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mircea_popescu: that's ok, the salaries have been slimming continuously. soon enough shinohai 's girls will be making more than paul graham's bois.
mircea_popescu: in other #trilema does my homework, can anyone explain wtf a "factory reset" that wipes the hdd would be ? windows speak for reinstall ?
mircea_popescu: re "ferociously protected". "we dun need no women on mt hood, stinking up the water supply with their womanly lyes and lures."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes do you recall the oglaf with "song of sword and saddle" or what was it
mircea_popescu: and now i shall leave you for a typical mp ritual, whereby i line up all the shot glasses in the house, fill each with a different kind of mineral water and make the rules that'll dominate purchasing henceforth. brb.
mircea_popescu: (flowers are particularly iffy, in daturas as in most such weeds)
mircea_popescu: it was 100% datura. enough there for a medium sized book club.
mircea_popescu: so i break one off, smell it, handle it, we arrive at the coffee house, i put it into one of the water cups they serve with coffee. meet local girl, ask her if she knows what this beautiful flower is, she does not.
mircea_popescu: in related story : months ago, still in argentina, walked with girl past fence with arbust. beautiful white flowers with intoxicating aroma, like nicotiana alata on steroids.
mircea_popescu: except of course if they're signing up for a job at the walmart.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the fundamental problem is that no one can know what they sign up for.
mircea_popescu: what was i gonna say, "i know this guy, something-life-form" ?
mircea_popescu: the funny part is that i suspect it's entirely lost on her as of yet who's gonna be tasting them.
mircea_popescu: "no hon. i'm not the right age for self-testing anymore. that's more of a 16yo thing."
mircea_popescu: so today she asks, "But the question is, if that tree makes fruit, and they pretty much look like cherries... will you try one ?"
mircea_popescu: in related story : i was walking with girl yesterday among this beautiful townlet. off one fence, an explosive arbust sent its POISON RED flowers. i examined it because curious, and decided it's actually some kind of cherry tree ?!?! right leaves, right petals except for the color, everything.
mircea_popescu: i will say, people tend to be amazed at what can fit in a head once proper trees are constructed for the fitting.
mircea_popescu: (9yo mp actually did these determinations by hand. how about 2 vs 2 ? how about 1+1 vs 2 ? how about...)
mircea_popescu: yes gpg can generate key. so can you. keep that in mind.
mircea_popescu: it is of no concern. we don't own the pipeline so we don't cement the products.
mircea_popescu: we don't put pogos that way. if you recall, i wasn't for it then, either.
mircea_popescu: "spot check model doesn't mater, if there's phosgene in the air you're fucked" "yes, well, i think i might notice the phosgene. by you know, how the gals drop like flies."
mircea_popescu: and the reason it doesn't matter is because it's impossible not to stumble on the one.
mircea_popescu: it's also strictly opposite to the "human rights" imbecility.
mircea_popescu: it goes way the fuck earlier than that, the whole thing with clay stamps and ancient babylonians etc.
mircea_popescu: but in practical terms, i don't check all the living space all the time. i check random spots at random times and if they're dirty somebody sleeps in a zebra costume. this method keeps the place well clean, and it's how management works. hence the discussion of genovese merchants etc.
mircea_popescu: the only problem is if they get lazy and turn into fly eyes.
mircea_popescu: the adage "trust, but verify" works splendidly when enough people do enough spot checking.
mircea_popescu: i suspect it's mostly because we're thinking in yet not mutually understood terms.
mircea_popescu: but to a large degree i can predict what the ailments of the women naked on the floor will be as time withers them.
mircea_popescu: there's no dispute whatsoever then. except maybe for this much : that problem is a problem in the sense thermic death is a problem. always and everywhere without let or respite.
mircea_popescu: i can judge whether an egg is rotten or not without being a hen myself. i can tell which kids aren't worth bothering with though i'm no mother "and i don't understand them like she does" etcetera.
mircea_popescu: where i tell two people to do the same thing and compare the results.
mircea_popescu: to try and resolve it : do you believe i could be a successful genovese merchant if i couldn't add ?
mircea_popescu: yes, and the objection to this is that you for some reason refuse the cornerstone of management, which is the differential approach.
mircea_popescu: (to continue link above : the prb idiocy "oh code is spec" is not invented by the idiots for this occasion. it's universally at the basis of contemporaneous cs, and it's all permeating. it stars with the expectation that you can tell whether the code you wrote is correct BY WHETHER THE MACHINE WORKS. this is utter fucking nonsense!111 appealing to tweens, perhaps, but still nonsense.)
mircea_popescu: ok, but if you meant it in that sense i no longer see how it anticipates the very problem.
mircea_popescu: and i suspect this goes to (one of the) roots of the argument : it is not broadly speaking sane for person writing code to expect that he knows what compiler user will use to produce object or machine code.
mircea_popescu: yes, but this is not in reference to compilation. it's in reference to user space. i don't expect there's a magical function f, but that there's a plurality of f1..fi...fn, which can all be linear in principle.
mircea_popescu: why is what i assume you mean by non-linear compilation presupposed ?
mircea_popescu: phf my hm hasn't returned yet. what conditions are presupposed that anticipate the problem ?
mircea_popescu: (i am not, for clarity, declaring he didn't anymore than i'm declaring he did. i personally dun gas.)
mircea_popescu: make some claims, source the claims, insist the sourcing's balanced, you know, like serious court reporter say.
mircea_popescu: might be a fun weekend project, "establish rms emacs involvement", if you're bored one weekend.
mircea_popescu: ie, didja read the history, confront variants from multiple people ?
mircea_popescu: so in idiots this decays to "what should i do here ?" "uh i dunno, but X is more friendly to our shared delusions of equality, humanism and our democracy!"
mircea_popescu: (no, noticing a nail and going "oh, i remember hammer can hit nails" is NOT technical ability. a ditzy blonde / bright dog can do the fucking same. technical ability is when you can say ~use x, because no other tool is more adequate here~. that's technical fucking ability.)
mircea_popescu: and by people with no technical ability i mean the likes of ian murdock or rms. the lot of them, really.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-04#1637022 << yes, to a large degree the usage of the "tools" is more a function of the presence of the tools than of the presence of a need. just like while car is useful item, if you stop $random car occupant will not be able to explain what he's doing.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform talk about beta ingestion. i bet you the "diet" dorks eat more than shaves off my grinders.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-04#1636999 << in theory this is how it should work ; in practice the sloppy git style does not work with the republican sig nuking. it'll just whine that "dependencies". basically, we're trying to get software from where it builds spirogyra strands to where it builds ACTUAL TREES.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: can't say as i have. by the age i was hanging out with the rave sluts i was no longer playing with magnets.
mircea_popescu: "oh, and you're really pissed at that guy ?" "yeah man totally. i hate that guy."
mircea_popescu: i don't think anyone takes carbon dating seriously. outside of the you know, "ring" so to speak. it's a trade secret of the substance and nature of wrestling storylines.
mircea_popescu: i vaguely remember some guy trying to do something along those lines re nuclear waste recycling