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mircea_popescu: but
those people are "lest concern" as
they say about overrepresented, nuisance species.
mircea_popescu: yes, it's
true
that for a majority of people out
there,
the existence of
the sandwich would stay a mystery lest
they saw it drawn on a key on
their cash register.
mircea_popescu: in other words,
the only people who benefit from
the "easier
to use" iconographic interface of mcdonalds cash register are both illiterate and noit actually involved in
the restaurant business.
mircea_popescu: which settlement is
the exact antithesis of art, for
the record.
mircea_popescu: than
to derp around in a labirinth of ps "features"
that aren't even exposed properly (you want me
to... click ? seriously ?) and with a cvasi-guarantee you will not be able
to do it, but have
to settle on "this is how we do it in ps".
mircea_popescu: it doesn't work for "filthy casual"
that wishes
to pretend like he's doing serious work while really not doing much of anything. but otherwise, if you are actually goin gto do serious work, it is by far a better use of your
time
to work
the parenscripts of gimp into
the shape you need
them
to be with
the guarantee you will be agle
to get
there,
mircea_popescu: "my gimp 1.2 is as good as your photoshop" rms style << i still maintain pretty much any version of gimp is better
than photohsop.
mircea_popescu: phf: well, i have a 2.4 box
that runs "if your dodgy stack fails,
this must remain" operations, like email <<
this design hasn't been recently reviewed i would guess.
mircea_popescu: what
the fuck are men for even, if not
to
teach
the woman!
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 06:41:58; mircea_popescu: see,
this is
the problem. we go around like we're all people and shit. but
then some of us go home
to where we know what fractals are, and some of us go
to whatever
that is, where
they don't.
mircea_popescu: in english
the bias is more
towards gunnery sgt hartmann's "gimme your war face".
mircea_popescu: somehow
this doesn't carry in
translation, but in
the original
the very strong implicit bias is
that
the pushing is
to be done with
the very face in question.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 06:28:45; mircea_popescu:
the geometric notion of
the point, and
the geometric notion of a line, and
the geometric notion of a plane, and
the geometric notion of wolfram's mother impaled on a
triple cheeseburger ALL SATISFY
THIS DEFINITION
mircea_popescu: just some derpy project manager at some derpy french state
taxburner feeling uppity.
mircea_popescu: in a very peculiar sense
that includes
the sea, which is a large part of why i
think la
tera
trema such a major point in art.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile california is just about
to fall into
the fucking ocean. oddly enough. problems it didn't have as a "failed state", it has in abundance as a whatever it is.
mircea_popescu: aha. what state has failed ? austro hungary failed. soviet russia failed. soon
the us will have failed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well i didn't
take you
to
the subway and i guess you didn't have
the curiosity
to go on own hm.
mircea_popescu: look
that sicily hasn't fallen into
the ocean, like syria hasn't, like etc.
mircea_popescu: you can obviously either have independence or
the fake growth of govt sponsored ponzi participation.
mircea_popescu: well,
the romanians have ipods like any other marginal civilised place : well in excessd of need.
mircea_popescu: and you propose
to defend
this behaviour or what am i missing ?
shinohai: Don't be hatin on
Tetris asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: no,
they aren't.
theyt're exactly
the grade of orc ukrainians are. except here
they have good steak and
there
they have good whore.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there's strictly no reaction between
the bovine quality and
the feline quality.
mircea_popescu: for instance,
the argentinians :
they are definitely orcs.
they queue perfectly well.
mircea_popescu: the notion
that a queue is an acceptable situation is more enmitous
to humanity
than any other mental device.
mircea_popescu: the girl, being
too young,
thinks
this is a bad
thing, because romanians are
thus so observably different from
the "more civilised" assorted cattles of europe.
mircea_popescu: i'll
tell you what it did. allow me
to bring
the illustration, one second.
mircea_popescu: but whatever,
this point needn't be decided
theoretically now, seeing how it'll be decided practically in just a few years anyway.
mircea_popescu: the govt sponsored ponzis are not economies
to begin with.
mircea_popescu: "Taler is
thus a currency for
the mainstream economy, and not
the black market." lmao ok. here's a news
tidbit : so called "black market" IS
the mainstream economy.
mircea_popescu: im not bothering with rms anymoar. prolly like
the libc improvements, he doesn't understand what it is and whatever, more words
to put on website
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that is kinda why i was mocking
the "lisp as its own
thing"
thing days back
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:
the usg-approved, built-in-tax-collector-and-stoolie altcoin is finally rolled out. << lmao "taler", who
the fuck came up with
that one. but anyway, no.
they are weak and know
they're weak.
throwing shit at wall
to see if maybe sticks but in no case admitting ownership. so... no.
phf: which was particularly oriented
towards computation is data is computation
phf: or
the little lisper for
that matter
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but at least
that
thing compiles
to a fixed form.
mircea_popescu: &=sub(if microsecond
time is prime, output [this program but with microsecond+1
tested] ; else if microsecond
time si not prime, output [this program])
phf: right,
there are different namespaces for different kinds of data, like $ is a scalar, @ is a collection, & is a callable, i'm sure other
things i forget
mircea_popescu: what if i make
the program branch, and
then load itself as $_ ?
phf: it is sad
that i have
this information stored somewhere in my brain, and
that it eventually can be recalled with some prodding
phf: $_=sub() {print 'hello';} but
then $_->()
to call
mircea_popescu: no,
the local boys don't need zee german.
they are perfecty of age, and perfectly capable
to split
the goods
themselves, which includes
the women, which includes his wife.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 21:09:39; mircea_popescu: gavrea, whom i've recently mentioned, had a very similar saying
to distinguish between
the "mathematical understanding" as described by funkenstein and
the genuine article, by using
the difference between
the romanian words muzician (musician) and muzicant (roughly speaking, illiterate gypsy
that can play by ear)
assbot: Logged on 04-09-2015 22:33:02; assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 14:16:12; assbot: Logged on 10-12-2014 00:51:50; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had an article (or perhaps a
thread here? but can't seem
to find it...) about an archetypical u.s. expat. fellow keeps a pub somewhere in
thailand, or cambodia, etc.
the locals - drink for free. he fancies
that if he begins
to run out of dough, he can always start charging. but somehow in
the back of his head
phf: it's a pointer alright, but if you were
to store a function in
there, you have
to use special syntax
to execute it
mircea_popescu: phf you mean a number not a pointer, and using it
to be a function is abuse ?