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mircea_popescu: gotta be teh dreamers, that's the only way the batshit insane expectations of 8 bn heros in their own stories can be "satisfied" after a fashion. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: this is how they argue with their insignificant others : "oh, i was miss ohio state when i married oyu! i want a couch!"
mircea_popescu: eh, jail. here's a secret : nobody wants to keep anyone ion jail, it's expensive.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nothing specific. just likew "Karpeles is working on a solution!". what, i can run for miss dumbland just as well as a fat fuck.
mircea_popescu: basically, what's going on here is, the STORY of life wouldn't make sense, ~as a story~, ie it wouldn't be put on tv, if there wasn't a twist here.
mircea_popescu is working on a solution to end world stupid.
Framedragger: dude karpeles just took a large loan on that frappuccino https://blog.bigterminal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/protest-confronts-karpeles.jpg
Framedragger: /r/mtgoxinsolvency is full of "this is sufficient for end of insolvency" and (quoting) "Karpeles is working on a solution!"
mircea_popescu: that silbert schmuck is on his what, 5th "oh, i will change the world" hear him roar only to be used as a cum rag ?
asciilifeform: http://lowres-picturecabinet.com.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/43/main/3/81842.jpg << this is a 'bramah' shitter.
asciilifeform finds the history of the shitter a fascinating thing, in that it followed in same pattern as, e.g., small arms -- i.e. went through a peak of RIDICULOUS complexity before finally simplified into modern form.
ben_vulpes: the orifice is on a floor that once housed train station and train company employees
asciilifeform: incidentally, wtf is the reason why a ~public~ shitter even has a tank & ballcock
asciilifeform: dunno, my tank's lever nut was a veritable antikythera, wholly solid ball of rust.
asciilifeform: oh and : bring a hacksaw, often ancient flush lever has the nut rusted solid, you will not be able to turn it out, gotta slice through the 'antikythera'
ben_vulpes: "finally! a sane design!"
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: nope, that looks like a chain valve
asciilifeform: i have a generic chinese one
asciilifeform: (go and PUSH a chain, lol)
asciilifeform: can abort a flush.
asciilifeform: it comes with a bowden cable as actuator
asciilifeform: 4) useful shelf life of a li-ion cell is <4y
asciilifeform: in mostly unrelated lulz, asciilifeform found that 1) most recent manufacture dates of batteries sold for classic thinkpads are all ~2013 2) mircea_popescu was unfortunately wrong, chinese LiIon cells have ~not~ improved, they have cheapened further still, expected useful life of a battery is ~year (less, with heavy use)
asciilifeform: they have a handful of 'franchise' shops in usa also
mircea_popescu: prolly just a license deal.
hanbot: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-17#1657550 << searching (to no avail!) for a non-es keyboard the other day, i ran into, and did a double-take of, a radio shack here in cr. i had no idea they'd even squeaked by. no liquidation here (yet?). ☝︎
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if this is a latrine you go to every day, put a chainless ballcock in it and be done with it
ben_vulpes: toilet bore a handy, nearly legible scribble, "do not use, broken. signed - janitor"
mod6: what's a ballcock anyway?!!
mircea_popescu: what, you thought http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-20#1659774 was a joke ? it was no fucking joke. the price of ipads is imbecility. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: but as it is, the problem'd be that their mental object for a toilet does NOT EVEN FUCKING HAVE THE OPENABLE PROPERTY.
mircea_popescu: wait until i point out i've never met anyone under 30 who both spoke english and could properly butcher a goat.
mircea_popescu: in fairness i never met a 20something usian who could fix a toilet.
ben_vulpes: failure to maintain capital equipment, failure to give a shit about basic amenities you know working...
ben_vulpes: it is a very /annoying/ and /present/ tell of how far this civilization has fallen.
ben_vulpes: nah, i'm in a death metal and pilsner sort of mood
Framedragger: (here's a random good song with related title: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QHj0VBCP54)
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/s-a-furat-mireasa/ << Trilema - S-a furat mireasa
asciilifeform: entirely same thing, but crunches 32b (on 64b box) at a time, rather than 1
asciilifeform: (20+s ~ordinary~ exponentiation is still a ~month-long rsa keygen)
asciilifeform: gotta split X and Y into half-words, and multiply a half-word at a time, into a word-sized space
asciilifeform: halfword, rather than word, at a time, because of the idiocy of compilers, which LOSE the carry flag (see last 4 or so threads re subj)
asciilifeform: compared performance of 'kindergarten' multiplier ( halfword at a time, uses machine's MUL instr. which apparently IS constant-time on x86 (but NOT on arm! would need test routine at warmup to establish if can use MUL ) )
Framedragger: heh they describe the key negotiation etc in sorta-detail on their website, which is probably *a first* https://www.connect.im/faqs?faq_category_id=5 i mean, don't use this, but it's refreshing to see this (in broken english no less lol)
a111: Logged on 2017-03-05 18:20 BingoBoingo: shinohai: Have you considered starting a something to get some editorial experience? Perhaps you can be the publisher of "The Most Serene Republic's Journal Of Gardening And Whoreticulture"?
mircea_popescu: anyway, their contact scheme (summarized/cleanned up : cookie + pubkey + signature with same pubkey) is not terrible. uses rsa, which is a +.
asciilifeform: a la sr.
mircea_popescu: seems a sort of gossipd-over-tor
asciilifeform: 'Ricochet uses the Tor network to reach your contacts without relying on messaging servers. It creates a hidden service, which is used to rendezvous with your contacts without revealing your location or IP address.'
asciilifeform: well yes, but that's a scroll-UP
mircea_popescu: if we scropll down a leetal ?
mircea_popescu: chick has a skype, AND a tox thing (it's in the logs) AND a "ricochet" item which i never saw before but seems to make some tall claims.
diana_coman: ahahah, perhaps they'll have a special conf session re moar rms ppl!
a111: Logged on 2017-05-23 13:18 diana_coman: it's ok, I hear they got now a CS conference in Buenos Aires and they get therefore to steal participants' laptops,it's all a craze
mircea_popescu: which is the true boon of democracy : if everyone must be a people because they look kinda like one, then everything must be something else because it vaguely looks like it, and welcome to the dark ages.
mircea_popescu: a nazi because reasoning through simile!
trinque: I can also see the wisdom in seeing oneself as by nature, a lying sack of shit, requiring discipline to forge a human from the clay.
trinque: I take in danielpbarron's, when he speaks of it, that it is a knotted rope with which he beats himself. the other folks babbling about it, it's a damned gold star of "I am god's child"
mircea_popescu: if this does not prove bible is a poisonous, anti-human text which one follows to his perdition, nothing does.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-21 18:32 mircea_popescu: because no, words don't "have meanings". your meanings for ANY WORD are a function of ALL THE OTHER WORDS YOU KNOW. which is why my definitions regularily blow out english dictionaries, wikipedia and other sources of "wisdom" out of the water - i know more words, and in this knowledge i know all the words i know ~better~. infinitely and irreproducibly so.
mircea_popescu: is very much http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-21#1587276 ). consequently a situation of "whoever forges common language first wins" and so therefore 4. idiotic derpage "bible" crap won BECAUSE it was the ~only common ground. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i suppose the retrospective correct analysis is, 1. you get a bunch of elite people get together (everyone who made the trip was elite -- else they couldn't afford the significant proceedings ; this includes the slaves, for the same reason -- if they weren't 10s nobody'd have taken them across and that's what in africa cca then it meant to be elite) ; 2. they have no way to communicate, for lack of language (because language
mircea_popescu: tbh, cca 1880 it'd have been rather hard to predict us will simply check out, let the dumbest of the dumb handle affairs for a century.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am a being of ~pure energy, my presence is chiefly nonphysical!
mircea_popescu suspects "looking european" is simply a placeholder for "looking like your entire fambly didn't starve since the day it was invented"
trinque: a great aunt of mine, from oldschool italian family of some note, said to my mother "The air here is toxic to family."
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's a reason every army prefers the enemy kill its infantry than it's officers -- and it's also how war improves the population.
mircea_popescu: so it's rather nonsensical to say "blacks are dumb". if you spend a century killing the humans, you'll be left with mostly cows.
mircea_popescu: im not sure there is such a thing as a tribal type. basically any group of hucows has some humans and some cows mixed in. what you call "tribal types" is where cows are biologically dominant. cultivate the population for a few generations, it's just as capable to northern italy 15cento as northern italy itself. which, if you decultivate for a few generations...etc.
mircea_popescu: by a people who had their head screwed on right.
mircea_popescu: trinque very much indigenous. see rosas, for instance. guy is EXACTLY a "bad tyrant" by the "our democracy" bestiary ; was ELECTED. with genuine majority.
mircea_popescu: ALSO a fine example of the whole "happy while in denial"
mircea_popescu: trinque it's somewhat unlike, in that it's a very specific stupidity, alligned, coherent. SASER if you will.
diana_coman: and all the "they stole my laptop" "they entered conference rooms and tried to steal a laptop"
a111: Logged on 2017-05-22 17:44 asciilifeform: umd puts out a 'newspaper', also. at one time it was ~readable if a snore. today -- ~100% 'ohnoez campusrape, moarfunding'
diana_coman has recently been under a bit of avalanche of pictures from latest ICSE in Buenos Aires and she's SO HAPPY to not be there
mircea_popescu: lel. you ever seen those fucks at a conference btw ?
diana_coman: it's ok, I hear they got now a CS conference in Buenos Aires and they get therefore to steal participants' laptops,it's all a craze ☟︎
mircea_popescu: that process has turned a country which cca 1950 was in the top 5, ABOVE CANADA, into something struggling to not be overtaken by the gabon.
trinque: girl's a nanny to this derpy liberal fambly, shiftless dad says to breadwinner surgeon mother "something something web wallet oh also I have this shitty antminer". mother immediately asks "how will they tax it though". girl asks whether he actually holds the private keys, rolls eyes.
jhvh1: 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
jhvh1: 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
jhvh1: shinohai: Error: "step.3" is not a valid command.
ben_vulpes: and i've been having such a good time reading qntra of late
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: why not buy a shitty amcar from the nineties and practice drifting around those curves
mircea_popescu: i thought ariana grande was a model. she sings ?!
pete_dushenski: as an aside, this mircea_popescu retelling blows my feeble canadian mind no matter how many times i read it. i'm not sure there's been a single person in the history of this great arable land that's had an impromptu motorcade like that.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-11 15:40 mircea_popescu: let me point out that a) i visited, when i felt like ; b) they gave me a 10 year visa back in 2000. i was one of the i dunno, maybe dozen romanians with one, at the time ? c) they fucking held the embassy open while my driver was going 100 on the wrong way in bucharest because i met some friends and got to drinking and we lost track of time and we were late. eventually got a police escort to do it under color of law at least,
BingoBoingo: <mod6> wear a helmet << plan for at least first 10 kilomiles
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-23#1660325 << fwiw and ftr i've spent ~0 brain cycles considering what to do if i break it, it is not imho likely. but learned a few things in the process. ☝︎
mod6: wear a helmet
mod6: !%a trb C "Move the deps folder" "Move trb deps directory which contains frozen artifacts outside of the bitcoin project directory. This will avoid unwanted removal of artifacts upon a `make clean`."
mod6: re: http://thebitcoin.foundation/tickets/trb_tickets.html#1 << this one seems to be resolved with the use of -lows. I hesitate to remove the ticket, but a link to the patch might be worthwhile here.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-10 16:57 asciilifeform: btw i will also put down in the log, one very simple possible algorithm for a 'txidx-fs' :
asciilifeform: however there is a number of tests-for-broken-rng. my idea was strictly re an algo for how to measure their actual relevance .
asciilifeform: and yes, this is still same old tests, nothing magically different about them, there will ~never~ be a mechanical test for 'good rng'
asciilifeform: so next step is: once we have a sadness equation, you can take it and test its guess rate vs expected value, with new output sample.
asciilifeform: right. output ought be a 'hey schmuck, if you use this rng, i can predict, like-so...'
asciilifeform: my original contention is that any test which, upon 'failure', cannot produce a sadness equation, is ill-conceived.
asciilifeform: so we get a sadness equation: