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asciilifeform: was maybe 6 m. tall, no rope
asciilifeform chopped down an oak with an ordinary ax today, and inescapably thought of BingoBoingo's wurk
shinohai: Well more than one way to skin a cat
shinohai: SoldierOfFortune: plox to fix your connection or get a bnc
mircea_popescu: i imagine the idea with browser stuff is you just save the javascript. as close to "compile locally, fucktard" as the redditard generation can possibly get -- guaranteed success through a browser-compiler of approximately-integer language.
cruciform: gotcha, so how should one convert his entropy to BTC private keys?
asciilifeform: every time you visit a www pg, potentially you get something new.
cruciform: well, I'd like to get my BTC out of Armory ASAP
cruciform: it's just that bitaddress.org is a black box to me
asciilifeform: i'm partial to well-made electric rng
cruciform: http://www.contravex.com/2014/03/14/on-making-high-entropy-bitcoin-paper-wallets/ is this still the way to go?
cruciform: but I'm not qualified to audit the code of that site
cruciform: I read Pete's guide to bitaddress.org
cruciform: yea, that's me
mircea_popescu: every step of the way huh.
cruciform: and after the SSS botching, I need to change the setup
a111: Logged on 2017-09-01 21:41 Barbarossa_: I'm a professsional poker player from the UK
asciilifeform: London and LA << you wouldn't by any chance know the fella in old thread, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-01#1709226 ? ☝︎
ben_vulpes: cruciform: didja catch the armory fail?
cruciform: next up is transferring my BTC to some sane paper wallet solution - I've been using Armory thus far
cruciform: but I've been busy up until recently with the whole BCH nonsense
shinohai: Yes mircea_popescu .... when one finishes the bottle lovely Guatemalan maidens tie it to your dick and ride .... xD
mircea_popescu: the one with the leather corset for the bottleneck for some unknown reason ?
cruciform: I look at cards and hope they're good
cruciform: I've been reading the logs+your guys' blogs
mircea_popescu: at any rate, if anyone cares : centenario anejo 25 yo (costa rica) > diplomatico r. exclusiva (venezuela) > colonial artesanal (guatemala) > centenario run of the bar > flor de cana (nicaragua).
cruciform: long time Windows derper - getting there!
asciilifeform: likely some idiocy in the interrupt handlers
asciilifeform: (not a usb-specific thing)
asciilifeform: iron serial ports apparently count towards the total
asciilifeform: i have a 9-port pcie card, same thing
mircea_popescu: haven't trierd
asciilifeform: regardless of where you put the ports
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform pretty sure you could sit down a multi-usb hub unit in the card slot
asciilifeform: the part i find interesting is that it is -- apparently -- impossible to use a current pc in the way, e.g., pdp11 was used - as box with two dozen + serial ttys hanging off
mircea_popescu: tis exactly as i recall it from the mid 2000s.
mircea_popescu now trying guatemala's ron (colonial).
asciilifeform: ( iirc somebody here tried )
mircea_popescu: so to him this seems heaven
mircea_popescu: i expect more people complain of the chip color than of this.
mircea_popescu: who would you expect to use 8+, the usual appletard/tablethead/who exactly ?
asciilifeform: mod6: the interesting bit is the -- afaik -- total absence of public discussion. because -- evidently -- Only A Terrorist (tm)(r) would use 8+ serial devices on pc.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> transfer rate on 8th and above, slows to a kB/s or so << ugh.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> one of the items i am currently working on is a fully-automatic FG tester << ahh cool.
asciilifeform: ( where the buffered bits go -- devil only knows )
asciilifeform: transfer rate on 8th and above, slows to a kB/s or so
asciilifeform: linux kernel ( all the varieties i've tried ) seems to have a serious ( and wholly undocumented ) problem with > 7 serial devices .
asciilifeform: at the moment, the process is only semi-automatic.
asciilifeform: one of the items i am currently working on is a fully-automatic FG tester
asciilifeform: mod6: i typically use powered hubs
mod6: that's what you use to test in parallel right?
asciilifeform: in practice, this means that an unpowered usb hub should be able to support 6 of'em without problems.
asciilifeform: btw did i ever print the rated power consumption of a FUCKGOATS ?
trinque: cruciform: give it a try now.
cruciform: hi! I'm having trouble self-voicing with deedbot
a111: Logged on 2017-09-24 22:51 trinque: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-22#1716721 << tests so far look great http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/e6fuo/?raw=true ; awaiting the full 1gb and then I'll publish results.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-24#1716874 << this is neato btw ☝︎
trinque: but the chicoms banned bitcoin?
mircea_popescu: yes if the local zone is deleted.
asciilifeform: re qntra, i get a ERR_NAME_RESOLUTION_FAILED -- which is not consistent with the 'box finally thrown out' picture
shinohai: It will soar in value to a whole 25 cents per!!!!!
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz from elaine ou : "ripple", which apparently is an entity that scammed wall street "investors" out of 55mn "investment" managed to write "R3" which is a sort of nothing in particular an XRP option worth supposedly a billion (admitting ripple the fake coin is worth anything) and while they can't back out of it, there's legal wrangling lulz : https://elaineou.com/2017/09/20/r3-should-just-buy-ripple/
mircea_popescu: (tl;dr : nigger jew faggots at google conspired to hinder anyone not of nigger jew faggot political persuasions.)
mircea_popescu: in the sense that apparently there's less black chix coding at google now than before.
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz : google spent a quarter billion dollars worth of its govt's printouts on "corporate diversity". the results are not exactly zero
mircea_popescu: as they say back at teh idle ranch, "it's only been ten days, what, that's not even two weeks (tm)!!!"
a111: Logged on 2017-09-14 21:30 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-14#1714333 << much chance of survival, seeing how a state of necessity was just declared, and absent servers there's no digital.
diana_coman: seems down from here too fwiw
mircea_popescu: GOOD THING THEY STOPPED 2ND HAND SMOKING!!!
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/prince-of-the-city/ << Trilema - Prince of the City
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : each and everyone politician abscam put in jail (bout 30 or so) were... democrats. the party of corruption survived!
asciilifeform: troo hardworkers, candidates for tenure.
mircea_popescu: exaclty as per the above "ants doing mango pulp powered research"
mircea_popescu: system becomes more complex over time at a steady rate based on temperature / gates' worthless money input.
mircea_popescu: very literally true, too. the act of fermentation as a thermodynamic process is correctly modelled as an increase in entropy ie exactly "that way lies demonology"
asciilifeform: 'do it or you ain't even thinking, but fermenting'
mircea_popescu: "do it or else alf won't like it and mp won't defend you and what else is there for you."
mircea_popescu: i suppose this actually enacts a fundamental of "parsimony" in estimation of all ideal objects.
mircea_popescu: so you'll settle on "dirac's delta visibly parsimonious ; string theory not so visibly if at all" ?
mircea_popescu: obscenity laws, banned books, political correctness, antivirus corps etc are all the sorry product of the contrary view.
mircea_popescu: do also there exist "bad data" known by that fact that "if put into computer, break it" ? fix the fucking code.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i put it to you, that if such a thing should exist, the head is at fault not the thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dirac's delta, aslo crafted with clear political angle : to exclude non-diracians from so-and-so set of benches.
asciilifeform: there is also 'things that, if loaded into a head, make it stupider'
mircea_popescu: "things that i can fuck", "things that i can understand", "things i can talk about". many kinds of things.
mircea_popescu: but those are also still things.
mircea_popescu: they're abstract things
asciilifeform: i am not convinced of there being involvement of 'things' : strings have not even the reality anchor of phlogiston.
mircea_popescu: there is in this sense. if "alcohol" "leads people into sin", then those led into sin are to be hanged ; but alcohol not condemned.
asciilifeform: there is no separability of the political.
mircea_popescu: should be applied against people not against things.
mircea_popescu: but this is a political consideration.
asciilifeform: ( the string orchestra not only dun give a flying fuck re parsimony, but quite the opposite , complexity cancer deliberately cultured, breeds grantolade for mediocrities )
mircea_popescu: (schwartz above is laurent schwartz, provided an elegant translation of the non-functional nature of dirac's delta by using distribution limits to model it)
mircea_popescu: and i suppose the evident similarity between dirac delta and "whichever unnamed abstractions you support your estimation of string theory" is also striking to you ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you are aware "consensus" among the math tribe was that dirac & friends are talking nonsense ?
mircea_popescu: seems to me it's the job of math people to produce all needed schwartzen and their shortcoming when they fail to do so.
mircea_popescu: sooo are we sticking to pre schwartz notions of "physicists are talking nonsense" ?
a111: Logged on 2017-09-25 01:50 mircea_popescu: incidentally, speaking of the whole http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-22#1588696 http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-07#1711102 etc : did anyone ever come up with a formal functional expression of Dirac's delta ?
BingoBoingo: But that depends on the State's continued demonstrations of bad faith in discovery continuing to generate tort fuel