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pete_dushenski: only to fall head over heels for
a slightly more verbose version of the same thing
adlai isn't aware of
a major exchange that with
a satisfactory history
mircea_popescu: i can't begin to imagine how people think actresses are to be taken seriously if it's plain obvious that should
a drill sargeant manifest and yell "STRIP!" she'd start trembling like an eight year old.
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> it was so strange to see an apparently confident woman be so physically inept <<< this is quite
a problem, yes.
pete_dushenski: ^took in
a play ostensibly about domination and submission last night
adlai: i'd make
a more reasonable offer for
a more attractive amount of capital
mircea_popescu: nah, first timers get
a few % of the profit, and at the end of
a whole year.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 05-02-2015 01:27:14; mircea_popescu: well, if you make
a f.mpif pc and report your trades, say daily, and submit monthly sum reports, i dunno, 10 ?
mircea_popescu: aww, global warming -> climate change is not
a trope creator ?! WHO KNEW!!!
mircea_popescu: rday's proved-to-the-hilt atrocity story can become
a ridiculous lie, merely because the political landscape has changed."
mircea_popescu: f his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence. Recently I drew up
a table of atrocities during the period between 1918 and the present; there was never
a year when atrocities were not occurring somewhere or other, and there was hardly
a single case when the Left and the Right believed in the same stories simultaneously. And stranger yet, at any moment the situation can suddenly reverse itself and yeste
punkman: "It's not maintained by enough people, given how big it is, and it contains
a lot of old cruft that should be gotten rid of. When it got re-engineered from version 1 to version 2, version 2 got re-engineered in this abstract way [so] that it's hard to figure out what's going on on the back end."
punkman: "Matt Green,
a professor specializing in cryptography at Johns Hopkins University, said he has looked at the GnuPG source code and found it in such rough shape that he regularly assigns chunks of it to his students for review. At the end I ask how they felt about it and they all basically say: 'God, please I never want to do something like this again'"
punkman: asciilifeform: yes I have perused (even before #b-
a ;)
mircea_popescu: but in any case - i'm perhaps the worst market for any language. sort-of like
a grasshopper is no market for leather goods.
mircea_popescu: i don't write any c, either, or c++. i've never written either java or javascript. i sometimes to
a little bash, and always to dig up natural language strings in natural language dialects. or otherwise mess the mup.
mircea_popescu: imagine me like
a guy that has no poem to write. k ? so i don't write in italian. splendid language for the best of poems, and even for talking melodicly about the tv shows.
mircea_popescu: i think it's
a fine language! i just don't have anything to do in it.
mircea_popescu: "I think that, like species, languages will form evolutionary trees, with dead-ends branching off all over. We can see this happening already. Cobol, for all its sometime popularity, does not seem to have any intellectual descendants. It is an evolutionary dead-end--
a Neanderthal language."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform um. this seems to me just
a completely inept, disorganised kid.
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk trusting summaries, especially when "graphical" is
a sure path to perdition.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2015 21:22:05; mircea_popescu: "4. You don't deserve to know any of that. It's none of your business. I invited my readers to chip in on
a project--or not. I did not invite you to worm your nose into every aspect of my life, hunt down pictures of my home, call me names, or tell me I was worthless, arrogant, greedy, and undeserving. But you want to rip me bare and expose how awful you're sure I am. I get it, you want me transparent
phillipsjk: I was in Cadets for
a while, and liked map&compass.
phillipsjk: The source does not have
a graphical summary. You can think of it as
a "map". Maps are known to be wrong on occasion.
phillipsjk: See, there is some gold buried in the bitcointalk forum. Sifting through all the noise is
a pain sometimes though.
phillipsjk: I don't understand the complete implementation details, but how do they how to convert the signatures without messing with the merkle tree? Have
a table of weird transactions?
phillipsjk: "The requirement to have signatures that comply strictly with DER has been enforced as
a relay policy by the reference client since v0.8.0, and very few transactions violating it are being added to the chain as of January 2015. In addition, every non-compliant signature can trivially be converted into
a compliant one, so there is no loss of functionality by this requirement."
phillipsjk:
A careful reading of the logs shows that mod6 was careful to use the pre-f revision of debian SSL.
mircea_popescu: signatures are
a major vulnerability. mostly because nobody in fucking crypto except for us understands the actual constraints.
mircea_popescu: hey anyone remembers these bits i quoted some weeks ago about this woman that did
a kickstarter-like thing for her oyung adult novel
mircea_popescu: aawww, troll was
a ... woman ?! ethnic ?! NOT POSSIBRU
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: heh i do. i actually made
a buck on that scam.
assbot: Logged on 24-02-2014 18:09:12; mircea_popescu: "So above you see pankkake continue to smear the company ActiveMining (by calling it an investment scam, associating it with the known 'LabCoin scam', saying the CEO is facing jail and accusing me of being
a scammer (!)) after Ken publicly refused to pay pankkake's blackmail money demand."
mircea_popescu: ironically, irc was
a big thing when i was
a teen. then pretty much forgot about it. only rediscovered it in
a frustrated attempt to make sense of the ever mounting idiocy that bitcoin appeared to be.
☟︎ danielpbarron: when i was in college, i sorta made
a fool of myself by giving
a presentation about irc in some computer class; the presentation was supposed to be about some online business we were supposed to have come up with in
a semester. In retrospect, it was exactly the right thing to present; kids growing up without awareness of irc is not helping them
Guest70720: i'm still trying to understand how this irc thing works. I've been lurking for quite
a while but mostly on the blogs and forums
assbot: Looking for investment in my new startup "Facade". The model is simple, I take your money, do what I want for
a year then you write it off
mircea_popescu:
a) she didn't choose ; b) you don't actually see
a "that" there.
mircea_popescu: could it be just 25k worth of fraud which really "isn't all that much" especially seeing how "everyone deserves
a living wage" ?
mircea_popescu: " This of course adds the complexity to Clojure. The question is – does this acquired complexity worth it? I think it does. You gain
a platform that is being poured thousands of man-hours every year into, you gain
a GC that is being optimized for you, you gain the crossplatformity basically for free. You may call that opportunism but it works after all."
mircea_popescu: "Engineering complexity is
a form of environmental pollution; perhaps even the worst form of all, because it may yet turn out to be the case that it can kill whole civilizations, not just individual people."
mircea_popescu: i suppose "resonance chamber" isn't actually
a good enough answer.
mircea_popescu: "in
a sense, Windows is
a result of the way C++ builds environments, like Unix is
a result of how C does it." << and in this sense... their merging would be expected at about the time "most people" couldn't if press explain exactly what the ++ stand for.
mircea_popescu: not all of them actually end in
a resonant chamber do they ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform laugh if you will, but if pressed to come up with
a definition of humanity, at least as an ideal object, the most sound i can think up is, "that collection of objects which construct relations which degrade gracefully"
mircea_popescu: ce tag,
a secretary does not produce any more measurable output now than in 1950 -- in fact, the evidence suggests that obtaining _half_ the productivity of
a 1950's secretary in 1997 is
a major feat. the fact that managers write their own reports at down to 1/10th of the speed of
a secretary that used to be paid 1/10th of their salary also means that the time spent producing
a letter or
a report can cost as much as 1
mircea_popescu: "according to
a report in the Economist earlier this year, the cost of producing any piece of business communication dropped along with advances in computers from 1950 through 1980. from 1985 through 1995, it rose sharply enough to consume all earnings made since 1950. it is significantly more expensive to produce
a business letter in 1997 than it was in 1950. despite many technological advances with
a very high pri
mircea_popescu: at which point does the use of "seperate" in the original text suggest to him that he's dealing with
a simple man with simple problems and he'd better stick to simpler solutions ?
mircea_popescu: which of course in
a different time would beg the snide question if orwell were ever married.
mircea_popescu: (to dampen that : fry likes wilde more because wilde was
a fag than because wilde was good. which he wasn't THAT good. but nevertheless, THIS point is sound in this context)
mircea_popescu: the great utility of the scribe / secretary, rather than the tits, is that natural languages have piles and layers of redundancy built in.
a good note taker is
a cheap way to gain 50 to 100% speed and
a decent 10 to 25% quality for very little cost.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re the "Have you ever actually used
a speech recognition system to enter serious lengths of text? " line in your comments : i agree talking to
a comp
mod6 does
a data round-up & updates openssl on AWS instance
mod6: So, yeah, there are
a number of topics that we look forward to discussing with you about future of the R.I. We'll get there. :]
mod6: where you can connect to 'bitcoind' with
a wallet of your choosing. if that's what you mean.
mircea_popescu: mod6 does that idea go as far as making bitcoin
a sort of xserver ?
mod6: asciilifeform: One school of thought is to take the wallet, and place it outside of the R.I. as
a seperate entity.
mircea_popescu: and
a sad testament to what you get stuck with if , like satoshi, have to jackbuild
a house
mircea_popescu: why the fuck we're importing from
a different project - and THAT one in particular is anyone's guess