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mircea_popescu: take any stirkingly beautiful woman walking into a bar. is she more likely or less likely
to be hit on ?
mircea_popescu: for everyone.
this is not a valid objection any more
than saying "for as long as gravity is still in force"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile back at reality ranch, obtaining superior fire power in a limited geographical area is a
trivial
task.
mircea_popescu: decimation: asciilifeform: unfortunately if
the "from whom" is usg in its many forms,
the answer is largely: nowhere << bs lol.
mircea_popescu: decimation lmao at
those
terms. so... why get it
then ?
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud:
There's a
town close
to me
that once every year auctions off 250-350 safe deposit box contents, you bid per box and don't know what is in
them. All are seized from people who either didn't pay up or forgot about em << isn't
there a reality show predicated on
this process ?
mircea_popescu: blast romania has
this
too. it's called gaina, which is how you say hen, and it's
the place surpluss women were
taken by
their
tribe for
to sell over
to another
tribe for > 5k years.
blast: but
the island of woman is real, except its a mountain, in brazil ;D
mircea_popescu: seems of
the ilk of "island of women" and "tower of song", ie, cheap notional filler for "virtual spaces" a la video games
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud i don't get what
this "let's all go huddle
together"
thing is supposed
to do.
decimation: lol
The20YearIRCloud
that's an amusing post
assbot: The Good,
The Bad and
The Ugly on Galt's Gulch Chile
cazalla: would it be a safe bet
the reason newegg and other sites offer a discount when using bitcoin is
that it's easy means of coin for usg?
they can print as much $
to give discounts and
the coin flows from customers -> newegg -> bitpay -> usg?
cazalla: i wonder what
the chicks in
that music video look like now
decimation: one wonders about
the
total sum of $
that usg has spent just
this year searching enemies of
the people
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah your post reminds me of Mr. Yarvin's point about insulting
the "protected class".
mircea_popescu: so mebbe
there's some meat
to
the assertion, vi inhabits a middle
that doesnt really exist
decimation: I use nano when emacs is
too heavy-handed
mircea_popescu: but actually... i find myself using nano a lot moar
these days
mircea_popescu: this old world sort of nonsense can not endure my friends! i am making a company
that will revolutionize drawing!
mircea_popescu: and for
that matter, pencils are horribly unintuitive interfaces.
think of all
the great drawing in
the world, and
the poor user buying a pencil in
the shop will draw what ? a cat ?
mircea_popescu: dealing with
the fallout is learned, but using
the
things is innate.
jurov: would be fund
to watch its users
jurov: i was intrigued why it isn't possible for computer
to keep asking for missing pieces until
the
task is fully defined
Apocalyptic: "Random data is generated by encrypting /dev/zero" // a curious way
to generate random data
mircea_popescu: MISSING PARAMETER AFTER "certain". please read your commandlinefu documentation and
try again!!11
mircea_popescu: "Create a random file of a certain, and display progress along
the way."
decimation: heh yeah, which results in sites like
this: www.commandlinefu.com/
mircea_popescu: on
the upside, once you get it done you can forget about it.
mircea_popescu: i don't readily remember
the names of all
the women i've been with either.
decimation: jurov: agreed. I'm always having
to consult find, grep, xargs, etc man pages
jurov: remembering names and most used options of gnu
text suite is an impossibility,
too
mircea_popescu: but a good gui is a provab le impossibility. "make me a very hot woman
that still wants
to be my girlfriend instead of say
that guy's"
mircea_popescu: no, it is impossible and
thankless work. difficult is one
thing.
decimation: true. making a good gui is difficult and
thankless work
mircea_popescu: leaving
the mess
to be handled by
the sort of people
that make guis.
decimation: this is
true, seems like it should be a 'solved problem'. I
think some implementations of 'hadoop' do exactly
this
mircea_popescu: and if you don't you can make
them make an index file.
decimation: mircea_popescu: sed, awk works fine if you want
to search your entire corpus every
time
mircea_popescu sayz sed! awk!
then re-reads
the gui part, ponders, gets depressed and leaves.
decimation: asciilifeform: do you know of a reasonable gui
tool
to search and index djvu's with
text?
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah I agree, 'djvu' with a
text-track would be a pretty good format
mircea_popescu: "given
this string and
this set of photos, find
the string likelies"
decimation: to be fair I
think
there are methods of using good compression with pdf
too. My main point yesterday was about searching
the
text, for which pdfs are not necessary. after all, if you ocr it,
then it ought
to exist as a .txt file
decimation: djvu is a pretty amazing 'paper' compression
tool. proprietary "paperport" works very well
too
mircea_popescu: outside of digging
through secret service archives, why
the fuck would anyone put up with pdf.
mircea_popescu: srsly when i saw you discussing indexing and searching pdf documents i
thought
this is what it was for - all
that crap is pdf-digitized.
mircea_popescu: rather
than reading
the same "us girl next door in a sheet = roman matron" story re-written over and over 500
times.
mircea_popescu: anyway, one is well advised
to evaluate his level of interest on such
topics. if it's a passing casual worth 5k words
then skimming one of
these pulpy offerings is maybe fine. if serious enough
to remember names,
then probably skimming
the original papers is a better bet
mircea_popescu: "inside
the genovese family, by derparian herparistarian." wtf already. no armenians in sicily.