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nubbins`: i lel'd
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: I can submit writeup if deemed worthy otherwise It'll stay in the vim buffer
mircea_popescu: i recall this grandiose commie romanian cinema thing, where "so what do we do ?! " "well... he can jump on some ears of corn" "but the camera will pick them up". pause. "not if you cover them in a brick painted sheet"
nubbins`: reminds me of the time i filmed my death & had it played for my school lit class while i took the final week off
thestringpuller: nubbins`: I guess their mommy's told them playing with their weewee is bad.
thestringpuller: I was gonna do some weekend snippet posts to help lighten the load.
thestringpuller: i swear d00ds were following me in fed-like manner in rural georgia last night.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i have not, no.
decimation: I suspect wash dc is one of the few cities with a major upper class commuting culture
decimation: in fact, the sitting senator for maryland, mikulski, was personally involved in leading the riot to stop the connection of I-70 to downtown
mircea_popescu: i've seen pics these days. half as full, everyone on gadget.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the road never actually gets expanded, of course. but there is endless derp on the subject, for so long as i've lived here (~11 years)
thestringpuller: After reading all of MPOE-PR's post, I have realized MP has done the greatest public service to this community.
asciilifeform: lol, yeah, see recent thread where i 'what's a gb optic terminal cost plz'
thestringpuller: I nominate mircea_popescu for the bitcoin public service award!
ben_vulpes: i've seen windows 3.1 in javascript... ☟︎
pete_dushenski: decimation: i vaguely remember that one
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: that one is after nubbins` prints the fscking book and i read it
mircea_popescu: decimation i never heard of anyone complain that their 16yo cocksucker costs money to upkeep.
mircea_popescu: had bush spent ALL the stimulus on making internet connecxtions of 1tbps universally available, i wouldn't be here snubbing my nose at horowitz
ben_vulpes: i want to actually crush some.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i have a notion of how diamond cutting works/ed
ben_vulpes: i've always wanted to crush some diamonds.
assbot: Logged on 21-01-2015 01:41:29; asciilifeform: speaking of diamonds (specifically of the synthetic variety), one possible observation here - not concerning the idiocy of the wood thing as such - is that anyone demanding a specific 'colour' (as per the 'monolith' essay) - i.e. provenance - of object, is begging to be chumped
mircea_popescu: i wonder how long until someone makes a sexnoises app
mircea_popescu: "i said give me those buoys!"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yup i missed it w/e it was.
mircea_popescu: anyway, either way i somehow didn't see nething.
mircea_popescu: well... i guess because i was mostly indoors ? only 10 or so miles away
ben_vulpes: saw a scad of his stuff at the guggenheim when i lived in nyc. rather fun.
mircea_popescu: i dun think there's anything more adorkably pathetic than academics aiming for political power. sort-of like the bichon frizee trying to mount a german shepherd in heat.
davout: i guess so
decimation: I didn't realize that the Crimea was filled with Tartars
coderwill: I don't*
coderwill: Ah ok, I'm don't know about that.
coderwill: punkman: i can understand the foundation, but i wonder why the website?
coderwill: I was following a conversation on GitHub for Bitcoin.org, and found it interesting that Circle has explicitly requested to be removed from the site because it targets a different demographic from what they are searching for.
thestringpuller: I think that last netsplit resulted in my getting ddosed
ben_vulpes: i can't wait for bandwidth to get expensive again
ben_vulpes: i gave up on proper sound systems
nubbins`: so i have this korg sample sequencer, and it comes with 100 built-in sounds
ben_vulpes: i'm trying to get a book deal
nubbins`: i regret trying to help
nubbins`: i officially stop
nubbins`: ...so i've heard
ben_vulpes: man i hate regexen
nubbins`: and "i" or else it doesn't make sense
nubbins`: i suspect smoothie from the forums is kinda stupid
ben_vulpes: i...
punkman: "Beyond that, this is the season when i import all my wood to get me through the next year. That means on average i have from 1 to 5 trucks showing up a week, 1 or 2 shipments coming through customs i need to keep on top of, and also a dozen employees to keep track of."
pete_dushenski: in fact, i've named my mercedes just that: "saddam"
punkman: the end with the laser pointer and text that says "hey first piece I lazered"
ben_vulpes: i scrubbed to 1 hour in, saw the burns, bailed
nubbins`: i guess it brings out the grain
nubbins`: i'm all "why didn't he laser the entire background if he's gonna do this?"
punkman: you could do the same job with a dull spoon I think
nubbins`: i'm tempted to go get the design laser etched onto a piece myself
punkman: nubbins, oh it looked like pencil, but then I wondered about the outer circles
nubbins`: punkman i'm not sure why nobody is mentioning that the design is already laser etched into the fuckin piece when the video starts
metsuno: I'm shy
mircea_popescu: i thought the ddos derp crapped out earlier.
pete_dushenski: unless web access is immune from ddosbot, i dunno if it is
ben_vulpes: what strange am i missing out on
ben_vulpes: what actually happened there? i thought the forked chain was rejected?
hanbot: <ben_vulpes> how was the strip club, hanbot? << no buttered strip clubs for me, thanks, i'm off to play the grand piano
ben_vulpes: i'm rarin to go harin' after herrin herring
ben_vulpes: aw i fucked the genders there didn't i
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski ah i c
pete_dushenski: then he said "oh, what about this conference?" and i told him to leave a comment if he was interested
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: anyways, mitch sends me the off pgp-gram, and i recently sent him to the trilema jobs board
mircea_popescu: i ate a female programmers
ben_vulpes: i ain't eating programmers
pete_dushenski: i don't think he's done his 6 months tho, not seriously
pete_dushenski: i poked him to figure out pgp, he did
nubbins`: i'd recommend someone else watch it and give you a summary
mircea_popescu: i think he has been delaborately confusing us to gain time
ben_vulpes: i thought he was going under the knife to get rid of the spear
mircea_popescu: i thought nubbins was contemplating a genderbendin' surgical intervention.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/print-page-cryptostocks-vircurex-vcx-going-public.htm << i was thinking of vircurex tho
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: i've met mitch callahan a couple times irl
ben_vulpes: was i right for once?
ben_vulpes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchellcallahan << mod6 i found this one
nubbins`: fluffypony i lel'd heartily at the video
ben_vulpes: 'tis all i got
ben_vulpes: i discovered recently that "baby" carrots aren't so much "lathed" as they are knocked around in a conical abrasive vessel
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i can tell by some of the pixels.
nubbins`: https://i.imgur.com/FYSrEMp.jpg
mircea_popescu: ok i've seen enough
asciilifeform: i can picture a surface so mirror-smooth that barnacles cannot stick.
mircea_popescu: also true. i guess it may drop here.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, just the power ranger lot. they'd have (i optimistically assume) been excluded / self out-selected if the satoshi actually understood programming.
mircea_popescu: with the list i mean.
ben_vulpes: spec a node, i guess.
mircea_popescu: this is nonsense of the first order, an utter antipattern, and iof they weren't stupid as frogs i'd suspect its deliberate
ben_vulpes: i see it.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: if i know that the most recent block was of height N, I can ask bitcoind-node for the hash of the block at height N
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the reason, incidentally, i didn';t read it myself is i dun trust my rudimentary c understanding.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i have been repeating, like mantra, 'stemming search must die'
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i refer of course to the quoted price of attendance.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: lol i sorta assume he'll be there.