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asciilifeform: (rather than what is normally presented as 'coding ability' in idiot industry, this being - quickly and accurately solving the non-problems posed by non-people)
asciilifeform: but elementarily, 'coding ability' as a concept is a lie
mircea_popescu: yeah. meanwhile, as far as usable software is concerned, ownership is both an absolute bar to shitgnomery and as near as i can determine the only workable basis.
mircea_popescu: (i am not, as it may appear on the strength of the rarity of such arcane knowledge, proposing that this is some sort of better or ideal solution. it is merely different. lettuce not fall into 1900s orientalism over here.)
asciilifeform: it is not only that 'office drone' has no knife and never swung a fist in his life and etc. as mircea_popescu probably imagines. though all of this is true. it is ALSO that the street is NOT HIS
mircea_popescu: esl - english as a single language.
mircea_popescu: patriotism, in this case, is a willingness to die to defend your territory, as you define it - NOT as some woman defines it.
asciilifeform: only got as far as dbus.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> the more interesting question is how they managed to steal it without buying theo << this is deeply uninteresting, as it's well documented. see for instance http://trilema.com/2016/the-womans-fault/#selection-89.0-89.179
BingoBoingo: ALso possible, Theo's wrath bit is losing sensistivity as he ages
trinque: I run without dbus as well, and understand fully why this is a Good Thing
asciilifeform: and normally used as such.
asciilifeform: as have i.
asciilifeform: from, as i gather, elementary economic calculations, the enemy focuses almost all effort on real-time/net-connected crapola
punkman: " The code that causes the vulnerability was introduced in May 2008 as part of glibc 2.9."
punkman: "Remote code execution is possible, but not straightforward. It requires bypassing the security mitigations present on the system, such as ASLR. We will not release our exploit code, but a non-weaponized Proof of Concept has been made available"
asciilifeform: not in famine, but as standard butcher shop fare
BingoBoingo: Over time supposedly accumulates. It may break down faster than feces, but it doesn't liquify as fast.
BingoBoingo: "And the architecture! Never was any city more captivated by the rectangle. As you take off from Beijing airport, clumps of residential developments rise relentlessly into the distance, each cluster often 60 or so high-rises apiece, each high-rise 50 or so stories tall — seeming to reproduce SimCity-style as you watch. They are all drab, they are all the same, they are all hideous. (A student asked after my event whether perhaps
mircea_popescu: the current "we will pay lizardhitler cronies" guy is going to try and renegotiate that thing to add a clause that the base is "not to be used militarily". as if it has any other fucking purpose than ready bombardment of us/canada.
asciilifeform: as in, 1+ cone for every u.s. metropolis.
BingoBoingo: Old NASA has Apollo 1 as its sole mega catastrophe (Apollo 13 counts instead as elegant save). New NASA lost two space shuttles.
BingoBoingo: Let us not forget occasional catastrophe has only become more frequent as NSA has aged
assbot: Logged on 15-02-2016 18:22:55; asciilifeform: mats: as i understand, 'alphago' is a corporate operation, with many folks involved, all over the pay scale.
asciilifeform: and over the ground (which, as mircea_popescu likes to remind us, has an impedance)
mircea_popescu: from this fundamental inequality all things follow, such as god fucking help you if you try to play the field agent with me.
assbot: Logged on 15-02-2016 16:04:22; trinque: shinohai: I mean specifically that they see all things as prohibited, aside exceptions you "get to"
asciilifeform: just as chumpers learned not to drop ipnohe.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: can hardly wait, preet as chief-justice, already salivating
asciilifeform: as in pressed hologram ?
asciilifeform: as in, pass light but not 'radio'
asciilifeform: (what counts as 'rogue' on bitbet?!)
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i remember, a coupla years ago, when i first saw a live 'mazerati' << In one of the college towns I lived in there was one I'd frequently see as it bounced from parking lot to parking lot, looking more like weathered trash than other cars of similar age.
asciilifeform: and just as easily 'forgets' as 'learns'
assbot: Logged on 26-01-2016 17:20:06; ascii_butugychag: (there was a spiffy talk at shmoo, which mentioned how nn used in image recognition usually imprints on what - to a human - would be an entirely accidental cluster of pixels, and if you flip'em, it will recognize an obvious, e.g,. cat, as a refrigerator, etc)
adlai: explain on what level? "the ANN weighings blabla" is not the same as "play away from thickness"
asciilifeform: mats: as i understand, 'alphago' is a corporate operation, with many folks involved, all over the pay scale. ☟︎
asciilifeform: i always imagined it as a big 1950s race car thing
pete_dushenski: that's the other tragic angle of the lack of quality, as it happens, everything fucking ~looks~ the same.
pete_dushenski: as to the organic food angle, the car market is actually quite a different beast, mostly because there is no 'quality' to be had for love or money. a new mercedes will break just as readily as a new kia, just more expensively.
pete_dushenski: p their friends for brunch on sunday morning while talking at length about what option boxes (of the 4 available) they ticked or didn't, and why or why not. this 'aspie' set has no goals beyond the moment's likes and hearts, not unlike the set that tlp mischaracterised as patek philippe owners.
pete_dushenski: ue credit card balance, proudly watch as both kids graduate as professionals, maybe optometrists or accountants. as these kids have never had to save for anything, nor even been encumbered by uncertainty, they proceed to 'show off' their entirely disposable incomes with the purchase of nice watches and leased bmws, audis, mercedes, or porsche crossovers and to 'post' 'their' 'success' on social medias and pick u
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: aha k, so let's see here. 25 years ago a young couple leaves china, lebanon, russia, or the like and moves to us/canada. they proceed to find gainful employment buying or selling something or other and set about raising two children. the immigrant couple, after working diligently to put their children through university, ensuring that their kids never know physical hardship nor so much as an overd
asciilifeform: specifically how there is no place in usa where one can 'i will pay double for non-monsanto but i don't give a fuck about 'gmo' and i sure as fuck don't want to see homeopathic crud in the shop' ☟︎☟︎
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-02-2016#1406042 << as with all new german cars, yes. this comment on baruth's blog recently sharply sums up this arriviste betaboi phenomenon : "If you’re distraught about the Macan demo now, wait until the 4cyl comes out with a $499 lease special and a whole new segment of buyers. I can tell you from experience (I sell Audis as well) that the ‘aspirational’ luxury bu ☝︎
asciilifeform: i use it as a sort of scientific toy. picture, if you will, if you came to own a few grams of Pu
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: perhaps i ought to explain that i don't really treat bitcoin as money
trinque: shinohai: I mean specifically that they see all things as prohibited, aside exceptions you "get to" ☟︎
BingoBoingo: But apparently it doesn't count as obesity anymore until a person is so fat they spread out like a pancake
shinohai: I do get to decide not to eat 4 buckets of Wal-MArt chicken in one sitting so as not to be labeled obese.
mircea_popescu: just because they're not lame as fguck about it, going telloing kids what the levels "should be" doesn't mean they don't exist.
mircea_popescu: i think that definition was never stated as such.
mircea_popescu: it's so bizarre that the usg doesn't embrace herbalife. yes all the arguments against it are solid, but they cut just as much against say, apple. google.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla> i have been running mine for 2 years are are as good as new as far as i can tell << good bearings, less wear, last longer.
kakobrekla: hope you got a quiet psu as well
kakobrekla: i have been running mine for 2 years are are as good as new as far as i can tell
ben_vulpes: referred to as obscurantism (p. 1): “[when] the speaker...
BingoBoingo: To be fair many markets do not overcome bubbles as robustly as mircea_popescu does
punkman: "The history of Vandwelling goes back to horse drawn vehicles such as Roma Vardo wagons in Europe, and covered Conestoga wagons in the United States. One of the first uses of the term Vandwellers was in the United Kingdom showman and Van Dwellers' Protection Association, a guild for travelling show performers formed in the late 1800s. Shortly afterwards in 1901, Albert Bigalow wrote “The
kakobrekla: i dont see it as a 'cake of death' question, more like 'piss or shit' one.
asciilifeform: but if you like structure editors, interlisp (destroyed by commonlisp, incidentally, and by symbolics, as described in the pitman link from mircea_popescu ) is your sunken atlantis !
mircea_popescu: as never before.
mircea_popescu: now how do i, as a third party, resolve this dispute ?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile medicine goes through the same process as we speak, and the deleterious effects are pointedly obvious.
kakobrekla: but you do arithmetic with 'special symbols', visually, not in plaintext (as argued not so long ago with mo)
asciilifeform: i'll use a proprietary compiler shortly after my appointment as reichsminister, where i will commute to ft. meade on flying pig over a frozen hell.
shinohai: "The Indian Government declined to comment as to whether they would also provide a toilet to Preet Bharara, so he would stop shitting in American streets and court buildings."
BingoBoingo: Apparently a new spambot turn on while I was sleeping: "I sat up in a cold sweat. Had someone's hand rellay been over my mouth or was I dreaming. My hotel room was pitch black save for the dim glow of my laptop screen. The Boingo application blinked angrily at me as the wifi had obviously been interrupted suddenly. My midnight snack, a half-eaten cream puff, lay awkwardly on the floor.Suddenly, I heard a wicked scream just before
punkman: actually surprised that no altcoin inventor yet has come up with ransomware as a feature
ben_vulpes: i suppose a 'learn latin as an adult' strategy is going to take a few weeks to cook up.
ben_vulpes: i just referred to myself as an adult
ben_vulpes: i have only learned programming languages as an adult
mircea_popescu: anyway, most latin speakers in the history of that language learned it as adults.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Another great way to excise javascript is just giving up and using Dillo as a web browser. It's my favorite for traversing untrusted sites atm
mod6: oh, because the leaf ordering is different. if you want a press of "all" patches as they exist in the mirror, currently, you need to press up through asciilifeform_maxint_locks_corrected.vpatch ☟︎
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-02-2016#1405086 << why does line 46 have asciilifeform_maxint_locks_corrected.vpatch instead latest vpatch as on previous 99996 and 99997 iterations ? ☝︎
shinohai: kk I'll just test as-is for now
mod6: after you build with the above script, you should end up with the following manifiest if you follow along with this find command as such: http://dpaste.com/2VFXNFX.txt
asciilifeform: as for the crackpottery, it pre-dates public obsession with nsa, and even the gsm and 'smart meter' psychosis, goes way back to 1970s (!) 'power lines will kill you with magnetics' thing
assbot: Logged on 13-02-2016 19:42:13; mircea_popescu: well that's what it was, some derps came out with what struck me on first sight as a sort of "gasoline saving magnets", ie these superthin meshes that'll "protect your monitor from nsa spying"
mircea_popescu: as opposed to fucking nickel
mircea_popescu: no, i just said that i would expect on the basis of guesswork for indium -group metals to work out as the thinnest functional mesh
mircea_popescu: as a matter of faith working miracles or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: well that's what it was, some derps came out with what struck me on first sight as a sort of "gasoline saving magnets", ie these superthin meshes that'll "protect your monitor from nsa spying" ☟︎
mircea_popescu: there's a minimal thickness as a function of the material involved that can be used.
mircea_popescu: as king arthur once said to trusty sir belvedere, "This new learning amazes me"
jurov: at the same time also radiates electromagnetic waves as photos
BingoBoingo: As of this week gotta be concerned about leaky emissions on the million meter spectrum.
assbot: Logged on 13-02-2016 01:30:18; mircea_popescu: because of the fucking impedance in thin fillaments and other considerations, your shit will never work as a straight conductor.
jurov: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-02-2016#1404197 looks like you confuse hard radiation (as in gamma/roentgen rays) shielding and RF "radio frequency" shielding ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i am thinking : maybe including a comment line as "this patch is intended to be applied on prev hash blabla" would do it.
mircea_popescu: turns out there's exactly 0 demand for her as an 'entrepreneur' or w/e it was, so i guess the cats await.
shinohai: Looks like Morticia Adams as a young lady
BingoBoingo has been gradually shifting to felt tipped pens as he writes less on paper.
mircea_popescu: this, for the record my dear lord mats , is entirely a constructed, deliberate neurosis. there is nothing paralyzing about uncertainity in se. the paralizing bit, much like the horse's bit, or the nail in the grenade, is the expectation of maximal outcome, often doublespoken as "responsibility", and generally internalized as "self respect" or somesuch.
BingoBoingo: I mean that's about as good as or better energy density than Li-ion, vastly reduced fire hazard, and all kinds of other joy.
BingoBoingo: Nothing new other than the introduction, which is gold: "Let’s say that you’re running a company and want to create some internal competition between teams to see which ones can perform better. You can do this with R&D, and sales, but I would humbly suggest that you don’t do it with receivables. Sending out duplicate invoices to customers is generally referred to as ‘criminal behavior’."
mircea_popescu: wer of life and death over males and females residing within their limits, and with the laws, constitutions, and rights now existing amongst the inhabitants; together with all other laws and rights, exemptions, privileges, revenues and other immunities whatsoever; so that they may hereafter hold them in feudal tenure from us, as Kings of both Sicilies, and from our successors in the same kingdom, reigning at the time,
mircea_popescu: let them use it for as long as they pay you the rent ?
mircea_popescu: sell as in how ?