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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes this wouldn't be a result of tarantino-cultism would it ?
mircea_popescu: check it out, that's a new one.
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ben_vulpes: met them through a south african who coached the greek olympic polo? dressage? teams before greece stopped paying for niceties like that.
ben_vulpes: put together a lovely parillada.
thestringpuller: thing is actually pretty fast, but upkeep seems a bit high, and of course the thing eventually dies
mircea_popescu: yeah well. horse maintenance is a lotta work. the whole horseback thing is a honest signal of a hierarchical society.
thestringpuller: ben_vulpes: there is a d00d who sold his car for horse at livestock auction where my gf lives.
ben_vulpes: and fwiw i'd rather ride a horse too.
ben_vulpes: and as a matter of fact horses /are/ allowed on the road.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you ever brushed a horse ?
asciilifeform: if bicyclist is permitted on a public street, so should horse !
ben_vulpes: this is a hallmark of a miserable place to live.
asciilifeform: as a driver, i always despised the self-righteous pedaller who was convinced that he 'saved mother earth'
assbot: Logged on 15-01-2016 06:47:07; adlai: buy a bike, you'll learn more about trading and addiction from not getting run over than you will from losing money on plebian status symbols
ben_vulpes: he can't imagine a situation in which people are not condemned to his own version of hell.
thestringpuller: why is everyone hating on cyclist? you alfie of all people stuck in the horrid traffic of DC on a daily basis.
ben_vulpes: it'll be rather easy to turn that into a bloodthirsty hunt for californians alter.
asciilifeform: most folks rode trams, trolleys, a few buses.
ben_vulpes: the notion of a functional town only mildly corrupted by cars must be as foreign to you as an atomic dirigible.
mircea_popescu: http://tweetnacl.cr.yp.to/20131229/tweetnacl.h << for my own education, why the fuck does a .h file in a 2 file project need to say #ifndef TWEETNACL_H #define TWEETNACL_H endif ?
asciilifeform: i can only picture a sordid 1890s shanghai
mircea_popescu: a certain sort, a certain type.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> with just a touch of retraining he could be right at home in a bike advocacy group <
assbot: L1sp.org - a redirect service for Common Lisp documentation ... ( http://bit.ly/1JsRSST )
thestringpuller: maybe not for alfie who came out the womb with a commodore64 or some shiznit
adlai: thestringpuller: if you really want to learn CL, get used to feeling lost because it takes a couple years / decades to reach all the keys on this piano
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: oh ffs sit down with clojure for a week if you're so scared
ben_vulpes: you should put a wifi in that kid.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the kind that puts caltrops in front of trucks on a highway ?
ben_vulpes: with just a touch of retraining he could be right at home in a bike advocacy group
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: aren't there a million open source for 'em to get cycled through? each no doubt in need of deproblematizing some codebase of genderered nouns?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu may have his reasons for being so friendly and welcoming but bearing a deep suspicion of new faces in #b-a has saved me untold heartbreak (and no doubt riches, if i were to listen to robert viragh's ilk) ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had a spiffy article, 'variety speak' a while back.
mircea_popescu: i just read it as "the difference between one's understanding and the course requirement, call it D, is the maximal aperture past which useful metaphors (with an utility marked as U) and inept strawmen (with a deviance marked as -U) can still be distinguished"
mircea_popescu: remember new guy, got overwhelmed a few days back.
asciilifeform: funnily enough, we did a walkover of the shmoo talks, incl. the crackpot algebraiceraser crypto thing, at the slave galley
mircea_popescu: and incidentally, as a bright mathematical mind pointed out once, "at some point the effort invested in stating rsa is 'widely researched' exceeds the effort ever expended into researching it"
mircea_popescu: "this bag is as heavy as that car. we don't know whether that car is just a cardboard cutout or what, but hey, provedly heavy bag! !1"
asciilifeform: i really pictured more of a cray.
mircea_popescu: but i suspect this heavy... butted aesop is a little too hamfisted for the actual butts in question.
mircea_popescu: anyway, my idea was originalyl that it's a collaborative tool par excellence. girls better support each other's back, lest they fall in. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: "would this be a punishment toilet ? for like the dungeon ?" "do you think the jacuzzi is a punishment pool ?" "ewww!"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, i now envision your toilet-of-the-future as looking rather like a cray-II.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: will have to spend a weekend, possibly risk opening a book
mircea_popescu: anyway, as a general point : even if you did compute a fastest route, and even if in fact you are correct (which is fundamentally an undecidable problem), there is still no reason to panic if phenomena goes a slightly more circuitous path. there are at least two good reasons, both political. one's education (ie, benefit of the ingroup), the other ... well let's just say the other's for the benefit of the outgroup.
asciilifeform: until the whole thing, one fine day, starts just fine in a mildly massaged sbcl
mircea_popescu: but conceptually, in my head at least, more of a "bitcoind migrates into bitcoinos" thing
mircea_popescu: now tinyscheme may be a good import
mircea_popescu: anyway. it's one thing to add "a library". it's another to "import this 1k lines that i read myself".
asciilifeform: l0l! is this a ref to something?
asciilifeform: ~likewise~ any change that increases substantially the number of lines written by non-wot folks, is ipso facto a loss.
asciilifeform: removing boost would be a worthy thing. BUT NOT if it multiplies the line count 2x, OR if it entails forcing gcc5 build
asciilifeform: ergo replacing, e.g., openssl, with a 1000 line thing THAT CAN BE UNDERSTOOD, is a worthy thing
asciilifeform: it is bad enough that trb has 500 man-year of study baked into it. let's now add a 501st ?
asciilifeform: json is really sexpr but was dropped as a baby
asciilifeform: and correctly implementable by a stray dog
assbot: Logged on 21-01-2016 22:16:42; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-01-2016#1380266 << yes! and you can almost ~define~ 'sane system' this way. with the caveat that it can't be a non-orthogonal fudge like a program consisting of one line 'start_bitcoind()' nor anything in that spirit. ORTHOGONAL operators.
mircea_popescu: just a glorified mess.
mircea_popescu: it is ipso definitio not a standard.
mircea_popescu: punkman only if "standard format" doesn't expand at pre-compile time into "here's a debalanced tree of 547657698 "standards""
asciilifeform: but unix doesn't give us a rpc-thing that doesn't suck
asciilifeform: or at the worst, a simple telnet-type protocol
punkman: need to have a format for api output anyway right?
mircea_popescu: yes but fuck that, we have a protocol that then imports json ?
mircea_popescu: punkman certainly a worthy attempt, even if mod6 prolly won't be able to put it in current release.
punkman: both gui-snip and debug-sanity are gonna touch a lot of files though, and I would prefer to do this once
mircea_popescu: this with a view to better semantics, or with a view to reinstate gui ?
punkman: mircea_popescu: start over, meaning make a new debug_sanity patch with more improvements (and without the gui snipping parts bundled together)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually may want to write him a letter, iirc he was also all about fits in head but arrived there on slightly different path
asciilifeform: one way to look at it is that he isn't much more of a 'free man' than, e.g., i am
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asciilifeform: just like you don't become a famous small arms designer by refining the kalash
asciilifeform: problem is that one doesn't get to 'make a name' in academe as 'cryptographer' by pushing rsa. ☟︎
asciilifeform: punkman: i'm a fan of the man's cryptoanalytic work. but the sv-popularity of his cipher primitives is concerning
asciilifeform: punkman: quite a few things
mircea_popescu: actually a proper history of early mining would be a most respectable endeavour for a serious, diligent historian at this point.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382579 << this is a mega-l0l, worth reading! turns out, one day they decided to play 'obfuscated c contest' at ft meade ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asicminer had a fully blown up run. so did bfl, twice iirc.
asciilifeform: yes but any public intel suggesting a taped-out total dud ?
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: if this were so, there would have been many asic co. sunk by a taped out dud
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: the whole racket stood on a solid column of chump, and was designed around such
asciilifeform: i've always wanted to do a bit of microscopy on those, see if there was a set of magicks for re-enabling the 'accidented' cores
asciilifeform: (they never got the wear circuits to behave plausibly like a real-life bathtub curve, either. so the things would routinely ship with varying number of working hash cores, etc)
mircea_popescu: http://36.media.tumblr.com/06e1a4f30719f22ffe8bd2f8abe73b1b/tumblr_nd32f8rOuT1rqs8dwo1_1280.jpg << in other news, never trust a man with a garage.
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 08:59:13; punkman: "It has been quite a while since any new hardware became available, it is reasonable to assume that most small miners will have recouped the majority of what they initially outlaid for the hardware, and are now disinclined to continue ‘supporting the network’, whilst incurring unnecessary cost. So: MegaBigPowers ‘land-grab’, to acquire all this idle hashing power seems like a smart move. As,
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382561 << this seems like a deviously clever notion until you recall that most of the asic miners were - quite likely deliberately - not built to last ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let the guy do something useful wouldja. step at a time.
asciilifeform: (add what belongs in the pool to a new pool, then nuke what remains. also defrags...)
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 05:20:23; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382232 << even the simple step of "add flag to trb to dump mempool into file each time a block is found" would be helpful atm.
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 05:23:47; mircea_popescu: and for the love of christ implement either rolling or else a maxsize for files or something.
asciilifeform played with a bag of empty shells of those, as a boy
mircea_popescu: well yes. 39 is the old ak/sks russian thing. nato has a bigger one. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: and that's on the modest 39mm. pretty much a thing of the past, everyone doing 51 now amirite. so 2x that.
mircea_popescu: people keep mocking hollywood marksmanship. mostly because they've never been in a warzone.
asciilifeform: and wake me up when they ~make~ a tank.
mircea_popescu: and they do not wish to be not because they somehow give a shit about brutus and brutish jealousies.
mircea_popescu: ironically, the people who could be caesar ie emperor and pontifex max uniformly do not wish to be, so much so it's almost a heuristic.
mircea_popescu: your idea that "5000 yr egyptianreich" is not unlike a 1900s victorian idea that "5000 yr chinareich". wut ?
mircea_popescu: king can not invest by staff. he doesn't have a staff to give.