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asciilifeform: well yes, i did not randomly throw a knife at it, lol
mircea_popescu: couldja read that ?
asciilifeform: ( whole thing , interesting )
trinque: meh, folks are gonna make money where it's available, doesn't excuse avoiding the forum.
asciilifeform recently demanded ( and was granted ) not to be listed in public document as author of $saecularwarcrime
asciilifeform: and mike_c, sat to my left , also saw ( where the hell is mike_c )
asciilifeform: mod6 was there, saw
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: iirc : hanbot turned around
asciilifeform: if i were put there.
asciilifeform: i could even find again this cafe in buenos aires.
ben_vulpes: how was that established again
asciilifeform remembers very well, the occasion.
asciilifeform: nor foot taps.
asciilifeform: but recall, we did establish that it was a matter of matches, and not eye blinks.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: 'magic trick' vs 'as yet unbroken cipher'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: all magic trick is 'hanky panky'
mircea_popescu: not quite the same thing.
ben_vulpes: still not convinced that no hanky panky was involved
asciilifeform: it was a bewilderingly great trick.
ben_vulpes: that fuckin thing
asciilifeform: i still even have hanbot's 'proof of actually-having-known-the-number' sheet, pinned to wall
asciilifeform: i dun think phf was witness to the match trick
mircea_popescu: is that mindbender solved yet, btw ?!?!?!
mircea_popescu: o shit, the matchsticks
asciilifeform: i'd be only mildly surprised if mircea_popescu revealed that he knew this function
mircea_popescu: either that or a galois space functional whose results on odd numbers counting from 17 produces a picture of a naked woman sucking cock.
phf: russian space program style you should also fit a MOD decoder into the last 27bytes of memory
asciilifeform: then failed to procure the box, or a usable display for such, and promptly stoppedconsidering
a111: Logged on 2017-12-15 14:50 mircea_popescu: in case anyone's curious, the 20 bux was for encouraging the folk who made viking age, which is a quite passible browser game. sorta old warcraft style graphically, othertwise a tower defense married to the old bonbon "city development" azn thing.
phf: all this and more would've endeared tmsr to nintendo if not for the fact that nobody here plays anything but variations on Global World Domination Campaign Mode (Ultimate Strategy)!
mircea_popescu: hey, the 2010 ipad still works great for cutting carrots on
asciilifeform: there are plenty of working 8 and 16bit nintendoae, still to this day
BingoBoingo: Well, problem was Nintendo mad their first ipods TOO robust, machines never died
mircea_popescu: but then apple targetted women and stole their cake because boys may hunt, but women reliably nest and that's that ?
mircea_popescu: wasn't nintento the original winner of the ipod hunger games, where boys had one in pocket at all times ?
asciilifeform: ( beat the shit out of the 386, bang-for-buck, too )
mircea_popescu confesses to unreliable ignorance on the topic.
asciilifeform: phf: you remind me of asciilifeform's brother's reaction to being shown a vr headset , yrs ago. he spake thusly : 'it's better than two rusty nails on a rope'
mircea_popescu: phf i rthought that was amiga.
mircea_popescu: kaspiersky and av-something i forget both had advertisements up on the screen about how they're doing things.
phf: asciilifeform: nintendo, if nothing else, is a single purpose machine, for gaming, designed by the "salariman can have fun with family 13:00-15:00 sunday" japanese. imho preferable to tivo
mircea_popescu: this was not a boot. the machine was booted and firefox up. just, COULD NOT LOAD A PAGE.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i was in cafe last week. computer took 5 minutes and >12 warnings/popups to ... not load a page.
asciilifeform has nfi what is used in modern orc cafes. maybe, nuffin at all; maybe, slave reinstalls weekly with bare teeth.
mircea_popescu: aaand in other "ancient trilema slavekeeping lulz", http://trilema.com/2012/in-care-taiem-in-carne-vie/
asciilifeform: when asciilifeform found this piece of flotsam, he tried to requisition moar , from vendor, to use in shitware analysis farms ; no dice, defunkt.
asciilifeform: ( winblowz, as most-everyone knows, won't boot off an actual read-only device. so these steampunk hacks. )
mircea_popescu: see, because cd then needs drm. this hdd partition thing is an improvement there.
asciilifeform: btw i once encountered an interesting artifact , from scrap dealer. it was a pci card made for orc 'web cafes', that took 2 ide snakes. each expected identical disk. twist : all ~writes~ went to the 'aux' snake. reads, first to aux, then to primary. and there was reset button.
asciilifeform: you wouldn't want chumper to install from cd ( they dun give'im a cd, in any event )
asciilifeform: the comedic bit is that it helpfully reinstalls the branded keyloggers etc.
asciilifeform: can be a bitch to erase, too, often it's bios-locked in some underhanded way
mircea_popescu: i imagine there's people out there regretting their wife doesn't come with a "reset factory defaults" button, and would be VERY shocked to discover i'd very much consider it a disaster, in the line of http://trilema.com/2017/the-day-of-failure-trilemma/#comment-122812
asciilifeform: this is old hat, it was orig a dell thing , reinstalls winblowz automagically
mircea_popescu: laptops (BRAND!!1 ones) come with this magical "make it back".
asciilifeform: how do they even play, on their keyboardless nintendo
mircea_popescu: this notion of computing you're familiar with is not used in the tivoputer lands.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: either that or forgot to plug in mains, lol
asciilifeform: sonic3: they haven't invented backups on yer planet, or wat
mircea_popescu: one's years are that one's to lose.
sonic3: lost the hardware
mircea_popescu: i think his idea of "pretty secretive" was rather in the vein of http://trilema.com/2012/bitcoin-is-creating-a-whole-new-set-of-problems/ ; ie would like to start over under a nerw identity.
asciilifeform: hm alreayd registered... lost the key??
asciilifeform: it is good form to introduce yourself, as people usually do
asciilifeform: sonic3: care to say a little re who you are ?
sonic3: i will immediately after i start the node tonight
asciilifeform: sonic3: there are at least 4 people here that will readily help. but you really oughta register with deedbot
sonic3: think you can lend a hand to the build process if i get stuck?
mircea_popescu: i'm not maintaining it, the bitcoin foundation is, but anyway, sure.
sonic3: one that you were maintaining?
sonic3: i remember you said i should use a specific version of the node daemon
sonic3: anyhow, that's not the point
sonic3: wasn't using this nickname
sonic3: something i saw on trilema
sonic3: i remember talking to you earlier this year
sonic3: thanks for the +v
mircea_popescu: "it's important to avoid negativity"
a111: Logged on 2014-01-04 00:00 asciilifeform: re: 400: 'for your convenience, we have packaged the defective ones separately.'
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2014-01-04#436318 << "instead of wasting space for a nop, this improved cpu has two mults" ☝︎
asciilifeform: 0 , near as i can tell, was a genuine blind-spot
mircea_popescu: "why waste a spot for inexistent, 4 could go there"
mircea_popescu: and possibly absence of 0 (and it's later humiliation as O) comes from similar thought
asciilifeform: 'why wouldja do that, letters could go there'
asciilifeform: resistance of medium cuts both ways. iirc punctuation in 1200s (?) was slow to catch on, 'wastes parchment'
asciilifeform: without reader, the gods themselves -- dead.
mircea_popescu: yes, but without the line-reader they stay dead.
asciilifeform: all writing is for speaking dead. ( even before properly buried; arguably the asciilifeform of 3yr ago is every bit as dead as his ancestors)
mircea_popescu: sure. but i tell you, speaking dead is another major.
asciilifeform: but яйца мешают , turned out
asciilifeform: search was a holy grail. and plenty of folx were quite convinced that -- once 'can haz' search -- valhalla of intellectual 'ia' might
asciilifeform: the 'ancients' , notably, were obsessed with 'can haz search'. recall vannevar bush's elaborate 'steampunk' schemes for optical/analogue search in text
mircea_popescu: first system ever seen where the dead live amoing the living as a quite plainly factual matter.
mircea_popescu: 60% or so. a good quarter is the reference-read.
mircea_popescu: there is that.
asciilifeform: but pre-mechanization log is of quite limited use compared to current item.
mircea_popescu: possibly DID work, for that matter -- surely lasted longer than first socialism.
mircea_popescu: it's a good open question this, "go research and answer why ck-kpss log did not work for them"
asciilifeform: lolno, the other kpss.
mircea_popescu: oh oh. i was thinking the statistics test
asciilifeform: ( not so many yrs ago, their olgl0gz were finally printed , e.g. hruschev's sessions , a little bit interesting to archaeologists )