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scriba: Logged on 2017-04-27: [02:14:22] * mircea_popescu went to business school here today, spent five minutes listening in on what evidently was the graduation project of some 4th year kid. do you know what he had ?
a111: Logged on 2017-04-26 23:44 mircea_popescu: "My own experience here is depressing – nobody, not even the smartest folks, is willing to read anything unless they came specifically to read. If they came for any other purpose, forget it. When you're a tutorial, you can tell things to people and they listen. When you're an error message, people read you to the extent necessary to make you go away but no further. And when you're a warning, people simply ignore you. It suc
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes ^
asciilifeform: in other lulz, http://www.oregonlive.com/rosefest/index.ssf/2017/04/organizers_cancel_82nd_avenue.html >> '"You have seen how much power we have downtown and that the police cannot stop us from shutting down roads so please consider your decision wisely," the anonymous email said, telling organizers they could cancel the Republican group's registration or else face action from protesters. "This is non-negotiable."'
mircea_popescu: and in future nurses, did we do https://68.media.tumblr.com/603b50d8351a3ff3b54e4f4ffdc8c702/tumblr_n8nbfqqovl1spdf5ao1_1280.jpg already ?
mod6: mircea_popescu: lol, no. i did't have to hurt anybody or anything. i just lost my cool.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: When the teachers stopped retiring because muh pension and the union "length of service" raises kept happening
mod6: mircea_popescu: anyway, as far as dog, 100 years ago; your dog got cancer? you take it out and shoot the poor thing.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> kinda the problem with all the makework positions, "teachers", "daycare specialists" and on it goes. << If the "makework" doesn't include lift and move materials as needed for paying customers it's more welfare
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> "nursing profession" much like the various other "social science" experts, social workers etc are about as qualified as their weight in earthworms. << it was the social workers that were the ones who raised questions on us, after countless conversations about post-hospital care.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you can always 'get terrifying deals if they know you', even from penguins in antarctica.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i liked 'palmer house', ~same rate. gilded age relic.
asciilifeform: lol , mircea_popescu on expedition to 'windy city' ?!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: y'sure you aren't operating with pre-2001 prices ?
mod6: mircea_popescu: we got uber lucky. that's the point. you shound't have to get lucky when something like this happens.
trinque: mircea_popescu: king would still be paying own way, eh?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: aha, just the color of "medical necessity"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Other traditional solution is "making comfortable" where narcotics perscribed for pain increases in steps until amount is incompatible with life
mod6: mircea_popescu: just reckless beyond all comprehension. quite interesting times, these are.
mod6: mircea_popescu: yah, certainly seems to be headed in the direction like your #eulora log link earlier.
pete_dushenski: pete_dushenski: it'd be more surprising if it were the only backdoor. like ferrari factory authorised odometer rollback (this recently too!) would be surprising if it were only sketchy business practice that $RACE engaged in.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, but not interestingly.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski et al : there is no particular reason to suppose that subj is the ~only~ back door, also.
lobbesbot: Logged on 2017-04-26 15:22:21: <mircea_popescu> puts the whole "only fate of average mankind is harem slavery" rhetoric quite into focus.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: doesn't simulate cpu -- read the src/docs
asciilifeform: it does approx what mircea_popescu asked for
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu decided ahead of time to barf -- and did so
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: good luck parsing cpp grammar (yes, all of it...) in awk.
shinohai: Was in a discussion this morning with someone regarding mircea_popescu 's "How to take control of your provider" piece and was shown this horror: https://twitter.com/SarahDiAvola/status/857214088471953409
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unfortunately the d00d is quite correct in his description of the mechanism. gprof doesn't work in the obvious, sane way ( a mechanized version of what i did -- per-routine timer ) but using randomized sampling.
asciilifeform: https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~sugih/pointers/gprof_quick.html << gprof likbez, if anyone wants to try.
asciilifeform: mod6: and mircea_popescu seems to br asking for gprof raw out
mod6: but, in any case, I could work on further analysis like that, mircea_popescu
mod6: It wouldn't take much more effort to add the AcceptBlock values into the trb_offline_eatblock.png if that's wanted.
mod6: if you're looking at this chart: http://www.mod6.net/eatblock-test/trb_offline_eatblock.png
mod6: Thanks to diana_coman for the help with gnuplot!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so, to take example, if you found a rng that turns out to emit digits of pi -- the proof-of-weakness will be plouffe's algo.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-26 01:54 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is a pretty hard standard though.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the only palpably slow knob is prime-finding
shinohai: !~google Ada Big_Number
mod6: !~s Ada Big_Number
asciilifeform: * of k_i+1st bit
asciilifeform: or of k-th bit, given bits k_i-j ... k_i , for some j.
mod6: my second run on the 2nd FG out of my bunch has completed. results here: http://www.mod6.net/fg/fg-test/fg2.ent_run2.txt http://www.mod6.net/fg/fg-test/fg2.dieharder_run2.txt
a111: Logged on 2017-04-25 02:26 mircea_popescu: phf as a side point, do you know anyone totally into death methal with a bmi under 30 ?
a111: Logged on 2017-04-25 13:21 mircea_popescu: lol that salon piece was pretty lulzy. o noes, the thin but vocal layer of unemployed and unemployable "independent women" is getting cut out of politics too, after being cut out of public discourse and the money pie ?!?!?!?!
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-25#1647802 << [Anna March] is at work on an essay collection, "Feminist Killjoy". also http://www.annamarch.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/10311349_637458956332337_2729010927784395672_n-e1410903416249.jpg ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-04-25 14:11 mircea_popescu: yesterday i banned his B block, meaning that instead of getting back the 130ish bytes per request ("please stop beingt stupid" or somesuch) he's now getting a 404. trilema delivers soft 404s, in the sense of loading up an article anyway. idiot's burned half a terrabyte since, which he hopefully has to pay for. because if he does, his entire (large, holy shit) operation is now under water. dun dun dun.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> mod6 i guess one could organize some great irl arcades here huh. << sure sounds like it. :]
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: supposedly band of 80 !
shinohai: https://www.reddit.com/r/libreboot/comments/66tdds/proposal_for_libreboot_rejoin_gnu_community/ <<< bwahahahaha
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes kinda typical californy nonsense, really.
phf: new talk from idlewords, this one's a miss. if you start reading it, and wonder if it gets better: it gets worse. http://idlewords.com/talks/build_a_better_monster.htm
mod6: !~later tell pete_dushenski Hey, let's take a look at that when you have a minute tonight. Salud!
a111: Logged on 2014-09-09 14:10 mircea_popescu: hey fluffypony do you plan to eventually sell the monero idea here once it reaches some sort of maturity or do you just plan to wait indefinitely for b-a to figure it out ?
a111: Logged on 2017-04-05 13:53 mircea_popescu: this was discussed in developer meetings cca michelangelo. what of it ?
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: fair enough, but how are 'private discussions' in this context (plagiarism allegation) any different from http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-05#1637638 ☝︎
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: yeah, i suppose i follow. hrr, ok i'll need to see what in particular was revealed/claimed in #t. besides "it's snake oil!"; i do hope that if/when aes is broken, #t doesn't go out saying "#t said all symmetric crypto is snakeoil! plagiarism!!"
Framedragger: you will laugh but there is e.g. /r/Monero , and it discussed unoriginality of above e.g. here https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/65dj7u/an_empirical_analysis_of_linkability_in_the/ (while giving references/links to outside stuff)
a111: Logged on 2017-04-15 14:09 mircea_popescu: incidentally Framedragger , do you have a working theory as why he didn't say "decentralized systems lab plagiarized #trilema" ?
pete_dushenski: related, https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/A36M6zgw5P7l2tgtTumLppUA4cgMV0dU0x1LtmUnuS-5_oVAXdAsJ17MBtaXUHnIsQW2ZXitX0kaYcJrMBoZGM_dGejG--aVoOCmMM0c1a2-6Ivnhkm_AkgwSIrV7ymaktIdS7QG
shinohai: pete_dushenski: running V with no arguments gives the version number
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: is it mod6's ?
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: and which vtron were you using ?
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: upload the key, the seal, and the patch ??
a111: Logged on 2017-04-24 06:12 pete_dushenski: "WARNING: asciilifeform_blackhole_reads.vpatch.asciilifeform.sig is an INVALID seal for asciilifeform_blackhole_reads.vpatch!" << anyone else seen this error ? my vtron is barfing this up even though my gpgtron says it's a good sig.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-24 06:12 pete_dushenski: "WARNING: asciilifeform_blackhole_reads.vpatch.asciilifeform.sig is an INVALID seal for asciilifeform_blackhole_reads.vpatch!" << anyone else seen this error ? my vtron is barfing this up even though my gpgtron says it's a good sig.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-24#1647632 << << lemme guess, you use keychains, dontcha , pete_dushenski . ☝︎
danielpbarron: !!deed http://danielpbarron.com/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64.asc ☟︎
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Have you tried to refer to them with different pronouns in an effort to appease them? Maybe instead of "tron" they prefer "tractor" or "dragonbane"
pete_dushenski: "WARNING: asciilifeform_blackhole_reads.vpatch.asciilifeform.sig is an INVALID seal for asciilifeform_blackhole_reads.vpatch!" << anyone else seen this error ? my vtron is barfing this up even though my gpgtron says it's a good sig. ☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: and in other alternatives, http://68.media.tumblr.com/57de99cc50612b337a98f70b95ed1d38/tumblr_ool91z0fO61tdngbdo1_1280.jpg
mod6: Ok update here... 2nd FG first entropy tests are in; collected ~1.2Gb. http://www.mod6.net/fg/fg-test/fg2.ent_run1.txt http://www.mod6.net/fg/fg-test/fg2.dieharder_run1.txt
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in remarkable ducts an' seals, http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me9uc6DPw01rzaj8jo1_1280.jpg
mats: mircea_popescu: the trilema one re: the penultimate antisocial man
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo who the fuck wants syrian children anyways. << Tyrone wants what he wants
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they had these in vietnam also. and korea, prior.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-23 08:29 mircea_popescu: "With at least one quarter of Mosul still under Islamic State control, it is too soon to uncover the full story of the liberation of western Mosul." orly ? i guess what he means is "with the isis army being outnumbered 10:1 and it still managing to inflict blistering, humiliating if regular tactical defeats on the ill prepared, bumbling invading force, it becomes clear that the only victors in the engagement were the so calle
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu at one point had article where 'there are people who labour under belief that if they could get a big enough house, they will never have to clean it' or how did it go
a111: Logged on 2017-04-23 02:29 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-22#1647496 << had terrible video libs at the time this was all happening (mp's hs cs class was in pascal, for instance). so kids who were bright hated it because couldn't make little amiga-like platformers on their 386s.
shinohai: mircea_popescu: Is dulceata similar in .ro as in es to signify `sweet` ?
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: hah! well, i don't know any colloquial / actually local words for this other than the (generic boring), you know, "jam".
ben_vulpes: well with caveats pursuant to mircea_popescu's critique that gps is not long for this world, gps + dead reckoning
mats: ben_vulpes: nfi
a111: Logged on 2017-04-18 00:06 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-17#1645221 << were you any good at that ?
a111: Logged on 2017-04-21 21:57 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-21#1647131 << in which we lol at how phf's logtron makes https clickable to 404.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ~100% of iss 'research' is of roughly same grade as 'climate science.'
Framedragger: relevant article: http://www.idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 17:49 mircea_popescu: but yes, you're right, it also means no more iss etc. though it's unclear what that will do -- currently outer orbit is not exactly friendly anyway.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 17:48 mircea_popescu: and that's also why all the expenditure on maps and so on.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-17 05:41 mircea_popescu: so yes, there is ONE possibly useful application of a military railgun : making the deep space interdictor. but this is slight.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 17:48 ben_vulpes: once satwar begins, debris is going to knock out *all* birds and make orbit useless until someone decides to burn epic piles of btc cleaning it up.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 17:45 ben_vulpes: mats: for my education, over how large of an area can a carrier group jam gps?
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 17:36 mircea_popescu: alf takes terrible pictures.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes its amusing to me to see all the usgistani youtube rarararing (a fine example : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vej_aLJpFYo ) deeply rely on satellites. fact : large scale involvement with either russia or china will contain the end of satellites as the very first step.
shinohai wonders if alf's attic would make a better BDSM hangout than that place mircea_popescu mentioned in Disk Less Terminal
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: yeah, ic.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 05:13 ben_vulpes: may your hirstute frame hold the horde at bay
a111: Logged on 2017-03-28 05:21 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1632901 << yes, goes by spyked on trilema ; bright undergrad and then grad at the bucharest politechnic (which still is a fine technical school, though it was better pre-democracy).
mats: and how would ben_vulpes accomplish this without sat or gps guidance?