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mats: takes
a bit for superglue to cure
mircea_popescu: consider that if we all told you you're fat you'd simply think we're
a little weird.
mircea_popescu: women necessarily must have
a different concept of "humiliation" than men.
mircea_popescu: the problem with womanhood is that what you count as humiliation is
a sine qua non condition of functional biology.
mircea_popescu: you'd be better off running
a whores-and-strippers directory, really.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes go right ahead ? though really, if you start doing bios of every wannabe woman-in-tech with
a non-math background...
a111: Logged on 2016-08-29 18:36 covertress: mircea_popescu i've been asked to extend you
a similar offer... to write for steemit xD
mircea_popescu: nobody gives
a shit ; they just want to maybe make
a buck. here's his card, he sells insurance. thanks for coming to the funeral.
mircea_popescu: just
a figure, and this is supposed to pass for you know, ACTUAL DATA.
mircea_popescu: not even their own kids / wives / parents would actually notice or much give
a shit.
mircea_popescu: nobody. cares. any ustard === any other ; each can be replaced without skipping
a beat.
trinque: did not cure yet; I'm off to have
a beer by the lake for now
mod6: wonder if it's
a weird timing issue or something...
phf: hmm, that looks like
a bug
shinohai: I always knew asciilifeform was really
a markov bot.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 14:20 mircea_popescu: actually since you brought it up it reminded me of vague discussion, so let's make it explicit. mod6 asciilifeform i dunno how practical it is yet, but eventually trb block mechanics will have to be expanded to memory datastore, so that it holds the current blk000n it's working on in ram and dumps it to disk only when full. MUCH easier to cache
a disk with no writes on it.
mod6: putting in the changes "!%" may have broke something. I did them pretty quick. I didn't do
a ton of testing because of other, more important work.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 14:20 mircea_popescu: actually since you brought it up it reminded me of vague discussion, so let's make it explicit. mod6 asciilifeform i dunno how practical it is yet, but eventually trb block mechanics will have to be expanded to memory datastore, so that it holds the current blk000n it's working on in ram and dumps it to disk only when full. MUCH easier to cache
a disk with no writes on it.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 14:20 mircea_popescu: actually since you brought it up it reminded me of vague discussion, so let's make it explicit. mod6 asciilifeform i dunno how practical it is yet, but eventually trb block mechanics will have to be expanded to memory datastore, so that it holds the current blk000n it's working on in ram and dumps it to disk only when full. MUCH easier to cache
a disk with no writes on it.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-23: [16:42:23] <asciilifeform> and, while we're on subj,
https://archive.is/2QkOB -- '
a former NSA employee carelessly left those hacking tools on
a remote server three years ago after an operation and
a group of Russian hackers found them, sources close to the investigation told Reuters.'
pete_dushenski: awww gs is laying off 30% of their asian division because m&
a's are down by
a similar proportion. must suck to run out of tax loopholes.
mircea_popescu: inexplicably, for all the time spent "grooming", the chimps in question still have
a head full of lice, but w/e.
ben_vulpes: reliance on lecture as
a teaching method!
ben_vulpes: Examples of STEM classroom practices that contribute to
a chilly climate are weed-out courses, courses that grade on
a curve,
a competitive environment, reliance on lecture as
a teaching method, an individualistic culture, and comprehensive exams
a111: Logged on 2016-09-22 18:30 mircea_popescu: ahahaha laura parson kicks all ass! "stem syllabi are gendered because they promote the idea that knowledge can be ascertained through reason, which is
a masculine concept that hurts women's feelings and makes it difficult for them to succeed."
shinohai: pete_dushenski you make me think I made
a mistake not publishing dead baby article!
trinque: what's worse than 10 dead babies in
a trash can? One dead baby in 10 trash cans.
pete_dushenski: 'what's pink, bubbly, and taps on the glass ?
a baby in the microwave!' 'what's pink, silver, and runs into walls ?
a baby with forks in its eyes!' 'what's worse than
a barrel full of dead babies ?
a live one at the bottom trying to eat its way out!'
ben_vulpes only recognized this due to sins of
a previous life
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 13:22 mircea_popescu: i have no idea who even decided this, it just looks like someone in teacher's school just flipped
a bit, started sending out teachers with corrupted spelling of prilivedge, and since nobody reads anything anyway it just perpetuated,
pete_dushenski: which, given the country's historical association with romance, makes
a lot of sense.
mircea_popescu: it's useful if reader intuits will be
a short footnote, hovers mouse.
mircea_popescu: something like this : have
a ring structure (made of 1mb cells) holding all the blocks. have
a separate tree structure ordering them ; and
a separate counter structure. whenever you import
a new block, put it in that ring cell which has lowest use count
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is my point. should jizz out filewise. ie, once it has
a 2gb worth of file all built up, spit it out nice and contiguous.
mircea_popescu: or on some shit implementation even smaller (i recall
a lulz at this in log)
mircea_popescu: actually since you brought it up it reminded me of vague discussion, so let's make it explicit. mod6 asciilifeform i dunno how practical it is yet, but eventually trb block mechanics will have to be expanded to memory datastore, so that it holds the current blk000n it's working on in ram and dumps it to disk only when full. MUCH easier to cache
a disk with no writes on it.
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: then whatever's left, you shoot for sport over
a decade or w/e.
mircea_popescu: but in conclusion : "i spell it priviledge as
a mark of my priviledge."
mircea_popescu: (for the innocent - as apparently #trilema is the only reference for that expression as far as google knows, and truly it knows jack shit : there's this slave language spoken in china where english words are used in the manner of idiomatics. it is incomprehensible in english ; the example given translates to "the" (because demonstrative pronoun is still she) "sow" (ie, female adult - cow ; as
a particle it modifies pig into s
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, because then i would still not have introduced - like i resisted changes by "romanian academy" to romanian ; but at least i'd have
a ready something to point out as the breach.
mircea_popescu: "
a place for everything and everything in its place" exists for minds, too. it's called "know what the fuck are you doing and why you're doing it". the alternative is cosby's brain damage.
PeterL: yes, this is
a memetic mutation. these things happen
mircea_popescu: PeterL at issue is not "harm", as per
a personal and arbitrary definition. at issue is the process. change happens in actual cultures as an aware, commented process. not like this.
PeterL: this seems like
a harmless change
PeterL: isn't change
a part of culture?
mircea_popescu: i have no idea who even decided this, it just looks like someone in teacher's school just flipped
a bit, started sending out teachers with corrupted spelling of prilivedge, and since nobody reads anything anyway it just perpetuated,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there's
a reason i said sometime in 80s above. that'd be the reason.
PeterL: really, I am just giving you
a hard time. I accept the word either way.
PeterL: privilege is more of
a soft i sound, ledge has the soft e
PeterL: but it is
a different vowel sound too
PeterL: I would say the sound in edge and ledge is
a bit harder than privilege, not quite the same thing
PeterL: IANAL (I am not
a linguist)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re gfh : i dunno if it's evidently
a scamsite ; but it's one placed on
a random keyboardmash string.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile all the "online dictionaries", shitholes as they are, fail to list the historically correct spelling, and so
a generation of random idiots go around pretending it's misspelled now.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 02:20 mircea_popescu: wtf is
a "deputy liaison" and etcetera already.