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mircea_popescu: which is why people who set out
to write "interesting journals" end up with crap and peopl setting out
to write "earnest journals" end up
the basis of history.
mircea_popescu: you don't generally know what you will like
to read, is
the problem here. and
this is not a resolvable problem for good and fundasmental reasons, also.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly,
this is exactly "alf likes polish notation". good for you, but as
the above cs intro page explains : YOU KEEP NEEDING SHIT FROM
THE RIGHT.
a111: Logged on 2019-02-23 18:34 mircea_popescu: "Busy all day.
The phone just would not stop ringing. Mark called several
times (some of
them about Paychex), Stu called (oops, late
to meet him for lunch), my sister called (wants me
to buy her a house, but in a good way), I called my grandparents
to
thank
them for
the Red Lobster gift card Fade and I used for dinner,
the series of phone calls from Eric was because he had
to debug a problem with
the gpsd
test suite hanging o
a111: Logged on 2019-02-24 06:42 mircea_popescu: witness how instagram is chock full of a bunch of pretentious pictures of foods/travels/whatever
that
the putative "authors" ~aspire~
to.
mircea_popescu does very little actually creative work ; merely not getting in
the way of people
trying
to make
things is a full
time job
a111: Logged on 2015-04-07 21:39 mircea_popescu: but i say
the pigs make ham. as
that one butcher observed, "i only follow
the lines already
there"
a111: Logged on 2019-02-24 06:53 mircea_popescu: all
the recurrent "look how well
this works out, except it only works out because
the item was
there, you couldn't have computed WHEN I WROTE IT
that
this is how it'll be useful, nor do you have
the
time or resources when it'd be useful
to re-produce
the
thing in
the past you should've marked" is entirely about
this.
a111: Logged on 2019-02-24 06:47 hanbot wouldn't for a moment
think of v as belonging in
the set of "failed attempts"/"ugliness or banality potential of life on earth", but otherwise
the problem of desire
to control perception is spot-on. i certainly have
that problem, "x isn't polished enough", "i'll write about y when it's all done and i know what
the score is" etc
a111: Logged on 2019-02-24 06:38 hanbot: am i nuts for expecting
the
this
to be on asciilifeform's blog, seeing as he wrote it?
mircea_popescu: "but mp, why would you DO
that!!!" "i don't know yet."
hanbot nominates
that old pic on
trilema of some shit you
took as mascot for
this conversation
mircea_popescu: all
the recurrent "look how well
this works out, except it only works out because
the item was
there, you couldn't have computed WHEN I WROTE IT
that
this is how it'll be useful, nor do you have
the
time or resources when it'd be useful
to re-produce
the
thing in
the past you should've marked" is entirely about
this.
☟︎ hanbot: i guess "we've always venerated v" ~= "we've always been at war with eastasia", but it's not so easy
to see from
this vantage.
a111: Logged on 2019-02-04 17:18 asciilifeform: back when asciilifeform was spending his days putting robot arm
through glass doors etc
mircea_popescu: v-as-of-2015 is exactly
the same item as something-that-will-happen-tomorrow. yes v-as-of-2019 has some sort of value associated, built in
those 4 years. but
the original, emergent item was valued according
to prospective, not historical criteria. basically, it got whatever ~default~ value one put on his own ingenuity.
mircea_popescu: but you see, ~before~ "v" existed, in
the sense you understand it now, v also existed as a
thing
that hasn't yet existed.
hanbot wouldn't for a moment
think of v as belonging in
the set of "failed attempts"/"ugliness or banality potential of life on earth", but otherwise
the problem of desire
to control perception is spot-on. i certainly have
that problem, "x isn't polished enough", "i'll write about y when it's all done and i know what
the score is" etc
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "if nobody saw me shitting my pants
then
therefore nobody has any cause
to suspect i ever did" or somesuch. as fucking if
that's how anything worked.
mircea_popescu: and so blogs are significantly shittier
than
they could have been, and in exchange
the author steals his own hat, and "saves face" or w/e
the fuck
the inner 6yo imagines itself
to be getting
thereby.
mircea_popescu: it'd be way
the fuck better
to see
the 500 failed attempts
that went into
that quiche/scooba/whatever. but people being
the morons
that
their mothers made
them, rather
than
the people
their absent daddies could have conceivably made
them,
throw out
the good stuff and keep around
the chaff nobody cares about.
mircea_popescu: witness how instagram is chock full of a bunch of pretentious pictures of foods/travels/whatever
that
the putative "authors" ~aspire~
to.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: before i made nicole go naked on her knees NOBODY EVER imagined going naked on your knees is
the proper path
towards a
technical career. before i published
that
thing, it wasn't self obvious it should be on loper-os. and so fucking following.
mircea_popescu: there's
this common
tendency among noob bloggers
to regard
the blog as some sort of
trophycase/showcase.
they miss out on
their own youth, as
the lived story of
their own personal path
through life, consisting as such always does of failure, and
tribulation.
mircea_popescu: 2019 logic didn't seem nearly as logical in 2015, what can i
tell you.
hanbot: am i nuts for expecting
the
this
to be on asciilifeform's blog, seeing as he wrote it?
☟︎ hanbot: mircea_popescu so it does. but i mean, "the idea behind
this"? what if one's looking for -the-
this?
mircea_popescu: at
the
time alf was being weird about publishing
things on his blog.
nicoleci: mircea_popescu: nicoleci kitten, check out latest comments, local
troll dug out
the linkedin of
this lulzcow. write
to
them, say hi an'
tell 'em your master ordered you
to <<
this is done - i messaged him as ordered. :)
mircea_popescu: i suspect
the whole heathen->cuntoo environment building will require some more brush-up and
tweaking. eventually we'll get it smooth but for now such attempts are indeed very useful globally, even if i imagine locally frustrating.
lobbes: Luckily,
this
time around I have a 40MB screenlog
to parse
through. Will return once I have a more substantive understanding of where exactly
the failure points are when
trying
to build my kernel config
☟︎ lobbes: However, I've got some detective work
to do now; Last night I ran
the Cuntoo script (using
the same kernel used for
the above functioning Gentoo, and aimed at a usb drive), however when building
the kernel I saw a spew of "error: cannot read XYZ elf file" and
then it drops me out of
the bootstrap.sh
lobbes: good day, #t. Quick update on what I've been doing lately: I've been on a bridge-to-cuntoo quest. Firstly, I spent
the last week or so successfully getting a hand-rolled classic Gentoo installed on my lappy; complete with alf's classic crapolade masks, functioning networking, gcc-musl, ave1's gnat, and diana_coman's v setup (tested and working splendidly, I will add).
mircea_popescu: "Somebody needs
to fork gcc at
the last GPLv2 release (4.2.2 I
think, need
to check) and maintain
that, because
the FSF has gone
totally around
the bend and
the community shouldn't depend on it anymore." << check
that lulz.
mircea_popescu: should be fun
to go on hunting expedition among
the wolves
that ate boston 4th
time
tho.
mircea_popescu: africa africs,
they'll be burning dung and
tyres, of course.
mircea_popescu: the united states does not have
the required skilled workforce
to maintain nuclear plants, let alone build
them. it's a foregone conclusion.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
they'll prolly go for it, as
the easiest
thing
to maintain. (in other words : heating new york is impossible as a matter of fact --
the best way
to "explain"
this
to
the affected while maintaining control is
to pretend it's deliberate)
BingoBoingo: Well, one Pantsuit primary election faultline is appearing
to be a "Green New Deal"
that consists of eliminating fuels and nuclear power within 10 years. A proposal
that makes... heating New York impossible
mircea_popescu: "Poking at making an open source version of
the Cisco
toolchain again, from publicly available sources. (No, Cisco isn't paying me
to do
this, most of
those engineers are off for
the holidays and not even answering
their work email. I'm doing it because I'm disgusted with
the FSF and would love
to undermine Mepis II any way I can.)" << nuts.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the us has been de-industrializing on
the strength of
the imbecility and sloth of
the population for a century straight.
mircea_popescu: i dunno
that it was avoidable. it's like saying "sinking submarine won by appointing X captain".
mircea_popescu: or i guess
the gain is
that inept bois who can't afford a cup of standardcoffee at
the standardshop could pretend like
they're "fixing it" for 8 years, which is
to say most of
their productive life ?
mircea_popescu: or what was it, now whenever someone who hates black people is looking for ammo he can go "obama was ~easily~
the most inept, ridiculous, useless and failful president in history" ?
mircea_popescu: a functionally iliterate moron from illinois/kenya got
to fist bump with
the functionally illiterate morons polishing
the white house floors. i guess
that's a gain in fried chicken ?
a111: Logged on 2014-07-19 03:17 mircea_popescu:
there for all eternity,
to confront generations of bright
teenagers
that'll
take about five minutes
to figure out she's a furniture, and maybe not
torture her for it. maybe.
mircea_popescu: who won what from
the whole "black president" charade ?
mircea_popescu: funny how poorly
the whole charade worked out. imagine if
they came
to you, you know, "here guy, you're
the least informed dork in all of
this obscure university's legal history dept, we'll promote you as
the
truly white black man!
then you can go down in history as
the most idiotic black man
the soil ever produced, while we move on
to different-but-same whiteboi wanking posts".
a111: Logged on 2019-02-23 17:23 asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu has
this piece , where rms as lev
trotsky, 'troo left believer' surrounded by
the usual swarm of cynical grifters who inevitably come
to put proboscis into 'troo believer' as surely as flies
to shit
mircea_popescu: in short, obama is
the ~by product~ of a bunch of retarded white boys, nothing else.
mircea_popescu: turns out
that yes, hussein bahamas was suckered into
that play and crushed.
mircea_popescu: more money away from
the competition. (Unless Obama's smart enough
to
talk congress into investing in
the future _before_ it becomes an imminent crisis.)"
mircea_popescu: guy's political intuitions are remarkably weak : "All along,
their big worry was
the price of oil would rise
to
the point where alternative energy sources became _cheaper_, and people started funding research into
them not out of altruistic or environmental motives but because
there was money
to be made in
the near
term.
The massive price decline in oil is a mixed blessing for OPEC; it shrinks
their paycheck but diverts even
mircea_popescu: "If I go home, I'll be endlessly pestered by cats. If I go into a room and close
the door,
they'll claw at it,
the whole
time." << dood had some srs problems. i sent much less disrespectful cat flying out window.
mircea_popescu: these numbers for, or if
the perl generating
them didn't suck quite so badly.)
Tired. Bedtime.
Tackle it in
the morning." << 2008,
this.
mircea_popescu: "So
the busybox "dc" command was broken when I
tried it, but Denys fixed it last night, so I can do
the next perl removal patch now. (I need
to get
this done before
the merge window closes.)
Three hours later, I've learned how
to implement
the greatest common denominator algorithm in shell script using Eucilid's algorithm, and I'm only about halfway
through. (This would be easier if I either had any idea what
the kernel used
mircea_popescu: he sounds like he's from maryland or something,
to me.
mircea_popescu: n Ubuntu 8.10, which eventually
turned out
to be
that gcc 4.3 is miscompiling Python 2.5... Eventually my cell phone battery died from all
the calls." << how about
this.
mircea_popescu: "Busy all day.
The phone just would not stop ringing. Mark called several
times (some of
them about Paychex), Stu called (oops, late
to meet him for lunch), my sister called (wants me
to buy her a house, but in a good way), I called my grandparents
to
thank
them for
the Red Lobster gift card Fade and I used for dinner,
the series of phone calls from Eric was because he had
to debug a problem with
the gpsd
test suite hanging o
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "So yesterday, I
told paychex
the exact amount of money
that was in Impact account, and
the portion of
that Mark and I each earned, and
that my main concern was not bouncing a check.
Today,
they want
to deduct $253.50 more from
the account
than I
told
them was in it. Â
This did not seem
to raise any red flags on
their end." << keks. "paychex", also still in business. also still doing
the same exact
thing -- meanwhile it's