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BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo i can't quite make sense of
that lafond piece. do you get what
the man's
trying
to say ? << Don't know
that it somes
to anything beyond him almost getting
to somewhere
a111: Logged on 2016-05-29 20:43 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, you ever read von mellenthin's study in russian soldierly psychology (and other
things) ?
shinohai: Polished
turd is still a
turd.
mircea_popescu: somehow
the realisation
that "proposing a subset could exist IS ALREADY PREDICATING you can fix
things you can't actually fix, so you're begging
the question something massive".
mircea_popescu: gotta love
this inept shit, "stupid idea is broken in many ways, most of
them unfixable for good reasons - we'll consider here an irrelevant subset,
that could be fixed."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, you ever read von mellenthin's study in russian soldierly psychology (and other
things) ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (though honestly it - esp
the m4 - looked
to me more like a hastily copied
t-34
than anything)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ze germanz hated
the russian
tanks and despised
the anglo
tanks (sherman included).
there IS a difference.
mircea_popescu: "they came up with
the idea of having
the access hatch block
the gun
turret!"
mircea_popescu: actually history of british "engineering" of
tanks in ww2 is good subject matter for its own chapter in "history of human idiocy".
mircea_popescu: as crude as
they were,
the russian couple were much better
mircea_popescu: as late as 1944 anglos were not producing usable
tanks.
the us versions were midly miserable,
the british versions were at best laughable.
mircea_popescu: these people came up with
the brilliant idea of mounting an autocannon in lieu of a proper cannon on a
tank chassis. which is dumb enough ; but... instead of a belt feed,
they came with
the even briliant-er idea of having it manually loaded, with 3 round clips.
mircea_popescu: myeah. but in other lulz, anyone ever saw
the RARDEN (ie, Royal Armament Research and Development blabla) ?
mircea_popescu: for lack of demand, only. opium,
the other
thing isis has
tons of, is.
mircea_popescu: isis have
tons,
taken in "battle" from cowardly us mercs.
mircea_popescu: (notably, all civilised countries consider said he/incendiary round not suitable for anti-personnel applications. except
the us, of course, here as everywhere else
the epitome of
the rogue state.)
mircea_popescu: not even. pretty much all "stable solution"
talk reduces
to george costanza's "do you realise
toilet paper has never changed"
talk.
mircea_popescu: or more generally :
there is no stable solution in war.
mircea_popescu: still, stuff like
the raufoss mk211 is
the exact pill for "oh, we're armored". orly ? well done, so
the round won't blow clear
through you! enjoy zirconium fire in your spleen!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: will even fire out of a fucking m2 browning, possibly
the world's most abundant machine gun.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason we like
the de. get a decent
tungsten/zirconium powder mix, glwa.
mircea_popescu: well no, swat was mostly
the source of bodyes for bags
there.
shinohai: I remember having a chuckle
this Halloween past, a few stores had child size swat outfits
to dress kids in.
mircea_popescu: check out all
the cute black wagons
teh police has now. i wonder if
there's a minuature collection anywhere for kids
to play with.
mircea_popescu: (noteworthy
that
the schmucks have
the audacity
to "such sites" "a site" etc. fucking link, bitches.)
mircea_popescu: imagine, usg.mit actually has derpy 20something chicks so fucking insane,
they run out
to whore for it. FOR IT!
mircea_popescu: shinohai
the only weird part being
that
they'd
take a guy's money
TO GIVE IT
TO
THE SCAM!
mircea_popescu: anyway, i've yet
to hear one of
the "animal rights" derps mention it on its own power.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it seemed
to me
the sort of obscure-but-very-interesting item
that i've by now grown accustomed
to
the web NOT knowing.
mircea_popescu: yeah. in
the process doing what agriculture is all about - improvement by selection.
mircea_popescu: it's ever fascinating what
the internet knows or doesn't know.
mircea_popescu: and we hit paydirt. who
the fuck is keszybz and who is
the irresponsible asshole
that lied
to him
to
the degree of making him
think he has any business
touching computers!
mircea_popescu: "Because I don't want
to change how processes daemonize in general, just a few specific processes:
tmux, screen, x2go was also mentioned."
ben_vulpes: but yeah it's a
trivial change i shoulda had it out
a111: Logged on 2016-04-30 01:55 ben_vulpes: i'll probably be even less communicative
than i've been for
the next month or
two
mircea_popescu: (in
the rest of
the world, it's legion etrangere, because legion is feminine in french and because s
tends
to drop, it's a complicated dicussion.)
shinohai wants
to find out if she is still affiliated with ChangeTip
shinohai: Anyone with a
twitter care
to reach out
to Victoria Van Eck for me? SHe still has me blocked lol.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i can't quite make sense of
that lafond piece. do you get what
the man's
trying
to say ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose alternatively it could be "waistline in human females goes from 22
to 24 inches", if you want an absolute value.
the problem is it'll admit all sorts of nags + most children.
this is a debatable stance.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform orly ? do
this experiment. "has wasitline" is defined as " waistline < (tits + hips) / 3". pick up a
tape and measure!
a111: Logged on 2016-05-29 14:21 mircea_popescu: and
that finally
there is absolutely no reason
to implement arbitrary division in
the machine, nor does such idiocy exist in nature ;
that
the correct machine representation of numbers is FRACTIONS not fucking "decimals", and
that computers
that natively support bignum up
to
the size of memory and execute gcd in hardware aren't either particularly hard
to make nor
their absence
to date excusable.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-29 14:43 mircea_popescu: how about being consistent and arguing for "remove laws from
the books until
the number of male prison inmates ===
the number of female prison inmates" and "if you can't get married, beg your girlfriends
to join you! if one of you cooks, one washes, one sees after
the kids and one learns
to pole dance, 4 millenian shitheads may just about cover
the
traditional role of womanhood"
a111: Logged on 2016-05-29 14:42 mircea_popescu: how is
this stance different from "the nazi military police can't find as many gypos as
they used
to, so
therefore flaying alive of gypsies for fun should be regarded as aperfectly normal passtime, and in no sense wrong, even if it was rare before"
mircea_popescu: hey ben_vulpes can has links
to home and
to raw right under
the wotpaste header ? like dpaste does it ?
mircea_popescu: let
this be a lesson
to all kids watching at home : don't follow your fucking dreams. your dreams are shit. follow your principles. just as long as
they're correct, you can't lose.
mircea_popescu: how about being consistent and arguing for "remove laws from
the books until
the number of male prison inmates ===
the number of female prison inmates" and "if you can't get married, beg your girlfriends
to join you! if one of you cooks, one washes, one sees after
the kids and one learns
to pole dance, 4 millenian shitheads may just about cover
the
traditional role of womanhood"
☟︎