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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Weird. Five minutes walk from here is
a zone where absolute lawlessness is permitted
☟︎ decimation: asciilifeform: yes, I have
a couple of early intel macbooks that have been abandoned
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Are there any open spaces? the cheapest .22 LR rounds tend to be more satisfying. If you have
a camera that can capture slow motion, especially avoid the copper plate ones
decimation: try 'upgrading'
a 10.6 mac to 10.7 and not 10.8, for instance
BingoBoingo: The lead on glass on lead pop is
a satisfying noise
BingoBoingo: Born of the same reasoning that leads one to jack off inside
a pussy in
a .gif
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> me to colleague: 'mac has to be good for... something?' him: 'take it to the range, it'll make good target' << 9" model and .22 LR makes
a nice pop when phosphors are too faded
mircea_popescu:
a fine example of "teachning kids math = making kids unable to understand math"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Actual line from text you though worthy of offering
a solution to: "Currently she was being referred to as the Sparkly Unicorn Princess of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Sparklypoo."
BingoBoingo: Are we sure the fanfic propaganda guy isn't
a teen girl "As it turned out, nobody had worked out that her challenging Neville to
a Most Ancient Duel meant that she liked him. She'd thought it would be obvious but no, nobody else had even thought of that apparently."
adlai: uncompressed ECDSA key = (x,y) on the curve; compressed =
a single number that can have the coordinates extracted from it, because the lines described by the range of compressed keys each intersect the [top half of the] curve at one point
adlai: mircea_popescu: it gets better when you realize that even everypair's
a number
BingoBoingo: <adlai> slightly related, friend who worked one of those shit-selling carts in
a canadian mall, hocking 'Dead Sea' products, got asked by
a straight-faced mark: "isn't that where captain jack sparrow was from?" << At our local malls those were all hookers at the carts
adlai: slightly related, friend who worked one of those shit-selling carts in
a canadian mall, hocking 'Dead Sea' products, got asked by
a straight-faced mark: "isn't that where captain jack sparrow was from?"
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 03:25:17; danielpbarron: isn't
a private key
a number?
mircea_popescu: the common law has some categories. there's robbery, with violence. there's theft, without violence but with the knowledge of the victim. there's fraud, without the initial knowledge of the victim. there's embezzelment, where the victim isn't
a person per se. and there's defalcation, which is merely negligent or reckless, rather than intentional.
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 03:22:22; decimation: I also think the fiat machine that enables mass theft from everyone's savings is
a form of usary
BingoBoingo: adlai: Snowden successfully contacted Poitras first. More than
a year after attempting Greenwald the frist time. Not sure, but second snowden seemed to contact Greenwald while snowden1 in Moscow. Disappeared.
decimation: at any rate, I don't think poitras or greenwald have enough of
a clue to move
a person of interest across borders
decimation: snowden might have contacted wikileaks acting as
a foil for the russian security services
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 03:00:58; *: BingoBoingo remembers in early 2012 before scandal Petraeus being floated as
a more serious threat to Obola than Congress
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform meta-people, basically. unable to act because stuck pondering implications as
a passtime.
mircea_popescu: puts every single usg drone in
a very uncomfortable position.
decimation: ultimately, snowden's downfall is that he's
a libertard, and that by 'creating
a conversation' or 'raising awareness' he can accomplishing anything is
a fallacy
mircea_popescu: he thinks his life is
a life, and his woman
a woman, and so on and so forth
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why do you think the idiocy of
a bureaucrat is remarkable to any degree ?
BingoBoingo: decimation: Media sensation part seem sto mostly have been an asbestos jacket. He seems, if film was honest to know it was
a life shortening ploy, but less so than what manning did.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Aha they took reop as is... Even with the part where it only exists as
a "go" turd
adlai: tlsnotary lets you turn any bank with functional online services into the fiat side of
a wot-based exchange
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 01:47:14; Pierre_Rochard: decimation: this is about separating the traders’ cash from the exchange’s cash. Comingling of funds is not
a good idea, as you point out it can lead to “fractional reserve” by the exchange (more precisely, defalcation)
decimation: asciilifeform: regex does seem to be
a kind of 'hair shirt' that is proudly worn by modern programmers
gabriel_laddel: adlai: I was linking you to it b/c you asked why one might want
a lispm
mircea_popescu: they had
a chance at making games = consoles, prior to 94
mircea_popescu: it's kind-of like looking for
a soviet army unit without
a political comissar.
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 01:16:52; asciilifeform: hruschev was
a whole gensec and what did that get him after retirement.
BingoBoingo: adlai:
A number of technologies produce by
a factor of ten more probems than they solve, why would regex be so bad. Not like it is python...
adlai: regex authorship is
a treacherous knowledge
BingoBoingo: adlai: If I had knowledge to author regex, I'd have
a refutation...
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 01:11:52; Pierre_Rochard: ^ what I’m waiting for is an exchange with segregated fiat accounts held by
a custodian bank. May be wishful thinking
adlai: you used
a regular keyboard with the lispm?
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 01:10:36; pete_dushenski: at the time it seemed like
a basement operation
decimation: macports has
a 'port' of gcc-gnat , but it requires an existing ada compiler to build
decimation: asciilifeform: I spent
a few days trying to get ada working on osx 10.9, gave up
BingoBoingo confesses running to OpenBSD instead of Gentoo not because of knowledge, but from
a lack of knowledge. Still determine personal minimal set of installed software. No confident enough to make best choices on
a whole workstation (as opposed to appliance) stack.
mircea_popescu: "Samba is
a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs." szus nothing to me
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> decimation: but in this case the package manager is not at fault. someone deliberately sabotaged
a library. << So on OpenBSD I'm nt finding an Ada port or package that works with sufficient frequency to make it too the tree. Looking like the turdswitch may have been flipped in GCC
decimation: asciilifeform: well, this is
a general problem in C programming - the failure to provide
a global namespace
assbot: Logged on 08-02-2015 18:50:39; asciilifeform: trying to explain that it is quit impossible to have
a package management system above the language level that is not dumbed down by support for braindamaged languages.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform overheard right now "o yeah ? well the gentoo manual was down for likle... 3 days. i don't think this is
a good sign"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> this "private language" thing is
a lot easier said than done. << Is any truly dark art otherwise? When you surrender the truth of mathematics to language?
decimation: adlai: recently i've become
a fan of arvo pärt (yes, via moldbug)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the notion of
a "deprecated symbol" boggles my mind.,
mircea_popescu: i remember
a time, maybe 10 or so years ago, when having
a paypal was like,
a point of pride.
adlai is no longer
a pay pal >:(
mircea_popescu: this "private language" thing is
a lot easier said than done.
adlai: well anyone can factor
a number of arbitrary length in arbitrary time... consistently being able to factor arbitrary length numbers in constant time, now that is
a 'supernatural' algorithm, relative to current knowledge
BingoBoingo: If anyone has
a time machine to lend I have all kinds of trans cholonolgical arbitrage opportunities that can enrish you provided you give me exactly one whole minute longer than it takes to start the machine alone with it.
danielpbarron: even though it's still not proven, i'll go out on
a limb saying that the ability to factor
a number of arbitrary length would have to come from
a supernatural source, and such
a being could probably break all the alternative methods
mircea_popescu: looking in the logs, apparently alf created
a new word nao, "portatronic"
adlai: not really, there's just
a single prime in bitcoin crypto, and there's no need to factor anything