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mircea_popescu: since you have
the profiler right
there (do you ?) mind sharing like,
the
top
three
things on
the stack ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "It drives dropout rates and is mostly useless in real life. Andrew Hacker has a plan for getting rid of it." dude, seriously ?! "stem myth" ?
that place is so set for greatness. and i mean greatness literally.
jurov: so, it's
there for a reason.
jurov: even
then,
the
trashing would make
the machine unusable for a ~hour
jurov: asciilifeform: wake me up if you manage
to compile chromium in 3G ram.
the linker eats 10G. i have 12G here and must log out and
terminate most processes and
then emerge it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: holy shit sherlock, hey BingoBoingo check out slashdot comprehending
things!
mircea_popescu: i
think
that's how warrants etc are going
to go from now on. deedbot ftw.
assbot: Logged on 02-03-2016 16:58:23; asciilifeform: d bet money
that
there is some peculiar mpbism
that is being exploited here.
shinohai: "Bitcoin was designed and is intended
to work with anonymous addresses" <<< but
thought addresses weren't completely anonymous anyway.
assbot: Mosul dam engineers warn it could fail at any
time, killing 1m people | World news |
The Guardian ... (
http://bit.ly/21JqgxB )
ben_vulpes: ballet is 'start when you're five and dedicate your life
to it and 95% of you will fail
to accomplish anything in
the art even after doing so
through your mid
twenties at which point your body will be ruined and your mind will have forgone all education in pursuit of
the art"
phf: "experimental" forms
to compensate for lack of rigour.
☟︎ phf: speaking of ballet, i went
to see Mariinsky Ballet company perform at jfk center, place was packed,
tickets were sold out months in advance, cheapest of
them >$100.
the company comes
to u.s. once a year, brings one production, performs for one week.
they are masters of
their craft, with rigorous, brutal
training regime and a demanding director. and it shows! meanwhile "accessible" american ballet is by and large mediocre, using
BingoBoingo: mathematics in music is called musical
theory and already a class sequence
phf: "I hope
that mathematics departments can also create courses in
the history and philosophy of
their discipline, as well as its applications in early cultures. Why not mathematics in art and music — even poetry — along with its role in assorted sciences?
The aim would be
to
treat mathematics as a liberal art, making it as accessible and welcoming as sculpture or ballet."
phf: "It could, for example,
teach students how
the Consumer Price Index is computed, what is included and how each item in
the index is weighted — and include discussion about which items should be included and what weights
they should be given."
BingoBoingo: Seriously
though, where does
this "citizen statistics" come from?
phf: dana goldstein her husband andrei scheinkman, andrew hacker and his "domestic partner" claudia dreifus, just leave
these names here, for
the log
phf: well,
that was a rabbit hole of progressive insanity
☟︎ BingoBoingo: “It’s not
the same,” I
told him. “Reading fiction builds empathy.”
mircea_popescu: most gaming programmers are nerdy kids, hard
to be motivated by males.
phf: friend of mine coined a
term "tech dykes" years before it became a
thing. bossy mostly lesbian girls who are good at pushing nerdy boys around, so work as program leads and agile consultants. but
that was before
there was a strong political component
mircea_popescu: phf usually "women in gaming" is a supercharged "women in javascript"
thing. very politically driven drivel.
phf: ftr i've worked with female programmers, on average not better or worse
then males, who would've
thought. i've also briefly worked with "women in javascript" and
they are predominantly wreckers
jurov: yes, looks like
that
jurov: and only 8 lines fitting in
terminal!
jurov has after maybe a week of full lisp immersion managed
to write a function
that crashes eclisp cold. details withheld
till i reproduce on another machine
phf: pretty sure it's not
these womens fault, eulora's upstream was "derps in gaming"
mircea_popescu: every farm hottie in
the mud envies
the old lady her complex undergarments. blessfully unaware
that
the old lady needs
the complex undergarments
to mask
the fact
that
there's no activity
they'd get in
the way of.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> why - i do not know. <<it's
the human love of variety. ends up making contrived shit seem appealing, especially
to women (and castrated men, such as intellectuals and bureaucrats - which, by
the way, are about
the same
thing)
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Many are, but
they first have
to survive audition level appointment unless
their scales are sufficiently silver
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> (for n00bz who
think 'it is impossible
to be sacked from usg' - it is actually very easy. one merely has
to be employed as a contractor, of whom
there is a dozen or
two for every actual 'civil servant', and
then you can be fired any hour.) << Or appointee (i.e. patronage position)
phf: i'm pretty sure gogol made a few jabs at
this particular feature of bureaucrat caste
phf: i know a lot of career bureaucrats
through my parents, and most of
them
tend
to be very proud of chance associations, mentions, friendships, etc. "of note"
assbot: Logged on 26-02-2016 18:42:55; asciilifeform: '‘Ach, sir, it iss worse when
they become refractory! One man, I recall, clung
to
the bars of hiss cage when we went
to
take him out. You will scarcely credit, sir,
that it
took six warders
to dislodge him,
three pulling at each leg. We reasoned with him. “My dear fellow,” we said, “think of all
the pain and
trouble you are causing
to us!” But no, he would not listen! Ach, he wass very
troub
phf: do you know what hurree babu really wants? he wants
to be made a member of
the royal society by
taking ethnological notes.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: ;;google How do I keep
the squirrels in my yard away from my bird feeders
phf: you've got
the socialist cheat sheet by way of having played
this game before. others -- don't
pete_dushenski: shinohai: heh.
that dream has been deader
than
the animal fur on
trump's head for 2 years and counting.
assbot: Logged on 29-02-2016 21:52:34; ben_vulpes:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-02-2016#1415503 << mount her on a bicycle, pilfer a bottle from
the office, mash around
the city on bikes, break onto
the in-decomissionment sellwood bridge and fuck on it? iono man what does one do with random girls anyways
punkman: pete_dushenski:
the chiron is basically as close as one can come
to riding in
the atomic dirigible of land
travel. << I'd
take a UNICAT over
the bugatti
pete_dushenski: the chiron is basically as close as one can come
to riding in
the atomic dirigible of land
travel.
pete_dushenski:
to 9% average annual inflation before you even account for
the 11% greater production supply of
the new model.
shinohai: Seinfeld plays happily in
the background as i do
trb work.
assbot: Logged on 02-03-2016 17:21:53; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i've been
thinking about it, but i don't
think
this is actually resolvable. as it happens -
the "magically working network - we don't know how it works"
thing is much more appealing
to
the average joe
than you know, "this is my node. i will defend it with my life". what life, are you kidding, got sitcoms
to watch and shit.
shinohai: I forgot about
the heathen bc,info allowing
that pete_dushenski. Unfortunately
too late now, my client went elsewhere and I do not have my coveted BTC
today.