@dznz It's simple, but slow going. Mainly just separating readers, evallers, printers, runloops, universes, and mirrors cc @jamesotron.
Today was like a comedy of errors, but without humour.
Okay, maybe not dead - just mostly dead. WE shall see.
My phone has died the bad death. Until I get a new one, I won't be contactable via phone or txt.
The colours, they are so... something. But intensely so.
"The problem with that belief is that it is utterly false."
What is this sorcery?
Yet again reminded that all of Google's talent goes to adwords, and none goes to Android.
Making us buy our own chains. Hmm.
My neighboors seem very happy, but are conversing mostly with shouting. Mixed feelings.
Urgh. Muscle pain. Bone pain. Brain crash. Caffeine - it's a hell of a drug.
The fact that I have to clarify this is sad: I'm calling the side doxxing and making credible death threats a lynch mob, not the side that called people out for inappropriate behaviour at a conference and peacefully resolved things. It seems that many on HN and other forums have been calling the peaceful group that called out inappropriate behaviour and peacefully resolved things a lynch mob, but calling the group doxxing and making credible death threats 'good people'. What the fuck?
Yes, an actual lynch mob. What the FUCK!
The world runs on computation; we don't want to see what happens if Hackers have to abandon their responsibility to society.
Libel laws:CFAA::Doctors:Hackers. If the UK's libel laws are not fixed, Doctors must abandon their responsibility to society.
I just watched an old recording of Yip Man's Siu Lim Tau. Blinding speed, perfect form, sheer beauty.
Naming, that thing that I have a particular difficulty with. Some bad ideas: MDK, 殺人拳, vvvvv. Ideas?
A bunch of my heuristics seem to have been permanently broken. Upside: I can't seem to feel outrage anymore, so less risk of heart disease.
Overdosing on the other other kind of irony re: the Good Blargh and the situation in Britain.
Looking forward to running a one shot tonight at Uni. I'm trying out a new style of storytelling.
@WeylandNZ You may also be interested in Overtone, a live coding, music making environment.
@WeylandNZ Processing is pretty cool. Have a look at http://processingjs.org/ for a javascript port.
Mood based programming. Yes.
I don't think I can precommit to not accepting acausal deals; tl;dr is 'because slipshanking'.
The naturalistic fallacy is surprisingly subtle.
It seems hyperbolic and insane when I say it out loud, but the Tories seem intent on reintroducing slavery. Fucking scum.
Hahahahaha ritualised mass torture to bring national prosperity through magical thinking. Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck.
More confirmation that the LAPD are murderous fuckwits. #Dorner
We're all fucked.
Fucking Azathoth. Fuck. No, I can't even get properly angry at that, I have seen too much this week.
Okay, I have just internalised the realisation that we already live in Omelas. There were two fictions in the story: that the suffering of one person would be enough to sustain us - rather, the number is billions, and that there was somewhere else we could go that was not sustained by their torment.
Truly, Alive Building Solutions are marvelously incompetent.
And they did it on the day before a public holiday.
Haha, oh, they were out of the office when they implemented the cage to avoid complaints.
Actually ate three 'meals' today, breaking my accidental fast cycle.
Writing fanfiction. This won't end well.
The backstory for this character is rapidly turning into a sprawling fanfic.
Vexing that antifragility and antiprecarity are in some sense at odds, at least in terms of strategy.
That was some surprisingly powerful nightmare fuel. I shall have to use this in future games I run. Hopefully it is not powerful enough to stop me from sleeping, though.
I felt sad this afternoon, so this evening I wrote an app to make my phone smile at me, thus skipping right past the commoditization of affective labour and going straight to industrialization. I am not sure how this makes me metafeel.
I should not be surprised, and yet I am.
Unsettled.
Fair warning: http://i.imgur.com/DL7fx.jpg is roughly what I would expect to see one round after any prospective character of mine in the proposed nWoD Mage Larp gets into an altercation. Stats capped at three means Wisdom 3, Space 3. Now, the question is whether the character will be accepted...
Hmm, the number 8 wire seems to be showing. This whole infrastructure replacement thing is really nontrivial, even in cases where it is really trivial infrastructure.
The essence of The Incredible Hulk is paradox. Which paradox, and how you deal with it (ie conceptual dissolution, dialethia, paraconsistency, or explosion) is what separates and defines the different incarnations or interpretations of the Hulk.
Once again, foiled by datetime handling.
Many people speaking Power to Truth who think that they are speaking Truth to Power. I need a better way of talking about the difference between two things referred to as 'expected utility'.
Hmm, the new Bowie single fits the end of Nexus quite nicely; the album looks like it shall also. Good show, Universe.
Note to self: fix problem.
Okay, this level of thrashing is unusable. Frequent borderline lockup, and no multitasking.
Surprising anew how much effort it takes to achieve a still mind. Progress retarded by shouty neighbours.
So difficult to keep caffeine/water/sugar/sleep/blood/ichor balance. I feel rather out of sorts.
When I exited the labyrinth, I found that it was embedded in a still larger labyrinth.
Lightsick.
Sapped strength. I am going to be weak for days because of what happened today. Ah well, it had to happen.
Disappointed. Ah well.
Looking back, I feel much more human now than I did when we began, three years ago. #Nexus #Mage
Last Nexus game ever is finished. Feeling accomplished and drained.
Am running late to Nexus. Will be even later.
So tired. Last game of Nexus. Will be there at some point.
I have attained the sixth Key. Only one more to go.
Not sure how to avoid that particular future.
I think I begin to see the problem. It isn't tactility as such, but I am not sure how to otherwise describe it.
Back home. Feel ick, but also other.
No, waking up now would be bad. Especially as I have yet to go to sleep.
Glad to be back in NZ. Took about a day for it to sink in.
Well, that was an invigorating thunderstorm. Deep mauve sky to go with it.
I think I'm going to go for a bit of a wander.
Yeah, this scotch is not really helping me to stay awake.
So, tastewise gold flake liquor mixes amazingly with glenmorangie. Unfortunately the gold flakes seem to be cutting up my insides. Hmm.
Sunburnt. Tired. Etc.
Hmm. On the one hand... but on the other hand...
'It is like claiming the story of Napoleon and the story of Robinson Crusoe are pretty much exactly the same since both lived on an an island.' - enochian
Exhausted. Today was really good, but I can already begin to feel the wheels coming off, so to speak.
I should probably eat something today.
Having finally experienced luxurious gourmet darkness, I find I have a serious taste for it. It is really different from artisinal, bespoke, industrial, research and mass produced darknesses. I am unsure how this is going to affect my storytelling style.
Gah intersectionality. This thing is a fucking fractal hydra.
Okay, I give up. This brokenness is bizarre. Arch was good, but is now useless to me. I'm looking for a new distro again.
I *really* don't want to be doing this level of sysadminning fuckery hours before an international flight.
Hmm. I had thought I had avoided trading an eye for knowledge, or trading half the light of the world for the light of the world, or anything else like that - I am generally averse to pacting, but especially averse to *stupid* pacts. Also, I was not planning on going anywhere that you don't need eyes to see any time soon. So, a perfectly mundane explanation then?
Well, the nineties that never really existed, where we all wore trenchcoats and carried katanas and spoke in poetry.
Flashing back to the nineties so hard right now.
Very weird headspace. Slowly coming back to Earth.
Context switching remains expensive. So does lock contention. So does swapping, caused by each task having a large working set.
Actual distributed management: http://redmonk.com/tv/2012/10/24/distributed-management-githubs-ryan-tomayko/ \cc @djrubbie
Business Week on tax rates: http://www.businessweek.com/finance/occupy-wall-street/archives/2011/12/top_income_tax_rate_hows_80_sound.html
Sometimes I am glad that the brain is a hacked together buggy piece of shit: it means that even conceptual superweapons can be defeated by what amounts to a 'return to libc' style shellcode injection. This is counterbalanced by the danger of being hacked by a 'return to libc' style shellcode injection, though. No safety. Argh.
Urgh.
I vote we blackhole the RIAA and the MPAA: http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/10/14/violate-copyright-no-facebook-for-you/
Doing design related stuff. I really need to acquire this skill. Grrr argh etc.
Ah, akrasia, my old foe. Or at least something like it. Possibly just insufficient laziness.
@littlefuries Soon, hopefully. That is the current delusion, anyway.
@zedshaw If you have a public email address you give out to people you don't know (like me) I can email you a user invite to lobste.rs.
Wait; open time loops? Fuck.
Foreshadowing a slipshanking attempt. Let us see how well this will have worked.
Looking back over my timeline, I must have absorbed a bunch of frag or something. That is the only way this makes sense.
@dznz Yo, are we still on to meet up? Where, when etc? I am just about to set out to Reuben, in case you are going there.
I do not feel worried about this, or indeed at all, but intellectually I know that it signals that something is amiss.
Actually following normal hacker hours, rather than making hackers conform to business hours while at a meeting of and for hackers...
Programming conference I want: each day starts at 2:30pm with a continental breakfast and caffeine; finishes at 6am with more breakfast.
Wait, cargo cult occultism? Umm...
The Sun - burning hate, or baleful eye?
Even the Stranger Aeon is no refuge. Urgh.
Hmm. Initial signs are promising.
Utterly exhasted. What happens when you keep spending energy you don't have? We shall find out shortly.
@djrubbie Indeed. I will.
@djrubbie That sounds pretty good. I'm not sure when at the moment, though.
@dznz Q.Q but also :-) as it were.
Feels like I have been hellbanned from the universe. Hopefully this passes soon.
Left to go mad in the mud: http://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/10o5d0/this_was_a_hit_in_rnosleep_a_while_back_i_think/
Bad moon.
@Cptn_Dr (I think the only thing on my homework pile for this project at the moment is http://jimbutcher.livejournal.com/ )
@Cptn_Dr Is it any good? If it is, it can go on the homework pile. Which library did you find it at?
Bend, fold, spindle, mutilate. This music is amazing, yet its raw material is music I detest. Tania M and DJ Disko Diva show true skill.
Yeah, there is no way that actually just happened. I assume it is some kind of optical illusion, or flu related hallucination.
My schedule is like a cruel time traveler's jenga.
Urgh.
Urgh. Fire isn't going to be enough; we'll need superfire, and I don't know that I actually have any free right now.
So, skull flames you say? How wildly fascinating.
@Cptn_Dr This yak had better be glabrous by the time I'm through with it, or the next time I'll shave it with fire.
I couldn't hold out. This is so far beyond yak shaving; a mental magical mystery tour.
Current status: Trying to avoid writing a metacircular reader based on mirror universes. Not sure my willpower will last.
Sort of an OWoD NWoD Mage crossover, Masters of the Universe type thing.
After listening to all of these upbeat NIN remixes, I have the strange desire to run a Seers of the Throne/Nephandi Larp.
Operation Skullfire was a qualified success, but let us hope it does not become a regular occurence.
So, the only way I can see to get a 4D printer right now is to have it have printed itself. I doubt this will work.
Skull flames banked to a gentle roasting. Hopefully by tomorrow all will be embers, and by the day after, ashes.
I kind of want to go out tonight, and I kind of don't. It would probably help if I had a destination in mind.
That brain crash was unpleasant. At least it was comparatively short.
Urgh. So much noise. My current location is really not good for actually getting sleep.
This noise is interminable, and gratuitously loud. I have to move to somewhere quieter.
Just got back in to my building now, after a fire alarm and full evacuation triggered around 11:19 this evening.
Current status: Tava andando pela mata/uma cobra me mordeu/meu veneno era mais forte/e foi a cobra quem morreu
So, munging binary data in Java (and most JVM languages) is basically broken. Time to break out awk, I guess.
'Deathmarch' was the word I was looking for, as it turns out.
Town has been insanely noisy. Sleep is fleeting. Urgh.
So, just about to go to sleep, and someone triggers the fire alarm in our building. How wildly fascinating.
Current status: βρεκεκεκέξ κοάξ κοάξ. This rain brings out my batrachian tendencies.
Urgh. Sleep. Why do you mock me so?
Or I could just call it tiger spirit possession. Would you be happier with that diagnosis? The treatment is the same.
@Tzrlk You would have to read a fairly large survey of his work to grok the method, as I don't think he ever *actually* explains it; I have not found anything of his that I have actually liked yet, either - hence my surprise at the usefulness of his method; it is kind of like a bizzarro world version of Hegel mixed with Marx. Much like Wittgenstein, or any of the philosophers who are really grappling with hard stuff, the method only becomes easily visible years later. I would recommend Delueze before Žižek, and Wittgenstein before Delueze, and De Saussure before Wittgenstein, and Kant before De Sassure, and Plato before Kant on this topic; there is a lot of assumed knowledge before you can really start grappling with something that might let you grapple with the Outer Darkness in any useful way. As such, it is kind of difficult to talk about what the Outer Darkness is in any concise, tweetable way.
Žižek may actually be useful, as his methods could be used to actually talk about the Outer Darkness, defying the edict of Wittgenstein.
@zedshaw or when I had a codebase with lots of some particular kind of repetition which that language had constructs for factoring out.
@zedshaw eg I found Peggy for parsing in Haskell much faster and easier to hack stuff together with than bison/flex/lemon had been.
@zedshaw regarding 'hard languages', I have liked using them when they make stuff *actually* easier for me, but not really otherwise.
Urgh.
Seared by socialising. Why yes, I do mean it when I say that interacting socially with groups of people hurts me.
My brain feels burnt. Not sure how to describe the crispy/charred ratio.
Urgh. Need to sleep.
This refactoring is more like a chemical burn.
But will it blend?
@zedshaw another way to put it: '.each' is a shibboleth; advocacy partly caused by fear of being killed by the fords of the river Jordan.
Hmm. It seems like one reason that the Autonomists failed was that they stopped producing bridging social capital. #nighronic
I am clay wrapped around embers, a fake flesh suit containing only hot ashes.
Huh.
Unusual amounts of lightning, and sudden cold.
@bennzbub But on the upside, I gained an appreciation for crackers, and a fair amount of pirate notoriety.
@bennzbub Yeah. I didn't realise that the parrot was also a dark wizard, so we ended up with the whole recursive space horcruxes thing...
@bennzbub I would, but I have a complicated relationship with my Horcruxes.
Sudden brain crash. Unpleasant.
At least the soundtrack is good: this latest Ministry Deep Space Transmission is the best by far.
So, apparently there was a fish in the percolator. This insomnia thing never seems to get easier.
My neurons go jangle jangle jangle. Today will require caffeine.
"The Old Master was just as strange in his own manners and habits, according to the men and women that served him directly, although less likely to make you go insane."
Can one get something like PTSD from a secondary world? I'm asking for a friend.
Related: I find that 'structurelessness' is often used to atomise dissent and disguise entrenched power structures. #cryptofascism
True structurelessness is impossible, but an organisation can be both horizontal and formally structured. #rhizome
Hamster gonna hamst.
I dreamt that there was a crack in the sky above Auckland, and the Void was pouring through. I feel quite well rested now.
So very, very tired. Down to my bones.
@littlefuries Alas, in this context 'glorified' actually means 'deluded'.
Hmm, syntactic ambiguity. To clarify, I (implicitly) claimed that most programmers are glorified clerks, while making another point, and then was shown through the thread (once again) that many of these glorified clerks do not react well to any sentiment that implies or entails that they are glorified clerks being expressed, no matter how well grounded or reasonable the statement itself was. Mmm, comma splices.
I had forgotten how most programmers react to the knowledge that they are glorified clerks. Thanks for reminding me, Reddit conversation.
The ghostly, terrible heatray struck the town, and I screamed aloud, agonized, scalded, half blinded. Queue wubs.
That nap was rather unexpected. Obviously House music is out; it is time for wubs.
I feel like crap. Headache, bones ache, joints ache, can't think. Soundtrack is good, though.
@littlefuries Potentially. No promises yet. When is it?
Obvious solution: deepen my art. I didn't really need that free time anyway...
Brain is churning, but the problem continues to evade my grasp. Perils of deeper arts than one's own, and all that.
"What is it with everyone turning out to be involved in this apocalypse shit?"
Oh yeah, about that pervasive mutable state...
Or, option four.
I think I finally understand Tolkien's idea of the aesthetic model of language construction. What should this code look like, what should writing it feel like...
@littlefuries ♥
Is it wrong that I want a language that is like a cross between Ioke and Haskell, with bits of Perl and Scala?
Current status: stone knives and bootstrapping. Then sleep.
Huh. Elaborate troll for an Olympic rickroll; strangly moving. #jontylympics.
Urgh, cannibalism. Playing around with assembly language again. Bootstrapping a toy language without using any C is annoying.
I feel sunburnt. What is this I don't even...
Manually (re)started my personal shortlinking service. Cron? What is that? Past self takes 5370 damage.
Also, people keep complaining about scenes in ways that just do not make sense. The prebiotic Earth thing, for instance - that scene looked more like an example of mass engineered horizontal gene transfer in an already existing ecology, than an example of the initial seeding of a planet to me.
The Prometheus I saw rewarded thought and inspection, and was remarkably consistent and clever, not to mention beautiful and horrifying.
Reading reviews of Prometheus after I watched it, I have to wonder if anyone else on the internet saw the same movie as me.
I am not in 無心, but at least I no longer have the distraction of a utf-8 incapable terminal.
Sum types and algebraic decomposition ftw. _This_ is what I was after all those years ago...
"His vision of humanity is just a million tons of meat floating around in a sea of base calculations." - Matt Taibbi on Mitt Romney
Belatedly realised that I have turned Sutekh into one of my Horcruxes. Sigh. #Nexus
Stress has an immunosuppressive effect, so could power relations and lies decrease the rate of organ transplant rejection?
I'm a leaf in the wind.
Anyway, enough of that. It was not the kind of enlightenment experience I am interested in.
Regarding the qlippothic unspeech of the Void, it was three separate languages; one of negation, one of denial, and one of dialethia.
I still can't really make sense of it. At least I remember bits of the qlippothic unspeech of the Void, and of learning how to make Cauls.
Had the strangest dream: the varieties of Nephandic seekings. I wonder whether I will be able to use that imagery.
Urgh. My brain seems to be melting. Too many directions, too many processes.
It has been far too long since I have gone clubbing. I really have to rearrange my schedule.
Urgh. I need a better terminal on XFCE/Arch Linux. I never thought I would miss Konsole this much.
"Ah, no, you see to combat fraud we started writing our certificates on live sharks instead of paper."
I wonder, could I write a book that acts as a seeking for the reader?
"Like a lot of conventional wisdom, this is wrong."
Urgh. Insufficiently caffeinated
My gosh do I hate Moloch worshippers.
Man, I really need to learn Latin, Koine Greek, Syraic, Aramaic, and Hebrew if I am going to keep having these arguments...
I keep forgetting about how the horns effect interacts with thoughtcrime. Ah humanity, why are you so so very insane?
And it turns out that they are a right-libertarian. Why do I even bother?
"CDC does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead (or one that would present zombie-like symptoms)"
Are AnCaps even sentient?
So, apparently I have green blood now. I have no respect left for the team or the tech behind Gosu.
Why do I even bother sheathing my troll slaying knives? After all, they fit well enough in my hands that I can touch type while stabbing.
"They freed us for our hatreds."
Umm, "skytheist"? Where did this word come from, and does it mean what I think it means?
... Still waiting to see what effect it had on my Mythos score and Type II Sanity.
Well, that was easier to find than I was led to believe. Spell successfully cast, 1d6 Type I Sanity lost (minus my SR) ...
It seems that I caught up with you without really intending to...
Ah, insomnia, my old friend. I had almost begun to wander where you had gone.
Head and hands; these silver tools are not quite the trusty servants I had expected, though they do act as a rather long lever, and a good place to stand.
Had to resort to black fire to get rid of those pesky multiplying brooms quickly.
@djrubbie my necroposting was replied to, and it changed the mind of the person I replied to. Not what I expected...
Is necroposting forbidden magic, or just a bad idea?
So, to survive Φλεγέθων, you reach out for תֹּ֫הוּ. Interesting. I totally did not set that up, but gosh is it going to be fun to run.
Fortunately, that particular ocean of black fire appears to be receding.
(The other open slots were for rational!Sauron and rational!Alan Moore; neither of those options really appeals.)
Hmm, I should also be able to upgrade myself from rational!Quirrel to rational!Sephiroth this year; it is about time.
On the other hand, what would have taken me a month to do with normal languages and tools I have just done in six hours.
So, it took me nearly a week to get my weird ass dev environment set up on a new distro.
A Kopiimist Priest in a Guy Fawkes mask. Words fail me. I don't even...
Wait, compile time malloc and free?
Was talked into buying fruit and vegetables to eat raw for health reasons. Upon touching them, became rancidly ill. Annoying coincidence.
Equilibrium largely restored. Managed to unbrick my machine. Time for rest.
So angry I can barely express the fact of my rage, let alone the cause and content. The game tonight may be interesting. #Mage
Welp, just lost three months of state. I need a less fragile replacement for that part of my exocortex.
Sometimes I get a glimpse of a future: usually enlightening, enraging or terrifying. This time around, it was just confusing.
Regarding moral panics of all kinds: our collective memory of the past is astoundingly inaccurate. Always worth remembering.
('the universe as it stands', on the other hand certainly can be)
"... the universe itself is not usually regarded as a supremely coercive political force."
So, the 'soft power' of the Jedi came from agribusiness and slavery (the Agricorps) and political murder (lightsaber negotiations). Hmm.
'Schrödinger's Gun' you say? You have earned a reprieve.
I do try to provide only the finest in epileptic trees and Xanatos pileups.
@Cptn_Dr My thanks for being a voice of reason.
@Cptn_Dr Not brains, minds. I do not believe that I have any form of remote telekinesis. But yes, it would be bad.
Resisting urge to just reach out and crush people's minds. Barely.
Such a beautiful moon tonight. It reminds me of my youth.
OH: "I have a real beef with this 'reasoning from axioms' stuff." Um what! Ok, goodbye.
… why we can't have nice things.
… is actually against the interests of the oligarch to so cling to powers. Just think, when you say "it's only a job", you are the reason…
… problem and various asymmetric information problems manifest, so that the web acts in the nominal interests of the oligarch even when it…
…'t actually one person exerting control over various things, but rather a web of people exerting diffuse influence, the principal agent…
Of course, it's the minions. They are what reifies an oligarch's abstract web of power, and are also the meat of its form. As this web isn…
So, Modafinil + collaborative software + management hierarchy + corporate structure + everything has a url or it doesn't exist = Migo.
What in the boggling fuck...
Paraphrased: "Some argue that current copyright regimes are already too strong. How can they be if they can't even stop Somalian pirates?"
"offer them poison as food and poison as antidote" - Urgh.
Fucking hegemons.
"Hegemons can be hated and it doesn't matter, because the system does not allow that hatred to manifest as disenthronement." Urgh.
Urgh. I should look into a tiling window manager.
... appeal, or notification, in defiance even of their own laws. This is happening more and more often.
Just to be clear, the 'Friendly For business' retweet is about the US shutting down websites (like Jotform) without due process...
'Sure, you could summarize it like that. You know, like you could summarize Lord of the Rings as “beware shiny rings”.' - dhh
So fed up with smart, rational naive realists. They say: "Show me one atom of Mind". I respond: "Show me one atom of Bayes' Theorem".
On the topic of homework: so, Sartre published an analysis of this in 1943. I agree with his diagnosis, if not with his presciption.
I keep seeing _things_ out of the corner of my eye. I have just started programming in assembly language again. I think these are related.
Terrifying tentacled apparitions of smoke and flame appear amid blasts of concussive force. The Year of the Dragon begins.
Well, those two overdue tasks took significantly more time and effort than expected.
I reserve a certain portion of my hate for unacknowledged autoantonyms.
My current problem with Ayn Rand, in short rant form: in philosophy, there is actually a literature going back thousands of years. For any kind of theory (eg of ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, even logic) there are a large set of questions and problems that you have to have a good answer for, or at least a good story about how you might get a good answer for them; if you don't, then your theory is just a curiosity that every actual philosopher knows is totally bullshit. The philosophers that students of philosophy regard as Great Philosophers, the ones who have their own schools of thought that lots of people actually study and respect are the ones who managed to formulate a set of theories of many of these kinds which interlocked, and where each of the constituent theories answered their respective sets of questions as they stood at the time, and managed to stand up to new questions for a while. Ayn Rand basically just ignored or misunderstood the literature, and dismissed the questions or answered them in a way that is trivially wrong. Her edifice of theory, Objectivism, is roughly an interlocking set of moral, ethical, aesthetic, ontological, epistemological, logical and metaphysical theories, which cannot stand alone as written. So, she has a lot of surface area to defend, but as the theories interlock in this way, a knock down argument against one is a knock down against all, unless a proponent of Objectivism violates one of the tenants of Objectivism by carving the theories apart into things that would stand alone. Given that, one does not even need to use a new argument to completely discredit Rand and Objectivism; this is what makes me furious about the whole thing. The tiniest smidgin of actual philosophical education would have people laughing at Objectivism as absurd nonsense, rather than believing any of it at all. So, let us take one old problem in Epistemology, namely that of justification of knowledge of the epistemology in question; this is a really basic part of the whole 'groundedness' set of problems. In Objectivism, to use an unbiased summary from an avowed Objectivist, 'Man's consciousness must acquire knowledge of reality by certain means (reason) in accordance to rules (logic/science). Reason is man's only means of perceiving reality, his only source of knowledge, his only guide to action, and his basic means of survival.' So, the only justified means of acquiring knowledge, including about theories of epistemology, and including specifically about Reason and Science, is through Reason and Science. There is no clause for bootstrapping your knowledge, no clause about being *taught* Reason and Science, because how can you be taught justified true knowledge without your own use of Reason and Science if you do not yet have Reason and Science and knowledge that does not come through your use of Reason and Science is not justified, and claims that Reason and Science are innate are firstly matters of fact which can be tested, and have been tested, and turn out to not be true for any meaningful understanding of what Reason and Science are, and secondly would render Reason and Science to be unjustified by Reason and Science, as you are not discovering them in the world through use of Reason and Science, unless they are taken to be self justifying, which again they are not under any meaningful definitions of the terms. Knock down argument; so, her theory of epistemology is totally bunk. To add insult to injury, Rand does not seem to be familiar with the literature in the fields of Philosophy of Logic and Philosophy of Science, yet takes Reason and Science as foundational without even having a theory which solves (for example) the Problem of Induction, a really basic problem in the field that all (real) theories of this sort have an answer for or an explanation of... So, Objectivism is wrong. And there are many more attacks that are perfect knockdowns on every one of her theories, just in the basic literature about each of these kinds of theory alone. And thus my problem: Ayn Rand knew basically nothing about philosophy, and did not do any research, and declared herself to be the supreme expert on philosophy, and had the skill of convincing gullible, uneducated people that she was the supreme expert, and so I keep seeing Objectivist idiocy treated by uneducated fools as if it were in some way equal or superior to all the actual philosophy that has ever been produced, when even availing oneself of a cursory understanding of any of the fields of philosophy that Ayn Rand claimed as part of Objectivism would reveal that she was just flat wrong.
Welcome back insomnia, my old friend.
All of a sudden, neighbours are obnoxiously loud.
Urgh. Due to two events happening closer than was planned, I have to move my sleep cycle back 9 hours in two days. This is going to suck.
So, the lesson seems to be 'make sure to eat food at some point if I am going to try to deal with humans that day.'
Okay, GReader just seems to be really slow to update for me at the moment. So, score one for standards and interoperability.
Welp, now it doesn't seem to work on GReader. Validates fine thought, and works on other feed readers. Vexing.
This should be simple, and yet it takes an endless amount of redesign.
Hah! In America, 13th Amendment + Corporate Personhood = Corporations cannot be owned, because that would be slavery.
Mass human sacrifice to turn a diamond back into a pyramid. I do not like this future.
'Distributed' in version control does not mean 'No blessed branch in a blessed repo can ever exist. Also neither can a website.'.
@Nodame_7 ... and I'm less of a vampire than I used to be, but I do still miss our meetings.
@Nodame_7 Yeah, I'm okay. I just kept getting unsolicited calls from advertisers a while back, so now when I get blocked number calls...
@gilesgoatboy A potential problem with your Vertu point; accepting bogus revenue can make you crazy in a bad way eg pg's point about yahoo
Sorry whoever that was; I don't answer calls from private numbers except by appointment, and you were not the person I was expecting.
Sleep comes down like a hammer.
A marvelous stroll around town this afternoon. Good company, nice weather, synchronicity.
@littlefuries not so much. You do not add hidden sharp edges to things, in order to cut the hand of the mind that grasps them.
Right, so it seems that people keep making things _less_ sane, deliberately. As in, that seems to be their job. My mind boggles; it is difficult enough to make things sane in the face of apathy and stupidity; cheerful, willful effort directed at making things less sane...
Hmm, seeing reflections of myself in this code. This is somehow very pleasing to me. Now the question is, is this a true mirror? Queue jokes about reflection.
So, let us see if _this_ works...
Building the new in the shell of the old; cross compilation has never sounded so anarchist.
Chill the fuck out, Dominant Paradigm. This is not for you.
A problem with using money as a sensor occurs to me: if you do, then having any bogus source of revenue will make you insane.
Wow, a Java web framework that actually looks quite... nice. http://codahale.com/what-makes-jersey-interesting-parameter-classes/
Bad exocortex, no cookie.
If you prefer, I could just edit your memories. No? Okay then.
I thought I understood quasiquotation from experience with Lisp and Forth. Then I started learning how Haskell does it. Head explodes.
Not sure if this diagram of object/meta levels and instance/type levels is commutative in the ways I want it to be...
OH: 'Making our bards responsible for the laws was the smartest thing I ever did.'
OH: "Making our bards responsible for the laws was the smartest thing I ever did."
Well, I tried.
.@Tzrlk I'm not really sure; whenever I have needed it to happen, someone just sort of showed up and reconditioned it.
...The question of whether P=NP is a simple question of fact; it does not seem fair that so much of future history may turn on it.
It just hit me; existence of one way functions (and thus secure crypto), efficient markets (and thus the truth of various ideologies)...
@djrubbie as a tl;dr: dbus is not as stupid as corba, nor as indescribably horrific as xpcom; qdbus+completions+shell = happy fun times.
Wow, dbus is amazing. I keep being surprised by how awesome all this software actually is.
Hmm, Doomsday Clock vs Red Word... That would have been something to see.
Urgh. I have inadvertently become an advocate of paraconsistent logic to avoid minor problems ie the need to destroy the entire universe.
Man, I love reverse proxies. So hard to believe that we used to have to use CGI or equivalent to do this stuff.
Surprising amounts of high octane nightmare fuel just lying around here... May not get any sleep tonight.
@agarny ... but in general, good. This year has been much better than last year, and things keep getting better, albeit slowly.
@agarny I'm still in Auckland; the greek was a reference to something else involving golden apples. Current state of things > 140 chars.
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So, significantly less number eight wire. It is almost like they don't make it like they used to...
So, advanced winning? Better than the usual kind?
Endless loop state.
Once again, schooled by shell quoting rules. I really need to stop with the almost-good-enough argument protecting code, or actually just use less shell script.
OH: "If you want to store data of differing types within a lightweight organization system, I encourage you to check out the filesystem."
OH: \If
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Can't sleep, #Nexus will get me, can't sleep, Nexus will get me... #Larp #Nightmares #WTF
...what you were supposed to do, of course, if you were any kind of man, was kill them with your fucking sword...
I am finding it so difficult to get into and stay in the zone for coding without headphones.
Squigoogle or squigoogle not, there is no can.
Why yes, that eerie sourceless music is in fact somewhat disturbing.
Realised that I am porting the CL LOOP DSL to Ioke... There has to be a better way to do this.
Writing an AST struct and naive code printer in Ioke to test my intuitions.
Will the pain never end? I'm now writing my own parser combinator library in Ioke... #yakshaving
Aaaand I'm hand rolling a recursive descent parser. So, yak shaving?
I tripped and fell over a non-terminal production. #ragel
Why does it seem that every path leads to me writing a lexer for Ioke? #programming #ioke
So painful to move up the Blub hierarchy. Going back to Scala after using Ioke feels like going back to Java after using Scala used to. #omega #blub
Just now coming to terms with how awesome Rammstein was at the Big Day Out yesterday; totally worth the price of admission for them alone.
@djrubbie out this way it was actually rain, it just evaporated before hitting the ground, and ended up looking like an early 2k fps skybox getting denser and denser for as long as the moon was out. Over the course of today it thinned out, and then as the day cooled it became heavier and converted into conventional rain. Alas.
This mist is unreal; it is like West Auckland is welcoming me home.
Obvious realisation is obvious. My path to Omega is all to do with successive approximations towards an exemplar of a given paradigm ordered by when a feature becomes personal Blub; paradigm is what ensures that programming languages ordered by power are a poset, and necessity for folding is the current highest level of Blub I can see. Current best approximations of an archetype of a paradigm: Ioke for Smalltalk, Arc for Lisp, Factor for Forth, maybe K for APL? Not sure what for Prolog; would welcome suggestions about any I have missed. #programming #crazy #blub #omega
So much number eight wire. My solution may be even more jury rigged than tantek's; a mess of node.js, ruby, shell, multiple repos, rain dances and onions. Still, let us see how it handles some edge cases... #ThisTweetIsAnEdgeCase #MyOwnPersonalDiaspora
So much number eight wire. My solution may be even more jury rigged than tantek's; a mess of node.js, ruby, shell, multiple repos, rain dances and onions. Still, let us see how it handles some edge cases... #ThisTweetIsAnEdgeCase #MyOwnPersonalDiaspora
How much number eight wire can I add before this whole thing just implodes under its own weight? Apparently this much.
How much number eight wire can I add before this whole thing just implodes under its own weight?
It seems that number 8 wire will prevail, after all.
Implosion still in progress; tweets are nearly done. Fb is probably next; not looking forward to the yak shaving... #MyOwnPersonalDiaspora
Why do I always seem to have to rewrite mkdir -p for every fs lib I end up using? Come on people, it's 2010.
And Net24 is on holiday today. So no VPS for me, still. Damn it.
... however, after payment, they email to say that my application will take 1-2 hours to review, starting next business day. Um, what?
Bought a VPS with Net24. They advertised time for registration to spun up and accessible VPS as less than 90 mins...
Trying out @falcon.
Pretty fonts and nice pdf generation down. Also, learnt OCaml. Finally.
Glasses just broke. Can barely see screen. Thank goodness for touch typing. Editing code, however, is not likely...
Wow, I really didn't understand the concept of Cairo masks. They make everything slightly more annoying, but so much more awesome.
So amazingly enraged by package management. OCaml is a beautiful language, but Godi really sucks.
And the easiest way to facilitate node.js <-> ocaml is by writing an ocaml http daemon...
Apparently the easiest way to get good font support for Cairo in node.js is to instead call out through an ocaml wrapper... Rabbit holes...
Fighting figures of light and flame in Sweden. Possibly connected to the giant humanoid pylons carrying lightning?