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mircea_popescu: we talk about a pain. i go in with one idea, he examines and has a different idea. the quality of his examination is such that i yield in the process, and gladly. look that indeed, clinical practice does something, it's evident he's got a better scent than i had.
mircea_popescu: understand how professional medicine is : i am myself, and this fellow is a most eminent specialist in his field, with decades of practice in the us, and in his entire being as perfectly intellectually respectable as i could ever ask for.
mircea_popescu: engineering never was an honest profession. much like medicine. it always wanted to be, and most of the time very earnestly tried to be. but it never actuially made it ; not at the time of the organixcally-multilayer-compensated grandfather clocks, not at the time of steam engine, not at the time of tanks and planes, not at any one time.
mircea_popescu: you know they propped the great railroad on top of snow and it collapsed ?
mircea_popescu: meh, wolverhampton is actually in the midlands. whatever, switch in london and edinburgh, the point is -- one always has a further mind into which to retreat & even nobler suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
mircea_popescu: the next day, same man, same chair, newspaper tells tale of this wolverhampton rapist murderer arsonist & jaiwalker
mircea_popescu: nicoleci in the classical formulation, at a time when scottish-english rivalry was a poignant affair, respectable middleclass scot was depicted sitting in his tea chair with the newspaper, and reading about a linconlshire rapist and murderer
mircea_popescu: how subtle the sweetness of the nature of delusions is!
mircea_popescu: it is the regular shock of everyone here that everyone else here exists. prolly should be the topic, really.
mircea_popescu: nicoleci PeterL has a point : start adding a log link to the summary lines, so people can look further if they want.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman right you are indeed. i take it you're also familiar ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform normally ; her key machine is currently without a working nic because no cable and no working wifi.
mircea_popescu: her job historically was to keep overgrown idiots from running head first into bureaucratic machinery./
mircea_popescu: this seems even perfectly reasonable, who wouldn't want to be right, until you understand the undertone. which eminently was "and perfectly willing to put on the adequate blinders for this effect"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in the girl's own words, "only interested in their being right".
mircea_popescu: but yes, on spotcheck she could produce long form of ftp and deduce long form for isp out of "- mircea_popescu suspects that iptables is like php implementation of ftp - most people do not have their own isp"
mircea_popescu: i don't think she dares ask, partly because she spent most of her life with engineers and partly because check out how irrational the process became the moment she showed up. this not common, this, freebased cvasicriticism, in the annals.
mircea_popescu: yes, the group is yet small enough and cohesive enough we can just do a deed and stuff.
mircea_popescu: just because i humiliate her, in this as in so many ways, she has to publish her struggle, dun mean it's somehow categorically different. erryone has piles of "this is what i understand of y"
mircea_popescu: diana_coman and necessarily derive no benefit from it.
mircea_popescu: the renoirs in "where's the renoirs" were produced through the act of "here's this cappod'opera, summarize it"
mircea_popescu: what, they're not gonna fucking "understand" it ?! what, really, you understand the logs ? who the fuck understands the logs!
mircea_popescu: and kindergarten academy of science bla bla. i have children read shakespeare and why shouldn't i.
mircea_popescu: think of the whole opposability angle, will you. 1. alf : "your summaries suck" 2. bimbo "master, is this true ?" now i'm stuck. i'm not going to do a 3.b. "yes, because i like him" and i can't do a 3.a. "yes, because ~SOMETHING~" as the something's an undefined symbol.
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: by all means, formulate it as "bitch, you're fucking stupid", but formulate it in some manner i can get behind.
mircea_popescu: otherwise what is this, timeo mulieris et dona ferentes ?
mircea_popescu: i dun see a problem with criticism, but it gotta be criticism. it gotta critique. "this, specifically ~this~ is wrong" "that, exactly that, is missing". something.
mircea_popescu: this isn't going to become a monthly cycle, is it ? "i don't like this vtree" "do you have a patch ?" "no, i just don't like it" "well... come back with a patch"
mircea_popescu: Mocky why the hell would anyone do that to themselves.
mircea_popescu: osmanli harems were populated by the valide sultan, ie, mother of guy.
mircea_popescu: ie, unibrows, moustaches, bellybutton lint, you know, the COMPLETE
mircea_popescu: lol you saw the pics with that obscure middle earth harem, all chicks with mustachios ?
mircea_popescu: literally sounds like cognate of pula, dick. but is ancient latin. can also have viermuiala (wormization)
mircea_popescu: well so of course if upstream fixes something, downstream will have to either import or lose out. this can't be different nor is in any known system.
mircea_popescu: or you mean "regrind the patch" ? usually regrind means you know, the whole tree.
mircea_popescu: the 5 don't have to regrind anymore than you do, can just import the patch.
mircea_popescu: well, where they still c, which is rapidly dwindling (no doubt for this reason -- and batshit insane nonsense like "containers" and "rubies" and whatnot verymuch have their roots in we-were-born-in-gnusty-makefiles-taste-ok"
mircea_popescu: it's kinda mindboggling to me, how readily that seeming tooth-rooted-in-yggdrasil got removed.
mircea_popescu: i think there's three previous instances on the whole net of "i dun miss gnumake"
mircea_popescu: at some point in the 80s, finland-sweden-norway-and-peripheralia were a kind of internet center.
mircea_popescu: yeah, that was the thing "northern democracies" pantsuit meme is trying to take to the hot topic cash register.