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00:10 ben_vulpes phf: без купюр?
00:11 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30300 @ 0.00051991 = 15.7533 BTC [+] {6}
00:11 ben_vulpes in re fp, dunno that anyone noticed, but i backpedaled from the global state fatwa in my v poc
00:12 ben_vulpes tres annoying to pass the same args around constantly.
00:21 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14990 @ 0.00050722 = 7.6032 BTC [-] {5}
00:26 phf ben_vulpes: "without cuts", купюра is from french coupure, and in this case means the parts that are cut out by the censor
00:30 phf it's actually from latin caesura, which is now used as the name of pause in a poem. i thought caesarean section comes from that, but wikipedia article has a very confusing "etymology" section so i don't even know what to believe anymore!
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00:44 ben_vulpes ah
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01:15 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes he means he can talk without bothering with the annoying sorts of context.
01:17 ben_vulpes hm
01:17 ben_vulpes i might begin to be understanding
01:18 ben_vulpes speaking without cuts then means to communicate intelligibly even without the bits that the censors stripped?
01:18 mircea_popescu or without the baby crying.
01:18 ben_vulpes is there some russian joke in there about how the bits that are cut are never the relevant ones?
01:19 mircea_popescu the fundamental point of the written word is that allows a certain sort of abstraction. it's "escapism" in a particular sense.
01:19 mircea_popescu the log system takes this fundamentally further.
01:22 ben_vulpes because a corpus through which one can grep exists, the forum can on an ongoing basis can communicate ever more abstractly?
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01:24 mircea_popescu i don't think we mean the same by abstraction. it's not a sort of cool. it's basically purification.
01:24 mircea_popescu like in "he was spirited away", "we abstracted him away"
01:26 mircea_popescu phf the problem with the village of ugly women is that well, there's probably something wrong with the water. yes the people now involved may be subpar for whatever reason or explanation to do with them. maybe. or maybe THIS offshot of the hope to ai is just as rotten as the rest of the various attempts to ai that preceded it.
01:26 mircea_popescu for reasons to do with that, instead.
01:27 mircea_popescu (what apparently nobody wants to mention is that the "good" oop now corrupted by teh evil orcs was really a child of desperation. pretty much born out of the mit through c-section, in the classical sense)
01:29 mircea_popescu (there's a very good reason they keep going on with cow and dog are animal. there was a great paper in the log about "you know what, just change your chosen names to hashes, see if teh system appears to be doing as much "understanding" as it did before.)
01:29 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: i meant abstraction in the sense of software that composes small tools into larger units that...operate at a higher level of abstraction.
01:29 mircea_popescu you have no fucking idea what that word means, do you.
01:29 ben_vulpes apparently not!
01:29 ben_vulpes what does it mean then.
01:30 mircea_popescu abstraction is loss. you throw out all sorts of stuff and hope&pray that it wasn't actually needed.
01:30 * ben_vulpes roars
01:30 ben_vulpes SOUNDS A LOT LIKE WRITING SOFTWARE
01:31 ben_vulpes i kid, i kid.
01:31 trinque http://amix.dk/uploads/picasso_bull.jpg
01:31 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1MK3pJe )
01:32 mircea_popescu romanian joke, for you. man sitting at desk, dog next to him pissing in his shoe.
01:32 mircea_popescu guy comes in, "hey, isn't that dog pissing in your shoe bothering you ?!"
01:32 mircea_popescu "fac abstractie."
01:32 mircea_popescu (i am abstracting)
01:34 ben_vulpes heh
01:38 mircea_popescu in other news, http://41.media.tumblr.com/186b118d7872656083275f142326edad/tumblr_mgf1plcMTW1rmkahco1_1280.jpg
01:38 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1MK3XyF )
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02:09 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36150 @ 0.00050964 = 18.4235 BTC [-] {3}
02:22 punkman speaking of Alan Kay, I recently stumbled on one of his inane ted-style talks, and his lets-reinvent-computars project http://www.vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm
02:22 assbot Viewpoints Research Institute ... ( http://bit.ly/1NkoyPQ )
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03:05 deedbot- [Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] Get Shorty. - http://www.contravex.com/2015/11/22/get-shorty/
03:16 punkman saw this in the cinema long time ago. puts it on rewatch list.
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03:38 punkman http://bookzz.org/book/1272987/e8c77c
03:38 assbot I'll Go Home Then, It's Warm and Has Chairs: The Unpublished Emails. | David Thorne | digital library bookzz ... ( http://bit.ly/21bjUrg )
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05:14 punkman http://boingboing.net/2015/11/21/southwest-airlines-surrenders.html
05:14 assbot Southwest Airlines surrenders to racists, refuses boarding to Arab-American passengers / Boing Boing ... ( http://bit.ly/1N1pDFL )
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08:22 shinohai !s http://cointelegraph.com/news/115703/delta-id-coin-new-utility-altcoin-developed-for-timestamping-system <<< why???
08:22 assbot Just a moment... ... ( http://bit.ly/1MvMkVt )
08:22 assbot 0 results for 'http://cointelegraph.com/news/115703/delta-id-coin-new-utility-altcoin-developed-for-timestamping-system <<< why???' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fcointelegraph.com%2Fnews%2F115703%2Fdelta-id-coin-new-utility-altcoin-developed-for-timestamping-system+++%3C%3C%3C+why%3F%3F%3F
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08:40 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15494 @ 0.00051493 = 7.9783 BTC [+] {3}
08:45 mircea_popescu punkman guy is like 75 or some shit.
08:46 mircea_popescu fine example if alf's greatest fear, he wasn't nearly this derpy back before martin luther king.
08:49 mircea_popescu o yeah get shorty is good. sort of like early pulp fiction / snatch
08:50 mircea_popescu meh, epub. i'll wait for the text version.
08:51 punkman epub is text
08:51 punkman this one at least
08:51 mircea_popescu shinohai because there are way more people than jobs.
08:52 mircea_popescu punkman i just went in a cycle asking "then why the fuck are they not calling it .txt" and answering myself the line above to shinohai and now i feel a little queasy.
08:52 punkman lol
08:53 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9450 @ 0.00052382 = 4.9501 BTC [+] {2}
08:55 mircea_popescu PK^C^D ^@^@^@^@^@\
08:55 mircea_popescu lies.
08:56 punkman you can unzip the epub, you'll get html
08:59 mircea_popescu a ty.
08:59 mircea_popescu "this book is sold subject to the condition that it won't be lent"
09:00 mircea_popescu what the motherfucking shit is wrong with these people.
09:00 mircea_popescu "oh look, i wrote some words down, now you gotta do what i say!!1"
09:01 mircea_popescu said every obnoxious 9 yo girl having experienced insufficient ponytail pulling.
09:02 BingoBoingo ;;later tell mitch_callahan your connection is doing that thing again
09:02 gribble The operation succeeded.
09:03 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36100 @ 0.00050963 = 18.3976 BTC [-] {4}
09:04 mircea_popescu <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?><!DOCTYPE html
09:04 mircea_popescu PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
09:04 mircea_popescu "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"><html
09:04 mircea_popescu xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
09:04 mircea_popescu content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" /><meta
09:04 mircea_popescu http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /><meta
09:04 mircea_popescu name="generator" content="Aspose.Words for .NET 10.6.0.0"
09:04 mircea_popescu href="styles.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /></head><body><div><h1
09:04 mircea_popescu id="navPoint_1"><span>Foreword</span></h1><p><span
09:04 mircea_popescu style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">&#xa0;</span></p><p><span
09:04 mircea_popescu style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Hello. Thank you for buying this
09:04 mircea_popescu book. </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Or at least the
09:04 mircea_popescu e-book.</span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> I laid this out
09:04 mircea_popescu myself and I have never done an e-book layout before so </span><span
09:04 mircea_popescu style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">I </span><span
09:04 mircea_popescu style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">apologise</span><span
09:04 mircea_popescu style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> in advance </span><span
09:04 mircea_popescu style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">if </span><span
09:04 mircea_popescu style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">it isn’t very good. I probably
09:04 mircea_popescu should have put in more effort but you know how it is. With round the
09:04 mircea_popescu clock episodes of Property Virgins on HGTV and sleeping to do, there never
09:05 mircea_popescu </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">seems</span><span
09:05 mircea_popescu style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> enough hours in the day.
09:05 mircea_popescu </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Also, r</span><span
09:05 mircea_popescu style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">ather than go to any real effort, I
09:05 mircea_popescu thought it would be easier to simply collect all the material I have
09:05 mircea_popescu written that didn’t make it into the first book, either due to timing,
09:05 mircea_popescu space, legal issues, or not being very good, and put them in this one.
09:05 mircea_popescu </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,
09:05 mircea_popescu sans-serif">&#xa0;</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,
09:05 mircea_popescu sans-serif">Hosting fees are e
09:05 mircea_popescu would you look at this stupid shit!
09:05 kakobrekla srs.
09:05 mircea_popescu take some text, put it through "Aspose.Words for .NET 10.6.0.0" so you can have <span></span> for every other word like in the old days of microsoft computing, and then zip the shit and call it "epub".
09:05 mircea_popescu fucking hell already. go make altcoins, people.
09:05 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31500 @ 0.00052382 = 16.5003 BTC [+] {2}
09:07 mitch_callahan ahh sorry BingoBoingo, its this stupid Mac client I'm using. i'll remove it today.
09:07 mircea_popescu "hosting fees are expensive" my foot. they're only expensive because "oh i just wanna be a designer" all over the place.
09:08 punkman https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/502526058.jpg saw Uncle Vanya yesterday. here's the set chekov-gun'd until the fucking picture frames are empty.
09:08 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1T82IOj )
09:16 mircea_popescu vaguely related http://45.media.tumblr.com/8c442cfeab1c18787e269f2899b09a41/tumblr_mfk5a3wM1t1rv5wh5o1_500.gif
09:16 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1kOAQn5 )
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10:57 deedbot- [Trilema] Fuck you and your stupid epub. Also, David Thorne's 2nd book (it isn't really very good). - http://trilema.com/2015/fuck-you-and-your-stupid-epub-also-david-thornes-2nd-book-it-isnt-really-very-good/
10:58 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-11-2015#1329599 >> 'the map is not the territory but the territory didn't fit in my glove compartment'
10:58 assbot Logged on 22-11-2015 06:30:10; mircea_popescu: abstraction is loss. you throw out all sorts of stuff and hope&pray that it wasn't actually needed.
10:58 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-11-2015#1329616 >> snore, this is what happens if you live too long - old, 'respectable', impotent
10:58 assbot Logged on 22-11-2015 07:22:09; punkman: speaking of Alan Kay, I recently stumbled on one of his inane ted-style talks, and his lets-reinvent-computars project http://www.vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm
10:59 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-11-2015#1329646 >> perhaps somebody will have the basic decency to feed me a bullet prior
10:59 assbot Logged on 22-11-2015 13:46:27; mircea_popescu: fine example if alf's greatest fear, he wasn't nearly this derpy back before martin luther king.
10:59 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-11-2015#1329651 >> but there are ~precisely~ as many people as there are picks at butugychag
10:59 assbot Logged on 22-11-2015 13:51:32; mircea_popescu: shinohai because there are way more people than jobs.
11:00 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-11-2015#1329659 >> see also http://www.loper-os.org/?p=918
11:00 assbot Logged on 22-11-2015 13:59:58; mircea_popescu: "this book is sold subject to the condition that it won't be lent"
11:00 assbot Loper OS » To Lend is the Right of an Owner – That is, Not You. ... ( http://bit.ly/1TY5dDA )
11:00 asciilifeform 'To those who would retain their right to personal property: your only true allies are the pirates. Not “lending libraries”, not “reasonably priced” and “humane” iTunes-like services. The pirates are the only people presently defending the no-compromise, My-Computer-is-Mine point of view.' -- yours truly
11:02 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-11-2015#1329662 << gianni rodari had a rhyme about 'the girl that wanted a song just for her and nobody else'
11:02 assbot Logged on 22-11-2015 14:01:19; mircea_popescu: said every obnoxious 9 yo girl having experienced insufficient ponytail pulling.
11:04 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-11-2015#1329655 << the 'PK' didn't give it away ??
11:04 assbot Logged on 22-11-2015 13:55:36; mircea_popescu: PK^C^D ^@^@^@^@^@\
11:05 mircea_popescu asciilifeform only after he said.
11:06 asciilifeform y'know, 0x50 0x4B 0x03 0x04.
11:06 * asciilifeform nostalgic
11:07 mircea_popescu that part of my brain has been overwritten by tits.
11:07 mircea_popescu asciilifeform speaking of defending, see the latest trilema.
11:09 * asciilifeform reading it presently
11:09 * asciilifeform briefly took a break from debugging a motherfucking debugger
11:09 mircea_popescu lol
11:11 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: didja actually swallow that whole thing ?
11:12 mircea_popescu what ?
11:12 asciilifeform the thorne turd
11:12 mircea_popescu well yes.
11:12 mircea_popescu it's just 400kb or so.
11:12 asciilifeform it isn't the weight
11:12 asciilifeform but the... contents
11:12 mircea_popescu which i suppose counts for "368" pages in lalaland wherew they do 1k characters per page.
11:12 mircea_popescu what about them ?
11:13 * mircea_popescu shudders at the thought he actually had to "turn a page" every 1k bytes.
11:13 mircea_popescu god damned it i'd rather be a z80/
11:14 mircea_popescu books are for german kids, really, the sort that grew up waddled at the ankles.
11:14 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: ergo the popularity of mechanized b00kz
11:14 mircea_popescu what the fuck is wrong wiht plain text omfg.
11:14 asciilifeform aside from maths - nothing
11:15 asciilifeform for the most part that is what i keep around on dead tree
11:15 mircea_popescu a) none of these derps know any maths and b) i do and somehow survive. if you need a particular notation to do maths either you're not very good or are trying to talk to idiots.
11:16 * asciilifeform would like to read mircea_popescu's notation-less mathematical work. i bet it is rather like euclid on lsd
11:16 kakobrekla like feynman and his diagrams. total idiot.
11:16 asciilifeform and fuck leibniz aha
11:16 * mircea_popescu retreats growling audibly.
11:18 jurov i'd like to see natural language applied to programming, too
11:19 asciilifeform jurov: ever use 'hypertalk' ?
11:19 asciilifeform jurov: you can see a little bit in one of my old articles, http://www.loper-os.org/?p=568
11:19 assbot Loper OS » Why Hypercard Had to Die ... ( http://bit.ly/1U578pU )
11:19 asciilifeform (imho the idea of 'natural language program' is fundamentally, deeply braindamaged like few other ideas)
11:23 mircea_popescu "natural languages" != "alphabetic notation".
11:23 mircea_popescu i dunno why the fuck this point is so unobvious, but : most of the intellectual gains humanity has made came after it decided to do what science always does : arbitrarily clamp down on complexity in one place to use this as leverage against complexity elsewhere.
11:24 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36155 @ 0.00052348 = 18.9264 BTC [-] {3}
11:24 mircea_popescu there is a fucking reason white people are better than all the other people, and it has jack shit to do with the skin.
11:24 mircea_popescu a lot more to do with the brilliant idea of "use these letters and fuck you and your ugly mother."
11:25 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 67045 @ 0.00052406 = 35.1356 BTC [+] {3}
11:26 jurov adding a meaning for a word that already has zillion of other meanings, instead of using dedicated symbol is NOT reducing complexity
11:27 mircea_popescu and you know this how ?
11:27 jurov from experience
11:27 jurov and you?
11:27 mircea_popescu but does your experience also include what i actually said above, or just what you saw in it ?
11:28 mircea_popescu i said "clamp down in one place" not "reduce". how the fuck are you goingto reduce complexity and why aren't you moving on to entropy next!
11:28 jurov you explicitly named the place as "use these letters and fuck you and your ugly mother."
11:28 mircea_popescu aha.
11:28 mircea_popescu think of it as a boat.
11:29 mircea_popescu the boat does not make the ocean level any lower.
11:29 mircea_popescu except it allows you to stay dry.
11:29 mircea_popescu (it actually makes the level raise slightly, but that is part of the "hope and pray" definition of abstraction yesterday - we hope and pray it dun matter.)
11:31 jurov that's finest advocacy of humanist pseudosciences i ever saw
11:32 jurov they try to take existing language and leverage it, too
11:32 mircea_popescu &#128077;
11:32 gribble Error: "#128077;" is not a valid command.
11:32 mircea_popescu 11110000:10011111:10010001:10001101
11:32 mircea_popescu you know what i mean...
11:38 mircea_popescu anyway, again not sure why this isn't obvious, but the alphabet is (still is, in spite of all the "help" geeks gave it) a defined, closed, easily countable set.
11:38 mircea_popescu "natural language" isn't even defined.
11:48 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-11-2015#1329763 << with regards to mathematics, it was ~specifically~ about tying folks' dirty, sticky, shit-covered 'intuitive language brain' monkey hands and forcing formal reasoning
11:48 assbot Logged on 22-11-2015 16:23:54; mircea_popescu: i dunno why the fuck this point is so unobvious, but : most of the intellectual gains humanity has made came after it decided to do what science always does : arbitrarily clamp down on complexity in one place to use this as leverage against complexity elsewhere.
11:48 mircea_popescu aha.
11:48 mircea_popescu which is why this "no but math notation" argument is so bifurcacious.
11:48 asciilifeform take, for instance, http://www.loper-os.org/wp-content/hypercard-calc/hc23.jpg << this. it took me perhaps 20 whole minutes to crap out. know why ?
11:48 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1lCyVCf )
11:49 asciilifeform the reason was that using english as it permits itself to be used, specifically fails, in ways which the hypertalk docs did not take any pains to describe
11:50 asciilifeform (in short, the disambiguation has to be done like-so; and you can use pronouns, but only like-so)
11:50 asciilifeform overall much more pain, imho, than any ordinary programming language.
11:51 trinque interesting. there you see that abstraction increases complexity clearly, by way of an exaggerated case
11:51 asciilifeform idiot abstraction balloons up complexity like nothing else
11:51 trinque SQL also, "lets make a language for accountants and other non-programmers"
11:52 asciilifeform http://www.loper-os.org/wp-content/romankbd.png
11:52 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1lCzeNs )
11:52 trinque they at (the very) least made something of a double-back somewhere along the language's history
11:52 thestringpuller trinque: that's an apt observation of SQL.
11:52 mircea_popescu asciilifeform same problem is why everyone hates what originally seemed obvious and intuitive : the text powered adventure
11:52 mircea_popescu motherfucker i hated larry's comprehension.
11:52 asciilifeform trying to make a programming language for ~the wrong side of the camel hump~ is like trying to build a car for folks missing both arms and legs
11:53 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: precisely that
11:53 thestringpuller what's with all the danny devito reviews on da blogs?
11:53 mircea_popescu no. bad analogy.
11:53 mircea_popescu it's like trying to make trains for cixi
11:53 asciilifeform ^
11:55 mircea_popescu as far as her dumb ass is concerned, the best possible train is a ghetto blaster with the volume welded to low, playing christmas carrols from under the mirrors-ensconced speakers.
12:01 mircea_popescu in other news, "you should perhaps point out to your mother that being ugly is no excuse to rawdog drunks" is my new favourite insult.
12:05 * asciilifeform mumbles something about $chipvendor rawdogging drunks
12:05 * asciilifeform has 'wrath' bit set
12:09 thestringpuller "the wrath of alfdog" << great name for a hip hop album
12:14 asciilifeform mips_ejtag_drscan_8_out(ejtag_info, MCHP_DE_ASSERT_RST); << motherfuckers. WE ARE SO SPESHUL, can't use standard mips reset ahahaha.
12:16 kakobrekla <trinque> SQL also, "lets make a language for accountants and other non-programmers" < yet is anyone still writing raw queries in this day?
12:17 mircea_popescu pretty much every time i want something from trilema i SELECT by hand
12:17 asciilifeform ^
12:17 mircea_popescu i really have no idea why i'd want a language on top of that. what's it going to do ?
12:18 trinque frustrate you by hiding functionality of the underlying
12:19 fluffypony kakobrekla: I write raw queries a few times a week
12:19 mircea_popescu the only way it could be useful is if it somehow intuited what the columns are actually named for me so i don't have to always keep checking
12:19 mircea_popescu but that ain't happening
12:20 kakobrekla you dont need 'functionality' to SELECT from wp-posts
12:20 asciilifeform intuited << see one of the better mr mold pieces re: same, http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/wolfram-alpha-and-hubristic-user.html
12:20 assbot Unqualified Reservations: Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces ... ( http://bit.ly/1lCBDHG )
12:20 asciilifeform '...control interfaces must not be intelligent. Briefly, intelligent user interfaces should be limited to applications in which the user does not expect to control the behavior of the product. If the product is used as a tool, its interface should be as unintelligent as possible. Stupid is predictable; predictable is learnable; learnable is usable.'
12:20 trinque kakobrekla: it is amusing though, yes, that this that was originally intended to be a user interface got buried as it did
12:20 kakobrekla i find raw queries disgusting
12:21 asciilifeform kakobrekla: do you find the tool disgusting, or the work ?
12:21 asciilifeform folks tend to confuse the two
12:21 kakobrekla perhaps both.
12:22 fluffypony SELECT * FROM kakobrekla_brain WHERE is_disgusting=1;
12:22 mircea_popescu kakobrekla i know how to do joins and everything!
12:22 mircea_popescu what functionality are you talking about ?
12:22 fluffypony ORDER BY last_disgusted_date DESC;
12:22 fluffypony :-P
12:22 asciilifeform mircea_popescu probably also knows how to change a crankshaft. but does he ~want~ to.
12:23 mircea_popescu and honestly i don't mind it so much. about the same as my life generally, really.
12:23 mircea_popescu "bring me this" "fetch me a that" "kill that schmuck"
12:23 mircea_popescu if you're going to rule people you gotta be able to somehow explain what you actually want done and raw queries are really not far off.
12:24 asciilifeform ah but machine doesn't typically respond to whipping
12:24 mircea_popescu nor needs it.
12:24 asciilifeform which is why man so often becomes servant of machine, rather than vice versa
12:24 asciilifeform stuck 'wrestling with the pig'
12:25 mircea_popescu i would much rather spend five minutes writing queries than figuring why the fuck copy *. doesn't work and ending up using cat
12:26 mircea_popescu seriously, leaving aside everything else, why the fuck would you make THIRTY EIGHT DIFFERENT FILES ?
12:26 mircea_popescu what is this "chapter" thing and why is it in your epub^H^H^H^H zipfile ?
12:32 jurov i'm okay with sql. but when programatically constructing a query, i prefer sqlalchemy
12:38 kakobrekla most folks most of the time dont need 'functionality', just like with sugar.
12:38 asciilifeform see also mircea_popescu's 'this is a spiffy rifle, i'll take it fishing and to bed'
12:39 mircea_popescu kakobrekla no but seriously, i'm at least partly here to learn, so what functionality is it ? like a good example.
12:40 kakobrekla this one: <trinque> frustrate you by hiding functionality of the underlying
12:40 kakobrekla ask trinq.
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13:21 trinque mircea_popescu │ kakobrekla no but seriously, i'm at least partly here to learn, so what functionality is it ? like a good example. << this I think calls for careful steps and a machete
13:21 trinque the huge problem with relational databases is that they conflated programming and declarative data access to the detriment of both
13:22 trinque one place you'll find c-like expressions and functions; another you find set union and difference operators which work entirely via magic
13:23 trinque this magic is why (as I understand it) asciilifeform abhors the thing; you have in no way been involved with what steps will be taken to compute the result other than describing the result itself, barring again, the places where actual programming crept back in
13:24 trinque the usefulness of this declarative mode is I think as you describe, "get me a that" damn it, because I want one.
13:25 trinque aside this, any work I'm doing in databases has been indefinitely postponed until I understand CLOS far better, and review what was done atop it
13:25 kakobrekla if you think you have done away with magick using raw queries you are mistaken
13:25 trinque nah, I am saying the db is magic to the core.
13:25 trinque horrible chimera
13:26 kakobrekla the layer on top (at least mine) generates queries deterministically and the result is not obstructed
13:27 trinque use objects at that layer?
13:27 kakobrekla optionally
13:27 trinque SQLAlchemy or the like?
13:28 kakobrekla i havent used sqla, i guess its is probably similar though i cant say for sure
13:28 * kakobrekla doesnt use off shelf solution
13:29 trinque cool
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13:31 jurov some people went boldly to solve RDBMS problem... and created MongoDB. *cringe*
13:32 trinque myeah, that thing is a sin
13:33 asciilifeform there are 'people' programming computers who wouldn't have been allowed within cannon shot of a tractor in kolhoz, yes
13:34 trinque jurov: I simply wish to sit with my data-set and say "give me the X for which this lambda evaluates true, retrieve its related Y and Z, compute this aggregate over the related Y and Z; do this again with another lambda. Return the paginated list of the intersection of the two result sets"
13:34 trinque I'm sure this could be done rather well atop CLOS with no other monstrosities involved
13:35 trinque and the observation which led to databases in the first place is that questions like the above arise constantly; they are not thought of once and etched into the program in stone
13:36 trinque these document stores are nothing more than "What, you don't already know the key of the value you want?" and subsequently "Well fuck, how do we tack relational ideas back onto this, now that we've abandoned all notion of formal structure?"
13:37 asciilifeform http://siliconexposed.blogspot.com/2014_03_01_archive.html << unrelated but very spiffy
13:37 assbot Silicon Exposed: March 2014 ... ( http://bit.ly/1SSZkpN )
13:37 asciilifeform 'Once the via was drilled and it appeared we had made contact with the signal trace, it was time to backfill with platinum. The video below is sped up 10x to avoid boring my readers ;)'
13:39 asciilifeform 'Once everything was done and the chamber was vented I removed the carbon coating with oxygen plasma (the cleanroom's standard photoresist removal process), packaged up my sample, went home, and soldered it back to the board for testing. After powering it up... nothing! The device was as dead as a doornail, I couldn't even get a JTAG IDCODE from it. ... ... ruled out beam-induced damage as I had not been hitting any of the I/O
13:39 asciilifeform circuitry with the ion beam ... I realized what was going on almost instantly: the antenna effect. The bond wire and leadframe connected to each pad in the device was acting as an antenna and coupling some of the 13.56 MHz RF energy from the plasma into the input buffers, blowing out the ESD diodes and input transistors, and leaving me with a dead chip.'
13:49 mircea_popescu trinque can i get "this" and "that" comparisons of the actual thing ? "ceci n'est pas une pipe" "this is not a pipe" sort of thing
13:50 jurov trinque i'd rather have lazy evaluator that collects the filters and operations I normally have in the program, and compiles them together into optimized query and executes it only when the result is needed
13:50 jurov but that's hard AI, I'm afrraid
13:50 trinque mircea_popescu: the mismatch I was referring to was the object-relational-mapper; it cannot for example (easily, or usably) create a new object which is the synthesis of n other objects done by inner join
13:51 trinque on the SQL side you're more than welcome to create new sets at will via views
13:53 mircea_popescu aha...
13:56 jurov i don't see why this of all is the problem, objects usually know which table/column is the field wired to
13:57 trinque there are sets which are derived from operations on other sets
13:58 trinque "an active_customer is one with an active_subscription and an enabled flag and..."
13:58 jurov as long as all the values take their primary keys with them, you're fine
13:59 trinque this is not the point
14:01 jurov for me biggest prob was the consistency, in any nontrivial ORM situation you build the objects partially, must take care of constraints... db that defers checking constraints to commit would help, but then how do you report it to user... hairiness
14:01 trinque and actually you're going to end up looking at SQL ASTs to figure out where a column came from
14:01 trinque jurov: *that* was my point
14:01 trinque that using an ORM you duplicate what the DB can already do
14:02 trinque why not derive your JS form validator or whatever from your db constraint?
14:02 trinque "because SQL" << and now we're back to me writing a CL RDBMS
14:02 mircea_popescu for some reason these all sound to me like "the problems we get for having a bad db design"
14:03 mircea_popescu if one structures his tables sanely then none of these complex requests exiswt
14:03 jurov i see
14:04 trinque that's certainly so, that you either pick a sane table structure, or you write terrible queries
14:04 jurov hahaha and then is not able to detect glaring errors...because "dis doth not exist!!111"
14:04 jurov *mpex is
14:05 trinque and my most complex queries have typically involved converting one schema to another one time, and then throwing away the queries
14:11 jurov !up linton_s_dawson
14:11 jurov pls don't thank me
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14:21 jurov hey
14:24 wyrdmantis mircea_popescu can i have eulora login?
14:24 mircea_popescu wyrdmantis aite 1sec
14:25 wyrdmantis sure
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14:50 mircea_popescu lse do it."
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18:12 asciilifeform pete_dushenski, ben_vulpes, et al: motherfucking crapple. ~4 hrs disassembly to swap a measely inverter cable
18:13 pete_dushenski for the unawares, what SHOULD it take ?
18:13 asciilifeform 0.
18:13 asciilifeform in civilized iron this is not a wear component !
18:13 pete_dushenski l0l
18:14 pete_dushenski 'designed by apple in california, etc.'
18:14 asciilifeform aha
18:14 asciilifeform 'a1181' if anyone gives half a fuck.
18:14 pete_dushenski for macbook air ?
18:14 asciilifeform nah the other one.
18:15 asciilifeform ('air' has no high voltage supply to the panel, as it is from led era)
18:15 pete_dushenski the airbook mac then ?
18:15 asciilifeform the whateverthefuck the a1181 is.
18:16 asciilifeform http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/specs/macbook-core-2-duo-2.4-black-13-early-2008-penryn-specs.html << it
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18:16 pete_dushenski aha. brother had it.
18:16 pete_dushenski i was 'pro' user, wouldn't touch this.
18:17 asciilifeform i wouldn't either
18:17 pete_dushenski wtf are you doing dinking around with one on the first place ?
18:17 asciilifeform it is for pet
18:17 pete_dushenski must be some kinda pet.
18:17 asciilifeform used for many years, and will use until the chinese stop making parts
18:18 mircea_popescu how does the cable wear anyway ? badly placed fan ?
18:18 asciilifeform fatigue
18:18 asciilifeform (it runs through the hinge)
18:18 mircea_popescu fatigue from what
18:18 mircea_popescu \it's not a fuciking bridge oh.
18:18 mircea_popescu heh.
18:18 asciilifeform open, close, open, close...
18:19 asciilifeform this is the hv cable for the lamps
18:21 asciilifeform everything about the box seemed to be ~designed~ to make repairs as miserable an affair as possible
18:21 asciilifeform i'm kinda surprised they didn't fill the thing with glue and be done with it
18:22 jurov you forgot trotyl
18:22 asciilifeform ^ optional extra pheature
18:22 asciilifeform iMine
18:23 pete_dushenski iphn0e comes in gold casing for this precise reason
18:24 mircea_popescu trotyl is more expensive than either the thing or the intended customer.
18:24 asciilifeform ^
18:24 pete_dushenski http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=19-11-2015#1327375 << cook reads logs, y'know
18:24 assbot Logged on 19-11-2015 17:59:12; pete_dushenski: even place large quantity of gold in land mines. hell, make the land mines ~entirely~ out of gold. not like the yellow stuff has any better uses.
18:25 * pete_dushenski is non-plussed by sequence of 'actual history'
18:25 asciilifeform wut
18:27 pete_dushenski the mines before phones or phones before mines thing
18:27 mircea_popescu in other stories of fatigue, http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md7ystNmei1qziluwo1_1280.jpg
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18:28 asciilifeform mircea_popescu would enjoy 'hall of the singing caryatids' by v. pelevin
18:28 asciilifeform (exists in engl even)
18:28 asciilifeform it is about this picture.
18:29 * mircea_popescu is more into the "Brothel of intellectual lusts" take on female degradation than the flimsy political apropos take.
18:30 asciilifeform it's more of the former than the latter
18:31 mircea_popescu i guess no two people ever can read the same book
18:32 asciilifeform if i ever bother to do a w4r3z scan, they could...
18:33 mircea_popescu i never saw much in it (and in pelevin generally) other than "oh if only the holy tenets of TRUE socialism hadn't been /intinate/ or however you say that in russian
18:33 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: you gotta be thinking of some other fella
18:33 mircea_popescu isn't this the book with lena the "poor her" whore and that schmuck doing dune "the voice" v2.0 ?
18:34 asciilifeform voice?
18:34 pete_dushenski http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-11-2015#1329816 << duly noted for second instalment of comic. if. when.
18:34 assbot Logged on 22-11-2015 17:09:00; thestringpuller: "the wrath of alfdog" << great name for a hip hop album
18:35 mircea_popescu ;;google "the voice" in dune
18:35 gribble Voice - Dune Wiki - Frank Herbert, David Lynch, Sandworms - Wikia: <http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Voice>; Bene Gesserit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bene_Gesserit>; Dune (2000) - Lady Jessica using the voice against Stilgar - YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDHzDOWg9gw>
18:39 mircea_popescu anyway, i get it, an entire generation of disenfranchised young russians figure they're great chaps and the fault must be in the women empowering the old farts.
18:39 mircea_popescu meanwhile...
18:39 mircea_popescu whatever, i dun feel like getting into it.
18:40 pete_dushenski too much work on the sabbath ?
18:41 mircea_popescu too much rehash. what am i, openssl ?
18:41 pete_dushenski http://theaviationist.com/2015/11/20/iriaf-f-14s-escort-ruaf-tu-95/ << spiffy video inside.
18:41 assbot The Aviationist » Watch this video of Iranian F-14 Tomcats escorting a Russian Tu-95 bomber during air strike in Syria ... ( http://bit.ly/1MLA15f )
18:42 mircea_popescu do those things even do anything ?
18:42 mircea_popescu "oh oh airstrike" "ok and ?" "we took out their outhouse!111"
18:42 pete_dushenski mircea_popescu: i have nfi what you are no matter how hard i try.
18:43 mircea_popescu here's a primer on airstrike efficiency : the brits did 7 (SEVEN!) mid-air refuellings for one of their rustbuckets to manage to drop ONE bomb on the one runway in the faulklands, "disabling" it
18:43 mircea_popescu except the argentines fixed it that same day, and used it to land hercules for the entire duration of the conflict.
18:43 * pete_dushenski isn't sure that 'bear' is supposed to do anything.
18:43 mircea_popescu cost about 150mn to tear down (without counting amortisation and hr costs) and about 18k to fix.
18:44 pete_dushenski that's backasswards terrorism
18:44 mircea_popescu well, the ~$65 in box cutters the terrorists spent did bring down a 8-10bn piece of real estate.
18:45 pete_dushenski ;;calc 9000000000/65
18:45 gribble 138461538.462
18:46 pete_dushenski ^healthy roi, that.
18:46 pete_dushenski healthy *multiple
18:47 pete_dushenski vs.
18:47 pete_dushenski ;;calc 18000/150000000
18:47 gribble 0.00012
18:48 pete_dushenski one of these aggressors has too much money in their pockets, while the other knows full well the value of a dollar.
18:50 mircea_popescu either that or possibly doesn't give a shit about caryatids.
18:50 mircea_popescu defo one or the other.
18:51 mircea_popescu supposedly (ro) intinate = (en) defiled, but im not too happy to it. tina is a derrogative for earth, soil. it's expected to be barren, powdery (but noit outright sand) and in generaly the equivalent of dirt.
18:51 mircea_popescu intina is a verb, to en-dirt-y.
18:53 pete_dushenski https://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjx5L_unKXJAhUCLYgKHf0-ClQQjBwIBA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fd%2Fd9%2FPorch_of_the_Caryatids_from_angle.JPG&psig=AFQjCNHy0iPIzC_1v0U8RVTk5KbZLGOW2g&ust=1448322636396145 << these caryatids ?
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18:53 pete_dushenski https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Porch_of_the_Caryatids_from_angle.JPG <<
18:53 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1N70tKj )
18:54 mircea_popescu i had a great pic up lemme see if i can ever find anything again in this smoldering pile of everything that's my blog
18:54 mircea_popescu back in a week.
18:56 * asciilifeform wonders if mircea_popescu read the book in a language he actually speaks
18:56 mircea_popescu i think i read it in french
19:02 mircea_popescu meh i can't find the happy dancing mantises. a well.
19:02 mircea_popescu anyway, what was in your copy, asciilifeform ?
19:02 asciilifeform well i have an english transl. lying around
19:03 asciilifeform perhaps will warez it once find my tripod and have a free shiva hand.
19:03 mircea_popescu notrly the point is it ?
19:04 pete_dushenski http://ashleys.co/image/133719961267
19:04 assbot wtf ily : Photo ... ( http://bit.ly/1MLDaC4 )
19:04 asciilifeform it's a short & very lulzy yarn and none of the psychiatric weird mircea_popescu mentioned was in it...
19:04 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: wut
19:04 mircea_popescu wait, is it actually a different story ? ie, not with these ?
19:04 asciilifeform well, there was praying mantis involved
19:05 punkman http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/02/1412244775608_wps_21_Dancing_mantises_Two_pray.jpg
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19:05 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
19:07 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 !
19:08 * asciilifeform doesn't have useful suggestions for viewing arsebook either
19:08 asciilifeform or 'myspace', etc.
19:08 asciilifeform why even.
19:08 mircea_popescu punkman similar but no
19:08 pete_dushenski because pr0nz
19:08 asciilifeform the tards helpfully segregated themselves, why dig'em back up ?
19:08 punkman asciilifeform: there is porn
19:09 asciilifeform 'this is a mousetrap.' 'bbbbutt there's cheeze!!11'
19:10 punkman also describes computer
19:10 pete_dushenski mousetrap grew up from nowhere seriously in last month. before that, fine.
19:17 punkman http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/3/12/1363096281744/18c47e23-73f4-4267-a10f-aa64e0dcef20-620x372.jpeg
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19:19 punkman for BingoBoingo https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BsnrMIRCIAEloK6.jpg
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19:21 trinque oh dear.
19:26 funkenstein_ lol we can file that cheese girl under "white are better" right?
19:26 kakobrekla that is not eve cheese
19:26 kakobrekla even*
19:27 kakobrekla 5% cheese, 95% plastic
19:29 funkenstein_ well kako, at least labelled with only 26 characters like my fantasy of divine imagery
19:30 pete_dushenski tripleslash: fix your connection wouldja
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20:18 punkman http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/original-size/images/print-edition/20151121_WBC554.png
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20:23 pete_dushenski ^that bar graph will be even lulzier in 50 years when those 'tech giants' 'go kodak'
20:26 kakobrekla as it stands now, all ''german manufacturers' are using 'us tech' and no 'us tech firm' is using a 'german manufacturer'
20:26 kakobrekla rounding errors are possible.
20:28 pete_dushenski perhaps microshit notwithstanding, use != depend upon
20:28 pete_dushenski there are ready replacements for apple, google, amazon, and facebook
20:28 asciilifeform pete_dushenski found a replacement for apple ?!!
20:29 asciilifeform pray tell ?
20:29 asciilifeform is it a broomstick ?
20:29 pete_dushenski this is from the perspective of 'deutschland manufaktur', recall
20:30 pete_dushenski wtf does volkswagen need crapple for exactly ?
20:31 asciilifeform if they were to attempt abandoning microshit - would be just as dependent on crapple.
20:31 asciilifeform failing this, poettering.
20:31 kakobrekla desktops for designing (with ps) and selling the outcome with ipads
20:31 pete_dushenski yes, poettering, the 'us tech giant'
20:32 asciilifeform omitting the x86 duopoly ?
20:32 asciilifeform (soon to be intel monopoly)
20:32 pete_dushenski we agree this is unlikely
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21:15 mircea_popescu <kakobrekla> 5% cheese, 95% plastic << word.
21:15 mircea_popescu fucking bs.
21:18 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" ?
21:18 mircea_popescu not that many consumer choice 1983 lebarons out there.
21:18 kakobrekla teslas or whatever 20 liter trucks?
21:18 kakobrekla any remaining vw will get called off anyway
21:19 mircea_popescu bout half euro imports. the rest japanese.
21:19 mircea_popescu you can't drive a truck and be in tech, it's like being an efette wwf fan
21:19 asciilifeform 'tesla' is about as common as ferrari here.
21:19 mircea_popescu you live with the bureaucrats not the technocrats alf.
21:20 mircea_popescu anyway. v is for victory : http://41.media.tumblr.com/b8e2ec1effb6fd13da3882c99c832046/tumblr_meugfbluub1riedhko1_1280.jpg
21:20 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1LuM7Oh )
21:20 kakobrekla so i google 'google parking lot' and get 'Google employee lives in a truck in the parking lot ' as first hit.
21:21 mircea_popescu why don't you daimler google parking lot instead!
21:22 asciilifeform !b 2
21:22 assbot Last 2 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/2X5CAWK.txt )
21:22 asciilifeform l0l!
21:22 asciilifeform i had these mousetraps.
21:25 kakobrekla to be clear, by truck i mean the SUVs
21:25 kakobrekla i thought rednecks drive that
21:26 mircea_popescu yeah but redneck country is socal/burbank/bakersfield
21:27 mircea_popescu whereas foogle/gashbook/bapple/etc are more like sf/bay area/fauntleroyland
21:27 kakobrekla hm, ok.
21:27 * asciilifeform turned down a gig there not long ago
21:28 mircea_popescu bakersfield ?
21:28 asciilifeform sfbay
21:28 asciilifeform 'tis cursed by the gods.
21:28 mircea_popescu not more than shittington
21:29 asciilifeform more.
21:29 asciilifeform costs literally 5x per sq. metre vs here.
21:29 * asciilifeform actually did the homework, even
21:29 mircea_popescu what is it these days ?
21:29 asciilifeform and they don't pay 5x.
21:29 punkman but you could live on parking lot
21:30 mircea_popescu you could couchsurf!
21:30 mircea_popescu MAKE A NAME FOR YOURSELF!
21:30 asciilifeform asked a phriend, he (with horrified face) said, 'people live differently in those parts. no one has a flat to himself, it's for extroverts, they pack'em 5+ in, they hang out in bars after the bell and only go home to sleep'
21:31 mircea_popescu heh
21:31 mircea_popescu extroverts my foot
21:31 mircea_popescu i do not know one single sf extrovert.
21:31 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)
21:32 mircea_popescu it's all shellshocked/ptss mousy schmucks
21:32 phf *than
21:32 asciilifeform this is like asking if a man sitting on a stake is a catamite.
21:32 asciilifeform from a certain pov - yes.
21:32 mircea_popescu dude get the fuck out, missouri has a park with a view.
21:32 mircea_popescu the whole fucking state.
21:33 phf true, to be fair, anywhere is nicer then dc. i thought ascii was overly dramatic, but damn is this place bad.
21:33 hanbot sf was great 15 yrs ago ;/
21:34 mircea_popescu why, cuz you were 16 ?
21:34 mircea_popescu in house, bath and beyond news, http://40.media.tumblr.com/0a878994458181568604a97a6bd98726/tumblr_mer4e1Z66U1riedhko1_1280.jpg
21:34 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1kP8FEu )
21:35 asciilifeform 'great' means, without exception, that there is no meat within 40m of my chair that i didn't put there.
21:35 hanbot well, it had good air. the panhandlers were entertaining. i was 16.
21:36 mircea_popescu http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2013/11/01/next-steve-jobs-is-12-year-old-mexican-girl-wired-magazine-says/ << reading "the press" sixteen to thrity months later has some remarkable advantages.
21:36 assbot The Next Steve Jobs Is A 12-Year-Old Mexican Girl, Wired Magazine Says | Fox News Latino ... ( http://bit.ly/1kP8NUw )
21:36 mircea_popescu for one thing - they aren't EVER right.
21:36 mircea_popescu not like, 50-50 duds, like anyone throwing darts.
21:36 mircea_popescu no, these schmucks manage to always be wrong.
21:38 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.
21:38 mircea_popescu they made movies about how hey, "america gotta shape up soon".
21:38 mircea_popescu yeah. right.
21:39 asciilifeform hanbot: i bet it's perfectly livable at 500+k/y
21:39 asciilifeform in sf.
21:39 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2015/fuck-you-and-your-stupid-epub-also-david-thornes-2nd-book-it-isnt-really-very-good/#selection-5421.0-5421.76 << thorne mocking the shit out of wired/steven hartleck is pretty entertainment
21:39 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 )
21:39 asciilifeform or if you're an ant.
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21:40 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.
21:41 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.
21:41 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: just so
21:42 asciilifeform antarctica would also weigh something like 500 but for different reasons
21:42 asciilifeform point was what it takes to make a particular godforsaken shithole livable.
21:43 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.
21:43 mircea_popescu actually most of siberia/alaska are pretty much rent free and from what i hear rather enjoyable.
21:43 mircea_popescu for the man with the skills, of course.
21:43 asciilifeform if you like your electron microscope made from bear skin and powered by seal fat - then yes!
21:46 mircea_popescu my problem is more in line with "nobody's gonna fucking shave her snatch at 30 below", but yeah.
21:48 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.
21:48 mircea_popescu "new york times best seller list" items are radically not worth cutting down the trees.
21:49 asciilifeform wai wut
21:49 asciilifeform that turd was 'best seller' ?!
21:49 punkman the previous book was
21:49 mircea_popescu the epub thing
21:50 mircea_popescu and for that matter wgat's his name, the guy with short fingers that quit duke lawschool ?
21:50 asciilifeform speaking of alaska/siberia/etc, i hear ru now has a 'homestead act'
21:50 mircea_popescu then made a horrible movie
21:50 punkman tucker max
21:50 mircea_popescu ;;google the guy with short fingers that quit duke lawschool and made a horrible movie
21:50 gribble Full text of "I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell" - Internet Archive: <https://archive.org/stream/IHopeTheyServeBeerInHell/TuckerMax-IHopeTheyServeBeerInHellebook-OcrPdf_djvu.txt>; The Now Infamous Charity Auction Debacle « TuckerMax.com: <http://tuckermax.com/stories/the-now-infamous-charity-auction-debacle/>; A Man for All Seasons (1966) - Quotes - IMDb: (1 more message)
21:50 asciilifeform they're handing out 1hectar/man, with the proviso that it cannot be sold
21:50 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
21:50 mircea_popescu check out google on the ball!
21:50 punkman wow
21:51 hanbot ahaha
21:51 mircea_popescu apparently my native oop is intuitively alligned with google sql
21:51 mircea_popescu BEAT THAT!
21:51 BingoBoingo ;;google Times Beach
21:51 gribble Times Beach, Missouri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri>; Ill Fated Times Beach, Missouri - Legends of America: <http://www.legendsofamerica.com/mo-timesbeach.html>; S/R 7-8: The Times Beach Story (Marilyn Leistner): <http://www.greens.org/s-r/078/07-09.html>
21:51 BingoBoingo ^ also a park nao
21:51 asciilifeform https://www.rt.com/politics/224099-russia-land-free-east << it, i think
21:51 assbot Homestead Act for Russian Far East – Putin supports free land handout — RT Russian politics ... ( http://bit.ly/1kP9MUS )
21:52 mircea_popescu aha.
21:52 mircea_popescu been like that forever. also iirc alaska still has homestead here and there.
21:52 punkman from the cellar department: Suntory Yamazaki 12yo, seriously smooth https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3a/db/10/3adb107d83b463eb1ac96e792b5eeb77.jpg
21:52 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1kP9Rb1 )
21:52 asciilifeform folks who enjoy blowing the permafrost with ammonal to dig latrine - know where to do.
21:53 asciilifeform to go.
21:53 mircea_popescu o ffs. japanese whiskey ?
21:53 asciilifeform l0l!
21:53 mircea_popescu why.
21:53 asciilifeform what next, french seppuku ?
21:53 asciilifeform german bukkake ?
21:53 mircea_popescu i guess we should be thankful grain at least grew in that shitty island.
21:53 punkman because jp otaku
21:53 mircea_popescu otherwise it'd be "WOOD ALCOHOL!!!11" all over.
21:55 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> o ffs. japanese whiskey ? << I knew I picked a good time to try sobriety
21:56 punkman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2UHiXwfnvk
21:56 assbot Sean Connery , Suntory Crest, before the meeting commercial - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1LuO7pU )
21:57 * BingoBoingo is convinced real whiskey is only made by people with pickup trucks or tartans
21:58 phf men whisky(tm)(r)
21:58 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 ?
22:00 asciilifeform tell this to gulag
22:00 asciilifeform (quite possibly true, i have not used it personally)
22:05 punkman well, I'm no malt connoisseur but I'd put it right next to similarly-priced scottish bottles
22:11 BingoBoingo Scotch is "warm-up" whiskey to get the palate primed for rye whiskey followed by all of the cheap bourbon
22:12 punkman saw a bottle of this in my travels, lol'd https://365oranges.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/ron-de-jeremy.jpg
22:12 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1LuP4hP )
22:17 BingoBoingo http://www.seriouseats.com/images/20110218oldcrowstory.jpg << The good stuff
22:17 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1kPbHIN )
22:19 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."
22:22 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
22:22 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?""
22:22 phf "came home last night full'a fifth of old crow
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22:27 mircea_popescu munca si lumina! http://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhxrh6pprt1qbujxso1_1280.jpg
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22:27 BingoBoingo lol
22:28 asciilifeform wut
22:29 asciilifeform wazzis, abortion pr0n ?
22:29 mircea_popescu asciilifeform recall the old dinamo flashlights ?
22:29 asciilifeform aha!
22:29 asciilifeform cunt-actuated ?
22:29 mircea_popescu in romanian - work&light.
22:29 * asciilifeform takes off hat
22:29 mircea_popescu we can presume.
22:29 mircea_popescu cuntactuation.
22:30 asciilifeform mm
22:30 mircea_popescu like that famous roman general, cuntactor.
22:32 deedbot- [Trilema] Gunnery Sargeant Dop, or - The Renaissance Man - http://trilema.com/2015/gunnery-sargeant-dop-or-the-renaissance-man/
22:32 asciilifeform spiffy pet in pic
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