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mircea_popescu: an excelent film, see it sometime.
the plot is
that a russian whore (which just means woman in her 20s) sells herself off
to an english eunuch
mircea_popescu: given
the lure of exotism,
the only stable result here is where australia is a
terrorist regime and all
the guys sit around discussing immigration reform.
mircea_popescu: then a kid from australia comes by, wants
to play
tennis, and well... none of
the boys can play. because... mind you... not
their speciality.
mircea_popescu: at which point, guy specializes, and
takes rachel. another guy, coming later,
takes hanna. for less effort, but lesser pickings. and so with everyone.
mircea_popescu: a decade passes, and
the
thirteen year old is confronted with
the sad circumstance
that hanna likes basketball players and rachel likes football players, and
to become either you gotta
talk
to
the respective coach, and
the coach says you gotta spend all your
time practicing. well... he can't readily spend all his
time
twice over.
mircea_popescu: guy is 3. he is easily
the equal of anything life
throws his way. master of his destiny,
the
three year old roars.
ascii_field: why would
they be interchangeable
to
their wives (supposing each had a wife) ?
ascii_field: i must confess
that ^ makes literally no sense
to me
mircea_popescu: to
their waiter - which
they don't have -
to
their doctor - which idem -
to
their life, whatever it means,
they're interchangeable.
ascii_field doesn't recall perelman so much as
threatening
to have a wife
ascii_field: can we distinguish shit from shinola, even if only
to
the extend of admitting
the existence of shinola ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i dunno about insects, but it is certainly a cheap if ineffectual way
to assuage one's feelings of inadequacy.
thestringpuller: thought
to myself, "ascii has
to deal with
this shit for 4 hours a day. no use in my gettin' upset"
thestringpuller: was
thinking about you in
traffic
this morning ascii_field
ascii_field: mircea_popescu might be a fan of
the famous heinlein quote re: specialization ?
mircea_popescu: for otherwise, as
the romanian expression goes, "nu ma prea vad in clar"
mircea_popescu: but i have some, however marginal, hope -
that by
the
time i actually do, one might actually exist.
ascii_field: lucky
then,
that mircea_popescu did not need a doctor.
mircea_popescu: i was about six, and my parents somehow had found an old jew - complete with chained pocketwatch -
to be my personal physician
ascii_field: likewise, when mircea_popescu has occasion
to visit a doctor, does he visit an 'obsolete' specialist, or just some fella who had a 'general sense of sanity' and decided, on a weekend lark,
to open an anatomy book for an hour or
two ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno... iirc mod6 couldn't get
the laptop
to open last i saw him :D
ascii_field: iirc both have programmed for money
their whole lives
ascii_field: and
these are supposed
to be folks with 'only general sense of sanity' ?
ascii_field: but, say, able
to
tell arse from elbow after, say, a month or
two
mircea_popescu: nonspecialisation would be strictly a better outcome.
the only problem with it is
that it relies on falsifying
the "we are all human" dogma.
ascii_field: then i ask mircea_popescu, as best proof of
this conjecture,
to supply
two people who know arse from elbow re:
therealbitcoin from
this pool
mircea_popescu: yes,
this means
that
three people out of five would starve. guess what ? four of five starve now.
mircea_popescu: i propose
to you
that a
team of
two people selected from five
that are only informed in general computer sanity can produce in
the same
time better software
than
the sum of all five, each schooled in one specialisation : sysadmin, webdev, db management, ux and marketing.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
to formalize a positive form for
this, not merely
the negative :
mircea_popescu: is he more convergent
than you, also ? can you apply CBS
to your own monotony "to some degree" ?
mircea_popescu: in any case
the actual pashtuns might be nonplussed by
the proposition.
mircea_popescu: doubt
the comparison "more pashtun
than x" can be declared in scopes where nobody's killed anyone for honor.,
ascii_field: and on
top of
this, my understanding is
that herr naggum was considerably 'more pashtun'
than i
mircea_popescu: adults do
this sometimes with children, pretend-give
them
things
to motivate
them "for
their own good".
assbot: Logged on 22-06-2015 14:12:53; asciilifeform: because why should some schmuck get
to keep his pile ?
mircea_popescu: not more necessary
than
the goods it actually provides are.
mircea_popescu: specialisation is, much akin
to geting used
to narrow spaces, a necessary evil.
mircea_popescu: specialisation is not
the unilaterally superlative good it is presented as.
mircea_popescu: but a) it all lasted as long as
the sputnik and b) i forget what i wanted
to be b.
mircea_popescu: and yes by 1955ish
they were almost on par with
the post-war us, on accounts of not being saddled with
the baby bloomers.
mircea_popescu: yes, by 44
they were doing okay, as far as everyone in europe was doing ok after five years of war.
assbot: Logged on 22-06-2015 14:05:29; asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-06-2015#1171972 << i find it smashingly hilarious
that everyone
today seems
to still be buying
that particular bit of wartime engineered psychosis.
the 'fighting without pants, one rifle for
three men'
thing 100% lines up with
the '41-'42 period when su was having
the shit kicked out of it.
ascii_field: will build it
there as soon as
the last round of amputation, referenced earlier, is complete
mircea_popescu: well if you get it
to run, identical instances can be spun up, so.
there is
that.
mircea_popescu: but! if you're willing
to go into
the grease, s.nsa server can be
the first of
those
three.
mircea_popescu: the
targed is something like what was done for eulora.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: do you presently have a system where
the
thing builds ?
mircea_popescu: i will provide no less
than
three, on physically separate machines, provided
this can actually be made
to work. which depends on excellent documentation.
ascii_field: which is, i suppose, as it should be. but means
that: we need seeds.
☟︎ ascii_field: i will remind readers
that 'irc on butcher block' means a 100% reliance on seeds we enter in config. and also on specifying node's external ipv4.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so maybe
the "doesn't work" vs "worked 3 days ago" is simply
that you ran yours for a day and ben_vulpes ran his for fifteen minutes.
mircea_popescu: can you discern from whence you sit if
the following is a possible explanation : you got now and again (rarely) a peer, which gave you its lists of peers, which is how you actually synced.
mircea_popescu: which
then flooded
the clients in question so
they stopped working
ascii_field: (terminated
through no fault of
their own, simply because wanted
to start from scratch when
testing patches)
mircea_popescu: ascii_field iirc
the problem was something about how /who flooded
the client. so
they made a limit so it only shows 100 entries
ascii_field: one full sync and several partial (into
the high 200k's)
mircea_popescu: did you actually do a full sync
that was
throughout dependent on irc as sole primary peer source ?
ascii_field: ever since i've snipped out
the gavindns seeds &
the hardcoded seeds from my own
tree
mircea_popescu: can you say, count all
the peers you ever got off irc ?
mircea_popescu: but i am very much perturbed by your proposition
that it worked until recently.
to what degree worked ?
mircea_popescu: (peer over irc acquisition never worked worth a shit -
the reason it was moved off freenode for instance is
that it needed a special ircd
to have even a vague chance)
mircea_popescu: 2) optionally, irc box << i don't see
that we need it. irc is dead, it was stupid
to begin with,
time
to put it
to sleep.
assbot: Logged on 22-06-2015 13:54:22; asciilifeform:
this worked earlier
ascii_field: in other 'news', it's been what, ~7 years, and libpng
thing is ~still~ biting
mircea_popescu: mostly on account of
their "pros" consisting of NOT being sexually enthusiastic, and imagining
that
they can substitute self importance for it.
assbot: Logged on 22-06-2015 09:30:38; cazalla: meh i won't begrudge her for 10m views, prob far more
than some mainstream pros get
these days
assbot: Logged on 12-06-2015 19:47:39; ascii_field: in unrelated observation,
there exists (nor, afaik has ever existed) an eeprom burner with
true linux support.
jurov: guess
they don't care about
that
ascii_field: (as in, you get
to keep your connection, sure, but you don't get advertised as a seed)
williamdunne: kakobrekla: It's a very informal system
they have
jurov: ben_vulpes
they may use getpeerinfo(sock) instead