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mircea_popescu: i never
taught anyone how
to drive, i don't even drive myself.
mircea_popescu: "utterly fucking broken down system of major complexity -- i have identified correct way out and
the pedal goes down"
mircea_popescu: girl drove ~through~ rather
than stopping and choking my engine.
mircea_popescu: well... consider
the recently discussed case of amphibian landing.
mircea_popescu: if you don't watch at least
two of
them interact,
then what can you say.
mircea_popescu: there's no way known
to measure individual particles,
they use particle interaction, yes ?
mircea_popescu: how do you discern if you're measuring
the fermion's flavour rather
than
the
tool's flavour ?
mircea_popescu: yes, but it ain't about "minor unexpected" either. it's
that i was
there, it has everything
to do with me and how much she wants
to please/impress/etc.
mircea_popescu: no, genuinely, it's both easier and faster
to
teach a girl ~anything.
mircea_popescu: ironically (at least from my experience), girls significantly more dedicated and skillable
than boys.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-18 22:29 asciilifeform: '... what was once dedication is replaced by greed and sometimes sheer need as
the motivation
to enter
the field.'
a111: Logged on 2012-08-24 01:31 EmanuelDeOrtego_: I like
that
there are so many women involved with Bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: in less lofty matters, do you happ[en
to recall where
the fuck i said essentially "women are
the societal scar
tissue, by
the
time males start leaving a field and women start joining it, it's fucked" ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ye olde dos fit
this, yes ? ye olde lispm, perhaps, also ?
mircea_popescu: well yes,
the protabilityhell starts with printf, which is why phf was using
that as example.
mircea_popescu: and if effort is made, no more specificity of diddling, cr51 for
them all ?
mircea_popescu: no,
this is simply "27 different proggies, no longet
try
to masquerade as 1"
mircea_popescu: but i suspect you will rue
this day if you were
to actually get your way, and at some point in 2118 all
the work available consists of "try and write
this
thing from
tree y for
tree z, we don't currently know why it's a broken polymorphism
to
the x
tree"
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, not all
these choices can actually be made into meaning.
mircea_popescu: to bring
this flock back
to
the manger : what you choose
to cut out
to stay afloat in
the postmodern deluge of intellectual objects is your choice!
mircea_popescu: this is
traditionally
the view of rabbis re bulk of commentary mass.
mircea_popescu: seems
the ifdef approach
to
the problem is more in
the vein of
the kaballah+commentary (ie,
the right
thing)
than in
the vein of
the xtian "translated scripture" + "megachurch", ie, idiocy.
a111: Logged on 2018-04-16 20:13 mircea_popescu: anyway,
to get back
to
the 2nd fold of
the error :
the NOTION of
translation is pernicious, and stuff like
the protestant lulz of "church of self-esteem" or "we choose
to emphasize <bla>" are not unbound errors.
mircea_popescu: having 27 independent restatements of
the ~same
thing is not intellectually dirty ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno i'd go so far as
that, but it definitely isn't great engineering.
mircea_popescu: or rather, because people would prefer a single
trunk for all machines, diversely broken,
than a
trunk for each kind of breakage.
mircea_popescu: ifdefs don't flow from prime principles,
they're no if.
mircea_popescu: but yes
the reason ifdefs exist is because machines are broken.
mircea_popescu: that's
the problem here. "1. we have
these machines ; 2. we know
they're broken ; 3. alf objects
to
the curative process either because he doesn't like its name or because
that which cureth could make ill."
mircea_popescu: no argument. but what is
the ibm xt compatible, climbing down or back up ?
a111: Logged on 2017-04-07 18:24 mircea_popescu: no, let's also de-equivocate
think.
there's
two kinds of
think, one's a forge/reflow/examination of
trees resulting in analytical consumption of inputs with actionable outputs guaranteed ;
the other is a neurotic behaviour perhaps best described as spinning, whereby specific emotional
triggers / detriggers are visited in succession.
the prussian model was never concerned with
the former in any sense, but merely aimed
to elimi
mircea_popescu: to which alf answers "sorry, i only fuck 19yos, i can't
tell you why
the
tits sag" and i go "sure you do, but other people not as fortunate."
mircea_popescu: because
this is all i can make of it, #ifdef 3+5=11moron, let 3+5=8.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform now
that all
this is out of
the way : would you say specific countermeasures people with known physiology
take
to avoid known psychopathology are engineering or not ? and if yes, what
to yoi object in ifdefs besides
the name ?
trinque: commonalities among
the preverbal gotta be built into
the meat.
a111: Logged on 2016-01-21 13:29 asciilifeform: 'if i make it what i
think is
the right size, it crashes!111'
mircea_popescu: this much is
true, yes. "how come mothers always know what
the kids' been up
to ?!?!?!?!" "riiight. because kids are so fucking original."
mircea_popescu: fwiw, asciilifeform 's lizard hitler hypothesis is exact modern restatement of ye olde "civilisation started by aliens"
theory, which was precisely because belle epoque
thinking folk
threw
their hands up over
this exact stability.
mircea_popescu: stone age
tribe unknown
to mankind, lost in
the endless wastes of
today's "Sakha Republic" and stone age
tribe unknown
to mankind, lost in
the guarani lands in south america all agree, 3+5 = 11.