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asciilifeform: undata: i'd like zero library deps.
nubbins`: i made cheese beer bread today
asciilifeform: 'this here's the block where i stuffed $redacted'
asciilifeform: 'aha, block xxxxx, this is when i tried mining on fpga'
kakobrekla: Luke-Jr ah didnt know it was alphabetical. i thought dicks come first.
asciilifeform: i had it scroll to terminal for a spell
nubbins`: BingoBoingo, i kid ;/
nubbins`: y'know, i've got a newspaper for sale...
ben_vulpes: in the notion of testing with which I am familiar at least.
ben_vulpes: i know that i'm a barbarian but i'm more of a Sven than a Hulk.
ben_vulpes: what, am i to expect my test harness to sprout warts spontaneously?
Luke-Jr: kakobrekla: do I need to ban you from the wiki, or will you respect alphabetical order on the Gambling list from now on?
asciilifeform: when i was dabbling in '07 with my not-bitcoin-that-shall-not-be-spoken-of - i used one.
ben_vulpes: this is actually a thing that i am working on.
nubbins`: yeah i've suffered a couple chokes here but seems to be still downloading blocks
asciilifeform: i suspect, though cannot say for certain, that there is nothing magic about 252448
mircea_popescu: i give up ?
nubbins`: http://i.imgur.com/gXXpVHE.jpg
asciilifeform: nah i think it enables laziness somehow
asciilifeform: he likes systemd i think
ben_vulpes: kiddo to my right laughed at me when i started texting lady v - "how are you even going to -- whoaaaaa."
ben_vulpes: oh i can tell
mircea_popescu: i forget who his name is. played flock of seagulls in true romance
ben_vulpes: i run litecoin (tee hee) in vm.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i was gonna toss the toy os
undata: asciilifeform: I'll keep logs
undata: how many years will I be waiting for a blockchain
kakobrekla: asciilifeform that phone is quite famous. like model m for keyboards i hear. was designed by some slovenian dude.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes> dafuq am i going to do with bt pop the chip out?
jurov: http://i.sme.sk/cdata/2/73/7381042/model-telefon-stropkov-r188-st.ir3-_t600.jpg
ben_vulpes: dafuq am i going to do with bt
bounce: no seriously. had an e52 but it sucked so much I went back.
ben_vulpes: i run an ios shop.
mircea_popescu: assbot: The Inside Story Of Matt Taibbi's Departure From First Look Media - The Intercept <<< what they don't want to say is teh real scoop - "people heard about the qntra model and it killed anyone's will to life i nany competing project."
ben_vulpes: I STILL GOT IT BABY
ben_vulpes: ahhhh holy shit you guys i just bought a flipphone
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you got it. about the time i threw my hands up too.
BingoBoingo: I remember
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo originally he was all excited about derpfoundation. back then we were on speaking terms, so i told him he's nuts. he thought i was nuts. then he got all unexcited, and left. then he came back. now he's leaving.
mircea_popescu: bounce: did I get that about right? << "that bitcoin thing, aka some fiat nonsense trying to call itself bitcoin", rather than "this bitcoin thing" :)
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 i think that only works on floor-shy victims neh ?
BingoBoingo: <mats_cd03> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jimmy_fatwing/Military/infantry_knife.htm << i was taught to kill a man with a knife prison-style; reduce distance to <20ft for purpose of sprint (2 second rule: a man can travel 22ft/2s), clinch the neck or bear hug the man while stabbing at the heart with 45 degree angle << Seems to be the only way justifiable from a self defense standpoint
mats_cd03: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jimmy_fatwing/Military/infantry_knife.htm << i was taught to kill a man with a knife prison-style; reduce distance to <20ft for purpose of sprint (2 second rule: a man can travel 22ft/2s), clinch the neck or bear hug the man while stabbing at the heart with 45 degree angle
mircea_popescu: on the blkchain i mean
asciilifeform: there was some grumbling that i didn't post an auto-zapper that turns 0.5.3 into the hash manifest in 'chicken'
BingoBoingo: Sheer coincidence I reached for Fairbairn Sykes and not Chris Carpenter Bobblehead
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was gonna use own db. for eventual transition to raw block device.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: can't say as i recall, the impression was formed over the course of 3 raves in quarries in the depths of oregon forests over my sixteenth summer.
undata: mircea_popescu: I can take a trolling; my response was to ignore it
mircea_popescu: now lyf is devoid of ultimate significance, i will give up on lyfing!
mircea_popescu: I WAS SAVING UP
undata: and I think I misintepreted people when hearing that
undata: I get offended to my core when someone says "can't be done, lets give up"
undata: mircea_popescu: I think you missed the point of my comment on open source, which was in response to "how will we ever finish the deturdification"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's going << i did specify hoping that i was wrong about this.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but now i don't see this thing as going anywhere << what, srlsy ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: me - i don't want jsonism in my book. << anything actually solidified in your head as to what you actually want ? sigs, really ?
mircea_popescu: i never drink again anything that gives me a hangover.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo he has a point there, this "need coffee to wake up" thing is nonsense. i know this experimentally.
mircea_popescu: bounce i don't care either way. maybe i;m the only person left i guess.
bounce: once had a job contract that forbade me from minding smoke. but at home I very much prefer no smoking at all.
mircea_popescu: *: BingoBoingo wonders about serious matters such as will Cardano prototype factory make the eventual loper prototype << my hope is that in the 2020s. but i've been off before by an xmas or two.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> hm, i like girls that wash ashtrays. i don't mean empty them in the trash, i mean actually wash the damned things. << Wait this thing I've been doing forever is unusual? I always wash the ashtrays at least weekly
dignork: jurov: I've figured webmail got my signed message scrambled with html?
mircea_popescu: hm, i like girls that wash ashtrays. i don't mean empty them in the trash, i mean actually wash the damned things.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i don't remember, is edsel a car or a bad cheesecake brand ?
BingoBoingo: I know
mircea_popescu: dude incredible how much subtext i miss. and i do read the logs!
BingoBoingo: I thought this is why alf patch series was named chicken
BingoBoingo: I think that's how you make an Edsel
mircea_popescu: i wonder how would a site worked on that principle go. "ever day traffic is up, hire someone ; every day traffic is down, fire someone"
BingoBoingo: At least I thought I was.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: No, I'm in one of the green ones in the middle
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: https://www.quantcast.com/qntra.net#!states << It's like a map of #b-a Usians << i thought everyone was from portland and atlanta.
jurov: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/ << i'd like to have turdatron ready for the anniversary, but it's unlikely
PeterL: who do I talk to to not have to !up scoopbot?
ben_vulpes: maybe the next time i actually laugh at a scope/timeline combination in a meeting and the potential client still falls all over themselves to sign our no deliverable, best effort contract my internal warning flags should go up
nubbins`: beats me. i've got a debian install here, it's in /usr/include
undata: nubbins`: what I meant to be asking is whether gentoo was weird by putting it in /usr/include/db4.8
undata: so I was deleting things
undata: I do; gentoo's just got it in /usr/include/db4.8
undata: that and unix survived. I was using the unix one
bounce: did I get that about right?
PeterL: question: my scoopbot dumps links from posts into the chan, should I ask to have assbot ignore it or provide the title of each link?
undata: I can send you a disassembled rube goldberg machine every time I open my mouth
undata: the grinding out code was a general statement of what I value
undata: I'll just grind out code and leave the speak to the pros
asciilifeform: or if not i - one of you.
asciilifeform: so, in peacetime, if i live that long, i can take it to forest and write a 'popescuan' replacement.
asciilifeform: do i need to explain why i asked for the book?
asciilifeform: but now i don't see this thing as going anywhere
asciilifeform: me - i don't want jsonism in my book.
asciilifeform: in my patches, thus far, nothing truly earth-shaking, just a surgical removal of what i consider clearly poisonous
ben_vulpes: i - software services
ben_vulpes: if i don't have a thing going on on saturday we could even go so far as to pair
undata: alright. I'll take a look at it saturday.
undata: ben_vulpes: I'll just start a local git repo with stock 0.5.3, add your existing patches, and look into backporting a fix
ben_vulpes: i halfway think the gpg signature turdatron blocking merges and discussion needs to be nuked and implemented by some eager beaver later
asciilifeform: undata: but i have very little to do with it otherwise...
asciilifeform: undata: i sorta initiated this thing, by pure accident.