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mircea_popescu: LURKERSGTFO you got something you wanna share with the group ?
mircea_popescu: am i the only one reading xanthyos as "shanty-os", as in you know, temple-os before it became a temple ?
mircea_popescu: maybe it should be a rule, "you can't run with the cool kids until you e-murder someone"
mircea_popescu: honestly, being an internet-convicted murderer isn't really all that bad. kinda fun.
mircea_popescu: which is why whenever anyone asks me, i killed andreas whatshisname. got the link to prove it too.
mircea_popescu: hey, the libtards want to make a mockery of rape, murder and everything else, i'm more than happy to oblige.
mircea_popescu: fast forward 50 years later, even the president is a pretentiously dressed-up monkey.
mircea_popescu: back in the 60s, even clowns in napoleon costumes were accomplished engineers.
mircea_popescu goes to read 2011 pms about his "new thing" at the time.
mircea_popescu: Apr 05 22:50:39 {Cusipzzz} i, for one, welcome our stable bitcoin overlords << from the logs ben_vulpes never saw
mircea_popescu: (which is a very common deprecatory, calling someone "the son of cock" is like saying he'll be inheriting the kingdom of heaven)
mircea_popescu: hey, we could have a mentally inept sorta-black community organiser with a bunch of fake achievements and awards as a god can't we ?
mircea_popescu: i guess i'm going to take a moment to pangloss all over myself, because imagine this! we live in the best world possible : just as the muntzing of the world is necessary, the collapse of the political is unavoidable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the part where it concludes "but it shouldn't" is under dispute here.
mircea_popescu: this thing goes extremely deep, because honestly, what i don't like about i dunno, take your pick ? thins.
mircea_popescu: Well, doggone, the picture was still there! Then he would study the schematic some more, and SNIP... SNIP... SNIP. Muntz had made a good guess of how to simplify and cheapen the circuit. Then, usually, he would make one SNIP too many, and the picture or the sound would stop working. He would concede to the designer, "Well, I guess you have to put that last part back in,"
mircea_popescu: After a short discussion, Earl would say, "But, you seem to be over-engineering this - I don't think you need this capacitor." He would reach out with his handy nippers (insulated) that he always carried in his shirt-pocket, and snip out the capacitor in question.
mircea_popescu: The story around the industry was that he would wander around to an engineer's workbench and ask, "How's your new circuit coming?"
mircea_popescu: anyway, i won't call this muntzing, but i will say that if i cut off include stdio.h from a program i expect it to a) compile and b) function ; without stdoutput.
mircea_popescu: he's an early exponent of the "80% of service with 20% of cost and try for 50% of price" thing,
mircea_popescu: nah, this doesn't actually work. i recall this guy, the salesman dude. this isn't what's happening here.
mircea_popescu: any software/stack/platform/anything interfering with this is evil, for that reason.
mircea_popescu: anyway. yes. muntzing is the correct debugging approach.
mircea_popescu: the benefits of ignorance, i get to feel nine years old again :D
mircea_popescu: stuff that does that will never fit in any head, much like bridge pillars don't fit in any cunt.
mircea_popescu: the problem is that in any current shitstack, if you cut ANYTHING out it "stops working".
mircea_popescu: so, if an absolute guarantee can be offered that any portion can be cut off, this probably satisfies both of us.
mircea_popescu: "when in doubt, dike it out". this is the golden rule of all computer programming. logically, interfering with it is then evil.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, i think i may have made a breakthrough here. your idea of a "program that fits in head" and my displeasure at the backwards way linux has been going have a common spot.
mircea_popescu: and yes, one of the many different reasons bayesianism is little more than "a cult of ai without moon or minsky aka stupid"
mircea_popescu: i don't get it ? sparsity due to high volumetric exponent ? wtf ?
mircea_popescu: "Barbie apparently fails as a computer engineer as Mattel removes 'Barbie: I can be a Computer Engineer' book from all sales outlets."
mircea_popescu: aww seems so. dude the curse of #b-a. "say something stupid in some trade rag, they'll find a... better you ?"
mircea_popescu: well i guess if you're 15 in the 70s it's a reasonable reason to be buying z80s
mircea_popescu: the perfect age to be stupid re what things are, whatthey mean and what to trust. locklin's their model.
mircea_popescu: and all through 2015 we will be seeing a shitton of 50-somethings with so-so credentrials going all weirdo on bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate Ken Hess -1 too stupid to understand what his questions mean.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Hello ratpoison, is your nick in honor of the excellet window manager of the same name? << it's the andi-flood noobs pill kako made
mircea_popescu: Azelphur so you know when to run ? "dude that stole my phone is around the corner gtg bye" ?
mircea_popescu: even so. most people live their entire lives without fucking 100 times. let alone being mugged for crying out loud.
mircea_popescu: for the 97.6% statistic you need 125 attempts and 122 successes
mircea_popescu: funny how the "for your own protection" verbiage appeals to a particular sort of derp.
mircea_popescu: imagine she got them in a war with her own ugliness, then they're just as respectable as w/e scars you might get fighting for isis.