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a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 18:26 pete_dushenski: this daylight theft wrapped up as 'transparencee' caters directly to teh aspie crowd, the kind who fancies himself genre savvy without really being so. the victim of 'taught controversy', if you will.
trinque: pete_dushenski: cheers
trinque: pete_dushenski: the world can not both be befouled by socialism and socialism be ineffective *at creating the products of socialism*
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and admin how ?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 21:15 mircea_popescu: armies win.
trinque: this is precisely mircea_popescu's and asciilifeform's conversation (yesterday?) about the definition of an army
a111: Logged on 2016-07-12 20:35 mircea_popescu: "oh i know, we've created a sort of monarchy without a king, basically just the court and nobody there to behead us - we'll call it democracy. if anyone inquires into the matter we can always add modern in front and it'll be all good!"
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: the usg that promulgates diddled ciphers which are then breakable with array of fpga, and the usg that puts my mail into the box across the street, are not same entity.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: xilinx and altera make $B+ of them / yr and they aren't going into tv sets etc.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: inkscape is almost usable
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: recall that usg sits on top of egyptian pyramid - sized heap of fpga. why not, then, hijack an old, familiar scrypt-based altcoin, and proclaim 'see, YES WE CAN!111' etc ☟︎
asciilifeform: diana_coman: it is a trivial technical problem, that will likely never be solved, because there is no open cad proggy worth a sparrow's fart.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: i do, e.g., cad, and would like to be able to, say, rotate a part by pinning it with a pen, and turning the pen. but this does not, afaik, exist.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: it is possible to read the raw numbers from the pen, in linux, yes - even tilt angles. but afaik there is no proggy that usefully eats them.
asciilifeform: http://gdb.rferl.org/00A4B9E5-4339-4FA0-BA7A-EFF79340731B_w974_n_s.jpg << occupied france.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: what kind of bits were you moving ?
pete_dushenski: http://pathology.wustl.edu/~corbolab/Corbo_publications/Kram_2010.pdf << in related hyperuniformity news
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 15:57 mircea_popescu: if anyone wants the project, can be (probably SHOULD be) implemented as pure html, just a form.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dunno about it being a deep problem, wacom sells a $couple-of-k display unit with warrantied alignment
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally, when digging into eth etc in light of 'turing-complete!111 programmable!1111' scamatronics, i was somewhat surprised that they did not add the flourish of 'algebraic coin'
Framedragger: i'm amused that it's hard to find something like this, i.e. static generator _and_ a comment handler component
BingoBoingo: What a coinidence the next generation of smartphone surveillance would direct users to places mircea_popescu lived!
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 20:21 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-14#1502997 << how much of this is genuine amish weird and how much of this is cheap sensationalism pulled out of the ass by soviet state in its fight to flatten any curl of independence in its perceived domains is probably never getting established.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: suddenly it makes sense. we have these here.
Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu: I'm not pleading ignorance
Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu: hey, indeed I tremendously overestimated tardstalk
deedbot: mircea_popescu updated rating of Apocalyptic from 2 to -1 << ex tmsr, currently tardstalk. apparently sense sometimes fails to take.
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated Apocalyptic 2 at 2014/10/31 17:01:32 << ex-x-bt.com
trinque: ben_vulpes: yeh I want to make it tidy enough to share
trinque: ben_vulpes: you'll be happy to know the thing both writes messages to a table and reads messages to send from an outbound table
trinque: ben_vulpes: yeah, I'll get you bot source soon
Apocalyptic: ben_vulpes: fun
ben_vulpes: trinque: lowers the energy barrier for me to do the thing mircea_popescu and asciilifeform were talking about
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes may be entertained to learn that asciilifeform finally has cnc machine.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes how about running a bot ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes ?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 13:04 mircea_popescu: https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/trilema << for the record, kiwiirc seems much better solution than freenode's webchat. we should prolly switch to using this as web-side connection.
mircea_popescu: and in other artist's studio news, http://67.media.tumblr.com/ff0632038cc637b901f130fc624d758f/tumblr_n7ai7iixeM1r2sy0fo1_500.gif
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I've never used it, but ok
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: there's no captcha for the kiwiirc webchat thing only if your ip request is quite unique etc. if you e.g. go from tor (*ducks*) then you get presented with the lovely cloudflare captcha where you have to solve shit for multiple times until you pass. but at least no default captcha i guess
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 01:58 mircea_popescu: mod6 did you check/sign the copies ?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 01:58 mircea_popescu: mod6 did you check/sign the copies ?
tb0t: <%a|%add> <project> <code> "<subject>" "<notes>" [ante] | <%e|%edit> <project> <id> <code> "<subject>" "<notes>" [ante] | <%r|%remove> <project> <id> | <%p|%print> <project> <id> | <%pp|%print_projects> | <%pc|%print_codes>
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 02:06 mircea_popescu: (i'm not saying you're making a mess, i'm just saying - we're stuck with all this grandfathered in bullshit, such as boost, openssh, who the fuck knows what else even. qt ffs.)
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-14#1502685 << what has mircea_popescu been smoking?? there is no qt in trb ☝︎
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> at least this'd allow some basis for proper management of this mess, rather than current adhocness << the nice part about the makefiles and your preposed solution is that we would finally have a solution in place for all of this.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> mod6 specifically, iirc it's tens of mb not gb. amirite ? << Yes, Sir.
mod6: 52M boost_1_52_0.tar.bz2
mod6: $ du -sh boost_1_52_0.tar.bz2
mod6: 71M boost_1_52_0.tar.bz2.base64
mod6: $ du -sh boost_1_52_0.tar.bz2.base64
mod6: 954767 boost_1_52_0.tar.bz2.base64
mod6: $ wc -l boost_1_52_0.tar.bz2.base64
mod6: mircea_popescu: thanks for your input here, its high time that we get away from the adhoc nature of this build process.
mod6: mircea_popescu: yeah, for sure. i reading though the above here...
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 00:24 mircea_popescu: if they had half a brain they'd give up the pretense and go learn how to do plumbing or something useful more alligned with their intellectual capabilities.
mircea_popescu: and in other "venture capital backed entrepreneurial ideas re bitcoin aka blockchain technologees + their respective lamestream media coverage" news, http://67.media.tumblr.com/fdc9fa6c79e206b6caa9c8f1715cb2e8/tumblr_njzceuR9H71tonrdjo10_r1_500.gif
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: neato. old-school drawings
mircea_popescu: speaking of rockets etc, we ever do http://outerzone.co.uk/latest/plan_thumbs.asp ?
Framedragger: *to include the new ssh_openpgp_diff_2016-07-13.tar is what i meant
Framedragger: asciilifeform: and signature (updated checksums file to include the new ssh_openpgp_all_2016-06-20.tar): http://95.85.10.71:8000/all/openpgp/SHA256SUMS.txt
Framedragger: asciilifeform: i have moar ssh keys for ya: http://95.85.10.71:8000/all/openpgp/ssh_openpgp_diff_2016-07-13.tar (diff from that 10M bunch, i.e. only new ones) 920M file, 1.82M new ssh keys. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-07-13 16:04 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-13#1502490 << actually im sure linus would fucking love it, and ~the only reason he's not forcing it is that he doesn't grok it exists.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-13 16:12 mircea_popescu: 90% of it goes into "getting a guy there to do it" and 1% or so into "cartridge price tag"
a111: Logged on 2016-07-13 15:47 asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu unlike any type of cannon, railgun imposes no limit on projectile energy. that is the whole reason for it.
mats: mircea_popescu, mod6: thanks for your contribution to the courts project!
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu unlike any type of cannon, railgun imposes no limit on projectile energy. that is the whole reason for it. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-07-13 04:47 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-13#1502308 << to put numbers on this : as it recently came out in debate with alf, diesel generators get ~40% efficiency if large enough (closer to my guess than yours! ha-HA!) ; depending on the coil design the resulting electricity will be transferred to projectile somewhere around 1 to 5% efficiency. to go higher air-cored assemblages are excluded because of the high reluctance of the damned
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-13#1502353 << efficiency has 0 to do with it! calculate, for lulz, the efficiency of making gunpowder and then launching a projectile with it. (it is in single-digit %, at best.) big fat whoop that the gunpowder-making happens on land. the real reason for railgun is illustrated by the failure of the german Hochdruckpumpe cannon. ☝︎
asciilifeform: ;;later tell Framedragger http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2016/02/07_v-tronics-101-a-gentle-introduction-to-the-most-serene-republic-of-bitcoins-cryptographically-backed-version-control-system.html << ben_vulpes wrote a spiffy intro to v.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-13 04:55 mircea_popescu: but otherwise - i have here this battery, contained in a thin PET cover, ready to do ~1,2 MJ at my command. go, construct battery, compressed coil, box of covenant or lavey's teeth assemblage that can do a mj and fit in a gallon.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-20 15:53 mircea_popescu: Framedragger actually, the process of creating github and then confusing git for github, aka embrace and extinguish / "rms-ing" is also amply discussed in teh logs :)
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-20#1469423 fwiw but it's now much. i'm now convinced i had originally misinterpreted. at that point i was assuming that you had basically thrown out git in your mind as useless as it had been tainted with too strong an association with github. if that even makes sense. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: and in other news, http://67.media.tumblr.com/eaa45c186f01e7a30c279a9234dff8a7/tumblr_nq3j82wF251sw3gf6o3_500.gif
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=fuck+mother << mircea_popescu: "fuck your mother"
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: yeah, acknowledged
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: not yet, and that's due to lack of time, and generally lazy vibes over the summer (a festival or two, reading books etc) i know i should take a careful look at v, and i dun want to botch it, hence terribly slow with it
a111: Logged on 2016-07-12 17:49 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-12#1502056 << this is what you get for sending ustards to college. they "adapt" what they read to the "practical needs" in their environment. problem ?
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated mats 2 at 2015/04/07 21:29:49 << http://trilema.com/2013/so-whos-running-the-courts-circus/#comment-113478 ; helping people get pogos, stuff.
mats: mircea_popescu: on the matter of post-oil, i do wonder what the world would look like in 10, 100 years after cold fusion
ben_vulpes: today we learn that mircea_popescu has tiny bukkits
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes he says the words, "because kids have brain damage".
mircea_popescu: by and large for every 100 J worth of gas you're putting in, you're getting out ~1J of ~muzzle velocity~. then as ben_vulpes pointed out correctly you lose most of this to air friction (longer range ? MUCH MORE FRICTION!), so you deliver maybe 1kJ or 2 per MJ expended.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-13 04:32 mircea_popescu: mats it's very hard to beat plain and simple fire-air bombs. you gotta put electricity through coils to make the projectile go magnetically, electricity which you got from a combustion generator in the first place.you're about five transforms away, might as well just put the same gasoline in a bottle and throw it at the enemy.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yes yes. the comparison of the engine to the rocket is flawed. because the rocket doesn't aspire [random gunk] from atmosphere.
deedbot: http://www.iwhistory.org.uk/rockets/ << John Dennett: Isle of Wight Rocket Man | http://www.csifiles.com/reviews/csi/no_mans_land.shtml << CSI Files - CSI: Miami--'No Man's Land' | http://www.horatiotodds.com/dining/ << Dining — Horatio Todd's
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: turns to steam helps with isp
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's a simple problem of mass conservation though. if your compression factor is 1:10, say, and you burn 1 ton of fuel, you then therefore get a cubic kilometer worth of air, which will contain a ton and a half of water, what do you do with it. it doesn't burn, it doesn't go away. nowwut.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-13 04:29 ben_vulpes: the only new part of the whole system is the precooler to take air at mach5 and cool it without frosting everything over.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: and how.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: once it leaves compressible atmo, it cuts over to internal o2 supply fed directly into the *same* combustion chambers.
mats: ben_vulpes: well, they tend to be unguided
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: consider continuing the tale? it was spiffy
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is the field-grunt arm of nsa. traditionally headed by same stuffed shirt as the better-known one.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-12 19:09 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which, the "Galt's gulch" thing ?
asciilifeform: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/07/12/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-crossed-way-way-over-the-line/?tid=hybrid_collaborative_3_na << relatdd.
BingoBoingo: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--wT3W_8_2--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/zgeapifsxfq2s8ly9fts.png
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu do you have the link to your series re: same handy ?
thestringpuller: ^- http://freedomforallseasons.org/AllodialLandPatentReports/DO%20YOU%20HAVE%20ALLODIAL%20TITLE%20ON%20YOUR%20PROPERTY_html.htm << hey he's selling a book for 40 bucks
asciilifeform: http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/deadissues.htm << overall very interesting site from a mircea_popescutronic perspective.