#trilema | 2018-05-12

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fig. 1: the mtv of today gave the d00d depicted in this ballas piece his own tv show >> https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/10/catfish.html << http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-12#1812646

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a111

Logged on 2018-05-12 02:00 mircea_popescu: turn a tv on if you can find one, and tune it to mtv, which still exist. compare/contrast to 1988 mtv, it'll illustrate the matter perfectly.

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lobbes

in other lulz: observe one hanno boeck in his natural habitat, one day before being called up for muppet duty, still doing... nothing >> http://archive.is/c8epK

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00:30	lobbes	fig. 1: the mtv of today gave the d00d depicted in this ballas piece his own tv show >> https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/10/catfish.html << http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-12#1812646
00:30	a111	Logged on 2018-05-12 02:00 mircea_popescu: turn a tv on if you can find one, and tune it to mtv, which still exist. compare/contrast to 1988 mtv, it'll illustrate the matter perfectly.
00:30	lobbes	in other lulz: observe one hanno boeck in his natural habitat, one day before being called up for muppet duty, still doing... nothing >> http://archive.is/c8epK
00:38	mircea_popescu	lobbes, holy shit he's fucking retarded, gimp has had scheme built in since 2005.
00:39	mircea_popescu	a better example of what exactly it means to be a monkey, with these inane expectations of wysiwyg-ism and gui-ism and rtfm-is-racist and nobody-will-ever-expect-you-to-think-if-they-truly-love-you and on AND ON...
		~ 1 hours 30 minutes ~
02:10	*	mod6 finally sits down to eat log
		~ 59 minutes ~
03:09	mircea_popescu	since we're discussing "retards are retarded", here's a fine example : https://archive.is/RbD9o ; it consists of a) let's leak through the inept choice of "pad by the value of padding, so if you need 5 bytes of padding pad with 5 bytes each = 5" (and then pretend this is not to be reviewed "because popular" and also do every other elbow trick in the book to stick it past) followed unneringly by... b) construct elaborate ritua
03:09	mircea_popescu	ls to discuss the matter, including spurious naming conventions and all the rest of the monkey dance, EXCEPT in terms of "leaking padding schemes are retarded, DO NOT DO THAT."
03:10	mircea_popescu	that's your "experts" zx2c4, from matthew retardenfield all the way down the mongoloid chain.
03:12	mircea_popescu	and this is also why ~nobody of any consequence reads any of them. i'd rather read engelbert humperdinck's introduction to greek philosophy. at least he sings, which, unrelated as it may be, IS WAY THE FUCK MORE THAN ANY OF THESE IDLE FUCKTARDS EVER DID. or will ever do.
		~ 15 minutes ~
03:27	mircea_popescu	!!up fromdeedbot
03:27	deedbot	fromdeedbot voiced for 30 minutes.
03:30	fromdeedbot	I want to learn to code/program. I am looking for sound advice on what to learn first. php? oop? python? I have looked all over the web and it seems everyone has a different opinion. any advice would be appredciated
03:31	mircea_popescu	either lisp or ada.
03:31	fromdeedbot	ty
03:31	mircea_popescu	of course, the more cogent question is, ~why~ do you want to learn to code/program
03:32	fromdeedbot	i would like to start as low level as i can without overdoing it
03:33	fromdeedbot	because I have been into computers for a long time and I feel like I could contribute productive elements to the community if i knew how to exoress my ideas in the right languge
03:34	fromdeedbot	It interests me more and more every day… but it is overwhelming where to begin and I dont want to start bad habits
03:38	mircea_popescu	well, this overanxious approach is a bad habit all of itself.
03:38	fromdeedbot	my apologies
03:40	mircea_popescu	hey, i don't mind. but understand that avoiding bad habits is a lifelong uncompletable task, there's no magic pill that'll keep you safe from such. certainly contemplation from outside isn't much of one.
03:40	mircea_popescu	anything speciffic you're trying to express ?
03:43	fromdeedbot	hah, that’s good advice. noted…. As far as what to express specifically, I’m not sure exactly yet, but this has always interested me and I have waited long enpough
03:44	fromdeedbot	buliding smart contrct’ish programs would be a short term goal
03:44	mircea_popescu	how old are you then ?
03:44	fromdeedbot	38
03:45	fromdeedbot	I have been blown away by blockchains use of public private key
03:45	fromdeedbot	and how escrows, and othjer such related things could be revolutionized
03:47	fromdeedbot	its a new way to set in stone, amongst many oother imagined, and not imagined yet things
03:47	mircea_popescu	i guess you'll have to do a bunch of log reading.
03:48	fromdeedbot	I been lol
03:48	fromdeedbot	and I figured i’d break my silence here
03:49	mircea_popescu	might as well pick a better nick.
03:50	fromdeedbot	ha! I kinda like it low key, but I’m not “from deedbot” in the way people might think… this is the only channel that I use tghis Nick
03:50	fromdeedbot	so you know it’s me, if that matters
03:51	mircea_popescu	so when you say you've been reading logs, what do you mean ?