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jurov: kakobrekla
i have older logs for sale... almost uninterrupted since last september or so ;)
benkay: "maybe
i'll come down! maybe
I won't!"
kakobrekla: well
i searched for a premade solutions
kakobrekla:
i dunno if its much use to you really ... unless
i give you assbot too ya know
cads: hehe, truly
I am a lazy developer (
I know full well that there have got to be turn key solutions for chat logging, already)
cads: kakobrekla:
I might need that capability for one of my chat channels
benkay: that's not what
i assed for
cads: the only twitter people
I actually care to follow are dead authors - @kurt_vonnegut, mostly
cads: mircea_popescu:
I have the same issue -
I followed a bunch of people because they said something cool once or twice about category theory, haskell, or 3d printing, and the rest is all stuff about how their cat is awesome
benkay: actually
i know the answer to that
cads:
I mean, you think
I'll continue talking to you if
I can expect ridicule and if even your contemporaries call you a troll?
cads: jurov,
I'm not there yet, lol
jurov: but
i know when to stop
tiberiusiv:
i love how ex junkies think people want to listen to them
cads: tiberius, and if that's true, then
I salute you
☟︎ cads: tiberiusiv: and you are not someone that needs to hear what
I have to say
cads: tiberiusiv: you may of course ignore all
I have to say
cads: tiberiusiv: it's not something
I could address till
I admitted, basically
cads: mircea_popescu:
I share mostly because from time to time people hear my story, and ask me about how they can get clean
cads: mircea_popescu:
I don't mind talking about my substance problem -
I'm amazed and embarrased -
I kicked speed and heroin to the curb back in 2007, but
I thought pot and booze were fine. It's shameful that those brought me lower than anything else has. It's... refreshing to finally be in a spot where
I can say _no_ drug is _ever_ going to be a good
mircea_popescu: still waiting for the speed freak going "well it was getting unmanageable so
i'm taking a year off to deleverage and see what happens"
mircea_popescu: da fuck this is the first time
i hear someone say that.
cads: copumpkin: classes were boring. Substance abuse got unmanageable, and my debt was insane.
I'm taking a year or two off to work on my sobriety, to work my same old job as a machinist and deleverage my debt a bit, and to wait and see what happens with higher education.
cads:
I remember
I was writing my college application, and you gave me your encouragement
copumpkin: nah,
I was in a new england university :) but
I quit my phd and moved on
cads: hmm, am
I right to remember that last we talked ( a couple years ago) you were a grad student in midwest university?
copumpkin:
I could, since my job doesn't check, but not particularly interested
copumpkin:
I've never actually done it in the US
cads: not that it's of any consequence (
I had to quit, but
I don't judge)
cads: haha, copumpkin
I never knew you partoked
Chaaang-Noi: if
i did the euope thing or whever im sure id hook up with a local girl
copumpkin:
I think traveling alone and meeting cool people in hostels is also fun
copumpkin:
I'm not sure it would suck, but if you have a SO it would be kind of weird not to do it with them :)
Chaaang-Noi: id love to do it, but think it would suck if
i did it alone
copumpkin: so
I had to buy a new pass in the middle of the trip because
I got the EU one
Chaaang-Noi: but my wife will have a hard time getting visa
i bet cuz she is thai
copumpkin:
I bought it legally in amsterdam, had most of it, and then forgot about it until
I got to slovenia
copumpkin: it was just the end of a little baggie
I had with me while traveling around europe
Chaaang-Noi:
i dont cross boarders with it, never never never
copumpkin: oh
I meant that had
I known how harsh their laws were,
I wouldn't have dreamt of doing that
Chaaang-Noi: <copumpkin>
I accidentally smoked a bit in Budapest
copumpkin:
I crossed the Hungary/Croatia border with a little bit of weed and that's apparently a big source of international tension with Hungary, because Hungary is super hardcore about drugs and will throw you in jail for 15 years without a trial for 5, and quite a few foreigners are in that situation
copumpkin:
I accidentally smoked a bit in Budapest
Chaaang-Noi:
i have the urge to smoke some weed, have not done so in years, odd
zebedee_: Lol. It's why
I learnt Japanese at least.
zebedee_: You seem to be not too far from Koh Samet -
I was there in Feb!
Chaaang-Noi: should
i invite him to nana?
i honestly know almost nothing about him so
i dont know if he is cool or not
zebedee_: Ah right.
I was in Siam Reap in November.
cads: mircea_popescu,
I think you've inspired me to put a beginning of a story on my (currently nearly empty) blog.
zebedee_: Yeah; that's why
I thought you had too many THB.
zebedee_:
I was assuming you'd show me a QR on your mobile, but whatever.
Chaaang-Noi:
i can send you an address before hand but dont send until we meet and
i show you the cash
zebedee_: Of course;
I send to a BTC address :)
Chaaang-Noi: he has not responced once
i confirmed the dats
zebedee_: If you want to sell THB then
I'll buy some off you. If you don't it's cool.
Chaaang-Noi: oh right, sorry,
i did not read that collectly
zebedee_: No
I want THB.
I'm indifferent to dropping some BTC or JPY.
zebedee_: You wanna sell THB? If not
I'll just dump some JPY notes.
zebedee_: Oh
I thought you had too many.
I don't have any.
Chaaang-Noi: zebedee_ im not in a bad way but
i could buy some thai baht, you in thailand?
mircea_popescu: or if it is, it's personal rather than cultural.
i couldn't care less what some japanese dude finds beautiful.
zebedee_:
I've seen others and there's a lot lacking, to my eyes at least.
zebedee_: Nothing wrong with enjoying getting tied up.
I like both ends myself.
mircea_popescu: for the record,
i never met a sane mathematician who was any good.
cads: It's not a longing sentiment, since we had our issues, and she's still a toker, and
I still am sober, thought you're probably right, it would not hurt her to know that
I marvel and take joy in the high points of our relationship
zebedee_: Chaaang-Noi:
I'll buy some THB from you for BTC if you're in a bad way.
cads: not at the time, and not since
I heard she was settling down -
I was muddled up back then, and more recently
I figured she has a chance at happiness with her guy, and have wished that to her.
cads:
I stopped hanging out with her to get sober and start hanging out with a vocalist/painter, and then a year later
I found she's engaged -
I wonder if she knows
I still have sentiment.. it's not something
I thought
I had
cads: maybe she was on to the truth and
I squelched her breakthrough!
cads: it's like, naive set theory without talking about the axiom of choice, or the axiom of infinity, or the implications.. part of the reason
I recently dropped out - if this is what the undergraduate math degree means here,
I'm not interested in it
mircea_popescu: anyway, it is my considered opinion (along with,
i wager, most everyone else's) that positively the ONLY way that's getting show to be inconsistent is
cads: it was strange, like a cognitive blindspot -
I tried what you suggest, and a few other approaches that
I invented just during that conversation (which have been useful in similar situation).
I lost a lot of faith in her as a mathematician, but regained it in the morning - she was chattering like a bluejay about how she now sees why she was wrong in her reasoning and why
I was right: her intuition was that you can't just infinitely exte
mircea_popescu: by "easily provable"
i mean easily showable to the intuitive approach
cads: we got to isomorphism classes between ordered set, and
I tried at long length to motivate that the real numbers were not countable, and she kept coming up with silly schemes to try to count them, because to her, at the time, it was absolutely absurd for there two be two infinite sets with qualitatively different amounts of infiniteness