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diana_coman: now if you care about that when you die that is indeed too much, lol
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, now that makes me curious just how much is too much and how much is perfectly fine and how much is too little
mircea_popescu: the stories of people who cared too much.
asciilifeform: When everything was ready and the cup was placed in the vessel, Lilavati suddenly out of curiosity bent over the vessel and a pearl from her dress fell into the cup and blocked the hole in it. The lucky hour passed without the cup sinking. Bhaskaracharya believed that the way to console his dejected daughter, who now would never get married, was to write her a manual of mathematics!'
asciilifeform: 'Lilavati was the name of Bhaskaracharya's daughter. From casting her horoscope, he discovered that the auspicious time for her wedding would be a particular hour on a certain day. He placed a cup with a small hole at the bottom of the vessel filled with water, arranged so that the cup would sink at the beginning of the propitious hour.
asciilifeform: ( http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Bhaskara_II.html << subj, for the intrepid )
asciilifeform: ( from 'Lilavati', c. 1150 ad, Colebrook transl., )
mircea_popescu: "and nineteen down her throat"
asciilifeform: in other olds, ''Whilst making love a necklace broke. / A row of pearls mislaid. / One sixth fell to the floor. / One fifth upon the bed.'
pete_dushenski: bbl. all these preggos are reminding me that it's father's day.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile at the rancho, http://68.media.tumblr.com/2491ae09fbc9361bd6075e778b5be581/tumblr_inline_odvi78kjch1u1xzy9_1280.jpg
pete_dushenski: that should do for now. log spam over for today.
deedbot: pete_dushenski updated rating of BingoBoingo from 2 to 3 << sober yarn-spinner and green thumb.
mircea_popescu: i think a more apt misspelling would have been dlolar
a111: Logged on 2017-06-18 19:43 mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski what's the poor schmuck goin to say, "dolalr is worthless and we're all fucked, all hail mp" ?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-18#1671900 << every time i see these, immediately think of those ww2 'surrender nao' leaflets ☝︎
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: now there's an idea!
shinohai: http://ethosdistro.com/ <<< I did not know this monstrosity existed
a111: Logged on 2017-06-18 19:25 pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: not yet. pretty much struck out on heathen osen (osx and openbsd) and my linuxbox is mid-rebuild. replacing fans and having a hell of a time finding screws that fit the deeper "noctua" units. it's still on the list but not there yet.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-18#1671888 << oughta ask phf, perhaps he has this pill ( iirc has both openbsd and crapple in active use ) ☝︎
deedbot: pete_dushenski unrated thenewdeal.
shinohai: Gah I need to do wot updates too ... been wellover a year
mod6: I'll try to get that done this week.
mod6: That reminds me too -- I need to go through and cleanout my wot one of these days.
deedbot: pete_dushenski updated rating of mod6 from 3 to 4 << co-chair of trbf. gentleman and patient preceptor.
deedbot: pete_dushenski rated mod6 3 at 2015/12/31 17:23:00 << co-chair of trbf. gentleman.
mod6: pete_dushenski: saw your blog post about how you worked through getpeerinfo - very nice of you to say. :]
mircea_popescu: something like that
pete_dushenski: to be sure. and the rest flows from there. like there's always a peak of a waterfall or the top of a mountain. nature paints certain portraits over and over.
mircea_popescu: and no, there isn't "always someone better". rather, there's always a best.
mircea_popescu: discussion was from the perspective of the best kid.
pete_dushenski: the third kind is... the better kid.
mircea_popescu: there's two kinds of kids on any schoolyard : those who know you're better than them and admit it, and those who know you're better than them and will have to be beaten into shit because of it.
mircea_popescu: he ain't gonna say that. true or not true, he's not saying it.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski what's the poor schmuck goin to say, "dolalr is worthless and we're all fucked, all hail mp" ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: hehe i do too
pete_dushenski: this is worse than doge!
pete_dushenski: speaking of "alts" it somehow escaped my attention until yesterday (or perhaps this particular lulzbit went in one ear and out the other) but did you know that there's no cap on the maximum number of ether ?
pete_dushenski: david siegel doesn't provide any reasons why wealthy people want to be poor like him and his readers because he doesn't need to. neither he nor his readers can imagine anyone that doesn't want to be on the forefront of the cryptocurrency revolution JUST LIKE THEM
pete_dushenski: "Any early bitcoin miner or investor now has thousands of bitcoins. Most are Chinese. Each 500 bitcoins is $1 million. These “bitcoin whales” are now very wealthy. They would like to reduce their exposure to bitcoin" << bwahaha this is what passes of "op-ed" in non-qntra circles.
pete_dushenski: shinohai: thanks for testing!
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: not yet. pretty much struck out on heathen osen (osx and openbsd) and my linuxbox is mid-rebuild. replacing fans and having a hell of a time finding screws that fit the deeper "noctua" units. it's still on the list but not there yet. ☟︎
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: !~later tell pete_dushenski didja ever get your FG going ??
mircea_popescu: that's really the on;y thing you need it for anyway
asciilifeform: curl http://idiocy.gov | /bin/bash still Worx Great!111 tho
mircea_popescu: binary could scare black chix coding into going back to twerking
mircea_popescu: at least it gives the prostitutes something to yak about other than "i has found satoshee"
BingoBoingo: TO THE BEETUS!
mircea_popescu: how teh ethereum flies...
shinohai is glad his internet service was restored in time to mark this occasion .....
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/06/today-is-the-first-anniversary-of-dao-emptying-ethereum-attack/ << Qntra - Today Is The First Anniversary of "DAO Emptying" Ethereum Attack
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
shinohai: !~later tell BingoBoingo http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/Kjc0Q/?raw=true <<< My bun in teh oven
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in today's theme, http://68.media.tumblr.com/0c76d6bf31a35aa19f9a07ca5caf07c9/tumblr_inline_odvi73TNNK1u1xzy9_1280.jpg
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/06/bitcoin-network-mining-difficulty-takes-modest-4-85-percent-uptick-to-new-all-time-high/ << Qntra - Bitcoin Network Mining Difficulty Takes Modest ~4.85 Percent Uptick To New All Time High
sina: what a first link to click after exiting the shower
shinohai was trying to find the reference to project Habakkuk determining that a single horsepower motor could keep a vessel made of pykrete refrigerated .....
shinohai: If one day tmsr has a navy, must have slave-girls that shoot dildo torpedoes at enemies.
mircea_popescu: i think that's a vast.
mircea_popescu: wisely spoken, because here's the torpedoes it shoots : http://68.media.tumblr.com/b990c1ef2101a1a8954a7067c1e8e97f/tumblr_od05y7idhS1uf4nugo2_400.gif
shinohai: That cannon could prolly take a a littoral combat ship
sina: nothing further to report
sina: https://archive.fo/Ys3sQ << spotted this morning
a111: Logged on 2017-06-17 21:33 shinohai: So apparently all one needs to destroy a US destroyer is container ship: http://archive.is/4GbGw
sina: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-17#1671691 << surely the commander will be defrocked for this, nobody watching the fucking blinking lights? ☝︎
sina: I looked again through asciilifeform bignum lib in Ada
mircea_popescu: but prolly more of a northern clime thijng
mircea_popescu: i've seen full cover with it tho
BingoBoingo: It does do well for very dense patches, but hard to make a monoculture lawn out of it, because with the sligtest change in grade or soil, patch ends
mircea_popescu: pretty too
mircea_popescu: thaty's the idea, it shades well so it dominates if installed properly. and it never grows over coupla inches.
BingoBoingo: clover's not so aggressive weeds can't grow through it and it is on the kill list of all the selective weed killers
mircea_popescu: nopt alfalfa tho, that grows tall
mircea_popescu: maybe try clover ?
asciilifeform: ( and so 'gardeners' are not really a thing, here in monkeystan )
asciilifeform: funnily, i could easily afford, say, a gardener, but refuse to pay the equivalent of 8 gardeners so that obummercare and shameekas.
asciilifeform: the only actual solution is to leave the accursed jail. but so far aint got to where.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: still not magic pill, the weeds happily grow in it, even taller than the grass per se
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Bluegrass Bella Grass Plugs| Bluegrass Bella Plugs for shade and ...: <http://www.highcountrygardens.com/sustainable-lawns/grass-plugs/blue-grass-bella>; Bella Bluegrass - Todd Valley Farms: <https://toddvalleyfarms.com/BellaBluegrass.htm>; No Mow Bella Blue Grass | Bella blue grass - Roberta's Garden's: <http://robertasgardens.net/groundcovers/no-mow-bellar-blue-grass-70-plug-tray.html>
asciilifeform: 'neighbour's grass' is part of the mandatory fantasyland these folx live in
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sounds like the solution to your problem would be bonzai grass.
asciilifeform: we actually had a d00d here who did this
shinohai: Don't like to mow? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SJEUFF4/ref=asc_df_B00SJEUFF45034810/?tag=hyprod-20&creative=394997&creativeASIN=B00SJEUFF4&linkCode=df0&hvadid=167146984279&hvpos=1o3&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5746195614524956660&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=21164&hvlocphy=9010851&hvtargid=pla-308200867139
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if you can find me an agentorange where the bloody shit STAYS GREEN 4evah, i'll buy for its weight in silver.
asciilifeform: i ain't doing this weekly.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i got one. problem is that it needs SCHEDULE
BingoBoingo: There's still reel mower as long as you can get traction on your turf
mircea_popescu: great for your back, and from experience as fast as the crapomachines
asciilifeform: the humble grass cutter went the way of the pc -- you get to choose between affordable rubbish and 'must amortize and work this for pay' golden toilet
asciilifeform: the petrol-engined things, aside from vibration ( can't use my hands for day+ after ) and acrid smoke , also made of shit, i've thrown out 2 (after attempting various orc repairs, cleaned carb etc) in frustration
mircea_popescu: aha. this is why i did it in timisoara, flatland, and not here.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: these work great maybe in sane house where ground is straight and not 1,001 items for cord to catch
asciilifeform: and takes 4x longer to charge than discharge..
asciilifeform: story gets even moar pathetic, the battery (i shit thee not) died in my 'furca' for 2nd time today
mircea_popescu: was there, also man with flamethrower
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform has not read the story of hyenas and haggling i take it :D
asciilifeform: esp if the latter worked on city hall et al
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'd luvv to mow with flamethrower. or disintegrator mean.
mircea_popescu: contrary to what undersexed young men may think, the prime utility of the harem also.