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mircea_popescu: no but wait. WHY is it
that programmers don't write like mp.
diana_coman: in my days at uni I failed students precisely because of
trying
that idea
diana_coman: not monkeys pressing levers until
the light
turns on or whatever
diana_coman: in my book programmers are exactly
those who write code as a rational creation
diana_coman: asciilifeform> other reason is
that most programmers don't write code in
the sense
that, e.g., mircea_popescu writes essays. instead,
they
take a shit, and strip away elements of
the shit until
the compiler is happy and
the 'tests' pass. <- fwiw I don't
think
that
those are programmers
hanbot: maybe we're
talking of very different people, or whatever. but i've never seen or heard of anyone more effervescently challenging of other's illusions
than mp.
☟︎ hanbot: for
that matter Framedragger i start on
that dpaste out of curiosity, run into "Getting out of
the way:
The most basic level is based on avoidingchallenging others’ delusions, and factoring
them into your own
thinking.
The “organizing” merely involves arranging matters so
things and people you care about are moved out of
the way of an impending
train wreck."
mircea_popescu: anyway, ima fish out "how #b-a started" later, it's like
two lines.
mircea_popescu: lol. why's he keep lying anyway ? it didn't work
the previous n
times, gonna work next ?
hanbot: "ftr when he joined
this place, it was purely about business and so was he. later he was wrapping business in propaganda, which is
tolerable, as
the core is solid. now he is wrapping propaganda in business wrap, at which point it becomes intolerable for any reasonable mind." << i don't, for example, seem
to remember
the same
thing. at all.
hanbot: i find
the hypocrisy outrageous. so i guess i care.
hanbot: lol kakobrekla is still in his self-justifying
tailspin i see?
a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 09:54 mircea_popescu: ps : why is "common wisdom" in agreement
that "no man could possibly hold 1mn lines of code in head" when i actually have 10mn words worth of
trilema articles in my head ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, for argentine as well as any derps who have nfi what "night life" means : follow along
the fucking pictures
http://www.clujlife.com with
the knowledge
that a)
the nudes aren't published, by convention, but girls go naked all
the
time ; b) it's a
tiny fucking
town, half a mil population if
the school's in session.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger well yeah but
this was a specific lulzpocalypse.
mircea_popescu: no charges were pressed, of course, because silk road is
totally where crime happens, rather
than
the back offices of each and every single ivy league "college" / real estate scam
Framedragger: yeahyeah
the whole weather modelling in
the future based on specific chosen parameters and models is hilarious, and gets regurgitated by media etc, i
too have general aversion
to
this; does not mean
that all of it is useless but hell if
they don't show how
they got
there
then
that's even more ridiculous
mircea_popescu: (that were
trying
to
take over
the public spending in
this field)
mircea_popescu: and b) a RICO-worthy criminal conspiracy, replete with fraud etc,
to marginalize, intimidate and if need be assassinate "opponents" as defined by a group of nuts
☟︎ mircea_popescu: a) a model
that you could put anything in, such as
the weighs or
the ages of your past girflriends,
to
take out
the same exact pattern
mircea_popescu: what
they had done was,
take ~50 years of atmospheric data, "reconstruct" on its basis about 100k years of imaginary history,
then show on
the basis of
this projection rebranded as "data"
that
TEMPERATURES ARE RAISING!!11\
mircea_popescu: back in 2010ish, some derps from us academia came with "proof" of
the (at
the
time still called) global warming nonsense, in
the shape of a much-loved-bymedia "golf cross pattern".
☟︎ Framedragger: mircea_popescu: heh can't find much on
the internets for "golf club pattern" indeed, but also don't get its initial idea/appeal? O.O
a111: Logged on 2015-06-08 15:46 jurov:
they have api limit 6000/hour
mircea_popescu: seriously
though, one of
the best meta-patterns. "this is how stupid people
think
things go." sort-of like
the matchbox sign in clinical psychopathology : once you see
the guy bringing you little boxes you know he's got Morgellons ; once he whips out
the golf club patterns you know he's got stupid.
mircea_popescu: the notion
that "navajo culture" is ridiculous on its face. it's entirely built on equivocation between
the
term of art (EVERYTHING noetic is "a culture" in say anthropology) and
the common
term (no,
the united states does not have a culture ; even if it has a civilisation. let alone fucking navajo - never had one, never could have had one.)
Framedragger: i suppose
this is "fuck you am dragon"
territory?
Framedragger: article literally starts with quote "Two-Spirit people balance society,
the world, and
the cosmos."
mircea_popescu: navajo feminist gender activism ? what
the everloving.
Framedragger: ""My own work differentiates
the mere intersection of Native and queer representations from a
two-spirit gaze by noting a
two-spirit gaze’s greater focus on
traditionalist, nationalist, and activist representations of community-identified
two-spirit images.7 Given a critical mass in
two-spirit Navajo film and
the strength of Navajo cultural, feminist, and gender activism,
this article foregrounds Navajo LGBTQ2 gazes on
two-spirit Navaj
Framedragger: the navajo gaze seems
to originate at least in part from an article called something like
the navajo spirit gaze
mircea_popescu: incredible how much empty noise
three people can make, especially should
they be
the sort of people who couldn't ever find a job, once liberated from
the need
to look for one.
Framedragger: wikipedia mentions "navajo spirit" something something in connection with
that acronym?!
mircea_popescu: Framedragger are
these
the "fuck you, i'm a dragon" nuts ?
Framedragger: "LGBTQ2 refers
to people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, queer/questioning or
two-spirited."
mircea_popescu: meanwhile,
they added another coupla letters
to "lgbt" ? i wonder how long before it smashes
the stack.
mircea_popescu: romanian "nazi" press is having all
the conceivable lolz because "the boss of
the faggot jews" (ie, LGBTQ mission
to Israel) is one Kurlander. (cur = ass in romanian,
the poor guy's name sounds exactly on
the money)
mircea_popescu: "if you let
the sheep in,
the sheep scent soon follows."
Framedragger: i just wanted
to quote
this exact sentence lol - yeah another fruity area
Framedragger: would still be curious
to write/find a
tool which detects low hanging fruit for EC ssh host keys / keys with shitty parameters
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: if you mean "nobody smart",
then
that's one
thing, but if you mean in
terms of actual numbers,
then i'd probably have
to disagree. shitloads of ecdsa ssh host public keys anyway (stats and breakdown
to be published at some point in
teh future)
mircea_popescu: lol compromised in
the attack : spotify, python core and crypto libs, django and ruby.
mircea_popescu: in other news, nobody uses ecdsa. considering what
they spent
trying
to get people on it... such success.
Framedragger: "After realising I have a public key database of most users on GitHub, I remembered back
to
the May 2008 Debian OpenSSH bug, where
the randomness source was compromised
to
the point where
the system could only generate one of 32k keys in a set. I used g0tmi1k’s set of keys
to compare against what I had in my database, and found a very large amount of users who are still using vulnerable keys, and even worse, have commit access
to some
mircea_popescu: speaking of
that, asciilifeform any idea how it's possible
that Submissions: 3305302 Known Moduli: 2708380 Moduli Waiting for
Test: 3677 ? shouldn't
these add up ?
☟︎ Framedragger: this also means
that potentially a large amount of vulnerable/shit keys have been removed from github since
then
BingoBoingo: Using you loc allowance for Disney does
that
mircea_popescu: lol. and even better - he wanted
to buy it,
to show how easy it is.
then it wasn't easy. but instead of publishing a piece about how "i
thought it was easy -
turns out it's not", he has a ...
BingoBoingo: Apparently
they couldn't agree on which reserved words
take precedence in
the order of operations
mircea_popescu: i suppose
that's how
the whole soypizdi
thing should go,
too. "no
ty, you're a dude" "I AM NOT A DUDE I AM A STUDENT!!!"
mircea_popescu: i don't get it. gun shop refused selling
to alcoholic wifebeater, he identifies as "journalist" and butthurts all over ?
mircea_popescu: but yeah,
this is a pretty good model. "natural language is just like a computer language
that had no // or quotations." "so how do i know magic strings, and comments, from code ?" "your mother."
mircea_popescu: just because
the comment-out is communicated in-band rather
than explicitly given as // or whatever doesn't mean it's strongly
typed.
BingoBoingo: WHen you start kicking errors because "just want
to" makes soemthing overflow
BingoBoingo: Because you can quarentine nonsense as isolated strings and lol about
them. If you can't do
that
they'd eventually start making you stupid.
BingoBoingo: Also natural languages are strongly
typed.
mircea_popescu: so basically you're saying natural language works because interpretable rather
than compiled ?
BingoBoingo: Like any other string
that doesn't parse
to meaningful code.
BingoBoingo: alf failed
to pars
the "just want
to" and made a point of
the statement not parsing. It's not made for parsing
though because jwz just wants
to. Nothing wrong with
tossing around
the "just wants
to" as a string like any other
though.
BingoBoingo: alf
tried
to parse
the jwz "just want
to" as an instruction whereas you
treated it as a antifact of
the broken jwz
BingoBoingo: Some baskets hold water, others you get at
the gift shop
BingoBoingo: Like how alf fails
to parse
the jwz "just want
to"
BingoBoingo: Seriouly defect has
to limit what
they can hold
mircea_popescu: is
this a perception problem, a language problem, what ?
mircea_popescu: ps : why is "common wisdom" in agreement
that "no man could possibly hold 1mn lines of code in head" when i actually have 10mn words worth of
trilema articles in my head ?
☟︎ BingoBoingo: But yeah
the challenge is how
to do editor's pics
BingoBoingo: you get
to link yourself later for context
mircea_popescu: maybe articles like
that should include an "editor's pick" and
then once a year we could
total how well qntra did.