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mircea_popescu: fancy
that wonder, a new model army of old strippers and youthful gramas, dedicated
to
the global fight against
the
tribe of 6 foot 2 "overly" aggressive Alpha males pumping
testosterone out
their pores.
mircea_popescu: so brutish and nasty,
that Warriors
too must be.
That is simply not accurate." << apparently you can get random dork
to support
the
termiting, also, for as long as you call him a "chinese linguist" or w/e
the fuck.
mircea_popescu: "What is not accurate is
the false and felonious image of
the U.S. military on which
the defense of her conduct has been, at its root, predicated:
that somehow everyone in her formative years in
the military was practically part of a
tribe of 6’2”, overly-aggressive Alpha males pumping
testosterone out
their pores who ganged up on
the smallest in
the group and
tore her apart out of hyper-machismo intolerance;
that War is
mircea_popescu: basically
the us army is a ridiculous menagerie. AND
the whole fucking point, from
the pov of
the obama DoS, is exactly
that it not only stay
that way, but never again become an actual army.
mircea_popescu: o find her
there, he’d probably just get blown up by an IED – problem solved."
mircea_popescu: her, so she joined up with
the Americans instead. Charlie 82d had dads in
their mid-thirties, and it had dads not yet old enough
to buy beer. My platoon had a single mom who had been working as an exotic dancer before she raised her right hand and
took
the oath; another had married young, got divorced and wanted
to get as far away from her Ex as possible; she figured
the Middle East was probably far enough, but if he
tried
t mircea_popescu: One recruit in fourth platoon had been homeless before he joined, and another had blown his entire first university semester’s
tuition on OxyContin before he dropped out and enlisted. One recruit was a Mexican citizen who was willing
to go
to Iraq and fight for
the United States in exchange for expedited citizenship. Another was a female with dual German/American citizenship who was so short,
the German Army wouldn’t
take
mircea_popescu: d a former coffee distributor in South America in his mid-thirties who everyone still called “Grandpa.” One recruit ironically named “Goesforth” went AWOL within 48 hours of arrival, deserted
the military, and was never seen again.
mircea_popescu: "In 2007,
the U.S. Army was habitually failing
to meet its monthly recruiting goals;
the application standards relaxed and a great cross-section of humanity ended up reporting for duty
that warm October at Fort Leonard Wood. In
the company,
there was a 17-year-old who had enlisted with a waiver, and
there was: a 42-year-old mother of
three who was
terrified of needles; a new grandmother
to a brand-new infant granddaughter; an
mircea_popescu: notice
that
the feathering
thing is actually curative, as proven by
the fact
that absent
the men, rooster did it
to himself.
mircea_popescu: letting him out of prison is likely
the dumbest
thing obama ever did. not in
terms of impact, which it entirely lacks, but in
terms of concentration.
mircea_popescu: and
this is what he was doing with
the wikileaks,
too. until
the day he dies, pvt c manning will be looking
to reassure himself
that yes,
totally, mommy rules!
mircea_popescu: which is why he joined
the army,
too,
trying
to bait
that absent father ; and which is WHY
the candy
thing. didn't want
the fucking candy anymore
than i do. just wanted
to see if dog may be enticed
to bark in
the exact manner
that'd get it shot ?
mircea_popescu: dude's not very perceptive. manning evidently comes from a broken home, which instilled
the expectation
that Mommy is somehow significantly more powerful
than Daddy.
mircea_popescu: ractically bragging out loud
that she had contraband candy. At six weeks into basic
training, it just wasn’t worth it, and yet
that scene has stayed with me all
these years, because for Manning, it somehow was worth it. Maybe by
then, she
thought she had nothing else
to lose."
mircea_popescu: "At
the end of
the field exercise,
that holdover was walking up
to groups of us, offering
to sell us candy for $20 a package. We all knew
to keep our distance from him – he was untrustworthy, he was in
trouble, and he was only going
to get you in
trouble
too if you associated with him. And yet, Chelsea Manning bought a package of M&Ms from him for $20. I remember
that scene, because Manning was not quiet about it. She was p
mircea_popescu: dude ~maybe~, if i know
them personally and care on some sort of level i might update some dork's gender. unless you invent fucking vlsi
the odds aren't
too good of
that.
davout: your article made me realize
that US and mauritian politics now share
this "let's put my son in charge" monkeystantronic attribute
ben_vulpes: our options are
to scratch in
the dirt or pretend
that a life made of plastic is worth living.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-24 01:51 phf: (fwiw last
time i checked in with clasp, it was also dog slow, probably a combination of insane
technology
tower and lack of optimization strategy,
that all goes back
to original point "writing lisp is hard")
a111: Logged on 2017-01-24 00:58
trinque: gonna DNS at all, might as well do it at
the most-fed ministry
a111: Logged on 2017-01-24 01:16 phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-23#1606170 << no, and i
think it's a combination of "scaring" and complexity.
takes a lot of effort
to build one from scratch. clim's beach actually
tried building one, SICL
https://github.com/robert-strandh/SICL which is closest
to "compartmenalized", but i'm not sure where it is. probably heavy WIP stage. (and reading
the ilc slides it seems like it's beach/mcclim style overengineered)
adlai:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-24#1606296 << SICL's status makes a lot more sense in-context: "It is intentionally divided into many implementation-independent modules
that are written in a
totally or near-totally portable way, so as
to allow other implementations
to incorporate
these modules from SICL, rather
than having
to maintain
their own, perhaps implementation-specific versions"
☝︎ phf: it's also possible
that
the development cycle
that involves basically no way
to
twitch (i.e. you're either hacking for 5 hours or gaming for 2 or you're on "trilema bbs" for 30 minutes) has something
to do with it ;)
phf: (fwiw last
time i checked in with clasp, it was also dog slow, probably a combination of insane
technology
tower and lack of optimization strategy,
that all goes back
to original point "writing lisp is hard")
☟︎ phf: well, you can probably write an evaluator for lisp core (and host something like sicl on
top), but
the result is going
to be dog slow, at which point you'll have
to work out an optimization strategy
that's not going
to leave scaring.
that's a long and careful project, an anathema in open source
ben_vulpes: you won't even
taste
the poop anymore. it's really nice...
ben_vulpes: you don't want
this nice abstraction layer?
ben_vulpes: and yes wtf llvm is an iridium brick of apple compiler phd
time
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i don't really know what you're asking. his uses llvm-ir
to
tie into cpp, it's
the ~whole point of it.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-23 21:47 asciilifeform: !~later
tell phf do you know of any public cl implementation where all os-specific liquishit is reasonably compartmentalized ? (it isn't in sbcl, cmucl, or ccl, and did i miss anything..??)
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-23#1606170 << no, and i
think it's a combination of "scaring" and complexity.
takes a lot of effort
to build one from scratch. clim's beach actually
tried building one, SICL
https://github.com/robert-strandh/SICL which is closest
to "compartmenalized", but i'm not sure where it is. probably heavy WIP stage. (and reading
the ilc slides it seems like it's beach/mcclim style overengineered)
☝︎☟︎ phf: asciilifeform: i somehow missed
that later
tell, i
thought it was in pm
trinque: gonna DNS at all, might as well do it at
the most-fed ministry
☟︎☟︎ trinque: it's not like AWS is *more* usgtronic
than namecheap et al
ben_vulpes: by my read it's a small side
thing
they provide
to get as much ops cognition
to happen
through
their
tooling as possible
ben_vulpes: phf:
tpp would have saved clitorises and improved livelihoods of innumerable foreign brown people
shinohai: but no, more
than 5 lines is reserved for private channels
a111: Logged on 2017-01-23 22:02 ben_vulpes: an american politician following
through on campaign noises is astonishing i
tell you
jhvh1: shinohai: [KJV] 1 Corinthians 13:8 :: Charity never faileth: but whether
there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether
there be
tongues,
they shall cease; whether
there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
danielpbarron: if you could find a NKJV
to put in
there, it would keep most
things on a single line, but KJV is always 1 verse 1 line
ben_vulpes: "this is my domain.
there are many like it, but
this one is mine."
jhvh1: shinohai: ERROR: Failed
to load/parse
the verse or page. Check your syntax.
jhvh1: shinohai: ERROR: Failed
to load/parse
the verse or page. Check your syntax.
danielpbarron: i only have
the one domain and it doesn't need changing so I rarely have
to actually use
the
thing
ben_vulpes: aws console is very heavy on
the javascript, but light on
the ux
danielpbarron: used
to be a very nice qntra-esque interface but "upgraded"
to web2.0 a few years ago.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-23 20:13 asciilifeform: every registrar i know of, has followed
this pattern.
mats: the best part was watching fatties get yelled at and smoked for being unable
to complete exercises
ben_vulpes: mats: ah well i can see how it'd be less
than riveting
then
mats: e4 e5 ... f3 c6 ... etc. looking back it does feel like i kinda slept
through most of it, standing up
mats: ben_vulpes: i grew up in
the church, so... i lost count
mats: asciilifeform: a coupla hours per day were dedicated just
to standing around waiting for shit
to happen, ie, waiting for
the cattle
trucks
to appear so
they could shuttle recruits
to
the
training sites
ben_vulpes: mats: how many
times have you read
the old
testament?
mats: i went
to all of
the religious services - even
the one for wiccans -
to collect reading materials and sleep in
the pews
mats: worst part was not having anything mentally stimulating
to do, i had
to ask people
to send me books in
the mail so i could read something besides labels on shampoo bottles and
the fucking bible
mats: my
time in OSUT was a breeze and mostly an exercise in schadenfreude, its a cake walk unless you're mentally unstable or a fatbody
mircea_popescu: no fucking way. IF it has 20k users it's a wonder. and
those 20k users are indians doing vaguely anal sexthings
to each other.