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mircea_popescu: should i be concerned that the pure brilliance factory failed to allign the script with the math symbols ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes trinque i do think the dude is actually serious.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-27#1491056 i guess. ☝︎
trinque: ben_vulpes: I dunno man; I think he's serious. just look at his shithub activity graph
ben_vulpes: i like the subtle satire. really makes it.
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: and, while at it, let us also point out that i not being the living authority on explaining aristotle to people, my failure to explain to any specified group is not the mother of all proofs.
mircea_popescu: i think your notion of "to explain" may have a lot in common with your notion of "diagram".
asciilifeform: but on the contrary , it can be -- i can write scheme interp in , e.g., basic, and it gets explained.
mircea_popescu: well apparently i never published the dildos in question. anyway.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but i was discussing claims.
trinque: oh look, I think they talk through those hoses in front, and only the hose-bearing ones talk.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's a whole pile, google image search for "harappan steatite" returns more than i knew / ever saw, so.
asciilifeform: i was half-convinced it'd be the infamous 'egyptian light bulb'
asciilifeform: if i can't tell wtf it is by looking at it, it ain't a diagram.
Framedragger: yeah, i guess it's a about the general point anyway. with not much particular matter left
mircea_popescu: this is what i said. or tried to.
Framedragger: channel for anxiety, i mean
trinque: I asked because what occurred to me is that "AGW" is a fine excuse for the sniveling neuroses of the present generation.
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.
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
ben_vulpes: i suppose then yes, except for the actually producing piss part.
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.
mircea_popescu: i heard of those!
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: it was a pussy when i first got in bed.
mircea_popescu: i didn't want cock up my ass in the first place.
ben_vulpes: "baby you are entirely capable of deducing what the new buttons do, i don't want to hear that kind of nonsense from you any more."
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: i don't get what it is supposed to do ?
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.
asciilifeform: i've been seeing it for years and never knew
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: without exception one claiming "i fucking love science" or "where can i find just the facts" or etcetera is merely rejecting what they perceive as the NORMAL authority, in favour of an unvoiced alternative they deem superior.
Framedragger: i suppose one cannot avoid this general structural, at least i can't, yeah. does wonders for my ongoing internal-anarchism debate :D
Framedragger: yeah i guess so.
Framedragger: but yeah i see the connection re thread
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: devil's advocate: can attempt to resist where-to-go paradox without making reference to authority if you admit that agent's free will can also include (while still counting as free will) "unconscious heuristics" ("water is priority"; but yes this is missing the point, i guess) / "random behaviour" (buridan would disagree that this is "free will", i guess)
Framedragger: yeah i don't, heh
mircea_popescu: if you pretend "rationality" ie "i fucking love science" ie, meaning-afore-authority to be the prime mover.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-15 15:25 mircea_popescu: THIS MUST BE BECAUSE ~I~ AM NOT A PROGRAMMER.
mircea_popescu: i am unaware of this machine you built. last i recall, we're still at http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-15#1656316 ☝︎
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 ...
asciilifeform: i.e. the glyphs do not carry meaning with raw geometry
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 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? :/
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
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: Framedragger i would dismiss the whole "public intellectual" v 5.0 as entirely like the tv starlet. they ALSO all sound the same.
mircea_popescu: sure, and the tv on occasion has hot chicks that are a pleasure in private. i know. so ?
Framedragger: but yeah. also paragraph notion vaguely relates to "log ranges" concept (which i haven't developed any further, yet.) l1 folx give labels to log line ranges; these 'breaks' can then visibly (not obnoxiously) appear in online logotron.
mircea_popescu: well, i see it absorbed in paragraph, but whatever. item, how'd you call the thing.
mircea_popescu: THIS MUST BE BECAUSE ~I~ AM NOT A PROGRAMMER. ☟︎
Framedragger: yesyes, meanwhile i'll go and pretend i have a computer!
mircea_popescu: why the fuck can't i add the string 68 with the numeral 7 to get the real 74.99999999 as god intended ? it's ALL STRINGS YES ?
asciilifeform: however on bright side!: mircea_popescu will quite like, i suspect, 'P' : all nonprinting octets are NOPs in P.
mircea_popescu: that the rest of the crap ~dun work that way... hey. i thought that's mostly why you don't like the rest of the crap in the first place
asciilifeform: and i usedto be an asm programmer, 20 columns is all i needed, lol
mircea_popescu: i am a bash programmer!
asciilifeform: i'ma ignore this nonsense coming from a fella who doesn't program.
asciilifeform: tell me where i can buy an ips lcd that gives more than 80 reasonably sized fixedwidthchars when turned to god's proper orientation (vertical) and i'll buy.
mircea_popescu: no. i am simply saying i am a better man than you. and you will either 120 or live with knowing this.
asciilifeform: and i won;t.
asciilifeform: if yours is 120col and mine is 80, now you are demanding that i horizontalscroll.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger im not proposing it be used, i'm just lulzing at the whole nonsense.
Framedragger: yes and i hate nano, it's horrible for long lines
asciilifeform: I WON'T HORIZONTALSCROLL
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i never want them.
Framedragger: so instead of writing code i now need to write a code editor which can break code lines code-semantically? :/ ☟︎
mircea_popescu: mno. i'm thinking of them as what they are -- the author being mentally slow, and attempting the equivalent of ajax in my fucking text file.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-07 04:44 fromloper: I have NDA access, so I have slightly better documentation (but still shit and incomplete). Business decision. Intel only because that's where 95% of the market is. Also easier to do security research on ME and AMT if you can step through, which needs JTAG as well.
asciilifeform: so that i can print it on dotmatrix printer.
asciilifeform: i disagree
asciilifeform: ( i'd guess even the furnace stokers at microshit grasp that the entire operation is very little more than a factory for nsa pwnholes )
mircea_popescu: but i carry a large stick, and dun mind hurting people.
mircea_popescu: i don't live in that reich.
Framedragger had to supply a coupla raised invoices in UK for bank to say "mk this bzns looks like serious bzns". felt dodgy (i can raise invoice to ur mom)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform check out this lulz : in order to open a bank account, ALL banks of costa rica require the company present them with a PROJECTED CASH FLOW! supposedly because there's some law so requiring them, which i dun much credit, but i do intend to find a lawyer and ask their local constitutional court. in any case, all this supposedly because "since 9/11 the ustards forced them to", which is obviously lulzy since the ust
mircea_popescu: "yea, please, more gilding, and use thicker leaf, maybe i manage to sink in earth like a raft adrift the oceans."
asciilifeform: i'll grudgingly agree with the folx who remind that the correct thing to do with a rare b00k is to scan it, not to hoard it like koschei's treasures
mircea_popescu: but at least i don't throw it all out the window, so there's that.
mircea_popescu: i also hoard dead tree, it's called furniture. but in that application works fabulously well, the absence of a different couch does in no way detract from the damsel's moans who's overturned on it.
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in the monkey house, https://archive.is/LS3sn >> 'And by the way, I think we can successfully make Zcash too traceable for criminals like WannaCry, but still completely private & fungible' -- zooko (perpetrator of subj scamcoin)
mircea_popescu: i dun feel like paying amazon 30 bux because who the fuck are they, not like they helped me know i hafta read this, and not like there can exist another merit ; i dun feel like waiting till they deliver. i did see the book at one point, in library, of course, which is how i know it exists, but i'm not going back there to read a book.
shinohai: He is, if I ever find some Indian city willing to accept Bitcoin in exchange for naming a designated shitting street after him, I will gladly memorialize him.
shinohai: I was trying to think of how to spin a Qntra out of it, but it was quite lulzy on it's own.
Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-14#1626725 << actually i want to try this sometime, too, any chance you've already fiddled with it pete_dushenski? :D ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i dun follow ?
mircea_popescu: i guess. there's ~no way to compensate that loss of mass though.
mircea_popescu: paper is a miserable fit for the manner in which i read. one day ima actually manage to put into algo form the sort of tree i wish to see
asciilifeform: yeah i remember that mircea_popescu has forsaken paper -- he is ready for space launch.
asciilifeform: ( i can put up with one headache, or the other, but not both )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fwiw i like paper and generally avoid gutenberg when possible
asciilifeform: i disagree that it was about 'style'
mircea_popescu: the polarbeard fellow, i thought.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> we already arguably lost a contributor because he couldn't predict what we wouldn't like about the STYLE, rather than substance of his work. << i kinda agree that some type of loose style guide should be created and posted to minimize churn/rework to assimilate