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nubbins`: infamy, i'm already
there. but fame? different story
nubbins`: closest i've gotten
to fame so far
nubbins`: that douche on
the left has essentially
the same name as me
assbot: John Keefe Pictures - MTV
TRL Presents
The Jonas Brothers,
T.I., Lady GaGa and Boys Like Girls - Zimbio
mircea_popescu: (i also have a bet with some unfriendly parties as
to whether
that film' gonna be criminal insanity or not, but
that's a different story)
mircea_popescu: im curious who's gonna be
the first b-a alumn
to become famous in an unrelated field.
ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> it's a sf story about how
the exposure
to fractals make brains pop. /// a couple weeks ago i was charting for hours on end, using fib spirals and picking apart fractal patterns, and
this repeating melody started in my head, not a song i knew, just a sequence. It was
there for a day or
two. First
time I was musically inspired in a while.
nubbins`: sci-fi eye on
the straight guy
mircea_popescu: so for some inexplainable reason 93% of all
the comment spam sent
to
trilema has
to do with bags
nubbins`: snow crash, same idea but novel-length and w/ language rather
than sight
nubbins`: (i know a guy who claims he's had a cube stuck inside his brain for ~17 years. he declines
to elaborate)
mircea_popescu: it's a sf story about how
the exposure
to fractals make brains pop.
nubbins`: go visit a bughouse and
tell me none of
those people recreated
the damagingly illogical :D
nubbins`: ah, in
the normal run of events, sure.
mircea_popescu: it's a biological protection on
the level of "dead by holding his own breath", except implemented in nature rather
than in
the body.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway,
the close is flawed.
the mind can not on its own recreate
the damagingly illogical.
this is pretty much
the largest most important safety we have.
nubbins`: i feel like
there's loot
to be made with one of
those bitcoin ATMs here, but i also feel like i can't be fucked
to manage an ATM
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway,
the fundamnetal idea is sound. if one could weaponize idiocy at will one wouldn't need any further wishes from
the djinn.
mircea_popescu: surgically attached
to
toilet bowl, shower curtain or bedstand ?
nubbins`: mp: "in fact,
the clitoris is located above
the vulva, not below"
nubbins`: golden retrievers come from
this same stock
mircea_popescu: because you're canadian, and
that makes you weird ? :D
nubbins`: why in
the fuck do i know all
this?
nubbins`: in fact, both were bred from an animal called
the St. John's Water Dog
nubbins`: besides,
the aboriginal people in
this province are generally innu; you'd have
to go a lot farther for inuit
mircea_popescu: cazalla lol speaking
tours.
this is roughly
the equivalent of
the plague, don't envy a man his misery.
nubbins`: it's only with
the advent of higher
temperatures
that we've mellowed. 10 years ago i woulda had
the guy surgically attached
to
the kitchen counter
mircea_popescu: no wonder all
the eskimos are gone with only some scroungy inuit left
nubbins`: mircea_popescu
the climate made us
this way
nubbins`: i'd like a gribble module
that polls alf's output for interesting short stories
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "computer monitor of better
than 600 x 300 pixels resolution." pandering
to
the new ega displays i see ? :D
assbot: My November speaking
tour is coming
together: LA, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Queenstown
assbot: Jeremy Charles: Canadas real
top chef -
The Globe and Mail
xmj: nubbins`: alternatively you could -ask-
them
nubbins`: current plan is
to injure his legs and confine him
to
the kitchen here
nubbins`: one of 'em just got a job at canada's
top restaurant, which is, conveniently, just a short
tumble down
the hill from here
nubbins`: so i've got
these
two new roomies
fluffypony: we haven't really pursued
that idea,
the nice charters are very expensive per-person even if we fill
the plane
RagnarDanneskjol: nice. so are you staying in BA for
the forseeable future (not
that its any my business)
mircea_popescu: i
think fluffypony was going
to charter a plane or i dun remember how
that went.
mircea_popescu: that's why
that bot command is so handy. easy
to miss
things in
the deluge.
mircea_popescu: lol
this guy. hey RagnarDanneskjol is
there something you won't
try
to do ? :D
chetty: mircea_popescu, said
there should be a gribble npc ...
RagnarDanneskjol: He and Alz had a long convo about it a few hours ago.. also put him in
touch with chetty - discussed gribble for eulora
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol ima wait for delivery on
that other
thing first, and i have a queue
there anyway.
mircea_popescu: xmj what exactly makes you
think my money isn't where my mouth is, nooblet ?
xmj: i'm sure you'll find lots of people who love paying for
this
xmj: mircea_popescu: do feel free
to put your money where your mouth is.
mircea_popescu: anyone want
to make a fork of git and implement all
this ?
mircea_popescu: that's what github'd be doing, if it weren't wasting its
time with imbecile females vying for attention
the only way imbecile females know how.
mircea_popescu: as a v0.1.
then for v0.2 of
this, have an actual crypto signed procedure where everyone who reads a line of code signs and it's wot-abble
this.
mircea_popescu: other
than proper cryptography for all foss, as discussed coupla days re gentoo overlays etc, i would fucking love for all lines of code
to come with a counter.
☟︎☟︎ xmj still waits for OpenSSL
to be replaced with LibreSSL on FreeBSD
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't expect any problems. in fact it's probably better reviewed code
than w/e it's been replaced with anyway.
fluffypony: but going
to actually rip
this out and rewrite it
to use gettimeofday on bsd
xmj: fluffypony:
thing being, iff it uses AES AND iff AES needs
to be fast, you'll want
to look into crypto(4) and aesni(4)
fluffypony: xmj: afair
this is used in
the PoW, so it uses openaes for speed
xmj: I know people who have done so for long(er) stretches of
times
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud: So shock
therapy is old? << just about contemporaneous with electricity itself.
mircea_popescu: to me all
this "let's improve sleep" stuff reads a lot like "this cnc control code would be a lot better if we
took out all sleep() references"
xmj: BingoBoingo: brain electricity sleep stuff is prone
to commercial failure, see Zeo.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: re: 100hz - i do lean
towards
the soviet hypothesis
that at least a
third of
the sleep cycle is a vestigial waste of
time. <<< why ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Oh, apparently
the brain electricity stuff for sleep et al is being commercialized << well of course, everything's being commercialised, from cow piss (redbull)
to an app
to prove you're rich. dun really much matter if it works, as long as someone somewhere
thought of it, it's available
to buy.
xmj: if you're interested in having
that question answered from a BSD perspective, you could
try #bsdports on efnet
fluffypony: also
the original oaes_lib author seems
to eschew modernising it, so we may dump it completely at some stage rather
than bother
fluffypony: xmj: so oaes_lib uses ftime() like a retard, and we don't have spare contributors
to rewrite
the
two places its used
to rather use gettimeofday - is
there anything particularly wrong with using -lcompat for
the moment
till we can see
to
that?
xmj: fluffypony: How may I help you on
this bright Wednesday ;)
assbot: Don't Layer Currency Risk on
Top of Equity Exposure
RagnarDanneskjol: its
the first I'd heard anything definitive about bitcoin-paypal
cazalla: "Bitcoin prices have swung between more
than $US900
to as low as $US341
this year as enthusiasts
try
to address
the digital currency's weaknesses, persuade consumers
to embrace it and overcome governments' concerns
that it could be misused by criminals. " ok lol