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davout: mircea_popescu: doesn't really work for some reason, also
the SVG
tags are embedded directly in
the HTML, makes it impossible
to open in new
tab for example
nubbins`: "don't
touch black
things because
they might be hot enough
to send you
to
the hospital" :D
nubbins`: many of
the lessons learned inside
the kitchen are uniquely inapplicable outside, as well.
mircea_popescu: davout it's a svn, you should be able
to zoom natively
davout: mike_c: could you make it possibru
to zoom on
the wot graphs?
nubbins`: which is a really nice feature for your employees
to have
mircea_popescu finds it harder and harder
to care about whatever
the derps outside do.
nubbins`: but because it implies
the holder is willing
to waste
time in pursuit of a "maybe"
nubbins`: not because it implies skill or suitability for
the position
nubbins`: for
the same reason
the places hiring programmers care about
the B.Sc.
nubbins`: *we* don't,
the restauranteurs do
nubbins`: asciilifeform
the space of "humans who grok
their fields" is ever-shrinking
nubbins`: nor
to condemn myself
to working in restaurant kitchens
nubbins`: but because i don't have
the patience
to earn
the red seal
nubbins`: not because of lack of skill -- i put my way
through university cooking and i can blow any self-described "chef" outta
the water
nubbins`: TBF i don't
think i have a chance as a chef anyway
nubbins`: TBF
this gave me a serious case of
the o.Os
nubbins`: ever watch "hell's kitchen"? it's not uncommon for "contestants"
to be unable
to distinguish pork from chicken by
taste alone
☟︎ nubbins`: guy aces 11 of
the 12, declares 12th
to be "X or Y", and sure enough it was X
nubbins`: so
the old man brings in 12 wooden blanks for
turning pens, and a blindfold.
nubbins`: my old man used
to work with
this guy who claimed he could identify ~12 species of wood by smell alone
nubbins`: skills like
this, i have a soft spot for
nubbins`: "tastes like lychee" "wtf does lychee
taste like?" "let's go
to
the grocery store..."
nubbins`: with a decade and a half of wine
tasting under his belt
nubbins`: but srs, i've given a glass of wine
to a L2 sommelier and he
told me /which country and which grape/ it was made from
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2014 03:27:12; asciilifeform: re: commoditized 'innovation' - here's a snipped from me
turdbox.
translation of a page in pelevin's epic 'snuff' (the one with s/ukraine/orkaine, 'orcs', etc)
nubbins`: your friends
tend
to come in 750mL bottles
nubbins`: if you see an old man at
the grocery store, walking around
the produce section and picking up and smelling EVERYTHING,
they're probably a sommelier
assbot: Logged on 27-04-2015 13:47:48; asciilifeform: i must confess
that i have a rather pessimistic view of
the sommelier
thing because
the feedstock is already mind-bogglingly scarce, and
the market has been flooded with crud for long enough
that -everyone with serious experience has
the bulk of his serious experience with crud-
assbot: Logged on 27-04-2015 03:51:55; asciilifeform: in
the sense of with sufficient lsd everything is quite like everything else ?
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: I don't
think
they are actively
trying
to compensate, just a side effect
mircea_popescu: the police are
trying
to compensate, what with
the random raping of middle class derps, but it's really a
toothpick in a levy breach
mircea_popescu: and so california is running out of water because while population doubled, water works have not been allowed
to go forward ; and
the us is ethically collapsing because hey... no useful violence
to be had.
mircea_popescu: one of
those nimby problems : violence is not only great, in
the general, but sorely needed for functioning society.
mircea_popescu: anyway, violence has
the marked ethical advantage
that it removes people from
the goop where
they imagine
they are in control of
their environmenty and
the future.
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Well
thats hard
to summarize with a formulae as its relative. Normally I would favour
the person who was most productive prior
to said violence
jurov: and in
the meantime
they are not manufactured anymore
mircea_popescu: hopefully something more substantial
than "most people agree"
mircea_popescu: no sommelier "deduces" what
the better wine is on
the basis of watching winemaking videos or some shit
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah but yu're a deductive nut. whereas
the job of a sommelier is ipso definitio inductive.
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Ah okay, right.
That make more sense
mircea_popescu: if you construct more complex spaces you get "WasItGood()" and "ShouldItHaveHappened()" etc, but now you are also stuck with
the complexity.
jurov: mircea_popescu: you ever asked multiple automechanics which car is
the most reliable?
mircea_popescu: well, "just" only exists in a certain context. in
the context of violence itself,
there's no space for more functions
than "DidItHappen()" which returns a bool.
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: But I don't see how
that makes it just
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: So if I were
to beat you, it would be just for violence's sake?
mircea_popescu: you similarly don't expect
to find experience with cars and car parts at
the mechanic's ?
jurov: i have seen numerous people stick
to one
thing only "because of experience"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how would you achieve
this regard other
than
through experience ?
mircea_popescu: violence is always just by its own measure.
that's what violence is.
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: So
the violence was just? Sorry I'm struggling
to follow.
assbot: Logged on 27-04-2015 10:29:33; mircea_popescu: because nobody knows about computer parts quite like
the people doing procurement for a datacenter. so if you run your own metal and sublet
to people, you're in
the best position
to learn
these exactly.
williamdunne: Yeah, for sure I'd be glad
to use it if you do
jurov: williamdunne i am
trying
to put something
together , maybe with
TomServo but never did it before
mircea_popescu: williamdunne but
these aren't involved
third parties. so
the burned jews are
too dead
to say, and
the burning germans are also
too dead
to say. at
the
time however it stands
to reason
the victims all agreed
they shouldn't be victims, and
the perpetrator agreed on
the contrary pov.
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: I
think its fair
to say holocaust is bad
williamdunne: asciilifeform: Yeah, I'd like
to see one not operated by a
tool
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Most, although I guess
thats overly democratic
mircea_popescu: well, not necessarily web, people might want
to host irc servers, etc. but yes.