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assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 06:14:17; mircea_popescu: so : some chemical reactions are strongly exothermic (they give out heat). aluminum salts chief among them.
punkman: mircea_popescu: so what's your favorite pizza?
phf: mircea_popescu: "Fractal -- from Wolfram MathWorld mathworld.wolfram.com/Fractal.html‎ A fractal is an object or quantity that displays " << wolfram's "new kind of science" is all about "this one thing i generated kind of looks like this complicated process, maybe they are related? i feel like they are!"
cazalla: what is your position on pepperoni on pizza mircea_popescu ?
phf: ascii_field: mircea_popescu: go give ben_vulpes a unix and laptop co-designed with it, then he can throw away the crapple << there's three apples in my mind, 90s one, the early 2000s one when programmers migrated from linux to a unix that Just Works, and the post iphone explosion apple. the first two are dead (10.10 is the final reason i froze my setup and migrating my entire stack away). but my point is that maybe you guys are just arguin ☟︎
phf: mircea_popescu: iirc that was before ukraine. << that was indeed before ukraine. i saw a few of my well trained, but otherwise bummy friends with "business" go oh well party is over and switch to sberbank financial analyst positions or somesuch.
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 22:04:14; mircea_popescu: you know, the "wrecker" who was "trying to make the train tracks run down faster"
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: pretty lulzy article btw
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu you've got mailz
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: tiled, iirc
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: go give ben_vulpes a unix and laptop co-designed with it, then he can throw away the crapple
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: for so long as you think this, you will catastrophically misunderstand why apple remains a thing
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 20:45:57; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: << mircea_popescu appears to have slept through the total obliteration of whatever 'premium' status ipNohe had. << it's in the price, see ?
assbot: Logged on 21-08-2015 03:58:42; mircea_popescu: fun fact, since for some reason i'm doing history now. romania's head rabi (niemirower) died in 1940. he was succeded by one alex safran, who was 29 at that time. and by virtue of being head rabi, the young man also had an ex officio seat in the romanian senate. but for not being yet 40 years of age as the senate required, he asked for, and obtained, a special derrogation from the high chamber of cas
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: << mircea_popescu appears to have slept through the total obliteration of whatever 'premium' status ipNohe had. << it's in the price, see ? ☟︎
ascii_field: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://www.toomandre.com << toom of toom-cook algo. teaches in brazil.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 13:01:25; mircea_popescu: http://thetarpit.org/posts/y02/03c-the-myth-of-software-engineering.html
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 10:04:15; mircea_popescu: tim cook is officially retarded.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 10:02:44; mircea_popescu: who the fuck commodifies his premium product for boredom o may gawd
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270278 << mircea_popescu appears to have slept through the total obliteration of whatever 'premium' status ipNohe had. i often go into town on weekends on the train. there is literally no one too ragged, too ethnic, whatever, to be playing with apple gadget, often more than one. literally, stinking bums have'em, and had for years. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:57:40; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1269902 << so then it's the rifht move ?
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:25:40; mircea_popescu: sorta like the emperor of flies can't happen with an adult present.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:25:07; mircea_popescu: i doubt it. see, wiemar collapsed because THERE WAS NO currency. at all.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:12:18; mircea_popescu: jurov actually the she-programmers of yugo were famous in romania in the 80s
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:07:45; mircea_popescu: there's an entire ugly unspecified state downstream people keep pushing under the rug
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:04:07; mircea_popescu: if we actually get maximal utilization, which means every single unit of account is independent,
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 08:39:23; mircea_popescu: this is more of the "gavin has spoken with experts" / "btcoin business support"/ "xt is going to matter" etc etc verbiage.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 08:36:50; mircea_popescu: they went to work for metansa right alf ?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270083 << l0l mircea_popescu, everybody knows (tm) that metansa would never contain something so pedestrian as a report-writer, much less one who interfaced with something as boring as a politician. it is 100% people who break rsa, devise single-transistor backdoors to plant in intel, devise 'natural disease mimicking' poisons, etc. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 08:25:38; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267867 <<< haha wut. except any lisp is also implemented atop libc, and half the time atop fucking python and some shit. don't throw stones ye of the glass house.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270064 << dear glub. sorry mircea_popescu, not even sure which part of this fiction to begin with ! ☝︎
asciilifeform: wb mircea_popescu
PinkPosixPXE: hey mircea_popescu, doing pretty good, been busy with the new job, how are you?
phf: mircea_popescu: i took your trilema recommendation to visit istanbul, this place is indeed fantastic
shinohai: Related to mircea_popescu 's article: http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-09-11
shinohai: morning, mircea_popescu feeling better today?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: You just don't understand how real 'Murican women look
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 03:38:05; asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: iirc it was priced, to a penny, to match mircea_popescu conf
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 02:58:51; assbot: Logged on 28-03-2015 16:35:32; mircea_popescu: mod6 ben_vulpes you think some warnings should be brewed maybe ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's leik the new bronies
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 08:46:17; mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QyYaPWasos ?
punkman: mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267867 <<< haha wut. except any lisp is also implemented atop libc << I think there's more than a handful that don't need to touch C at all ☝︎
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> who the fuck is jameson lopp ? << 'statoshi' on other forms some herpity derp creature working for BitGo, some wallet thing
davout: mircea_popescu: "If you impaled it's perfect." <<< kek'd
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> ... << honestly it's mildly disappointing to see them mentioned at all. derps did exacly nothing, and failed to even confront their failure. instead they're pretending like it didn't happen and no doubt imaginew this is marketing << Honestly this latest failure is probably the end of covering them at all. Some derpy block explorers are claiming hundreds of MB of mempool off of people pushing mega dust collection t
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: iirc it was priced, to a penny, to match mircea_popescu conf ☟︎
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: though if memory serves mircea_popescu had some choice quotes about one women being able to service many multiples of men
assbot: Logged on 28-03-2015 16:35:32; mircea_popescu: mod6 ben_vulpes you think some warnings should be brewed maybe ? ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 22:28:12; hanbot: so, folks: mircea_popescu is out of order with apparently some sort of stomach bug; hopefully he'll be able to stand tomorrow.
hanbot: so, folks: mircea_popescu is out of order with apparently some sort of stomach bug; hopefully he'll be able to stand tomorrow. ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 05:18:31; mircea_popescu: (this in particular is a very clever ddos vehicle for the bitcoin tx relay network, because the inept implementation generates a lot of such spurious nonsense anyway)
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 05:15:49; mircea_popescu: 44821 nonstandard txout ; 54874 nonstandard txin
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 05:13:44; mircea_popescu: SigOpCount out of bounds : 4219 occurences ; nonstandard tx types : 99695 occurences.
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 04:41:05; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they actually tried to force the kidz to memorize key sequences for various statistical ops
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ??
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: hehehe
pete_dushenski: http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/cantorth.htm << for those, like yours truly, ignorant of 'cantor proof' mentioned by mircea_popescu
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: the ti game, snake ;)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the funnier part still is that the childrenz cooperated eagerly, because you could play 'tetris' and 'dope wars' on the thing
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> <asciilifeform> pete_dushenski: the '83' was actually mandatory at the school i went to. << i never had a calculator in school. of any kind. << I college math calculators became verboten
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they actually tried to force the kidz to memorize key sequences for various statistical ops ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the funny part is ~why~ they were required
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 04:09:34; mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ka7ic/bitcoin_is_not_visa/cuwcz3y << why the fuck is reddit so racist ?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: btw that piece was invictus, not br
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: for sure.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha it takes a destionation dir name and a patch name (called in this case 'head'). applies sequence up through and including head.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: ^ which head did you press to ? << wait theres multiple ?!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ^ which head did you press to ?
assbot: Logged on 06-09-2015 20:42:32; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-09-2015#1263954 << 188.68.240.159 is also online, running pressed stator.
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu even has rel2-beta going on an actual battlefield box. but he's a brave fella, and has fallbacks
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> <asciilifeform> at the risk of repeating myself, shipping blockchains is sad. << so guy wants to meet a guy with girls and pencils. << mircea_popescu gets it
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: if you're mystified as to wtf all of this was, these old gadgets are (literally) 'derive.exe'-in-a-can. << Seriously on the AP Calculus test machine and knowing how to use it was THE trump card.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you're mystified as to wtf all of this was, these old gadgets are (literally) 'derive.exe'-in-a-can. ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 23:59:51; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1268184 <<< this because you never looked at it seriously ?
asciilifeform: lemme guess, mircea_popescu's node drifting in space
shinohai didn't know mircea_popescu enjoyed Seinfeld .
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: 'hagana' et al set the gold standard for blowing up brits, aha ☟︎
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i wrote this
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: aaaahahahaha. jesus it must suck to live in the us. << we usians are pretty much living in idiocracy. soon we'll see mass famine due to watering crops with electrolytes.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: one of my secret pleasures is to track historical patterns of linguistic theft by pseudoscience from the genuine article
ascii_field: what would mircea_popescu hypothetically ~personally~ pay per byte to preserve them ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: it never landed.
ascii_field: despite mircea_popescu transmitting nonstop
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ka7ic/bitcoin_is_not_visa/ << it's on front page nao.
ascii_field: i will borrow a page from mircea_popescu and say 'i don't give a fuck HOW' it is done
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i can show rigorously that it can be. but requires custom si.
jurov: mircea_popescu: i don't see any big obstacle against ddosing 1000 targets with slow connections vs. targeting one
ascii_field: surely mircea_popescu knows that usg (esp. .mil) makes heavy use of an internal tard pgp by microshit
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: neh it'll be 'embraced' and extended
trinque: mircea_popescu: yes I think using "the logs" has a lot of fruit left to give
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: imho you were falling into this very bear trap with the 'nano' thread
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: if you - or anybody else - can write something recognizable as this item, i promise to take off my hat
jurov: mircea_popescu: pls to mpex
lobbes: mircea_popescu: if you are not playing you 'fall behind' the economy? though, that is the beauty of the 'encouraged bots' system
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i suppose it is a win then that i cannot ask stoutemyer anything. after all, my only qualification is 'can walk', aha.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: self-steering projectile ~really~ wants to be a rocket, not only because guidance apparatus costs and so may as well include large warhead, but also because changing direction kills velocity if all you got is the acceleration in the barrel (classical bullet)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: iirc lockheed was advertising this
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: cuba, l0l
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: yea. that too. actually got submitted by 3 separate people @_@
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: they have many more than 2 ты/вы addresses