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mircea_popescu: bout half euro imports. the rest japanese.
kakobrekla: teslas or whatever 20 liter trucks?
mircea_popescu: not that many consumer choice 1983 lebarons out there.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> as it stands now, all ''german manufacturers' are using 'us tech' and no 'us tech firm' is using a 'german manufacturer' << you ever looked in the parking lot of these "tech giants" ?
pete_dushenski: we agree this is unlikely
asciilifeform: (soon to be intel monopoly)
asciilifeform: omitting the x86 duopoly ?
pete_dushenski: yes, poettering, the 'us tech giant'
kakobrekla: desktops for designing (with ps) and selling the outcome with ipads
asciilifeform: failing this, poettering.
asciilifeform: if they were to attempt abandoning microshit - would be just as dependent on crapple.
pete_dushenski: this is from the perspective of 'deutschland manufaktur', recall
asciilifeform: pray tell ?
kakobrekla: as it stands now, all ''german manufacturers' are using 'us tech' and no 'us tech firm' is using a 'german manufacturer'
pete_dushenski: ^that bar graph will be even lulzier in 50 years when those 'tech giants' 'go kodak'
funkenstein_: lol we can file that cheese girl under "white are better" right?
pete_dushenski: mousetrap grew up from nowhere seriously in last month. before that, fine.
asciilifeform: 'this is a mousetrap.' 'bbbbutt there's cheeze!!11'
punkman: asciilifeform: there is porn
asciilifeform: the tards helpfully segregated themselves, why dig'em back up ?
pete_dushenski: also, does anyone have a suggestion for viewing/using the tumblr dashboard that doesn't involve this latest invasion of spamz. every second fucking post is some derpy 'trending' meme that completely kills teh mood !
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: the result of training idjits that their words are the most important thing and that yelling 'rape' makes the 'rapist' stop voluntarily if not arrested by the police
asciilifeform: well, there was praying mantis involved
mircea_popescu: wait, is it actually a different story ? ie, not with these ?
asciilifeform: it's a short & very lulzy yarn and none of the psychiatric weird mircea_popescu mentioned was in it...
mircea_popescu: notrly the point is it ?
asciilifeform: perhaps will warez it once find my tripod and have a free shiva hand.
asciilifeform: well i have an english transl. lying around
mircea_popescu: meh i can't find the happy dancing mantises. a well.
mircea_popescu: i think i read it in french
asciilifeform wonders if mircea_popescu read the book in a language he actually speaks
mircea_popescu: i had a great pic up lemme see if i can ever find anything again in this smoldering pile of everything that's my blog
pete_dushenski: https://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjx5L_unKXJAhUCLYgKHf0-ClQQjBwIBA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fd%2Fd9%2FPorch_of_the_Caryatids_from_angle.JPG&psig=AFQjCNHy0iPIzC_1v0U8RVTk5KbZLGOW2g&ust=1448322636396145 << these caryatids ?
mircea_popescu: intina is a verb, to en-dirt-y.
mircea_popescu: supposedly (ro) intinate = (en) defiled, but im not too happy to it. tina is a derrogative for earth, soil. it's expected to be barren, powdery (but noit outright sand) and in generaly the equivalent of dirt.
mircea_popescu: defo one or the other.
mircea_popescu: either that or possibly doesn't give a shit about caryatids.
pete_dushenski: one of these aggressors has too much money in their pockets, while the other knows full well the value of a dollar.
pete_dushenski: ^healthy roi, that.
mircea_popescu: well, the ~$65 in box cutters the terrorists spent did bring down a 8-10bn piece of real estate.
pete_dushenski: that's backasswards terrorism
mircea_popescu: cost about 150mn to tear down (without counting amortisation and hr costs) and about 18k to fix.
pete_dushenski isn't sure that 'bear' is supposed to do anything.
mircea_popescu: except the argentines fixed it that same day, and used it to land hercules for the entire duration of the conflict.
mircea_popescu: here's a primer on airstrike efficiency : the brits did 7 (SEVEN!) mid-air refuellings for one of their rustbuckets to manage to drop ONE bomb on the one runway in the faulklands, "disabling" it ☟︎
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: i have nfi what you are no matter how hard i try.
mircea_popescu: "oh oh airstrike" "ok and ?" "we took out their outhouse!111"
mircea_popescu: do those things even do anything ?
assbot: The Aviationist » Watch this video of Iranian F-14 Tomcats escorting a Russian Tu-95 bomber during air strike in Syria ... ( http://bit.ly/1MLA15f )
pete_dushenski: too much work on the sabbath ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, i get it, an entire generation of disenfranchised young russians figure they're great chaps and the fault must be in the women empowering the old farts.
gribble: Voice - Dune Wiki - Frank Herbert, David Lynch, Sandworms - Wikia: <http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Voice>; Bene Gesserit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bene_Gesserit>; Dune (2000) - Lady Jessica using the voice against Stilgar - YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDHzDOWg9gw>
assbot: Logged on 22-11-2015 17:09:00; thestringpuller: "the wrath of alfdog" << great name for a hip hop album
mircea_popescu: isn't this the book with lena the "poor her" whore and that schmuck doing dune "the voice" v2.0 ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you gotta be thinking of some other fella
mircea_popescu: i never saw much in it (and in pelevin generally) other than "oh if only the holy tenets of TRUE socialism hadn't been /intinate/ or however you say that in russian
asciilifeform: if i ever bother to do a w4r3z scan, they could...
mircea_popescu: i guess no two people ever can read the same book
asciilifeform: it's more of the former than the latter
mircea_popescu is more into the "Brothel of intellectual lusts" take on female degradation than the flimsy political apropos take.
asciilifeform: it is about this picture.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu would enjoy 'hall of the singing caryatids' by v. pelevin
pete_dushenski: the mines before phones or phones before mines thing
assbot: Logged on 19-11-2015 17:59:12; pete_dushenski: even place large quantity of gold in land mines. hell, make the land mines ~entirely~ out of gold. not like the yellow stuff has any better uses.
mircea_popescu: trotyl is more expensive than either the thing or the intended customer.
pete_dushenski: iphn0e comes in gold casing for this precise reason
jurov: you forgot trotyl
asciilifeform: i'm kinda surprised they didn't fill the thing with glue and be done with it ☟︎
asciilifeform: everything about the box seemed to be ~designed~ to make repairs as miserable an affair as possible
asciilifeform: this is the hv cable for the lamps
asciilifeform: (it runs through the hinge)
mircea_popescu: how does the cable wear anyway ? badly placed fan ?
asciilifeform: used for many years, and will use until the chinese stop making parts
pete_dushenski: wtf are you doing dinking around with one on the first place ?
pete_dushenski: i was 'pro' user, wouldn't touch this.
asciilifeform: the whateverthefuck the a1181 is.
pete_dushenski: the airbook mac then ?
asciilifeform: ('air' has no high voltage supply to the panel, as it is from led era)
asciilifeform: nah the other one.
asciilifeform: in civilized iron this is not a wear component !
pete_dushenski: for the unawares, what SHOULD it take ?
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski, ben_vulpes, et al: motherfucking crapple. ~4 hrs disassembly to swap a measely inverter cable
mircea_popescu: i actually get more "web designer" spam than "seo expert" spam.
BingoBoingo: lol, Reddit is nao using traditional spam to fill its content quotas https://archive.is/wQQyC
phf: ;;later tell wyrdmantis PMed, but not sure if you got it before timeouting. http://www.eulorum.org/OS_X works, let me know if you run into any issues
mircea_popescu: "After fifteen years in the design industry and realising the only difference between sitting in front of a computer facilitating client's requests and kneeling on the urine soaked floor of a truck stop bathroom giving five dollar blowjobs to men named Chuck, is the amount of urine on the floor, the Jumping Frog fee has evolved from insurance against post-project client suggestion to client incentive to have somebody e
jurov: !up tripleslash
jurov: pls don't thank me
trinque: and my most complex queries have typically involved converting one schema to another one time, and then throwing away the queries
jurov: hahaha and then is not able to detect glaring errors...because "dis doth not exist!!111"
trinque: that's certainly so, that you either pick a sane table structure, or you write terrible queries
mircea_popescu: if one structures his tables sanely then none of these complex requests exiswt
mircea_popescu: for some reason these all sound to me like "the problems we get for having a bad db design"
trinque: "because SQL" << and now we're back to me writing a CL RDBMS
trinque: that using an ORM you duplicate what the DB can already do
trinque: and actually you're going to end up looking at SQL ASTs to figure out where a column came from
jurov: for me biggest prob was the consistency, in any nontrivial ORM situation you build the objects partially, must take care of constraints... db that defers checking constraints to commit would help, but then how do you report it to user... hairiness
trinque: this is not the point
jurov: as long as all the values take their primary keys with them, you're fine
jurov: i don't see why this of all is the problem, objects usually know which table/column is the field wired to