a111: Logged on 2018-02-05 20:11 asciilifeform: relatedly, i recently hung up a 'premium, high end' corkboard, several square metres, and it turns out that 1) maybe half the depth is actual cork, the rest -- cardboard 2) no other kind is available
mircea_popescu: what THE FUCK is that thing ? it looks like a bad photochop. did they seriously paste a 20sqft "livingroom" to a... what the fuck is it, half a kitchen table welded to half a livingroom table ?
mircea_popescu: i wonder if you can directly splash water from the faucet on the "modern, dynamic, blabla" "seated" at the workbench over there
mircea_popescu: "Just outside of Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia features upscale shopping and dining, along with an easy escape to the outdoors. Our high-quality new homes for sale offer Smart Home features and Life Tested Home Designs® in townhome and condo communities."
mircea_popescu: what the fuck, Life Tested Home Designs® ?! srsly ? what the everfuck
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> what the fuck, Life Tested Home Designs� ?! srsly ? what the everfuck << Walls and rooms make UStards feel cramped and bad about spending all day in bed and couch
BingoBoingo: And holy shit Northern Virginia makes Uruguay look cheap
BingoBoingo: And not even all of them on that list are that...
mircea_popescu: if you added walls to that contortion, only a jackrabbit could fit in there.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-04 13:53 mircea_popescu: what the fuck, Life Tested Home Designs® ?! srsly ? what the everfuck
a111: Logged on 2015-09-26 01:29 asciilifeform: you can drive around and see this, towers of 'condos' with one or two windows out of every dozen, lit up
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, there's some 2 bedroom apartments here with the same square metrage as the habitation module which is close to the same footprint as the asciilifeform/ben_vulpes hotel room.
mircea_popescu watched "old school" yest with the gals because i don't recall why. holy shit that's a transparent piece of femstate agitprop (not coincidentally, with the same crew as
http://trilema.com/very-bad-things ) -- who could possibly pass on the "career woman" with a kid in tow and all that nonsense.
mircea_popescu: NEVERTHELESS, the most remarkable part to my eye was "holy shit those huts they live in"
BingoBoingo: Not too many of them, but apparently it was a fad at some point "how many walls can we stick without making bigger apartments"
BingoBoingo: When I left they were still doing the cookie cutter cul-de-sac subdivisions full of stick built
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, this is the third design where they make the giant stickbuilt things and put some grass between them on recently ruined farmland. Because they have the space for it.
mircea_popescu: in other news, hanbot 's new tits are something the fuck else.
BingoBoingo: I was wondering what this surgery was, but was suspecting followup to the December abdominal cleanup
mircea_popescu: basically, gnat getting to where it's ready for genesis.
diana_coman: quite; I suspect it would cleanup the set of scripts too as atm it's a bit hairy to follow everything (or at least so it seemed to me coming at it relatively from the outside)
diana_coman: ftr the whole tarballs thing is ~100MB and the heaviest in there is the gcc
mircea_popescu: myeah. "the front -end and runtime are written in ada".
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i wonder what battle will the usg.gnu tards pick to fight us over. confiscation of gnat ? not yet ?
mircea_popescu: ave1 you willing to post a proper genesis of this thing ? if so, whensabouts would it be ready ? (do you have specific cleanup steps in mind ?) if not, why not ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, but if they continue much longer they'll disappear entiurely.
mircea_popescu: the issue isn't "use of gnat", the issue is, defanging of gcc/glibc/shitgnome ecosystem.
mircea_popescu: this entire thing we're doing here is more of a hit on the femstate in computing than the original drepperisms systemv was a hit on the republic. we're turning the tables, i'd expect some reaction.
mircea_popescu: it seems strategically sound, "oh, i betcha they couldn't fuck gcc/glibc without gnat -- well, what if it can be denied!!!"
mircea_popescu is kinda missing the historical piratebay femstate mockeries, looking forward to adding to his
collection.
mircea_popescu: you don't understand how this idiocy works. there isn't a "they themselves". femstate is built on this dreamy approach to secreted alt-reality where only convenient subsets are dealt with at any time.
mircea_popescu: which is how usg "prosecutor" doesn't have to explain why his office has lied ten thousand times in ten thousand courts.
mircea_popescu: if i ran it, they'd be immediatelly struck out, "you've lied before, criminal conspiracy, may not present evidence". if i was cross-examining, i'd bury them under their own history, "your honor, my client has no history of lying in court -- that schmuck over there represents an organisation specifically predicated on exactly that".
mircea_popescu: but as things actually work, crown prosecutor can sit unblushing and talk shit about random black dude.
mircea_popescu: "Bolton asked about tweets calling Maduro a dictator who violates human rights: CNN: Do you not see US support for other dictators around the world undermines the credibility of your argument. Bolton: No, I don’t think it does. I think it’s separate."
mircea_popescu: right ? it's ~separate~. fat woman THEREBY gave up her "right" to ride subway ?!?! IT IS SEPARATE!!! she overate in the past, she wants to ride now, there's no relation!!!
mircea_popescu: and so in this manner. i'd fully expect they'd try to bring a challenge, "oh, muh preshious licenses"
mircea_popescu: seems "license" wank around the gnat would be an ideal spot.
mircea_popescu: most menalone / retards-in-tech are very well disciplined to immediately drop anything that's legalesed. much like menalone / retards in "humanities" are disciplined to drop anything labeled "fascist"
mircea_popescu: there's these little buttons ustard's conditioned to react to.
mircea_popescu: the positive conditioning, "buy this" works ~ok, but the negative conditioning, "avoid this" works quite well.
mircea_popescu: moreover, between those two you've got the whole us "culture".
auctionbot: Buy order # 1042 created by BingoBoingo: 500 WFF, WU esta bien Opening: 154mn ecu Ending: 2019-03-07 04:09:50.495654 UTC (69 hours)
auctionbot: Sell order # 1043 created by BingoBoingo: Shares S.QNTR Opening: 200mn ecu Ending: 2020-09-16 18:24:57.803321 UTC (13499 hours)
auctionbot: Sell order # 1043 was cancelled by BingoBoingo
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BingoBoingo: Time horizon for Qntra share auction corrected
BingoBoingo: "This does look to be nearly 20 year old tech. It was used as a supplement for the process to work on I/O devices. It’s actually not needed at all with your system."
mircea_popescu: "The Genera Software environment is for using tapes with your Mac, correct?" << keks.
mircea_popescu: "All the info I see is that this is very old tech and programming. The Symbolics company actually is no longer around." dumb cunt's doing "support" by looking shit up in google.
mircea_popescu: rejected slavemeat's almost sad ; the escapists tho, they're the stupid cunts that "don't even have to".
BingoBoingo: The void rejected amy. You know, the people who thought Trump was a clown back before they all died. All that's left there is void.
BingoBoingo: And a disappointingly large number of boomsticks when viewed alongside their infrequent use
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo there's no such "rejection by default". either she was rejected by someone specifically, or else she didn't even fucking apply.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform everyone else equally unable to distinguish.
trinque: asciilifeform: who is this hilarious lisp troll and why is he not here?
mircea_popescu: gotta love these morons, "here's a penguin, now install windows". empire of visual africanisms.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so what am i putting in this month's report, " alf was gonna do ffa but went away to play with xrays instead" ?
mircea_popescu: did that make some sort of sense as an answer in your head, that was lost on its way to my head ? because i don't see it.
mircea_popescu: b) you published a raft of "x-ray kindergarten" something or the other.
mircea_popescu: at issue is no kind of objective constraint. at issue is your very infantile approach to work, which could be best summarized as "oh! shiny!".
mircea_popescu: in a functional system, one can ~predict~ the content of february's report on the basis of january's report.
mircea_popescu: when you're involved though, no such prediction can be made -- for the transparent enough by now reason that any random item catching your indisciplined fancy is equiprobable.
mircea_popescu: basically, i think i can authoritatively say, on the basis of having been trying to manage your efforts in the past however many years nsa existed, your approach to work is as follows : 1. there's an indistinct and unspecified ball of things you deduced you want on the basis of them being more or less connected to a core of goodness which, not necessarily very examinedly, seems to yield them as first degree relations. 2. you
mircea_popescu: wake up any day, and proceed to set to work on whichever of these seems that morning to be the most promising. then you go to sleep.
mircea_popescu: empire does not in any factual sense exist. man who works 70% of the time for idiots is === the remaining 30% of that man.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but this entire "i work job!!!" thing's also a red herring. looky how your life flows : 1. your company needs some cash on a regular, predictable, and known in advance basis. 2. for convenience's sake i undertake a quarters' worth or so of this. 3. you turn around and buy, exactly like the people of walmart, a piece of hardware. on fucking impulse, there was ~no need for it~ and further, ~no time to use it~. but you wanted th
mircea_popescu: now you're in the position where you complain "no cash for pizarro" and "no time for ffa".
mircea_popescu: that's nice, but you ~created your problems yourself~.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason management exists, as a profession. that reason is in full display above : left to their own devices, people like you fuck themselves.
mircea_popescu: it's not however mandatory. it's optional, it works ~exactly~ like AA meetings work.
mircea_popescu: now how do you expect me to explain to your shareholders that "you know what ? the reason you can't predict in january what you'll read early march is that [???]" ?
mircea_popescu: looky here : the man who tells his wife "ima go see if i can find something to shoot at in the forest, we're fucking starving here" and the man who just disappears into the forest one day are readily distinguishable.
mircea_popescu: there's no need to examine their bags to distinguish them.
mircea_popescu: whether they came back with shot bear or shot wounds, is not yet relevant.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you are absolutely NOT on fucking target, quit deluding yourself.
mircea_popescu: you missed FOUR targets in february alone, and it's march 4th.
mircea_popescu: what you do is what every other similar idiot did since the invention of empire : keep balooning your debts, "yes i'm late with instalment 1 but instalment 2 will be 3x as big! [and also, of course, late]"
mircea_popescu: this is no waqy to live. the whole fucking POINT of the kindergarten was that you learn how to not be stupid in the way you're stupid.
mircea_popescu: it never was your convincing me of the alt-wisdom of stupidity.
mircea_popescu: again... did that make some sort of sense as an answer in your head, that was lost on its way to my head ? because i don't see it
mircea_popescu: as you stand right now, you're in a much worse position than nicoleci. she's a smart girl that got cheated out of an education, and consequently catching up. you're a smart boy that ~refuses~ education, and consequently spinning in place, in 2019 same problems as 2018.
mircea_popescu: are you aware, you had THIS EXACT PROBLEM a year ago to the week ?
mircea_popescu: or what is it, "lalala i can't hear it, dun count, not my problem" ?
mircea_popescu: this is your problem here, see. like any mental problem, it has its articulations. to you i have no doubt this nonsense makes sense, "i can't promise one a week, i got a job".
mircea_popescu: by leaving it for the end, where all the "i dunno how to do this yet" go.
mircea_popescu: then you can say "hey folks, we're done with the ffa that i know how to do, item is shelved for now, will pick it up if i wise up"
mircea_popescu: nobody is asking you to do impossible, or even difficult things. the problem's not the things. the problem's that you have developed, and evidently through insistent practice ensconced, a very self-defeating style of working.
mircea_popescu: it's neither artistic nor geniusy nor liberty-ish nor anything else, to not pay rent on fucking time.
mircea_popescu: nobody was a better writer for being late at his barber.
BingoBoingo: ^ Marketing roughly in the same league as a razor company telling their customers they need to be more feminine men
mircea_popescu: the problem here isn't whether m-r is proven or not proven, to standard x or to standard y, now or later.
mircea_popescu: the issue here is that a) you don't correctly account for costs, and that b) you don't correctly communicate.
mircea_popescu: as to a) : 1. you see an item for sale, for price X. 2. you don't even bother to calculate the expected-average-X, i suspect, but merely "intuit" it, without even a full second's thought. 3. you calculate X-imagined-avg-X thus obtaining a delta, which then motivates you to purchase, and in the process ALSO commits you.
mircea_popescu: but you never bother to calculate the costs of opportunity! neither in time, nor in actual resources, nor in anything else!
mircea_popescu: the man who drives 10 miles out of his way to buy a tank of gas a cent cheaper does the exact fucking thing, "oh, it was cheaper gas". no it fucking wasn't.
mircea_popescu: the cost to own, the cost to use, these fucking figure into the total cost. what good is it you got something 50 or 500 or 5000 bucks cheaper than "the average" if the average wasn't even correctly calculated and as a bonus you lose your horses die in the fire started by the wife's funeral candles ?!
mircea_popescu: it is still a deffective calculation, in that it only counts ~part~ of the cost, and compares to a ~dubious~ watermark.
mircea_popescu: and as to b), you never to my fucking knowledge said the "hey honey, ima go see if i can find something to shoot at in the forest" part. it's never "hey, i plan to spend so much dough to realise this much unbooked profit on the basis of this pricetag and through this process"
mircea_popescu: "the cost to buy this $160`000 item [which really can be had at $8`000 with some regularity, if one's not in a hurry] for $7`750 is $7`750 in cash + dropping the ballo on ffa + whatever else it is.
mircea_popescu: it may well be that the $250 notional you made ain't worth the notional value of what you lost.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-04 21:23 mircea_popescu: there were 4 weeks in february. where are the 4 items ?
mircea_popescu: it's not even true that asciilifeform 's gear trove is "worthless". everything has a value.
mircea_popescu: this is yet another red herring. it is evidently true one needs arbitrary long chunks for arbitrary long tasks, say "to prove m-r i need a weekend alone". but "ffa" IS NOT this. ffa is eminently aditive.
mircea_popescu: even 20minute timeslices can move it along, ~if~ you know how to manage your time and your thought process.
mircea_popescu: but currently you're much more adept at avoiding the learning of how to do that than at the doing it!
mircea_popescu: it's like a kid who, in preference of learning 1 digit multiplication table, learned a tree of 12 principal excuses with 12 nodes each.
mircea_popescu: holy shit, it'd have been faster to learn 100 items than 144!
mircea_popescu: so tehn spend however many 20 minute slices it takes to write these out, write out the time commitment you expect, sort them in order, and make yet another publishing plan!
mircea_popescu: rather than being surprised by "random" events one could've seen coming a mile's worth of weeks away, if they bothered to look ; and rather than being surprised by where the horse decides to go.
mircea_popescu: you can't go through life like this, astride a horse that takes you wherever it pleases, that you barely even know or ever talk to. wtf, it's your fucking head, it's a head not a horse!
mircea_popescu: a more balanced distribution of your own brainpower to the trees of your own life can only benefit you. as it is, you're stuck now spending weeks of time to deal with the results of decisions that took minutes to take on the basis of information you "compiled" in half seconds, by sucking thumbs.
mircea_popescu: this is no way to go about things, balance the tree, let everything get a commensurate qty of brain cycles.
mircea_popescu: if the tree is (evaluate object) (decide if buying object) (deal with the fallout of buying object) you can't possibly spend 300ms alftime on 1, 190s alftime on 2 and 168`000`000 s altfime on 3. it's just insane.
mircea_popescu: yes, of course. i'm not proposing you publish the damn thing in any particular scheme, or that your math comes out a particular way
mircea_popescu: there's no math broken-er than the math completely the fuck undone.
auctionbot: Buy order # 1042: 500 WFF, WU esta bien Heard: 154mn from PeterL. Ending: 2019-03-07 04:09:50.495654 UTC (64 hours 8 mins)