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mod6: Now what is a waste of
time, for me, is
this lisp/sexp shit. For instance, lastnight it cost us 2 man hours. 1 for me, 1 for ben who had
to
take me
through
the entire rockchip lisp
thing
that he created.
mod6: Now do I
think he's wasting
time? No. I'm sure he hasn't spent much
time on it at all since I even created it, but he would have
to say for himself.
mod6: So. I created
this database back in March
to help
track inventory, payments, customer accounts, etc.
This all
to help ben_vulpes save
time when doing reporting. Which, as I understand is
taking him a lot of
time each month.
mircea_popescu: you've been "managing"
the
thing for months, haven't yet hired a single salesman. what are you managing over
there,
the
transition into bureaucracy ?
mircea_popescu: you find yourself in
the unique position of a start-up running out of runway
that doesn't have AS MUCH AS A LANDING PAGE. suppose i wanted
to send people over ; where
the everloving fuck do i even send
them ?
ave1: hmm, I've got
to go now, but will check in later
ave1: will be picked up from env, not in config.sh,
the
tarball script will make it's own config.sh in build/build-bootstrap (in general in build/build-<platform-name>)
ben_vulpes: i don't
think it useless nothing as it will snip significant
time off report generation.
the pressure from
the board is
to forge forward with
the rockchips, but if
there's change
to be eked from
the shared hosting i should capture
that as well, so
thanks for
the prodding.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-03 18:15 ben_vulpes: not required but it is
the next item on my conveyor after
the april report
ben_vulpes: i'm going
to do it in postgres; should be a lot easier
to get php
to do both
the mysql for
the pizarro mpwp and
the postgres for deedbot
than
to port deedbot
to mysql
ben_vulpes: mk, makin some progress on
the pizarro accounting/assettracking db
mircea_popescu: subtle my fucking foot.
the ~point~ is
that art can not create new forms. which is why
the fuck
they even did
the constant copying of masters
to learn arts.
mircea_popescu: "For devils have no power at all save by a certain subtle art. But an art cannot permanently produce a
true form." aka "Item Dæmones non operantur nisi per artem. Sed ais non potest dare ver am formam."
mircea_popescu: now where
the FUCK did
they say
the bit about
the stars ?
mircea_popescu: (latin) Prætereà, omnis alteratio corporalis, puta circa infirmitates aut sanitates protreandas, reducitur in motum localem, patet ex 7.phys. Quovumcanque est motus c li. Sed Dæinones motu c ll variare non possunt, Dionysius in epis. ad Polycarpum. Quia hocsolius Dei est. Ergo videtur, quòd nusla mitrasmutationem ad minus veram, in corporib. causare possunt, quòd necesse sit homini
transmut ationes in aliquã causam occ
mircea_popescu: herefore it is evident
the demons cannot actually effect any permanent
transformation in human bodies;
that is
to say, no real metamorphosis. And so we must refer
the appearance of any such change
to some dark and occult cause.
mircea_popescu: (english) Moreover, every alteration
that
takes place in a human body - for example, a state of health or a state of sickness - can be brought down
to a question of natural causes, as Aristotle has shown in his 7th book of Physics. And
the greatest of
these is
the influence of
the stars. But
the devils cannot interfere with
the stars.
This is
the opinion of Dionysius in his epistle
to S. Polycarp. For
this alone God can do.
T mircea_popescu: anyway,
the english
translation is
terrible. consider :
mircea_popescu: actually it even has a "zero one infinity" statement. "if demons could alter
the world
then what'd stop
them at all"
mircea_popescu: very refreshingly medieval perspective. what's all
this "i'm a producer" bs.
mircea_popescu: thieves ~are~
thieves,
there's no point in "re-education" jail etc.
mircea_popescu: well, it generally rejects
the possibility of change. very platonic.
mircea_popescu: approximately, "whosoever believes in self-improvement is worse
than a pagan"
mircea_popescu: anyway, what i wanted
to quote : "Qui credit, posse fieri aliquam creaturam, aut in melius deteriúsve
transmutari, aut in aliam speciem vel similitudinem
transformari, quàm abipso omnium Creatore, pagano et infideli deterior est."
mircea_popescu: meanwhile moving on :
the malleus item linked has a "The source version of
this
text, with notes and additional material, can be found at MalleusMaleficarum.org [External Site]." except
the "external site" doth not include such an item.
mircea_popescu: maybe a little bit o'
the clap's
the best
thing for ye.
mircea_popescu: cancer also
tends
to strike
typically healthy people, did you observe
that ?
mircea_popescu: "typically
tallest", "typically loneliest",
typically whatever. sure, observed
typicallies.
mircea_popescu: if you're willing
to go with "typically", you're going
to also say "clouds
typically look like dragons"
mircea_popescu: pugachev and zhukov, exactly same : RANDOMLY. and yes, any other one could have,
these could not have, etcetera.
mircea_popescu: it's like
thinking you were "targetted" for a street mugging. yes, you were, guess by what ? you were
targetted as one of
the schmucks who imagines
they can be
targetted by street muggings.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, it is strictly my position ;
the clouds don't fucking aim ; nor does, nor ~CAN~ socialism aim.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, same
thing fucked yehzov as
the ligthning fucked
tree. what, you
think
the clouds aim ?!
mircea_popescu: same is
true for all
the great heroes of socialism, whether
they died in bed or in prison.
mircea_popescu: that minsky had or had not "his" "bank account" zeroed is ENTIRELY not related
to minsky.
mircea_popescu: any zek can be fucked at any
time ; you know
this going in. attempting
to ascribe fucking
to activity, and especially
to discrete activity items, is folly.
mircea_popescu: what do you propose killed
the recently discussed yehzov, his "incorrect actions at mit" ?
mircea_popescu: except
they're not problems in
the way you describe
them.
mircea_popescu: and existence is predicated on intelligence, and mit never had one. it's just a humongous pile of printed dollars,
the us-style equivalent of
the chinese "sovereign funds".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ~existing~
things don't go away ; imaginary nuisances -- do go away.
mircea_popescu: you don't put an anti-prng in
the fg. why should any of
the ai people put an anti-mit or a f(mit) however defined in
their behaviour ?
mircea_popescu: doing "the opposite" or "moving
to garage", or anything, ANYTHING WHATSOEVER
that in any way is biased by
the mit is no go.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and so on. how long do i need
to extend
this before it catches ? ~~~NOTHING~~~
the monkeys say is interpreted. at all, in any way,
to any degree, never.
mircea_popescu: they
then decided sussman isn't welcome either ; eventually
they had
to make a new "lab",
to alleviate both
the problem of
their pretense
to sovereignity, and of
the people not caring what
they say
mircea_popescu: for random reasons mit decides minsky is no longer allowed in
the building ; sussman gave him his key card.
mircea_popescu: mit says minksy must use
the color green. minsky ignored. mit spent 500 politruk-hours
to discern whether he even did what
they said or not ; came up with either of
these. minsky still ignored.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: other
than what we've been fucking doing ? sure, why
the hell not.
the people involved build
the
thing ; when mit said some
things,
they ignored
them altogether. give me some examples of
thins mit said and i could just ignore for your edification ?
mircea_popescu: nope.
they could have simply ignored anything
to do with
the mit itself ; and
then let
the mit-tards figure out ON
THEIR OWN
TIME what's going on.
mircea_popescu: do you eat bananas like a fucking orc, in "certain ways"
that are "spiritual" according
to
the imaginary bananashamans ?
mircea_popescu: out of mit's gear. NOT on mit's
terms. use, you understand me ? use. like a
thing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ignoring is ignoring, you understand, when you "retreat
to garage" you aren't ignoring, you're alternatively validating.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-14 22:20 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: good
thread, and notes, but
the central q is still unresolved in my head -- argument is
that 'they should have left mit and built
the machine, in a garage, in zimbabwe ( so as
to avoid paying license fee )' ? or 'should have built it without having ever been at mit' ? or which