asciilifeform: is what i was getting at

asciilifeform: they aren't uninfected

asciilifeform: they've all seen jpeg porn; probably half tasted the burger

asciilifeform: the way north kr at least partly still is

asciilifeform: but these folks definitely are not the 'clean backup' for unamericanized civ

asciilifeform: nor did any street urchin watching the chop show

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: robespierre also did not have cc debt, care about college, nor ate 'quarterpounder', nor ever heard a police siren ...

asciilifeform: jacquerie with kalash is still jacquerie

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: idk, in my head it inevitably evokes a horde of orcs and headsoff.com

asciilifeform: 'what do you mean i shouldn't butcher my chumps'

asciilifeform: betcha they see #b-a as something not unlike how normal people see militant 'vegans'

asciilifeform: http://fetlife.maybemaimed.com/reverse-the-spin.html (from mircea_popescu's comment section) << mega-l0l

asciilifeform: since he came up, i'd still like to understand why he took to spam

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: meant the overall logic, rather than opcodes (of course you know the opcodes, that isn't what takes time)

asciilifeform: then yes.

asciilifeform: and writing mostly 'from your head' already.

asciilifeform: if you do nothing else

asciilifeform: see the 'tape sorts' featured in the knuth aop centerfolds, for example

asciilifeform: before anyone says 'but the data set' - people in the 'age of xx kB' often kept them on tape and operated piecemeal

asciilifeform has, and it took a while

asciilifeform: how many folks here have written enough asm (let's be liberal, pick any arch) to fill 8k?

asciilifeform: 8k x 18 is still a fuckton if there's no extraneous crapolade in there

asciilifeform: !up ecstaticpessimst

asciilifeform: https://torrentfreak.com/under-u-s-pressure-paypal-nukes-mega-for-encrypting-files-150227

asciilifeform: liked

asciilifeform: and anyway that's story's a real riot

asciilifeform: public.

asciilifeform: it's a www site

asciilifeform: ecstaticpessimst: neh, this is the positive reception. the folks who have nothing of interest published - they're the ones who get the dissection

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ^ definitely a 'dulap' sort of flavour

asciilifeform: ^ worth reading

asciilifeform: http://ecstaticpessimist.in/writings/1 << mega-l0l

asciilifeform: ecstaticpessimst: best way to get a feel is to read the log, published on www, log.bitcoin-assets.com

asciilifeform: ecstaticpessimst: what brings you to #b-a ?

asciilifeform: http://ecstaticpessimist.in/projects << lol

asciilifeform: !up ecstaticpessimst

asciilifeform: it did

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes!

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: .gif << what wasted talent. think of how much cocaine would fit

asciilifeform: possibly the word 'cloud'

asciilifeform is not sufficiently up to date on the subject to remember why he instinctively flinched at seeing 'cloudfront' on the error page

asciilifeform: why?

asciilifeform: jurov: that thing actually uses 'cloudfront' ?

asciilifeform: oddly enough - used for just the pata 40pin header and nothing else

asciilifeform: (the grungy, dark lead-free kind)

asciilifeform: looks quite like solder from a distance

asciilifeform: and picking up the proverbial 'voice of america' every now & then.

asciilifeform: wonder if it's actually slightly semiconductive

asciilifeform: about one per ~10 GB, on average.

asciilifeform: http://imgur.com/ciblKo8

asciilifeform: why - no one knows

asciilifeform: best hypothesis appears to be: the chinese crapfarm who built the adapter - used conductive glue instead of solder for one of the connectors

asciilifeform: i go to find out why;

asciilifeform: fuckdamnit read a 80GB disk seven times and came up with seven distinct images.

asciilifeform: assumed it was some horst wessel-like figure or other

asciilifeform: hey even ireland did

asciilifeform: condor ?

asciilifeform: 2'36"

asciilifeform: 1'32" for instance

asciilifeform: lying about

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: in that film

asciilifeform: yeah i counted at least 3

asciilifeform: who are the stiffs ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: your own creation ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: neato!

asciilifeform: which is to say, making sure that the thing is not removable under any conceivable 'reform'

asciilifeform: it's cement.

asciilifeform: into the valley of derp, rode the six hundred.

asciilifeform: like the microcontroller fella from last night

asciilifeform: neh it goes 'no i get to pay rent. mine is not to question why, mine is but to do and die (TM)'

asciilifeform analog consumer

asciilifeform: probably an intern

asciilifeform: mod6?

asciilifeform: jurov ^^^^^^^^ ?!

asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/mailman/listinfo/btc-dev << 'CloudFront attempted to establish a connection with the origin, but either the attempt failed or the origin closed the connection. ' >> ??!?!

asciilifeform: (jp reply to an american co. which requested, some time in the '70s, a crate of transistors with the 'usual x% defectives')

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'for your convenience we have packaged the defective transistors separately' ? (famous) ☟︎

asciilifeform: (if you want to see one, peek into a police car. for some reason the laptop permanently bolted in place there is inevitably a 'tougbook')

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if you're thinking of 'toughbook' and similar, these aren't normally found among 'desk pilots'

asciilifeform: packed like trains.

asciilifeform: apples stores everywhere

asciilifeform: 'it was something you did'

asciilifeform: and apple wouldn't take them back

asciilifeform: their machines were -new-

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: didn't work for my 2 chums

asciilifeform: anyone care to dig up the details ?

asciilifeform: 'As for the chosen programs, both of Epic Scale’s choices are Y-Combinator darlings, but one of them, the HIV vaccine immunity project, has been heavily criticized by scientists for having no actual scientists involved and for pursuing debunked methods of vaccine research.' << is a new l0l

asciilifeform: although

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: we did that one yesterday

asciilifeform: or you can just mail apple a box of benjies and skip the suffering

asciilifeform: instead you can buy a 'macbook' where the lcd fractures spontaneously. and/or one where the gpu melts

asciilifeform: and never will be again

asciilifeform: nubbins`: there -aren't- any more actual macbooks (in, e.g., the 2010 sense) to be had

asciilifeform: nubbins`: this isn't even it

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: thestringpuller was sticking tongue in the smoke socket or what

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: just what was it you were doing?

asciilifeform: http://www.cnbc.com/id/102484418 << another l0l

asciilifeform: nubbins`: ceremonial