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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> noticed
that 'wot' link on
trilema www is still ye olde mike_c wot
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform good point. what's
the cannonical place i forget ?
a111: Logged on 2017-04-17 19:47 phf: but yeah a communal work coffee shop is a space
that advertises itself as a coffee shop, but mostly consists of permanently parked people with laptops. i'd say about 7-10 years ago it suddenly was hip
to work from coffee shop?
a111: Logged on 2017-04-04 04:00 asciilifeform: ( now, good q is 'why do
this?' and answer is -- 'you get analogue rng
that is VERIFIABLE, just like
the digital board in fg.' because you can pick up decay from below/above
the board !!)
phf: look at
the colouration on its wings,
the segmentation of
thorax
phf: mats:
that's beautiful
mats: workbar event on 'The Art of Giving a
TEDx
Talk'
ben_vulpes: relatedly, i recently saw a pitch for a very 'colorful' animated
tv show (?)
that would
teach children
the basics of html/css/js
phf: i've never been
to wework, but 1776 is lulzy. last
time i was
there
they had a
talk "difficulties facing female CEOs"
to a roomful.
they also have regular classes like "learning how
to program, with ruby on rails" etc.
ben_vulpes: it has stapled shameful brass brand plates onto
the beautiful old customs building
ben_vulpes: there is a wework right down
the street
ben_vulpes: but you have
to go up
to 350/mo for 24/7 access
ben_vulpes: 130/mo for hot desk, not actually
too bad
phf: i used
to promote a bar in
the same block (tom
tom's, closed now), so i used
to spend a lot of
time in
this area
☟︎ phf: i
think you had office share for a long
time (places like Regus),
then around early hackernews you had
the whole "working from coffee shop" fad. some places started recognizing
the fad and catering
to
that crowd. at some point somebody had an "idea"
to update office share image by adding
the necessary signaling of
the work from coffee shop "culture". actually
this coffee shop i'm at (
http://www.trystdc.com) predates recent iteration of coworking s
a111: Logged on 2015-09-21 21:39 phf: mostly amusing, at
the local coworking i've probably seen all
the stereotypes in flesh. girls with social sciences ph.d. doing research projects, guys pushing feminist rhetoric in every conversation, black
transgender
talking about white oppression, all manner of "you can do anything" mentality. it's like irl
tumblr out
there
jhvh1: asciilifeform:
The operation succeeded.
phf: for any consumer device in a set of all consumer devices,
there exists at least one very eager japanese collector
doppler: asciilifeform: and some of
them ran palm OS and had wireless networking :)
a111: Logged on 2015-06-30 18:30 ascii_field: '
the NEC still wins over most portable computers of any
time for
the quality of its keyboard.
This is a machine for
typing on, and producing content, not for consuming content... Even now, nearly 30 years after production, it still works perfectly.
The larger capacity modern rechargeable AA cells means
that four of
these will keep it running for weeks. Astonishing battery life compared with modern devices.'
phf: i'm pretty sure we had one or
two
threads, but about a different device
phf: i have a writer friend who claims
typewriters keep him focused on
task at hand, but in
this case he purchased one of
those radioshack devices, keyboard with 64k of
text storage
phf: but yeah a communal work coffee shop is a space
that advertises itself as a coffee shop, but mostly consists of permanently parked people with laptops. i'd say about 7-10 years ago it suddenly was hip
to work from coffee shop?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: notrly.
tractor lister job, 1k pages+, let it do its
thing come back in morning.
mircea_popescu: put
that in your "three year experience" pipe an' smoke it.
mircea_popescu: i should have kept all
those ancient electric ones, made a fortune selling
them
to hipsters door
to door.
phf: i decided
to check out one of
those communal work coffee shops, and you get every single stereotype here: startup bros,
tinder date in progress, political feminists discussing next protest, but what
takes
the cake is a guy with a
typewriter.
mircea_popescu: this adds ben_vulpes
to
the list of people who seriously considered
the matter of snipping
trbn into shape, came
to ~same conclusion, ie
that rewrite is unavoidable.
ben_vulpes: origin story of
this particular side quest is
that i wanted
to remove
things from a list without having
to jump
through
the hoops of remove and erase by using std::list remove_if
ben_vulpes: first step
towards slicing boost, if
that's even possibru
ben_vulpes: granted, i'm not looking into it
too deeply beyond "m yeah blocks seem
to be accruing"
ben_vulpes: the spaces gcc wanted for Real
True C++11 Standard Compliance appears
to have not affected node behavior
mircea_popescu: "gotta do something" "why ?" "because of all
that free
time we got
to get on with our lives!!!1"
mircea_popescu: so how about "i wonder why
the
terrorists hate us" is rendered as
the correct and adequate "boy we must suck -- not even
those sandniggers living in goat dung want us."
mircea_popescu: they went into charity because
those were
the only people who couldn't say no.
mircea_popescu: somehow
the point
that "those misfortunate products of
teratogenesis were so fucking sad not even
their husbands could be paid
to fuck em!!1" is never made. but no, ~nobody could be bothered with 1910s "socialite", ie, rich girl with no skills, no utility and no
tits.
mircea_popescu: these are
the lower middle class women
that made it! living
the dream of middle class 1910s!
mircea_popescu: by 2010s it's literally a case of "watch
tv and vicariously participate in
the salvation of imaginary creatures".
the keywords are of course "raise awareness" and "educate
the public". fruits of a long shriveled vine,
that nevertheless
the
trained eye can readily distinguish.
mircea_popescu: so noncreatures like obama were created for
the purpose, and
the middle east still bears
the burden of
this
typically usian retardation)
mircea_popescu: then
the lower classes wanted it
too, except who
the fuck was going
to be on
the receiving end of all
this mass industrialized chairty ?
mircea_popescu: (i will for
the record point out
that
the bread example is uniquely adequate because
the centurial idiocy
that is by now
the only meaning of "american" started in
this exact manner -- upper class bitches got white goods from westinghouse so
they could have
their precious butts and worthless heads freed from
the chores of everyday so
they could focus on... on what ? ON CHARITY!!111. review
the "a one woman mission for your own