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ben_vulpes: NOW THAT'S USING
A BUDGET TO GOOD EFFECT
ben_vulpes: remember when the jackass boys sawed
a sun roof into
a murcielago or whatever?
ben_vulpes: also features omar from the wire playing
a cop.
BingoBoingo: Nah, there's
a substantial difference.
A windows computer is an active evil.
A bookshelf is
a functional item that trades dust protection for not spending
a second and
a third day making doors and hinges
pete_dushenski: has many of the elements of
a proper tool but isn't quite all the way there, even if it's
a sterling example of its kind.
BingoBoingo: turns out making square cuts with handsaw is more of
a challenge than I thought
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: tw is at least going out with
a party.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski not bad. so everyone's agreed, taiwan's
a lost cause huh.
phf pours some vodka into
a походный алюминиевый стакан for asciilifeform
a111: Logged on 2016-07-11 16:29 asciilifeform: fundamental reason being,
a gigantic machine employs and merit-washes 1,000,001 mediocrities
ben_vulpes: sounded complex and unlikely to find
a home between traditional turbine and rel-style multimodal rockets
a111: Logged on 2016-01-20 03:44 asciilifeform had 'tricks of the unix masters', old maculature crud, on his shelf as
a student, and an actual greybeard saw, asked 'where is your 'tricks of the doom masters' to go next to this'
ben_vulpes: and in other NICs: "
A software-defined full duplex 10baseT Network Interface Controller is implemented as
a team of nodes controlling transmit and receive signal pins directly. The signals are conditioned by minimal electrical interface circuitry. External transmit timing is used. The team is designed to function as
a memory-mapped device but may be stripped down for direct use by other node teams."
a111: Logged on 2017-01-10 03:44 ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: does the igloo2 product line have something hilariously wrong with it
a la apu2?
mircea_popescu: what, everyone wants to write the bootlegger's guide to $object, because it's such
a funny recipe, you just add water in the shape of own drool and presto, another cracked.com article ?
mircea_popescu: dude they have
a "person" page, "superintelligent shades of color blue" ?
ben_vulpes: half the time i bounce through cliki i end up in
a loop of this pointing to that pointing to some Person page pointing back to the totally uninformative original page
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: does the igloo2 product line have something hilariously wrong with it
a la apu2?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you can train
a bright monkey to do plenty of the things off that list ; but the intelligent can not be helped.
mircea_popescu: and ftr,
a somebody who is or is suspected to be smart enough to have done stuff and hasn't isn't thereby above someone who is too dumb to have done anything. on the contrary, and deeply so.
mircea_popescu: yeah this is not particularly useful. gabriel_laddel_p you're in no position to
a) challenge anyone here ; b) hurr durr about what you've done. you've done nothing, outside of being yet another of california's loud bums.
trinque: gabriel_laddel_p: I didn't say
a thing about lisp.
phf: though apparently it's been gone from the web for
a while now
phf: i once read grothendieck's récoltes et semailles, which is
a kind of an autobiography
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i cant readily think of any less interesting subject of
a biography than
a mathematician. if the dude spent his life in solitary confinment with pen and paper it'd make nary
a difference.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-10 01:08 pete_dushenski: "My overall conclusion is that chickens are just as cognitively, emotionally and socially complex as most other birds and mammals in many areas, and that there is
a need for further noninvasive comparative behavioral research with chickens as well as
a re-framing of current views about their intelligence."
a111: Logged on 2017-01-10 00:44 BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Well gotta keep the record of excellence in the log so we can point gabriel to
a minimum viable residence
phf: seems like
a math grad thing. i know
a handful of people who do shit like that
mircea_popescu: now this said, more in the general he does have
a tedious self-promoting tone. i expect it's scar tissue from years spent in us corps, among idiots disinclined to naturally bow to their betters.
mircea_popescu: just, he doesn't know how to speak, because not educated [in this field] and consequently trades the offending of the many for the offending of the few. obviously
a bad deal.
mircea_popescu: but the piece says "dumbass does NOT have
a say in how her daughter is used."
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 13:58 asciilifeform: y begin to understand that
a hacker is someone who resembles Eric Raymond. Dave Winer has recently and mercifully moved his essays off to audio, but you can still hear him snorfling cashew nuts and talking at length about what it means to be
a blogger[7] . These essays and this writing style are tempting to people outside the subculture at hand because of their engaging personal tone and idiosyncratic, insider's view. But after
a whi
mircea_popescu: lol "same neuroanatomical substrate". nobody knows anything anymore do they. "cpu and beach are made of the same granularoabrasive substrate so there may be
a secret place to plug in every beach. more non-invasive searching for the beach power cord is in order."
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: i'll save that story for another time. it's
a gooder.
ben_vulpes: the memory fabricator is in full swing over here. wants to say that it was
a tome that fell out of
a moldbug piece but i really have nfi.
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: and somehow the conclusion that "most humans are barely over the cognitive threshold of
a farm animal" never presents itself
pete_dushenski: "My overall conclusion is that chickens are just as cognitively, emotionally and socially complex as most other birds and mammals in many areas, and that there is
a need for further noninvasive comparative behavioral research with chickens as well as
a re-framing of current views about their intelligence."
☟︎ pete_dushenski: inb4 'birdbrain' becomes
a compliment in the 4th reich
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: you could surely get
a deal on
a dirty, beat-to-shit g-wagen. from what i hear they're not cheap to maintain
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Well gotta keep the record of excellence in the log so we can point gabriel to
a minimum viable residence
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "why did you break up with josh ?" "his one eyed snake was
a one oil snake"
mircea_popescu: "i want to buy
a c classe from
a real used up hooker with real cum stains on the interior"
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: what i really want is
a transmission that directs all power to the spinning wheel. it's spinning, that's how you know it's the one that needs the power!
pete_dushenski: 'saddam' my 27yo merc WITH LOCKING DIFF will be taking over dd duty, despite having
a much shitter heater, until the roads are cleaned up.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, as part of
a vast "argentina night life" programme, these nuts banned alcohol on the beaches, and are going around making kids open up their bags and shit.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-29 18:38 mircea_popescu: much like if
a boy's mating strategy consists of seeking out the places where no other boys go and waiting for girls to straggle in.
ben_vulpes: buy
a set of old brittannicas and use tried and true blam tech perhaps?
adlai:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-09#1599879 << despite hating this word (as
a medical term, it's about as precise as "caught
a cold"), i did use it today for the first time in
a while: "technological schizophrenia" is the theory and practice of compartmentalizing/dissociating net use across multiple devices and connections to defeat the whole "google knows she's preggo before she does"
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-01-08 08:02 ben_vulpes: i don't know what sort of apology is due here as clearly nobody has ever even tried to apply those patches through
a strict v, but i'm still going to go slam my head in
a door until i get some of the stupid out
ben_vulpes: fwiw i have
a spiffy little minimal interactive lisp bot you can diddle the behavior of in toto from emacs
mircea_popescu: vps from my machine, my machine from vps, both of these from random internet soup. not to
a standard higher than "post wwwform"
a111: Logged on 2017-01-09 09:40 Framedragger: yes, there is that model of
a woman as someone who is expected to, and is bound to adapt in my mind, too. if she runs away from
a dangerous bank robbery scene, it's to be expected. ties into the 'protecting children' function, too. unless she *explicitly* is
a heroine.
mircea_popescu: it's not altogether clear computizing has to be
a sewer. but yes, for as long as one's stuck dealing with
a large pile of broken solutions churned out by people who didn't understand the problem nor were aware of the fact...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform compartimentalization is in itself
a sign of insanity.
mircea_popescu: "human happiness can not be
a goal of policy, because the direct solution is also the correct one."
diana_coman: I suspect "unhappy lives" was/is quite loose as
a term
mircea_popescu: follows from the personalization of the relationship to the divine. it's one thing to not manage to imitate the flight of the dragonfly, as michelangelo tried (and yes science is
a reinterpretation of the relationship to the divine, doh, what else). it's another to not manage to do what the other guy tells you to.
mircea_popescu: not exactly. there is some vanity in there, now and again, but the substance is just
a sort of perfectionism.
mircea_popescu: this then follows in general, the average chump being
a sort of windowsy emulation of
a slavegirl, and without
a master. so ends up reading feedback from /dev/urandom and interpreting it through
a similar 50-50 => 1-99 grille.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-09 10:18 diana_coman: well, I don't really think someone can live
a very unhappy life due to *others'* expectations; at most due to his/her own