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punkman:
trinque: could pick up food in
their palms
them eat <
they don't need extra finger for
that
trinque: the
thumbs aren't very strong, but hey, it's a start
trinque: could pick up food in
their palms
them eat
trinque: my ex had
two of
these, and yeah
they can use
them
mod6: anyway, i dunno, for me its a
toss up between For Whom
The Bell
Tolls & A Farewell
To Arms.
mod6: wow, look at
that.
thing has a
thumb.
mod6: Did you ever read A Natural History Of
The Dead - short story?
mod6: And yeah, BingoBoingo, Hemingway was an ambulance driver, wounded on
the Italian front, so
the story goes. He wrote about it in A Farewell
To Arms.
mircea_popescu agrees with
the general frenchypoof notion of
the pre-mitterand years
that cooking is indeed an art and mssr duchemin rightfully accepted in
the academy.
mircea_popescu: who knew
the problem apelles of kos dealt with is actually much broader
than just an annoying shoemaker.
mircea_popescu: jesus who knew fiction is a doomed entreprise.
this would actually make literature not art, outright.
mircea_popescu: but
the other edge is
to observe
that fiction HAS
to be predictable specifically because it isn't nonfiction.
there not being a reality
to feed from other
than what emerges from
the fact
that
the reader can follow, you're stuck.
assbot: Logged on 23-11-2015 20:26:41; mircea_popescu: "What often deters writers from going
through with
the above plan is
the fact
that, well, Most Writers Are Writers.
They're writing a character who's supposed
to be a musician, but
they don't know
the particulars of meters or chords.
They have a character who is a military expert, but
they don't know how long an infantry division can fight until it needs
to be resupplied.
They have a character who's
mircea_popescu: this is an interesting problem
to have. one edge of it could be readily dismissed as "well obviously if you can't write so instead of writing you substitute copywriting as per
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-11-2015#1330345 & all, imonlydoingmyjob bla bla you will be predictable, after all copywriting is designed
to work much like computer codewriting : others gotta be able
to pick up your job once you quit"
☝︎ mod6: danielpbarron: ok, wanna meet me in
town?
mircea_popescu:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WildMassGuessing <<
this is pretty interesting.
the idea being, and i cite, "The
trope has also become increasingly important in more
traditional fiction as of late because
the Internet's
technological revolution is such
that an author's "twists" could easily be predicted ahead of
time if enough clever fans put
their heads
together and
talk
things over. (And over.) "
mircea_popescu: maybe
the best couplet in
the history of english lolzedy.
mircea_popescu: "Your proposition may be good, but let's have one
thing understood — whatever it is, I'm against it! And even when you've changed it or condensed it, I'm against it!"
mircea_popescu: ok, but i mean specifically "who
the fuck embeds
this ip"
mircea_popescu: o hey check it out,
the key
to driving mass linux adoption was copying minesweeper and solitaire, who knew.
mircea_popescu: from what i can see
this'd be some sort of "server for linux" or whatevs.
mod6: <+danielpbarron> mod6, you selling it? << sure. atm ive got my hands full
tho. maybe in like 30-45 mins?
mircea_popescu: well no, i'm not instrumented
to extract any payloads.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform .0 would asctually be
the ISP provided modem.
mircea_popescu: the only problem is
that address doesn't map
to any machine, nor could it.
mircea_popescu: so i come back
to find
that xchat is seeking permission
to download "sol.desktop", supposedly a 498 byte file sent by someone from... 192.168.0.29 (port 50234).
mircea_popescu: o hey check
this out, it sorta looks like
that
tempest-storm-whateverthefuck nsa server fucked up.
assbot: Logged on 23-11-2015 02:58:44; mircea_popescu: isn't ammonal about on par with black powder, in
the sense
that if it gets wet you can go salt your food with it ?
mod6: the charts are kinda interesting --
they start from a fully sync'd node so
there isn't any full-sync
to witness, only
the draw down of mem until oom.
mod6: maybe i'll just post like
the last 10`000 lines or something.
mod6: ohmahgerd
the debug.log is 7.6 gb
jurov: it's hepfully set
to 0 by most distros
mod6: message spit out into
terminal ^
mod6: each
time it's crashed,
there hasn't been anything
too
telling in
the logs. i'll post my log, and
the charts along with
the raw nmon metrics collection.
jurov: i run mine intermittently, still feeding from 0.10, did not die yet. but it complains about nonstandard
tx all
the
time
mod6: finally died, was started on
the 1st of november. left me with a 73Mb nmon file.
mod6: so my compiled version of
TEST2 (running on a m3.medium instance) died again, finally. i saw it die
twice within about 15 days of eachother in october. so
this
time I ran nmon
the entire
time.
jurov: ppl who used
to go
to bars and saunas, mostly still do. it's a boon
to everyone else
ben_vulpes: jurov: grindr's really
that central
to
the pickup scene /there/?
MrChrisJ: I was
told about
this place on
Twitter
jurov: i can't move
to a country where grindr is illegal
shinohai: Heres a novel idea: Get over yurselves, move back
to Qatar like you were planning on, and NEVER LOOK BACK!
BingoBoingo: He did, but his family has
to bankrupt
the Evil School
shinohai: I hope BingoBoingo does a Qntra
take on Achmed
the clock boy's parents filing civil suit for a cool 15 mil
phf: well, you know how smart people learn from others' mistakes, idiots from
their own?
phf: ffi left me so unsure of
the state of
the system, i couldn't make myself
trust
the result. it's like 4 abstraction layers, all leaking.
phf: but yeah i switched back
to writing cweb, and made progress on it, but
the amount of careful
thinking
that's required with c, lisp prototype would not have bought me anything.
phf: it seems like people use cffi as a
trivial-ffi compatability layer, which mostly just gives you least common denominator ffi (it was a pain
to work with after cmucl's native alien facilities)
phf: ~half~ out of sync with
the actual code, but also in breaking all legacy approaches without better alternatives
to replace
them with)
phf: asciilifeform: you were right re gossip prototype in common lisp. it was a needless distraction, i spent a long
time getting lisp gpgme bindings working, and
the end result was still pos. i'll just send
the patches
to gnupg ml, and maybe
they'll update upstream, but
that's not gotten me anywhere closer. i learned
that cffi is mostly a mess. (someone worked some improvements on cffi recently, which resulted in cffi documentation being
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no see, it's not
that
the war started, he should have fought but he hightailed it, so he covers up for it. it's
that he's a murican not an ottoman so he figures he CANT be man enough. so
to assuage his own neuroticism (why
the fuck couldn't he be ?! what, manhood now comes with formal
tags on it ?) he makes up a supportive story in a land far away.
mircea_popescu: even brought a joke booklet
to school once
to prove it!)
mircea_popescu: (when i was a kid
there was
this other kid
that got REALLY angry whenever i
told a joke. "ITS NOT LIKE
THAT".
mircea_popescu: his problem is more of an inferiority complex, seems
to me, but whatchagonna do
mircea_popescu: it all depends what it's for. i add shit
to every joke as a matter of course.
mircea_popescu: he made up some story about how he was wounded in
the war
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform plenty of examples, from clarke
to what have you
mircea_popescu: then all
their prose is equally and uniformly bland and stupid and hey,
they give each other prizes.
mircea_popescu: fucktard doesn't know "the particulars" nevertheless
thinks he can write up a musician