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jurov: i can'
t move to a country where grindr is illegal
phf: ffi left me so unsure of the state of the system, i couldn'
t make myself trust the result. it's like 4 abstraction layers, all leaking.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> weren'
t h a grunt in ww1 ? << Ambulance driver?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no see, it's not that the war started, he should have fought but he hightailed it, so he covers up for it. it's that he's a murican not an ottoman so he figures he CANT be man enough. so to assuage his own neuroticism (why the fuck couldn'
t he be ?! what, manhood now comes with formal tags on it ?) he makes up a supportive story in a land far away.
mircea_popescu: fucktard doesn'
t know "the particulars" nevertheless thinks he can write up a musician
mircea_popescu: no, dumbass, "writers aren'
t writers". i don'
t give a shit "you just want to".
mircea_popescu: One choice the writer has is to go ahead and show the supposed "ability". But if they don'
t do the research, this leads to such laughable characters as the scientist who spouts Hollywood Science, the tactician who comes up with the sort of tactics a five-year-old would think of and the "genius" who is only a genius because they're the only one coming up with any plan at all, and everyone else is downright stupid. Lack
mircea_popescu: haven'
t a clue what kind of problem only a genius would be able to work through, or how. If they actually attempt to show the ability in action they take a very real risk of the portrayal falling completely flat.
mircea_popescu: "What often deters writers from going through with the above plan is the fact that, well, Most Writers Are Writers. They're writing a character who's supposed to be a musician, but they don'
t know the particulars of meters or chords. They have a character who is a military expert, but they don'
t know how long an infantry division can fight until it needs to be resupplied. They have a character who's a genius, but they
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (i'm not asking emptily. i know he's nobody, because i don'
t know who the fuck he is. i googled, and the only hit is a 2014 article in which forbes is pushing the same name on the same topic. so really, worse than nobody. so then ?)
assbot: Logged on 22-11-2015 23:21:54; asciilifeform: i'm kinda surprised they didn'
t fill the thing with glue and be done with it
BingoBoingo: "Hear hear. When you buy Old Crow, you know what you're getting. Old Crow is not a night on the town with a beautiful young debutante. Old Crow is not a conversation with a craggy and learned professor. Old Crow is half an hour in a motel room with a fifty year-old prostitute who maybe doesn'
t look like much but still gets the job done, dammit, and sometimes that's all you want. Sometimes that's exactly what you want."
mircea_popescu: isn'
t ammonal about on par with black powder, in the sense that if it gets wet you can go salt your food with it ?
☟︎ assbot: Fuck you and your stupid epub. Also, David Thorne's 2nd book (it isn'
t really very good). on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1LuN21d )
mircea_popescu: everything in the us was much better in the 90s. buffett-style "i believe in america" merely sounded overoptimistic, hadn'
t yet caught this greenish hue of past-ridiculous senility like something found in a fridge on the side of a demolishing yard.
mircea_popescu: you can'
t drive a truck and be in tech, it's like being an efette wwf fan
pete_dushenski: also, does anyone have a suggestion for viewing/using the tumblr dashboard that doesn'
t involve this latest invasion of spamz. every second fucking post is some derpy 'trending' meme that completely kills teh mood !
mircea_popescu: either that or possibly doesn'
t give a shit about caryatids.
mircea_popescu: isn'
t this the book with lena the "poor her" whore and that schmuck doing dune "the voice" v2.0 ?
mircea_popescu: i never saw much in it (and in pelevin generally) other than "oh if only the holy tenets of TRUE socialism hadn'
t been /intinate/ or however you say that in russian
jurov: pls don'
t thank me
jurov: i don'
t see why this of all is the problem, objects usually know which table/column is the field wired to
trinque: these document stores are nothing more than "What, you don'
t already know the key of the value you want?" and subsequently "Well fuck, how do we tack relational ideas back onto this, now that we've abandoned all notion of formal structure?"
mircea_popescu: i would much rather spend five minutes writing queries than figuring why the fuck copy *. doesn'
t work and ending up using cat
mircea_popescu: and honestly i don'
t mind it so much. about the same as my life generally, really.
mircea_popescu: the only way it could be useful is if it somehow intuited what the columns are actually named for me so i don'
t have to always keep checking
mircea_popescu: anyway, again not sure why this isn'
t obvious, but the alphabet is (still is, in spite of all the "help" geeks gave it) a defined, closed, easily countable set.
mircea_popescu: i said "clamp down in one place" not "reduce". how the fuck are you goingto reduce complexity and why aren'
t you moving on to entropy next!
assbot: Logged on 22-11-2015 13:59:58; mircea_popescu: "this book is sold subject to the condition that it won'
t be lent"
assbot: Logged on 22-11-2015 13:46:27; mircea_popescu: fine example if alf's greatest fear, he wasn'
t nearly this derpy back before martin luther king.
assbot: Logged on 22-11-2015 06:30:10; mircea_popescu: abstraction is loss. you throw out all sorts of stuff and hope&pray that it wasn'
t actually needed.
mircea_popescu: "this book is sold subject to the condition that it won'
t be lent"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: fine example if alf's greatest fear, he wasn'
t nearly this derpy back before martin luther king.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: guy comes in, "hey, isn'
t that dog pissing in your shoe bothering you ?!"
mircea_popescu: abstraction is loss. you throw out all sorts of stuff and hope&pray that it wasn'
t actually needed.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: i don'
t think we mean the same by abstraction. it's not a sort of cool. it's basically purification.
phf: it's actually from latin caesura, which is now used as the name of pause in a poem. i thought caesarean section comes from that, but wikipedia article has a very confusing "etymology" section so i don'
t even know what to believe anymore!
mircea_popescu: ie, "wouldn'
t the strange woman in the train made a great wife"
mircea_popescu: (ie, we don'
t even know the sore spots of say kay objects, mostly because they never got a chance to be found mostly because idiots came and covered everything)
phf: a lot of "expected" oop behaviors like objects owning methods, synchronous bidirectional messaging that is equivalent to a procedure call, extreme early binding, etc. are artifacts of implementation and optimization strategies, as such they don'
t have meaning, don'
t have "real world" correspondence and just are. building taxonomies on such a shaky theoretical foundation results in a very messy thinking
phf: but since you can'
t do that in the format of american higher education, we're stuck with dog and cow bullshit
phf: just because you can do it, doesn'
t give it meaning. in fact that sort of attempts at ontology result in a lot of bad code. (not to mention that they are doomed to failure, e.g. semantic web)
mircea_popescu: shooter, the fastest runner, big league ball players, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn'
t give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and never will lose a war, because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans."
BingoBoingo: Isn'
t that what GPRS stands for "Gland Packet Radio System" you know that system used for spreading HIV
linton_s_dawson: so disconnection from the outer world doesn'
t seem feasible unless i'm on another planet
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron well that'd be a different thing then wouldn'
t it.
mircea_popescu: couldn'
t be arsed to send a lawyer after it - to put it with the tax papers.
mircea_popescu: anyway, /me enjoyed the spin. really, the gop "may take out" trump ? the gop can'
t as much as take out the garbage.
mircea_popescu: hey, maybe they feel like strangers "in their own country" because it ain'
t their own fucking country, and yes they are strangers.
mircea_popescu: what you call it ain'
t the lynchpin of this here lynch mob.
mircea_popescu: except, as far as the ants are concerned, there wouldn'
t be.
adlai doesn'
t have one of these
adlai: funkenstein_: for what purpose you comparing? most useful metrics won'
t be too dependent on "difference from MRCA", but my intuitive kick barrel is starting to scrape
adlai: but TCO doesn'
t help spiders recurse through the log-tree
mircea_popescu: sentation or not has no bearing on this. and for that matter, not knowing set theory is no fucking crime, most people don'
t, and this includes most people who are intelligent and have intelligent things to say.
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ understand, it's not that i dislike you or that i mean to do you the boo boo or anything. but there is a difference between the guy that was taken by hand through red square and the guy who lives in moscow. and i don'
t believe you are familiar with a whole bunch of superior math simply because it's not possible to be so disorganised in other aspects if that were the case. whether you recognize words on pre
funkenstein_: i will ask when I don'
t understand, how about that :)
mircea_popescu: your opinion as to what you're familiar with ain'
t worth two shits.
mircea_popescu: obviously the discussion of metrics, ordered sets etc is useful in the general, but i don'
t think he's familiar with the field and so i won'
t use it.
funkenstein_: well it doesn'
t rhyme or scan, so.. if so it's not very good
mircea_popescu: inept gofer @ google wouldn'
t on his own belt come up with the shit.
funkenstein_: well I agree, they don'
t mean much until a context is provided
mircea_popescu: the problem with recognizing you're an individual doesn'
t exist. the problem with "just like any" is that you invent a homomorphism that does not exist.