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mircea_popescu: ACTION just found out
that phillips and
torx heads respectively aren't mere "let's arbitrarily change standards
to
try and extract spurious rents via alleged intellectual property" ; but in fact have proper reasons
to exist. a) phillips head is self-centering ; which is
to say driver does not slip out of screw being driven.
this was major advantage in early automotive work.
torx does not cam out ; which was major advantage in
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-15: [23:12:10] * mircea_popescu was reading pete d, ended up on "Knowing
that on average humans have one
testicle and one ovary, what are
the odds
that
this human's left ovary is a
testicle ?"
phf: (i'm using
this "fuck you phf, love freenode"
to upgrade
the btcbase instance, so site is down for half hour or so)
phf: *** Nickname a111 is
temporarily unavailable,
trying a111`
mircea_popescu: "how do you fuck a chicken ?" "wrap it in duct
tape" "and how do you fuck a cockroach ?" "wrap it in duct
tape and fuck it with usg scientific penis."
mircea_popescu: in other news, cockroaches are more robust
than women ; especially in radiation contaminated areals.
trinque: could I suppose just aggressively ghost each
time
trinque: but doesn't help if
there are myriad cases one must use ghost
phf: by
the end of
this exercise we're going
to all have
the
total sum of all
the hacks
that are in eggdrop, indepedently rediscovered
phf: there are more
things in heaven and earth, horatio
phf: right, but apparently normally
this comes in as a err_nicknameinuse message, now it's err_unavailableresources
mod6: you can't fuck 100% of
the
time.
there's some division
there. like 70% watch, 30% fuck.
mircea_popescu: i
think it shall be called a watcharium from now on. wtf "harem" bs.
phf: `card.freenode.net * a111 "Nick/channel is
temporarily unavailable"` well
then...
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes
the native logging of prb are fascinatingly bad.
ben_vulpes: oh
that's lulzeriffic,
the processblock log lines don't get
timestamped?
ben_vulpes: until ~last night
the
thing was
tracking
the chain
tip like a bloodhound.
ben_vulpes: ya well
that is categorically not
the case for
this node.
ben_vulpes: this *should* be a
transient affair
though wtf
ben_vulpes: right, k. and when it's verifying a block, does it
typically go entirely unresponsive
to rpc commands?
ben_vulpes: memory use aside, is
the 100% cpu use symptomatic of blackholing, asciilifeform ?
mircea_popescu: in
the sad story of exactly
this,
the first
time i ran new eulora client, it crashed. i've bee nrunning it in gdb ever since, has not crashed since. 5 weeks!
ben_vulpes: yaok i'll accept
that
the engine room needs a new dial.
trinque: ben_vulpes: go back in
time and compile in
the instrumenter before
this happened!
ben_vulpes: curious
to see what's in
there while it's live.
ben_vulpes: well compiled in, i still hafta restart
the process
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i'd have
to restart
the process
to get data out of valgrind, right?
mircea_popescu: generally you should be able
to open /proc/pid/mem as a normal unix file.
mircea_popescu: well, gdb should let you see it.
the prefix
there is
the address
ben_vulpes: this is a dark and unfamiliar corner of linux
to me
mircea_popescu: 00007fd9b506c000 5972292K rwx-- [ anon ] << what's in
there ?
peterl: maybe someday I write script
to dig
through logs and archive shit
ben_vulpes: in other strange, my
trb node is currently sitting on 9756 VIRT, and has an entire core completely pegged.
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes, gold is very dense. a coffee mug full of gold is easily 2x
the yearly income of
the mug's owner
mircea_popescu: i dunno man... at ~1k usd / cc... a
toilet's pretty bulky.
shinohai: i have been so focused on getting controls
to behave lol
shinohai: not yet, it is
too crude
to run
mircea_popescu: shinohai also, you got
that bridge bot going right ? iirc
that was a mn ecu for you ?
shinohai: i go *all
the way back* and
thankfully loot is still floating in
the air
shinohai: yeah because i forgot
the proper way
the first
time :/
diana_coman: shinohai> danielpbarron would be proud of me going all
the way back and dragging
table with loot in penance <- wait, did you do it *manually*?
mircea_popescu: but oh, no, none of
that.
thousands of derps all "know", in
the sense of being wrong in
the same way ; and borges is President of
the Argentine Society of Writers.
mircea_popescu: not
to mention
that what we
thought is
the goal can't possibly be
the goal! so how about we stop with
the shit and do
things right.
mircea_popescu: yet somehow
this inept cycle of self-effacement does NOT enlighten
their stupid heads
that yo! what we
thought was
the problem couldn't have possibly been
the problem, seeing how
the better we fix it,
the worse
things get! and
then we have
to circumvolutedly revert
the very fix!
mircea_popescu: !), inasmuch as
they wanted
to something stupid,
turns out
to be contrary
to what
they... ~actually~ wanted
to do.
mircea_popescu: wow / eve / etc : people go
through
the early game, master it,
then can't move on
to
the logical next phase so
they just quit. so now AAA studio is forced
to salvage broken game
that broke
their playerbase
through... oh shit, incentives. ie, inflation, ie, "we'll give you free level 60 characters". because guess what,
the inflation was actually better
than death, and
their success at doing what
they wanted
to do (prevent bots
mircea_popescu: which incidentally... it really makes me chuckle at
the predicament of "AAA" studios. so first,
they make a broken game (broken here defined as, not-neutral state-evolution-graph) ; because
their game is broken,
they have
to forbid bots - not just in form, but in practice.
then if
they don't manage
to forbid
them
too efficiently
they die everquest/diablo 3 style, inflation. but if
they do manage
to forbid
them,
they die like
shinohai: danielpbarron would be proud of me going all
the way back and dragging
table with loot in penance
mircea_popescu: 443 + 44 flotsam, 120+6 spicy moss ; 112 + 142 boulders, bout a hundred wpl, cr, some dcs, wwb etc. since ~this
time yest.
mircea_popescu: but of course
to get
there gotta put some study in
to climb
teh curve.
mircea_popescu: shinohai you know once you get half decent at
the metagame you don't have
to baby it. i spend about 10-20 minutes a day changing bot diapers is all.
shinohai: something like
that. he is involved with fsociety surely
mod6: hahah, i wont spoil
the choice quotes for anyone.
BingoBoingo: But funny
things can happen
to
them. Like when
the
token
trophy Muslim Hillary advisor got cucked by her man's sexts
to all
the
twitter pr0n spammers.
mircea_popescu: i suppose it's supposed
to be "funny" ;
the only problem being
that cancerous fags can't possibly be funny. not no matter how hard
they
try ; not just because
they
try
too hard.
mircea_popescu: shinohai i can't help but notice
the fascination with
this mysterios ceo figure in
the usg.pinoy dept.
jhvh1: shinohai:
The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: lol, anyways apparently southpark season 20 started
this week. I am still lolling at
their "member berries" wordplay
mircea_popescu shudders at
the hamplanet problem china is prolly hatching
shinohai: *Alibaba and
the 4 moon-thieves
shinohai: And so
that is
the end of Alibaba and
the 40
thieves.
mircea_popescu: condolezza rice was literate, carly fiorina was an exemplary woman, blablabla in
the exact same sense elliot rodgers was a supreme gentleman "descended of aristocracy".