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mircea_popescu: i read it in the very logs, months ago, months after it occurred.
mircea_popescu: and while at it, hey esthlos when you summarize this, do me a favour and link the discussion of globalization, integration, and sociopolitical construct evolution, yes ? :D
mircea_popescu: fucking cursed am i, started writing an article an hour ago, still trying to dig myself out of the web of references spewed out by ~the first god damned paragraph~!
mircea_popescu: incidentally, since we're doing lost arts, where the fuck did i state the pantsuit's problem of integration (ie, that pantsuitism doesn't stand a chance in the republic because the republic integrates it) in the terminology that "this sword cuts for them a portion of the way and for us the whole way" ? ie, that they're always dependent on state, whatever shit they come up with gotta be carefully ~stopped~ on various slippery
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in the end, meaningful socialism depends on this, yes ? if it weren't the [injust, btw] "control of the means of reading", anyone could be a factory owner. no ? are not all people born capable of reading ? it is only the envious piling up of glasses by ~some~ that prevent ~the rest of us~ from reading. especially the young.
mircea_popescu: generally, the infant's "that man reads, give me his glasses so i may read too", carefully preserved as a ~useful~ fatal flaw in the taxpayer's brain by the flawed establishment.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a wide swath, from thinking self wasted on washing floors to getting on irc and then resetting the connection fifty hundred times, and tons of other items more context dependant.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i know, i run into it with aspiring 20something girlies ALLLL the time.
mircea_popescu: in the immortal words of a certain young adult, "but you're ~good~ ~here~."
mircea_popescu: the other half is because they're being uppity, trying to approach problems out of their pay grade.
mircea_popescu: half the time people encounter "hard" problems is because they're trying to use the wrong tools to approach imaginary problems
mircea_popescu: the piece describes attempt to implement your earlier solution and what's wrong with it.
mircea_popescu: lol. in my notes, the correct pill turned out ~because~ of that.
mircea_popescu: the idea is, literally, can not name amoeba, indistinguishable. must distinguish to name.
mircea_popescu: problems being that a) i already linked it and b) doesn't even say "name"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what happens to be iyo the cannonical piece re "mp explains non-wot items can't properly be said to have a name" ?
mircea_popescu: jesus christ what fucking influence ? the soviets had intellectual leadership, who the everloving fuck can take the pantsuit seriously ?!
mircea_popescu: theres a whole lot of that in eulora as well. and in ~all cpp-gui offerings past 20 yearsd
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-07-08#1832784 << let's flesh this out a little, while at it. podophyllotoxin, active ingredient in mandrake root, is not only toxic but actually damages dna (ties the strand to topoisomerase, and prevents religation). this happens to be useful in some medical contexts (neoplasm management, basically). enter etoposide and teniposide, one with a methyl the other with a thienyl. otherwise, same item.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: (yes, i'm using this to raise the army that'll surgerize trb, of course, of course)
mircea_popescu: the usual "why magic number ?" question goes doubly so for thread counts -- if your program has a fixed thread count it's not multi-threaded, it's badly written.
mircea_popescu: except this, perfectly available, intellectual stance -- very much not stroustrup
mircea_popescu: argument could even be brought "and then, idiots went and wrote linux in it".
mircea_popescu: there's nothing wrong with this, incidentally. exploration is exploration. "we're trying things out, go away" is a perfectly legitimate state of affairs.
mircea_popescu: ~why~ did it have to change, and ~why~ was it there in the first place then. these gotta be addressed, wtf pseudo-rational process is this.
mircea_popescu: somehow the idiocy of democracy, "we have a new senate" "what was wrong with the old one ?" "huh ?" is supposed to steal our wits with the eyes attached, and leave us believing that "this is how it goes" or something ?
mircea_popescu: it's readily suspicious, when the following elements meet : a) a new set is promoted that includes some of the elements of the previous set but b) there's no discussion of why exactly some were left out, in substantial terms of what was wrong with them that reach all the way to the root and c) the author is apparently unaware that the a-b combo is the principal signal of idiocy.
mircea_popescu: "I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that crap from only a few years of my childhood. " << that poor guy. i'd say on reflection this is utterly the engineerhead problem, "takes a whole adult life to unlearn five lines of socialist idiocy a stupid woman poured into the 3yo head"
mircea_popescu: "In the first incident a SEATAC ground crew member 29 year old Richard Russell" << could use some commas.
mircea_popescu: how did the monk that hated laughter go, "but a splendid, eternal recapitulation".
mircea_popescu: ok, labour saving, but gotta actually save labour you know ?
mircea_popescu: if she whispers "i love you, master" just as you feel her asshole tear you might deeply regret having missed hearing it ; but if alf says (yes ? name not pronoun ?) c++ bungled smart pointers, what am i going to miss ? it's not fucking going away. if only it did. it's not. the reason he fucking said it, even is because the damned thing won't go away already.
mircea_popescu: the necessary correlate to "no, you can't have your lunch and eat it too, just as you couldn't when you asked me earlier, and just as you won't later on", ie, "you won't get the answer you wish to hear no matter how many times you ask", ie, immutably in front of idiocy -- there's not that much to lose, not really, out of public conversation.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: otherwise this mega-logotron is actually larger than the freenode it logs. might as well use IT then instead.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-14#1841351 << this sounds like the fucking lamborghini of all logotrons. seriously, connect ~two~ clients to ~each~ ircd and then have them ring-vote ? i agree it's the correct design, fwiw, but maybe hold off on implementation some time ?
☝︎ mircea_popescu: otherwise what, one day you accidentally cut your kbd cable while playing with cnc mill, phf is stuck putting code into a111 to bridge electric airgap ?
mircea_popescu: ok, but the problem is how to solve. "speak otherwise" seems right thing ; "change its hearing" seems wrong thing.
mircea_popescu: how is logotron going to decide for you what you ~meant to~ have public.
mircea_popescu: or from the other structure looking in towards this same thing, the ~state~ of being public is something to be set by the participants, not by the fucking scribe.
mircea_popescu: you either did it or didn't do it, we can't just invent doers by looking around, can we now.
mircea_popescu: if you did it, it was deliberate. that's the definition of "you".
mircea_popescu: error : abstract symbol "deliberate" doesn't admit to be defined formally.
mircea_popescu: involuntary privacy is to be resolved by the parties involved, not by the logger.
mircea_popescu: the very deliberate, and very plain gossipd-philosophy roots of logotrons are indeed not to be forgotten, either.
mircea_popescu: it's one thing to want it... and another thign to dream it.
mircea_popescu: the guy that was going to make a working satellite fell into latrine and sunk under weight of wristwatch (that included laptop).
mircea_popescu: "why did russian inventors not develop airplane ?" "and many did the stove crush as it went."