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mats: pete_dushenski has a few
things
to learn about insurgency
mats: folks
turn em off, usually, because of false positives
mats: fwiw, i hear
the boomerang is shit in
the field
mats: use
the ol'
taliban
trick. emplace mortar
tube, rig with dry ice mechanism
that fires when it dissipates enough so you're not around
to get hosed by arty fire guided by a 'Boomerang' fire locator
a111: Logged on 2016-07-20 00:19 asciilifeform: (if one were
to blow up
today,
the circle in which police would know
to look for
the operator, is not large.)
mats: flight
time isn't going
to be more
than 4-5 mins, if you're lucky
mats: and
the
thing costs ~1k
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: if working remotely from car,
that circle expands considerably. and quickly.
pete_dushenski: ya, 10lbs seems
to be about
tops for quadcopter payload eh
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: it'll be interesting
to see what lengths usg will go
to stop
trunkfull of c4 in... quadcopter. straps lazer cannons
to
top of bollard perhaps.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: cpanel is useful for lazy idjits like me
to ban ips, make back-ups, check
traffic figs, and so on and so forth. it might not be lynx-friendly but i'm also unpersuaded
that it's 'evil
that must burn
tonight'.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i cut mine, but
then again i was
the only one on
the street.
mircea_popescu: anyway, garden hose not even a bad idea for
the intended junkyard flatbottom. exactly for reason of "people
throw out a mile of punctured once garden hose"
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 23:14 pete_dushenski: next
thing you know an autonomous car will drive a
trunkfull of c4 into
the white house
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 23:31 pete_dushenski: another q for
tmsr : any recommendations for linux-cpanel webhosts
that don't roll over
to social engineering attempts ?
mircea_popescu: well, comparisons are comparisons.
take
today's internet, gendankenexperiment as mesh, measure.
mircea_popescu: it is not directly obvious, nor a foregone conclusion, if a reimplementation of
today's
telecom as mesh network would be less expensive in
terms of used bw.
mircea_popescu: sure, and your neighbour sends
them
to china. aaanyway.
mircea_popescu: on average distance is, iirc,
to
the
tune of 1k miles.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 23:31 mircea_popescu: for all
the effort so far wasted into creating said antennae in bitcoin ; it'd be lulzy if
they just lose
the extant ones in
telecom
mircea_popescu: figuring out which was
the case was not something i wanted
to get involved in.
mircea_popescu recalls reading a
twenty five line of ret once,
throwing hands up, leaving
the matter
to others.
mircea_popescu: at
this point, project either delivers and is done or
takes on life of own. if
takes on life,
then 3. more wizards are added,
they slowly asm-ify
the loops, inside out.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: ations etc" c is
the right
tool. strangely,
the matter is always considered properly and in context, yet
the result always
the same.
mircea_popescu: but
the coupla projects of scientific computing i observed,
the phases were readily distinguishable : 1. people are excited,
they loudly choose "best" hot new stuff, pass along napkin sketches ; 2.
the super-duper shit runs into more wrinkles
than it's worth, kids are all depresed. at
this point
the project either dies or management intervenes, gets wizard, wizard
takes a weeklong look at it, decides "on
the basis of consider
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 23:45 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1506249 << 20 year only
takes us
to 96, which isn't really
that far behind. i'd wager about 50% of c code currently doing anything useful was written in
the 90s.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 23:42 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1506210 << i have no idea why "scientific computing" on
the c machine would use anything but c slowly mutating into asm, but
then again
that's me.
BingoBoingo: Anyways
the best land ark is probably going
to be one of
the many urban brick former Roman Catholic churches on
the real estate market. Amenable
to fortification.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 21:03 phf: pascal, less so
than above languages, but still more so
than even C, since it has a standard notion of pascal machine. C can do 20 year old code, but within some narrow scope of posix, or more like "unix"
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 20:44 phf: you look at ipython code now, read
tutorials and you
think
to yourself "oh
this makes sense, it is nice", but over
the course of 5 years scientific computing with python went
through 3 or 4 different suits.
that's an unreasonable amount of cognitive overhead, considering
that mathematica now supports all
the same primitives
that mathemaica in '95 did
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: What is an ark but a boat
that is actually plumbed and wired like a structure and not some duct
taped sea gypsy
trailer?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 20:09 Framedragger: wonder what
tmsr
thinks of ipython notebooks. basically you go
to website and are presented with python interpreter, and a ready-made list of commands for graphing, doing stats etc.
thinking of doing one of
these for some initial ssh keyset analysis. nothing
too serious at all
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 19:49 asciilifeform makes note
to self not
to buy boatz from BingoBoingo
pete_dushenski: has anyone here used cock.li ? please
to share experience if so
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 19:15 pete_dushenski: "“I am looking
to weed out police and crazies,” she said. She estimates
that only one in four potential customers ultimately passes.
Those who do win some
time with a professional escort/dominatrix, but it comes at a hefty price: Each hour can cost up
to $800, and Rita’s cut is 30%." << steep!
mircea_popescu: for all
the effort so far wasted into creating said antennae in bitcoin ; it'd be lulzy if
they just lose
the extant ones in
telecom
☟︎ pete_dushenski: another q for
tmsr : any recommendations for linux-cpanel webhosts
that don't roll over
to social engineering attempts ?
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 19:13 asciilifeform: cheap universal digital radio drives snooping costs
to astronomical heights, and
threatens
to de-emphasize centralized
telco antennae
BingoBoingo wonders what Dr. Foreskin is up
to
these days
mats: it deals with
the v early period where Henry Morgan was busily sacking cities
mats: i put a bookmark in
the last one and forgot
to pick it up again, i'm now reminded
to do so
mats: anyway, other stuff includes 'Under
the Black Flag' by Cordingly, Johnson's 'A General History of
the Pyrates', and 'Empire of Blue Water' by
Talty