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a111: Logged on 2018-08-15 14:07 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-14#1841659 << such fucking lulz, incidentally. really, all blue usg has left is
this lame attempt
to capture "the international" ? make 6th reiteration or whatever, keep rando nations in its "sphere of influence" ?
mircea_popescu: also asciilifeform
the
trilema cavalry showed up, i was right all along!
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ( if anyone ever sees a -5 , lemme know, it means
the machine is prolly on fire ) << I prolly ought
to be advised if
the machine is likely on fire as well.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know,
that's just about how hanbot drives ?
mircea_popescu: fucking finally.
this
thing looked like it was going
to swallow me whole at some point.
mircea_popescu: the sad part being
that now
that i found what i
thought i was looking for, i discover
that much better reference would be something else i
turned up in
the search,
that i wasn't specifically looking for.
a111: Logged on 2016-02-03 01:32 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally do you recall
that very ingenious
thing
that worked essentially as a vinyl record player needle but on a random chunk of clay pot ?
a111: Logged on 2013-12-12 20:36 asciilifeform: i believe
the ancient greeks used something similar, with a broken clay pot
mircea_popescu: i imagined
this is behind
the
temptation
to "fix" loggers, but it
totally can't be fixed
there.
a111: Logged on 2015-03-17 02:26 mircea_popescu: "I’m
too smart, Professor. I’ve got nothing
to say
to normal children. Adults don’t respect me enough
to really
talk
to me. And frankly, even if
they did,
they wouldn’t sound as smart as Richard Feynman, so I might as well read something Richard Feynman wrote instead. I’m isolated, Professor McGonagall. I’ve been isolated my whole life. Maybe
that has some of
the same effects as being locked in a cellar. An
a111: Logged on 2015-05-11 00:08 mircea_popescu:
This would also be why I don't
think so very much of
the libertards, and why I find myself so often in contradiction with people who view
them as either powerful or in any sense a
threat (usually both) :
they aren't, either, nor could
they really be, either, because
the only
tool
they know actually works for
them only a short distance of its run, and for us
the entire length of
that same run.
The libertard's gambit is
a111: Logged on 2015-06-27 03:23 mircea_popescu: "runs for
them a short part of
the way and for us
the whole way".
mircea_popescu: i read it in
the very logs, months ago, months after it occurred.
mircea_popescu: and while at it, hey esthlos when you summarize
this, do me a favour and link
the discussion of globalization, integration, and sociopolitical construct evolution, yes ? :D
a111: Logged on 2018-08-14 17:35 phf: i'm pretty sure we had pocket conversations during netsplits,
that none of
the bots heard
mircea_popescu: fucking cursed am i, started writing an article an hour ago, still
trying
to dig myself out of
the web of references spewed out by ~the first god damned paragraph~!
mircea_popescu: incidentally, since we're doing lost arts, where
the fuck did i state
the pantsuit's problem of integration (ie,
that pantsuitism doesn't stand a chance in
the republic because
the republic integrates it) in
the
terminology
that "this sword cuts for
them a portion of
the way and for us
the whole way" ? ie,
that
they're always dependent on state, whatever shit
they come up with gotta be carefully ~stopped~ on various slippery
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in
the end, meaningful socialism depends on
this, yes ? if it weren't
the [injust, btw] "control of
the means of reading", anyone could be a factory owner. no ? are not all people born capable of reading ? it is only
the envious piling up of glasses by ~some~
that prevent ~the rest of us~ from reading. especially
the young.
mircea_popescu: generally,
the infant's "that man reads, give me his glasses so i may read
too", carefully preserved as a ~useful~ fatal flaw in
the
taxpayer's brain by
the flawed establishment.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a wide swath, from
thinking self wasted on washing floors
to getting on irc and
then resetting
the connection fifty hundred
times, and
tons of other items more context dependant.
a111: Logged on 2014-07-19 03:16 mircea_popescu: so,
this poor unfortunate soul found herself living her parent's dream : an assistant professor! at
the prestigious ubb no less!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i know, i run into it with aspiring 20something girlies ALLLL
the
time.
mircea_popescu: in
the immortal words of a certain young adult, "but you're ~good~ ~here~."
a111: Logged on 2018-08-06 23:07 asciilifeform: phf: my alt-hypothesis is
that it's something slightly different -- it's a haskellism. ameri-sad folx are irresistibly drawn
to ~elaborately ineffective~
tech ,
that absorbs infinite 'ricering' (
http://btcbase.org/log/2014-03-09#552410 ) while giving chance
to 'show how clever'
mircea_popescu: the other half is because
they're being uppity,
trying
to approach problems out of
their pay grade.
mircea_popescu: half
the
time people encounter "hard" problems is because
they're
trying
to use
the wrong
tools
to approach imaginary problems
mircea_popescu: the piece describes attempt
to implement your earlier solution and what's wrong with it.
mircea_popescu: lol. in my notes,
the correct pill
turned out ~because~ of
that.
mircea_popescu: the idea is, literally, can not name amoeba, indistinguishable. must distinguish
to name.
mircea_popescu: problems being
that a) i already linked it and b) doesn't even say "name"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what happens
to be iyo
the cannonical piece re "mp explains non-wot items can't properly be said
to have a name" ?
mircea_popescu: jesus christ what fucking influence ?
the soviets had intellectual leadership, who
the everloving fuck can
take
the pantsuit seriously ?!
mircea_popescu: theres a whole lot of
that in eulora as well. and in ~all cpp-gui offerings past 20 yearsd
a111: Logged on 2016-01-21 13:29 asciilifeform: 'if i make it what i
think is
the right size, it crashes!111'
a111: Logged on 2018-07-08 00:29 asciilifeform: 'why is
this methyl group here' '...patent'
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-07-08#1832784 << let's flesh
this out a little, while at it. podophyllotoxin, active ingredient in mandrake root, is not only
toxic but actually damages dna (ties
the strand
to
topoisomerase, and prevents religation).
this happens
to be useful in some medical contexts (neoplasm management, basically). enter etoposide and
teniposide, one with a methyl
the other with a
thienyl. otherwise, same item.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: (yes, i'm using
this
to raise
the army
that'll surgerize
trb, of course, of course)
mircea_popescu: the usual "why magic number ?" question goes doubly so for
thread counts -- if your program has a fixed
thread count it's not multi-threaded, it's badly written.
a111: Logged on 2018-08-14 22:31 asciilifeform: 'this proggy is faux-multithreaded, so of fuckingcourse
there's a lock around erry variable
toggle'
mircea_popescu: except
this, perfectly available, intellectual stance -- very much not stroustrup
mircea_popescu: argument could even be brought "and
then, idiots went and wrote linux in it".
mircea_popescu: there's nothing wrong with
this, incidentally. exploration is exploration. "we're
trying
things out, go away" is a perfectly legitimate state of affairs.