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mircea_popescu: why the everloving fuck would i want a car with better hidden failure modes from the creators of the car that sucked.
mircea_popescu: consumer culture, that's it. "the car you sold me sucked, i want you to give me another one"
mircea_popescu: who the fuck in his right mind goes for seconds at the place that fucked it up.
mircea_popescu: "you roll 22 and bust, you should double your bid!!11"
mircea_popescu: Adlai the only thing he can accomplish there is ben_vulpes' breakfast.
mircea_popescu: just like "the classical antiquity" seems to have made such excellent bronzes mostly because only the excellent ones survived the 9000+ cases where "must melt all bronze to make weapons".
mircea_popescu: i actually think its curve-based. women just have better aesthetics.
mircea_popescu: it's just, nobody cares about men, women people still care about.
mircea_popescu: but the original, socialistoid, eisenhowerian proposition that "soldiering's a job - full employment!" died in a pool of its own lye.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it still is. who wants most people as pets ? not even the coyotes.
mircea_popescu: and thinking making a bit of plastic "go naked to tea party" is a big todo
mircea_popescu: it's play-pretend work, for the intellectually immature girlies not yet ready to make their own dolls, still playing with barbie
mircea_popescu: this entire "monkey with electric typerwriter" pseudo-occupation play-pretend-job that unites gawker, reddit and 4chan is NOT IN FACT WORK
mircea_popescu: other than stay the fuck at home and have babies, or else go to the bar and dance (the vertical bar ; nude dance) there is jack for her to do.
mircea_popescu: computers replaced secretaries. drones replaced soldiers. robots replaced coal miners. better detergents replaced the maid.
mircea_popescu: i know pretty much everyone here is very down on the whole concept, and perhaps you're right. but in point of fact, that thinking is at least in part supported by refusal to consider the plain fact that THERE IS NOTHING USEFUL FOR MOST WOMEN TO DO.
mircea_popescu: it's one of the precursors. i saw that and i went "fucking hell, pipes. again. the solution."
mircea_popescu: may i grow up into an adult as a personal process and in my own terms ? huh ? HUH ???
mircea_popescu: punkman he's probably in it for the titties. until he discovers some discoveries. which is in the end the point of both travel and being a young male.
mircea_popescu: "everything that runs on this machine is fifty lines of code or less. one display page."
mircea_popescu: fuck alf's "fit in head". if it's large enough to ever need updating it shouldn't have made in the first place.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: shinohai no but i just feel for the guy, gentoo is the last thing that made me want to burn the world, and through a very similar process as he describes.
mircea_popescu: and just you, i don't wanna be fucking bankrupt over here.
mircea_popescu: <n6> Um, I'm in way over my head and going on 17 hours of gentoo << take your picture with your sad face next to a screen with gentoo failing on it, i'll pay you 0.1 BTC. just to prove a point.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: practically speaking, even a dozen requires a veteran crew.
mircea_popescu: aegis can't even track that many, because "nobody could have foreseen how useless this shit is"
mircea_popescu: it can churn out 100k of the damned things. there's no defending against missiles if "missiles" means, six digit moving items
mircea_popescu: moreover : china has proved its ability to build 1k powerplants/year
mircea_popescu: no idea why the aussies are trying to go after the proved-to-fail system (ships) instead of outright copying the chiense (missile batteries) but hey.
mircea_popescu: hey, you wouldn't be trying to build a 64 bit thing on a 32 bit machine would you ?
mircea_popescu: "did it work ?" "oh, no, but it failed more pleasantly"
mircea_popescu: well i dunno, but in worst case find / -iname modinfo.sh ?
mircea_popescu: does it exist and so you got a path problem, or does it not exist so you got a failed to build problem
mircea_popescu: we fucking need that holy distro already, stop frustrating innocent people's legitimate attempts.
mircea_popescu: <trinque> n6: mang don't use lilo << you know he just got advised to run lilo few hours back right here in our very own b-a.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the equivalent would be going to pre-childbearing classes and asking them how many are goddesses.
mircea_popescu: that thing when his adjutant saves him from impact and he pats the guy on the shoulder and spits...
mircea_popescu: i think wiedling is my favourite character in the entire fucking story.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, i re-saw der untergang today.
mircea_popescu: for the record, lalage may be the worst female name ever.
mircea_popescu: "There aren't a lot of smart people in bitcoinland... I have a feeling Bitcoin Pete isn't one either, but is regurgitating things other smart people are saying in his blogs. A beneficial service I guess
mircea_popescu: i suspect only russian speakers remember english literature now.
mircea_popescu: <n6> I have made a mess of this gentoo thing. << dun worry, you;re not the first one