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shinohai: Play the fiddle as Rome burns.
mircea_popescu: (iirc at the time it was advertised as a feature - keeps bear away)
mircea_popescu: is it still as loud ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes, mod6, et al : did jurov stop working as trb treasurer , coinbr operator ? i must have missed this ? 'cause i dun see him in the mircea_popescutronic list
asciilifeform: it is only ever mentioned for some reason as an excuse-making gadget
asciilifeform: idk, being fed into helplessness like squirrels in a park, does not count as 'exploit' ?
asciilifeform: and still summed to 0, just as wild cows in india.
diana_coman: <trinque> I'm not totally clear on what happened with diana_coman, because I did not remove the old methods. <- I sent the !up apparently before the change and it worked; but then the !v did not work as meanwhile the change was made (or so I gathered)
mircea_popescu: well so far all i want is to discuss things cleanly with phriendz, as you say.
asciilifeform: hey some folks can't do game theory, the gods dropped them as babies, what can i do
asciilifeform: as are voting circuits, and other aspects of a sane computer
asciilifeform: as in, on tick t, you get routine r1, on tick t+1, r2.
mircea_popescu: heh not a trivial thing this, as currently arranged is it
mircea_popescu: there's two reasons for this. one's that it eases management of otps if people batch it ; the other's that it acts as a salt offering some protection against some mostly theoretical attacks against privkeys.
deedbot-: [Daniel P. Barron] Count me as thick, I dun see the connection. - http://danielpbarron.com/2016/count-me-as-thick-i-dun-see-the-connection/
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform shame on you for intimating indignities on the angelic character of children. do you not know they be pure as teh driven snot ?!
deedbot: FC66C0C5D98C42A1D4A98B6B42F9985AFAB953C4 registered as trinque.
asciilifeform: (yes you can walk up the stack - or heap, as the case may be - with a negative/overflowing array index)
phf: My logger thing stores log messages as arrays for example
mircea_popescu: you mean implicit array such as nth element of A as opposed to A[-5] sorta references ?
mircea_popescu: sure ; if you're going to do that might as well rebase your indexes in db, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: such as ?\
asciilifeform: but plox call things as they are, it is not erections that are scarce, but that mircea_popescu has only 1 cock afaik
mircea_popescu: you get 9 tools type A to 10 tools type B ; all the B's work, about half the A's work and while Bs are always on As are on 1% of the time or so.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman i believe it's not so different from any other simplified approach, such as johnny bravo seeing hot mammas all around ; or else orc warrior seeing world in terms of threats etc.
diana_coman: I read that as an implied millionaire=better otherwise why not right it as such: people who are millionaires, are millionaries
mircea_popescu: would you prefer "seen as better" ?
diana_coman: and my view of it as a stage basically
diana_coman: I suppose the difference comes at heart from defining millionaire as a state of being and thus an inevitable characteristic of the essence of a person (that's my understanding of your position)
mircea_popescu: as far as this aspriational "being X" is concerned, yeah, they're closer to immutable than anything else.
diana_coman: so no, adults do not turn into anything other than corpse by the previous definition, but they do not remain immutable really, precisely as they were, precisely what they will always be
diana_coman: mk, so an adult is set then to whatever s/he is; is that your position above that people don't change? (I still don't see how is this really reconciled with "they turn to shit as they age!!" - if they change, they can't turn to anything )
diana_coman: except some actually improve as they age
mircea_popescu: people turn to shit as they age, and that's all.
diana_coman: and b. this thing is quite circular as you say it or as I read what you say
mircea_popescu: the same exact action, in the hand of the idiot is an idiocy ; and in the hand of the millionare, millionarcy. hence the ancient "there's no such thing as your idea" thread
diana_coman: nope, nor can it be; my observation for what it's worth is that people interact with reality at different levels basically, as they can
mircea_popescu: "At the very least, they need to do what they can do, as it were" << but this is not ~specific~.
diana_coman: as in my pretty picture?
mircea_popescu: phf> it's also not as useful for freeform searching like << why not ? reunion!
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: nevermind that the tools in 'hackerspaces' are invariably so completely out of true as to be useless
phf: should probably call this search grep, and have that as first thing, eventually to be replaced by proper search-a-tron
phf: it's also not as useful for freeform searching like
asciilifeform: AS IN GREP
pete_dushenski: https://calvy.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/89034-strip.gif << relatedly, stan as dogbert
phf: asciilifeform: grep search, so lsd matches rtlsdr or "woulsdn't" http://glyf.org/tmp/lsd.png AS REQUESTED
phf: jurov: also i agree as far as swank being piece of shit, it's just that it supports a certain development style that you can't get anywhere else, except smalltalk
phf: really, asdf lets you do "load all my source" quite trivially as long as you packed it into a package ahead of time
phf: the whole swank debug on error thing is just not as good as Squeak/smalltalk
pete_dushenski: "Drivers may notice a decrease in fuel efficiency of between 5 and 32 percent, depending on climate, engine model year, and driving habits. Some drivers may also notice a decrease in power under certain conditions, such as full-throttle driving or highway operation. In some tests, the power rating of the VW TDI engine was affected by as much as 26 percent during full-throttle operation in cold climates. Finally, the increas
jurov: phf, as a lisp newbie i wondered why asdf is so consistently tagged "obsolete" everywhere
PeterL: use atomic instead of molecular hydrogen - half the mass, so lifts twice as much!
asciilifeform: but roaches show up as quickly as they come to a newly-built block of flats in nyc
trinque: outsource as much "law enforcement" as possible
trinque: asciilifeform: smells like a general trend of making companies get used to acting as part of law enforcement
asciilifeform: they could as easily do it on isp end.
mircea_popescu: if he doesn't like space as a tokenizer he has other issues.
mircea_popescu: i tell you : store the thing as trees.
mircea_popescu: the white people like it because it certifies their interesting-ness, just like a neglected housewife is flattered by the attention of pubescent makes. the government engages in the behaviour because it is a pubescent male. win-win as they say.
mircea_popescu: usg would like to know as much as black min wage workers ; but it can't ask them
mircea_popescu: "The NEWS will depict this violence as a protest gone out of control. However, as of 11:00 a.m. black female cashiers at the Shoppers supermarket at Mondawmin mall knew through social media that riots were being planned by high school students—an attack from students at one school [Frederick Douglas high School] on the very shopping center their parent's patronized." << this actuallyt is very illustrative of the whole "spyi
asciilifeform: fella thought, as they often do, that 'deserved moar!1111'
asciilifeform: srsly they never even so much as said a rude word.
mircea_popescu: "I’m over six miles from the city line, among townhomes that go for 400K, walking through a park that is a slice of solitude during the day and a gauntlet at night; a park where I have seen two gangs parley in a formal manner as I pretended to be some homeless slob on the next bench, and where, this time last year, I saw a white stoner in his 20s trying to talk his girl into getting into a van full of black guys as she crie
pete_dushenski: toyota makes lexus as 'lux brand'
asciilifeform has ancient and uninteresting auto and will have it for so long as parts can be had for it
mircea_popescu: same headcount of cattle, weirs and lands to distribute as squires, stronger army nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: possibly pete_dushenski himself as well.
mircea_popescu: infantine equivalencies you propose to the world notwithstanding, as they have no standing.
mircea_popescu: in the illustration used, the cunt has the CAPACITY to procreate, with whatever man, as a function of whether it works or does not work. if it has the capaqcity to procreate, it will procreate. if it doesn't procreate, it's because IT didn';t work, NOT because the cock was black.
mircea_popescu: ff of her as she staggers and drools in the aisle. He has a powder blue hat. She carries a finely stitched black leather purse about the size of one of her shoes. They cannot decide who should be pushing the cart. They head back to the women’s room and have sex standing up, between the stall doors and the sink, with the door wide open. She is bent over the sink and he is having a hard time getting his pelvis level with her
mircea_popescu: "A very attractive couple enters and begins shopping with a basket. She is tall, elegant, and white, not busty enough to pose in playboy, and not thin enough to model clothes. She is beautiful in the very high heels she can barely stand on, doing the dopefiend lean as she is. Her date is a short muscular black man with his pants actually buckled around his waist. They are in their late twenties and he can’t keep his hands o
asciilifeform: the 'make a budget' and 'don't drink through your whole wage' thing is REASONABLE as 'how to not GO IDIOT BROKE' advice
asciilifeform: well as i gather mircea_popescu's answer was 'you could start doing 17 yo work for shit wage' and i answer 'why the fuck should i a single day earlier than forced to.'
mircea_popescu: so as to maintain it's capacity to work with them in the future.
asciilifeform: count me as thick, i dun see the connection.
phf: or gnarly as in "we wrote this over past 5 years, need to have upper bounds noa!!1"
asciilifeform: but was summoned back in as the shop was in dire straits
mircea_popescu: but as he says ... no reason to prefer...
PeterL: <asciilifeform> 11:50 <+mircea_popescu> so what's rent like in the cheap suburbs next to umd ? << i pay ~2k (if you count electric, gas, etc) for <1k sq ft. << my new house is ~1k for 2k sq ft (plus 1k basement, could be used as workshop)
mircea_popescu: you can read. and you can read in such a way as to GUARANTEEDLY never end up in "i dunno man"
asciilifeform: then perhaps eaten as long pig ?
phf: mircea_popescu: idea is that furnished apartment is for a salariman on remote assignment, like amtrak and services like that, assumption is can jack up a price as much as you want
asciilifeform: aha, as i insist
mircea_popescu: phf and for the same reason as here : us lives off govt dole, so the lice crowd the capitla.
mircea_popescu: i bet you've not as much as looked at the schmuck's cv or anything ? just sat on ass and journalised ?
asciilifeform: he is not an employee, does not clock hours or report to a boss, and is not - in as far as i can surmise - accountable to anyone, for anything he does.
asciilifeform: i think i had a toy one as a boy.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: count me as lost in this analogy
asciilifeform: the thing about cars as peacock objects, is esp. mysterious; e.g., none of the folks i work with have ever even ~seen~ my car
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Not in the same way as Gavin.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly as described : had it delivered up the block around corner.
gernika: I will probably return it to them, since I also brought back a replacement eerom-8u that worx, as opposed to the first one they sent me.
gernika: asciilifeform: fyi I made a trip to eetools HQ today and came back home with a curiosity: EmMax plus rom emulator - connects to LPT port - comes with console app. It does *not* however appear to support dos - win95 is as far back as it goes it seems.
mircea_popescu: i may not be a cunning linguist, but i'll sure as hell rape the shit out of the language.
asciilifeform: i was trying to make sense of 'As of the today, the minimum value of the assets in my possession is ~755 BTC, while the maximum total amount for the liabilities, should all claims be certified, is ~981 BTC.'
mircea_popescu: consider a house. if a woman i loved died there, i might not have any further use for the item, not even as fire kindle.
trinque: rather than the business formerly known as bitbet
mircea_popescu: the notion that you'll keep the gates of the town really really tight so as to keep out any plague of locusts and any visitation by pillars of salt is naive at best.
mircea_popescu: as far as i can see on the table there's used condoms.