Posts by Lanny

2015-10-15 at 3:03 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition

Lanny Bird of Courage

I'm going away for like 4 days starting tomorrow so if the the PMs break I won't be able to fix it. Also please don't spam child porn.

2015-10-14 at 3:44 PM UTC in Can anyone else here make a better website?

Lanny Bird of Courage

dont know what that means.. you just put "[video] in front of a youtube video??! lol [/video]

Damn son, have you never posted on a forum without a wysiwyg editor before? You wrap your url in video tags like so:

[COLOR=#000000][FONT=arial][SIZE=12px]&#91;[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR]video]Your URL here[COLOR=#000000][FONT=arial][SIZE=12px]&#91;[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR]/video]

2015-10-14 at 3:25 PM UTC in Rage Quit

Lanny Bird of Courage

You cannot stop the neoliberal revolution, Lanny: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/14/us...g-squeeze.html

Goddamn governments and the filthy government lovers.

For someone who sucks free market dick you don't seem to appreciate the power of market pressures. Besides, it's not even that much cheaper per-unit to build shitty third-world tier hovels than high density house. Especially if we're talking about oakland where land prices aren't a trivial cost relative to development as well.

http://halfsigma.typepad.com/half_si...career_in.html

Soon the tech bubble will pop, you will become obsolete, and then you'll be forced to life with the rest of us in our dystopian society! Muahahahaha!

Lol, there are plenty of good reasons to be skeptical of the tech bubble but that article is patently awful. Particularly the "temporary knowledge capital" point which, aside from being patently false, hilariously stumbles over the fact that COBOL programmers actually make above the national average of already overpaid programmers and such jobs are notoriously difficult to fill (due to there being more such jobs than programmers).

2015-10-14 at 4:33 AM UTC in Can anyone else here make a better website?

Lanny Bird of Courage

Lanny. You weren't even born yet either in my era. I mean, where I come from. I'm literally like a dinosaur compared to you.

Which makes it even more embarrassing that you feel the need to lie about tech stuff to impress strangers on the internet.

2015-10-14 at 3:30 AM UTC in I'm spiritual

Lanny Bird of Courage

I actually chuckled.

2015-10-14 at 3:28 AM UTC in Can anyone else here make a better website?

Lanny Bird of Courage

I am one of the people who coined the term. Face it, kid, you're green. Green as they come.

That's so obviously a lie that I wish we had a phrase in english to express more emphatically that what you said is a lie. Like go from "that's a lie" to "that's total fucking bullshit" but then keep going until you get to the maximal possible expression of how much of a lie what you just posted is and that's what I'd like to convey in this moment.

2015-10-13 at 4:36 PM UTC in Languages that compile to javascript

Lanny Bird of Courage

http://opalrb.org/

What did you think of it? Pros, cons, impressions?

lol, compile

what is even the point?

Yeah, it's still compilation even if it doesn't target an assembly language. `javac` is the java -> bytecode compiler and JMV byte code certainly isn't assembly. I mean the google closure compiler is actually JS to JS. Generally the point is to remediate the many flaws of javascript, although what those flaws are will vary depending on who you ask. So like the authors of coffeescript clearly thought the syntax was JS's problem, clojurescript folks think the pervasive mutability is an issue (I'm pretty sympathetic to this argument) and MS thought the lack of a type system was causing enough problems that is warranted a new language to fix it. At least the latter two thought the lack of a proper module system was something worth fixing (god knows that's the truth). Looking at the way old ES6 got shot to shit (and it didn't even have that radical of changes, plus any new standard will takes years to gain usable levels of market adoption) it actually does seem like the best way to address issues is by making new languages.

2015-10-13 at 4:19 PM UTC in Why don't christians believe in ghosts?

Lanny Bird of Courage

The problem with Christianity is that the Catholics made it popular by force.

That's arguable. I mean we do have records of forced conversions but not really on a scale that explains the pervasiveness of christianity today. there is no real analogue to muslim conquest (the crusades clearly were not an effective means of spreading christianity seeing as the levant is a far cry from christian dominated and a few crusades actually killed more christians than anything else). Constantine was relatively tolerant of paganism. I'd argue the spread of christianity was more or less natural.

2015-10-13 at 4:09 PM UTC in Why don't you believe in me?

Lanny Bird of Courage

I beleive in you sploo, everyone else may doubt you but I know you're actually the smartest underage syncan addict the world has ever seen, not the mention the divine emissary of triangles.

2015-10-13 at 6:37 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition

Lanny Bird of Courage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_summer

On the subject of the paranormal, it would require a very long post to properly address it and I'm not sure I have the mental energy or motivation. My key points would likely be that we don't know everything, that, no doubt, like many other things (UFOs) the vast majority can be explained and are false, but you only need one to be genuine, and that people make assumptions about the nature of the phenomenon, but if there are genuine instances we don't know what they are and they could be perfectly compatible with the known laws of this universe. Then there's also the cultural/societal aspect, that, realistically, like race, there's a sort of taboo around it and attempting to seriously explore it will likely lead to serious consequences, a strong detrimental impact on your career in academia, your reputation/the perceptions of others, it's much more difficult to get funded and approved, and that due to the general nature of this the proper observation is immensely more difficult and unlikely to occur, we have far less concrete information making a proper study and observation much more difficult to conduct, you'd largely be shooting in the dark. Of course skepticism is justified, but that doesn't mean that there shouldn't be any attempts at studies made, and accepting that there strong factors negatively effecting this isn't the same as believing there's a grand conspiracy to suppress information.

Only needs one to be genuine for what? For beleiving hydro's house is haunted? For actually taking action on any specific unconfirmed account? No, I think you need more than one case of genuine unexpected phenomena to justify any element of a given ghost story or conspiracy theory. If someone wants to investigate paranormal activity then fine, but seeing as it's a largely unfalsifiable hypothesis (how exactly do I prove ghosts or whatever do not, universally, exist?) and experience suggests you have a better chance of curing cancer by throwing darts I can't see a compelling reason to fund research into the usual fare that gets touted as supernatural. You're the one who's always saying stereotypes somehow codify cultural wisdom somehow, and it's hard to argue the paranormal investigative community isn't full to the brim with lunatics and has squarely failed to produce any compelling evidence for... well... anything so maybe we really are justified in dismissing these things more or less off the bat.

2015-10-13 at 5:39 AM UTC in Why don't you believe in the ghost of christmas past?

Lanny Bird of Courage

Why stop at 9/11? Why not the holohoax too? THEIR THIRST FOR BLOOD AND MONEY AND BAGELS IS INSATIABLE. INSATIABLE I TELL YOU!

2015-10-13 at 5:31 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition

Lanny Bird of Courage

I'm hungry as shit so I'm drinking apple cider vinegar and trying to distract myself by repeat posting I guess.

I started browsing r/earthporn and related subs lately, great during a trip and nice for the ole wallpaper folder. Reminded me of where I used to live, an island but there was this little island, about the size of a football field just off the coast at one point, at low tide there was probably only 30 feet or so of water between the main island and this island. It was called forbidden island but there wasn't anything particularly forbidden about it, it was just kinda tricky to get to since you had to hike a couple of miles from the nearest road when ended at the top of a cliff and descend several hundred feet. Switchbacks most of the way but at one point you actually had to climb down ~20 feet of rock face, but there was a rope and footholds and such. Kinda surprising I was allowed to hike it when I was a kid but whatever. A few people died there, but always from trying to cross on a falling tide when the currents were strongest like retards. Here's a pic of it:

It looks like a spit of land but there's actually water flowing there, you descended along the ridge to the right. Anyway, that place was fucking awesome, aside from the coolest hike down (like I said, repelling, switchbacks, cliffs, lack of a trail in some places, none of the paved path bullshit that passes for hiking in the US) there was all kinds of crazy natural shit down there. You could hike along the bottom towards the photographer in that picture to get to a natural blowhole, and if you went out of frame to the right there's this underground cave (you had to climb down a hole that's maybe 5' in diameter) with water that came in from the ocean via an underwater canal. And the island itself was cool as well just by merit of being a fucking island.

Anyway, I've come to the realization that my childhood was wasted on me. I grew up around all that natural beauty but was honestly more interested in computers and urban living when I was there. Now I'm dreaming about doing that hike in the morning, setting up camp and dropping some acid shortly afterwards and peaking right around sunset, having a nice fire going and listening to the waves crash on the stony shore while watching the sunset. I bet I could even catch fish and cook it for dinner. Go exploring the cave systems and swim in the crystal clear waters. I'd probably end up drowning or falling to my death but what a way to go. Fuck, I wanna do that so bad. Most my friends parents were nutty hippy surfers too, I bet they did that shit all the time and I never really appreciated it. That's bullshit, I wish I had an excuse to go back.

Oh man, and then there was managaha:

The abandoned light house a block from where I went to school:

And suicide cliff:

Holy fuck, how did I actually live in this place?

2015-10-13 at 4:37 AM UTC in Can anyone else here make a better website?

Lanny Bird of Courage

It should be optimized. Mainly I'd just like to see a user CP like on Zoklet, it was great. Along with the Zoklet smilies.

Then again, this is pretty much charity from Lanny. And considering how small the userbase is and is likely to remain, how inactive the site is and fairly low/mediocre quality most threads are, I can understand not having the motivation to improve it. I don't know how busy Lanny is, but he has admitted to being a lazy/procrastinating nigger. He needs to get stimmed up to the max and set aside a day to finally get this done, for someone of his alleged skill level IT SHOULDN'T BE THAT HARD OR TAKE THAT LONG! Unless, of course, you're either lying about your level of ability/competence or have a greatly inaccurate and inflated self-image, which I don't think is the case, so all the more reason you should be ashamed of yourself and strive to develop better habits.

The database schemas for vB 3/4 are very different from 5, 3 did it the sane way everyone does, 5 crammed everything into the same table and used a type column plus some other black magic. Changing requires writing a backwards migration and some things don't even have analogs between the two. I could probably do it but it's more than a one day project unfortunately, for any programmer I imagine. It's not a terribly problem hard, it's just a horribly fiddly and tedious one. I'll probably get around to it one day beacuse I really did like zoklet's setup vB5 does blow, not just the speed but even stuff like the editor is just overly complex shit.

2015-10-13 at 4:25 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition

Lanny Bird of Courage

Lol, forget the body cam on the next spree shooter. I want to see hydro go slowly insane. Hey, hey, hydro, you're probably actually going insane (I know it's a joke but I swear to god, read your posts and tell me it doesn't sound like schizophrenia) but you won't believe it. But you'll have doubts because no reasonable person will believe you. Get a body cam, attach it to yourself, and just live with it for a few days. I guarantee you if you watch it you'll see yourself writing shit on your whiteboard (or else the writing will stop all together because you wouldn't do something to give yourself away during a psychotic bout). Seriously, you have nothing to lose, and if it turns out it reallys is ghosts or whatever you can sell the footage to one of those shitty history channel shows, either way you have nothing to lose (if your crazy and you find out at least you'll know) and you'll learn the truth. Isn't that something worth doing?

Bay Area is generally considered as having the best weather in the country. Come to think of it, it's kind of strange that we avoid so many negative things.

Always hot in the fall. It freaked me out a bit when I first moved up here, I swear it's hotter in september/october than it is in july.

On an unrelated note, you mentioned the idea of personal identity, or specifically the denial of an identity relation across time. I'm not sure if you've thought through the implications of that position (the SEP article on personal identity is fascinating) but one interesting aspect is that you, in each moment, are an agent who has been placed in a position by an entity with only a marginal relationship to you. Every time you go to the grocery store or find yourself in literally any situation you're like a soldier sent to war by a general or an inmate put in prison, you've never chosen to be where you are and living under the circumstances you are. It brings up an interesting question though, which is whether or not you trust the person who put you where you are. Like every bad thing that's happened to you was caused by the same group of people (you) that put you here now. And some decisions are really far reaching, like I'm still living out a plan formed and executed by a child, as are most people (ala "I want to be a <X> when I grow up"). It's interesting to think about, like every time you do something well it's because someone else handed you the tools to do that, and every time you fail it's because you were sent on the equivalent of a suicide mission.

2015-10-13 at 4:03 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition

Lanny Bird of Courage

Provides a good opportunity for intelligence/knowledge arbitrage in a way. Lanny, you're in the tech sector, have you ever considered this? Something tech related? Well, I suppose you already make enough and are in a field you genuinely love, making it less alluring.

Very smart people spend a lot of time trying to model social trends (basically what we're talking about here, you can't find success and copy it because ripoffs are, in general, poorly received so you have to anticipate market demands in a market that doesn't know what it wants) and the best results are pretty marginal. In fact the whole "data driven business model" which is the latest tech craze (following shortly after the "big data" jerkoff session) has largely failed to produce results beyond producing conferences and jobs that don't do anyone much good. Maybe some day someone will be successful but as soon as they are they'll exploit it, make a bunch of money, and the generated content will quickly take on an air of cheapness because it can be reliably produced. I kinda hate Paul Grahm (probably said that before) but he's pretty much right in this: in the internet era where content creation is trivially inexpensive the winning bet it to invest widely and early in the anticipation that a majority of endeavors will fail but one or more will be a sufficient success to buoy up the rest of your losses. It's well established that the profits of one highly successful tech endeavor can support angel investment in hundreds of others and that ratio is probably even more extreme for things like youtube content creation.

Anyway, yeah, I actually did trend modeling for a bit although not really in the public arena and I'm not going to go back for any amount of money. It was interesting enough work but the level of douchiness surrounding it is intolerable. If I just wanted to make a lot I'd be a quant. Actually high frequency trading is a minor fetish of mine and those niggers and absurd amounts (although they live under pretty intense stress and have a lot of turnover) so hopefully I'll get to do that one day. The amount of capital they handle though is impressive, it will probably be a little while before anyone hires me for that.

2015-10-11 at 7:33 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition

Lanny Bird of Courage

Yeah, inquiring minds want to know

2015-10-11 at 7:25 PM UTC in Rage Quit

Lanny Bird of Courage

Lan i love you, but you should stop operating under the assumption that the right/libertarians/etc don't give a shit about the poor. The way in which the right wants to help the poor is simply fundamentally different than the way in which the left wants to.

I'm happy to admit that the right and libertarians are fully as capable of caring about the poor as anyone else, I was saying it was rich that malice specifically, based on the positions he's taken in the past, is acting like he cares.

I do know what I'm talking about, what I'm talking about is that it's common for younger college kids to automatically assume democrats are better than republicans because of buzz topics like, birth control, affirmative action, marijuana, abortion, gay rights, ect… when really they are one in the same for the most part.

Hahahaha. Someone crying over the right's funniest boogeyman, the "college liberal" (second in absurdity, but also in the blackened hearts of every republican, to the great and feared "welfare queen") and then accusing someone else of being fooled by buzz topics is the height of irony.

Also most those issues seem pretty important. They may be divisive in the american political spectrum, and there may be many points where both parties align and you may disagree, but that doesn't mean there isn't a significant difference in ideology there or that everyone is equally wrong. There's clearly a better and a worse and if your reaction to your view not being perfectly represented in the american political spectrum is to throw your hands up and act superior to everyone else then you're just being a child.

2015-10-11 at 7:23 AM UTC in Rage Quit

Lanny Bird of Courage

*bans the construction of anything below the level of housing typical of high income people in 1st world countries in Haiti*

*poverty and homelessness suddenly eradicated, everyone has nice homes*

Makes perfect sense. How does prohibiting voluntary agreements between people benefit them in this case? This is a common economically illiterate style of though among leftists. Developers aren't required to build anything past the minimum requirements, why isn't all housing at that level? Because that isn't how markets/economies function. Consumer demand is a genuine factor. Higher quality, more spacious, housing is something people desire and it's brought to market. What you do is create a floor for the minimum arrangements people can legally consent to. What if some genuinely prefer that trade off for the lower price? What about the poor and the homeless who can't afford the bare minimum? How much does a simple studio rent for in SF?

Right above you stated "I lived in a room in a house with like 8 flatmates and the whole thing was cramped as shit". If the same amount of space was rented to you separately, you had tiny rooms and shared kitchens and bathrooms, it would likely be illegal in most areas. The majority of SF is actually zoned for single family homes, which is absolutely moronic and this is only one aspect of the multitude of harmful regulations. This is part of the reason why you see so many people sharing houses like this with room mates. The savings must have been worth the lower standard of living if you agreed to it.

Hopefully you would know my position on the SF housing situation by now. Yes, governments or, in this case, the majority of voters, can make really bad decision. That's an argument for more competent authorities rather than less authority existing.

The fact that you of all people would try to appeal to the interests of the poor is pretty comical.

Unfortunately, at your core, the majority of you, although you may never admit it, seem to be terrified of freedom and believe society would implode without your benevolent armchair central planning guided by your infinite wisdom/pretense of knowledge, as if this, people's lives, are a game of Sim City.

Unfortunately, at your core, the majority of you, although you may never admit it, stick your heads in the sand and pray that somehow dumbshit individuals, now lacking a highschool education due to the public school system being abolished for a $30 tax break, will be able to orchestrate an ideal society because somehow there's a natural law or divine command that chasing near-term rewards always leads to a global optimum and is totally sustainable forever.

2015-10-11 at 7:12 AM UTC in Languages that compile to javascript

Lanny Bird of Courage

Anyone here ever written web code in a language that uses javascript as a compile target? Do you have a favorite? Is it always best to just work in JS? What did you think about what you tried? For me:

Coffee Script: I like python so I actually like no braces and significant whitespace but I feel like the only benefit you get out of coffee script is marginally better syntax and the headaches of source mapping, even with modern tooling, just don't justify it to me. The object-literal syntax is pretty questionable in my mind and while I'll grudgingly admit I prefer classical inheritance it's not that hard to work around in vanilla JS and considering it's just not feasible to use coffeescript and never have to dive into actual JS I feel that it's not a significant benefit to anyone.

Clojurescript: I love clojure and clojurescript is a great idea. It's a total joy to write. Issues arise in 1. the heavy weight setup process and considerable ceremony every project requires and 2. the weight of the runtime is something that weighs heavy on my conscious. It's a perfect system for a large industry-strength application but for one-offs or small projects it's often hard to justify the massive support machinery that's required for a cljs project.

Typescript: I've never actually used it but the idea is cool. I expect the implementation is shit since it came from MS but I shouldn't judge until I try. I'm actually not a huge fan of static typing but I've suffered greatly and many times over the wild-west "anything goes" policy in vanilla JS and I've had a good number of problems that never would have happened with type checking. I think the world is still ripe for popular/good implementation of gradual typing and when it arrives we'll realize it's just the right thing in much the way we came to understand high level languages are the right thing, but until then if I can have a typechecker blow up in the face of the nigger who's trying to pass a square argument into a circular function I'll count it as a win. Funny enough typescript is kind of the opposite of coffee script in that it fixes a fundamental issue with JS (weak typing and a tendency to leak bad types downstream) without fixing the syntax while CS "fixes" the syntax without addressing the fundamental issues with the language.

2015-10-11 at 6:38 AM UTC in Rage Quit

Lanny Bird of Courage

Imagine the absurd and creative living arrangements that could occur if housing was completely deregulated. If you spent all your time in VR it wouldn't make much of a difference, depending on your lifestyle. Nail together some plywood boards with insulation sandwitched between them on top of the roof, a heavy duty extension cord for power and a hose for water, the drain is just a grate over a PVC pipe, which leads to the actual plumbing, stove is electric double burners. Hmm, that would actually be pretty adequate.

This is how you get things like compton

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