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trinque: danielpbarron: said something about teh gays your job didn't like?
danielpbarron: it happened to me too. s'why I purged all social media of any reference to having a job
trinque: who gives a shit what a chicken sandwich company says about anything other than the sandwiches?
danielpbarron: probably them ya
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron what was that company that was "under fire" for something or other to do with gay marriage, ended up with booming sales ?
mircea_popescu is not that crazy about the workout flats.
danielpbarron: apparently the fire backfired and scored the company more sales
mircea_popescu: in other news : http://40.media.tumblr.com/e2ee7e04c2577655bc8aa69b393caf58/tumblr_mesvhfBhNW1rpfeuyo1_1280.jpg where have all the female bellies went ?
Kalki: really enjoying the writing!
Kalki: just an explorer who stumbled onto Trilema
Kalki: Hi, and thanks...
mircea_popescu: "a bunch of fat slobs with too much time on their hands and a govt-subsidized internet connection are mashing keyboards" ?
mircea_popescu: "under fire" ? what exactly does that mean ?
trinque: gut-o-meter says a dude wrote that
ben_vulpes: with babes and children swinging from the guy wires!
mircea_popescu: in other news, "We always used condoms before, and we both agreed he's only going to fuck my ass now that we're married. We both love the symbolism — I'll be shitting out his weak sperm while superior black men's seed will soak into my womb as nature intended."
ben_vulpes: i have a romantic attachment to the atomic dirigible!
assbot: Logged on 12-05-2015 00:22:47; decimation: suddenly flying r/c aircraft went from pleasant hobby to malevolent drone warfare upon the people
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-05-2015#1128674 << not suddenly. once the usg got involved. it has the shidas touch. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: the LAST thing i want is all the idiots buzzing around IN PLANES. ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 12-05-2015 00:20:24; asciilifeform: also depressing though
mod6: alright, so I'm gonna wrap up this gentoo stage3 guide, and then I'll dig in and see if I can find what's going on in there.
asciilifeform: can 'energy harvest' (see, e.g., esp8266 threads) etc.
asciilifeform: submarine has the virtue of not falling down and exploding if it runs out of juice
asciilifeform: consider autonomous submarines (torpedo-sized) alternatively. far easier to hide in the ocean, esp. if you're small, electric, and in no hurry whatsoever - than in the air.
ben_vulpes: and if 1111st, why bother with the investigation?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: depends on whether this is the first airship or the 1111st.
ben_vulpes: (i'm not ignorant of the radar issue, for the record. i just so happen to think the ars response would be "nothing could really be that big" and other interesting things."
asciilifeform: to do its thing
asciilifeform: because no way in hell does that thing actually -need- 200+M
asciilifeform: mod6: the obvious steps are 1) determine if still leaks (tentatively, i will say that it does not) and 2) determine wtf is eating the ram ☟︎
asciilifeform: (not to mention visual)
mod6: but anyway, yeah if it's still too large for the pogo, i guess that doesn't help us exactly.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: as in original thread, i will point out that dirigibles (aside from being blown off-course more often than not, and being stuck doing idiotic things like venting lift gas) have gigantic radar cross-sections
ben_vulpes: "the prinary concerns of the Air Force as of 1010 are the establishment of a radar network for control of the country's airspace..." << hyuu
danielpbarron: collateral damage or target practice?
mod6: so i guess I'm wrong then, if that 3255776 bytes is actually available
mod6: well, a lot of it was cached, yes. as opposed to "free" or "buffered"
asciilifeform: because the former is unbounded, but will never oomkill the process
mod6: yeah, i can say, that it looks like (from my testing) that it did use pretty much almost all of the RAM available to my environment.
asciilifeform: thing appears to run in approximately constant memory footprint, but far too large for 'pogo' etc. and very suggestive of fragging
mod6: I did look through them.
assbot: Logged on 28-03-2015 02:23:30; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: pigeons: let's scratch the arithmetic itch. approx. 8400 km from me to b-a. a LiMnO2 (non-rechargeable) battery yields approx. 400 Wh/kg.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: found it. http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-03-2015#1075949 << that one ☝︎
ben_vulpes: i recall the one where you lamented nobody doing transoceanic trips with dirigibles
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes missed the thread where we 'did' this one ?
ben_vulpes: let's smuggle things into argentina with roboblimps
asciilifeform: i fully expect that being so much as found with a model propeller will be grounds for '25 to life' after the first quadcopter explodes somewhere interesting
decimation: suddenly flying r/c aircraft went from pleasant hobby to malevolent drone warfare upon the people ☟︎
decimation: usg event wants to sit upon hobbyists who fly r/c aircraft
asciilifeform: 'do strictly prescribed things except if you're rich and willing to fill out paperwork for every hour you want to do whatever'
ben_vulpes: "either build it by hand or lease time on someone else's system"?
decimation: yeah, depressing thought
asciilifeform: so aviation looks quite like what personal computing will look like in a decade or two.
decimation: actually I think aircraft could become much more 'personal', but usg has sat upon them
asciilifeform: except the buggers (for various reasons, not all 'evil') - won.
asciilifeform: at one point, airplanes were supposed to 'happen' sorta like personal computer was going to
decimation: asciilifeform: a museum that contains nothing but false promises?
asciilifeform: also depressing though ☟︎
asciilifeform: ^ these get nowhere near enough museum space. the 'boring' car-like airplanes that 'everyone will have' in the future-of-the-past.
asciilifeform: 'The kit includes all components necessary for construction of the aircraft body up to the firewall, pre-cut and pre-bent.' (http://www.tillamookair.com/chris-teena-mini-coupe)
decimation: I went to the boeing museum in seattle once, it was pretty neat too. you could walk through nixon's air force one
assbot: Aircraft — Tillamook Air Museum ... ( http://bit.ly/1zWuyIn )
ben_vulpes: http://evergreenmuseum.org/ http://www.tillamookair.com/aircraft/ << reasons to visit, asciilifeform
asciilifeform: i think i kinda live in something like this already
decimation: most of them are drunk, live in depressing hovels
decimation: If you want depressing, go to a real indian reservation out west somewhere
decimation: yeah but the chips & salsa were good
asciilifeform: 'shit they pawned off on the indians' museum.
decimation: plus, all 50000 tourists want to huddle in the air & space museum, nobody gives a shit about indians
decimation: asciilifeform: as I recall they now have a joint strike fighter at dulles - with the vertical takeoff variant
decimation: I found the best place to shelter was the indian museum - they have a great cafe that serves 'authentic' indian food. I had chips & salsa and a beer.
asciilifeform: so in the 'drones' hall, they had an 'rq-3a' ( http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?object=nasm_A20070230000 ) and its arse and mouth were glued shut
decimation: weirdly there aren't any decent restrants/cafes within a short walk
decimation: once I was trapped on the mall during a summer thunderstorm
asciilifeform: heard part of his talk
asciilifeform: decimation: i recall when the guy was on tour
decimation: the museum at dulles has the b-29 that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki
asciilifeform: other funny bit re: museum - they had a 'drones' exhibit, with all the major well-known types
decimation: nah they have bushes outside
trinque: they tell you specifically to *bury* it? like a cat turd?
decimation: I bet if you went down to the grounds with a metal detector you could find 1000 knives
decimation: yeah that's what I did too
asciilifeform: hilariously, the bouncer at first threw me out - on account of my very small pocket knife. had to go and bury it.
decimation: actually I think the best aircraft museum in the us is the air force museum in dayton, oh
decimation: yeah they update stuff every once in awhile
decimation: oh the one downtown?
asciilifeform: hadn't been there since was a schoolboy, and went again
asciilifeform: this one was in the museum, but somehow i never noticed it
decimation: where was the me262? dulles airport museum?
decimation: asciilifeform: did you see the wwii aircraft fly over the mall?
decimation: asciilifeform: or you discover that there are no tomatoes anywhere outside the garden
assbot: Logged on 11-05-2015 22:58:48; mircea_popescu: nevertheless, ~IF~ you do get some tomatoes to grow, they are yours.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-05-2015#1128547 << to complete the painting, you build a telescope - out of sight of the demented old bastard - and see thermonuked wasteland around, no tomato in sight. then you build a spark gap radio and discover that on other side of planet, there are a few quasi-functioning tomato gardens. perhaps one or two per continent. ☝︎
trinque checks the climacs page for activity
trinque: eh dunno if that's tape
trinque: as you can see, the suit's perfectly conformed to his unique form
decimation: jurov: re: st. cyril & methoius < apparently it depends on whether you use the julian calendar
cazalla: reports from earlier in the year suggest 0.05% on deposits up to $250,00 AUD
cazalla: ben_vulpes, no specific details yet afaik, but this country is fucked regardless