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phf: (for me, anyway). There is a system called JavaTex, by Tim Murphy, which might be a bit easier to read, maybe. But I ran out of time. – bubba"
phf: "Like you, I also wanted to study the TeX code. After all, it was written by an eminent computer scientist, and, for a large piece of software, it is remarkably free of bugs. It looked like something significant could be learned. But, I gave up after a while. Mostly because the code is full of clever tricks to pack data into memory locations to save space. This made sense 30 years ago, but not so much today, and it makes the code very difficult to read
mircea_popescu: I blush to tell, I tremble to recite our Persian childhood and its fated plight! or something at the very least. the cogent points is that one tempts the fates at his peril with a recount of how changing the republic for a satrapy contained in itself its future blessings such as they were.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-27#1690293 << apparently the best english version of this is a r allinson's "I blush to speak, I tremble to recite our Persian manners and our curse of Fate!". ☝︎
asciilifeform: i'm a little surprised that northkr has not attempted cultivating reputation as tmsr-friendly
asciilifeform: all i got is the observation that no ransomware writer who targets anglotards seems to feel in the slightest bit of danger in ru.
asciilifeform: i dun have the desired exhaustive proof of absence.
mircea_popescu: your claim was "0 usg-style preet process", to which i showed 100% preet process : 1. that indeed there was a preet ; and that indeed he was preet'ed.
asciilifeform: i dun read every single local rag of every nowhere district in all of ru. so conceivable that i missed one.
mircea_popescu: i thought you read russian ?
asciilifeform: nao maybe they feed'em into woodchippers locally, and quietly, i have nfi.
asciilifeform: i do know that ~0 'hacking' prosecutions in ru.
asciilifeform: i see where mircea_popescu was going tho.
asciilifeform: i can see the argument 'some things needed burnin'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i thought the ru mob had 0 cultural value.
mircea_popescu: i musta missed this point. esp given the novel discovery that http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-27#1690227 ☝︎
asciilifeform: for gassing, i mean.
mircea_popescu: in any case -- i am entirely convinced the two are orthogonal. there's no more reason in intelligence to be cowardly than there's reason in rain to wet the bed.
mircea_popescu: cuz i suspect they may be sortable, in which case your argument's in trouble.
mircea_popescu: now, had i believed any of those summed to 1, i'd say nothing but simply be there. the fuck i care, it takes me six weeks to learn a language, any language, and i know no women who'd dare "opine" on the move.
asciilifeform: though i disagree that cowardice is inevitable 'professional disease' of the thinking man. illusion, comes from the fact of bipedal turds masquerading as thinking folx.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-27 02:46 phf: relatedly to the other conversation, though i grew up on the same yarns as asciilifeform, i start to think that usenet was the original reddit, just the guys were smarter, perhaps even grownups. i posted on reddit at some point, and i want to believe that my comments were carefully constructed and detailed, but there were many reasons that we
asciilifeform: as i see it, mircea_popescu had the verdict quite ready before reading any.
mircea_popescu: this is the substantive difference here, that i dun care how fucking smart-casual you were dressed or how debate-club-approvably your wit flew. wrong party === losers and no further discussion is useful or necessary.
mircea_popescu: phf as far as moderns are concerned, y-m le bourdonnec, say, or else hugo desnoyer. probably can even buy a chunk. otherwise, as far as the anthropology / history an' generally scholarship of the matter is concerned, there's late medieval / early modern french, spanish sources, even a bit of latin, but i've not them assembled and at the ready.
phf: 've discussed to death here, why doing so was a waste of time. i suspect that usenet was similar. you have a handful of insightful posts lost in the noise
phf: relatedly to the other conversation, though i grew up on the same yarns as asciilifeform, i start to think that usenet was the original reddit, just the guys were smarter, perhaps even grownups. i posted on reddit at some point, and i want to believe that my comments were carefully constructed and detailed, but there were many reasons that we ☟︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform where do i find substance in this ?
a111: Logged on 2017-07-24 03:29 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not only do i own vintage german cars (which, btw, were made for de market and imported here, not made in fucking us/brazil like the rest of the toyotas with bavarian paintjobs), but I WILL HAVE YOU KNOW i just ingested a 28 oz porterhouse steak!
mircea_popescu: so we try our luck with food, a topic on which we happen to know a lot more than most. http://yarchive.net/food/aged_beef.html is factually incorrect on the first meaty claim -- marbledness is poor man's tenderness. i have, like anyone rich enough has had, extremely tender cuts of beef with no fat marbling whatsoever. they sell here for ~50 bux a 28 oz, that's what http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-24#1689656 was. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: ok, here's a brief journal. tried to pick a topic, which is a problem i don't have a solution for. heuristically picked "computers", inspected some entries, found them to be mostly minutia a la http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/disable_irq_races.html or else very brief and unstructured accidental likbezn a la http://yarchive.net/comp/caches.html
asciilifeform: it ain't a full bore 'sinners and saints' usenet snapshot, but certain fella's 'best of'. i have my own, that really cries to be organized and similarly cleaned, posted.
asciilifeform: if i had to pick b/w keeping my library, and keeping yarchive, on trip to mars -- would pick yarchive.
mircea_popescu: it's that sadly, i fail to find the difference.
mircea_popescu: it's not that i WANT to think that usg == usg, whether usg.yuppies or usg.countercultures.
asciilifeform: well i do.
mircea_popescu: i feel no continuity with these folks, myself.
asciilifeform: i haven't visited the productive non-nonsense planet yet, so cannot further comment
mircea_popescu: i'm sorry.
mircea_popescu: i will agree with you that yes, man trying and failing is still man ; but you will i hope agree with me that man failing while still man nevertheless still loser.
mircea_popescu: i will grudgingly grant this much, and very grudgingly at that.
asciilifeform: d00d laid out how to do the eotvos thing. recipe still on his www last i saw.
mircea_popescu: what of this supposed work can i rely on today ? is there a schematic ? is therew anything ? HOW do you distinguish between this and henninger "publishing" ?
asciilifeform: at any rate i cannot currently be arsed to paypal to find out,.
asciilifeform: '...world has one single USENET archive (I hope they have backup floppies!), how can I obtain historical data...'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally i oughta dig out ye olde best-of-alt.tasteless archive
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i have no particular knowledge re usg's campaign of rape and pillage
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I understand you shiva hands are full, but maybe you can spit some venom at the Wizsec thing? As "coke machine" prognisticator affair could use your voice from on high.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> is, e.g., gavin, still in circulation? i admit - lost track << Atm he appears to be mostly focused with his Amherst city council or neighborhood watch gig
asciilifeform: is, e.g., gavin, still in circulation? i admit - lost track
mircea_popescu: i'm not entirely sure how to phrase this correctly, but, some guy trying to use his own noggin emerged out of the tardstalk swamps at some point years past. apparently he's using some different-same "platform" thing, whatever.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i know the number of links pasted to my logger approaches epsilon, but rewriting those few links to the sensible scheme makes me squeamish nevertheless. probably resolved with a "hey doodz, updating my loggers refs, this includes editing lines logged to point to the new schema."
trinque: I find it hard to believe that exchange "owner" owns himself
trinque: but I'm sure gox is solvent; we'll see!
asciilifeform: trinque: i still have nfi what is the reason to connect said coins with said lul
mod6: for my purposes, i'd like to use arrays. anyway, im just kinda doing some educational stuff.
mod6: how hard/easy that will be, i dunno yet.
mod6: most of which are fairly easy to utilize; i've been adventuring through reading in vpatch/sig/pubkeys and storing them in mem.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-26 06:10 ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: the amending is a point i get stuck on every time i start thinking about using sensible identifiers in my www logs
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: the amending is a point i get stuck on every time i start thinking about using sensible identifiers in my www logs ☟︎
shinohai: I always though https://bounty.bitcoin.com/mtgox.html was one of the lulziest things he ever did
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> am i the only one who recalls the inept lulz back when he was trying to sell/rent that in 2015 ? << AHA, DID SELL/RENT, RE-NIG'd
mircea_popescu: am i the only one who recalls the inept lulz back when he was trying to sell/rent that in 2015 ?
mircea_popescu: "oh i got a VALUABLE DOMAIN NAME!!!"
mircea_popescu: o hey. well, it must've crossed whatever google spam threshold or such, i finally saw it.
mircea_popescu: amusingly en0ough the tx chain started happening a few weeks after i whined about wtf why is it not there. but i'm sure coincidenceh.
ben_vulpes: wallet dance as rbf i mean
ben_vulpes: i didn't know people were accepting chained transactions
ben_vulpes: yeah, i can do the wallet dance, was curious about this
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, about half of them do max 2, about a third of the remainder max 3, and i think ther'es a max 8 also in there.
ben_vulpes: so if i send a tx to friend a with no fee, and it gets stuck, the advice is to ask friend a to spend from that address and then miners are in the habit of then including the stuck txn?
mircea_popescu: ah, i didn't mean that.
asciilifeform: is what i thought
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> ofc i forgot to set a fee for the node, so it's clearly my fault << spend from the paid address, WITH a fee. most miners will include both.
asciilifeform: i can picture the discussion at the table : 'what if the sign bit on some machine is the FIRST, not last? or kept in the MIDDLE!111'
asciilifeform: in other phunphakts, ada does NOT permit the use of bitwise ops ('and', 'xor', etc) on integer. ( only on booleans; and on 'modular types' - i.e. where the compiler is absolutely certain that subj is a machine integer and machine uses 2s-complement representation.)
ben_vulpes: well what i do not understand is what the low/high s bit has to do with its deprioritization in favor of spamola
ben_vulpes: ofc i forgot to set a fee for the node, so it's clearly my fault
mircea_popescu: i find it hysterical how the socialist mind is entirely immune to any consideration of communication costsa
mircea_popescu: in other cypherfunk lulz, "SlaveRegistry.com was allowed to go defunk on April 4th 2017, it went to auction on 5-9-17 and after a bidding war for the domain my baby and I took formal ownership of it on 5/16/17 to make sure that the M/s community still had this resource. Just like many other M/s couples my baby has a slave number which is permanently etched on my body just as my masters mark is on hers. I was not about to let
mircea_popescu: in other elements from the depths, "I am purchasing a house in partnership with my sister and her husband since they are reconciling. When the house purchase was entered into, I asked my sister if she was interested in buying it jointly. She is on SSDI and her monthly income would not cover living expenses. I am on SSDI and my income covers the mortgage and a few other bills."
mircea_popescu: upon meditation i suspect the girls wiser than i.
shinohai: Awww .... I hurried back from errands to review logs just to get "I can show tits but not face" :(
a111: Logged on 2017-07-23 03:05 BingoBoingo: <phf> i was thinking of the british tv show with benedict cumberbatch, but same thing, yes. the one where they made him addicted to nicotine patches. << I though people got addicted to the gum
a111: Logged on 2017-07-24 18:04 lobbes: (+mircea_popescu) [17:46:05] community colleges should abolish altogether. << case by case. The two years I spent at CC were more educational than the later two I spent at $stateuniversity (and no debt required for former!). But tru: many are garbage
mircea_popescu: i would expect. "meet the team" right ? http://www.sexytits.online/about/
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think you might've seen such before.
lilpbutterfly: Thank you mircea but i don't think that could work for me. I'm not ready to show face at least no public
lilpbutterfly: I get your point
mircea_popescu: i mean, for later girls. you could see the faces of all the girls before, and what of it.
lilpbutterfly: Yes, i can show it to you but i don't really want it published
mircea_popescu: lilpbutterfly i think i'll have to see your face. otherwise people could just do this forever, not like you can distinguish girls by their boobies.
lilpbutterfly: Alright, i'll wait
lilpbutterfly: I'm interested
lilpbutterfly: I followed this link here
lobbes: (+mircea_popescu) [17:46:05] community colleges should abolish altogether. << case by case. The two years I spent at CC were more educational than the later two I spent at $stateuniversity (and no debt required for former!). But tru: many are garbage ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i love the way ustard neologisms work these days. "pathways". how about i go ahead and say it like it is : roadpathwaydirections.
mircea_popescu: i suppose to be followed by the double-float-world.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you got any books on this false world math thingee ? i'm curious nao.
mircea_popescu: "Their thinking has led to initiatives like Community College Pathways, which strays away from abstract algebra to engage students in real-world math applications." holy shitballs. REAL WORLD math. i had no idea there's also another kind.