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ben_vulpes: programming is still in "right or left handed screws" regime, if
that isn't an egregious compliment.
ascii_field: (re: involuntary 'fishermen' and
their leaky boats)
ascii_field: ever see
the (quite
terrible..) film 'waterworld' ?
ascii_field: --'why do you go
there?' --'i am a fisherman.'
mircea_popescu: this needs explaining ? "oh i spend most of my
time fishing bailing
the water out" "so why do you go
there ?" "huge fish in
that lake!"
ascii_field: i, for instance, spend perhaps most of my conscious
time, just on keeping
the sea out.
mircea_popescu: seawater not wanting
to "breathe" sea water is
the height of lol.
mircea_popescu: that
the examples are spurious.
these are africans, born and bred, who
think
themselves above
the africa
that
THEY ARE.
ascii_field: 'i do not want
to drink sea water' while at sea
ascii_field: 'i do not want
to breathe vacuum' while surrounded by it
mircea_popescu: folks wishing
to express "i do not want
to live in zimbabwe" while IN ZIMBABWE have other issues
than what laws
to pass.
mircea_popescu: or moreover, it's a consequence of
the bizzaro uncivilised yet hypocritical nature of
the us.
ascii_field: as it is, folks in usa have ~no way~
to express 'i do not want
to live in zimbabwe' other
than by 'this
town bans
trailers'
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
the 'war on
trailers' is a consequence of
the 1960-70s upheaval and
the prohibition of filtering people on any variable other
than 'how much can he afford
to pay for house'
mircea_popescu: "Jay Syrmopoulos is an investigative journalist, free
thinker, researcher, and ardent opponent of authoritarianism." <<
that should prolly write for qntra.
ascii_field: even without all of
this, it is quite certain
that ~computing~ 'is not old enough'
mircea_popescu: anyway. i'm not old enough either, if it makes you feel better. and
the idea, while it has certain merits, is also not old enough.
ascii_field: as it is, i can only suggest
things
to other people.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: ah
then i don't expect
to do
this even if i were
to live for a
thousand years.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: re: 'camping':
the
thing in question is part of a campaign by just about every half-respectable usa jurisdiction
to squeeze out 'trailer
trash'
mircea_popescu: once you're old enough
to stand on your own you're more
than free
to make your own. but so far, not
there yet. working at it, yes.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> and i'm supposed
to respect it because
the gods smiled and pissed some money on it. << you're supposed
to respect it because you're not old enough yet.
mircea_popescu: also,
this particular attack is ongoing, i see about 32% of
txn rebroadcast malleated.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> didn't
the first best new very strict DERP encoding solve
that one? << mno.
mats: meanwhile, IS continues
to advance on Iraqi positions
ascii_field: (as if
there were any shortage of symptoms of
this)
ascii_field: btw 'malleability' of
the ecdsa sig proper is all
the proof anyone needs
that ecc is retarded
ascii_field: and i'm supposed
to respect it because
the gods smiled and pissed some money on it.
ascii_field: whole
thing is retarded on six different levels
punkman: even if it did, couldn't you still diddle
the signature?
ascii_field: (one CAN use openssl
to sign a string of bits in
the customary way)
punkman: openssl has many holes like
that
ascii_field: it ought
to have been 'flip ONE FUCKING BIT and sig won't verify.'
ascii_field: the whole 'malleability'
thing had no plausible excuse for even hinting at existing, EVER
ascii_field: tx signature does not in fact cover whole
tx.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu et al: ~this~ is one of
the
things proving bitcoin was designed by a
tard
punkman: didn't
the first best new very strict DERP encoding solve
that one?
mircea_popescu: check out bizarro
tx rewriting. i issued fca843c0b40a1755eee073a719c856baa7fbf5ac28db84804a44a91f52638632 which worked as expected, but apparently
there's a 5269a0e862876040db21706a7849ffd1b7d63e72d6dd61b1d2431a51698bb007 restatement of it
☟︎ ben_vulpes: tilted pelvises and resulting "swayback" indicates well
trained?
punkman: "The bombing
took place despite
the fact
that MSF had provided
the GPS coordinates of
the
trauma hospital
to Coalition and Afghan military and civilian officials as recently as
Tuesday 29 September,
to avoid
that
the hospital be hit. "
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 22:07:46; ag3nt_zer0:
this is just standard confirmation
time? a general warning about services like bitpay?
mircea_popescu: you could never understand HOW IT FELT. because it never "happened"
to you.
ascii_field: 'The piecemeal approach of requiring individual borrowers
to apply for loan forgiveness seemed unacceptably burdensome. “The right
thing
to do would be
to issue a classwide discharge and understand
that
this happened
to a group of people,” says Ann Larson, 41, one of
the organization’s leaders.' << win !
ascii_field: nobody says 'i'ma grow up
to be a small-time cutpurse'
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 06:47:27; pete_dushenski:
there is little evidence of “successful” criminals or consistent earnings from
theft." << because only loser criminals waste
their
time on derpy 'scientific studies'. self-selecting much ?
ascii_field: (e.g., 'gps'
tracker, forced updates, etc)
ascii_field: i'm seeing folks sitting on some pretty
thick and sharp pineapples.
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 06:32:54; pete_dushenski: "After
the release of iOS 9.0.2 on Wednesday, which fixed a number of bugs including a lock screen exploit, Apple stopped signing iOS 8.4.1 and iOS 9.0 firmware for compatible devices, prohibiting users who updated from downgrading." << no going backwards !
mircea_popescu: i can't be
the only one who went fuck
this, im making my own.
ascii_field: apparently (and
this is not widely known, i
think) -
the
tolerances for a 'correctly feeling' lego brick are astonishingly low.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla aha. artwork is massively helped by
the
thing.
mircea_popescu: if sold with a
time machine
to
take us back
to 1992,
this'd actulalywork.
ascii_field: you need
the precision of a $1M injection molder.
mircea_popescu: neighbourhood kids pitch
together buy a printer, make all
the legos
they';ll ever need, on
the cheap.
mircea_popescu: what WOULD be pretty cool is if
they managed
to get it
to where you canmake lego pieces out of it.
ascii_field: kakobrekla: so long as you don't actually care about
the shape -
this almost works.
kakobrekla: they use acetone vapour
to smooth
the surfaces
ascii_field: a skilled craftsman can do surprising
things with
this horrid material - diametric once gave me a bolt and nut
that screwed without much friction, on first
try
ascii_field: but it comes out in
thin 'strand' and it never loses
this appearance
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
the most common filler is ordinary 'abs' plastic
mircea_popescu: (my curiosity on
the
topic so far was assuaged by breakingapart some 3d printed matter and reading a little on
the chemistry of
the "ink")
mircea_popescu: but basically,
the "3d printer" redditard
thinks about is
this "plastic hanger injection device", glorified.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
there are several other
types, such as liquid-resin (fused by laser) and sintered powder - but
they are uncommon, at least in 'jungle' settings
ascii_field: but
they mostly reduce
to 'need plastic bracket
to hold pcb, in a hurry, don't care how ugly, no one will see it'
ascii_field: in a hypothetically sane future, '3d printer' will have vaguely unsavory connotations, just like
the
term 'patent medicine' does
today
ascii_field: also it is a (solely psychiatrically!) interesting cargo cult. for instance,
the most successful scams had video posted of a '3d printer' going, going...
ascii_field: mircea_popescu et al: 'kickstarter' has
turned into a kind of barometer of public illiteracy
mircea_popescu: sorta like how derps looking for
the perfect soulmate are unfucked.
this works.
mircea_popescu: maybe
they swore
they'll not shave until
their master plan's complete.