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mircea_popescu: there was a whole bunch of these, incidentally, http://trilema.com/2010/extemporal-la-venerologie/ tells the story of some other rando "blogger" (they seriously went about pompously http://trilema.com/2011/cred-ca-pe-alocuri-se-exagereaza/#selection-67.167-67.602 -ing all over the place ) who failed to make the distinction between contraception and venereal disease prevention, and then "got upset" when mocked for it.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform meanwhile found it : http://trilema.com/2009/visurat-s-a-dat-de-goala/ (notable for saying "yesterday at [film festival] i saw two films. one was "the happiest girl in the world" and i found myself in there. i laughed, i felt a bitter taste in the mouth, and i realised i might end up like that", and then FAILING to make the connection with http://trilema.com/2017/alexandru-osvald-pastorel-teodoreanu/#footnote_17

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, some bum/dockworker "being a blogger" back in ye olde days before trilema.

mircea_popescu: meanwhile in yet other lulz : https://issuu.com/craps/docs/fa2014 ( A Family Affair : Bull & Female Sale )

mircea_popescu: so the dood's businessplan is, 1. get a list of websites ; 2. while $list do curl -e "esif22.zcodesys.hop.clickbank.net"; done.

mircea_popescu: meanwhile in lulz : trilema gets referral spam from "esif22.zcodesys.hop.clickbank.net" ; the unpacking is : https://zcodesystem.com/affiliates.html (some "betting" scam) is being pushed via clickbank (principal affiliate clearhinghouse) by some guy whose code is esif22. the idea is that if (naive) webmaster clicks (or publishes his referrer list for others to click) the clickbank item will count a click "sent by" this esif22

mircea_popescu: MRExtreme 52M Dom "Hi LordMP, I will be travelling to Costa Rica with my slave. Do you have any (kinky) tips ? Have a nice day MRExtreme" LordMPofTMSR "You can start with the customary six months of log reading ; other than that specific channel I have nothing to say to uppity plebs."

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BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Thinking on it, but unlike yesterday, there's a growing pile of material to be Qntra'd today.

mircea_popescu: spyked a ty

BingoBoingo: In other news one of several competing "Presidents" of Venezuela (Think Iraq's Chalabi) is going to be holding a rally across from the Tres Cruses Shopping and National Bus Terminal here in Uruguay

a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 23:18 asciilifeform: can't wait for the logical end of this, when they cut e.g. the screen ( 'why do you need a screen, terrorist. talk to the box with mouth..' ) and eventually will ship a http://www.loper-os.org/?p=405 i expect.

a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 20:11 mircea_popescu: spyked is there a way for one to list what rss he's subscribed with feedbot ?

spyked: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889396 <-- there is a !1list command (no extra args) that lists subscriptions for the user who PMs it. however, it doesn't work in chan and I didn't document it due to its spamminess. feedbot will reply with one rss feed per line, not sure if it would be more appropriate to list rss feeds in a paste or something. curious to hear opinions re this ☝︎

mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other great accomplishments of the scots, "the highland schottische is a partnered country dance that apparently originated in Bohemia."

mircea_popescu: yearence is a wonder.

mircea_popescu: if you construct a "regime" out of the thin veneer of pop-socialism, myopic as all get-out and with all the intellectual prowess of earthworms, what the fuck do you expect permanence.

a111: Logged on 2018-08-22 21:51 asciilifeform: 'Andropov: Why did you decide that you are a judge and can decide with a gun in your hands? Ilyin: Because a person should live not exist.'

asciilifeform: the mamies win their appeals cuz there's 100mil of'em and system aint set up to send ~all~ of'em downriver, there aint enuff clinks to house'em all. whereas 'terrorists' in the 'supermax' there's a coupla dozen of, and i've yet to heard of 1 being cut loose on appeal

mircea_popescu: "show" has a very specific legal definition: whatever the judge feels like that day. I have been involved in thousands of these SSI cases, and to describe the system as arbitrary is to describe Blake Lively as "fair.""

mircea_popescu: also ""You"= your doc who fills out a packet with specific questions; and maybe a lawyer who processes the massive amounts of other paperwork, and argues your case, and charges about 20% of a year's award.

mircea_popescu: give it a few years, what "endlessly"

mircea_popescu: i don't know that there ever was a "conviction" that stood other than by sheer disinterest of the convicted.

asciilifeform: iirc his lettre de cachet got cancelled on a technicality, somehow

asciilifeform: re microshit 'os' in boxes -- seems like they see primary competition currently as being... old versions of own shit. ( recently they demonstratively had a d00d jailed, not even for 'pirated' but for selling at flea markets ~old winblowz~ disks )

mircea_popescu: today seems (outside of orclands, where they're retarded) just on par with what it always was, "suppose you get a real job"

mircea_popescu: there was a brief interval, 90s to maybe 2005, when parent might have been even enthusiastic over kid's "entrepreneurship" declarations.

mircea_popescu: t that his only hope at being young again is if he finds the way to shit whole prunes) that yielded the "entrepreneurial" revolution which, in short order, latched upon the imaginary http://trilema.com/2016/files-from-the-war-on-the-web-today-literotica/#selection-393.0-393.767 aka "ugc" as a fuel base to transform into prosperity died sometime since 2001.

mircea_popescu: the truth of the matter is that the great clinton dream (it made it even into "primary colors", whereby clinton explains to a group of "worried" workers [worried about the fact that their standards of living are strictly unmaintainable post-imperialism] that their only hope at continuation is through some kind of [unspecified, because unspecifiable] "skill acquiring" -- with all the sweet air of doctor who tells cancer patien

asciilifeform: can't wait for the logical end of this, when they cut e.g. the screen ( 'why do you need a screen, terrorist. talk to the box with mouth..' ) and eventually will ship a http://www.loper-os.org/?p=405 i expect. ☟︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re crapple, it's become a rich generator of lulz : their current strategy seems to consist of, per iteration of product : 1) cut an essential component (e.g. headphone jack) , and declare 'fashionable' 2) double price

asciilifeform: largely unrelatedly, today asciilifeform uncrated a spool of 70kV insulating tape, and surprised to discover that it is made with... mastic. y'know, how ~all~ electrician's tape used to be made, in ww2 and prior

asciilifeform: come to think of it , i can't recall when last saw a winblowz ad as such

asciilifeform: iirc there's a large collection of these somewhere, bsods photo'd 'in the wild' on bank atm's, etc

asciilifeform: btw, imho it's a good example of 'ffa-style' narrowing of problem domain ( there is no good reason for ancient tx to be rewritable )

asciilifeform: i'ma have to do some serious detective work, when i get a free hand .

asciilifeform: it's a pretty basic lang knob.

asciilifeform: ( there's a range of things you aint allowed to do with a controlled type, chiefly to copy it )

asciilifeform: mmap is 1 of the few nice things in linux , lets you e.g. map a 1tb segment and store as file, and will actually 'sparse' store etc.

asciilifeform: obviates a good number of scenarios where otherwise you'd want to use a db system.

asciilifeform: both give you a direct path from a data structure to/from disk.

asciilifeform: this was a shot at improved (pointerism-free, externally) variant of earlier system 'horsecocks'

asciilifeform: this is done with a standard ada feature called 'controlled limited type'. which i found that, for no documented reason, dunwork in gnat's static lib. ☟︎

asciilifeform: observe that 'M' knows when the end of its life comes, and gets synced to disk (if applicable , i.e. was mapped r/w) and properly cleaned up, without any such abortion as a 'free' statement a la c

feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/01/us-home-sales-hit-a-3-year-low-over-december/ << Qntra -- US Home Sales Hit A 3 Year Low Over December

mircea_popescu evidently can't carry a discussion on artithetics, even if "general point" wins easy enough.

a111: Logged on 2018-01-03 16:05 asciilifeform: but in very unrelated lulz, https://archive.is/bON1p >> 'It’s a bit absurd that a modern gaming machine running at 4,000x the speed of an apple 2, with a CPU that has 500,000x as many transistors (with a GPU that has 2,000,000x as many transistors) can maybe manage the same latency as an apple 2 in very carefully coded applications if we have a monitor with nearly 3x the refresh rate.'

asciilifeform: ftr, i never had a c compiler on my c64

mircea_popescu: thus you don't really want a compiler as much as you want a (very narrowly) meta-assembler.

mircea_popescu: sounds like a helluva subject.

mircea_popescu: well, watching the outside world is a little like watching middle class tweens "fighting" on the playground. lotta shoving, lotta posturing and "threatening" behaviour. lotta talk, jack shit to get excited over.

a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 15:11 diana_coman: it was more of a confusion/mess rather than real problem as such

a111: Logged on 2019-01-05 14:16 mircea_popescu: diana_coman is working for s.mg ; we've recently had this exact talk and revised our plans. originally the idea was to have moved over to cuntoo, and do support work for community-driven effort at a new client. the latter completely collapsed over the shocking weakness of such community ; the former's at best delayed.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889150 << there's no way to have a rsa-aware client without the corresponding server, yes ? it's a whole migration, just, i was hoping she'd only have to do the server side, was the point of http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-05#1884608 comment. ☝︎☝︎

a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 14:58 asciilifeform: verily. by ritchie's own words, c is moar of a macroassembler than prog lang in the customary sense of the term

mircea_popescu: spyked is there a way for one to list what rss he's subscribed with feedbot ? ☟︎

mircea_popescu: a toci = to wear down (generally through use), cutit tocit = dull knife

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i currently suspect that all langs on planet3, living and extinct, have term for 'anal child'. it's a reasonably common bio-failuremode, like schizo etc.

asciilifeform: ftr it's a ru cognate (1 of the rare genuine ones, vs. 'truda' etc ) . точило == grinding wheel.

mircea_popescu: come to think of it not a bad approach...

mircea_popescu: dude, your romanian's by now scary, what, you keep these words in a special museum of hate or something ?

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform remarkable how the corkscrew is a recurring object in any discussion of this gap.

mircea_popescu: a whole raft of "dad didn't much care for arthur blair snif sniff" is readily explained by the model "dad got smart with age, kiddo was born intelligent."

asciilifeform: anyffin at all risks to stop being interesting to thinking folx, when it turns into a contest of who memorized moar trivia from encyclopaedia.

mircea_popescu: mn smart. You join up with Johnny Caspar, you bump Bernie Bernbaum. Up is down. Black is white. Well, I think you're half smart. I think you were straight with your frail, I think you were queer with Johnny Caspar... and I think you'd sooner join a ladies' league than gun a guy down. Then I hear from these two geniuses they never even saw this rub-out take place. "

mircea_popescu: in the end, "the smart don't like the intelligent" is the exact male equiv of ye female http://trilema.com/2016/the-pedoepiphany/ ; or in the immortal words of http://trilema.com/2014/millers-crossing/ " You are so goddamn smart. Except you ain't. I get you, smart guy. I know what you are. Straight as a corkscrew. Mr. Inside-Outski, like some goddamn Bolshevik picking up his orders from Yegg Central. You think you're so godda

asciilifeform: e.g. chess, died imho long before mechanized with machine. killed by 'debut books' , a kind of meat-powered alphago death.

mircea_popescu: kinda what sours the thinking man of chess : "dude, your metagame utterly ruins the fiction the game purports to render -- specifically because the word "gambit" exists in your language it CAN NOT be the case this is a story of war and civilisation"

mircea_popescu: a type not a trope of fiction.

mircea_popescu: in short, mathematical (and to a large degree scientific, viz physics etc) education in the warsaw pact place-and-time degenerated into a trope of fiction. which is why "science fiction" was so loved in those parts of the world as opposed to anywhere else.

mircea_popescu: but back to our topic : there STILL IS a marked difference between http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-18#1863581 intelligent an' smart. ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2014-11-21 01:48 asciilifeform: 'This is a special collection of problems that were given to select applicants during oral entrance exams to the math department of Moscow State University. These problems were designed to prevent Jewish people and other undesirables from getting a passing grade. Among problems that were used by the department to blackball unwanted candidate students, these problems are distinguished by having a simple solution

asciilifeform: typical example is all the crud where it asks you for the last digit of a heavy exponent

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's quite a few ( or at least in asciilifeform's time, were ) 'olympiad' problems which are simply chinese-style 'do you know the classics' masquerading as olympiad problems

mircea_popescu: which is why cambridge tripos went exactly nowhere on a large wooden spoon : "mathematical athleticism" is not mathematical anymore than the counting horse is.

asciilifeform: but you, when you eat a proof, and it actually goes in yer head

mircea_popescu: i can ~also~ very relaxedly put a temperature of 0 on "to find out the sum of integers up to a limit, write them twice, once going left, once going right, sum the units and divide by two".

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but notice how "arithmetic" does not have a very great substance. the reason people like eg euler is very much in the vein of that http://trilema.com/2017/is-it-still-rape-if-i-write-science-on-my-penis-first/#selection-83.0-119.187 old "science == society game" model of science :

mircea_popescu: i can relaxedly put a temperature of 0 on the coupling between the string "number is divisible by two if last digit is divisible by two" and the respective index in the problem stair.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the length of the 'coad' is a function of your working base.

mircea_popescu: in a sense, this is ~as much as we presently know~ of a ~perfect v tree".

asciilifeform: there's a pile of soft that's actually gravely braindamaged, that needs replacement before ever get to www server.

mircea_popescu: so in truth we dunno, and as of yet we're not in a splendid position to guess yet, either.

mircea_popescu: nor of any god-made promise going "a www server you'd care to use can be made in less than x lines of y".

asciilifeform: the rule will include a constant, and that constant is at most as big as the prime itself

mircea_popescu: but knowing the rule for a number being divisible by 119 is comparatively less easy.

asciilifeform: depends on 'benefits' neh. you can express any 'divisibility test' as a gcd with fixed param.

a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 14:29 asciilifeform: upstack to apache -- half a million loc of C is still half a million loc of C , even if by all appearances 'works solidly for yrs'

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889138 << there is no absolute guarantee the solution to a problem you come up with is going to be shorter than a number you like. ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2019-01-17 06:41 mircea_popescu: The apparent murder of journalist Ahmed Divela is chilling. Ghana is recognized by many, including me, as a vibrant, strong democracy and an example for the continent in many ways. " meanwhile in related lulz.

a111: Logged on 2019-01-21 15:48 mircea_popescu: oh, and, of course : "Latest activity PetiteGoddess21 posted a journal entry on her profile titled “ill sell whatever you want”: about 10 hours ago I'll sell whatever you want ;) ( including videos, pics ,sexting, etc) if got all types of cloths for sale and request how you want them and how many days worn you want I'll also include a video of me playing in them , using them or anything else ... continue reading → "

mircea_popescu: i do not know exactly why, but both in case of mysql and apache, the cocksuckers ( http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-21#1888849 slash http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-17#1887990 items from before, and may it never be forgotten what they EXACTLY ARE) got sent packing to "make their own" that nobody gave a shit about. ☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dun like to 'power ranger' ( as you called it in old essay ) a problem.

asciilifeform: right nao errybody got a diff set of knobs, tower of babel.

mircea_popescu: item as pristine out of box has a dozen or so dimensions and subdimensions that hafta be fit into place, it's not ~really~ pret a porter (chiefly because one selling "all purpose cloth" can't sell it pre-cut)

asciilifeform: indeed is. would still like to have a historical one tho.

a111: Logged on 2018-06-04 17:32 asciilifeform: junkyard wars (e.g. trb, mp-wp) where one is stuck welding a tank from 5 zaporozhets and 3 lada carcasses, because that's what there is to work with, inevitably are heavyweight

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: see if you can dig up a favourite, plox, when you get chance

asciilifeform: btw does mircea_popescu have a apache tarball to sign ('as found') and share for cuntoo etc, a la gpg-1.4 ?

a111: Logged on 2019-01-07 19:29 mircea_popescu: i suppose in this the model breaks down, with the advent of pseudo"technology", the shy withdrawing type can "HackerCombat LLC is a news site, which acts as a source of information for IT security professionals across the world. We have lived it for more than 1 year since 2017, sharing IT expert guidance and insight, [...] " bla bla bla all day long.