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kakobrekla: "can i bring a few friends and we sit out the years in a month?" ☟︎
asciilifeform: adlai: this was re: carl force. which i somehow slept through.
assbot: Logged on 03-11-2015 07:28:49; punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-11-2015#1314104 << I got the error popup but also the "save file" dialog, and it worked http://kb.mozillazine.org/Source_file_could_not_be_read
asciilifeform: 'I have heard from several people connected to European security circles that the illegal weapons market is completely sold out, with many dealers holding on to their weapons for their own personal use. This is a rumour, but since we have been forced to depend on hearsay for any real information right now, I tend to believe it.' ☟︎
davout: i can do the same with my c0ck
assbot: Social Media Is Not Real Life on Instagram: “Was paid $400 to post a dress. That's when I had maybe 150k followers, with half a million followers, I know of many online brands (with big budgets) that pay up to $2000 per post. Nothing is wrong with accepting brand deals. I just think it should be k ... ( http://bit.ly/1RNN4X7 )
punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-11-2015#1314443 << I think it can handle arbitrary bytestrings ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 03-11-2015 03:53:46; asciilifeform: http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/gyQAAOSwlaxWNsi8/s-l1600.jpg << yes, that's cast iron.
punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-11-2015#1314104 << I got the error popup but also the "save file" dialog, and it worked http://kb.mozillazine.org/Source_file_could_not_be_read ☝︎☟︎
pete_dushenski: eh i'm fond of the late, long summer evenings.
BingoBoingo: I prefer it to what happens in the spring with the mornings
pete_dushenski: though i can probably chalk a fair bit of that to listening to the exquisitely performed audiobook recording while walking through the creepy, empty river valley in the early evening.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-11-2015#1314382 << nowai ! i dun struck oil !! ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i understand what the author would like to be true, but seriously...
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 03:48:22; ben_vulpes: i'm not interested in it, it's interested in me.
pete_dushenski: i found it a bit dull but hey, to each his own.
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 03:41:07; mircea_popescu: i find the pastoral images soothing
pete_dushenski: I have only seen conspicuous consumers and Apple fanboys wearing the things. << i've seen exactly two young men wearing the apple watch. exactly two. "no one could've predicted!"
pete_dushenski: unless, i grant, he's a raving narcissistic lunatic. in which case all bets are off anyways
pete_dushenski: so i score a hole-in-one at the golf course and think myself a good golfer now, worst case scenario is i buy a few rounds of beer and boast for a few weeks/months, maybe biting off a bit more than i can chew in a few subsequent matches, but the afterglow will soon fade
pete_dushenski: does he go to the casino and play lotteries because he thinks 'i can't lose!' or does he bury his fortunate treasure until something equally magnificent to whatever succeeded the first time around comes around again, IF it comes around again.
mircea_popescu: i dun think i ever had a real computer./
phf: see, that's cause your priorities were straight. my first "real computer" was a shell into msu machine that was part of GlasNet project (glasnost! internet!) from an elektronika computer, so i kind of always assumed that real computers is not something you have at home. i always just wanted a "deck" from neuromancer.
asciilifeform: i remember, as a schoolboy, wanting very few things more than to own a 'proper unix workstation'
asciilifeform: http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/gyQAAOSwlaxWNsi8/s-l1600.jpg << yes, that's cast iron. ☟︎
phf: i sold my retrohardware before one of the moves, because, i'm ashamed to say, in 2007 it seemed like "mac, you're my unix now"
phf: that actually looks like octane, i had the low end O2 version
asciilifeform: which i used.
asciilifeform: these were the ~physically~ spiffiest workstations i've ever laid hands on, bar none.
asciilifeform: phf: i still have an o2 at $redacted
phf: sgi had the best implementation of x window system. i briefly had an o2, hand me down from a retrocomputing enthusiast
mircea_popescu: in any case : an effectual immune response keeps this particular virus well contained. its efficiency is predicated on a well functioning liver because of peculiar synthesis pathways that are narrow and easily stress that i don't recall extemporaneously.
mircea_popescu: i don't have a source in that sense. you can quote me as an expert.
asciilifeform: i'm speaking of the present-day one, which destroyed every other commercial unix house
mircea_popescu: i disagree.
mircea_popescu: as in "i'll slit your throat and rape your sluts" free
ben_vulpes: i don't, praytell?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i am in the habit of sending various relatives snippets to paste into sbcl and limited instructions on what to do
asciilifeform: which is why i said 'or isomorphic'
mircea_popescu: at McDonalds and the system gets another data point confirming it is right. I hope the parallel between this and anything written by Solzhenitsyn is immediately obvious, if not, read anything by Solzhenitsyn. The Matrix doesn't need you, but it will offer you a free pass if you help get the other batteries in line."
assbot: Re: Can I use Lisp? - Naggum cll archive ... ( http://bit.ly/1GIL6ah )
mod6: i hear ya :]
mircea_popescu: i still dunno why it would have died
asciilifeform: mod6: the price i pay for having half-finished crud lying around
mod6: oh, i did notice that your vpatch does have dates in it though. you probably just had an older version of vdiff?
asciilifeform: last i saw.
mircea_popescu: awww, nsa division head fell into the "find me five lines and i'll hang him" trap ?
asciilifeform: i suspect a stray 8th bit somewhere
mod6: ok i've resolved that issue asciilifeform, I'll test on it for a few days and probably post a new version this coming weekend.
asciilifeform: i'd like to get it to a point where it builds without any blood sacrifices on all vaguely-posixy machines
mircea_popescu: that is the best stern blurb i ever heard.
mircea_popescu: "In America, everything is a commodity, everything has a price. So when post-gold standard capitalism gets access to everything except the secret desires of women, it will necessarily create a mechanism to get them, too, i.e. some media to take the bullet as pervert so women can be free to talk in exchange for men quietly listening in. It took a decade but the system worked: Howard Stern was the inevitable synthesis of
btcdrak: "I think it's clear now that actually getting Bitcoin to the fabled seven transactions per second will be a lot of hard work, unless someone comes up with a new SatoshiDice like business model that results in huge demand for transactions. If things continue on their present path, scalability is really the least of our concerns - increasing usage is."
mircea_popescu: i think it might be his favourite trilema piece
lobbes: ascii_field: I can now confirm that both verify, and the checksums match. odd indeed
lobbes: ascii_field: I *was* able to verify mpi-genesis.tar.gz.sig (downloaded from IE); yet to diff with wget version
assbot: Logged on 27-09-2014 03:04:39; asciilifeform: i've argued in the past that you have to ditch... binary. if you want to be rid of the 'floating point' abomination.
ben_vulpes: any time I see these "oversaw/responsible for revenue of blablablah" all sorts of alarms go off.
mircea_popescu: i should probably write this bestiary sometime.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo she was brought to me as an offering, she is now a stock character for 1970s/1980s born too ugly to be a slut too lazy to cheerlead i know i wanna-be a writer i-m-going-to-new-york to be discovered if it worked for horseface whatshername why not me!"
ben_vulpes: the "and i'm with my me" bit was kinda chortleworthy but it was written by snl staff.
lobbes: ascii_field: I can confirm the same behavior on my graphical winblowz browsers (Firefox, Chrome). On Firefox, I get additional message of 'MrTAHIXE.sig.part could not be saved, because the source file could not be read.'
ascii_field: on ALL graphical www browsers i tested
ben_vulpes: I DON'T KNOW EITHER
ascii_field: wtf am i looking at, ben_vulpes
mircea_popescu: i have no idea what any of that is ?
ben_vulpes: in other nyooz, i learned that the confederated tribes of the grande rhonde very intentionally do not meet curation standards or participate in the repatriation scemes.
mircea_popescu: i gotta host with whoever's hosting these dudes.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure it'll be fine.
ben_vulpes: "i uh well YES"
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 18:09:14; thestringpuller: i also asked him what a kolhoz, and he looked at me funny and said, "Those haven't existed in a long time. Although we are probably in one right now."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes not that i imagine i can keep up with the vulpes, but - i ok'd remodelling of a bathroom. in wax.
ben_vulpes: i am also going to have to redo al of my keybindings for single handed use
mircea_popescu: god damned it... "this is better than the greek myth because i like it more"
ben_vulpes: and yeah moet schmoet, but i want to *see* my friends
mircea_popescu: i just looked, it's there.
mircea_popescu: tbh i have no idea how these accidents are supposed to occur - every air cusjopm i ever saw had this 2mm steel plate protecting the butthole.
phf: fuck this i'm moving tostanding desk
ascii_field: a chick's, i'm told
ascii_field: http://i.imgur.com/zTyfHGs.jpg ☟︎
phf: "he knows english better then any american i know" well, that says something about ~americans you know~
mircea_popescu: makes shit like "Short of cauterizing your own genitals, nothing seems like it would change who you are like speaking in an-other's language. Blech, I'd rather wear someone else's underwear, no thanks, I'll take the 12 credits but no way am I retaining anything. "Well, science says you lose the ability to learn languages as you get older." Oh, did NPR just interview TED? Dummies in other countries and dummies in t
ascii_field: i don't have tentacles. really.
mircea_popescu: but when i use throwaways i use them on the basis of something, whereas with him that something's not actually fully formed behind the throwaways
mircea_popescu: btw : my first impulse when you made that quote was omfg i left it out of my last article, it should be in there! mad chase ensues to find it in source material, by the time i have contextualizatio0n ready i know where it should be in my article
mircea_popescu: myeah. disentangling this dead dependency is, i will want to point out, just as much a cognitive nightmare as fixing shit to compile with inane gcc or w/e
ascii_field: he assumes that (what he passes off as - i cannot compare it with any objective reality that i can access) usa 'pop culture' is a thing
mircea_popescu: which i guess he didn't, us college.
ascii_field: i will admit, i would never even have known wtf is a 'patek philip' if not for tlp...
ascii_field: paragraph, to some demented mutants who i neither ever were nor ever met nor ever expect to meet
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: 'Worse, cynicism and aspirational branding aren't two opposite ends of a pole, they form a cycle: the chasm between your cynical view of real life and the perfect definition of the aspirational images in ads makes you even more cynical towards real life; which drives you further into the safety of branding. Which is why you drink.' << y'know, i'd appreciate tlp moar if he were not talking, in every odd
thestringpuller: i also asked him what a kolhoz, and he looked at me funny and said, "Those haven't existed in a long time. Although we are probably in one right now." ☟︎
thestringpuller: i printed off your best bash's and showed them to him, and he was quite amused
mircea_popescu: they got a whole system down there i hear, hussies babymomma while derps fuck up linux and wash dishes in the buff.
mircea_popescu: right but i mean you don't know the face you don't know the name, i guess "nobody" ?
mircea_popescu: what shall i answer to the who ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i don't know this face
mircea_popescu: ftr : i've been here over a year and i've not pinched a single butt (the plain variety - on the street, uknown - let's not get into perversion) because a) they're short and b) they're petrified.
mircea_popescu: motherfucker i only know what it is because i looked it up because you're fucking obsessed with it.
mircea_popescu: "This is how I know that anyone who says, "If only I could live in Mad Men time where you could pinch a girl's ass and not get in trouble for it" is going to be way disappointed if a TARDIS shows up, because they wouldn't pinch them back then, either, not because they are afraid of trouble but because they are afraid of girls. Exhibit A: you know what a TARDIS is."