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mircea_popescu: there is no possiblity of meaning outside of a structure of authority, and the authority can not be predicated on the meaning.
☟︎☟︎ 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.
mircea_popescu: the girls stuff their lips with silicon etc, the boys use certain textual devices, whatever.
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: random $50 an hour ro tv starlet. google images shows you the... well, you know, normal face, they all look the same.
mircea_popescu: sure, and the tv on occasion has hot chicks that are a pleasure in private. i know. so ?
mircea_popescu: you understand the difference between baudrillard and simona trasca is the packaging only, yes ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Framedragger and why ~nobody sane calls some randomly chosen species of the "reality tv show" "modern philosophy".
mircea_popescu: the humanities tradition is that meaningful text (eg law) is quoted by page and paragraph, whereas meaningless text (eg, ehtnological notation) is quoted by page and line.
mircea_popescu: well, i see it absorbed in paragraph, but whatever. item, how'd you call the thing.
mircea_popescu: you know, unlike you people, tru drivers of your imaginary tractors / flying veyrons.
mircea_popescu: no, Framedragger , it wouldn't be neat. it would be normal. code-as-ascii-string diff fundamentally can't work.
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 ?
mircea_popescu: it is INCREDIBLY lulzy to catch fire at "string = number" but to tolerate "my program is a strring hurr"
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
mircea_popescu: because yes, your lisp code should be line=paragraph, and your ide should properly expand the parens, and afaik / afaies it DOES.
mircea_popescu: is the substance of disagreement that you want things to read like
mircea_popescu: "oh but mp, it's not for a living". no, it's not, it's for a dying ;/
mircea_popescu: it's one thing to say "this fellow has no idea what the fuck he's saying" ; it's quite another to say "this fellow doesn't know of our hardships!". the former's an argument. the latter...
mircea_popescu: what, it's nonsense because we don't share the same incentives to misrepresent the facts ?
mircea_popescu: no. i am simply saying i am a better man than you. and you will either 120 or live with knowing this.
mircea_popescu: and if you try to read people with viewport larger than yours, either buy a better system or live with your inferiority.
mircea_popescu: in my experience line of code that exceeds viewport is in all cases an example of badly written code.
mircea_popescu: anyway. you're telling me you can't read code broken on space like sane wordwrap does ?
mircea_popescu: Framedragger im not proposing it be used, i'm just lulzing at the whole nonsense.
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.
mircea_popescu: let. the. owner. of. proggy. solve. HIS FUCKING PROBLEMS.
mircea_popescu: your job is to write your line of code well ; not to "ensure" random person you don't nor can know LOOKS AT IT FROM THE RIGFHT ANGLE
mircea_popescu: so ? let the whoever views it do whatever they deem fit.
mircea_popescu: fu. it's not your fucking problem. your paragraph is a line. how (or whether) that line is broken is the problem of whoever displays it.
mircea_popescu: then unix crapola has non-flowing text because hey, let's be idiots.
mircea_popescu: no, problem is someone somewhere IS FUCKING IDIOTIC ENOUGH to touch the enter key for any other reason than end of paragraph.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : how to fix idiotic (fixed width paragraph) documents ? s/\n\n/\r\r/ s/\n// s/\r/\n/. thanks god for idiotic newline alternatives.
mircea_popescu: "oh, the soviets got defeated by a buncha chukas, but it is not the peace&defense ministry's fault! it's the supplies&items ministry's fault!"
mircea_popescu: lol, usg.ms duking it out with usg.nsa over the fact that they got publicly raped a little ?
mircea_popescu: but i carry a large stick, and dun mind hurting people.
mircea_popescu: apparently a bunch of idiots watch too much netflix and don't encounter nearly enough clubs to the mouth to know better than trying to apply in life what they saw in the cartoons.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's actually a public utility. has absolutely no right over the usage of its monopoly, much like electric co can't cut your power.
mircea_popescu also refused to get himself "good fiscal behaviour" certificate when rotards came up with "requiring" such nonsense. they nearly fell over.
mircea_popescu: since when the fuck is bank allowed to judge, what is this, soviets ?
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: asciilifeform "au-deflus des plus fenefees reflexions"!
mircea_popescu: "yea, please, more gilding, and use thicker leaf, maybe i manage to sink in earth like a raft adrift the oceans."
mircea_popescu: "here's this process makes the leaf impervious and weightless, sir. or would you prefer we gild the covers instead ?"
mircea_popescu: hoarding it like ~ is borne of a very flattering view of humanity, supposing somehow that the worms could also not be worms, if $magic, such as you know, reading a book.
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.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not for hoarding dead tree per se, but for attempting to apply a linear solution to a nonlinear problem WAY past the point where the mismatch should have become obvious.
mircea_popescu: the meteoric path of that young careerist is quite amusing. started rather impressively, fell right in the shitter.
mircea_popescu: but some people are not specific things. what's they to do.
mircea_popescu: works well enough if one decides to be say, a playwright. all you need is already published and already known, learn greek and latin and go ahead.
mircea_popescu: but the overarching point is that a life of the spirit requires you read books you DIDNT read before. re-reading the same books you already know is a dubious benefit.
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.
mircea_popescu: phf` suppose this morning you have to read l'histoire de mademoiselle cronel ditte fretilon. because whatever, as part of your plurious activities you're helping a girl get a place off the ground and being a serious agent you scoop the quarries of truth quite that deep. what now ?
mircea_popescu: maybe he never overcomes the moment, spends rest of his life cringing over this, like a sort of lefty rms.
mircea_popescu: "scholar in residence", they wouldn't even give him a chair. NYU ffs! next step down was what, supervising the used sportsbras of the ohio state sluts ?
mircea_popescu: shinohai lol, the butthurt of the idiot indian. he was already seeing himself consul, what do we mean his career is finished ?!?!?! CAN NOT BEEE!!11
mircea_popescu: i guess. there's ~no way to compensate that loss of mass though.