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mircea_popescu: even leaving the particulars aside, what you teach greenhorns is to BE LESS EXCITED!!! not "be less responsible".
mircea_popescu: now, it's true we use superglue on skin tears, but it's not true that such nonsense as that described can be a racing toolkit.
mircea_popescu: i can't read it any other way than "my racing toolkit consists of duct tape, cyanoacrylate, and just-add-water wheel assemblages to be bolted down on any 2x2 inch flat surface you might wish".
mircea_popescu: if i were trying to teach the "greenhorns" in 1990s how to survive, i'd make them read eg knuth. literate programming. stuff.
mircea_popescu: phf i can't read it like that in the context of the three items that he offers as his tools of the trade.
mircea_popescu: tbh, oreilly was minnow back when oop started, just tried to wave a ride.
mircea_popescu: evidently, the thing that does THE REINSTALLING is the os.
mircea_popescu: actually, let me rephrase : how could an item that can need reinstalling be called an os ?
mircea_popescu: what sort of piece of shit os is this whereby system breakage to the level where bsod is possible!
mircea_popescu: dumb fucking nonsense, a good fit for maybe 1% of cases presented as california magical weight loss cure.
mircea_popescu: come to think of it, he was at the fortefront of the whole "object oriented" "revolution" also, wasn't he.
mircea_popescu: in fact, o'reilly has the unique distinction of having produced more crap per unit useful than ~everything known to man, including the anglican church, the various other protestants and so on
mircea_popescu: incidentally, do we agree that o'reilly pushing esr idiocy ("bazaar") is responsible for 2001 bubble in the same way aol is responsible for 1993 and lehman for 2007 ?
mircea_popescu: now THAT is always & guaranteed "certain degree of believe not what your eyes show you but what the book tells you"
mircea_popescu: no item where certain degree of schizo goes can be called profession.
mircea_popescu: dem thoughts dun really seem all that provoked, what can i say.
mircea_popescu: kinda same with p-h kamp (and all the rest of them at that) : hurr durr design, hurr durr thought provoking, herp-derp scripted os-reinstall. nigga... are you a priest or aren't you ?
mircea_popescu: the priest, very calmly, "eh, you can fuck your germans ; had i not opened my door you'd have missed him."
mircea_popescu: much to his shock and horror, the rearview mirror shows brains and guts scattered everywhere
mircea_popescu: then there's a pedestrian, and the guy, wanting to put a little meat behind his joke, sorta drives the car towards him and steers away at the last minute
mircea_popescu: priest wants to know what is that thing on the hood ? and guy explains slyly that "well, this is a german car, you know, they're a warlike people. so you aim pedestrians with that and well..."
mircea_popescu: year is 1990s and guy has a mercedes, unseen car in eastern lands. a priest is hitchhiking, guy stops, priest goes in.
mircea_popescu: whenever i read stuff these people (1990s era graybeards) have to say i always get a feeling of that mercedes-riding-priest.
mircea_popescu: phf what scares me most is what the man who seems to appreciate f p brooks also thinks the "tricks of the trade" are, to verbatim, "test-restoring backups, scripting operating-system installs, version control, etc".
mircea_popescu: anyway. i guess double fencepost errors are also possible.
mircea_popescu: phf but how could it have been published in 2012 if the author thinks it was written in 2014 ?
mircea_popescu: architecturally what's the multics / unics connection ? that both had a shell ?
mircea_popescu: but still. at least cp/m had a rivalry with dos vaguely reminescent of linux/windoze thing
mircea_popescu: anyway, i dun personally see the link between unix and multics beyond "well, thompson and ritchie!!"
mircea_popescu: well, multics (64), cp/m (74), unix (80s), linux/windows (90s) etc.
mircea_popescu: people such as here present will claim that bolix or something like that worked, but i have my reservations. and in any case lispm wasn't "unix", though cathedral alright.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise yes, the "bazaar" utter practical failure and completly irredemable theoretical idiocy is an established point.
mircea_popescu: phf i don't understand the dating scheme involved. page says august 15, 2012, text refers to 2001 as "13 years ago" (so was it 2014 ?) and you present it as an event that just happened ? which is it ?
mircea_popescu: “I don't think the appeal to authority fallacy will fly here. We are all too smart for that.” << bwahahaha. two smart by half, the tards.
mircea_popescu: so full excision also acceptable approach. tbh i dun recall this ever having been the problem.
mircea_popescu: also afaik the pngs etc are 100% within ~the theme~ which was not originally bundled.
mircea_popescu: "from experience, we want intelligence that's not too intelligent"
mircea_popescu: "oh, the sort of idiot reading this only goes 3 nodes deep, we make 4 nodes deep nonsense, 100% proof!"
mircea_popescu: nah, the amusing thing about the empire of thin air is that ~everything is "justified". it's never "here's some hot air", it's always "here's two steps of correct deductions based on the 3rd on thin air"
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-03#1745783 << my read is that he was genuine lee kuan yew, except not nearly as intelligent (nor fortunate) ; eventually collapsed under the pressure of the pointless maggot herd wanting what it wants rather than what it needs aka "democracy".
☝︎ mircea_popescu: why the fuck would standford give a dumb neet as much as a length of string "because they need it" ? let them need from their fucking mother / community college.
mircea_popescu: but the good news is you can config your blogotron to just suck out pastes and put them in blockquotes itself. tho i've not had mp-wp do this
mircea_popescu: not all intelligent people find the republic. some that don't... "troll" the imbecile public, ie, sopirla.
mircea_popescu: now i want to link to the thing in this article and... where do i link
mircea_popescu: "investigative" in the sense of "here's half the picture, let's hope together that a) you're not smart enough to understand the elements it's constructed out of are meaningless and b) the areas it doesn't cover are meaningful". basically, the EXACT nonsense as in "wash dc pizzeria scandal"/"#metoo" : free association game.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform better error message is "please use p.bvulpes, your pastes vanished"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in other lulz, imdb on lollobrigida : "She was the daughter of a furniture manufacturer, and grew up in the pictorial mountain village."
mircea_popescu: yeah, it was her. perfect chick for the role, basically subsistence prostitute in ww2 italy. then ended up in cinecitta.
mircea_popescu: bette davis is this old woman playing cards with ghetto italians (sordi and i think mangano ?)
mircea_popescu: actually, re-reading the comments i know why i wrote it. because i didn't like the implication that "so what if liberalizing drugs leads to truck drivers being forced to meth by economic pressure, fuck them, they're truck drivers". the idea being that you never know who the truck driver is.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, why did i write the original ? i had nfi when i did what the future'd be like. SURELY it was no possible perception of value. but this is merely an indication of just how fucking valuable the whole thing is, if it builds meaning upon itself in a manner that defies imagination.