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mircea_popescu: my grandmother
told me
this joke when i was 5 or so. i had forgotten it ; but
then i met america, and hence i can't get it out of my mind.
mircea_popescu: truck stops in insane asylum courtyard,
the locals are drafted
to help unloading. happily
they proceed :
three get up on
the bed on
the left side,
throw
things
to people down, who pass it hand-by-hand
to
the people on
the right side, who build it right up. "merge
treaba ?" "merge!!!11"
mircea_popescu: you know
the joke with
the insane asylum residents loading a
truck ?
mircea_popescu: kinda how
the usg manages
to produce nothing out of
the shredding of whatever
their share of rembrandts & eulers would be, in a population 20
times
the size.
mircea_popescu: as
that expression goes, "the smartest
tools in
the world aren't worth diddly squat when applied
to a faulty premise"
mircea_popescu: this... i mean, sure, man's admirable. but what he sets himself
to doing, is both driven by inept ideology and dysfunctional. heroic as he might be in
the doing,
the deed's ultimately fucking stupid.
mircea_popescu: anyway. socialist, see ? what "garbage collecting" ended up meaning for him was "how about we send a buncha caucasian farmboys
to give berliner chicks a mn or so not-specifically-wanted new pregnancies. so
they can all grow up "together" and sing lalala."
mircea_popescu: stalin garbage collected nothing, which is how we have
the wailing set of
today's "germans".
mircea_popescu: "what sort of foot is
this, doesn't even crush 100
tons of wood
trunks!!!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, it might crush whole of your left foot. would
that impress greatly ?
mircea_popescu: "god damn it, wood is
to have a future also!!11 it will be butter, it will be glass!"
mircea_popescu: "wouldn't it be cheaper
to do it
the normal way ?" "what
then of all
this wood ?" "i dunno, make
tootpicks or something"
mircea_popescu: so if someone demonstrated how
to produce handheld calculator out of 100
tons of oak
trunks, you'd do anything besides shake your head ?
mircea_popescu: the shoemaker's literal shoemaking skills, admirable as
they might've been, fail
to hold interest.
mircea_popescu: ok, but
this is like holding djb in a lot of regard because mathematician. sure, certainly. yet still utter shithead when it comes
to you know, living, or making sense of & in
the world.
mircea_popescu: i'm
talking of human beings here. obviously
the scum is broken.
mircea_popescu: a sickening display, especially when
they pretend
this has something
to do with "civilisation". it eminently does not, castration is not medicine and cuckoldry is not civilisation.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was pretty evident.
the end result of
the societal changes driven by
the roosevelt-socialist government (aptly summarized as "female is
the only legitimate owner of property") is
that 2nd generation consists of
these innefectual males bound
to
the great mother
through
the simple fact
that well, she owns
the hut.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-18 02:24 mircea_popescu: not just
the art. wesnoth
thing is fine example. apparently someone's idea of "fun" and "playing" is... click
through list in cycles.
a111: Logged on 2016-03-28 15:32 asciilifeform: lives, iirc, under
the heel of his wife (i could be mistaken, but did get
this impression from
the 4-5 h we spent
together)
a111: Logged on 2018-07-20 04:53 mircea_popescu: henpecking,
that ever-so-improbable predictor of personal failure in males.
a111: Logged on 2018-07-19 16:54 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: here in mosquito hell, all i gotta do is
to walk
three metres out of front door
to rubbish pin, and 5-6 welts
spyked:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-07-19#1836426 <-- funny. even bucharest,
the shithole capital of nowhere in particular, with its swamp atmosphere, managed
to get rid of
the little bastards in
the last decade. 20 yrs ago, very similar "mosquito hell".
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2018-07-19 19:25 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: reportedly 10yr vintage cards can be set up without binturd. ( asciilifeform not
tried yet. )
ben_vulpes: esthlos: deedbot is right
there, and a fine shared wallet
lobbes: esthlos: now
this is very
true; if you're going
to
trust your coin
to a 3rd party, it may as well be someone in-wot. anyways, whenever you want
to set up an account hop on over
to #pizarro. I'm sure BingoBoingo or mod6 can get you started
mircea_popescu: henpecking,
that ever-so-improbable predictor of personal failure in males.
☟︎ esthlos: lobbes: would be happy
to. good incentive
to get my minimal btc out of fractional reserve scambase
a111: Logged on 2018-07-19 17:00 asciilifeform: !Q later
tell esthlos your www is down ?
BingoBoingo: Hello alumno, who are you and what brings you around
these parts?
mircea_popescu: because
the debuggee keeps dying, which results in gdb apparently
taking water.
mircea_popescu: i can't be
the first person
to run gdb over multi-week stretches.
mircea_popescu: aaand apparently my gdb has a memory leak. what
the fuck.
a111: Logged on 2018-07-19 19:23 phf:
tech. i'm (and ascii) on
the other hand are fully imersed in
the pain points, you kind of stop feeling
them.
mircea_popescu: actually i'd say
they're a standard sui generis, "if you're going
to distribute binaries, at least do
them as well as nvidia"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, if it makes you feel better,
the nvidia binaries of late are absolutely rock solid, i never ever had a problem ; moreover
they even fix shitty apt-get messes.
mircea_popescu: ie,
the video card problem is mostly solved, large stocks exist, getting some chips pried open would be useful.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the
thing is
the death of moore bit
them in
the ass
too. i am very happy with 10year old cards as it is. and even when i buy "new", i buy old ones.
mircea_popescu: after all, industrialized intolerance is how i made my living, back in
the day.
mircea_popescu: but as you were
typing
that, i was
thinking "We fucking need an expert gfx card wizard
to debinary
that shit already"
phf: tech. i'm (and ascii) on
the other hand are fully imersed in
the pain points, you kind of stop feeling
them.
☟︎ phf: first
time i spent
two months in india, swiming and eating and pretty much nothing else, i had
to perform some very minor operation for
the banking contract i was doing at
the
time:
took me an entire day just
to get
through a 5 minute process, and i cursed and hated
the entire
time, because
the steps were pointless, unnatural, and clearly designed
to inflict pain on
the operator. i suspect
this is how mp feels when dealing with modern
mircea_popescu: i cheat ; as per alf "is a
toilet" magics, i just use nvidia's binaries.
mircea_popescu: i'll note
that everthying
the republicans deliver builds like a fucking charm, be it ffa, avetronics or what have you. i've never had a problem of
this sort inside
the walls.
a111: Logged on 2018-07-19 19:10 mircea_popescu: for
that matter, apple wants
to
take advantage of
tmsr-style release, let
them get in l1. but even before
that, it's so shocking
to me alf would accept a binary from "bintray.com" as some sort of item.
mircea_popescu: i do not pose as expert gymnast in any sense ; and yes
this caliber
turd is somewhat common in unixworld altogether. but still, holy hell, fucking gymnastics.
phf: correct,
though now, dealing with say gentoo i suspect
that olympic gymnastics are a requirement
to deal with
the mess in general.
lobbesbot: Logged on 2018-07-15 20:35:50: <mircea_popescu> so
the problem consisted of my running
through
the whole list of
http://www.eulorum.org/Ubuntu requisite packages list. libgl1-mesa-dev (which ... isn't even fucking needed, i am now running eulora without it) fucked my video drivers (in a strange halfway manner, prolly fucked some userland wrapper somewhere). reinstalling
the nvidia originals fixed it.
phf: i
think an insignificant amount of
time, ignoring compilation
time, but
then at
the
time i knew exactly where
to cut, so
to speak, and how
mircea_popescu: and
two years ago, how long did it
take you
to get
the wheels
to spin ?
phf: i haven't, i haven't built it in about 2 years, but
then i haven't installed it on macs in about
two years either
mircea_popescu: (none of
this is spurious dicking about, either. we're going
to end up needing both some sort of standard of ok-ness on one hand ; and specifically in
the case of X it's like,
the one looming mysql-esque cuntoo wrecker)
mircea_popescu: ok, but specifically x is exactly
the mess of improbable libraries etc. have you pkgsrc'd it recently anywhere ?
phf: mircea_popescu: on mac you can use e.g. pkgsrc which is a portable portage from netbsd project, which i have on all my machines. posix
things of arbitrary complexity build from it
mircea_popescu: for
that matter, apple wants
to
take advantage of
tmsr-style release, let
them get in l1. but even before
that, it's so shocking
to me alf would accept a binary from "bintray.com" as some sort of item.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but, again,
there's no room for
this "on windows, we use autoupdate", "on mac we distribute binaries", "in india we shit in
the street" w/e. hence
the girl old ipad comment.
phf: macports or homebrew which are portage versions for apple. at least macports can still be used
to build xquartz from scratch. i've not personally
tried
that in a long
time, so it's possible
that
there's serious wrecker situation
there.
☟︎ phf: mircea_popescu:
the upstream X is already a mess of libraries, substantial gymnastics are required
to build it on any system without assistance of something like gentoo's portage. in case of apple
things are
typically distributed as a binary, which is what i linked above. xquartz.org also has
the sources,
that are patched versions of original freedesktop code. one could
theoretically build
that by hand, but
typically one would use
mircea_popescu: i read "substantial gymnastics" in
the sense of, needed
to c) above.