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diana_coman: it certainly fits it perfectly, yes; and overall it also fits
the more general pattern:
the moment everyone gets
to do it, one can
tell
that "it" is a. only a pale shadow of itself, b. going
to shit full-speed ahead anyway
☟︎ phf: i saw a rambling
talk by peter norvig (he called it "as we may program", considering
the complete lack of substance
that's as bombastic reference as it gets)
phf: i guess
that's aligned with
the "we moved from SICP
to python, because programming is no longer about writing code, but discovering libraries"
that's periodically discussed in logs
☟︎☟︎ diana_coman: I saw
this
thing in action; and brighter kids effectively perking up when
they finally find someone sane
to laugh at such idiocy, call it by its name and actually help
them understand something; in eternal words "it actually MAKES SENSE now!!"
☟︎ diana_coman: phf,
the sad reality is
that "school" nowadays *teaches* kids stack overflow/monkey copy/paste/ you-can-program-without-knowing-maths as "the way
to learn"
phf: apparently not,
there are people out
there who believe
that stack overflow programming is not just a viable strategy, but
the only available one :o
phf: i somehow
thought
that stack overflow programming was a non-reflective activity, sort of like "hello sir madam, howdo i write network program in java??" comments on popular "epoll vs. kqueue performance analysis" posts back in
the day
phf: “What was it like
to self-learn programming before Stack Overflow? (2016) (quora.com)”
☟︎ BingoBoingo: And no, Apple is not as big as Sears was. Apple sells no iHouse, and Apple has never conducted a public service on
the scale of Sears donations of
toilet paper
to
the masses
that
they wrote off as marketing
BingoBoingo: Anyways,
the morality
tale is
thus: Big American companies outsourcing
to small Chinese upstarts creates Big Chinese companies and small American shell games
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Nah,
that's how you cut metal with not a chainsaw
mircea_popescu: i
thought you just keep uncapped barrel of oil around, dip chainsaw in now and again.
BingoBoingo should have heeded alf's warning on
the concept of pole mounted chainsaw and simply skipped
to 36" bar and attacked
tree at
the stump
BingoBoingo: Constantly readjusting chain
tension happens with small bars, nbd. Dumping 90 weight straight
through alleged "reservoir" and calling it automatic oiling is sin.
BingoBoingo contemplating sawing "fuck electric line" renting CS-800P and
taking
the whole fucking
tree down
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: my dad's electric chainsaw leaks like a leeb
too
trinque: if not, not getting
the full printer-ink out of
the scam.
trinque: they sell
the oil I
take it?
BingoBoingo: Fucking piece of shit has "automatic oiler"
that consists of leak half of oil reservoir between filling and picking up saw
BingoBoingo: In other news I
think I accidently acquired alf's pole saw from hell
trinque: trump loves suing people; what prevents him as president for suing
the rag for libel?
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding
that a)
trump decides what's secret and what isn't and b) lolreally ? wtf did
the blue state imagine diplomacy is ? reading
the fake news outloud ?
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, washpo aggitating over how
trump gave putin "Secret Infoz!"
mod6: werd. feel free
to ask if you have questions.
trinque: head
too far up ass
to
tell who's looking.
ben_vulpes: do salesbros of commodity hardware
throw fits where people can see?
trinque: ben_vulpes:
this guy somehow reminds me of
teh spike-sitting salesbro
mircea_popescu: obviously not
the fucking same question for
the deeply retarded female
that waited
to be 50 first.
mircea_popescu: isn't
this a little like
the 18 yo girlie asking "what'd getting into fucking
this late get me anyways, people'd been fucking forever"
ben_vulpes: more of a sad little "what would getting into
the wot at
this late date get me anyways?"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes let me guess,
the ever-sweet delusion
that
there's room "for everyone" and
that whether random sack of flesh burns or achieves is somehow my fucking problem, not its fucking problem, cuz im supposed
to be his mommy.
mircea_popescu: perfect medium for knowledge : while you wait for
them
to show up, you become more knowledgeable.
shinohai imagines
this is speshul snowflake of redditard variety.
ben_vulpes: sit on couch, smoke pot, print
things.
ben_vulpes: yes well, i'm not going
to grep
through my personal logs
to find out if a fleanode name'd been used before
mircea_popescu: there's no such
thing as genuine naivite enduring over half a decade unchanged.
ben_vulpes: the genuinely naive with
two brain cells
to rub
together mighta at least asked "what dat" "how do i register" etc
mircea_popescu: the whole "so email him" comes with quite
the heavy backhand.
there's no washing of
the
treason of not showing up.
mircea_popescu: no way
to wash
this, and i will prosecute
them. all,
the same scum.
mircea_popescu: there is no difference in
this sense between nubbins, an idle idiot, and nanotube, a respectable professor. scammers known like
theymos and lukejr, supposedly honest idiots like szabo, agents known like gavin or unknown like whatever others have
this much in commom --
the call was made, and
they strayed.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not even a rando.
the newborn has
the excuse
that he wasn't
there
to hear
the calling ; but
the dorks who frittered
their
time away in presence have no excuse, nor any way
to wash
the shame of
their cowardly, subhuman build.
mircea_popescu: ua logging -otc since 2013, still not made a key ? what is
this, some kind of joke ?
ua: also i could deliver
them in person in like east germany
ua: there are post leasing from poland, 175 euro apiece, 50 euro cheaper
than i saw on ebay.de
ua: I have 20x Dell SC1435 available,
these are 2x quad 2.2 Opteron 2374HE 16GB RAM 80GB HDD
mircea_popescu: where by newspaper we mean
the whole gamut of fake news, from redditwittetardopedia
to "the new socialist" or w/e it's called.
mircea_popescu: but
the general point being :
the anglotard narrative is fundamentally broken. it's not you know, "broadly correct, needs adjustment". it can't be fixed. whatever you read in english newspaper makes you dumber, and you can't fix
this.
mircea_popescu: borders are quite closed,
to eg, esl precious cuntlet.
mircea_popescu: but ~just~ like. on schedule
to "spit it out" 2025 or so.
mircea_popescu: by now, pretty much everything, all
the way
to diesel
trucks,
tractors etc.
mircea_popescu: anyway.
the reason i point out burma is because
the coup was successful, and
the country is industrializing at chinese pace.
trinque: when slurping
the USSR's cock?
mircea_popescu: notice how silent
the "crowd wisdom" is about all
that ?
mircea_popescu: while
that lasts. god knows
the scum are
trying
their best
to scumify china as well ; and sadder still --
the ~only reason it exists is
that it's really just an alternate pathway
to scum. slightly different sort of cockroach,
that's all and no more.
trinque: the future being at all worthwhile is going
to involve massive ratios of man
to drone and drone
to bodycount.
mircea_popescu: fact is,
the crap growing in agar bottle manages
to soil
the bottle. permanently.
trinque: there was perhaps some land worth ruling, who knows. but wtf, somebody's going
to be father-janitor
to
these people.
mircea_popescu: you say you worked in biolab. you must've encountered
the phial not worth
the washing, yes ?