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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform see, if i were to say "the appearance of best business practices is proof positive business as a going concern is dead" you'd see what i mean
mircea_popescu: you could run the entire "vc software industry" off of half a brain
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no i meant ag3nt_zer0 s crop. i don't read the other fucktard but i know what he'sa saying anywa
mircea_popescu: whats the executive summary, girl wanted to fuck him, he said no, girls brother killed him ?
mircea_popescu: dawg im not reading that idiot yale grad's bland prose.
mircea_popescu: but the romanians didn't much like the soviets. (if you recall, nixon visited in 69 etc)
mircea_popescu: it was actually in part based on stolen us ip throughout the mid 60s, and in part on actually refined tube techs
mircea_popescu: im not making any claims as to value or quality, mind.
mircea_popescu: a degradation of that expectation under the blessings of mass educationm is visible for instance in the very vulgar but sadly necessary habit of peppering ^H^H^H^H in the logs.
mircea_popescu: (this , incidentally, is a large reason why classic texts are so commonly misunderstood by the layman - such as for instance shakespeare by tolstoy. there exists this device where a is replaced by b with the expectation on the part of the writer that the reader notices the substitution and holds it meaningful
mircea_popescu: the spanish/german substitution was intended to be funny, to they familair with the classics.
mircea_popescu: charles 5th, hre, said I speak Spanish to God, Italian to Women, French to Men, and German to my Horse.
mircea_popescu: the second is a tongue in cheek reference to a famous quote
mircea_popescu: you readily see how the first one was being sarcastic, re alf's complaints right ?
mircea_popescu: try telling the us tax man that "you just never gave a shit about irs stuff"
mircea_popescu: the fundamental driver being the stupid woman in question's inferiority complex. she knows she's filth and she knows actual people wouldn't give her idiocy the time of day. which is "resolved" in her mind as "of course what everyone spends ever ymoment doing is thinking about my stupid shit. yes that's right i'm that central"
mircea_popescu: or it could mean he fucvking forgot, or that he finds my body odour objectionable and wants to get out already
mircea_popescu: "He denied having the drive which means he knew he shouldn't have it here then it was found in his bag so I feel the punishment is suitable."
mircea_popescu: no, seriously, it's a cornerstone of a functioning internal life : always have the source material at the ready.
mircea_popescu: odds are you'll remember it ever-so-slighty wrong and piss me off
mircea_popescu: ftr i dun hold the "always language of slaves" thing and omg if you're going to say what i said link to sauce!
mircea_popescu: i have yet to find anything intellectually stimulating in spanish. the thing's incredibly dead, last noteworthy anything happened apparently in the 1800s
mircea_popescu is glad to see the downward spiral activated, will welcome a world with that excrement pile relegated to its proper corner.
mircea_popescu: "Now I happen to have a large enough domain portfolio that I have my own personal rep at Godaddy"
mircea_popescu: "UPDATE! PayPal has reversed their decision!" was the best part.
mircea_popescu: if the alternative costs $19 but breaks down once a day, the 1k one is cheaper.
mircea_popescu: dude check it out, next year's crop of "evasion technisuke crrrrreativity" will be rot13
mircea_popescu: "missouri constitution includes right to farm - this right doesn't include any actual activities ftr"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo how exactly can judge go "wait it doesn't include x" ?
mircea_popescu: brought to you by the "she's a whore anyway, what rape" department of legal thinking.
mircea_popescu: by the time yoiu're that old, more women held your cock to pee than to suck it anyway
mircea_popescu: mats you are perhaps too young to remember, but this is STILL DONE
mircea_popescu: i dunno dude. by the time being romanian's a crime in itself i have very little interest left in doing anything but killing people indiscriminately.
mircea_popescu: this stupidraven has come back to roost, where brainfried derps without a working interposed ideal layer are claiming the ideal object they fail to interfacr with is "really a real object nao".
mircea_popescu: the obviousness of all this is inescapable if one actually has at the same time the intellectual werewithal to regard the matter and the emotional disinterest of not giving a shit about the whole lot of it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but then to go on the strength of this and interpose "an ideal layer" between ideal objects an human industry is simply runaway complexity. because zero one infinity, once you got two you got an infinity and in practice everyone seems to end up trying to juggle an ever-approaching infinity number of balls.
mircea_popescu: which then had to interface with reality, and the whole subject of "ecology" is essentially trying to deal with one particular suite of bugs in this interfacing. which, incidentally, we know on good authority will NEVER be perfect.
mircea_popescu: there was the need to interpose an ideal layer between actual items and human industry.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field see basically, standard AS A THING even exist because
mircea_popescu: tbh the standard is : if you want to make a "new language" and you don't have written code that transforms WITHOUT ERROR all other programs in all other languages to yours, you do not have a lnaguage.
mircea_popescu: exactly this is at issue. what "competing language spaces" for crying out loud. explain to me the "competition" to be had between waveform and heisenberg notation already.
mircea_popescu: like, ask engineer "what's the result of dividing apple by orange ?" "zero" sort of thing
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i think that's an undefined result of an out of domain operation you're choosing to interpret a certain way.
mircea_popescu: so i'll condense this yet vague and uncoallesced and thus impractical notion in my head by saying : that a body of standards is where engineering starts with physical objects ; and the proof engineering failed with ideal objects.
mircea_popescu: it still doesn't follow that you should treat them like a nut and a bolt.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> it is when it ~began~ << yes, and engineering in "making real objects" sense is exactly that. but from this it does not follow that the same everywhere!
mircea_popescu: yes, it's true that irl if i misplace the screw and then sit on it it'll puncture my ass.
mircea_popescu: there is clearly a problem here. ideal objects (such as software) are not comensurate with physical objects. this attempt to "engineer programs like screws" was a reasonable first hack at the novel an dunexpected problem,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the things they have to pick in nature ARE AN IMPOSITION OF NATURE. the reason you need to pick screw sizes is because "your screw" shares its physical attributes with a different item of the same shape in the same place.
mircea_popescu: "we are the best practices body for functional analysis"
mircea_popescu: but as far as software, and computer programming generally, standards are actually the proof positive engineering failed.
mircea_popescu: i get it, your only experience with movement comes from observing nature.
mircea_popescu: the notion that good engineering = standards, by the way, is a specific bit of fucktardation not unlike "good flying machines have moving parts".
mircea_popescu: it should be "mom, look what i don't need to do. chief among which, i don't need to go "mom, look what ican do.""
mircea_popescu: i think a lot of computing continued unchecked on a paradigm of "mom, look what ~I~ can do!!11"
mircea_popescu: the only reasonable conclusion here, from an outside eye, is that too much complexity is the problem. throughout.