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asciilifeform: l0l
asciilifeform: mats: also we ought to try to agree on some notion of 'results'. for me, 'results' includes not only 'how many 0days published' but also 'what the code i MUST READ TO GRASP THE SYSTEM actually looks like'
asciilifeform: ah yes.
asciilifeform: mats: if you'd like to link to, e.g., diffs, to demonstrate this, i'll read.
asciilifeform: as concepts.
asciilifeform: that these are thing we OUGHT to live with.
asciilifeform: and the PREMISES are retarded. they take it as a GIVEN that there WILL be overflows, stack smashes, etc.
asciilifeform: this is ipso facto a bad thing.
asciilifeform: the result FROM MY CHAIR is that the code is MORE COMPLEX
asciilifeform: mats: i object to the entire pattern of thought on display there.
asciilifeform: mats: my objection is ecological rather than immediate, understand.
asciilifeform: it is a past-tense thing.
asciilifeform: prolly ought have said 'were promising.'
asciilifeform: there are, incidentally, promising models for it. but the thing went nowhere because science died.
asciilifeform: most brightly illustrated by the savages who could be 'prayed to death'
asciilifeform: (from uncle al's works)
asciilifeform: !s placebocin
asciilifeform: i was conjecturing that this particular myth has a kernel of truth in it, just as the stories of 'great flood' are said to
asciilifeform: parents?
asciilifeform: because i can easily see a rational mechanism for 'i am not now really alive but if $condition then i will be.'
asciilifeform: this is also why i do not piss on 'one day my real life will begin!' fantasy with the same abandon as tlp and mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: more than dirigibles, harems, etc.
asciilifeform: THIS is why i covet 'sleep ad libitum' more than anything else.
asciilifeform: aha. when left to my own devices, i'll cycle through the whole face of the clock.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall your 'homebrew crypto' article ?
asciilifeform: https://xkcd.com/463 << found it
asciilifeform: this is what all the various 'stack canaries', 'encrypted return addresses', etc. sounds like to me.
asciilifeform: there was an old comic where a schoolteacher says 'i always wear a condom when conducting lessons'
asciilifeform: mats: try to understand what i am objecting to - you might learn something.
asciilifeform: mats: take, for instance: 'encrypt/decrypt return address by a random key.' this is TYPICAL microshitism. the only actual result of this kind of thinking is that shit gets ever harder to debug, and new hidey-holes for exploitation are born.
asciilifeform: diametric: nifty, we oughta buy one of these.
asciilifeform: dontcha ever tire of it ?
asciilifeform: mats: again with the 'let's seeeekk00000r3 the c-machine with magic pixie dust'
asciilifeform: or somethinglikethat.
asciilifeform: viva la revolución por siempre y para siempre
asciilifeform: buenos dias señor popescu
asciilifeform: diametric: they have tweezers, even.
asciilifeform reads specs, discovers that indeed it claims to be a metcal clone
asciilifeform: diametric: metcal?!
asciilifeform: who predicted that, if realistic sex robot is ever thought to be possible (and it is intrinsically a for-men item, as there is not likely to appear a dominance-robot and certainly not a wealth-robot) , there will be mass upheaval. ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: !s mocsny
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-10-2015#1307710 << see also: ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-08-2014#808005 ☝︎
asciilifeform: see also:
asciilifeform: because smart-people-talking-about-$item doesn't read quite the same as stupid-people-talking-about-$item. for any possible $item.
asciilifeform: imho smart-people-talking-about-dope doesn't read quite the same as stupid-people-talking-about-dope.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-10-2015#1307706 << l0l, why? because dope? ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-10-2015#1307622 << i never grasped this custom: why is it necessary to buy $item the day it comes out? let the other schmucks test...? ☝︎
asciilifeform: if gabriel_laddel actually could sleep ad libitum - that is, WHENEVER he wants, FOR AS LONG AS he wants - i suspect that he wouldn't ask for dope of any kind.
asciilifeform: tlp et al are right in a sense: depression, weird circadian rhythms, etc. are not diseases in the sense that leukemia is. all of these people would happily live without dope, on some different planet. the problem is that they cannot move to this planet.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-10-2015#1307597 << WITHOUT EXCEPTION this kind of thing is said by people who, if you were to wire them to the mains to get the truth, will admit that they see any disease that doesn't show up on a blood test or xray as 'in your mind' ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-10-2015#1307565 << in the end, everybody gets to be equally dead. ☝︎
asciilifeform: perhaps the gods meant them to be anemic and nonstop pregnant..
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-10-2015#1307550 << this is nonsense and mircea_popescu knows it. do your gurlz take bc pill ? iron supplement? BUT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE CAR111!!1 ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: 2 wk/yr is considered princely.
asciilifeform: (in usa it is rare for any worker type to have serious paid leave)
asciilifeform: and you can't take a holiday from the dope because then the cheques stop coming.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-10-2015#1307497 << actually the most serious problem is that eventually it stops doing anything at all. ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: punkman: likely, it reads entirely normal in the original
asciilifeform: ;;later tell gabriel_laddel: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-10-2015#1307560 << i could tell much the same tale as you. eventually i discovered that i have a 26-hour circadian cycle and no amount of punishments, risks, dope, lost money, etc. will do A FUCKING THING about it. the only cure is to break out of workschwitz so that to sleep ad libitum. ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: punkman: gotta remember that those folks are - for all intents and purposes - retarded.
asciilifeform: punkman: rot13.
asciilifeform: iirc ss handled the known/public aspects of the mtgox dekulakization ?
asciilifeform: e.g., nsa is civilian-staffed but managed largely by active or retired dod folk
asciilifeform: quite a bit of lateral motion and unclear separation of concern between the spetzagencies
asciilifeform: (if there ever once was.)
asciilifeform: there is not a meaningful separation between various seekrit skvirrels in usa today
asciilifeform: hence feeding it to connoisseurs
asciilifeform did not read whole thing
asciilifeform: (followed by a few kb of mostly generic usg claptrap)
asciilifeform: 'The Department of Defense shall work with other U.S. Government (USG) departments and agencies and with partner nations to deny, disrupt, or defeat and degrade adversaries’ ability to use global licit and illicit financial networks to negatively affect U.S. interests.'
asciilifeform: ;;later tell BingoBoingo https://cryptome.org/dodi/2015/dodd-5205-14.pdf >>>>>> http://dpaste.com/32ACSQ3.txt << lulzy, possibly qntra material ?
asciilifeform speaks with the studded and corpulent anal pineapple of experience
asciilifeform: 'used to it, then depressed' followed by 'can't quit usa because that's where they serve up $x'
asciilifeform: entirely pertinent, even if the wrong article.
asciilifeform: ^^^^
asciilifeform: *distinctly
asciilifeform: there was one about how to smoke, i distincly recally.
asciilifeform: hm. perhaps was thinking of another.
asciilifeform: (don't be an idiot and eat $dope every day)
asciilifeform: actually the relevant piece here is mircea_popescu's own 'how to smoke' article.
asciilifeform: germany and anything warsaw pact say 'pervitin' (nazi brand) - folks will recognize.
asciilifeform: in every country there was a separate name for it, for some odd reason
asciilifeform: (not, say, benzodiazepine)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in 1950s usa, 'benzo' meant benzoamphetamine.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not the muscle relaxant!!
asciilifeform: mats: try it if you don't believe.
asciilifeform: mats: you can actually sleep ~immediately~ after eating whatever dosage.
asciilifeform: in the magical room where you only do things you want to do.
asciilifeform: on dirigible.
asciilifeform: aaaaaha sure.
asciilifeform: countdown to broomstick...
asciilifeform: for mircea_popescu - guaranteed useless.
asciilifeform: simulates a full night of sleep.
asciilifeform: because it is a very peculiar kind of dope, which does (as far as most folks notice, or - for the most part - across a few million eaters / a few decades of sales) precisely one thing.
asciilifeform: no side effect either.
asciilifeform: no i mean literally NOTHING
asciilifeform: and i bet mats knows why.
asciilifeform: guaranteed.
asciilifeform: interestingly, if mircea_popescu were to take a dose of modafinil (racemic or isomeric, pick whichever) he would notice NOTHING AT ALL