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mircea_popescu: i had a great pic up lemme see if i can ever find anything again in this smoldering pile of everything that's my blog
mircea_popescu: supposedly (ro) intinate = (en) defiled, but im not too happy to it. tina is a derrogative for earth, soil. it's expected to be barren, powdery (but noit outright sand) and in generaly the equivalent of dirt.
mircea_popescu: either that or possibly doesn't give a shit about caryatids.
mircea_popescu: well, the ~$65 in box cutters the terrorists spent did bring down a 8-10bn piece of real estate.
mircea_popescu: cost about 150mn to tear down (without counting amortisation and hr costs) and about 18k to fix.
mircea_popescu: except the argentines fixed it that same day, and used it to land hercules for the entire duration of the conflict.
mircea_popescu: here's a primer on airstrike efficiency : the brits did 7 (SEVEN!) mid-air refuellings for one of their rustbuckets to manage to drop ONE bomb on the one runway in the faulklands, "disabling" it
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "oh oh airstrike" "ok and ?" "we took out their outhouse!111"
mircea_popescu: anyway, i get it, an entire generation of disenfranchised young russians figure they're great chaps and the fault must be in the women empowering the old farts.
mircea_popescu: isn't this the book with lena the "poor her" whore and that schmuck doing dune "the voice" v2.0 ?
mircea_popescu: i never saw much in it (and in pelevin generally) other than "oh if only the holy tenets of TRUE socialism hadn't been /intinate/ or however you say that in russian
mircea_popescu is more into the "Brothel of intellectual lusts" take on female degradation than the flimsy political apropos take.
mircea_popescu: trotyl is more expensive than either the thing or the intended customer.
mircea_popescu: i actually get more "web designer" spam than "seo expert" spam.
mircea_popescu: "After fifteen years in the design industry and realising the only difference between sitting in front of a computer facilitating client's requests and kneeling on the urine soaked floor of a truck stop bathroom giving five dollar blowjobs to men named Chuck, is the amount of urine on the floor, the Jumping Frog fee has evolved from insurance against post-project client suggestion to client incentive to have somebody e
mircea_popescu: if one structures his tables sanely then none of these complex requests exiswt
mircea_popescu: for some reason these all sound to me like "the problems we get for having a bad db design"
mircea_popescu: trinque can i get "this" and "that" comparisons of the actual thing ? "ceci n'est pas une pipe" "this is not a pipe" sort of thing
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla no but seriously, i'm at least partly here to learn, so what functionality is it ? like a good example.
mircea_popescu: what is this "chapter" thing and why is it in your epub^H^H^H^H zipfile ?
mircea_popescu: seriously, leaving aside everything else, why the fuck would you make THIRTY EIGHT DIFFERENT FILES ?
mircea_popescu: i would much rather spend five minutes writing queries than figuring why the fuck copy *. doesn't work and ending up using cat
mircea_popescu: if you're going to rule people you gotta be able to somehow explain what you actually want done and raw queries are really not far off.
mircea_popescu: and honestly i don't mind it so much. about the same as my life generally, really.
mircea_popescu: the only way it could be useful is if it somehow intuited what the columns are actually named for me so i don't have to always keep checking
mircea_popescu: i really have no idea why i'd want a language on top of that. what's it going to do ?
mircea_popescu: pretty much every time i want something from trilema i SELECT by hand
mircea_popescu: in other news, "you should perhaps point out to your mother that being ugly is no excuse to rawdog drunks" is my new favourite insult.
mircea_popescu: as far as her dumb ass is concerned, the best possible train is a ghetto blaster with the volume welded to low, playing christmas carrols from under the mirrors-ensconced speakers.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform same problem is why everyone hates what originally seemed obvious and intuitive : the text powered adventure
mircea_popescu: which is why this "no but math notation" argument is so bifurcacious.
mircea_popescu: anyway, again not sure why this isn't obvious, but the alphabet is (still is, in spite of all the "help" geeks gave it) a defined, closed, easily countable set.
mircea_popescu: (it actually makes the level raise slightly, but that is part of the "hope and pray" definition of abstraction yesterday - we hope and pray it dun matter.)
mircea_popescu: i said "clamp down in one place" not "reduce". how the fuck are you goingto reduce complexity and why aren't you moving on to entropy next!
mircea_popescu: but does your experience also include what i actually said above, or just what you saw in it ?
mircea_popescu: a lot more to do with the brilliant idea of "use these letters and fuck you and your ugly mother."
mircea_popescu: there is a fucking reason white people are better than all the other people, and it has jack shit to do with the skin.
mircea_popescu: i dunno why the fuck this point is so unobvious, but : most of the intellectual gains humanity has made came after it decided to do what science always does : arbitrarily clamp down on complexity in one place to use this as leverage against complexity elsewhere.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: a) none of these derps know any maths and b) i do and somehow survive. if you need a particular notation to do maths either you're not very good or are trying to talk to idiots.
mircea_popescu: books are for german kids, really, the sort that grew up waddled at the ankles.
mircea_popescu shudders at the thought he actually had to "turn a page" every 1k bytes.
mircea_popescu: which i suppose counts for "368" pages in lalaland wherew they do 1k characters per page.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform speaking of defending, see the latest trilema.
mircea_popescu: "hosting fees are expensive" my foot. they're only expensive because "oh i just wanna be a designer" all over the place.
mircea_popescu: take some text, put it through "Aspose.Words for .NET 10.6.0.0" so you can have <span></span> for every other word like in the old days of microsoft computing, and then zip the shit and call it "epub".
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