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mircea_popescu: it's true that organic complex systems take a number of tries to arrive at a result. but that sort of failure rate is not seen in nature - woman doesn'
t abort 10 for every one it carries to term. aborts less than half.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla lol you can leave it blank, i occasionalyl did, but you really shouldn'
t.
mircea_popescu: obviously the fact that the road is observably long and the first steps haven'
t been made is somewhat concerning
mircea_popescu: but as it is, the payment won'
t clear (ie, won'
t leave sending bank to go to receiving bank) unless the name and number match.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski wouldn'
t go as far as watched, but it was immensely popular and i am culturally aware.
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 01:27:15; mats: howbout reasons why win10 ain'
t so bad as win7, 8, 8.1.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the point of study isn'
t "memorize this list of bugs"
mircea_popescu: "unless it runs 10k x 5k i won'
t use it, except i do".
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 13:33:33; mircea_popescu: and if it can'
t drive a 10,000 x 5,000 pixel array at reasonable frame rate << how did you get the numbers asciilifeform ? for instance, shouldn'
t it be 16:9 ? so then why not 16000 : 9000 ? 8000:4500 ?
mircea_popescu wouldn'
t mind using that on a few skulls, so. progress!
pete_dushenski: well botulism isn'
t hard to acquire when you're stuffing umbilical cord stumps with dirt
pete_dushenski: i knew that public health training was going to come in handy, but i didn'
t expect that it be on computers !
mircea_popescu: and if it can'
t drive a 10,000 x 5,000 pixel array at reasonable frame rate << how did you get the numbers asciilifeform ? for instance, shouldn'
t it be 16:9 ? so then why not 16000 : 9000 ? 8000:4500 ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-09-2015#1273847 << cuz at the time it wasn'
t exactly clear how this'd work (as the contract is a future on a yet nonexistent pair) and cuz i wanted it to be a negotiable instrument rather than a specified thing, specifically because that sort of vague future deal requires some room to wiggle.
☝︎ trinque: and I don'
t pay kids up front
trinque: can'
t compare the cost of edible food with the turd
trinque: and then if nobody buys it, doesn'
t get done
trinque: and I don'
t see this working for a vast number of packages
trinque: I'd have said I wanna smoke a blunt with him even if he didn'
t call his site "dankwiki"
trinque: thestringpuller: why isn'
t this guy here?
mats: fun fact: gpg's serialization layer uses s-expressions rather than asn.1 and as a result, despite being hand-rolled in C, there doesn'
t appear to be any memory corruption in canonical mode
☟︎ phf: i'm not sure if this is special pleading, or a case of a stranger using the technology he doesn'
t understand to shoot own foot. in the future perhaps expect more "but i'm me i have a passport from obama" people
ascii_field: if you can'
t verify a block in <10min GUARANTEED you don'
t have a computer.
BingoBoingo: Easy comparatively, IF level of cleanroom isn'
t spec'd
trinque: bit old, but didn'
t find in logs
ascii_field: but it is very clear, from their www, that it is a 'if you have to ask for prices, you can'
t afford this' affair.
☟︎ trinque: didn'
t propose that; proposed a V repo of tools deps and shell scripts
ascii_field: i couldn'
t even get pcmcia to work reliably on it.
ascii_field: but if it doesn'
t do 10GB ethernet, hardware raid, gigantic display, etc. - it can go to hell.
trinque: I haven'
t looked at it in years
ascii_field: thing is, if it won'
t ~correctly~ build x11, emacs & its dependencies, etc. - it is not a workstation linux.
ascii_field: trinque: thing is, if it doesn'
t do x11 on ARBITRARY DISPLAY then it WON'
T be my workstation. but if it DOES do x11, then it is not shitgnomery-proof
ascii_field: and it wasn'
t usg in particular, but industrial slave empires in general
trinque: anton_osika: I think those here are tired of the pleading; I didn'
t voice you for that. And no, we do not vote on mircea_popescu's actions.
HeySteve: having connection difficulties lately so I haven'
t been doing the manual sign in
shinohai: Well can'
t say danielpbarron hasn'
t done his part for the cult.
fluffypony: cazalla: he follows me on Twitter and we've pm'd a bit, don'
t know him outside of that
thestringpuller: i actually don'
t think all the xanex in the world would help
thestringpuller: like hitting dudes in the balls? that isn'
t very fun either.
ben_vulpes: the things women generally enthuse about doing to cocks doesn'
t appeal to me either.
nubbins`: you think that's too real, don'
t ask me about cellular automata
thestringpuller: I didn'
t get to play Chrono Trigger till the PSX era when they rereleased it. It's a great game. Just so many different endings.
mircea_popescu: amusingly enough, in-wot you can;'
t even define "warez".
nubbins`: well, we can'
t take that away from you
trinque: doesn'
t matter still lolled
mircea_popescu: because seriously, nobody needs them nobody wants them and they shouldn'
t even be here in the first place.
mircea_popescu: because YOU know if you are or you aren'
t worth shit, and YOU act accordingly.
cazalla: thestringpuller, have not played recently so won'
t be any time soon
nubbins`: or at least that's the outer layer of it, i can'
t be fucked to peel all of his onions for him
thestringpuller: trinque: star fox is a lot like link. doesn'
t really change. (i'm under the notion windwaker was a throwback)
nubbins`: you mean you wouldn'
t move to tanzania if you could milk a cow?
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 22:42:34; nubbins`: but he doesn'
t know how
thestringpuller: can'
t make this dumb up: "surprise surprise. This was already brought up here about 3 months ago. Unfortunately with the Coinwallet Stress Test the other Altcoin businesses will use the results as a casestudy when they pitch their own blockchain to Fidelity, Citibank ,etc etc."
mircea_popescu: anton_osika i don'
t understand what you think pgp sigs have to do with phuctor ?
mircea_popescu: and who the fuck decided you even GET to have "expectations". and if you do, why can'
t it ? it expects the government to fix his bed wetting now!
mircea_popescu: * trinque [...] a very angry man about why what I did was below what was expected of me << for the record, i don'
t think very much of this entire "expectations" verbiage/bs. if you think a little about it, so would you. a) what sort of fucking powerless vulnerable schmuck lets himself get into the position of DEPENDING on a kid ? that's what you're saying. don'
t say that, not only is it not true it's also very stupid.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Tanzania doesn'
t seem so bad. Only one in 20 people are HIV positive
trinque: and not as if this was all the time; I didn'
t like it, you see :P
cazalla: and i've made the war face and had staring competition with the kid when having a tantrum, he doesn'
t budge so quickly
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-09-2015#1272772 << it's very funny to me that all sorts of social media derps take total umbrage to my stating things like "your sexual parts are collectively owned by the otyher gender", but then the community-ownership oif the product thereof is fairly uncontroversial. this is best proof if one needs proof that no, people don'
t do anything because.
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 20:47:22; cazalla: trinque, i really don'
t think they'd understand or be able to make a connection between their behaviour and your reaction
thestringpuller: I would assume American who goes to Bob's Burgers everyday for lunch would be less inclined to throw molotov and bricks in Bob's windows during "revolt/riot" but doesn'
t seem to be case.
thestringpuller: the revolution in Romania during the late 80's didn'
t involve rioting?
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 19:58:20; nubbins`: mp can probably relate tales of .ro folk going apeshit in streets in late 80s, early 90s, and they weren'
t muslim
thestringpuller: rioting doesn'
t do anything tho except tear down your neighbor's business.
mircea_popescu: "people" don'
t do anything for any other reason than because "that's what's done".
trinque: anton_osika: see that EMP isn'
t gonna be so bad