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phf: i was trying to be ~polite~. if you put "10 years of unix" on your resume, i sort of assume "tell me your favorite editor and then ssh into the box for interview" is a bushido level of politeness ☟︎

phf: same thread as a guy who freaked the fuck out, because i told him to ssh into a box for the interview ☟︎

phf: oh yeah, right, we did have a thread

phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-19#1715850 << i stopped doing even those. i've had a couple of months of lulzy 5 minute litmus tests that resulted in 100% failure rate, which made me think that perhaps the whole "teach everyone!1 to program" basically means that s/n has finally approached 0. ☝︎

asciilifeform: also didjaknow, 'Section 609 requires the DNI, in coordination with the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of FBI, the Director of CIA, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of the Treasury, to develop a whole-of-government strategy for countering Russian cyber threats against United States electoral systems and processes'

asciilifeform: other lulz include 'Section 402 requires the DNI, within 30 days of enactment, to sponsor a security clearance for each eligible chief election official of a State, territory, or the District of Columbia (and up to one eligible designee), up to the top secret level. Section 402 also requires the DNI to share appropriate classified information-related threats to election systems and to the integrity of the election process with chief

asciilifeform: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/JHUvM/?raw=true << in other lulz. i'll skip to the money shot: 'It is the sense of Congress that WikiLeaks and the senior leadership of WikiLeaks resemble a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors and should be treated as such a service by the United States.'

ben_vulpes: and in other things american hospitals are willing to charge a tidy hundo to use a single item of: http://www.ebay.com/itm/McKesson-Rapid-Diagnostic-Test-Kit-Medi-Lab-Performance-Strep-A-CLIA-Waived-2-/122676899273?hash=item1c901cedc9:g:DzcAAOSw9ENZpvbV

ben_vulpes: mouth now open, waiting for them to pour in; found a non sybil i guess.

mircea_popescu: or w/e, there's a by now lengthy comet tails' worth of idiots who WERE NOT CONSULTED.

a111: Logged on 2017-09-19 17:22 trinque: has the forum yet digested a calitard?

ben_vulpes: gotta lead em on a bit for max lulz, "hm, what informations are we talking about here?"

asciilifeform: a tard, apparently, who else

trinque: has the forum yet digested a calitard? ☟︎

deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2017/09/19/strawberry-creek-wunderland/ << » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - Strawberry Creek Wunderland

asciilifeform: ftware here was itself financed by the U.S. government: millions of dollars a year flowing to crypto radicals from the Pentagon, the State Department, and organizations spun off from the CIA.'

asciilifeform: in other trilema-plagiarism arts , https://archive.is/M7Mse << '...many of these self-styled online radicals were actually military contractors, drawing salaries with benefits from the very same U.S. national security state they claimed to be fighting. Their spunky crypto-tech also turned out, on closer inspection, to be a jury-rigged and porous Potemkin Village version of secure digital communications. What’s more, the relevant so

BingoBoingo: In other news, there's a new season of South Park

BingoBoingo: And a laff:"On Sunday night, as police officers marched downtown, a Post-Dispatch photographer heard them chant a refrain most often heard at Ferguson protests: “Whose streets? Our streets.”"

BingoBoingo: But sometimes you wanna grow a tomato and there's a fucker growing corn within 85 miles which puts you within a day's flight of stinkbug horde

trinque: not like I don't spray a perimeter around my home, but other than that, if there's nothing to eat, there's nothing to eat

mircea_popescu: i do have a lot of geckos, but tbh they're great.

trinque: there's a little wolf guy living in my truck somewhere at the moment

trinque: and hell I'll keep a spider around too if it's not bothering me

trinque has a cat for murdering those, roaches, w/e crawls and therefore mustest die.

BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> but not a bigger rat than the fucking corn eaters. << raccoons are corn eaters!

BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> well, racoons are a very successful sort of rat. as a result, they don't have any friends among the people they interact with on any kind of regular basis. kinda like pigeons, actually. << Aha, like their namesake. For people interacting with them occasionally "entertaining", in constant contact universally nuissance

asciilifeform: but not a bigger rat than the fucking corn eaters.

BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Because sarin, like malathion and vx has a repellent effect for the lucky to get a whiff from sufficient distance

mircea_popescu: well, racoons are a very successful sort of rat. as a result, they don't have any friends among the people they interact with on any kind of regular basis. kinda like pigeons, actually.

BingoBoingo: raccoon in a red circle with a slash through it—might unintentionally make matters worse."

BingoBoingo: Compare to 13 years later: "In response, this week Michigan officials are considering new rules to limit the use of the pesticide. If the rules are approved, as expected, Michigan would join a growing number of states and the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in trying to prevent the misuse of methomyl, in part by restricting who can buy it and requiring new warning labels. But some observers fear the labels—which depict a

asciilifeform: tried and failed to cough up a branch-free newton's method of any kind

asciilifeform: still fascinated with the question of whether a constant-spacetime 'divide&conquer' divisitron is possible.

asciilifeform currently working on a modified knuth's nonrestoring div algo that permits a half-bitness remainder. this saves B/2 in each of the O(N) shift and mux operations

a111: Logged on 2017-09-18 22:51 mircea_popescu: this is the fundamental problem of racism, that it imagines a bag in which there are 8e795 possible balls out of which you pull 8e20 or so can be approximated on the basis of "i've seen THOUSANDS of 8e20 pulls! and besides, the bag is only like 8e21 or maaaybe 8e22". it is not. it is literally 8e795.

asciilifeform: '...we proposed a compromise. We agreed to stand down regarding the EME standard, provided that the W3C extend its existing IPR policies to deter members from using DRM laws in connection with the EME (such as Section 1201 of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act or European national implementations of Article 6 of the EUCD) except in combination with another cause of action.' << quislings

ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: it is north, but not by much. culturally, it is to the 'right', and by enough to feel the difference on a daily basis.

ben_vulpes: i really do give a shit about being au courant with the hickset, BingoBoingo

ben_vulpes: i am wearing a john deere meshback as we speak

ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i also know a few of the girls involved

mircea_popescu: a psychopath, you see, is one whose intellectual development arrested at a very early stage, baby looks at its mother's eyes and doth not perceive aught past the glass. a socialmediapath, however, is one who simply forgot there is such a thing as people.

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if the story-field is reddit, instagram et all, have to factor in that if it's not a good story then why are people reading it and simple minds don't know a good asshole from a hole in the over the top ground.

ben_vulpes: i was musing to a close friend who is in frequent wonderation at what i've wrought in my tiny domain that i doubt that i could pull the same thing off again ex a) the influences of this cult and b) taking her home at 23 or whatever it was

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ah, yeah, age doth play a major part.

mircea_popescu: this is the fundamental problem of racism, that it imagines a bag in which there are 8e795 possible balls out of which you pull 8e20 or so can be approximated on the basis of "i've seen THOUSANDS of 8e20 pulls! and besides, the bag is only like 8e21 or maaaybe 8e22". it is not. it is literally 8e795. ☟︎

ben_vulpes: i remain unconvinced that selection applied to us base stock will filter anything of quality out; ppm one'd want to filter for demands astronomical throughput. perhaps this is just the perspective of a guy who's been stuck in the mayogendered, kilt-wearing, anally opposed to the notion of getting pretty for a date, "i won't buy the truck you suggest i buy because A MAN SUGGESTED I BUY A GOOD TRUCK and that

ben_vulpes: the relevant other side of http://logs.bvulpes.com/trilema?d=2017-9-11#202626 is that they know intimately how shitty their own street urchins are; and hope that *any* selection process applied to a base stock of omfg not that shit that i see every day will yield better results than the horror stories of american "foster system", obvious drawbacks of adopting out of their local pool of poor

BingoBoingo: Even if mommy-ho is as per ben_vulpes description "a mountain of meat"

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform understand, that's ~strictly how "civilised" life "in a civilised society" works. "everyone's out there playing monopoly, but a lawyer is the only guy who read the inside of the top of the box" and so following.

asciilifeform: ( to nitpick, yes the heathens have a scenario where it still does something, where everybody has 'star topology' 'wot' consisting of the greatinca. but to call this 'meaningful' is a stretch. )

asciilifeform: 'A buffer overflow was discovered in tpacket_rcv() function in the Linux kernel since v4.6-rc1 through v4.13. A number of socket-related syscalls can be made to set up a configuration when each packet received by a network interface can cause writing up to 10 bytes to a kernel memory outside of a kernel buffer...'

a111: Logged on 2017-09-18 05:40 ben_vulpes: getting in on any sort of investment with a woman you don't own lock stock and all three holes is the dumbest thing i have ever heard of

asciilifeform: but then again never saw a piano with shit on keys either.

phf: asciilifeform: i'm actually surprised, you guys didn't have a separate water hose in your su bathroom for ass washing?

asciilifeform: more newtons than laplaces, by a fat margin.

phf: there's no хруст французской булки nobility, it's as much of a su invention as the idea that workers&farmers built space program

a111: Logged on 2014-04-24 00:33 asciilifeform: me grandpa (physicist) first encountered a bidet in vienna

a111: Logged on 2017-09-18 12:00 phf: i'm sure there's a lateral systematic rot there, but not directly where you point http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-17#1715331 there's a technical reasons for why you want 3 generation bidet before touching piano

asciilifeform: meanwhile, in the entomology dept, https://archive.is/e7TuU << one for the flondor list. a very dedicated goebbels.

a111: Logged on 2017-09-17 14:59 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-17#1715304 << on one hand, idiot rabble uprising, sure, on other -- fr elite suffered from a fatal case of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-03#1611080 rot

phf: i'm sure there's a lateral systematic rot there, but not directly where you point http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-17#1715331 there's a technical reasons for why you want 3 generation bidet before touching piano ☝︎☟︎

a111: Logged on 2017-09-17 15:01 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-17#1715307 << didja sleep though the century when '1st gen in shoes' folx handed 'cultured' europe its arse on a platter, and then flew into space etc

a111: Logged on 2017-09-15 21:51 mircea_popescu: phf yeah, do you have a muscovi corp reg'd ?

phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-15#1714939 << no, i'm going to meet with a friend who jumped through those hoops though. he might know a couple of moscows collocations ☝︎

ben_vulpes: hey she's a mermaid

ben_vulpes: now that is a mountain of meat

ben_vulpes: and in other splittenings; bill kristol presents the "exquisitely poll-tested effort to create a safe new center" (nolabels.org); "we stand together against an alternative right disdainful of the traditions of American conservativism and a vocal left that blends socialist economics with identity politics" hurrrrr yes please i would like my beige underpowered mini van with tan seats oh and can i have the

ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: a+ bukkit of lolz

ben_vulpes: getting in on any sort of investment with a woman you don't own lock stock and all three holes is the dumbest thing i have ever heard of ☟︎

BingoBoingo: with those kind of things than he is. But to be clear. I'm not taking advantage of him. He knows we need a good house together. I'll be moving from my parents' house and won't be moving into some drab fixer-upper that needs workers over all the time, which is really expensive in the long-run anyways. We've talked about this. He knows we need a decent house. And all the ones within our "budget" are drab fixer-uppers which we really didn't

BingoBoingo: http://archive.is/UrXRj >> "I can do the basic stuff and have already watched some youtube videos, but I'll also be around whenever we need a repairman to come and he's at work, which helps out a lot. I'll also be doing my part with the household chores when he's not around and making sure the place is clean. I'll also be in charge of the finances and make sure the bills are paid on time and everything like that. I'm much more organized

BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> and similarly i could see myself having a problem with "the expansion of their commercial influence" if it's essentially aiming to make the world safer for old women. << i.e the Yankee cancer.

mats: well, that'd be an internal issue for the party, i don't see a chinese interest in ruling over anybody else, just extracting tribute

mircea_popescu: and similarly i could see myself having a problem with "the expansion of their commercial influence" if it's essentially aiming to make the world safer for old women.

asciilifeform: a bomb is an honest and upright thing, vs. bezzletronic bamboozlement where victim's economy slowly evaporates 'by itself', 'bad luck'

mats: i have a problem with usg doing it under pretensions of enforcing their sense of human rights and democracy

mats: i mean the expansion of their commercial influence as a general example of an empire of soft power

mircea_popescu: "omg my future! it is ruined!" "wtf do you think futures are, like orgasms ?" "yeah... as a matter of fact... i do!"

a111: Logged on 2017-09-07 14:50 mircea_popescu: say phf ! since you're in moscow, what's the bdsm scene like ? do they have a club ? mind doing a field report ?

mircea_popescu: i'd have wished you a heartfeltly traditional http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-07#1711142 ; but as it is what're we talking about ? ☝︎

mircea_popescu: mats depends what you mean by "Soft power". if by soft power you mean something as seen in the graduate, or for that matter in that lulzy thing with a 19yo tom cruise pimping out de mornay & friends, ie what teh parents are doing, i'll tell you tis outright despicable.

BingoBoingo: Gotta watch, wait, and be ready to say "NO CHINA, THAT'S A BAD CHINA" if they go too far into acting like Yankee cancer

mats: mircea_popescu: is there a single nation extant that you find civilized?

BingoBoingo would prefer a pun involving salem witch trials and sodomy

mircea_popescu: and btw : i'd like to watch a porno called "dilda das vegas".

mircea_popescu: well, so ask a question.

mircea_popescu: imagine, $icon fo all people being spared the specialness of your snowflakeitude for a whole fucking hour! THE HORROR!\

mircea_popescu: exactly. "what would you do if you were in a train compartment with einstein ?" "i'd stfu"

asciilifeform: 'but dr knuth, how often you take a shit??'

mircea_popescu: "randomtard could ask meaningful question to $interesting person, who could in turn give out an answer that's both a)something he'd sing and b) something redditard could decode".

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> the funniest bit is that it dun even need a saboteur << not one with an ama, at any rate.

asciilifeform: it is very telling imho that they could not find any d00d of any substantial intellectual caliber, to play this role ( while in su they easily got a saharov & others )

mats: nobel peace prize committee oughta give him a $1mn cash award, like liu xiaobo received for his work

asciilifeform: the funniest bit is that it dun even need a saboteur

asciilifeform: normal cannon, you can look with eyes if a barrel is clear; and even if barrel explodes, it's what, 50kjoule

asciilifeform: say, if the same hero who burned down a whole nyooksub in port , were to 'forget' a wrench in the rail.

asciilifeform: mats: ever wonder what'd a dead short do in one of these ?

mats: my favorite thing about mr. funk was his saying a couple javascript thingies were his reference wallet

mircea_popescu: but, as teh old article says, "but then again nothing in the world harder & more obdurate than the limits a brain sets for itself"