mircea_popescu: wait, is it actually a different story ? ie, not with these ?
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: the result of training idjits that their words are the most important thing and that yelling 'rape' makes the 'rapist' stop voluntarily if not arrested by the police
pete_dushenski: also, does anyone have a suggestion for viewing/using the tumblr dashboard that doesn't involve this latest invasion of spamz. every second fucking post is some derpy 'trending' meme that completely kills teh mood !
punkman: asciilifeform: there is porn
pete_dushenski: mousetrap grew up from nowhere seriously in last month. before that, fine.
funkenstein_: lol we can file that cheese girl under "white are better" right?
funkenstein_: well kako, at least labelled with only 26 characters like my fantasy of divine imagery
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pete_dushenski: ^that bar graph will be even lulzier in 50 years when those 'tech giants' 'go kodak'
kakobrekla: as it stands now, all ''german manufacturers' are using 'us tech' and no 'us tech firm' is using a 'german manufacturer'
pete_dushenski: there are ready replacements for apple, google, amazon, and facebook
pete_dushenski: this is from the perspective of 'deutschland manufaktur', recall
kakobrekla: desktops for designing (with ps) and selling the outcome with ipads
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mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> as it stands now, all ''german manufacturers' are using 'us tech' and no 'us tech firm' is using a 'german manufacturer' << you ever looked in the parking lot of these "tech giants" ?
mircea_popescu: not that many consumer choice 1983 lebarons out there.
kakobrekla: any remaining vw will get called off anyway
mircea_popescu: you can't drive a truck and be in tech, it's like being an efette wwf fan
mircea_popescu: you live with the bureaucrats not the technocrats alf.
kakobrekla: so i google 'google parking lot' and get 'Google employee lives in a truck in the parking lot ' as first hit.
mircea_popescu: whereas foogle/gashbook/bapple/etc are more like sf/bay area/fauntleroyland
punkman: but you could live on parking lot
phf: sf is nicer then dc though, they got a giant park with a view, and food is much better. (actual japanese and mexican foods)
mircea_popescu: dude get the fuck out, missouri has a park with a view.
phf: true, to be fair, anywhere is nicer then dc. i thought ascii was overly dramatic, but damn is this place bad.
hanbot: sf was great 15 yrs ago ;/
hanbot: well, it had good air. the panhandlers were entertaining. i was 16.
mircea_popescu: everything in the us was much better in the 90s. buffett-style "i believe in america" merely sounded overoptimistic, hadn't yet caught this greenish hue of past-ridiculous senility like something found in a fridge on the side of a demolishing yard.
mircea_popescu: they made movies about how hey, "america gotta shape up soon".
assbot: Fuck you and your stupid epub. Also, David Thorne's 2nd book (it isn't really very good). on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1LuN21d )
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mircea_popescu: if you're going to throw half a million a year on living expenses why the fuck would you not just rent a raj palace in india and install human powered ac.
phf: ben_vulpes: just to clarify, literal translation would be that i can talk without censoring myself. but mp explained the actual meaning, that i'm not quite sure how to put in words better. it's something like, can talk on point, without revisions on account of this or that.
hanbot: asciilifeform by now, i dunno. old friend is about there, relegated to san jose armpit, and last i checked the only thing in his house was a box of cheezeits.
mircea_popescu: actually most of siberia/alaska are pretty much rent free and from what i hear rather enjoyable.
mircea_popescu: my problem is more in line with "nobody's gonna fucking shave her snatch at 30 below", but yeah.
mircea_popescu: in other news, a "368 page book" reads in a coupla hours, and consists of 90% recycled website material + some letters from weird.
mircea_popescu: "new york times best seller list" items are radically not worth cutting down the trees.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter wgat's his name, the guy with short fingers that quit duke lawschool ?
mircea_popescu: ;;google the guy with short fingers that quit duke lawschool and made a horrible movie
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> dude get the fuck out, missouri has a park with a view. << Truefax. There's even a tiny tram you can ride to the top of the Arch for more view
mircea_popescu: apparently my native oop is intuitively alligned with google sql
mircea_popescu: been like that forever. also iirc alaska still has homestead here and there.
mircea_popescu: i guess we should be thankful grain at least grew in that shitty island.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> o ffs. japanese whiskey ? << I knew I picked a good time to try sobriety
BingoBoingo is convinced real whiskey is only made by people with pickup trucks or tartans
mircea_popescu: isn't ammonal about on par with black powder, in the sense that if it gets wet you can go salt your food with it ?
☟︎ punkman: well, I'm no malt connoisseur but I'd put it right next to similarly-priced scottish bottles
BingoBoingo: Scotch is "warm-up" whiskey to get the palate primed for rye whiskey followed by all of the cheap bourbon
BingoBoingo: "Hear hear. When you buy Old Crow, you know what you're getting. Old Crow is not a night on the town with a beautiful young debutante. Old Crow is not a conversation with a craggy and learned professor. Old Crow is half an hour in a motel room with a fifty year-old prostitute who maybe doesn't look like much but still gets the job done, dammit, and sometimes that's all you want. Sometimes that's exactly what you want."
BingoBoingo: From another review: "It smells very heavily of alcohol first off, but the taste is surprisingly sweet, like candy corn and pears (but mostly bourbon:)... It is my go-to whisky, and being a Kentuckian of discerning taste, I'd like to think that says something towards it's character. Two of Ulysses S. Grant's fellow Generals were said to have complained to Lincoln personally of Grant's drunkenness and it's detriment in the line of
BingoBoingo: duty. Of this, Lincoln famously wrote back, saying: "By the way, gentlemen, can either of you tell me where General Grant procures his whiskey?""
phf: "came home last night full'a fifth of old crow
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BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: In truth Brodin, the All Spotter and bringer of the Whey does no have a throne. He does though have a squat rack and a bench.
assbot: Logged on 22-11-2015 23:21:54; asciilifeform: i'm kinda surprised they didn't fill the thing with glue and be done with it
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mircea_popescu: (i'm not asking emptily. i know he's nobody, because i don't know who the fuck he is. i googled, and the only hit is a 2014 article in which forbes is pushing the same name on the same topic. so really, worse than nobody. so then ?)
mircea_popescu: could be "Mr. Michael Stute Co-founded Global DataGuard, Inc., in 2000 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Stute has over 13 years of experience in IT", in which case...
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mircea_popescu is looking forward to hearing just how badly mismanaged the country was and just how much hay mas futuro is really left in the vaults.
assbot: El Banco Central busca apropiarse de los dólares que mantienen los bancos - 21.11.2015 - LA NACION ... (
http://bit.ly/1OnKztY )
assbot: Por la dolarización electoral, salieron US$ 8000 millones de las reservas - 21.11.2015 - LA NACION ... (
http://bit.ly/1OnKypT )
mircea_popescu: if only they could spend 10 trn like president bahamas, they might've won.
mircea_popescu: "De esta manera, liquidó US$ 560 en la semana y lleva vendidos US$ 1750 millones en lo que va del mes. Así, el proceso electoral presidencial, tomando el lapso que va desde las dos semanas previas a las PASO hasta ayer y el propósito de mantener el status quo cambiario (aunque no sea sustentable), insumió US$ 8015 millones de las reservas."
mircea_popescu: "Se trata de una suma equivalente a un tercio de las reservas brutas que declara el ente monetario que conduce Alejandro Vanoli o al total de lo neto propio que tenía (los analistas coinciden en que ahora sólo quedan dólares de los ahorristas y la porción invertida en oro)."
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BingoBoingo: Sorry, you seems to be looking for #labcoin-ants
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mircea_popescu: well, by limiting themselves of an audience of similar quality.
mircea_popescu: but as that only goes so far, also by insisting that "this is everything" and that "being told off is mean"
mircea_popescu: "What often deters writers from going through with the above plan is the fact that, well, Most Writers Are Writers. They're writing a character who's supposed to be a musician, but they don't know the particulars of meters or chords. They have a character who is a military expert, but they don't know how long an infantry division can fight until it needs to be resupplied. They have a character who's a genius, but they
☟︎ mircea_popescu: haven't a clue what kind of problem only a genius would be able to work through, or how. If they actually attempt to show the ability in action they take a very real risk of the portrayal falling completely flat.
mircea_popescu: On occasion, the ability cannot adequately be portrayed by the medium used for the work. For example, a comic book cannot show how good a character's singing voice is, and a radio show would, at best, be forced to merely describe a character's great paintings.
mircea_popescu: One choice the writer has is to go ahead and show the supposed "ability". But if they don't do the research, this leads to such laughable characters as the scientist who spouts Hollywood Science, the tactician who comes up with the sort of tactics a five-year-old would think of and the "genius" who is only a genius because they're the only one coming up with any plan at all, and everyone else is downright stupid. Lack
mircea_popescu: of convincing detail means the reader does not believe, whether it is fixing an engine or presenting the actual philosophy of a character purported to be wise, and can make the readers long for the informed ability."
mircea_popescu: no, dumbass, "writers aren't writers". i don't give a shit "you just want to".
mircea_popescu: this is why it's fucking culture : so you either know, quite well and exactly, what kind of problem a genius would approach and how, or YOU MAY NOT USE THE FUCKING WORD IN YOUR STUPID PILE OF DRIVEL.
mircea_popescu: this is the direct equivalent of the heckled comedian going "hey, i work here! how would you like it if i came to your workplace and hecked you!"
mircea_popescu: fucktard doesn't know "the particulars" nevertheless thinks he can write up a musician
mircea_popescu: then all their prose is equally and uniformly bland and stupid and hey, they give each other prizes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform plenty of examples, from clarke to what have you
mircea_popescu: he made up some story about how he was wounded in the war
mircea_popescu: it all depends what it's for. i add shit to every joke as a matter of course.
mircea_popescu: his problem is more of an inferiority complex, seems to me, but whatchagonna do
mircea_popescu: (when i was a kid there was this other kid that got REALLY angry whenever i told a joke. "ITS NOT LIKE THAT".
mircea_popescu: even brought a joke booklet to school once to prove it!)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no see, it's not that the war started, he should have fought but he hightailed it, so he covers up for it. it's that he's a murican not an ottoman so he figures he CANT be man enough. so to assuage his own neuroticism (why the fuck couldn't he be ?! what, manhood now comes with formal tags on it ?) he makes up a supportive story in a land far away.
phf: asciilifeform: you were right re gossip prototype in common lisp. it was a needless distraction, i spent a long time getting lisp gpgme bindings working, and the end result was still pos. i'll just send the patches to gnupg ml, and maybe they'll update upstream, but that's not gotten me anywhere closer. i learned that cffi is mostly a mess. (someone worked some improvements on cffi recently, which resulted in cffi documentation being
phf: ~half~ out of sync with the actual code, but also in breaking all legacy approaches without better alternatives to replace them with)
phf: it seems like people use cffi as a trivial-ffi compatability layer, which mostly just gives you least common denominator ffi (it was a pain to work with after cmucl's native alien facilities)
phf: but yeah i switched back to writing cweb, and made progress on it, but the amount of careful thinking that's required with c, lisp prototype would not have bought me anything.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> weren't h a grunt in ww1 ? << Ambulance driver?
phf: ffi left me so unsure of the state of the system, i couldn't make myself trust the result. it's like 4 abstraction layers, all leaking.
phf: well, you know how smart people learn from others' mistakes, idiots from their own?
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shinohai: I hope BingoBoingo does a Qntra take on Achmed the clock boy's parents filing civil suit for a cool 15 mil
BingoBoingo: He did, but his family has to bankrupt the Evil School
shinohai: Heres a novel idea: Get over yurselves, move back to Qatar like you were planning on, and NEVER LOOK BACK!
jurov: i can't move to a country where grindr is illegal