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assbot: Logged on 10-04-2015 20:04:58; Chillum: I just got an ESP8266,
a $4 chip that has
a microcontroller that can run either C or Lua with 512kb memory 8GPIOs and
a wifi card with
a high level interface. All the size of
a SD card and running off 300ma(peak) at 3.3v
Chillum: it must be
a cultural thing
Chillum: we could hold the war in
a really inconvenient location so that nobody shows up
Adlai: the disadvantage of having
a threader is that it saves newbies the valuable educational work of thinking while they read
Adlai: now lock the secretary in
a room with no internet and logs
Adlai: mircea_popescu: no! envision
a secretary, lurking in-channel, tagging each message with the 'thread' to which it belongs
trinque: looks like they got as much as they could out of allah
a while ago
mircea_popescu: trinque "
a man that does what he can and takes pleasure in it will do what he can and take pleasure in it".
Adlai shares another one of his ideas that require more rocket fuel than he has to offer - something which inputs log.b-
a, and outputs actual threads
assbot: Logged on 10-04-2015 19:57:55; trinque: I have my doubts that
a mind which believes in the will of allah produces anything of long term value
Chillum: just imagine being
a baboon living in
a people park
mircea_popescu: being
a man is already such
a bad deal very little you'll do can possibly compensate.
assbot: Logged on 10-04-2015 19:55:32; Chillum: ascii_field: I honestly think keeping
a low profile would offer
a higher chance of survival than using
a lot of force. I would carry
a weapon but try my hardest not to reveal it, and use it if I do
Chillum: then
a freaking baboon walked by our table and gave us
a nod as it went by
Chillum: I have been to Kenya, I did not see
a giraffe
trinque: mircea_popescu: is this idea of the colossal project
a russian thing?
Chillum: the pyramids used to have
a lovely limestone cover
mircea_popescu: what motivates the monkey to pick up the rock isn't some sort of contorted dream about becoming
a rockthrowing revolutionary ceo.
mircea_popescu: most of human history, and the vast majority of everything nice and good, came out of cause-oriented. so common in fact it didn't even have
a name.
Chillum:
a lot of online book sellers never handle
a book
Chillum: yes, online sales is essentially liquidation for
a lot of sellers
mircea_popescu: i used to have
a huge library, i wouldnt buy
a book today.
Chillum:
a lot of people priced their books by weight because they bought them by the ton
assbot: Logged on 10-04-2015 19:47:50; ascii_field: 'And so, the answer to the perennially annoying question “How do I invest my money for it to survive financial, political and commercial collapse?” is this: “There is no answer to your question. Try asking
a different question, to which there might be an answer.”'
Chillum: I used to sell books for
a living, they really don't
assbot: Logged on 10-04-2015 19:46:18; Chillum: It would be nice to be born into
a society that had spent the last 20 generations engaging in long term planning to make life easy
assbot: Logged on 10-04-2015 19:27:44; trinque: you could build
a product that's an order of magnitude better than what they offer in your sleep
assbot: Logged on 10-04-2015 19:21:41; Chillum: I wish I had
a satoshi for everything in the channel that was required reading
shinohai: I am no one. Just
a person that wants to secure the future of this tech
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, same people actually believe the equivalent of beggars in
a river somewhere are...
a communal co-op!
shinohai: are we going to defeat the bitcoin foundation and build
a real btc wallet?
funkenstein_: no matter i'll ask for
a new one, thanks again
ascii_field: funkenstein_: likely means that there is
a revocator packet in there for some key you don't have in your collection
ascii_field: 'Kids need to learn the consequences of embarrassing powerful people. That is one of the golden rules of modern society; thou shalt not embarrass thy superiors. Snowden forgot that, and this little punk forgot that. You respect your betters, or you get tossed in
a cage. That's the law. Ingrain that into your kid's brains before puberty hits, or they will wind up in
a cage too.' << from commentz
ascii_field: s last name, and the teacher had typed it in in full view of the students. The student said many other students used these administrators' passwords (their teachers' last names) so they can screen-share and video chat with other students. The student was briefly held in
a nearby detention center, and the county Sheriff warned that other teenagers caught doing the same thing will "face the same consequences."'
ascii_field: '
A 14-year-old middle school student in Holiday, Florida, was arrested this week and charged with "an offense against
a computer system and unauthorized access," which is
a felony. The student reportedly used an administrator password to log into
a teacher's computer and change the background image to
a photo of two men kissing. The student also revealed his secrets after he was caught – the password was the teacher'
trinque: ratting comrades might make
a person feel the same way about himself, so he choses death
trinque: doesn't require
a zealot in service to something imaginary
trinque: person in question doesn't want to live in
a world where comrades are ratted, or at least not his
ascii_field: trinque: that is
a formulation for the simple
ascii_field: Chillum: and if not. i spend
a vastly larger fraction of my waking hours working to pay tax than any medieval peasant in europe did.
Chillum: it was
a good system, if you were in charge
ascii_field: trinque: this is not
a question that anyone has any use for the answer of, even if i could convincingly answer it. but otherwise - chetty has it.
Chillum: his mom wanted him to stop school to go back to farming when he was
a teenager
Chillum: trinque: he was born to
a farming family
chetty: even in bubbles you get
a few ...
chetty: well
a bubble holds the belief together for longer
trinque: bizarre obsession with
a single topic coupled with sort of living in an undisturbed bubble for long enough
ascii_field: like
a demented old woman who invests in pyramid scams ten times
a day
ascii_field: note that herr ufimtsev did not go to
a venture capitalist and ask for money to live on so he could study mathematics and live
a long life of possibly not amounting to anything that could be cashed in to pay it back.
trinque: ascii_field: ah, I am not also saying that because something's not at walmart it doesn't really exist. the market being skewed towards morons is
a separate problem which needs to be solved
ascii_field: trinque: interestingly, there are quite
a few technologies which, in the popular mind, 'don't exist' because you cannot get them at the corner store.
trinque: the guy that discovers
a thing is not the only part of the process
trinque: but also that if you're talking about projects that span any considerable length of time, you're gonna need
a capitalist
mats: there is such
a thing as frictional force business you know
trinque: iirc the house that invented the light bulb made
a great deal of money selling them
ascii_field: the only reason you are reading this by electric light, instead of mumbling to yourself in
a field, is that someone had the freedom to counter-economically pull his mental dick by experimenting with strange.
funkenstein_: seeing as the same shit keeps coming up..
a certain amount of accepting what we have might be in order
ascii_field: trinque: the only unsolved problem that would make
a palpable difference is the home ic fab. which makes home satellite launch look trivial.
trinque: chart
a course towards the smallest of them, and towards selling it as well
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 25-02-2015 21:13:46; mircea_popescu: the entire "act from cause not towards purpose" thing on trilema is exactly
a vaccine against that.
Chillum: no society works out on
a big enough scale
trinque: ascii_field: say you burn
a trillion dollars on this thing and it simply never works
ascii_field: even in so much as it was necessary so that paul erdos could have
a glass of milk.
trinque: not
a good representative of the solutions nature comes up with
ascii_field: unless it was used in
a medical experiment
ascii_field: everything worth talking about
a generation up - is
a leap.
ascii_field: Chillum will get his next cpu from
a tree.
Chillum: adding
a webserver interface is actually cheaper than
a display and buttons
Chillum: not all applications call for security. I am making
a device that uses
a laser to detect
a falling drop of water and triggers my camera just as it is impacting in
a pool
trinque: ascii_field: I bring this up because this was
a far more incremental change to the stack than you propose, and it still failed miserably
Chillum: but if you ever wanted to add
a webserver to your lamp, this is the device
☟︎ trinque: ascii_field: the company of course folded because he let
a mundane consulting business die because this relational userland he was after was "obviously where computing should go"