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mod6: So a new version of my V (version 99999 K) has been posted to the website and the ML.
ben_vulpes: dunno that people here realize how young i actually am.
ben_vulpes: 's more than a few.
ben_vulpes: i actually drive out to the rural areas to find low ethanol fuels.
mircea_popescu: your car is older than you ?
ben_vulpes: i have never successfully run down what heresy chevron puts into their techron
mircea_popescu: it is certainly a valid, heavy duty phd. "1915-2015, a century of "oil quality"". THAT is something i'd respect.
mircea_popescu: for sure more male time / money went into the former to date.
ben_vulpes: is "oil quality" something other than j/g? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: guaranteed entertainment for a year's time in smart go-getter types.
mircea_popescu: did you get to the entire crazy that is "oil quality", how it relates to its density, and what "a barrle" ACTUALLY means ?
ben_vulpes: today i learned about the ongoing lng conversions in the shipping industry
mircea_popescu: hey, where did everyone go! let's argue about things!
assbot: Logged on 25-10-2015 16:29:35; asciilifeform: who predicted that, if realistic sex robot is ever thought to be possible (and it is intrinsically a for-men item, as there is not likely to appear a dominance-robot and certainly not a wealth-robot) , there will be mass upheaval.
assbot: Logged on 25-10-2015 16:14:41; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-10-2015#1307597 << WITHOUT EXCEPTION this kind of thing is said by people who, if you were to wire them to the mains to get the truth, will admit that they see any disease that doesn't show up on a blood test or xray as 'in your mind'
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-10-2015#1307758 << what is this obscurantist claptrap! if i can't model it adequately and measure it experimentaly it's in your mind! ☝︎
mircea_popescu: Why oh why would they do this?! It's so wrong! It's so stupid!"
mircea_popescu: "I still can't believe this! All this hype for something so ridiculous! Who cares about an MP3 player? I want something new! I want them to think differently!
mircea_popescu: ahaha that thread's gold.
mircea_popescu: or are you really aiming to become a glorified consumer gimmicks firm?"
mircea_popescu: "|hey - heres an idea Apple - rather than enter the world of gimmicks and toys, why dont you spend a little more time sorting out your pathetically expensive and crap server line up?
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ben_vulpes: xmonad sucks as much as haskell sucks, for the simple reason that one must load haskell's horseshit into head to use it.
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jurov: and why there was no similar upheaval when free porn became available?
mats: we r p close to rendition of virtual fuckbot through e.g. oculus rift+fleshlight+'novint falcon'
asciilifeform: mats: l0l! what is that
assbot: VR TENGA DEMO (2): Oculus Rift+Novint Falcon+TENGA on Vimeo ... ( http://bit.ly/1WcAAtm )
assbot: Logged on 25-10-2015 16:29:35; asciilifeform: who predicted that, if realistic sex robot is ever thought to be possible (and it is intrinsically a for-men item, as there is not likely to appear a dominance-robot and certainly not a wealth-robot) , there will be mass upheaval.
asciilifeform: there was some work in this direction, but for reasons which are quite clear (politics of u.s. pharma business) it never went anywhere.
asciilifeform: this is not a bad time to point out that dope tolerance is not a magical punishment straight from god, but a physical mechanism. which could, conceivably, be dealt with.
mats: i can't say i know enough to address your claims
assbot: Logged on 25-10-2015 03:10:08; mats: curious about BBs opinion on the subject of moda, and more broadly, 'nootropics'
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-10-2015#1307357 << Caffeine, vitamin B, and sleep are fine. Changing the "set point" of the dopamine and norephedrine pathways seems shitty ☝︎
BingoBoingo: reading through it nao
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you missed a long and mighty dope thread
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-10-2015#1307364 << I babysat the classroom while the lectures came in over the projector. ☝︎
gribble: Can You Trust Your Computer? - GNU Project - Free Software ...: <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.en.html>; Microsoft's Treacherous Computing — Free Software Foundation ...: <https://www.fsf.org/news/treacherous.html>; Digital Restrictions Management and Treacherous Computing ...: <http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/drm.html>
asciilifeform: ;;google treacherous computing
asciilifeform: also - as mats knows - or ought to know - 'trusted' is a usg shibboleth for 'resists attempts at understanding or modification by putative owner'
asciilifeform: but if you enjoy putting a steel door on a drywall room - who am i to say no.
asciilifeform: and yes, you can fandango over ~all~ of physical ram, typically the thing does not care where you put its ring buffer - and you don't need to access pci config to move it
asciilifeform: mats: only thing is, i can do arbitrary dma on just about any box where i can access ~any~ pci device's standard mmio space - no need to screw with the pci config regs
assbot: LKML: Matthew Garrett: [PATCH 04/12] x86: Lock down IO port access when trusted_kernel is true ... ( http://bit.ly/1GAWd4H )
asciilifeform: (can i talk to the nic? does it have dma?)
asciilifeform: it is a crock of shit, because the pretense is trivially shattered in 1,001 ways
asciilifeform: yes, i get that this is the fashion, 'box with no root'
mats: i haven't read through all the patchsets, so can't say exhaustively which does what, etc
mats: many of these protects kernel from root
asciilifeform: (with the possible exception of /proc - but i gotta run strace! what, i have to sudo to strace now?!)
asciilifeform: on an ordinary linux box you already need root for these
mats: well, offhand, disables read/writes to /dev/kmem, /dev/mem, /dev/port, model specific registers, kexec, module loading, privileged io (ioperm and iopl calls), unprivileged PERF_EVENTS usage, restricts /proc, sysfs, and debugfs, ...
mircea_popescu: because this is how "think" goes.
mircea_popescu: no. the irony is, they think "there was nothing [else] i could do."
asciilifeform: and yes, for every meth-taking erdos or wiener, there are ten million nobodies who think that their sulfurous rancid turd burning at both ends is a candle with lovely light, yes.
asciilifeform: 'my candle burns at both ends, / it will not last the night, / but ah, my foes! / and oh, my friends! / it gives a lovely light.'
asciilifeform: where was that rhyme...
asciilifeform: or jets. or parachute. take your pick.
mircea_popescu: so asciilifeform : a) the iron because they're broken (ie, not equal to the design) ; the bc is, TECHNICALLY, part of the car. aftermarket shocks.
mircea_popescu: i will now attempt to mout a defense with my disembodied, bloody remains!
asciilifeform: mats: also we ought to try to agree on some notion of 'results'. for me, 'results' includes not only 'how many 0days published' but also 'what the code i MUST READ TO GRASP THE SYSTEM actually looks like'
assbot: Logged on 25-10-2015 16:09:55; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-10-2015#1307550 << this is nonsense and mircea_popescu knows it. do your gurlz take bc pill ? iron supplement? BUT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE CAR111!!1
assbot: Logged on 25-10-2015 16:07:26; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-10-2015#1307497 << actually the most serious problem is that eventually it stops doing anything at all.
asciilifeform: mats: if you'd like to link to, e.g., diffs, to demonstrate this, i'll read.
mats: 13:28:25 <+mats> you know grsec subtracts more from kernel than it adds?
asciilifeform: that these are thing we OUGHT to live with.
asciilifeform: and the PREMISES are retarded. they take it as a GIVEN that there WILL be overflows, stack smashes, etc.
mircea_popescu: "grsec has had much lower burn rate than the other packages because there has been less independent research put into it"
asciilifeform: this is ipso facto a bad thing.
asciilifeform: the result FROM MY CHAIR is that the code is MORE COMPLEX
mircea_popescu: mats but what do you know of the unknown ones ?
asciilifeform: mats: i object to the entire pattern of thought on display there.
mats: results speak for themselves, despite hand waving as to 'pixie dust', which is outright misleading imo
asciilifeform: mats: my objection is ecological rather than immediate, understand.
mats: asciilifeform: grsec, afaik, has had _exactly one_ publicly disclosed vuln, to my knowledge
asciilifeform: it is a past-tense thing.
mircea_popescu: they're not models. and once they try to become models they quit promising.
mircea_popescu: no. they are promising for the same reason 15yo hos "are" promising.
asciilifeform: there are, incidentally, promising models for it. but the thing went nowhere because science died.
asciilifeform: most brightly illustrated by the savages who could be 'prayed to death'
mircea_popescu: aha. the effect is not exactly unknown, in all its batshit crazy splendour.
mircea_popescu: kinda the point of that entire thing with trinque yest. "oh, 100% placebo works for me when i tihnk it's 75% drug". good for you, continue.
mircea_popescu: all myths have a kernel of truth in em. the idea is to select a set that works.
asciilifeform: i was conjecturing that this particular myth has a kernel of truth in it, just as the stories of 'great flood' are said to
mircea_popescu: in fact, THIS is what parenting is. pissing on myths.
mircea_popescu: well tlp in this case. but the mechanism of pissing on X myth is parenting.
mircea_popescu: your parents aren't supposed to understand YOU. they're supposed to understand the world.
asciilifeform: because i can easily see a rational mechanism for 'i am not now really alive but if $condition then i will be.'
asciilifeform: this is also why i do not piss on 'one day my real life will begin!' fantasy with the same abandon as tlp and mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: and to grok the true sign of luxury : i have an auction in eulora in 20 minutes. which i woke naturally for.
mircea_popescu: i am currently waking 2pm, fancy that.
asciilifeform: more than dirigibles, harems, etc.
asciilifeform: THIS is why i covet 'sleep ad libitum' more than anything else.
mircea_popescu: so you'll find all the animals asleep at some time.
asciilifeform: aha. when left to my own devices, i'll cycle through the whole face of the clock.
assbot: Logged on 25-10-2015 16:04:16; asciilifeform: ;;later tell gabriel_laddel: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-10-2015#1307560 << i could tell much the same tale as you. eventually i discovered that i have a 26-hour circadian cycle and no amount of punishments, risks, dope, lost money, etc. will do A FUCKING THING about it. the only cure is to break out of workschwitz so that to sleep ad libitum.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-10-2015#1307743 << it sounded to me like the same. in fact, it is likely that boys have a non-24 hour rythm with significant incidence (if you think about it - how do you design the male to maximize its fucjing and hunting opportunities ?) ☝︎
mircea_popescu: next time, stick to el-zip-ibn-lzw, brothers.
mircea_popescu: lest i get lost in a pile of awesome and do no work but grin for the rest of the sunday.
asciilifeform: this is what all the various 'stack canaries', 'encrypted return addresses', etc. sounds like to me.