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asciilifeform: everybody who builds, e.g., 3phase motor, 'sits down for tea with complex numbers'

mircea_popescu: what's "manipulation" to do with it ? if you claimed you sat down to have tea with some complex numbers, i'd point out the batshit insanity of that notion just like above, yes.

asciilifeform: then you catch the author of the code, hang him upside-down, and beat with a long bamboo pole.

a111: Logged on 2016-08-26 13:13 phf: etc. you're only dealing with cost of validation. (which could be brought down by having own crypto)

phf: etc. you're only dealing with cost of validation. (which could be brought down by having own crypto) ☟︎

a111: Logged on 2016-08-26 01:10 phf: adlai: i think gossip spec is fine, just nobody took it to release. asciilifeform has significant changes to the spec, but if you ignore those you can still build a working implementation. in fact, unless you're ascii, i think it's better to ignore further discussion and just stick to what mp wrote. i also think it's one of those ideas you don't want nailed down at protocol level. mine for example slings gpg packets

phf: i got bogged down in config files and other such minutia, but that's because i wrote it in c and i'm not yet at a level where i can produce elegant c solutions. i also used knuth's web, and since there aren't systems that support web/c syntax highlighting and indent the whole process was very much "grinding your own telescope lens by hand"

phf: adlai: i think gossip spec is fine, just nobody took it to release. asciilifeform has significant changes to the spec, but if you ignore those you can still build a working implementation. in fact, unless you're ascii, i think it's better to ignore further discussion and just stick to what mp wrote. i also think it's one of those ideas you don't want nailed down at protocol level. mine for example slings gpg packets ☟︎

mircea_popescu: "if the victim perceives they have the luxury to shut down memory, they're evidently not petrified enough."

trinque: diana_coman was commenting on the biological fact that being permanently afraid shuts down memory retention

diana_coman: being petrified shuts down entirely everything including hearing/learning, hence "statue"

phf: their tiny apartments, and this polish guy piotr would sit me down and go "now look philip, this is not how you think. if debord was part of philosophical discourse, he'd know that blah blah blah has completely demolished his argument, let me tell you" and on and on and on

asciilifeform: (notice, if the tale of znort is to be taken at face value, the only thing that kept his edifice from burning down was a pgp sig.)

asciilifeform falls down.

mircea_popescu: soon they'll start marking down the long copulative names with drawings

mod6: i really enjoy the trips-down-trilema-lane with links like this: http://trilema.com/2012/the-imbecilitarians/ , stuff that I haven't probably read in ~4 years.

mod6: Bang bang, he shot me down, bang bang, that awful sound, bang bang... << this

asciilifeform falls down.

asciilifeform falls down

asciilifeform: ning sky. With my hands under my hips – and butt perched against a large rock for support – I peddled an imaginary upside down bicycle in the air to pass the time as I struggled to make sure my new gut ecosystem stayed put inside me.'

asciilifeform: i imagine most of'em have been melted down at this point.

pete_dushenski: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/aug/22/bitcoin-investments-cryptocurrency-traded-digital-money << "Is bitcoin the answer if traditional investments are letting you down?"

pete_dushenski: bc.i is down here.

asciilifeform: (if not, how would cloudfart shutting down affect prb relays ?)

mircea_popescu: do we put this down to "lamp sucks" or to "operator egregious eggog" ?

mircea_popescu: incidentally, the only thing i can think re "digitalocean" is that place in the pacific where there's a trillion little bits of plastic, ground down by wind and sun over the decades.

asciilifeform: aaaaaaaand log is down.

phf: i think at best it could be trimmed down, but i think even that's doable by limiting the number of m4 macros used for includes. or perhaps being very specific with what you want. "i need gcc 4" will necessarily be less messy than "i need a c compiler", considering that most of the time the program is not ready to deal with wide range of compilers anyway

mircea_popescu: this thing whereby noob sits down, pastes four commands off wiki, gets working game. every time.

mircea_popescu: the metaphor breaks down on / depends on not noticing that IT DELIVERS.

mircea_popescu: what i had in mind phf is, automake runs on project, keeps track of every bit of itself that it actually called, then inserts a pruned down version of itself somewhere, so you can ship the software with THAT instead of the whole automake.

mircea_popescu: phf i wonder if a "prune down to THIS codebase" function would be useful.

asciilifeform: phf: i have yet to find ONE single box where wifi/bluetooth and gsm are soldered down

phf: yeah, i think i figured out how to power down radeon and use intel, which solved some of the issues, but there's also a bunch of other peripherals, that remain powered-up even not in use, bluetooth, gsm, etc.

asciilifeform: i sat down to sift through this rubbish on 3 separate occasions, ended up with very little useful info

mod6: so if i see the "dump priv key" patch out there on btcbase or found somewhere else (it's not included in the patches in thebitcoin.foundation's site), then i'd pull that vpatch down, regrind it myself, and place it into patches where I can apply it myself as a "WILD" patch.

mircea_popescu: exactly nothing burns down if you do stupid shit to early v projects, much like exactly nothing burns down if instead of using the keyboard normally, you try typing with your big toes.

asciilifeform: just as with electric grid, which is imperfect, but NOTHING the konsooomer can to do HIS mains socket, will burn down entire city.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not really - if i shit in my btctron, the most that can burn down is my own house.

asciilifeform: P' brings down curse upon the kingdom, and slowly despoils the lands, spreads madness.

mircea_popescu: eh simmar down.

asciilifeform: 'IEX slows down all of the trades that go through its system with a 38-mile coil of fiber-optic cable that sits between the outside world and the exchange’s main computer. It takes trading signals 350 millionths of a second to get through the coil.'

a111: Logged on 2016-08-19 12:39 PeterL: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-18#1524397 << this thing is informally known as a MFP - if you flip it upside down it looks just like a "man fucking pig" (and grad students find humor in the weirdest things)

asciilifeform: ( but also has not burned down any usg infrastructure )

asciilifeform: you grind down the rubble, so nothing like it can ever reappear ?

PeterL: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-18#1524397 << this thing is informally known as a MFP - if you flip it upside down it looks just like a "man fucking pig" (and grad students find humor in the weirdest things) ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform falls down

asciilifeform: house 3 blox from mine burned down last week, and i didn't even notice.

thestringpuller: fires don't always have to burn down the forest

thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: the other one almost ended up in scenario where a girl burned down his condo, when she went unstable cause "My needs aren't being met".

thestringpuller: coincedentally everyone who tried fail. one of my buddies got up to 4 women. then one of them started complaining about "life problems". he tried to shut it down like, "Either get to steppin or shut the fuck up." Did not go over well.

asciilifeform: i'ma never live this down, will i.

mircea_popescu marks down august the 17th, that lulzy day when some idjit thought enigmail is "popular"

mircea_popescu: oh, the item simply doesn't exist down here.

asciilifeform: 'How do you honor your founder’s memory by tearing down her house?'

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu re d. duke probate case, moar lelz, https://capitalresearch.org/2016/04/on-tearing-down-doris-dukes-home

phf: they turned you down when you walked in?

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2016/too-poor-for-trees-too-dumb-to-know-it/ << i dedicate this to asciilifeform for all his help in chasing down pieces of it!

mircea_popescu: the notion of catering to consumer is rather orthogonal to the notion of being in bitcoin. this breach must be addressed early and cleanly, lest management of any project spends all its time hopping up and down aimlessly.

danielpbarron: $down znort987

danielpbarron: ok, I'll down you till then

phf: i like the first comment, "How many years has ThePirateBay been up? They’re not going to shut down the bitcoin network".

mircea_popescu: mats no. you sit down, they ask what kind of WINE you want if any ; and then they bring you 30 plates

mircea_popescu: in any case it is much better to have food, kill you slowly and the quod me nutrit bridge than just repeat 餐飲 until you fall down and then be worshipped as a very wise man - hey, 5k yo wisdom "directly applicable" today.

asciilifeform pictures scene, nearly falls down

mod6: asciilifeform: is nsa's trb down?

mircea_popescu: "really... they did that ?" "oh, and then let's see, so the situation is x, i guess next they... burn the house down. ayup... they did."

mats: i put a few coins down for a bet, sure hope the operator doesn't fly away

asciilifeform: in as far as dirigiblisms go, this is the mildest yet, i can throw down my shirt also and it will also get washed.

asciilifeform: 'The judge said, based on the law, smuggling over 20 firearms should be given death sentence. However, the judge added that considering Liu’s young age at the time when the crime was committed, the court thus handed down a life sentence instead.'

mircea_popescu: it's a "if god exists he has 10 minutes to strike me down" nonsense.

mircea_popescu: and they have to constantly, painfully, slowly, humiliatingly be beaten down with a large stick.

mircea_popescu: "I think Free Software and Open Source addicts will get down from their current high and become tremendously frustrated when the obvious problem of having millions of pieces of source code available and they actually can't move in any direction because the ability to make modifications that they have so lauded in the past turn into a very serious problem when much bigger problems require modifications to much larger systems t

mircea_popescu: every domesticated animal winds down.

mircea_popescu: that, incidentally, is a good entry into "female, necessary, biological cowardice". what do you do confronted with losses ? wind down ? or pip up ?

mircea_popescu: they cut down on losses ; instead of leaning into on losses.

asciilifeform: 'suppose you drive down the highway and you suddenly want to go some nice place you saw just before you pass a forest. you veer off the road, plunge into the wilderness and promptly decide that you need four-wheel drive, a huge cutting device in front of your car, much better shock absorbers, a bigger engine that could actually run on swamp water instead of getting all drowned, and then need an amphibious vehicle to get across the r ☟︎

asciilifeform: now it is conceivable that he was here when my fiber was down or etc.

deedbot: mircea_popescu rated gabriel_laddel 2 at 2015/04/11 14:35:30 << almost a year later, he got a larger chunk of exercise ball down his gullet than anyone i know of.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-11#1518588 << german, iirc, produced it, but never ate, just wrote down 'this is a thing' and moved on to next substituted benzene ☝︎

asciilifeform: inflation was not a plague dropped down by martians, no.

mircea_popescu: "And a lot of income comes from merchandise sales. McCaskill estimates that “top tier” cosplayers might make around $70-125,000 a year. Breaking this down, if a cosplayer attends 26 conventions a year and sells 100 prints (a low number) per weekend for $20, that’s $52,000 a year. Minus costs (makeup, equipment, photography shoots) that sounds pretty sweet. And this is North America. The Asian market is much larger and s

shinohai: What fun, my whole site is down

phf: ben_vulpes: that video is now the prism through which i see majority of millennials. our support team were literally like this, down laugh, awkwardness, and the painful "whiteness".

shinohai: You brought down webchat!

ben_vulpes: "hey i'll be out of town from aug 25 through sept 6, so if you want to come down south and bring the bambino i'll fly y'all in"

asciilifeform: '...he pulled out a small leather folder and said, “Our sentence does not sound severe. The law which a condemned man has violated is inscribed on his body with the harrow. This Condemned Man, for example,” and the Officer pointed to the man, “will have inscribed on his body, ‘Honour your superiors.’” The Traveler had a quick look at the man. When the Officer was pointing at him, the man kept his head down and appeared to

shinohai: Maybe it will get whittled down more when I have some time to dedicate to it

mircea_popescu: mno. EITHER "the standard library" is not the standard library ; or ELSE your mips is a chunk of charcoal and you've got down syndrome to be trying to program on it.

asciilifeform: now on a micro, one needs VERY little of this, and folks traditionally trim the thing down to fit by sacrificing pieces

mircea_popescu: in other lulz, "Detroitiscrap.com finally shut down. - Niggermania.NET" << apparently there was a detroit lafond.

mod6: i went down that path first.

mod6: but when it came down to it, she hit another error; her Ubuntu 10.04 test environment doesn't have `sharutils', a package that contains uuencode/uudecode. which is what V99994 is using to decode the deedified dependencies from deedbot.

mod6: <+BingoBoingo> <mod6> this all started when the cat knocked off a heavy candle decaration off a high shelf, came down and shattered the pedestal sink. << Wait the drainpipe was fine? WHat was the problem? << the ceramic basin was completely shattered.

BingoBoingo: <mod6> this all started when the cat knocked off a heavy candle decaration off a high shelf, came down and shattered the pedestal sink. << Wait the drainpipe was fine? WHat was the problem?

mod6: this all started when the cat knocked off a heavy candle decaration off a high shelf, came down and shattered the pedestal sink.

mircea_popescu: instead of burning the city down, the she-cows huddle around with their mothers throughout adolescence, dressed in retard apparel ; while the he-cows smoke immense amounts of pot and wash it down with gallons of mate.

phf: thestringpuller: there's a limited number of cultural references for these people. that's why all the conspiracy theory youtube videos use that one track from the matrix when they need to lay down "truth" etc.

mircea_popescu: also none of the nonsense of "encrypt face down cards" via elgamal is needed.

asciilifeform: '"This is Sentrybot XJW - 667 responding to kinetic disturbance at perimeter wall." whirred an obnoxious female voice. "Please put your handcuffs on and lay face down on the floor. This is an emergency."'