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thestringpuller: mod6 asciilifeform dunno if just weird artifact along with bad luck or actual potential problem, but my node running on slowest hardware is only receiving BASTARD BLOCK s. I'm connected
to deedbot (a
trusted node) with -addnode. using same patch
tree as hanbot
mod6: <+BingoBoingo> In europe bird hunters hit at extreme range because
they use 1, 2, or 4 gauge "punt guns", US maxes out at 10 and 12 gauge for
the reason
that ducks respond
to bigger guns by just flying higher and
then arms race << huh. yeah
those would be huge.
jhvh1: thestringpuller: It's not just you. mimisbrunnr.cascadianhacker.com/ appears
to be down.
thestringpuller: mod6: got
to height 453552 on different machine when height was 453554. node's last "getblocks" message returned 4 blocks already in inventory. after
that it sent no more "getblocks" commands.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i
think
the pee
thing makes you a... punter ?
mircea_popescu: makes a huge difference, in
that you ain't got a submarine dog.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i suspect
the
thing is, us duck / swamp birds mostly live in estuaries ; whereas in europe over river marshlands.
BingoBoingo: In europe bird hunters hit at extreme range because
they use 1, 2, or 4 gauge "punt guns", US maxes out at 10 and 12 gauge for
the reason
that ducks respond
to bigger guns by just flying higher and
then arms race
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform
think car. shoot driver ; shoot fuel
tank ;
these work with a fucking 38mm. if you're actually firing 20 gauge you can prolly fissure a cylinder / ablate
the
transmission / cut a hole
throgh one blade large enough
to make it no longer capable of flight << 20 gauge is small less common one, 12 gauge is bigger common one.
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> so bad << Crank is probably best 'Murican film of
the century so far
mod6: i got a buddy who shoots a zillion geese every year, i'll have
to ask him. i know
that he does put out decoys and call's 'em in
though.
mod6: maybe
the goose/duck hunters use a different choke
than me
too. so who knows.
mod6: so a bit of distance is good.
too much and you're not hitting jack shit. even if you could put a pellet on
target, it won't have enough KE
to knock it down.
mod6: im not sure how high
they
try
to
take
the shots.... your pellet pattern spreads out
the further and further away you are shooting. now, for instance, if I shoot at a pheasant
that's
too close
too me. i'll hit it with a full pattern, and
that will probably not be very awesome
to eat.
mod6: ducks are a lot more involved. you gotta set out decoys and call 'em in
to land.
that's when
those guys are in
the blind
they lock
their wings coming into land
that
they shoot 'em. at least,
that's what I hear.
mod6: i should note
that pheasants are a bit different
though. i
try
to get
them up no further
than 30 yards in front of me. any more
than
that shots get hard, birds catch wind and
they're gone easier
than you'd
think. I keep
the dogs between 15-25 yards in front of me,
that way,
they flush, bird pops up, i knock 'em down.
mod6: but heck, what do i know. when it comes down
to it, any gun, with live ammo, is better
than standing
there with your dick in your hands.
mod6: so, yeah qcb, shotgun with buckshot will
the job really well, especially inside
the home or whatnot. but if I'm attacking,
trying
to lay down suppressing fire, or a part of some
type of garrison, gotta have a rifle. at least,
that's what I want in my hands.
mod6: that's just my $0.02. not gospel. personally, if I gotta fight in
the field. i need
to be able
to put rounds on
target up
to at least 200 yards away or I'm basically in a qcb/hand-to-hand situation.
mod6: if you're in a qcb, and you have a shotgun and don't have a rifle as an option, or slugs for your shotgun, buckshot will do just fine. but you aught
to be within say, 25 yards if you want
to put your man down.
mod6: now,
typically, as I understand,
they
typically
take
these deer at no more
than 350 yards or you risk wounding
the
thing and having
to
track
the sob for 10 miles.
mod6: they do fly fast, and it's a lot harder
than it looks. for one. now maybe I just suck shit, and guys are popping birds @ 500 yards on
the regular. but
this, i haven't seen myself.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> wonder what mod6 would say
to
this. << half a mile?!
that's 2`640 ft. / 3 = ~880 yards.
that's a pretty decent long shot even for a .308.
trinque: pff ecc. not nearly as cool as minority report
triad of processors
mircea_popescu is always very suspicion of
the female professions, from religion
to "our democracy"
to aluminum siding salesmanship
that "are open
to everyone"
mircea_popescu: anyway. it's a profession, being a hunter. not like being c programmer, but like being c programmer aspires
to be.
mircea_popescu: "into flock" being charitable. into bridge, into clouds, into
the other rounds...
mircea_popescu: this is what i mean. wtf are you
talking "a specific duck". of coruse you shoot at a specific duck holy hell.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the idea is
that qualified hunter should be able
to hit a duck at a half mile EVERY
TIME.
mircea_popescu: how many do you have
to fire
to hit duck ? "depends. can you shoot ?"
mircea_popescu: anyway. asciilifeform is actually aware quadcopter rotors can't handle as much as a blade of grass, imagines 2
ton heli rotor can handle buckshot ?
mircea_popescu: well, for
the naive conviction
that "nobody'd fucking dare"
mircea_popescu: half
the
time military gear is about
to give up
the ghost on its own merits, not like it's all
tip
top shiny new and well oiled.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it was, for
the needs of
this conversation, we flying with one dead filter in
the redundant arrangement. because cost savings, see, ie "no money". another item everyone will get acquainted with in
this maga life.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
think car. shoot driver ; shoot fuel
tank ;
these work with a fucking 38mm. if you're actually firing 20 gauge you can prolly fissure a cylinder / ablate
the
transmission / cut a hole
throgh one blade large enough
to make it no longer capable of flight
mircea_popescu: i nearly fell
to my death in one ; nobody was even shooting.
mircea_popescu: a hunting rifle is a good start. it helps
tremendously if you a) can actually shoot where you aim and b) do actually aim at it.
mircea_popescu: what you're doing however is on
the level of, "oh, i saw A
team shooting in hollywood blockbuster,
therefore safest place in world is in front of firing squad. also small arms don't work.
tee hee."
mircea_popescu: not really. but anywya,
the proper model for helicopter is ~car ; except with
the added benefits of jesus nut, and a serious incentive
to keep everything light.
mircea_popescu: to see
the subversion played straight insistently is pretty meh.
ben_vulpes: comes clean out
the other side into hysterically
ben_vulpes: anyone ever
trick you into watching "crank"?
mircea_popescu: pity
that dork went on
to spawn a whole series of reality
tv shits.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-17 19:50 mircea_popescu: "so
the biblical scholars mis-translated
the hebrew word for young woman into
the greek word for virgin. an easy mistake
to make, since
there's only a subtle difference in spelling. but it was
the virgin
that caught people's attention. it's not every day
that a virgin conceives and bears a son. so you keep
that for a couple hundred years, and
the next
thing you know, you have
the holy catholic church."
mircea_popescu: whether it's safe or it's not safe
to
try and fly helicopter within range of enemy rifles is not going
to be decided by stakhanovist stories of any flavour, be
they pravda i, pravda ii, or whatever.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a helicopter and a messerschmitt have nothing in common. random dude alleged
to have done something vague by font-of-lies has nothing
to do. wouldja stop shitting on
topics already.
ben_vulpes: i've always wondered what monofilament (possibly coated in crushed glass) would do
to
the swash plate
trinque: incidentally
this is not a bad DDOS mechanism for
the DoD
trinque: good job; you just justified another 10bil
to lockheed martin for "helicopter iron dome"
trinque: sure, but
things fly lower
than
that
trinque: in my experience
that rifle's pretty damned accurate
jhvh1: asciilifeform:
The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: "Could anyone really believe
the earth was going
to swallow up
the incredible productive assets and unlimited human ingenuity existing in America?"
ben_vulpes: i didn't read it for
the price, but
to see how wide of
the mark
the wsj has drifted. it's an honest depiction of reality in
that /it was published/, and depicts
the process and its results.
trinque: I dunno;
those people love
the retweets
too.