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mircea_popescu: prolly has a can the size of dry protein economy packs.
mircea_popescu: and for the record, i routinely use 200W incandescents etc.
mircea_popescu: i don't think i've ever lived in a room small enough that the lighting fixtures made a noticeable difference.
mircea_popescu: "how about that, people are winning a war and they're fucked up"
mircea_popescu: did you mean to ask "why do you think the alternative won't work" ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla the wonderful world of computing is becoming dangerous for people able to think on their own.
mircea_popescu: <bounce> just out of idle curiosity, why the preference for tungsten? <<< goes with the preference for emacs. old thing proven to work well.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> "hello I want a 60watt bulb" "here take this 7 watt stealth CFL, same thing" << lol yup. commerce now meas bait and switch apparently.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> the one, the only, the inimitable! << now reimplement it in gaskell.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes just so you know, i'm writing an article because of you.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves what is it that they were calling it, "a war something or the other"
mircea_popescu: yet something tells me the recent beheadings aren't excesses, but merely the early drops of a coming avalanche.
mircea_popescu: and you know, everyone's hope is that they will live for long enough in a pile of goop made out of copies of themselves big enough that they won't ever have to go face to face with those "evil sociopaths" and "trolls"
mircea_popescu: because a bunch of asswipes are pushing out insecure code, and because a bunch of imbeciles heart those assholes,
mircea_popescu: the best makework the devil ever invented. beats the shit out of painting rocks white then turning them over
mircea_popescu: the entire "shit in your mouth and think about how you're not" thing definitely manages to keep a bunch of intelligently stupid folk busy.
mircea_popescu: CME Site use GMT-5. CME Charts use GMT-4. << lmao the shit bitbet admin has to put up with
mircea_popescu: it was written in either algol or cobol i forget, and was supposed to be a big deal for rich hippies in the 70s
mircea_popescu: there was this first pass of algoreism, "golf club" patternism and all the rest of the retardation
mircea_popescu: you're not old enough to be talking of that "limits to growth" retardation
mircea_popescu: a discussion of casts is entirely spurious. the problem's the approach.
mircea_popescu: guy in the hospital. adlai talks to doctor : this dude should get casts. casts are cool. doctor to adlai : did you see his xrays ? adlai umm... no. but casts are cool.
mircea_popescu: are they supposed to work just like that, in principle, don't even need to know what you're suggesting about or anything ?
mircea_popescu: i'm not. i'm instead kloinking you over the head for the add-water-and-stir suggestion dust you got.
mircea_popescu: wasn't i reading a bevy of suggestions from you above tho ?
mircea_popescu: so research what, derping on google analytics and whatever other clickbezzlor node.js websites ?
mircea_popescu: too lazy to dig, but how diod they end ? acquihire ? simple burnout ?
mircea_popescu: nobody particularly cares if you stay or go, but people wil get pretty aggravated by this sort of pr/party line approach. the reason this is a cool forum is exactly not allowing that sorta crap.
mircea_popescu: mpmcsweeney: my name is Stan Higgins - Im heavily involvd in our newsroom and I can safely say we accept no payment of any kind from companies << that's bs, you know it, i know it, why even bother with it ?
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> Monthly Bandwidth Transfer 21.68 GB / 48.83 GB, first day on new host, "we're gonna need a bigger boat" << that was at some point the counter ran
mircea_popescu: it's just about derpy enough to be any random redditard.
mircea_popescu: cazalla you know how it is, give it a minute try again
mircea_popescu: at which point he moved to actual ddos as opposed to wordpress reflect crud, which is being mediated in the normal manner.
mircea_popescu: that resulted in a ban for any node calling the fucking obviously nonstandard url
mircea_popescu: mike_c 90% of the attack was mitigated simply by using a html file for root, instead of the php. guy did like 3 blasts before figuring it out. then it did a blast in which instead of / he called /index.php?[randnumber]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the first ~2mn lines all carry the tell tale GET / HTTP/1.0" 508 7287 "-" "WordPress/4.0;
http://autobg.eu; verifying pingback from 94.102.51.30 headers.
mircea_popescu: cazalla BingoBoingo anyway, we're on to actual ddos, no more of that wordpress mickey mouse bs
mircea_popescu: mkay, so with the 3rd attack the list of goat's botnet ips went from 1k to 3k items
mircea_popescu: PinkPosixPXE as long as someone o nthe lordship list trusts you you're in.
mircea_popescu: but oh no, matt derpyweed knows better and has made "technical tradebacks" or w/e they're called.