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asciilifeform: i dun even give a fuck whether chinese get to write their hieroglyphs . but i'd like to insert occasional nabla or whatnot , greek etc without swapping code pages.
phf: well, i have to conveniently go afk at this point :)
mircea_popescu: and this is not to count the various jokes, and puns, and that in turn is to not count all the cases where i'm fucking with the fucking with it deliberately.
mircea_popescu: the only correct unicode, is, obviously, dated font tables. whereby i write in the year-specified letter a. and to read my modern story typeset in fraktur you have to set your computer clock to year 1199 or else the machine will refuse to print ("error! temproally-unavailable fonts detected!") much like gedit refuses to open files in gnome.
mircea_popescu: the reason they did not wish to do this is plain racism : they were afraid of me, and all the humour i was about to heap on them (the above x is not h but p is r very much apropos), and they understood (correctly) that no such scholarsip is available to yellow men.
phf: vaguely relatedly: if you drink unicode cool aid, shouldn't cyrillic latin subset like "a" be unified with the latin equivalent, along the lines of han unification? and then you introduce "linguist context surrogate" or whatever to actually give the glyph proper i18n aware shape? or perhaps that information should be contained purely in font, i.e. "russian" font has latin A rendered with russian typographic conventions. #makeunicodegreatagain
phf: yeah, scratch the second part, i confused myself
mircea_popescu: (she, memorably, went "ok, i'ma go out for coffee" "where ?" "just fucking follow me neh.")
asciilifeform: if i had a cunt, wouldn't
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i do all sorts of weird shit. there's iirc trilema telling the story of me calling chick out of the blue. "how did you get thsi number ?" "i had you followed".
asciilifeform: i thought mircea_popescu-style fun consisted of sitting in chair and watching the gurlz fight over which one gets to go in the door
asciilifeform: i dunno why mircea_popescu would even want this sort of thing
mircea_popescu: possibly ; though i don't think i'd use this.
mircea_popescu: i suspect this'd well beat ears.
asciilifeform: i thought that was what yer ears were for
mircea_popescu: i't put it on the car in preference of "radar detector". who fucks radars.
mircea_popescu: phf no but i mean, directional. like the metal detectors.
asciilifeform: lol i had nfi that goblin wrote for this rag, phf
mircea_popescu: laugh, but from the trouble it gives randos i would expect "how to trilema" is like sitting on a warez pedestal somewhere.
asciilifeform: i'll add that i ~never read ru '31333337 d00dz' material. because deadly boring, even moar thoroughly winblowz-centric than ANYTHING ever to come out of anything in usa short of microshit press itself
a111: Logged on 2017-07-20 00:47 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-19#1686933 << when phf first described subj, asciilifeform thought 'what if i saw it then, would it have made sense, appealed?' but now i know -- no
mircea_popescu: that's what i meant.
asciilifeform: well they still play cards, that get shuffled, just like 500 yrs ago. unless i misunderstood the rng remark.
asciilifeform: could be simply camera angle, or could be that there's actually somebody home in that head. i've nfi.
asciilifeform: i didn't imprint on the kabuki and find it repulsive, is all.
asciilifeform: but not a type i recall seeing previously.
mircea_popescu: you know i wasn't ever in jail either.
asciilifeform: my education consists of secondary sources, i'd rather mircea_popescu expanded.
asciilifeform: i thought it was the cockwidthcalibration.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-22 16:35 mircea_popescu: suppose you go to the casino, yes, and lose some money playing with the fates. if you discover that the game was fixed, will you go "ah well, i had lost it anyway" ?
mircea_popescu: there's edges of this observable everywhere in nature. why make car insurance mandatory ? so that every idiot with a donut has a certain kind of principal behind him, so accidents can stay accidents and you can actually get your car fixed rather than "hurr durr i'm anon pothead, lolz".
asciilifeform: and where i live it is not customary for friend to break into house. it tends to end badly.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it can't possibly be willingly given, i didn't ask.
asciilifeform: not being a gurl, i dun see any blur in the line between the willingly and unwillingly given wine , b/w friend and foe
mircea_popescu: suppose you go to the casino, yes, and lose some money playing with the fates. if you discover that the game was fixed, will you go "ah well, i had lost it anyway" ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: whether they are* i mean
mircea_popescu: and i suppose if i were come to your house tomorrow unbidden, sit on your couch and pour myself a glass of wine you'll say you weren't robbed ?
asciilifeform: if ~i~ spend it.
asciilifeform: i.e. whether it is because luciano wants new yacht or new whore
asciilifeform: i dun see how this applies to robbery tho. how does it make a diff to me ~why~ i am being robbed.
mircea_popescu: which is the whole item here : yes usg seduces a bunch of dorks, but what i am saying is that a) i'm not seduced myslef and b) i do not think very much of they who are.
mircea_popescu: these are very much not the same : i can say "i'm not interested" in the woman case only.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 04:43 asciilifeform: however, i gotta ask, what happened to http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-17#1685436 ? usg beat and imprisoned the rabbis, at the end of the day. so how come it does not 'prove superiority' in mircea_popescu's lens ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-02#1461007 << i FINALLY lolled : "Коллайдер" ??? У автора в лексиконе не нашлось подходящего русскоязычного слова? / Какое например? Исконно русский факторизатор? ☝︎
asciilifeform: i recall when obummer was supposed to be the last.
BingoBoingo: Well, I put in my application this winter.
mod6: im just lucky that the woodpeckers go after the trees as opposed to the structure, or i'd be spending a lot more time in the backyard like rambo
shinohai: ^ I love those crossman destroyers ... perfect for taking out varmits
mircea_popescu: ah ah. no, i meant spiked. you know, all over :D
mircea_popescu: this i gotta see. link or anything ?
a111: Logged on 2017-07-20 02:50 BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> no. i recall the faggots, not yet VERY overweight, going to the things that meanwhile got captured by apple, much like coca-cola captured xmas << In elementry school historical context for the then present was established to be "on the verge of paradise, if only we stop littering"
BingoBoingo: <trinque> I'm 30 now; 90s amount to a vague memory of "people might've done things before. maybe in the 80s?" << AHA http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-20#1687077 ☝︎
asciilifeform: i thought the springs were springy, but ratchets rusty, or how it went
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 17:41 asciilifeform: lol i luvv that scene
mircea_popescu: apparently i'm developing an amy winehouse interest.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 16:15 phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1687972 << i'm not sure that's a criticism that can be leveled at pelevin, he's got other traps though. he has a keen eye for the present, but then he adds a layer of interpretation very much in the style of This Is What's Really Happening, which is usually of esoteric nature. his bratki take psychedelic mushrooms "to get fucked up next level!1" and accidentally break into the a shared buddhist realm of higher being, t
mircea_popescu: it was transparent to me, at the time. but then again i'm weird.
phf: heh, you know for how iconoclast petshopboys were i never even thought about "go west" being tongue in cheek. at the time pet shop boys were moscows bards of freedom so of course they would sing go west in earnest. fwiw, they tried warning us, but you had to be in the know to get it
mircea_popescu: i suppose the period was ironclad to sarcasm...
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 19:32 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688395 << there was no real us 90s. whole thing was just a derpy kumbaya of inept hipsters crawling out of the lousy studios with "i told you so" placards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVmpNZ31CXw is about all of it.
mircea_popescu: ahahahaha! o shit i forgot how epic this is
mircea_popescu: such wins i'd rather let for the enemy.
mircea_popescu: "soo... i guess we won huh."
trinque: strikes me every time when I get a whiff of the apparent.. "placehood" what american folks would've referred to as the "post-soviet collapse space" of the 90s, had
mircea_popescu: even the shitty "i'm not even trying" melody is part of the experience.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 16:12 trinque: I'm 30 now; 90s amount to a vague memory of "people might've done things before. maybe in the 80s?"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688395 << there was no real us 90s. whole thing was just a derpy kumbaya of inept hipsters crawling out of the lousy studios with "i told you so" placards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVmpNZ31CXw is about all of it. ☝︎☟︎
ave1: I see it was just so that a little id could be printed in the end, very stupid
ave1: as I had it too, it skipped my attention
asciilifeform: ( on a box where i already happened to have it, it got past the hg thing. but pretty ridiculous that it even exists. )
asciilifeform: i thought we were cremating the dependency maggotry
ave1: I'll look into getting it to work with 2016 in the mean time...
mircea_popescu: i naively thought industry is all about serving the market ; not about trying to impose strange ideologies upon it.
mircea_popescu: you know it's the only common element in the preteen masturbatory history of all girls i met ?
asciilifeform: i thought they did
mircea_popescu: speaking of whch, i so don't fucking understand why ~all female cosmetics don't come in dildo packages anyway ?
mircea_popescu: i have a naked girl in my livingroom on all fours with a brush going at the carpet. whom should i call ?
mircea_popescu: there's great relief, you see, in my own mind, by simply noticing that, "hey, i was dead about twenty years ago ANYWAY. what do i care".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i believe he is correct re similar, but incorrect in the anchor. he, and most other folks who went, were actually looking for the golden excuse.
asciilifeform: selling it for same price i bought it for.
mircea_popescu: i do not believe.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688380 << the ww1 trenches were no fucking party. foot rot and malaria, nevermind. narrowly missing out on the 20s, now that i can see. be like 17 in 1928 sorta shit. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i was ungodly young, by all accounts, to the point of giving the older people pause. and this was WITH my great benefit of easily passing in person for significantly older than i actually was.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 15:44 phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1687977 << mostly age, the few years that i'm younger than you i think made all the difference in the 90s scheme of things. by the time i "queuing up in the recruitment strip" it was tail end of the epoch
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688377 << i believe. ☝︎
asciilifeform: as i did for, e.g., FG.
mircea_popescu: we can use her to i dunno, open a booth at chinese university distribute flyers.
asciilifeform: i only ordered bois
mircea_popescu: i hired chicks to write on their tits. also recipe ?
asciilifeform: ( now i recall, he found the 1$ pcb people for me earlier. but that was as good as it got then )
asciilifeform: gotta have, i suspect, a real, live cn fella in wot.
asciilifeform: i dun actually know whether this has any hope of working.
mircea_popescu: it's iffy. i suppose by now we actually should employ a china-based supplies expert ?
asciilifeform: i did, but must be doing it wrong, they only offer a) the pcb 2) chip, but for >= price the pcb sells at.
asciilifeform: i'd personally buy, say, 5k @ 25c ea.
mircea_popescu: "i will derive my entropy from physical processes nearby!" "o aren't you cute"
mircea_popescu: i can shoot fucking squirrels your fined baloon is gonna do anything ?
asciilifeform: incidentally i am picturing mircea_popescu's balloon hunt scene literally in my head, and wonder, suppose balooonist puts asymmmetric fin on. so goes up - spiraling. now aim.
mircea_popescu: o look, the daisy 499b (200 bux) actuallyu does 73mps muzzle velocity. i can even sit across parking lot.
mircea_popescu: oh, i gotta get the stage whores get me a spot light too ?! say it's not so, inconvenience unthinkable.