asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was some chick, you quoted it as 'as the name implies, i am jinglebutt. now remove me from this list' or the like

asciilifeform: !up polarbeard

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i liked 'jinglebutt' introduction

asciilifeform: and folks in insane asylums

asciilifeform: i thought 'bingo' was largely played by children ?!

asciilifeform: polarbeard: this is neat, in the sense that an eiffel tower built from toothpicks is neat

asciilifeform: ugh

asciilifeform: polarbeard: and i notice that this thing relies on grep

asciilifeform: let's say i want to press to the latest

asciilifeform: polarbeard: care to give an example of how this was run ?

asciilifeform: i'm still not certain why the patches had to be broken down into patchons

asciilifeform: i suppose if a megatonne of hardcoded hashes can be called 'build process'...

asciilifeform: signable?

asciilifeform: (it is bad enough that we rely on gnu diff)

asciilifeform: you lose a good bit of important side functionality, and become dependent on a gigantic gnuturd

asciilifeform: i actually considered implementing v this way, and decided against it

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can see this

asciilifeform: v is guaranteed to apply all vpatches in the correct order.

asciilifeform: why the latter

asciilifeform: why?

asciilifeform: polarbeard: what do the 'hunks' do ?

asciilifeform: polarbeard: you can click on the patches and see exactly what has changed.

asciilifeform: ^ it is mechanically generated but not yet in real time

asciilifeform: likewise mod6's chart: http://thebitcoin.foundation/misc/vpatch-nodes.html

asciilifeform: very helpful for wrapping one's head around.

asciilifeform: polarbeard: in case you did not know, you can browse the almost-current trb using www browser, http://btc.yt/lxr/satoshi/source?v=asciilifeform_maxint_locks_corrected

asciilifeform: (ln. 186-7)

asciilifeform: those need fixin'

asciilifeform: neato except for the 32bit key fps

asciilifeform: press enum ?

asciilifeform: polarbeard: how did you come upon your interest in trb ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no more astonishing than the fact that folks played, e.g., 'everquest', voluntarily

asciilifeform: who might you be, polarbeard ?

asciilifeform: !up polarbeard

asciilifeform: nobody thinks this.

asciilifeform: what if you break yer paycheque and it were the last one...

asciilifeform: sorta like a fella i once knew who had a 'new computer if this one dies' warranty, and had a handy electrostatic wand'o'death he built for new-computer-gettin'

asciilifeform: 'i want a new one. let's oops this'

asciilifeform: recall also the other kind of usgistic accident, as with the car rental lots,

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: as with ordinary planes.

asciilifeform: the most likely scenario is takeoff/landing 'oopses'

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: what makes you think that the heathens have picked them off ?

asciilifeform: the payload could be as humble as one shotgun round.

asciilifeform: quite odd that nobody has yet (afaik) demonstrated this. ☟︎

asciilifeform: incidentally 'predator' is a very slow machine, a toy chopper could quite likely catch up with it ☟︎

asciilifeform: they are not built to survive so much as one bullet.

asciilifeform: by design.

asciilifeform: recall also that 'predator' et al are not aerial combat machines, but roasting-defenceless-people machines

asciilifeform: like rockets.

asciilifeform: they are seen as inventory, to be churned

asciilifeform: ~deliberately~.

asciilifeform: (unlike manned machine)

asciilifeform: i'ma guess these are built without redundant tandems

asciilifeform: l0lzy

asciilifeform: incidentally, what happens to that thing if the starter croaks? how many hours of battery for guidance system

asciilifeform: l0l perhaps they're using the starters of the same make as in my old 'subaru'.

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: shanghai is a 'special' place.

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: you would be surprised to learn what seemingly pedestrian items cost when purchased on usg dime

asciilifeform: quite possibly. (truck delivered to afghan)

asciilifeform: about what a truck costs ☟︎

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: actually these are cheap, esp. in that when they explode, nobody's widow gets a pension ☟︎

asciilifeform: what, one wonders, are the stats for other flying machines ?

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381663 << obligatory ancient uncle al: 'i sat down the angel on top of the christmas tree... i think... she ~liked~ it!!11' ☝︎

asciilifeform: i still think 'babywagon' is a constructed meme, like the diamond ring idiocy

asciilifeform: (anyone ever throw a party in a converted garbage truck? and then see if guests piss themselves when you show that the hydraulics STILL work ??)

asciilifeform: in garbage truck, yet moar space!11

asciilifeform: the extra space of all but the most gigantic 'suv' is largely illusory

asciilifeform: i do similar, with normal car

asciilifeform: (evisceration from behind, lungs would flap out the back like wings)

asciilifeform: for some reason my first thought was the old viking punishment, 'making the bloody eagle'

asciilifeform: ugh.

asciilifeform: (mentioned in link)

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: what is a 'bingo wing' ?

asciilifeform: living in it?!!

asciilifeform: i question that any wheelbox sold now will be on the road in 20 years, even if the road is still there then

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: try something easy at first, e.g., evolve a bit-counter

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: this one's yours.

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: got six or so 'r&d project' depending on how you count.

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: gonna build own dragonflytron?

asciilifeform: it is interesting that a zimbabwe would even get to have such a thing as car rental lots.

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: it was on the lot? the dealer (or bank, etc) owned.

asciilifeform: so what does this mean, 'ownership never happened'

asciilifeform: i dun get it, ~somebody~ had title to the wheeled coffin

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381561 << who the everliving fuck ~doesn't~ report the theft? 'oh i don't need the insurance money, just keep it' ? ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i thought 'progressive' enviro-whinerism would demand a ~smaller~ car

asciilifeform: but... why?

asciilifeform: i see this idea, colleagues had children, 'must buy gigantic truck!1111'

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381552 << i never understood this idea - what is wrong with a normal passenger car ? you can fit even 2x as many children as adults in it ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: i mean, what substance

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381533 << wtf is that ☝︎

asciilifeform: but if you want to auto-munge the whole thing, why not

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my objection was to the notion of reading 600kB patches of spaces-to-tabs-every-line ☟︎

asciilifeform: trb has papercut on one arm, gangrene in the other.

asciilifeform: but it ranked dead last on my list of what must be fixed.

asciilifeform: sure is

asciilifeform: specifically that i saw leaving the formatting alone as a forced thing.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you did not understand what i meant when said 'contagious'

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: nah, see above