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mircea_popescu: the exact same thing applies universally and throiughout. the world works
a certain way, and it will continue to do so. if you build
a blog on the strength of being interesting, you will destroy it with crap ; and if you build
a reputation on being sane, you will destroy it with insanity. and so on. at no point is your "conviction" at issue (nor is it interesting, nor important). what's at issue is ~reality~, and reality does
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-18#1881342 << this, for the record, is exactly how things go. one can build himself
a reputation as
a director, on the strength (on the ~strength~!!!) of shit like pulp fiction, or reservoir dogs, or w/e the hell. but if the one then continues in the vein of bullshit, directing animation and whatnever kill bill nonsense, uma thurman's deformed toes, that someone will ~destroy~ his reputation, an
☝︎ phf: it's certainly
a dodgy, bottom of the barrel choice of venue though..
☟︎ phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-18#1881331 << i think danielpbarron is pushing transcendental imperative; though, and as per some of the long ago threads on subject of traditional societies, i will guess it is mostly
a pose on his part. his imperative doesn't align with that of all the rest of the republic members, so it is hard to relate to on substance, but in form i find it entertaining: what happens if you confront modern christian
☝︎ phf: asciilifeform: i saw you posted
a highres photo of macivory you found on the internet, but could you perhaps post
a couple of nice photos of your current board, where one can see labels on chips and whatever text on the surface
☟︎ phf: there are 3600 era PAL sources in
a form of scans, there might be some overlap between those and ivory. i doubt that's the case, but it's worth investigating
phf: asciilifeform: you can leave messages for me in the log by just mentioning my name, i always see later's before i have
a chance to speak
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron do you have
a bunch of readers interested in the quotes you figure, or what's the thinking ?
☟︎ danielpbarron: if it's gonna get me
a bunch of negative ratings i'd rather it get removed from the feed bot. i'd like to keep using deedbot and eulora
trinque: cruciform: have you ever made
a deposit with the bot?
BingoBoingo: Ah, sender-nick in this context refers to the person issuing the invoice rather than invoking the !!pay-invoice command. It's
a brevity-vs-ambiguity issue with the documentation
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, rotating bridge in Carmelo got beat up over the weekend by
a roaving gang of feral boats.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo : "morningRebel 18F Switch Pest, Hungary orientation: Pansexual active: Curious And Want To Try is looking for:
A mentor/teacherFriendshipA MasterA Mistress" original blurb bot recorded.
mircea_popescu: did i recount the lulzy story of female waterbugs having developed
a cunt shield, and so male waterbugs holdsing them on water close to frogs and jumping ?
mircea_popescu: well so then. she can be as smart as you wish,
a cunt she's still got, and that hole in the body comes with
a hole in the mind.
mircea_popescu: stupid, yes, but nobody said sexuate reproduction comes at 0 cost. seduction has to occur ~somehow~, the ship has
a hole for
a purpose.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's fashionable among
a certain set of opinionated female morons, to be 90s and from antarctica.
BingoBoingo: Or
a 40 year old man in panties with fake pics
BingoBoingo: 98F... Seems like the window on that one closed
a while ago
mircea_popescu: these fucktards, spinning around in the desert for 30 years, then aiming to enact moses
a fucking statue for his trouble.
mircea_popescu: " There is an ad hoc demonstration of
a new product, an AT&T "secure" phone, supposedly the first conversation-scrambler that's as simple to use as
a standard-issue phone." << the kanzure mickey mouse club still doing this btw.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-04 17:15 zx2c4: mircea_popescu: oh. so. "the world doesnt care about the cool hackers on the internet, but only the assholes with prestigious positions." this has been
a widely known complaint for
a long time
mircea_popescu: "
A mattress is nestled in the rafters. In
a hallway behind the reception desk is
a kitchen laden with snack food and soft drinks." << check it out, early google office.
mircea_popescu: "It's the FBIs, NSAs, and Equifaxes of the world versus
a swelling movement of Cypherpunks, civil libertarians, and millionaire hackers. At stake: Whether privacy will exist in the 21st century."
mircea_popescu: "Early credit also goes to Hugh Daniel (since passed) who administered some of the initial Cypherpunks mailing list infrastructure and IMHO should be considered the fourth Cypherpunks co-founder. For
a good and reasonably accurate explanation of the early Cypherpunks days, see the article by Steven Levy in the February 1993 issue of Wired Magazine." << dude, remember back when wired was readable, THIRTY YEARS AGO ?
mircea_popescu: this seems
a good question. what did you do to i gnight tonight ?
a111: Logged on 2018-12-16 21:11 mircea_popescu:
a blog doesn't fucking need! at all!) and so on all come at
a cost. which cost you strictly and unmitigatably can not afford in web-facing production environments, period and full stop.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 21:21 mircea_popescu: "the notion that airplanes could reproduce through laying eggs is merely
a naive extension, in the vein of 'object
A has properties
a and b ; object B shares property
a and therefore it is reasonable ~~~on
a first approximation~~~ to expect it exhibit proerty b'. nevertheless, artifacts differ from nature in that one fundamental aspect, that they're inefficient, and therefore to achieve same ends end up heavy, and in the case
mircea_popescu: ie, we're straight back to
a http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-01#1877543 : when it comes to flight, the strategy must include separating the egg laying part out of the airplane. whereas when it comes to fit-in-head or what have you, elegance, self-containedness, the egg laying part must be included in the airplane.
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
a blog doesn't fucking need! at all!) and so on all come at
a cost. which cost you strictly and unmitigatably can not afford in web-facing production environments, period and full stop.
☟︎ diana_coman: but re articles on trilema in general I'd say that they certainly build
a LOT on pre-existing stuff so yes, on one hand better and on the other hand more complex
mircea_popescu: i'd say my articles are getting better, or rather that it seems to me there was
a quality jump sometime this year. but this is to me, from outside i suspect the complexity just exploded (again).
mircea_popescu: "The article is short, its embedded references are
a den of rabbit holes. " << this last one has, (i counted), 22 links. half of which (exactly) are linked to-reference inside, and most of the reference indices are three digits. one's 4 digits (2781!). the average is 427 (exactly!) and considering that thing counts objects...
diana_coman: corrections added with links in
a comment too
diana_coman: ftr the whole thing took
a bit less than 3 hours including some re-reading of stuff just-because
mircea_popescu: apparently it's called the golden calf, in english. pity, seems
a wasted opportunity.
mircea_popescu: i doubt the problem's etiquette. seems to me much deeper issue than that, civillian pantsuit expects anything can be taken in "at his own rate" because his personal golden veal promised him there will never be such
a thing as the calling in this world.
mircea_popescu: and more generally, if it's
a "oh, #trilema is item #608 on my list of 1850 vaguely maybe interesting items i found on the internet, among which i read to pass the time waiting for the bus or w/e" sorta affair forget about it altogether, there's 0 interest in supporting that kinda imbecility/pluralism/skepticism.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-12-16 10:22 amberglint: I have
a copy if you are interested in it
mircea_popescu: " As
a result, we have decided to turn off the bulletin board while we search for
a better product (hopefully one that will allow us to migrate our previous content). Just to let everyone know, we have been working quite busily over the past couple months, and will make announcements of any new product availability as soon as it/they become(s) available! "
mircea_popescu: (let's take
a moment for
a libration in thanking the gods satoshi didn't fucking writer bitcoin in unity)
mircea_popescu: which is my point here. you're comparing
a hydro plant built on rhine cca 1880 with
a franchised "fries on pizza!" extruded plastic truck
mircea_popescu: unity is three dorks and
a shoe string. not working, never will work, won't be here in another few years.
mircea_popescu: not at all. qt
a) actually works and b) isn't going anywhere.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the question might be
a little like "why are they all in flip flops, terrible design, utterly inconvenient, how the fuck is every dumbass on fetlife amange to pick em". ie, "pick nothing, it's what they had at the store. ALL they had at the store."
mircea_popescu: the idiots s.mg forked legacy eulora codebase from << this is
a group of random morons, hardly together enough to find which side of the wall it's raining on.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-16 04:24 mircea_popescu: so, dorks with no connections and no resources somehow nevertheless managed to schelling on this. why the fuck ? what ? cuz it's got
a cube-like "icon" and 2010 was all about cube-like icons, gotta kubinetes on unity ?
mircea_popescu: so, dorks with no connections and no resources somehow nevertheless managed to schelling on this. why the fuck ? what ? cuz it's got
a cube-like "icon" and 2010 was all about cube-like icons, gotta kubinetes on unity ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ~why~ exactly the robohitler chose to act as if this piece of shit is "the future" for
a decade starting cca 2010 is the faint interesting bit in here.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "unity" was
a wanna-be proprietary alt-flash.
phf: i think he took
a bunch of macro photos of random parts, and wrote
a zmachine version 0 emulators, which in itself can be noted, if the rest of it wasn't so obnoxious
phf: i bought
a barely used eizo cg243w from
a russian guy. it was one of his last possessions (no work and didn't want to become
a "corporate whore"), and he talked about how quality of everything went down and keeps going down and that you really only can trust 2009 hardware at the latest. i wonder if there are more people like that hoarding their prized bolix, but without yet hitting the necessity to sell one.
phf: asciilifeform, that's entirely my impression. the xl that i bought went at asking price, because ^ wasn't bidding, the rest of them were bought by the same guy, and he was bidding against
a handful of desperados. i suspect that the whole thing was
a fluke, or rather the Rembrandt market was
a combination of luck and skill on the part of dks
phf: ah, huh, he's an experienced showman, could've probably sold as
a board, without anything else and still fetched the same price
a111: Logged on 2014-01-19 19:38 asciilifeform: as
a boy, i read about an 18th c. book, 'Triple Power over the Forces of Hell'
mircea_popescu: there's
a lot of variety out there, "i have
a cuck, i'm marrying him" doesn't even top the scale.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-15 05:31 mircea_popescu: what's not being discussed is the problem of space debris. but yes, unsurprisingly enough and predictably enough the end result of "people can now go to space" was "earth now looks like
a ball of burata looks once the mold can '''go to space'''. ie, surrounded by
a skirting of debris,"
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-15#1880894 << thinking of this and the whole sns/hp nonstop etc thing : i suspect
a large chunk of the way things went may be driven by
a (naive, and not necessarily spoken) "what if machine becomes sentient and you cant' turn it off" phobia.
☝︎ BingoBoingo: Damn "passed time" time stamping. Though for
a second there was
a 51 year old cuck involved
mircea_popescu: it's
a thing. when you're going "meh, ima use
a dental kit" you're being one kinda lulzy. when you're going "
a-ha, ima make xray out of old tv tube and camera sensor" you're being ANOTHER kind.