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BingoBoingo: The only
thing
that matters is "Are
their girls pretty and well behaved?"
BingoBoingo: It's a sufficiently lulzy religion
that I must research deeper.
mircea_popescu: except china has never in its history been
this great.
BingoBoingo: And
their
tagline
to
the alt-right is China could be "Great Again"(TM)(R) if only we dumped
the commies and opium
BingoBoingo: So maybe a
touch of Jehova's Witness in
their
theologisty
BingoBoingo: Also
the Dalai Lama is
the historical anti-Christ
BingoBoingo: Calls for elmination of
the pervert's Communist Party of China and does outreach
through dance
troupes and pretty girls
BingoBoingo: The chinese verision of "back
to Budda" conservative religious movement. Kinda somewhere between
the Southern Baptists and
the Mormons, but my eastern religions map is not adequately calibrated anologize it precisely
shinohai: btw pete_dushenski Bram Cohen immediately blocked me upon (I assume) reading
that post ;)
lobbes: sweet
though. looks good!
pete_dushenski: ya,
the redirect from
the old url
to
the new one isn't working for some reason. bots.contravex.com should work
tho.
pete_dushenski: lobbes: done.
thx for making it easy! confirm
that all's as intended when you have a chance.
BingoBoingo working on recap of first hundred days of 8 year
trumpreich
mircea_popescu: republican party has not
this peroblem at all :
the
trump side is 30yos who want
to curb stomp faggots, pussies and people from SV ;
the remainder is people over 70. nature resolves
that problem all by itself.
mircea_popescu: there was no way
to keep
this pile of cats and octopi herded even should clinton have won.
mircea_popescu: pantsuit party is a very volatile hodge podge of single issue fascists ("gender rights", "Ecologists", radical black activists, some latino weirdos etc) and multi-issue socialists
that used
to masquerade as "market oriented liberal capitalists" (the dudes who keep pushing
the "science" narrative etc) and are now about as confused wrt
their identity as dude
trying
to wear a suit on wall street by day and suck cock on knees in
Framedragger: unless... hm! "fait" could mean "done" in french (sth like
that?), and so
the "fait banking partners" could mean done-for? :D
mircea_popescu: the notion
that it'll still exist by 2020 is a little dubious.
BingoBoingo: It's hard
to say. Depends on what pantsuit party does.
mircea_popescu: lel. pretty surte
they were doing
this years ago9 also
mircea_popescu: shinohai nah, my days of mountain walking were over just about
the
time girls started
to interest.
mircea_popescu: it's not even
the drop per se. it's very rocky, it'll crack your skull wide open in a 20 foot fall.
shinohai imagines mircea_popescu at
top practicing yodeling with slave girls in dirndls
mircea_popescu: (for
the innocent : retezat is a hard mountain, dozen-ish groups are about
the largest
that can be sanely managed.
to ensure
things such as you know, NOT STARTING AVALANCHES)
mircea_popescu: you ever seen a group
that large who wasn't 105% douchebag by mass ?
mircea_popescu: diana_coman in principle, sure. so far as
the matter stands, one man
trained a bunch of record holders and
the other man went around retezat in large groups. how
the fuck even dare he
take 51 persons over
there ?
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, eh, good
try, you know? I'm not ignoring anything; I'm simply saying
that no, someone is NOT competent if
they die when
they
try
to do
their
thing in
the real world
Framedragger: ah, kk. i didn't spot
the phuctor downloader back
then
diana_coman: I get
the not-political
thing; I am more on
the
technical side myself, but
there is some limit
to what can be called competence
mircea_popescu: diana_coman bullshit, yes. but
this is a factual description of
the world. you're gonna ignore it now ?
mircea_popescu: you know, like jwz. or like
teh people on #bitcoin-assets pre dragon call.
diana_coman: oh,
they were competent STRICTLY at climbing a mountain; provided
the mountain is in
the lab; in
the void
mircea_popescu: diana_coman it's
technical competence, not politicval competence.
diana_coman: I fail
to see how is
that competence, really
mircea_popescu: and if society in general doesn't understand
this either, in short order you'll find yourself wondering where
the dodo bird went.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman yes, and
this is exactly my greater point here : competent people don't understand how
to defend
themselves from
the
tedx crowd, and don't.
they're, basically speaking, dodo birds.
☟︎ diana_coman: oh,
there are here
those dorks but
they SHOULD NOT be here
therefore we just..ignore
them
mircea_popescu: because no, random dork who's read all
the
tedx and reddit on
the
topic and intends
to follow it by
the letter is not
thereby qualified
to have an opinion on
things and matters. which is what
this catalin ioan berenghi schmuck strikes me as.
diana_coman: eh, sure;
they didn't
tell
them
that, nor did
they
take into account
the reality basically
diana_coman: thing is: you are competent, right? and meet
the big group who
TELL you
they are going on
the higher route; so
then?
mircea_popescu: diana_coman let's consider
this : late april, you can go lower or higher. if you're competent you
take your pick, if you are not competent and so can't follow
the competent YOU DO NOT GO. you don't fucking go anyway, relying on your group numbers, and
then of fucking course if you bigfoot about HIGHER
than
the other guys end up... causing an avalanche.
mircea_popescu: things like "there's no gsm signal
therefore survival chances are minimal"
tend
to give him away. seeing how you know, gsm, our democracy and his assorted ineptitudes were invented slightly after retezat stood
there.
diana_coman: then
that's what I read
there
too
that
they were accused of
that, yes; I don't know about
the accusation as such
though
diana_coman: uhm, do you mean
the mountain guide was
the greenhorn?
mircea_popescu: diana_coman apparently
the greenhorns stand accused of having actually ~caused~
the avalanche
that claimed
the experts ?
mircea_popescu: diana_coman yeah
they are pretty weird with
that huh. /me reads
mircea_popescu: shinohai if he manages
to capture
the lot he could not only skin 'em and make himself a hat + bathingsuit for girl combo, but also could make squirrel stu.
shinohai: coat
that pb with birdseed ....
those little fuckers eat ALL my goddamned birdseed I put out.
diana_coman: there was another group who were pro and
told
them even
to
take a different route
mircea_popescu: from experience, every
time something blows up i can produce for
the benefit of
the slavegirl in whose hands it did blow up a list of what minor precautions she could have
taken.
mircea_popescu: ex post facto-isms. where were
these experts prior
to
the event ?
diana_coman: from what I read it was more
that
they were idiots on
the day ignoring
the weather forecast and making a poor decision on
the spot re path
to
take
mircea_popescu: aaand in not-really-news : avalance in retezat (romanian mountain) killed a few kids
that were european and world record holders in mountain-related items. ro "our democracy" media railing about how
the
trainer (also father of one of
the victims) "forced his
two daughters
to break record after record while
training in EXTREME CONDITIONS!!!1 ONLY
TO SATISFY HIS OWN EGOTISM!!1111"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and findally, yes "products" no "longer" compete on algos but on puffery.
this is not because of anything
than laziness, intellectual and otherwise, on
the part of everyone involved. similarily, "psychic healers" also do not compete on healing but on distance, having
the phonelines open 24/7 and other points of ~convenience~.
mircea_popescu: no, break
the
thing, steal
the shit, blame nsa.
the gutting of
the socialist empire must proceed apace.
mircea_popescu: to be perfectly clear :
the ONLY use of a successful attack on a cryptosystem is
to attack real world deployments. publishing is particularly a worthless (and stupid) endeavour, because it gives a lazy and entitled "public" something for free
that it shouldn't have even for pay.
mircea_popescu: d because cryptology is now a respectable academic discipline,
the benefits of publishing a successful attack on a cryptosystem far outweigh
the dubious benefits of keeping
that attack secret and using it for some kind of fraud. In
this area, at least, cryptology has grown up."
mircea_popescu: of course, any fiat paper must include its "hail party" lines, and so "In retrospect
this
time marks a
turning point in
the history of cryptology. No longer would products compete on claimed "better algorithms"
than
their opposition. It became in everyone's interest
to focus on published algorithms whose design principles were well known. Cryptographic products found other areas
to compete in (speed, features, ease of use) an
mircea_popescu: "Instead,
the effort
that could have been spent on securing
the system was spent on public relations.
The firm claimed
that
the attack could work only on our own copy of Fortress (in fact, it could work with any copy at all because it deduced
the key from
the data on
the disk)." << from kochanski's (ancient) piece on comedy of commercial encryption software.
the shamans still falling into same pits
today, of course, as seen
mircea_popescu: too bad i wanted
to leave
them a "drop fucking dead, bunch of illiterate monkeys"
mircea_popescu: and of course no way
to leave a comment on
the "announcing linkerd 1.0" follow-up piece. but i could "share
this post on hacker news".
mircea_popescu: o wait, and
the whole
thing is actually copy for
this "linkerd" piece of shit "buoyant.io" is hawking.
mircea_popescu: "The explicit goal of
the service mesh is
to move service communication out of
the realm of
the invisible, implied infrastructure, and into
the role of a first-class member of
the ecosystem—where it can be monitored, managed and controlled." << alternatively, you could read a fucking book. motherfucking chukas.
mircea_popescu: dude, what
the fuck is with
the bullshit. "we made a
tcp on
top of
tcp because we're bored at "work" and hurr."
mircea_popescu: "Unlike
TCP,
the service mesh has a significant goal beyond “just make it work”: it provides a uniform, application-wide point for introducing visibility and control into
the application runtime."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes whart's
the difference between auto_ptr and unique_ptr, dja know ?
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-04-29 01:25 asciilifeform: actually
this is a 'classy' bug,
turns out
a111: Logged on 2017-04-29 00:33 asciilifeform: linus, involved, iirc. never mentions it
today.
mircea_popescu: i keep putting
these small charge footmines in
the logs you dutifully scoop
them up.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-29 05:08 mircea_popescu: in some cases it may be worth it
to do
twice
the work on non-fixed-time algo
than
to actually fixtime
the algo.
mircea_popescu: "look, i can afford fire, pretty young
thing! dare be naked, you won't freeze here!"