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mircea_popescu: cazalla i never bought one but i'm with jurov
jurov: chainsaw is the last thing i'd economize on
cazalla: stihl, i'd rather not take a cheap chainsaw to the knee
cazalla: from what i've read, the stihl and husqis are made in china now too, and this is for only around the backyard use
cazalla: jurov, thansk, i always check but for some reason missed that :\
mircea_popescu: tunnel vision lol. i checked the sig and the sum.
mircea_popescu: ahaha. children of a different era, i salute you.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah i figured you would, but i didn't wanna fuck with it.
asciilifeform: davout: what i find odd is that the modern machines have retractable windmills. retraction gear could fail.
fluffypony: I'm using emoji encryption from now on
mircea_popescu: soooo... since i was looking at the fetlife stuff, i discovered the scrapper had stopped working
cazalla: ;;later tell bingoboingo your pino rooster didn't deliver the goods, i ended up betting on mayweather at the last moment :P
asciilifeform: it has same merit as 'i would like to fly to buenos aires on farts'
mircea_popescu: anyway, i do not personally believe this "pay me to think" thing has any merit whatsoever.
asciilifeform: for the record, when i first encountered green ('07 ?) i definitely had sympathy for the 'someone ought to pay me to think, fuck the world' thing, until i figure out what she intended to 'think' -about-
mircea_popescu: An area of research in which I could be making progress if I had funding providing an income of at least £100,000 a year (progress would no doubt be faster with more income).
mircea_popescu: https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/planets_in_the_4th_dimension/ << ok i must confess this is a kickass theory.
decimation: asciilifeform: I have a friend who is an old graybeard EE, been working on actual circuitry since the 80's ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 16-07-2014 18:31:23; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: flashlight article << a decade or so ago, i had a flashlight that... crashed! when destroyed, it revealed a microcontroller, with eeprom...
asciilifeform: decimation: visit an electronics store and prepare to have brain come out of ears. i've had flashlights that -crashed.- i drive a car with a -buggy- thermostat controller. (made 12 yrs ago, too. the rot began long ago.)
mircea_popescu: (like, i'd cover it's cell and have it do stuff)
asciilifeform: but he is the single most articulate dissector of it, of the ones in my library, and so i pick him.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> ^ cheap n-th generation plagiarism of weizenbaum (of eliza) 'computer power and human reason' << this diagnosis is exactly correct, i am persuaded.
mircea_popescu: as far as i know, not even linus "decides what is written"
mircea_popescu: i wish to meet these people.
decimation: but I don't really follow that
mircea_popescu: decimation i've noticed that a good heuristic is, if (grep -c "privilege" > 1) break;
decimation: I was thinking about the quantity of language as I was going through my books today. amazon has an app that lets you scan a book - even just the cover picture - and it will instantly return the price
asciilifeform: i used to have a whole butterfly collection of links to folks 'like my site but with schizo'
decimation: that's what I thought
assbot: Logged on 02-05-2015 22:59:54; Ralph: Waiting for my payout on the "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" bet so I can bet the Mayweather - Pacquiao fight.
decimation: althought in the case of the 787 I think it lacks hydraulics, so it would take a fair bit of power to move the electric controls
jurov: if you were in WoT, i'd offer you a quick loan
williamdunne: I really want to see Mayweather get knocked the fuck out
Ralph: I'm betting on a draw. The fix is in, Vegas wants a rematch.
Ralph: I don't mean to nag, but I don't know what's holding up the payout. Looks like the bitcoins for the payout are just sitting here --> 1QJRejN99TYnk8Ctae1ZxtMhmrgRqs6bPF
Ralph: Waiting for my payout on the "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" bet so I can bet the Mayweather - Pacquiao fight. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and when you do the invoice in this one, plz also convert the pesos i left behind, supposing those still were worth something.
assbot: Logged on 02-05-2015 19:11:43; mircea_popescu: cazalla who in the us ~doesn't~ face 20 years in jail, i wish to know. it's what that country is predicated on, by now. "i am a us citizen and i face twenty years in jail three times before breakfast. i hope they give us marmelade today".
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-05-2015#1118614 <<< hang about, i thought they faced the hangman's noose, not 20 years ☝︎
hanbot: <jurov> https://mobile.twitter.com/kellyoxford/status/481497873461161987 hanbot, you're married then? << hah, as though i could hear anyone over the roar of my own kvetching
williamdunne: Closest thing would be UK FP I guess
Pierre_Rochard: Or nationalize Visa and ACH and make them free & instant, which is what I would do if I was in charge of keeping the USbezzle going
williamdunne: I'm guessing they mean flooding the network with TXs
williamdunne: Mm I'm not meaning they could, I'm just thinking about what they think they could do
Pierre_Rochard: insofar as they’re distracting the bezzlers, I see it as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bodyguard
assbot: Logged on 02-05-2015 18:38:05; williamdunne: Pierre_Rochard: I think you misinterpreted Preston's tweet. He's derping about his Eris Industries blockchain as a DB idea
mircea_popescu: i*
davout: I'm not an expert in the field, yet, but maybe what's meant by "failsafe" is: "it's better to shut power down than to somehow explode inflight"
davout: that's how I read "a loss of all AC electrical power"
mircea_popescu: cazalla who in the us ~doesn't~ face 20 years in jail, i wish to know. it's what that country is predicated on, by now. "i am a us citizen and i face twenty years in jail three times before breakfast. i hope they give us marmelade today". ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i meant, re teh leaving rates thing
williamdunne: Pierre_Rochard: I think you misinterpreted Preston's tweet. He's derping about his Eris Industries blockchain as a DB idea ☟︎
trinque: tonight I'm going to work on it belching the deed URLs into chan when published, and I think that about wraps up the spec
williamdunne: Can I change the name associated with Scoop's GPG key?
williamdunne: I've been told size doesn't matter
davout: "i have a problem and then i fix it and then there's no problem"
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: I don't know for sure, but it happened a lot before I even started using #b-a. Wifi connection drops and then I reconnect it and all is good
davout: just do it, i'd bet the connection will stop dropping
williamdunne: Some .net framework, I'll check it out
williamdunne: Its not, its just on a wired connection. Eventually I'll cloak though
trinque: -run the thing I gave you forever-
trinque: runit is the only service supervisor thing I've encountered that *does the right thing by default*
williamdunne: That is the exact logic I used
williamdunne: i.e goes down, needs to get up again
williamdunne: I mean reconnecting
davout: not that it matters that much but i feel we'll eventually end up with scoopbot_revived_II_ultimate
williamdunne: I haven't got access to the scoopbot name, and the GPG key is registered to _revived
davout: for when i'm bored enough
danielpbarron: http://i.imgur.com/xhkt8nC.png
decimation: I don't see any updates on the openbsd octeon port
decimation: yeah i live next to y
mircea_popescu: which i found to my surprise at conference that still exists!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i did say "web start-ups".
mircea_popescu: i know
asciilifeform: phuctor stayed up 534 days (since birth) until i moved it just this week
asciilifeform: why, i wonder, so hard
mircea_popescu: what the hell is with that thing. am i fundamentally misunderstanding something here ?
asciilifeform: decimation: i specifically have a problem with hardcoded url, etc. dependency on some random street animal.
asciilifeform: originally i was very reluctant to auto-load anything from anywhere whatsoever
asciilifeform: ah i meant to say,gpgkey
asciilifeform: mike_c: here's my problem... mircea_popescu: mike_c i can see it... << working on it. or rather, will be, as soon as i finish writing my broadcast for april
mircea_popescu: i imagined
decimation: Your site is probably auto-targeted. I bet the bot herder's scripts rank websites
mircea_popescu: i dont think i ever used cgi incidentally.
mircea_popescu: i had not
mircea_popescu: mike_c i don't trust the 2.x branch. dunno that there's a blogpost or anything
mike_c: ;;later tell mats I fixed the bug and added a better 'user not found' page. thx again.
mike_c: I overheard the other day that there was a dislike for newer versions of gpg. has anyone written up a blog post or something about why?
mircea_popescu: oh i see. "i'm twitter famous!" "meaning ?" "not famous."
mircea_popescu: jurov i know she was engaged at some point...
mike_c: Ideally? It's a fingerprint search. So if it misses, I would have it search sks for the fingerprint and show a page asking if you'd like to add that key.
mircea_popescu: mike_c i can see it. which is why i kept pushing for the processing. the idea being that we have ~2mn keys which asciilifeform is going to have the machine cut through like tonight.
mircea_popescu: r*cism, d*mocratic, eq*ality and i guess r*ights. shit there's two r words.
mircea_popescu: i thought it was going to be trilema
mats: mike_c: some unexpected behavior with your web wot thing: when searching with the input 'Chillum', a corresponding drop-down option appears, and when i click 'View User', it directs me to 'http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/user/', a 404. when I click the option in the drop-down combo box, I'm directed to 'http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/user/Chillum', also a 404
ascii_field: damned if i know
kakobrekla: ascii_field i guess the search is out of sync
gribble: Chillum was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 weeks, 0 days, 3 hours, 50 minutes, and 21 seconds ago: <Chillum> I have never understood how a 1 paragraph post that links to a full article somehow makes it to the top of google searches. They are adding basically nothing
jurov: ascii_field: i was here, really nothing happened