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mircea_popescu: diana_coman lol what a mess. a) wasn'
t built by teutons ; b) cantemir the elder was king, not stephen omfg.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 18:55 asciilifeform: mats: and the pigfuckers certainly don'
t want you and i turning the wifi chip into mesh network etc.
mircea_popescu: fucking definition of "figment of your imagination" : "that shit ain'
t gonna last"
mircea_popescu: things that dun last WEREN'
T THINGS IN THE FIRST PLACE!
mircea_popescu: looky : every time you find this imaginary space where thermodynamics doesn'
t apply, it's not that you've found a space where thermodynamics doesn'
t apply as much as you've deluded yourself in some manner to ignore some obvious wrinkle.
mircea_popescu: they misperceived the sea, much like you do, much like people who don'
t sail generally, as a "empty" space.
mircea_popescu: "british" doesn'
t exist here. albion was a failed state bought wholesale by the dutch who then used it as naval stage base.
mircea_popescu: the other way to put it is that piracy is what happens when people who don'
t want to think about the sea decide to think themselves cooler than their neighbours who do like to think about the sea.
mircea_popescu: they weren'
t pirate states in the way florence or venice were.
mircea_popescu: that is one point ; the point im making however is that they weren'
t pirates in the sense you're not a penis. part of what they did, of fucking course, given the geography. but they were otherwise just as much a normal country as say albania.
mircea_popescu: i'm also certain it wouldn'
t be worth having ; but that's a different story.
mircea_popescu: it is the strangest thing, i used to think mosquito is the sort of beast that either doesn'
t exist or else is abundant
mircea_popescu: looky, if i missed everything i cared for and don'
t currently have it'd be an endless funeral+wake over here.
phf: Joshua-I: you didn'
t understand what i said, and i have neither interest nor time to explain myself
phf: Joshua-I: i don'
t know what "same api" means, in this case. ipython is an enhanced ~repl~, but the code that you write with it constantly changes, because can'
t just load data set into a python array. need to use numpy, etc.
mats: too many revisions, and i don'
t think wrt54gl was available then
mats: i don'
t see the tendril at work here
mats: 1 is so ridiculously vague that it doesn'
t mean anything to me
mats: i'm reading the document and it doesn'
t explicitly say anything about the firmware
ben_vulpes: when the problem domains are simple, the solution proposed appears to work. in reality, as *tard mgmt demands more features, flexibility, reports, etc, the complexity of maintaining and extending under the frameworkreich becomes more and more costly, a thing not necessarily apparent to anyone who hasn'
t suffered the saga or who doesn'
t think in terms of complexity minimization from the get-go.
mats: asciilifeform: I read the thread but didn'
t see a number, what did you arrive at?
mircea_popescu: well, figure out what you eat in a year ; plus all the things you might want but won'
t eventually eat.
trinque: I suspect people who can'
t find *anyone* to tolerate of a sort of gabriel_laddelism, i.e. if I stay up for 48hrs on tab cola I can rewrite gentoo portage fastrrrr
mircea_popescu: brache was, famously, so incapable of social intercourse he couldn'
t leave a banquet and died of a busted bladder.
trinque: wasn'
t saying "for" but "how"
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 15:54 phf: trinque: it's techno nomad, it's a thing. microship guy doesn'
t really try to solve same problem as orlol, it's all different people with personal interests and agendas that don'
t necessarily compose into a single stereotype
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 15:52 trinque: this guy's got a lab, what, to continue taking part in the same world he can'
t stand?
mircea_popescu: if they do, are solvable in practice. if they don'
t, you're advised to fix your head.
mircea_popescu: anyway. problems, like f(x)=some polynomial, either have or don'
t have real roots.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t think trying to formulate it is madness ; i do think that the orlov formulation is ridiculous at best.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if it is or if it isn'
t is your choice to make ; but don'
t go around showing me your holy amulets that prevent leg breaking.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-03 17:48 mircea_popescu: there's ONE thing the middle eastern guy has that white man can'
t replicate, and that is, a stable, and here i kid you not, a stable, of dozen+ pliable obedient females WITH offspring.
mircea_popescu: but to my eyes, it;s more a case of "i want impossible item" "why ?" "because of strange notion" "Wouldn'
t it be cheaper to..." "fu demigod, it is true humanity to do the impossible ; takes demigod to accept the obvious!"
mircea_popescu: "i swear it came out by itself! i didn'
t even push! it has a mind of its own! let's call him gusti!"
mircea_popescu: you wouldn'
t want TO LIVE IN YOUR FUCKING CAR, communitng forever for the rest of your life, yes ?
mircea_popescu: this isn'
t really how transport vessels work, except for a subset of young males.
mircea_popescu: no matter how sad you are, hair's not gonna jump off the scissors and back on your head ; no matter how emo you are, ocean still won'
t suddenly become a space allocator working as you want it to.
trinque: phf: there's a contradiction in someone that just wants to techmology, doesn'
t want to have to talk to anyone. Technology is a social enterprise; if social conditions are that bad, there are problems more fundamental than "can'
t have real computer" and such.
phf: trinque: it's techno nomad, it's a thing. microship guy doesn'
t really try to solve same problem as orlol, it's all different people with personal interests and agendas that don'
t necessarily compose into a single stereotype
☟︎ trinque: this guy's got a lab, what, to continue taking part in the same world he can'
t stand?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the ibm example isn'
t so good. the sort of phenomena that were conquered to produce the 1k chickens 1950-1990 are very fucking different from the sort of phenomena the boat has to encounter,
mircea_popescu: there is such a thing as "why is e < 3??" "no reason" in nature, and from there in engineering. there isn'
t really such a thing in society, and from there in culture.
mod6: <+shinohai> It's like a colossal shit that won'
t flush. << haha
Framedragger: jurov: elinks loads it fine on ssd but search doesn'
t work (~works, but notrly). i think i used lynx when looking up stuff on phuctor tho. oh well. :/
mircea_popescu: (ie, it relied on you having a mental map of structure which it wouldn'
t render, or not render well. without it, it was unusable, which is why the illiterate couldn'
t use it well, didn'
t like to use it at all, and the "free form" html prevailed)
Framedragger: yeah i have this stupid nostalgia for things of that kind even though i haven'
t experienced them myself >.<
shinohai: It's like a colossal shit that won'
t flush.
Framedragger: trinque: no but i agree and won'
t argue the opposite!
Framedragger: trinque: saves lots of time, for one, and quite a bit of redundancy. don'
t need to manually implement api endpoints etc
Framedragger: won'
t be fast than ram, what are you smoking :)
mircea_popescu: the big problem is that lazy thinkers and "hopefuls" of all stripes have made it into their comfortable home. this can'
t fucking stand.
mircea_popescu: in short : the web is very, very broken - but most of the breakage isn'
t even in the software. yes apache sucks and wtf is js even.
trinque: openbsd's
httpd doesn'
t look like that much src to read, while we're still in c-machine hell.
mircea_popescu: anyway. in practice there's also nginx, which i doubt is any better ; and i don'
t foresee our writing of a web server right nao.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "we". some idiots went , weren'
t us and it shows.
mircea_popescu: it doesn'
t automatically have to be "send your data to X guy who runs the official data-dump server"
BingoBoingo: Doesn'
t like vermin, also doesn'
t like organo phosphates. Dilemmas.
mircea_popescu: i'm thinking the way this will end up is to separate the data processing ; data acquisition ; and data dissemination. evidently people good at any of these aren'
t good at the others, and have incredibly elaborate excuses for maintaining the situation that likely aren'
t worth cutting through.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-18 17:09 jurov: and it's questionable why export it as html, when browser can'
t be used and we have to grep it anyway?