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mircea_popescu: For checking if a string is empty, null or undefined I use: return (!str || 0 === str.length); For checking if a string is blank, null or undefined I use: return (!str || /^\s*$/.test(str)); For checking if a string is blank or contains only white-space: return (this.length === 0 || !this.trim());
mircea_popescu: and not even a female child at that. katrina did way better than you.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the only reason you're not walking through walls is also, that you're pushing with the strength of a child.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is the gold standard for everything else. that's actually what the word bitcoin means.
mircea_popescu: you don't want the hard sort of thing you're thinking about. you just want an impredictable sort of tandem.
mircea_popescu: clearly the largest use of tandem computing in the history of humanity, by any measure, by a very fat margin.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field success comes from a very patent absence of intent.
mircea_popescu: it's so stupid it can not be expressed in other words. "x86 sparc"
mircea_popescu: anyway, you KNOW most elbrus will be running excel in govt offices. so yes.
mircea_popescu: (this is not as lulzy as it sounds. there MUST be a fractal pattern somewhere that also makes a machine)
mircea_popescu: independence is built EXACTLY out of having access to all the flavours of idiocy
mircea_popescu: give it a coupla years, they won't even be able to fix anything anymore because of deployment
mircea_popescu: there is some residual interest in exploring this thing, because it will definitely become the standard in ru bureaucracy, and knowing its holes will allow us to complete our collection of michelle obama cockinmouth.jpg with all the random hos putin manhandles.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i can bitch at someone there to buy it, i imagine. prolly so can you
mircea_popescu: you know i *am* willing to buy one, host it in the ukr lands closeby, and so on.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field wait, so you're not gonna write an inquiry to the elbrus folks ?
mircea_popescu: i thought you meant the site. gotta love those girls, great sports.
mircea_popescu: im not going to even go into the whole pki nonsense, too lazy atm.
mircea_popescu: yes, they used to be more expensive, and have been alligning to the mpex price over the years. nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: how much has changed, how the mighty have fallen, etc.
mircea_popescu: ah, where are the rambunctious years of the serbian "pace" mission.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i'm only very marginally interested in this sort of wankery tbh.
mircea_popescu: "In addition, the Serbs had also intercepted and deciphered some NATO communications" AAAAhahahahaha
mircea_popescu: i didn't know they had rockets fast enough even. wtf is this.
mircea_popescu: "those guys are the top just because they're priviledged, we can be just as good as them, even better. because we want to, that's why!"
mircea_popescu: anyway, if there are any javascript experts in the room, you, trinque, whoever : currently it pisses me off because if you click on page it scrolls you to top. any idea how to fix it so it ignores clicks ? just, never scroll as a result of a click.
mircea_popescu: davout yup. requires js, but it's pretty solid. try itr.
mircea_popescu: mats yep, part oif why the entire "attestation" bs is so lulzy.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> there's this big hairy crystalspace dependency that apparently calls ssh from configure << ahaha wut!
mircea_popescu: Came to post this link, but you beat me to it. OP take the time to read this.