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a111: Logged on 2017-07-15 07:20 mod6: it could be perhaps
that FZ(16384) isn't long enough ... might need like 32k
sina: anyway I just wanted
to
test and make sure all of my
things were working post upgrade
sina: haha
that sounds a lot more fun
sina: I just upgraded
to Fedora 26 :)
mod6: alright, i better catch some zzzs. i'll check in on
the factorial here when I wake up.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile faux news outlets imagine
they have over a dozen readers.
mod6: this seems
to be
the analogue of
the modern-day soccer-mom 3/4 boob selfie. in
the
text, she criticizes her friends for being "suburban" and "dowdyish"; but
to me, she seems like one of
the same.
mod6: there was some warts in
the prose.
mod6: ya. heard many
times, just never gave it a
turn.
mod6: I liked your comments about byron.
That was
the first i've read of him.
mircea_popescu: so almost an hour, and
then failed
to return. alrighty.
mod6: i bumped it up
to 32768
mircea_popescu: btw, does asciilifeform know about
the right honorable
the lord brougham and vaux pc qc frs ?
☟︎ mod6: it could be perhaps
that FZ(16384) isn't long enough ... might need like 32k
☟︎ mircea_popescu: amusing life slyce right here : user will read error message after
the 4th pass and not before ; and will mess up
the bot after 4
tries
thence.
mod6: this 65536 one is gonna run for a while i
think...
☟︎ mod6: lol, im doing 65536
too
mod6: it seems
to be be pretty quick, ya
mod6: found a website
that produces what seems
to be
the same 2193 digit value
mod6: 1154ms for
that one
mod6: lol, had
to use 2**64 words with FZ(196)
mod6: mircea_popescu:
thanks for
the hex factorials.
BingoBoingo just wonders who had honor of destroying
the phylactery
mircea_popescu: there's always going
to be more zsa zsa gabors around
than free drinks available.
BingoBoingo: The reality leaking in is
that
the most important man in her life is gone and
the new most important man, lacks eldritch powers she is accustomed
to. Whole new set of daddy issues in her fifth decade.
BingoBoingo: Nah, it's
the alt-soros reality distortion field leaking onto her face. Also her face was leaking blood because likely cialis can only do so much for Morning Joe.
BingoBoingo: excess plant water drains
through leak, nail
to wall goes
through other leak
BingoBoingo: In some of
those applications, leak is a plus!
mircea_popescu: there is a substantial difference between someone
trying
to build a house with a badly formulated pi, who ends up building a spiral instead of a
tower and never
thereby finishing ; and someone who in his house builds a clay pot with his own hands and no potter's wheel. so what if
the pot will leak ? it can hold a potted plant or whatever, hang on a wall, participate in a domestic argument...
BingoBoingo: It's
that
thing everyone assumes Phuctor uses so Phuctor gets
to collect all
the PHP run
time exploits
thrown into not a PHP run
time
erlehmann: also, any individual car using systemd and literally crashing because of it is unlikely
to contain lennart.
mircea_popescu: erlehmann php is not a system in absolutely any sense. it is a
text processor, why would it not exist.
BingoBoingo: Who needs
to block egress when entire building shell can be clad in flammable polyurethane foam
erlehmann: problem is
timespan. systemd already could not handle an empty string and executed
tasks for users named “0day” as root because names starting with numbers are hard, mmmkay?! it might
take a long
time before it collapses.
mircea_popescu: reality is self-healing,
tjhat's why
the pantsuits live on pizza and reddits.
erlehmann: so
the cool guy must not have reached maximum snowflake level (where no one else could even
think
themselves snowflake)
mircea_popescu: no,
the
thing is
the cool guy is dealing with a physical system. it has backblow, if you're
too special you're not gonna be around anymore.
erlehmann: i must so
the cool guy has not reached maximum snowflake
erlehmann: i must admit
that cheered me up a bit, even
though i knew how it would
turn out halfway
through :)
mircea_popescu: "yeah, but what if
there's a cool guy coming
the other way ?"
mircea_popescu: the guy is sorta pondering
this away in his head, when suddenly
they run into a green light and
the driver breaks like all gedup.
mircea_popescu: so he asks, hey, aren't you supposed
to stop on red ? and
the driver replies
that he's a cool guy, an' cool guys don't have
to stop for shit.
mircea_popescu: guy asks hotel desk
to call him a cab, which
they do. he gets in and not long after discovers
that
the madcap driver is actually not accidentally blowing a red light, but systematically blowing each and every one of
them.
erlehmann: mircea_popescu in
the past i wondered how people who ask
that question never consider someone else might
think
themselves such an exceptional snowflake.
erlehmann: oh, but
then i looked for it and
there exist several
mircea_popescu: erlehmann and you know what will happen --
two will call it at
the same
time. and you know what
they'll do -- a
Top.Window.Manager
to handle
the conflict. and so on.
erlehmann: i remember a post from “the old new
thing” about “why can't we have a method
to have our window on
top of all others?”
BingoBoingo: Very high stepping in front of a bus factor
though
mircea_popescu: that's kinda
the point no systemd detractor ever made :
that systemd is fundamentally and by itself an unstable arrangement, and it'll end up stuck systemding itself
to death, very much like how
the dnc keeps revolutionizing itself into irrelevancy.
mircea_popescu: you see it in
the dumbass faux bitcoins
the usg "developers" keep producing
too.
mircea_popescu: the problem with
the systemd approach
to system design is
that everything ends up wanting
to be its own master-exceptional-class.
erlehmann: > One generic approach is
to limit
the privileges of font processing code in
their respective environments, such as enforcing sandboxing of
the FreeType library, or moving
the font engine out of
the kernel in Windows (which Microsoft has done starting with Windows 10). However,
that is mostly beyond our reach.
erlehmann: if i recall correctly, windows has font handling at an entirely wrong abstraction level (think
TTF kernel exploit)
erlehmann: (conceptually, at least. non-scalable 8x16 / 16x16 glyphs all
the way down.)
mircea_popescu: in fact, ~every one i've seen played soccer on
the monitors. except for
the one
that had VERY BAD porn. i mean
terribly bad.
mircea_popescu: it's incomprehensible
they even manage
to have strip clubs here AT ALL.
the girls are so utterly innocent of anything
to do with either money or fucking
that
they might as well be
the local highschool volley
team.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : i
took girl
to strip joint crawl
today. highlight of
the night,
this plastered drunk waitress / whore
that wouldn't
take 3k for a 2k
tab. literally, she gave it back
to me, evidently i made a mistake.
mircea_popescu: same place
the fixed font
thing came from we were lulzing at a few days ago
erlehmann: i might want
to figure out
the UTF-16 LE issue before
that. of course, i can do my injection in UTF-16 LE, but i want
to know where it comes from.
erlehmann: don't worry, i'll do
the “if you use chrome, wine and gnome, visiting random websites might yield vbscript” writeup sometime soon. it's
too hilarious.
mircea_popescu: unless, of course, he's wiring it
to some radical group.
though i vaguely don't expect western union would "allow"
that.
mircea_popescu: seems wiring money
to
the same idiots
that made it necessary for you
to abandon country and fambly with
their rampant idiocy might be a worse move
than just pouring it into cement.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-15 02:36 lobbes: at least
that 50bux in somalia is > 0bux. Beats lotto player, but
that is a good point: after wire fees it doesn't beat it by much
a111: Logged on 2017-07-15 00:18
trinque: erlehmann:
the logs would benefit greatly from a proper writeup of
these, so
the next
time someone goes "hurr durr $shitlang"
the blog post can be linked
a111: Logged on 2017-07-14 23:56 lobbes:
This was always amusingly contrasted with
the many foreigners
that worked
there in
the summer;
they'd Western Union
that shit immediately
to home country.
BingoBoingo: Yeah, prolly ought
to assemble a variety for
the artisic alien weapon expo
mircea_popescu: 85! = A0B8A2976BEA2078E2EB644384859F3B46323AF1FCD2BDBBA7707F6836A5F94F4EB20DDCED88F6F04D2F5C01AC3510E4A37AEBC4C5AB05C3CFA9AC51F8F3C1BB2A4A664EE145EE0BEDD1330ACE1400000000000000000000000000000000 and finally did one
that
took a second
BingoBoingo: Hey, Elliot avoided gambler's fallacy. Gave powerball a deadline
to make his dreams come
true!
lobbes: at least
that 50bux in somalia is > 0bux. Beats lotto player, but
that is a good point: after wire fees it doesn't beat it by much
☟︎