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mircea_popescu: what complaint can there be had ? "starve to the light" is for teens, small children have no useful fat reserves. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: anyway, srsly, married guy with small kids. gotta bring home some kind of bacon. he tried to put that idea into work, with you recall, betting something. imo did a great run of it, too. but it didn't catch. so he tried something else and that caught better.
asciilifeform: yea that was when i learned it
mircea_popescu: i remember that, cuz i was liek "burn down all ms employees" and he was like "shit, i'm in trouble"
mircea_popescu: compared to what -- no ?
asciilifeform: ( iirc d00d at one time toiled in the mines at microshit itself )
asciilifeform: i suppose compared to, say, microshit -- yes
mircea_popescu: iac shack seems among the benign-est.
asciilifeform: not all brothel created equal tho
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and that helps anything ? i'd rather marry the whore the brothel uses to advertise than a different, "secret" one.
mircea_popescu: venetian kid had clear "go east, m'boy, sail east. till you've made your gold coin chest you've no business LIVING in venice. you're born and you return here, that's all."
asciilifeform: it is possible to work in the saeculum without having one's face plastered on a sad sack of sad rogue's gallery tho
a111: Logged on 2017-11-20 00:21 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-20#1740818 << d00d has some explainin' to do, if he ever reappears
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-20#1740838 << i dunno, what explaining'd be there ? "they offered a job and i... took it". pretty sure his previous spot sucked arse, guy was getting stress blisters. family man, gotta provide, what. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: good to have a blog, i routinely forget shit i did, then i end up confronted with it and im like... hey. pretty cool!
asciilifeform: i nearly forgot the item with the diff trick.
asciilifeform rereads the rsakeys trilema. stimulating.
mircea_popescu: and so, to get back to it, and in the words of the great nigger Hussein Bahamas, "if you did a thing you didn't do that thing". therefore matt blaze neither was touched nor could have been touched by anyone, be they john drapper or anyone else ; nor has matt blaze had published anything of any note, re ciphers or cooking or anything else.
mircea_popescu: connivance in usgtardation renders professional merit ~impossible~ and that's the final word on that matter.
mircea_popescu: in no case may such be used to establish any kind of professional credentials for the designated x, y, etceteras.
mircea_popescu: that nsa chose to publish some derpage through usg.nsa.x-shithead or through usg.nsa.y-shithead is not a meaningful point of difference.
mircea_popescu: right so : usg remora. nothing any http://trilema.com/2015/more-factored-rsa-keys-and-assorted-other-considerations/#selection-413.0-419.38 / http://trilema.com/2016/psa-hanno-bock-still-a-deceitful-shitbag/ "publishes" may be credited to them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform usg remora. nothing any ... wtf was that schmucks name...
asciilifeform: ( we did the proof here, it did not withstand the harsh lamps )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the odd thing re blaze is that , unless there was a completely other matt blaze working for at&t -- he's the d00d with the only published attempt at a provably hard symmetric cipher , in 1990s
a111: Logged on 2017-11-19 15:06 asciilifeform: runs... tor.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-19#1740688 << politruk gotta politruk. speaking of which, anyone got pics of Gabriella Coleman's remarkably ugly tits ? ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-11-20 00:09 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-19#1740665 << amusingly, the 2015 trilema lulz re okcupid ( http://trilema.com/2015/okcupidcom-the-dating-site/ ) / his 2016 disappearance ( http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-13#1697386 http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-27#1458351 ) match remarkably well ; which begs the question why say "keeping pretty busy" in preference of "wrote to IAC after you mock-exploited one of their 'properties' and got hir
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-20#1740818 << d00d has some explainin' to do, if he ever reappears ☝︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: In still other headlines of the interlanguage frontier: " Trump Tweets “I Should Have Left Them in Jail” About UCLA Basketball Players Arrested in China"
mircea_popescu: capcană = trap, generally in the physical sense. căpcăun = strange item, pluriously rendered as ogre, troll etc. basically ro folklore big bad. in all appearances direct survivor of greek antrophophagos.
asciilifeform: ( to ru капкан )
asciilifeform: i assume sumthinglike 'bear trap'
BingoBoingo: Less developed Asia tends towards "apps" but Peak Asia tends to Windows 98 SE in lucite
asciilifeform: ahahaha the zoological reservation where e.g. 512bit rsa lives
mircea_popescu: (windows got a sort of monopoly for banking there, it's hysterical what stack they run)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you ever seen the "banking apps" of azns ?
a111: Logged on 2016-04-27 03:01 mike_c: at least you won the 'most famous mircea popescu' award - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mircea+popescu
a111: Logged on 2017-08-13 20:32 mike_c: hey, look at that
a111: Logged on 2017-11-19 14:46 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-19#1740657 << this is actually pretty sad.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-19#1740665 << amusingly, the 2015 trilema lulz re okcupid ( http://trilema.com/2015/okcupidcom-the-dating-site/ ) / his 2016 disappearance ( http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-13#1697386 http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-27#1458351 ) match remarkably well ; which begs the question why say "keeping pretty busy" in preference of "wrote to IAC after you mock-exploited one of their 'properties' and got hir ☝︎☝︎☝︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: Hong Kong, much Pinay diaspora, much OKc still. Prolly the demographic least sensitive to web design suck. Further proving the point of Namecheap's demise
BingoBoingo: But yeah, that's about it
BingoBoingo: You forget the entire Pinay diaspora farms it
a111: Logged on 2017-11-19 14:51 BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> (apparently okcupid went full app-shit sometime in the interval also ?) << The website has increasingly little to hook, and is increasingly poorly populated. Last week Uruguay had 4 girls, now has 2. Extrapolating from Uruguay's 4 million population this means ~35000 girls is all okc has left. Been in decline for a while, but now fallen sharply.
BingoBoingo: And in timely rereadings http://trilema.com/2014/venetian-republic-and-find-spiritual-music/
BingoBoingo impressed by the afternoon's terse yet definitive proceedings
BingoBoingo: And Mugabe's "resignation statement" is set to drop sometime soon.
a111: 2017-09-11 <mike_c> congrats! I did that a long time ago too. Good luck with it.
mircea_popescu: ie "pink shower tree" and catbrier.
asciilifeform: what was it, bread tree ?
asciilifeform: aint that a thing that only grows in equator
mircea_popescu: o thank you label of WHAT THE FUCK
mircea_popescu: but the label helpfully explains : con gingseng, carao (?!) y cuculmeca.
asciilifeform: aaah such good times, to have these things on own hdd! instead of wwwnonsense
mircea_popescu: in other wtfs, girl opens jar, a scent of paradise fills kitchen. i go over to investigate. the item is helpfully labeled : melaza. ie, molasses.
asciilifeform: item looks to be quite practical, also.
asciilifeform: nao worx, ty
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform chmoded into correctness, try naos
mircea_popescu: da fuck is this wonder
asciilifeform: eggog tho
mircea_popescu: sql dump of the whole site.
asciilifeform: afaik a quality 'expressions' dict dun exist for any modern lang. it's a tricky item.
mircea_popescu: besides, im pretty sure i saw all of these in ro printed matter.
mircea_popescu: but the coin item is VERY specifically related to apparatus that only existed in the 80s.
asciilifeform: i meant it was prolly considered 'unprintable' by the '80s prudes
mircea_popescu: the snot item is very likely older than the united states for example.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform all these are pre 1980.
mircea_popescu: it misses so many of the most trite expressions it's not worth mentioning as a dictionary anyway, much in the way a "map" of texas that only had dallas.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lots of good ones missing. "i-a picat fata" (his face fell off) ; "a dat cu mucii-n fasole" (he snotted the refried beans) ; "iti pica fisa ?" (does the coin inserted into your coinslot actually fall through the spuriously complex machinery inside your otherwise empty skull to make the necessary contacts ?) ; "a freca menta" (mintrubbing, absent ?! gimme a break!) ; "ai morcov [in fund] ?" (to have a carrot [up
asciilifeform: because apparently when caesar lived totally belongs, according to these folx, in a dictionary.
asciilifeform: oh btw i cut some truly egregious nonsense from orig item : it had a coupla dozen 'dates of life of great people'
mircea_popescu: "12 este divizibil prin 2`12 is divisible by 2" holy shit. there are some useful expressions in the expression item, however a) very low snr, lots of useless crap and b) idiomatics not really a good fit for dictionary, much better fit in blog articles.
asciilifeform: might even be worth using the tech list as ~subtractand~
a111: Logged on 2017-11-19 02:11 asciilifeform: e.g. ' ciclu format din atomi de carbon`carboatomic ring ' and the like.
asciilifeform: imho the 1st item was much too full of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-19#1740598 as it was ☝︎
mircea_popescu: yep, teh tech bit is entirely not worth anyone's time.
asciilifeform: ftr, how to flip one of these :
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how many lines the expression item ? (tech i will asume worthl;ess sight unseen -- bot didn't write a ro tech dictionary and ~nobody else was qualified to)
asciilifeform: in other pipeline, the 'proverbs' item is hopelessly bitrotten, i'ma jettison it. the 'tech' and 'expressions' otoh are ready, dedupped, and flipped ( so as ro->eng )
mircea_popescu: an antique and therefore reliable copy of the dex (dictionar explicativ al limbii romane). 80 mb's worth. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: so now, upon proceeding with this item of yours, i obviously reopened that 7 year old directory. wherein i found...
shinohai: Apparently I missed that one
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's a lulz for you : before making the fain@polimedia item discussed in logs recently ( http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-28#1730110 etc) i actually attempted a... ro dictionary full rewrite. was called "adex". ☝︎
mircea_popescu: leveraged human thought to a degree not seen before nor, honestly speaking, conceivable without the example./
mircea_popescu: no court in the history of the legal profession ever managed the pinnacle of legal achievement on display here in this past HALF HOUR omfg.
mircea_popescu: in a totally meta-point : can you BELIEVE how INCREHEHEHEEEEDIBLY useful our whole infrastructure actually is ?
a111: Logged on 2016-11-29 14:43 phf: we had a thread when diff was first discussed as a way to do patches (i think maybe before even v), where i was erring on the side of no unicode support on the grounds that if we decide to support unicode we have to, to borrow asciilifeforms, drink the whole spittoon
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-29#1574510 << phf even has claim to original art. ☝︎
asciilifeform: ( it's still missing the îțâșă )
asciilifeform: the hilarious bit : the orcogram in question is a ~short stroke~
mircea_popescu: settled then.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-23 14:55 mircea_popescu: suppose we had a rule stating that "all patches must include as a comment the patch upon they are to be applied" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-23#1589158 << is this it ? ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-11-29 14:36 mircea_popescu: speaking of above article, can i get a commitment to never signing any V material which includes any non-ascii characters ? BingoBoingo diana_coman hanbot trinque mod6 danielpbarron mircea_popescu mike_c asciilifeform davout ben_vulpes phf jurov
a111: Logged on 2017-04-07 18:25 mircea_popescu: as a general rule, people who can't produce genus/difference definitions for all the symbols in their own output are better off not thinking yet, as what they think thinking is isn't.
mircea_popescu: searching logs (in this case, for "promise") doth yield some fabulous gems. such as http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-07#1640169 ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-07-22 21:51 mircea_popescu: so i joined the whores going to the gym. my first time in a gym at that! it was discovered that yes i'm a lot more powerful than they are, but i have neither the flexibility nor the endurance.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly my next line being http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-22#1689192 way down. i dun ask anyone to promise nething do i ? ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-07-22 21:11 asciilifeform: at the cost of a bit of log clutter, let's indulge asciilifeform's crackpottery, and lay out 妓 ( U+5993 : whore ) :