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asciilifeform: this is PRECISELY mircea_popescu's argument in favour of 'symbolics died and it was good, we dodged a bullet'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the specific number - yes.
asciilifeform: and end up with something like mircea_popescu's suggested system with constant
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: reminds me, one of the core idiocies of the pgp armour format is that it conceals screaming braindamage just fine
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it came in over the wire, it isn't visible in the nipple sense, period. yer stuck with toolz
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> for the record, as ridiculous as the whole "earth was created ~30k years ago << more like ~6.1k years ago
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it means what, ethernet cable on tongue ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we had a few 3
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pgpdump -i
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nobody cancelled religious batshit
asciilifeform: alternatively ben_vulpes could simply build, e.g., ecl, for ios
asciilifeform: if it worx it may be just what doctor ordered for ben_vulpes
a111: Logged on 2016-06-03 05:33 ben_vulpes: i am likely going to buy a license because what, i pay half that per year per staff member just to derp on ios shits with some modicum less of friction
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-03#1475471 << ben_vulpes where did i ever say that you ought not to buy it..? ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'unwashed herd avoids pgp like soap' is hard to square with 'the vast majority of pgp pubkeys date to that period'... no?
a111: Logged on 2016-06-03 12:12 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-03#1475422 << that the herd is instinctively repelled by pgp, much like soap, so it's perfectly possible NOBODY uses some arbitrary windows offering. much like in the "creative writer and activist"'s house, the broom's not nearly as worn down as the mirror.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cheap solid state gyros were prolly the 1 serious advance of the 2000s
a111: Logged on 2016-06-03 13:08 mircea_popescu: it has never been this great to be a teenager, i swear.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-23 15:08 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not even a matter of sons ; the usg has no sons, nor any vigor in the seed. it's a matter of desperation - everything americans don't buy, the chinese buy, take apart and move to china.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-03 12:09 mircea_popescu: (weirdly enough, how is it that the "bounty" experience has failed to inform your opinoin of bounties, much like the "new pogo" has failed to inform your opinion of "oh noes end of pogos" ?)
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-03#1475480 << as is usually the case, mircea_popescu is the grim plague doctor, complete with beak, telling us exactly when death will come - and pretty much always on target. ☝︎
shinohai: God I love trilema mircea_popescu ...it triggers so many people.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-03 05:11 ben_vulpes: blessed be those who port c to php
asciilifeform: if i were a mircea_popescu i might put up a bounty or the like.
mircea_popescu: and in other japanews, http://66.media.tumblr.com/1904e39d9c0714d833fd435cd5f0faa2/tumblr_o0de7zkzHV1u9ovyno1_400.gif ☟︎
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes nb i guess ? /me hasn't been following the whole "let's make muscles" thing
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> anyway, wiped. i guess once tbot's here ima put the silkroad dump thing in there, maybe it's still around by the time someone figures out the world enough. << in related tbot news: i've got 8 remaining steps outlined to get us to the initial rollout in here. each isn't super hard or anything, working on the first one as I type this.
BingoBoingo: In still further news, why is Amazon.com still a thing? https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Home-smallest-diesel-inverter-generator_60282975913.html
phf: ;;later tell mircea_popescu ^
ben_vulpes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIh8L59sd30 << for mircea_popescu and asciilifeform
a111: Logged on 2016-06-02 19:02 mircea_popescu: quite. i wouldn't bother with it. "making a life" so that everyone can have one neglects the obvious point that if one fucking wanted one, he'd have made it long ago.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-02#1475251 >>>> relevant vintage lul >> http://www.sff.net/people/doylemacdonald/l_tomlin.htm ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-06-02 18:50 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if all it is, is a tarball of crud, i can pry out the pgp keyz myself
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in other oildrums of fluidz, we have tty on new b0x.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if all it is, is a tarball of crud, i can pry out the pgp keyz myself ☟︎
deedbot: mircea_popescu updated rating of punkman from 1 to -1 << timewaster.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu still suffering from his sinus thing ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he's mostly inhabiting the ruinz
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu sks-2016 sawed apart (took ~30 hrs) and now pumping in.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: thing can be, apparently, booted from tftp, pogo-style.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: thing has no 'aux storage' other than a big internal coffin for 2.5" hdd, external sata jack, and some usb.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu was not wrong: 'web'-style programming is slowly spreading everywhere.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/8d12feaa-cb19-4c6c-ba79-eda5f9c905b9 << what we get now.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: thing ships with a 256M flash, which is partitioned into pieces
asciilifeform: the only cure for these folks, i suspect. is to SPIN LIKE PROPELLERS on mircea_popescu's raging cock.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes, mod6, et al: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1644
mircea_popescu: aaand in other news, breakfast! http://67.media.tumblr.com/a2f1af6815917dc4ba5379c3ad333336/tumblr_o18gjxkGuG1u921buo1_500.gif
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Indeterminate
BingoBoingo: Reddit DIY Projects https://www.reddit.com/r/electricians/comments/4m45uq/my_first_sub_panel/
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is welcome to piss, the rocketz in the parade dun care!11
asciilifeform: did they have nitrate panic in mircea_popesculand ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's wonderful and necessary! But... "green washing"
asciilifeform: or what, workstations somehow irrelevant now in mircea_popescu's planet.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i stand by my hypothesis. the pogos etc. are NOT workstations.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-01 23:59 asciilifeform: did mircea_popescu predict that other nas gadgets will be found and i - that they won't ? or sumthinglikethat?
a111: Logged on 2016-06-01 23:50 ben_vulpes: aight maybe some naggum as well. but there are extended discussions of political time in the logs.
asciilifeform: did mircea_popescu predict that other nas gadgets will be found and i - that they won't ? or sumthinglikethat? ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-06-01 22:34 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-01#1474921 << did i miss the part where those 20 lines were all prefixed with turns out mp's ideas about the evolution of the world were right ; and mine wrong ; and i really should chillax on the paranoia score ?
a111: Logged on 2016-06-01 20:31 asciilifeform: http://www.frostyplace.com/index.php?story_id=11202 << i may have found a replacement for pogo.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-01 22:33 ben_vulpes: he also got the order wrong
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: eh they'll shoot all of me here soon enuff.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-30 00:59 mircea_popescu: next ones.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-01 20:25 Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-01#1474528 << goddamnit: read article; fail to parse word ('edulcorously'); realise only two google results are (1) ben_vulpes uttering the word, and (2) this trilema artcile (the following day); end up checking roots of "edulcorate" (make something more acceptable or palatable) http://imgur.com/85Iy0el
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell pete_dushenski http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=4521 ☟︎
asciilifeform: http://blog.livedoor.jp/hide_system/archives/2013-02-05.html << suggests that this is same board, and 1 of the 4pin pads, as usual, is tty.
asciilifeform: mod6: http://imgur.com/a/991vV ( or https://archive.is/ddDoq for mircea_popescu )
mod6: <+asciilifeform> including the uncommon mircea_popescuine one. << sweet
asciilifeform: including the uncommon mircea_popescuine one.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/the-hour-of-reckoning/ was a nice read, thanks. chance, right.
asciilifeform: http://aphnetworks.com/reviews/silverstone_dc01/2
asciilifeform: http://www.frostyplace.com/index.php?story_id=11202 << i may have found a replacement for pogo. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes, mod6, et al:
a111: Logged on 2016-06-01 15:33 mircea_popescu: Framedragger no, it's just luck, there's no rational solution out of the problem. see http://trilema.com/2014/the-hour-of-reckoning/ for the discussion if haven't already.
Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-01#1474528 << goddamnit: read article; fail to parse word ('edulcorously'); realise only two google results are (1) ben_vulpes uttering the word, and (2) this trilema artcile (the following day); end up checking roots of "edulcorate" (make something more acceptable or palatable) http://imgur.com/85Iy0el ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu gonna fire up sks dump circa 2016 shortly.
mircea_popescu: yeah, it's actually in the logs. mike_c had some theories about bitbet and how it could be better, we tried it out, on the conway cell thing. he made a very pretty looking game out of it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 1) define 'phinary' algebra 2) ?????????????? 3) profit!111
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> the life policy carries a stated beneficiary << AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA Welcome to USSA. Beneficiary gets life insurance policy if they took it out on deceased themselves, but otherwise in USistani brokeness many times must first pass "DOes estate have expenses test"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is more in the 'arab caesar cipher' vein, of cheating self.
a111: Logged on 2016-02-10 01:34 mircea_popescu: or to get back to exponential space problems : "decide first order logic propositions with real numbers, adition and comparison" is a very hard problem.
asciilifeform: i recall there was thread where mircea_popescu suggested the use of nonstandard bases to frustrate enemy per 'specificity of diddling' principle.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is quite like those 1980s papers about star drives
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: this is super unimportant but under your analysis, he says that 2 is safer than 1. you claim that 1 is safer than 2. should be inverted, methinks. (the "(less safe)" refers to 1, not to 2.)
a111: Logged on 2016-06-01 14:41 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu apparently needs a better killing jar ? his butterflies are still flyin'
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: merely point out that the "root layer of the universe structure" may be a blocker on this bug. but the root layer has needed a paddlin' anyway..
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: previous to last night, phf's 'last' link dropped you in an anchored point in time. which, when reloaded, will give you that log page eternally, even if new ones exist.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: see thread from this morning. hashes suck in exactly the way aes sucks.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-29 14:21 mircea_popescu: and that finally there is absolutely no reason to implement arbitrary division in the machine, nor does such idiocy exist in nature ; that the correct machine representation of numbers is FRACTIONS not fucking "decimals", and that computers that natively support bignum up to the size of memory and execute gcd in hardware aren't either particularly hard to make nor their absence to date excusable.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in usa, there is saying 'market is not invisible hand, but a tentacle - sometimes, rapes'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: elaborate re 'different lists' vs 'same lists, ordered differently'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the solution is called 'market', no ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: research lab where one has to explain the criteria of divisibility with 2... <<< aaaaaaaaand guess where i worked !
a111: Logged on 2016-05-31 19:04 asciilifeform: eh iirc mircea_popescu flies these in and reprogramms them to spec in days.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-31 19:01 ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i enjoy the company of adults, not children
a111: Logged on 2016-05-31 18:52 ben_vulpes: a friend of mine recently broke up with his girl of 4+ years, and i realized during conversation about his new dating adventures and the kinds of women he was encountering that i would have patience for approximately zero reeducation at this point in my life.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-31 18:50 asciilifeform: for instance, i'm about to buy moar display. it will be an lcd. but if mircea_popescu buys another display, it won't be lcd, it'll be a thing where a gurl flips pixels manually.
deedbot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Giffen << James Giffen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | http://foreignpolicy.com/2010/11/19/was-james-giffen-telling-the-truth/ << Was James Giffen telling the truth? | Foreign Policy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhgate << Kazakhgate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
shinohai: Naturally r/btc crowd is celebrating this resurrection: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4lvwzo/gavin_andresen_recent_rise_in_ethereum_should_be/d3qj7af
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu apparently needs a better killing jar ? his butterflies are still flyin' ☟︎
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu socialistoid idiocy comes from lizard brain, not from b00kz. (though it can appear therein)