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mircea_popescu: decimation so i can't find
a stealing the future reference re one jaron lanier. any link or anything ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla but if you could be bothered to make
a blogpost like the guy's with the dish...
kakobrekla: decimation i have put
a mcu + lcd screen + sd card mid cable. and some buttons. probably doesnt need an explanation.
kakobrekla has
a serial cable with
a buffer with visual confirmation of the data and it does not need to be plugged to both computers at same time
☟︎ mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, /me is still reeling over
a shocking ad hoc test where he discovered that
a widespread inability to distinguish internet and web does not apparent;y prevent young'uns from commenting on...
decimation: the 'adult' solution is
a one-way fiber link
mircea_popescu: anyway, i imagine it's just some "play around with computor" thing, not seriously proposed as
a solution to anything
mircea_popescu: decimation i don't like it, because : as
a way to transfer data between the two computers where there's
a cable, it's stupid. even serial protocol is better, but we have tcp etc. as an airgapped solution is stupid, because sound.
decimation: minimodem is
a much more robust waveform, but would transfer more slowly
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic: what is
a shadowban? << graham came up with this brilliant "let's ban users but not tell them" on the theory that users are idiots and won't notice anyway.
mircea_popescu: "Imagine if we poured 1.7 trillion dollars
a year into ending aging instead of satiating Tea Party fucks need to bomb brown people?" and stuff.
mircea_popescu: cazalla that thread's
a fine example of why bitcoin "needs to be more accessible". so that more people who have no business running
a computer can tell their friends about how bad bitcoin is.
Vexual: as rime goes by, stealing bitcoin will feel like
a really bad idea
cazalla: what
a pay day for this guy
BingoBoingo: This Cook fellow finding OpenBSD is one of the best things to happen to linux in
a decade.
ben_vulpes: is there
a distinction between "the priv key" vs the "secret" used to regenerate
a key?
ben_vulpes: saw it, was too tired to even muster
a chuckle
ben_vulpes: does anyone know what precisely the "private key" dumped by bitcoin is? is that the secret that can be used with EC_KEY_regenerate_key to regenerate
a key?
BingoBoingo: And yet farmed morel mushrooms are
a pipe dream
mircea_popescu: i think the main point is, you won't be able to take
a shit in the forest without hitting one of these chips soon enough
mircea_popescu: very quick and dirty "all carbons" evaluation, but still, as
a general hint
BingoBoingo: Yeah. Lighter than Vancomycin's 1449 as
a further illustration of the sheer size of the space.
BingoBoingo: And why the distributed protein folding stuff is mostly
a noisemaking lottery machine.
mircea_popescu: here are not enough resources on Earth, or in our entire solar system, to do enough organic synthesis to make any noticeable dent in that array. The idea of having compounds that bind to things like Lipid II is
a good one, but they're going to have to be large compounds, and exploring that space is daunting.
mircea_popescu: As an aside, if you're outside the field, you might wonder why it's worth working so hard to find natural products when we have so many synthetic organic chemists in the world cranking out new compounds. One big reason is the ridiculous, insane hugeness of chemical space: the number of possible compounds at or under the molecular weight of teixobactin defies description, and I mean that in
a completely literal sense. T
BingoBoingo: I mean the past century has mostly been about refining tools while methods for using tools atrophied.
A lot of potential in just... pointing those tools somethere else in an informed way instead of doing the microscope hammer thing.
mircea_popescu: as the guy aptly points out, it's never been
a better time to be
a biochemist.
mircea_popescu: ah. there's
a fine reason to prefer women. if well trained... hard to match.
gabriel_laddel: Etherum guy tells me that he wants
a "Holarchy" instead of an explicit hierarchy cause trilema articles are scary.
mircea_popescu: i guess at some point it'll come to pass that someone makes
a tumblr, TFWT.
gabriel_laddel: I think, all of the sudden they understand on some level that this era of prosperous morons is coming to
a close.
mircea_popescu: "MP is such
a pompous prick. I hope he chokes on his pansy lemonade flavored pop sickle stick."
assbot: Logged on 22-08-2014 02:36:18; asciilifeform: 'The smell of diborane is known to
a few experimenters, but they cannot tell us what it is.'
mircea_popescu: bioaccumulation (heavy metals, etc) is much more
a concern for fish eating than otherwise.
mircea_popescu: anyone saw "le grand restaurant" ? de funes, he orders...
a radish.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i dunno, something about oversalted leberwurst. << Also the shift from
a menu one can get full eating to some sort of "trendy" tasting menu based on appetizers.
artifexd: One more question: Any objection to adding
a timestamp to the trust ratings in gossipd?
mircea_popescu: they';re so common i'm persuaded
a good fraction of local women actually go about the house in those things.
mircea_popescu: this , incidentally, is why computer standards are such
a royal bitch.
BingoBoingo: Maybe just
a compulsive reloader? Perhaps some derp was serving one of our pages in their iframe?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i dunno, but it's
a bw depletion rather than the prev ram/cpu/state depletion. doesn't seem to have done anything.
mircea_popescu: that document must include
a unixtime indicating expiry.
mircea_popescu: let
A connect to B. let
A pass
a message to B in the format "
A for X, sup". B must find in the hello message through which
A connected to it
a document where X signs
A's privkey,
artifexd: mircea_popescu: can you elaborate on "
a pgp-signed document by the for key certifying the validity of the IPs public key with an expiration unixtimev in case the for field differs and
a nickname"?
ben_vulpes: hey mircea_popescu what's the going rate for
a box of tampons in bsas? the "tampon shortage" is making the rounds on jezebe
mircea_popescu: someone should take
a yearling dromedary to
a skating rink
mircea_popescu: "During WWII,
a Belarusian boy is thrust into the atrocities of war, fighting with
a hopelessly unequipped Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces. Witnessing scenes of abject terror and surviving horrifying situations, he loses his innocence and then his mind."
mircea_popescu: obviously it will have to, it's
a non profit. no issue with the substance. the form struck me tho.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so i follow your link to gnu.org, top of the page ?
a very wikipedia-ish request for donations.
mircea_popescu: no, it's simply looking at the life of one evgheny morozov. for you see stan, little zenja was
a country boy that got himself mixed up in the high stakes game of anglo propaganda and intenrational diplomacy!
mircea_popescu: here's
a question, btw : what's better, to be running the proverbial taxi in new york ? or to be in
a later generation, playing exactly the role of pocahontas to various ngos, "look at this nigger injun, how like our own kids he is, and how pretty in that dress!" ?
mircea_popescu: but actually, as it was, with
a view to its own self coherence.
mircea_popescu: not re-narrated with
a view to make contemporary institutions meaningful and appear sensible.