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mircea_popescu: it is i suspect off
this festered, metastasized modesty
that people can't make good summaries, introduce anything properly or generally package well
fluffypony: I feel like replying
to
that
thread with "Yakshemash! Lisp best prostitute in all of Github. You like?"
mircea_popescu: (much like people falling imagine everyone's looking when in fact nobod ycares, so
the guy caught overstating his competency imagines
the world ended when really - people just had a laugh).
mircea_popescu: there's nothing wrong with saying "i am great", in principle. competent people do not in
the slightest mind
the nude affirmation of your naked competency.
the error on
the
topic is amusing, but not
the end of
the world
mircea_popescu: that
the idiocy of puritanism imposing "modesty" upon
the coder (on
top of chastity - which by
the way,
there's nothing great about not "raping" women, being a nice guy, great sense of humor etc.
that's a drone.) limit people's ability
to do crucial
things for
their success and
the world's hygiene.
mircea_popescu: and since
this is here, allow me
to rant, not in your direction particularly but in general,
mircea_popescu: the best chemistry lab, were it
to be maintained as a collection of bottles going "stuff" "Good stuff!" "REagenT" etc
mircea_popescu: well yes, fortunately i've cut
to it by now. but listen, you gotta be much better at packaging stuff.
gabriel_laddel: The last message from me in
that
thread contains a brief discussion of
the "why" of lisp,
that is, what separates it from being 'just another language'. Figured I'd post it in here because your previous
trilema post discussing reverse polish notation and Erik Naggum + many #b-a messages didn't communicate
to me
that lisp has 'clicked' yet for many people.
mircea_popescu: it's also necessarily going
to remain
there, and for great benefit.
mircea_popescu: "the human's inability
to fully comprehend
the parsing and syntactical schemes
they're able
to create" <<
this is actually a generally valid point, and about half of all problems of humanity come from
this impedance mismatch.
mircea_popescu: dude,
that
thing's lengthy, and not directly obvious why i'd care ?
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mircea_popescu: btw, anyone read "[Date: 1601.] Conversation, as it was by
the Social Fireside, in
the
Time of
the
Tudors." ?
mircea_popescu: jurov: when putin arrives everyone will be caught with pants down << everyone still
there, at any rate.
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cazalla: that's quite quick considering it
took @ElectrumWallet about a month
to get
that account back
cazalla: ah damn,
they got
their account back already lol
decimation: yes
this is common in 'fraternities' on us university campuses
mircea_popescu: and yes it had a half bowl
top and a fat cylinder butt
mircea_popescu: only
thing
that ever scared me. but i'd quit
the room in a hurry
decimation: asciilifeform: actually
that's not a bad idea, it doesn't
take much breeze
to keep mosquitos away
mircea_popescu: that's what it is. parents suspect children are about on
the level of c programmers, and
try
to avoid any situations where reality emulates
the c compiler.
mircea_popescu: like, most of 'em. "are you sure you wish
to forever lock yourself in ? well...that's what you're doing"
mircea_popescu: perhaps because parents are so acutely aware of
the
type of divorcement between meaning and action
that
trips up children.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform funny enough, it was heard of in 80s romania. parents insistently warning kids not
to do it!
decimation: in
the us,
the chumpatron is often kick-started by a government regulation
that is sold as 'efficient' or 'safe'
decimation: this is all a chumpatron on
the 'let's break everyone's window so we can stimulate
the window-repair economy' model
decimation: similar refrigerators were made in
the us, and were similarly reliable, made before
the 60's
decimation: mircea_popescu: in
the us, I'm pretty sure
that
the manufacturers (who have an oligopoly) cheapen shit up so
that it 'breaks' and requires replacement at a rate
they select
mircea_popescu: decimation you know, i had an old zil fridge at some point in romania, and
the
thing had been running for ~25 years, and it never ever leaked.
decimation: mircea_popescu: it's considered normal for
the entire system
to break every year or
two,
typically requiring a specially licensed repairman
to come out and replace
the freon lines
assbot: Logged on 08-02-2015 05:30:55; asciilifeform: and
the junk is
typically built
to last about one decade.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that should be some pretty cool steel,
that happily
takes 100 degree differentials over decades.
decimation: w.r.t. home builders, any home
that's younger
than 30-40 years has been built in a carefully-managed chumpatronic environment
mircea_popescu: that's another
thing. hire a plumber so he
tells you what
to do ?!
decimation: well, one of
the reasons
that
things are
this way is because
the 'trades' have a pretty strong chokehold on what gets done
mircea_popescu: leaving alone
the weirdness of keeping most of your capital in a nonproductive asset (hey,
that's made
to be
through purely government interventionist means), not even pretend like you're managing it ?
decimation: mircea_popescu:
the irony is
that for many us citizens,
their house is
their biggest 'savings account', yet very few consider any other option
than what
the builder 'decided'
mircea_popescu: decimation but if one's principal equity is
the house, a la us,
then it makes sense.
decimation: kakobrekla: yeah I bet
that's pretty cheap
to run
kakobrekla: decimation we have a heat pump for radiators and hot water for
the house and for air i have a separate inverter unit with one external and
two internal units.
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decimation: well, in
the case of
the us (as asciilifeform mentioned) natural gas is much cheaper
to install and pretty cheap
to run
mircea_popescu: and in principle can heat/cool
to any arbitrary
temperature, as long as your compressor's up
to it.