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mircea_popescu: soo this actually (mostly) functional drive actually fails to read its own smart data.
mircea_popescu: imo much better than the baez original, specifically because it's the same pantsuitism (tho for all the bonus levels of involuntary lulz one actually needs fluent romanian)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ben_vulpes next time, turn the damned things on for half an hour, covers off, so they suck in some dust also.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, by now we're starting towards gynecological instruments.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as he says, they're not actually useful other than symbolically. but symbolically AND HOW
mircea_popescu: but the point is solid, you need the forum MORE when you're in the shit, not less.
mircea_popescu: but stuck for hours with $mysteriousbag... and bored...
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's not "a chance", it's a virtual guarantee. were you there and pissed they'd have pushed you though apologetically.
mircea_popescu: next you're going to build elaborate nutcrackers like those doomed bavarians.
mircea_popescu: i've had it for a year, afaik never used yet for anything in the vein of its intended utilities.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i'm such a fan of crescent wrenches i actually keep them around as art objects / use them idly while walking around the house as sceptres, gesture with them and so forth.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well, it's how the people who make this stuff their business call things, anyway.
mircea_popescu: ok, why not. "catastrophes in complex systems fall out of failure cascades" is almost bibliography calc, neh ?
mircea_popescu: and check out ben_vulpes ; he actually knows the terms of art now. been doing some reading ?
mircea_popescu: but i lolled at the fbi check through interpol. "send me an aba wire through sepa!"
mircea_popescu: oh, don't forget the send-off, "if anyone had shot at mommy, THE ENTIRE WORLD WOULD HAVE BEEN RAZED DOWN!!!! but since i could find no record of it happening..."
mircea_popescu: "A few weeks later, one of the Smithfield rebels was caught in Eugene trying to buy supplies, and arrested and lodged in a jailhouse. Word spread quickly, and a lynch mob soon had assembled to lay siege to the jailhouse. But the rebel, who had hidden a tiny penknife somewhere on his person, put up such a ferocious fight that vigilante justice was delayed long enough for the sheriff to arrive with a posse, and soon the mob was
mircea_popescu: choicest bits : "Staunch Unionists in Eugene were outraged. They did not, however, feel outraged enough to brave those grim-faced Smithfield sharpshooters in an attempt to do something about it. So instead, they complained bitterly to every authority they could reach: the sheriff, the state legislature, and yes, the federal government in Washington, D.C."
mircea_popescu: trinque how's you giving things the needed looks hold up anyone ?
mircea_popescu: and finally done with that rewrite! it ended up soaking two workdays, but seems quite worth it.
mircea_popescu: pretty humongous penalty on large articles, try one of my mb ones with that on
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-03-13#1787748 << just about, yes. i wanted a model file so we have something to play with and the original concept was to have phf include it in his v tree of his v rewrite because it seemed the first item that's coming out at the time from l1 hands ; but if it's holding you back re tmsr-portage, go ahead and make the sample yourself and we'll see how it works.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: might be obscure bug i've been chasing ever since i put it in
mircea_popescu: spyked "the original script doesn't always pass childNodes[0] as a parameter" << whoa, where is this ?
mircea_popescu: i'd guess maybe about 5 or so. but the civil alarm sirens went off.
mircea_popescu: James M. Cain's original pulp and Raymond Chandler's treatment, together.
mircea_popescu: hope to publish this afternoon, unless something happens.
mircea_popescu: in other news, i've been working since last night at a rewrite of double indemnity ; which is coming along splendidly. kinda why i've been quiet.
mircea_popescu: lol. nothing like that mod6 , but just bear in mind that the response is about what you respond to, not the audience. just because ants drive you crazy is no reason to aim the howitzer at next ant comes by. it's NOT BIG ENOUGH. not yet at any rate.
mircea_popescu: i don't know of many sites besides trilema that don't look like monkey work. it's become the web tradition somehow.
mircea_popescu: anyway, you're too hard, too strong and too fast. bear in mind that the best steel cracks under shock and that you yourseld didn't have a pgp key before you made it.
mircea_popescu: i can say them patterns dun work so well then, can't i.
mircea_popescu: an ounce of setting up the bomb is worth ten pounds of policeman guts on the fences.
mircea_popescu: recall that iliterate nigglet that impregnated half the staff ? just HOW do you figure he did it ?
mircea_popescu: but anyway, that was the point of the comment -- don't just go in, make arrangements. while syphilitic uncle sam is paying for the rent, you can have all the fun a dying empire could possibly offer
mircea_popescu: in other news, holy shit tuna is great here. $25 will buy you a kg of such fine fresh stuff as i've ever seen.
mircea_popescu: i guess they were looking for a good excuse to go out.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which : stash some bitcoin with a credible agent and go straight to club fed. as long as your "commissionary" account gets a few thou dripped every month/week, you can impregnate the entire population of "social workers"
mircea_popescu: (ex strippers moved to "female guard" in us penitentiary system charge ~same.)
mircea_popescu: chinese girls make 1-200. talk about middle kingdom resurgence, fifty years ago they made 50 cents also.
mircea_popescu: in other news, prostitutes in bangladesh make ~50 cents.
mircea_popescu: "oh, i wonder what happened" "let's have a brainstorming about it" "oh, good idea. but can we say what actually happened ?" "no wai!"
mircea_popescu: but hey, being able to inflict major business loss upon an idiot like that in a situation like that is the whole reason why one wants to be rich in the first place.
mircea_popescu: yeah. after years of trying to "establish" the usual bullcrap ("brand"!!!) they finally moved to the switch part of the bait-and-switch.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo in other lulz, other than trying to push bitcoin crash as an implicit alternative, bitpay finally dropped bitcoin payments in favour of some nonsense "payment protocol" they developed in-house.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: let's do some math. 170k people that's 90k females of which maybe 3-5k females aged 10 to 15... EVERY OTHER GIRL GOT FUCKED.
mircea_popescu: specifically, THOUSANDS of pubescent girls being gangraped, sold for sex and forced to lure their sisters/cousins/etc in a community that counts 170k...
mircea_popescu: heh. trilema was a "victim" btw, in the sense of seeing 10x as much "traffic" as usual.