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phf: mircea_popescu: nethack
BingoBoingo: shinohai: It's the only way to learn. I discovered that when I took mircea_popescu's advice and started writing crap.
asciilifeform: (as discussed in an old mircea_popescu thread, there ~is~ room for improvement.)
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: didja see http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/15/business/dealbook/goldman-to-pay-5-billion-to-settle-claims-of-faulty-mortgages.html
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 8 bux for phreeeee
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: from, iirc, some ru www. eons ago.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, but then some bozo added tcp to it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu was probably imagining something like the old crapple 'fat executables' that have 3 sections for 3 cpus
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: see above.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: multibox means that the thing ~can~ be ported to new cpu with minimal sweat
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in the interest of fits-in-head - sure
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: suppose you want to cross-compile ?
phf: mircea_popescu: von neumann machines are a lot more similar than dissimilar. difference between x86 and arm is a very thin layer
asciilifeform: i do not rightfully apprehend mircea_popescu's observation here ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what x86 stuff
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: interesting idea, i'd be of more use if i knew ~anything about eulora !
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: got it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in a meeting, bbs
phf: mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37-GbX3iKbU
phf: mircea_popescu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-ahead_logging
a111: Logged on 2016-04-12 13:19 mircea_popescu: incidentally : anyone on friendly terms with cs depts at unis / cs profs, plox get in touch, i have a little scheme i could use your halp with. ty!
a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 09:50 mircea_popescu: incidentally phf is there a log bundle for download somewhere ?
deedbot: mircea_popescu updated rating of alikim from 1 to 2 << Euloran, flash programmer, alikim.com/photos
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated alikim 1 at 3669304001 << Euloran
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i only asked because a few of the discussed items in the past were from your mailpile iirc.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu i take it no one again wrote in re the block cipher thing ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: theory concerns how the perpetrators see ~themselves~, rather than what ends up actually happening
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this actually explains a great deal, ty.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if ((rand() % 666) == 1) disconnect_terrorist();
asciilifeform: and if even mircea_popescu does not get car bomb, what hope do i have.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had a more or less convincing argument that the cleanups are ~expensive~ and so the kill is used ~sparingly~
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one time, long ago, i pwned a sp4mz0r's box and it turned out that one of his pw's was 'balabusta'. i had the word in the back of my head ever since
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what exactly is a 'balabusta' ?
asciilifeform: has anything outlived mircea_popescu's fatwa by longer than the eth thing ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: except the thing i 'all nutso' ~about~ was the very notion.
asciilifeform: but if i ever must build particle accelerator, i will very much study mircea_popescu's notes!
a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 06:03 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-11#1449999 << there's something that does : the people involved aren't sexually intimate. yes, slavegirls enjoy working in "open kitchen", often hands in same pot. nevertheless, if you had tried to mix them with their mothers / insufferable siblings etc, watch the fireworks.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-11#1450020 << i can't help but wonder if mircea_popescu actually thinks the inside of his harem is relevant to other people. i find it interesting, yes, but it is rather like the inside of a particle accelerator - not particularly related to any situation i am likely to ever encounter imho. ☝︎
asciilifeform: i grasp how mircea_popescu might enjoy hunting idiots for sport from safe height of dirigible, and he has plenty of leisure for this, like medieval lord - but the time budget ~i~ have for idiots, is 0.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i am into not-interacting-with-imbeciles, of either sex, in any capacity whatsoever, if it can be at all helped.
a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 05:47 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-11#1449953 << word. nfi when bois figured "the way to carrie" is to "be a recruiter" instead of w/e the fuck those schmucks in friends/cheers/whatevers are. "designers" or "writers" or whatnot.
a111: Logged on 2014-09-07 17:32 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sex anal cu tractoare, motocositoare si combine agricole >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mVOd8zY3D8 << 'in Flyshitte, in the Red Corpse Kolhoz... there lived Tractoresse!'
a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 06:04 mircea_popescu: generally speaking, alienation makes untenable socialisation more bearable, which is why alienation is a DEFENSE MECHANISM! so yes, the shittier the job is, the more people want to "work from home". it never occurs to them that the problem isn't going to be solved by "finding the right tweak of the right knob", so they do what they do. as per above discussion of foreskin pullers.
a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 06:04 mircea_popescu: generally speaking, alienation makes untenable socialisation more bearable, which is why alienation is a DEFENSE MECHANISM! so yes, the shittier the job is, the more people want to "work from home". it never occurs to them that the problem isn't going to be solved by "finding the right tweak of the right knob", so they do what they do. as per above discussion of foreskin pullers.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-11#1450022 << much simpler than this. thought i suppose mircea_popescu is enjoying being deliberately thick. ☝︎
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: will no doubt show up later and "young fool that sounds like the most miserable thing", and yes. we are young fools.
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated alikim 1 << Euloran
a111: Logged on 2016-04-10 20:17 mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes put teh hard time into words.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: which nicks?
a111: Logged on 2014-08-20 00:05 mircea_popescu: ;;later tell chetty http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Grand_prismatic_spring.jpg/800px-Grand_prismatic_spring.jpg now this has got to be in the game.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu happy sov liberation of odessa day!111 l0lz
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wai wut, weren't you the one with 'woman isn't even a woman unless her arse is posted on www'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: prolly most? my understanding is that 'pNohe' is a usaschwitz/workingclass thing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how is 'tara, tara, vrem ostasi' played ?
a111: Logged on 2016-04-10 15:51 mircea_popescu: also, who was doing what so i can see the log line read in chat ? this is starting to drive me nuts. trinque ? phf ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my gr is weak
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and yes, it goes back to the 'blind loyalty' thread ☟︎
phf: mircea_popescu: can i get autovoice for a111?
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2016/calidad-de-vida-or-my-days-among-the-cargo-cult/#comment-116959
adlai: ;;later tell mircea_popescu submission for trilema movie reviews: Inside Man ☟︎
asciilifeform: does mircea_popescu dig his garden with shovel, or with trotyl?
punkman: mircea_popescu: you mean the ones that ignite the oxygen around the target?
joecool: mircea_popescu: deedbot functions same as assbot did?
asciilifeform: re the microcode thing, i can picture mircea_popescu going on a bank heist, and, coming up against a massive safe, 'let's not bother with the dynamite, fellas, this thing surely is full of used condoms'
asciilifeform: incidentally, and perhaps mircea_popescu does not know this, but even here in the heart of mordor this phrase is a comical byword for idiocy, like nixon's plumbers
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: crapple app dev keys and microshit driver keys play roughly the same role in ecosystem as that cali hearing aid shop's ssl cert.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: signed with apple's developer cert !
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: y'know, not ~all~ malware artists are tards. some folks have embedded key.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: consider that the proggy ran on ~os~ with autoupdate.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: just diff plox
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wget -l 0 -qO- https://cryptome.org | sha512sum plox
asciilifeform: except, again, it is only connected if you're on mircea_popescu's end of the ferretcannon.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is getting a monkeyed route it seems ?
gribble: davout was last seen in #trilema 19 hours, 20 minutes, and 33 seconds ago: <davout> mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/0HR7P5B.txt
mthreat: mircea_popescu: speaking of dysentery, we should get lunch soon
mthreat: mircea_popescu: anyway, just a trip to the US. Went to the classic jet aircraft association conference, met bunch of jet pilots.
jurov: mircea_popescu: is there any mpex mintenance going on?
asciilifeform: i find this as bitter a pill as mircea_popescu does rms.
asciilifeform: ok who killed mircea_popescu's chums then ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where were they in 1970s su then
asciilifeform: then who did mircea_popescu's friends ( http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1449148 ) in ? ☝︎
asciilifeform: my scale-model mircea_popescu fails me.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: present-day state of the art in programs is closer to the arab 'insha'llah' ('allah's will drives atoms to do whatever the fuck they want, what is this science thing') than to anything else.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is a charitable interpretation
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: who said it could.
punkman: asciilifeform: but briefly back to thread, imho it is important to understand that asking 'how to be mircea_popescu' is a fundamentally broken question, not unlike 'how do i win the lotto' << hey we just had the answer to lotto. you cheat.
asciilifeform: it is actually interesting to me, how mircea_popescu has a very strong respect for folks who take suicidally dumb risks (e.g., the 'oregon patriot' folk, isis snackbars, etc.)
asciilifeform: but briefly back to thread, imho it is important to understand that asking 'how to be mircea_popescu' is a fundamentally broken question, not unlike 'how do i win the lotto'
asciilifeform: though mircea_popescu appears to think so.
asciilifeform: ah no i only read mircea_popescu's review of it.
asciilifeform: his algo, in my summary, was, approx., 'start by being 10,000 bright and suicidally daring ro teenagers in the roaring '90s, end by being one mircea_popescu' or the like. ☟︎
asciilifeform: at any rate, everett device is this gadget that tries to guess the answer to a trapdoor problem, e.g., deriving mircea_popescu's private key primes
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu generally doesn't have actionable advice for blokes
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu will probably, when he wakes up, remind me that i oughta learn a new profession, e.g, organ grinder
jurov: Whoever was waiting for coinbr withdrawals, mircea_popescu flushed some this morning, and I did the others now
davout: mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/0HR7P5B.txt
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: american courts largely operate 'on technicalities' now, except when usg's verdict is assured by a tame freisler. it is how they avoid crafting inconvenient precedents.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> guy underwent a white supremacist conversion in prison. (which is not particularly surprising - gotta make some friends somehow!) << He was kinda a play white supremacist before prison for the lulz. Switch was flipped in prison.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: univ. of md. rag
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448622 << was it mircea_popescu at c2 who had a talk about how 'scammitude' is rather like friction, and is not escapeable ? ☝︎