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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.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's recent. they usually heal markless these days.
mircea_popescu: adlai you don't understand. there's some standard items involved.
mircea_popescu: industrial process is industrial process, they're all the same shape.
mircea_popescu: well, they're basically "classic" and "high profile". you can prolly fill in.
mircea_popescu: THAT is the middle nao. imagine, a century ago that middle was maybe... two per million ?
mircea_popescu: "decided to go in the middle and get 550cc high profile"
mircea_popescu: bagels7 unless you meet the standard you may not discuss the standard.
mircea_popescu: adlai the people that purport to make a law to prevent a rich guy from buying the government one bum at a time.
mircea_popescu: adlai i find the pretense of the israeli middle class so amusing. AS IF they being exceptional, they'll manage to keep teh gawker.il at bay.
mircea_popescu: what do you prioritize in cars, that the brakes don't work or that the engine doesn';t work ?
mircea_popescu: i don't prioritize. my tradeoff is like this : i trade off your tradeoff for no tradeoff.
mircea_popescu: saifedean if she's 1.80 or above she can wear heels so she can look you in the eye.
mircea_popescu: course teh standards i espoused above are exactly opposite to this, so dunno what you're on about.
mircea_popescu: 31 inches and a half hips and tits ; 23 inches and a half waistline.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` 1.80 is the 71 inches minimum height of a sexy woman.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how much 19yo prime (1.80, 80/60/80 or better) goes for in raqqa.
mircea_popescu: heh. i imagine the porn based on this will last forever.
mircea_popescu: Speaking of Yazidi women captured by ISIS, Nazand Begikhani said, "These women have been treated like cattle... They have been subjected to physical and sexual violence, including systematic rape and sex slavery. They've been exposed in markets in Mosul and in Raqqa, Syria, carrying price tags."
mircea_popescu: saifedean the world doesn't seem to have been putting up that much of a fight, mind.