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mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/11/the_cia_has_the_same_problem_m.html << if anyone was curious as to HOW blunders to the scale of "hussein has wmds" a decade ago or "assad used wmds" last year happen, and to the whys and wherefore bacalaureat-level educated folk such as obama, rice etc come up with ridiculous nonsense like "putin doesn't understand" or "nobody could have predicted", here is why.
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell funkenstein_ submission came through this time
phf: ben_vulpes: for something like gnuplot i've discovered that learning all kinds of fancy ways you can output a string with #'format is a lot more useful skill then learning a specific library. short of writing an equivalent of gnuplot command ast you're going to run into impedence mismatch one way or another
cazalla: mircea_popescu, can you revise a copy of the contract with correct date in historical recitals (2015, not 2014)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: cl-graphviz also works
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: pipe to gnuplot ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it can still be installed aftermarket
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: iirc mac no longer even ships with x11 !
trinque: mircea_popescu: http://deedbot.org/bundle-379334.txt
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, i recall the box.
asciilifeform: i recall, mircea_popescu's 'laptop', a skeleton with a handle!
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: there was that eulora demo for which you had a whole computer set up.
mod6: ben_vulpes: yeah, i couldn't imagine trying to do the same with a tablet or something. but i like the desktops that I have at home for stuff too.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: useful for hauling around the office, showing stuff in meetings etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because the mines of moria.
asciilifeform: http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Apple-PowerBook-G4-12-inch_2.jpg << them.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'Moreover, have you watched their software and hardware quality degrade phenomenally over the past decade? I certainly have. All of the old laptops, selections from the eMac and iMac line are total design and fabrication winners—solid and reliable. My ENTIRELY RECENT "Macbook Pro" is rotting as I watch...' << eh, it was not 'solid until jobs died.' but rather reached a short-lived peak in 2010 or so. have you alr
asciilifeform: l0l mircea_popescu is expert on everything in creation, even gradations of shitpoverty ?!
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'This working stiff is required to use all sorts of radioactive waste in the pursuit of his daily work. HTML, CSS, JS…functional programming languages that incomprehensibly compile from one AST to another in a vain attempt to keep my mind safe from the radiation of the underlying…' << could be worse. you could do all of this and also be poor.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, http://33.media.tumblr.com/46c8b6337ac501643319497e37497871/tumblr_nkcmlqypgA1tmnngto1_400.gif
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha. had a day job.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: you were probably thinking of kepler
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: not even. implicit in this hypothesis is some kind of bargain - that there will be eating.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes but if ignorant why pick at all. do you also run in the dark ?
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu will not hesitate to remind the victim that it is his own fault for not having been born in afghan and fucked sufficiently many goats to innoculate him against herbivoricity
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: even greats had to write horoscopes to justify telescopes
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's usual (and factual) inversion of the ru orthodox dictum 'the salvation of the drowning is work for the hands of the selfsame drowning'
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/11/do_we_want_neuroimaging_in_cou.html for ref
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ah, not defending it for a second.
punkman: mircea_popescu: great flavour for home-made pastries too
mircea_popescu: ALUMINUM DOESN'T CHIP << yes it does ben_vulpes ; poorly formulated aluminium's major problem is chipping. that's why it wasn't used in airframe fabrication from the get-go.
deedbot-: [cascadian hacker] links 2015-10-16 Fri - http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2015/10/17_links-2015-10-16-fri.html
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one potential difficulty is that we have not yet invented death. (or rather, analogue death does not perfectly correspond to the necessary notion of electrical death - a man can die and his keys end up in the hands of just about any kind of idiot, after this he must be 'killed' again, manually, by some process not yet defined)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aka mark'n'sweep gc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: john young (cryptome)
trinque: mircea_popescu: that means your backup gets the other guy's stuff too, right?
trinque: mircea_popescu: sure; easy cron job. I'll provide a URL for that
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: sure you have, it's right there in the contract: 2014 is the only year that ever was.
assbot: Logged on 17-10-2015 16:00:29; mircea_popescu: check out the anti-c machine
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 23:45:16; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1299071 << more like smart people do stupid shit all the time and often enough it happens that you're impressed with something someone does only to discover they "did it" by pure coincidence later on.
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 23:45:19; mircea_popescu: tis a problem.
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/10/greys_anatomy_kill_me_now.html << in which we find ballas is not only amusingly sophomoric when it comes to finance&investment, but also animated by a rather hick sexual philosophy. down to the very typical "i'm not a raceyst but dem niggars!" formulation, even.
assbot: Logged on 17-10-2015 09:35:16; gabrielradio: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-10-2015#1300901 << pete_dushenski go right ahead. next on the list are /2011/in-sprijinul-eugeniei/ , /2009/insarcinati-va/ and /2009/ce-ma-intereseaza-pe-mine-intr-un-proiect/ . if you have any one in particular you were looking at, shoot!
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bingoboingo <mircea_popescu> deedbot- http://dpaste.com/1VQ7GGP.txt
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_> <-- perhaps you'd also like to have girlfriends, but never see or fuck them << you don't understand what the internets is for, or what the mobile revolution all about.
assbot: Successfully added a rating of 2 for pete_dushenski with note: nails stuff on contravex.com
gabrielradio: !v assbot:gabrielradio.rate.pete_dushenski.2:5e88e7552755a7276c0a6f8ed254ece447f8f0ac6427931269871c80af36e710
gabrielradio: !rate pete_dushenski 2 nails stuff on contravex.com
assbot: Logged on 17-10-2015 00:48:53; pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-10-2015#1300614 << hey nice ! i was looking at this one a few months back as a potential victim for my rom-eng secret sauce machine. i think i might just take this translation as a more than adequate starting point, clean it up, and post it :)
gabrielradio: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-10-2015#1300901 << pete_dushenski go right ahead. next on the list are /2011/in-sprijinul-eugeniei/ , /2009/insarcinati-va/ and /2009/ce-ma-intereseaza-pe-mine-intr-un-proiect/ . if you have any one in particular you were looking at, shoot! ☝︎☟︎
gabrielradio: mircea_popescu, i find your stance on procreating intriguing. i'm curious, would you be inclined to say have biological kids, but not raise them yourself?
ben_vulpes: that's the sweetest thing i've ever seen from you, mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on a not-unrelated note, i learned that a few floors down from my office there is a ~pediatric shrink~. prolly prescribes dope, even.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: l0lz
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes pretty good.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one korolev designs, 10,001 biorobots - assemble.
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/10/the_graying_of_kindergarten_th.html
gribble: FIRST STEP TO NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS: <http://www.ifpan.edu.pl/firststep/>; First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Step_to_Nobel_Prize_in_Physics>; First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics - Foton: <http://www.foton.if.uj.edu.pl/documents/12579485/496b69d7-c808-40d4-970a-dc88980786cc>
gribble: Mass, Momentum and Energy of Gravitational Field: <http://serg.fedosin.ru/masen.htm>; Gravitational field - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_field>; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS - Catedu: <http://catedu.es/cnice/fisica/english/2bach/campo_gravitatorio/ecampo_gravitatorio.pdf>
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it ain't a '3body' unless you have 3 bodies free in motion
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i see nobody orbiting...
mircea_popescu: aha. it's particularly difficult in humans, because as ben_vulpes observes, flesh.
mircea_popescu: but in other news, http://33.media.tumblr.com/fbfba8eb7cdef00530de28c8ac512902/tumblr_nqs6ozbRVs1tlluajo1_400.gif
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 18:23:53; mircea_popescu: gabrielradio it's "guide for half the oral sex". see, because two sexes ?
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 12:46:05; mircea_popescu: ;;later tell gabrielradio http://trilema.com/2015/the-christian-europe-and-other-aberrant-notions/
gabrielradio: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-10-2015#1300433 << mircea_popescu comparing the two is pretty instructive for me, i think i got a better idea now ☝︎
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: didja send a tx ?
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: and how did you test ?
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: 0.6 didn't have importprivkey...
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: didja sign it correctly? not seeing anything
funkenstein_: funk_add_privkey_wallet_tools.vpatch <-- experimental patch sent to btc-dev mailing list
assbot: Logged on 17-10-2015 00:19:54; mircea_popescu: nubbins` iirc is a full fledged rentier, lives off of it
assbot: Logged on 17-10-2015 00:15:17; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have nfi where you expect "foss" code without shitgnome signatures to come from.
assbot: Logged on 17-10-2015 00:16:36; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform : historical version is historical version, whadda ya want from me.
cazalla: pete_dushenski, ya know, i can't honestly remember what they're called down under (thanks for other comments too)
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 14:45:54; thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: if your mark is bad << what a british way to say "grade"
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu tsk tsk ?? lol like someone's been bad ?
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2015 18:24:46; mircea_popescu: anyway, pete_dushenski : someone (o'brien) signed your key and uploaded it to one of the servers. the result is a different pubkey there.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=13-10-2015#1298016 << update: adam_obrien and i played golf this afternoon and chatted about pgp key-signing. in his excitement at discovering the command line tools, he tried out everything he could find (he's an enthusiastic kid!) and yes, signed my key. he was quite surprised to learn that this changed the key block on the sks etc servers.. fwiw ☝︎
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu fwiw you're new keyboard seems markedly worse than you old one in terms of accuracy, at least on irc if not trilema. many a spurious \\\ etc
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you rend out iirc ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu so will all my days, doesn't mean i'm not going to milk each and every one of them
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> whereas an fathering hero is me ! << this too shall pass.
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 01:24:54; mircea_popescu: there is in point of fact nothing objectively wrong with honor killings, all sorts of pretense to the contrary notwithstanding. if you can get your hands around her neck you can strangle her. or not. your option. reality has both functions loaded and ready to go and return;
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 01:11:20; mircea_popescu: blame canada.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu for whom does gnu-mpi have the jacobi, legendre, kronecker, lucas knobs?! i have failed to turn up any instance of anyone ever having used them. or even tested.
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 01:01:56; mircea_popescu: "The women with depressed, unhelpful husbands did not report lower levels of marital satisfaction; rather they were maintained at high levels. One interpretation of our data was that the women's more negative memories of their fathers served the function of minimizing (or denying) their husbands' failure to be as helpful as needed. If this is all that can be expected of men, then I can no longer rec
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 00:57:32; mircea_popescu: "you design and build the battleships and whatever else you feel like doing anyway you want to - we'll beat you to shit with them."
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
cazalla: ascii_field, not exactly (but i do need to find a job), just want a break from everything bitcoin so i can go find something else
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 18:26:37; mircea_popescu: so BingoBoingo, since cazalla's getting out, i figure 10 btc for his chunk should be good enough ? (what you think cazalla ?). you wanna go halves with me in it ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes extra money ? lol.
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 13:32:37; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-10-2015#1300354 << the problem is more in the lines of "finding excited people that aren't idiots".
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: can't you see where they take the extra money out?!
mircea_popescu: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/S%26P500_(1950-12).jpg <<< bwaghahaha
VariaVarietatis: mircea_popescu: Someone made a documentary about that site(looks like Brent Scott) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_Sexual_Horror tits girl
mircea_popescu: o, also http://38.media.tumblr.com/aafd26d24253d47e8d506b54187ede26/tumblr_nn7r8dCZb81uswp8qo1_500.gif
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo methinks yo uchase way too hard. << Ah
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field