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the_scourge: spirulina is far better than meat than meat as
a protein source. fake bio knowledge or not, ask you local biochemist what must be done to meat before your body can digest it :D
mircea_popescu: lecherous if impotent old men have
a comparable preoccupation with "the unfucked"
nubbins`: altho apparently this is
a misnomer, as it's actually prokaryotic
mircea_popescu: this is just
a conspiracy to drink more piss, isn't it.
nubbins`: "The U.S. National Library of Medicine said that spirulina was no better than milk or meat as
a protein source, and was approximately 30 times more expensive per gram."
punkman: asciilifeform: yeah separate file seems like
a good idea
punkman: as for moving satoshi cpuminer to different binary, it's gonna need to use the "getwork" avenue, so I'm guessing that'd be
a significant rewrite
nubbins`: and generally when one is called
a sleeveen, one does not know how to take the insult, due to being wholly unfamiliar with its definition and usage
adlai: my dad has not one but TWO dictionaries that require
a magnifying glass to read the copy
nubbins`: and
a page from
a word-
a-day calendar with the word "grok" defined, that occasionaly *is*
a dictionary
mircea_popescu: note that they usually explain their limitations. "
A dictionary of 1900 London argot" won't contain nixonisms
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the only thing that makes you go "this isn't
a fucking dictionary" is if you look for
a word that should be in but isnt
nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> dictionary = "exhaustive list of all the symbols in
a conventional symbolic space, with adnotations." <<< why does it have to be exhaustive?
the_scourge: does assbot have
a glossary? for things like usagitalk?
the_scourge: mircea_popescu: true but we all bring different things to the table, i could write
a book on NRx history, philosophy etc: that is proof of hard work done
mircea_popescu: there's not even any need to specify it actually contains definitions. the quality of the definitions distinguishes
a good implementation from
a bad one and that's all.
mircea_popescu: dictionary = "exhaustive list of all the symbols in
a conventional symbolic space, with adnotations."
mircea_popescu: it's not
a book, it's
a list. and it doesn't have to be alphabetically sorted.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside that there's no etc allowed ;
A BOOK ? why the fuck is it
a book.
mircea_popescu: "
a book containing the words of
a language alphabetically arranged, with their meanings etc"
mircea_popescu: and the problem is even more visible in dictionaries (as definitions are simply the specifications of words). never is it the case
a dictionary manages to not include extraneous nonsense in the soup
mircea_popescu: i defy you to find
a spec anywhere in use in the shitstack today that manages to not include things it really has no business specifying.
mircea_popescu: that's how you end up with small programs that do clear things and without
a userbase that "has come to expect"
adlai: the_scourge: "people who work
a part-time job so they can fund another person's part-time job doing their homework"
mircea_popescu: complex specs are in no sense better. the only thing
a very complicated spec shows is that the designer did not understand the overwhelming importance of not specifying.
adlai: mircea_popescu: right, it's more that i'll find some really interesting book, get all excited about reading it, and then change my mind when i see
a three page index
the_scourge: i'm
a bit more interested in asciilifeform's book buying process right now
mircea_popescu: the_scourge generally the advice given to noobs is to read the logs for six months to
a year.
the_scourge: what's the benefit to running
a node? having the whole blockchain?
nubbins`: the_scourge because mining at the personal level is retarded, but running
a node is not.
adlai: it's gotten me grepping
a lot more though, which is good
the_scourge: ok i'm looking on that site for
a wiki... where can i find out > why nodes, and not miners?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: more like
a traffic violation (with bigger numbers) than
a criminal matter << Basically this is my read of the Erik situation. Govt settled because all they could get was the headline and token cash.
the_scourge: yah i was going to buy
a pogo for nas work at home. but then i spent $way_too_much_fiat and built
a xeon one instead
the_scourge: woah *wanders off to find
a wiki somewhere
nubbins`: i have
a handheld gps unit that runs wince
trinque: the_scourge: I think it's
a bit of
a problem to expect anything other than barbarism from those trained to execute it at industrial scale
trinque: nubbins`: put
a quarter in the swear jar
the_scourge: trinque: you are (generally) correct, i was just saying in the russian army, i think some of the weird shit was
a result of the slavery
nubbins`: asciilifeform so how 'bout running
a node on the NEW raspi ;p
the_scourge: asciilifeform: this is true of many places. i was lucky in that i was in
a place where they glorified individual thinking, as much as possible
the_scourge: trinque: not sure if it's
a mechanism or
a byproduct ;)
adlai: this still happens occasionally, but whenever it's in
a regular (non-elite, anybody-can-join-and-who-asked-you-anyways) unit, these days, the unit gets disbanded, officers decomissioned, etc
the_scourge: asciilifeform: and i'm doing
a bad job of it, to be honest i've never been asked and i've never tried externalizing it
adlai joined the army right after
a major push for increased transparency in the ritualized torture of new recruits, so the crazy stuff only happens in crazy units these days
adlai: as far as approved exercises go, the worst i had was
a week spent with
a single day's food ration, most of which was spent in full NBC gear
the_scourge: adlai: right, for SERE training, it gets
a little weird
the_scourge: so, they do things like, you spend 2 weeks on an excercise, march 12 miles into the 'theatre' with 65lbs on your back, dig holes in the ground all night, and then lie in them (saltwater) and defend them, and then do full dignified kit inspection, ready to do
a multi-unit ambush/assult all night
adlai: asciilifeform: i've heard stories ranging from having your nose broken, to being strung up like
a pig over an open fire, to having your 'captors' alternate between putting your gun barrel up your ass and in your mouth - all of this to get you to 'break' and reveal
a secret
mircea_popescu: <adlai> you'll have
a hard time finding
a private trainer to subject you to them << not if you're
a woman, wink wink
the_scourge: but again, before, i didn't even know what those things were. it's more than just crawling through broken glass for miles. there are
a lot of subtle nuances
adlai: heh well some kinds of training, you'll have
a hard time finding
a private trainer to subject you to them
the_scourge: but that's REALLY fucking expensive and at the time the income streams were trickling
a little
the_scourge: adlai: 1. i tried very hard before, during and after to get as much tactical benefit as possible. 2. you're right, and in retrospect i could have done equally well by making shedloads of money and shooting
a lot, training
a lot, hiring and doing private training
the_scourge: and actually it was about
a year before he started blogging
the_scourge: or shayetet13 - i wasn't young or patriotic ... and i wasn't when i got
a good slot in the british military. i was having the same thoughts as moldbug, but instead of blogging about it i decided to become as deadly as possible in as short amount of time as possible
adlai: mlrs is just
a regular battalion in the army, but it used to be
a special unit like that one... so there was this massive cognitive dissonance, where the higher up the officer, the more elite they thought their unit was
adlai: more bomblets! more rockets! firing faster! from
a bigger vehicle! with better treads! etc
adlai: expecting anything short of retardation from
a bureaucracy the size of the idf is hopeful at best
the_scourge: which was retarded i was working on
a kibbutz as
a lifeguard and i was tearing up guys on their weekends on runs/workouts
the_scourge: asciilifeform: right, that's probably
a stretch too far from reality. but USG and HMT and BoE have been doing the fiat thing for
a while now, and that's just one step less crazy
the_scourge: oh yah apparently mats is predisposed right now i tried pinging him
a while ago
the_scourge: the reich is interesting... oil was
a big issue for them