mircea_popescu: really ? "siege of oxford" ?

mircea_popescu: see also baron's war, etc.

mircea_popescu: well the fortification is where it is.

mircea_popescu: anyway, christchurch bought ye olde castle 16th century.

mircea_popescu: well, it was the royalist capital in the civil war.

mircea_popescu: was your idea king's camp should exclude king ?

mircea_popescu: why not ? war between "science" parliament and "idea" king.

mircea_popescu: not like i'm saying it muyst fit ; or that i expect or i expect anyone expects history to be a neat didactic work for the benefit of future livers.

mircea_popescu: i don't get how the necessary situation whereby conflict will follow age gap somehow changes what the conflict is about.

mircea_popescu: charles was of the idea that he has the authority to rule as a thing of his own ; the unitarians were of the idea that "supreme executive power exudes from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony"

mircea_popescu: derps wander in here all the time, "were's mp's mandate-from-the-people" ? seems it's enough of a divide to divide even today.

mircea_popescu: what'd constitute a proper idea in your eyes ?

mircea_popescu: so in this sense charles is deposed and mp is not deposed. does this change anything ?

mircea_popescu: the biathlonists who fail are not thereby horse jockeys.

mircea_popescu: they're still biathlonists, if failed ones.

mircea_popescu: yes, THE NAME very much http://trilema.com/2018/wood-impregnated-in-oil-a-metaphor/#comment-126055 ; but ~THE TITLE~ ?

mircea_popescu: seems enough of an idea to me, if need be.

mircea_popescu: PeterL yes but this is the end state not the process

mircea_popescu: cement ~= first and best inorganic polymer is afaik not disputed

mircea_popescu: consider the case of paracetamol. "it takes body to cooler end state". yes, it does. how ?

mircea_popescu: to take a practical tack : why is CaO matrix and SrAl2O4 matrix for strontium cement ?

mircea_popescu: can you somehow predict this'd be the end result ?

mircea_popescu: "i have this inorganic polymerization model which permits me to predict the behaviour of calcium-based matrices and also predicts that should you replace the calcium with strontium, the oxigen content cvadruples ans there's need for an item extra in there that's just like aluminum for so and so reasons" ☟︎

mircea_popescu: otherwise yes, we've both noticed (and for a long time!) that sunsets and sunrises color the sky. took a WHILE to explain the fucking why.

mircea_popescu: i agree, the people who study subjects should be able to answer questions in subjects.

mircea_popescu: the bitch is -- they aren't able to answer all questions.

mircea_popescu: well no, i'm sure it's there, just, i also don't currently know exactly how it works. though in my case could be for lack of caring, i haven't been doing any building in 15 years +

mircea_popescu: not afaik

mircea_popescu: inexplicably enough, SIX months later that imminent need's still not burning my ass. nfi.

mircea_popescu: if it does sign, verify, encrypt and decrypt i'm happy.

mircea_popescu: heck, if it only does verify and encrypt i'm happy.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nobody asked him to fuck with be sphere with screwdriver

mircea_popescu: no dude, in the sense of could have backup on

mircea_popescu: nobody asks moron sysadmin to work with rm -y as default either

mircea_popescu: yes sysadmin work needed. no, playing by seat of pants not necessary.

mircea_popescu: i don't as much as fuck girls without backup, stottin' had to handle radionuclide resonant chamber. gimme break.

mircea_popescu: yes well.

mircea_popescu: i'm not even sure it's on the same line. modern folkx err through absence.

mircea_popescu: but in other news, two moon junction epic film. imagine, two years later, i go to read http://trilema.com/2016/two-moon-junction/#selection-49.33-53.89 see wtf i said, i discover i did EXACTLY same thing!

mircea_popescu: yeah. for one thing i ran out of films ; and for the other as i said, i made a server, checking out what i got on it.

mircea_popescu: "I feel now that it is ridiculous to make accusations against the Jews, attributing them qualities and methods which are really much more typically English than Jewish"

mircea_popescu: in other lulz : oscar wilde's prison wailings (renamed "de profundis" by some buttfriend or other), uninteresting and unimportant as they may be, nevertheless were published in a bowdlerized version cca 1905, and in a proper version in 1960. THIS version is out of copyright in the world (which pointedly excludes the us) ; now go find it somewhere on teh http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-10#1849092 ☝︎

mircea_popescu: let's look at the matter : the actual manuscript has been maintained online by the british museum for half a decade by now. more. out of all these "creative" kanzures, exactly ZERO actually transcribed it and published on their own fucking worthless "online presence". ☟︎

mircea_popescu: not even the lowliest of the lowliest fruit shall be picked up, year after year after year AFTER YEAR.

mircea_popescu: nothing but neet-ing about and "do we still have to DO this" bla bla bla "the conversation" nonsense & sheer idiocy. nothing but. NOTHING BUT!

mircea_popescu: how the fuck can there exist so-and-so billion "people" and zero work comes out of them year in, year out ? what is this ?

mircea_popescu: what, i'm going to commission the transcription myself ? so what, imbeciles a la http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-04#1809349 can continue to pretendf like ANYTHING WHATSOEVER the fuck else exists ?! ☝︎

mircea_popescu: i don't even fucking like wilde!

mircea_popescu: meanwhile in ancient trilemas, http://trilema.com/2011/planeta-pizdutelor/#comment-71237 << diana_coman recommends Cordwainer Smith (aka Linebarger) & a certain Vance as literate sf. anyone read these ?

mircea_popescu: diana_coman /me also answered the ancient debate meanwhile!

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2011/dialogurile-sclavelor-pe-marginea-lumii-lu-gor/ << meanwhile in unexpected english text from before the great switch.

mircea_popescu: engineers debating!

mircea_popescu: oh oh the atomsk guy!

mircea_popescu: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Fantasy_book_1950_n6.jpg/330px-Fantasy_book_1950_n6.jpg << amusingly, EXACT pulp, as far as form is concerned.

mircea_popescu: let's compare and contrast 1960s cheap illustrations : the neo-post-impressionist school ( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Galaxy_196210.jpg ) with the early-computerist-aesthetic (itself almost indistinguishable from "the votive america flying over some telegraph poles, drawn by qualified industrial draughtsman") : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Amazing_stories_196310.jpg

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, here's a guy dead of ~heart attack~.

mircea_popescu: o.O

mircea_popescu: a) i am willing to bet you're the last one to have touched such. ; b) people can actually fuck up other's boxes' routing ?!

mircea_popescu: so you're telling me douchebag could have taken out your entire plant if he had a clue ?

mircea_popescu: hanbot : " spacecraft, which are crewed by humans telepathically linked with cats to defend against the attacks of malevolent entities in space, which are perceived by the humans as dragons, and by the cats as gigantic rats".

mircea_popescu: "Meeya Meefla", the only city to have preserved its name from the pre-atomic era: evidently Miami, Florida << aaahahaha! this is carrying on. where do all the orcs wanna go ? to meeya meefla, the city of moafle.

mircea_popescu: nevermind entirely isolate ; why are they publishing their own routes ?

mircea_popescu: i guess i'm not understranding the problem. how can box a make box b unreachable ?

mircea_popescu: this can only mean "by advertising that route" to me. what the fuck ?

mircea_popescu: what is "sit down" mean, specifically.

mircea_popescu: and so what if it does ?

mircea_popescu: so to understand this : box x talks to box y. box y is ambiguously defined, both box a and b send ack in response, box x can not proceed connecting ?

mircea_popescu: isn't this a ~1940s problem solved by ROUTES ?

mircea_popescu: whereby your switch does not forward packets coming from the wrong a ?

mircea_popescu: you're telling me you have some magical lan whereby the boxes aren't distinguished ?

mircea_popescu: both the words "switch" and "router" actually originate from a time after this problem being resolved ;/ the switch will switch, and the router will route. you got a ... multiplexer ?

mircea_popescu: a large portion of why people are stuck paying that $$$ ; and i guess pizarro will too ?

mircea_popescu: and you ~still~ don't see either the utility or the possibility of having a box do switching ?

mircea_popescu: aite

mircea_popescu: at the very least you could have a listener attached, report to you cases of double-ack

mircea_popescu: but btw, a) still stands. i judge the odds of some user even touching conf.d ~0 and the odds of your having accidentally used the wrong values during a resetting ~100%.

mircea_popescu: and of course this stands for whole space ? one could eg make foundation box inaccessible by renting rk ?

mircea_popescu: let me get this straight : if me and you have a rk, and you run your blog from there, and i overload your ip but only use port x which you do not use a) you'll never know and b) i have two ips now.

mircea_popescu is currently thinking this should be turned into a feature.

mircea_popescu: so basically what's the idea here, "do not edit /etc/conf.d/net without checking with #pizarro" ?

mircea_popescu: anywhere a customer'd know ? such as a comment in the file itself ? such as on sales pagE ?

mircea_popescu: do me a favour and add #Do not change this if you're not entirely sure ; talk in #pizarro to make sure ; messing up the routing will cost you your reputation.

mircea_popescu: or something

mircea_popescu: cool.

mircea_popescu: anywway, to get back to the literature discussion : this http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29614/29614-h/29614-h.htm item is as fine an example of a principal cause of my distate for the stuff -- a certain pompieristic approach to engineering.

mircea_popescu: so suppose as the premise that (all) people hallucinate "dragons" in so-and-so circumstances. there's nothing wrong with this whatsoever. all literature requires a premise ; the premise will be some thing not commonly seen. that's how it works, that's how it's supposed to work, it's not the fucking police blotter or an actuarial table, it's a story. no argument.

mircea_popescu: necessarily, in order for literature to even exist, there must be a counter to this. an exception, a qualifying circumstance, what have you. say it is that class y doesn't share the property of class x. whether this is going over (people, yes, but CATS no) or going in (people, yes, except blonde virgin females with labia minora extending past and outside labia majora) it matters not.

mircea_popescu: HOWEVER! the degree and type and quality of that going, in or over irrespective, then sets the tone for the whole piece. necessarily and without possibility of escape.

mircea_popescu: because the space of possibilities constrains, very much like http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-20#1687609 ; once the quality of your going is "not people -- but cats" you're stuck writing a whimsical tale for 9 year old girls. because there, and there only, is the classification so gross as to go "people... cats..." ☝︎

mircea_popescu: IF you aim to write "science-" anything, you must therefore show finer understanding of the available categorization trees than "oh, people see dragons but cats see rats".

mircea_popescu: but if instead you proceed to pile on "man-cat-head-intermingler" on top of the nonsense world made of people and cats and a chair, the result is not unlike the bridge that jack built : first it was a hovel, then it got a latrine boolted to the side and now somebody put a length of train track sorta sideways and calls it "a tunnel".

mircea_popescu: in short, stories work by fusing portions of reality not currently seen fused ; making out relationships where no relationship ordinarily exists. that's what a story is, always. but if the story aims to connect items that can not be connected, because they for some preexisting cause necessarily can't be found in the same place at the same time, or because they're categorically different kinds of items, or for any other reason

mircea_popescu: , the "story" attempting the fusing blindly becomes "pulp fiction" in literature, or "conspiracy theory" in the common course of storytelling (yes, that's what people do when they talk -- they tell stories).

mircea_popescu: whereas if it's particularly good quality, exposing an ACTUAL connection not before observed for fault of observation, that story actually becomes outright science.

mircea_popescu: thus therefore, i expect "science fiction" to be EXACTLY science that very well could have been, but happens to isn't ; not conspiracy theorism.

mircea_popescu: (for completeness, the other cause of my distaste is very poor mastery of the formal aspects of the craft, like in gor fragment linked or all of literotica or everything david mamet ever wrote. just BAD , especially dialogue, but overall this impression that a lame and blind guy's fighting for his life in wordmud)

mircea_popescu: mod6 been a long time ?

mircea_popescu: no i mean, your own not working

mircea_popescu: * Trying 161.0.121.198... connected

mircea_popescu: * Connected to ossasepia.com (161.0.121.198) port 80 (#0)

mircea_popescu: > GET / HTTP/1.1

mircea_popescu: ^ it's strictly impossible for the problem asciilifeform to be involved, seeing how i actually do handshake.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform described*

mircea_popescu: k

mircea_popescu: lol did you contribute a few boxes to the internet's efforts to spam itslef ?

mircea_popescu: "Where would he ever find a woman who could compare with her?" dawg, check it! out and out fury-ism!

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-11#1849583 << it has smart data, doesn't it ? read it. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: for ssds especially is most illustrative (pro tip : it is not popssible to get bad sectors while drive not worn out (ie spares still exist) ; if drive worn out why was it in) etc

mircea_popescu: wait, these are the stick-for-hdd items ?

mircea_popescu: yeah, i r forgot.

mircea_popescu: aanyways.

mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other news nobody cares about, ro "musama" is not, as i had thought, commie-era invention to describe early plastics (in early application, vinyl table cloth) like "bakelite", but ancient tk word for waxcloth (müsemma). all neologisms are turkish in origin!!1

mircea_popescu: very vaguely.

mircea_popescu: yes.

mircea_popescu: it's like "do oyu know neogreek" "who the fuck ever would ?!"

mircea_popescu: classical tk, in the sense of sublime porte tk, is mostly a case of "do you know all the relevant poetry"

mircea_popescu: imo it's the better euro town. not to disparage vienna

mircea_popescu: but certainly to disparage london & paris.

mircea_popescu: i suppose in the end a very rosettian view.

mircea_popescu: very federative mindset, the turks.

mircea_popescu: all "conquered peoples" must be let do as they will, all syllabic agglomeration must be permitted to sit undisturbed, millet all the way

mircea_popescu: process not so similar to the invention of "modern russian".

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as i say, not so similar.

mircea_popescu: there's this weird period in the 19th and 20th century wherein the application of "that there was a limit where the flaunting of their foul acts and opinions before the world must stop" was that "if you agree the world's in summary ourdemocracy, you may continue to try and implement your boyish nonsense in particular, short ranged versions"

mircea_popescu: hence "nationalism" as a concept -- aims to be the answer to "what boy society could exist in female world ???"

mircea_popescu: and in this context, all sorts of "improvements"

mircea_popescu: apache ~will~ fall down now and again, usually through oom.

mircea_popescu: 148 days 13 hours 4 minutes 56 seconds on trilema box.

mircea_popescu: meanwhile in freenode idiocy, i give you http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/Baprj/?raw=true aka "how to ping out for being idle 4 minutes while exchanging data the very second prior"

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo is quite the useful remote pair of hands by now, isn't he.

mircea_popescu: anyway. what model samsungs ? or ?

mircea_popescu: strangely these are supposedly very low heat.

mircea_popescu: isn't this a metal casing item ?

mircea_popescu: well what can i tell ya, this looks like it's a premium item.