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mircea_popescu: there;s this feedback loop for writers. it's great to write->publish->read. think of it as a special sort of ooda loop.
BingoBoingo: * mircea_popescu would propose writing for qntra, but sadly qntra encountered an arrow to the knee << This is no obstacle to writing for qntra. Merely an obstacle to getting puslished on Qntra. While disaster awaits a resolution one can still write to target qntra and settle for publishing elsewhere.
elaineo: it's not just the career success, it also comes with pretend-asceticism. like a greek philosopher-king
mircea_popescu: elaineo the sort of people to whom it is socially respectable would respect you a lot more for i dunno, a gucci bag.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i spent one semester teaching myself. it helped a lot that i was one year junior to the people i was teaching and had great relationship with provost.
elaineo: to be fair, it's a socially respectable career that doesn't require any serious work
mircea_popescu: to my mind it's a lot like abusive drunk with halitosis who also makes no money coming home one night to announce he wants a divorce.
elaineo: cuz i spent a dozen years thinking that that would be my ultimate achievement in life ☟︎
elaineo: it sucks a lot ☟︎
mod6: lot of the bobcats i've seen recently have a 10-key pad to enter a code before it can be started.
asciilifeform: iirc it had to be clicked a magic # of times, or rhythm, or somesuch
BingoBoingo: Anyways, it's hard to meaningfully lock a door when excavator sleeps within 100 yards of door. Doesn't leave much time to take position with anti-materiel rifle before it closes range
ben_vulpes: it is a sad truth that all data centers i have been in have sadder coffee production facilities than even starbucks.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Prefab strip mall has shorter walk to coffee shop, provided a coffee data tenant rents space
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: http://www.apc.com/shop/us/en/products/Prefabricated-IT-Data-Hall-500kW-97-Racks-Perimeter-CW-Cooling-Mod-Distrib-480V-60Hz/P-PFMIEA500C2N097A perhaps a more suitable prefab?
BingoBoingo: https://gensteel.com/steel-building-kits/strip-malls << Anyone know a place to plop one of these outside NATO near transit cable to make datacenter?
asciilifeform: meanwhile, vex writes in, in au, with https://archive.is/Pyln1 : 'One of the country's top universities has warned maths students not to use the term 'marriage' when referring to a well-known theorem because the word may cause 'offence.''
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform chick came by in march and then a few days ago, my records show, none of you hardasses thought to up her.
mircea_popescu: and in other epic pix : http://files.cinemacenter.ir/images/0b1m007w1zswc6qjspdg.jpg check out the lt checking out the ukr slut while she's going "omfg, are there more coming still ? this will be a long night."
a111: Logged on 2017-05-23 01:04 asciilifeform: asciilifeform used 'dieharder' to reject a handful of screamingly defective analogue units , but currently isn't sure that it's good for much re a ~working~ one
mircea_popescu: counterintuitvely, the 4th decimal of pi should be within a 100th of a 100th
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in the torture room , i get a pretty flat distrib of chisqr values
a111: Logged on 2017-08-24 17:16 asciilifeform: btw you can make this right now by attaching 2 hg tilt switches to a fg , 1 on each end ( b/w the middle and the +v pins )
asciilifeform: i and iirc a few other folx -- wrote
mod6: no idea, it's been around for a while tho...
mircea_popescu: fucking hot topic, "and THIS is a pirate" "no, it's not" "19.95"
mircea_popescu: (for the curious, teeny slut above is from http://trilema.com/2010/masa-monetara/ which is part of a larger likbez on economics that i'm rather proud of)
mircea_popescu: except, of course, this is more like a levy. "oh i know, i'll argue with mp about building levies in 2015, as if that's fucking permissible now, arguing with mp ; and then in 2016 and then whoops, the obvious natural occurence took us by total suprise!!11"
a111: Logged on 2017-09-14 21:30 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-14#1714333 << much chance of survival, seeing how a state of necessity was just declared, and absent servers there's no digital.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-14#1714469 ; i dunno how oft i'll have to repeat this, but, comparatively, katrina was a minor concern. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: but in other lulz : i idly considered checking out jamaica for a week or so. a) THERE IS NO BOAT SERVICE. fucking period. can you believe this inept shit ?! and b) idjits wanna connect through... miami. atlanta. FUCKING NEW YORK, someone actyually said this to me with a straight face, "sure, flight is 10 hours, sjo to la guardia and la guardia to kin".
asciilifeform: oday sentenced to 12 months’ conditional discharge and ordered to pay a £620 fine'
mircea_popescu: who else can take a flash to the eyelid like that, but the teen slut.
BingoBoingo: In classic Trilemas of the re-readings http://trilema.com/2013/requiem-for-a-dream/
mircea_popescu: (daniel, lumet movie, about these "isaacson" couple and their spawn, a sort of rosenberg lite)
cruciform: what is it? I enjoyed a Romeo+Juliet last week
mircea_popescu: damn this cigar is a fucking great smoke.
asciilifeform at one point put in some sweat to make a real-time sks feeding thing, but junked it when found that it requires ASSENT on peering ends to work
mircea_popescu: a kk
mircea_popescu: more different now than a second before, apparently it didn't have elaine ou's pgp eithyer, notwithstanding it's on mit sks
mircea_popescu: the whole "can't prosecute me for drunk driving, i popped a magic pill" angle was just too much to swallow
asciilifeform: 'Roche never commercialized this drug due to ethical & liability concerns. It would be useful in emergency room settings where physicians neede to communicate with intoxicated accident victims. But there was too much concern about it getting diverted to become a 'party drug.''
asciilifeform: it was a yarchive thread
ben_vulpes: i'm still waiting for the case where the sting agent claims to be 18 but then the dood gets locked up because he never checked her id or some shit and the agent was really playing a fifteen year old who was just pretending to be an eighteen year old
BingoBoingo: "Cote acknowledged those efforts in her sentencing remarks. Still, she said, it was important to use his case as a deterrent to other would-be child abusers."
shinohai: Looks like the Weiner gets 21 months in a chastity cage.
BingoBoingo: tis a good property for reflecting cannonshot
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> oak encounter is actually how a lot of pine lumberjacks get fucked << And collects dead limbs in canopy!
mircea_popescu: oak encounter is actually how a lot of pine lumberjacks get fucked
asciilifeform: but oughta have done it back when it was a wire cutter job
shinohai: Well more than one way to skin a cat
shinohai: SoldierOfFortune: plox to fix your connection or get a bnc
mircea_popescu: i imagine the idea with browser stuff is you just save the javascript. as close to "compile locally, fucktard" as the redditard generation can possibly get -- guaranteed success through a browser-compiler of approximately-integer language.
asciilifeform: every time you visit a www pg, potentially you get something new.
cruciform: it's just that bitaddress.org is a black box to me
cruciform: I'll be ordering a FG soon; got some casino dice for now
a111: Logged on 2017-09-01 21:41 Barbarossa_: I'm a professsional poker player from the UK
cruciform: nah, Macau games have been bad for a while - London and LA, mostly
asciilifeform: (not a usb-specific thing)
asciilifeform: i have a 9-port pcie card, same thing
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform pretty sure you could sit down a multi-usb hub unit in the card slot
asciilifeform: the part i find interesting is that it is -- apparently -- impossible to use a current pc in the way, e.g., pdp11 was used - as box with two dozen + serial ttys hanging off
asciilifeform: mod6: the interesting bit is the -- afaik -- total absence of public discussion. because -- evidently -- Only A Terrorist (tm)(r) would use 8+ serial devices on pc.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> transfer rate on 8th and above, slows to a kB/s or so << ugh.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> one of the items i am currently working on is a fully-automatic FG tester << ahh cool.
asciilifeform: transfer rate on 8th and above, slows to a kB/s or so
asciilifeform: linux kernel ( all the varieties i've tried ) seems to have a serious ( and wholly undocumented ) problem with > 7 serial devices .
asciilifeform: one of the items i am currently working on is a fully-automatic FG tester
asciilifeform: btw did i ever print the rated power consumption of a FUCKGOATS ?
trinque: cruciform: give it a try now.
asciilifeform: re qntra, i get a ERR_NAME_RESOLUTION_FAILED -- which is not consistent with the 'box finally thrown out' picture
shinohai: It will soar in value to a whole 25 cents per!!!!!
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz from elaine ou : "ripple", which apparently is an entity that scammed wall street "investors" out of 55mn "investment" managed to write "R3" which is a sort of nothing in particular an XRP option worth supposedly a billion (admitting ripple the fake coin is worth anything) and while they can't back out of it, there's legal wrangling lulz : https://elaineou.com/2017/09/20/r3-should-just-buy-ripple/
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz : google spent a quarter billion dollars worth of its govt's printouts on "corporate diversity". the results are not exactly zero
a111: Logged on 2017-09-14 21:30 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-14#1714333 << much chance of survival, seeing how a state of necessity was just declared, and absent servers there's no digital.
mircea_popescu: aand in yet more lulz : cancer incidence increased in us adolescents by a steady 0.5 - 0.6% per year, each year, since 1975. ☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: system becomes more complex over time at a steady rate based on temperature / gates' worthless money input.
mircea_popescu: very literally true, too. the act of fermentation as a thermodynamic process is correctly modelled as an increase in entropy ie exactly "that way lies demonology"
mircea_popescu: i suppose this actually enacts a fundamental of "parsimony" in estimation of all ideal objects.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i put it to you, that if such a thing should exist, the head is at fault not the thing.
asciilifeform: there is also 'things that, if loaded into a head, make it stupider'
mircea_popescu: but this is a political consideration.
asciilifeform: ( the string orchestra not only dun give a flying fuck re parsimony, but quite the opposite , complexity cancer deliberately cultured, breeds grantolade for mediocrities )
a111: Logged on 2017-09-25 01:50 mircea_popescu: incidentally, speaking of the whole http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-22#1588696 http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-07#1711102 etc : did anyone ever come up with a formal functional expression of Dirac's delta ?
BingoBoingo may end up netting a profit on most recent speeding ticket
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz, "United States v. 11 1/4 Dozen Packages of Articles Labeled in Part Mrs. Moffat’s Shoo-Fly Powders for Drunkenness" is a genuine case citation, early in rem litigation in new york.
mircea_popescu: so he'd come out, run 10-20 cm, discover all these eyes on him, turnabout run back in, wait a little, try again...
mircea_popescu: consequently this poor animal has a bunch of people STALKING HIM, watching his house at gecko's 7-8am. just as he's getting ready to try and beat the god damned traffic to work!
mircea_popescu: now, as it happens a wall mounted screen will be watched mostly in the early evening. as it also happens, fna will sleep during day, wake up for business in the early evening.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo speaking of fna, lulz of all time : i have a wall mounted wide screen. as you can imagine, it is THE hottest bit of real estate as far as gecko is concerned (very safe, nice and warm at night, plenty of hidey places, a villa!)
mircea_popescu: (if you're in any way related to "teh industry" of "science" you're aware how much of a fucking problem content generation is / was)
mircea_popescu: anyway, there is some acturial basis for it, well buried under the fanfic. much like there's a thin sliver of actual geological survey buried under the "global warming" wank.
mircea_popescu: for the same money this set of microscopic ant guys processing a drop of mango pulp on my counter are doing research at my behest.
mircea_popescu: i'm not sure it has anything baked in above and beyond, "here's a billion we don't know what to do with, because we won it at the social mobility lottery, can anyone halp ?" resulting in an ad-hoc, informally specified, poorly directed and utterly undesigned effort to produce words and "numbers" in exchange for expense accounts.
mircea_popescu: in other vaguely related lulz : the "disability weight" is a nonsensical scalar measure invented by the kanzure type idiots who deal in "DALY" ie "societal measures of health" and such bullshit. they publish lousy fanfic with some regularity, which can be amusing. for instance, as per the 2004 official truth, blindness was the 2nd most serious problem, (after alzheimer's, ahead of schizophrenia, being the top 3) with a nonsen
mircea_popescu: but then the victorious socialism came by, started building a world of the future without such pests. this was to be accomplished through forced injection of wonder drugs, that did not work. the injecting however left egypt the highest hepatitis C place in the world, and by far. it's actually epidemiologically traceable to the victorious socialism campaigns, by geographic area and social groups.)
BingoBoingo: Now, KKKalifornia is debating a malathion ban which would mean no more produce in USA supermarket ever
BingoBoingo: Other shit's getting banned. Apparently it's getting a new life because bedbugs
mircea_popescu: he too, the monkey in zoo, "maintains social relations" such as befit a monkey in a zoo, and delouses self and friends, and does other uu-aa things which, importantly, are topologically insulated from the actual world through something known as the cage bars.
mircea_popescu: worse than that : living in a world in which work exists.