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asciilifeform: PARRY: I went to the races.
asciilifeform: eliza (for the uninitiated - robo-shrink)
asciilifeform: (robo-schizzo)
asciilifeform: parry
asciilifeform: there we go
asciilifeform: http://www.computableminds.com/post/chatbot/eliza/parry/skynet/human-language/natural-language ☟︎
asciilifeform: s/ractor/parry
asciilifeform: to my shame i admit that the part with echo and narcissus reminded me of the fellow who had Eliza and Ractor talk to each other.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: his subjects will read the tales, and, having understood well, will seppuku from remorse (in a hidden place, so as to perform the act non-narcissistically.)
asciilifeform: from the lulzfarm: http://cryptome.org/2014/03/ukraine-national-socialism.htm
asciilifeform: don't let the capital letters fool you - there is nothing peculiar about the basic
asciilifeform: a very hasty js
asciilifeform: the version on my page (http://www.loper-os.org/bad-at-entropy/manmach.html) is js
asciilifeform: righto
asciilifeform: and was originally fortran.
asciilifeform: it is far older than i.
asciilifeform: nope.
asciilifeform: or student goes somewhere far away
asciilifeform: problems have to be interesting
asciilifeform: what would you suggest - 'hello world' ?
asciilifeform: hah
asciilifeform: translate http://www.loper-os.org/bad-at-entropy/GD.BAS to modern programming language of your choice
asciilifeform: easier project, for complete beginner, then
asciilifeform: no need for special programming language support.
asciilifeform: and spew forth 'listtransactions ....' and 'sendrawtransaction ....' etc
asciilifeform: use conventional bitcoind (and litecoind, or whatever the other side of the trades is)
asciilifeform: (guaranteed not to behave perversely 'under load', no web crap)
asciilifeform: good project for beginner
asciilifeform: moiety: example - the blockchain-operated www-less exchange discussed last week (?)
asciilifeform: haha
asciilifeform: well, YY% deliberately pick the most perverse answer
asciilifeform: XX% click random box when answering survey. news at 11...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: digging gratuitous C spaghetti as we speak.
asciilifeform: just wondering which other people here commit the sin of programming.
asciilifeform: aha ok
asciilifeform: there is one author, chetty?
asciilifeform: remainder being the actual logic of the game
asciilifeform: chetty ?
asciilifeform: yes, i saw the bit about the uncooperative graphics libs, etc. but who wrote the remainder?
asciilifeform: color me clueless, but i'm curious: who wrote eulora ?
asciilifeform: actually i don't think anyone here is particularly fond of spammers and charlatans
asciilifeform: it is so very easy to build... distrust programmatically.
asciilifeform: http://pastebin.com/9Ef7F07z
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: for instance, if you were to reveal what the hardware is, i might take pity and tell you how to obtain an equivalent for 17 instead of 17k usd.
asciilifeform: if you want to have a sporting chance of interesting someone
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: please consider saying what it is.
asciilifeform: if the answer is 'pay for groceries' he has the wrong address
asciilifeform: i'm genuinely curious what this fellow intends to do with the money
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: what are you building, that you need a loan? airplane? particle accelerator?
asciilifeform: and new one is to be to... ?
asciilifeform: if financed, then why ask?
asciilifeform: is the intended implication that... you don't intend to?
asciilifeform: you just have to... pay it back
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: bank loan can finance a dope habit
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: perhaps you have mistaken the address. loan lives at bank.
asciilifeform: haha
asciilifeform: let me guess. couldn't get a government-approved architect to sign off on it
asciilifeform: colleague of mine had to search for ages when buying a house where one was permitted to... plant an orchard.
asciilifeform: in anglo world, land isn't really owned, just borrowed from the crown - like in ussr.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you have allodial titles where you live?
asciilifeform: see note re: leper colonies
asciilifeform: where i live, it is forbidden to live in anything that is not a house, except in specially-designated leper colonies.
asciilifeform: moiety: you rent a shipping container?
asciilifeform: so, buried.
asciilifeform: earth + planks is the frame for the pour.
asciilifeform: moiety: structural, rather than decorative
asciilifeform: shipping container works best when you bury in a concrete-lined pit.
asciilifeform: nm
asciilifeform: ah
asciilifeform: s.bbet ?!
asciilifeform: fools will install the patched version, and 'ahhh i'm seekure now.'
asciilifeform: because PKI == chumpatron
asciilifeform: it would remain derp even if the code were written to spec, by a god.
asciilifeform: 'It's significant that no one managed to notice such glaring errors, particularly since they were contained in code that anyone can review.' << ahahaha
asciilifeform: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/journalist-nsa-wont-give-me-a-secure-channel-to-communicate-on/
asciilifeform: also fun:
asciilifeform: Don't Blame The Mice!
asciilifeform: there's your pedigree record...
asciilifeform: coin should be electronic. with small camera, dead-reckoning navigation gyro... antifuse ROM for log.
asciilifeform: from the 'weirdest CAPTCHA' candidates: http://www.microchip.su/search.php
asciilifeform: (circuit-level implementation, done correctly, would leave no room for doubt as to the fate of every input bit, and the origin of every output)
asciilifeform: (doesn't have to be verilog in particular - any circuit description system would do)
asciilifeform: unrelated: did anyone ever answer the call to implement btc reference client compatible in verilog?
asciilifeform: ah you meant on actual human nails.
asciilifeform: nah, vacuum works best for that one
asciilifeform: (e.g. melt hot glue without destroying the glued item)
asciilifeform: even if you don't solder
asciilifeform: essential household tool
asciilifeform: the most chinese possible. as in, bouncing ball for air pressure gauge.
asciilifeform: right. literal hot air
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope. http://sra-solder.com/shopimages/products/normal/aoyue768.jpg
asciilifeform: (chinese)
asciilifeform: when i bought a digital hot air machine circa '07, it came with a whole sausage of power plugs for various phones of the period
asciilifeform: in the east, people do indeed fix phones!
asciilifeform: (presumably, to install winblows on the platoon laptop, so grunts can play Quake.)
asciilifeform: '... If you have a 'specialty' field such as... a degree in computer science... you could be 'drafted'..'
asciilifeform: haha apparently i'm still good for cannonfodder
asciilifeform: http://educate-yourself.org/cn/draftindex.shtml
asciilifeform: 'they had a war and nobody came'
asciilifeform: for newswank aficionados, mr. o update his post (http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/03/reichstag-fire-in-kiev.html) with summary of today's.