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punkman: "Your editor's laptop recently started to fall apart, to the point that some sort of action was required. Duct tape was considered as
a solution; it would show that LWN is making careful use of its subscription revenues"
mircea_popescu: and then they bitch when people want to do them violence. they should be fucking thankful,
a good whipping'd benefit em immensely.
mircea_popescu: the other even more ridiculous thing is, infantile minds going LALALALA I CANT HEAR YOU WHY CANT YOU GIVE ME
A STRAIGHT ANSWER THAT IS WHAT I WANT YOU TO SAY!!1
decimation: if you have ever used an 'android' system you encounter
a similar thing when using their app 'permission' system. one ends up being
a hostage to the app's demands for access
mircea_popescu: " All I can say is that there is stable LTE service between Texas and Colorado that work at speed in excess of eighty-eight miles per hour and that one can do
a lot with
a macbook charger,
a working alternator,
a bit of cabling and entry-level electrical engineering knowledge."
mircea_popescu: it's roughly like
a stolid square from the 60s calling his woody
a "party van".
mircea_popescu: basically, gut it, use the remaining shell as
a systemd-standardized interface for sane components.
mircea_popescu: one question left hanging in my head : once all the effort trying to push systemd is spent, why not just make
a clone that's been shot in the head. specifically, that runs as an instance even if the root doesn't have it, and that masquerades as systemd to satisfy fake dependencies.
punkman: I gave money to Tim Schafer and all I got was half
a game
mircea_popescu: hey, giving ron gilbert money is
a lot more merituous than whatever, giving buterin awards.
punkman: '"I pirated Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island when I was
a kid and I feel bad!" This reward tier instantly absolves you of all guilt and includes the Thimbleweed Park game. All subsequent tiers also include guilt absolution.'
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mircea_popescu: what exactly is
a source mage, and especially an elementalist ?
decimation: asciilifeform:
a betrayal of the first order, this, the computer serving someone other than its master
decimation: I want to play
a game where I can stab Marat in the back
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 the one thing three eyar olds have in common across language and geography is this tendency to bring you
a piece of paper they took
a shit on, for your admiration.
mircea_popescu: just like it's better to run
a car just slightly slower than the maximum speed at which you can control
a car, just so it's better to aspire to less than what one can actually do.
decimation: *
a few cycles of personal systemd experience
decimation: it might be the case that this kind of understanding can only be had through
a few cycles of systemds
decimation: they might even find
a particular patch of jungle that is more pleasing than another
mircea_popescu: now, go ahead and explain this to pankkake somehow. but in such
a way so it fits his preconceptions comfortably.
mircea_popescu: in short, what do we observe right before
a kinetic crash ? why,
a body with high energy density and low navigational control.
mircea_popescu: this is
a very visible symptom of the problem of well metastasized socialism :
a general sense of entitlement in the crowd of idiots. an unwarranted expectation of efficiency on their part.
mircea_popescu: the supposed fbi/gru/gestapo/etc is simply
a toilet box for the public idiocy.
mircea_popescu: my point is, in
a socialist system, be it us-socialist or national-socialist or soviet-socialist or anything it may be
mircea_popescu: decimation r fbi agents. they are essentially at the bottom of
a gigantic public suggestion box/toilet << check this shit out!
mircea_popescu: problem is, the derps in the studio should have
a) been repressed enough that they never dared think of speaking in front of the camera, let alone be allowed to do it
decimation: so, this girl should have been told "You are not smart enough to become
a scholar, but you have the material needed to become an excellent wife - learn to make non-lashable cooking, darn socks, and be feminine"
mircea_popescu: any cat may look at the king. sure. no cat may file
a suit against the crown.
mircea_popescu: it's that poettering personally is
a malignancy, that what he says is poisonous, not just for the free world but individually for people that are intellectually mature,
decimation: that suddenly makes me sorry for fbi agents. they are essentially at the bottom of
a gigantic public suggestion box/toilet
mircea_popescu: it's not that poettering gets pissed on wherever he goes because he in point of fact is
a poitless, middlesome imbecile.
mircea_popescu: "I also have no doubt that Poettering has received such attacks. Unfortunately, that comes with being
a public figure on today's Internet. I myself have gotten death threats serious enough that I've turned them over to the FBI"
decimation: her problem is that she is
a tiny, aimless midget in
a world where massive giants are wondering, and they get 'roided daily with debt
mats_cd03: i was tickled by the chick flipping through
a picture book
mircea_popescu: it's that "first they came for x but i said nothing" thing, exactly. it's not in any sense
a novel or
a marginal idea.
decimation: at any rate, asciilifeform makes
a good point, the main ding against systemd is that its main author has written several well-known turds, thus the fruit of the tree
mircea_popescu: without him, romania spent half
a century in the warsaw shitter. with him, it'd have probably been greece instead.
mircea_popescu: so, yes, "faster boot times".
a more irrelevant metric could scarcely be devised.
mircea_popescu: compare ms-dos, still to this day accepted here as
a paragon of programming,
mircea_popescu: now, this is
a general economic principle, and it applies jut as well to monolithic coding approaches.
mircea_popescu: should it find
a nice place to sit for
a while, such as
a neighbourhood, it will be fine for as long as it sits, and when that's done can walk away
mircea_popescu: think of
a supermarket as if it were
a giant, walking the land of midgets.
mircea_popescu: just because your old clunker is rusty doesn't mean you should add
a bamboo patio on the roof.
decimation: but systemd is worse, in the sense that it adds
a layer of obfuscation
decimation: Alexander seems to be
a master at deflecting blame
decimation: "The now-retired NSA official,
a longtime code-breaker who rose to top management, had just learned in 2009 about the top secret program that was created shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. ... “An individual did bring us these questions, and he had some great points,” Alexander told the AP. “I asked the technical folks, including him, to look at it,”"
mircea_popescu: fizzled as one'd expect. there's
a reason india was
a colonial empire and not vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: this is actually
a general point. i recall
a few decades ago bored stupid californian housewifes and ex actresses went all crazy about how india is going to be teh great cure
mircea_popescu: Even worse would be to think that the simplicity of Africa holds some kind of answers for Western society: remember "It Takes
A Village"? Trust me on this: there is not one thing that Africa can give the West which hasn't been tried before and failed, not one thing that isn't
a step backwards, and not one thing which is worse than, or that contradicts, what we have already.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, what the african activists willing to speak plainly say sounds
a whole fuckload of
a lot just like what the paternalist southern lobby was saying in the us, early 1800s.
mircea_popescu: "If
a cure for AIDS was found tomorrow, and offered to every African nation free of charge, the growth of the disease would scarcely be checked, let alone reversed." i ca see this.
mircea_popescu: The result of decades of "foreign aid" has resulted in
a continental infrastructure which, if one excludes South Africa, couldn't support Pittsburgh.
mircea_popescu: 17 countries saw
a decline in real per capita GNP between 1970 and 1999, despite receiving well over $100 billion in World Bank assistance
jurov: lol wins again...
a brazil joke came to mind:
mircea_popescu: Among old Africa hands, we have
a saying, usually accompanied by
a shrug: "Africa wins again." This is usually said after an incident such as:
a beloved missionary is butchered by his congregation, for no apparent reason.
jurov: i was quite
a brat: "you don't want to eat this? think of starving children in africa, they'd like this" "well, so send it to them"
mircea_popescu: Two friends died from stepping on landmines while on Army duty in Namibia. Three died in horrific car accidents (and lest one thinks that this is not confined to Africa, one was caused by
a kudu flying through
a windshield and impaling the guy through the chest with its hoof--not your everyday traffic accident in, say, Florida).
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BingoBoingo: Well, that's what you get for doing
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pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo all good. you assumed that everything i touch is gold. but alas.
a human is i and
a human is you.
assbot: Logged on 31-08-2014 02:17:56; assbot: Logged on 27-07-2014 19:05:02; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in 2010 i concocted
a variant of the test that could be carried out for approx. 50k USD, from scratch. schwartz answered that, in his estimation, the test would work to spec, but results would not be accepted by the field unless carried out on one of the two existing eotvos balances. one - adelberger's, one - chicom.