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assbot: [undata] Deed system for #bitcoin-assets, updated. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1ywblfb )
mircea_popescu: anyway, read the dude's 10 page long "comment policy", then read the comments on that article.
mircea_popescu: where the fuck does the crud get in
mircea_popescu: one is The requested URL /register.ph but the other is The requested URL /register.php‎
decimation: "Within 15 seconds, the jet had accelerated to more than 575 mph and was descending at a 70 degree angle. The pilot, while monitoring his visor-mounted display and doing his best to keep an eye on the other jet, had apparently lost track of his rate of descent."
decimation: "In one of the jets, a young pilot was flying his first training mission since becoming qualified to use a special helmet that projects key flight data - such as air speed, altitude, target range - onto his visor. The pilot, investigators learned later, hadn't gone through a recommended computer-based course before being cleared to fly with the visor-mounted display."
thestringpuller: i only keep 10 lines of IRC in memory at a time like a true G
mircea_popescu: above in the log
mircea_popescu: o look, alf is now being read by the vcs :D
TheNewDeal: !down TheNewDeal
asciilifeform has no idea who this fell is
assbot: 10 Sunday Reads | The Big Picture ... ( http://bit.ly/1B6jiFY )
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: you made it to Ritholtz today http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/01/sunday-reads-27/
davout: the way i see this whole conundrum evolve is that eventually systemd will be renamed 'ubuntu'
davout: kakobrekla: dat thug life
kakobrekla edited his znc conf file many times.
davout: "ohai, i'm a config file, pls to not edit"
ben_vulpes: the requirement to configure it through the running instance is batshit
ben_vulpes: but tooling's important.
ben_vulpes: i do not want to drop 3 hours on fiddling my bouncer again.
ben_vulpes: my bouncer seems to be dropping lines
undata: man my spelling has been deplorable today
davout: i had all the easter eggs already done :D
undata: davout: probably go, the bot I'm working with is in go
undata: davout: I'd take a peak if you like
ben_vulpes: getdata is used in response to inv, to retrieve the content of a specific object, and is usually sent after receiving an inv packet, after filtering known elements. It can be used to retrieve transactions, but only if they are in the memory pool or relay set - arbitrary access to transactions in the chain is not allowed to avoid having clients start to depend on nodes having full transaction indexes (which modern nodes do not).
davout: undata: i wouldn't mind sharing the work i did so far, but you don't seem so keen on ruby
ben_vulpes: hey whose idea was it to prevent the network from relaying transactions outside of the context of blocks and was it really that good of an idea?
mircea_popescu: ok well, inasmuch undata is new and this isn't really very hard, let him do it then, gain some cred. ☟︎
undata: I'm just taking the spec as is, implementing around the go bot afore-linked
undata: sure, if there's a prefered party that's fine with me
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as there's really only going to be one, this may be counterproductive. you want it resolved ?
davout: i started toying with it a bit, apparently undata too
undata: I'm hacking on it today
davout: i think both
mircea_popescu: undata davout so was one of you two picking up deedbot ?
mircea_popescu: they had some noise makers too
mircea_popescu: oh those
asciilifeform: ww1 tech.
mircea_popescu: yup. were these the steam ones ?
mircea_popescu: (thing does a stereo *ping* in the direction in question)
scoopbot: New post on Trilema by Mircea Popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/open-the-gavin-assassinsen-memorial-mining-pool-implementation/
asciilifeform: just as thermovisor is useful
asciilifeform: even if sole purpose is to zero in on enemy rf, still useful
mircea_popescu: well... then its existence is not where it'd be attacked.
mircea_popescu: so is that thing not self contained.
mircea_popescu: you know ? just like the jet is not a self contained machine.
mircea_popescu: that only works if you have the network.
asciilifeform: actual high-res overlay for both eyes, with everything that would normally come in sans oculars plus the extra.
mircea_popescu: even as the jet fighter overlay thing.
asciilifeform: not the idiot google monocular.
mircea_popescu: first thging you teach idiot kids. "don't close your eye. don't squint"
mircea_popescu: most targetting needs both eyes. to propose that poking a man in one is doing his targetting a service...
mircea_popescu: not your job to search for that.
asciilifeform: you would if searching for the loud obnoxious american radio
mircea_popescu: out in the field, you much prefer seeing in visible.
mircea_popescu: you might, at home, in armchair. and that you can presently do.
mircea_popescu: in fact, it'd help the invader more than the partizans.
asciilifeform: signals intelligence on enemy (how'd you like to see into em spectrum?)
mircea_popescu: partizan infantry is not that much about targeting, or maps.
asciilifeform: display maps, secure comms, targeting aids
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the point was not about optical snooping, etc. mundane fact is that the number one application for svga ocular is really partizan infantry.
assbot: Logged on 22-12-2013 16:56:53; asciilifeform: 'what people “want” is a function of what they learn is available. e.g., do Americans want three-ring binders, and Europeans four-ring binders? or do they want binders and take whatever number of holes they come with? or do they want something that can help them organize their papers and take whatever is available? or do they really want a less cluttered office and ease of storage and retrieval of the
mircea_popescu: if the informtion comes on a wire, the eye piece is the least vulnerable place.
mircea_popescu: think about it the other way. a display is merely a display. it works on information. if the information is all in a box, then you're probably not a very good partizan. more of a hacker. "playing the harmonica" so to speak.
asciilifeform: [insert the ancient threads re: toy keyboards, etc.]
mircea_popescu: public is apparently happy with trezor and glass.
mircea_popescu: but same moidel. useful item with market that doesn't exist for public.
asciilifeform: mr mold has the saving grace of at least being a finite quantity.
mircea_popescu: cause idiot females too busy with "transgender friends" and idiot males too busy reading moldbug.
mircea_popescu: because they own it ?
asciilifeform: the puzzle is not about what they like or dislike, but why they even get asked.
mircea_popescu: apparently they don't like that business model.
asciilifeform: same way the folks who make 8051 microcontrollers, etc. make money.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "could cost a penny". well... how'd they make money then ?
asciilifeform: not even entirely usg. none of the wealthy mega-army states really want inexpensive partizan-warfare aids on the shelf.
asciilifeform: it's a straight usg thing.
asciilifeform: and not because of the patent trolls - they are merely the weapon, not the wielder
asciilifeform: it took me many years to realize why svga ocular display cannot be had at price below a 'boeing.' not because miniaturized led is dark magic.
asciilifeform: (box was approx. the size of a deck of cards.)
asciilifeform: i ask him, 'can this be had?' greybeard: 'nope. project killed by upper management.'
asciilifeform: every year i go to my local university's tech exhibit. there is always this one greybeard who runs their si fab, and he has some old wafers, etc. he also has a 'look in this box and press red button.' inside: svga display with graphics demo. the stamp on the box is some time in the '90s.
asciilifeform: except that the 'magic' of a microdisplay is entirely one silicon die.
mircea_popescu: because it'd cost more than the fucking car.
mircea_popescu: it stands to reason tech available to one is not available to the other.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the difference might simply be explained by price. so, if a car costs 20-30k and a supercar 200 to 300k, whereas a jet fighter 20 to 30 mn,
asciilifeform: 'heads-up' projects onto the glass. snore.
asciilifeform: but not the same!
mircea_popescu: the new sukhoi thing has them from what i recall.
mircea_popescu: the russians use them . the chinese use them.
asciilifeform: (a variant for infantry was, last i heard, in the works, but mired in an f35-esque bureaucratic treacle)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they are mostly, but not exclusively, issued to jet pilots
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: head-worn displays are considered, by usg, to be key military tech (all existing manufacturers of serious - i.e. svga and above units - supply usg exclusively) ☟︎
asciilifeform: incidentally, the security implications of a good head-worn computer display suggest that no such thing will be permitted to exist while usg has any say on the subject.
ben_vulpes: as in needing to switch between focusing on something in front of one and focusing on the screen?
ben_vulpes: don't the eyeglass lenses have a focus at infinity problem?
ben_vulpes: i thought i was reasonably well acquainted with that thread
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: see earlier thread.
mircea_popescu: they'll make girl stockings ouf of the things
mircea_popescu: i kinda have high hopes once the foldable screens come into their own