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assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 21:44:44; ascii_field: notice how, e.g., france, made own hydrogen bomb. but it is powerless to make own 'pentium.'
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Basically turns 2015 awesome diesels into 1980's diesels ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 21:27:36; BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/vw-abgasskandal/neuer-volkswagen-chef-vw-will-maengel-an-fahrzeugen-bis-2016-beheben-13842286.html << Software on most VW's come get new catalytic converters and fuel injectors... No piss system it seems...
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 21:22:20; pete_dushenski: khamenei's approach, despite being at odds with iran's president, is correct, sane, and hygenic.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: doesn't work so well with vm and emulators, which stupidly pump video buffer straight from emulated winblowz
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: optimus, is a very special turd where 2d vga chip tries to share a DAC with 3d gpu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: consists, afaik, solely of p. erdos
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo you know drinking never got anyone anywhere. << But it got people to no where
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i can't help but spot ddos vector - in this case, for the mind << This is why I concern myself with such things while "liver training"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can't help but spot ddos vector - in this case, for the mind
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually my first thought, reading the log, is that it'd be something like a lathe dog.
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 17:34:55; pete_dushenski: actually, 'alf dog' sounds like a great comic strip idea
pete_dushenski: !v assbot:pete_dushenski.unrate.menahem:f54a4c063b377b73c4fc8fe436b8c044255bb87005ea81935d4b403cbd0d9220
pete_dushenski: assbot:pete_dushenski.unrate.menahem:f54a4c063b377b73c4fc8fe436b8c044255bb87005ea81935d4b403cbd0d9220
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: nowhere.
pete_dushenski: ascii_field and where does z80 fit into this picture ?
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: here is a classic historic example of such a design: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6334
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: no later than late 1980s
pete_dushenski: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: reasonable enough not to launch a trillion's worth of au into the sun.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu actually worked some magic to try scoring a sample board but nothing came of it.
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: i do not know for a fact that elbrus was made.
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: china does not actually design workstation either !
pete_dushenski: ascii_field as 2010s usa has trouble keeping up with chian
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: they had trouble keeping up with 1980s usa
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: because, to any 'reasonable' person, making french pentium is entirely indistinguishable from taking the entire gold reserve and shooting it into the sun ☟︎
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: But flying to intercept means getting close enough for a bored kind at Nellis to put the drone into a hard turn for the lulz
pete_dushenski: ascii_field but if french bureaucracy is (and has been for decades if not centuries) the centralised behemoth that i understand it to be, why h-bomb and no 'pentium' ?
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Well then can use self as rocket
pete_dushenski: ascii_field this is perhaps a better restatement of what i was getting at with the uniqueness of computing
pete_dushenski: ascii_field because poison pill computing has seeped in the cracks.
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> you can't buy a truck without plastic in it, and computerized ignition, either. << Sure you can... Just not new
pete_dushenski: ascii_field it seems that computing is unique in this regard.
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: this kind of thing began in 1960-70s, where 'why did this computer end up in su' became a thing
pete_dushenski: !up ascii_field
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/vw-abgasskandal/neuer-volkswagen-chef-vw-will-maengel-an-fahrzeugen-bis-2016-beheben-13842286.html << Software on most VW's come get new catalytic converters and fuel injectors... No piss system it seems... ☟︎
BingoBoingo: !up ascii_field
BingoBoingo: !up ascii_field
jurov: !up ascii_field
jurov: !up ascii_field
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: sure the bar is lower for dogs, where's the alf dog ? not meeting a stand-out example allows the others to enjoy their mediocre unexceptionalism
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski im not so sure of the entire moulding thing. i think i met more competent dogs than competent humans in my life, mostly because the bar so much lower for dog. and it's self-moulding really, just as long as you don't get in th way too much.
jurov: pete_dushenski: the $20 foliage reminds me of http://imgur.com/x6qYB3J
pete_dushenski: mike_c: more easily than people, yes. but people too !
mircea_popescu: in other news, do you like dags ? http://36.media.tumblr.com/fa2737ae5a5ce0772d1cba36ba622098/tumblr_np71nmtuXZ1tj991so1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: http://40.media.tumblr.com/22990f91b0798344574e49d508211206/tumblr_noywcdzaoZ1u4e2kko1_1280.jpg << photoproof that being lame and boring is contagious, whereas being nude is not.
mircea_popescu: stories from the deep, for my good friends in nyc (paging mike_c ) : plumer called yest ; said he's gonna show up today between noon and 3. showed up at 1. fixed thing with his own parts, half hour labour, certified sort of task. the bill ? ~120.
mircea_popescu: http://consciouslifenews.com/yeti-real-researcher-finds-himalayan-yeti-genetically-identical-ancient-polar-bear/1166893/ << how to help spammers create a mailing list. <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=a3995edd941d3fdee574dab4064cb451&size=40' height='64' width='64' alt=sterls@bell.net' />
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 04:35:36; phf: known as блат in russian, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blat_(favors). though that word is more often used in context of getting ahead i think it basically applies to overall structure of society. when shit hits the fan you call a your sister's husband's uncle who's a general, "vasily mikhalich, this is such and such..."
mircea_popescu: spoils for the victor : http://41.media.tumblr.com/5a1c78dfb9b45021b4dcf1340826949a/tumblr_nkwlcd20hJ1tkz70so7_1280.png
mircea_popescu: http://36.media.tumblr.com/0d32607a6ec1a0a782a994dc6acbfd16/tumblr_nkwlcd20hJ1tkz70so2_1280.png << any drunken walk experts in the audience care to explain why the well work walkspot (a fine indicator of the strip club with tradition) is square rather than the round one'd expect ?
assbot: Logged on 19-01-2015 16:19:17; mircea_popescu: Argentine Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich had said Nisman's allegations were "crazy, absurd, illogical, irrational, ridiculous, unconstitutional".
trinque: mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-10-2015#1293767 <<< i always thought trinque is a pretty good male stripper name. << bwahahaha, I'd have said web work is a proper whore's job ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://40.media.tumblr.com/8597861d0fa75be1dff8e5daf300188e/tumblr_np44o0AE8B1ttqu7ro1_1280.jpg << boobs wanna be free!!1
gabriel_laddel: !up pete_dushenski
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i am very easily distracted by people talking
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: the one i went to, actually had a chick! who was fond of meetings, minutes, paperwork, the whole shebang, and would gripe about all of this being unappreciated
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, better. but outside the budget of a ragged dervish.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's wrong with opl ?
asciilifeform: aha, from mircea_popescu's article. in the abstract.
asciilifeform: 'http://www.twitter.com/Tweet_a_bad_word_about_an_american_corporation_and_most_of_your_tweets_get_hidden_from_view' << from server log spam
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel a large part of the problem is that math is very poorly structured.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I remember reading it, and at the time I couldn't tell if you were discussing seriously using V as a basis for academics, or just the general notion of having a explicit academic WoT.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: consider russel&whitehead's thing. but done right.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.molboxllc.com/services.html << photoz from my past life
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i used to eat with this.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: andrew leach, 'molecular modelling principles'
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: it is actually because we do not have good models.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: nope
mircea_popescu: and in other san francisco news, http://41.media.tumblr.com/aa9cc27e8bf2903cf218434a2110265d/tumblr_nor72xxgPO1skcp7po1_1280.jpg
punkman: gabriel_laddel: is there a mirror of mcclim.cliki.net?
punkman: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/upload/files/1444192000_kalaland03.jpg "Citizens Against Single Gateway first struck 30 Sept. when more than 100,000 people loaded and reloaded six major government websites until their servers were paralyzed."
punkman: http://www.pigdog.org/auto/software_jihad/link/3138.html
gribble: 8 Ways To Do Ghostbusters 3 Correctly - Tor.com: <http://www.tor.com/2013/03/01/8-ways-to-do-ghostbusters-3-correctly/>; Trading Faces - Ghostbusters Wiki - Wikia: <http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Trading_Faces>; Stash Bag Pillow Case - ThisIsWhyImBroke.com: <http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/stash-bag-pillow-case>
BingoBoingo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-morbidly-obese-patient-tests-the-limits-of-a-doctors-compassion/2014/02/24/faf80438-7df9-11e3-9556-4a4bf7bcbd84_story.html << "“Don’t put him in a room right over the ER,” whispers the unit secretary to the admission clerk. “The floor won’t support him. He’ll come crashing through and kill us all.”"
phf: gabriel_laddel: probably not enough to be useful, i played with it but ultimately switched to lispwork's capi for projects
phf: known as блат in russian, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blat_(favors). though that word is more often used in context of getting ahead i think it basically applies to overall structure of society. when shit hits the fan you call a your sister's husband's uncle who's a general, "vasily mikhalich, this is such and such..." ☟︎
BingoBoingo: <gabriel_laddel> BingoBoingo: and photos of that agent << The Treasury department's agent's name was Broachwala or some shit. Dot Indian. FBI refused to leave card, but ginger presumably Irish asshole/
BingoBoingo: <gabriel_laddel> trinque: unless I'm greatly mistaken, he has a court case for something or other physical and US dept of treasury agents have dropped by his house b/c btc. << I have disorderly conduct misdemeanor pending in neighboring county. Fed visit is on pre-qntra blawg
trinque: gabriel_laddel: cause maybe he doesn't want to say what got them interested
BingoBoingo: <gabriel_laddel> BingoBoingo: The pics would be for our intel systems dude << You don't need an image to recognize broke ass USG Denzel Washington wannabe
BingoBoingo: <gabriel_laddel> Facial recognition goes both ways. I could use pics. << Doesn't need to go far. My street has no black residents. My street is a blind loop. One pass could be a common criminal. Multiple people is Law Enforcement.
BingoBoingo: gabriel_laddel: No, just scowled.
BingoBoingo: gabriel_laddel: I drink too much to boat and sail sleeping
BingoBoingo: <gabriel_laddel> BingoBoingo: yea, but I thought you were scared of the gangs? << Not just any old gangs, specific kinds
BingoBoingo: gabriel_laddel: Walk, yes. Cruise, too much for budget given constraints.
trinque: gabriel_laddel: I am, staying with family while I evaluate where to live
funkenstein_: gabriel_laddel, hooked on diff-eq-ics! great stuff.
gabriel_laddel: http://www.humournet.com/misc.humour/hooked_on_diff_eqs.txt
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: he explained it to me, yes
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: at any rate, 'plausible synthesis' has a rough meaning. ask PeterL perhaps to explain in detail. but yes, synthetic vitamin B was a nobel. beyond a certain point of complexity, one tries to harness living things to crap out the goods
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ran models, churning through astonishing qty of cpu cycle, and sent off db entries to orc lands for synthesis
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we had a db from u.s. national cancer institute of a few million plausibly-synthesizable compounds, largely of unknown effect (never organizedly fed to any living thing)
BingoBoingo: <gabriel_laddel> asciilifeform: that problem reduces to "why doesn't MP run of with MPEX funds" << Not at all
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suppose i ought to clarify where i learned the figure and how.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> you realise i can declare a compound of arbitrary complexity right ? << Declare, yes. Not blow yourself up with, no.
BingoBoingo: !up bitcoinbrains_
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> so can i have polymerizable water ? or is this "anything" limited by other criteria than "what you can describe" ? << Violently
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: thread was about commercial organic chem
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: and when you get sc4mz0r3d, take wrong pill, croak, does your ghost negrate the test house ?