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mircea_popescu: diana
_coman bad code has much more staying power than good code.
diana_coman: ahahah, the advantage of mircea
_popescu's favourite approach: there will always be tons of garbage to clean off since a cake eaten is at least eaten, but crappy code is rarely totally obliterated
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or a better question, "would mircea
_popescu still be mircea
_popescu if he were not mircea
_popescu ???"
a111: Logged on 2016-06-11 01:23 mircea
_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-10#1480685 << no, this is the problem. a bunch of idiots would have to earn bread different way ; and ben
_vulpes would be allowed to do something less idiotic with his time. that's the problem whenever derps get the reins - they drive the ship ashore and someone's stuck fishing it back out.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 14:51 mircea
_popescu: yes, it's broken, NOTICE it's broken, eat the scrambled egg, try again.
mircea_popescu: diana
_coman certainly not a cake. but it also has this passive "don't touch the instruments" educative value. womenz particularly vulnerable to this crap.
Framedragger: mircea
_popescu: ACK, and that is cool. i do understand re. master actually working *against* learned helplessness models, at least an *actual* master anyway hm
mircea_popescu: but to the more general point, Framedragger : the master's job is mostly to encourage and support the young woman TO ACTUALLY MAKE CHOICES. which is to say, exactly to distance herself from learned helplessness of the nature of diana
_coman 's above mentioned " don't change anything or it might all fall down"
Framedragger: mircea
_popescu: sure.. well hm, i can see what you mean; dunno if example is sound, but i prob know even less about pastry heh
Framedragger: mircea
_popescu: hmm; but you did supply her with some "aesthetics" feedback, maybe even a floating point value, as in, "better/worse than before", perhaps
mircea_popescu: diana
_coman likely, which is the irony here. you can either have schooling for boys, or for girls.
diana_coman: by this model, I'd say that those poor students I failed were actually trying to apply exactly mircea
_popescu 's approach!
a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 14:26 mircea
_popescu: now, it is real easy to grant that "machine can't resolve because irl it takes more neurons than there's atoms in the cpu". but this is a total cop-out, i can string together an infinity of computers, as bitcoin has shown.
mircea_popescu: diana
_coman and the answer is obvious : something else dun menstruate.
Framedragger: mircea
_popescu: do you mean Dolly the cloned sheep? i've heard of it, but only just
mircea_popescu: diana
_coman more importantly : they are tools, programmed as tools, expected to deliver untool likethings.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 04:02 mircea
_popescu: yeah. but that doesn't change the fact the ~only intellectual in the entire north of the continent is that old jew talking to himself in a room.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 14:13 mircea
_popescu: it's shocking how little the school system does to teach anyone anything. but anyway - what the program MEANS should be decided on the basis of what it can't possibly fucking mean,
mircea_popescu: diana
_coman i can't stand his conventional bullshit. he dared criticise (young) caraqiale for "poor morals" in plays ? the schmuck borrowed on his income months in advance to dress up and bullshit like that. he has a massive vein of "never got over mom" that i loathe in writers.
mircea_popescu: diana
_coman this is a dubious assertion, in the same vein we could say "ian murdock did the work, rest did gui" or w/e.
mircea_popescu: diana
_coman irl it worked as, to quote famous wilde tidbit, "i leave it to you to to fix the here's and there's".
diana_coman: mircea
_popescu> nothing actionable or useful that i can discern. just the simple observation that a) code the size of the body of work of respected past intellectuals is not maintainable by teams or individuals, while the writings were maintainable by the author solo ; b) the correct solution to scale is not increase in rigidity, but flexibility. which is how skyscrapers work or japan defends from earthquakes. <- fwiw the diffe
diana_coman: <mircea
_popescu> damn i mean, diana
_coman how many students can you fail. <- myeah, I know; thing is also: they shouldn't have gotten that high to fail basically, not that many
mircea_popescu: damn i mean, diana
_coman how many students can you fail.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 11:13 mircea
_popescu: and b) a RICO-worthy criminal conspiracy, replete with fraud etc, to marginalize, intimidate and if need be assassinate "opponents" as defined by a group of nuts
Framedragger:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1487858 << this i agree with! however, be it as it may i've never seen mp graciously accept to being wrong on some point. now, that *may* be because mp isn't wrong a whole lotta times, i contend, yes; but it's still hilarious to me (in a stimulating kind of way, fwiw). e.g. the chinese konspiraci thing, it was posted on qntra by mircea
_popescu, and then later mircea
_popescu says the theory is legit becau
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 10:30 mircea
_popescu: speaking of that, asciilifeform any idea how it's possible that Submissions: 3305302 Known Moduli: 2708380 Moduli Waiting for Test: 3677 ? shouldn't these add up ?
☟︎ diana_coman: asciilifeform> other reason is that most programmers don't write code in the sense that, e.g., mircea
_popescu writes essays. instead, they take a shit, and strip away elements of the shit until the compiler is happy and the 'tests' pass. <- fwiw I don't think that those are programmers
a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 09:54 mircea
_popescu: ps : why is "common wisdom" in agreement that "no man could possibly hold 1mn lines of code in head" when i actually have 10mn words worth of trilema articles in my head ?
Framedragger: mircea
_popescu: heh can't find much on the internets for "golf club pattern" indeed, but also don't get its initial idea/appeal? O.O
Framedragger: mircea
_popescu: if you mean "nobody smart", then that's one thing, but if you mean in terms of actual numbers, then i'd probably have to disagree. shitloads of ecdsa ssh host public keys anyway (stats and breakdown to be published at some point in teh future)
felipelalli: mircea
_popescu: what time is it in Argentina?? It's late, isn't? Here is 5 AM.
felipelalli: mircea
_popescu: why they are so distance from the reality? They continue to buy this shit.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 00:30 mircea
_popescu: no, if they just throw everything they have randomly at everyone you get exponential chattering-up
deedbot:
_FeltPen voiced for 30 minutes.
a111: Logged on 2015-05-18 23:49 mircea
_popescu: admittedly, i'm more like a 1700s mind.
Framedragger: i was just made aware of this term; i wonder if this may help me to conceptualize mircea
_popescu in my mind
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 18:46 mircea
_popescu: how THE FUCK do they get away with it. i mean, they still give the bums the sort of stuff bums misrepresenting tghemselves as "students" and "With potential!" get all over the world
a111: Logged on 2016-06-21 01:13 asciilifeform: mircea
_popescu: i found it especially entertaining how reddit folk (at least used to) believe the 'if only male birth control pill' thing would make any difference (if such thing existed, 'paternity' would simply get redefined, french style, to accomodate cuckoldry)
phf: mircea
_popescu: i was trying to describe the kind of thinking that goes into the "linux on desktop" drive
Framedragger: "This means that to overflow the "unpack
_streams" variable we need only have a 7-Zip file with the number of folders "numFolders" larger than 42 and then populate "numUnpackStreams" with sufficient values." heheh
hanbot: mircea
_popescu they prolly shaved their best pencils for that coffee. lapices ain't cheap!