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PeterL: lets you win a tiny amount or lose it all
TheNewDeal: Mp whats it called when you double your bet in a 50/50 game, every time, until you win (or lose a large sum)
decimation: the other day I was testing a pile of python code that was driving hardware, and I wanted to just skip X lines
decimation: I like the templeos guy, he has a fixed number of lines of code for his project, and wants to make it smaller
decimation: yeah, I agree, like you need a computer that tells you what fits in your head
decimation: that guy who inspected the toyota embedded computer had a whole lecture on code coverage/testing/complexity tools
asciilifeform must note that there is only so much turdsmithing he is willing to do without a good reason.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: system v is a classical unix
decimation: asciilifeform: is that a picture of stierlitz in the upper right of the anti-soviet-portrayals-of-hollywood image you linked? if so, hilarious
mircea_popescu: will obviously be a lot more interesting to work on a history than trying nude predictions
PeterL: feedback loops make it hard to get a good number for the future
PeterL: ah, I see it now, there should be a number between the at and comma, 1% per month?
mircea_popescu: totally, how could a dude wear a dress!!1
mircea_popescu: "A lot of people follow their own faiths. Most were indoctrinated since birth. That makes it very easy to believe the dogma. Yet, how in anybody’s right mind could they, as an adult, suddenly be told that the magic man in the sky says you need to start wearing a dress (even though you’re a dude), put your face on the ground five times a day and pray, and oh yeah, kill all the non-believers? Not happening to anybody
PeterL: mircea_popescu: scoopbot is a replacement for penguiker
mod6: im gonna give it a shot with some older libs
asciilifeform: lol, they took the carcass away in a police car ?!
mod6: this is a good point. lemme see.
asciilifeform: diff output of readelf or objdump if you give a damn why this happened
asciilifeform: if someone wants to cough up a build script, go ahead
asciilifeform: or simply in a mail-to-other-folks process
asciilifeform: jurov's gadget, if he follows this suggestion, will be such that patch can be mailed to it, and if signature (must be detached, because gpg mutilates the plaintext otherwise...) passes, includes patch in a build process
asciilifeform: anyone who thinks this is a waste of time - say.
mircea_popescu: anyway, why bother with a ban ? let him be ground into either a shape or nothingness.
WhiteCrane: is it possible to make a profit on bitcoin?
asciilifeform: incidentally, the 'chicken', if built, should produce a binary bitwise identical with original.
WhiteCrane: its a joke
asciilifeform: linked turd is fresh but includes only a simple turd excision - removal of qt
mircea_popescu: more like a script. put some xml wrappers around it ?
asciilifeform: ^ the gods love a joke
mircea_popescu: btw, a crc self-correcting system of computation should be devised.
mircea_popescu: bounce nah they pay into it five bux or w/e each time they get a ss check, and then get a loan once a year to replace the washing machine or w/e
mircea_popescu: but seriously, old people in eastern europe have this thing, like a loan co-op
bounce: so, a bitcoin indulgence?
ben_vulpes: and to have a contingency plan for that happening
bounce: "there be dragons" is maybe a little weak in this context.
bounce: is there a general goal and or purpose for starting the hoard in the first place?
mircea_popescu: jurov the cockfest rules clearly say that no foundation can grow past 3 members unless it involves a good looking woman.
mircea_popescu: generally, once there's a pile of money, stupid ways to waste it can be devised.
mircea_popescu: maybe sponsor a bitcoin comic
ben_vulpes: a++
mircea_popescu: actually, maybe sponsor a worthy young lady to come to april conference. that's a decent way to spend foundation moneyz i say!
ben_vulpes: or a zero payout to treasurer
mircea_popescu: bounce hopefully it will go "we got a lot of btc, give us more!"
bounce: that does imply a 100xbt donation drive every year
jurov: truly a treasurer's duty :DDD
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform maybe buy you a complimentary book copy of the code ?
ben_vulpes: be a target
jurov: moment i want to have a clue how we eventually switch to dispensing from the treasury
mircea_popescu: a so jurov treasurer ? okay.
ben_vulpes: jurov and i bring a pm regarding treasury duties for a theoretical -assets foundation
asciilifeform: no one unearthed a copy they're willing to certify as having been leached when new
BingoBoingo: mats_cd03: Interesting in writing a qntra piece or two?
mircea_popescu: i srsly don't see the problem with a patched diff.
mircea_popescu: perhaps a point.
asciilifeform: that any system where the 'patient' sees a blurred boundary between the trivial and the absolutely impossible - will produce the learned helplessness.
asciilifeform: and here's a thought:
asciilifeform: jurov: i want a single 'nixed qt' diff, for example.
asciilifeform: if we have a meg of extraneous turd in a diff, then we're in 'infinity' in the one, two, three, infinity hierarchy of being.
asciilifeform: incidentally, there's a larger lesson here. folks have been using 'version control' gizmos for so long, that approximately no one even notices that 'diff' is broken.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mircea_popescu, others: you must appreciate why this is necessary. it is direly important. our patch set must start with a known, traditional tree, and end with the end product.
mircea_popescu: take a seat son.
cazalla: jurov: cazalla how is cryptomoneyexpo different from all the other chumpferences? <<< it's not, it's a bunch of friends using bots to fill up their habbo hotel to bang coinfire outta 10k
asciilifeform: try it with just a dir with a turd from /dev/null in it.
asciilifeform: in such a way that 'patch' applies it.
asciilifeform: just want to remove a dir with binaries, and have the resulting diff file reflect this fact
ben_vulpes: what is a in this context? 0.5.3?
asciilifeform: i want a 100 percent mechanical a->b.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform you are good at the turdisms...do you have a list somewhere?
asciilifeform: trying to include a zap for the entire qt dir
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asciilifeform: and i'll show you a coprophagiac.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform just a bag of shit passed round'nround << what's with the obsession with poop?
thestringpuller: +asciilifeform> just a bag of shit passed round'nround
asciilifeform: passed like a bottle
ben_vulpes: sure that's a slice less complexity
asciilifeform: just a bag of shit passed round'nround
mircea_popescu: not like the chairs have to spend it. it can end up like fcuking princeton, owning a billion dolars in investments.
ben_vulpes: well then the thing wants a treasurer as well.
mircea_popescu: to differentiate from the scam currently masquerading as a bitcoin "foundation"
mircea_popescu: a promise should be made for accounts publishing at the least
ben_vulpes: if there's a budget, something can be said about it
mircea_popescu: discontinued or ammended in such a way as to no longer conflict with Bitcoin."
TheNewDeal: Mp as far as the shitty spot price goes, couldnt one set up some actual usd deverable calls/puts at certain prices to protect against a rigged signal?
mircea_popescu: can be safely gay knowing you won't be splayed by too big a tool.
mike_c: not tough. platform layer is not a difficult thing to implement.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform generally, people who can compile it can also secure windows to a sufficient degree
mod6: so speaking of n00bs. can we add a link to the log.bitcoin-assets.com page that takes a person to the first day of logs availble?
mike_c: but i'm done defending the noobs. i'm not a complete noob anymore, so fuck 'em.
mircea_popescu: sarcasm is generally the lowest form of wit, but when addressed to people who openly admit not having a clue so therefore not being able to catch it it's just irredeemably stupid.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: Usagi will open one for you, just send him a,pm << dudes you gotta stop with this "sarcasm" directed at noobs.
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mircea_popescu: speaking of which, chick was just over, she stripped, and apparently left. now i have a sundress and a bra on my counter.
asciilifeform: perhaps one day we meet old woman, and she'll say 'i was a five-output NAND gate in mr p's bitcoin circuit...'
asciilifeform: and here i was, thinking that someone actually gave a damn
mircea_popescu: i STILL suspect there's a couple unaccounted leaks in the code
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform neutral country ? what are you, a dyslexig santaist ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: only lamers << it's a nature preserve for lamers, so far mostly untouched by zoologists.
mircea_popescu: mod6: someone could make a worthy ui to interact with the baseline b-a bitcoind. then qt is out of core, and lives in someother project. << a good idea, but kinda what armory will end up being
asciilifeform: ultimate project: wall of shame, hosted in neutral country, which displays all easily-parseable login/pw pairs from a few Gb/sec worth of exit node.