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asciilifeform: decimation: i forget if mentioned earlier: got the whole build to work
trinque: I might've gotten past the first chapter of that book
asciilifeform: (why do i need a conventional install? because want to test my attempt at driver for the nand as a kernel mod)
mircea_popescu: The entire spirit of the book can be summarized by Dean's words: "Sal, think of it, we'll dig Denver together...!" That's what a man who is trying to con a woman into running off with him would say. Denver, really?? Really? Why? Because it starts with D? I'd at least momentarily entertain the theory that D cities are great places to get to, but the real reason he wants to get to Denver, or anywhere else, is preci
assbot: The Last Psychiatrist: Kerouac's On The Road: The 50th Anniversary Of A Book I Had Not Read ... ( http://bit.ly/1B1PITO )
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/10/kerouacs_on_the_road.html << did i say what a fucking great review this is ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i do recall this, now that you mentioned it
thestringpuller: "U.S. NIH spends ~30b annually to found research. However, many resulting papers are NOT repeatable In my merely 8 years experience in academia, I believe >50% papers are not repeatable especially those claiming therapeutic effects.
mircea_popescu: i merely am pointing out that your jumps go over lenghty stretches of weak bridging
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suppose a better framed debate would then be this exactly, as above. "is this engineering or is it just dumbery"
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: why? << Maybe subconciously I fetishize white girls? I honestly don't know.
asciilifeform: who and where is still doing this, i cannot say
thestringpuller: I wish I was one of those black guys :(
mircea_popescu: i can readily live with a complete demonization of chromogambling. it would not do anything, in my head, to either engineering or genetics.
mircea_popescu: and yes i typed all that in the box!
mircea_popescu: so they BURIED IT. somewhere. i was in the fucking sticks. couldn't get another one for coupla weeks, until back to town, at which point...
mircea_popescu: no i don't. i used to, but then my mother threw a shitfit once she realised why her aunt's entire chicken population was dizzy
mircea_popescu: http://40.media.tumblr.com/9af3649f763191c778bc1eee6fbf4909/tumblr_ngzbtp8QvJ1trst71o1_400.jpg << this is an illustration on the fertile juicy ideas i miss out on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: man i miss out on the best logs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: now, i get it, damn-near everybody is stuck in his particular gulag. << hey, you made your bed for yourself here :D lie in it! he can't get out because he can't get out, what more do you want ? :D
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: Frankly, handing off to a reference counting system <<< "One day a student came to Moon and said: I understand how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons. Moon patiently told the student the following story: One day a student came to Moon and said: I understand how to make a better garbage collector..."
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i guess for black girls it's mostly rap videos << hmm perhaps American media just blinds one to the broader cultural spectrum
mircea_popescu: "I cannot speak to the contents," he told Ars via online chat. "Except that they are mine. This is the only salient detail as far as I'm concerned. I am not on trial, nor is my data, and I am under no obligation to speak for it. But my property is being withheld from me, and that must be justified. The current justification is due to the inability of the NCA to understand certain data. It remains for them to establish
mircea_popescu: i guess for black girls it's mostly rap videos and derivative material.
thestringpuller: i guess the media portrayal of the sorority bwg places a false imagination
mircea_popescu: i dunno... i kinda aren't attracted to other types, by and large. i assume it's similar across cultures.
mats: i've read a few things here and there about 'the white man's asian fetish' and 'the hyper-femininity of the asian woman'
mats: i mean, asian women are hypersexualized in p much the same way as black dudes in media
thestringpuller: "rumors" from the guys (note how I said "rumors")
mats: maybe we're exposed to different media, but i don't see it
mircea_popescu: i don't think*
mircea_popescu: i think anyone under 55 or so does.
mats: i prefer 'bwg' over 'abg' (asian baby girl)
thestringpuller: most highly sexual girls I've met spoke portuguese as a first language
mats: certainly, asians are undersexualized in e.g. US media, but i haven't had problems picking up white women
mats: i've been on the search my whole life for a proper descriptor
mats: i'm yellow on the outside and black on the inside
mats: i'm a fan
mats: ya i know
mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/YHMjGGf.jpg
mircea_popescu: mats: folks are encouraged to get married so they can eat fo free << which is how the dependopopotami are born. "i don't care about the chick but i gotta be married for money so w/e"
mats: i've never given any thought to building one
mats: ever since, i've wanted to buy a taser, but modern things have tags now
mats: i used it on my buddy and he shit himself. one of my fonder memories of childhood.
mats: as a boy i found a guide for modifying a disposable camera into a single-use taser
thestringpuller: i can't stop watching this gif
mats: http://i.imgur.com/PeOkDNJ.jpg
mircea_popescu: js is sort-of imperative i guess.
ben_vulpes: hah yeah i mean you have to learn 3 different chodes at the same time
mircea_popescu: i explained a little about the difference between imperative and notation, i think she got the gist.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as i understand it, his chief complaint was, "no criminal empire footprint". easiest way to get into that, from memory, is dating the whores.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: you know i took a ninety per cent pay cut two years ago? << you actually made money at some point ?!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: now *that*s tears. << i met a chick that quit her previous job, is learning to program in html nao.
mircea_popescu: i need tp for my punhole.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: why do i get the impression [...] << because you're an asshole. just like me.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: danielpbarron: in other news, i got netbsd ramdisk to build. << o hey wd. what was the catch ?
decimation: "Guest: One, we could feed the world without GMOs; there are other practices that we could follow. So the idea that we are prisoners of this technology I think is something that should be dispelled. On the other hand, I don't think we should try that. I think if our water is precious, if our topsoil is precious, if we really care about the hydrocarbon footprint that we have in terms of the amount of cultivation that we need to carry
decimation: I didn't even know cargill was the biggest private company in the us
nubbins`: apple? best bsd box i ever owned
danielpbarron: i'm still trying to get that to work
ben_vulpes: i am tempted to make a vm for this ruby project.
fluffypony: hey I know, let's complain about how Coinbase is ruining Bitcoin with their centralisation!
asciilifeform: the 'centrally imposed' i was speaking of was the 'apple says -shit-, devs answer -what colour-' one
decimation: my original 'lol' was because I see 'centrally imposed' memory management as worse than garbage collection
asciilifeform: now, i get it, damn-near everybody is stuck in his particular gulag. fluffypony, it appears, is sitting in barrack where what-happens-in-apple-os-matters. i'm in one where they use weird zimbabwe money. etc. but being in jail doesn't mean you have to -like- it and deny the existence of outside.
asciilifeform: fluffypony: i can easily see how you might have arrived at this, but you must be ~111th one in a row to think that i like 'old' for sake of old
asciilifeform: i routinely build code from 20 yrs ago.
fluffypony: decimation: I don't get what's lol about that, .NET faces the same issue (as have many high-level abstractions / languages), whereby trying to force GC collections or modify GC behaviour invariably ends up being messy. Frankly, handing off to a reference counting system is way, way better than GC bullshit.
asciilifeform: for some reason i thought the question was about the 'pink pogo'
asciilifeform: on black pogo4 (what i have) - sata
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i'll just have it probe (and if doesn't find blockchain, format) the largest mass storage device found at boot
danielpbarron: asciilifeform> danielpbarron: in other news, i got netbsd ramdisk to build. << yay! in related news, i got some links from a guy in #olimex who tackled this problem back in 2013; haven't checked it out yet / just got back from stocking up for the impending snow storm
decimation: also the link that ben_vulpes dropped about feynman working at thinking machines was interesting. I didn't know he worked there
decimation: well, certainly it could be the case that the compiler is untrustworthy, but much higher on my list of concerns is that some combination of new-jersey syscalls I'm using in my code will stab me in the back
asciilifeform: i was genuinely floored when learned for the fist time that there are folks using a computer who have never so much as vaguely heard of it
cazalla: i think i need a keyboard fitted with a breathalyzer
decimation: yeah I have read. what I don't understand is why anyone would think that the compiler is the weak link in the C software stack
asciilifeform: decimation: i honestly can't say i'm at all interested in 'formally verified' proggy
decimation: I downloaded and used, and found it immediately failed to compile anything that included gnu C extensions
asciilifeform: and yes, there are such things. i have no personal experience with them.
decimation: I think there are tools sold to evaluate compliance with that standard
decimation: now, I think there are well over 200k of military in your area ascii
decimation: and cover closing costs I think
mats: might be 20, i never made it to E-5.
decimation: ben_vulpes: yes, the deal with the housing is this: you get the full amount I quoted tax free
ben_vulpes: i imagine most of that gets hoovered into rentier pockets.
decimation: I had a friend in the wash dc area that calculated an O3 officer (roughly BS degree plus 5 years experience) makes about $140k in wash dc
decimation: I mean usg housing allowance
asciilifeform: so i pay a 'weirdo tax'
asciilifeform: punkman: i ain't breathing vacuum
asciilifeform: punkman: if i had an income denominated in btc, sure
nubbins`: well, if nothing else, i get the scarce rental market thing
nubbins`: i heard it smells like brimstone there
nubbins`: i guess?
asciilifeform: as for the inevitable question of what i must be smoking to have done this at all - it's a consequence of the geography in which i'm trapped (a handful of houses advertised for rent in my price range at any given moment - if that; the most tilted 'seller's market' one could imagine)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, decimation: the point that i was trying - and failing - to make, was that a fundamentally fiat-based business arrangement like renting a house from a fella on opposite end of continent who you've never met and never expect to meet, cannot be 'bitcoinized' in the sense of turning you loose from usg financial jail
nubbins`: asciilifeform i sort of gloss over the fact that years of reading "mother earth news" before taking the plunge took most of the edge off it
decimation: although it was a large cash transaction I'm sure it would inspire a degree of interest
nubbins`: all i'm saying is that one can surprise oneself
asciilifeform: decimation: i can believe this. but then you lose what small protection was provided by the fiat wot