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mircea_popescu: i find wordplay a fine substitute for competent engineering. it betrays such a wordliness in the cunning linguist responsible.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i find it's very important to establish aforehand what each barbie doll will wear, do or say at the dollhouse teaparty.
mircea_popescu: well, 100mn in tomahawks just about worth 100mn in migs.
mircea_popescu: transparently, screamingly a case of "now that we got something, let's let church and state back in". hurr.
mircea_popescu: i would characterise it as "they got confused on their own terminology and backported orphan chains into the story"
mircea_popescu: it's iffy, human body comes out of the hackpile, inc. labs
mircea_popescu: trinque yeah, a proper reflex closes in the spine. there's opf course conditioned reflexes which close in the "brain", but not a very conscious part thereof afawk
mircea_popescu: all those shots of people both facing the camera grimacing ? 18month old baby fare.
mircea_popescu: anyway. heuristics are not involved in watching daytime drama, which is what the type 2 described above is.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger reflexes are not a proper subject of this discussion, seeing how we're discussing "thinking" as in, brain phenomena.
mircea_popescu: you propose we also sort planets with earth in center and main sequence stars from the sun onwards ?
mircea_popescu: "you couldn't have meant that because if you did mean it you'd have lead with it."
mircea_popescu: SORTING is the most important activity of the human brain. and you should see how much trouble well experienced slavegirls encounter when their words are interpreted on a first-priority basis.
mircea_popescu: if you're wondering, mp doesn't use the reference because the introduction de novo is a paragraph, the discussion of differentiation is a book.
mircea_popescu: which is why prussians came up with it. fought a helluva lot of recruit idiocy to arrive to the concept.
mircea_popescu: and to link it to blogging : the point of blogging (daily!) is that it forces an easy and painless transition from type 2 to type 1 in the heads of the practitioners. there's no promise as to the rate of conversion, but then again that's the best you can get for painless.
mircea_popescu: to go back to the machine model : until you're running symbolix, don't pretend like you're computing.
mircea_popescu: as a general rule, people who can't produce genus/difference definitions for all the symbols in their own output are better off not thinking yet, as what they think thinking is isn't.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: nate the latter ; under the (broadly correct) assumption that a quiet head works and a loud one doesn't. this isn't so different from, eg, buddhism.
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: it's important to de-equivocate dumb ; there's two kinds of machine that may be casually referred to as dumb : one that is very slow (eg, z80) / one that is very demanding on the programmer (eg, windows). good programmer wouldn't really call z80 dumb, bad programmer wouldn't really call windows dumb. this directly translates to humans, there's a kind of dumb the incompetent identify mostly disjunct from the kind of dumb the c
mircea_popescu: you may snag some decidability issues (depending exactly how unique id is generated -- remember keys are not unique in this sense, kinda the point of phuctor)\
mircea_popescu: it happens here, we got rid of all sorts of intermediate steps
mircea_popescu: no i don't mean that. i just mean, yes in principl;e doing something with the plebs is not a bad idea ; but the exact what and wherefore coulo use more conteplation.
mircea_popescu: are there any known documented and running cl-anythings more or less the size phuctor'd be ?
mircea_popescu: open question whether cl would be fast enough. though i know there's some people itching to answer it.
mircea_popescu: trinque> materialized views are nothing more than a named query which stores its results in a table << this is a convenience not a speed-up
mircea_popescu: (ftr, at least once in itgs history trilema updated 6.5k times/day
mircea_popescu: go right ahead, produce a list of 5k rss items, THEN dole them out slowly.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform trilema ~delays~ rss, you udnerstasnd me ?
mircea_popescu: this is ~what trinque said except his is more general.
mircea_popescu: a db write is either insert or update ; finding out things is usually a select. it ~may~ be worthwhile to separate your reads from the writes, because it is technically possible (thopugh i'd hope unlikely) the db is dumb enough to put write locks in for something like "update x on y" even though it should be "select y if z then update x".
mircea_popescu: table got marked crashed, so all you could load would be the comments, sorta funny half-trilema
mircea_popescu: pretty sure you weren't able to do it after i fucked it
mircea_popescu: these can take minutes, and the site isn't down during, at all.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, i on occasion do multi-row updates. such as (lolz) recently when i made every entry of the 50k items in article db read the same thing.
mircea_popescu: yes but i know it in fact does from you know, running trilema.