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asciilifeform: exactly what i was suggesting re: the scanz.
asciilifeform: phf: at no point did i ever propose 'scan everything'
asciilifeform: i'ma need electron beam lithography, for instance.
asciilifeform: i mean, this ~is~ a self-consistent thing. pashtun needs galois like a dog needs beets.
asciilifeform: no but only because 'i'm ok to ride a horse'
mircea_popescu: do i look like i'm falling to you ?
phf: well, it's very medieval idea (without the negative connotation) or reminiscent of samizdat culture. scans only come when someone asks for a scan, rather then the other way around, i.e. "archiving initiatives"
mircea_popescu: i only burned a coupla! ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i expect you to be happy that your life ends before it.
asciilifeform: the translation, reading, GROKKING, etc. are very time consuming. i expect to spend most of my life on it.
phf: is the idea that ascii can read book, or whatever, can even give me copy to read, or whatever, but ultimately there's not going to be library of b-a, because only relevant knowledge is whatever ascii or i (in this example) say in the logs, how we got there is our own business?
mircea_popescu: (i lie, i never read the actual book, it was online or it wouldn't have existed.)
mircea_popescu: it sucked as i found it.
mircea_popescu: i dug whatever, the giving tree out of a book too.
asciilifeform: so this is all batshit. if i need islam i know where to find it
asciilifeform: i dug balanced ternary system out of FUCKING BOOKZ
asciilifeform: i personally picked up too many of these to list. and they will live for at least as long as i do.
funkenstein_: as long as there are people of means archiving the log, i agree
mircea_popescu: it is culturally irrelevant now, because i expect my text searchable and my lines logged and indexed and so forth.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, i betcha you learned 'ostrogradsky's' and not 'gauss's' theorem.
asciilifeform: i can retell galois or i can $work.
mircea_popescu: so put it in there. but mind what i said : RETELL.
mircea_popescu: i'm not scanning fucking accra idols, either. i piss on them instead. they make fine urinals, for a very good reason.
mircea_popescu: they lost. i didn't tell them to lose. they did it all on their own.
assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 13:40:20; copypaste: I am again thoroughly convinced that KickStarter is nothing more than a platform for clueless derps to make money on even more clueless derps
mircea_popescu: maybe i want to travel in no less than 1k sqft.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-11-2015#1321251 << in honesty i never quite understood the "scrap boats" thing in the 30s/40s. or rather, why in the 50s they didn't fix it. ☝︎
asciilifeform: i suspect that partly it is a cultural thing
BingoBoingo: <copypaste> I thought it had all the moving parts of a pro one; automatic page turning and so on << Faster still is cutting the spine off of book and using sheet fed scanner
mircea_popescu: anyway, the 2nd add is very well done, i wouldn't negrate the author
asciilifeform: or do i just lack the necessary lsd here.
asciilifeform: can't say that i do..
asciilifeform: recent wash., d.c. lulz for mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/GratyXB.jpg , http://i.imgur.com/2zAYWDJ.jpg
mircea_popescu: who the hell is she ? i have this unshakable impression of knowing the girl
mircea_popescu: i wonder what the libtards will do when they discover the machines actually like their enemies much better than them
thestringpuller: i wonder what I'll learn tomorrow
thestringpuller: yesterday I learned what he looked like as a child
thestringpuller: today i learned that mircea_popescu listens to destiny's child
thestringpuller: i choose 3
asciilifeform: for completeness, and because mircea_popescu is asleep, i will mention the third,
asciilifeform: today i use a tripod and ordinary digital cam, similar to how old-time spies used 'minox'
asciilifeform: at least not the $15k one i used some years ago
assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 13:30:52; copypaste: I've seen current professional book scanners, they are huge and cost $10K USD minimum
asciilifeform: (and i anticipate that somebody will mention bank switching. ahahaha. tricks like that demolish the already unenviable performance of such a box)
copypaste: I am again thoroughly convinced that KickStarter is nothing more than a platform for clueless derps to make money on even more clueless derps ☟︎
copypaste: i doubt they needed that much money just to make a foot pedal
copypaste: I thought it had all the moving parts of a pro one; automatic page turning and so on
copypaste: I've seen current professional book scanners, they are huge and cost $10K USD minimum ☟︎
ben_vulpes: i've not touched blocks yet.
phf: ok, on this incoherent note, i'm going to sleep
phf: oh yeah, re lisp, i've not had a chance to use it, but i'm pretty sure i have a bunch of code that does (loop .. do (catch :foo ... (loop ... (throw :foo ...)))
phf: named loops in common lisp? i don't actually know the feature
ben_vulpes: i just discovered named loops and returning from inner loops to arbitrary outer loops and am just startled at this particular codification of the pattern.
ben_vulpes: looks like ad hoc implementation of common use cases with arbitrary language features to me, but i've also spent a bit of time with the loop macro lately
phf: i think typical refactoring done elsewhere is to put the whole for loop into a small function, replace break with return and then assume that any escape out of loop is an error
ben_vulpes: oh i get it now.
ben_vulpes: today i learned that one can else in a for in python
asciilifeform: 'Austrian Army Major: “I was at the border today: It's a war!” “21 October 2015: Today is the blackest day of my life. At 11:30 I had to witness with my own eyes how around 5,000 men, all of them young and very fit, breached the Austrian border at Spielfeld, completely unopposed and unchecked.”'
mircea_popescu: you know, the one red thread here is, a certain mental pattern of the imbecile. "hearn spoke TO BANKS" says the idiot who, after asking two awkward hermit females and a distant relative, gladly reports "i asked WOMEN".
mircea_popescu: i mean, the peasantariat of china, ok.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea how the russkis imagine "great wall" works on people who follow torrents
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you were asking re: the adlai thread: i decoded that turd he keeps deedbotting
ben_vulpes: funny, i was just having a conversation with ladybird about how "teh h0rr0r" of the holocaust (mostly concentration camps) is the entirety of what americans are taught about wwii and hitler and de and politics of the time generally. another instance of "stealing the having been stolen from".
ben_vulpes: "In each case, I was not the instigator, only the one who fought back. But being unapologetically white and male worked against me in every case."
mircea_popescu: i give this 0.3% chances of working
hanbot: mircea_popescu well at least those marriages could be dissolved with this guy's plan. walk her up to some chicks, "listen, i know this is weird, but this woman won't leave me alone. would you stay with me a while so she'll maybe leave?"
mircea_popescu: megging is totally a thing, i suspect half the marriages happen thrugh that method
hanbot: I stopped, looked him straight in the eyes, and said, “What’s going on here? Why are you following me?” << seriously? what happened to "fuck off"? "Oh, --*-of CoUrSe-*-- I could've kung fu-ed..." but you didn't, schmuckelodeon. passive aggressive nonsense already, no wonder he's prey.
asciilifeform: ^ i call this 'megging'
asciilifeform: 'When I met my friend for dinner and told him what happened, he speculated that I was being set up for a “soft mugging,” which is a term for when homeless people attach themselves to you and won’t leave until you give them some money.'
pete_dushenski: unfortunately, that's all the time i have for now. later gents !
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-11-2015#1321050 << aha. but when i first saw it, i thought it to be a gag ☝︎
pete_dushenski: i'll clean it up :)
mircea_popescu: i really vote for gavin to do the impersonation. he's so talented for it! also has costume!
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 22:32:00; adlai: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bhagwan-chowdry/i-shall-happily-accept-th_b_8462028.html "Satoshi Nakamoto already is in possession of several hundred million U.S. dollars worth of bitcoins so the additional prize money may not mean much to him. Only if he wants, the committee could also transfer the prize money to my bitcoin address, 165sAHBpLHujHbHx2zSjC898oXEz25Awtj. Mr Nakamoto and I will settle
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> the dill's what makes this dish though whether this is a traditional ingredient, i couldn't say << certainly not.
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: once or twice a year i get a check for $10 or so from them.
pete_dushenski: pretty sure i'm eligible for this groupon one. i dun see why i shouldn't give it a go.
BingoBoingo: I see
pete_dushenski: i'm waiting until he figures out whose little baby fists keep punching him in the face.
pete_dushenski: i do, i do indeed :)
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-11-2015#1320801 << i accidentally stumbled into #bitcoinxt for the first time this morning, only to witness exactly this, to which gavin chimed in with a 'great work toomin!' to much personal amusement ☝︎
BingoBoingo: Also, why apply lawn pesticides? I like bees.
BingoBoingo: FU I apply my own lawn herbicides
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-11-2015#1320672 << this 'mobile' thing has reached the tipping point. i now have family friends in their 60s telling me not to do my banking on my 'mobile' at the local cafe lest i be cyberhacked to pieces ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 09-11-2015 14:57:05; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-11-2015#1320581 << how can it be optimism, yo ? for one thing i don't live there. for the other thing, the breakdown of their system is bad news for them. yes, it sucked, but like ankylosis, at lrast it held things together.
pete_dushenski: the dill's what makes this dish, though whether this is a traditional ingredient, i couldn't say
shinohai: i have never seen these jewfro pics
thestringpuller: Hey I'm down to start a crime syndicate with ascii_field ; he'd be a great brain behind the operation
ascii_field: hey i'm already a criminal in the sense contemplated in mircea_popescu's article re: same
ascii_field: cost of food is rounding error where i am.
ascii_field: hence why i said 'no measurable difference'
thestringpuller: well if 747 crashses near you full of benjies I'll gladly take it off your hands
thestringpuller: yes this I understand
ascii_field: 'i can't fly without airplane' -- 'what happens if you do?'
ascii_field: require 10,001 things that i don't have.
ascii_field: i couldn't so much as to buy a bottle of rotgut 'under the table'
thestringpuller: i guess "anti money laundering business"
thestringpuller: I've been in the money laundering business from the USG side.
ascii_field: but yes, iirc we had a thread where i noted that if i were to find a 747 packed with benjies in my back yard, it would make no measurable difference in my standard of living and would in fact be at least annoying