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assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 19:09:30; asciilifeform: i, for instance, can'
t think about any deep problem when in a place where human speech is happening, or bodies are in motion.
mircea_popescu: trinque well yeah, because the usg has figured that hey, we don'
t keep males for the herds of goats, sheep, cattle etc except maybe 1:100. with modern insemination techniques more like 1:500. why should we keep so many males in human herd ?
phf: i've cut classes plenty, but i don'
t think i've ever even contemplated quitting school, what am i going to do, sell lavash? it was kind of understood that people who were pushed out (never nobody quit because they wanted to) were losers
mircea_popescu: phf i don'
t mean cutting class. i mean quitting. permanently.
mircea_popescu: than to derp around in a labirinth of ps "features" that aren'
t even exposed properly (you want me to... click ? seriously ?) and with a cvasi-guarantee you will not be able to do it, but have to settle on "this is how we do it in ps".
mircea_popescu: it doesn'
t work for "filthy casual" that wishes to pretend like he's doing serious work while really not doing much of anything. but otherwise, if you are actually goin gto do serious work, it is by far a better use of your time to work the parenscripts of gimp into the shape you need them to be with the guarantee you will be agle to get there,
mircea_popescu: phf: well, i have a 2.4 box that runs "if your dodgy stack fails, this must remain" operations, like email << this design hasn'
t been recently reviewed i would guess.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 06:41:58; mircea_popescu: see, this is the problem. we go around like we're all people and shit. but then some of us go home to where we know what fractals are, and some of us go to whatever that is, where they don'
t.
mircea_popescu: somehow this doesn'
t carry in translation, but in the original the very strong implicit bias is that the pushing is to be done with the very face in question.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile california is just about to fall into the fucking ocean. oddly enough. problems it didn'
t have as a "failed state", it has in abundance as a whatever it is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well i didn'
t take you to the subway and i guess you didn'
t have the curiosity to go on own hm.
mircea_popescu: look that sicily hasn'
t fallen into the ocean, like syria hasn'
t, like etc.
shinohai: Don'
t be hatin on Tetris asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: no, they aren'
t. theyt're exactly the grade of orc ukrainians are. except here they have good steak and there they have good whore.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but whatever, this point needn'
t be decided theoretically now, seeing how it'll be decided practically in just a few years anyway.
mircea_popescu: im not bothering with rms anymoar. prolly like the libc improvements, he doesn'
t understand what it is and whatever, more words to put on website
mircea_popescu: no, the local boys don'
t need zee german. they are perfecty of age, and perfectly capable to split the goods themselves, which includes the women, which includes his wife.
assbot: Logged on 04-09-2015 22:33:02; assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 14:16:12; assbot: Logged on 10-12-2014 00:51:50; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had an article (or perhaps a thread here? but can'
t seem to find it...) about an archetypical u.s. expat. fellow keeps a pub somewhere in thailand, or cambodia, etc. the locals - drink for free. he fancies that if he begins to run out of dough, he can always start charging. but somehow in the back of his head
mircea_popescu: for asciilifeform won'
t deign to call that thing a compiler
mircea_popescu: you can actually use this to obtain code that compiles to different results can'
t you ?
mircea_popescu: it's not "this is moot to mp, with army of slaves". it's "he who refuses to buy into, can'
t help but end up with army of slaves".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the point re peripueral fever is important. see, the people DIDNT KNOW pottery is no good for reuse. so couldn'
t get to chemistry. guess why ?
mircea_popescu: problem is the people giving the latter peripueral fever didn'
t really realise
phf: re heaviside i don'
t grok how he could work in a hot room
phf: reminds me of michael brin stoping and erasing a proof midway explanation while loudly proclaiming "you idiots wouldn'
t understand this anyway", but then his son, sergey brin, presumably outfitted umd data centers, etc.
trinque: phf: haven'
t found starfleet yet, nor even a used Firefly in a junkyard
trinque: phf: the germans weren'
t that great once upon a time, then they came around
trinque: I don'
t underestimate anyone who can handle that level of organizational complexity
trinque: I've seen men before that fixated on a desired end result so much that they didn'
t bother with the intermediate steps at all.
phf: asciilifeform: i don'
t think "having-been-doing-it-since-2000" is true, naggum ran into the main issue when he tried to run his own fork of 19 without the mule braindamage, gave up since merging changesets becomes unproductive. i think somewhere around those emails he talks about how he no longer has stamina to review new changes that are introduced into his system, and that's 2001 or so
trinque: "container support" in kernel, don'
t need it.
trinque: asciilifeform: yep, don'
t need pulseaudio for sound (even with mixing!), don'
t need networkmanager for internet connection (even wifi!), don'
t need systemd... dont need...
trinque: don'
t ask me what I did to make it work, though
shinohai: I still love playing Mario Kart for 64. Had it on an emulator but my current lappy doesn'
t support the graphics
punkman: not too hard to find a proper stone oven around here, though I don'
t have one at home
punkman: kitchen oven usually doesn'
t cut it for pizza
phf: last time i was there, friends lamented that you can'
t get real parmesan for real pasta and have to make do with inferior russian knockoffs. if i make it to moscow in the next few weeks, will be curious to see where the whole party is at now.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t think as many people lived the bible as a whetstone in their life during the whole history of christianity
mircea_popescu: (and if you're doing that, pretty much every bright 12 yo kid has been playing mentally with the peano curve while taking a shit and following the tiling, but didn'
t know it's called that. so you could of course tell him.)
mircea_popescu: see, this is the problem. we go around like we're all people and shit. but then some of us go home to where we know what fractals are, and some of us go to whatever that is, where they don'
t.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (i am not even all that keen on toom's obviously very geometric take on fractals. they're an analytic construct, which yes can be graphed, like any other function. you don'
t need "dimensions", you need numeric theory.)
mircea_popescu: but yes, the man has a point. fractals aren'
t for everyone. just like bitcoin isn'
t for everyone.
pete_dushenski: tumlrinas also need a lot of 'food', doesn'
t seem to be an issue
mircea_popescu: they won'
t do custom jobs for items worth less than maybe 100k or so, but then again fuck you, nobody is going to insure your chewwed gum
shinohai: All they got was a cruddy old laptop worth abt $200, wasn'
t insured.
mircea_popescu: derplet's got these feelings almost like he's a thing, "i am a tractor, it makes no sense i can'
t pull odwn this wall, please explain mechanics to it!"
mircea_popescu: "as long as the state agrees it's 700, doesn'
t jack shit matter what they do"
ascii_field: most iphonists don'
t even know what the thing costs to buy fair & square
mircea_popescu: chumpatronics is its own science, with its own measures scl, you can'
t just replace them for gonzo values
ascii_field: unfortunately doesn'
t work in english, but i'll try:
mircea_popescu: PinkPosixPXE i'm fine now! weren'
t you going to do a dc at some point ? :D
mats: graphic
t shirts, bowties, hoodies, suits
trinque: doesn'
t make sense to me to add special logic for a single RSS feed
punkman: why haven'
t they made the emergency permanent yet?
shinohai: lol ascii_field so I guess I can'
t let my guard down.
phf: "hookah is coming -- you pack it here? -- he go elsewhere, we don'
t like say no" what a nice country
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:25:40; mircea_popescu: sorta like the emperor of flies can'
t happen with an adult present.
phf: my grandmother worked in my grandfather's department, designing analogue circuits, and it wasn'
t some contrived "women in engineering", simply something she was good enough at to get hired into "оборонка"
mircea_popescu: "11. Don'
t know a thing? No worries you are not alone, but that shouldn'
t stop you from blogging as it doesn'
t stop others, you can still make money just by blogging on topics that are interesting"
mircea_popescu: Deloitte to audit to BitEx.la Bitcoin exchange, the first of its kind in Argentina and possibly in the world for a market of Bitcoin << except a) it doesn'
t actually exist and b) all of the fucking nopes already, wtf.
mircea_popescu: Blythe Masters says US lags in blockchain use (ft.com) / Over $60 million in funding raised for bitcoin companies this week alone. / bla bla << "To sum up : what we have so far are a few millions invested in hopeless start-ups that have no talent, no business model, aren'
t solving a problem and generally speaking don'
t exist other than as a tag on an orange calling it a potato." /
http://trilema.com/2013/the-future-of- ☟︎ mircea_popescu can'
t readily figure out which of the two is more ridiculous.
BingoBoingo: Maybe she has a condishun' like edema or arthritis. Knees aren'
t engineered to carry that all above above them.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: You just don'
t understand how real 'Murican women look
mircea_popescu: The guidance advocates a ban on password strength meters, mandatory resets, and predictable combinations, instead encouraging brute force rate limiting and reduced access controls." << in other words, "password gimmicks don'
t work an we're back to ip bans, in a 100% reversal of the fecal consensus of 2005"