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xanthyos: ok i may be wasting my time but i'm going to try to get that guy thomas_d into the wot again tonight
nubbins`: i think if the current smartest man can't say for sure, then yes
mircea_popescu: do i pass ?
mircea_popescu: for i x to y output + Fizz if i|3 output + Buzz if i|5 output + i if output is empty.
mircea_popescu: then i plugged a led into the serial port and had it blink when i lasered too, and this i think was the pinnacle of achievement.
mircea_popescu: i think in the end i got it, and so i could fire as much as i wanted, no concern for bs "laser heating"
mircea_popescu: i loved deathtrack, and i spent a while finetuning the sound implementation of basic to make the same laser sound.
nubbins`: the day i realized i could just type spcinvad instead of spcinvad.exe!!
mircea_popescu: "Is that a real program or is that something somebody wrote?" << ah yea, now this makes sense. i had the exact same notion, for exactly the same reason. a "real program" was something that didn't need to use the z80 basic interpreter, wasn't editable for this reason, and this immutability was cool. then on the msdos system, .exe binaries exactly mapped on this same structure of cool.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` what i meant was a distinction between self publishing, ie, being the editor, and self-rape, ie, being the customer of an editor specialised in raping idiots.
mircea_popescu: i'm awake because real cults don't sleep, they wait.
BingoBoingo: I'm awake for a while. Winter came. Interfered with my sleep
asciilifeform: (why this was relevant - i will explain later. assuming anyone still cares. and is awake.)
mircea_popescu: well, i guess this is a good point for anyone considering using Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP : don't.
cazalla: BingoBoingo, i've read that, this is just something i come across while looking for news
BingoBoingo: cazalla: I wrote a piece on that once
asciilifeform: yeah i think we did that one here
mircea_popescu: which is why i am so keen on executions.
asciilifeform: i don't own a computer 'fast' enough to 'flip' a pdf the way a dead tree heap can be flipped, and not sure if such a machine even exists.
asciilifeform: for instance, i like, e.g., ic data sheets, in dead tree.
asciilifeform: when i say 'personal printer', i mean, in lieu of an actual printer.
BingoBoingo: If I were to imagine a serious book piracy operation, the standard glue "Perfect" binding would be prefered
asciilifeform: for what it's worth, i routinely use 'lulu.com' as a personal printer.
asciilifeform: lay-flat requires, i think, saddle-stitch binding
BingoBoingo: I mean it's solid. I didn't get gyp'd on glue
asciilifeform: damn, wish i could find that ancient piece.
mircea_popescu: intending it as a sort of compliment i guess ?)
mircea_popescu: (true story, gave one to woman, she's like "oh this is so nice, i've never read a book before!"
mircea_popescu: i ask you for i suspect you've read books before.
mircea_popescu: i mean as a product. the thing itself.
asciilifeform: i was thinking of a different envelope.
asciilifeform: not long ago, i opened yet another envelope in expectation of finding 'a book that was actually a book once' and got an ms-word formatted turd
BingoBoingo: Yeah. In the aftermath I did the math on, "What if I actually had something worth publishing on tree cadavers"
BingoBoingo: But I was young, dumb, and in grad school pt. 1
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: 20 or so I believe. I think on ebooks I got 30%. "Self" publishing is a racket
BingoBoingo remembers publishing a poetry book at a ninety something percent loss. -ISBN-(sample copies)+(~7 dollars in ebook revenue from Austrialia) = Loss, I was enlightened, also a week later on lithium
nubbins`: http://i.imgur.com/04rtgLI.jpg unsuccessful attempt w/ stochastic dots
nubbins`: http://i.imgur.com/6qVTCuK.jpg close up
nubbins`: http://i.imgur.com/rOmIAe1.jpg
asciilifeform: self-licking ice cream cone << i learned the phrase from mr. mold, who used it to describe u.s. academia.
mircea_popescu: As far as I am aware, the phrase came into usage among knowing observers of the Vietnam War. A self-licking ice cream cone is a programme or policy that costs money and resources, generating a great deal of activity; produces indicators of its own success, preferably quantitative; but does not actually achieve its announced goals. Indeed, a proper self-licking cone undermines the very purposes for which it was created,
undata: why "IS"? I'm sure he and others clearing houses of everything that moved didn't help.
undata: a brother of a friend was in fallujah; I've heard a few of his stories, and they weren't about iced cream.
asciilifeform: (or more fantastic example - ice cream. i have it on good authority that many american units in iraq were supplied even with it.)
mircea_popescu: i can readily see numerous angles through which retiring from the us military to baghdad rather than kansas is preferable to the 19 yo mind.
BingoBoingo: I thought that was linked here not too long ago, except they went native at their own station.
undata: I can't rub two coherent thoughts together that make going back to Iraq a good idea.
BingoBoingo: I recall they were short on toilet paper and toothpaste last time. I recall solicitations for "care packages" consisting of basic necessities when I was at school.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not the first. i vaguely recall '1 flak jacket for 3 men' in the last one
cazalla: mircea_popescu, prolly a fake name, i've searched and searched and there is nothing on this guy
undata: I guess Iraq is the ditch we want to die in
nubbins`: well i can see what they mean
nubbins`: i assumed it was so if you spat the file out, the bash prompt would be on a new line
nubbins`: i don't know ;/
nubbins`: truthfully i wonder if deedbot shouldn't be stripping the trailing \n
mircea_popescu: i bet you you can't pikc out butt virgins in a line-up.
nubbins`: i know pico does
nubbins`: but try as i may, some parts of my old brain just won't reformat
nubbins`: i grab the base64 deed via json when verifying
jurov: this ended up py base64 decoder bug... deeds don't do anything w/base64 i hope
nubbins`: i will permit it to pass over me and through me
nubbins`: i will face my derp
nubbins`: i must not derp. derping is the mind-killer.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i'd say this is progressing nicely.
jurov: i suggested it for text.. but yes it's dumb
mircea_popescu: i know this from the mpex faq days.
asciilifeform: also i don't remember if i reminded anyone of this, but unix 'patch' utility is rather braindead.
asciilifeform: in that respect, all of the patches i (and the 2 other fellows) offered so far, are monolithic.
asciilifeform: when i originally suggested 'one change', it was a semantic thing
mircea_popescu: i dunno ;/
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i mean specifically about patches to foss.
jurov: otherwise i hve no idea how to put such semantic metainfo in the db
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i know.
asciilifeform: this was actually a point i brought up when mircea_popescu said 'one day you shall earn bread by signing code' or something to that effect
mircea_popescu: anyway, even if they are all mononuclear, there's still semantic value to be had. suppose i wish to say "have read and understood this to do what it says ; have not tested it in fact".
jurov: i dunno how it can be cryptographically linked
asciilifeform: well, when i'm dead, someone else (e.g. you) can cut X into X.a and X.b
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have an idea here. if this actually plays out, you would say to me: 'i will not sign X. because i grok X.a but not X.b. please split into two, and i shall sign X.a, or go on to explain to me precisely how X.b works.'
mircea_popescu: jurov but suppose i wish to say "reviewed X part ; Y part outside of my comprehension". can not be done ?
asciilifeform: jurov: i got yet another copy of 'patch' in email. i presume you are turning the knobs as we speak?
mircea_popescu: jurov incidentally, gimme the short version, how do i submit to this thing ?
asciilifeform: i'd suggest showing original patch author's sig also
gernika: mircea_popescu you're right - the claim is that it *could* be used by them I suppose.
cazalla: gernika, i can't say i'm that interested in promoting altcoins but thanks for the tip
BingoBoingo: Eh, I'll write an ISIS coin article then.
mircea_popescu: i have a lot of sympathy for kids trying to piece together some shard of understanding out of isaiah berlin, rory mcilroy and ronald mcdonald.
mircea_popescu: except i don't. :)
assbot: I don't care if you landed a spacecraft on a comet, your shirt is sexist and ostracizing | The Verge
undata: not to derail, but I have to paste this here: http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/13/7213819/your-bowling-shirt-is-holding-back-progress
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i linked a youtube of a pirvulescu attack on ceausescu.
joecool: mircea_popescu: not thinking it was socialism, I just didn't consider it anarchism
mircea_popescu: "i know better than you lot, you lot are stupid, not least of all for being a lot in the first place".
joecool: <mircea_popescu> even stalin was (and roughly stayed) an anarchist. < would you expound on this a bit? I have never seen that viewpoint expressed
asciilifeform: really? i don't recall being asked - which butt.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i;ll tell you how that went. dudes for some reason perceive the need to "sell" it, and since it's obvious that you can't sell something to someone that the someone;d perceive as a "worse" alternative, then necessarily it must be made so that anarchy is not more painful to the average derp than you know, the 1980s in the us.
undata: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/mp6C4g23uYo/hqdefault.jpg
mircea_popescu: if i recall there was a lengthy thread of naked women in star wars paraphenalia
mircea_popescu: what, the "i have no balls" tag was taken ?
JuliaTourianski: i may break my abstinence tonight if this website still exists
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nap | nap. 3 hours of sleep or less. Zerostar took a nap from 2pm to 5pm. by GheTTo January 08, ... My roommate just left for class, so I think I'm going to take a nap.