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shinohai: I like how nodding is used
to indicate
the jerky head movements of drug-addled persons.
shinohai: English ....
the language of smacktards
mircea_popescu: why
the fuck is shaking your head yes called "nodding" and what
the fuck do you call shaking your head no in english ?!
Framedragger: but
that requires me
to actually be able
to do math, so no-go.
shinohai: Misbehaving as well,
twas
testing something sorry for
the chanspam
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: i
tried
to
think of a diagonal argument along
the fashion of "if you make it conform
to
that narrow spec,
the conformance itself is an additional statement which needs a larger spec, which in
turn needs a larger spec, DO YOU WANT ME
TO GO INSANE WITH INFINITY";
mircea_popescu: the whole "make your bot only respond
to x"
thing is a fine proxy for "make linux kernel only respond
to x" hardness.
Framedragger: :o PROTOCOL MISBEHAVIOUR, i shall endeavour
to fix
that m'lord.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger why exactly is scriba reacting
to non !$ strings ? eh ?
scriba: mircea_popescu: HTTP/1.1 404
Tits not found.
jhvh1: Pay no attention
to
that man behind
the GET
diana_coman: o.O what passes for small bookstore
there
then?
mircea_popescu: incientally by now "Wrongly inclined book" is ~= "imbecility in writing".
there was a
time when english style spines were promising.
today, it's guaranteed
to be some nonsense a la blue apron / fingerpaint cezanne
diana_coman: come
to
think about it (and recollecting sad childhood adventures with public libraries in home land) - it might have been
that
the library is simply cobbled
together from whatever gets donated or is found in
the street, who knows
mircea_popescu: diana_coman reportedly
theyt looked like
the result of a crashed failvan.
diana_coman: eh; were
the books ordered by ...height? did
they look pretty on
the shelf?
mircea_popescu: they also had picasso. shockingly missing, waterhouse. because
totally,
there's anyone else i'd wanna do in crayons.
mircea_popescu: HOWEVER, and
this is
the kicker : 4.4. a book of "painting masters -- paint cezanne by
the numbers" WAS included.
shinohai: diana_coman: So maybe individually wrap
the ingredients and ship
them in a box along with a microwavable pan and instructions of which dividers
to put
them in
diana_coman: but
to be as close
to
that - preferably precisely
that ,of course
mircea_popescu: 4.2.
the philosophy section IS NOT SORTED ALPHABETICALLY
mircea_popescu: 4.1.
there is a philosophy section,
taking 1/8 of one shelf, or ~0.625% of all floor space
diana_coman: no, no, no shinohai you don't get it;
the whole point is
to NOT LOOK like a
tv dinner
shinohai: Or just buy a damned
TV dinner.
mircea_popescu: 4.
that returned
this morning.
the results are as follows :
the library consists of a first half
that's packing paper, shiny beads and well wishing cards
ben_vulpes: diana_coman: one could skip
the whole jump-into-pan step and ship everything in barely-there al 'cookware'
mircea_popescu: 3. after
this bizarre situation, walking downtown with same girl, we went past library, where i pointed out book by roland barthes, and said "buy it and gift it her".
mircea_popescu: 2. she never heard of kirkegaard, she never heard of sartre, SHE NEVER HEARD OF KANT. girl goes
TO SCHOOL for
this shit.
mircea_popescu: 1. girl introduced me
to local chick who hjas a job she hates and
tries
to study "metaphysics" which she explains as "life" and "healing". basically a large pile of hooey (she has
the disadvantage of being black , which comes packaged with a bunch of stupid fat old women and
their self-sufficient notions of "life" and "healing",
tribal bullshit
that should have been extirpated by whip and fire but apparently wasnt).
diana_coman: quite;
the next step in
this company's quest for market domination and all sorts of successeses will probably be a "re-thinking of
the box so
that
the customer can just push a button and
the ingredients jump into
their place in
the pan" - for
those who want
to cook but don't want
the hassle of dealing with pans and pots
diana_coman: well,
that doesn't sound like it's meant for cooking; it's meant for pretending
to be cooking without actually cooking as it were; quite
the elaborate pretence, but
that's not new anymore
mircea_popescu: an attempt
to have fun is how one starts on
the long and winding primrose path of self radicalization
shinohai: Me neither, part of
the fun cooking -even with no wife - is sourcing fresh ingerdients.
trinque: it
thought my naked chick was a koala
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes nah.
talking about
the "director of national intelligence" and "chairman of joint chiefs of staff"
mircea_popescu: much like
the cock cage on
the impotent middle aged man. saves him a middle age crisis -- it's not
that it dun get up, it safely can't so all is well.
mircea_popescu: anyway, macroeconomically speaking i fully expect us
to enact
trade barrier simply because
the us population is desperate for some protection. if it CANT buy
the chinese crap because it's not allowed it gets
to not buy it ; if it can it has
to come up with some way
to justify not buying it on its own and it's way
too dumb, soft and useless for
that. so in
this perspective
tariffs are +ev politically.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform people dun generally want
to drop
the hand once it becomes obvious it can't win, because reasons. it was obvious re swiss once
they "agreed"
to drop bank secrecy. it was obvious re
trump once he "agreed"
to promote niggers. etcetera.
ben_vulpes: linked piece has some charts showing more or less what one'd expect
to see
mircea_popescu: Framedragger not just polish, ro also. i mocked it at length on
trilema.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amuysingly enough, since both fiat figures are made for
the same purpose
through
the same process,
their ratio is probably closer
to reality
than not.
Framedragger: (inflated right after being de-pegged,
that is)
Framedragger: random
thing re ^ is
that *for some reason*, a huge bunch of polish folks had bank loans in swiss franc. because "switzerland stable, good country for banking", something something. when swiss franc inflated by *a whole lot* vs.
the zloty,
they weren't exactly exalted. :/ kinda lulzy
thought process must have been
ben_vulpes: hey i didn't know
the swiss gave up
the peg
shinohai: !~google aggregate cost of plush
turds
mircea_popescu: yes. and a good way
to judge what % of world hands are involved would be
to divide
the aggregate cost by
the aggregate world gdp.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno pvc molding
takes
thatmany hands.
trinque: ought
to be made
to snuggle an actual
turd if she asks for one of
those
things
shinohai: I'll buy
the girl whatever physical emoji garbage she likes as long as she continues
to get naked
to pose with said items.
CompanionCube: shinohai:
true, but
the original message kinda implies it imo
a111: Logged on 2015-06-05 03:56 asciilifeform: as it is, half
the planet
toils so
that u.s. schmucks can get
tankers full of little orange plastic pumpkins every october
to hang on
their porch
shinohai: I'm not saying it's bad at all, just happened
to recall said girl owned one, had her send selfie
to demonstrate.
CompanionCube: if people want
to buy it, let
them.
There's no harm in it's existence.
CompanionCube: remind me why it's so bad for a somewhat-cute poo plush
toy
to exist?
trinque still on it, has a related item coming from pcengines sometime later
this month
mircea_popescu: right it's right
there on re-read, rows removed by filter
ben_vulpes: 93k in
the whole log
table, 62k of #trilema entries
Framedragger: that particular query had
to sift
through 93749 seems like
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes mebbe noob, but i can't figure it from
the paste. so 40kb of ram and 66 hits but how many
total lines or index items or w/e it sifted
through ?
a111: Logged on 2015-11-05 22:07 ascii_field spins, like
turtle
danielpbarron: oh i
thought
the "add dicks
to it later" line was
the punchline
to
the joke
mircea_popescu: and since nobody's
taking
the bait : similarities between dog and engineer : both have intelligent eyes and neither can express itself.
shinohai: I already have my girl claimed on pages of
trilema