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phf: kindle solves specific problem of my eyes getting
tired of staring at backlit screen
mircea_popescu fantasises at
the dystopia where alf writes PR for a living.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field:
they happily send
their sons
to army so
they can 'die for a fat bitch's right
to marry her dog' << wow.
that, right
there, is more valuable
to orlov's employer
than orlov's entire body of work
to date. mebbe you get job offers nao.
☟︎ ascii_field: 'In
the marble streets of Ashgabat, we soon grow a bit
tired and sweaty. In
theory, we could rest a bit inside one of
the many bus stops, designed
to be air-conditioned.
The air-conditioning has stopped working, so instead
they are now glass ovens where you can bake yourself. We decide
to wait outside. ' << orc win !
mircea_popescu: the real problem here is
that ... well... no rich people left. nobody
to say "fuck you, either make
this and you get one
trillion, or i spend a
trillion
torturing your families. you have one year."
ascii_field: realize, nothing in, e.g., a
tokamak, is ever dense enough
to become anything like opaque.
mircea_popescu: look : if it can keep gas in, it should be able
to keep light out
ascii_field: only
thing is, when viewing
text i need it
to be opaque.
mircea_popescu: anyway. magnetic bottle exists,
there's no fucking excuse. not like any sort of quantum leap is required. just index and miniaturize.
mircea_popescu would like
to say
THAT web2.0.
the proper one. "cube webpages"
ascii_field: i did realize,
though,
that
there is nothing
to connect it
to.
mircea_popescu: none of
that fake "3d in 2d" bs. actual 3d display. i need an[other] electric car like i need another hairdo.
ascii_field: but strictly
the kind mircea_popescu describes - with
true
three-axis box
ascii_field: over
the years i conceived of several designs for such a
thing. because i,
too, wanted one.
mircea_popescu: they can use magnetics
to create
tiny refraction surfaces in mid air
ascii_field: this is one of
those
things
that ~sounds~ great until you do it.
ascii_field: i want
to see
transparently
through my display like i want a second arse.
mircea_popescu: all
this "2d view of a 3d world" shit is for
the birds./
mircea_popescu: what i would like is if
they stopped dicking around and made holo displays already
ascii_field: at
the same
time i ~would~ like a >300 dpi screen on real computer
mircea_popescu: but
the only comfortable position for keyboarding is sitting
ascii_field: (though
the
thing has provisions for an external keyboard, in principle)
mircea_popescu: and if you have
to check out a poem ? drop back
to desktop ?>
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i use a (very large)
tablet
thing
to read djvu scans, and (occasionally) hyperlinkified
therealbitcoin src.
that's it.
mircea_popescu: when all is said and done, "the people
themselves" do not want a computer but a
tv set.
mircea_popescu: in fact...
that's imo
the driver behind "smartphone" (tablets y compris) : here, have
this lighter
tv screen you can shove in your ass.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 19:17:20; phf: i have a hand rolled version of instapaper
that
takes html articles and adds
them
to a periodic readinglist.mobi. same for b-a logs. in fact i read most of
the stuff on kindle, far away from a real computer..
btcdrak: mike_c: autoupdate has been discussed a lot in Core, and is absolutely out of
the questions because of
the security implications.
ascii_field: just about whole
thing is
tied with identical pieces
ascii_field: tiny more from
the fact
that it compresses so well
pete_dushenski: garzik re 'bip100' reddit convo :
This is mostly pre-feedback,
transcribing
the discussion documentation into a
technical specification.
The doc & spec & code will evolve from here, based on community feedback and
testing."
kakobrekla: My nodes got hit with 25 GBit/sec.
The university firewall handled it like a pro, but I was forced
to shut off my nodes. Due
to
the security implications (I guess DDoS attacks are a security risk now?) I'll have
to fight
to get
them back up again.
mike_c: oh gavin.. "... which should eventually evolve into "download, check for valid signatures, and automatically upgrade" code (yet another feature
that I
think it is pretty clear people want
that can't make it past
the Core idea review process)."
btcdrak: Oh let me screencap it
then
assbot: Logged on 16-08-2015 17:54:18; kakobrekla: wheres
that ddoser now, could be put
to good use
shinohai: "Of course
this doesn't help mining pools.
They would need
to find ways
to sink
the DoS attacks
themselves." LOL
jurov: "He was happy
to see me," Obama added.
ascii_field: btcdrak:
that
thing appears
to require login
thestringpuller: “Now, everyone sees
this as a critical
topic. I know of more
than 100 firms
that are
trying
to make
the blockchain more scalable, more secure,
to make
the one
that everybody will use.
There’s a race on out
there.”
jurov: have pinpointed
the cause,
tomorrow evening likely
jurov was watching mpoe-pr aka hanbot in action, riding her
tablet
kakobrekla: they saw kako is in reality a nice guy and left
the place.
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: upon further review, he's evorhees isn't in assbot's l2, so i guess he's not in
the wot after all.
kakobrekla: voorhees and casares were at
the first meet
jurov: well.. if i hadn't met you in person, i'd have very different image
too :)
ascii_field: jurov: i was never able
to conceive of casares as anything other
than a 'wallet-inspector' sc4mz0r
jurov: i had a bit heated discussion with him
that it
the wallet users don't own
the privkeys, wtf is
that all about
ascii_field: jurov: iirc from mircea_popescu's article,
that was one of
the people
there
jurov: well.. wences casares was
there,
too, not sure if it was
the same eyar
ascii_field does not know voorhes personally, but distinctly recalls
that
the man was embroiled in spam
trinque: somebody could figure out a way
to do something interesting with
that.
ascii_field: hasn't he revealed himself
to be a spammer piece of shit ?
trinque: phf: I see
the beliefs
themselves less relevant
than
the command structure implied by
them
jurov: i have met him personally in
timisoara (and his
trophy gf), did not look like a good fit
trinque: one's
that would get along with danielpbarron
trinque: phf: I know christians
that believe
the man's
the head of
the house, and
that one is
to follow
the bible literally
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: ever since he chose not
to show up here and get in
the wot
phf: and
they seem
to be as contemptible as any liberal suburban family, just with some polarities switched
phf: trinque: but i'm
thinking specifically of ~christian~ communities rather
then rednecks specifically. my reference point are friends whose parents are "active in church" or work as missionaries abroad
phf: trinque: i don't have a reference for
that rednecks
that i go snowboarding and sometimes hunting with are not very religious.
they just say all
the
tv
talking points, abortion, gays, liberal elite, etc.
kakobrekla: even got an item for 500e on one such obscure place, an item
that surfaces on ebay once a year and goes for 5k.
trinque: there's a whole other world outside
the cities, and its not all inbred
phf: trinque:
tell your redneck
to go
to his church and say out loud
that he beliefs
that divorce is a sin,
that woman
that initiates a divorce can no be redeemed in
the eyes of god, etc.
ascii_field: this is not because ebay is a great
thing, but because it has killed everything else remotely comparable.
trinque: not saying I believe in
the bible myself, but
they do, and have read and studied it
ascii_field: kakobrekla: but when i ~do~ find
the magic artifact, it is 100% on ebay.
trinque: phf: eh, I don't
think you know my rednecks
kakobrekla: ascii_field i have found one in a million
things
there
that ebay could not provide.
phf: trinque: modern christian position on divorce, on a role of a woman in household, on a role of man in household, on premarital sex, all sham. fundamentally
there's no belief in
the bible. no first world christian guy would even consider living according
to bible in, say, muslim style. so what constitutes badassery? hunting from a back of a pickup, or "i was linebacker 30 years ago"?
☟︎ kakobrekla: but its most often
taht you need
to drive
to pick it up as seller doesnt give a shit
to post it, even if you offer pay.
ascii_field: kakobrekla: and i don't have a sotheby's budget
to do it with, either.
ascii_field: kakobrekla: i buy
things
that literally one out of a million people has
to sell.
mircea_popescu: "oh,. bitcoin needs larger blocks, because
to compete with paypal's
three week poayment processing!!1"
kakobrekla: in yurop is different, every country has online flea markets in
their own language, many of
them quite obscure. you find many gems if you can navigate
that.