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assbot: Logged on 07-02-2015 03:18:43; mircea_popescu: sooooo... on account of bitcoind recompiled with new openssl, actual bitcoind compiled with actual openssl as of 2009 does not pass blocks in 2011
assbot: Acclaimed sci-fi writer exposed as notorious Internet troll ... ( http://bit.ly/1KzMbgf )
asciilifeform: naggum saw comp.lang.lisp as something more like a machine shop than a public square
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform laugh if you will, but if pressed to come up with a definition of humanity, at least as an ideal object, the most sound i can think up is, "that collection of objects which construct relations which degrade gracefully"
mircea_popescu: ce tag, a secretary does not produce any more measurable output now than in 1950 -- in fact, the evidence suggests that obtaining _half_ the productivity of a 1950's secretary in 1997 is a major feat. the fact that managers write their own reports at down to 1/10th of the speed of a secretary that used to be paid 1/10th of their salary also means that the time spent producing a letter or a report can cost as much as 1
mircea_popescu: (note that this does not mean the same as "was ever married" in the slightest, which is the point)
mircea_popescu: as in, "i've never heard it before"
asciilifeform: computer, as we have it, does not even know how to 'say that again plz'
mod6: im looking forward to that discussion, as well as the BDB removal discussion
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: as in how many ?
mircea_popescu: like, the node, which is an always on demon, and then various things connecting to it : such as other nodes, on the eth card, or the user, always on the specifically delegated interface, etc ?
mircea_popescu: mod6 does that idea go as far as making bitcoin a sort of xserver ?
mircea_popescu: "do not tell me of what seems acceptable as an idea to pudgy people driving on the interstate towards connecticut. i do not care."
mod6: asciilifeform: One school of thought is to take the wallet, and place it outside of the R.I. as a seperate entity.
mircea_popescu: such is the fate of right wing movements tho, bereft of means and resources as they are.
mod6: and now wedges for some crazy reason. now I'm gonna upgrade to 1.0.1g there as well (just upgraded my deb6 on vbox vm to start with) and try to pass the wedge too.
mircea_popescu: sooooo... on account of bitcoind recompiled with new openssl, actual bitcoind compiled with actual openssl as of 2009 does not pass blocks in 2011 ☟︎
asciilifeform: using same crosscompiler as for everything else
mircea_popescu: as 1 goes up and 2 goes down there's at some critical point after which a man is taking his voice in his hands.
asciilifeform: if you have healthy hands, decent input devices, it is possible to do such surprising things as speaking in complete words.
trinque: leader bindings are as fast as you type
the_scourge: as opposed to combinations which are clearly natural. they are idiomatic so the brain groks them more, and the fingers do them easier
asciilifeform: painful to watch << such as... ?
trinque: I also have esc as right alt
trinque: space as leader has done wonders for my hands
the_scourge: intuition is destroyed. creativity ruined. because we're tyring so hard to not do what we are misconceited as what went wrong?
asciilifeform: 'year zero' simply refers to a reset, where you forget that a given field even has a history (except as an encyclopaedia of what not to do.)
trinque: asciilifeform: same situation as reaching out to Java in clojure then
asciilifeform: you know, the folks who walk in with a turd and explain to you that it's 'just the same' as a sausage, but 'more up with the times'
asciilifeform: short version: 'clojure' is to, say, 'common lisp', as 'ripple' is to bitcoin.
trinque: asciilifeform: too much "magic under hood" as you said?
the_scourge: same thing here. i love playing the piano as loud as possible :D
mircea_popescu: win-win as they say.
mircea_popescu: iirc there existed an alsa as a kernel module
asciilifeform: had a perverse functional-programming master's thesis disguised as an open source project, yes
asciilifeform: at any rate, it pretty much has to be a 'buildroot' script in the end. so as everything ends up in a ro-mountable flash image.
mircea_popescu: in any case purge that systemd atrocity , as a matter of principle if not necessarily practicality.
asciilifeform: just about everything pushed as 'pure functional' (haskell, standard ml, etc.) to a large extent operate via pattern matching
the_scourge: >wireless cards could in principle be used for forming local meshes, etc. but this is for other folks to study < as long as cryptography is secure, then it's not urgent. but very interesting
mircea_popescu: exactly that. a pointed disdain of any rule and regulation not gpg signed as so much crud.
asciilifeform: ignoring 'spectrum property' and spread/hopping far and wide, as modern mil. radios do.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, it's old as in there was a photo of the psu dump out last year and it was filmed last year but new as in full clip released today
mircea_popescu: i once saw a flashlight based on this principle. a real bitch to charge << I once took a design class where this was a case study of "innovation" and "green" << as it should be. if i recall correctly the russian name is "labour & light"
asciilifeform: the noose appears to be about the same width as previously (post-'01)
danielpbarron: i recall it taking just as long when i used bootstrap.dat
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: of course it will crash. esp. if you built it with max=750 (as in the patch) but with 250 likewise
mod6: ah, my mistake. ascii numbered the "Orphanage Burner" as v0.5.3.2
trinque: thought was this claim that bitcoin as-is is slow is complete bullshit
mircea_popescu: "[Note: It is interesting to notice that Mr Kennedy, USA Ambassador in London, remarked on his return to New York in October 1940 that as a result of the war "democracy is finished". By "democracy", of course, he meant private capitalism. (Author's footnote.)]"
mircea_popescu: either way, the only thing a functioning market can expect is attack, either by government agencies masquerading as companies, or else by government agencies actually admitting their government affiliation.
mircea_popescu: exactly in the manner 40 euros are "just as good" as 48 DM
mircea_popescu: net result ? a frail, broken, centralized item to take place of the vibrant original and slowly decay. it's "just as good',
mircea_popescu: so this article discusses the famous ccc modem. at the time, germans being insane as today, it was illegal to own a modem, and you had to rent the state company ones, which were incredibly expensive.
mircea_popescu: because in any line there exists this company, which is extremely bad, almost as if it's self-parodic level bad.
mircea_popescu: it's as if there's a race of humans that is really, REALLY bad at anything they do.
mircea_popescu: as i point out in some romanian article, denim bras had i managed to import would have been gladly worn by those women half the current .ro calls mom.
mircea_popescu: moreover, gavin is about as unfrequentable intellectually as quisling
phillipsjk: So you are implicitly expecting the block-size will be much larger than 20MB sooner than we expect as well.
asciilifeform: inks too much and gets involved in brawls. No, the Real Me is an immaculate conception, untouched by human conduct: it is that unassailable core of virtue that enables me to retain my self-respect whatever I do. What I am is not at all determined by what I do; and insofar as what I do has any moral significance at all, it is up to others to ensure that the phenomenal me acts in accordance with the Real Me.'
asciilifeform: 'Violent criminals often use an expression auxiliary to “My head went” when explaining their deeds: “It wasn’t me.” Here is the psychobabble of the slums, the doctrine of the “Real Me” as refracted through the lens of urban degradation. The Real Me has nothing to do with the phenomenal me, the me that snatches old ladies’ bags, breaks into other people’s houses, beats up my wife and children, or repeatedly dr
mircea_popescu: i had this girl... she was a psych grad. weighed about 50 kgs if dressed, and had spent three years as the prison shrink.
mircea_popescu: "The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong."
mircea_popescu: i guess i'd do okay as a lord with his own court in some marsh cca 1300, but otherwise...
mircea_popescu: i've not wondered much, kinda discover the potentiality and the actuality in one package as it were.
mircea_popescu: do people really have such poor grasp of basic mechanics as to not understand that if you're not walking, there's really noi reason to be standing ?!
mircea_popescu: much as before. The State controls industry, but there are still rich and poor, masters and men."
cazalla: my plan is to avoid that stuff with my son for as long as possible
decimation: cazalla: nothing, she plays with them too. they aren't as portable though
mircea_popescu: decimation but small as in 3 yos.
mircea_popescu: i don't think anything ever was as stulfifying as the ipad game scene. perhaps the failed nes.
mircea_popescu: i guess im a reactionary. i own, substantially, the exact kind of machine i had as a child.
mircea_popescu: as in, have someone to (cut, if uncut) and prefill with blank paper.
mircea_popescu: o wait, this is like a woman that's useful as long as another woman is around ?
mircea_popescu: bash as in bourne shell, not bash as in take ntoes.
asciilifeform: as for the chumpatronics, i have no idea who uses.
asciilifeform: as a student.
asciilifeform: peculiarly high price tag, but perhaps will fall to somewhere close to zero as they sit on the shelves.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: 89 was same "civillian" form factor as 83, On the 92 user accessible rom like that could be a thing.
mircea_popescu: "And yet somehow the ruling class decayed, lost its ability, its daring, finally even its ruthlessness, until a time came when stuffed shirts like Eden or Halifax could stand out as men of exceptional talent. As for Baldwin, one could not even dignify him with the name of stuffed shirt. He was simply a hole in the air. "
asciilifeform: decimation: same dynamics as the management of hunting in game preserves.
decimation: it was built as a favor to one of the wash dc land barons
decimation: asciilifeform: re: road 200 << I actually drove on this road a few times. it was pointlessly empty, as well as having a low speed limit (55 mph)
asciilifeform: http://www.farrellf.com/projects/hardware/2013-07-26_Overclocking_the_TI-83+_Graphing_Calculator/overview.jpg << not mine. but did this for a few classmates as a schoolboy
mircea_popescu: myeah. obviously point meant as a general - and thus indefensible - jab >
asciilifeform: as i understand, they've introduced a few devices where this 'problem' is 'fixed'
scoopbot: New post on Qntra.net by cazalla: http://qntra.net/2015/02/canadian-mans-letter-to-court-accept-bitcoin-as-the-one-and-only-global-currency/
assbot: U.S. code-cracking agency works as if compromised| Technology| Reuters ... ( http://bit.ly/1DEJEyK )
decimation: http://ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCATRE6BF6BZ20101216 < ""There's no such thing as 'secure' any more," Debora Plunkett of the National Security Agency said on Thursday amid U.S. anger and embarrassment over disclosure of sensitive diplomatic cables by the web site WikiLeaks."
asciilifeform: who wants to be the first to buy a certified pre-owned (tm) ru nuke sub as mr buffett ?
decimation: asciilifeform: just as secret as your credit card number
asciilifeform: usg sees this as a civil service!
decimation: similarly, they can present themselves to the local doctor as you and send you medical bills
danielpbarron: i can't copy paste it easily right now, but it's the same as that asciilifeform
danielpbarron: same as yours in auto.sh
mod6: yeah, i mean, as recently as the 26th of january I was able to full sync and send/receive with: v053+patches { 1, rm_rf_upnp, 2, 3, 4, & 6 } and other people have gotten past it as well. so its not consistant as far as I can tell.
mod6: im just gathering data as best/quickly as i can
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes most recent openssl which bitcoind imports decided to accept as valid padded sigs
mircea_popescu: see, they had 30 years locked up, and AS A CONDITION OF THIS LOCK UP they couldn't market it.
decimation: as far as I can gather from employee comments, the 'thriving' at IBM basically consists of brokering indians to write shit code
asciilifeform: they're nearly perfect for the job as they come