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mircea_popescu: "here's a list of gps bracelets, anklets and necklaces for people who wanna break out of the zone" "are you fucking stupid ?" "niggers usually are."
mircea_popescu: eh some bs tropical storm, rains perpetually till friday.
mircea_popescu: anyway, /me shall be back ~thurs, though might say hi on the road. but will certainly read teh logs!
mircea_popescu: things are kinda deliberately made to dovetail with ada, so i hope they do and if they don't we fix.
mircea_popescu: man-drive dialogue flows always like : "i want file X" "wtf is that ?" "tell me what i told you before file X is supposed to be" "bytes 4978459876 through 50987498098" "i want bytes 4978459876 through 50987498098 please" "here you go" "are these file X ?" "fuck you" "does file X even exist ?" "little bitch..." "grep -a -C 500 'known pattern' /dev/sda | tee /tmp/recover"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what fucking filesystem. halfbakedsystem more like it.
mircea_popescu: "then you want to put these '''maximal freedom''' elements in a tree ?" "it's not a tree, it's a '''directory structure'''." "wtf is that ?" "a half-baked tree." "you're really dedicated to this half-baked thing beyond all else, aren't you ?"
mircea_popescu: and obviously most of the reason the sql flavour is broken is because "oh, structure could never be aforeknown" and so "must have maximal hallucinatory freedoms".
mircea_popescu: in any case there's no such thing as a filename anywhere at all, it's not even 2nd class, it's a sort of indian.
mircea_popescu: what passes for a "file system" currently is this attempt to force a byte-device (sometimes with some half-baked geographical allocation bolted on) through a half-baked database model. wtf is a "FAT" or a "journal" besides poorly implemented mysql/postgres dben ?
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-15#1863111 << thinking about this in the interim, it is EVIDENTLY the case. "files" as in ~the fucking thing REFERENCED~ in the "file"system names aren't even first class abstractions! the drive's a BYTE device! there's no fucking files ANYWHERE except in the imagination.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: yknow it occurs to me, one could make a likely very popular film, call it "captive" or w/e, simply through filming the male seminal canal from teste to ligature point in one of those tube-tied doods. 4 minuites of voice-over at the beginning explaining what's what ("this is joe. joe is a sperm." bla bla) and then the rest of an hour and a half just... let people watch the random walk.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in french class, "Je sens sur ta lèvre une odeur de fièvre de gosse mal nourri ; et sous ta caresse je sens une ivresse qui m'anéantit"
mircea_popescu: well, restructure the commands namespace, rather than making n bots
mircea_popescu: is it that your mental picture of the bot gets too gnarly because of all these diff functions ?
mircea_popescu: i guess the idea is, i dunno what you're trying to achieve ?
mircea_popescu: and if you're putting them all on the same box what's "separate" mean anyway ?
mircea_popescu: won't it be a nightmare to keep a bunch of separate bots up ?
mircea_popescu: this all leaves us stranged with such questions as "what is a file" and "what should a filesystem evben be".
mircea_popescu: ie, not "all things are files", but "the only way you can access the disk is through this mangled malloc"
mircea_popescu: and the deeper issue might be that there is in fact no os, just a maldesigned, half-impelemented, thoroughly buggy process emulator shoehorned into describing a disk.
mircea_popescu: right. but this wasn't because "nobody thought of file names like, ever". it was fucking because "nobody CAN think of file names, because there's a deeper issue"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform previous run into this was with the "what's a file's name" ambiguity i axed into "fully specified paths inclued". but that wasn't the problem, that was a random symptom of the fact nobody ever thought about files in unix.
mircea_popescu: just because they all point to the coconut shop dun mean coconut shop is either a club or a place you'd take the whores.
mircea_popescu: or rather, the item all the locals point to when asked about bar/club/disco/where the fuck do you take the whores ?!?!?
mircea_popescu: so the situation may actually be that no computer system currently deployed actually has a file system.
mircea_popescu: most terrifying part being that i can readily review history to the point where this would very much have been exactly the implicit assumption, because fuck tape.
mircea_popescu: s a file system AT ALL, and the "all things are files" is just a thin wraper on a turd sausage made out of "we have no data model beyond ram and our disk doesn't actually work".
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-15#1863091 << at present i believe the ~entire file model~ in unix might have been subtly broken since the very beginning, and that breakage has in turn informed the way people think about the fs/os interface so as to not notice it. because it's as you see, a widening breach, what started with atomic creation moved on to permissions, and in general... in a word, it's not directly evident unix ha
☝︎ mircea_popescu: bvt you asking for a primer on the longstanding hatred of c strings here, or found on own ?
mircea_popescu: it'll be the lulz of all time, once THIS groupon goes the way of the other, and all these tards are left paying the loans. will paraguay invade us to extract reparatios for its scaqmmed citizenry ?
mircea_popescu: so uber can pretend it has a power and influence other people are paying for.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform item entirely exists to get idiots to undertake private loans to finance corp. which orc morons ALOS do.
mircea_popescu: kinda how xtianity was built, too. mary magdalene bigger deal than the other mary whore.
mircea_popescu: this rarely works, but the fact that it works at all...
mircea_popescu: so they get stuck in traffic, and she tries on her best 12yo moves, with the eyelids and shit, and figures out how to tell him later she's got a 2yo in tow, notwithstanding she's barely 20something.
mircea_popescu: and in the orclands, its utility is 100% as a dating site, "hey girly [working for "corporation" aka call center, nursing batshit insane delusions as to how you're a sorta hilary and anyone gives a shit about what yo ufished out of your belly button] : would you rather walk, or would you rather save and occasionally ask for a hot young boy who owns his own car take a half hour look at you ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno it ever had any utility or any userbase in us. 100% "high5" item, "big in pakistan!" sorta thing.
mircea_popescu: i don't know it has any other revenue than these orc donations.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as far as i know, item exists 100% as orcistan theft, because the local morons will pay the usg corp a chunk of their local income.
mircea_popescu: so no, nobody in right mind would ~advertise~ they're faggots.
mircea_popescu: this idea that pantsuitism is well regarded abroad is a very narrowly in-group wank.
mircea_popescu: they don't use the stickers here, people beat them up.
mircea_popescu: here, they just take 20% of their revenue and send it to washington so washington can pretend like it's a place.
mircea_popescu: yuou hand the man at the wheel some bills and move on. how else ?
mircea_popescu: ie, usg undergoing exact same process argentina was, back when old whore still thought she can be president whether i say ok or not.
mircea_popescu: also -- SOMEHOW -- uber doesn't have bingoboingo's problem. for THEM it is a-ok to terrorist money all over the world.
mircea_popescu: nah, whole fuckling point is that cab services work well in orclands, and the orcs pay tax already.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform uber is rather "we'll produce an alt-frontend dating site for orclands, where the morons will pay usg to use it". very much mercantilism desperation on usg.blue part.
mircea_popescu: "Consumption of marijuana promotes the development and belief in false memories. The social engineering potential for this is tremendous, which is likely why Pantsuit pushes normalizing marijuana consumption. The effect on activism in the previous point is likely why Pantsuit is cautious in actually legalizing cannabis." << check it out, #metoo was really of and by and for and about potheads ?!
mircea_popescu: "In spite of the frequency with which the practice of rolling joints is carried out, skill in rolling remains rare." << this will be the written epitaph on this whole sad world. sorta like Abdulkhakim Ismailov's twin watches the epitaph of previouis reich.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i can't imagine how it'd be consistent then, but anyways.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform most kids go by color as the only indication. the more advanced also look for lettering.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is very much not so, if you've ever seen any of the pill kiddies pill.
mircea_popescu: in 1980, you'd pop in an entirely random porno vhs and kinda know what you'd get ; and similarily light up and similarily know.
mircea_popescu: back then, pot used to be like porn. nowadays -- also is like porn. compare and contrast.
mircea_popescu: truth be told, "weak enzyme -- to what ?" people who smoked in college pre 2000ish and then kinda stopped aren'\t ready for what has become of the pot scene.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea. but i mentioned because a) wouldn't have believed the story and b) witnessed with own eyes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the interplay of random hybridation ( BingoBoingo does a good job of describing what open source weed did) and personal genetics. this is what happens.