294200+ entries in 0.11s
mircea_popescu: this old world sort of nonsense can not endure my friends! i am making a company that will revolutionize drawing!
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, pencils are horribly unintuitive interfaces. think of all the great drawing in the world, and the poor user buying a pencil in the shop will draw what ? a cat ?
mircea_popescu: dealing with the fallout is learned, but using the things is innate.
mircea_popescu: MISSING PARAMETER AFTER "certain". please read your commandlinefu documentation and try again!!11
mircea_popescu: "Create a random file of a certain, and display progress along the way."
mircea_popescu: on the upside, once you get it done you can forget about it.
mircea_popescu: i don't readily remember the names of all the women i've been with either.
mircea_popescu: but a good gui is a provab le impossibility. "make me a very hot woman that still wants to be my girlfriend instead of say that guy's"
mircea_popescu: no, it is impossible and thankless work. difficult is one thing.
mircea_popescu: leaving the mess to be handled by the sort of people that make guis.
mircea_popescu: and if you don't you can make them make an index file.
mircea_popescu sayz sed! awk! then re-reads the gui part, ponders, gets depressed and leaves.
mircea_popescu: "given this string and this set of photos, find the string likelies"
mircea_popescu: outside of digging through secret service archives, why the fuck would anyone put up with pdf.
mircea_popescu: srsly when i saw you discussing indexing and searching pdf documents i thought this is what it was for - all that crap is pdf-digitized.
mircea_popescu: rather than reading the same "us girl next door in a sheet = roman matron" story re-written over and over 500 times.
mircea_popescu: anyway, one is well advised to evaluate his level of interest on such topics. if it's a passing casual worth 5k words then skimming one of these pulpy offerings is maybe fine. if serious enough to remember names, then probably skimming the original papers is a better bet
mircea_popescu: "inside the genovese family, by derparian herparistarian." wtf already. no armenians in sicily.
mircea_popescu: what the FUCK has some schmuck by the name cristopher to say about the inside of the kgb ?
mircea_popescu: he confirms that yes they knew all about al of them, explains some of the insider jokes
mircea_popescu: finally a high level defector is taken into a manager's meeting, fed somon fume and asked politely
mircea_popescu: by the 5th or so replacement there's a distinct impression with upper cia management that the soviets are like... sending complicated insider jokes over the mole wire.
mircea_popescu: cia sends replacement mole. this also is apparently successful... buit... again
mircea_popescu: cia sends mole to inflitrate kgb. this is apparently successful, but nothing of value is ever obtained.
mircea_popescu: this "'KGB: the Inside Story' by Christopher Andrew" string reminds me of the "stop sending niggers then" joke.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: difference being, between how a soviet rocket works and how a school of salmon works.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> that being - that someone, somewhere, is willing to answer with his arse for what every character in the code actually causes the hardware to do. <<< this is only meaningful in a centralist approach.
mircea_popescu: i was (in retrospect, mistakenly) taking an "observable" approach to "same thing"
mircea_popescu: (the point being not to win, but like in any koan, to contemplate what the win means)
mircea_popescu: this can be a decent graduate exercise. "write the longest asm program that does the same thing on all platforms. you may pick what it does yourself."
mircea_popescu: justusranvier "code is the spec" means "the compiler we use is the spec" too.
mircea_popescu: which is why i took exception to the "why cant we all get along" derpage from midnightmagic yest.
mircea_popescu: forcing specification through mutually disjunct implementations is the best we get.
mircea_popescu: what are they going to do, write out a spec then have the bitcoind horde pretend "it fails" ?
mircea_popescu: so people have issues with humor, what. i dun care, you dun care, foggedaboutit
mircea_popescu: can you see why reorging some new guy's block out of this world is funny ?
mircea_popescu: justusranvier lol they can't compete on fud, this is a long established point.
mircea_popescu: it's much like natural experimentation : if unreproducible,
mircea_popescu: the entire thing is really a meaningless exercise. who the fuck cares what happens on testnet.
mircea_popescu: (only artificial orcs exist. mp knows, for mp has lived all over the world. actual poor people are more pleasant than actual civilised people)
mircea_popescu: "Not these chirrin, my older chirrin! They needs these for they lunches!"
mircea_popescu: She wasn't talking to me, but I could hear her saying, "It wasn't supposed to be like this, they're so ugly, it's just so wrong." << woman met the orcs, hasn't even been raped yet.
mircea_popescu: libertarian is lonely through his own fault. shoulda made a wot.
mircea_popescu: mthreat how did the exclusion clauses work in search agai ?
mircea_popescu: but for the average noob, history | grep history yields a lot of... "history | grep history"
mircea_popescu: it does convey the information that the thing was searched later, and you can exclude bots if you wish.