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mircea_popescu: o yeah, cuz i lifted the js for text selection from his site.
mircea_popescu: in other news wow Framedragger your log selection thing is immensely useful for eg leaving comments on davout 's site.
mircea_popescu: and incidentally "knapsack" problem is a fucking overstatement. here's a very simple strategy : 1. sort available inputs by size ; 2. if current step != last step, select first input that is smaller than tx going out else select the input right before that ; recurse to 1.
mircea_popescu: yes but what it uses it for is sorts, select by index may use it if the index is composite.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-27#1591248 << i dun see it. the whole fucking point of it is to solve the (interesting) problems selected by whoever is running it ; not the freeform "solve whatever problem you want" bs. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: davout this goes eerily with a http://trilema.com/2016/how-the-other-half-lives-a-very-seriously-funny-article/#selection-1023.253-1023.409 style of programming
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-22#1588255 << eh, prepared queries next year. as it stands you can't even do a select properly. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: suppose you excavate tomb in valley of queens ; suppose you find ~live~, talking, cogent queen in there. suppose you take her to the shelf of items, and give her a questionnaire. she is to select "dildo spatula or hat" for each present item.
mircea_popescu: anyway, selected butthurt from a flury of whining from back in 2014 when icahn told the fatso a few things : https://archive.is/jLZ1Z
mircea_popescu: https://archive.is/dfGeO#selection-224.0-243.15 << lulziest fucking shit
mircea_popescu: be that all it may, the ~correct~ reaction is strictly http://trilema.com/2014/the-battlefield-of-the-future/#selection-133.333-133.381
mircea_popescu: "selected" i guess sure.
mircea_popescu: the ustards are a selection of people uniquely and colossal-y afraid of dying, which explains most of the psychopathology.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger that said, the whole field of "socpsy" is poppycock, entirely in the manner of "moscow psychology" - it exists to try and justify a, in mussolini's terms, "Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State;" ( http://trilema.com/2013/sex-in-the-news/#selection-105.0-105.64 ). they even admit their "bedrock" is this "fundamental attribution error". they don't however admit that the whole point of this
mircea_popescu: argentina appears a manufactured africa. not dumb by evaporation, but dumb from selective fractionation. apparently all the idiots came here. worst of italians, which is already pretty well selected for fail etc
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-11#1581180 <<->> http://trilema.com/2016/no-such-labs-snsa-november-2016-statement/#selection-459.89-459.120 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: trinque the method i recommend, if you care, is to work selections of classical texts with the dictionary ; then proceed to answer any systematic questions you have when you're sick of the slog. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: the 92 yo i had in mind specifically was http://trilema.com/2010/la-munca-cu-negrii/#selection-37.0-37.88
mircea_popescu: i dunno, my selection-for-obedience process doesn't also select for comatose mental state simultaneously.
mircea_popescu: they usually don't walk the streets, being selected for a sort of pretentious lazyness, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: as in, picked off the streets because anybody can anything and selected for certain attributes.
mircea_popescu: ( http://trilema.com/2010/romanul-si-comertul/#selection-75.56-75.175 )
mircea_popescu: and to round off the "fungi are interesting" general literacy thread - the way most (and the most) poisonous mushrooms work is through a substance that inhibits extremely selectively rna polymerase 2. this makes the affected cells unable to reproduce, and hence the "eat destroying angel, get cramps/diarhea in three days, drop dead in 7" effect.
mircea_popescu: myeah, that's pretty much the selection criteria.
mircea_popescu: everything works "on the target audience", especially if that's defined so as to make it seem to work. in which vein see also http://trilema.com/2016/consumerism-is-not-the-answer-though-it-will-put-you-to-sleep-or-american-history-x/#selection-91.0-111.1
mircea_popescu: consider a simpler problem - you wish for whatever reason to "pick a good font". suppose your "good" is specified. you proceed to... look at fonts, selected by some criteria. eventually you are tired to the point your eyes blur, and haven't seen 5% of the available offerigs in "gothic medieval" from one place. there's more places. when are you done ?
mircea_popescu: perhaps the byzantine empire and some selected chinese confucianist tards.
mircea_popescu: and in other omfgwtf, mysql SELECT WHERE TYPE [char len 1 field] = "F" selects BOTH f and F.
mircea_popescu: anyway, given the mechanics of the retarded user and of viral infection, i would suspect 100% of these download-things websites selectively scam their users.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-19#1570951 << for the record, separate dbs for selects and inserts is the way to go. from experience it can rescue a large project / save 9x% off the hardware costs.the way you do it is that you have a master db copy which is the only one that takes the inserts, and slave dbs which are the only ones that take the selects. replication can be at dedicated sql cluster level or above, slave dbs can ☝︎
mircea_popescu: of course you did ? iirc we discussed processor make etc way back when selecting ?
mircea_popescu: the long story is like this : that the world is made of friction. this is necessarily, and evident from the fact that it's still here (if self-limitation wasn't a default property of all things, the world would have long exploded). meanwhile the republic is made of few people, and also evident from definition - selective means minority. now add these things together : every project suffers from low power and high friction.
mircea_popescu: which strongly selects for high value boxes. because random schmuck can't afford to pay his fucking car insurance for a decade straight. let alone A BOX
mircea_popescu: when he's done run a diff between the ips of fucked moduli and your banners, then select distinct ?
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2009/bonza/#selection-41.122-41.212 << related.
mircea_popescu: https://archive.is/MeGTJ#selection-3405.0-3405.38 << Biljana Djurdjevic, if anyone gives a shit. just old enough at the time of the troubles to have involuntarily participated in the ass trade, except of course for the happenstance she was born in belgrade not sarajevo
mircea_popescu: to quote 2015 : http://trilema.com/2015/on-how-i-ended-up-suing-phoenix-nap-llc-on-how-ira-r-cadwells-mom-stephanies-going-to-lose-her-chula-vista-home-on-how-marcus-bohn-is-going-to-catch-a-lot-of-shit-for-that-on-assorted-othe/#selection-193.627-217.246
mircea_popescu: basically the whole "current" reduces to exactly "About a subjugated plain, among its desperate copies slain, the Progre stalks with hands on hips while drivel gushes from his lips." and all strictly because http://trilema.com/2016/white-racism/#selection-257.0-257.57
mircea_popescu: nobody gives a shit about the entirely hallucinated "sex issue" ? and women don't mind being grabbed by select gents ? O NOES WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED!
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/the-power-of-the-press-in-english-this-time/#selection-387.0-387.120 << check me out, i had translated that article once before then utterly forgot about it.
mircea_popescu: https://archive.is/Svhv7#selection-3733.71-3733.213 << for the lulzjar. "If Trump loses, we must ensure that his name and the presidential campaign he ran echo through American history as a dark and distressing tale"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-08#1563912 << anything where half or more of the hopefuls fail to make it in, AND half or more of the first year fails to pass into 2nd. it must be selective in this sense, with an understanding that most extant fenotypes are biological failures of no further interest or value. ☝︎☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: not that there isn't a ton of these. but "mary elizabeth williams" lol. to quote, http://trilema.com/2013/queers/#selection-135.0-135.108
mircea_popescu: just to be on the safe side /me nipped https://archive.is/ksb0T#selection-4343.0-4351.5 's wings a litte ( http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/d1wcf/?raw=true registered as comment 149). curious if the guy publishes it or not.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-03#1562665 << yeah thinking about it i'm gonna do a democratic thing here. so the recognized participants being diana_coman hanbot and BingoBoingo - agree amonst yourselves to select a winner and let me know who it is. ☝︎☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: anyway, the point being, the miner cartel brink-of-war event didn't proceed, but "equipment" derived from it is now widely deployed, and as you can observe it can selectively disappear txn from the mempool.
mircea_popescu: BUT! coinbase selection is the MOST IMPORTANT part of bitcoin privacy
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don';t think the wallet should do only signing. it should also do coinbase selection.
mircea_popescu: "he wished that their friendship played out end to end" >>> http://trilema.com/2013/requiem-for-a-dream/#selection-45.0-45.75
mircea_popescu: caption reads "a russian aircraft carrier passed tyhrough the4 english channel last week" https://archive.is/OHYrx#selection-3225.0-3225.92
mircea_popescu: there's hundreds of shops, literally, and they all do it by hand. selection being what it is...
mircea_popescu: well, if the point is selection, then all this is working as intended, no ? you should be thrilled with the tool.
mircea_popescu: there's this big tradition of blue writing fantasy anatomy however. here's a piece of lulz of entirely similar composition : https://archive.is/vC1mF#selection-627.0-667.50
mircea_popescu: this selects a mold of the place. then you can start making all sorts of other things without a care in the world. like proper pickles.
mircea_popescu: "Avoid easy selections, such as qwerty or password. If you want to pick an easy-to-remember but somewhat unique password, consider a variation of a word, such as a1rPl4nE for airplane." ☟︎
mircea_popescu: ok this is the epic-est shit i read all week : https://archive.is/GBNWF#selection-289.290-313.2
mircea_popescu: in this particular case, http://trilema.com/2011/arta-pedepsirii/#selection-87.147-91.69 applies. keep your bot where i don't have to whack it, and if you need to ask what that is i'll whack both of you.
mircea_popescu: no but see, guy has the right idea already : let the 800 dorks have kids, pick up the select ones once they're 16
mircea_popescu: stupidity is the occam selection.
mircea_popescu: as per http://trilema.com/2013/squares-do-morals-a-porno/#selection-517.0-519.243
mircea_popescu: "oh you can't read there, the selector is not on that cell!"
mircea_popescu: via, of course, https://archive.is/iBLt9#selection-3245.0-3247.153
mircea_popescu: yes, for as long as it's "community of selected women".
mircea_popescu: i guess ima go with http://trilema.com/2013/how-to-airgap-a-practical-guide/#selection-89.209-89.346
mircea_popescu: https://archive.is/eiEBR#selection-1041.0-1047.1 for the vague lulz potential.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2016/asscience/#selection-193.73-197.16 << esr rich.
mircea_popescu: anyway ; a large portion of these problems (there's also a threading fuckup or two, and other things) have to do with the miserable quality of the legacy codebase (like http://trilema.com/2016/minigame-smg-september-2016-statement/#selection-931.0-931.47 miserable).
mircea_popescu: lol. for the record, http://trilema.com/2016/minigame-smg-august-2016-statement/#selection-137.0-141.0
mircea_popescu: ely neurotic self inspection, of which "transgenderism" of the alice/leah flavour is very strictly a subset, not to mention plainer nonsense of the kind displayed by eg. richard kulisz (see http://trilema.com/2016/full-loper-os-blogroll-review/#selection-847.0-851.1) or for that matter "lesswrong". between psychotic and neurotic, the beta boi is forever floating on this sea of delusional "you are special and perfect the way y ☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: heh. each-reads-his-own was intended as a mechanism to encourage people to select the better package.
mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160919/#537 << if only. re http://trilema.com/2013/bitcoind-not-quite-ready-for-prime-time/#selection-77.298-77.423 etc.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2010/curiozitate-calculatoristica/#selection-73.0-77.118 << "The question then is, when do you suppose we'll see the first MySql chip, incapable of loading an os or anything"
mircea_popescu: by the time ice age 24 is available "only in select theatres" because nobody can be arsed to torrent it they'll be ready with iphone 17 ?
mircea_popescu: and in the same vein / from the same source : https://archive.is/uIBox#selection-9.1569-9.1577
mircea_popescu: while doing research, http://trilema.com/2014/on-periphery-and-the-peripheral-ephemerides-are-also-mentioned/#selection-71.0-77.0
mircea_popescu: the state-run bullshits that pretend to be banks are exactly selecting for random idiots who pretend to be entrepreneurs.
mircea_popescu: (for the non-ro elements : romania had a designated place for fertility treatments, sovata. it had some birthing pools, and a wide selection of not-your-husband's dicks to choose from. because yes, most of the time that's the problem.)
mircea_popescu: i mean, i see the point to a certain degree, the street in practice DOES select, for the worst. but i think he just meant "crapshot" rather than proper, street scum.
mircea_popescu: generally, thinking back to the whole "giant sitting in chair" discussion of supermarkets - the state always and everywhere tries to drive a wedge between you and its instrument. specifically, it tries to leverage the scale issue (see http://trilema.com/2009/de-ce-nu-mi-place-capitalismul/#selection-49.0-49.163 ) : you are many and impredictible ; its instruments could kill it.
mircea_popescu: also consider - someone like the young rodger is the result of careful selection over the generations.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-23#1527236 << occasional lulzcow. definitive piece being https://archive.is/u41WH#selection-581.0-601.267 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: so now back to the issue : we have some semblance of defense against what is in fact a universal problem ; they don't, and are in denial. as per the cannonical expression of this situation, http://trilema.com/2015/why-representative-democracy-doesnt-work-and-doesnt-make-sense/#selection-147.267-153.105
mircea_popescu: for everyone else - there's the wot. and the fucking important point from this view of republican history to date is just this : we've actually built a selection of magic spells that are both a) magic to the user and b) fixable through a definite process.
mircea_popescu: since back in january you weren't yet constructing your identity around cleavage asciilifeform here's a repost : http://trilema.com/2016/the-bizarro-world-of-camwhoring/#selection-155.0-155.225
mircea_popescu: or for that matter, that old "fuck you and netbase" http://trilema.com/2014/ubuntu-is-a-worse-piece-of-shit-than-ms-dos-ever-was/#selection-145.0-145.98
mircea_popescu: anyway. decentralized don't enter into it. the way you play is that you have a dealer bot, which selects a string composed as a) "the hash of the latest known block whose height is divisible be 117 and is not in the last 117 found blocks" + b) a server generated salt for the day + c) a player generated salt, to be changed any time a player feels like. then for any dealt hand, the server concatenates a + b + c for each player
mircea_popescu: can't say i'm entirely opposed to the idea. then i can just log into facebook backend, direct selected womenz to preferred fuckpad ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in the intestine ? LOTS of it. the intestinal surface is just as fucking complex as the brain. it selects certain bacterial populations ffs.
mircea_popescu: how many unknown hillary clintons will have to paint the sidewalk before usg admits defeat and goes to licking selected boots ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-01#1512561 << guy has a point, seriously now. http://trilema.com/2011/erotoghid-pentru-femeia-adulta/#selection-37.381-37.509 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2016/and-other-things/#selection-153.0-185.55 << that one.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/the-battlefield-of-the-future/#selection-89.90-89.662 << this at work, ever again, in all socialist processes.
mircea_popescu: so, so reminescent of "eudemocracia.org" ie http://trilema.com/2014/bitcoin-in-argentina-exactly-nothing-to-do-with-the-derps/#selection-197.0-197.39
mircea_popescu: "probably stupid, possibly not, and we're dealing with highly selected folks. fuck."
mircea_popescu: and yes, it comes with the gunk - once you are powerful lord for yourself, you gotta also select others for which to be, or else make enemies.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform asking "What is the minimal money necessary" is like asking "what is the minimum current draw of useful appliance". it depends neh ? for the money orlov already spent on his pretense (boat, authorship, whatever), egyptian native could have lived entire life happily in the circumstance of "the company of other bipeds being wholly SELECTABLE".
mircea_popescu: the improvement plastics and composites (current generation, EXPENSIVE!) offer over selected historical wood is marginal, if at all present.
mircea_popescu: generally, tmsr stuff is very powerfully innovative exactly for this reason : that it utterly rejects ~very well selected~ priors commonly shared by "community consensus". it's a bunch of people that "can't spell properly", but not for lack of knowing grammar.
mircea_popescu: but the matter is in itself important, "how to reward collective effort ?" "i dunno, have the INDIVIDUALS composing the collective submit plans, and pick the fairest of a selected set ?"
mircea_popescu: where "works" is defined as i can select and paste a gpg armored segment and gpg can process it.