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asciilifeform: i cannot promise to mircea_popescu et al, '1/week', given as i do whole thing in hours between wiping microshit-encrusted arse for a living.
mircea_popescu: are you aware, you had THIS EXACT PROBLEM a year ago to the week ?
mircea_popescu: as you stand right now, you're in a much worse position than nicoleci. she's a smart girl that got cheated out of an education, and consequently catching up. you're a smart boy that ~refuses~ education, and consequently spinning in place, in 2019 same problems as 2018.
mircea_popescu: that was the target. one item a week.
mircea_popescu: ~one a week~.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason management exists, as a profession. that reason is in full display above : left to their own devices, people like you fuck themselves.
mircea_popescu: e distraction, alfie bought himself a toy.
mircea_popescu: but this entire "i work job!!!" thing's also a red herring. looky how your life flows : 1. your company needs some cash on a regular, predictable, and known in advance basis. 2. for convenience's sake i undertake a quarters' worth or so of this. 3. you turn around and buy, exactly like the people of walmart, a piece of hardware. on fucking impulse, there was ~no need for it~ and further, ~no time to use it~. but you wanted th
mircea_popescu: basically, i think i can authoritatively say, on the basis of having been trying to manage your efforts in the past however many years nsa existed, your approach to work is as follows : 1. there's an indistinct and unspecified ball of things you deduced you want on the basis of them being more or less connected to a core of goodness which, not necessarily very examinedly, seems to yield them as first degree relations. 2. you
mircea_popescu: in a functional system, one can ~predict~ the content of february's report on the basis of january's report.
mircea_popescu: this is a red herring.
mircea_popescu: b) you published a raft of "x-ray kindergarten" something or the other.
mircea_popescu: the question is specific enough. you a) failed to publish any ffa matter during the MONTH of february. not during ~each individual week~, as the original notion went, after the last time we reviewed this, more or less around http://ossasepia.com/2018/02/06/its-only-words-and-assumptions-and-priorities-and-ouch/
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-04#1900360 >> lol!! >> 'A Keybase team is a group of people who can communicate with end-to-end cryptography. This means the team's chats and files cannot be read by anyone outside the team, not even someone who breaks into Keybase's servers.' << didjaknow. ☝︎
asciilifeform: meanwhile, today's trilemalotto yields forth : http://trilema.com/2016/usg-in-btc-a-history-of-constant-failure/
mircea_popescu: gotta love these morons, "here's a penguin, now install windows". empire of visual africanisms.
mircea_popescu: he has a point tho. show up dave.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, specifically this one.
BingoBoingo: And a disappointingly large number of boomsticks when viewed alongside their infrequent use
BingoBoingo: The void rejected amy. You know, the people who thought Trump was a clown back before they all died. All that's left there is void.
asciilifeform: 'amy' is likely a perlscript.
BingoBoingo: "This does look to be nearly 20 year old tech. It was used as a supplement for the process to work on I/O devices. It’s actually not needed at all with your system."
asciilifeform: ...related convo from coupla days ago: pet: 'hey that's a woodchipper going by' a: 'aha' pet: 'how come it didn't stop, why aintcha in it' a: 'dunno, i guess not time yet'
mircea_popescu: eventually they'll have to try and make a stand.
asciilifeform has only the theory that in hitler's throne room, it was decided 'don't draw attention to republic existing', and this explains why mircea_popescu's collection of http://trilema.com/2014/interacting-with-fiat-institutions-a-guide/ is thin, rather than enuff to stoke furnace with
mircea_popescu: and so in this manner. i'd fully expect they'd try to bring a challenge, "oh, muh preshious licenses"
mircea_popescu: "Bolton asked about tweets calling Maduro a dictator who violates human rights: CNN: Do you not see US support for other dictators around the world undermines the credibility of your argument. Bolton: No, I don’t think it does. I think it’s separate."
mircea_popescu: you don't understand how this idiocy works. there isn't a "they themselves". femstate is built on this dreamy approach to secreted alt-reality where only convenient subsets are dealt with at any time.
mircea_popescu is kinda missing the historical piratebay femstate mockeries, looking forward to adding to his collection.
mircea_popescu: this entire thing we're doing here is more of a hit on the femstate in computing than the original drepperisms systemv was a hit on the republic. we're turning the tables, i'd expect some reaction.
mircea_popescu: ave1 you willing to post a proper genesis of this thing ? if so, whensabouts would it be ready ? (do you have specific cleanup steps in mind ?) if not, why not ?
asciilifeform: 'by mass', gnat is arguably a plugin for gcc
diana_coman: quite; I suspect it would cleanup the set of scripts too as atm it's a bit hairy to follow everything (or at least so it seemed to me coming at it relatively from the outside)
asciilifeform regularly goes by what used to be a commercial parking lot, and finds that it was filled up with these.
asciilifeform: not far from here, they knocked down a hotel and buncha other stuff, to build these.
BingoBoingo: Not too many of them, but apparently it was a fad at some point "how many walls can we stick without making bigger apartments"
mircea_popescu watched "old school" yest with the gals because i don't recall why. holy shit that's a transparent piece of femstate agitprop (not coincidentally, with the same crew as http://trilema.com/very-bad-things ) -- who could possibly pass on the "career woman" with a kid in tow and all that nonsense.
mircea_popescu: if you added walls to that contortion, only a jackrabbit could fit in there.
BingoBoingo: Those are "mid rise" stick built over a ground floor podium http://bingology.net/2019/02/19/mundane-shit-i-took-for-granted-that-is-new/#selection-121.0-125.387
mircea_popescu: what THE FUCK is that thing ? it looks like a bad photochop. did they seriously paste a 20sqft "livingroom" to a... what the fuck is it, half a kitchen table welded to half a livingroom table ?
a111: Logged on 2018-02-05 20:11 asciilifeform: relatedly, i recently hung up a 'premium, high end' corkboard, several square metres, and it turns out that 1) maybe half the depth is actual cork, the rest -- cardboard 2) no other kind is available
feedbot: http://bingology.net/2019/03/04/ham-is-a-scam/ << Bingology - BingoBoingo's Blog -- Ham Is A Scam
asciilifeform: ^ last 1 in this vein for a spell ; asciilifeform is returning to previous unfinished bizniss
feedbot: http://ossasepia.com/2019/03/03/inconsiderate-considerations-or-a-tiny-euloran-dataset-on-blueprints/ << Ossasepia -- Inconsiderate Considerations or a Tiny Euloran Dataset on Blueprints
BingoBoingo: Well, ecuador is allegedly running out of the people who can make hats for mircea_popescu. This is a problem in every field.
mircea_popescu: topless, chimed, it's a fine luxury item.
BingoBoingo: Eastern tobacco involves ritual and some trivial amount of work. Most US hookah purchases I've seen end up on a shelf as another piece of kitsch after just a few uses.
mircea_popescu found a one inch cut of vanilla bean in his UAE-made "best shisha tobacco in the world". it tasted as fresh and great as one from here, even joked with the girls, "full circle for this guy"
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> it's the evening's entertainment for these folx. plug in the hoses, fire up the coals, turn on tv for background << The hookah/hose thing is a poor delivery device for pot. mircea_popescu's centerpiece that shoots deep into the lungs is the tool for pot. The hookah's more of a high margin impulse purchase trap that doesn't draw the shops aggro like most consumer US stuff is.
asciilifeform: srsly asciilifeform lives in a nowhere uni town, and there are no fewer than 4 shops on 1 street selling hooka, hoses, etc
asciilifeform did depressing tour of duty in 'add a methyl, take a methyl' for the reich, but fortunately on the theoretical end, not the eating end
asciilifeform: and BingoBoingo has a reportage re how double-digit % of usa proles are hooked on various synthetic opium
mircea_popescu: add a methyl, take a methyl, it's all in good fun.
asciilifeform: for their part, the dope makers also drop the ball : it's perfectly possible to make a usable dope that does its thing and breaks down into unremarkables; the assassination poisons people had the right idea in the 1920s
asciilifeform: rly the old chinese system was moar honest, where they took their balls off right off the bat, when they signed up to serve the reich, and put in a jar, 'proof of work'
mircea_popescu: (you will indulge me in observing that forcing 13yo girlies one's fixated on to read certain things is not substantially different from forcing them to do certain things ; especially if the fixation has entirely nothing to do with the particular little girl in question, but stems from more general
mircea_popescu: for child porn completitude, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Imposici%C3%B3n_del_Tois%C3%B3n_de_Oro_a_la_princesa_de_Asturias_04.jpg
BingoBoingo: In local developments the growshop across the street which made a big point of paying and having a booth at the expocannabis appears to either be shuttering or moving. Conference monkeying for the win!
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> in fact -- almost NOTHING is EVER a theoretical process. << I'm going to decorate with this point so it gets through the skull case
mircea_popescu: in fact -- almost NOTHING is EVER a theoretical process.
mircea_popescu: it's an ~empirical~ process ; !!!!NOT!!! a theoretical one.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you're polishing the wrong end of the spear. with 0 experience it's impossible to meaningfully improve this "payload". make two even if they're made throwing darts ; a/b rtest them ; pick one, make a.1 / a.2 in response whichever you picked, test those, and so following.
feedbot: http://blog.mod6.net/2019/03/a-cuntoo-adventure-part-two/ << mod6's Blog -- A Cuntoo Adventure Part Two
mircea_popescu: go a-team!
asciilifeform: Fotze Konzentrationslager << a+++
mircea_popescu: how the hell sinocommie party manages to have such excellent control is a mystery, but really, brejnev had less smooth a reigh,
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i admit, mine is entirely a 'exterminate the brutes' pov
mircea_popescu: to you, showing them their place, putting mommy naked on her knees, carries a very high subjective value.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, for instance -- a clear display of usgistani impotence could perhaps put an end to the paper charade.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-02#1900086 << not any kind of news, neh, >> http://qntra.net/2014/11/buterins-waterfall-a-likbez/ ☝︎
BingoBoingo: Well they have the socia credit thing which acknowledges that there are enumerable bipedal units, but... how do you do soft power from such a position? You start enforcing against once tolerated foreign nuissances until the white worms stop being so acutely pestillential
BingoBoingo: Well so far they have been catching a lot more Canadian drug traffickers this year
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-02#1900087 << possibly i'm thick, but i dunget why beijing doesn't catch a coupla dozen usg daughters and send'em to washington 1 finger at a time until the matter's resolved. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: diana_coman isn't it how it always goes... most of the "internet population" populating (by its own lights) the place sports a life expectancy insufficient to justify the genetic outlay of the average mouse.
mircea_popescu: and yet, i keep encountering this apparently archetipical romanian -- coming up late to a party he can't even describe.
mircea_popescu: i retorted to him that if by this age he hasn't yet figured out such a place doesn't exist, there's no helping him.
mircea_popescu: there's this iconic moment at the peak of "caritas" (cluj-based MMM pyramid) where an old man in traditional peasant garb asked me on a bridge "if i know where's this place where they give money for free".
mircea_popescu: romanian bloggers, i swear. showing up years late to a party they can't even describe.
mircea_popescu: iptomonede, opinii" but even manages to write a piece on the celebrated http://trilema.com/2011/romania-cea-de-basm-partea-i/ item (four years later) without somehow managing to at all EVEN MENTION let alone fucking address the whole reason public funds were even misdirected towards printing that (meanwhile melted down) piece of crap. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-25#1889862 slash http://btcbase.org/log/2014-12-08#948046 lulz : the dork i used above for a source for the commie radio pictures (not that he originates them, they actually come from http://www.latrecut.ro/2006/05/ric-stramoshul-ipod-ului/ which is significantlly better contextually, but I was lazy) not only passes himself as a "Ministrul Cyberculturii | Recenzii, cronici, cr ☝︎☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: no, i'm saying, this is the problem. if you don't have sufficient crystalline surface to provide separation, you end up with the microequivalent of a disco ball.
asciilifeform worked for a while with crystallographers and their output, but in 'traditional' domain, nuffin pertaining to semiconductor
asciilifeform: you'd need a monochromatic beam (i.e. not what's in asciilifeform's brutal machine, naturally) but can't see why not in abstract worx
mircea_popescu: ie you end up with a "there be dopants" haze.
asciilifeform: apropos of nuffin : mircea_popescu can you think of any reason why laue diffraction wouldn't work on a ic die ? seems like nobody ever fessed up to having tried. what am i missing
asciilifeform at one time did work that put'im in contact with these folx. met a d00d who, convincingly, described playing 'call of duty: iraq' on... lappy, in actual iraq ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: maybe i slept through it, but did a plague kill off the midwestern farm boys who obediently 'die for the motherland'(tm)(r) or wut
mircea_popescu: back in vietnam, they had a fucking DRAFT (and still lost)
a111: Logged on 2019-02-13 01:27 asciilifeform: it's funny , when asciilifeform went to 'museum of communism' in timis, pawed through buncha ancient lulzlit there, and photo'd 'a la minox' to read through laters and chew on the 'limba de lemn'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i found a buncha these, when http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-13#1895632 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: atm they hire ~anything with a pulse.
mircea_popescu: potheads "policing" potheads shall be a comedy goldmine of lulz and tears in the not so distant future.
mircea_popescu: "Durkan proposed the incentive program last month, saying Seattle needs to jump into the nationwide competition for experienced police officers. Her plan came at a time when historically low unemployment and retirements of baby boomer officers, combined with high housing costs and a negative image of policing nationwide, are said to be driving competition for recruits regionally and nationally."
BingoBoingo: Everyone in the US I've met that worked a "public contact/customer service" position has the same epiphany. None of them think humanity is bad or democracy unworkable, they fatlogic that everyone else is exactly as same age/gender/human as they are.
a111: Logged on 2015-03-26 20:43 asciilifeform: one to break doors, gates; one to threaten bystanders, if any, with 'accidental' fire; one to shoot; and perhaps one with a cage that arrestee -might- be permitted to surrender into, if the bot's voice-recognition system works and if orders included a possible live capture
mircea_popescu: i actually expect this will be a thing, did you see the very good walking robots they have now ?
asciilifeform: 'no one has yet created body armor with air conditioning built in' << iirc this was actually commissioned during usg's iraq adventure. ( or at the very least, a golden toilet contract was issued for it, i have nfi what the accompanying theatrical prop looked like, and whether anyone bothered to produce )
mircea_popescu: https://www.officer.com/on-the-street/body-armor-protection/blog/11537485/summer-stupidity << actually not even terrible "it sucks to be a cop, all you hear all day are idiots transparently lying to you" pov blog.
mircea_popescu: and yes, back when mp was 12, that thing was the coolest of pubescent sex paraphenalia. YOU COULD OFFER A GIRL THE OTHER EARBUD!!11
asciilifeform has sovok pocket radio also ! was pretty great, actually , ran on 9v, and covered in troo leather, was a joy to hold in hands.