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asciilifeform: upstack, the thing i find extralulzy re the shortrange/fm 'pirates', is that for no apparent reason, they refuse to use the most obvious anti-df pill -- multiple geographically-dispersed antennae operating b/w pi and 2pi out of phase
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: re qntra -- i was listening to that very station just last wk
trinque: before aggression, I saw long periods where it wasn't doing a damned thing
trinque: I switched to aggression midway, after waiting months, and from there took a few weeks
trinque: about time I announced it, seems like
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i don't actually know of this deformity
a111: Logged on 2015-08-19 00:18 asciilifeform: cabbie: 'this ford is a piece of shit. stalled again.' mircea_popescu: 'i have a solution!' cabbie: 'oh???111' mircea_popescu: 'here, have this broomstick.' cabbie: 'how do i drive customers on that, feed my family' mircea_popescu: 'you misunderstand, my good man. you stuff it in your arse.' cabbie: 'and... how does this feed by family?' mircea_popescu: 'no, you sit there with it in.'
asciilifeform: i was here for the 17-yr collision of three species, was unspeakably loud, as in firing-range loud
trinque: I like the alien little buggers
asciilifeform: i was doing some work with a large tree, fulla'em
asciilifeform: i'd imagine theirs would be 'sliding' tho, if the terrain has none
asciilifeform: hm i had nfi that mircea_popescustan had seasons
asciilifeform: i'd also look for the 'dying hdd bird'
diana_away: mircea_popescu: I guess I'll give it another try, I never liked papaya; I do like those tiny bananas
mircea_popescu: i bet.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: why stop there, i hear amoeba can live on <1cal/day
asciilifeform: soon as i grow enuff brain to find how to eat without working for anglo-lame, i'ma do exactly as pictured
mircea_popescu: they'll be collected upon sometime after i fuck ivanka.
mircea_popescu: i got a buncha girlies in "default" about imaginary "debts".
mircea_popescu: i don't get it, what;s the rush ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: though might give you history / lang test, i dun recall
asciilifeform: i was speaking of human timescales, rather than 'the king may die, the horse may die' ones
ben_vulpes: and while the uncleals are convinced it'll be highway maintenance that blows a crater in the usg budget, i have high hopes that the heavy metal poisoning from 'vape pen' use will eclipse it by a few orders of magnitude
asciilifeform: there's a reason, i guess, why eu passport is 800k.
ben_vulpes: less blue hair and fewer kilts as i move through the digestive tract
mircea_popescu: i just hope the anus isn't mexico city
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: how come yer still in usa, anyway ? i thought you finally cut the tether a while back
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i mean the 'fly to terristostan, come home, get apprehended for aiding and abetting'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i think that's only in usa
asciilifeform: for comparison, ro passport was 800k or so, last i saw
asciilifeform: i've nfi why anybody with actual moneys would think of moving to 'five eyes' nz tho.
asciilifeform: somewhere i also have a pci bus init turd, etc
asciilifeform: ave1: if you're interested, i'll post the kernel loader at some pt, but you can easily write own, exercise.
asciilifeform: 'Note that even in REAL mode the 32bit registers are available.' << they are, with prefix opcode . i wrote various msdosisms that way.
mircea_popescu: i c
asciilifeform: i never wrote ave1-style article re subj, cuz depressingly loathesome crud, approx as interesting as ms winblowz api
mircea_popescu: i guess. this may be even worth looking into.
asciilifeform: well all it means is that the chip where i tested, does the out 0x64, ... from 1st shot
asciilifeform: ave1: re a20 'ret' -- pretty sure i nuked it when was cutting irrelevant cruft off the thing for orig publication
asciilifeform: 'not solved' is not quite it. sanding parquet is also 'solved problem' even with hands and sand paper. but i'd rather have electric cycler.
mircea_popescu: an' i betcha it's because they "don't feel" it "fair" to ~exclude~ anything. rendering any count impossible. which is very much the point.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-13 15:07 trinque: speaking of relics, I just dug up WORDS
trinque: yep, no guarantee it'll remain wherever I found it
mircea_popescu: i'd go as far as to say they set a standard.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm still waiting to ever see a dict like perseus for living langs
mircea_popescu: i manage quite well with digital lookup in dictionary flatfiles, but i suspect familiarity has a lot to do with it.
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-16#1841997 << the otherwise-invisible failure to implement anything even approaching intelligence augmentation (or even the statistical AI crap) is never so obvious as when translating works in other languages on the touchscreendevices: why does 'iBooks' waste all of this time animating between the french and english translations of the book i'm working on; how is there after ☝︎
asciilifeform: i'ma guess it was re : inc dword [d_lba] , and it gets inc'd because it's the read position marker .
asciilifeform: ave1: i have nfi where e.g. 'line 47' is, all of your line #s are mangled
mircea_popescu: tbh i don't think anyone at all familiar with the functioning of hardware init can propose the tradition is worth continuing with a straight face.
mircea_popescu: ave1 in my mind, this sort of elaborate incantatorial nonsense is why i nodded along at alf's screaming for new procs historically.
ave1: I never looked into this in the 90s and now I have too learn
mircea_popescu: except i don't see the faulting code anymoar.
mircea_popescu: which i presume is WHY the gdr table is still 0 on 1st entry
mircea_popescu: aha. but i vaguely recall, from my days of doing this 2decades+ ago, that the way to put processor from real to protected mode or back was a triple fault
asciilifeform: oh i think it's a chew-through of asciilifeform's traditional bootsect
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu reads veryveryquickly, i still gotta eat $subj
Mocky: i do see it now actually, yes
Mocky: i'm not in a position to say!
mircea_popescu: ~that~ would be the "lead poisoning" rather than some sort of mystical, unexaminable, forever-opressive miasma. it's just the simple thing, "hey, axototl, no tail ?" "yeah... no iodine where i live..."
Mocky: i can see that argument, but it completely sidesteps the "first language" claim
mircea_popescu: Mocky you could just as well take a woman or two and become mellifluous i mean multifluent.
asciilifeform: ( interestingly, i was able to excavate ^ item with some effort + ddg, but ~not~ google )
mircea_popescu: i think. i dunno, i just picked it off this very chan i think.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, am i the only one fascinated by the history of dyes ?
mircea_popescu: just about. anyway, i include the film in noob psychologists' training. which is how i reviewed recently.
asciilifeform: i suppose it's possible that this exact scenario plays out in ru net, and asciilifeform is effectively fooled
mircea_popescu: you fished some name from teh scholarly tradition, which i now don't recall.
asciilifeform: i thought about giving the www ui a ru variant, but really even very basic 'year of eng in primary school' orc oughta be able to work it as-is
mircea_popescu: i suspect, by the way, that the web offers at least one useful number :
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform back in 2016 we might've even seen it, i think.
mircea_popescu: in which vein i suppose ima have to produce a few, lest i find myself not having a very high oppinion of myself.
mircea_popescu: actually, i very much don't think someone respectable who ~doesn't~ have a train of weeping instagram whores "accusing".
a111: Logged on 2018-08-15 21:49 mircea_popescu: and since i'm doing "strategic superiority in review" for some reason, do we count http://trilema.com/2017/lets-put-one-and-two-together/#selection-145.0-149.12 as having protected trump / fizzled the "impeachment" lulz ? or "coincidental" in the sense man who says he's going to do x doesn't do it not because "if you do it ima fuck you up" but for ~coincidental reasons altogether~.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, "a bed sitting room" has the cast listed ~by descending height~. this is totally how ima do any film i ever do, let shorties learn their place!
mircea_popescu: and since i'm doing "strategic superiority in review" for some reason, do we count http://trilema.com/2017/lets-put-one-and-two-together/#selection-145.0-149.12 as having protected trump / fizzled the "impeachment" lulz ? or "coincidental" in the sense man who says he's going to do x doesn't do it not because "if you do it ima fuck you up" but for ~coincidental reasons altogether~. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: and so, to bring this around, i always said that http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-30#1806663 ; here's a fine example of what is meant -- the guy with "plaque is the result of infection", like the guy with "homosexuality is biological", like the guy with "guns kill", like the guy with "don't tell women how to behave, tell men how to behave", like the guy with "stupidity isn't stupidity, but a thing of reason" are in the end the ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i recall a trilema where 'the house smelled of poverty'
mircea_popescu: "if you flossed, ever, it wouldn't be" "but i don't"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes! example : "As a non-Universalist, I can't help but admire the success of this particular replicator. It is brilliantly designed, like the smallpox virus. The fact that no one actually designed it, any more than someone designed the smallpox virus, that it is simply the result of adaptive selection in a highly competitive environment, heightens rather than detracts from my awe."
asciilifeform: funnily enuff i've seen small gekko-like critters here. but they're uncommon.
a111: Logged on 2018-06-23 22:21 asciilifeform: this reminds me, not long ago asciilifeform picked up a little chinese toy, item shaped like tennis raquet but the wires are charged to 4000v and connect to (small) cap; a sort of mechanized fly swatter, they pop, little blue plasma burst, vapour. nominally. so then , having used it, later i see a most peculiar insect, did not immediately realize what it is, never having seen before. looked closely, turns out -- fly head + front legs
asciilifeform: ( currently best i got is http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-23#1829177 ) ☝︎
asciilifeform: i could use gekko here.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, should i see one with signs be sure i'll squish it. if the gekkos don't get to it first.
mircea_popescu: i believe the ants in my kitchen are worthy of their lofty house, fully understand that history is made by the great man, and the great man alone.
mircea_popescu: also asciilifeform the trilema cavalry showed up, i was right all along!
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'ma change the lame magicnums to actual human words shortly
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ( if anyone ever sees a -5 , lemme know, it means the machine is prolly on fire ) << I prolly ought to be advised if the machine is likely on fire as well.
asciilifeform: in very other noose, http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/YETnd/?raw=true << this has been working for a while, and i see no harm in making it public; anyone can submit candidate factor to modulus, box will do The Right Thing depending on whether correct, etc
mircea_popescu: praise trompi that i have what to search through.
mircea_popescu: the sad part being that now that i found what i thought i was looking for, i discover that much better reference would be something else i turned up in the search, that i wasn't specifically looking for.
a111: Logged on 2013-12-12 20:36 asciilifeform: i believe the ancient greeks used something similar, with a broken clay pot
mircea_popescu: i imagined this is behind the temptation to "fix" loggers, but it totally can't be fixed there.
asciilifeform: relatedly, i still never found the clay shards thing.
a111: Logged on 2015-03-17 02:26 mircea_popescu: "I’m too smart, Professor. I’ve got nothing to say to normal children. Adults don’t respect me enough to really talk to me. And frankly, even if they did, they wouldn’t sound as smart as Richard Feynman, so I might as well read something Richard Feynman wrote instead. I’m isolated, Professor McGonagall. I’ve been isolated my whole life. Maybe that has some of the same effects as being locked in a cellar. An
a111: Logged on 2015-05-11 00:08 mircea_popescu: This would also be why I don't think so very much of the libertards, and why I find myself so often in contradiction with people who view them as either powerful or in any sense a threat (usually both) : they aren't, either, nor could they really be, either, because the only tool they know actually works for them only a short distance of its run, and for us the entire length of that same run. The libertard's gambit is
mircea_popescu: i read it in the very logs, months ago, months after it occurred.
a111: Logged on 2018-08-14 17:35 phf: i'm pretty sure we had pocket conversations during netsplits, that none of the bots heard
mircea_popescu: fucking cursed am i, started writing an article an hour ago, still trying to dig myself out of the web of references spewed out by ~the first god damned paragraph~!