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a111: Logged on 2019-06-20 10:16 mircea_popescu: does anyone by any chance remember which the fuck trilema article contained this image of
a chavy teenage chick, straddling
a dude in
a car, knees bent, jeans still on but lifted off her cunt, shoving the dude underneath's manhood into her cunt with the left hand ?
mircea_popescu: and i can't write, because i need
a reference i can no longer find.i have no fucking idea how to fix this sort of problem, nor do i truly speaking expect it'll ever get fixed. so w/e, i guess ima trash this thousand words and move on. except the specter of "there's an X% chance you won't be able to complete the article you wish to write" is sufficiently chilling to permanently discourage one from even starting.
mircea_popescu: ke in the windows days, entirely and utterly unfixable. there's no alternate paths anymore, you can't get wine x to work with pol y anymore than you can get
a chunk of windows nt to drop-in replace some chunk of windows vista.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : you may build and even install
a proper wine (ie, configured without the derp-ass gcc "stack protection", that evidently doesn't work) ; and it'll even work, system-wide. however that doesn't mean playonlinux won't stick to its sadder, older version. and of course you can't just force-copy symlinks over in its holy directory, because they're all brokenly relative, and gns resolution works as shown in that p
mircea_popescu: can't fucking find anything on this blog of mine, by now it's taking longer to amass the references than it takes to write
a god damned article.
mircea_popescu: does anyone by any chance remember which the fuck trilema article contained this image of
a chavy teenage chick, straddling
a dude in
a car, knees bent, jeans still on but lifted off her cunt, shoving the dude underneath's manhood into her cunt with the left hand ?
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: and speaking of terrible accessibility : they changed the taskbar structure from purely linear to
a sorta broken tree, so that all terminals snap together into
a single terminal icon (holy shit WHY, everyone's taskbar is 90% terms and that is THE ONLY REASON to even HAVE clickable taskbars) so now i have to do two clicks, one to bring up
a derpy bubble and
a second to bring up the wanted terminal, which blows btw because n
a111: Logged on 2019-06-19 19:59 mircea_popescu: meanwhile continuing the
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-19#1918697 nonsense : wine doesn't work worth
a shit on the new ubuntu. it never worked splendidly, granted, but it was quite workable last i looked into this half decade ago. it degraded significantly. for instance, after
a bunch of installing various, i'm left with
a taskbar fulla dead icons. (well, in fairness they bring up
a transparent exclamation point in
a tria
a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 15:50 mircea_popescu: remarkable just how useless computers are these days. so first, i chugged in 2gb of ubuntu. the moment it came up it wanted to get
a further 450mb of "updates". then it turns out ~every game out there has pretty much outsourced its distribution (and, i suspect, debugging, such as it is) to steam (with
a minor gog presence as well). so you gotta install steam. that's only 50mb or so, but
a third layer by now.
mircea_popescu: so one, obviously, is stuck installing
a proper wine on the system, because fuck me if i'm not getting off beginner island (VERY fucking annoying manifestation of the bug -- crashes you in the final battle, with that asswipe eric).
mircea_popescu: kinda what all these are derived from, hardblown, method-acted comedy. it's
a cinematic adaptation of
a roadshow style of entertainment (much like the "high class production" fred astaire / frank sinatra etc were in try to steal broadway for the studios)
mod6: Yikes, week is
a long time.
BingoBoingo: Then there was the one spring week after
a wind storm.
BingoBoingo: So, the only noticable impact of the "ciclono extratropical" that hit here is
a bunch of gunk washed up on the beach.
mircea_popescu: you recall the amiga guy's failed bid to make
a sort of tablets-in-tables restaurant/amusement park ?
BingoBoingo: AHA, yes. I have seen the Win10 ad machine in
a zoo!
mircea_popescu: ubuntu is not some kind of linux. it's
a mod on windows registry.
mircea_popescu: steam is not "this big deal gaming published with its own os", it's
a pathetic front on
a dead flash-wannabe (unity)
mircea_popescu: meanwhile continuing the
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-19#1918697 nonsense : wine doesn't work worth
a shit on the new ubuntu. it never worked splendidly, granted, but it was quite workable last i looked into this half decade ago. it degraded significantly. for instance, after
a bunch of installing various, i'm left with
a taskbar fulla dead icons. (well, in fairness they bring up
a transparent exclamation point in
a tria
☝︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2019-05-31 13:48 asciilifeform: in 1 particular documented case, where boat was raised 7yrs later, they found that an old salt turned valve in wrong direction. fella served on
a diff design for
a decade, where dir was opposite. he put such strength into 'closing' valve that the handle was bent. rest of crew breathed for 2wks, aside from one who hung self in bed and another who shorted battery with both hands.
a111: Logged on 2014-11-26 00:46 asciilifeform: have to understand, jet fighter is not really
a complete machine. it is
a tentacle of the larger industrial slave empire which produced and employed it.
BingoBoingo: If you want bigger, that is
a different market and you are getting out of yachts and into ships
mircea_popescu: bureaucrats have other interests, and
a very different sense of cool -- hence your horripilated reaction to pete d's internally coherent visions of normality.
mircea_popescu: those were more the "corporate" thing. if you had
a porn empire or something. berlusconi had one, for all the 14yo african girlies to nudie dip off off.
mircea_popescu: yacht engine not so much different from luxury car, same few hundred hp. you run it for an hour, you burn about
a galon, costs you about 2 bucks.
mircea_popescu: but that was the market there, "honey, since we're doing 5k x2 in plane tickets and 3-500
a night in hotel stays for 4 to 8 weeks each year, coming to
a 25k or so, we could just pay coupla mil upfront on this piece of machinery that'll resell for maybe mil-mil and
a half in five years and cost to own 10k or so
a year, taking us just about even"
mircea_popescu: the yacht-as-it-was-used was
a better-alternative-to-airplane+airport-plebcombo. slower (in the good sense -- anyonre recall the "downshifiting" 90s thing ?), not much more expensive (if you travel business class and 5 star hotel, you end up paying for summering in the carribean ~same as the cost to own yacht, give or take), infinitely more pleasant.
mircea_popescu: the yacht-as-
a-place-to-live thing was, whatever, poor village farmhands imagining among themselves
a consensus as to how riveters work goes in the big city up on those tall buildings.
mircea_popescu: the middle class entirely does not exist anymore ; the item is no longer
a token for the disused faine, either.
mircea_popescu: from my rock, the whole yacht thing (not
a place to LIVE ON, orlol and all, mind) was
a specific "token of entry" in
a specific, upper-middleclass network.
a111: Logged on 2014-11-26 00:46 asciilifeform: have to understand, jet fighter is not really
a complete machine. it is
a tentacle of the larger industrial slave empire which produced and employed it.
mircea_popescu: poker is still
A thing today ; the problem with it is that wherever you sit down you're gonna run into
a buncha pete d's and tired old con men.
BingoBoingo: And yes the Puertito Buceo is rather full looking, but still has room to drop anchor. Another yacht club
a few km away closer to capacity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it stopped being the thing it was ; it's still
a thing but more in the sense of the rest of real estate "market" -- beneficial "owners" trying to extricate themselves out of the jam, long lost sight of the benefit or even the usage.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Quite
a few boats I suspect are on the whisper market in kinda the same way just about any piece of real estate in the city has
a price if you bother to ask.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, it ~was~
a thing, in the sense poker was
a thing, whereby you could meet >
a few dozen quite pleasant such folk in the respective haunts, from florida to just about eastern colombia etc, and then on the other side, mostly south of france, italy, greek islands etc.
mircea_popescu: to me it seemed mind numbing, but to
a buncha retired-early upper middleclassians... well... easy & cheap path out.
mircea_popescu: buy what's essentially
a floating condo for ~same what
a condo in downtown metro area costs, spend your time going from yacht club to yacht club. the not-retarded charlie sheens did this, usually with
a competent alpha (usually, 20year+wife) to pick the local sluts.
BingoBoingo: This is rural Uruguay, not urban New York. Gotta have
a bidet here.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-03 05:29 phf: my mom had one of those "papa escaped the purges by burning all paperwork but life got tough when they took our governess" piano teachers, who would lament about being forced to teach peasants and brown folk, not on racial grounds as much as "you have to have
a bidet in your house for 3 generations, before you can touch
a piano"
BingoBoingo: Punta del Este. At least it was for
a while. FA may have chased them off.
BingoBoingo: Tried to buy BitBet remains, has not yet expressed any interest in flying
a box to Uruguay for his own projects. Marketed
a FuckGoats value add, etc
mircea_popescu: i wonder if there ever was quite such
a spurious "culture". or w/e we'd call it.
mircea_popescu: sleigh of hand, possibly. also, exit. human body's remarkably... how shall i put this, it has
a peculiar relationship with non-existenc.e
mircea_popescu: old one brings up
a task from tab if dblclicked -- AND ALSO MINIMIZES IT. new one -- brings up, but does not minimize.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in another angle : i have here next to each other two modern ubuntus : one modern in 2018 (v 18.04), the other modern about five years prior (v 10.04). the sheer pile of utility and usability loss! old one has "bring up desktop" button. new one does not. old one has taskbar on the bottom, wherein one can drag item to
a different task, and the task will pop up (so you can drop
a file in
a terminal). new one -- doe
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The chain is swapping in
a beef identifying bean patty
BingoBoingo: Well, first they'll wank
a bit about pseudo-aesthetic pseudo-ethics and make the pichi life
a fad
mircea_popescu: that chick, the hepatitis walflower. present day african, the "maybe i'll be
a writer" white female. not even white trash, but "middle class"
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Nah, the people who figure winter is
a factor that allowed Europe to not do the tropical sloth.
mircea_popescu: in fact, in technological world, outside cold more
a resource than
a hindrance.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 11:11 mircea_popescu: back in 2010ish, some derps from us academia came with "proof" of the (at the time still called) global warming nonsense, in the shape of
a much-loved-bymedia "golf cross pattern".
mircea_popescu: "Herein lies
a presupposition commonly harbored by philosophers: namely. that empirical claims are only as reliable as the data from which they are inferred. The fact is that we can often arrive at rather accurate claims from far less accurate ones. Scattered measurements, for example, are not of much use, but with
a little data massaging (e.g.. averaging) we can obtain
a value of
a quantity of interest that is far more ac