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ben_vulpes: i plan to take
a hammer to the coracle's blockchain soon, would like to know if you see anything interesting in it
ben_vulpes: on
a more interesting note, did you get
a chance to digest my mL of pcap, asciilifeform?
ben_vulpes: "compliance is
a forest of fingers pointing at everyone else"
mircea_popescu: "Sweden has traditionally relied heavily on the strong protestant work ethic of its citizens.
A cornerstone of the country's welfare system has been
a population which has been reluctant to misuse the system. Although taxes have been high and government benefits generous, the strong work ethic has stopped people from taking advantage of the welfare state. Alas, this attitude has been largely abandoned. As time has pass
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know which of these
a group noun falls into chiefly depends on how you examine.
mircea_popescu: it deeply fascinates me how alf does feel the need to maintain
a -publicly stated!!!- corpus of humanities cannon, yet nevertheless does not feel this need about
a corpus of software cannon.
mircea_popescu: it's this entire "try to find
a trend to stand in front of"
mircea_popescu: it's "to shit" every time the contest moves from "who can hold his position in front of enemy with nary
a care" to "who can hide best".
ben_vulpes: i'm not arguing the point, i just don't see the point of engaging on 'formalizing the whole legal system' with
a guy who generates xml from erb templates and thinks this is
a good idea
mircea_popescu: as orwell well observed, the airplane and the radio turned the war into
a game of rats.
mircea_popescu: and the only thing "being
a veteran" means is, "having loaded an endless list of don'ts"
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the vet knew enough from experience to know the war is now
a defensive affair, and the only thing that matters is not being killed.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> why the everloving fuck would i want
a car with better hidden failure modes from the creators of the car that sucked. << i was recently at
a pitch from legaleze.io wherein the guy who runs the formdump site in question lionized marc andresen, and then displayed
a pmarca tweet congratulating him for saying something 'grand' about 'software eating law'
mircea_popescu: i guess this is to some degree true. war changes to favour offensive or defensive in
a cycle. there's an excelent scene in der untergang, where
a veteran field officer surveying the killing zone through stereoscopic periscope sees
a bunch of green vulksstrums and yells for them to get the very fuck out of there already!
Adlai: far from
a 'videogame war', modern warfare is still quite shitty, but the precise nature (taste, color, proportion of black bile vs yellow) changes
mircea_popescu: admire the irony of having been defeated by
a quote from
a videogame, in your quest to defend the videogame war.
assbot: Successfully added
a rating of -1 for decimation with note: Guy's been soft working teh #b-
a for about
a year and
a half. Needless to say, it didn't work out.
mircea_popescu: !rate decimation -1 Guy's been soft working teh #b-
a for about
a year and
a half. Needless to say, it didn't work out.
mircea_popescu: and, i might add, symptomatically, for the perspectives of being
a libertard, the newly branded ustardian puritan.
mircea_popescu: (masturbation, spending time alone, and generally not being
a jock also parts of disease of gayness)
Adlai nominates M-x slime-inspect as
a valid web browser, especially after ,ql closure
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla ironically, because puritans of the 50s thought that the foreskin is
a major factor in the disease of gayness
Adlai: actual software runs on machines younger than
a decade (but not much!), but it still has to speak text for this box to understand
mircea_popescu: why the everloving fuck would i want
a car with better hidden failure modes from the creators of the car that sucked.
assbot: Logged on 07-08-2015 10:53:39; assbot: There's
a Firefox Exploit in the Wild—You Should Update Right Now ... (
http://bit.ly/1DuTYP5 )
chetty: <mircea_popescu> i actually think its curve-based. women just have better aesthetics.// thats
a male point of view, I prefer male aesthetics myself
mircea_popescu: but the original, socialistoid, eisenhowerian proposition that "soldiering's
a job - full employment!" died in
a pool of its own lye.
Adlai: "soldier" isn't over, but he can accomplish
a lot more from much closer to the AC unit
mircea_popescu: and thinking making
a bit of plastic "go naked to tea party" is
a big todo
assbot: Logged on 06-08-2015 23:24:40; ascii_field: diff -uNr
a b | awk 'm = /^(---|\+\+\+)/{"sha512sum \"" $2 "\"" | getline x; split(x,
a, " "); print $0 " "
a[1]} !m { print $0 }'
mircea_popescu: may i grow up into an adult as
a personal process and in my own terms ? huh ? HUH ???
mircea_popescu: punkman he's probably in it for the titties. until he discovers some discoveries. which is in the end the point of both travel and being
a young male.
chetty: fifty lines of code or less// so why even bother with
a computer, just do it all in your head
assbot: Logged on 07-08-2015 06:26:16; trinque: is this problem solved by someone just signing
a disk image and being done with it?
mircea_popescu: shinohai no but i just feel for the guy, gentoo is the last thing that made me want to burn the world, and through
a very similar process as he describes.
shinohai: My only failure this week seems to be eulora, which I intend to remedy by not running on
a shitty laptop.
mircea_popescu: <n6> Um, I'm in way over my head and going on 17 hours of gentoo << take your picture with your sad face next to
a screen with gentoo failing on it, i'll pay you 0.1 BTC. just to prove
a point.
☟︎ shinohai: Wait, there is
a /v/coontown too
punkman: Oldest son works the Big Four mines. Not rich, but paying off the loans for
a couple apartment buildings.
punkman: and an anecdote from Belgium. Greek woman's parents, mined/shoveled coal. Greek woman was maid in hotel,
a little later worked the hotel bar. She gets pregnant, goes on leave. When leave is over, manager helpfully fires her so he can spend time with kid and claim unemployment benefits.
BingoBoingo: But as I said earlier media is proposing
a Trump vs. Killed HP contest
trinque: I don't think for
a moment that anyone outside the US will buy his act
trinque: BingoBoingo: I depressed the shit out of myself listening to
a Trump speech earlier
trinque: I'm thinking
a screen recording of the whole process would be helpful
trinque: you've got
a computer that's quite useful for development now
trinque: you hit
a number, dd runs and it reboots
trinque: sounds like syslinux with dd on it and the thing could even be
a script that says hi, which drive do you want me to obliterate?
trinque: BingoBoingo: sure, just ship
a kernel with all modules built and an initrd
trinque: is this problem solved by someone just signing
a disk image and being done with it?
☟︎☟︎ ben_vulpes: trinque: you've only ever seen me halfway keeled over under
a boozeload
trinque: this causes
a problem in the opposite direction when versions disappear from gentoo
BingoBoingo: trinque: But for
a build your first *nix Upgrading OpenBSd to -stable seems best documented
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: i'm not
a derpy bureaucrat, i eat derpy bureaucrats for lunch
trinque: there's
a bootloader called bootstrap?
trinque: but that's
a good example of
a decision
a n00b doesn't need to know exists
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Assume your skull was rendered the consistency of rice pudding with
a tack hammer, what would you immagine looking for in customer service folk?
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: You ever interview peeps for
a customer service job before?
ben_vulpes: does the character now have
a spaceship?
trinque: just
a bad starter on this one
ben_vulpes: trinque: but do you have
a v8 and the electrical system to drive the thing
ben_vulpes: aha i showed up in the middle of
a gentoo quest i see
trinque:
a horrible economic process.
trinque: but it can happen in
a cruel, uncaring void
trinque: because in both cases it'd be because of
a flaw, and neither you nor I know of the particular flaws in your firmware
trinque: mircea_popescu: perhaps this calls for
a video.
trinque: changed
a setting in portage then told emerge to re-evaluate the currenty set list of desired packages (world) according to them
trinque: if you have
a 64bit computer, cool
BingoBoingo: n6: Given
a choice at all BIOS is prolly less horribru
n6: trinque: what will it take for me to not have to make
a 4th install here. I read your links still don't understand, last time I went without this step it ended poorly.
trinque: the CSM thing I suggested is
a way of setting EFI computers into
a compatibility mode that behaves like BIOS
mircea_popescu: practically speaking, even
a dozen requires
a veteran crew.
mats:
a few well placed ATGMs, and everyone goes home
n6: so my options are
a 4th install with
a bios setting or
a 4th install?
n6: what bootload will get this working right now and not lead to
a 4th install