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devthedev: I was planning on writing for CryptoDeck less formally, more for fun and qntra more formally but I kinda got burnt out.
thestringpuller: i forgot what it is
TheNewDeal: I took a class that was all about MIPS, but it got over my head at the end. I was a mech engr stuck in a class of comp sci students
asciilifeform: i like to call it 'koraktor'
thestringpuller: K&R is how I learned C. So no complaints.
decimation: I recommend this book too http://archive.arstechnica.com/etc/books/deep-c.html
TheNewDeal: So I'm reading this conversation about programming languages from 7 days ago (28-10-2014). There is a lot of trash talking about OOPs, like C++. I don't see anyone mention C. Is C just not worth mentioning?
BingoBoingo: decimation: I think of Denton more as the mirror image of the Koch Brothers, but that's a very imperfect correspondence.
BingoBoingo: decimation: Maybe once I set up a homestead in more civilized lands
thestringpuller: I understand Wired. But gawker not so much.
Vexual: Ben I must thank you for getting me back on grapes
mircea_popescu: anyway, gawker, nov 4th. "But it's hard to tell if anyone is even real anymore." mp, sep 13th "I want the average redditor to understand that when he interacts with a screen name, he is not interracting with a person."
mircea_popescu: <jurov> if i did not set up alarm, wouldn't have noticed <<< i imagine this sounds better in german :D
decimation: BingoBoingo: I hear from folks who would know in Ohio that the most competent police there are the fish & game cops
ben_vulpes: sorry i mean cloudfront i think
jurov: i dont have cloudflare but aws. nothing really happened, it just paints nice graphs
jurov: if i did not set up alarm, wouldn't have noticed
BingoBoingo: Of course they get read. It's just... luer lock being a thing with a name I could have swore was the rare s.nsa detail that in the statement could have been shelf pointed to sooner if more transparent.
asciilifeform: ferglubssake, i write the broadcasts, does anybody read'em?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu lol i learned it auditorally so spelling wasn't a problem
mircea_popescu: i imagine indian kids have it the worst. i've seen some pretty gnarly shit.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu i can spell your name, just can't pronounce it!
mircea_popescu: i still can't.
mircea_popescu: i am surprised you could spell your own name
pete_dushenski: historical footnote, "police" was the first word i could actually spell other than my own name
mircea_popescu: western i mean as opposed to japanese.
mircea_popescu: i don't mean that part.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo i won't say my homework's done just yet
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i can still be pissy!
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu anyways, i look forward to seeing it acted, off-script, next time i'm in town
BingoBoingo: I think maybe it's a spambot that saw a word and forgot to link to Ugg boots or Nike's
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what that dude's saying.
mircea_popescu: so i was with this chick earlier, her parents had the weird idea of calling her Modesty
ben_vulpes: i bring this elk in tribute
mircea_popescu: ima steal it then, to me it sounds like something i'd say.
ben_vulpes: he's not in a logged channel, i'll refrain from sharing his handle.
ben_vulpes: <******> as long as there are tools, there will be people using them poorly << i give up
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> when do we get on with one of us proving p==np and the others throwing him off a boat? << I have a feeling this is like weaponized bitcoind, if you have it best to keep it concealed
mircea_popescu: i has seen idem, idem.
mircea_popescu: ifully over my head that I couldn’t read anything else for weeks. As someone always hunting for an intellectually challenge, I’d never seen anything even remotely like #b-a. At once technical, philosophical, political, and outrageous, it was like a gift wrapped for someone else, and yet just for me.
mircea_popescu: Then, as always happens when one is freed from the banality of the familiar, I found myself with some spare time during a vacation in Mazatlán. Then, there, just like that, the pieces began falling into place. I actually sat down to read the #b-a logs and there I saw conversations unfolding before my very eyes that gave context to Trilema, that gave context to Bitcoin, and that were were so tearfully, blessedly, beaut
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: knapsack. << When restricted to a knapsack I dunno that digging anything bigger than a hole to bury turds should be a bigger priority than evading the force restricting you to a knapsack
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu well if i came back positive in my assessment, i'd send myself down the post-partum path. wasn't really in the mood for that.
BingoBoingo: Oh, how I've learned that, worthless for unburying potatoes
jurov: yea i heard it
pete_dushenski: lol i meant the cult expert bit. a well
asciilifeform: i suppose this was inevitable. the moldbug generation wants to run for u.s. office...
pete_dushenski: so jurov, how do i transfer my s.qntra to coinbr? id by incoming btc address?
cazalla: mircea_popescu, i have a look later this arvo, things to do this morning
jurov: i can set up
jurov: ben_vulpes: but i added the rules only yesterday
ben_vulpes: it worked so i didn't poke at it further
mircea_popescu: yeah i guess ima have to keep doing it on an amateur basis.
mircea_popescu: i guess i should start a special service. "for only one small pile of internet funbux, i will viciously insult one commenter on your blog entirely out of left side. cheaper than hiring indians to write comments, funnier too."
pete_dushenski: he's from around here and i recognize the name...
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i thought you two were irl buddies or something
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think that's mandated, buried in the license language somewhere 500 pages deep
mircea_popescu: you are aware i folded in utter defeat like fifty lines up yes ?
mircea_popescu: i should have heard this joke to death by now, neh ?
mircea_popescu: the "i don't plan to use the capability" thing makes me wonder : isn't it strange that "infertility" isn't the leading thing in dating sites and comedian's routines re dating sites ?
bounce: I don't *plan* on using that sort of thing, but if I'm building a phone it's gotta have the capability
asciilifeform: i bet they're just dying of boredom. won't somebody help.
asciilifeform: incidentally, i bet there's still a battalion at ft meade in charge of curating a library of sploits for fax machines.
mircea_popescu: so did i. both to... uspto! of all places
bounce: I sent a couple
bounce: so I'd have modem and fax support as well as voice and sms and whatnot. whether you use it is up to you.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, maybe i'm weird, but the only actual point of calling, ie voice, would be a woman, and rather than call (ie, on phone) i'd always prefer to call (ie, bitch get on plane)
ben_vulpes: i want to hook into the cell network from my laptop; make/receive calls etc
johntraveller: bounce: dunno about cost. I don’t think he went especially ‘custom’, though lots of chinese firms have been making custom handsets with custom android mods.
asciilifeform: they'll be retrofitted with mumetal shields, at ruinous public expense, i bet
mircea_popescu: omfg now i really want one.
mircea_popescu: you know, ever since the photo debate with bounce a few days ago, i'm kinda curious to see this photography drone gadget. imagine all the YOLO picutres taken by this orbiting drone thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, i got nothin'.
johntraveller: thanks, I did already, was just reading more about qntra
kakobrekla: it seems i found 'the no guy' > http://bitbet.us/stats/14wqgUXyHpuzyuwfYssfeLuL1YtZpeVkcR/
mircea_popescu: "There is no motherfucking reason conceivable or inconceivable that x.org should depend on netbase." i say!
mircea_popescu: bounce i'd be happy with os stacks that didn't make world depend on internet etc.
chetty: true, but we do what little we can ...(mostly I use the off button atm)
bounce: have shop run up a sample or two and I'd be happy really
chetty: I would go for a phone I knew didnt have n*a in it
johntraveller: mircea_popescu: hmm, maybe I should organise a couple local guys to do research and I write it up in english?
mircea_popescu: also i wish it entered into the record that romania was at no point during its ~2500ish year history sane. not ever.
johntraveller: asciilifeform: yeah. I also get the sense he hasn’t travelled much. living abroad makes it much easy to see your own cultural matrix, so to speak
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have this earlier convo burnished in my memory, me: "you know, it's quite possible you'll die there" op: "eh, fuckit. i'm too old anyway." me: "you're twenty four!"
asciilifeform: i think mircea_popescu already did this essay
asciilifeform: other thing is, when reading his 'i'm a surrender monkey, usg cannot be killed' posts, must remember that he's a 'tenured sea cucumber' in the sense that he keeps a dependopotamus, it birthed children, and he knows he won't be making it out of the gravity pit.
mircea_popescu: perhaps i overstate. but fuck it, someone's gotta.
asciilifeform: i'm still waiting to hear about someone other than mr mold, who did this
asciilifeform: i could've easily went there.
mircea_popescu: i suppose you put this under "no greek"
asciilifeform: johntraveller: as i gather, he saw the quality of the 'followers' and went full perelman.
johntraveller: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yeah, I followed a bunch of the NRx guys for a long time as I hadn’t encountered anyone else saying the same things. but I got bored after a while, they clearly don’t have any plans or goals
johntraveller: I emailed the guy but he seemed massively tinfoil
johntraveller: mircea_popescu: interesting. I would say the most active pre-existing groups (in order of size) were the manosphere guys, the HBD/white nationalist bloggers, the ‘orthosphere’ (a bunch of catholic bloggers), the lesswrong crowd
asciilifeform: bounce: i'm stuck with this machine in the field, and it gets 1 fps or so when running solely using 'intel' card switched on (which works)
mircea_popescu: johntraveller i know because at the time i had my research follow the thing to try and ascertain wtf this is from outside. the response came out as most of hte nodes are either tiny or long abandoned blogs, and pretty much nothing stil active.
xanthyos: thanks for retweeting that BingoBoingo i might now buy this https://www.etsy.com/listing/168455782/grammar-expletive-novelty-funny-mug?ref=sr_gallery_32&ga_search_query=grammar+mug&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery
mircea_popescu: meh i bet it was.
cazalla: i wonder how they are finding qntra
johntraveller: i believe hans-herman hoppe (classical lib who wrote an anti-democracy tract) turned him onto anti-democracy