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mircea_popescu: for the record : it is incorrect romania had no indigenous vampire myth. the error is excusable due to the compelx circumstance : romania has TWO kinds of vampires. one is the flyer,
a sort of strange beast that bothers young maidens (females only), giving them anemia and hot dreams. the other is
a witch/ghost sort of item that comes out of children born with caput galeatum (caita in ro) which are improperly buried (no stake
a111: Logged on 2017-07-28 00:16 phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-27#1690392 << fear mongering for rhetoric purposes, but my point is the same one as was made by the situationists: you can build negation into your tooling all you want, but if need be the maggots will find
a way.
mircea_popescu: "I'm
a grad student who will be going to grad school to become an occupational therapist."
mircea_popescu: phf and
a clear if intentionally obfuscated sentiment of own inferiority.
phf: i agree that packaging (and the attempted status implication) is distasteful. but electric engineering etc. associate wouldn't be much different.
a handful of specialist classes of varied quality mixed with utterly useless "general education" stuff
mircea_popescu: souffle is
a 4 week course if you're nuts. wtf are those, cupcakes ? out of pre-mixed batter ?
mircea_popescu: phf you realise, one could perhaps turn pastry making into
a degree. BUT i guarantee that's not what they did.
mircea_popescu: also re the "maggots will find
a way", the tmsr point is subtler than that :
a) yes they will but b) let it be the intake manifold and c) make sure the machine corrupts them into humanity.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, "kitchen appliance" really should be
a standard body type.
phf: (this started because i couldn't find
a printed version of julius evola's "ride the tiger" in russian translation. i found
a pirated version, that i figured i can just print through lulu. i still haven't produced
a pdf version that doesn't rely on the whole 6gb tex distribution)
phf: fwiw, i'm just tryin' ta get
a way to publish an occasional document; i was under an impression that TeX is
a no brainer, it's supposedly inherently tmsr friendly. apparently not, and not only that, the whole stack, since before i was even doing computing was already llvm-like. layers upon layers of "autotools"
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-27#1690392 << fear mongering for rhetoric purposes, but my point is the same one as was made by the situationists: you can build negation into your tooling all you want, but if need be the maggots will find
a way.
☝︎☟︎ shinohai: "In case of emergency. wrap arms firmly around whore and use as
a flotation device"
palatine: i read
a bit on the origins of the republic, i found striking similarities with our current situation
palatine: yes, but the meaning is subtle and missing too many words make it
a mess
mircea_popescu: generally "to plan" is used as
a view towards results. this utterly is not what planning is. planning is all about the construction of processes.
mircea_popescu: both. the distinction only exists in
a certain (and false) view of teh world. otherwise, to plan it as
a literary opus correctly IS for it to grow on its own wya.
palatine: i got
a question for you, if you don't mind answering, did you plan trilema as
a literary opus by the very start or sorta did it grew out on its own way?
palatine: fact is, the place i live the law is
a joke
palatine: yes, that would be fine even if
a somewhat hard on the practical level
mircea_popescu: anyway, as
a lawyer you absoluitely wish to bake pgp into every aspect of your practice. don't have any customer email you plaintext.
mircea_popescu: ah. i suppose to keep to terminology, "i'm
a scholar person".
palatine: i'm
a lawyer by profession and trying to escape the barn in general
☟︎ mircea_popescu: lol but i mean, "i'm not
a tech person because i am an ? person" ?
palatine: i knew
a hard question was on my way
palatine: not being
a tech person i have some trouble with the WoT thing
palatine: feels strange talking to you after all reading i did, sorta speaking with
a character out of
a book
mircea_popescu avvers that had he run into remarkable crapola re knuth he'd have thrown
a louder than usual and as public as usual hissy fit.
mircea_popescu: moreover, i can envisage
a future where the clean html of the republic is viewed through "browser2iphonekek" as javascript-whatever.
phf: i can envision
a future where some TMSR SYSTEM package weights at 100GB but at its core is "p.vpatch" that is used exclusively through "vada2rust" translation system
phf: oved." etc. etc. last tex release (apart from bug fixes) is version 3 in 1990. you'd think(c)(r), but the reality is that layers and layers of cancer are grown on top of it, and when there's
a discussion it is in terms of original values, but when it comes to details its "use this lua pdf unicode thing which comes as part of
a 5GB package"
phf: fwiw the dynamic around tex is fascinating. here's very much
a literate artifact of high discipline. every piece is
a carefully documented literate program, custom tooling that enforces the conventions, "I have also spent thousands of hours trying to ensure that the systems produce essentially identical results on all computers. I strongly believe that an unchanging system has great value, even though it is axiomatic that any complex system can be impr
phf: "This TEX implementation conforms to the rules of the Pascal User Manual published by Jensen and Wirth in 1975, except where system-dependent code is necessary to make
a useful system program, and except in another respect where such conformity would unnecessarily obscure the meaning and clutter up the code"
phf: i suspect it's more about the choice of data structures. for one there are no allocs (very much in the spirit of ascii's ada explorations), so he probably has
a lot of mempools, some byte compression and possibly bit twiddling. i've not read the second book yet, because i still haven't compiled the damn thing outside of the reservation
phf: (for me, anyway). There is
a system called JavaTex, by Tim Murphy, which might be
a bit easier to read, maybe. But I ran out of time. – bubba"
phf: "Like you, I also wanted to study the TeX code. After all, it was written by an eminent computer scientist, and, for
a large piece of software, it is remarkably free of bugs. It looked like something significant could be learned. But, I gave up after
a while. Mostly because the code is full of clever tricks to pack data into memory locations to save space. This made sense 30 years ago, but not so much today, and it makes the code very difficult to read
mircea_popescu: I blush to tell, I tremble to recite our Persian childhood and its fated plight! or something at the very least. the cogent points is that one tempts the fates at his peril with
a recount of how changing the republic for
a satrapy contained in itself its future blessings such as they were.
trinque snarfed an archive of www.thelatinlibrary.com
a while back
mircea_popescu: the notion that somehow russia is
a free country dun stand, or else you know, we'd just move there.
mircea_popescu: not
a matter of proof of absence ; the structure is there quite plainly. if you can be bothered to dig you'll find the rest.
mircea_popescu: your claim was "0 usg-style preet process", to which i showed 100% preet process : 1. that indeed there was
a preet ; and that indeed he was preet'ed.
mircea_popescu: exact preet. spent
a while "prosecuting" "cybercrime", then got prosecuted in turn.
mircea_popescu: moreover, what did the preet do before being canned, quite
a la yezhov ?
mircea_popescu: nevermind the fire. the cultural value of "d00d would be
a free man if he sat in moscow." is ~1.
mircea_popescu: (for the innocent : fata denotes fate in that text, and male evil. but at the time c. petronius wrote he was doubltess fully aware of the vulgar latin tendency towards what yielded romanian fata (girl), even if very unlikely unaware of the eventual meaning of "male". yet, we can read
a vernacular relation there between male/female doubling agency/fate on the distal plane. THIS is what literary genius is all about, ulterior me
mimisbrunnr: Logged on 2017-06-12 18:05 phf: ben_vulpes: could you possibly add timestamp (hh:mm:ss, say) to your div.line's. maybe as data-ts="..." or perhaps as
a div.nick title?
deedbot: ben_vulpes rated mimisbrunnr 1 <<
a bot of mine
BingoBoingo:
A host of amazingtons blocks you path. [fuck][marry][kill with fire]
BingoBoingo: The "amazington host" sounds liek
a grand way to refer to
a gathering of redditards.
mircea_popescu: now, had i believed any of those summed to 1, i'd say nothing but simply be there. the fuck i care, it takes me six weeks to learn
a language, any language, and i know no women who'd dare "opine" on the move.
mircea_popescu: phf the noise isn't even the subject. there's two kinds of girls : those who go, and those who do not go. this is established afore the fact, and NOT at the party. now,
a party with the later, no matter how timed or where established, be it "night of the demons"-like or simply
a rural "community center" church dance, will NOT yield fucking. period and full fucking stop and jack slow down and etcetera.
mircea_popescu: phf as far as moderns are concerned, y-m le bourdonnec, say, or else hugo desnoyer. probably can even buy
a chunk. otherwise, as far as the anthropology / history an' generally scholarship of the matter is concerned, there's late medieval / early modern french, spanish sources, even
a bit of latin, but i've not them assembled and at the ready.
phf: 've discussed to death here, why doing so was
a waste of time. i suspect that usenet was similar. you have
a handful of insightful posts lost in the noise
mircea_popescu: "The attic of the restaurant was loaded with about 100 lbs of boric acid during the remodel."" << yeah, de armond dood clearly knows his way around
a restaurant operaiton.
mircea_popescu: now, aging meat is
a respectable topic. problem is the subject is written in french, and these fellows evidently never read any.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-24 03:29 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not only do i own vintage german cars (which, btw, were made for de market and imported here, not made in fucking us/brazil like the rest of the toyotas with bavarian paintjobs), but I WILL HAVE YOU KNOW i just ingested
a 28 oz porterhouse steak!
mircea_popescu: alrighty then! when you have
a moment, elighten and instruct.
mircea_popescu: having no intention of getting along is
a perfect armor against repeating usenet ; or the internet ; or anything else.
mircea_popescu: there's two components to "grandfather" :
a) man ; b) successful.
mircea_popescu: what of this supposed work can i rely on today ? is there
a schematic ? is therew anything ? HOW do you distinguish between this and henninger "publishing" ?
a111: Logged on 2014-08-22 03:06 peterl: no,
a less traditional synthesis, from benzyl bromide, methylamine and acetaldehyde
mircea_popescu: "While presented under the umbrella name of WizSec, this unofficial independent investigation into MtGox is
a voluntary effort of individuals." ehehehehe
BingoBoingo: rage has many flavors, and mebbe USG lives long enough for there to be
a next coke machine to Rage Against
BingoBoingo: Rage into
a text editor on this subject for 30-45 minutes, editor will insert links to support points and spellcheck before offering pre-press for your review.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-23 13:08 mircea_popescu: Framedragger the problem here is moreover default trust. so you wake up one day and you see... "gnupg". nomina nuda. you look around, theres' "werner koch" idem, nomina nuda. you look, there's "tor" with "shari" and "isis". names, hollow as can be. but the natural tendency of the brain, to see movement in
a succession of stills and meaning in noise and structure in names convinces you these are THINGS.
mircea_popescu: that's the other thing : so vast is the usg bureaucracy, you can always use them in
a different province. that this is how it works is always evident : just like gavin was supposed to be accepted in bitcoin because of his mit credentials, now he's offered to the naive population of $random-small-town on the basis of his "bitcoin credentials" and so no. as long as nobody digs, figures the usg, the lies stand by default.
mircea_popescu: it does look
a lot more like augmented lactation, but hey. what's intelligence if not productive amirite.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i know the number of links pasted to my logger approaches epsilon, but rewriting those few links to the sensible scheme makes me squeamish nevertheless. probably resolved with
a "hey doodz, updating my loggers refs, this includes editing lines logged to point to the new schema."