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a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 17:36 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a lot of
the guy's complaints are in
the direction of "this is
too heavy
too hard
too etc" reminiscent of "beautiful one
tries
to go
to war"
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 17:32 mircea_popescu: first, i will crack all your fingers in
the piano.
THEN you MAY be allowed
to buy ancient laptop and learn
to gpg, MAYBE.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there's suppressive fire directed at pinning down
the enemy ; and
then
there's suppressive fire directed at silencing
that little voice in own head going "you're such a fucking idiot..."
mircea_popescu: worst fucking habit of grunts,
that even half-competent
trainer is permanently at war with, is "fire when out of ideas".
mircea_popescu: no, i'm not. but if you fire
the round you've fired
the round.
mircea_popescu: why
the fuck not, let's redefine a cultural notion of fairness unbased on reality.
a111: Logged on 2016-01-21 13:29 asciilifeform: 'if i make it what i
think is
the right size, it crashes!111'
mircea_popescu: fucking
training sargents don't pass.
then people wonder why it
takes 3mn rounds/kill. 99% it's not
the fucking hardware
mircea_popescu: anyway, go watch people use
their sighted item, score
them for corectness, be amazed.
mircea_popescu: "my rifle doesn't work in
the fog" "oh you're one of
those, are you"
mircea_popescu: they even make 2.5x scopes. "soo... what's
this do ?" "IT SCOPES!!!1"
mircea_popescu: (no, it's not
that you can do it ONCE, after prepping for 10 minutes. it is
that you do it every
time in .6 seconds.
that's correctly. it'\s a fucking rifle.)
mircea_popescu: amusingly i've yet
to meet someone who could use sights correctly.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a lot of
the guy's complaints are in
the direction of "this is
too heavy
too hard
too etc" reminiscent of "beautiful one
tries
to go
to war"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well part of derp's problem is
that
to her stupid head
there exists no enemies
ben_vulpes: are you seriously going
to drag a player piano out
the airplane when jumping behind enemy lines
mircea_popescu: "your job is called being a whore, forget
the journacrap"
ben_vulpes: "but i can't let go of
the ipnohe, it's got my email and facebookz!"
mircea_popescu: there is NOTHING WRONG with
tool killing SOME OF
the lusers. wrong is when
the
tool hurts
the lusers it didn't kill.
mircea_popescu: first, i will crack all your fingers in
the piano.
THEN you MAY be allowed
to buy ancient laptop and learn
to gpg, MAYBE.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: bitch you will buy a
three hundred dollar ancient craptop from
the bazaar and learn2gpg
ben_vulpes: "current
tastes and preferences of reporters"
mircea_popescu: some point between now and whenever decided not
to join
tmsr ?
mircea_popescu: rifle of Middle Eastern goat herders, guys named Abdullah, and backwoods militia
types who like
the fact
that it shoots cheap ammo and has ballistics like
their familiar .30-30." <<< amusingly,
these are actually quite good points.
mircea_popescu: "AK-47: Crude and inaccurate bullet
thrower designed by and for illiterate peasants. Chambered in a caliber
that manages
to cut
the ballistics of a proper .30-caliber battle rifle in half without passing on any weight savings
to
the grunt. Ergonomics only suitable for Russian midgets. Archaic cable
trigger spring, crummy sights, no sight radius
to speak of, no bolt hold-open device, and a clumsy safety. Favorite infantry
mats: i dun understand how
this'd prevent exfil when
the user eventually
turns on
the radio
to use it
mats: i don't see how
this could be workable either
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 15:29 mircea_popescu: "in america is
type from arsenal of name arsenal. is funny name
to me. is like american cheese of name american cheese." ahh
this guy is fucking epic.
mircea_popescu: sure, and every other palleative conceivable, outside of
the correct "if it doesn't fit in 27 it needn't be said."
mircea_popescu: "meta-alt-fuckyourmother" ? really ? i am not pushing
that!
mircea_popescu: aha. because you're copying me rather
than copying
the idiots with
their "programmer's claw" in doing it. if you wrote 50k lines of code a year you'd have it
too.
mircea_popescu: that's more
than a writer writes, were it
the good sort
that actually does write.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 15:37 mircea_popescu: phf most people who spent as much as i have with computers a) wear glasses b) have various complicated nerve and
tendon damage, esp wrist, elbow etc.
mircea_popescu: that method is "write
the fucking
thing out", aka "paint
the snow"
mircea_popescu: and
they also became literate
through a means, also specific and also apparently "unknown"
today, in
the "nfi" sense of "unknown" above.
mircea_popescu: which means a
thing, specific and apparently unknown
today.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but not because you don't know. you're intelligent enough
to know, and by rights should know. it's just
that
the stupid overrider in your brain overrides
the brain. it's like so : "we need
the speechwriters and ghostwriters
to
translate our symbols into
the plaintext of
they without proper huffman
tables"
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 15:34 phf: asciilifeform:
there seems
to be a significant lack of modifier keys
mircea_popescu: but in fairness, i would say i rely on a very specific sort of literacy. i have people do
things for me! you lot, all of you, are
the modern equivalent of a barony
that is neverthelss being run by
the ox-baron personally, by hand. because in
the future we have
this strange species of ox-man
that "can". of sorts, really, only 80% of
the can, but hey, who cares about broken fingers and other appednages as a result. HEAR
THE OXM
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 15:52 phf: " Emacs actually comes with a builting Emacs Aptitude
Test. Do you remap
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 05:21 asciilifeform: srsly when 'speechwriter' became a
thing, it was already high
time
to say 'enough'
phf:
the prerequisite aptitude
to use it productive.
phf: do anything
to make Emacs more convenient for yourself, you may not have
phf: your keyboard or
the Emacs keybindings before
the chords and sequences it
phf: " Emacs actually comes with a builting Emacs Aptitude
Test. Do you remap
☟︎ phf: i
think naggum had a quote about it
phf: you also rely on very deliberate, minimal
tooling. i could for example use nano
to write short python scripts, but i need intellij
to wrestle with large codebases, and "professional" programmer
tools have notoriously bad ergonomics. emacs is notorious for giving its users rsi, etc. but i agree, it can all be remedied with literacy
mircea_popescu: phf most people who spent as much as i have with computers a) wear glasses b) have various complicated nerve and
tendon damage, esp wrist, elbow etc.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 15:16 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1507789 << possibly because you never design computer in whole life. you look at fine desktop,
think it need crazy shit stick on all sides of unit. you have disease of american capitalist, change
thing
that is fine for no reason except
to look different from comrade. you put cheap rubber of chinese slave factory in keyboard, you put bad crt of mexican drug empire on other si
mircea_popescu: i will confess i almost never use
the fs and rarely if at all
the modifiers.
phf: the extra row of function keys looks nice
though