asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> ah, installed nginx, yeah << on top of apache again ?☟︎
asciilifeform: decimation> asciilifeform: more on ada: http://www.adacore.com/academia/universities/ < the list of us universities has a conspicuous absence of 'popular' tech schools << 'where used' is by far the least appealing aspect of ada. as for 'where taught', the answer is largely nowhere. the kind of thinking implied by ada is a -culture- that has to be imparted.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu forgot e) sane person adds kludge to enable some semblance of civilization to function, creating schizoid split and opening would that bleeds complexity☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: as pictured in, e.g., mircea_popescu's article 'art of punishment' (ro?)
asciilifeform: but when there is plethora of loose ends and misfeatures - plenty
asciilifeform: when there is -nothing- for an idiot kid to do - the damage isn't done.
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> ... and had the past 20 years been spent with scbl being "the cool language", you'd be having zhe pronouns and assorted idiocy to the tune of > 10 mn lines << the whole 'k00l d00dz' phenomenon begins from broken systems, though there is a feedback loop
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> the computer's job is NOT to be the fucking master, and make its own decisions a la windows. the computer's job is NOT to be a solipsistic retarded geek and just do its own thing like anal children do ... the computer's job is to be a most humbly abject slave, perpetually and consumatedly on its knees following you around, with the dedication and unwavering insistence no dog can summon << obligatory http://ww
asciilifeform: computing collapsed under own weight.
asciilifeform: i'm fairly convinced that these were and are an opportunistic infection
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i thought modern gypsy has a euro-style plausible first+last for camouflage
asciilifeform: <Adlai> never trust a man with no last name << there's a fella in '80s theoretical comp sci, worked on parallel systems iirc, who was known as simply 'arvind'
asciilifeform: works (as other placebocin) on people much better than on machines.
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> the problem here is that we're regressing to the past (srsly, the varnish adventure is so reminiscent of "dos utilities" scene it bleeds) but with much more powerful tools and with much more societal dependency on them. << lamport's article on brokenness+helplessness leading to return to 'voodoo' methods (electronic homeopathy, sympathetic magic, all the way to prayer healing)
asciilifeform: iirc at one point it was fashionable to give the mothers enemas
asciilifeform: as for the whipping posts, those are sop
asciilifeform: yeah i couldn't help but wonder if some hobby of slavegirls renders them anally incontinent
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: in so far as i can see, it cannot be used for non-php hosting at all.
asciilifeform: TomServo: mircea_popescu found somewhere a server, graciously offered for use in s.nsa. but it turned out to be running a severely mutilated linux.
asciilifeform: 'What's a manager to do with a heap of stuff that isn't managed and doesn't wish to be?' 'Burn it ?' (from mircea_popescu's site) << pure gold
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i wasted many hours and actually moved phuctor to that thing, and it runs. just can't be reached from anywhere outside of box per se, aha.
asciilifeform: 'proceeding from informal to formal by formal means' (TM)
