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mircea_popescu: principal calls parents over, ifnorms them that you told him you intend to quit school and he agrees, and you're henceforth expelled from all schools forever.
mircea_popescu: phf i don't mean cutting class. i mean quitting. permanently.
mircea_popescu: had you just quit school to focus on your learning 3dmax full time like the retarded us kids, your dad'd have had your hide.
mircea_popescu: phf and there's nothing wrong with the process per se, as a distraction. but you have to admit the only way it was an acceptable behaviour when you were 16 was because YOU ALSO WENT OT SCHOOL.
mircea_popescu: yet somehow the point that there is no possibility of value even outside of gimp stays elusive. yet it's the same damned thing.
mircea_popescu: people find it uncontroversial that lamp amp is better than cpu amp. i've seen people gush over 1990s state of the art computerized algebraic systems.
mircea_popescu: but those people are "lest concern" as they say about overrepresented, nuisance species.
mircea_popescu: yes, it's true that for a majority of people out there, the existence of the sandwich would stay a mystery lest they saw it drawn on a key on their cash register.
mircea_popescu: in other words, the only people who benefit from the "easier to use" iconographic interface of mcdonalds cash register are both illiterate and noit actually involved in the restaurant business.
mircea_popescu: which settlement is the exact antithesis of art, for the record.
mircea_popescu: than to derp around in a labirinth of ps "features" that aren't even exposed properly (you want me to... click ? seriously ?) and with a cvasi-guarantee you will not be able to do it, but have to settle on "this is how we do it in ps".
mircea_popescu: it doesn't work for "filthy casual" that wishes to pretend like he's doing serious work while really not doing much of anything. but otherwise, if you are actually goin gto do serious work, it is by far a better use of your time to work the parenscripts of gimp into the shape you need them to be with the guarantee you will be agle to get there,
mircea_popescu: "my gimp 1.2 is as good as your photoshop" rms style << i still maintain pretty much any version of gimp is better than photohsop.
mircea_popescu: phf: well, i have a 2.4 box that runs "if your dodgy stack fails, this must remain" operations, like email << this design hasn't been recently reviewed i would guess.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck are men for even, if not to teach the woman!
mircea_popescu: which would be "the face you make while being engaged in war" not "the very face you shoot at people"
mircea_popescu: in english the bias is more towards gunnery sgt hartmann's "gimme your war face".
mircea_popescu: somehow this doesn't carry in translation, but in the original the very strong implicit bias is that the pushing is to be done with the very face in question.
mircea_popescu: (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique)
mircea_popescu: just some derpy project manager at some derpy french state taxburner feeling uppity.
mircea_popescu: in a very peculiar sense that includes the sea, which is a large part of why i think la tera trema such a major point in art.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile california is just about to fall into the fucking ocean. oddly enough. problems it didn't have as a "failed state", it has in abundance as a whatever it is.
mircea_popescu: aha. what state has failed ? austro hungary failed. soviet russia failed. soon the us will have failed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well i didn't take you to the subway and i guess you didn't have the curiosity to go on own hm.
mircea_popescu: look that sicily hasn't fallen into the ocean, like syria hasn't, like etc.
mircea_popescu: you can obviously either have independence or the fake growth of govt sponsored ponzi participation.
mircea_popescu: well, the romanians have ipods like any other marginal civilised place : well in excessd of need.
mircea_popescu: and you propose to defend this behaviour or what am i missing ?
mircea_popescu: no, they aren't. theyt're exactly the grade of orc ukrainians are. except here they have good steak and there they have good whore.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there's strictly no reaction between the bovine quality and the feline quality.
mircea_popescu: for instance, the argentinians : they are definitely orcs. they queue perfectly well.
mircea_popescu: the notion that a queue is an acceptable situation is more enmitous to humanity than any other mental device.
mircea_popescu: the girl, being too young, thinks this is a bad thing, because romanians are thus so observably different from the "more civilised" assorted cattles of europe.
mircea_popescu: i'll tell you what it did. allow me to bring the illustration, one second.
mircea_popescu: but whatever, this point needn't be decided theoretically now, seeing how it'll be decided practically in just a few years anyway.
mircea_popescu: the govt sponsored ponzis are not economies to begin with.
mircea_popescu: "Taler is thus a currency for the mainstream economy, and not the black market." lmao ok. here's a news tidbit : so called "black market" IS the mainstream economy.
mircea_popescu: im not bothering with rms anymoar. prolly like the libc improvements, he doesn't understand what it is and whatever, more words to put on website
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that is kinda why i was mocking the "lisp as its own thing" thing days back
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the usg-approved, built-in-tax-collector-and-stoolie altcoin is finally rolled out. << lmao "taler", who the fuck came up with that one. but anyway, no. they are weak and know they're weak. throwing shit at wall to see if maybe sticks but in no case admitting ownership. so... no.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but at least that thing compiles to a fixed form.
mircea_popescu: &=sub(if microsecond time is prime, output [this program but with microsecond+1 tested] ; else if microsecond time si not prime, output [this program])
mircea_popescu: what if i make the program branch, and then load itself as $_ ?
mircea_popescu: no, the local boys don't need zee german. they are perfecty of age, and perfectly capable to split the goods themselves, which includes the women, which includes his wife.
mircea_popescu: phf you mean a number not a pointer, and using it to be a function is abuse ?
mircea_popescu: gavrea, whom i've recently mentioned, had a very similar saying to distinguish between the "mathematical understanding" as described by funkenstein and the genuine article, by using the difference between the romanian words muzician (musician) and muzicant (roughly speaking, illiterate gypsy that can play by ear)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: for asciilifeform won't deign to call that thing a compiler
mircea_popescu: but nevertheless $_ can take the value of being a function
mircea_popescu: you can actually use this to obtain code that compiles to different results can't you ?
mircea_popescu: is support mandated throughout the whole namespace ? can i assume randomfunction knows of $_ ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's another way to say im inefficient :)
mircea_popescu: what the everloving fuck the undeclared function of if.