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mircea_popescu: as far as any observer can determine, isis burned 50 trn worth of us soil.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i would go so far as to say that isis is the thing that made the us destroy its permanent installations in baghdad, something that has not happened since china beatthem in vietnam.
mircea_popescu: the usg is as related to this as the fly on the radiator related to the car crash.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: may as well ask 'where's the better chance, mars or venus? and ant civilization or cockroach civilization'
mircea_popescu: the russians being a fine example. i could readily stroke the same public knowledge to elicit a "I'm sure they're backwards as hell".
undata: asciilifeform: oh shit, I mean to cut through it, I'm sure they're backwards as hell
mircea_popescu: isis is about as interesting as the columbian farc, except not bound by low population and tiny geograpgy.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik isis is about as interesting as the iranian revolution. and for the same reason.
mats_cd03: i suppose i'd do ok as a company grade officer.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: perhaps as many as there are archimedes among modern greeks ?
mircea_popescu: they all succeeded about as splendidly.
Sid3waY: In was sent here as all pricetall/trading isn't allowed in Bitcoin -_-
undata: but it's not as if it's all coordinated
Apocalyptic: ascii does fancy submarines as you may have noticed
undata: as we are out of hospitable continents
asciilifeform: so long as cursors do not leave 'snail trails' - satisfied.
cazalla: as a kid, no-one picked up that i had a lazy eye, so for many years i didn't even understand why i couldn't see what all these other kids could see with those stereogram books
ben_vulpes: i can't use contacts while programming as my prescription is way out in the tail of the distribution, where the spacing between contact fabrication points squarely frames my actual needs.
asciilifeform: as all the Cr has long ago come off
ben_vulpes: i can't use very tall monitors, as i bought these glasses in high school and they have an extremely narrow field of vision.
ben_vulpes: also reincorporating as an s-corp in 2015 for ibid
ben_vulpes: book it as an expense in 2014 for taxes.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i pay quarterly anyway, but as long as its set in the contract whatr diff does it make ?
mircea_popescu: as a general principle : the only use of money in an inflationary spiral is to buy stuff.
ben_vulpes: as i said this afternoon "too much money to put to use in our own business, not enough to get into any others".
mircea_popescu: they could be Time Africa / Soviet Union / Best Korea just as well.
mircea_popescu: "we want to have a democratic process for as long as the results come out the way we like. we also want science that confirms our preconceived notions".
danielpbarron: ;;rate thomas_d 1 plays on seals as thomas_dick
assbot: Stakes Are High for Star-Backed Bitcoin Gambling Site As Crowdsale Stumbles ... ( http://bit.ly/1ADjPRF )
cazalla: but only the google cache as not to give full credit
danielpbarron: ;;rate thomas_d 1 plays on seals as thomas_dick
mircea_popescu: jus' trying to help, from my position as chief asshole this is easy.
mircea_popescu: kid wants to matter. kid doesn't have to change for this, kid wants to matter AS HE IS!
mircea_popescu: and as the expression goes, he who illuminates illuminates himself, so, lots of perhaps unknown material about yours truly as well.
punkman: well if sqlite works for conformal, can use as cheatsheet
ben_vulpes: the thought that writing to disk requires explicit concurrency semantics (DB_CONFIG requiring lock numbers configured by trial-and-error) in c++ with bdb etc (would this be true of sqlite as well?) makes me think that talking to a professionally written database over a local socket wouldn't be such a bad idea.
Vexual: lol she might as well be cazallas au pair
undata: as long as the maintainer bothered, and the package is configurable
asciilifeform: no, in this hypothetical, as i understand, we discover an irreparable boojum with chain as it exists.
mircea_popescu: but this "in romania" discussion is entirely besides the point, not like she can't just as well do it in switzerland or luxemburg or w/e.
asciilifeform: all compliant intel clones support another mode, not mentioned in manuals, which became known as 'unreal mode'
asciilifeform: just as now
asciilifeform: (various games, and winblows 3.x which used 'protected mode extender' excepted - but when you switch on prot. mode, you're no longer using msdos as such)
mircea_popescu: anyway, msdos as an os was not horrible. it wasn't great or w/e, arbitrary standards, but better oses are not actually common today.
mircea_popescu: the entire memory hole thing. bypass still present in bioses as late as the 2005s
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> compare ms-dos, still to this day accepted here as a paragon of programming << news to me
mircea_popescu: in other news : the eulora tier 0 items recipes etc are finally finished as a bulk. on next update, game will get the ~100 or so maze of resources, armors, hats, what have you.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: Belxjander: added this channel to my bouncer <<< i remember doing this, thinking to myself.. which bitcoin channels represent me as a person <<< o.O
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: anyone who creates a gizmo which depends on shitstemd - has asked to share the fate. << the practical problem with this is that bayesian filtering only works for as long as it stays small.
asciilifeform: 'As the biggest online newspaper in Slovakia we need to effectively handle everyday peaks in traffic on our online discussions regarding "women segment".' << wat
kakobrekla: all i can say (as i dont have or had access to the machine) that there is something that looks like ddos + complaint from outside of do
cazalla: Belxjander: added this channel to my bouncer <<< i remember doing this, thinking to myself.. which bitcoin channels represent me as a person.. anyway, this is the only channel you need
asciilifeform: this is easily the most putrid crock of shit i've seen in ages, masquerading as 'linux article'
punkman: "Your editor's laptop recently started to fall apart, to the point that some sort of action was required. Duct tape was considered as a solution; it would show that LWN is making careful use of its subscription revenues"
mircea_popescu: basically, gut it, use the remaining shell as a systemd-standardized interface for sane components.
mircea_popescu: one question left hanging in my head : once all the effort trying to push systemd is spent, why not just make a clone that's been shot in the head. specifically, that runs as an instance even if the root doesn't have it, and that masquerades as systemd to satisfy fake dependencies.
assbot: Double Fine lays off staff as unannounced project falls through | Polygon ... ( http://bit.ly/1tnMmSr )
punkman: http://www.polygon.com/2014/11/21/7265561/double-fine-lays-off-staff-as-unannounced-project-falls-through
Belxjander: just wish the channel names stayed in the same order as set
decimation: semi-related lols (warez): http://www.isegoria.net/2014/11/denigration-of-the-great-revolution/ "The latest Assassin’s Creed video game takes place in Paris during the French Revolution, and French leftists are appalled that the heroes of the People are depicted as bloodthirsty savages:"
mats_cd03: not as long as people like poettering keep breathing amd contributing.
mircea_popescu: compare ms-dos, still to this day accepted here as a paragon of programming,
mircea_popescu: now, this is a general economic principle, and it applies jut as well to monolithic coding approaches.
mircea_popescu: should it find a nice place to sit for a while, such as a neighbourhood, it will be fine for as long as it sits, and when that's done can walk away
mircea_popescu: think of a supermarket as if it were a giant, walking the land of midgets.
thestringpuller: "The idea that taxes drive the value of money.known as chartalism.goes back at least as far as German economist Georg Friedrich Knapp.s 1905 book .The State Theory of Money."
mircea_popescu: fizzled as one'd expect. there's a reason india was a colonial empire and not vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: Among old Africa hands, we have a saying, usually accompanied by a shrug: "Africa wins again." This is usually said after an incident such as: a beloved missionary is butchered by his congregation, for no apparent reason.
asciilifeform: (can replace with whatever names one prefers, so long as remembering that 'orc' regards 'human' as effete nithling, and 'human' regards 'orc' as a filthy shaved ape.)
mircea_popescu: it's just typical of actual people, as neatly opposed to dickles otakus or w/e populate teh us.
asciilifeform: incidentally, the one type of winblows 0day that will remain in inexhaustible supply for so long as microshit remains a thing, is the usb drive 0day.
mircea_popescu: as per usual, i see all fine ?
mircea_popescu: might as well be the greater congo masquerading as europe.
mircea_popescu: they keep supposed wives, have what they refer to as their children.
mircea_popescu: you'd expect you know, as much as a "hey, maybe this embargo thing is actually fucking eu more than ru"
asciilifeform: then, as in all cases, 'the obvious' will have to eat them for lunch.
mircea_popescu: but as soon as fucking novemver rolled around, it's not even winter yet, the eu is already soft like the average penis of the average european
mircea_popescu: sports press fulla it, especially if you count wrestling as a sport.
asciilifeform: aha, guessed as much
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'Girl under a train - they sometimes fumble, / She might cry hysterically, or no; / You can hear Reanimator mumble: / 'Please give up your ghost, my dearest, go!' / Lifetime as a cripple? Who will feed you? / Even could I do a bloody thing? / Tell me, dearest, who you think will need you, / Without legs, and without everything?' << approx. partial transl.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I've had a few as adult, and I found that I passed if I breathed through my mouth - breathing through my nose was too noisy <<< if breathing through your nose is noisy you should prolly have it fixed
decimation: I've had a few as adult, and I found that I passed if I breathed through my mouth - breathing through my nose was too noisy
asciilifeform: decimation: occupational, no, but did as a child. passed.
decimation: wireshark usb sniffing is very handy I've discovered as well
asciilifeform: sold as tv -> triangular pixels -> yuck
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Samsung plasma monitors sold as TV's seem to have good longevity. Just need to sit at a distanc
asciilifeform: phun phact. symbolics corp. had to contract to have tubes blown specially for lisp machine, as properly high-res crt was not available off the shelf
decimation: there are many studies coming out that tend to point to blue light exposure as being really bad for sleep
cazalla: the one advert makes it look like million dollar homepage so we may as well go full throttle now
mircea_popescu: as in pascal's esprit du finesse ?
nubbins`: "Suppose A, B, C and D denote the points on the sides of the square, in order. Connect A and C. Draw a perpendicular from B to the segment AC. Let point D0 lie on the perpendicular given that the distance BD0 is the same as the length of AC. Then D0 belongs to the same side (or extension of the side) of the square as D. See Figure 14. Once we know from DD0 how the square is oriented, the rest is easy."
cazalla: mircea_popescu, we discussed using text links either above/below each article as well, thoughts?
mircea_popescu: (people that object readily to "oh but comets can fly and no engine there" be confused as to what "energy density" means. calculate v**2 for comet)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: text editor experiment << when you build 'emacs', you can select 'use mmap for buffers' as a compile flag. ☟︎
xanthyos: i masturbate as infrequently as possible but when i go i empty the thing
cazalla: xanthyos, chicks dig scars.. why in pain though? i thought you guys can have as much oxy as one pleases there?
xanthyos: because it's offtopic maybe, and speaks to my mental instability which could be seen as a reason to distrust, idk
xanthyos: i have an ocd ritual of bending it back to pop it so it relaxes because if i orgasm i have anxiety as an aftereffect
Pierre_Rochard: Ok, and the CSV text as a file attachment or as just plaintext in the email?
mircea_popescu: the fact that a bunch of scams are a bunch of scams, from icbit onwards does not mean that pointing out one particular scam as a scam is "supporting the others".