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mp_en_viaje: i'm not, after all, saying whether
the invulnerability delusion's reality-adequate or reality-inadequate. like all illusions, it proceeds irrespective of such considerations.
mp_en_viaje: you will definitely notice how my vulnerability/invulnerability divide well underscores, both
the situation of zee invaders (why did
they invade ?) and of
the invaded.
mp_en_viaje: though admittedly most soldiers don't know what
to ask of
the cunts.
mp_en_viaje: judging by
the recent charlie sheen lulz, still going now.
mp_en_viaje: long
time.
they were still doing it during venice (note
that at
the
time merchant was how you said soldier)
mp_en_viaje: re very unlikely
to sign anything for ~your~ convenience.
a111: Logged on 2019-05-22 14:05 stjohn_piano_2: 3)
there may be an approach
to signed comments
that does not involve
the primary key: examples: a) sign with a subordinate key b) validate your current IP for a
time period (e.g. a month / year) by decrypting an OTP, like deedbot.
mp_en_viaje: so yes,
the kids
that didn't make soldiers, made ploughsmen. often,
the exact same kids.
mp_en_viaje: this is
the glorybook of romanian history, "at some point in 1600, romanians suddenly and inexplicably stopped
taking it up
the ass, instead of 1ton of gold/year sent rape & pillage party
to istanbul, got within 10 miles of city walls."
mp_en_viaje: n zăpadă, unele
târâte de par, altele de mână; nu era ostaș care să nu ducă vro
turcoaică."
mp_en_viaje: here, have some more : Un martor de față descrie astfel răzbunarea românilor asupra bieților locuitori ai Rusciucului: „Multă jale se făcu în ziua aceea și plângerile se înălțau până la ceruri.
Toți s-au încărcat cu avere din destul, robi și roabe și-au luat cu prisos; nimica n-a scăpat din mâna lor. Gingașele
turcoaice mult răsfățate, ce stau în veci închise, să le fi văzut atunci goale, desculțe,
tăvălindu-se î
mp_en_viaje: "Mai
tot orașul fu mistuit de foc. Cazacii luară din Moldova 26 000 cai, 600 fete
tinere."
mp_en_viaje: quite --
the ones who didn't make soldiers.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-18 22:29 asciilifeform: '... what was once dedication is replaced by greed and sometimes sheer need as
the motivation
to enter
the field.'
mp_en_viaje: which is how artefacts like
that moron "security expert" who suspected colleagues of conspiring
to alter her solitaire highscores are born. remember her /
mp_en_viaje: and yes,
the welfare state has produced a lot of really dumb engineers,
through
the simple process of making a lot of parents comfortable.
their kids become engineers not because anything
to do with either engineering or intelligence -- but simply because
that's
the sort of
thing kids with an invulnerability delusion do.
☟︎☟︎ mp_en_viaje: but at
the root of
the becoming, in
those who do become something, is
the problem of perceived vulnerability.
there's no such
thing as "introvert" or "extrovert", simply, some kids are afraid, and
thus seek outside ; some kids are
too dumb
to be afraid, and
thus spend a lot of
time in intricacy.
☟︎☟︎ mp_en_viaje: you can
tell, within an hour or (very often) less, by observing 5yos, whether
they'll grow up
to be "intelligent" or on
the contrary, lawyers.
mp_en_viaje: but
there's nothing about ~engineering~
that warrants
the association.
mp_en_viaje: he is
the sort of guy who doesn't fuck a lot of women, doesn't speak a lot of languages, doesn't like reading
things he doesn't know how
to interpret and spends a lot of
time fucking intricately with garbage.
☟︎☟︎ mp_en_viaje: there's nothing substantial about physics or math
that make
them any other way. it just so happens, for reasons entirely unrelated
to math,
that
the sort of 5yo
that will grow up into a
technomoron will rather deal with math. had he preferred, for similar, purely subjective reasons, bricklaying or kite flying,
THESE would be "advanced" and "require intelligence" and blablabla "stem"
mp_en_viaje: people keep heewing and hawing about "stem fields" and "intelligence". but neither correlates with reality. intelligence is immaterial, and
the only meaningful definition of "stem fields" is after
the fact -- "those fields which
tend
to attract
technomorons, defined as
those 5 yos who do not play well with others and
think
themselves invulnerable"
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, seems unlikely.
the sort of fellow never surrenders,
there's
this deeply inborn sentiment of invulnerability burning deep in
the
technomoron. more likely,
they're
taking it as a "challenge accepted", came up with who knows what ratty, nigger-rigged paliatives.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2019-05-22 13:51 diana_coman: it's
the equivalent of "because some people are not worth
talking
to, you shall show me your passport/ID card every
time you want
to
talk
to me (and at every reply even)"
mp_en_viaje: people more often do
things
to sate a gnawing perceived necessity
to do something,
than because
they actually figured out a plan.
mp_en_viaje: follow
the logic
tho -- highly qualified
tech did not get
there
through being gregarious or politically capable ; because his work is not readily replicable by
the people who were gregarious and politically able, he is likely
to be ordered
things by
them, which statistically will be illegal sometimes, and he is not likely
to suddenly grow
the missing parts and fix
their stupid. so... red stapler exit.
a111: Logged on 2019-05-22 14:15 asciilifeform: stjohn_piano_2: we even have folx who dun have comment eater on
their www at all. and iirc danielpbarron has only hand-cranked 'x wrote in re...' comments. but if you have automated comment box, imho
the real win is
to occasionally hear from intelligent heathens.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-21 14:07 asciilifeform: (for folks who have not heard of
this show
trial - harold martin worked at nsa-tao and was arrested for, supposedly,
taking
the contents home by
the crate.)
a111: Logged on 2019-05-22 11:43 mp_en_viaje: custom slavonic-like alphabet for ro language notation, in use a few decades in 19th century ; all extant matter printed by hand-made (and VERY poorly crafted) blocks, literally no
two glyphs are alike
mp_en_viaje: you'd
think, you know, with all
the fucking immigrants,
they'd come
to sense.
stjohn_piano_2: asciilifeform:
this is not deliberately a spam
trap. i had a choice while working:
to build an open-access-point
to
the wider internet, or not
to do so. i chose - not.
a111: Logged on 2019-05-22 11:34 stjohn_piano_2:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-17#1914395 << from logs + mocky's "why ada", i understand some of
the
technical merits of ada. however, my perception of
the current job market is
that
trying
to make a living at ada leads directly
to a hardware sharashka.
mp_en_viaje: apparently
they
think "xxl" means 1 cm width and 25 cm length. cuz
totally, my dick comes on a spool or some other european retarded shit
mp_en_viaje: land of small dicked morons! so,
they don't import magnum, because hurr durr, economically independent colony,
they got
their own.
then,
they don't fucking have durex extra large. because hurr durr.
stjohn_piano_2: asciilifeform: i did consider both. ultimately, i decided
to stay with identity-based commenting rather
than
take a sift-the-noise approach.
stjohn_piano_2: 3)
there may be an approach
to signed comments
that does not involve
the primary key: examples: a) sign with a subordinate key b) validate your current IP for a
time period (e.g. a month / year) by decrypting an OTP, like deedbot.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2019-03-30 15:49 asciilifeform: meanwhile, in olds, asciilifeform's 'xor 2 small numbers'+'say fg baud' spam filter seems
to be 100% effective (a 1st?!) -- 0 spams in
trap since installed ( legit comments , not many , but work --
tho
there were never many )
stjohn_piano_2: in future,
this will become easier for established identities, as i work out how
to automate parts of
the process.
stjohn_piano_2: 2)
this first-pass at a comments system makes it impossible for people without an identity
to speak. established identities can speak, although it is hard, yes.
stjohn_piano_2: your comment has been published. i'm pleased
that
the comment system worked. yours is
the first external comment.
stjohn_piano_2: i understand your point. i've
thought about
this quite a bit.
diana_coman: it's
the equivalent of "because some people are not worth
talking
to, you shall show me your passport/ID card every
time you want
to
talk
to me (and at every reply even)"
☟︎ diana_coman: and note
that I would certainly NOT go about providing signed comments wtf
diana_coman: well yes, but
think of it: you are effectively making it *hard* for people (with established identities so
those you say you do want
to hear from)
to provide feedback
to you on
the grounds
that you don't want
to bother with everyone; i.e. you are effectively unloading your work onto
those who may be able
to/willing
to help you; doesn't seem a winning strategy
to me.
stjohn_piano_2: it's certainly public-facing, but i have little interest in interaction with speech
that does not come from an established identity of some sort.
diana_coman: stjohn_piano_2: but why such high-bar for what is meant as a public-facing i.e. by definition wider-public-interaction
thing anyway?
stjohn_piano_2: i add comments manually
to
the data at present. in future, i may construct an automated system
that can accept signed comments.
a111: Logged on 2019-05-22 13:09 diana_coman: anyway, since I'm not going
to jump
through
those silly hooks now, I'll leave it here: you can message deedbot/any user privately directly, you don't need
to join some channel first; and re newcomers, it's usually safer for
themselves
to join one of
the lords' channels first, really (e.g. #asciilifeform, #trinque, #eulora)
a111: Logged on 2019-05-22 12:51 diana_coman: stjohn_piano_2: re ^ , an OTP challenge is a way
to check one's identity; hence, deedbot will not send an OTP in response
to !!register but WILL send an OTP in response
to ~any other command (technically
to any command
that is a request of *someone* i.e.
that requires an identity)
diana_coman: anyway, since I'm not going
to jump
through
those silly hooks now, I'll leave it here: you can message deedbot/any user privately directly, you don't need
to join some channel first; and re newcomers, it's usually safer for
themselves
to join one of
the lords' channels first, really (e.g. #asciilifeform, #trinque, #eulora)
☟︎ diana_coman: stjohn_piano_2: re ^ , an OTP challenge is a way
to check one's identity; hence, deedbot will not send an OTP in response
to !!register but WILL send an OTP in response
to ~any other command (technically
to any command
that is a request of *someone* i.e.
that requires an identity)
☟︎ mp_en_viaje: custom slavonic-like alphabet for ro language notation, in use a few decades in 19th century ; all extant matter printed by hand-made (and VERY poorly crafted) blocks, literally no
two glyphs are alike
☟︎ stjohn_piano_2: i'm now
trying
to restructure myself into a dev in a field in which remote work can become a viable option.
a111: Logged on 2019-05-17 14:50 diana_coman: moreover, while it is doable (like ~anything else really), it's hard
to really see
the reason
to *choose*
to do it when one hasn't yet been sucked into it ; and stjohn_piano_2 strikes me as
trying
to NOT get sucked into it.
a111: Logged on 2019-05-17 14:42 diana_coman: stjohn_piano_2: are you actually
tied
to
the UK? and anyway, what sort of job/where are you looking for one?
a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 21:21 mircea_popescu: "the notion
that airplanes could reproduce
through laying eggs is merely a naive extension, in
the vein of 'object A has properties a and b ; object B shares property a and
therefore it is reasonable ~~~on a first approximation~~~
to expect it exhibit proerty b'. nevertheless, artifacts differ from nature in
that one fundamental aspect,
that
they're inefficient, and
therefore
to achieve same ends end up heavy, and in
the case
hanbot: "However, I must add
that you have willfully chosen not
to incorporate
the dynamic nature of polity during
the era in discuss."
mp_en_viaje: evidently, daytime soaps not entirely wasted -- various sets of africans in obscure shitholes imagine
they're doing politics and such whiteman
things
thereby.