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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i will be sure to mark the grave of the king gnat separately. it still dies with one flick.
mircea_popescu: pantsuit imbecile of 1700 is lightweight indeed, compare the ineptly ineffectual paintsuitry of cardinal newman with the elaborately effectual (comparatively) idiocy of c s lewis or arthur blair.
mircea_popescu: no argument, but i really don't need much more time or tools to send off diderot than caleb crain. ~same size object.
mircea_popescu: like it or not, people from long ago ~did very little~. however well, good, interesting, whatever it might've been -- they did LITTLE.
mircea_popescu: not really worth much mention. world productivity in the whole 1700s was a good modern quarter.
mircea_popescu: but by now we're cringing at idiocy from the 70s, we're evidently running out.
mircea_popescu: it's true that white man has neglected all things of the mind for a good half century now.
mircea_popescu: eventually removing a layer of crusted socks fails to produce an occult layer of crusted underwear.
mircea_popescu: so yes, climbs the gradient. the gradient climbs too. the hope, or at least my hope, is that the gradient climbing is self-limiting. in a manner of speaking like cleaning. yes if you neglect doing ANY housework at all, then for an interval the more housework you do, the more housework there is to be done.
mircea_popescu: what passes for "wise man" in pashtun village is ~anyone, from ben stiller to alan ginsburg.
mircea_popescu: the previous douchebag was called kakobrekla, took weeks of all hands on deck to resove. in 2016. in 2018, it takes a minute of occasional attention freom whoever happens to be bored.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo why ? i don't follow it, articles go in a table, has an id field, that;s it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's no pill against idiocy ; and yes it's immoral to give idiots things, that's the whole fucking point -- if you give idiots things they fuck them up.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it really doesn't matter, start or no start. the fake directory structure is just an indirection layer, internally articles are still referenced by counts.
mircea_popescu: free bitcoin!!! the final fronteer! every one of an infinity of tards can have as many as it wants of these 21mn total things!!! OBAMACARE!
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, /me goes to check the state of the fictions.
mircea_popescu: "gotta try things out". there's a lot of this rumspringa behaviour in usg."tech".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the internet-vs-tv battle rages on, 1993 is but a memory.
mircea_popescu: not in usg.web world. there, they only do what inca told them to.
mircea_popescu: "cuz you told it to" "but i mean that's not how the web is supposed to work". was a whole mega-wtf, unfathomable depth of disagrement thing
mircea_popescu: was something like "why does echo.php?contet=fuckyou print a bad word???"
mircea_popescu: i'm sure if someone defaces ffa series to talk about what-ustards-understood-of-foucaults-sexnonsense-half-century-later someone'll notify you.
mircea_popescu: im sure you have just as much childpornyourhonor as the next citizen over.
mircea_popescu: except where nobody could leave you a freaking comment for like a year. wtf is an "irregularity".
mircea_popescu: nfi why you think you're running php without disk write access, either.
mircea_popescu: pretty sure it even gives you the option to upload the item manually.
mircea_popescu: no dude. just put the !-f !-d lines in your htaccess. da fuck does it know or care.
mircea_popescu: and there's no requirement to auto-edit htaccess, nfi what that is about.
mircea_popescu: we discuss this periodically, and it's always coming out the same way -- i show you you're wrong and you mumble something and ignore it.
mircea_popescu: all you have to do is edit the main.php or w/e it;'s called, page template. single posts were single.php etc.
mircea_popescu: i guess i'm just auto-filling "standardizes [away the need to do] unnecessary work"
mircea_popescu: the ~only wrong thing is if there ends up added a switch, to turn machinery from "normal" to "genesis mode". that, no.
mircea_popescu: but then again nothing substantially wrong with "genesis is when you vdiff against /dev/null".
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo in any case the pumps to keep the sea out right.
mircea_popescu: <pehbot> asciilifeform: 00000000000000000000000000000001 >> <pehbot> asciilifeform: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can has broken up output tho ? 5s or 4s or w/e you prefer ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform kinda the point of the design/spec yeah. BingoBoingo heh.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i honestly don't even see the problem with this being here. let people learn how to code, what.
mircea_popescu: 70-80% of what usg embassy even does, is try to get the dubaloos back in large coups.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the way they try to close the circle is by aspirating large chunks later, "sells them military technology".
mircea_popescu: large portion of ye olde "it's expensive to live in places humans do not naturally live in, be it air water mars w/e"
mircea_popescu: and i mean, what are you going to do ? not pump the tank ?
mircea_popescu: but i mean, you can reconstruct it mentally in any case, yes ? "there's a fee for the dock spot" "aha" "and would you like your tanks pumped ?" "sure" "this is for fuel this is for black water this is for fresh water do you want air" "go on" "oh there's also mandatory veterinarian inspection" "i got no anima..ugh. i only got bipedal pets on board" "can be waived for fee"
mircea_popescu: but yes, fuel-bought-at-airport is in same class as sandwich-bought-at-airport. 100% isn't even a bad deal.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you lack this fundamental experience, of either taking a boat/yacht/whatever, or a private plane, to port. it's this very specific thing, like the post-party restaurant bill or taking a harem grocery shopping.
mircea_popescu: i bet you they sold machine sandwiches they had sitting around since i was last there.
mircea_popescu: hercules tank is like 30k gallons. per plane. if they surcharge a coupla bucks a liter, which they do, uruguay airport made 100k in one day for the first time since it was inaugurated.
mircea_popescu: the only time most of the local morons actually see custom is when usg.tards land.
mircea_popescu: all those people, get off, pay the local whores. 0 clue as to anything.