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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
they planned
the recon mission by email lel
jurov: i was actually going
to link
that,
then assumed you'll go all "we already discussed
that, gtfo"
mircea_popescu: what
the fuck is he, or what, nobody can remember 1996 ?
mircea_popescu: well... it IS pretty funny
to watch 2016 ers
talk about "political activists" or w/e.
mircea_popescu: pcmag, seriously ? im surprised
the website is even up anymore.
mircea_popescu: anyone interested in getting computing, 1990s
to 2005 or so is more
than welcome
to read it, follow
the competently provided references, and
there it is.
mircea_popescu: in other news,
this strip is actually a perfect primer for
things nobody cares about
these days, but were still "the issues" before osama pulled america's pants and fucked it into its present us shape.
mircea_popescu: even among subhuman horde
there's some
taste for
the refined.
mircea_popescu: if someone became an astrologer
today who did look
through
them,
they'd have plenty of customers.
mircea_popescu: that
tendency doesn't have
to last,
though, and it certainly needn't be nurtured.
mircea_popescu: yes,
the fact
that competent engineers
tend
to be poorly socialised is
the major weakness of engineering competence.
mircea_popescu: certainly if your drill consists of google, as per ...
today's amusements.
mircea_popescu: you mean "they have been excluded from
the open source communities
they were contributing
to" don't you ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, who's gonna write comics,
the president of nbc ?
mircea_popescu: "the best argument against open source is a five minute interaction with
the average internet dog."
mircea_popescu: but
then again i'm sure
there's ~no creative people out
there, so.
mircea_popescu: most animals, including amoeba, have enough sense
to not
try and ingest larger items.
mircea_popescu: or in proper
terms, especially when
the original is actually bigger
than her.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the ~only reason john smith behaviour survives is
that mommy never wants
to pick
the original, because
think of
the power imbalance.
mircea_popescu: (note how "everyone" ~YOU HEAR ABOUT~ is
trying
to make "the next airbnb" ; not
the next apple.
there's a reason mother's lullaby goes
the way it goes, and
that reason mostly has
to do with mommy's fear of rape)
mircea_popescu: nevermind why mommy didn't love you ; she wouldn't have fucked you anyway, and she'd have sucked at it if she had fucked you. forget all
that, nobody cares, go find better behaved womenz an' make your own harem.
mircea_popescu: in
the history of computing it so happened
that it picked
to coopt linux. what
the people involved did or didn't do has exactly nothing of interest
to do with
this ; and "studying history" in
the sense of
trying
to divine what
the favoured son did or didn't do so you
too could share in
the bounty is insanity exactly of
the ilk
the statement suggests.
mircea_popescu: endless powers) will perceive "those crazy kids" by degrees dangerous. as a practical imperative it will apply some of its resources
towards coopting some ; and
towards combatting some others.
mircea_popescu: anyways,
to round off
the whole linux/bsd, esr/rms/etc angle : at any point
the Moterhood (be it implemented in practice as "the USG" or "the public opinion" or "the church of England" or whatever
the fuck -
there will exist a conclave of
the lazy, stupid and covetous, and it will be somewhat politically influential and appear VERY politically influential much like
to
the small children
the mother appears
truly awesome in her
mircea_popescu: should be fun
to see how
the dc 200k
turn ariund
the whole "tax resistors are nutty" argument once it's a case of "president resistors are heros".
mircea_popescu: he literally imagines
that
the difference isn't for
the obvious reason (usg decided
to push x rather
than y) but for some sort of self-aggrandizing "it's something we did which unwittingly made
the cave walls move
this way".
mircea_popescu: and in lulzy ancient stuff :
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/30/esr_interview.html interviewer (random nobody) contrasts sony using netbsd for
the psp and people finding out because
they put an unlinked
text file on
their website (as per license obligation) which was
then found whereas
they advertised
the shit out of running linux for
the ps3 in
the
terms of "WE
THE PEOPLE made
this be".
mircea_popescu: but
the notion of having versions on a license... good god.
mircea_popescu: i can only imagine what
the next generation imbeciles, eich and andreessen and so forth will be like when
they're 60.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i guess it's
the best he can do, with what he has. which is sad but
then again what can you expect.
the goat - grazes.
mircea_popescu: see kiddies,
this is why "rewriting in your own words and pretending you never read it here" doesn't work.
mircea_popescu: "Second: show me your code. I want
to see URLs
to public repositories with your commits in
them. (OpenHub statistics will do for a first cut.) Your credibility goes up with commit volume and number of different projects. and especially with
the number of other people you have collaborated with."
mircea_popescu: aaanyway. it's kind-of funny
to read
tmsr rewrites by john smiths.
mircea_popescu: and lords are now "elders" in his ad-hoc "i've not read #trilema i just rewrite what comes
to me from
the spheres"
mircea_popescu: o hey, esr redefines nigger as "political carpetbagger". dork,
to redefine word must use shorter variant. no longer alternative ever prevails in practice.
mircea_popescu: tbh i kinda miss
those devices. i'd much rather have 9 pin printer
than
the current malfunctioning atrocities.
mircea_popescu: who
the fuck eats
the us workman's buffet crap and also is a professional in any field ?
mircea_popescu: oh
that's what it is, "conferences" specifically. dude... i have nfi why anyone with any sort of qualification would actually appear at one of
these. for one
thing,
they don't pay. for another
thing,
they are about on 1980s soviet level of amenties, fucking hell ima brownbag food because i don't eat burger king ?
mircea_popescu: if it is
true,
then it can't be much of a criterion retrospectively.
mircea_popescu: as shocking as
that statement may be, it would appear
true. everyone else was simply
too dumb
to understand you want
to mandate shitting in
toilet.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in honesty, i don't
think anyone who came before had
the intelligence / intellectual wherewithal
to realise what
the standards should be.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-31 18:20 mircea_popescu: but not just llvm -
the whole world exists, and it produces
things such as "'Static linking of user binaries is not supported on Mac OS X.
Tying user binaries
to
the internal implementation of Mac OS X libraries and interfaces would limit our ability
to update and enhance Mac OS X. Instead, dynamic linking is supported (linking against crt1.o automatically instead of looking for crt0.o, for example). We strongly recommend
tha
trinque: aha, just poking it for
the benefit of logs. it's a sad state
to be in.