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asciilifeform: let the cement mixer, tip.
asciilifeform: ahahahahahahahaha
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lived as zombie for some years, aha
asciilifeform: ( as i understand quite uncommon for them to actually own house or land etc. tho this was an older d00d, possibly -- owned something )
asciilifeform: what sort of 'asset' can a civil servant have, even
asciilifeform: '...с конфискацией имущества' was the verdict formulation.
asciilifeform: as i understand it is a traditional punishment in incastans. ye olde su had it.
asciilifeform: !#s flynn
asciilifeform: and meanwhilemeanwhile, another trotskyitewrecker, flynn, also pleabargained
asciilifeform: many!1
asciilifeform: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/o5rrg/?raw=true << ocr of indictment etc.
asciilifeform: ^ d00d 'pleabargained'
asciilifeform: meanwhile, trotskyite and buharinite wreckers on trial, https://archive.is/Hc6QT >> http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/kPHNg/?raw=true >> 'A former U.S. National Security Agency employee pleaded guilty on Friday to illegally taking classified information outside the spy agency that an intelligence official said was later stolen from his home computer by Russian hackers' etc
asciilifeform: but meanwhile in world of entomology, https://i.imgur.com/SJMeCBU.jpg
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in alert readers, http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1913&cpage=1#comment-18378
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in deaths, http://m.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication
asciilifeform: i get empty page
asciilifeform bbl,meat
asciilifeform: yay
asciilifeform: ( prolly i oughta lose the last 2 at least, tasking is already off )
asciilifeform: you can comment out the pertinent knobs, see if any other caltrops.
asciilifeform: entirely possibly 2015 didn't have those knobs.
asciilifeform: i tested on gnu's, but 2016
asciilifeform: nm it's in there
asciilifeform: which gnat, mod6 !
asciilifeform: ( or hm, maybe not )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: item XI in http://trilema.com/2016/how-to-participate-in-the-affairs-of-the-most-serene-republic refers to i suspect an unrenumbered X
asciilifeform: ( sometimes it is very obvious who-whom, when demonstrative and spectacular polonium tea etc.; but this is rare. )
asciilifeform: could be just about anyone and anything, asciilifeform is wholly unequipped to say.
asciilifeform: swedes!11
asciilifeform: i dun get it, what was the ru aspect
asciilifeform: lol kneecapped?
asciilifeform: they certainly had 'great inca', before columbus sailed.
asciilifeform: aaha
asciilifeform: no odder than engl word 'right'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-01-21#1380083 << oblig ☝︎
asciilifeform: aaa
asciilifeform: hm?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, notable unsolvedproblem.
asciilifeform: ( recently asciilifeform found and of course locally mirrored some rando d00d's ftp with a few GB of bolixism. this is not imho properly a job for auto-archivebot, normally )
asciilifeform: but must point out that it does not magick away the problem of rot.
asciilifeform: not an objection to having an archivebot
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it dun have infinite depth tho ( impractical )
asciilifeform: so as in http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-30#1744823 aha ☝︎
asciilifeform: verily.
asciilifeform: but in usa as mircea_popescu put it 'there COULD have been green beret, but then nope'
asciilifeform: 1990-91 iirc
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's elder brother's program-su-pdp-clone instructor, was a chick, reportedly
asciilifeform: neato.
asciilifeform believes.
asciilifeform: yea but none did
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in usa that was prolly some time before wilson, so i never saw
asciilifeform: in '99 the net was still something that 'hm, i'ma turn on modem, dial, sync my newsreader, then it's yer turn, brother' etc
asciilifeform: msdos was still bootable on readily-available iron. vga card -- programmable. etc
asciilifeform: asciilifeform -- was reading.
asciilifeform: in '99 usenet was still functioning and reasonably readable, say.
asciilifeform: some dour 'oldfag' might say '93
asciilifeform: the uncrossable divide seems to be pre- vs post- reddit age.
asciilifeform: it isn't necessarily lethal; but not automagically great.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: in so far as i can tell, having access to actual comp is not necessarily good for a kid
asciilifeform: http://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth << wirth.
asciilifeform: !~google wirth plea for lean software
asciilifeform: many interesting concepts therein.
asciilifeform: the other interesting bit, niklaus wirth ( pascal ) afaik still alive. and even made own machine, chuck-moore-style, and os, 'oberon'
asciilifeform: ( with quite minor, in the big picture, differences )
asciilifeform: phunphakt, ada was originally a contest ( in chet-era usa mil ) and 'green ada' , a iirc french entrant, won; was made by pascalists. ergo today's looks quite like pascal
asciilifeform: ( http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-18#1615382 subj ) ☝︎
asciilifeform: !#s SWAG
asciilifeform: !# SWAG
asciilifeform: and...
asciilifeform: i had the borland pascal
asciilifeform: phf: certainly can't do e.g. spritegraphics without xor.
asciilifeform: lol
asciilifeform: even on c64 ( 1980s micro popular in the west ) it was pretty simple. was my 1st comp in usa, and i wrote a cyrillic thing, but useless ( what to read! )
asciilifeform: sorta how orcs were able to koi8 etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: most cards on pc from ega up also let define 8x8 char
asciilifeform: what chars a particular z80tron had, depended on chipset eh
asciilifeform: or 'discretes' ( #250 ) ?
asciilifeform: phf: how didja avoid system architecture ( iirc #311 ) ?
asciilifeform: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_NOPpfJ0F4 << subj )
asciilifeform softly sings canonical 'Мой Фантом, как пуля быстрый, в небе голубом и чистом, с ревом набирает высоту...'
asciilifeform: everyone starts somewhere.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and f4 man luvved his father's crop duster
asciilifeform: ( not speaking of uni, either, but of plain old plebeschool )
asciilifeform: even in american school first we did gate etc.
asciilifeform: hm where does one learn to program, but not see xor.
asciilifeform: phf: it may interest you to know that i dun have any fancy setup, beyond e.g. wget -m -r ...
asciilifeform: meanwhile the critics speak : http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1913&cpage=1#comment-18374
asciilifeform: troo
asciilifeform: fortunately cheap nao.
asciilifeform: aha.
asciilifeform: i would have guessed 'starved, lost server' but ~something~ is still hosting that pg
asciilifeform: sad.
asciilifeform: when did this happen phf
asciilifeform: uggh
asciilifeform not previously seen this flavour.
asciilifeform: meanwhile in asciilifeform's spam collector, ' Start live in Germany in only 15 days. In 2 months you will receive the Residence Permits. '
asciilifeform: TomServo: tried ffa ch1 tutorial yet ?
asciilifeform: lol
asciilifeform: yea afaik nobody ever made a proper one