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mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i can appreciate this view. nevertheless, from
a businessman persepective, the people who don't give
a shit, it's one year, five months.
decimation: so it's highly dubious that
a 16nm process is going to be massively better
decimation: if that's from their copy, then that nudges the probability of scam up
a few orders of magnitude
kakobrekla: >Our Bitcoin supercomputers with
a quasi-opportunistic massively parallel computing model for job scheduling establish
a new exascale class - well beyond FLOPS and MIPS
decimation: no, but this 'tardation does suggestion something amusing: you could easily destroy most open source projects simply by paying
a competent coder or two to fork it and rebuild it rationally
decimation: in the us that's exactly what would/has happened, on
a variety of fronts
mircea_popescu: wbahahaha. so i can fuck
a chick in the ass, just, gay dude can't fuck another gay dude ? lol.
mircea_popescu: "The law, known as Section 377A, was retained in 2007 after
a two-day debate in parliament where related provisions that made heterosexual oral and anal sex
a crime were repealed."
mircea_popescu: and you discover that unlike india, the us is
a third world country
decimation: quote the meat: "These students at one of southern India’s oldest universities described the irresistible draw of landing
a technology job in the US – even if it means signing
a contract promising to pay off
a bond if they quit. Most acknowledged that is the price they expect to pay to pursue their dreams."
mircea_popescu: i suppose
a bunch of armenian chicks got sold by the turks, but still
mircea_popescu: also runs
a scammy "ads" site, which basiclaly sells botted traffic
mircea_popescu: in todays heretic tales, using bechamel sauce as
a base for pizza instead of tomato sauce works fucking great.
decimation: it seems like
a port of minix to the z80 kinda
decimation:
https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX << Alan Cox: "Fed up of SystemD ? Kdbus the final straw ? Linux community too large and noisy ? Yearn for the good old days when you knew every contributor by name and the source code fitted on
a single floppy disc ?"
mircea_popescu: cazalla word count, ima make
a report like for s.mpoe referencing it.
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mircea_popescu: thestringpuller honestly, i'm not in
a position to manage the workflow. i'll go with whatever the director wants to use. it's his film not mine.
thestringpuller: maybe when the day comes when what actually is recorded vs. what you would simulate in post, are reconciled. (i.e. someone recording every atom in
a scene), then sure.
ben_vulpes: instead of dolly operators, you have an editor who knows that
a dolly move would be most appropriate for
a given shot.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: so what do you think about Orson Welles? Yea it's cool you can get
a RED camera and press the easy button, warranted it makes shit cheaper. But it's
a cheap replacement for "the real thing"
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller srsly, this sounds to me exactly like bounce 's objection coming from
a different ego investment.
thestringpuller: ben_vulpes: like seriously get
a fucking dolly or steadicam.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> the "profession" of photography is not evolving towards going back to film cameras. it's evolving towards drone cameras. they find the right spot on their own, fly around, take
a bunch of photos for you etc. << the "red" cameras are another interesting evolution here. by my limited understanding 'filmmakers' are in the habit of blanketing the scene with them and then making zooms/pans/dolly actions happen in post
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what would the 2nd step be of
a broom processing
a program, if the broom were capable of processing programs ?
joecool: i really don't know what my name is
a reference to, i've been using it so long now it just stuck
mircea_popescu: "Yes, but that's
a common problem with ANY "socialist" measure to help workers, whether it be minimum wage or full blown communism, or anything in between. Global capitalism is
a race to the bottom. If we keep playing that game, I see nothing but
a dystopian future of neofuedalism and
a regression to gilded age economic policies."
thestringpuller: also i've always been meaning to ask this. is your name
a reference to snoopy?
PeterL: yeah, so once you send the first transaction you have to let it be, but could bundles 2 and 3 be put on
a single bitcoin transaction once 1 confirms?
mircea_popescu: the reason is that once you broadcast
a tx, you no longer have control of it.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Jeffrey Robinson, Author & Journalist << oh he's the clueless idiot with yet another "bitcoin book" that's neither
a book nor about bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: the only way to change it is to bury it in
a sea of "jeez, i guess i was wrong" and subsequent self improvement. <<
a good point.
PeterL: for deedbot, if you have multiple deeds waiting for confirmation, could you combine the transactions into
a single bitcoin transaction?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Just dug up the filing. Working on
a write up.
mircea_popescu: at are so expensive that even professionals cringe. It’s like owning
a jumbo jet: you can’t afford not to fly it, hence the constant references to workflow in the marketing. Alas, in between these two types we find the equivalent of
a valence band or forbidden zone." << this has nothing to do with marketing.
mircea_popescu: "Digital photography today is another victim of the dead hand of marketing, where short term gain overrides any other concern. Broadly speaking, marketing has created two types of camera. There are those with small chips that are cheap – increasingly incorporated into
a cell phone – have
a rubbish lens, need no skill to operate and therefore teach the user nothing. And then there are those cameras with big chips th
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mircea_popescu: guy in bar "i wanna piss on the ceiling" bartender "stfu and piss in the toilet,
a toilet should be enough for all the pissing"
mircea_popescu: "Medium format system cameras also have interchangeable backs, so you can switch between monochrome, colour and Polaroid film in seconds. In due course, you would switch to
a digital sensor and leave it there." << here.
bounce: people writing emails in word, or stuffing anything remotely looking like
a table in excel, "because it's there"
bounce: nah, that's remolding the argument in
a clash of wills when availability makes lazy. different mechanism.
mircea_popescu: the "profession" of photography is not evolving towards going back to film cameras. it's evolving towards drone cameras. they find the right spot on their own, fly around, take
a bunch of photos for you etc.
bounce always somewhat disliked TeX-typeset material. computer modern isn't
a great look, even though each letter is shaped by whatwasit 60-odd parameters.
mircea_popescu has
a penchant for watching notions dieing
a grizzly death in the field.
bounce: "criteria" is plural, by the by. my takeaway is that I'm running into
a bunch of preconceptions that make the discussion quite meaningless, so I'll yield while disagreeing.
mircea_popescu: just like the plumber using silicone curing isn't
a silicone professional in any sense.
mircea_popescu: so, no, it's no longer
a profession. it's dead as its own thing, no matter who does what to whom.
bounce: hmhm yet it's doing it, as
a side effect of its market research and segmentation science.
mircea_popescu: then yes, there's
a market for marketing-approved photography.
mircea_popescu: not so many. just as many as poorly managed youth existed. it's
a lengthy history full of gaps.
bounce: there's
a market for hand-painted portraits just as there is
a market for professionally-done photographs. the argument re the latter is that the marketeering is busily making the required machinery unaffordable. my point was the mechanism at work.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes yes, all the benefits of being
a prince in terms of the harem girls' awe, none of the risks in terms of the other dudes beheading you. i know all about the mental processes supporting adolescent frottage
mircea_popescu: bounce anyway, to summarize : the discussion as to whether
a profession is doing ok or not, or even is still alive, can not rely on
a discussion on they who call themselves followers.
bounce: similarly, plenty people snapshotting and not producing anything good, yet there's still
a few who manage to produce decent photographs.
bounce:
a quick search and I run into literally dozens of artists taking comissions, so not buying it, sorry.
bounce: nope. there's still painters around. shit, the 'web even gave rise to
a whole new generation of amateurs and among them do progress to professional
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes point remains, when you have
a buy wall you increase the price, rather thna flatten yourself against it.
bounce: try and read the thing without assuming there won't be
a professional photographer. there will be, just like photography didn't kill the painter.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes depends, maybe the 240
a month goes into creating
a relationship with the provider or w/e. at that level, the skill of the manager is much more important than technical considerations. think of it, most embasies cost more than they have to.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: granted, 300/mo is
a piddling amount.
mircea_popescu: "evolutionary path from amateur to professional has been economically closed off by marketing." <<< there isn't going to be
a professional photographer anymore than there's going to be
a professional dresser.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes:... $8500 << ... in excees of 300 dollars
a month << you have to understand, 300
a month may well be the threshold of "minimum we'd pay for servers". because it's
a tiny sum.
mircea_popescu: mostly because that reanimated corpse of buscemi is
a very great weird actor.
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mircea_popescu: and c-span organised
a boycott against it, because, welll....
ben_vulpes: "in 1999, the Mexican-American organization LatinosUSA organized
a boycott against Spic and Span because of the use of the word spic,"
thestringpuller: ^- there was
a recent post on reddit about
a guy who took his girlfriend to the west coast to view the sunrise
mircea_popescu: well, "follow". you know ? whether usians believe X topic they have no control or influence over to be
a or b, and whether they believe they have
a lot or
a little control over x topic they have no control over are in the end irrelevant.