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mircea_popescu: obviously paid piece, how else would a journalist know what "will" happen
mircea_popescu: cazalla as a rule of thumb, if grep "will" > devnull
cazalla: "An in-house, web based, exchange seamlessly converts Bitcoin (BTC) to Breakout Coin (BRO) with a cold storage solution to protect the currency, avoiding the opportunity for hackers to enter the servers. Breakout Gaming’s site will feature 88 different casino games including the popular Texas Hold ‘Em, Open Face Chinese Poker, in addition to a custom built Fantasy Sports betting platform. " more shit coins for your bitcoin
decimation: also apple had a lisp machine later on right
decimation: one would think that someone would have made a few backups, but then again shit happens I guess
asciilifeform: was always a laugh.
asciilifeform: 'cyc' is a real laugh. they have a crippled 'open' version; in java, if i recall!
asciilifeform: decimation: precious little horsepower (esp. for a serious lisp system); precious little network to speak of; etc
asciilifeform: we don't know if it was eurisko or just doug l. and a lisp prompt.
asciilifeform: scammer: it never worked really, he won the 'traveller' tourney using his brain plus a few automated routines
asciilifeform: the schoolbook telling of the 'eurisko' project - open an encyclopaedia of computing, traditionally it is mentioned as a seminal work - suggests this.
asciilifeform: one, where he's a scammer.
asciilifeform: it feeds a gigantic class of folks, some of whom could conceivably be of some use, most go back to home country after they had enough.
asciilifeform: the real lol is that i had to write a report, quite like this one, when my contract was ending.
asciilifeform: and the original was probably put on record as a paper report, as well.
decimation: or it was a copy-of-a-copy-of-a-copy
asciilifeform: ocr for code is a nonstarter anyway
decimation: anything with 'ada' is a 'dtic' research report
assbot: RLL-1: A Representation Language Language. Supplement. Details of RLL-1
assbot: RLL-1: A Representation Language Language
asciilifeform: decimation: djvu exists for a reason
nubbins`: can anyone point me to a simple shell script that generates private keys from secret exponents?
decimation: I was thinking one could cast with a mold, but a home-made version of those would probably not be sufficiently precisely machined
decimation: that's a good point
asciilifeform: shared a machine with a 'sollipse' - also abandoned, of no use. ☟︎
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: glassing is the wholesale production of borosilicate glass out of the landscape as the side effect of a runaway nuclear reaction. << this is a great definition
decimation: if the signal passes through a channel that is not linear-time-invariant, one will see intermodulation products arise
asciilifeform: decimation: if beam hits a rectifier, energy is absorbed instead of reflected or transmitted to other side of obstacle.
asciilifeform: decimation: more like a radar set
pete_dushenski: blog incoming. turns out not every vc is a derp.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: actually throwing it on a server.
mats_cd03: a short story.
mircea_popescu: glassing is the wholesale production of borosilicate glass out of the landscape as the side effect of a runaway nuclear reaction.
thestringpuller: was that a real thing?
mats_cd03: that would be a good day
mats_cd03: i should do a bet about green attacks before end of the year
kakobrekla: right now i just get a network error
thestringpuller: my life goal is to own a sweatshop
mats_cd03: pricing of the nonlinear junction detector looks quite high. is there a miser's version somewhere? made in a sweatshop perhaps?
asciilifeform: (a bit bulky)
asciilifeform: in response to years of prodding from various folks, and mircea_popescu reminding me that 'lesswrong' existed, i took an hour or so to digitize the old douglas lenat papers. now need a place to host
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well... Testicles was a great warrior in the Classical period...
mircea_popescu: <peterl> isn't Rassah gay? <<< i don't think as much gay as a furry creature.
cazalla: JuliaTourianski, you mean a popper?
mircea_popescu: i've not drunk tap water in about a decade or so.
JuliaTourianski: iggy asmellyyah..becuase mike dice is a creative.
mircea_popescu: which is a superlative idiomatic i've just created for the occasion.
mircea_popescu: actually it's a little jewel, just a bit of cruft here and there.
mircea_popescu: "Any alteration from the typical human brain wave pattern of the occupants of a Detector-equipped ship would boost the indicator around the dial. Even a bad dream or a case of indigestion would jar it." || "The unmoving dials." jesus pick one.
mircea_popescu: "What armor is there against thought? How do you dodge a wavelength?" << meh. why ruin it ? wavelength is not thought, and moreover easily armored against.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this partially why he was revered in the soviet world, where he in fact died (on tour) a few years ago.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sheckley was a sort of comedian.
mircea_popescu: standard procedure is what an old whore does, never a virgin.
mircea_popescu: such bad writing. if something is a first then it can't be "standard procedure"
mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JbnDXw-0pM << friction welding. it's a thing
assbot: Logged on 07-07-2014 14:17:39; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, mircea_popescu, others: re: electronics-sniffing dog << distraction psyop. in real life, hidden electronics are found with a nonlinear junction detector.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: ancient item, search #b-a logs.
assbot: A Police Dog for the Digital Age: She Can Smell the USB Drive You're Hiding - Bloomberg
pete_dushenski: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-23/a-police-dog-for-the-digital-age-she-can-smell-the-usb-drive-you-re-hiding.html
pete_dushenski: looks like asciilifeform rectothermal scan will be… a dog:
ThickAsThieves: in addition to coming to terms with what it really means to be a usian
BingoBoingo: Eh, the new Apple stuff seems to have a bunch of built in side channels to keep syncing the device with the desktop easy
kakobrekla: he seems a goner
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla used to run a fund with PsychoticBoy
fluffypony: before announcing it they should at least have a logo contest
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> I can't take these bugs seriously without a logo and an info site << these bugs got no ux!
gribble: parseval was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 41 weeks, 5 days, 19 hours, 24 minutes, and 53 seconds ago: <parseval> though, really, I think banning banks from handling bitcoin transactions is a good thing
kakobrekla: anyone got a contact from this dude
berndj-blackout: thanks, but i'm likely to be idle for a while. should work on my rating i guess
ThickAsThieves: sure if you wanna make a bad trader
fluffypony: I can't take these bugs seriously without a logo and an info site
fluffypony: I hope someone made a logo
asciilifeform: except the one where a whale sells hundreds of bitcoins << and your machine isn't buying cheapo coin in its wake?
asciilifeform: Darkstone1: or write a virus ?
Darkstone1: except the one where a whale sells hundreds of bitcoins on all the exchanges where i'm active. But that probably a slim chance.
ThickAsThieves: nevermind a bot
mircea_popescu: really the proposition of making a living with trading bots is the response of the engineer who confronted with the fundamental impossibility of making money picking stocks decides to write a hard ai to do it. ☟︎
ben_vulpes: would this actually be a frequency response thing?
Darkstone1: it was a sad day.
berndj-blackout: asciilifeform, add to that, use a spread-spectrum hammer or something
asciilifeform: berndj-blackout: nope. to run with the mechanical analogy, the system has a certain amount of 'dampening'.
berndj-blackout: asciilifeform: won't any nonzero hammer work, given enough time to get a decent SNR?
mircea_popescu: Darkstone1 a okay then
asciilifeform: where you know that opponents are running, e.g., simple arbitrage bots, but each has a 'stop-loss' threshold
ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> "what means safe" "what means healthy" /// such a semantic day!
Darkstone1: i consider myself a neobee invector :P
fluffypony: especially people who think they've "invested" in a cryptocurrency because they bought some
asciilifeform: (in fact, i suspect that any bot whose strategy is not a game-theoretical-finesse-rape of other bots - is quite useless) ☟︎
mircea_popescu: if what the delusion of being a "trader" costs is 10 bucks, plenty of takers.
mircea_popescu: Darkstone1 i paid 10 dollars a month numerous times to trade pennies in online games
Darkstone1: i dont think anyone would pay 10 dollars a month to trade pennies.
Darkstone1: 10 dollars a month.
Darkstone1: wait a sec.
Darkstone1: which costs $40 a month.
mircea_popescu: <thestringpuller> not equating the two, just saying similar tone. << we are kinda inhaviting a cartoon world atm
BingoBoingo: <Darkstone1> can i ask you guys a question? I have an relatively succesfull trading bot (multi-digit bitcoin gain since the beginning of this year) but i an starting to lose intrest in further development. << Sounds like keeping it in your pocket until it interests you again may be the best option
diametric: and i'd never run a trade bot i couldn't inspect the source for.
Darkstone1: it certainly works, but as i said, i'm starting to lose intrest in further development. And i have a full-time job to attend to.
Darkstone1: can i ask you guys a question? I have an relatively succesfull trading bot (multi-digit bitcoin gain since the beginning of this year) but i an starting to lose intrest in further development.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: the most there is is me going on the record that .6.* is probably okay. << This sounded like a cartoon. Like the Family Guy cut away where the dude throws him a parachute with an anvil in it and says, "That one is probably okay"