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mircea_popescu: also if you have burning articles, i can arrange for it to be visible selectively so you can make archive prints
mircea_popescu: neways. i'd much rather debug this than move, so your patience's appreciated.
mircea_popescu: eh nm, wtf am i asking. for the internet to be useful, i must be from the past.
mircea_popescu: well not counting the 20gbps oct spike and the 15gbps june spike o.O
mircea_popescu: and then im supposed to not suspect usg is out there ddosing everything.
mircea_popescu: apparently there doesn't exist ANYTHING on the internet that doesn't use cloudflare.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: users by lines, last 7 days 1.) assbot 1151 2.) mircea_popescu 1111 3.) asciilifeform 1087 << the closest it's been!
mircea_popescu: so i really like the stuff mats put in there, going to keep it open till friday and then award it. if anyone objects or wants to comment or w/e speak out.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: for that matter, spinoza was a lens polisher by trade. his profession wasn't "philosopher". that was his hobby.
mircea_popescu: profession specifically means, "dominative of the public discourse on the topic"
mircea_popescu: like a wife and a whore : both sore in the cunt, yet not the same deal.
mircea_popescu: a profession's different from a fucking secret society yo.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, you me and everyone else. except nobody can visit.
mircea_popescu: i yield the balance of my time, to the future programmers.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i took this as far as i care to. gotta admit it's a fine if unpleasant argument
mircea_popescu: sorry to tell you, crypts do not cunt in this discussion.
mircea_popescu: where is the place ? do i go to microsoft and learn how programming's done fo real by pros ?
mircea_popescu: this isn't going towards a meta-programmersclub thing is it ?
mircea_popescu: that's what we're trying to do here, the somewhere. imo not done yet.
mircea_popescu: and at the current point, "programmer" is EXACTLY like "etsy artefactual expert"
mircea_popescu: at some point congolese witch doctor defined medicine.
mircea_popescu: you think venetian glassblowing is defined by what they actually did, or by all the glass they could have conceivably blown
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only substituteable profession is camwhore.
mircea_popescu: i think it's been perverted in the evil clutches of ustardism tho.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a hackathon is actually a brilliant idea : take a bunch of kids with cs airs, strip them naked, chain them to desks and let them come out once they did something worthwhile.
mircea_popescu: "the sample is small and not much to be said" is after all statistical analysis, perfectly adequate for a sample that is small and not much to be said.
mircea_popescu: im not looking for anything too elaborate. do a formal "here's everything" bit and i'll call it good.
mircea_popescu: o no wait, it was "careful with that axe, eugene" not "trinque, don't forget the nutmeg".
mircea_popescu: "the latest dangerous fad to sweep our nation's junior high scene since that faux story about fermented shit we came up with out of nowhere."
mircea_popescu: incidentally : someone should start an "abortion club" trollage/moral panic. whereby you convince "the media" that the latest fad among teenagers is abortion club. "you gotta have one to be someone!"
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel sure, but there's meetup of young people ie team + cheerleaders on the bus back from game away ; and then there's the meetup of young people ie, jay explains to preteens what the clit is.
mircea_popescu: for sure can't close it with all the work you put into it.
mircea_popescu: coming up next, "top 5 best program names for amd compatibility"