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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: xfce, still cleansing/purging toolset
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ugh what is that
asciilifeform: but doesn't tell whether can run. only that isn't out of the race yet.
asciilifeform: or one that's been shot
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how to tell if horse can-run-quickly without seeing it run ?
asciilifeform: this is not an interesting story per se except in the form of advice to young folks like BingoBoingo - don't do it!
mircea_popescu: this is insanity. you want a girl that can be smart, not a girl that can't be stupid, for some arbitrary levels of either. just like you seek a horse that can run quickly, not a horse that is never still.
asciilifeform thus had many strange plans, as a young man, for how to narrow the set
asciilifeform suffers from a peculiarly obscene perversion: has a hard time taking an interest in gurlz detectably stupider than him
asciilifeform did not actually carry out this experiment! but was setting up for a variation on the theme, and this got out in his social circle
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> let's indulge this fiction for the sake of potential literature. << I PREDICTED!
mircea_popescu: you go like, "Hey, guess why I'm talking to you ?"
asciilifeform: SHOW IT TO THE WOMAN << lol, mircea_popescu must have spoken with asciilifeform's $pet re: how they met
mircea_popescu: why the fuck disguise it. the mentality that cunt's the enemy is principally what keeps geeks in an onansitic state.
mircea_popescu: ID SHOW IT TO THE WOMAN
mircea_popescu: if i had this machinery, you know how i'd use it ?
asciilifeform: walk into $targetrichenvironment and discover soon - no targets
mircea_popescu: see, this is setting yourself up for failure.
asciilifeform: actually i suspect that the fun would stop very soon after strapping on (presumably it would have to be worn at waist level! disguised as a fly button?!)
mircea_popescu: if you end up in a divorce ten years later, do you take the machine to court ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> not exactly, more like, "if god had meant me to gamble 10k dollars in this casino, he'd have given me 10k dollars" << Nah, he'd just make the credit officer in the cage a bit wet on the brain
mircea_popescu: do you skip to where the machine got abandoned and read her again ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: let's indulge this fiction for the sake of potential literature. so you pick a target this way, and somehow it works out and now it's morning and she's in bed.
mircea_popescu: not exactly, more like, "if god had meant me to gamble 10k dollars in this casino, he'd have given me 10k dollars"
asciilifeform: 'if man was meant to fly... given wings' - ?
mircea_popescu: snail with glider just set itserlf up for trauimatic failure.
mircea_popescu: well, so who does ? the snail ?
asciilifeform: now, mircea_popescu does not need this instrument, eagle does not need a glider
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asciilifeform: rather than absolute value
asciilifeform: always warm << one would presumably be looking for the deltas.
asciilifeform: ^ took surprisingly long to dredge up
mircea_popescu: lol. the sign of a healthy nubile female.
mircea_popescu: maybe you're right and the deep reason is that it gives away more than peoplewant to.
mircea_popescu: it remains in use by basically the same demo : slightly insecure 16 yo chicks that'll go into psychology.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, leuco jewelry was more or less popular in ro, ever since the 80s
asciilifeform: nope, precisely the fact that -did- work..
asciilifeform: (and it had nothing to do with infections)
asciilifeform: for a short time in 1980s, liquid crystal thermo-indicator shirts were fashionable in usa
asciilifeform: nobody needs that
mircea_popescu: temperature is a very poor variable tho. you'll just end up with a lot of flu.
asciilifeform: this'd be more of a prosthetic version of some folks' ability to 'read body signs' of arousal/lack thereof
mircea_popescu: whether they hear anything you're saying or not tho is up for debate.
mircea_popescu: you'll probably do pretty ok picking up the ecstasy-peaking chicks in a rave, i'll grant you that.
mircea_popescu: if you think you can beat the primate brain with your electonic contraptions i have a rule based expert system to sell you.
asciilifeform: presumably would be used for selection narrowing in target-rich environment
mircea_popescu: well... in the sense bitcoind debugging via cpu ekg is a viable strategy.
asciilifeform is out of his depth, does not know if wunderwaffen based on arousal monitoring via far ir thermovisor is a plausible thing
assbot: Logged on 22-04-2014 12:51:23; asciilifeform: phun phact: as a student, i once seriously planned to build a pocket gas chromatographer, to pick up gurlz. how!? to do this - exercise for alert reader.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: target selector ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the sex applications of this suddenly inexpensive >> uh what, predict ovulation ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I am liking though that the xserver is not running as root
BingoBoingo: From what I understand commercial shop Mtier which does a lot of their ports does "OpenBSD with Gnome and support contracts" as golden toilet product.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it lets in various 'fun' like letting everything running on machine send arbitrary commands to virtually any gtk app (e.g., 'xchat')
BingoBoingo: I'm leting DBUS live for now, doesn't seem to do much other than die a lot
asciilifeform: ^ was the one where i observed this
asciilifeform: ^ assuming this was a recent openbsd
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: everything off by default << not quite true. try building 'xorg' followed by 'emacs' and see end up with dbus, other horrors
BingoBoingo: Next to social engineering inertia has to be the second biggest threat out there.
BingoBoingo: I dunno why I've been keeping the BSD stuff to toy and appliance uses for so long.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: No OpenBSD has this stuff built in. Changing process Ram limits happens in login.conf
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Build did not require the OSsuX ifdefs, but had to kill one linux ifdef and switch a boost lib called for another.
asciilifeform: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13233 << picture the sex applications of this suddenly inexpensive trabambourghini
BingoBoingo: -qt just so there's more flags and libs to play with to plumb te differences between the platforms
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: that probably is the latest, yes.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: To see if it can be done. And what is the latest that still takes more of the sane patches. (entire leveldb series is out because making that build would be too much hell)
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Executable was finally birthed this morning
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: 0.7.2 -qt on OpenBSD with some 0.5.3.1 patches applied as they can be (i.e. scrolling reading and fingers rather than patch utility)
mircea_popescu: i think if i close my eyes and push on them really really hard i can almost sorta see the logic of this transformation.
BingoBoingo: 208378, took much of the off because I wasn't there to restart it while sleeping.
BingoBoingo: What can I say, the brokeness of English systemically effect domains people purport to be actual
mircea_popescu: (the psych, not the anarchist)
mircea_popescu: if anyone told engel that they can have manic episodes lasting over 24 hours now he'd have caned them.
mircea_popescu: jesus that place is nuts.
asciilifeform: except he is didn't need to take the dope
BingoBoingo: ^ That definition
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i think BingoBoingo was referring to the american usage - artist (or compulsive bathroom cleaner, see the old 'meth' thread) who stays awake for two weeks straight on 'manic episode' etc
mircea_popescu: -> thorazine.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo actually in functional family arrangements manic episodes are usually the modern parlance equivalent of what used to be "senile aggitation", ie, granpa keeps grabbing jane's ass.
mircea_popescu: but this from a machiavellian "how do we become more powerful" troll logic perspective, and spcifically not from a "helping raped women" or "helpiong women" perspective.
asciilifeform: just like it's not priapism till the fun is over and gangrene starts
mircea_popescu: which, by proxy, is in point of fact a measure of the social influence / discoursive relevance of the insane trolls in question, and so yes it is a legitimate measure for them to target.
BingoBoingo: Re: bipolar - no one complains about feeling manic until the police get involved. Plenty of people spend lots of money of coffee and bolivian marching poweder trying to come close.
mircea_popescu: out of five women that weren't raped, only one runs into idiots spouting insane troll logic that convinces her she retroactively was.
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, is EXACTLY the mechanism through which "80% of rapes are unreported".
mircea_popescu: fucking gold, this.
mircea_popescu: y way to say the diagnosis was correct or incorrect, in the absence of objective pathology, is to say that the treatment they received for “bipolar disorder” from the fifth doctor was better (read: safer or more efficacious) than the treatment they received from the first four. This is not evident. "
mircea_popescu: on objective pathology?) You can look at this the other way, and say only 1 out of 5 psychiatrists felt it was bipolar disorder, while the other 80% thought it was depression. So it pays to have the last word. Bipolar disorder is “frequently missed” not because it exists and doctors miss it, but because it is defined in a way which allows it, by 80% of doctors, to be legitimately called something else. The onl
mircea_popescu: "A similar example is the often cited myth that diagnosis of bipolar disorder is frequently missed. A survey found that 69% of patients were actually misdiagnosed, most often as having regular depression. An average of 4 physicians were consulted “prior to receiving the correct diagnosis.” But who is to say what is the correct diagnosis, when the diagnosis is based on vague and overlapping descriptions (and not
BingoBoingo: After smashing my head these past few days through the painful part of the learing process... The software is now working for me instead of I for it.
BingoBoingo: I'm just watching the blocks sync and thinking to the history I and verifying as it passed. Solidly in the S.Dice era nao
BingoBoingo: Could also be they might have been trying to trigger a resource intensive search?
mircea_popescu: and what, "enough" similar magic units to "do the job" ? looks like people try to hack like psychs try to medicate.
mircea_popescu: for my curiosity, what is this supposed to even be ? like a sql injection ?
mircea_popescu: not about to do that. girl's 19, and more importantly ITS REALLY NOT HER GOD DAMNED FAULT.
mircea_popescu: what am i going to do now, corner time on knees ?
mircea_popescu: "hey mp, wtf happened to my laptop ?"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what possessed you to set up the experiment described earlier?
mircea_popescu: dude... srsly missed the boat on that whole health thing.
asciilifeform: other observation is that 'ubuntu' (with the above atrocities and many others) is no more 'linux' than wintel 'is what a computer is'