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BingoBoingo: trinque: Basically
that and "My kid was autistic but got better when socialized 40 hours a week with people who give a fuck."
shinohai: Maybe
their nest monitor went down and
the kids got autism when
they weren't being watched.
trinque: would not surprise me at all
that a lot of
this is normal misbehavior left festering like an untreated wound
trinque: BingoBoingo: "My son screams when anyone
touches his
toys." ... "So, kick his ass when he does
that?"
kakobrekla: or maybe
they lower
the apr and make it news
kakobrekla: weird,
that 'news box' is usually full of _OLD_ spam
mircea_popescu: "Is it saved in RAM anywhere or perhaps in
the java?" << ironically it prolly is lol
ascii_field: which is a reddit page, which is a link
to qntra
ascii_field: titled 'Turns out
the current crisis was predicted back in early 2013. Goess by whom.'
shinohai was flabbergasted
these ppl are so upset over such a
trivial
thing.
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 15:11:20; shinohai: Who allows
these people
to reproduce?
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 14:21:26; asciilifeform:
the conflation of 'owning gold' and 'using xyz vault' is also reminiscent of
the mtgox mediatronic idiocies
thestringpuller: trinque:
this is how CS students are
taught
tho sadly. Oracle doesn't with
this either.
mircea_popescu: because rather
than paying dues where
they are due, how about we just steal
their history and pretend it's
this guy's instead. he's cheaper)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: 'hagana' et al set
the gold standard for blowing up brits, aha
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (they also blew up bernadotte. who, amusingly, is very much
the character schindler's list is based on, except not named.
trinque: "sql is
the hardware" << ow, right in
the youth.
mircea_popescu: (btw,
the lehi/jdf
thing above ? nazi ally, originally. yes,
that's right.)
ascii_field: lol did i even dignify
that with an answer ?!
mircea_popescu: "we have no answers and are
too fat and lazy
to move, so let's just agree
they will be supplied for free from
the ethers as we need
them"
mircea_popescu: I bet
they've abstracted out
the fact
that languages are not all
that important;
they're just
the
tip of
the iceberg of complexity.
mircea_popescu: Now I guess one could argue
that
those sorts of heroes are what MIT is supposed
to produce, but as has been mentioned,
this course is not just for CS students. So
the real question is, can
the CS heroes of
tomorrow survive an introductory course in Python? Well, consider
that
they have probably been modding games since 10, hacking PhP at 12, realizing at 14
they need
to learn a 'real' language (C#, Ruby, Python), by 15
mircea_popescu: "The same sort of creativity artists possess, who work with media
that are idiosyncratic. It's a different mindset. I see
the reddit-gen programmers
talk about
things on a completely meta-level.
To
them, MySql is
the hardware. Is it a bad
thing? Not necessarily. Some of
them hopefully will dig down
the stack and be
the low-level heroes. But
that should (and probably can) only be a small percentage.
mircea_popescu: they should just buy it and run it
togeoops nevermind.
mircea_popescu: The same sort of creativity artists possess, who work with media
that are idiosyncratic.
mircea_popescu: "What creativity can
there be when your medium is shit mixed with sawdust?"
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: I saw some lots for sale at a far sheaper per unit price. I may have
to investigate
ascii_field: but unless you need 1,001 of
them - no reason
to
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: you could probably get'em even cheaper if you figured out where
they are and why
BingoBoingo: ascii_field:
Thank you for pointing out
that market opportunity.
ascii_field: should've gotten
the 89 if
that were
the plan
assbot: It it just me who is seeing a cowardly surrender
to cultural decay here? From
th... | Hacker News ... (
http://bit.ly/1hYMrxJ )
ascii_field thought
this was well-known in english world
mircea_popescu: (and since we're doing historical recovery here :
the "shame and war" quote comes from churchill, but specifically - it was in a letter
to walter guiness. who was assassinated in 1944. by lehi, which was a sort of jdf of
the
time)
ascii_field: everything else - straight
to
the fermenter vats.
ascii_field: everything about mit worth preserving even
theoretically costs about 100 usd and is on my bookshelf.
mircea_popescu: oh,
there isn't a word for
that so it isn't a
thing ? or what ?
mircea_popescu: and
then funkenstein wants
to
talk about "the library of alexandria". because branding.
mircea_popescu: someone please explains. "mit exists so
that...". fill in.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: aaaahahahaha. jesus it must suck
to live in
the us. << we usians are pretty much living in idiocracy. soon we'll see mass famine due
to watering crops with electrolytes.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field
this is not even pseudoscience. direct equivalent
to "respeto"
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: one of my secret pleasures is
to
track historical patterns of linguistic
theft by pseudoscience from
the genuine article
cazalla: utter waste of
time, but amusing
cazalla: i always find
these
threads amusing
tbh
mircea_popescu: Eventually, it is utterly hopeless. You stand and
try not
to lose any of your possessions as
the crowd crushes in around you."
mircea_popescu: With
time, new arrivals stand around you, generally
trying not
to step onto your blanket. As
the beginning of
the event approaches, you find yourself staring into
the rather private areas of
those who arrived after you, and might even feel a bit of resentment at
their impertinence.
mircea_popescu: "Anyone who has arrived early at a general admission event will recognize
the feeling. You lay out your blanket,
thus marking off a small piece of
territory for yourself.
The other early arrivals do
the same. After a while, you start
to feel as
though
that patch of land is yours by right.
mircea_popescu: the difference between now and
then is you didn'tr have a nigger president, derps.
mircea_popescu: "We saw
this kind of
thing a quarter-century ago, when debates raged over whether commercial activity should be
tolerated on
the Internet.
To
those, for whom
the World Wide Web and WiFi have always existed, such a question might seem unthinkably naive, but back
then
the idea of Suits playing in Propellerheads' sandbox was
the stuff of epic flame wars."
mircea_popescu: staunch defender ? and here i
thought i fucking started
the whole
thing.
mircea_popescu: the mark of
true potential is when
the grid doesn't shake you, but you shake it.
ascii_field: 'whaddayamean
the butcher wants
to sell
the meat,
think how many flies he could get'
thestringpuller: 16:56 < Aquentin> instead
they want price fixing lol - how dum
thestringpuller: 16:56 < Aquentin> you'd
think miners would love all
these new potential users...
thestringpuller: 16:55 < Aquentin> if we're ever so lucky as
to make use of 8gb blocks
ascii_field was distracted by fist-sized butterfly
trying
to get
through window glass. a very rare sight in
this part of
the world.
ascii_field: in
the sense of where
they would otherwise disappear.
ascii_field: what would mircea_popescu hypothetically ~personally~ pay per byte
to preserve
them ?
mircea_popescu: there's at least 1k movies
that must be kept, and even at
the modest 700mb a pop
that's 700gb consequently.
mircea_popescu: also ftr,
the size of
the cd was set
that way because a certain bigwig wanted
to listen
to a certain symphony without interruption.
mircea_popescu: i have more
than a coupla gb of porn i shot myself of my own women. and im keeping it.
mircea_popescu: (the summary of
the
txn for
the curious : 4223 bytes, 250000 fee, 28 inputs of which 17 = 1 satoshi, 2 outputs. none of
this should be controversial. fix your implementations of bitcoin relay)
mircea_popescu intends
to mine 1mb
txn at some point, just for
the fu factor.
trinque: "If you wish
to eat a nagant, you must first invent
the universe."
ascii_field: despite mircea_popescu
transmitting nonstop
ascii_field: jurov: it ended with me scouring several GB of packet dump for
the
tx and not finding it