my mail" <-- terrible... "If I went to the market I would buy bananas and then go south to the dry cleaner" much better

mircea_popescu: i suppose we could put the string through teh entropy tests... but no, doesn't look like it's 8/8.

Chillum: I don't pet and tell

BingoBoingo: http://thebulletin.org/does-going-%E2%80%9C-grid%E2%80%9D-actually-help-climate8191 << I wonder if Tesla is going to market sane NiFe to homeowners or instead going to create the greatest national fire hazard in history. Basement is probably the worst place for a massive battery bank and lithium worst way to do it.

whaack: I'm confused as to why anyone would care about using GPUs to hash passwords

Chillum: I love how many cheap used GPUs are being sold by miners who got on the bus late

BingoBoingo: Sentence can go on for pages i Kritiq so password box would hate you over full sentence.

Chillum: I see

Chillum: I suppose "search space" is more accurate than entropy

Chillum: I thought so

whaack: I'm sure you've seen https://xkcd.com/936/

Chillum: I saw a nice talk about a password creator that created small sentence fragments from very long lists of words. The user could enter the words in any order and with known mispellings and it would still pass. All while making sure you get the requested entropy

Chillum: given that the code in question was a machine generated e-mail verification code I would say you should start eating someones pet

whaack: i use word lists for passwords, i have a decent understanding of information theory

Chillum: been so long since I registered

hanbot: if there's 10^26 bits of entropy in that thing I will eat someone's pet.

trinque: whaack: so I might have a theory on why you can't keep your nicks

trinque: hanbot: all I see over here is *******

Chillum: I play tame

Chillum: I am not tame either. I am insidious

Chillum: I don't get it

mircea_popescu: i wouldn't subscribe to alf's definitino.

mircea_popescu: but i did, above.

Chillum: I suppose your advantage in this debate comes from your failure to define what you think pet means

trinque: asciilifeform | perhaps this was done, and i am lsd cat << LOL

Chillum: if she is a pet then so am I

asciilifeform: perhaps this was done, and i am lsd cat

mircea_popescu: so if i feed lsd to a cat it's gonna make a good wife ?

Chillum: so I claim

Chillum: sometime on LSD I am acutely aware