asciilifeform: and i live on ground 0 of i dun even want to contemplate what.
asciilifeform: i cannot speak for others, but i disapprove of only two details -- 1) the solution of problems using wordplay & redefinition, the characteristic 'millenial' sin, e.g., 'this ftp daemon is TMSR WEB!', this can of cig butts is lisp machine 2) failure to maintain elementary self-hygiene -- have a hut with locking door, and FOR FUCKS SAKE, MAN, a pgp key
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: expensive, full of retired admirals et al
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: it isn't particularly near where i live, but i've been there, it is one of the few habitable / clean / civilized towns i've visited in usa
asciilifeform: and can't do some programmer wurk for, month, two, like normal people ?
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: d00d get a key, srsly
asciilifeform: and i can make 'mazeratis' so long as they are of cardboard.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: your 'irc server' deals in what, stream of characters ? of bytes ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu really ought to have properly laughed , aha
asciilifeform will never again say that a program he writes is 'x % complete', it is a mistake
asciilifeform: it is as if i asked 'how does your proposed replacement for tetracycline work' and gabriel_laddel answered 'tetraethyl lead in my 100 octane avgas prevents engine knock'
asciilifeform: 'Not every single output bit from then on, which is what would be necessary for his claim to be true, just those bits' >> gotta wonder, does this ninjashotgun know or not that you need ~0.22P bits of rsa P to break in coupla hours. or not.
asciilifeform: ( in related 'news', phuctor 'fan' : https://archive.is/dQFvt >> 'Oh, the Phuctor guy. Ignore him, he has a history of spreading FUD about PGP being horribly broken and accusing anyone who corrects him of being part of some elaborate cover-up (and in at least one case, threatening to contact the university of the person who did so. ' )☟︎
asciilifeform: well yes, it was precisely this, 'doll will spread legs , guaranteed'
asciilifeform: (or even mundane human problems like 'where to find a more decent flat' , because ~there~ , just as with fermat conjecture, there is no guarantee that you aren't facing brick wall, on account of personal inadequacy. whereas the crossword is guaranteed to yield to modest effort. it is sex with doll.)
asciilifeform: and that is how various folx end up in mental masturbatoria (e.g., 'mensa', similar clubs) instead of working on actual unsolved megaproblems
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-18#1569777 << actually there is another destructive force at work, also. i once knew a very capable d00d who ended up quitting serious research (he was a biologist) to play 'world o' warcraft'. he explained it as 'the game gives steady reward morsels, my research was a possibly lifelong brick wall' (not his exact words, but this was long ago)☝︎
asciilifeform: (at a recent hellhole where asciilifeform worked, they marched in folx with perfect marks, many magister degrees in 'sciences', etc., who COULD NOT PROGRAM)☟︎
asciilifeform: where Official credentials are so heavy on arbitrary crapolade that they are ~worthless
asciilifeform: this kind of 'crossword' is quite often used in american corporate hiring
asciilifeform: y'know, the folx who at one point built rockets, skyscrapers. they had descendants, who are now writing poor quality php on 'fiverr' etc.
asciilifeform: 'people' as broad class historically have barely been capable of wiping own arse. i was referring to the formerly sometimes-capable right tongue of bell curve, not to cattle.
asciilifeform: most any useful project takes longer than hour or however long a flight of fancy runs in typical d00d
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: like or not, serious work for e.g., tmsr requires some degree of it
asciilifeform: thir only attachment - to bottle, to tv screen, to dope.
asciilifeform: was it tlp, or who, but wrote about how many folx growing up in the ruins of 'western civilization' are biologically incapable of forming healthy attachment of any sort
asciilifeform: iirc there were earlier instances where mircea_popescu and other folx tried to recycle'em into something: the incident with the rental posters (who was that..?), the 'get epsilon btc to make eulora player', possibly other instances of beehive-fucking☟︎
asciilifeform: my take on 'fiverr' et al: ~stupid people are not a resource for the republic~. live'em to wander the world, live and die, to possibly birth less stupid folx, mine uranium for dying empires, etc., see also http://btcbase.org/log/2014-06-02#699078 .☝︎
asciilifeform: if every attempt at solving particular problem leads to a d00d who takes to kakodrink and wander off muttering nonsense for the rest of his days, and never anything resembling a solution appears, possibly problem was ill-posed...
asciilifeform: jurov doesn't wanna fly a mig does he
asciilifeform: jurov: which 'you' pays the fee? say i tell you 'i sent coin by mistake , i want it back'. how do you know i tell truth? and which coin ?
asciilifeform: but even supposing i lived whole life without ever again eating a btc -- does nit change the fact that 'electrum' is essentially a webwallet
