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mp_colonist: just people
tend
to pretend
they don't know
this.
mp_colonist: pity
there's no jerome k jerome extant
to write it
mp_colonist: sorta document his mishaps
trying
to gtfo.
mp_colonist: actually
this could be a decent counterpart
to svjek story, "rothgar
the barbarian in modern day malmo".
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
The classic Spartans behing
the boarding schools, not
the historical greeks
decimation: so he would perceive
these 'pederasts' as non-people,
too weak
to even have honor.
mp_colonist: dishonor is a different category, in
that it's an affliction of
the strong.
BingoBoingo actually believes Alibaba could be
that big measured in Fiats
mp_colonist: decimation, i
think more along asciilifeform's idea. nothing but weakness.
decimation: mp_colonist:
that's an interesting
thought, you are probably right. it also makes
the actions of
the west w.r.t. money obviously 'dishonorable'
decimation: I suspect
that it would be hard
to convince mr. Haakon
that money was not gold
mp_colonist: maybe he'd
troll alibaba for rape memorabilia ?
decimation: asciilifeform: do mix Mr Yarvin's metaphor - what would "Haakon
the Fairhaired" do about computers
today? would he pointlessly
toil with c-machine kazoo or would he bide his
time and work on something unique?
mp_colonist: "o,
they're just
these gas knobs, when you
turn
them
the
tea warms".
tyvm, fucktard omfg bbq
mp_colonist: everyone with
this pedestrian "oh magic derp". who
the fuck of all
these would be scientists actually understands, not in
the sense of has-read-frege-and-so-on, but in
the sense of has sat down an hour quietly
to
think on
the subject - who i say understands numbers ?
decimation: one hypothesis of
the 'open source community' based on
this evidence: far more motivated
to imitate mediocrity
than invent unique & interesting
mp_colonist: ah, because you gotta know how
to carpent
to not end up hammering your finger "accidentally" and "because you didn't see it" ?
mp_colonist: they're JUST AS "magical" as
the examples he gives.
mp_colonist: tell me
this : how come he doesn't include an ydiscussion of
the notion of number, or sphere in
there ?
mp_colonist: so he fights with utterly reductionist meaninglessness,
to discover it's meaningless
decimation: whereas most users of mathematica probably go out of
their way (rejecting alternatives)
to buy a license (using usg's money of course)
mp_colonist: i might, but
the problem is
that he's attacking a high level problem and lacks
the basics
decimation: then find
that
they can't afford
the license fee when
they want
to buy it with
their lunch money
mp_colonist: "metaphisics by [dubious] scientists - we've not figured anything positive on our own so here's what we got
to say about a whole subject we never formally studied"
decimation: I suspect a major part of
the motivation for 'matlab clone' is
that young programmers have matlab stuff down
their
throats, as explained above
mp_colonist: about on par with a sex
treatise by a
typical 17 yo
decimation: there's no 'open source mimic' of mathematica, which would be
the first step
toward improvement I should
think
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: As survivor of
the soviet system and pending survivor of
the Americunt system... WHy does Velveeta come in block, shredded and sliced forms???
decimation: I agree from my limited experience with mathematica
that its graphical 'repl' is unique
decimation: yeah
that's pretty much what I encoutered
decimation: I prototype using matlab, but I find
the 'index starts at 1' fortranism enraging
decimation: matlab is
the de facto standard for dsp development
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decimation: asciilifeform: yeah you are right of course. matlab has a 'symbolic'
toolbox but
the actual programming language is not
the same at all
mp_colonist: asciilifeform, can you put
the difference in
twelve words ?
decimation: from my experience
the other competing program is 'matlab'
mp_colonist: i just hate
the format. fucking visual
thinkers psssshhh. sinners.
mp_colonist: BingoBoingo, only goes
to show i speak with ht eweight of experience.
assbot: Logged on 11-04-2014 18:39:14; mircea_popescu: my penis is half digested by all
the saliva
mp_colonist: so we're at
the point in hipster evolution where cute rebel late hs chicks misrepresent
themselves as associated with us for
the benefit of w/e cute boy named ethan ?
BingoBoingo: mp_colonist>
try having your pecker in a mouth four a few hours a day for a few days and see what sore
truely means << Wasn't
this limiting factor discussed
this spring?
mp_colonist: try having your pecker in a mouth four a few hours a day for a few days and see what sore
truely means
mp_colonist: asciilifeform, wouldn't last long.
this cock sucking
thing...
truth is,
the penis doens't last
too long even
to normal copulatory friction. saliva is digestive.
decimation: zooming out further, probably more
than 90% of
the revenue for wolfram comes from usg
mp_colonist: guys inside eat
the food, buncha derps outside eat peanuts
BingoBoingo: <decimation> right, but in a restaurant you don't have one guy who eats 80% of
the food and everyone else eats peanuts << Not undeard of
decimation: right, but in a restaurant you don't have one guy who eats 80% of
the food and everyone else eats peanuts
decimation: mp_colonist:
this is standard behavior among us 'tech' companies
mp_colonist: asciilifeform, you know,
this strikes me as kinda silly. a la restaurant
that will mistreat customers ordering $7 worth of coffee because
they didn't buy $40 worth of pizza or w/e
BingoBoingo: <decimation> BingoBoingo: why not work for
the library in exchange for money? << Managing paper is a dying niche