log☇︎
205200+ entries in 1.617s
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i recall reading about that, why teh russians couldn't make good crts. quantum effects.
BingoBoingo: I've long imagined a wrist portable watch with RTG (RTG also heats crystal) I'm resigned to knowing such a device probably wouldn't have the power to offer man readable time without an unacceptable risk of wrist cancer
nubbins`: england is closer to bc, but i uh
BingoBoingo: I didn't know it was /this/ bad. I almost would rather believe this is for people building plasma rifles on the down low.
BingoBoingo: I kind of wonder what the ruse it, seems like an overly strong emphasis on CD player much as the headshops emphasize their glass pipes are for tobacco
asciilifeform: and here i thought the magic green marker was state of the art.
BingoBoingo: This Dontesk Republic is basically just like a standard Hollywood sequel to Transndstria i.e. moar explosions
mircea_popescu: well, i built a rng oscillator. go me.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is actually a traditional means of generating 'hardware entropy' on a pc. i rediscovered it as a kid, thought i 'had something nice'
mircea_popescu: it's equalizing over time. hey asciilifeform ! i just got some entropy!
mircea_popescu: i am sure.
mircea_popescu: i dunno asciilifeform, i hear a lot of "please use me hard master" from some of the higher order "nature's computers".
asciilifeform: used. Machines aren't supposed to be like that. Machines are supposed to do what you want. Which means that both the designer and the user need to control them.' (one mr. kreinin, with whom i have a number of disagreements, some public, but good point about meatware. -- http://yosefk.com/blog/high-level-cpu-follow-up.html)
asciilifeform: 'I want to build machines to do stuff that someone "like us" wouldn't want to do, for any of the several reasons (the job is hard/boring/stinky/whatever). And once I've built them, I want people to be able to use them. Please note this last point. People and other "nature's computers", like animals and fungi, aren't supposed to be "used". In fact, all those systems spend a huge amount of resources to avoid being
mircea_popescu: for all of 2011-2013 i've been strictly ignoring alts, and look at all the time it's saved me!
BingoBoingo: http://i.imgur.com/KJOwR4g.png
asciilifeform: i distinctly recall seeing just such a chart about a year ago
BingoBoingo: If I remember right CoiledCoin was the one Luke killed
dub: I dont think it was
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i appreciate consensus scoring under fiat.
mircea_popescu: dub more's to it. as i explained to asciilifeform a while ago, it actually makes it impossible to be evil in raport to it.
asciilifeform: i imagine everyone who ever cracked a book is familiar with island ecosystems and their doomed flightless birds...
dub: for it was the point where I was closest to losing trust in the system
mircea_popescu: that entity can either sell the coins it mines, in which case they end up with me, which is what i want anyway
mircea_popescu: so : atc is not driven by "user adoption". it's driven by the fact that i'm buying it. in this context, if "evil" entity decides to just mine all the blocks, nobody gives a shit. so txn aren't included ? whatever.
mircea_popescu: i don't get how this is supposed to work. so he mines and doesn't include txn
thickasthieves: (i think)
thickasthieves: <+benkay> thickasthieves: is atc a merge-mine thing? /// no, but i think it could be, and if it is, i might be willing to put some funds towards the dev, but no one wants my money so far
mthreat: i've been meaning to check out that bar
mthreat: ok (if I go)
decimation: yeah I've been burned by "md5sum" suddenly is "md5" on osx
BingoBoingo: I don't rally think the Fairly comments on Bitbet really hurt BitBet at all http://bitbet.us/bet/519/btc-network-difficulty-to-top-1b-before-2014/#c2048
mircea_popescu: no but i mean for you personally.
Fairlay: I guess we are addressing more the new user that have never heard of WOT - since the old seems to be happy with bitbet
mircea_popescu: i don't imagine anyone really cares.
moiety: :D i thought it was so funny
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I haven't read the comments yet, but I wonder how many read it as a proposal for linux developments as opposed to IBM advertorial
BingoBoingo: That's what I'm reading
fluffypony: can I buy shares in this scam?
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves i don't follow, so did the coupons yield boxes or not ?
BingoBoingo: do you read this thing like i do, ie, a nsa-sponsored attempt to survive the "everyone has cardano rng on board" apocalypse by making good entropy sources still circumventable ? << I read either that or some kernel afficianado who would buy a unix pacemaker
mircea_popescu: sciilifeform do you read this thing like i do, ie, a nsa-sponsored attempt to survive the "everyone has cardano rng on board" apocalypse by making good entropy sources still circumventable ?
mircea_popescu: Dropping out the egd support made me puzzled for a moment, but then I realized that there is no point in using egd to feed the randomness to the process, you just need to feed entropy to the kernel, and let the process get it normally. I have had, unfortunately, quite a bit of experience with entropy-generating daemons, and I wonder if this might be the right time to suggest getting a new multi-source daemon out." << a
mircea_popescu: "I actually have been thrilled to see that finally there is movement to replace the straight access to /dev/random and /dev/urandom: Ted's patch to implement a getrandom() system call that can be made compatible with OpenBSD's own getentropy() in user space. And even more I'm happy to see that at least one of the OpenBSD/LibreSSL developers pitching in to help shape the interface.
benkay: so i read
xanthyos: benkay: i'm a friend of danielpbarron 's
sheldonthomas: i know man. i had reviews from trades in 2011 with people like justmoon and then i lost that harddrive and thus that wot identity
sheldonthomas: i’ve lost my fucking wot identity more times than i like to admit
decimation: I would note that Mr. Wolfram & co. are slowly migrating Mathmatica to be "pay us to use Wolfram Alpha in the cloud"
sheldonthomas: not really. i occasionally linger on assets. maybe we met back at the bruce wager bitcoin conference. i sat in the 2nd row
mircea_popescu: i have this impression your name's familiar, any idea whence ?
decimation: I guess I was picturing "determinism" as "God sets the outcome of the quark-dicerolls in the way He sees fit"
decimation: yeah I've been hit by that ssh/scp thing many times, enraging
mircea_popescu: im so fucking full of camomille i could burst.
fluffypony: I believe they're about to start waterboarding him
mircea_popescu: that's half an hour i'm never getting back.
benkay: i've not customized this irc client to both show those things but not display notifications for them
benkay: i don't watch nicks/joins/parts
BingoBoingo: benkay: Twas I. It is a manual bot.
decimation: re: headphone "muffs": I used these sometimes in the office: http://support.radioshack.com/support_electronics/doc67/67054.htm (330-1198)
decimation: I was thinking about the "poisoned soup" model of determining the "randomness" of some numbers
mircea_popescu: yeah just dun know how far i'd trust it.
Namworld: All I need now is to find it a name, eh.
mircea_popescu: Namworld ahahah i think that's a keeper :)
Namworld: So I wonder what kind of sorcery this is. Then I notice a service panel to pipes slightly opened. That fucker was opening the cabinet under the sink, crawled into the walls with the pipes and made it's way to the room.
Pierre_Rochard: BingoBoingo: I agree, “national research university” has gotten diluted.
Namworld: to bed. Noises in the room. I look, he's back in the room.
Namworld: So I have this cat I just adopted. He's always following me around and tend to lay down at my feet. Won't let me sleep, walking on me and trying to get under the sheets. So I close the door to the bedroom. Then shortly later, I hear the cat and look. He's inside the room playing. I think wtf, must have slipt back in while I was closing the door. I go put him out, close the door, go back
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard i originally thought it's a highschool/municipal sort of stadium for some reason.
Pierre_Rochard: BingoBoingo: I guess we’re just using different definitions of “regional”, the one that’s “bachelor + master” is more commonly used
mircea_popescu: this is the most preposterous shit i ever read. hey, fifty million jewish people ? about a billion people happen to not give a shit. this is how it should be.
Pierre_Rochard: Eh, they are in NCAA Division I.
Pierre_Rochard: I wouldn’t describe GT as a “regional school”: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2012-13/subject-ranking/subject/engineering-and-IT
mircea_popescu: thanks to all the inflation, they're safe : they didn't have that much to spend anyway. i doubt anything under 1bn even registers anymore, especially after the great successes of govt contractors in the mideast.
asciilifeform: (setq #f #t) << actually evaluated this in a 'lisp' i wrote as a schoolboy. mega-lol.
asciilifeform: i sorta get the flavour here. perpetuum mobile, were it build, could perhaps also cure baldness.
mircea_popescu: so, i can argue that yes, it is just as readily inferred as anything else.
mircea_popescu: all these people derping about "quantum-computing-strong hashes" and whatnot are starting to get on my motherfucking nerves. yo idiots! are you aware that every rng out there actually uses some sort of quantum noise ? WHAT THE FUCK ARE HASHES GOING TO DO WHEN I KNOW ALL THE SEEDS!
mircea_popescu: i thot china made btc illegal.
benkay: <thestringpuller> ugh, I guess I'm moving to France. // oh ffs really?
benkay: <fluffypony> an Oculus Rift, or the entire research lab they have? // i can't wait for the full-wraparound displays with lots and lots of pixels
benkay: my kind of country i tell you
benkay: <mircea_popescu> maybe i visit after the fall. play fallout in new reno irl or some4thing. // empire collapse when
assbot: I wasn’t going to actually post this, but… pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, dear intelligent people stuck on reddit&co - this is you : http://trilema.com/2014/i-wasnt-going-to-actually-post-this-but/
xmj: I see.
mircea_popescu: the better news here is that while i tried to sleep my cold off people actually got to the bottom of the whole gpg snag. hallelujah.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: i suppose they keep the site up, for old time's sake
mircea_popescu: i have no idea who fucking asked amazon fanboi there to pass his judgement on de raadt, but i can state for teh records it wasn't me.
mircea_popescu: pankkake https://blog.flameeyes.eu/2014/07/libressl-is-taking-a-beating-and-that-s-good << all i see is more of the same, "fucktards are butthurt, how dares anyone upset the statu quo"
xmj: I love that.
xmj: I want to see how far you can push verbal boundaries into bulshytt territory. think Virtual Cloud, Virtual Enterprise Cloud Management, blabla
xmj: oh, i mean the four-letter-marketing-combination
fluffypony: Rackspace is, I think
xmj: even if i don't deal with US through it.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: actually i never had any problems with one-off noise (e.g. keys). because when i'm thinking i scarcely touch the keys.
asciilifeform: i don't really see all of this as adding up to a solvable engineering problem, but catch myself thinking about it now and then anyway.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i've thought about building something like the 'cockpits' flight simulator players are fond of. chair with display in a 'canopy.' but it would need its own cooling setup...
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i would, in principle, care, if it were possible to eliminate all other fan noise
nubbins`: we have climate of a different sort here, to the point where i can't recall ever seeing an air conditioning unit in a private home. at the risk of asking a silly question, could one have the unit outside the room and vent the cool air in?