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BingoBoingo: And you decrypt the file then tell assbot !v yourstringhere
moonpunter: dunno what to do with the output i guess
moonpunter: after i tell assbot to !up me i get a file to decrypt
BingoBoingo: moonpunter which part of the process is giving you issues?
mats: i vaguely remember reading a field manual (M2?) where it is possible to adjust which side spits out the rounds but don't recall details, if moonpunter figures out gpg maybe he can tell me
mats: deflectors are a thing, but i've never seen a joe carry one for his personal weapon
asciilifeform whenever thinking of left-handers-in-the-army, always recalls the medieval spiral staircases which assumed that nobody with a sword will ever be left-handed
mircea_popescu: seems mindboggling to me.
mircea_popescu: mats you sure about that ?!
BingoBoingo: Or if rifle is popular should be off the shelf commercial parts
asciilifeform: for folks with some money, there are craftsmen who will make oddities like this
BingoBoingo: mats: Then you either make sure the rifle was sane ahead of time or fuck the rifle
mats: BingoBoingo: yeah. but then you run into instances where your weapon is designed to eject shells as though operator is right-handed, and then you catch third degree burns
asciilifeform: plus there are other things for which one might like a second eye
asciilifeform: ^ and this
mircea_popescu: there are known and amply documented cases of mechanical sight misalignment that can't be detected with one eye
BingoBoingo: <mats> some unlucky folks have a dominant eye different than the hand, which can make it difficult to aim << solution is hand yeilds to eye dominance. If left eye dominant shoot left handed.
asciilifeform: 2 eyes, 2x the light
mircea_popescu: it then makes sense to close one eye on top of it.
mircea_popescu: human visual depth perception is so fucking terrible, if you're going to fire cable guided missiles you're better off placing two teams a mile apart and having team A guide missiles fired from B and vice-versa
mats: some unlucky folks have a dominant eye different than the hand, which can make it difficult to aim
mats: asciilifeform: its not recommended, but you only rly need one eye to line up front and rear sightpost on target
asciilifeform: the kind that shoots
mircea_popescu: i think it must have been in an old tv movie or something.
BingoBoingo: no, intended that way
mircea_popescu: and ftr, the notion that pools "represent" hashrate is rank nonsense.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "currently compromise a bit more than 50%" << comprise ?
asciilifeform: who actually does this.
asciilifeform: mats: l0l re: the fella aiming with one eye
assbot: Junaid Hussain: British-born Isis hacker killed following US drone strike in Syria - Middle East - World - The Independent ... ( http://bit.ly/1hjpqFx )
mircea_popescu: hint : he's a tatar.
mircea_popescu: http://40.media.tumblr.com/njE9Bw4rv9rziploEl3x93AX_1280.jpg << anyone know who this is btw ?
mircea_popescu: well those never made any sense.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if there's going to be a Fatman superhero before the fall.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc this is still Official Truth in usgdom
mircea_popescu: i know its true because i readit
mircea_popescu: and ima leave this here for nubsy. http://36.media.tumblr.com/2m8BXUfri9v6cgimXBzz5fwG_500.jpg
kakobrekla: > but the kid-friendliness < shit, perhaps a mit student could actually successfully wire a lamp to it
mircea_popescu: williamdunne i dun think the dailymotion demo is expected to comfortably arithmetic in head.
asciilifeform: and yes, can whack with the stick.
asciilifeform: and could run just about whatever (to a point. internal resistance of the cells eventually catches up with you)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l! in vietnam, it is said, bamboo tube would be filled with 1.5v cells (often given up for dead by americans)
williamdunne: For a good laugh, a socialist using words they don't understand. Particular lols around bogeymanning options contracts; www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mxebi_the-super-rich-and-us-episode-2_tv
mircea_popescu had girl make herself shocking device out of mono copper cable, duct tape and a dozen 1.5 volters. FOR PUNISHMENT
asciilifeform: interestingly, in the '90s there was a shortage, and plastic pieces of shit where you could stuff 3 'aa'-style cells were sold. as substitute.
asciilifeform: try that with 'round'.
asciilifeform: you could make a simple flashlight just from the battery, a lamp, and bit of electrician's tape.
asciilifeform: the battery was a thing in su since 1950s
asciilifeform: (drinking vessel, that is)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that'd be a плошка
mircea_popescu: then it moved to mean enema bag / pee implement under bed for sick people.
mircea_popescu: word (in romanian) used to mean "drinking vessel carried on the person', in 1800.
mircea_popescu: (and we called them "baterii patrate" = square batteries)
asciilifeform: two or three of those, some wire, a glass of water, and you learn about gasses
mircea_popescu: or extract the manganese oxide
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: the notable thing about those 'flat batteries' (what we called'em) was not where they were used, but the kid-friendliness (in the old sense of educative danger, rather than 'safety') - you could wrap wires around the terminals directly, even short'em across various objects to learn what happens
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l! somehow i thought half-arsed ddos was 'the new normal' over there
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-08-2015#1253815 << pretty sure the reich had those, even. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/of-alf-interest.png << natural things that just happen. naturally.
mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZQJeY2bVws << "the problem with your brother / is that he's always fucking your mother..."
mircea_popescu: btw, what time does sean connery show up at wimbledon ?
mircea_popescu: pretty sure i saw the thing attached to miner's helmet
kakobrekla: that 4.5v - most often used in a handheld flash light here. some armies had those too afaik.
assbot: Logged on 27-08-2015 22:58:18; mircea_popescu: <ag3nt_zer0> i said "no i'm not" << the one remarkable quality of six year olds is how quickly they can transform adults, even if specially trained, into other six year olds :D
ag3nt_zer0: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-08-2015#1253717 << fair enough... though this reaction of mine is likely related to the fact that I was once fired from a school district while subbing because a student reported that I called her an "idiot" - wasn't true; I was speaking of the classroom behavior as a whole, but mattered not to the spineless principle nor to my "mentor" (I was sub for him) - this was with 10 days to ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i tell you honestly, if i actually had to run a retarded linux thing for each of these i'd strongly consider just giving up.
mircea_popescu: in fact they WERE once rich.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform indeed they know how to be poor but happy. it works through being mentally retarded. they'd be equally happy if they were rich. they'd also be equally poor even if they were rich.
assbot: Lantern battery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1MYtwRd )
asciilifeform: for american folks who've never seen one, it can be found on the far left-hand side of this photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_battery#/media/File:Batteries_comparison_4,5_D_C_AA_AAA_AAAA_A23_9V_CR2032_LR44_matchstick-1.jpeg
assbot: Logged on 27-08-2015 21:16:31; mircea_popescu: tar was still used for insulation in 4.5V batteries when i was a kid. and the cells were paper wrapped.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-08-2015#1253567 >>> guess what, turns out one ~can~ still get these! even in usa! but not in the shop. look on www for 'MN1203' - which is apparently what they are called now. ☝︎
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: appreciate, some monkey had to write them packetz down
kakobrekla: oddly enough i got last 3 lines before 'worx' in the same half a second
asciilifeform: let's try that again
asciilifeform: moonpunter: well yes, it was so you could test getting yourself up again
asciilifeform: moonpunter: what happened to your key ?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-08-2015#1253471 << i know of a fella who was in gulf war I. his father looked down on him for not having suffered being taken prisoner in vietnam; his father's father looked down on the latter for not having been abused by north koreans in korean war captivity; and his uncle - for not having been in japanese prison camp in ww2. ☝︎
asciilifeform: (where all but a handful of'em are entirely opaque and nonprogrammable, and, direly, not the least bit inspectable..)
asciilifeform: the funniest thing is that, as described earlier, we already have this. in retarded form.
asciilifeform: in 'dataflow' concept, your computer is actually a barrel full of very small computers. most of them perhaps idling at any given time.
asciilifeform: who does not believe this, can pick a favourite vendor and read the data sheet (or his kernel's driver for the item)
asciilifeform: modern network chip is also implemented in quite the same way - it gets a chunk of memory to itself and drops incoming frames there, and waits for magic bit upon which it will crap out its buffer (also there) onto the wire
assbot: Logged on 27-08-2015 20:42:00; mircea_popescu: networking is chiefly multitasking because of the way it's implemented. but even in systems built to mt, there's a dedicated box added outside.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-08-2015#1253522 << must dig out this thread, because this is when i point out that the generalization of this principle - 'if it really has to happen all the time, it ought to have dedicated silicon' - is called 'dataflow computation' ☝︎
asciilifeform: un minimo respeto por el trabajador!!!!11111
asciilifeform: 'Now I seriously think of moving to Argentina. This nation already survived the horrific default of 2001, military dictatorship, deindustrialization and various other calamities, and came through it all with its dignity intact. They know how to be poor but happy (unlike Russians) and without neuroses (unlike Americans)—I saw this with my own eyes.' (guest orlolz, http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/08/corn-madness-revisited.h
mircea_popescu: if only more people drank the damned fizzy pop thing.
deedbot-: [Trilema] The function and the functioning of art. - http://trilema.com/2015/the-function-and-the-functioning-of-art/
mircea_popescu recalls the lulzy instance when "big deal" silicon valley firm wanted to talk but a) principals "didn't have the time" to come visit and b) they really didn't see "why i'd need" three first class tickets + hotel of "pick from this list" + the rest of the rider.
mircea_popescu: this because the usg is a great expert at making claims and putting forth pretense, but can't generally pay a cup of coffee if it comes to it.
mircea_popescu: it's quite obvious they won't pay the >10mn they owe on perfectly good claims to various users.
kakobrekla: anyway, losses suck it up, winning trading engine issue
kakobrekla: forgot to add ">"
kakobrekla: I have a friend that made like 120 BTC because he could buy really cheap Bitcoins during a past flashcrash. From those 120, he only got 20 out. Bitfinex told him: sorry there was a trading engine problem. You never really bought 120 Bitcoins.
mircea_popescu: the all boys/all girls thing is beyond retarded anyway.
gernika: mircea_popescu I suppose that's one thing you couldn't do in a private all boys boarding school as opposed to a public school.
mircea_popescu: no, you need to self-voice. pm assbot !up
assbot: Critical issues with Bitfinex trading engine : BitcoinMarkets ... ( http://bit.ly/1fJ6zCz )
mircea_popescu: !s two cans and string