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asciilifeform: oh btw mircea_popescu , a mol of k40 : ☟︎
asciilifeform: anyway i'll take mircea_popescu's pessimistic figure for K40.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 2.13 * 10**-13 * 1.25*10**9 = 2.6625E-4
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: did these folx who tried, leave some written record ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: imho it is not a simple as 'there's a man who could, but he won't , because pissants tangled in his shoelaces.'
asciilifeform: was it mircea_popescu who wrote 'best thing you can do for physics is to find a respectable elderly physicist on the road, and shoot a hole in his head' ?
asciilifeform: formerly asciilifeform barfed less from $ 4B paperweight laser than 4b welfare cheques or iraqs . but -- on no small part from educative efforts of mircea_popescu -- now barfs equally
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: minus any fundamental result !
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Welcome | Phuctor - No Such lAbs: <http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/7E840C2FC34B3F9B8B95E6D12E18267E717ACBE1494C34DFA9055710347573A7>
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: yeah i used NAT in much too general a sense of the word. i meant "rando PCs behind routers etc."
Framedragger: you may overestimating the number of non-NAT'ed boxes mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/n4SRZ/?raw=true << new one
a111: Logged on 2017-05-18 15:16 mircea_popescu: V1fMpXqyah5i67onzcUeMhJwL65VvmufwrFQlpTwMuetHbFddCL5tXKiW05YWdItLGO+V9ebr776decAwm+pqw6rIwhJIPLSz/Ygd0r/Em5TSbn/opcJ6fenjs9wP8eFholFs2u0/PavqarPwydSLecMnyNhP/BxdCNXVlW84KvCiLWf+W1LKfZ92+ylae2NMHobDt+wZjLMPPePhizzJ6FAkPjzGh8fDs6rW64vrGVVEYkq73URNq6QkD+nTgL5ar87eJ+bL3J850ff9X9PoJa0xWO+JIkuZxkh9H+8fZnhHv+ilDs3uha3mq8bdLj48zves3g2X20U
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://nosuchlabs.com/pub/derp.txt << snippet
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hey , these are the folx hell-bent on retrofitting inflation into bitcoin somehow. are firmly convinced that they will eventually do it ( alternative is to 'lie down and rot' , from their pov , world with perma-working bitcoin in it is not one they wish to even conceive of living in )
trinque: mircea_popescu: those are lispy "univeral time", integer seconds since 1900 jan 1 00:00:00
asciilifeform: or the slightly more advanced kakobreklan version, 'oh that wasn't mircea_popescu's thing, it was asciilifeform , mircea_popescu only drinks his blood'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: standard unhappentronic algo -- 'if i strategically omit to mention it, it will unexist'
lobbesbot: Logged on 2017-05-17 03:39:24: <mircea_popescu> eulora economy went up ~900% from 1st sept 2015 to 1st april 2017. 20 months.
trinque: mircea_popescu: looking into wtf happened with this JonDough guy's reg
phf: which goes back to mircea_popescu's point of "nakamoto discovering bitcoin"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this wasn't a 'shannonizer', but a thing that takes small state machine automaton and computes expansion of N steps 'impossibly' quickly
a111: Logged on 2017-05-18 15:23 mircea_popescu: anyway, there was a sort-of working js to txt item alf was demonstrating at some point. i dun recall where it ended up.
asciilifeform: it was actually mircea_popescu who convinced me of this. that reflowable text was a step in right direction.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-18 15:19 mircea_popescu: and if you aren't actually moving objects around, it's just dead weight.
asciilifeform: i have no doubt mircea_popescu knew . but for l0gz/n00bs ^ subj.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-18 15:12 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform still lem ?
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: yes, to text yes, hence why i said plaintext is the easy part ^. but you're right, maybe text is the way to go in these shitcases...
moli_: nothing, how you doing, mircea_popescu ? you've been quiet on the media
a111: Logged on 2016-12-27 17:44 mircea_popescu: holy shit "Quaternion.Euler" is a full blown core function. and wait, there's more : http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/765683/when-to-use-quaternion-vs-euler-angles.html
Framedragger: anyway, why mircea_popescu prefers one shit-CA over the other, i'm not sure
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: just fyi, the site (osalabs.com) loads - you don't have a root CA which signed their certificate (letsencrypt cert). of course the point is still valid
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have nfi re the actual meaning of the linked text. simply translated.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-18 13:31 mircea_popescu: in qntra news today, https://мвд.рф/news/item/10246388/
Framedragger: in which we realise mircea_popescu's source of sanity
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: one is stdlib, the other one (itoa iirc) is not!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is literally free to produce whatever rubbish it likes. because this is somehow useful to the folx who were dropped as children and wrote unix.
mod6: mircea_popescu: ya
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: string to int
a111: Logged on 2017-05-18 13:01 mircea_popescu: WORST. fucking function names. ever.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: ah yeah kk, terms
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's the idiotlang where ~all you get is string transforms
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what does the proggy actually do ?
ben_vulpes: do find it funny that mircea_popescu eschews the "muh characters have a mind of their own!" line
ben_vulpes: i understand "reach the market" mircea_popescu
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 500 / 1800 * 256 / 4.5 = 15.802469135802468
ben_vulpes: b-but limited supplies mircea_popescu !
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: he wrote a browser for pre ios mobile devices, it funded some half-decade of reading, fathering, beach-shitting.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 15 Best and Worst Deals at Sam's Club | GOBankingRates: <https://www.gobankingrates.com/personal-finance/10-best-worst-deals-sams-club/>; Natalie & Sam | Equality Now: <http://www.equalitynow.org/campaigns/trafficking-survivor-stories/natalie-sam>; Costco, Amazon, Sam's Club: Strangest Supersized Purchases ...: <http://time.com/money/4426128/costco-bjs-amazon-supersize-bulk-purchases/
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what else could he possibly sell.
asciilifeform: only 1 problem mircea_popescu -- there's very little meat to be had on this safari.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> what can i tell you ben_vulpes , i'm a writer not an engineer. i don't know so much about engines, just seemed to me like the right number. why, is it wrong ? << This actually might be most right
asciilifeform: ( also where did it put the viagra link ?? or did mircea_popescu strip it manually )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: filter must not be 100%
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: a three stroke engine?! ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2014-02-16 23:53 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fave story re: tepes: 'Некогда же обедоваше под трупием мертвых человек, иже на колие саженых, множество бо округ стола его; он же среди их ядяше и тем услажашеся. Слуга же его, иже пред ним ясти ставляше, смраду оного не могии тер
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc i translated that one here
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: they attempt to emulate this in safe-space style with "stack rankings"
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 14:59 mircea_popescu: o btw, re the whole "fbi wars" of trumpreich : http://trilema.com/2013/the-cold-war-experts-over-here-are-having-a-ball-these-days/ (strictly for expert interest)
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 14:50 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-17#1657315 << there's very little interest to even ask who the fuck this peter norvig is. i was going to the first time it popped up five lines up, but then i was, eh, whatever. i guess ima ask since it got discussed a little. who the fuck is peter norvig ?
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 14:39 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-17#1657300 << heh. and the roman "empire" outsourcing to barbarians creates big barbarians and imperial shell game. see also the lulzy story of how the palace mayor became king of paris etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually it was infuriating, i only needed that 1 pg !
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: aha, "the new wokesman"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what do they make in burma ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ~nobody ever washed ~anything
Framedragger: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re verify, presumably one may be able to set some parts of the firmware to be RO? problem is, not all parts, and even then, "how deeply do you trust". so yeah i guess sisyphean
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: you mean the completely unnecessary scene in the room? film is full of those. it's amazing i tell you
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 15:46 mircea_popescu: https://www.carthrottle.com/post/heres-how-to-make-your-car-exhaust-spit-flames/ << check it out, thgere's even guides.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: india isn't as socially stratified as it used to be. member of parliament was recently banned for ~all air india flights~ for chiding an attendant who stuck him in an economy seat.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> chainsaw bike eh. why not microwave tv and tower laundry machine dildo, while at it. << Microwave tv would be great for solving problem of people immersed in tv.
lobbes: <mircea_popescu> snow is not so terrible because very insulating. << I can attest! I grew up on cape cod; while the winters never usually got below ~30 F on average, the occasional noreaster would punch you to the bone. cold rain + high winds = no fun
mod6: mircea_popescu: haha
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 16:10 mircea_popescu: (basically, long story short, usg financed a coupla units in georgia and ncarolina with japan's money, ain't giving it back. loss is whatever you want it to be, 3 to 10 bn)
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> on the upside, really can't be fired anymore. << probably not. i don't worry about it. if one door closes, another opens. besides, someday not too far off, this will be the thing.
mod6: mircea_popescu: aha, im getting an education. trying to relentlessly get better/learthese disciplines
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'reasonable cost' in this context is ' asciilifeform's experimentation budget.' which presently does not stretch to ic fab.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-15 22:29 mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes recall the pharma wiz kid ? the one they dekulakized for "how dare you buy things and then raise price on them"
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: hm
scriba: Logged on 2017-05-15: [22:25:40] <mircea_popescu> “We are very excited about this win,” said Bharat Parikh, CEO, AASKI Technology.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: when did it become acceptable for camhos to show panty lines?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there was nothing whatsoever scientific in the process that produced that idiocy.
asciilifeform: but mircea_popescu has a point -- it's exactly a powerpoint slide
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as if the greeks were alone in 'the party will end'
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: ty for response, no follow-ups for now :)
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: it was a pussy when i first got in bed.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-15 16:24 mircea_popescu: yes, the ass that died of thirst and hunger being trapped equally thirsty and hungry at equal distance from a pail of water and a pail of oats.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where did the 'luvv science' thing come from originally ?
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 17:04 mircea_popescu: i don't think you either know or could meet if you dedicated a year to it someone possessed of an ai capable of identifying who the fuck to shoot.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-12 00:57 mircea_popescu: how about "bitch, if you could know truth if it hit you on the head you'd be in power". not fucking evident enough ? how the fuck are the powerless to obtain truth, from their father, the god of the stupid ?
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: devil's advocate: can attempt to resist where-to-go paradox without making reference to authority if you admit that agent's free will can also include (while still counting as free will) "unconscious heuristics" ("water is priority"; but yes this is missing the point, i guess) / "random behaviour" (buridan would disagree that this is "free will", i guess)
a111: Logged on 2017-05-15 15:25 mircea_popescu: THIS MUST BE BECAUSE ~I~ AM NOT A PROGRAMMER.
asciilifeform: ('because they are better men!' will say mircea_popescu .)
a111: Logged on 2016-12-21 18:43 mircea_popescu: now we understand each other. dutch can't be "wrong" about aristotle per se. it is a fact he didn't much understand what the other said ; and it is a fact that in the dutch system, dutch's observations stand, however vaguely greek flavoured they may be.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: hm so you would dismiss say the whole internalism/externalism debate as effectively tv show, then? :D
a111: Logged on 2017-05-15 15:30 mircea_popescu: you understand the difference between baudrillard and simona trasca is the packaging only, yes ?
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: this explains why modern analytic philosophy got rid of paragraph notation (cf. kant and, like, everyone else), hmm...
asciilifeform: however on bright side!: mircea_popescu will quite like, i suspect, 'P' : all nonprinting octets are NOPs in P.
asciilifeform: this is EXACTLY the tab-sizes thread with mircea_popescu from year ago.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in this we agree. but how big is the viewport ?
asciilifeform: those of us who aren't mircea_popescu and have to clean own piles of shit, or they DON'T GET CLEANED, might disagree.