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mircea_popescu: i hasn'
t the patience to go into detail as to echonton eisin & friends. not aristotle's fault.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to be precise : i can'
t turn the greek string into an english string for you for the same reason you can'
t turn trb into lisp code for me. "but alf, it compiles! a lisp version must exist!" hurr. i don'
t propose "because you can'
t take object code and make me lisp source it follows no c sources existed" do i ?
mircea_popescu: let's approach this from a more hospitable angle. dutch makes the charge (unsourced, but it's sheer anglicanism) that the reason the greeks didn'
t build ironclads is that they (like the chinese, natch) despised manual labour.
mircea_popescu: σίν." somehow comes to "There is nothing else beyond body (three dimensional solid) because if there were, then there would be something else beyond body." which... it doesn'
t.
mircea_popescu: moreover - the real killer - this "catching up" needn'
t happen in any finite time. the atomists of athens never got the support coming their way ; it was a risible sect in the place and time.
mircea_popescu: eventually "actual" science caught up with them and backed them up and here we are - but in other cases it didn'
t! the recon squad that sees enemy fortifying and raises a flag and calls for reinforcement may get them, and create a turning point in the whole war. or may not get them, and create half a dozen fresh graves.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform imagine someone who actually went to the trouble of rescuing - from an intellectually powerful, epistemologically informed position - all the insanities of history. "witches weighing doesn'
t work because witches don'
t have a float mass"
mircea_popescu: so, yes : science, and i don'
t here mean, globalwarmism or pseudoevolutionism or lulzgametheory or such ; but - physics. astronomy, things of serious. these didn'
t develop methodically, in history, but exactly through a process of "try random batshit and it sometimes works".
mircea_popescu: trinque the problem with feyerabend isn'
t even that he's an asshole, or whatever else. the problem is, his criticism of methodological science actually stands ; contrary to what people like to believe galilei's stance was a lot less defensible than the church's at the time ; yes he won, and yes he's from our party, so fuck the church - but this political approach to the problem is weak specifically because it tries to go up
t mircea_popescu: which severance is reinterpreted internally as "liberating" - the same kids who ENJOYED getting out of the house when they were 18 then cry when their parents die. but why ? weren'
t you so fucking happy to be rid of them ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's no actual link between these two planes, you udnerstand ? consider that the idiots who thought hillary will win, DIDN'
T yield once she didn'
t win. consider the above story of dreamers, and ALL experience without exception.
mircea_popescu: "you" isn'
t anything. for while you are - you are ; and once you're no longer, you're no longer.
mircea_popescu: however it is telling that the leavers all seek the same thing - and it isn'
t the city per se. it's just "self-realization" ie, the opposite of the above alienation. essentially, they seek to not be chumpatron engineers.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if the pig farmer didn'
t experience alienation the pig farmer's daughter would be under my table begging to suck my cock or anything else so she doesn'
t have to go back to the pig farm.
trinque: the rocket designers aren'
t far from their work in the alienation sense.
mircea_popescu: that's, i suppose, the actual point here : that while building chumpatrons ~is~ feasible ; and in many actually encountered circumstances it ~is~ productive ; nevertheless a chumpatron is not a tank. not merely by coincidence of design, like a spoon is not a fork, but could pass for a fork in a bind. a chumpatron is not a tank fundamentally, nor could ever be a tank of any kind to any degree, much like a stove can'
t cool your
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform during ro elections all sorts of "luminaries" of a very evident mercenary bent did pieces about how soros ain'
t that bad - wasn'
t even ever convicted!
mircea_popescu: it's maybe unfair that whoever is running that "shop" doesn'
t have as much money as i do. it is maybe unfair that whoever is running that "shop" didn'
t go to as good a school, or have as good parents, or as alf points out, didn'
t have as well housed a library at home. fine.
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, isn'
t it fucking weird that the progre and libtard preoccupy themselves with economic inequality so, but never seriously considered intellectual inequality ?)
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, they have this crazy shit here - picconia excelsa. the wood hardens SO MUCH as it dries you can'
t fucking work it
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: I don'
t think you know how wood is marketed. There SPF or "Spruce, Pine, Fir" for the ones that suck because the bulk of particular kinds of softwoods all suck in the same ways. Then you get outlifers which are also lumped together like Douglas Fir and Larch or the 3-ish species of Southern yellow pine.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: we grow pine, fir, cedar, and spruce, most of which come from bc. ontario and quebec grow some hardwoods like oak and maple but these aren'
t as practical or affordable for general construction so they're exported in smaller volumes relatively speaking. so depends what you want your shelves made out of. pine can work but obv the hardwoods are sturdier if also commensurately spendier.
ben_vulpes: now for my next riddle, what solstice gift do you get a woman who already has a baby and doesn'
t want another yet?
pete_dushenski: "The value of Canada’s natural resource assets stood at $287 billion in 2015, down 73% from 2014, largely due to lower energy prices. […] Timber resources accounted for 55% of the value of all natural resource assets in 2015, followed by minerals (26%) and energy resources (19%)." << in other news, trump's looming war on softwood lumber is going to fucking hurt. and no, it won'
t be balanced out by
mircea_popescu: (this, i come to realise, is a major block for my watching ~any video sf. back when the people involved weren'
t idiots, the machines weren'
t yet capable.)
mircea_popescu: i just don'
t go for the whole carny show with the facepaint and the star wars papier mache models.
mircea_popescu: phf i tried recently and couldn'
t stand it. the cheapo roadshow really irks me. it's almost like watching that dude "commenting", what's his face
phf: mircea_popescu: while you're in that french mode you should watch (or rewatch?) fantômas. there's the three 1960s ones, with de funes. i have no idea if they are any good, because i haven'
t seen them for a very long time, but i suspect that they are sort of comedic 60s take on james bond.
mircea_popescu: (yes, all allergies mean one thing - that you're a degenerate fenotype not fit for life. what can you do ? certainly can'
t go back in time and whack ytour mother to fuck better drunks.)
mircea_popescu: no, it wasn'
t, as i don'
t actually propose any changes to processblock. it can go wholesale in b.blockchain
phf: yeah, that's what it looks like. i wonder if in your explorations of state of rng you came across any offical GCB evaluation of casino rngs, i don'
t know if those would even be public or have technical detail...
trinque: you mayn'
t remove the fig leaf!1!1!!
ben_vulpes: and i don'
t recall it well enough to find. alas.
mircea_popescu: imo this is a total waste of time ; we won'
t have the culprit even if we drink the gigabyte swamp. which we needn'
t be drinking in any case.
ben_vulpes: i don'
t expect to be able to make an rpc call while the node is looping through its list of peers and get 'the right' peer shat out
mircea_popescu: yes but this doesn'
t answer if the idiocy is naturally ocurring so much
mircea_popescu: there isn'
t any space, or any need, or anything else for these fucktards today anymore than there was in 1996 or in 1976. they know it today like they knew it then, and they're lying about it (to themselves, mostly) then as now because they know that's exactly all they can do. who's gonna hire pmarca ? to do what ? who has a job for zuck ?
mircea_popescu: oh yes - chased the freenode idiots for year + back in 2012/2013 trying to give them servers. they - EXACTLY LIKE THESE OTHER IDIOTS - to the fucking
t, never got the servers. then a few months later were "suspiociously hacked" and "will publish report" then neverp ublished any report and then went full nsa, which is where we're now.
mircea_popescu: and in general this exactly mirrors everything - we tried to work with gpg turns out gpg doesn'
t want to work, not WITH anyone, it actually does not want to work, at all. ditto for the ssh. ditto for everyone and everything.
mircea_popescu: i suppose it isn'
t to be a surprise that in a world where the doctor expects you to pay him for him to do what ~he~ feels ; and the lawyer is strictly shocked that his position as counsel is STRICTLY to do all the legwork you don'
t feel like doing and absolutely not to do any of the cool management stuff, cuz you're paying and you're gonna be eating that - the charity dudes similarly expect nsa oodlebunches of moneyz
davout: precisely why i wouldn'
t do it again
mircea_popescu: myeah. if you absolutely want comment i'd point out that wtf "charity", the guy on the ground in uganda isn'
t even in the wot ; and wtf arrogant google developers shouldn'
t be entertained, but really there's no problem with trying and whatever.
jurov: davout: i can help. you can'
t wire eur easily anymore?
ben_vulpes: crime 2: isn'
t this actually evidence that poor hispanics drug their kids more than anything else?
ben_vulpes: "we just can'
t handle the notion of a space where some people's suckitude is actually a barrier to their self-identification as 'a part of a thing'"
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-20#1586446 << i think you mentioned before, but you had some sikrit hardware raid that you were reasonably happy with? i've been doing some cleanup on my data, throwing out old usb drives and such, i've been meaning to replace software raid (which is ... spotty) with something that i don'
t have to think about
☝︎ mircea_popescu: prolly mature enough by now i guess. anyway shouldn'
t be a huge thing.
mircea_popescu: well he says ukraine, i don'
t imagine he means sevastopol.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the notion that russia was at some point popular in the ukraine is utterly insane. when was this exactly, i don'
t get it, before or after the muscovy went to space ?
mircea_popescu: random fun fact : no matter how you turn the ~50bn worth of us resources & materiel shipped to the allies in ww2 into "present day shitollars", it still doesn'
t come ANYWHERE NEAR what the defeat in the middle east cost.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 23:23 danielpbarron:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-19#1586263 << i'm trying to get eulora working on some new machines, they came with video cards, official nvidia driver doesn'
t work on latest linux kernel, (works fine on older kernel) but somehow this is nvidia's fault for not releasing a free fix every time someone comes up with another way to make a driver stop working
danielpbarron:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-19#1586263 << i'm trying to get eulora working on some new machines, they came with video cards, official nvidia driver doesn'
t work on latest linux kernel, (works fine on older kernel) but somehow this is nvidia's fault for not releasing a free fix every time someone comes up with another way to make a driver stop working
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: the wallet ~is~ that, yes. problem is humanity doesn'
t mesh well with computability. ppl want a wallet./
mircea_popescu: the reason we want ~one~ is that we don'
t want to find we can'
t maintain two.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 19:57 davout: asciilifeform: don'
t "sed, grep etc." qualify as "binary dedicated toolset" ?
mircea_popescu: in the case of most modern bright minds, b is "hidden" under the rug and so they don';
t think correctly about their environment
davout: asciilifeform: don'
t "sed, grep etc." qualify as "binary dedicated toolset" ?
☟︎ trinque: because I don'
t always know what the fuck I want!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hm i hadn'
t considered this. you mean the tiny girls are for tiny guys ?
davout: an airplane flies until it doesn'
t mircea_popescu: that's broadly the idea - "mommy, what should i do if johnny wants to plug my virgin ass ?" "don'
t let him ?" "what if i can'
t ?" "you can" "what if magical alien from afar comes and he has magical powers and i really can'
t ?" "oh, no, HIM you spread for."
mircea_popescu: listen, randomly transmuting the magical unicorn into magical octopi etc isn'
t going to work.