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mircea_popescu: “The reality of the situation is that the U.S. dollar hasn’t been this strong in decades. The thought that it could be replaced as
a reserve currency is laughable at this point on
a geopolitical basis and nothing in the Iran deal even remotely touches upon that issue,” he added.
ascii_field: 'Over five years, two computer hackers living in Ukraine broke into U.S. newswire services including Business Wire and PRNewswire and stole more than 100,000 press releases for publicly traded companies before their release. Those documents, which included earnings data, were distributed to
a network of traders who used the advance knowledge to buy or sell securities based on how they anticipated the market would react to
shinohai: I have heard "papi" quite
a bit, usually from Mexican escorts.
mircea_popescu: For her part, noted feminist Gloria Steinem said (in 2008) that she supported Clinton over Barack Obama because, “Black men were given the vote
a half-century before women of any race were allowed to mark
a ballot, and generally have ascended to positions of power, from the military to the boardroom, before any women…”
mircea_popescu: "While many people are excited about the prospect of the first woman president, I think that
a Hillary Clinton presidency will be another in
a long series of triumphs for white, corporate feminism and defeats for racial justice."
trinque: mircea_popescu: thought I saw
a warty looking thing in
a scene with her
thestringpuller: the last time I opened
a link here at work was from MP and yea...awkward...
ascii_field: at any rate, the art of human collar-making has not stood still! iirc the saudis even hold
a patent on proper bomb-n-shock-n-gps collar
ascii_field: ^ 'what good is
a phone call when you have no mouth' (tm) (r)
trinque: I expect to hear in
a few years how backward America is because we don't yet have the chip system.
shinohai: Nary
a shred of *actual logic (tm)* to be found.
shinohai: the new rotor script mod6 and I tried this weekend past is so easy
a redditard could do it
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2014 01:30:35; asciilifeform: 'As progressively dumber programmers build progressively more complex systems we will see more of this kind of attempt to paper over coding mistakes with lawyers, sanctions, policies, and laws. Hollywood and the RIAA are usually the most successful at getting the government to do their bidding. Thus I predict that one day Disney will have
a Web site where you can buy access to any of their movies.
phf: ben_vulpes:
http://dpaste.com/2Q2YKDB << so we were poking at gernika yesterday and it looks like CS didn't fully build. i'll take
a look at his "successful" cs build log today, and see what comes up
phf: ben_vulpes:
http://paste.lisp.org/display/152828#1 << read-sequence reads octets (i.e. unsigned bytes) into an array, so you want (make-array size :element-type '(unsigned-byte 8)) and you also want to then explicitly convert an octet array into
a string. later is implementation dependent (since concerns encodings, etc.), ccl has DECODE-STRING-FROM-OCTETS and sbcl OCTETS-TO-STRING, both support encodings. since version is ascii,
a naive converte
ascii_field: 'Congress passed the Protect Act after the Supreme Court struck down
a broader law prohibiting any visual depictions of minors engaged in sexual activity, including computer-generated imagery and other fakes. The high court ruled that the ban was too broad, and could cover legitimate speech, including Hollywood productions.
assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 08:56:46; BingoBoingo: When the last pre-0.8 wedge came through I suspected it was
a BDB issue but alf was the one to euthanize it at the root.
mircea_popescu: it's not unlike conflating computer programming and autism, or bewing the runt in
a family litter and being the politician.
mircea_popescu: I got
a lot of responses, but you know what? I now understand why all of these women are hookers and i don't feel bad for them in the least. They are aggressive, flaky and dont want to understand what is happening around them. All I have been getting is women asking me for free bitcoin to buy their "medication". Its life and death apparently.
mircea_popescu: i am guessing romanian will have to move to
a 3 to 4 letters per word mode soon or else it may go out of print.
mircea_popescu: and with better reinforcement throughout reinforcement throughout hello there, how goes it, we were talking about story arcs, you know, like bows hehehe, but reinforced throguhout throughout reinforced ps. this was
a paragraph, and you read it well done !
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-08-2015#1234555 << i was reading
a "book" written by some romanian twerp who thinks himself famous (stand up comedian / singer), sent to me by retired whore (really, if you whore and can't retire by 25 or so, you're too stupid to live) of my generation, for the purpose of "see mr p, i told you the kids are fucktarded". ie, kids, the next set.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: does it have an "acceptable use policy" ? it's
a bunch of scumbags.
ascii_field: nobody disclaimed the idiocies, but oracle would like to pretend that no one said them in
a single convenient place.
mod6: i'll post the diff so you can take
a peek when you have
a chance ascii_field
mircea_popescu: onsibilities to customers, merely trying to avoid
a painful, annoying, and mutually-time wasting exercise," the CSO writes.
mircea_popescu: "More like, "I do not need you to analyze the code since we already do that, it's our job to do that, we are pretty good at it, we can -- unlike
a third party or
a tool -- actually analyze the code to determine what's happening and at any rate most of these tools have
a close to 100 percent false positive rate so please do not waste our time on reporting little green men in our code. I am not running away from our resp
ascii_field: 'Q. Why are you going after consultants the customer hired? The consultant didn’t sign the license agreement!
A. The customer signed the Oracle license agreement, and the consultant hired by the customer is thus bound by the customer’s signed license agreement. Otherwise everyone would hire
a consultant to say (legal terms follow) “Nanny, nanny boo boo, big bad consultant can do X even if the customer can’t!”'
mod6: that kinda 25 <=> 12 happens
a bunch
ascii_field: why is mircea_popescu convinced that the oracle thing is
a sham ?
ascii_field: disasm and diff, betcha it'll make
a good blog post
ascii_field: 'If we determine as part of our analysis that scan results could only have come from reverse engineering (in at least one case, because the report said, cleverly enough, “static analysis of Oracle XXXXXX”), we send
a letter to the sinning customer, and
a different letter to the sinning consultant-acting-on-customer’s behalf – reminding them of the terms of the Oracle license agreement that preclude
mircea_popescu: the expression "white men can't jump", as an artefact, which it is. comes, as far as i know, from actual black people, as
a local creation. like the word "trayvon". not from white people, as
a projection.
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, has survived,
a proper thing to wish for the bride at wedding throughout musliv world is "may your kids be light skinned"
mircea_popescu: uhh.,... what, "and i'll spend
a quarter and not have
a problem" ?
mircea_popescu: "I'll ask your opinion on it again next time you have
a transaction you need to process in
a hurry and the mempool is 5 MB."
mircea_popescu: "The Southern Poverty Law Center,
a non-profit civil rights organization, has described the 'Oath Keepers' as
a 'fiercely anti-government, militaristic group,' and St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar condemned their appearance in Ferguson."
mircea_popescu: the us has painted itself in
a corner and there's simply no way out no matter how you approach the matter.
assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 12:01:47; mircea_popescu: balzac's french contemporaries (who were on the napoleon gold standard) pretty much used the beatings, which did make for great literature but really
a rather miserable society.
mircea_popescu: this was
a convenient excuse in romania, "things went to shit because teh russians are making us do it !111"
mircea_popescu: because the context has changed. in 1971
a lot of schmucks knew their place.
mircea_popescu: apparently there's about
a dozen or two diddle "profiles"
mircea_popescu: moreover, trilema is not
a news rag, it's
a personal blog.
assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 11:34:10; mircea_popescu: along with all sorts of personally damning tidbits and
a treasure trove of all sorts of lols.
shinohai: Yes
a buildlog, any relevant notes someone can include.
shinohai: prefixing LC_ALL=C is
a bit annoying, but not
a dealbreaker
mircea_popescu: shinohai maybe i don't understand crosscompilation, but
a) shouldn't it work on pogo if you ever got it to compile/link anywhere ? and b) wasn't the idea to avoid compiling for the pogo ON THE POGO anyway ?
mircea_popescu: "In the future, everyone has
a war machine, nobody wears seatbelts and everyone tries to be as flammable as possible. Damn right."
mircea_popescu: balzac's french contemporaries (who were on the napoleon gold standard) pretty much used the beatings, which did make for great literature but really
a rather miserable society.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: by
a damned sight better than say, beatings. and it's altogether unclear an alternative to these exists.
mircea_popescu: mats the true question is whether this is
a test run and they hit it again more to the tune of 30-40% later in the year.
shinohai: Comes pre-installed on my NetBSD shell. May give it
a whirl sometimes.
shinohai: Anyone here used vee as
a blogging platform ?
mircea_popescu: in any case, reddit's gonna die its own, livejournal-y sort of death. digg iirc died when it crashed against
a thick brick wall of "nobody cares".
mircea_popescu: along with all sorts of personally damning tidbits and
a treasure trove of all sorts of lols.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and finally g) they've been bleeding people from engineering at an ever accelerating rate since 2010 (or earlier) and by now it's so bad people leave during the first three months as
a regular occurence. they briefly and unsuccessfully tried the "pay more" approach, it didn't do much, currently they've practically given up on the problem altogether.
mircea_popescu: c) to cope with this situations the admins universally make up random vote counts ; d) to cope with the shortage of manpower this causes all sorts of exponential factorizations are used, which means that in practice
a story is first "fast tracked" which means some admin ticks
a box and from there on it gets all sorts of factors and additions
mircea_popescu:
a) very few entries actually get > 100 upvotes. as in, it's happened twice so far this year. b) the number of negative votes exceeds the positive by
a degree of magnitude or more on average, and regularly by two degrees on "popular" items. when this doesn't happen it's always obscure stories with one or two votes.
mircea_popescu: sooo, i got
a rather amusing internal report from reddit. it would seem that
Vexual: in any aother system you might find
a maximum efficiency
punkman: "the move was
a "one-off depreciation" of 1.9% in
a move to make the exchange rate more market-oriented. "
BingoBoingo: <shinohai> Here is
a different story. If someone expresses an interest in therealbitcoin I want to help, because more nodes. << First lesson of reddit is randos don't run nodes
shinohai: Here is
a different story. If someone expresses an interest in therealbitcoin I want to help, because more nodes.
BingoBoingo: When the last pre-0.8 wedge came through I suspected it was
a BDB issue but alf was the one to euthanize it at the root.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: shinohai: Consider if someone wastes an hour of my time, I've usually got lots of time. No big deal. If on the other hand that person manages to waste 15 minutes of asciilifeform's time we have experienced
a tragic loss.
BingoBoingo: I mean if someone can't follow instructions other people succeed on. Time spent is
a waste. Wasting that time is
a resource to be attacked.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: The Phillipenis accepts that sure. But we've been under
a variety of sustained attacks for
a while. I'm getting to the point now where I really have trouble assuming n00bs are well intentioned like I may have in 2013.
assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 08:33:14; BingoBoingo: shinohai: I told n6 to just install OpenBSD. Then he found
a guide to set up
a "desktop" which convinced him to edit fstab (treat as read only). Got him to reinstall and find
a saner guide. Didn't check his hardware and because Nvidia his resolution is painful. Directed to keep reading man pages.
BingoBoingo: <shinohai> I spent 2-3 hours in PM's trying to get him up to speed on gpg and stuff << Going into the future this is
a serious meat DoS attack vector
BingoBoingo: shinohai: I told n6 to just install OpenBSD. Then he found
a guide to set up
a "desktop" which convinced him to edit fstab (treat as read only). Got him to reinstall and find
a saner guide. Didn't check his hardware and because Nvidia his resolution is painful. Directed to keep reading man pages.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 06:03:32; trinque: BingoBoingo: OpenBSD is probably
a much better n00b suggestion
cazalla: i had
a few beers friday night but other than that, good
assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 04:15:45; pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: me think cazalla is on
a similar hunt ?