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a111: Logged on 2017-12-18 01:25 phf: meanwhile, homebrew, the mac os x package manager, finally pulled the final bate and switch. "build from source" option is now marked as "unsupported" (!!!) in the man pages, everything's being pulled using precompiled archives. building
a non-trivial set of packages from source fails along the way with clearly misconfigured formulas. this is possibly of interest only to ben_vulpes (?)
mircea_popescu: but let me point out
a cheval that various investigations in the nature of the number cca 1700s were equally ill regarded.
mircea_popescu: what-else-can-be-
a-naive-perception-of-time-than-trying-to-build-clocks
mircea_popescu: then again, the notion that
a perception of time might not be naive is
a pretty tough argument in the first place.
phf: mircea_popescu: that one is
a purely technical paper on details of code implementation for calculations with civil time
phf: cazalla: nod, i in fact befriended
a guy who has the largest whisky collection on the east coast (an old texan drunk), and despite sampling
a large variety, i'm just going to stick to bottom shelf
mircea_popescu: esthlos so what's your take on the imminent quantum computer in
a thousand words or less ? :D
a111: Logged on 2014-06-04 00:08 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the buggers' traditional defense is to pretend that the event was
a non-event - or, if this is impractical, to continue living in an imaginary world where they 'scooped' the story first, and all of the 'unsanctioned' discussion never happened.
mircea_popescu recalls somewhat fondly old days of "put the model in and wait
a few hours for to find out how you fucked it up this time"
☟︎ phf: cazalla: what'd you think of 46yr glenfiddih compared to their 12yr etc. stuff? i've had
a variety of vintages, and i can't for the love of me feel ~that~ much difference. meanwhile
a difference between
a 10 and 40 year port is very tangible
sofiababy: it seems somethings
a slightly different
sofiababy: the instructions on how to create
a key
cazalla: i bought
a bottle of that reserva, was nice, i still prefer bundy rum (although the one i like can't be bought now)
☟︎ cazalla: know much about whisky mp? bought myself
a $500 bottle, bit disappointed, not sure what i expected or if scammed lol (26yr old glenfiddich)
phf wouldn't mind having one of those oversized, drafty castles where you have to run
a fireplace to heat one room out of 20 (or was it 30? we've lost count during last inspection, etc.)
mats: lel, i tuned in
a couple weeks ago after spam in another chan - weev was brought on and proceeded to rave about using btc to place shorts on papa johns stock
phf: meanwhile, homebrew, the mac os x package manager, finally pulled the final bate and switch. "build from source" option is now marked as "unsupported" (!!!) in the man pages, everything's being pulled using precompiled archives. building
a non-trivial set of packages from source fails along the way with clearly misconfigured formulas. this is possibly of interest only to ben_vulpes (?)
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: not
a bad fit, but the guy is going ass-backwards about it.
phf: "The l0de radio hour is
a long-running live call-in show that irregularly broadcasts over the internet, and to pirate shortwave and FM stations. It is hosted by Lode Ray Dio,
a gypsy hustler with
a long history of fraud, grifting, and treason. The show is notable for its frequent cancellations, obscene and bizarre content, and
a high rate of listener suicide."
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: did you see trinque made
a bitcoin wallet now and everything ?
a111: Logged on 2017-12-17 21:01 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752721 << the 'errything roboticized, robo-cabbies driving robo-repairmen to their sites' item is an sv hallucination. none of these items exist, or threaten to , for so long as there are pipes and plumbers there is
a role for iq100 folx
a111: Logged on 2017-12-17 20:57 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752726 << the part i dunget is , why is the '1 fork' scenario contemplated at all ? are washing machines
a waste because 'whole cubometre, you say, for 1 sock' ? for instance asciilifeform has 0 problem filling regular-sized dishwasher in <1day , and that's with 3 meals and
a crew of only 2 .
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752737 << laundry is dry ; dishes are wet ; laundry is light, dishes are heavy in terms of dirt -- if you ever fish as much oil out of
a shirt as out of
a plate you oughta see
a doctor. consequently laundry keeps better than dishes.
☝︎ BigTexasBingo: Gracias, while hacer poopoo, hade
a day with
a suburban girl for Thursday night
a111: Logged on 2017-04-07 18:24 mircea_popescu: no, let's also de-equivocate think. there's two kinds of think, one's
a forge/reflow/examination of trees resulting in analytical consumption of inputs with actionable outputs guaranteed ; the other is
a neurotic behaviour perhaps best described as spinning, whereby specific emotional triggers / detriggers are visited in succession. the prussian model was never concerned with the former in any sense, but merely aimed to elimi
a111: Logged on 2017-12-17 17:50 mircea_popescu: considering how bucket 4 was never really more than
a % or two ; and how bucket 3 was
a good 40% of humanity (about 80% of it male)... this is
a social shock, to say the least.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-17 17:53 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752701 << this is silly, especially considering the discussion (washing ~one fork!!~) is specifically about the so-amply-discussed-it's-almost-
a-term-of-art bad angle for washing machine. seriously, you expect me to fire up the whole cubometre machinery to wash one fork ? or what, is the one plate from today going to wait 2 weeks to be washed until there's like
a third of
a load ? nonsense.
shinohai: Nice article diana_coman,
a "reference code shelf" *is* vey good idea.
mircea_popescu: not that much ; but way the fuck more than is common for
a state-run state-idea.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752713 << dun even have to be female. there is such
a thing as
a "house mother" that's usually an old fag in the sort of "artist communities" composed of gay males as found all over... well, seattle and sf, mostly. but anyway, item exists and proven-to-work.
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752701 << this is silly, especially considering the discussion (washing ~one fork!!~) is specifically about the so-amply-discussed-it's-almost-
a-term-of-art bad angle for washing machine. seriously, you expect me to fire up the whole cubometre machinery to wash one fork ? or what, is the one plate from today going to wait 2 weeks to be washed until there's like
a third of
a load ? nonsense.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: considering how bucket 4 was never really more than
a % or two ; and how bucket 3 was
a good 40% of humanity (about 80% of it male)... this is
a social shock, to say the least.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: As in there is now
a pool over the center of the building ~3.5 cm deep at its deepest.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: So far so god, aside from
a critical structural failing banana'd into the hostel...
a111: Logged on 2017-12-17 05:49 mircea_popescu: let's try and understand this : running
a house without
a bipedal dishwasher, either in personam or as the role only, to be filled by whichever of the available persons according to some (arbitrary, male-oppressive-phalocentric, etc) criteria results in the situation where you gotta pay 3 cents whenever you use
a fork. what has been saved ?
a111: Logged on 2016-09-13 21:07 asciilifeform: aha. and so it looks like this is
a replay of the iq thread - it is quite impossible to specify 'smart', but trivial to specify stupid; impossible - good fuck, easy to describe
a useless one; the list of horrible food is easy to make (start with, say, asphalt) but not so of tasties; etc
a111: Logged on 2017-12-17 09:22 mircea_popescu: at the dumb end of the spectrum, however.. o ya. iq 88 is very much ahead of iq 83, and painfully evidently so. under 100, maybe even 120 or so, it DOES put
a very strict upper limit on what people can do.
mircea_popescu: at the dumb end of the spectrum, however.. o ya. iq 88 is very much ahead of iq 83, and painfully evidently so. under 100, maybe even 120 or so, it DOES put
a very strict upper limit on what people can do.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: this suddenly clarifies
a lingering... not quite disagreement i wouldn't say, but something or the other with asciilifeform re iqs. i don't credit the concept at the upper bound -- saying this guy is smarter than this other guy because 138 > 133 is
a very dumb way of approaching the matter ; or othersise stated, IQ > 100 is entirely meaningless.
mircea_popescu: come from the anti-IQ side! In other words, members of the anti-IQ camp simultaneously believe that on one hand, everybody is an equally valuable human, but on the other hand, those who deny this, even by
a tenuous implication, are subhuman."
mircea_popescu: aand in other news, "What is the lowest IQ that allows some person to write
a peer-reviewed paper that proves that IQ is meaningless? Another curious paradox that I noticed was how the anti-IQ camp fears that acknowledging the existence of IQ would result in some people being classified as "subhuman" and treated accordingly. However, every single time that I have actually seen somebody being called
a "subhuman", this has
mircea_popescu: "Once we get rid of the social construct that men are physically stronger than women, little girls will surely grow up to be just as strong as men. We can already see glimpses of this future utopia of equality in many junior sports events where
a 12-year-old girl competes with 12-year-old boys and wins!"
mircea_popescu: within
a half year you'd end up with
a little traditional village within the walls. practically say (pre war) syria, or ukraina. reconstructed, at great expense.
ben_vulpes bbl,
a deserving lady has
a christmas movie i'm not grinching about for once
ben_vulpes: american democracy is
a miserable thing, demanding that there be one boss (the state) and all subservient to it without ever acknowledging their subservience.
ben_vulpes: when i ran
a small coeterie of staff the steel spine of our success was the chain of command from whence sense and marching orders came, and everyone's utterly clear understanding of where they stood
mircea_popescu: it's
a fundamental statement of the problem, i'd say unavoidable. rich "software engineer" of the 70s (ie, architect, like those guys in the swiss pornos always seemed to be, recall?) goes off his rocker and kills
a woman.
trinque cuts checks to
a dude that does some basic software support
ben_vulpes: such
a sad thing, the rejection of hierarchy.
mircea_popescu: trinque well, many things are wrong with it. for instance, plenty of girls never encountered
a male centered enough to be able to manifest for.
mircea_popescu: there's some fundamental alienation at work in the german lands, of which england is
a sad, marginal, forgotten island (of which colonies are ... all
a sort of sadder wales). have you ever seen Aus Dem Leben Der Marionetten ?
mircea_popescu: in
a sense taking the garbage pouring out of pantsuit mouth as such and trying to engage it on merits is not unlike the fool of old, looking at the hand that pointed at the moon.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, "bla bla gay marriage" means exactly nothing other and above "wanna go for
a beer ?"
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 19:25 mircea_popescu: consider : what makes
a bad penis ? that you can rub it all you want and STILL it won't spit out. but what makes
a good cunt ? that you can pound it all you want and STILL it won't in any way change.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that i record protest only should not be construed in
a negative view of the man. on the contrary, he has many good points chief among which the systematic deployment of the view that whatsoever the pantsuit claim to think, believe, etcetera has absolutely no direct value, and is no more meaningful than the finch's call. the finch doesn't MEAN something by the noise it makes ; it merely intends for other finches to be
mircea_popescu: seems to me the tiny knolwedge afflicts he who should stfu and do
a better job of world domination.
mircea_popescu: let's try and understand this : running
a house without
a bipedal dishwasher, either in personam or as the role only, to be filled by whichever of the available persons according to some (arbitrary, male-oppressive-phalocentric, etc) criteria results in the situation where you gotta pay 3 cents whenever you use
a fork. what has been saved ?
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: "An important role of prices in free markets is to convey information about individual needs and preferences in
a world of seven billion people who can each see only
a very small part of it.
A while ago,
a poster elicited fawning oohs and aahs in the progressive blogosphere by pointing out how absurd it is to go through all the steps needed to make
a plastic fork instead of using
a metal fork and washing it afterwards. Indeed
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the upstack, the "science tries to [...] silence all hedonistic and rebellious dissent against it" nonsense is
a sad misread of history by people who really should know better. yes it's true that for
a while scientists were also puritans, as
a religious inclination.
mircea_popescu: total waste of
a fucking word. that's wtf the domain is there for.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-31 16:28 asciilifeform: and if someone wants to mention godel etc -- ethical engineer MAY NOT cite godel, EVER, just as
a police detective MAY NOT cite the supernatural and admit
a hypothesis of miraculous theft from
a safe
mircea_popescu: but it bears repeating : there stands, and well respected for good cause, an century old result of science that shows there can not be such
a thing as an explicitly consistent system.
mircea_popescu: rather,
a "retelling of old games of scientific method".
mircea_popescu: (consider the most scientific attempts to make sewing machine that failed for
a century, and the most unscientific eventual solution. also, evidently, airplanes.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform provided there's
a direction in the first place. science is defenseless in front of category error
mircea_popescu: it's evidently not true that "all reads are equally valid" or in any way just as good ; but it's certainly not the case that science is sufficient per se. this should be directly evident, but even without that : science is, much like nature itself,
a SMOOTH process (
a valuable reference here being
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-04#1732986 ), and as such WILL get trapped in local maxima. which is why heuristics is
a thing, and
☝︎ mircea_popescu: "
A few decades ago before all this current silliness started, the humanities and liberal arts departments in academia were badly losing the science wars. After all, even astrology at least makes falsifiable predictions (to say nothing of the fact that stars actually exist),
a hurdle far above the abilities of most of the humanities. Desperate to prove that they are just as true and valid systems of thought as all those hard s
mircea_popescu: o hey, only took
a dozen of these to run aground. here we go :
mircea_popescu: hurt
a pantsuit today, the worse the better and the more lastingly the more productive.
mircea_popescu: doesn't understand the enormous complexity and the "root causes" of this problem. What can you do, except perhaps escape to one of the few remaining islands of sanity, and hope that the madness doesn't follow you there, at least for
a while?"