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assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 17:20:33; ascii_field: trinque: my understanding is that mircea_popescu would like a linux that is analogous to what we did with therealbitcoin. where the tree is frozen, all arguably-superfluous things are jettisoned, and any further changes must come from wot folk.
pete_dushenski: this is perhaps a personal and public castigation of myself, and a reminder to future me not to click on the clickbait!
mircea_popescu: (in practice he'll warn you this makes it a bearer instrument. which is not technically correct, but conveys the point.)
pete_dushenski: both of which (guardian+pamers) provide a panem et circenses effect. period.
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 17:15:09; ascii_field: this, incidentally, is ~the~ bar for formalization. IFF you can do it on a computer, then ~possibly~ you really have a formal handle on the mechanics. but NOT before then.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is a proggy, that actually does most mathematical manipulations formally described in any book.
kakobrekla: >slot to put an intended name in < i can put a space in that field when in online bank as it should not be blank - and it works. i wonder if this would pass a bank worker. "no no, i did write empty spaces there"
pete_dushenski: a vacuous noisehole devoid of meaning and value
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 06:27:51; mircea_popescu: "Fractal -- from Wolfram MathWorld mathworld.wolfram.com/Fractal.html‎ A fractal is an object or quantity that displays self-similarity, in a somewhat technical sense, on all scales. The object need not exhibit exactly the same structure ..."
mircea_popescu: and whenever a new ditz was hired to do paperwork, and she fucked this up, the bank rep would call me to fix it.
assbot: I have lost £760 by mistyping a single digit … and Nationwide won’t give it back | Money | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1OUcFMH )
mircea_popescu: (which is chiefly why they give you a slot to put an intended name in)
pete_dushenski: maybe 'the guardian' just wants to inform more tards of their unpreparedness for crypto. not a bad service, i guess (tm)
mircea_popescu: in my entire busienss experience something of that description happened exactly once ; it was a customer of MY SAME BANK using the short form slips they have (not the full iban, just the acct #) and sent money to me instead of his intended recipient. the bank asked me if i am releasing it, which i did, and it was done the same day.
pete_dushenski: "Last year I intended to transfer £760 from the Halifax to my Nationwide account. Unfortunately, I mistyped a digit of the account number and the money went to a stranger." << another anton
asciilifeform: re on something like a raid or gpu is a very frustrating experience
mircea_popescu: contrary to the more or less agreement seems to be (video) i suspect raid may be a worse tarpit.
mircea_popescu: finding el dorado and RUNNING OFF with a chunk of gold you found in the street is NOT how you get rich.
asciilifeform: it was a 'poor man's gentoo' yes
asciilifeform: much as a 70 y.o. whore is still a whore even in retirement
mircea_popescu: a bimbo is the sort of woman that will drop a hot cast iron pot on your foot sending you to hospital for six weeks because you offered her flowers.
mircea_popescu: a) sexually interesting ; b) sexually active ; c) very stupid. to life-threatening levels.
mircea_popescu: except of course if one's the sort of sexually frustrated guy that lives on a boat with a broken down engine
mircea_popescu: that is STILL not a bimbo.
asciilifeform: before this, was a beauty contest contender, iirc
mircea_popescu: palin was a soccer mom, if you must.
mircea_popescu: dude how is palin a bimbo.
mircea_popescu: (if i actually lived there and was doing a dc business, 100% what i'd call it.)
asciilifeform: buttocks to join in holy matrimony. But the Supreme Court seems game for such tweaks, and, as an added benefit, when time comes for Mr. Trump to divorce (as it invariably has), the Pope would be only too happy to annul such a union.'
asciilifeform: oesn't amount to much—but, more specifically, her amazing ass. She has a stunning derrière that I am sure will make America feel proud again. Further, I propose that Trump marry her ass, and make a sort of national royal ass-family. She'd be the Vice-Prezz and the First Lady-Ass—killing two birds with one ass, if you will! Yes, it would require another tweak to the marriage laws to make it possible for a man and a woman's
asciilifeform: ''So here are five perfectly good reasons why Trump would make one fine Prezz. But he needs a running mate. Now, wouldn't it be a fine thing to have a woman Vice-Prezz? It's been two election cycles since a spectacularly dumb bimbo—Sarah Palin—came within a few percentage points of the Vice-Prezzidency; maybe it's time to try again. And so I propose Kim Kardashian as Trump's running mate. Not Kim Kardashian herself—she d
mircea_popescu: not the sole, but a significant one with very modest expense for the lolz.
mircea_popescu: nah, no us, no china, no russia. let the non-idiots have a chance.
asciilifeform: i could get a colo box here but at ruinous cost.
mircea_popescu: which leaves phuctor in dire need of a new home. unless anyone comes forward with something (hey jurov what's the word there ?) i guess ima get another box at another dubious provider ☟︎
asciilifeform: in a sense this was study, just not of a kind anyone would wish for. i.e. i could re-make the thing if it burned down.
asciilifeform: (a couplea days ago somebody just about asked for this)
mircea_popescu: aha. this, incidentally. it's fucking medieval, you know, for man to work a day and at the end of it to have less than a day's work to show for it.
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 13:33:33; mircea_popescu: and if it can't drive a 10,000 x 5,000 pixel array at reasonable frame rate << how did you get the numbers asciilifeform ? for instance, shouldn't it be 16:9 ? so then why not 16000 : 9000 ? 8000:4500 ?
mircea_popescu wouldn't mind using that on a few skulls, so. progress!
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-09-2015#1274437 << if 'it does not need to serve any practical function', then mircea_popescu is in luck! i already have this system! it is even a lisp machine! >>>>> http://www.loper-os.org/?p=405 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: (unlike adults, infants do not have a means of protection and so the bacterium can inhabit their gut and poison them.)
mircea_popescu: that's a very advanced disease, comparatively.
mircea_popescu: there was a time, actually, botulism killed more people than disentery.
mircea_popescu: but there was a time, people and jackals ate the same three day old carcasses.
mircea_popescu: not eating with the animals is a very important health practice
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 17:06:01; ascii_field: something that, were it to exist, would let #b-a folks set the bozo bit on the rest of the so-called linux komyooniti
mircea_popescu: do we even have an official b-a moyle ?
pete_dushenski: "L'shanah tovah tikatevu" means "May you be inscribed for a good year"
pete_dushenski: shana tova = 'a good year' to be more precise
pete_dushenski: it's just a bit of desert tribe scribblies, nothing to fear
mircea_popescu: and if it can't drive a 10,000 x 5,000 pixel array at reasonable frame rate << how did you get the numbers asciilifeform ? for instance, shouldn't it be 16:9 ? so then why not 16000 : 9000 ? 8000:4500 ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: so... im a wine merchant now! got my own mustarie.
mircea_popescu: usg is roughly in the position of the guy lost on a deserted island, who comes out of the closet, toi the rocks and the palm trees.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-09-2015#1273864 << that is a large part of it. nobody (but dead souls) was using it anyway. and so the absent reaction to the admission is, "Hey, they accepted it!11". ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 16:27:56; shinohai: fluffypony: "Seriously, wtf. even a retard can put the wallet.dat on DropBox and be 99% safer than this." <<< LOLZ
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 16:23:57; thestringpuller: why not just build delivery into the contract as a fail-safe...
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-09-2015#1273847 << cuz at the time it wasn't exactly clear how this'd work (as the contract is a future on a yet nonexistent pair) and cuz i wanted it to be a negotiable instrument rather than a specified thing, specifically because that sort of vague future deal requires some room to wiggle. ☝︎
phf: a low hanging fruit that still satisfies ascii's requirements of 50000 package dependencies would be to build a linux substrate with a sane .config and userspace, which has all the necessary components to host pkgsrc
phf: pkgsrc is another option, besides ebuild. they have some equivalent of use flags. i used it to run a unix stack on mac os x (fvwm, firefox, x11 emacs, etc.)
trinque: but without a market we have no fucking clue what the cost of this work is
trinque: because you're right, somebody doing a drive-by on nginx for a week is more harm than good
trinque: haha! well I know how to write a contract
asciilifeform: barely buy a turd from the sidewalk.
asciilifeform: is that software is a lemon market.
trinque: if that's the cost, a contract to do the work would have to reflect it
asciilifeform: if this is done blindly, it will be a disaster
trinque: does this require a musl patch? does this ...
trinque: asciilifeform: funneling upstream's work into released packages on #b-a linux
trinque: and I don't see this working for a vast number of packages
asciilifeform: because ~this~ is reasonably a $k or more ~per~, at quite threadbare american market rates
trinque: building it against libressl on #b-a linux and expedient building and backporting of fixes
asciilifeform: let's work a small example
trinque: that a company exists which sells contracts to maintain packages on a certain distro
asciilifeform: whereby this would be something other than a charity
trinque: would take a longer interval of pondering to dream up a contract that'd work
trinque: I would agree it makes little sense to "maintain" a package for only a short duration contract
trinque: perhaps you could do a bidding system whereby packages are bid into the next release
trinque: I'd pay a guy like the gentleman that used to package Slackware a reasonable fee per release
asciilifeform: that is, something that will run a workstation.
asciilifeform: the hard part is to make something that is a meaningful improvement in more than a strictly-hygienic sense
asciilifeform: it is not hard to make a musl-based linux; i have this working with rotor
trinque: thestringpuller: with a little more meth in the WoT we might get that #b-a distro done!
trinque: I'd have said I wanna smoke a blunt with him even if he didn't call his site "dankwiki"
shinohai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-09-2015#1274238 "Freedom means a hardline anti-Apple stance. Fight the Disneyfication of computing!" <<< love this ☝︎
thestringpuller: eviljarred: we need to hang out a lot more
thestringpuller: he used to be my weed dealer for a good number of years
thestringpuller: https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Omphalos << really wish I had a machine with that installed
BingoBoingo: "Use a bag to travel that has never been to the hospital and carry proof that you are a physician."
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BingoBoingo: "A 79-year-old female presented to the emergency department (ED) from home with acute mental status changes over a period of one hour. Family reported this to be in the midst of bowel prep for a routine colonoscopy that was to take place the following day."
trinque: "OH SHIT AN A/C UNIT!"
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mats: fun fact: gpg's serialization layer uses s-expressions rather than asn.1 and as a result, despite being hand-rolled in C, there doesn't appear to be any memory corruption in canonical mode ☟︎
gernika: ascii_field: strange to hear - as my memory of my experience reading it sometime in junior high school was that of complete enthrallment. But then again - who is a 13 year old to judge?
ascii_field: (it was not especially great, as a yarn)
ascii_field: gernika: a good bit of his non-fictional writing was not yet published then.
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 04:22:30; *: asciilifeform just popped a crate with ~2kg of orwell. before anyone asks, no, nothing like even 20% of his output is on the net. in the 1968 four-volume set, there is perhaps 90% of it.
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trinque: http://makezine.com/2009/07/23/a-homemade-toaster-built-from-scrat/