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trinque: wtf are they going to do with
a storage server anyway
shinohai: trinque: if you are like me, stealing
a man's guitar is akin to stealing his woman
mircea_popescu: i never ever spoke any russian, with anyone, pre b-
a, because no, russian is not "the vocabulary", but principally the set of historical russians. between tolstoy and hruschev not so much to pick.
mircea_popescu: takes 8+ days to replace stolen printers in venezuela, takes 8+ minutes to do
a splicing in us.net, etc.
mircea_popescu: this is how
a bank looks in the united states of america now. and in the future.
mircea_popescu: apparently. is
a paste by kako above, i have my own copy too
mircea_popescu: sure, one can pretend that "well, it's
a country." if one wants to. but for foreigners, no, it isn't. it was an empire and now it's nothing. not even
a hole.
mircea_popescu: sorta like being an uk citizen. seriously, in 2015 ? why not be
a hittite while you're doing anachronisms.
mircea_popescu: e
a ridiculously quaint figure stuck on the long sunk battleships of the past.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> great, but why? << this is
a complex point and would require some more indepth discussion to do it justice. in summary to my eyes it is an early attempt by the microsoft citatel to parlay compatibility problems of early linux into
a "here, we've strangled it" usg solution. it failed to work irl, and the failure of java is torvalds' chief merit in this world. using it today is not unlike using ripple. you'r
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bingoboingo i must point out qntra is in fact satisfying its job as
a news site. I get news thgere.
mircea_popescu: hey, anyone wanna do
a sepa paymenbt for me ? coupla k's.
mats: ;;isup log.b-
a.link
mats: from the foreword: 'In short, at
a time when the United States needs the most help, the prospects for receiving it, with the exception of
a few allies, look more worrisome than at any point since perhaps the immediate aftermath of World War II.' - COL (Ret.) Lovelace
mats: european nato has
a pathetic number of aircraft
assbot:
A Hard Look at Hard Power: Assessing the Defense Capabilities of Key U.S. Allies and Security Partners ... (
http://bit.ly/1Xrlpjp )
ascii_field: and
a solenoid to squeeze it back out on command
ascii_field: or perhaps
a little cup in which to stuff
a frag with the spoon out
mats: interesting features, i guess, might include repeaters,
a gimbaled payload (expensive camera and sensors)
mats: piece of shit would fall out of the sky
a quarter to third of the time it was flown
mats: my boss was
a master instructor for the raven, 'military-grade UAS'
ascii_field: mats: not that it can't fly
a frag. sop in donbass.
thestringpuller: Bitcoin is good for storing wealth in
a deflationary, censorship resistant way. It is not very good for mainstream retail usage (yet).
ascii_field: hardening detects
a faulty signature, does not write the result to
a caller-provided buffer, returns an error.'
ascii_field: 'We observed one rather peculiar factorization of
a RSA modulus, involving factor 23. What happened was that the public key in the X.509 certificate was corrupted in some (there was
a bit flip, according to the server operator), and equation (1) accidentally revealed the factor 23. The corrupted modulus had other small factors, too, and
a large composite factor with an unknown factorization.'
ascii_field: (this would be hosted on
a wwwtronic thing similar to turdatron, presumably)
trinque: looks like it's formatted like
a guy who likes CL might
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: this is fine if you're adding
a useful knob
trinque: I think python is
a fair choice given the circumstances
ascii_field: as for cl,
a unix tool with multi-second startup times is not usable here.
ascii_field: perl was the only serious candidate, and if ben_vulpes would like to attempt
a cleaner version (!) in it, i'm all ears.
ascii_field: trinque: but i was unable to find
a suitable replacement for this item.
ascii_field: trinque: no, ben_vulpes has
a point, python sux
ascii_field: the language, in this case, is not just
a language but an ecosystem with unavoidable exposure to the work of many previous users
trinque: ben_vulpes: python's probably riddled with holes everywhere somebody wrote
a shoddy python c module
ben_vulpes: "fits in head" is
a realistic goal with python, perl and cpp?
trinque: I personally know I'll never have
a clear picture of what the VM and the machine underneath are doing *while* writing
a program
ascii_field: because the entire ecosystem of it is
a kind of zoo for idiots and their idiocies
mircea_popescu: bitcoin gotta have
a total lolcow at all times lest it collapses into itself.
shinohai: I thought mc switched you to
a terminal and asked for pass when you input sudo commands.
mircea_popescu: the way modern warfare works, you don't want planes and regular soldiers. you want missiles and partisans. and you don't aim to kill the enemy, you aim to maim as many as possible and encourage them to keep coming. the situation where US population is up 200mn and US war invalid population is up 50mn is
a greater win for isis than the situation where the us population is 0.
assbot: Logged on 04-09-2015 04:10:21; wilbns: it, you're talking about
a minimum of 2-3 days to acquire the BTC, pass KYC/AML, etc. probably could have spent 20-30 minutes to just go to an m-pesa teller.
assbot: Nearly 1 million veterans have pending applications for health care at VA — and
a third may already be dead - The Washington Post ... (
http://bit.ly/1hFStDt )
trinque: lemme rephrase "pretty bad", the concussion is
a big part of the internal damage
trinque: want to say I watched
a docu about that
wilbns: was in new york
a while back and at the airport, there were maybe
a couple dozen guys, they all look like they just graduated high school. all w/ manila folders in hand, waiting, heading off to boot camp - all making small talk w/ one another. looked like they didn't know each other very well. was imaging how there lives were going to change and wondering if
mats: good ied doesn't kill, anyway, just maims
a few dudes
trinque: I guess that doesn't help much with
a good IED
mats: some RC dudes would slip one into
a boot and wear the other around their necks
mats: only memorabilia I have left are my sapper skill books, MREs,
a single uniform set, and
a buncha kia bracelets
wilbns: funkenstein_: yes, but most people on the street don't care as long as their money is worth the same today as it is yesterday and they can still go buy
a relative equivalent of whatever with it tomorrow.
wilbns: it, you're talking about
a minimum of 2-3 days to acquire the BTC, pass KYC/AML, etc. probably could have spent 20-30 minutes to just go to an m-pesa teller.
☟︎ wilbns: funkenstein_: maybe m-pesa could utilize the tech for more efficient settlement of transactions. if someone just wants to send money to grandma or someone else in the next town, though, it's
a bit of
a hassle to suggest bitcoin. unless one party already has it, then they can sent it to bitpesa and they'll deliver it to the m-pesa number. if neither party has
mats: >t its heart, this calculator is an emulator of the HP-15C (running on an ARM processor, although
a different family from what HP is using in the ARM-based current-production 12C and the 15C Limited Edition), and therefore has largely the same feature set and user interface as
a real 15C.
wilbns: also, in kenya, for example bitcoin doesn't provide much utility beyond what m-pesa already does. the current area companies like bitpesa are trying to get traction are in remittances (where one party doesn't have m-pesa because they're outside the country), or by pitching it as
a speculative financial instrument or novelty.
trinque: ag3nt_zer0: lived there for
a time, yep. grew up in the Houston burbs
funkenstein_: Re: Method in Randomness <-- well I'd never heard of "deepdyve", where do they find gnomes to work on this kind of bullshit? They gave me 5 minutes to "view" the article (in crippled form) in exchange for
a fake email.
ag3nt_zer0: not
a huge mellancamp fan but he works hard up there and he does have some great tunes
ag3nt_zer0: trinque: yeah it was... mellancamp brought it that night... it was his 14 year old sons bday or something and he brought him out to play bass or something it was
a good time
ag3nt_zer0: and I just thought that the fact that he had shed his fanbase skin so many times resulted in
a nice blend of people - christians, hippies, old school folkies, some rockers haha whatever
ag3nt_zer0: I have been making it
a point to go see dylan every time he comes by the gay area for the last 6-7 years... probably seen him 5-6 times in that stretch
pete_dushenski: watch, mircea_popescu will try chengdu for
a year then move back to romania.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: That one's going to take
a bit.
trinque: relatedly I am ending my current tour in the pac NW for
a time, headed back to TX
phf: seems like they pulled
a lot of dylan tracks