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mircea_popescu: !!rate elaineo 2 somehow manages to write unirritatingly while also academia. i have yet no theory as to how this is possible.
deedbot: 197174F8BC084AFB0532FFC3885B7AF2D2264BC0 registered as elaineo.
deedbot: 6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452 is already registered as mircea_popescu.
asciilifeform: because -- unsurprise, i hope -- if yer FUCKGOATS were replaced with an identical-looking ftmeadegoats en route, it would pass (perhaps even 'prettier') the dh, ent, etc tests, as the original
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform twas nonsense then as now.
asciilifeform: iirc in '15 the 'hosters are all shit for the same reason as miners, they are -ev to operate without scammitude, so change'em like condoms' school of thought was still strong.
mircea_popescu: except, of course, this is more like a levy. "oh i know, i'll argue with mp about building levies in 2015, as if that's fucking permissible now, arguing with mp ; and then in 2016 and then whoops, the obvious natural occurence took us by total suprise!!11"
asciilifeform: normally i think of word 'natural' as something else.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, sitting on ass during natural disaster is just as much absolute bar to l1.
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/0TMj5 << meanwhile in brittardia >> 'As part of their enquiries, detectives seized Rabbani’s mobile phone and laptop for the purpose of examining it, but Rabbani repeatedly refused to provide passwords for the devices to officers. ... Subsequently, the officers arrested him on suspicion of wilfully obstructing or seeking to frustrate an examination or search under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 ... He was t
mircea_popescu: it'll be sad indeed once phuctor goes away, currently serves as gazette of record of rsa pubkeys.
BingoBoingo: "Cote acknowledged those efforts in her sentencing remarks. Still, she said, it was important to use his case as a deterrent to other would-be child abusers."
mircea_popescu: i imagine the idea with browser stuff is you just save the javascript. as close to "compile locally, fucktard" as the redditard generation can possibly get -- guaranteed success through a browser-compiler of approximately-integer language.
asciilifeform: the part i find interesting is that it is -- apparently -- impossible to use a current pc in the way, e.g., pdp11 was used - as box with two dozen + serial ttys hanging off
mircea_popescu: tis exactly as i recall it from the mid 2000s.
mircea_popescu: as they say back at teh idle ranch, "it's only been ten days, what, that's not even two weeks (tm)!!!"
lobbes: DNS error on my end as well
mircea_popescu: exaclty as per the above "ants doing mango pulp powered research"
mircea_popescu: very literally true, too. the act of fermentation as a thermodynamic process is correctly modelled as an increase in entropy ie exactly "that way lies demonology"
asciilifeform: the basic sin in strings is same as in microshit and elsewhere: rejection of parsimony
mircea_popescu: consequently this poor animal has a bunch of people STALKING HIM, watching his house at gecko's 7-8am. just as he's getting ready to try and beat the god damned traffic to work!
mircea_popescu: now, as it happens a wall mounted screen will be watched mostly in the early evening. as it also happens, fna will sleep during day, wake up for business in the early evening.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo speaking of fna, lulz of all time : i have a wall mounted wide screen. as you can imagine, it is THE hottest bit of real estate as far as gecko is concerned (very safe, nice and warm at night, plenty of hidey places, a villa!)
mircea_popescu: in other vaguely related lulz : the "disability weight" is a nonsensical scalar measure invented by the kanzure type idiots who deal in "DALY" ie "societal measures of health" and such bullshit. they publish lousy fanfic with some regularity, which can be amusing. for instance, as per the 2004 official truth, blindness was the 2nd most serious problem, (after alzheimer's, ahead of schizophrenia, being the top 3) with a nonsen
mircea_popescu: (lulzy thing re that helminth : it was always common in egypt ; because it induces bloody urination it was actually socially-reinterpreted by the same retarded pantsuits who built pyramids as "rite of passage" for boys ie hurray, menstruation too!
BingoBoingo: Butt apparently delousings as social activity is where the dirty antifa hippies are pushing everyone
BingoBoingo wonders if irl redditings will eventually get diclorvos strips placed as in https://www.amazon.com/Mosquito-Trap-N-Kill-MADE-IN-USA/dp/B06Y4CSQBS
mircea_popescu: he too, the monkey in zoo, "maintains social relations" such as befit a monkey in a zoo, and delouses self and friends, and does other uu-aa things which, importantly, are topologically insulated from the actual world through something known as the cage bars.
mircea_popescu: bonus points for a text full of "I" as FUCKING IF he's me, except of course we don't get to even see the fucktard's fucking name aywhere.
mircea_popescu: in other such lulz, had a team of professionals (3 sorry looking kids) from super-duper local isp do a bunch of cable laying. leaving aside that the job included climbing a 3 story bare metal outside ladder to get to the roof, which was a first for all of 'em, the place itself... well, the girls were dressed, exceptionally, but i only realised by and by that there's a lot of shit such as ball gags laying about, bullwhips hang
mircea_popescu: as opposed to which one lol.
BingoBoingo: I hear the DIA endorses making a 5x5 game board with the options as squares, ripping a rooster's head off and choosing the square the rooster dies on
BingoBoingo: You know, Clitler as the Kurd's fat wife
mircea_popescu: i personally find it hysterical that the engrish lulz farm manage to write the obituary in engrish as well!
BingoBoingo: May as well see if there's people there
mircea_popescu: also there's both 3EF4735A73A67BFBDCC11BC986C00FC2AF877616 and EE800DF6952EB0B750FE65BF1844D96716A17EC7 in there, but not "0x33E9E596" as they seem think.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: [/ex] | a racial slur for an African American. Connotes a lazy, silly-dumb, manual laborer. Derogatory, but not as derogatory as the "n" word. You'll probably still get beat up if you use it in company. [ex:] Those blue gums up the crik eat nothin' but watermelons. [/ex] | Any person of African decent. see [mooncricket] [ex:] The bluegums are posted up on the street corner again. [/ex] | (1 more message)
ben_vulpes: "In digital real estate, as opposed to digital currency, a low-friction, zero-trust solution to the double-spend problem isn't an economic necessity." << oooooh this just makes me mad
mircea_popescu: trinque "The prospect of our own NSA, CIA and FBI << the "our own" bit is the lulziest. pantsuit actually thought they own something in this world. and not just ourdemocracy, at that. i suppose the scum actually sees itself as rightful inheritors of like cultural europe and etcetera.
jurov: shinohai: just make the same deed as you did with coinbr, but with "since now please please donate all shares to foundation"
trinque: as if white girls don't top the list of folks listening to kanye
ben_vulpes: microclime apparently extends up where i live now as well
asciilifeform: dness shift operations; and ergo all shifts must consist of ffawordness shift ops, as i described in http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-20#1716343 . ☝︎
asciilifeform: !~later tell apeloyee i studied your algo, it (aside from truly massive cost, that would annihilate savings from newton, or barrett, or just about any other trick) ~still leaks~, because shifting by >wordsize is a fundamentally different op from shifting <wordsize; and the only way for this to not be true is for all shifts to happen as a series of wordsize shifts; and a shift by ffawidth-1 (max shiftness) would then consist of ffawor ☟︎
mircea_popescu: and nothing else is supposed to! bitcoin as it stands currently is throwing the curve.
mircea_popescu: "are you a young leader getting ready to change the world ? consider procreation instead. god put procreation on earth to keep monkeys such as you busy! and it works, and has worked for generations!"
mircea_popescu: truth be told elements of original bitcoin suffered very much the same fate as human elements of the early bitcoin : on the long term, practice is a weighing machine
mod6: well, not "yesterday" as much as starting around '486153'
shinohai: As such, I only hear them when asked to trasludar
shinohai: Were I as rich as Sr. Popescu, every night I'd pay 0.02 BTC (adjusted for inflation) to hear these magnificent stories.
ben_vulpes: labor pool must be as full of meat as possible, families kept in poverty paying for childcare
shinohai: Well, it is domestic slavery as much as she is not bound under usistan law ... only has travel visa
mircea_popescu: yeah, no chinese girl as of yet huh.
mircea_popescu: well, just as long as she doesn't get dropped.
apeloyee: hence I posted it. plus it'd be useful for newton (if fast division is deemed necessary for some as-yet-unknown reason)
asciilifeform: i can say immediately that if you 'secret shift' every time you want to modulus, you will take at least same number of steps as knuthian division.
asciilifeform: because as far as i can see, it has all of the same problems, but more so
asciilifeform: apeloyee: what do you see as its advantage, vs barrett ?
mircea_popescu: so far i'd be surprised if anyone seriouslty didn't want to ; the argument as presented seems sufficiently overabundant!
mircea_popescu: the definition of prime is as quoted, what more is needed here ? 1 is divisible by only itself and the unit [of measure].
spyked: mircea_popescu, yeha, but maths ppl I read/talked to "by convenience" define prime as "a number greater than 1 which is divisible ..." the reason escapes me. and as usual, online sources are shit.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've been thinking about sending ffa , when finished, as an article into the saecular derps' 'cryptology journals', strictly for the lulz of getting their reject barf , and then posting, a la al schwartz
asciilifeform: but he dun have as many theorems.
mircea_popescu: btw, i take it everyone has played knight's bounty ? as the crowning accomplishment of those eastern orc lands ?
asciilifeform: but if thing tasted as good as the tube smelled!
asciilifeform: it ain't as if you're ever getting a prime from prime+prime, tho
a111: Logged on 2017-09-20 19:19 ben_vulpes: and as the keccacteams mention, little incentive for cryptoacademia to formalize how ARXceteras might fall over. hard work with little guarantee of payout apparently terrible strategy in a world of publishorperish + everyone pretends to ignore that none of the academics ever bothered to do the hard work of an actual ffa, preferring instead cheap outs like leaky tables
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: anything involving 'isprime()' during everyday life is either a table lookup (leaks!) or miller-rabin (slow as fuck, temptation to cut iterations and introduce eggog)
ben_vulpes: and as the keccacteams mention, little incentive for cryptoacademia to formalize how ARXceteras might fall over. hard work with little guarantee of payout apparently terrible strategy in a world of publishorperish + everyone pretends to ignore that none of the academics ever bothered to do the hard work of an actual ffa, preferring instead cheap outs like leaky tables ☟︎
BingoBoingo: “Anticolonialism ravaged countries as nationalist elites mobilized illiterate populations with appeals to destroy the market economies, pluralistic and constitutional polities, and rational policy processes of European colonizers.”
a111: Logged on 2017-09-20 02:47 mircea_popescu: soo, given the "cultured milk" yoghurt bs these days, i wonder what % of us population's entire exposure to that concept is in that context, and as a result has come to believe "cultured" means you know, you've had some germs injected or something.
mircea_popescu: it's basic, good thinking such as this that saves elections, i'll have you know. goood thing hilarity still has a chance!
mircea_popescu: gotta love how teh jews are still out there, acting as if there's more substance to this supposed "liberal" thing than said hilarity.
mircea_popescu: soo, given the "cultured milk" yoghurt bs these days, i wonder what % of us population's entire exposure to that concept is in that context, and as a result has come to believe "cultured" means you know, you've had some germs injected or something. ☟︎
asciilifeform: sadly 8bitism is aaaalmost as thoroughly entrenched as binarism.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-20#1715990 << on second thought, this is prominently not true in... FUCKGOATS ( just as every other rs232 device, it must be connected to a machine that knows what to do with 8bit byte and NEVER pads it to any other size with nulls or otherwise ) ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-19#1715881 << here's an alt take on this : the problem comes from having the notion of byte be anything else but bus width. if 64 bit machines natively worked on 64 bit bytes, all the message fucktification bs known as unicode would be significantly less of a conversation issue. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: but the bill as written by the usg.hacks was "takes over", not "lingers irrelevantly for as long as we keep pouring money into the sand"
a111: Logged on 2017-09-19 21:02 phf: same thread as a guy who freaked the fuck out, because i told him to ssh into a box for the interview
barpub: or ast as case may be
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/09/latest-bitcoin-network-difficulty-adjustment-up-19-58-percent-to-new-all-time-high-as-chicoms-push-out-local-fiatbitcoin-trading-interfaces/ << Qntra - Latest Bitcoin Network Difficulty Adjustment: Up ~19.58 Percent To New All Time High As Chicoms Push Out Local fiat/Bitcoin Trading Interfaces
asciilifeform: i'll take that as a yes then
asciilifeform: barpub: are you familiar with the concept of complexity-as-environmental-pollutant ?
asciilifeform: 'ropes' text not only replaces O(1) ops with O(log n), but introduces pointerism and the inevitable overflow ( when implemented, as all unixen are, in overflowlang ) and thus possibility of ill-formed structures , whereas ALL conventional strings are well-formed at birth
asciilifeform: presently EVERYBODY is 'representing strings as flat array', but some folx are lying to themselves about it
barpub: if you're stuck representing strings as flat arrays, yes, o(n)ism is a necessity
asciilifeform: but obvious q : how to square 'Support for multibyte characters in UTF-8 and many East Asian encodings.' with 'Derived from original Unix material released as Open Source by Caldera and Sun' and 'heirloominess' ??
phf: same thread as a guy who freaked the fuck out, because i told him to ssh into a box for the interview ☟︎
asciilifeform: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/JHUvM/?raw=true << in other lulz. i'll skip to the money shot: 'It is the sense of Congress that WikiLeaks and the senior leadership of WikiLeaks resemble a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors and should be treated as such a service by the United States.'
ben_vulpes: lol and earlier today this read "Emacs and VIM users 2X as likely to pass technical interviews as Eclipse users": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15285927
trinque: even teh pantsuit law reads: "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."
BingoBoingo: And a laff:"On Sunday night, as police officers marched downtown, a Post-Dispatch photographer heard them chant a refrain most often heard at Ferguson protests: “Whose streets? Our streets.”"
BingoBoingo: Mild neurotoxin with strong repellent properties in solid binder... as opposed to atomizer mist device
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> well, racoons are a very successful sort of rat. as a result, they don't have any friends among the people they interact with on any kind of regular basis. kinda like pigeons, actually. << Aha, like their namesake. For people interacting with them occasionally "entertaining", in constant contact universally nuissance
mircea_popescu: well, racoons are a very successful sort of rat. as a result, they don't have any friends among the people they interact with on any kind of regular basis. kinda like pigeons, actually.
BingoBoingo: Actual field research shows consumers read no pesticide labels whatsoever and just look for aeresol cans, then cycle cans until one has desired effect: "EPA officials say no such testing occurred, but are confident that people will read the new labels as intended. The agency notes that text below the symbol reads “it is illegal to use this product with the intention to kill raccoons, skunks, opossums, coyotes, wolves, dogs, cats, or an
BingoBoingo: More for the posteriority: "“It’s indiscriminate, intentional poisoning of wildlife,” says Brian Rowe, who recently retired as pesticide section manager at the Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development in Lansing. “Some of them die with their face in the pan that they’re licking out of. I mean, it kills them that quick.”"
BingoBoingo: Compare to 13 years later: "In response, this week Michigan officials are considering new rules to limit the use of the pesticide. If the rules are approved, as expected, Michigan would join a growing number of states and the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in trying to prevent the misuse of methomyl, in part by restricting who can buy it and requiring new warning labels. But some observers fear the labels—which depict a
asciilifeform: '...we proposed a compromise. We agreed to stand down regarding the EME standard, provided that the W3C extend its existing IPR policies to deter members from using DRM laws in connection with the EME (such as Section 1201 of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act or European national implementations of Article 6 of the EUCD) except in combination with another cause of action.' << quislings
BingoBoingo: lol at WAPO missing the obvs connection "In the video, officers can be heard telling Schultz, who identified as nonbinary and used they/them pronouns, to drop the knife. Instead, Schultz walks slowly toward the officers and can be heard shouting, “shoot me.”"