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mircea_popescu: easingly messy bureaucracy that claims to help headache sufferers even though it only ever comes up with increasingly absurd "solutions" to the new problems that its actions conjure up while its proponents do their best to explain away these consistent failures. On the other hand, if you try to help by suggesting that their heads would stop hurting if they just stopped banging them against the wall, you are a "simpleton" who
mircea_popescu: "If I had to describe using only a couple of sentences what it feels like to be a conservative, I would probably compare it to the hypothetical but surreal experience of noticing how many people around you have headaches because they keep banging their heads against the wall. If you don't do anything, that makes you objectively a "part of the problem", especially if you express any distaste towards having to pay for some incr
mircea_popescu: r the verbal New Class, downwardly mobile in not just wealth but also societal respect, and desperate to distinguish itself from the working class. Since this vanguard tends to be paid not enough to do this with classic material means, they have set up a parallel status hierarchy based on the tastes and aspirations of Lloyd Dobler to ensure that they get to be its kings and, mostly, its queens. Even the few rich liberals subs
mircea_popescu: for the first time in a decade, at that. BUT I DID IT!
mircea_popescu: i just cut myself a slice of cozonac, and put my own ice in my own fucking cinzano. and then, when i wanted a refill, I STOOD UP AND GOT IT.
asciilifeform: ( specifically how -- i do not know. but entire case is notable because , unlike typical academitard, fella was known to have balls , and successfully fired said balls even on 1 occasion. but he was not mp, worked for a living, eventually defeated. )
asciilifeform: ( he was a finn, and knew swedish )
mircea_popescu: possibly not a who, seeing how event happened over long period. who bobbits pulsar
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform money is nothing without a dick.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "failure to thrive", it's a thing.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752381 << hey, turns out there's a term for this! i had nfi. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752381 << very heavy incline, water makes it wet. turns out you run in a very peculiar manner when mostly trying not to take off under your own mommentum on a water-effect'd road! ☝︎
mircea_popescu: which is why sweden is a shithole, and always was a shithole.
mircea_popescu: in the shape of a (bad) solution to "here's the male hut, wut do now"
mircea_popescu: though various failed bioexperiments such as the pesky northern american troglodytes -- iroquis et all, seemingly managed to invent a bureaucracy-without-empire
asciilifeform: it can only happen when empire -- just like can't have a chernobyl before discovering fission
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform landlockness is a major predictor. notice, koreans less retarded than chinese. there's this sweetspot in terms of shore/sqacre basis\
mircea_popescu: there's a very deep reason why the english landed in china thought china is fit to be a sort of wales -- more distant, populated by dumber monkeys (yes the "gauls" were monkeys -- farming idiots), larger but still, fundamentally fucking wales.
asciilifeform: aha, island, beggars collected iron nails after a fire, etc.
mircea_popescu: japan is a weird case, they also failed to invent -- leather footwear.
mircea_popescu: night hall inherited from his granpa with modern teracotta item. THAT was progress, and the knights applauded, and felt proud to fight and die for such a greatly SUPERIOR homeland, as represented by their lords castle, as communicated to them by their god damned STOVE. and by, to quote period, "wer kriegt so prompt wie der preusse sein traktament!"
mircea_popescu: ie, it was strictly a manor house item historically ; and part of the manorial system in europe.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-17 03:09 mircea_popescu: turns out there was a remarkably good solution, and a bunch of notbad ones.
asciilifeform: ( ada params are a moar complicated matter than ffa might suggest: when reading heathen proggies you will encounter such things as 'aliased' i.e. pointerola , and related items. )
ben_vulpes: ah because you still pass outparams into a function call
ben_vulpes: anyways, way the heck upstack, `FZ_Clear` 'sets a given FZ to zero' but i only see an outparam; is this not more of a constructor than zero-er?
asciilifeform: the troo tragedy is that idiot orcs have mostly demolished these by nao. even when asciilifeform was a boy, slipping into attics and cellars in those massive blocks of flats, found piles and piles of rubble -- from illicitly-demolished stoves, 'Just Wanted Moar Space in flat' types
mircea_popescu: turns out there was a remarkably good solution, and a bunch of notbad ones. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and if you do a calorimetry experiment you'll see the austrian item converts nigh on 8% more than the swedish system
ben_vulpes: large thermal mass, engineering time spent to ensure complete combustion, sometimes a long horizontal chimney too?
mircea_popescu: as it happens a major center was at tirgu secuiesc in ro. apparently still active, they fix and rebuild.
ben_vulpes: i have a hole in the wall into which i pour bezzlars and light them on fire for fun
ben_vulpes: can i get a link to this "dutch stove" marvel fo engineering?
mircea_popescu: remarkab ly small. i dunno whether it's a work-of-art omfg i can't believe master stovier managed to get the smokes crushed into that space or rather "we dunno what we did". i could guess, but why guess.
mircea_popescu: standard item about 2-3 m3, though it can be made larger (there's a twinning method)
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes are you making a stove or a cookery
ben_vulpes: fireplace just ain't a worthwhile thing unless you've got the woodpile to keep ti at least smouldering all day, roaring at night, and pretty lasses to keep it stoked. nevertheless, i'll enjoy this one while i have it.
mod6: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-14#1751375 << Wern't people also deeding these a while back? ☝︎
asciilifeform: iirc in anglostan such a stove is called 'dutch stove'
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 19:34 mircea_popescu: so : the faberge egg, the original, was made in 1885 ; but it was the continuation and in a sense the crowing of a current of thought (ie, culture) and proper civilisation that reached back over a centry.
mircea_popescu: yes. it is, when one understands the problem, a properly speaking breathtaking accomplishment.
mircea_popescu: got hanbot a place with one while she resided in ro, she quite liked it iirc.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: phunphakt, franklin's stove is even today in ru known as a буржуйка ( why? dunno, because from usa ? hard to say ) ☟︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 01:38 asciilifeform yet again, for 3rd time in 2 yrs, attempted and failed to build a 'zero foot print runtime' for gnat -- to abolish the 3MB of liquishit it shits into every executable.
asciilifeform: but i want a musltronic linux, and yes with gnat
asciilifeform: nominally libc doesn't go in a gnat-baked elf, so it isn't quite the same urgency as musltronic gcc-for-trb was
asciilifeform: trinque: i'd much like to see a working musltronic gnat
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: hey relatedly as you might deduce i do have a usable gnat setup nao
ben_vulpes taking a walk down pedantry lane is al
ben_vulpes: genius brother-in-law-in-waiting decided to bless the family mountain retreat with a whole cord of what turned out to be entirely unseasoned softwood from godknowswhere. literally worst choice, literally unprepared for civilized use.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: here's a lul : where i live there is almost unlimited firewood (someone is always cutting down old wood, giving away) but i've no fireplace.
ben_vulpes: entirely unrelatedly, i had a half-cord of firewood dropped off and racked tidily in my basement a week or so ago and holy smokes the luxury of having effectively unlimited firewood during the wintertime is almost as good as i imagine not having to suffer through pacific northwest winters must be
mircea_popescu: anyway, quoted because it's a great example of the ~principle~ of the thing, whereby you don't want fucking fleas, because "government" anointed fleas are no better and no cleanner than random from the street.
mircea_popescu: some dude managed to rank ~5trillion pages in teh google cache BECAUSE the "artificial intelligence" of bayesian-cum-minimum-wage-tractor works exactly like this "hand populate a list with wikipeida and whatever, and then "rank" items"
a111: Logged on 2017-12-16 21:37 asciilifeform: !~later tell mod6 plox to consider http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-16#1752260 case , vtron really oughta barf informatively if a req'd unix util is notfound, imho
a111: Logged on 2017-12-17 01:40 asciilifeform stuck presently in an infuriating gnat labyrinth : turns out, a proggy that set pragma Restrictions(No_Secondary_Stack) , cannot use Ada.Command_Line ( equiv of argc/argc in c-planet ). so then asciilifeform went to make own replacement. and turns out , guesswat, no can haz, because pragma Restrictions(No_Unchecked_Conversion) -- and argv, where commandline lives, is a pointer to nonadatronic (i.e. c-style) string .
asciilifeform: incidentally http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752302 is worth expanding on : it is impossible to implement Ada.Command_Line sanely (i.e. without using secondary stack.) the reason is that argv is a potential 'infinity' -- it contains an uncapped number of c-strings of uncapped ( as are all c-strings ) length. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-12-01 21:17 mod6: ben_vulpes: you may want to update the link to my V in this blog post (http://cascadianhacker.com/07_v-tronics-101-a-gentle-introduction-to-the-most-serene-republic-of-bitcoins-cryptographically-backed-version-control-system) as it's old. This is the latest: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2017-March/000260.html
a111: Logged on 2017-12-16 20:39 asciilifeform: i could've sworn there was a mod6 thread about this not long ago
mircea_popescu: yes, but a bad habit tough to break
mircea_popescu: also gives a "no c main" ada proggy a serious gold trophy.
asciilifeform: so from this 4hr tour of wtf, asciilifeform learns that the only way to give his ada proggies access to argc/argv, is apparently to give'em a c main() (gnat makes this trivial) where all of the c-ism happens, which then invokes the proggy proper.
mircea_popescu: this is actually a great property.
asciilifeform stuck presently in an infuriating gnat labyrinth : turns out, a proggy that set pragma Restrictions(No_Secondary_Stack) , cannot use Ada.Command_Line ( equiv of argc/argc in c-planet ). so then asciilifeform went to make own replacement. and turns out , guesswat, no can haz, because pragma Restrictions(No_Unchecked_Conversion) -- and argv, where commandline lives, is a pointer to nonadatronic (i.e. c-style) string . ☟︎
asciilifeform: in other noose, http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1913&cpage=1#comment-18418 << congrats to PeterL, the first (self-proclaimed, but there ain't gonna be any other kind, i dun run a usg-style school, 'diploma' is a matter of yer own conscience) ffa ch1 graduate .
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: that's possibly circa-2004, at latest, thinking. today it dun look so hot even from outside, to naked eye. 'update and MUST REBOOT NAO' popups, a la microshit, crashes, even shitware beginning to bloom, whole orchestra, 'regression to mean'
PeterL: I guess it is good I built in on a mac, exposes some bugs that would not have been seen if everybody used linux
asciilifeform: !~later tell mod6 plox to consider http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-16#1752260 case , vtron really oughta barf informatively if a req'd unix util is notfound, imho ☝︎☟︎
ben_vulpes: don't contribute to linkrot, folks. at least put in a redirect when you take things down.
ben_vulpes: and i am to update my blog every time someone takes down matter linked from a mailing list post?
PeterL: bah, my kids are making a mess, I will have to continue this later
asciilifeform: iirc the command on crapple is shasum -a 512 filegoeshere
a111: Logged on 2017-12-16 20:27 PeterL: http://cascadianhacker.com/07_v-tronics-101-a-gentle-introduction-to-the-most-serene-republic-of-bitcoins-cryptographically-backed-version-control-system was the page where I went to the ml with the dead links, ben_vulpes maybe that should be updated?
asciilifeform: i could've sworn there was a mod6 thread about this not long ago ☟︎
PeterL: http://cascadianhacker.com/07_v-tronics-101-a-gentle-introduction-to-the-most-serene-republic-of-bitcoins-cryptographically-backed-version-control-system was the page where I went to the ml with the dead links, ben_vulpes maybe that should be updated? ☟︎
asciilifeform: a disney deathhose 9000, for all i know.
mircea_popescu: ether huffing at a gunpoint. was it a daisy ?
asciilifeform: meanwhile in world of cokemachine, https://archive.is/ooxkA >> new jersey , 'Louis Meza, 35, lured his pal into a minivan, where a gunman pointed a pistol at the victim and demanded his 24-word passphrase on Nov. 4, authorities said. The code was given to Meza, a cryptocurrency investor, and allowed him access to the victim's Ether wallet.'
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in dept of entomology, https://archive.is/Mli5z << a dekulakization-flavoured phorqcoin , 'Active bitcoin wallets will receive UBTC at a rate of 1:1, and inactive wallet funds will go toward supporting other high quality blockchains or other projects in the ecosystem' . 'active' appears to mean 'moved in last month'. and, bonus, '30% ... ... will be used to support at least 10 other projects in the crypto-currency eco-syst
a111: Logged on 2017-12-16 13:18 esthlos: my background is as a lisper and mathematician
asciilifeform: afaik there is not a ro-outputting machine synth worth a broken penny
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-16#1752189 << i find it hard to picture anything but randomsoup coming from such a thing ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-12-16 13:34 esthlos: i've been reading, but its hard to pull together a narrative
a111: Logged on 2017-12-16 13:30 esthlos: BingoBoingo: i've been considering hacking around with eurola, its seems like a game which actually rewards intelligence
a111: Logged on 2017-12-16 13:18 esthlos: my background is as a lisper and mathematician
BingoBoingo: Ah, the general admission exercise is reading six months of logs. Sometimes this is interpreted as the most recent, others suppose there is a "most correct" six months.
esthlos: i've been reading, but its hard to pull together a narrative ☟︎
BingoBoingo: There's also logs to read, 2013 is a good read.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, the thing to do now is register a GPG key with deedbot, preferrably before you depart.
BingoBoingo: I've heard great things about it as well, but my work has sucked me down a different Republican rabbit hole.
esthlos: BingoBoingo: i've been considering hacking around with eurola, its seems like a game which actually rewards intelligence ☟︎
BingoBoingo: There's even a TMSR fiat currency which operates alongside Bitcoin here, see http://trilema.com/2017/the-ecu/
BingoBoingo: TMSR is a self and world improvement society of fellows and fellas working to maximally empower the smart and maximally handicap the idiocy
BingoBoingo: TMSR is not primarily a currency thing.
esthlos: my background is as a lisper and mathematician ☟︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: Yes, generally it isn't polite to talk to strangers privately except to ask for a loan of voice
iangeker: it means I can send a message to the channel now?
RagnarDanneskjol: mircea_popescu iangeker is here to interview. she's around for a little while longer today and then tomorrow after 2pm China Standard Time
asciilifeform: 'They looked at me like I was a fucking videocard artefact, "something that can't exist", and I didn't insist.' << lol!!
mircea_popescu: aha. well, it IS a lot of worthless fiat nao.