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decimation: couple $10k for
a traffic light just doesn't rate
decimation:
http://www.isegoria.net/2015/04/baltimore-cop-in-the-hood/ < "Of course, another thing is that most people who can leave have left. And so, in these pockets, how can you have good community relations when
a substantial number of people are actively or passively involved in crime? I think there are
a lot of cops that just say, “Fuck ‘em, they want burn their neighborhood, let ‘em.” But on the other hand, the cops are out there
☟︎ decimation: of course, the deep expectation is that the world ought to be
a red carpet, upon which said paranoid ought to be able to trample at leisure
☟︎ decimation: this is
a common failure mode even for folks outside jail
decimation:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/us/baltimore-riots.html?_r=1 < more lol "Near the burned-out CVS, Robert Wilson,
a college student who went to high school in Baltimore, said: “With the riots, we’re not trying to act like animals or thugs. We’re just angry at the surroundings, like this is all that is given to us, and we’re tired of this, like nobody wants to wake up and see broken-down buildings. They take away the
decimation: does there exist
a completely open firmware for
a raid controller?
decimation: " for example. If we take the last five minutes of flight as critical due to the proximity to the ground, the lawsuit essentially says that it is more likely that
a 1 in 756,000 probability event occurred (engine shutdown during
a randomly selected five-minute block of operation time) than that
a pilot with virtually no turbine experience or experience with the MU-2 crashed the notoriously tricky airplane through pilot error. "
decimation: well, more like
a function of the probability of being sued for arbitrary liability
decimation: I took
a cpr class today, relatively simple AED electronics cost > $1k
decimation: and also sealed the silicon in
a layer of protective coating
decimation: asciilifeform: I was looking for
a non-golden-toilet laptop with ecc today
decimation: asciilifeform:
http://lambda-diode.com/opinion/ecc-memory-2 < " Nevertheless, this means that when you buy
a computer, you are playing "DIMM" (and motherboard) roulette . You have something like one chance in three to ten of getting
a computer that will experience memory errors at the frightening frequencies (one every few days) that I talked about but attributed to cosmic rays, and that AMD talks about in their whitepaper . "
BingoBoingo: It's
a kind of targeted subset of keys I'm feeding and there aren't too many
danielpbarron: and the scripts are not hosted anywhere, although copies may still exist in
a backup tar somewhere
mircea_popescu: language is not the result of
a single force, but of two, driving it in that left-right manner of driving splits in wood.
mircea_popescu: srsly alf, shanonizing is
a very old usage of language.
danielpbarron: the author of sex-diagram ->
https://www.franklinveaux.com/ "This is the home of Franklin Veaux,
a writer, computer consultant, polyamory and BDSM activist, sex educator, and sometimes amateur photographer. Over the years, I've built
a more or less inadvertent Web empire, and this is the page that brings all my various Web sites together."
mircea_popescu: which is technically
a step below on the literary scale. i await with bated breath the next step underwater.
mircea_popescu: so... it's only useful if you're making two cents
a word writing "young adult fiction" or whatever other "genre" bullshit, and need shorthand to keep track of your "characters"
mircea_popescu: harlan e has
a piece where he explains how people like hubbard were optimizing their workflow by - for instance - typing on rolls of butcher paper so as to not waste time changing sheets in typewriter
mircea_popescu: it looks like the elephant three people found in
a dark room.
Pierre_Rochard: I’ll definitely be taking pointers from it, but end goal is tight integration with bitcoin wallets & APIs, and leaning on pgsql as much as possible. That’s what made greenfield
a necessity
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 14:12:57; mircea_popescu: because that's what #5 does, practically : it offers
a model to explain and understand the otherwise insane, and otherwise never explain, luxury behaviour.
ben_vulpes: "pick yourself
a kitten and listen to
a platter...that rocks!"
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 22:20:33; ascii_field: unrelated: that sks key mega-dump is in
a ludicrous format - .gpg binary turds with 10,000s of pubkeys in each
mircea_popescu: because they actually are
a much larger damage than that. sort-of like insanity.
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 15:32:11; mircea_popescu: at any rate, THIS is why i ask people "well, can you do it on
a cpanel box" well before.
trinque: damn, that's
a good quote.
ben_vulpes: "It was solid enough to be
a serious system that had real clients who depended on it." << oh for those days, and those clients
ben_vulpes: For example, there was
a famous hack that provided
a means of (1) removing
a cons cell from
a freelist, (2) updating the freelist, and (3) branching if the freelist was exhausted to the GC... in *one instruction*. << that *is* cool
williamdunne: >Displays adverts that play noise in the background.. on
a video sit
jurov: indeed making
a record of it
ascii_field: unless someone has just such
a thing handy
ascii_field: unrelated: that sks key mega-dump is in
a ludicrous format - .gpg binary turds with 10,000s of pubkeys in each
☟︎ ascii_field: it's rather like cutting up enemy cannon after
a war, no ?
ascii_field doesn't expect to be taken prisoner alive, but wishes mircea_popescu
a jolly good meinkampfing
mircea_popescu: actually, hopefully we end up in prison, like the early soviet leadership. i'm gonna write
a dictionary and
a history of the world.
ascii_field: to
a sane future folk, he would seem as frothingly-mad as chingis khan seems to today's liberasts
mircea_popescu: (well, he tried to pay in debased coinage, anyway. caused
a revolt)
mircea_popescu: antonio doria, before being cut down by the french at crecy, was
a rather successful genoese pirate. the pirate captain's regime collapsed over his (and others) failure to pay.
ascii_field: eco had
a pretty good piece set in 4th crusade
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.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: II.b. and further promised them the "pearl in heavens",
a very classical device in greek gay drama (since at least the days of darius, this empty promises as
a path to military glory. the greeks invented "fake it till you make it")
mircea_popescu: II.
a. random byzantine (militarily worthless, intellectually overpowering) entity convinces them to help him "recover" his "stolen" throne, as if the byzantines ever did anything else or anyone had
a valid claim, or the possibility of
a valid claim even existed in their world.
mircea_popescu: so, I.
a bunch of militarily powerful, intellectually naive westerners made an army to go beat up the muslims and take jerusalem.
ascii_field: going to
a shop merely to get
a piece of paper is dumb, period
jurov: i have long time ago won an ipod mini from ibm. ofc they sent it by post and it was clear case for customs how much such ipod costs and asked
a tax
chetty: and you dont even have to process
a box you never saw :P
chetty: walking out of work with
a box or two is
a lot easier than
a yard of paperwork in an airport
ascii_field: as far as i'm concerned, historically, ebay is just this gizmo that shaves
a zero off the price of the costliest things i buy. so i was never moved to care whether it is run by hitler or fueled with baby seal juice etc.
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