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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just making a copy of their historical offerings.
asciilifeform: aah y'mean the 'we know your os, and of course it's winblowz, here have a .exe' thing ?
asciilifeform: in older lulz, 1d 18h left on the https://www.ebay.com/itm/Symbolics-MacIvory-model-3-8-MW-in-an-Apple-Quadra-650-80-MB-9-GB-Genera-8-3/113428507092 auction; i'ma bid, and if can get for under 5 , will have the thing xray tomographied ( sadly i have a quite finite budget presently for the proj ) ☟︎
asciilifeform was obsessed with the item as a boy, and went and... built. but unsurprisingly was unable to come up with the kilowatt spark gap horror that'd actually make circuit close even 1ce
a111: Logged on 2014-11-24 22:58 asciilifeform: jurov: tank is a particular type of tractor, let's say. it cultivates sovereignty (or did, in the age of the tank, but why nitpick) rather than edibles.
asciilifeform: ( a la wootz -- i.e. 'we have nfi how this worx but here it is' )
a111: Logged on 2017-12-28 14:27 mircea_popescu: there is no, strictly speaking, reason that iron MUST be provided on the surface of a planet just like the earth. it ~could~, very well, have simply gone through a place poor in planetoids and ended up entirely iron free on the surface. but it did not.
mircea_popescu: well so come here some time, can go for a walk in it.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck beach, arenal is a volcano.
asciilifeform: pretty hard to get a good cutting edge from plain sio2 ( try it some time ). with glass ( i.e. with na as well as si & o ) you get the requisite shear. so cuts.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: gotta nitpick : quartz ( plain old sio2 ) != obsidian. in the latter, the volcanic ash dun simply colour it black, but gives crystal lattice a shear plane ( so you get that delish cutting edge the stone age folx like )
mircea_popescu: anyway, works ad interim as a fine heuristic. whosoever is preoccupied with fairness can be readily discarded as intellectually useless. it's either fairness or correctness, and all the rest of http://trilema.com/2014/the-definitive-tract-on-sociopathy/ flows necessarily.
diana_coman: I can see it easily; it's a human right to have it easy in whatever definition of easy one might have floating by
diana_coman: I think it's simply a matter of effort-avoidance, what; i.e. change aka innovation is always "hard" so by consensus subversion will be attempted until ~all possible attempts are exhausted, sort of thing
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Sounds like a plan
asciilifeform: there's various ways, of varying degree of ugly, currently shitting out a hybrid variant
mircea_popescu: now, if you want "html maths", they're in http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-11#1879782 ; if you want fixwidth terminal math, it's http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-11#1879777 ; if you want "just like by hand", it'll be either latex or yeah, a photograph of your having done it by hand / a bitmap of some mechanized version thereof. dunno that there's a way out of this. ☝︎☝︎
mircea_popescu: yes well. none of this works with a fixwidth display. not that i'm against having font scaling separate by heigh and width, but currently, it dun exist.
asciilifeform: only items like a - b etc
asciilifeform: ( if there existed a 'height' attribute for font, it would entirely solve. but i have not turned up any such thing existing. )
asciilifeform: the annoying bit is that in e.g. http://www.loper-os.org/?p=2238 i was able to make html do a very close approx to the customary formatting.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the speciffic items discussed are not possible to render alphabetically, and for the reasons stated : fraction lines are not a character etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there was a 'mathsml' thing, but seems to require js, browsers briefly had and then dropped support
mircea_popescu: though there was a lulzy "extended" keyset back in the 80s to "do it". failed also.
mircea_popescu: im not aware there's a way to make terminal-html-math. not even tex does that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how would this work in terminal ? it's supposed to be a html thing, graphical browser.
asciilifeform: aite, a++++
mircea_popescu: ima fix it for you, but it will take longert than a moment because ima take the opportunity to write trilema article explain how to use html for maffs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah. a sec.
asciilifeform: ( before suggest 'mathml' -- asciilifeform dun have a browser which displays it, and suspects that nobody here does either )
asciilifeform currently in a bout of rage re the retardation of html, where formatting a kindergarten-level equation takes hrs and still dun satisfy
trinque: I'll admit it was a knee-jerk reaction to the zombie bioreactor. Possibly there are much better ways to shut it down.
asciilifeform: hieroglyphs are a bitch.
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu even had a piece on subj, re 'honour culture'
a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 00:38 asciilifeform: jp was a hair's width away from picking up the torch that anglotardistan dropped, and anglos knew this, and so in late '80s they engineered an economic implosion for'em
mircea_popescu: then ~group~ of wanna-be german rus' tribe copied the item. AS A GROUP.
mircea_popescu: and a ru copy.
asciilifeform: nah it's moar of a 'planet x' affair.
mircea_popescu: isn't this by now a sort of "evolution never happened" ?
asciilifeform: all i can add , is that i get a coupla MB of phuctor traffic from cn on a typical day.
mircea_popescu: and by "a guy" i mean a whole community on a forum somewhere.
mircea_popescu: yet there WAS a guy translating trilema for his chinese friends
mircea_popescu could certainly be wrong ; but it certainly couldn't be the case that i'd be wrong in such a way "as nobody could ever know".
mircea_popescu: if you'd be right, we'd have discovered a #trilema not twice the size (as yellow man pop vs white man pop) but >20 times the size (because hey, efficiency, yes ?). and by size i do not mean headcount.
mircea_popescu: it becomes a success when "the iron! my god, the iron!" say the locals upon beholding the franks.
mircea_popescu: a large, bureaucratic state existed before -- incas had it too. it is not a success just because it gets a lot of cows to be docile.
mircea_popescu: ie, industrialization worked because it's a good idea ~and also~ because there was coal AND iron available superficially. and where the latter not satisfied, such as aztec empire, not worked.
mircea_popescu: specifically, the ~notion~, bereft of any meat, as a skeletal abstraction only, that "mixing improves overal outcomes" ran into the reality that the only available alternative to white man's culture is nation-of-africa powered militant idiocy.
mircea_popescu: i am by now well persuaded that this is a place where it ~didn't~ happen.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-28 14:27 mircea_popescu: there is no, strictly speaking, reason that iron MUST be provided on the surface of a planet just like the earth. it ~could~, very well, have simply gone through a place poor in planetoids and ended up entirely iron free on the surface. but it did not.
mircea_popescu: mulatto chicks as a fenotype provide the members of the remarkable stupid chick group almost exclusively.
asciilifeform: ( and finally a 'killer app' for that airburst neutron-optimized warhead.. )
asciilifeform: a+++ q
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/12/after-a-weekend-in-hiding-macron-emerges-from-his-hole-to-piss-people-off-again/ << Qntra -- After A Weekend In Hiding Macron Emerges From His Hole To Piss People Off Again
mircea_popescu: ah, but there's such a thing as a noble mold.
BingoBoingo: There's a couple places near the Brasilero border that do see the occasional pulgada of the white stuff
asciilifeform: they have a smell ( typically gotta walk in the front gate, but sometimes can even test right outside )
BingoBoingo: There's quite of few of those within a couple blocks of the habitation unit
asciilifeform: far as asciilifeform goes, if it dun have a carriage gate built to 18th c spec, it's favela
BingoBoingo: The churches are how you evaluate whether a barrio was once a town or if it is a new espansion favela
asciilifeform: maybe half a church, somewhere
BingoBoingo: Then in the center of most barrios there's a historical core surviving from when the barrios were wee little towns
BingoBoingo: Except the A/A on the balconito would be Panavox
asciilifeform: i saw a coupla also
asciilifeform: ( iirc mircea_popescu had a photo of argentine orc clothesline slowly pulling the nose off a gargoyle or sumthing to that effect )
BingoBoingo: And today I learned there is a "Highland" in Indiana too
diana_coman: come to think of it re 221 I don't get it; even without a calc, still: 2 no because odd, 3 no because 2+2+1=5, 5 no because 1 at end, 7 no because 21, then 11, 11 no because 22, 1, 13 takes a bit perhaps but...
mircea_popescu: a
diana_coman: but uhm, 13 is the 6th number max one would try; with a calc at hand, it can't take more than 2 minutes
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, I was expecting them to be even harder to get to so overall I'm quite pleased with it; now if at least one of them actually *does* something too as a result, that'd be already bonus
mircea_popescu: diana_coman honestly, the summary very acceptable, detailed and so on. just, you're missing out on a possible fanbase!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we had a fella like that. used no mic. and would detonate a balloon with h2+o2 at the start of each session, to get folx awake
diana_coman: I'd call it more of a seminar at best
diana_coman: basically I could have a chat with them all and I know their faces already without any trouble
diana_coman: neah, it was a smallish room, certainly not a 500 seat hall
asciilifeform: speaking of optics, asciilifeform replaced the sad webcam thing bolted to the torture room iron pole with a modern-day 25megapixel thing. should make for some decent shots once i get that bolix...
mircea_popescu: could also get yourself a hat put one of those car cameras on it.
mircea_popescu: can get those too, ten bux or so, with a wireless connection.
mircea_popescu: a lavaliere thing ?
diana_coman: basically the only time it worked fine it was with a mic attached and that was it
diana_coman: but how clear; well, at any rate I can always try it again, won't hurt; I *did* consider it but remembered last time I cursed at such a "recording" and ...
mircea_popescu: yeah but i mean, even half decent mic can capture a room.
diana_coman: I also move quite a lot actually, I don't tend to sit by the laptop or anything of the sort
mircea_popescu: diana_coman "Since there is no recording of the talk" << this is kinda unfortunate. just leave a laptop with the mic going behind, you know ?
a111: Logged on 2018-12-10 23:08 asciilifeform: this is moar of a fault of bitcoin, rather than diana_coman's lecture tho..
mircea_popescu: positive and negative ENERGY, because it's not a scalar anymore.
mircea_popescu: "In the New Thought philosophy, the Law of Attraction is the belief that by focusing on positive or negative thoughts, people can bring positive or negative experiences into their life.[1][2] The belief is based on the idea that people and their thoughts are both made from pure energy, and that through the process of like energy attracting like energy a person can improve their own health, wealth, and personal relationships. "
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-10#1879377 << dude's pretty lulzy, "law-of-attracted" himself being a "data architect". meanwhile works for some obscure packaging materials manufacturer. ☝︎
asciilifeform: anybody got a voip rig ? give'em a call, 185.53.91.28:7000, see who picks up...
asciilifeform: diana_coman: interesting, all but 1 seem to be garbage from the switch ; and the remaining 1 seems to be a ... voip spam attempt
trinque: /dev/shm is a ramdisk
asciilifeform wrapping up re-baked proof of ch.14, after that will give trinque's thing a try
trinque: diana_coman: that appears to be that your host machine doesn't have a /dev/shm mounted. python's build requires it, haven't investigated why
trinque: this is encouraging though, everything else looks like a direct hit
asciilifeform: this is moar of a fault of bitcoin, rather than diana_coman's lecture tho.. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yea but is there a coherent picture in the psychosis or only rng barf.
diana_coman: anyways, now I'm kind of curious whether any of them actually makes a key and shows up in #eulora or somewhere
diana_coman: asciilifeform, basically "what is bitcoin" + innovation vs subversion and I used WoT + V as examples; the WoT sparked a ton of questions
diana_coman: I'll get around to do a write-up hopefully