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mircea_popescu: negative fucking space ffs, it used
to be called
thinking back when my grandfather could barely read ; now
that all everyone does all day is "read"
facebook somehow magically nobody can
think anymore ?
mircea_popescu: not "do i want a jetski" but "what will i do with a jetski in akron, ohio" and "how will i pay
the cc bill or why should i have
to".
mircea_popescu: wtf, how hard is it and how
the fuck could it not be obvious.
mircea_popescu: man, generally speaking, WILL
THINK OF
THE NEGATIVE SPACE.
mircea_popescu: and like
this in everything -- man will say "i can't fucking sit on all
this, people will spit on grave IF ONE DAY IT HAPPENS i'm incapacitated".
mircea_popescu: man will consider, "oh nice,
there's nine pies here, i'm still going
to have ONE SLICE".
mircea_popescu: to continue "publication-phobic folks"
thread : difference between mouse and man is
that moue will eat itself into overweight
to
the point where can't, famously, get back out
through
the hole it came in.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, standard wasn't ~properly~ described. standard was described at fucking all, i don't need
to explain
the difference between your logger which diana_coman 's running now and phf's alleged logger which, for all anyone knows, consists of one mechanical
turk who meanwhile got sad / ran away.
mircea_popescu: correct
thinking consists of
thinking ~about
the negative space~. not about
the positive space. not "oh hurr durr it works", ffs.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-02-07 14:22:35 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: a greybeard once
told asciilifeform , 'you dun know it, but you got finite # loc in you, once you've written
them will stand
the machine no moar and have
to move
to forest and eat bark'. i'm not even convinced
that it was joke.
mircea_popescu: whatever, just as soon as it was even vaguely possible one might've had some use for it. and
this is ~deeply unsexy~, mind, i ain't publishing boihood-conventional "cool stuff & frank zappa" here. i'm publishing
the most shameful
thing known
to
the wankastery collective, and
then end up having
to "battle" nonsense of "oh, mp is intellectually stunted, can't install linux" because of it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, didactica aside, i dunno any of his production was even vaguely visible. i mean, you realise
trilema still runs
to
this very fucking day on code published in what was it, 2015,
snsabot: Logged on 2019-07-06 04:42:12 BingoBoingo:
The particular election rabbit hole I've just about completely explored is how "book club" party with an uncontested internal managed ~50 kilovotes for recently fired former commander in chief Guido Manini Ríos Stratta whose only firm platform position seems
to be no "reform" of
the military retirement system and softer position declaring "Army on streets is good"
mircea_popescu: one
can't quite make fleas in
the lab as
things stand right now, so in
this utterly jeffersonian view
the ploughsman's
the only
true scientist.
a111: Logged on 2014-10-03 04:08 mircea_popescu: and i wanted
to know if when someone invents something,
they have
to also say how it's
to be made
a111: Logged on 2014-10-03 04:07 mircea_popescu:
this is
the difference between invention and daydreaming, something my mother explained
to me when i was like 6
mircea_popescu: but yes,
to say it plainly : i don't agree phf was some kind of
technical monument or example
to be followed. making
things
that work does not enact one into such ; observe
that every frog makes
things
that work, extremely fine
things
that work extremely well, viz
the very fucking frog in question. yet a frog
that can breathe is an ordinary frog, not an exceptional engineer.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-09 05:21:49 mircea_popescu: imagine, all
this flurry of exciting new development could have been occuring in 2017, if i had
the sense
to kick phf out on his rear in 2017, rather
than let him sit his dumb ass on us for
two years.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-09-11 00:43:20 asciilifeform:
trinque:
orig. contention, which i disputed. phf was 1 of
the very, very few people whose hands grew from right place, and it will
take very long
time
to replace , not even speaking of
the full functionality of
the orig. bot ( still not had ) but of e.g.
the vpatch viewer, which i use erry fucking day of
the week
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding its manifest popularity among
the most perdurant and pervasive
type of hostis humani generis, it's still impracticable insanity.
mircea_popescu: in fact, breaking
this distinction is
truly
the one deep problem with all sorts of "religious"
thinkers in
their own view, aka unmitigated morons in reality :
the
traditional position of
the
mula, intellectually impossible as it is, stands as "i'm not interested in sin
therefore here's what you must do about it".
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-11 09:23:33 diana_coman:
there is always (and still available and I'd like
to see it
taken by phf, yes)
the place in other castles; so I suppose, if one must answer
the question,
the
threshold as I see it atm = reaching
to ban from *other* castles.
mircea_popescu: is based will inform
the ought discussion, sure ; but absent
that... just, how ?!
mircea_popescu:
http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-11#1935529 <<
there's about zero chances i'll
tell someone what
to do with
things
that don't interest me. i mean it's not even fucking possible, altogether, by reason of logical inconsistency : if you're not interested in a
toy, how
the fuck can you summon
the basis upon which
to
tell others what
to do with it ? if you're interested
then
the same
thing upon which
that interest
lobbes: that snippet was from my PM convo with him. Figured I'd
throw it in for moar context
lobbes: asciilifeform: yes!
thank you
lobbes: in
the meantime I'ma have
to continue without
the link I guess
lobbes: I believe it
talks about
the limit of existence in a socialist world.
There's a specific phrase in it
that goes something like "You'd better make sure you negotiate for what you want, because
that is *all* you are getting. Ever." Any
Trilema-ologists in know it?
lobbes: In other news, I wish
this mp-wp-bot already existed. I've been
trying
to locate a
Trilema piece for
this post I'm working on, and I must've gone
through a few dozen by now with no luck.
ericbot: Logged on 2019-09-13 18:13:40 asciilifeform: lobbes: added ericbot
to colourizer list .
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-13 03:29:14 mircea_popescu: holy shit i had
to
take out [] style links from my latest
trilema draft.
mircea_popescu: "degitlegau" (lit, ofnecktierer) instead of
the "alien" cravata (tie)
mircea_popescu: yes, but need a certain conceptual stability
to attempt. i suppose
the most systematic was late 1800s, latinization a la i h radulescu.
mircea_popescu: much like
the man on pcp running up and down
the sidewalk punching out imaginary flying
trees is way
too busy
to kill himself properly speaking.
mircea_popescu: the reason rotards didn't do, incidentaly, is not wisdom but idiocy : so many
completely iliterate attempts
to "systematize" lang,
there was no fucking need or rather, practical possibility of directed activity like you're describing
mircea_popescu: notrly.
they did however do an idiotic antisemitism
thing ;
the guy is actually Eliezer Schein ; and other
than one of
the precious few, subdozen romanian linguists ever worth
the mention, aslo spent most of his life
trying
to be naturalized and not managing
snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-29 03:37:54 mircea_popescu: dun have
to be solved
today, we'll live for quite a while as it stands.
diana_coman: ha,
there should be a botbot :P
ty asciilifeform for
the list, I'll update mine
too.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-13 03:29:14 mircea_popescu: holy shit i had
to
take out [] style links from my latest
trilema draft.
snsabot: Logged on 2018-12-05 10:04:37 asciilifeform: likes marshak's
translation 9000x better
than
the orig. 'Не было гвоздя -Подкова Пропала. / Не было подковы - Лошадь Захромала./ Лошадь захромала - Командир Убит./ Конница разбита -- Армия Бежит. / Враг вступает в город,/ Пленных не щадя, / Оттого, что в кузнице
mircea_popescu: but if you want
to do
things in
the style of print(url, list-of-params) whereby print_url(list-of-params) is called printing
the list as an url, you definitely can.
mircea_popescu: why'd a flea need
that much iron shoeing ? lest it jumps
too high, of course.
mircea_popescu: php CAN handle cascading
templating,
the reason it's never seen is because anyone who can be bothered
to do such
things is not
there
to do it, but
too busy fucking
tghemselves in
the ass with obscure dildos ; in romanian
this is called "pe cind se potcovea purecele cu 99 oca de fier la un picior".
mircea_popescu: the greater point being
that ad hoc php by iliterates is not different from ad hoc perl or c or bash or lisp for
that matter, why's it
the computer's fault ?
mircea_popescu: re echo '<a href="' . $url . '">' . $description . '</a>'; << nothing keeps you from doing print_url(x y z) if you want
to. you'd have
to define
that function, of course, but
this is
true in lisp and any other language as well.
mircea_popescu: anyway : i'm willing
to bet migration ~will~ be
trivial ; and i am very curious
to find out why not if indeed not
mircea_popescu: you know, by
the way, curl can make a heavy load for you any
time you so feel like.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-12 15:13:13 asciilifeform: ACHTUNG, panzers! lobbes , diana_coman , et al : reader.py on dulap updated
to lobbes's raw-export-fix.
vtree page updated w/ lobbes patch and lobbes , asciilifeform , sigs.