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mod6: or something like SRT with
a lookup table?
mod6: ahh. ok. yah, i suppose it requires
a bunch of on-paper - try it yourself until blue in face.
Framedragger recommends egan's "wang's carpets", to contribute, in all seriousness. (later incorporated as
a chapter in his "diaspora", asciilifeform will know)
Framedragger: everything is
a defense mechanism eh... maybe it is
trinque: all the more terrible and uninviting
a universe if there aren't elsewhere salt water sacks whose symbols we could hope to grok?
Framedragger: *i* got
a reference to
a nice piece by feynman. it was also mentioned on the forum logs. booyah!
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: do you even have
a sympathy gland?
mircea_popescu: "sure, and as anything they want to! there's
a fortran for that."
Framedragger: yeah quite
a few assumptions re triangulation, hm
mircea_popescu: sure, not matter of sympathy. matter of -- just like the egyptian kids sit in luxor center for businessmen trying to find old dizzy cow with social security payments to build them
a tourist trap, just so perhaps indian kids sit in indian cafe, trying to get usg tendrils trapped.
Framedragger: sure, if you argue for (if that's the term) ultimate epistemological relativism, crabs in water, then whatever. but we don't intend crabs to intercept
a space vessel anyway
Framedragger: it is qualitatively less stupid than printing
a fucking human figure on the plate.
Framedragger: pulsars are kinda loud on teh spectrum. the visual representations (marks on the lines) can be mapped to relative pulsar periods in
a straightforward fashion.
mircea_popescu: "Somewhat fortunately Balsamiq was too successful for that, and Giacomo was forced to hire more and more people. Balsamiq is now being built by 25 members, who service around 0.5M customers and manage 10,000 new transactions
a month. All of it generating about $7M
a year." << this is actually
a model-run business. had nfi mp-style even exists in fiat world, but lo and behold. took 10 years to get to 7mn
a year, sustainably.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes seems there's
a lot of pressure to succeed at scamming in the us for indian boys.
Framedragger: filled out
a form. my proposed mega charitable $25 bid will probably go unnoticed, tho :(
mircea_popescu: "Tinton Falls, NJ April 21, 2017 — AASKI Technology, Inc. is pleased to announce that we are one of three Defense companies to win
a prime contractor position on
a potential five-year, $900 million contract for field support and technical services to the U.S. Army‘s Project Management Office, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (PM UAS)." etc.
mircea_popescu: "I have
a man-crush on whoever built it. So freaking good. — Jeremy Toeman, President & Founder, Dijit Media" the cool thing is they link. ima now examine
a whole pile of these.
mircea_popescu: "Letting you specify behaviors and click-actions would inevitably turn Mockups into
a much more complex tool, which is
a terrible thing for us: if we want to continue to be the in-between tool, Mockups needs to be extremely quick to learn so that every stakeholder can have their say with an equal playing field." << check it out, they even got the "level playing field" thing. what was the sf thing with the dumbing devices ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, this item is
a fine fucking example of very, very sad slavegirls wasting their time "making
a product" instead of dedicating those years to worship.
ben_vulpes: trinque: oh he hasta be serious, i'm making
a joke.
mircea_popescu: anwyay, there's
a half dozen ppl keep linking reddit. if they switched to linking 8chan or whatever, it'd be that.
mircea_popescu: as if anyone gives
a flying fuck what difficulties middle eastern dorks have in going naked down the street.
mircea_popescu: anywya, im not reading this pile of garbage ; but from the skimming -- the whole argument is born of ignorance. reddit got its start as
a heaven for child porn peddlers who got banned on digg.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's
a meaningful distinction, if i say "in the prepuce" i dun mean injected into the foreskin ffs.
mircea_popescu: i also tried to explain shakespeare and bit
a steel girder.
mircea_popescu: i think your notion of "to explain" may have
a lot in common with your notion of "diagram".
mircea_popescu: every queen in the valley of queens was buried with
a shelf full of religious artefacts
mircea_popescu: well yes, in being
a diagram, it's meaningless and therefore "
a religious artefact"
mircea_popescu: which observation IS
A SAD COMMENT on the whole problem, recursively!
mircea_popescu: anyway, the dorks ("scientists! scientific method! just the data! own determination!!1") involved had
a whole story of how it's supposed to be universally meaningful.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's
a whole pile, google image search for "harappan steatite" returns more than i knew / ever saw, so.
Framedragger: yeah, i guess it's
a about the general point anyway. with not much particular matter left
Framedragger: oh yeah, such
a great channel, occupy the oceans!
trinque: I asked because what occurred to me is that "AGW" is
a fine excuse for the sniveling neuroses of the present generation.
mircea_popescu: "the sun was walking down shithead avenue in maryland, and as it sat down at the starbucks it felt
a ..."
Framedragger: i do not presently assign any high value towards AGW, but am also unsure of the "if there were
a bomb, there definitely would be nothing to be done" part. i mean, i guess so, hm.
shinohai: The motivation for creating the shitty database boils down to "the one we were using wasn't written in
a hipster language." <<< top kek
trinque: Framedragger: is this query "supposing there were
a bomb under your ass and nothing you could do, what would you do?"
Framedragger realised the term "inflection point" was actually used in the article itself (in
a footnote), in the sense i had in mind, so needless to say, not an original point
BingoBoingo: And as socialists candadians treat money and markets as
a waste stream
BingoBoingo: In the "Sad That Not Scammed Files": You need to stop giving
a fuck about how your car looks. I was cross shopping clean RSX-Ss against my CRZ, and I got
a bargain basement CRZ at $7500. You paid $2300, maybe
a third of what
a nice one costs. The only amazing thing here is that you are stunned that your car that cost
a third of "what it should" has tons of problems.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: it was
a pussy when i first got in bed.
mircea_popescu: the only fuckoff.sh for not having
a dilated asshole and insulted prostate is... not taking cock up the ass. sadly ? I THINK NOT!!!
ben_vulpes: "oh gosh, you know i think i'm too old to learn
a new ui"
mircea_popescu: fuck that shit, give me
a country run by pimps and hookers, i do not want to see more "college educated" "respectable" schmucks raise head above water.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi who imagines anyone would want to live in
a world run by the bureaucrats in preference of
a world run by the drug dealers. am i really supposed to believe
a guy who always sells the amount he promises is not to be trusted with government, whereas
a conclave of disgusting crows that never fail to break their promises are naturally recommended for the job ?
mircea_popescu: basically "modern culture" is strictly this :
a special monkery where idiotic monks re-do the copying of old manuscripts in the font of the year.
mircea_popescu: could make
a whole bunch of "clever" romcoms around the newly upgraded mistaken identity comedy, omg his watch flashed.
mircea_popescu: could get
a ----- BEGIN DICK DESCRIPTOR ----- header that'd allow ytou to estimate upfront.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-15 16:24 mircea_popescu: yes, the ass that died of thirst and hunger being trapped equally thirsty and hungry at equal distance from
a pail of water and
a pail of oats.
mircea_popescu: the idea being that "i fucking love britney spears because here's
a painting of her in my bedroom" in 2004, "i fucking love science because here's
a painting of science in my bedroom" 2005, then hs ended moved to dorm got stoned and plugged in all the holes.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 17:04 mircea_popescu: i don't think you either know or could meet if you dedicated
a year to it someone possessed of an ai capable of identifying who the fuck to shoot.
mircea_popescu: cogent challenge to authority is
a finnicky-er order than readily intuited by the desperate adolescent
mircea_popescu: whether you are obeying the words of darius, the greatest man-god to walk the sands around babylon, carried to your ears by
a stout fellow in weird pajamas ; or the echoes of the voice of some dumb woman nobody liked, whom you'de irrationalyl decided is important beyond all else in nature ; or the strange flickers of
a tube which "is impersonal and therefore truthful, pay no attention at the jew behind the screen", in point o
mircea_popescu: yes, the ass that died of thirst and hunger being trapped equally thirsty and hungry at equal distance from
a pail of water and
a pail of oats.
☟︎ Framedragger: the paradox re free will, been
a long time tho
Framedragger: one $sadthing re aristotle is that he did all his logic in verbal syllogisms. which is ~fine, but omg did predicate symbol notation help... and it took
a long while. same with middle age logic (buridan et al, not an expert tho). guess knowing lating well helps
a lot, tho :/
mircea_popescu: he had
a whole workshop producing cutlery devoid of handles but missing the business end.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-15 15:25 mircea_popescu: THIS MUST BE BECAUSE ~I~ AM NOT
A PROGRAMMER.
mircea_popescu: i live among
a people who prefer textual renditions of paths to actual map usage, or cartesian addressing mechanisms. the notion that you have
a more direct understanding of some house by saying "Fuckenstrasse 17" than by saying "turn left art the church and follow the tit stamps on the sidewalk" is ...
mircea_popescu: the fact that you get an erection watching
a picture of Anne rather than reading "Anne spent her days naked and her tits were big and milky" is no argument as to the ~meaning~. your erections ain't meaningful.
mircea_popescu: like any nonsense, it claims no parentage. but no, it is
a primitive kind of hieroglyphism.
mircea_popescu: they already fucking copy/paste the slides into
a shannonized mess.
mircea_popescu: somehow the fact aristotle is
a major source of quotes today in europe, but fukantothmoth or w/e her name was isn't
a source of anything for "the great nation of africa" idem dun bother. why the fuck is it that i can recide names of ancient members of the republic of letters to fill an orthodox pomelnik for
a full mass, and nobody can name three fucking egyptian authors he likes. supposedly they taught our barbarians magic an
mircea_popescu: i should open
a bank offering 100% guaranteed deposits -- for the poor.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-21 18:18 jurov: heh, nice example how alphabet is inferior to diagrams. if aristotle had drawn
a diagrams that would survive to this day, no translation needed
a111: Logged on 2016-12-21 18:43 mircea_popescu: now we understand each other. dutch can't be "wrong" about aristotle per se. it is
a fact he didn't much understand what the other said ; and it is
a fact that in the dutch system, dutch's observations stand, however vaguely greek flavoured they may be.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-15 15:09 Framedragger: so instead of writing code i now need to write
a code editor which can break code lines code-semantically? :/
mircea_popescu: there is no possiblity of meaning outside of
a structure of authority, and the authority can not be predicated on the meaning.
☟︎☟︎ Framedragger: i don't have
a strong case but don't consider all of analytic philosophy to be just "public intellectuals".
a *large lot* of it, sure, so makes sense to just dismiss all of it for the sake of saving time / internal sanity
mircea_popescu: and it dun has anything to do with the french style of going on tv. anglo derp sitting in his office "writing" for "peer reviewed" etc is not doing anything different. it's just
a shitty tv channel nobody tunes in, the nature channel, the peer reviewed channel, etc.
Framedragger: heh re textual devices, i guess i have to agree. baudrillard... i liked it when i first read simulation/simulacra. yes it was pretty vapous, i mean, beyond the "map != territory but depends how you use words, kid!!", summarised in
a paragraph or two... so, sure
mircea_popescu: sure, and the tv on occasion has hot chicks that are
a pleasure in private. i know. so ?
Framedragger: yesyes, meanwhile i'll go and pretend i have
a computer!
mircea_popescu: it is INCREDIBLY lulzy to catch fire at "string = number" but to tolerate "my program is
a strring hurr"