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mircea_popescu: nah, that was ion iliescu, president. they teaqmed up for
a while though.\
mircea_popescu: was pm for
a few years. anyway, he wrote some derpage about "the state", and i wrote
a scathing comment.
shinohai: Perhaps the macho can be balanced with
a dose of `rico suave`
mircea_popescu: there's also
a bird that cackles, literally. so we'd be fucking or talking or w/e, and the bird is
a-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
mircea_popescu: there's also an insect that sounds EXACTLY like
a dying fan
mircea_popescu: phf costa rica has
a bird, does the EXACT FUCNING NOISE
phf: it's when certain kinds of harddrive clicks permanently trigger
a sense of dread in you
mircea_popescu: had
a sorta-bad sector, kept fucking with me until it finally died hours later.\
phf: i'm getting
a weirdest behavior on mac.
a dumped lisp image with executable payload: when call it from shell "directly", i.e. ./foo works fine, but when you call it "global" i.e. it's in path and you say foo it responds with "read_mach_o_header: Bad file descriptor"
mircea_popescu: anyway, re other point : i dun believe there is such
a thing as an autodidact. everyone that knows anything learned that thing, themselves. no one can learn outside of an environment, and there is no deeper relevancy to convention of the time than that -- convention of the time. dude who learns in dark room is going to be weird one way, girly that learns in room with other girlies and teacher is going to be weird the other wa
mircea_popescu: incidentally : "define *' so that modx(
a * b) = modx(
a) *' modx(b)" should be
a legitimate abstract algebra approach.
ave1: Yes, I understand, it would add n bits times m ops where n is 4096 at the minimum (already the pow takes
a lot of time with the MUL and SQR in there)
ave1: asciillifeform: ah, I understand I will do some more thinking on this, having
a div after the mul and sqr would be less ideal, but an arbitrary modulo sqr and mul would be interesting
ave1: Plus I assumed modulo was to be on the FZ size, arbitrary module would involve
a IDIV at the end (or mask if module will be some power of 2)
Framedragger: "According to Google, it will only send voice data back when it hears the keyword. Now if it explicitly goes against its own stated privacy policy, that's
a breach of trust I would not be happy with. That said, if they explicitly stated they send all audio back, I'd actually be fine with that too."
Framedragger: just HN things - on google home (the "send all audio to google" appliance): "I have one, it's convenient and lets me control my home in what feels like
a natural way. Personally, I don't see the downside of having it. Note; I mean I don't acknowledge
a downside from my perspective. I'm fully aware that it's always listening and sending data home when it hears
a keyword."
ben_vulpes: > (such attack did not exist, but it seemed
a fair explanation).
shinohai:
A frozen chicken tender lovingly heated by Mom in the microwave before opening the second bottle of vodka.
ben_vulpes: makes the pacific northwest sound like
a not entirely miserable shithole, the place where you live
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> they also had
a 2tonne safe, for some reason , in the back, and willing to let it go for cheap. but asciilifeform has neither flatbed nor crane nor concrete plinth. << Such things can be rented, ~300 - 700 for combination for whole day
ben_vulpes: log cabin not yet built; train station operators pay for heat and
a/c.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: far from free, but the new party is
a good one.
ben_vulpes: well he's liquidating them for
a reason, neh?
a111: Logged on 2017-03-20 04:02 ben_vulpes: more specifically, "assuming one wants
a car shop for purely emotional and recreational reasons, how to determine what to pay for it?" "calculate hardware liquidation price, discount four years of cashflow declining by 10-30%
a year to today, and offer
a dime over that"
mircea_popescu: lol for new year i dun recall which, took girls in chains to floor -3, poured champagne / fucked them among the scary concrete. was
a blast.
mircea_popescu:
a really ? then what the fuck do you hang on to used furniture for. no party rental outfits where you live ?
a111: Logged on 2014-08-30 16:11 asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: re: 'coinbase insurance' post - little story. recently i had occasion to rent
a box at
a bank (storage of various paperwork for firm.) the contract was
a hilarious read. bank only insures
a box for up to 25k usd. and specifically excludes damage from robbery, fire, water... virtually anything.
mircea_popescu: i can't even be arsed to take the anglo formalism seriously.
A-> field, really ? pshaw.
gabriel_laddel_p: mircea_popescu: ask
a grad student (preferably one who works on antenna theory) what the
A-> field _is_ and why D->/B->/E-> etc are _not_ sometime. The sheer weight of handwaving will adequately communicate why this is interesting.
gabriel_laddel_p: *spherically symmetrical mass distribution with
a much smaller mass inside of it that
A-> induces
a velocity in when moved...
gabriel_laddel_p: Interestingly, Ilan Kroo reached for the same formulation (
A->) & same example (spherically symmetrical mass distribution) as CAM, but ~20 years earlier, and prior to gravity probe B, which confirmed (for some value of that word) the geodetic effect (frame dragging).
gabriel_laddel_p: We know that
A-> exists, and is better than heaviside's formulation of maxwell's equations because it can describe the AB experiment, and because it does not have
a preferred frame of reference / is lorentz invariant.
gabriel_laddel_p: he same mathematical machinery (vector potential) to gravity and has
a slightly different prediction than GR regarding the gravity wave (supposedly) detected at LIGO.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-18 18:26 mircea_popescu: came up with
a way to explain away laser interferometry not showing these "grav waves" by declaring photons kulaks / enemy of the solid state or such.
gabriel_laddel_p:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-18#1658434 < Do you have
a source for this? And banning photons? What? Where is this discussed? In any case, there are two threads here 1) collective electrodynamics, which wants to be
a reformulation of EM using
A->, as it takes into account, as you say, the "collective action" of electrons. & 2) G4V, which applies t
☝︎ mircea_popescu: eh, brunette is the new blonde has been
a meme for
a long time now.
Framedragger: i poelaw'd on that link. " Sadly, there is
a direct correlation between high IQ and “earning”
a PhD in
a STEM discipline, which is all too reflective of how white cishet men have designed disciplinary concepts to reinforce their own power structures." (some comment. troll? dunno)
mircea_popescu: i kinda miss the early ones. remember the punk, what's his name, who thought he was
a "crypto innovator" ? or that tv schmuck. or or or
Framedragger: would include that 3d transform on cardano.io as
a free perk
mircea_popescu: next they're going to invent
a sheath fully utilizing steel that aims at solving the difficulties faced by swords embedded in idiots guts everywhere.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-31 02:26 asciilifeform: '
A decentralized network system fully-utilizing Blockchain in every aspect, aims at solving current difficulties faced by key cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, preventing from frauds and money-laundering, ID management and being
a mediator with taxing/administrative system in various countries.
mircea_popescu: before alf cuts more notches in the
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-18#1658505 stick : i literally did not bother paying for the domain, for no other reason than because i literally give this much of
a shit about domains, and the whole rest of the ustardian crap built atop it.
☝︎ BingoBoingo: Not yet, waiting for anchoring hardware to arrive. Attaching
a tin shed to the ground.
BingoBoingo: jurov: seems to have went through eventually or something. Resolved
A+++!!!11!!!
BingoBoingo:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-18#1658191 << It's been
a while since he's lit up my inbox. Went over the years from promising to sell cookies he wouldn't bake to writing
a couple good qntra's under cazalla regime. Then sort just degraded to repeatedly asking questions over plaintext about gardening for plants I don't grow. "tomatoes" but I suspect he was using it as
a code word for
a plant incompatible with quality sobriety. His late con
☝︎ mircea_popescu: now calculate the magnetic field that turns
a million years into
a second.
mircea_popescu: and also, surprisingly energetic. imagine what fun it'll be once you discover that
a kilogram is not like the microgram in that it summons fucking chtulhu.
mircea_popescu: add
a 2% conversion efficiency on top, and it suddenly looks terribru. diesel engines work in the high 40%.
mircea_popescu: you get
a quarter milijoul per mol. as an absolute maximum.
mircea_popescu: though most don't even want to use that as
a confinement method
mircea_popescu: beta radiation is not just an electron about in the sense
a tsunami is not just water.
mircea_popescu: i know of
a coupla who tried. the problem was the measurements not coming out, rather than conspiraci.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-30 14:55 asciilifeform: 'motivation from fear is
a firecracker, from interest -
a nuke' as the americans used to say
a111: Logged on 2017-02-19 03:54 asciilifeform: (iirc we had
a thread where i described how corporate ameritards, if given
a problem like phuctor, would happily soak up
a few $mil and megawatt of iron)
mircea_popescu: if the 100k you're talking about is factual, ie, what
a moderately competent engineer makes
a year, it seems altogether strange they're not doing it.