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mircea_popescu: hugo is voted on, iirc, by folks who go to (or at least buy ticket to...) 'worldcon' - an sf event attended mainly by writers (in practice, the wannabees i spoke of earlier)
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: that was more of a 'how dare they make an upvote ring, that's -ours- to do'
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mircea_popescu: supposedly ellison witnessed the legendary bet b/w heinlein and hubbard. but afaik that's all..
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: ellison is interesting for another reason. he is the undisputed emperor of 'wrote a few good stories in the '50s, famous for nothing in particular since'; loudly rants demanding eternal copyright because 'creaaaatorz have riiiiiightz!!111!!'
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mircea_popescu: who the fuck gets women off a menu << the fella with an already-assembled harem, such as
mircea_popescu ?
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mircea_popescu: i find reading anything - other than plain text - not designed with a particular viewport geometry in mind - physically painful.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: the shape of the pixels is considerably less interesting if you have ones sufficiently small to enable affine transforms of whatever kind you like, without visible distortion
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: what i do have is 4 lcd laid out in such a way as to fill my field of vision
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: would love a square display with square pixels
ben_vulpes: yeah
mircea_popescu how does your meat know that 1cm?
ascii_field: sorta like
mircea_popescu's insistence on 1cm tall characters
ascii_field: i actually do not like pdf, for various reasons, some of which overlap with
mircea_popescu's. i prefer a wavelet-compressed format, 'djvu'
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: you are proposing equivalent of selling raw crude at the petrol station
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: aha lol 'tabletrons' etc. viewer gadgets expected to render .tex now ?
funkenstein_:
mircea_popescu, their (arxiv / vixra) competion is journals that charge the author per page
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: in the sense of accurate and resolution-independent mapping to flattened dead tree
lobbes: re: withholding blocks. So basically,
mircea_popescu, you are saying that anything gained from withholding said blocks would be outweighed by the potential destruction of one's reputation (which is expensive to build)?
jurov:
mircea_popescu yes it did, nm
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: "miners care deeply who owns a pool" - we're getting into the realm of the anecdotal here, the mining farms I supply ASIC racks to don't care about the people running the pools they use at all, and they don't run their own
jurov:
mircea_popescu: withdrawals pls
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell
mircea_popescu heh maybe i'm not the worst jew after all
assbot: Logged on 22-03-2015 02:22:03;
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem with jurisdictions discussed recentlier is deeper than it seems. plenty of usians do not think other places are "real places".
Chillum:
mircea_popescu: if it can be anodized then bronze would be a great way to go
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu and there isn't an overlap between the two groups who agree "hurty things are nice". gotcha
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu you don't think cutting the fingertips off is pleasurable for these people?
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu for someone who has to cut off a finger to achieve it... it probably is
☟︎ bitstein:
mircea_popescu: I don't think we ever expected them to actually implement it. We just enjoy publicly shaming wallet inspectors.
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: gawker magazine << hawww
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: hey avicar had great eggs
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: you know how it is when they come to you asking for the right decisions to be made.
nubbins`: <+
mircea_popescu> nubbins` for my curiosity, when are you gonna get bored with it ? <<< now-ish
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu special sour yeast starter 8)
nubbins`: <+
mircea_popescu> right. and brokeback mountain isn't an endless piece of meaningless cheese. because polarities. <<< in fairness, the book was under 100 pages
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I haven't been up long enough to get good sourcing on it. If someone else want to write it up I'd check and publish it.
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo nah, you ever seen what happens if you accidentally a bag ? << I get the most delicous coffing fits.
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> speaking of which, i have nfi why they don't use cocoa powder to disperse crowds. << You just end up with a different crowd with a heavier category of people
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Probably jsut a handful of "businesses" that found themselved locked in
punkman:
mircea_popescu: AMD has an equivalent
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: i must confess that it is not a subject i regularly follow.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: this in fact happens 'in the wild.' the only reason it does not lead to forks where folks with, e.g., 1GB of ram wheel off into a parallel universe from folks with 2GB, and 4GB, etc. is,
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> dude i swear there was a different coinsetter that was trying to be a sort of coindeks << I constantly run into new ventures that imagine they are qntra competitors
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: a proper 1m block should never be able to 'make everyone crash'
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: if allocator leads to fork, it is wrong
ben_vulpes: integrity check to
mircea_popescu's symbol table please
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, good movie? might treck down to the video shop and hire it out
assbot: Logged on 08-04-2015 02:11:53; TomServo:
mircea_popescu: ever seen Sneakers?
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> recall the case of the "forum banker" dude ? << Kludge!!!
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:
mircea_popescu.rate.mats.1:060bf7cf7cce64b6ee03db87caa7bb232b33ee77d9fe4a7c4e07fcbfff58b46d
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: mats has been on this for a while. I almost contributed then... qntra. Dude's been digging like mad.
hanbot: <
mircea_popescu> i never saw a good "hacking" film. << for prime cheese: WarGames, 83
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> ... << not to mention you wouldn't be stuck with the impotent sort of potheads that crowd a "orgy rv" to the point of total cockblockage. << But... Firetruck. They put the lotion on the skin, or they get the hose again
assbot: Logged on 07-04-2015 23:44:14; asciilifeform: and before
mircea_popescu observes that 'no one has the balls' - if the 'balls-enabled' jfk appeared, a 'counter-jfk' would materialize out of thin aether
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu terribru for the chinese? does chinese woman really desire random african suitor?
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: do the ones who 'go' horse - ever 'go back' ?
ascii_field: i can also tell that the work of
mircea_popescu is not ever i/o bound.
ben_vulpes: that's an interesting normalization,
mircea_popescu.
ben_vulpes: <
mircea_popescu> listen to me, never read text not > 1 cm tall. << why aren't you talking about arc-seconds?!
ascii_field: jurov: spam farms is what
mircea_popescu might have thought i was speaking of
ascii_field: aha
mircea_popescu was thinking of testers/qa.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu -might- be thinking of a different profession than i was
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: let's phrase it this way - my circle 3 degrees out includes perhaps a thousand such slaves, and i was told in no uncertain terms that there were no females.
ascii_field: assuming that is what
mircea_popescu was thinking of
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: there are quite likely more women in the deep-water oceanic oil prospecting industry than in vuln digging
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mircea_popescu: ... and i -still- have to keep two sets of drill bits
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: power grids as we know them are an inherently totalitarian institution
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mircea_popescu: one thought that i can't possibly be the first to think is that miners have a tremendous incentive to get off their government mains grids.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: think of their peculiar system of weights and measures
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu:hm, when a motherboard comes on when the supply comes on, no buttons or anything, and then won't atx powerdown << what did you do to it
assbot: Logged on 07-04-2015 02:43:33; asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu: the ubiquiti example dovetails nicely with the thread re: unemployed reversers. if persians happily buy turdware, they either haven't many, or haven't any competent ones, or they are all occupied with something else (what ?)
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu incidentally, trudeau's son (because this is what politics in north america is now) is currently the leader of the national liberal party, w/ maybe a 50-50 shot at the big seat next election
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu:what was nubbins` situation wit hthat btw <<< my current boot order is mmc->usb->tftp->nand
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mircea_popescu> posters. <<< oh fuck
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mircea_popescu> gabriel_laddel he's very tender on the topic for some reason. << the lady doth protest too much, methinks
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu btw should "table_prefix" be set to "wp_comments" or similar ?
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu i did indeed, though you're right that i should fiddle with those values because there's a reasonable chance i got them wrong!
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu so i finally mod'd your fix_trackbacks.php, uploaded it, and... it doesn't even show up. now i'm supposed to call customer support or some shit