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mircea_popescu: fancy that, do you suppose konspiraci, or do you suppose idiocy is clever in the same way everywhere.

phf: ches in the walls. dodgy/clever hacks, "modern ecosystem" "improvements", etc. etc.

phf: i guess the point is that asciilifeform doesn't like club sluts, wants his girls as math phds only. but periodically, and that was the issue, he sneaks in the idea that there's something deficient about girls that go to clubs, i.e. they are not clever or smart, they are animals, etc.

asciilifeform: 11:36 <+phf> fwiw there's plenty of clever girls in dc club scene << ~definitionally~ not what i consider usable.

mircea_popescu: hey, i've made all sorts of beautiful things with clever women that were self-aware.

mircea_popescu: clever woman that thinks self clever, sure. provided ACTUALLY IS.

mircea_popescu: i don't particularly like clever girl that thinks self clever, no.

asciilifeform: 11:35 <+mircea_popescu> generally, better a clever girl that thinks herself dumb than a dumb girl that thinks she must be clever. << how about CLEVER girl that thinks itself clever

mircea_popescu: phf half the time it's not the schooled clever, which is just as well.

phf: it's just not the "easy" clever

phf: fwiw there's plenty of clever girls in dc club scene, they are predominantly american,gwu,georgetown or else educated transplants, not to mention lots of foreigners

mircea_popescu: generally, better a clever girl that thinks herself dumb than a dumb girl that thinks she must be clever.

mats: history repeats itself -- iraqis are evidently clever enough to know they can't win

mircea_popescu: the already very limited class of negative statements one can derive from physical laws is very fundamental, which in praxis severely limits your chances to do something clever.

asciilifeform: i believe that mircea_popescu is a clever fella, and that, given the prior available to HIM, it 'necessarily doesn't'

asciilifeform: davout: it might be problem, if some clever fella sends the 1MB tx with 0fee...

asciilifeform: yet various clever folks had trouble, e.g., mircea_popescu, hanbot

mpSCAM: popescu is a scammer he always was just hid it clever

asciilifeform: modern alchemists are 'clever' and try to claim small things.

mircea_popescu: a young consumation girl [ie, whore], otherwise clever and vivacious, receiving some caviar aside the mug of vodka, proceeded to explain some matters t ome.

mircea_popescu: it's very clever i think.

mircea_popescu: isn't it clever ? ECu. see ? cause Cu is copper.

asciilifeform: and a standard, immutable, guaranteed set of devices, which do not try anything 'clever' and cannot communicate with one another except in ways defined by os.

asciilifeform: any future folks who might think they are being clever with, e.g., nonterminating vtron program.

asciilifeform: it is why i settled on straight gnudiff instead of trying 'clever' things

ascii_butugychag: the danger of using transcendentals for crypto is that it opens you up to clever analogue (!) attacks

ascii_butugychag: 'this is clever and i have nfi how anyone could possibly attack' is proof of ~nothing~ but the intellectual limits of the author

mircea_popescu: it's the "clever" one that takes 18bn loc

mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'From the court filing for his recent arrest it looks like this was a fairly clever trap set for Bridges. <<< heh.

asciilifeform: 'From the court filing for his recent arrest it looks like this was a fairly clever trap set for Bridges. There's a reference in the last paragraph of the filing to a still-sealed warrant for Bridges' arrest. Apparently they got this sealed warrant issued BEFORE they released him, then let him out for the occasionally-offered "time to tidy up your affairs" post-sentencing/pre-incarceration. This isn't too unusual, but ONLY for

asciilifeform: 'clever' aha.

polarbeard: is a symptom of basically being 'too clever'

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382561 << this seems like a deviously clever notion until you recall that most of the asic miners were - quite likely deliberately - not built to last ☝︎

mircea_popescu: worth your time to research it for your own sharpening, it's all pretty clever.

asciilifeform: 'clever was the turkey, but ended in the soup anyway'

ben_vulpes: clever enough to get in trouble.

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yeah, totally so very clever they'll spend thousands of dollars to dig themselves out of this pr hole and wonder why it dun work.

ben_vulpes: heh clever

mircea_popescu: ./serialize.h:// There's a clever template way to make arrays serialize normally, but MSVC6 doesn't support it

asciilifeform: but in all seriousness, clever folk who strike gold in whatever form, who programmed, tend to gravitate away from it - iirc mthreat is doing a sane thing, flying old ru jets, rather than dredging through cpp crud

assbot: Logged on 20-01-2016 03:32:27; ben_vulpes: https://prima-coffee.com/equipment/abid/clever << were it not plastic the thing would be completely unbeatable

ben_vulpes: https://prima-coffee.com/equipment/abid/clever << were it not plastic the thing would be completely unbeatable ☟︎

ben_vulpes bought a new clever and a new kettle for the new staffers today to parallelize the coffee production

mircea_popescu: (the irish weren't exactly regarded as clever or scholarly in english at the time ; the english in turn didn't make much court at rome)

asciilifeform: and the latin christendom, clever ?

BingoBoingo: trilema can get away with one because trilema is indexed so well by google for nsa purposes. finding clever things pete_dushenski wrote when I was recapping 2015 in Bitcoin was very different. Very painful.

ben_vulpes: ah clever

assbot: Logged on 23-12-2015 02:56:57; asciilifeform: incidentally, zoolag is under heavy and modestly-clever ddos

asciilifeform: incidentally, zoolag is under heavy and modestly-clever ddos ☟︎

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mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> because unless std::string does something clever with refcounts, as far as i can see: they do not. << they do not.

asciilifeform: because unless std::string does something clever with refcounts, as far as i can see: they do not.

mircea_popescu: so the trashing pilsudski administered to the oh so clever & brave bolsheviks doesn't count for the ukrs ?

ben_vulpes: 'clever' fucking developers and their miserable abstraction naming schemes

mircea_popescu: in other news, would any of the brighter minds present explain the jwz piece to me ? i have the feeling he thinks he's being clever, but i lack the resources to comprehend the intricate minutia of his idiocy.

adlai: clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and

adlai: also Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is

mircea_popescu: also has the bonus advantage that there's exactly no risk of "clever" processor intructions being used.

mircea_popescu: seems easier to believe a lone wolf is dumb than clever.

deedbot-: [Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] The clever gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha and his trusty sidekick Andrei Pippidi, translated. - http://www.contravex.com/2015/11/24/the-clever-gentleman-don-quixote-de-la-mancha-and-his-trusty-sidekick-andrei-pippidi-translated/

mircea_popescu: the two man saw is pretty clever.

mircea_popescu: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WildMassGuessing << this is pretty interesting. the idea being, and i cite, "The trope has also become increasingly important in more traditional fiction as of late because the Internet's technological revolution is such that an author's "twists" could easily be predicted ahead of time if enough clever fans put their heads together and talk things over. (And over.) "

mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/3thcx5/the_tweet_that_got_toxic_todd_fired_from_r3_cev/ << meanwhile reddit hates programming languages (other than excel) and "r3 cev" is the ever-so clever name the troop of scammers behind the first scam foundation (the one that was pushing pirate & his "miner" friends) and the second scam foundation (the one that was pushing karpeles & co) chose for their THIRD pass at the

ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski clever turn with "black organics"

ascii_field: they're only in my head in the sense that i'm not clever enough to be 'stand on own' economically as described in mircea_popescu's article re: same.

asciilifeform: 'The problem is that as long as he completed the worksheet, you wouldn't know there was a problem with doing math until it was way too late. If the kid is clever in other ways-- say, fast at finger counting-- he could easily convey the impression that he understands how to add 2 digit numbers, and what that means, and so everyone thinks he's progressing just fine; only to reach a later point when his clever shortcut is too pr

mircea_popescu: "and what that means, and so everyone thinks he's progressing just fine; only to reach a later point when his clever shortcut is too primitive to work. Now suddenly you have a 6th grader who appears to falling behind. But he was never really caught up. I suspect that this almost entirely explains Americans' universal hatred of word problems."

ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1305935 << a clever crapware writer does not create bots vulnerable to hijacking or to the destruction of hardcoded c&c server(s). ☝︎

mircea_popescu: perhaps vaguely interesting to asciilifeform : in the comments of the original article (see http://trilema.com/2011/europa-crestina-si-alte-aberatii/#comment-71835 etc) a very familiar mechanism is at work : christian dude (who is otherwise a very clever, and well respected, commenter there), after exhausting the attempts to plead to authority ("oh you aren't qualified to discuss ; oh merkel is from a party called chri

mircea_popescu: ballas decides "the guy is narcissist". this is about as clever as discussing the rotator splint of wild geese. "hey, they're flying, right ? gotta have rotator splint, it's what you call the collar bone"

BingoBoingo: Apparently this schmuck wasn't clever enough for that

asciilifeform: my current understanding re: the firm from the link is that it specialized in ultra-low-demand items for which there is unlikely to be competition from foreign generics. clever.

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mircea_popescu: (lying, of any kind it might be, always takes more clever than speaking the truth. it also always enbds up taking more cleverf than is available, but that's secondary here.)

assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 05:18:31; mircea_popescu: (this in particular is a very clever ddos vehicle for the bitcoin tx relay network, because the inept implementation generates a lot of such spurious nonsense anyway)

mircea_popescu: (this in particular is a very clever ddos vehicle for the bitcoin tx relay network, because the inept implementation generates a lot of such spurious nonsense anyway) ☟︎

shinohai *likes asciilifeform 's clever license

pete_dushenski: "These aren't naive amateurs; they are clever hackers who are willfully stealing for their own selfish gain. It’s a small group – 1/100 of a percent of our 59 million customers – but some of them are using as much as 2 terabytes (2,000GB!) of data in a month. I’m not sure what they are doing with it – stealing wireless access for their entire business, powering a small cloud servic

asciilifeform: (idiot plagiarists plagiarize text; clever ones - concepts; great ones - whole systems, disciplines)

asciilifeform: then multiple boxes and clever things with pairwise gcd.

mircea_popescu: you can contrast it with ontology, or gnoseology for that matter. and obviously you can build other quite clever sturctures. but yours didn't mean anything is all.

assbot: Logged on 26-08-2015 06:18:48; mircea_popescu: danielpbarron hey, how do you feed your twitter ? is it by hand or some sort of remarkably clever script ?

mircea_popescu: danielpbarron hey, how do you feed your twitter ? is it by hand or some sort of remarkably clever script ? ☟︎

mircea_popescu: (for the younger log reader, "two-and-sixpence" is not random, but a century ago made half a crown. it is used in a sense similar to "too clever by half", because that's really what half a crown is. worse than either a whole crown or no crown at all. at least in the context of this discussion)

ascii_field: in fact, actually ~receiving~ radio-anything using a stock pc's bus, or whatnot, would be very clever

asciilifeform: after that, a clever and patient man will take a pair of snippy-cutters

decimation: if one is clever, one could make the tank circuit out of pure pcb trace, making it cheaper. 'crosstalk' could be a problem though

asciilifeform: because some folks think they are oh-so-clever.

asciilifeform: shinohai: but you don't really need the manual unless you are doing something more clever than anything i've done so far

mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i dunno, she looks like this clever smart pleasant chick i wouldnt fuck in hs because no accoutrements and too hairy.

asciilifeform: decimation: clever man uses sixteen of'em in a circle around the american general, let him shoot himself with own rocket

shinohai: trinque: they are trying to be clever. I never talk to most of 'em. I just pay my bill every month

cazalla: he's pretty clever, stacked a couple pillows in order to get up on the tv unit

ascii_field: methings some clever fella is trying a frame-shift attack

ben_vulpes: just curious to know if you had done something clever to dump the blocks.

jurov: that's not clever enough for alf

ascii_field: jurov: not sure if it is so much of a corner. perhaps it is possible to get a 'good enough' picture of political time via some clever means

shinohai: I should be so clever as to come up with ideas like this, to relieve redditors of their monies.

mats: clever manipulation, this. imply women are being preyed on, that they haven't any agency, and that teens should be protected from themselves because she had no idea she was doing torture porn until she got to the set, and didn't resist at the critical moment