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decimation: I don't get why argentinians give
a fuck about falklands
decimation: yeah I recently visited
a workshop where they rebuild wwii aircraft
decimation: I would like to see
a collection of working german and russian aircraft
decimation: how is the ad industry not
a giant leech on the productive, like lawyers?
hanbot: if "cat litter" = that which
a cat would piss on before eating, most?
hanbot: mircea_popescu artgorithm imitates life, go out and search for
a "pizza", how many hits til you get something edible?
mircea_popescu: anyway, more on point : i'm cooking up the advertising plan for eulora since it's about to come out. i intend to run it basically on
a charitable basis, run ads on linux-dedicated stuffs that seem reasonable. if any of you got
a place that fits feel free to send me
a note.
trinque: the particular key signing that doc needs to be added to deedbot by
a WoT member
decimation: I suspect the gpg mafia has
a political stand on that point
decimation: I can see
a definite use case for people who just want
a simple keyserver for themselves, but don't want to join the worldwide gpg mob
mircea_popescu: two days ago, i got them up because it smelled like
a gas leak. turns out... they had takeout.
decimation: asciilifeform: is there
a gpg keyserver that just holds pubkeys, dumps on request?
Adlai has started research on
a potential article, and would like to confirm that effort isn't wasted, or at the very least ,collaborate
Adlai walked thru an openair market specializing in antiques last week, it was
a bizarre display of sorted and assorted yet totally useless crap
mircea_popescu: i'm not
a computer engineer yo. i can be an old philosopher, old businessman, old financial genius, your pick.
Adlai: now THAT is
a hoodrobbin
Adlai: then made
a great public show of returning them to blockchain.info's creditors
mircea_popescu: that can then presumably be iterated, being
a db. right ?
mircea_popescu: " I started doing
a full build, it looked like it was going to take forever so I aborted it and switched to
a quickbuild. On the 4-processor machine I was using it still took in the order of 40 minutes to run so this might take
a while."
mircea_popescu: /usr/local/bin/sks_build.sh << it has
a script btw, to allow you to autoload in
a db
mircea_popescu: 5gb of keys will take
a lot of processing. everything else can wait so THIS is started
mircea_popescu: cmon, today's the day, yest was the day, day b4 yest was the day, and so on for
a whole week.
mircea_popescu: what's it waiting for ? to no longer have
a great server at its sole disposal ?
mircea_popescu: Adlai the idea being that if you cache
a link on the very place where the link is referenced, you can't have link rot because if the place is up it's up and if it's down there's no link anyway
Adlai watches archive.today's squirming from being fed
a facebook link, and is slightly aroused
mircea_popescu: Adlai also,
a copy on your own blog is
a golden standard.
Adlai: why did he have
a mexican name
Adlai: if jesus was
a jew
cazalla: i dunno Adlai, i'm thankful not to be
a woman but i don't give daily thanks to it
Adlai: "Few Jewish religious texts have provoked as much indignation and discomfort as the brief passage that is recited by traditional Jewish men at the beginning of the daily morning prayers: “Blessed are you, Lord, our God, ruler of the universe who has not created me
a woman.” For many, it expresses
a quintessential misogyny that lies at the core of our patriarchal religion."
cazalla: stihl, i'd rather not take
a cheap chainsaw to the knee
cazalla: these cheaper chinese chainsaws on ebay versus
a stihl or husqi, anyone know if price diff is worth it?
mircea_popescu: "Specializing in the sort of ultimate tough-guy/manly man roles that hearken back to
a different era in film, Sizemore continues to be
a favourite of Hollywood's greatest directors."
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 21:45:55; mircea_popescu: ascii_field there was this mildly famous gay boy of athens whose name escapes me at the moment, literally got
a whole trireme detachment on unbacked promises of great pay (from persia iirc ?) and well... there they sat.
assbot: Logged on 03-05-2015 14:04:57; asciilifeform: (yes, would add something to fuel cost. cry
a river.)
davout: asciilifeform: not with gravity, that's how the retractable gear works in case of failure, pull
a lever, it falls with gravity
mircea_popescu: "
a total of 15,495 accounts were identified as having premium FetLife memberships” and that “Male doms make up far and away the largest proportion of FetLife’s [paying] customer base, accounting for 3,452 (22.28%) of the total customer accounts identified."
mircea_popescu: one needs
a particular sort of ingrained uselessness outlook to come to that sort of worldview.
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: The reason Dr Green is not
a salaried academic is partly because her ideas are out of sympathy with the prevailing intellectual climate, but also because her education was ruined.
A child prodigy, she was the victim of
a hostile state education system, and an unsympathetic college when she was an undergraduate at Oxford. She is uniquely suited to doing research, and could be making significant progress in several areas
mircea_popescu: "Dr Green currently holds no salaried academic position,
a situation her associates regard as profoundly anomalous and unjust. One of the purposes of Oxford Forum is to reinstate her in the academic world."
decimation: he said recently
a sea change has come with kids coming out of school; they want to specify massive cpu, memory for very simple micro-controllers so they can run java
☟︎ 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...
mircea_popescu owned
a half lb flashlight in TM. yet it had no processor.
decimation: asciilifeform: my hp48 was doing tons of processing under the hood, would never delay or have
a 'boot time'
decimation: "Application development, thus, will soon require no programmers. An analyst or manager will specify the requirements by interacting with
a sophisti- cated development system, and the computer will do the rest: “There is
a major revolution happening in software and system design.... The revolution is the replacement of manual design and coding with automated design and coding.ӄ "
decimation: "The mechanistic software beliefs, in particular, have permitted
a powerful software elite to arise. In just
a few decades, organizations that have in fact little to offer us have attained so much power that they practically control society. As we will see in the course of this book, their power rests almost entirely on mechanistic software delusions, and on the stupidity engendered by these delusions."
decimation: sure, but does that mean that hierarchical classification is
a conspiracy?