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mircea_popescu: well, unless someone's VERY bored and wants
to do a deconstruction/reconstruction of
the lizard agitprop into actual
text...
mircea_popescu: so basically, let me get
this straight,
trap from nz with a history of beauty pageants etc, forked some gnu software, nobody cared,
then a few years later is
trying
to run with it and get credit for
the intellectual
theft ?
a111: Logged on 2016-02-29 16:55 asciilifeform: so at
this point i'm satisfied
that rms either 1) does not actually use an x60 machine with 'libreboot' ~~or~~ does not program.
mircea_popescu: anyway, sounds like cheap drama. and it can't be
THAT seeing how rms used a laptop before 2013.
mircea_popescu: dude... who
the fuck wants as much as a farthing's worth of pest control work from someone who regards
their mentally deranged state as manifest in
their subjective confusion re
their sex as an integral part of
the process ?
pete_dushenski: that such 'excuses' pass for acceptability is
the height of insanity
scriba: their brain) does not match
their anatomical sex or gender assigned at birth. Many who ar
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-20: [15:59:38] <asciilifeform> 'Libreboot left
the GNU project on 15 September 2016.
The FSF revealed itself
to be hostile
towards
trans people, so libreboot voluntarily decided
to leave
the GNU project, because
the lead developer of libreboot is
transgender herself. For
those in
the community who are unaware, a
transgender person is someone whose internal gender identity (in
mircea_popescu: incidentally,
the penrose book is great ; and as woit aptly points out a very good basis for groking
the current affairs re qm/st/etc.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, "He explains
that characterizing
this as “fantasy” is not meant
to be purely critical,
that “fantasizing” about
the moment of
the big bang is what
theorists do in
the absence of compelling evidence, and
that he just has other fantasies he
thinks worthwhile."
pete_dushenski: i guess i'm just unaccustomed
to
thinking of everything in sexual
terms.
pete_dushenski: ok, reflecting on a rather delicious romp last night, i can see
the sexual == parenting angle.
mircea_popescu: depends. if you
think yeast is a metaphysical process
then it indeed needn't.
mircea_popescu: (there is no other basis for ontology in human affairs - if something breaks from phenomenology into being,
they will be doing it on sexual basis)
mircea_popescu: it is ontology not phenomenology.
the serf is no more
than his shackles.
mircea_popescu: (for
the innocent : a factory is, originally, where
the factors go. and a factor is someone who is empowered
to handle money in relation
to, eg, indian fur gatherers/traders)
mircea_popescu: that adventure - very much linked
to
the permanent-factory building.
mircea_popescu: nobody
thought in
terms of "being employed" cca 1650 ; nor much
today.
mircea_popescu: anyway. funny how
the adventure of "employment" played out, as a concept.
mircea_popescu: which, incidentally, was
the mode of commerce pre-industry as well as post.
pete_dushenski: maybe pyramids were low maintenance, but in
this climate ~everything~ wears.
the expansion and contraction caused by 75C seasonal variation, combined with
the short construction season, means
that bricks CANNOT BE STRUCTURAL MATERIALS. vapour barrier and insulation is sine qua non
mircea_popescu: "impractical" and "too expensive" ;
they use metallic structure now. EXACTLY as permanent as circus
tent.
mircea_popescu: you still see
the actual industrial buildings, eg here. brick with windows emplaced etc.
mircea_popescu: actually, industrial buildings moved
to
tents in
the 60s/70s, with
the great move
to china.
pete_dushenski: you
think
this is somehow unique
to residential construction because
that's what you're familiar with. it isn't. commercial, industrial, etc are all
the same. news flash : building require maintenance.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform:
ticky
tacky houses in 1960s were also designed
to last as long as mortgage, yet many still stand. just need updated plumbing, electrical, bathrooms... bones are fine
pete_dushenski: lol even if
that requires banging out
the next gen at 20
shinohai: "We've lived in
the same
trailer for 50 years!"
pete_dushenski: not sure about
that. even for houses 'enduring' should be satisfied by multi-generational.
pete_dushenski: and what does 'enduring' mean
then ? 10 seconds for einsteinium ? 10 millenia for pyramid ?
pete_dushenski: it's also a hell of a way
to leave one's fingerprint on
the world after he's gone.
pete_dushenski: more enduring symbols of society exist not.
the rarely interacted with written word aside, built structures are how we understand
the past.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-15 20:48 asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i find
the focus on
the cosmetic when
the functional elements are 'dangerous
to self and
to others' in 1,001 ways,
to be also a
typically american lunacy.
shinohai: We only had "learn
to spy" lessons, not "learn
to fly"
Framedragger: asciilifeform: not arguing here
though; i just recall mathjax working nicely in wp, served from server; but, yes, lots of js
mircea_popescu: but hey, at least
the-shithead-bureaucrat-who-inherited-apple gets
to have his day in
the sun about whether
the glyph for "gun" should be "water pistol"
mircea_popescu: how cool it is
that we ate all
the bugs and errors from "supporting utf", because look -
there's no fucking glyph-based way
to latex, in 2016.
☟︎ Framedragger: i know you dont care about mobile users because
they suck mircea_popescu , but what's nice with rendered fonts is
that
they scale nicely; among other
things
mircea_popescu: Framedragger look at
the example given ; it's an image.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, if anyone wants
to check how wordpress does latex formatting and roll a mp-wp plugin / v update for it
that'd be grand. in
typical faux open source style,
they're remarkably unhelpful with it (see
https://en.support.wordpress.com/latex/ )
mircea_popescu: i can't recall now if it was from
the mp or
the wp part of
the family, but i
think mostly
the latter really.
Framedragger: well,
the webserver needs not
to get confused if it is asked
to serve /some/hipster/post where neither
that file nore /some/hipster/index.* exists; it needs
to pass uri as parameter
to index.php
trinque: and I've swapped around
those URL settings since install
mircea_popescu: puts a -d in
there, once, when you set it up ; builds its own flalback.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it wouldn't need
to alter it however. afaik mp-wp doesn't either ; handles redirects itself like a grown-up system ??
Framedragger: asciilifeform: but you can edit .htaccess (or nginx directives for
the site) yourself, at least
that's what i did in
the past iirc.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-20: [14:26:03] <scriba> Logged on 2016-09-20: [07:35:31] <mircea_popescu>
http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160920/#6 << nice! but asciilifeform consider fixing your urls,
this ?p=blabla is for
the dogs. and lafond i guess, but really, most yahoo
thing one can do blogging.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160920/#143 << i have no idea ; mp-wp would handle it automatically (in
the sense
that i can at any
time / for any reason change url, old one gets redir
to new one ; and also can switch from ?p=
to proper
title url seamlessly). no idea however about alf-wp
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-20: [13:19:58] <Framedragger> mircea_popescu: does your wp comments box support basic html
tags (such as href)? (i know it supports
them when posting comments from *within* wp's dashboard)
ben_vulpes: also i have an wwwtronix expert sitting next
to me