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Framedragger: also not sure how easy it'd be
to do
the "have JS run,
then save
the resulting no-JS snapshot"
thing (for having properly rendered copies without JS in
them.)
Framedragger: new chrome version supports "headless" mode for very easy and accurate archiving. i'm curious, would
the forum
tolerate
the use of chrome in an archiving
tool (if properly packaged and (to
the extent it's possible - yes, limited, barf) sanboxed)?
☟︎ jurov: iirc in murica
the lines have like 1-2kV and everyone has own
transformer?
mod6: sounds like
these highlines for residential service are somewhere between 300-600 volts
mod6: yah live
tree. still is huge monstrosity in my back yard.
mod6: so, did,
they came and kept an eye on it until it went out on its own. but next day,
they came and
trimmed off
the back half of
the
tree
to clear for
the line.
mod6: i was like "well... umm...
tree is ON FIRE... so call fire dept?"
mod6: when i first moved into
this place,
the huge silver-maple
tree was
touching
the high-wire during a storm.
the branch actually caught fire in
the rain. started
to spread down
the branch quite a ways...
BingoBoingo: <shinohai> So
there is
this chick
that calls herself "Lil Wafarin" on
twitter sent me a message. When I casually asked why she chose rat poison as her nom de guerre, she goes ballistic. << BwAHAHAHAHAHAH
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> standard kerosene is 46MJ/kg.
the boeing carries about 63k liters, and kerosene density is about .82 << Aha,
this seems
to be a source of common misunderstanding.
That Jet fuel is a kerosene "heating oil" and not a gasoline exploding oil
mod6: hell, sometimes a storm can come
through here, knock down lines;
the
tree guys might have
to clear debris, power guys gotta hook up new equip and lines, can
take ~12-24 hours
mircea_popescu: ~the inner limit for what something like
that can reasonably
take, i figure. so... yeah.
mircea_popescu: mod6 i wasn't here for it, but one opf
the places,
tree fell over brought down power grid.
ticoswarm, power back on 2 hrs later.
mircea_popescu: haven't seen good salesmen for a long while pre coming back here. you know
that, BOTH a) not be obnoxious and b)
talk
to you. not one, or
the other. fucking both.
trinque: which sad
that
this was noteworthy
to me, but was
trinque: no air of "someone's about
to get offended"
trinque: yeah, I found 'em friendly, helpful, and you could joke with
them
mod6: i
think you had all you could stand of
that place.
mircea_popescu: way
the fuck better
than argentina, i'll
tell you
that.
those idiots... god help
them.
mircea_popescu: nah. it's pretty dirty but hey, you get inverters etc. otherwise, no, outage may be 10 minutes or such.
they're just very serious, diligent people, drive up
the hill fix it.
mod6: take a while
to get it back on?
mod6: ah. what's
the power situation like? do
they lose power often during
the rain?
mod6: sure, more sand like
then?
mircea_popescu: fortunately
the soil isn't very good. if it were
the rich black stuff,
that sucks a lot of water, forget about it.
mircea_popescu: they build walls and shit
to contain it, and are very good with
trench gutters, foot deep etc.
mircea_popescu: rains daily, see ? and if you start sliding
there's nothing.
mod6: i suppose even with
the rains it's pretty bad
mod6: i'd imagine
that it'd be crazy.
mircea_popescu: they'd just have a bunch of disparate
torsos collected in
the valley.
mircea_popescu: they have some hills here
that if it even lightly frosted, it'd just be farewell
to arms
mod6: wow. no, can't say
that I have.
mircea_popescu: just couldn't get enough
torque
to get its fat ass up
the grade. period.
mircea_popescu: they can't be arsed with switchbacks here. fuck it
they say, make it 25% and let you drive in 1st for a few hours, what of it.
mod6: i bet
the switchbacks were brutal on
that hike 'eh?
mod6: ya, very much.
there's one on every street!
mod6: ahh.
trying
to showboat found him a strategically placed hydrant.
mircea_popescu: i suspect kid was
trying
to impress attendant slavegirl.
mod6: sounds like you dodged a kid on a bike
the other day
too.
mircea_popescu: the lane i
told him
to switch
to ? stayed fast. so
THERE!
mircea_popescu: oh yeah,
totally forgot
to gloat. so
today on highway going
to
town, crash in front of me.
then on
the way back... crash in front of me.
this one actually made
traffic crawl, so i
told
the driver
to switch lanes. because he wasn't going in
the faster one.
shinohai: Perhaps she is a serial killer
that uses Coumadin
to poison her victims.
shinohai: So
there is
this chick
that calls herself "Lil Wafarin" on
twitter sent me a message. When I casually asked why she chose rat poison as her nom de guerre, she goes ballistic.
mircea_popescu: actually,
that's
the principal distinction between "matter" and "energy" as intuitively understood. matter sticks around. energy does not.
mircea_popescu: ok, but you're aware
this is not really how radiation works.
there's no electromagnetic linger.
danielpbarron: the effects of
this weapon go on long after it as been deactivated.
there was a building near
the WTC
that suffered minimal damage and was repaired, only
to be demolished months later because
the structure rotted.
the metal looked as if it had been submerged in
the ocean for a century
danielpbarron: i don't know, but
the levels of
tritium at ground zero were much higher
than what you'd expect
mircea_popescu: you can't really cold-fuse water's hydrogens, because
the
tightly bound oxygen works as a sort of equivalent of a moderator.
mircea_popescu: there's water in
the air. but hydrogen, even lighter
than helium,
tends
to either react or run off.
mircea_popescu: tritium results from hydrogen cold fusion,
theoretically. what hydrogen ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron cold fusion
tends
to leave very specific residue however.
danielpbarron: asciilifeform, lack of explosions, lack of debris,
toasted cars on
the ground away from where
they could have been hit by
things-- and
toasted not by fire but something else. witnesses saw
them spontaneously combust
trinque: like any other structure
that collapsed into footprint
danielpbarron: there is a woman named Judy Wood who came up with
this
theory, and she has a lot of evidence
to back it up
danielpbarron: it wasn't a laser. it was some
thing
that causes a sort of cold fusion
that
turns atoms into other atoms, and causes atoms and molecules
to repel eachother. it caused
the buildings
to
turn
to dust mid-air
trinque: I had not heard
that particular
tinfoil
mod6: just
trying
to find out if im doing
that right
mod6: at
the end of
the page it says "distill a days worth of entropy and xor in place"
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron i
take
the laser because notwithstanding
the ample lossage generally discussed as "slope efficiency", photon beams are
the most efficient em "weapons". actual ion beams are even worse
than
the 3-5%ish laser. so you know, someone somewhere had
to burn 50
TJ or so
to deliver
the same effect, plus whatever
the intervening air ate up. you know how air looks if
traversed by a
TJ laser ?
mod6: sorry, don't mean
to confuse with ffa
mod6: my being dumb,
the second
time around.
mod6: asciilifeform: even in
the case of a swap?
mircea_popescu: standard kerosene is 46MJ/kg.
the boeing carries about 63k liters, and kerosene density is about .82
mod6: After doing such, I have a hard
time
thinking how
that would be cryptographically helpful. So perhaps
the former is correct? Just looking for a heads up.
danielpbarron: if jet fuel, why wasn't
there a million
tons of debris at ground zero? why wasn't
there any significant seismic activity?
mod6: basically, I was just wondering about
the verbage
there and how I aught
to "distill"; my first inclination was
to go
two bytes at a
time, xor
them
together, output 1 byte. but
then after sleeping on it, and a search of "xor in place", i
thought maybe it meant
to
take: 0A0B and swap
to 0B0A.
mircea_popescu: well yes, as a matter of fact i keep doing
that math. it keeps coming up here, about how a liter of gasoline is 1.5 MJ and
there ain't no electric battery even come close etc.
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu, no. did you do
the math on jet fuel?
mod6: and
that's
the main
thing. i really care about
trying
to fit it in head, as opposed
to "compiler" concerns at
this
time with ffa. however, my other little sample shits i've been
trying
to make are probably going
to go a lot better now
that i have a 'sane' environment.
danielpbarron: there's pretty substantial evidence
that
the WTC buildings were destroyed with a "directed energy weapon"
a111: Logged on 2017-05-04 23:33 mod6: I
totally should have just checked
that
the version alignment on
the
thing. It was weird because simple
things would compile.... like really simple
things. But when it came
to
the more complex, ffa for example, was getting weird error messages. But at least, hey, it's out
there, it has some sharp edges.
mod6: <+asciilifeform>
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-04#1651852 << i'ma have
to do a likbez when i get home. mod6 did you even split
the ads and adb pieces? ( i pasted
them into same paste, for ease of reading ) << yup.
that was
the first
thing I encountered. but indeed, much easier
to read.
☝︎ mod6: how's
the
trip alf?
mircea_popescu: well,
the lying chemist resulted in about 600 retrials in boston. coupla hundred walked.