asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as it is i sit on a raft, all day, every day, in ocean of 'things we really shouldn't have to have had'
asciilifeform: i had a great b00k as a kid, where the headsman ends up having to chop own head. i wonder if phf or mircea_popescu remember what it was.
asciilifeform: when we all seppuku, realize, mircea_popescu will have to take gloves off and program by himself..
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and when he finds bug, 10,000,001 cut'n'pasted instances of his routine must be found and patched ?
asciilifeform: no, interestingly, full version posted anywhere, but google 'books' has first ~half
asciilifeform found a lul re much earlier thread; Doc Ophthalmol. 1992;81(1):133-44. 'The penalty of blinding during Byzantine times. Medical remarks.'
asciilifeform: !~later tell mod6 i sat down to play with trinque's bots for kicks, and with your vtron, and noticed that the latter does not like to be 'init'-ed twice for 2 separate projects in one local dir. is this intentional ? and i still have problem grasping why we have the 'init' thing...
asciilifeform: phf: there never really were any other kinds of log.
asciilifeform: it simply will not necessarily line up with anyone else's.
asciilifeform: 'Recently, some of the major companies that provide the basic infrastructure that makes the Internet work have seen an increase in DDoS attacks against them.' << taking this at face value would mean what ? how does one ddos a backbone router ? or lemme guess, he paints dns as 'essential infrastructure'.
asciilifeform: phf: one of the reasons why this is so difficult to teach is that there are no heroes in it. even someone like deryagin, who was respected for renouncing his polywater thing and sinking own career, was really a case of 'ok i set this fire, and put it out'. but there are no heroes in 'ok i have no great invention, won't even bother saying to anyone, and will happily die in obscurity fixing shoes'
asciilifeform: and so asciilifeform does not zen, does not dao, etc. and when he feels like crackpottery would rather read something at least vaguely consistent and interesting like kozyrev.
asciilifeform: (iirc this was in the tolkien thread, where we disagreed, but the basic effect is quite real)
asciilifeform: eh this is sorta like that effect mircea_popescu wrote about where original is shitburied under megatonne of indistinguishable imitators and does not reward the effort of a dig
asciilifeform: we already know what happens - timecube
asciilifeform: they built these stone pillars, a bit minus the man's height, and put'em in.
asciilifeform: it was a favourite punishment in central asia also.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do you happen to recall thread where we found photos of folks who got 'amontilladoed' as late as 1920s in stone pillars somewhere in or near mongolia ?
asciilifeform: this is a great story, and if the original wasn't this, it ought to have been!1111
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the vase in the illustrations (and i found several) is clearly designed to hold all-but-head, and of a hot chick
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there appears to be some legend related to 'human pig' that involved a large vase. but i was unable to turn up the details.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lel, that was in re the outhouse god
asciilifeform: i have a collector that gets MB of these / day.
asciilifeform: eh by this token it already happened, with spambots on infected win98 boxen around orc world
asciilifeform: (which was good for 3 bulgars / minute or sumthing)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: also how does the belladonna method work? is it different from the byzantine blindatron ?
asciilifeform: also i dun get why everybody thinks this is asian and exotic, dear old europe had oubliette.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: oughta link to the previous venus cloacina piece ('the menstruarium') imho.
asciilifeform: a slightly clever mpbot would be guided by what is actually said to it (grep the from:mircea_popescu lines for words or even fragments of the query and return shannonization of immediately subsequent from: s)
asciilifeform: ^ example that is probably on your machine already.
