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asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu you gotta restart it for the changes to take. you can also make a spare copy of it to run locally, it is simple enough.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ip ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: someone decided to use a microcontroller. quite possibly because 29 cents instead of 30 for a '555'. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to be fair, it was a flashlight with some basic state - was the kind that is to switch itself on when mains socket it is kept charging in fails
assbot: Logged on 16-07-2014 18:31:23; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: flashlight article << a decade or so ago, i had a flashlight that... crashed! when destroyed, it revealed a microcontroller, with eeprom...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: probably set my expectations of machines in fields like responsivity for instance... << very tellingly, children in usa are now being issued with pocket calculators that have -palpable boot times- and delays on all basic ops
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.christophlorenz.de/calc/privileg/861-m-nc.php?l=en << it ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: presumably the particular crackpot meant 'those who decide what is written' rather than the worker bees
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's bayesian antispamatron must be a real hoot
assbot: Logged on 01-05-2015 17:50:39; mircea_popescu: in a "consumer driven" ideas market... the "ideas" will look like the derps.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu et al: compare with http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-05-2015#1118051 thread ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and when you do the invoice in this one, plz also convert the pesos i left behind, supposing those still were worth something.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: broadcast sent
assbot: Logged on 02-05-2015 19:11:43; mircea_popescu: cazalla who in the us ~doesn't~ face 20 years in jail, i wish to know. it's what that country is predicated on, by now. "i am a us citizen and i face twenty years in jail three times before breakfast. i hope they give us marmelade today".
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: No, they didn't
davout: mircea_popescu: you'd be surprised http://videos.airbus.com/video/4ae05902874s.html
assbot: Logged on 02-05-2015 02:34:08; *: asciilifeform just ran into this ancient piece, http://cultureandempire.wikidot.com/page:ch03-p4 (from somewhere in mircea_popescu's www) and marvels at the 'borges's chinese encyclopaedia' surreal perversity of it all
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: I don't know for sure, but it happened a lot before I even started using #b-a. Wifi connection drops and then I reconnect it and all is good
assbot: Logged on 23-04-2015 13:00:22; mircea_popescu: williamdunne : btcalpha.com btctrading.wordpress.com cascadianhacker.com contravex.com devilsadvocate.biz explo.yt fr.anco.is www.loper-os.org pankkake.headfucking.net qntra.net blog.spagni.net thedrinkingrecord.com thestringpuller.tumbler.com thewhet.net trilema.com
davout: mircea_popescu williamdunne do we have an authoritative list of the feeds somwhere?
asciilifeform just ran into this ancient piece, http://cultureandempire.wikidot.com/page:ch03-p4 (from somewhere in mircea_popescu's www) and marvels at the 'borges's chinese encyclopaedia' surreal perversity of it all ☟︎
asciilifeform: mike_c: here's my problem... mircea_popescu: mike_c i can see it... << working on it. or rather, will be, as soon as i finish writing my broadcast for april
decimation: mircea_popescu: did you see openbsd 5.7 has a new http server that supports cgi
mike_c: mircea_popescu, asciilifeform: here's my problem. Sending my loyal customers to this page is a bad user experience. http://nosuchlabs.com/gpgfp/8680FD3C9D20B92FBEF3D058FD5A63B9EAC2A55E
assbot: Logged on 28-03-2015 02:23:30; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: pigeons: let's scratch the arithmetic itch. approx. 8400 km from me to b-a. a LiMnO2 (non-rechargeable) battery yields approx. 400 Wh/kg.
trinque: mircea_popescu: hows that
trinque: mircea_popescu: my biz partner's dad has all kinds of them
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: rectifier
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: nah those are more like 'kraft food' vs actual food
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: they did not even need to exterminate them to vacate space, because most of the soil was not cotton-grade.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: according to cash, it was rather because southern states ran extraction economy of soil and slave, but did not need the non-planter whites for anything - so left alone (as 'fremen', in 'dune')
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: you are not
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: 'sapien' ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: this cleaned people, not tech
trinque: mircea_popescu | and for the record, i hope the us feminazis win the war and castrate each and every us white male with a college degree. << heh, my balls are safe then
ascii_field: but mircea_popescu has a point, in that it is necessary to kill the mice before cleaning up their shit - otherwise it is a waste of time, there will be infinite shit
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: aha
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: with leaky 0.5.3, and on box with 128m, yes
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: it is normally a readahead cache
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: install instructions relating to my accounting software, not pogo/bitcoin
assbot: Logged on 01-05-2015 00:53:04; mircea_popescu: that's why bigger penis is better rite ?
davout: mircea_popescu: ty
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Yeah, true. Although this page is a particularly awkward one to upkeep
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: I have an account already
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 22:03:49; mircea_popescu: brilliant guy, inescapably stupid. what are you gonna do ? can't empower stupid. off to the gulag with him.
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> Moduli Waiting for Test: 0 / me likes << read werker.c to see how works.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is right about this - i invite readers to look into the basic types of aphasia
asciilifeform: hm now that mircea_popescu mentions astrology,
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for some time, i've wondered about earliest surviving example of shannonizer
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: all of it being merely - early manually-cranked shannonizers.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: scrolling!
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 14:12:57; mircea_popescu: because that's what #5 does, practically : it offers a model to explain and understand the otherwise insane, and otherwise never explain, luxury behaviour.
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 13:42:00; mircea_popescu: on that litthe shitty keyboard ?
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 19:27:52; mircea_popescu: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/2785 << sometimes it fixes itself :D
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-04-2015#1116287 << i actually get visuals of mircea_popescu's face when i see ":D" from him nao ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-04-2015#1117153 << see also ☝︎
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: what what?
mike_c: mircea_popescu: thanks, but can't imagine what I would do with it. maybe ascii wants it :) https://www.fiverr.com/jakky91/draw-any-circuit-diagram-or-pcb-layout
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 15:32:11; mircea_popescu: at any rate, THIS is why i ask people "well, can you do it on a cpanel box" well before.
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 15:11:30; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu forgot e) sane person adds kludge to enable some semblance of civilization to function, creating schizoid split and opening would that bleeds complexity
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 15:02:01; mircea_popescu: except my usage is np
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 03:10:26; mircea_popescu: http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm << check it out, apparently moore law stopped a decade ago.
ascii_field doesn't expect to be taken prisoner alive, but wishes mircea_popescu a jolly good meinkampfing
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: ... consider rewriting the history of the world from the only sane perspective : as the endless "interplay" between two types of people : the sane, and the imperceptibly mentally ill << nietzsche, or, far better, limonov
ascii_field doesn't (as far as knows) have super power. possibly one has to be mircea_popescu weight class to notice this effect.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> it works FROM mongolia. << I've had to use my USian powers to ask sellers questions potential buyers could not ask because they were outside USia
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: they are not entirely unobtainable in usa. just, again, have to buy online.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: afaik you do buy it (pre-08 pc parts, etc) but through meatwot suppliers
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the payment thing was the mega-feature
trinque: mircea_popescu: ran into your hierarchy of needs article by way of pete. interesting to note that at the top of maslow's was this vaguely communist "self transcendence" idea, whereas at the top of yours, the man's concept of self seems to engulf others.
mod6: mircea_popescu: lot of nice pics in there thx!
ascii_field: mircea_popescu ^
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-04-2015#1116840 << not only up, but running on spiffy new box supplied by mircea_popescu ☝︎
mats: mircea_popescu: nope
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the gold balance suggests that they had something like engl. 'trial of the pyx'. did they ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: The museum of the National Bank of Argentina << mega-article.
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 15:11:30; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu forgot e) sane person adds kludge to enable some semblance of civilization to function, creating schizoid split and opening would that bleeds complexity
bagels7: [11:38] <+mircea_popescu> how do you know it's faggot insecurity ? << When I am waiting at a bus stop at 2 in the morning and a guy walks by and pretends to be waiting for the bus as an excuse to talk to me while I am merely being polite then after 15 minutes has the nerve to tell me that I deceived him when he was only being nice to get laid
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Basically
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Scoop was down for a while, I committed an upgrade too early
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: the impressive and simultaneously worrying aspect of the bb-pgp biz is that the owner was a former tradesman who apparently thought to himself "hey, you know what the market needs, properly encrypted messaging!"
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 04:41:10; asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> ah, installed nginx, yeah << on top of apache again ?
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 03:33:07; mircea_popescu: hey various folks whose pgp keys i've signed at teh conference key signing party... you're supposed to also sign mine!
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> ah, installed nginx, yeah << on top of apache again ? ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 17:11:55; mircea_popescu: "The studious will note that this is a completely solved problem that no machine learning algorithm will be able to approximate anytime soon." i'm sorry...what ? solved how ?
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 17:12:02; mircea_popescu: and why the fuck am i referencing pastebins.
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 17:05:19; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-04-2015#1115613 << dude srsly. GET A BLOG ALREADY.
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 15:00:28; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-04-2015#1115422 << this, i will point out, is in no way related to any inherent property of either (unless you mean lisp is inherently going to fail), but simply a function of context. had the linux kernel been implemented in sclb, and had the past 20 years been spent with scbl being "the cool language", you'd be having zhe pronouns and assorted idiocy to the tu
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 14:41:31; mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel "Why isn't there grammer/spellchecking for my comments? " << this i can readily answer. because I am what's called "a creator of language", which is to say one of those people who, through his usage, ENACTS the rules all amateur users of language MUST follow, as a mark of their linguistic inferiority. like fucking shakespeare.
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 14:29:15; mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel "why are the holes not marked or filled?" << ftr this is not what i was contemplating. what I was contemplating is, why the fuck don't defaults pop up. bring back the fucking paperclip, put it the ONE place where it makes fucking sense. "hey john, I see you changed FuckOff() from bool to int. This function is called 82 places in 22 files. Would you like me to a) check all places where
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 18:06:30; mircea_popescu: 2.x immune.
decimation: mircea_popescu: so have you been poking around centos or scientific linux?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu and flirt with transgenderism!
cazalla: yeah, qntra has plenty of those and other variations mircea_popescu
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 14:42:28; mircea_popescu: (and yes editors, which trilema doth employ, send the corrections with "did you mean to X" half the fucking time)
ascii_field: i also love how mircea_popescu put this box in a war zone
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the way it works is that when polling interval elapses, it does everything in the queue
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: if you read 'werker' - there is a polling knob
ascii_field: ty mircea_popescu, for a very palpably faster box.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu et al: fixed.