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mircea_popescu: but the best thing that you could do as google manager is, have swat teams round up all the employees in
a field somewhere, randomly shoot 10% and tell the rest the next round of shooting is in six weeks, they'd better impress.
mircea_popescu: their copy has all the virtues of
a xerox of
a statue.
mircea_popescu: then stalin gave amnesty for people willing to fight zee germanz, and
a bunch went. when they were picked up later for going back to the life... well... there were some philosophical disagreements inside.
mircea_popescu: vory/suka, for the record, is this ancient dispute in ru penal system, whereby it is verboten for respectable criminal to help the government. this going about as far as the jews, dudes won't push
a fucking button.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 14:50 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-17#1657315 << there's very little interest to even ask who the fuck this peter norvig is. i was going to the first time it popped up five lines up, but then i was, eh, whatever. i guess ima ask since it got discussed
a little. who the fuck is peter norvig ?
mircea_popescu: 2013, right ? PUBLISHED. online. "nobody knows". oh, who's mp, that guy who pre-leaked the original cable leak by like
a day and forced guardian & friends to release ??? NEVER HEARD OF HIM!!11
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-17#1657315 << there's very little interest to even ask who the fuck this peter norvig is. i was going to the first time it popped up five lines up, but then i was, eh, whatever. i guess ima ask since it got discussed
a little. who the fuck is peter norvig ?
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: but they're not learning anything, which is to say, as
a self-transformative activity. they're "learning" in the sense of "raising awareness" about themselves, which is to say : they expect, or rather act as if they rightfully expected, that the whole world changes so as to accomodate them as they are. that's the whole story of this "learning".
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 13:47 diana_coman: it certainly fits it perfectly, yes; and overall it also fits the more general pattern: the moment everyone gets to do it, one can tell that "it" is
a. only
a pale shadow of itself, b. going to shit full-speed ahead anyway
diana_coman: ugh, I can't seem to find
a transcript of the thing
phf: ...where he made
a point that "computer science" has become an empirical science, done through experimentation, and "look it up on stack overflow" is part of the process. i thought he was joking
diana_coman: it certainly fits it perfectly, yes; and overall it also fits the more general pattern: the moment everyone gets to do it, one can tell that "it" is
a. only
a pale shadow of itself, b. going to shit full-speed ahead anyway
☟︎ phf: i saw
a rambling talk by peter norvig (he called it "as we may program", considering the complete lack of substance that's as bombastic reference as it gets)
phf: apparently not, there are people out there who believe that stack overflow programming is not just
a viable strategy, but the only available one :o
phf: i somehow thought that stack overflow programming was
a non-reflective activity, sort of like "hello sir madam, howdo i write network program in java??" comments on popular "epoll vs. kqueue performance analysis" posts back in the day
BingoBoingo: And no, Apple is not as big as Sears was. Apple sells no iHouse, and Apple has never conducted
a public service on the scale of Sears donations of toilet paper to the masses that they wrote off as marketing
BingoBoingo: Nah, that's how you cut metal with not
a chainsaw
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: my dad's electric chainsaw leaks like
a leeb too
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that
a) trump decides what's secret and what isn't and b) lolreally ? wtf did the blue state imagine diplomacy is ? reading the fake news outloud ?
mircea_popescu: isn't this
a little like the 18 yo girlie asking "what'd getting into fucking this late get me anyways, people'd been fucking forever"
ben_vulpes: more of
a sad little "what would getting into the wot at this late date get me anyways?"
ben_vulpes: the "could i" construction indicates
a particular breed of poverty-stricken subject of her "majesty"
ben_vulpes: yes well, i'm not going to grep through my personal logs to find out if
a fleanode name'd been used before
mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as genuine naivite enduring over half
a decade unchanged.
mircea_popescu: there is no difference in this sense between nubbins, an idle idiot, and nanotube,
a respectable professor. scammers known like theymos and lukejr, supposedly honest idiots like szabo, agents known like gavin or unknown like whatever others have this much in commom -- the call was made, and they strayed.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not even
a rando. the newborn has the excuse that he wasn't there to hear the calling ; but the dorks who frittered their time away in presence have no excuse, nor any way to wash the shame of their cowardly, subhuman build.
ben_vulpes: no key, not even worth
a cursory second look.
ben_vulpes: best binary give-
a-shit filter on randos.
mircea_popescu: ua logging -otc since 2013, still not made
a key ? what is this, some kind of joke ?
mircea_popescu: then again, the us of today would pretty much collapse in
a year of rhodesia treatment, supposing anyone could be arsed to apply it.
mircea_popescu: TERRORISM!!!! and THE WHOLE WORLD MUST GIVE
A SHIT!! AND THEREFORE DOES!!!
mircea_popescu: trinque the adventure of say rhodesia is instructive. suddenly the imbecile twitter horde is trying to play counterstrike around your borders "for democracy", while the idiots are cheering them on. god fucking forbid black dudes with machine guns start pouring over border in us, at the rate of
a few thousands
a year.
mircea_popescu: romania incidentally has
a long history of just this, it's called fanarioti period. hundreds of groups over 3-4 centuries did just this, kept taking over because pissed off with insolence of ex crown. discovered worse deal to be king.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: irl, paying tax out of net is
a sucker's game. you want to pay the talent out of net, like they do in holyingwood, and the criminals out of gross.
trinque: asciilifeform: because they can argue
a greater percentage of "omg they were just going to pocket it" than of "and we also have to pay things you don't know about"
mircea_popescu: this isn't
a bad movie. it's insufferable, because it is
a good movie about cockroaches that really shouldn't exist.
Framedragger: hailed as "citizen kane of bad movies". for
a reason! it's terrible, horrible, amazing movie you should watch!
hanbot: diana_coman i got myself up to date just to quote my last problem with the character in the logs, ha. thanks for asking, and i'll see to it this week for sure. meatland has been fairly crazy these past months, i'd love to have
a software problem (she said naively).
ben_vulpes: prototype the stack as
a "turbo furace"
ben_vulpes: oh wait we need
a total loss lubrication gas turbine
ben_vulpes: how about we compromise on
a gas turbine powered air compressor backed drivetrain
pete_dushenski:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655830 << speaking of throttles, 'car throttle' was started at the same time as my old car site by
a very entrepreneurial brown brit by the name of adnan ebrahim. we used to email back and forth in those early, uncertain days and we met up in london in 2014 for
a few drinks. he obviously went the vc-route and has done very well by the metrics of that world, certainly better
☝︎ pete_dushenski: the story is basically that geeky had
a business class ticket only to discover that air india had turned the plane into all economy seats. geeky still boarded the flight but flipped his lid when they landed and refused to deboard before roughing up some airline staff.
pete_dushenski: ravindra gaekwad is the mp's name.
a 'shiv sena' (far-right) party leader.
mircea_popescu: i don't get it, so india apparently sees
a rider for the very first time, gets all excited ?
a111: Logged on 2017-05-16 06:59 danielpbarron: the damage from frostbite happens in the warming up. i've had it happen more than
a few times where my feet would get cold and then i'd hop in the shower and get that "hit with hammers" sensation. also feels like bones are itchy.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-16 01:36 asciilifeform: in other near-term lulz,
a 'pbot' is in the worx, so that folx can play with various input->output pairs in-chan
BingoBoingo also though laundry machine dildo was already
a thing.
danielpbarron: the damage from frostbite happens in the warming up. i've had it happen more than
a few times where my feet would get cold and then i'd hop in the shower and get that "hit with hammers" sensation. also feels like bones are itchy.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Only disadvantage I am seeing here is that reconfiguring chainsaw to be chainsaw instead of bike mover takes time. Time that could be used to clear obstructions like hamplanets had one been simply traveling as
a pedestrian with
a chainsaw.
BingoBoingo: Advantage of chainsaw as powertrain is having
a chainsaw to clear road obstructions provided rest of chainsaw is kept in saddle bag.
BingoBoingo: In other threads completed: The best late model consumer vehicle is likely the pre-2017 model year Honda Rebel. 4-stroke combustion is
a bummer to see on it, but air cooled and carbeurated. Better would be humble bicycle with "echo CS-800P" chainsaw swapped in to replace pedals.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 16:13 asciilifeform: i almost bought
a wankel car once
lobbes: of course now I'm in the warm, sub-tropical southeast! Barely had
a winter this year :D
pete_dushenski:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-15#1656491 << well, they are made of ye newe nose-cutty plastique. this is, however, the least annoying of its 'features'. cracking and breaking due to temperature fluctuations and extremes is markedly more of
a nuissance. 'moar durable! progress!' is anything but. nooz at 11.
☝︎ mod6: not
a year goes by that I don't read about some person who got drunk, fell asleep on their porch mid-winter, and loses some digits due to frostbite.
mod6: feels like your hands/feet getting hit with
a hammer
mod6: probably some. i think i've had it quite
a bit. not to the point of decay or amputation or anything. but there've been many times I remember playing hockey outdoors as
a kid in 10 or 20 below f weather.
mod6: once, i was walking on
a frozen lake. fell through some thin ice (~january-ish time), by the time i walked ~2.2km home, my pants were frozen and my legs were blue.
trinque: never jumped in the water, but I've hopped in
a few snowbanks naked. it's
a riot.
trinque: look if the cows all fart at once it sets off
a positive feedback loop
mod6: staggers the imagination - the sheer determination of
a generation long since gone bye.
mod6: meanwhile, all 6-8 of 'em or whatever lived through 2 minnesota winters in
a covered wagon.
mod6: they came from germany or whatever, bought/steaked
a claim; took 'em 2 farming seasons to get enough money to buy the supplies to build the house.
mod6: my ancestors lived in
a covered wagon for like 2 years.
mircea_popescu still chuckles at the "indignant community" back when fetlife turned out to be
a shithole.
trinque: they also can't block
a walkway or entryway to panhandle. next year they can ban the panhandling outright.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 16:10 mircea_popescu: (basically, long story short, usg financed
a coupla units in georgia and ncarolina with japan's money, ain't giving it back. loss is whatever you want it to be, 3 to 10 bn)
mod6: i've read through it ~twice. so far, it makes sense to me, but I need
a more careful going-through. part of why I'm learning verilog.
mircea_popescu: mod6 basically,
a digital machine has no real reason to store
a 1 as
a 1 rather than any other arbitrary time-pattern