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mircea_popescu: yeah. just, back on
the 21st
the problem happened ot be a pile of contrived blocks s'all.
mircea_popescu: there is some value in node discovery, but
there's a major problem with
the socket starvation.
PeterL: seems like a ping, pong is not a big change, but I guess I see your point. Is
there any benefit
to it, or is it strictly noise?
a111: Logged on 2017-02-21 17:43 asciilifeform: could simply add anybody who emits a 'ping'
to banlist.
ben_vulpes: the vassals for whom
this grates, straight
to gpg.
ben_vulpes: there are republicans of various standing,
their vassals, and everyone else.
ben_vulpes: there is no bar
to presentation of previously signed documents at a later point.
ben_vulpes: would be interesting
to see gpg wedding contracts
ben_vulpes: in absence of counterclaim, is davout's wife
then
ben_vulpes: suppose
that woulda been done for her.
ben_vulpes: note how veen went from "my business partner"
to "veen", but "my wife" is still -- mine
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: what means "state
to petraeus"
then?
mod6: asciilifeform:
thanks for submitting.
shinohai: Lots of irons in fires atm, but exciting development asciilifeform .... I will
test in < 24 hrs
shinohai likes
to minagine
this `wires` patch as G for
trb
a111: Logged on 2017-02-22 04:55 mircea_popescu: btw,
trump actually gave state
to petraeus, at least on
the declarative front.
a111: Logged on 2016-01-20 02:05 asciilifeform: presently
trb does not have
this sane behaviour
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: so what's going
to happen with
tillerson?
ben_vulpes: too many 'tits at dinner', i guess,
they all run
together
shinohai: I wish my peeps had been incredible enough not
to fuck up
that Eulora click earlier
this week.
shinohai: (right areola is slightly misshapen but who am I
to judge
mircea_popescu: but in any case
the pressurizing of a gas won't yield significant caloric capacity
to matter in
this discussion.
mircea_popescu: considering you're about 50kgs of water and 50grams of sweat, i hardly see
the difference.
mircea_popescu: yes, so
there's a latent phasechange heat of what, 17k or so, roughly 4 degree's worth.
shinohai: Now
that is non-Newtonian fluid I can get behind.
mircea_popescu: "pour ammonia on it" won't work nearly as well when your alt-lifeforms manage
to start a kitchen fire out of icecubes and alt-wood shavings.
ben_vulpes: aka heat required
to raise a gram of
the material 1c
mircea_popescu: veen if you bother
to do
the math you'll see
there's actually pretty good reason
to suspect life ~= water within
three or so sigmas.
veen: hypothetically ammonia and various hydrocarbons could do
the
trick
mircea_popescu: your planet will either need large oceans of something else (what ? water ?
then water-life will
take over) or else will experience large
temperature swings
veen: i'm no expert in
the field of biochemistry, but i'm aware models have been proposed
mircea_popescu: this makes it a major schelling point for lifebuilding. do you know of an alternative material or combination
that could serve ?
mircea_popescu: understand
that water is important because it does (at least)
two pumps simultaneously. firstly
the heat pump, secondly
the synthesis pump. it is : a) an oxide (this means it doesn't burn -- not just "not in oxygen" but not in general, few elements are more reacrtive
to substitute) which b) has an immense caloric capacity and also c) is a very powerful universal solvent.
mircea_popescu: even entertaining
the zoological angle. what alternative pump do you envisage ?
veen: rule out metabolic pathways
that spontaneously arose in oceans of methane and
the search is ~guaranteed
to come up dry
veen: i perceive
the interest
to be more zoological
ben_vulpes: the search for life
that's more or less pretty much just like us, so far away as
to provide a nice escape out of having
to do anything other
than write grants
mircea_popescu: well it's kind-of
the interest no ? "can
trump build hotel resort"
veen: as long as you define life
to mean life like we have on earth
veen:
https://archive.is/x57D1 << "NASA…has discovered a new solar system [with]
three [planets]
that sit squarely in
the so-called ‘habitable zone,’ meaning
that
there is
the potential for liquid water:
the key for life on another planet."
mircea_popescu: and in
today's dose of monster wtf : "<DicePower> So like,
the 0.1.2b .tar.gz contains multiple files with
the same name but of different case, i.e., EuloraV0.1.2\art\Graveyard~ and EuloraV0.1.2\art\GRAVEYARD~ which Windows wants
to fix by overwriting one when
the .tar is unzipped. What is
the proper course of action
to avoid later linking errors, etc.?"
trinque: logic being, I guess, if I can't smell
the fart AT LEAST I CAN SEE IT
mircea_popescu: "what's
the ultimate in orgasms ?" "to come powder. out your ass."
mircea_popescu: that's
the source of humour :
that he's a walking stereotype and apparently unaware.
mircea_popescu: a man with a functionally inadequate reproductive organ has adorned his squalid abode with what purports
to be cocaine.
jhvh1: asciilifeform:
The operation succeeded.
a111: Logged on 2015-02-16 06:17 asciilifeform: so
the 'google finds unique strings'
thing, sure - can we conclude
that i'm
the only one alive
trying
to build 'gnat' on 'gentoo' ?
ben_vulpes: mhm "even google ai is better at driving
than most people"
ben_vulpes: yeah, meatsacks shouldn't operate
their own road ice.