asciilifeform: not entirely relatedly, there is apparently a broadway musical about alexander hamilton. (for non-u.s. folks, a contemporary of george washington, famously killed in a duel.) so the inevitable, sacramental question: when do we get an equally duel-romanticized play about galois ?
asciilifeform: 'If you cut me I don't bleed, I pour out AWESOMENESS!' << from BingoBoingo's link
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: refresh my memory, how did you get into the subject
asciilifeform: 'There are a few simple seeming functions in libc which turn out to be quite complicated under the hood. You call a function expecting a simple result, but then libc runs off and opens a bunch of sockets to remote servers and chats them up. This makes setting up a robust sandbox difficult and error prone. (Wait, what? Why is ls creating sockets???)' << lulz
asciilifeform: is there a 'research' team which catches panda for the well-funded table ?
asciilifeform: how 'lawful personal users' are to get their dope without contact with 'lawless impersonal' dope-dealing caste, remains undefined (because whole shebang is a joke)
asciilifeform: it is merely the introduction of a new layer of chumps, 'lawful personal users' - who do not even need to physically exist to support new layers of 'moar studiez needed' mandarins, enforcer thugs, etc
asciilifeform: not to mention that 'decriminalize' is an idiot newspeakism
asciilifeform: funnily enough, i just answered phone from an old phriend who needed phase diagram of $redacted. apparently libraries now lack basic reference dead tree, and the net - worthless
asciilifeform: age your inner strengths, identify hidden and untapped resources, and put you confidently on the path to designing the life you've always wanted to live." Their websites are littered with quotes like "The secret to getting ahead is getting started" and "It's always too early to quit."'
asciilifeform: 'Self-help duo Lynne Rosen and John Littig, known for their monthly radio show "The Pursuit of Happiness," were found dead in their Park Slope apartment, suffocated with plastic bags and helium. Each left behind a note, the Daily News reports, but their bodies were not discovered for up to a week. The soft-spoken couple owned a life-coaching business called Why Not Now and preached a mission "designed to help foster and encour
asciilifeform: anything that can't be modelled meaningfully
asciilifeform: so this is all obscurantist claptrap ?
asciilifeform: and what does he do to earn a living ?
asciilifeform: ok, then who is walking around after this 'death' ?☟︎
asciilifeform: hence my great surprise at mircea_popescu appearing to ask for him !
asciilifeform: then, supposing that the Magical Wand of Curative Humiliation exists, there is a zombie walking around with your passport in his pocket, while you are dead.
asciilifeform: then what, if not this? what happens after the humiliation ?
asciilifeform: let's take this to the actual story. mircea_popescu, in the face of the old woman says, 'stop being a programmer, here is an address of a pub, you can become an apprentice cock-sucker there' ?
asciilifeform: what comes after the 'swallowed pride' ?
