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asciilifeform: spyked: prolly i oughta elaborate re the item in your 4th footnote. a compact lisptron has no particular reason to have any notions of parsing baked in; all it needs is 1) a basic i/o mechanism 2) a way to load an initial pre-built s-expression into the working memory and immediately evaluate it. ☟︎
hanbot: BingoBoingo> Aite, next time I go to the feria to look at kitchen utensils Imma have to bring a latina. "Evwerything on the table is a matched set you won't separate" my ass << fwiw, in my experience the SA chinese shops have actually usable knives/glassware/etc (not cast iron specifically tho), and are guaranteed not to pretensewall, or at least, not in the same manner. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, i am pleased to report that firefox 45 has about a degree of magnitude more memory-related crashes than firefox 10.
PeterL: We do have a supply of PhD chemists who come here to work at Dow, if that counts as a brain?
a111: Logged on 2018-05-24 17:29 mircea_popescu: instead of you having to contend with 5mn other idiots trying to live in the same state ; you have to contend with only 50k. as a result, all real estate available consists of plots in excess of 50 acres, which include a creek, and forest. goes for the same price as you pay now, but it is what it is.
PeterL: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-24#1818207 << sounds like where I live (Midland,MI: 50k people, you can go a mile out of town and have multiple acre lots) ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: try as he might (not that he does), /me can't summon any sympathy for the "oh, it should be someone else's job, if i see police coming in i don't pick a rifle and man a post, hurr" barnacles.
BingoBoingo: Gotta understand Latinos like their rituals. Sacrificial Vigilante with a pump shotgun mans the front desk and... isn't that enough security for any Latino?
mircea_popescu: anyway, he has a point, brazil mexico and venezuela are the champs.
BingoBoingo: And Brasileros tend to have a temperment that lets them safely get mugged.
asciilifeform: PeterL: i dun think FG will work there either, winblowz doesn't give a handy knob for serial devices afaik
brazilish: Rio is actually safer than here (22 murder a year per 100k compared to 70 per 100k)
asciilifeform: 10 per 2M ?! this is about bmore level ! i thought brazil were a world champ , what is this
mircea_popescu: make a kubinetes for it!
mircea_popescu: PeterL put the whole thing in a vps running on an arm machine if at all possible and there you go!
mircea_popescu: nevermind the shoes, buy a gun, keep it loaded, there you go.
mircea_popescu: brazilish believe it or not this actually sounds like a positive.
brazilish: from what i assist on local newspaper, in a city of almost 2M there are at least 10 homicides a day, usually 8 drug related and 2 random folk that hasn't handed out properly money related
BingoBoingo: brazilish: Very rare. Most shootings here are family disputes or drug commerce related. If anyone here raises a gun at strangers it is almost always in a cambio or casino. One cashier got shot over 2000 pesos and it was a national scandal.
mircea_popescu: PeterL the "just so" part. there is also a link between how fucking stupid they are and their mother being a sleazy cunt, but that link is not the bottle of fizz she inserted as a roadside act.
PeterL: mircea_popescu: there is a link between the solubility of carbonates and temperature, what is wrong with their statement?
PeterL: asciilifeform: in the interests of science, I built your ffa on a windows system and it appears to work. For some reason gprbuild didn't work, but when I used gnatmake I got a working executable. (I also had to mangle v.py in the process to make it work on my system)
brazilish: well here bus in many areas it seems just a no-no option
brazilish: i like the climate here because if you have shadow and minimal ventilation you can live, but that's of course a reason about the shitload of poor people that can survive virtually doing nothing
mircea_popescu: people like to imagine "being civilised" == "participating" on social media, because it's fucking easy. but no, being civilised is ~strictly~ things like http://termopane.termopanejaluzele.ro/termopane-img/termopane-31.jpg and https://www.afacerist.ro/dbp/poze3_cautari/500/a/centrala_termica_73106.jpg and www.ceramicacielo.com/image/wc-bidet_3h.jpg and so on.
PeterL: brb, have to change a diaper
BingoBoingo: brazilish: Anyways here they either use propane heaters, electric radiators, or they use their air conditioner as a heat pump
PeterL: speaking of eaten comments, ben_vulpes I tried to put a comment on http://cascadianhacker.com/07_v-tronics-101-a-gentle-introduction-to-the-most-serene-republic-of-bitcoins-cryptographically-backed-version-control-system but that appears to have been eaten as well
mircea_popescu: ("break" is a bit of a joke, you can saw through their wallpaper)
brazilish: mircea_popescu: i know your blog after the ethereum disaster, then a couple of weeks ago discovered irc logs
mircea_popescu: well.. then probably no. for one thing uruguay's not cold in any conceivable sense. for the other, latin america is universally a pile of crumbling mess, decolonialization did them in. so yes, if you want sane window fittings you'll have to import the termopan (and possibly the skilled labour to put them in) ; if you want sane heat planht, you gotta import the gas burning ariston or w/e you're using. and so on.
PeterL: trinque: on http://trinque.org/2017/12/30/wip-cuntoo-installer/ the links seem to be broken, I tried to leave a comment but I think it got eaten? ☟︎
brazilish: i got a brazilian passport in my childhood but not from here
BingoBoingo: brazilish: Register a GPG key with deedbot, keep the private key private, and keep coming back.
BingoBoingo: I saw a new name pop up and granted voice. Decided to do some A/B testing and not ask this guy about his daddy for a change.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo basically you'd like it if there were a dozen of you and not so many of them ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, i spent some time in argentina on the vastly supported conspiracy theory that it's a cool place. god help me there's chicken coops cooler than the whole shithole.
brazilish: BingoBoingo: basically 2 seasons: the one when rains a lot for a short period of time, and the one where it rains a lot for a couple of hours
mircea_popescu: not a bad idea in theory ; but the necessary conjugate of any attempt at practical implementation is being ready to pack it and move if it dun work out.
brazilish: My original idea was to do physical price arbitrage, by going there and spending money like a local. Is not going so well
mircea_popescu: brazilish girls can travel. well, the less fucked in the head among them, obviously there's a contingent of boise morons who expect to spawn and die within visual range of where they were spawned in turn.
brazilish: well i enjoy black girls, but never thought that the city was a total mess
BingoBoingo: brazilish: Do you get winter there? Here by the other big river it's a bit chilly
brazilish: wix is the AS that host the VPN, the city is not petropolis (indeed, a very good city)
phf: brazilish: you can always wash it by hand. i've disassembled a lot of ebay thinkpads just to wash the frame of all the grease and dirt; but to answer the general question "libre" solutions are guilty until proven innocent around here. the pattern seems to be, find a seemingly unencumbered system, asciilifeform starts taking a look at it, discovers lizard hitler. until step 2 happens, impossible to say anything about the system.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside wix is possibly the shittiest isp ever invented, wtf is a "Jardim Petropolis" ?!
brazilish: aside quality ebony girls, this city is a complete hellhole, logistic and import taxes included
brazilish: checked now a couple of miami box, seems that out of sao paulo they are expensive as fuck, even in my case where there are a couple of flights in the week directly to miami
BingoBoingo: Lenovo X120e or X121e isn't a bad box. Not winning any speed contests, but you could do far worse
brazilish: logistic is a bit complicated, but there are some services that i've used in the past
brazilish: let me check what is a miami box lol :D
BingoBoingo: Quite a bit more
BingoBoingo: The talos this is a bit on the expensive side and how far do you REALLY trust IBM to have not molested their POWER architecture?
brazilish: so I saw a post on reddit about a supposed nsa free desktop, and I'd like to ask opinions here
BingoBoingo: In one case I was looking at a cast iron skillet that wasn't rusted to shit. The vendor wanted to bundle it with a whole bunch of specialty cast iron shit that was rusted to fuckhell.
mircea_popescu: such a deep flavour of workers-class-doing-business roux...
BingoBoingo: Aite, next time I go to the feria to look at kitchen utensils Imma have to bring a latina. "Evwerything on the table is a matched set you won't separate" my ass
mod6: I'll call these guys and get them to throw in a ~new~ SSD for me this time. Or will just pay out, and find new service.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> mod6: by all indications you have a box with iron problem. in your place i'd get a fresh set of iron, rather than sinking sweat into interpreting randomly flipped bits as 'bug' << yeah for sure, it certainly could be related to the disk issue. I don't really think it's a 'bug' or anything.
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 ☟︎
epony: I cherry pick 1 line at a view.
ben_vulpes: consider, one day, you find yourself inspired to say something, you then go to register a key first? and then conversation gets derailed with "oh ho, look who finally registered a key" or alternatively "oh ho, who are you now?"
epony: because, why would I want to say anything before getting a feel of the tone of the conversation..
ben_vulpes: epony: what do you perceive the cost of registering a key to be?
ben_vulpes: !!up epony do you plan to register a key or what
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: funnily enuff, ~this very item~ is how asciilifeform got mired in attempt to bolt a lisp onto trb
asciilifeform: srsly we have enuff pistols that fire from 2 ends. time for a normal one.
ben_vulpes: it would be much easier to make a sendmanywithchangeaddr than to rework both sendfrom and sendmany
asciilifeform: eliminate possibility of confusion with old , or reactor meltdown if new trb is plugged into a scriptolade harness meant for old, etc
a111: Logged on 2018-06-23 17:59 ben_vulpes: would it be sensible for the send* commands to eat a changeaddress argument?
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-23#1829108 << the alternative, which would be a smaller patch, is a "setchangeaddr" RPC function. i'm leery of changing the call signatures of sendfrom and sendmany, but doing so might be The Right Thing nevertheless ☝︎
asciilifeform: the other interesting bit ( from asciilifeform's disasm of the 3.4 fw) is that there doesn't seem to be any pinning of the keys! ( i.e. i can't currently find any reason why it wouldn't eat a rw-fw update signed with a variant key, so long as said key is stuffed in where expected)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: absolutely, this has been a sore spot of asciilifeform's since day1
ben_vulpes: would it be sensible for the send* commands to eat a changeaddress argument? ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2018-06-22 21:55 ben_vulpes: next thing i'm going to try is manually walk the spend-to-self down by 100 satoshis until this trb shits a tx out and then look at what it produces
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-22#1828901 << this kind of thing was a multi-week headache for asciilifeform the last time he had to actually uncork the launch codes and move coin; and i expect that it will only ever get worse ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2018-06-22 18:17 asciilifeform: static const uint32_t LOADERKEY_A[RSA_NUM_WORDS + 1] = { ...blah... } where #define RSA_NUM_WORDS 96 ...
mircea_popescu: eh. from a statistical perspective, it can't be said we don't get enough tards talking, so...
asciilifeform: pretty great lolcow, btw, that d00d. spilled what he thought was a carefully incomplete pile of beans to 'get asciilifeform to waste months making debug cable', i suspect, didn't quite expect us to get a working one in 1wk
mircea_popescu: well, the cloud of oricsh morons a la amstan are an expensive luxury.
mircea_popescu: this comes as such a shock to absolutely nobody.
asciilifeform: not a terribly high quality dangle, took roughly a day to uncover.
asciilifeform: summary : google set up what is likely a deliberate bullshit dangle re the loader src; for reasons that are yet unclear
asciilifeform: mod6: by all indications you have a box with iron problem. in your place i'd get a fresh set of iron, rather than sinking sweat into interpreting randomly flipped bits as 'bug'
a111: Logged on 2018-06-23 05:10 lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-22#1828740 << so I figured it out: cause of downtime ended up being a flood of tor exit nodes >> http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/VYVGW/?raw=true
mircea_popescu: in principle saying something like "no more than x connection from a given ip will be entertained" is perfectly reasonable ; though careful how low you set the x, some browsers (especially the mobile versions dedicated to fucking as much battery as possible) can turn a pageload into 10-20 simultaneous requests.
mircea_popescu: i could say "trilema runs like that ~70% of the time", but then again trilema's got a larger box. pretty sure you can set it up though so it rejects multiple conns like that. there's a setting somewhere to limit inbound.
lobbes: word, well that is good to know at least.I tried to deny a shitload of em via virtualhosts.conf. Blog is back up for now, but I half-expect it to be down again by morning
a111: Logged on 2018-06-22 16:14 lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-21#1828477 << ack, ty for letting me know. I'll try sshing in tonight to rule out webserver failure before I flag down BB to check out the situation manually. (I must say, it is a good feeling knowing that nowhere in this troubleshooting cycle will I need to interface with orcs.)
lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-22#1828740 << so I figured it out: cause of downtime ended up being a flood of tor exit nodes >> http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/VYVGW/?raw=true ☝︎☟︎
mod6: but backing up the chain is a good idea. i actually have backups more recent than that, but from other trbs, not this specific one.
mircea_popescu: mod6 backups are your friend! this whole trb stuff is a little friable.
mod6: i have a backed up index, but its from long ago.
mod6: i'll probably just turn all of this into a blog post.
lobbes makes a literal note
asciilifeform: it's an arm7 m3 with a few custom i/o regs and some iron for crypto accel ( strictly hashing & symmetric , all else in soft )
asciilifeform: so as to get a known turd
phf: the later is a guess though right, that it's currently installed?
asciilifeform: ( there's a rw and ro piece in each of the 2 redundant sections of the rom , and each contains a copy of rw key -- why? ask'em, not me )
BingoBoingo: Girl thinks alf is a cool dood and does interestin work