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mircea_popescu: with two different conditionals, and a shiny new nonstandard function
mircea_popescu: "Really. Give me *one* reason why it was written in that idiotic way
mircea_popescu: outside of the perceived need of an author to make characters fuck that wouldn't, there's no reason for it.
mircea_popescu: i dun think anybody does pity sex outside of livresque context.
mircea_popescu: so what, they're gonna be issued through the first apostolical church instead of amazon now ?
mircea_popescu: also, the field data suggests that contrary to everyone's worst nightmares, systemd will actually eventually fail, like the rest of similar attempts.
mircea_popescu: <trinque> this is strange, isn't it? << not at all. bitcoin still malleable. also, transaction ids ARE MEANINGLESS
mircea_popescu: in other news, "Hmm, isn't it weird how just as soon as women entered the workforce it became completely impossible for a family to achieve the American dream without the woman in the workforce? Turns out that part of the drive to get women into the workforce was driven by... the workforce owners. Get it? Whenever you don't understand geopolitics just ask yourself where the lowest labor costs are, and wait for the
mircea_popescu: prior to that he was making up meaningless feel-good libertard studies about how littered train stations make ugly 6.0-6.5 dutch babes sit closer to black men.
mircea_popescu: The scientific community is aghast at the extent of his fraud-- fraud on "Astonishing Scale", writes Gretchen Vogel in the same issue of Science; and Bruce Alberts was so furious he wrote an "Editorial Expression Of Concern." Ooooooooohhh. People's Elbow.
mircea_popescu: Diederik Stapel, noted Dutch psychologist, was recently outed for massive scientific fraud, i.e. he made up all his studies. "All of them?" Does it matter?
mircea_popescu: lmao r/buttcoin still chasing the "bitcoin is notrly valuable" dragon ?
mircea_popescu: <jurov> is any other heavy machinery driven that way? <<< virtually all robots over 100kgf
mircea_popescu: ""Marching gets our message out." No it doesn't, it gets CNN's message out. "We don't watch CNN, we use the internet." Yet given the infinity of the internet you still surf the same 5 websites, looking for and finding exactly what you want, like a baby playing peekaboo in a mirror over and over and over and over and over and over and..."
mircea_popescu: i guess easier to count all insanity as third rather than actually increment the accumulator and handle overflows.
mircea_popescu: (amusingly, they omit versioning for good reason. ceausescu's aparatchicks also had a "third way", like did the russians, like the peronisto-kirscherists, cuba is in its very own tercera via like is korea like is venezuela like that native midget what's his name sinking peru etc.
mircea_popescu: and it goes into weird from there, "tercera via" is a thing for the spanishtards
mircea_popescu: multicultural studies : poppedia.es : "Naomi Klein (nacida en Montreal, Canadá, el 8 de mayo de 1970) es una periodista e investigadora canadiense de gran influencia en el movimiento antiglobalización y el socialismo democrático" ; poppedia.en : "Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization and of corpora
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "granted immunity to former detective Austin, Texas police detective Charles Kleinert "
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i also like cocks (mine) and women (my own) and so on.
mircea_popescu: also one of those things hwere more work (esp by students) is never wasted
mircea_popescu: aka "any claim as to science or studies done made in english, or by a libtard, or in support of notions not found in the literature of 1800 is to be dismissed out of hand."
mircea_popescu: see it? Because: 2. It will turn out to be actually insane, and the only part of the reference that will support the statement will be the title."
mircea_popescu: "Whenever I see a reference to a statement that seems insane to me, two things will be true: 1. It will take me as long to get the study as it did to conduct the study, i.e. 45 minutes. No hyperlink. No free access. Then I have to go into the university's PubMed, which takes me through three windows to Science Direct or some other outlet. Why, oh why, can't I just click "(15)" in the original paper and immediately
☟︎ mircea_popescu: re asciilifeform mpi : the actual extraction, and especially auditing of the rng is a very worthy project.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "localization" makes even office fucking management a nightmare.
mircea_popescu has said "AT THE VERY FUCKING LEAST!!!1 separate this mess into string.h and non-string.h god damned it!!1"
mircea_popescu: (though i've read many convincing arguments that utf-8 is new jersey brain dead) << al lyou need to know is that it's what seems to have been left standing once the pain of "gotta support bullshit" washed off.
mircea_popescu: should have taken a god fearting major like the letters.
mircea_popescu: you god damned mathematician folk and your insane demands of language.
mircea_popescu: just because bunches of barbarians "do without" the ablative doesn't mean they can fucking think in their pigdin
mircea_popescu: this is not how things fgucking work. text means latin.
mircea_popescu: "oh, hurr, i kinda like the bible and my name is john smith".
mircea_popescu: and i will ritously say this is americanism at its finest. "oh, i like this girl, what need of her fambly ? we'll just live together under a blanked of sky, alone, like those two kids in the chinese myth!".
mircea_popescu: no matter how elegant the pretense can be made to appear.
mircea_popescu: a badly defined notion CAN NEVER fit well into a machine
mircea_popescu: and just because you can't see where this problem breaks shit down from where you sit doesn't mean it's not gonna. it will.
mircea_popescu: just because you can elegantly package idiocy in sexpr does not alter what text is
mircea_popescu: explain this to me. what the fuck is a "sane notion of text" ?
mircea_popescu: text means a very specific thing. latin alphabet. nothing else. if you'd rather work with 文本, work with 文本.
mircea_popescu: and it was important to separate the cowstumers from the coolies.
mircea_popescu: back then they still hoped china might be just a sort of magical closet.
mircea_popescu: wouldn't it be great if you couldn't read azn code because "if" was written in coolie ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose the people who inform me also didn't think much of it.
mircea_popescu: an ufo chock full of partying alien sluts on alien spring break could ~easily~ land in brooklyn too
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is a huge wall of fire between easily and probably.
mircea_popescu: a) they know the secret is out, so this candle is burning - gotta use it NOW for maximum impact
mircea_popescu: and that what they attempt to do with the recently stolen item is to try and muddy up wikileaks is, at least to my eyes informative.