Notes from Noam Chomsky Interview

At the age of 93, Chomsky told us, “we’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history …” “It’s monstrous for Ukraine.” “It’s certainly right to have moral outrage about Putin’s actions in Ukraine,” he said of Biden’s recent declaration that the Russian president “cannot remain in power”. “But it would be even more progress to have moral outrage about other horrible atrocities… In Afghanistan, literally millions of people are facing imminent starvation....

April 6, 2022 · 2 min · un01s

Another C Code Joke

$ pcat goes-to.c #include <stdio.h> int main() { int x = 5; // while x goes to 0: while (x --> 0) { printf("%d ", x); } printf("\n"); return 0; } $ gcc goes-to.c && ./a.out 4 3 2 1 0

March 27, 2022 · 1 min · un01s

What is Freud's single greatest contribution?

Freud already answered this question, of course, when he said that whereas Darwin decentered the human animal from the apex of creation, Copernicus decentered the earth from the center of the universe, Freud had decentered humanity in itself. No longer was the human immanent. Lacan’s answer is perhaps even better: “That is why the unconscious was invented—so that we would realize that man’s desire is the Other’s desire, and that love, while it is a passion that involves ignorance of desire, nevertheless leaves desire its whole import”...

March 23, 2022 · 1 min · un01s

Rebuild

$ brew install hugo -f yml $ hugo version hugo v0.94.2+extended darwin/arm64 BuildDate=unknown $ hugo new site notes $ cd notes $ git submodule add https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod.git themes/PaperMod $ echo "theme: \"PaperMod\"" >> config.yml

March 20, 2022 · 1 min · un01s

C Code Jokes

Here are some C code with the JavaScript quirks. Credits to luna. #include <stdio.h> int main() { puts("-0.5" + 1); printf("%d\n", 50 ** "2"); return 0; } To build and run the above code, just do the following and ignore the warnings. $ gcc c-js.c && ./a.out 0.5 2500 Let’s look at the warnings first. c-js.c:4:15: warning: adding 'int' to a string does not append to the string [-Wstring-plus-int] puts("-0.5" + 1); ~~~~~~~^~~ c-js....

March 18, 2022 · 1 min · un01s