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phf: if only you knew
that
thing greeks knew, but your civilization won't rediscover for another 100 years
phf: i wonder how many submissions
there are "aww, if only you knew
this
thing
that got discovered 15 years after you died, your approach would've worked"
phf: given
the number of whacky proposals, i suspect it could have a handful of chemical once,
that failed
the engineering part
ben_vulpes: btw,
this ipv6 character who appeared
to get k-lined earlier and just showed up and dropped again ('deepbook5broo') has been appearing in other freenode channels i habituate as well
phf: we should hit royal astronomy archives in greenwich, which is going
to have exhaustive record of all
the chronometer competition submissions
ben_vulpes: myeah,
that's pretty much exactly what i'm
talking about. hence 'stuck', as not available at
the
time.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: yeah, capillary's going
to get hit hard as
the oil level drops
ben_vulpes: i only know what i've found in
the wild, which is why i'm stuck on porous bronze
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: capillary wicks were a
thing in
the late seventeens?!
ben_vulpes: what'd one use for a wick
that wouldn't need adjusting as it burned?
phf: lamp wick will burn, which in
turn will affect burn rate. also pressure changes, from external
temperature, from burn
termperature, from oil burning up
ben_vulpes: still suffers
the hourglass reset problem, no?
phf: sealed ampoule and stable
temperature are
the
tricky parts, so have
to be factored into
the chemical reaction, but
then your
timeframes don't match. john harrison died in 1780, mendeleev was born in 1830
phf: thoroughly researched, but at
the same
time written from first person with no pretense
to authority.
phf: re "apprentice as watchmaker" i picked up first edition of
The Marine Chronometer by Gould. i would call it "delightful"
☟︎ ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: windows and all?
this is in
the heathen logs somewhere?
BingoBoingo: Nah, just apprentice as watchmaker and build calculating machine
to IRC from
phf: i
think
the solution is
to give up. switch
to windows 10, connect
through web irc client, put gpg key into keybase,
the works
BingoBoingo: At least
this is not "seek restoration
to sanity" level problem
BingoBoingo: Maybe you let yourself become powerless over computer and you loglines have
threatened unmanageability?
phf: hmm, running ircII inside emacs's
term is probably not
the best idea. i don't know how
those
two artifacts came about..
a111: Logged on 2017-02-16 17:57 mircea_popescu: yes i'll get archival copy of stuff i like. amusingly, 99% of which doesn't exist in better resolution anyway. wtf am i going
to do with an archival copy of cat on
the hot
tin roof, watch
the original artefacts in preference of
the modern ones ?
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-16#1614694 << i watched a lot of "classics" in pirate quality, and i prefer it
that way. notorious example is Alien, where between
the original print and
the pirate shit copy you could barely see anything, which made
the experience more
terrifying.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: that kid has
the archetypical "face
that demands a punch"
mircea_popescu: fortunately, i don't have alf's problem. baking sane food is something
that one woman can learn.
mthreat: ya
they seem
to
think
their pizza is good
too
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the idea is more, every few blocks has
this "fresh homemade pasta!" "pasta factory!" "el palacio de la pasta!" bullshits and
they're so shockingly bad i can't begin
to imagine wtf
they're
thinking.
mthreat: pasta place
that supposedly has good pasta. i haven't
tried it myself
mthreat: mircea_popescu:
try mauro.it in belgrano
mircea_popescu: alf can go visit,
touch
the original resonant us seal
the russians made.
mircea_popescu: no, actually,
the
thing itself. closed, headquarters
turned into museum.
BingoBoingo: Well, not
to get rid of
the now CIA, but yes
to prevent a future CIA
mircea_popescu: but honeslty, if you look at
the basics such as budgets, it seems cia's history will end
this
trump
term.
mircea_popescu: though it';s not exactly clear what
they'd do with it.
trinque: incidentally
the US is iirc one state legislature majority from being able
to call a republican constitutional convention
trinque: more a "and you are ruled by
them" angle
trinque: mircea_popescu: yeah, not so much
that
mircea_popescu: nobody's shooting anybody because a guy killed
the worms some other guy left behind.
mircea_popescu: trinque
to see a bunch of "central america" not giving
the slightest shit about "call me father" stepfather violence
towards
the (literal) bastards, among other such items.
trinque: mircea_popescu: why's
that?
thestringpuller: hanbot: I
think i'm having same issue. but i just started my node, and it's responding
to rpc, but its not receiving blocks
trinque: also
the value of faking something like
this is obvoius
trinque: somebody short locked inside, maybe a dog
to
the right
trinque: the fatherhood video clearly shows a
two-pane glass shower
trinque: we were having a
thread
the other day about what would get
the central US
to start shooting people
trinque: asciilifeform: somebody dumped it
to 4chan; who knows authenticity
mircea_popescu: in other make daytime
tv great again, fox now so far ahead #1
tv station it pussygrabs.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i can't even figure
that out for myself. 90% of
the
time i
think "mmm, chocolate.
tasty i guess but i kinda want some more challah or whatever else i baked most recently covered in bread"
a111: Logged on 2017-02-16 04:19 asciilifeform:
trinque:
the correct response would be
top 500 of cia org chart found hanging on meat hooks. and afaik no report of
this.
trinque: maybe a dog in
there chewing on him or something
trinque: speaking of cheese pizza,
there's a video floating around
that looks like somebody
torturing a kid in a shower
trinque: why is
the
thumbnail for
the video comet pizza?
ben_vulpes: and moreover if anyone had heard of usg.intel doing it as well,
that's a) fake news b) old news and c) standard diplomatic behavior...for us
ben_vulpes: $girl has been probing for
the caek i will eat. so far, not much success.
BingoBoingo binging on cake
today. I am powerless over cake and my lyfe is still pretty manageable.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes:
Trying, may just plop
transcript in a block quote
BingoBoingo: Also
ty President
Trump for
the lulzy press conference
BingoBoingo: ty asciilifeform for
the linkpresent, and others for
the wishes
hanbot: asciilifeform> hanbot: first apply
the basic litmus: does
the
thing eat rpc commands while blackholed ? yepper, eats. no malleus. meanwhile has caught up without restart, and meanwhile also noticed my addnode medley's outdated.
mircea_popescu: which is
the fucking point. ONE non plea-bargain item ruins his month. do
that.
mircea_popescu: and yet
they STILL sign
the fucking plea bargains, like
the idiots
that
they obviously are.
mircea_popescu: merely waiting for court system
to get its shit
together. average wait
time well over 18 months.