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nubbins`: salvation is on its way out as a motivator
nubbins`: asciilifeform the fact that the si and hf exists means the guy's probably not as much of a fuckin rube as the dude who built the church his grandfather was married in
asciilifeform: i contend that (b) necessarily involves the same amount of enslavement as (a)
asciilifeform: i am now looking for the mircea_popescu article where he hypothesized that 'bezzle' is, without exception, born out of people doing things that are -ev on the large scale - in just the same way as elements heavier than iron are born in supernova
asciilifeform: 'This, then, should be the new main thrust of industrial activity: to manufacture and distribute products with the understanding that this process will run out of resources and stop. These products must be designed to outlive the process by which they are made, by as long as possible.'
assbot: U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion - The Onion - America's Finest News Source ... ( http://bit.ly/1gkmM1K )
nubbins`: (from http://www.theonion.com/article/us-economy-grinds-to-halt-as-nation-realizes-money-2912 )
nubbins`: (from http://www.theonion.com/article/us-economy-grinds-to-halt-as-nation-realizes-money-2912)
asciilifeform: the book (lovingly referred to as sicp, 'sick pee') is a textbook illustration of precisely what i mean when i say 'fits in head'.
asciilifeform: phun phakt: when it appeared, american schools began to use it as a mandatory undergrad textbook. and you can measure precisely when each school turned full-bore retard by ~when they stopped~
trinque: yep, but could just as well be musl
assbot: Logged on 07-08-2015 19:10:23; ben_vulpes: i just recall faint intimations that it wasn't quite the focus as it is in eve or wow
danielpbarron: yes it is that first and foremost as is any accurate simulation of human life
danielpbarron: understandable, as PvP only makes sense when the first 'M' in MMO becomes reality
ben_vulpes: i just recall faint intimations that it wasn't quite the focus as it is in eve or wow ☟︎
danielpbarron: i guess it's supposed to explore and build the tiny/small claims as it goes
assbot: Logged on 07-08-2015 16:28:06; punkman: http://www.wsj.com/article_email/3-d-printer-firms-fall-flat-as-buyers-wait-for-new-models-1438905355-lMyQjAxMTI1NzA3NzMwNjc2Wj
ascii_field: 'Except... it isn't. Ahh, that exquisite flavour on the roof of your mouth, when "Automatic Updates" pops up a textbox to "inform" you that your OS is "no longer supported"v which can not be closed because the process that spawned it died in a "futex wait me" state as if this is actually a fucking thing, and then it can't be turned off, because if one goes to follow the process that supposedly turns it off that one
assbot: Logged on 05-08-2015 14:28:09; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's what i want to accomplish, as a goal : i want to be able to put up a linux system, then go curl http://trilema.com/autobitcoin.sh | gpg -verify > autobitcoin.sh. and then run that autobitcoin.sh, which auto-follows the changes of people i have selected for this task, builds them and runs them
mircea_popescu: "The strategy for Ketsu-Go was outlined in an 8 April 1945 Army Directive.(4) It stated that the Imperial Army would endeavor to crush the Americans while the invasion force was still at sea. They planned to deliver a decisive blow against the American naval force by initially destroying as many carriers as possible, utilizing the special attack forces of the Air Force and Navy. When the amphibious force approached wit
mircea_popescu: whereas it sure as shit doesn't want any more of that "printed gun" nonsense.
assbot: 3-D Printer Firms Fall Flat, as Buyers Wait for New Models - WSJ ... ( http://bit.ly/1Pb7EQm )
punkman: http://www.wsj.com/article_email/3-d-printer-firms-fall-flat-as-buyers-wait-for-new-models-1438905355-lMyQjAxMTI1NzA3NzMwNjc2Wj ☟︎
mike_c: hopefully Eulora will accomodate me - someone who is perfectly happy with -ev as long as I'm having fun. This should help supply the people who are more interested in the money.
mircea_popescu: http://madsciencewriter.blogspot.com.ar/2013/05/the-foreskin-why-is-it-such-secret-in.html << this is an excellent anatomy write-up but (as is common for the past five centuries for some reason), a very poor phisiopathology write-up. of particular note : phimosis IS an actual pathologic state even if broadly misused. and dxo and a number of other genuine afflictions of the prepuce do legitimately exist.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as described in your article re: the herring fishermen, the scandinavians forgot what actual work looks like 1000 years ago.
asciilifeform directs questions as to mircea_popescu's exercise of the -1 cannon to mircea_popescu directly
mircea_popescu: "Sweden has traditionally relied heavily on the strong protestant work ethic of its citizens. A cornerstone of the country's welfare system has been a population which has been reluctant to misuse the system. Although taxes have been high and government benefits generous, the strong work ethic has stopped people from taking advantage of the welfare state. Alas, this attitude has been largely abandoned. As time has pass
mircea_popescu directs questions as to alf's interpretation of phenomena to alf directly.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and it cannot be said that i do not believe in a 'software canon.' just that very few folks have heard of it, just as j. s. bach's music did not play for two centuries at one point. e.g., mccarthy's 'lisp 1.5'; weizenbaum's 'eliza'; ... many others
mircea_popescu: it's almost as if he respects the scholar and despises the whore^H^H^H^H i mean programmer ☟︎
ben_vulpes: as if!
mircea_popescu: as orwell well observed, the airplane and the radio turned the war into a game of rats.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform originally tried by michail paleologos as "heavenly host"
asciilifeform: radio-controlled fighting machines are not new. they were tried even by germany as 'wunderwaffen'
mircea_popescu: worked about as well as you'd expect, on the basis of the record of ustardian puritans.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc started off as an antimasturbatory notion
Adlai nominates M-x slime-inspect as a valid web browser, especially after ,ql closure
mircea_popescu: the soldier himself is as eternal as dirt.
Adlai: the classic soldier is about as useful as the classic knight
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it still is. who wants most people as pets ? not even the coyotes.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: thing is, this used to be handled by being kept as pet
mircea_popescu: may i grow up into an adult as a personal process and in my own terms ? huh ? HUH ???
mircea_popescu: shinohai no but i just feel for the guy, gentoo is the last thing that made me want to burn the world, and through a very similar process as he describes.
punkman: Later, gets job offer through unemployment office. Manager asks if she has kids, oh you do? and you like them? naturally I won't hire you, so you can keep collecting unemployment. Next job, didn't look so great, she complains asks for different one. As the years pass, fewer job offers to fend off.
BingoBoingo: But as I said earlier media is proposing a Trump vs. Killed HP contest
trinque: I see him as viable
trinque: as do the ubuntus and debians
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Just seeking you insight as an upstanding 'Murican employer
trinque: as elilo development has apparently died
trinque: such as gentoo
phf_mobile: i have a mac os x patch, but as i recall that's the only change required, and since i don't understand the implications, i didn't post it. it works when building with clang, but needs investigation why duplicate function to begin with
assbot: Someone Actually Played Through All of Fallout 3 As A Baby ... ( http://bit.ly/1NdEDCf )
BingoBoingo: USia is fucked... Ted Cruz: "Let me contrast President Obama, who at the prayer breakfast essentially acted as an apologist. He said well gosh the crusades, the inquisitions ... We need a president that shows the courage that Egypt’s President al-Sissi did—a Muslim—when he called out the radical Islamic terrorists who are threatening the world."
decimation: grub struck me as being about 50x more complex than it needed to be
n6: I think its this version of gentoo its the same error as last time this time with all spelling right
BingoBoingo: The curse set upon us by Bell Labs is wildly different things running as the same names all because on some superficial level the function they try to do is "the same"
mats: association with mp and b-a is difficult enough as it is, plz no nazi logos
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: actually ~working with~ a linux without any package system whatsoever, is not entirely honestly describable as 'basic'
pete_dushenski: "People working with you when you're a benevolent dictator loved and admired by all don't rebel because they like working with you. Not because they can't. They have to be able to, otherwise they're just as much dead weight, a set of paraplegic "sidekicks" in wheelchairs you have to push around. Incredible how distorted the ant's perception of the eagle's dare is"
danielpbarron: as opposed to grub2
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu it doesnt seem to be broken key cause the thing doesnt work on other peoples keys as well
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell n6 : can you extract and publish your public key as it resides on your machine, as opposed to whatever's on sks servers.
davout: as long as it's possible to have a tool to work on the patchset it essentially reduces to the same thing, which the only thing I personally care about
BingoBoingo: "Note that the status of the bug was changed from "RESOLVED INVALID" to "RESOLVED FIXED" in 2014-03-20. Probably because as well as I know Ulrich currently doesn't work in Red Hat and doesn't have any commit access. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha/19088"
pete_dushenski: it would just be the end of computing as we know it if anyone had 2 months, maybe even 2 years! to actually learn the ins and outs of a program
trinque: bahahah, that's about as good as the monkey fucking a frog
punkman: is the dolphin using a headless fish as a fucktoy?
mircea_popescu: such as anyhone's sexuality.,
shinohai: I mainly purchased them as curiousity.
trinque: I like that it's built as a core server and the services are independent of that
trinque: the deed transactions spend to an address generated using the sha256 of the bundle as the private key
mircea_popescu: "The shootout with the police was highly exaggerated and in fact no one was even hit by a bullet, let alone harmed by one. The police knew me and I don't believe their hearts were truly in the shootout, as it is not included in the official report. When I ran out of ammunition, I surrendered quietly and the officers and my self had a cigarette together and joked about my bad aim."
assbot: Spy agency whistle-blower posts top secret report to 4chan but users dismiss it as 'fake and gay' ... ( http://bit.ly/1IsruCb )
asciilifeform: could've sworn there was half again as much of it last i looked
mircea_popescu: shinohai not really. either you verify or you don't. if you don't, might as well not bother storing a blockchain of unknown origion and run spv. if you do, you do.
mircea_popescu: re above thread. and re nat thread, traditionally it's been regarded as "good for bitcoin" to allow consumer folk connect ot the network.
asciilifeform: as in, 'this pool is a millisecond faster but runs gavinized soup'
asciilifeform: mining as we know it does not exactly select for folks who rationally weigh roi
decimation: as opposed to the users to pay the nodes for services of questionable value (if it transmits, why care?)
decimation: I don't think you could fix 'as-is' without heavily fragmenting memory
asciilifeform: 'Probably to make the weapon resistant to electromagnetic pulses from any nearby nuclear explosions, as one might expect at the outset of war with the Soviets, the AEC had fashioned the SADM largely devoid of electronics. Instead, the device relied on two mechanical timers that, unfortunately, became less accurate the longer they were set for, potentially going off as early as eight minutes ahead of schedule or as many as 13 b
BingoBoingo: Backpack nuke is referred to as Chicken and Waffles because dark meat makes dents in the world
decimation: it's not a particularly large bomb as nukes go
asciilifeform: 'But when Green Light team member Ken Richter began interviewing potential candidates, he said, not everyone was as enthusiastic: "I had a lot of people that I interviewed for our team. Once they found out what the mission was, they said, 'No, thanks. I'd rather go back to Vietnam.' "'
asciilifeform: personally i wouldn't waste so much as one private on the place. glass it.
asciilifeform: (when they shoot a white fella it's generally 5th-10th page newz, as linked earlier)
decimation: asciilifeform: maybe sell as a collection of parts
decimation: actually why should it be surprising in schools? same wards of the state as the gulag
asciilifeform: 'The investigation is ongoing and there is no confirmation as to whether the incident involved was a shooting at all.'
asciilifeform: http://www.wsmv.com/story/29714858/backfire-or-gunfire-authorities-continue-to-piece-together-investigation << linked from same birdcage liner as earlier
asciilifeform: i did attend a school which as a result of the latter forbade... backpacks.
decimation: as a kid in the early 90's I don't remember this being a thing
trinque: as a child with books in his home I remember being quite surprised that this was a thing
mircea_popescu: and yes, i would ghuess the whole pile as it stands atm is just about 1mn loc
asciilifeform: ask him if he has regrets as he dies, or not.
mircea_popescu: as long as the point is conveyed, it is conveyed.
asciilifeform: plenty of heavy industrial (as in water-in-the-tap, not google et al whores) customers
asciilifeform: though i will add that moore operated for decades as a successful consultant, a la the pdp emulator fella
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: most of the settlement, if indeed there was one and it is not disinfo - went, as always and without exception it does, to the bloodsuckers << This is why if misdemeanor if not dismissed at hearing I intend to fire lawyer.