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mircea_popescu: kitten walks by, i'm like hey, you know
this is good for
the face ?! proceed
to wipe my hands all over her mug. she stumbles
to
the bathroom flailing about, eyes closed.
then five minutes later... "hey her face is really good!"
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, /me is cleaning up mangoes (holy shit it's mango season, you can not imagine)
to go into
this fabulous mango-pineapple ... not sure how you'd call it in english, "conserve" i guess. eeuropean
thing, stiff sweet whole fruit preserve.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 23:35 Framedragger: i actually never got
to know what
the major issue with pascal was. (i mean, as long as you're
teaching imperative programming..)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i believe a large part of
the iss research is very much in
the vein of "mp's private whore spending
time in brothel -- she's not
there
to learn how
to make money with her cunt, but
to acclimate herself mentally and physically
to
the
taxing environment."
ben_vulpes: reliability is important if your birds cost millions
to loft
ben_vulpes: and i'm pretty sure
that we did
the
tightly-coupled gps+imu+kalman filter
thread before
ben_vulpes: well with caveats pursuant
to mircea_popescu's critique
that gps is not long for
this world, gps + dead reckoning
mats: (cn's first cargo spacecraft,
Tianzhou-1, performs autodock with
Tiangong-2 spacelab)
mats: there's more but i can't remember
the acronym
mats: the systems described above are used in
the f-35, but shipboard versions exist, ie, AN/SPY-1, AN/SPY-3
mats: AN/AAQ-40 features combined flir and irst as well as laser designation, and also capable of generating geo coords
to support gps-guided weapons systems
mats: my understanding is
that many systems are used
to ensure reliability, like infrared search and
track (irst), flir, inertial navigation systems, AESA/APG-81, laser illumination for cooperative engagement
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-18#1645317 <<
this was an experimental place, after doing more
traditional club with
table service, which i'm honestly not good at. it was a frat bar, and 3 of us had
thursday which
typically was really slow night, bar % and door. so we had a chance
to build up various gimmicks, and see how
they play out. i was good at
that. at height
the
take home was about 2k each, which is way low compared
to a club, but really go
☝︎ phf: pascal is still
taught as main language in some european universities including moscow state cs department
Framedragger granted, mostly avoided pascal in high school by way of
teachers being
tards, so maybe not enough radiation exposure
to develop rash
Framedragger: i actually never got
to know what
the major issue with pascal was. (i mean, as long as you're
teaching imperative programming..)
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2014-04-15 18:34 asciilifeform: 'we refuse
to produce any more C programmers who are a danger
to
themselves and others.' -- my old dean
Framedragger: shinohai:
that's
the
thing,
this'd actually be somewhat consistent :D and possibly less of a waste of
time
shinohai: If I don't haz
to go
to class,
then I need not know what class is :D
Framedragger: i will claim
that for all
the free burning-in-hell credits
that java has honourably accrued, it is at least somewhat of a programming language. at least you learn what a fucking
type is. JS is something like a 24/7 d0pe weed smoking experience in class (unoriginal redundant repetitions are redundant, but still...)
phf: ocial impact
their work can have.
phf: “adapting
to industry shifts and student feedback,
the computer science department has implemented various changes
to its introductory courses, CS106 and CS107.
This spring, a pilot version of CS106A,
tentatively called CS106J, will be
taught in Javascript instead of Java. Meanwhile, CS106S: “Programming Abstractions and Social Good” is being offered as a standalone class for
the first
time
this winter, encouraging students
to consider
the s
mircea_popescu: the problem with research is
that it's not a reasonable activity from accounting pow.
Framedragger: (shitty
tl;dr: iss is a
toy which is nasa's bureaucratic instrument
to get constant, predictable budget assignations (consider
that iss always has
to be crewed). now-defunct space shittle + iss was a perfect self-sustaining devil's pair.)
Framedragger: (worth a read. can argue later. but recommend. but probably known
to alf et al.)
mircea_popescu: but alf!
the humanity! and its "our goals" of cooperation ands etc!
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 17:49 mircea_popescu: but yes, you're right, it also means no more iss etc.
though it's unclear what
that will do -- currently outer orbit is not exactly friendly anyway.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 17:48 mircea_popescu: and
that's also why all
the expenditure on maps and so on.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-17 05:41 mircea_popescu: so yes,
there is ONE possibly useful application of a military railgun : making
the deep space interdictor. but
this is slight.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 17:48 ben_vulpes: once satwar begins, debris is going
to knock out *all* birds and make orbit useless until someone decides
to burn epic piles of btc cleaning it up.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 17:36 mircea_popescu: alf
takes
terrible pictures.
ben_vulpes: dead reckoning works reasonably well, in
that it has an error distribution and one can handle
that with volume.
mircea_popescu: but yes, you're right, it also means no more iss etc.
though it's unclear what
that will do -- currently outer orbit is not exactly friendly anyway.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: by and large, if
there's a gps
there's not a war and vice-versa.
they're entirely and without remainder mutually exclusive.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
that's why
things like
the guided missile yest use direct sighting etc.
ben_vulpes: once satwar begins, debris is going
to knock out *all* birds and make orbit useless until someone decides
to burn epic piles of btc cleaning it up.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the russian
thing may survive slightly longer because it is a later, better design with some concern shown
to
this problem ; and because
the americans are inept and ineffectual. but it's iffy.
ben_vulpes: that'll be
the end of orbital access as well.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes its amusing
to me
to see all
the usgistani youtube rarararing (a fine example :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vej_aLJpFYo ) deeply rely on satellites. fact : large scale involvement with either russia or china will contain
the end of satellites as
the very first step.
shinohai wonders if alf's attic would make a better BDSM hangout
than
that place mircea_popescu mentioned in Disk Less
Terminal
shinohai: Nah,
they are artistic photos, meant
to capture
the melancholy and precarious situation
the rodents find
themselves in,
teetering on
the brink of life and death in a cold, unforgiving attic.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> (
the airgun film from youtube linked earlier was interesting imho, in re how rodents will happily climb on
top of a pile of corpses of
their fellows and sit
there, chewing whatever snack... ) << Pretty sure
this is part of
the criteria for being rodent
shinohai: asciilifeform strikes me as
the
type
that will leave vermin carcass on a pike as a warning
to
the others ....
BingoBoingo: Nice, did
that
trap in rights one fire? it's a it blurry
BingoBoingo: ^ Unlike sweden where refugees
terrorize locals, in Saint Louis local
terrorize
mircea_popescu: the argument of irrelevancy is not as
to isolation. it is as
to irrelevancy. if
the modernist delusion of "hi i can of myself and by myself choose what problems
to apply myself
to" rots one's brain,
the result isn't necessarily a loner ; but what difference does
that make ?
Framedragger: (but
then, maybe
that's only
the presented impression.
there is
that closet smell, yeah.)
Framedragger: yeah... in fairness, he seems
to be operating in his own meatwot, not in
total isolation.
mircea_popescu: if you wait in a closet long enough, a) all problems resolve
themselves eventually and b) your real life will start by itself also. because
this is something people can do, decide what problems
to apply
themselves
to and when
to condescend
to call
their daily activity by
that lofty name of "my life".
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 14:10 Framedragger: maybe he has an allergy, who knows
these
things
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 05:13 ben_vulpes: may your hirstute frame hold
the horde at bay
shinohai: ^ now
that is nice and clean looking.
Framedragger: re
the
tarpit, ooh a blog written in CL with sane commenting system (yet
to be seen, of course) sounds interesting enough
jhvh1: shinohai:
The operation succeeded.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-28 05:21 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1632901 << yes, goes by spyked on
trilema ; bright undergrad and
then grad at
the bucharest politechnic (which still is a fine
technical school,
though it was better pre-democracy).
TomServo: mod6: Sadly neither. I need
to make
time
to wrap my head around dumpblock.