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asciilifeform: incidentally, ~no lab ever hires a reverser to build a new interface.
asciilifeform: PeterL: was it a mass spec ?
PeterL: <asciilifeform> i saw a win98 box once, uninfected, i shit thee not. it was connected to an alarm system, in a closet, no net connection, for decade. << my previous job we had a windows 98 box dedicated to a piece of equipment
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429150 << not giving a shit, for instance, in incredible short supply. ☝︎
assbot: 7 results for 'longitude' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=longitude
assbot: 0 results for 'story of harrison, the watchmaker' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=story+of+harrison%2C+the+watchmaker
mircea_popescu: they were trying to emulate the previous functioning of actual science, which was very much b-a.
mircea_popescu: PeterL "peer reviewed journals" became a thing in 1950s, together with state-funded science.
PeterL: thestringpuller I am not really strong on history, I would say 1800s, peer reviewed journals became a thing
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 19:47:13; trinque: if #b-a is not growing its own theorem-provers, it is merely feeding off the tit of the world it works against.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429146 << this is not necessarily unworkable - for a long time humans kept domesticated animals but didn't breed them in captivity - merely captured more. yet otherwise, sure. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 19:38:02; asciilifeform: he has a good grip of military craft, and understands that only idiots engage enemy on ~his~ strong turf
assbot: 1 results for 'momotaro' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=momotaro
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429119 << it is a complicated thing, "train an army of samurai". ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 19:26:45; asciilifeform: rereading the thread re: the 5 necessary spare asciilifeforms leads me to ask related q, where do we get a spare mircea_popescu if our current one breaks !
asciilifeform: i saw a win98 box once, uninfected, i shit thee not. it was connected to an alarm system, in a closet, no net connection, for decade.
funkenstein_: well if you can get a grant from the king to do real chemistry by suggesting there might be immortality in it, why not?
thestringpuller: modern alchemy? psuedoscience in a sense... But I was more referring from the psychological transition of viewing the world through the lens of alchemy vs. that of chemistry ☟︎
thestringpuller: PeterL: being a chemist what was the formative era when alchemy became chemistry?
PeterL: funkenstein_ or do you just have to ask which keys are in his wot, and you can generate a tree from there?
asciilifeform: we have NO auto-merge for a REASON.
asciilifeform: it took me a week of ??? and radiating high-energy frustratrons at mircea_popescu to fully grasp this point.
asciilifeform: where mircea_popescu argues that there being ~any such thing~ as a shared-by-all checkpoint is a Bad Thing
assbot: Logged on 20-02-2016 23:42:04; mircea_popescu: you don't "release" a patch.
funkenstein_: also if people don't like a patch SN which you have in the base, they will not get to use your patch
asciilifeform: we had a brutal but iirc conclusive thread about this
funkenstein_: it seems perhaps a checkpoint might be in order ☟︎
PeterL: so if your patch is not included, you have to keep rebasing it every time a new patch is added until it does get included?
funkenstein_: asciilifeform, so if I would like to make/rebase a patch.. i should take the longest chain I have seen as the base of the diff?
asciilifeform: i have nfi btw why mircea_popescu sent a 0fee.
funkenstein_: they pick and choose what TX to include in a block they mine as always ☟︎
funkenstein_: can you exclude me from your dinner even though I have a valid mouth?
assbot: 21 results for 'a miner problem' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=a+miner+problem
asciilifeform: !s a miner problem
PeterL: counts as a soft fork?
asciilifeform: it set a precedent for miner censorship.
asciilifeform: ftr i still see the high-S thing as a deplorable compromise
asciilifeform: and i'm not even a mircea_popescu !
trinque: if you bothered to breed well a 90% failure rate is deplorable ☟︎
asciilifeform: one of the items in the room is an hdd with half a TB of ru text.
asciilifeform: oh there is a trick
asciilifeform: trinque: everything that is ~actually worth reading~ would fit in a large room. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has the canonical advice, i cannot beat it, have 1000 children, beat'em within a mm of their life, kill the dumbest 9/10th
trinque: I have trb dev time today. it does not address the point made about education and its function in a culture
asciilifeform: and i could not necessarily persuade them that it is a good idea.
asciilifeform: do you recall the thread re: how people born in '90s cannot think worth half a damn ?
trinque: if #b-a is not growing its own theorem-provers, it is merely feeding off the tit of the world it works against. ☟︎
trinque: asciilifeform: what does asking for a list of books have to do with fungible cogs
asciilifeform: he has a good grip of military craft, and understands that only idiots engage enemy on ~his~ strong turf ☟︎
asciilifeform: this is mebbe half a shelf.
asciilifeform: take out gsm citywide for a month.
asciilifeform: rereading the thread re: the 5 necessary spare asciilifeforms leads me to ask related q, where do we get a spare mircea_popescu if our current one breaks ! ☟︎
danielpbarron: http://thesixthirty.com/news/chicago-cell-phone-jammer/ >> Although, if I’m going to play devil’s advocate here, how much fun would it be just to ride the L for hours on end with a case of Old Style and a cell phone jammer solely for the purpose of messing with people?
BingoBoingo: there is also locust tree I am not candidate because it likely no longer has a solid core and will likely require its removal to be outsourced.
asciilifeform: the last instance i recall of a formal sentence of impalement was, iirc, in 1740s, and it was commuted at the last minute to beheading
asciilifeform: the stake was in ru penal code through the 18th c. so we happen to know a good bit of craft concerning how & what.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Yes, very thin weedy thing. But it's height had become a concern given it's proximity to the power line.
asciilifeform: tepes would never sit a man down on such a stake.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i will have you know that yours is a very thin tree.
asciilifeform: perhaps he'll cough up a cipher for us.
asciilifeform: is not a fool.
asciilifeform: it will still be a few yrs. before it becomes impossible to play on the net.
mircea_popescu: usually makes a 3rd to 5th in singles tourneys or else somewhere 4-10th in teams. because her quarter tricks on minor points still buy a lot.
mircea_popescu: computer plays like a shoe - true, but not just any shoe.
mircea_popescu: anyway. konspiraci isn't, on reflection and review, much of a persuasive explanation here.
mircea_popescu: this is not much of a criteria.
asciilifeform: (and to exist in the conditions where playing is a thing, for which the money is. but the money is strictly secondary.)
asciilifeform: thing is, money is not much of a motivator to pro go players
mircea_popescu: money is a better play.
asciilifeform: but at any rate i would not be surprised if one day i learn that lee sedol was told by a little bird that if he wins he will have an accident like go seigen in '61
mircea_popescu: https://bitbet.us/bet/1249/alphago-will-defeat-lee-sedol-overall-in-march/#c5794 << this ia actually a pretty intelligent comment
mircea_popescu: "No kidding. What a scam this site is. I suppose they're planning on people not really reading the FAQ. I mean it calculates the odds for you and says 1 pays 1 but that's a LIE."
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the incredible insanity of naming a girl carice. carici being one of the numerous ways you can say cunt in romanian.
asciilifeform: well, aside from the motherland burning and my being powerless to do anything about it on account of sitting on a sharpened telephone pole, i'm having a marvelous day !11
assbot: Black Book on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1UilLYd )
asciilifeform: in practice i'm stuck doing pretty much 100% of the ab-initio b-a stuff.
mircea_popescu: all the things that there are can in principle be understood, or as the old jew said (in fiddler on the roof) - there is a blessing for everything.
mircea_popescu: the world is not a picture, alf. the world is a moving thing. let people be wouldja!
assbot: 0 results for 'ada manul' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=ada+manul
assbot: 6 results for 'ada manual' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=ada+manual
mircea_popescu: there was a manual floating about, lesseee
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron iirc he published a gentoo mask few days back
mircea_popescu: this is what we're trying for here : a) birth alfs ; b) continuously.
mircea_popescu: i'm not even saying that, nor is it even needed. even if you ~could~ actually, provavly, known from my personal discussion with the all-knowing god, do it, what the fuck sort of arrangement is this, "so b-a exists so that alf can fix it" ? how is it better than you know, hiring microsoft to do it.
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu is entirely welcome to answer 'you SAY you could do X if you were free, but i know that you're a tard! so you could not POSSIBLY do X!11 haha' and i will be powerless to prove him wrong.
mircea_popescu: looky, lashing at me is not liable to do much. the point remains that this "i could do except alas" line is a total waste of time and utterly broken in so many parts it's not worth fixing.
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 16:46:21; mircea_popescu: i have a lawyer whose yearly budget for family is ~8k.
asciilifeform: i'm a subject of hitler.
mircea_popescu: also, health at 1k a month is RIDICULOUS. pretty much all over the world, cancer treatment runs you 1k/mo.
mircea_popescu: he is a very good lawyer, and a hardworking fellow too.
mircea_popescu: i have a lawyer whose yearly budget for family is ~8k. ☟︎
asciilifeform: but this is not a very interesting discussion. would you have it with, e.g., your lawyer?! ask him what pieces of furniture he could do without, so as to charge less?!!
mircea_popescu: uhaul will take half a btc to haul your library.
PeterL: how much money do you spend on cheese a month?
PeterL: rent a 1600 sqft single family home for about 1000 usd/mo
kakobrekla: with a roof i imagine
asciilifeform: but do need a fair bit of floor space
asciilifeform: i dun need a studio.
mircea_popescu: by this logic, the gardener who is free needs a garden, but the movie director who is free needs his own studio. the cost of their respective freedoms, many degrees of magnitude apart.
mircea_popescu: but hey, as a heuristic, works fine.