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mircea_popescu: brought to you by the "she's
a whore anyway, what rape" department of legal thinking.
mircea_popescu: i dunno dude. by the time being romanian's
a crime in itself i have very little interest left in doing anything but killing people indiscriminately.
pete_dushenski:
a cord, which, yes, i would pull if needed. there are better causes to die for. better causes to be
a martyr for.
mircea_popescu: this stupidraven has come back to roost, where brainfried derps without
a working interposed ideal layer are claiming the ideal object they fail to interfacr with is "really
a real object nao".
mircea_popescu: the obviousness of all this is inescapable if one actually has at the same time the intellectual werewithal to regard the matter and the emotional disinterest of not giving
a shit about the whole lot of it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ascii_field see basically, standard AS
A THING even exist because
mircea_popescu: tbh the standard is : if you want to make
a "new language" and you don't have written code that transforms WITHOUT ERROR all other programs in all other languages to yours, you do not have
a lnaguage.
ascii_field: just like there is not, rightfully, more than one correct way to subtract 1 from an integer of
a known size.
ascii_field: i wrote more or less this, long ago, in
a different formulation :
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i think that's an undefined result of an out of domain operation you're choosing to interpret
a certain way.
mircea_popescu: so i'll condense this yet vague and uncoallesced and thus impractical notion in my head by saying : that
a body of standards is where engineering starts with physical objects ; and the proof engineering failed with ideal objects.
mircea_popescu: it still doesn't follow that you should treat them like
a nut and
a bolt.
mircea_popescu: there is clearly
a problem here. ideal objects (such as software) are not comensurate with physical objects. this attempt to "engineer programs like screws" was
a reasonable first hack at the novel an dunexpected problem,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the things they have to pick in nature ARE AN IMPOSITION OF NATURE. the reason you need to pick screw sizes is because "your screw" shares its physical attributes with
a different item of the same shape in the same place.
ascii_field: incidentally there ~was~
a time when mathematical notations duked it out (newton's, if you recall, lost)
mircea_popescu: the notion that good engineering = standards, by the way, is
a specific bit of fucktardation not unlike "good flying machines have moving parts".
ascii_field was informed, by
a phriend, regarding ~why~ orc world often willingly routes blatantly spoofed packetz. it is uncommon, outside of usa and eu, for network peers to specify whether they are transit peering or just peering. and thereby cannot readily distinguish spoofed vs not.
mircea_popescu: i think
a lot of computing continued unchecked on
a paradigm of "mom, look what ~I~ can do!!11"
ascii_field: that would be
a pretty lulzy way to screw with bitcoin folks, wouldnnit
jurov: mircea_popescu: you don't forget you also run
a boiler room
mircea_popescu: i have
a running mmorpg that's simpler. gimme
a fucking break. bitcoin is not part of the os-mmorpg-bitcoin trinity.
ascii_field: lemme guess, sitting on
a disk with 100 versions of mircea_popescucoin ?
ascii_field: incidentally, sending
a spurious rst is time-honoured mega-classic tool for isp diddling of 'undesirable' pipe
mircea_popescu: atm the explanations are, bad tcp/ip implementation on the machine running it in
a very subtle way, or some issue in the firewalls downstream
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i will have you know that i combed ~5GB of packet dump and found not
a trace of your magic tx.
mircea_popescu: in other news, from #eulora : <VariaVarietatis> What is the best way to buy and hold
a little bit of btc so I can buy copper from jurov ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Now that monero is off the table, may have time for that. Just trying to shave
a few unecessary bytes here and there out of the Qntra
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo when you're done with that i got
a bit of malbolge needs reversing.
ascii_field: oh and is the man in wot ? 'cause i got
a very special gift for him, if he is..
shinohai: I love my tech, don't get me wrong. But
a few nights in the desert or mountains does wonders for clearing away the clutter amongst the little grey bits.
ascii_field: camping is
a sport, there is neither the permanence of the situation nor the hordes of crazed sheeple and their more-cannibalistic upper crust
assbot: Logged on 27-06-2014 04:21:13; asciilifeform: that's
a 'lift station.' normally sewer is operated by gravity. but often, for reasons of cost,
a pipe will be laid uphill.
ascii_field: for instance, incidents of folks falling into soft earth around leaking steam pipes, and boiling to death (along with any would-be rescuers) were
a regular thing
mats: i got
a coin for you if this theory pans out
ascii_field:
a necessary prerequisite to this kind of thing.
ascii_field: (ted turner on his ranch doesn't give
a fuck if the city burns)
ascii_field: things that go away first of all when ied becomes
a daily matter
mats: but when its not just 'waco' folks but
a poor populace, suddenly its field offices being seiged by randoms, not 'waco'
ascii_field: or at least
a red army 500km away dropping occasional supplies
mats: shoot heads and emplace ieds? breaching
a building is hard, you know.
mats: the population hardly breaks
a sweat killing
a hundred feds
a year in current form, plenty of poor excitable people that'd love to multiply that number 10^4
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 20:43:53; 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
ascii_field: and how athletic does
a man need to be to fly
a robot bomber ?
ascii_field: anyway the 'too fat' thing is utterly irrelevant. they don't need to recruit million men for roman legion. but
a few thousand for polizei duty - wacoing defenseless people, machine-gunning women and children, setting up public gallows, the lot
mats: americans are fat as fuck, barely anyone these days can pass
a BMI evaluation and run 2mi in reasonable time
mats: i dunno that the feds could even find folks qualified and willing to do
a job like that
mats: could i prevail upon you to present that in
a human readable manner?
trinque: emacs is
a giant complex piece of shit. changed nothing, upgraded nothing, yet it hangs at startup
ascii_field: there is always, always
a shitgnome 'you don't need this, move along' commenter.
assbot: hardware - Does
a commercially available self destructing HDD (set in BIOS) exist? - Information Security Stack Exchange ... (
http://bit.ly/1NaLKyY )
ascii_field: '“They use terms to find evidence of whether someone is trying to hide their activities because evidence of
a cover-up is frequently more potent than the evidence of the alleged crime,” Brodsky said.'
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 21-08-2015 21:04:08; ascii_field: 'The absence of evidence shouldn’t be viewed as proof of guilt, but tell that to the U.S. federal court—where Khairullozhon Matanov received
a 30-month sentence in mid-June, in part for deleting his browser history. Though he wasn’t an accomplice in the Boston bombing, the FBI charged that the friend of the Tsarnaev brothers with obstructing justice by destroying evidence in the case. That evidenc
punkman: "“Taking
a conversation offline provides evidence of intent because if you’re trying to cover your tracks, you probably know what you’re doing is wrong,”"
ascii_field: 'In this specific case, however, in order to prevent article subjects from continued shakedowns by bad actors who are causing significant harm to the reputation of this project, the articles are all being deleted. It is important to break the cycle of payment demands, and to make it clear that the Wikipedia community, and not
a small group of paid editor accounts, controls the content of this project. This mass deletion
williamdunne: mike_c: Sorry I meant 16. And because for
a whole bunch of the countries they process euros not the national currency
assbot: Logged on 03-04-2014 22:18:37; asciilifeform: this was actually
a serious leap in vacuum tube tech - they didn't need to be pumped, or made of glass
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2014 00:52:56; asciilifeform: the pub is really the property of the freeloaders, or local chieftain, whoever; the 'owner' is simply
a clown kept around for entertainment value and while he brings over friends to spend usd
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2014 00:51:50; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had an article (or perhaps
a thread here? but can't seem to find it...) about an archetypical u.s. expat. fellow keeps
a pub somewhere in thailand, or cambodia, etc. the locals - drink for free. he fancies that if he begins to run out of dough, he can always start charging. but somehow in the back of his head he knows what will happen to his sorry arse if he were to do so.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 14:03:35; asciilifeform: i, for one, only have
a mechanical vacuum pump. it clatters, spits oil. would have looked at home in edison's house. i know that i will not be making so much as
a triode valve with this pump.
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2013 00:07:12; asciilifeform: when i read these pitches, i can't help but recall: "...Filtration System
A Marvel to Behold! It Removes Eighty Percent of Human Solid Waste!"
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 11:05:45; kakobrekla: Soviet vaccum tubes < there is
a whole industry dedicated to making fake ones.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 10:10:54; punkman: there's
a few soviet factories that still make decent lenses by the way
mircea_popescu: Nowadays, I believe, bed-wetting in such circumstances is taken for granted. It is
a normal reaction in children who have been removed from their homes to
a strange place. In those days, however, it was looked on as
a disgusting crime which the child committed on purpose and for which the proper cure was
a beating."
mircea_popescu: "Soon after I arrived at Crossgates (not immediately, but after
a week or two, just when I seemed to be settling into routine of school life) I began wetting my bed. I was now aged eight, so that this was
a reversion to
a habit which I must have grown out of at least four years earlier.
mircea_popescu: certainly
a better novelist than literary critic / sociophilosopher / w/e he fancied himself.
davout: there's
a problem when your faq has 463 questions listed
davout: i invited the guy over and told him that he'd be fine (unless he's
a jew of course)
fluffypony: What's in
a name? that which we call
a Foundation
davout: said every single serious bitcoin professional at least
a few times
a year
punkman: kakobrekla: Soviet vaccum tubes < there is
a whole industry dedicated to making fake ones. << they even bother to make fake capacitors
kakobrekla: Soviet vaccum tubes < there is
a whole industry dedicated to making fake ones.
☟︎