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nubbins`: i'd like a gribble module that polls alf's output for interesting short stories
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "computer monitor of better than 600 x 300 pixels resolution." pandering to the new ega displays i see ? :D
nubbins`: i just want to seal the deal
nubbins`: so i've got these two new roomies
mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/OCvuUxX.gif
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol yeah. fluffypony i imagined :p
mircea_popescu: i think fluffypony was going to charter a plane or i dun remember how that went.
RagnarDanneskjol: sure, sounds fun. I missed that
mircea_popescu: i read "gribble for #eulora" for some reason.
RagnarDanneskjol: he is going to deliver way ahead of schedule I believe
mircea_popescu: ie, i'll need another bot after that one
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol ima wait for delivery on that other thing first, and i have a queue there anyway.
xmj: i'm sure you'll find lots of people who love paying for this
mircea_popescu: other than proper cryptography for all foss, as discussed coupla days re gentoo overlays etc, i would fucking love for all lines of code to come with a counter. ☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't expect any problems. in fact it's probably better reviewed code than w/e it's been replaced with anyway.
xmj: fluffypony: I got confused. aren't AES routines implemented by libcrypto?
xmj: I know people who have done so for long(er) stretches of times
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: re: 100hz - i do lean towards the soviet hypothesis that at least a third of the sleep cycle is a vestigial waste of time. <<< why ?
mircea_popescu: i mean up
xmj: hrm, i'm not a c dev
xmj: fluffypony: How may I help you on this bright Wednesday ;)
RagnarDanneskjol: its the first I'd heard anything definitive about bitcoin-paypal
asciilifeform: kakobrekla, BingoBoingo: i remembered the american firm that made electrocranial something-or-others - 'alpha-stim.' but i never tried or even saw their gadget - and, a bit dubious, smells a little of spam.
asciilifeform: it, too, is still used. quite popular in usa, i'm told.
asciilifeform: but i was not able to replicate the famous result of going straight 'to the goods'
asciilifeform: re: 100hz - i do lean towards the soviet hypothesis that at least a third of the sleep cycle is a vestigial waste of time.
asciilifeform: i once set about building this one too - but life got in the way.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: last i checked - none that had predictive power (i.e. worth bothering with.)
ThickAsThieves: so i'm playing with this 1BRCXE challenge
ThickAsThieves: i bet Yes
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i vaguely recall an experiment from the '70s where everyone who was placed in apparatus had seizure. from ordinary flash lamp - but not at the familiar 20hz which sets off known sufferers
mircea_popescu: hm. i guess if you stress a weak system it may come huh.
asciilifeform: americans, if i recall, tried ear-to-ear.
mircea_popescu: i'd have imagined it'd be temple to temple
kakobrekla: perhaps we even discussed this in ro but i forgot
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: for the latter, i never found a satisfactory setting where i could pronounce the old papers - replicated. but the usual idea is to set 100-200 Hz, square wave (some insist sinusoid instead), constant current (not constant voltage) output, and ramp up from zero.
mircea_popescu: lampelina run honey. i'll keep him busy.
kakobrekla: ah sorry i thought that got cleared out. the current through brain.
kakobrekla: well ok i wont do it now that you pointed that out
mircea_popescu: now listen here kako. i can live with the cardano taking forever. but bitbet gotta stay online.
kakobrekla: <assbot> Logged on 07-02-2014 18:15:28; asciilifeform: confession: at one point when i was younger, i did succumb to the temptation to replicate various soviet experiments and put current through my brain. < looks like it worked wonders
assbot: Logged on 07-02-2014 18:15:28; asciilifeform: confession: at one point when i was younger, i did succumb to the temptation to replicate various soviet experiments and put current through my brain.
mircea_popescu: (ie, i didn't measure the effects, i inquired as to the effects)
mircea_popescu: o btw, did i ever tell you how i illustrated the concept of current as a thing to bright young minds ?
mircea_popescu: i think it's a star trek trope this, the magic watch
jurov: if he contacted me i'd likely remember
jurov: what kid? i forgot
jurov: http://krapps.com/2011/01/08/sexy-star-wars-pinups/ i'll leave this here
asciilifeform: (i. johnston's translation. lifted from http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~davis/crs/e321/Kafka-PenalColony.pdf)
asciilifeform: ''There are straps for the hands here, for the feet here, and for the throat here, to tie him in securely. At the head of the bed here, where the man, as I have mentioned, first lies face down, is this small protruding lump of felt, which can easily be adjusted so that it presses right into the man’s mouth. Its purpose is to prevent him screaming and biting his tongue to pieces. Of course, the man has to let t
assbot: Some asshole told me I could use my ipad to weigh myself - Imgur
asciilifeform: beautiful comic, but missing the gag pad, which is why i even remembered about der strafkolonie - jurov's toothmark authenticator.
asciilifeform: (that's -exactly- how i pictured it. and why herr kafka never gets credit for inventing dot-matrix printer, i'll never understand. this confounded me as a schoolboy.)
jurov: i'd prefer it'd accept teeth.. iirc mircea asserted they are very hard to fake
mircea_popescu: the ro ones i mean.
mircea_popescu: so i leave there and come here, right ? guess what. the town is creating its own town police force, to escape from federal jurisdiction.
mircea_popescu: i actually got blown by policewoman off main square just for the pedigree.
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> i guess you could always step a homeless guy << fun fact : police in timisoara started getting bonuses by total fine volume. total fine volume went up. total fine arrears went way up. city hall in hot water over it, turns out...
jurov: <jurov> yea i spend 1.5euro/day to make 0.15 let's scale it up!
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> with machine - owner finds out, possibly weeks or months later, when he himself is prosecuted << there's really no prosecution. i've had fake bills in the common course of business multiple times all over. it happens.
cazalla: i guess you could always step a homeless guy through it and pay him for his time, handprint, ID etc
jurov: but do they exchange btc for cash? i doubt that, i think owner has to bring the cash to bank and wire them
asciilifeform: unless i somehow misunderstand, btc atm that eats usd removes all of the element of risk from counterfeiting
cazalla: i wonder if fakes get fed into the machines or if companies like aristocrat have great detection?
BingoBoingo: <TheNewDeal> If I go to an atm at a casino, and I want to withdraw, where do i withdraw from? << Not ATM at the casino, gambling machines
TheNewDeal: If I go to an atm at a casino, and I want to withdraw, where do i withdraw from?
asciilifeform: there was precedent, if i recall: a casino cheat in las vegas, knew exactly what a particular make of usd scanner wanted.
TheNewDeal: I would most definitely agree that
TheNewDeal: this is true, I haven't looked into it
TheNewDeal: I'm still surprised that you say it's easier to fake a machine than a person
jurov: well, i suppose they're fachidiots
asciilifeform: right now, btc atm, as i understand, is scarce enough - and likewise scarce are the counterfeiters - that they have not yet met in 'true love' match.
jurov: do i see right the camera on top of that bitcoin-teller-machine ?
TheNewDeal: Although I think if you could produce that quality of a bill, you most likely wouldn't have a problem giving it out to others (non btc atm owners)
artifexd: I don't want anybody to feel bad. If I lose the 2btc it is not going to come close to affecting my net worth at all. As tat says, the risk/reward seems about right.
pete_dushenski: don't gut your foot now, i imagine it'd hurt
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski fuck me i was just speaking extemporaneously
artifexd: Yeah. We'll see how I feel in 5 days.
pete_dushenski: there's some of the most interesting residential architecture i've seen anywhere there
artifexd: I remain satisfied with my bet. No regrets yet.
ThickAsThieves: i tried to get nanotube to change how gribble does diff, but he's happy as it is
artifexd: bitcoinwisdom certainly paints a picture of "I be a fool". In their whole history of difficulty increases, there have never been two consecutive difficulty increases that added up to less than 12%.
ThickAsThieves: i mean all investing is speculation, right?
ThickAsThieves: i believe nubbins has done such explicitly by creating the bet he needed
ben_vulpes: call me a poorfag, but i don't get the risk.
ThickAsThieves: i think what happened was i looked at it several times thinking, nah, no way it gets that high, and then feeling my brain pump chemical memories of when i bet against diff before and lost 50btc, so i abstained
ThickAsThieves: shit i didnt realize i never placed a bet on that one
mircea_popescu: well, i'm of the "if it feels like a girl it is a girl" school of heterosexuality.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo suppose you split the whole run into two teams or something, i dunno.
artifexd: Yep. You sold me. I'm going to put a couple btc on no.
mircea_popescu: well i mean sure, it could be over six. just as well, it could not be. on the yes side, the observation that diff keeps increasing. on the no side, the observation that no trend lasts forever.
BingoBoingo: Fuck me, this could resolve as no the time I don't have money on it.
artifexd: Seeing as mp has brought up the october bet a couple time and expressed surprise that it is so lopsided, I think he is expecting it to resolve as no.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: time for what? i thought it was automatic.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: needs more time than i can give it.
thestringpuller: i'm going to patent iPoop
asciilifeform: http://i.imgur.com/y0Ee8cl.png << lol
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Interesting, I wonder if I know anyone in 63101
asciilifeform: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=113_1406258044 << 'hedsoff.com' !
ThickAsThieves: i wonder how much work goes into picking the right blue jeans to present in