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asciilifeform: i think i'm missing a step here
mircea_popescu: at least the broomstick fits.
mircea_popescu: you chafe at my broomstick, now propose treestick ?
mircea_popescu: if you can't make even one person worth following, how the hell would you make this entire aspirational 14% be each and every one worthy of following (for themselves) ?
asciilifeform: it therefore ~is~ a problem.
trinque: their obedience doesn't seem to be the problem; more that there's nothing good out there to obey
asciilifeform: 'what do you like to read about when not studying?' 'what's 'like' ?'
asciilifeform: machines purpose-built for playing the college roulette
asciilifeform: not much to tell. more or less the caricature depicted by the source tlp quoted, made flesh
mircea_popescu: do tell ?
asciilifeform: btw i went to school with these people.
trinque: "she is really raising them to be what the WSJ considers China to be: a pool of highly skilled labor that someone else will profit from."
trinque: I could hear the same shit from some stoner I know
trinque: don't let them stomp out your unique flower or whatever it is
trinque: if you'd just see, you too could solo on the stratocaster and be free
trinque: he's revealing some sinister mechanism that's all around us
mircea_popescu: and i gotta say i love the leverage, i take an hour to write one of these 5k word atrocities, it ruins the day/week of numerous people.
asciilifeform: e.g., the 'capitalism where you give all of the capital to somebody else' one
asciilifeform: trinque: just about all of his articles have this flavour
mircea_popescu: what format is that ?
trinque: "the powers that be are out to make you a cog for their machine, maaaan"
trinque: even him mentioning the guitar fits
trinque: having reached the end of the latest ballas dissection, the thing has a familiar format I was a little surprised to see given the others from him I've read.
asciilifeform: and ~would~ if there weren't an ocean of vermin
asciilifeform: IT WAS SUPPOSED TO REPLACE GLIBC
mircea_popescu: i dun believe this is what they wanted musl to be for.
asciilifeform: apparently this is a no-go.
asciilifeform: and do things such as init scripts
asciilifeform: y'know, the kind where it is possible to install programs later.
asciilifeform: this was an attempt to set up an ACTUAL WORKSTATION on top of musl.
asciilifeform: and the gravestone on top of it all:
asciilifeform: and at the same time these VERMIN mutter about 'you shouldn't write in nonstandard c, because of my gcc patches..'
asciilifeform is astonishingly astonished at the number of packages which fall into dust under musl
mircea_popescu: well i only read the atlantic so it never happened.
mircea_popescu: not in the atlantic, i'd wager.
asciilifeform: tarver wrote about this, i recall
mircea_popescu: pray tell what'd the gestapo have done ? better ? doubtful.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the story of england's country estates is so much lolz. so hitler won the war, and as a result by 1955 they were destroying the "national heritage" at the rate of a site a week.
mircea_popescu: but this aside, yes it's going lower.
asciilifeform: 'fseeko.c:103:4: error: #error "Please port gnulib fseeko.c to your platform! Look at the code in fpurge.c, then report this to bug-gnulib." #error "Please port gnulib fseeko.c to your platform! Look at the code in fpurge.c, then report this to bug-gnulib."'
asciilifeform: went from around 60, steady state, per, to below 20 connections/each
asciilifeform: incidentally, the number of working nodes OF WHATEVER KIND continues to fall. not only per the 'bitnodes' observatory thing, but per my own nodes' connections stats
BingoBoingo: Of course still that "Party Directive"
asciilifeform: ' Why would Bitcoin XT be subject to censorship? Simply put, this fork proposal calls for something that does not suit the agendas of the people in charge of /r/Bitcoin.' << still this?!!!
asciilifeform: if they gave half a fuck re: 'relevancy' they would have to eat their pistols in grad school even.
mircea_popescu: they have that much in common with down syndrome sufferers, it is true.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: these are not businessmen, recall, they are academitards. so long as the paycheques come and the tenure nest continues to be feathered with new paperz, they are as happy as a dung beetle in his pile of shit
mircea_popescu: im sure in their own heads they're still actually even like, involved in things and whatnot.
asciilifeform: they are laughing all the way to the bank, within half an hour's walk from where i stand
mircea_popescu: to quote professor costanza, "in my mind, the war is still going".
jurov: asciilifeform: no, they rebuilt it with llvm
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik the university gang is still in business
asciilifeform: or is this the same animal
mircea_popescu: not even a month. heh. at least the actual scammers have the decency to go away for 9ish months at a time. seems even 9 weeks is too much for the comparatively shittier decency of the university scammer set.
asciilifeform: ah i recall earlier attempts at this
jurov: asciilifeform: in CERN they built an *interpreter* on top of it, named cling
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2015 12:12:45; assbot: davout-bc comments on /u/jstolfi goes the way of whollyhemp after death threats from scientologists ... ( http://bit.ly/1JkvIuB )
asciilifeform: i thought that was stefanoupolis (?)
mircea_popescu: nobody gave a shit about stolfi at any point, his "omaigerd threatened on the internets" attention whoring moment y compris, therefore mp is bad!
mircea_popescu: lol teh butthurt
jurov: and failed though not on cling directly, but on getting gnu ld to publicly export some symbols in .so lib :(
jurov mostly killed a day trying to run eulora in cling c++ interpreter...
thestringpuller: definitely didn't get that memo
assbot: jstolfi comments on Roger the Jesus launches uncensored CEO AMA marathon on Bitcoin.com ...everyone except OKCoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1RzUdu0 )
asciilifeform: prolly wouldn't bother to mention this if it weren't for the 'where do we get ws hardware' thread.
asciilifeform has now ascertained beyond any doubt that his box dies when under full load. prolly thermal.
mircea_popescu: "oh, they sit on grenades because of windy, not because of cold". fuck them all the same!
assbot: Logged on 27-10-2015 16:46:20; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-10-2015#1308896 << word. and the postmodern irony is that after all this elaborate, expensive, actual superiority, hillary uses a home mail server.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-10-2015#1308970 << iirc it was to skirt 'mandatory data retention' rule, rather than 'seek00rity' ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 27-10-2015 16:44:48; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-10-2015#1308891 << and it is, currently, the one reason china is a pisspot.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-10-2015#1308966 << this is the chink in the armour of 'usa is irrelevant and can go straight to hell'. let's say, yes, but where do you intend to get ws cpu. ☝︎
asciilifeform: the bigger the motor, the bloodier the mess.
mircea_popescu: lord knows it went to soup (true, different flavour) once they started wit hthe "understanding"s.
mircea_popescu: the reason for the succes is specifically the hindbrain. and the uninvolvement of "the life of the mind".
mircea_popescu: they drew thje banner, said fuckit, it devolved into soup and we never heard of those.
mircea_popescu: no. they understood nothing.
asciilifeform: they understood that if they were to simply draw the banner and say fuckit, it would devolve into soup
mircea_popescu: what does it mean ? it is fucking obvious to you what it means, on the basis of the text itself!
mircea_popescu: i've been aware of this for a while, actually, slowly digesting it.
mircea_popescu: it is right all through in the speciffically correct way.
mircea_popescu: i mean just reading that thing - the strictness of the logic is empowering.
asciilifeform: at the very least, these people didn't buy into 'the implementation is the spec'
mircea_popescu: conventions in place for eleven centuries or more, and slowly evolving over that interval, read exactly like algorithmics.
mircea_popescu: how much does the field of computing owe to... heraldry ?
mircea_popescu: here's a thought : "Quarterly, first and fourth grandquarters counterquartered, first and fourth gules, three cinquefoils ermine ; second and third argent, a lymphad with sails furled proper, flagged gules ; second and third grandquarters argent, a heart gules imperially crowned proper, on a chief azure three stars of the field."
mircea_popescu: the culture powering romania. i would bet this played a part in half or more lost virginities during decades.
mircea_popescu: ie, "i've seen you, you're to my liking, what's left to do ? i dare speak to you : i love you! if you've looked me in the eye and were struck, you're not wrong to tell me you love me."
mircea_popescu: te-am vazut, mi-ai placut, ce ramine de facut ? indraznesc sa-ti vorbesc : te iubesc! daca-n ochi m-ai privit si-ai ramas indragostit nu gresesti sa-mi spui ca ma iubesti.
assbot: Madalina Manole - Te-am Vazut , Mi-ai Placut - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1ie9TXC )
mircea_popescu: drove the (relatively moe sheltered romanians) batshit.
assbot: Oul morganatic on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1GGT3MS )
asciilifeform: yes, that was the one.
assbot: The worm on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1GGSXVf )
mircea_popescu: anyway asciilifeform http://trilema.com/2015/the-worm/ if it's what you meant deals more with fears around identity. this'd be three levels lower down the tree, more akin to societal parody.
mircea_popescu: job of the artist : fix the uneven distributions of reality representation.
mircea_popescu: which is the point.
asciilifeform: this is not too far from what already happens in 'civilized' world.
mircea_popescu: "maybe it's cheaper with psychiatry ? let's convince them the incredible burning is worth it ?" "waste of time, these subhuman hindbrained breeders!11" etc
mircea_popescu: and the debate could specifically be, that the damned bitches keep trying to claw the worm out of their bellies, thus giving themselves infections. so the upgraded farfms have to include limb restraints on top of the noirmally used neckchain to a pole thing. which costs moneys!
mircea_popescu: ah yes, but that was different