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a111: Logged on 2017-05-18 13:51 asciilifeform: 'On account of timely measures, about a thousand infected machines were blocked off , which constituted less than 1%'. (?)
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-18#1657897 << "due to heroic actions of Praporshchik Sidorenko, the aggressor has been neutralized, but unfortunately resulted in death of selfsame praporshchik, who will be awarded a medal posthumously, and his vdova will receive 500 rubbles in recognition of his heroism" ☝︎
Framedragger: it'd really be great if there were a ~decent pdf2html tool, with no JS. and i don't mean just "extract and dump plaintext", i can do that, too. ☟︎☟︎
Framedragger: :(. it's a pdf-to-js'totron. myeah.
asciilifeform: almost as if they have a if (xres < yres) barf()
mircea_popescu used to have a very poor reaction / low tolerance to ineptitude in that vein "oh i shouldnt end up naked on the first date" from chicks who saw stupid americana on tv and imagined it's an example to follow back when he was 16. it deteriorated over time.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-18 01:52 ben_vulpes: on a floor where very nearly every door features a black lives matter and "in our democracy love wins"
mircea_popescu: nevermind the 2015. gimme a 2017 version.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why the specifics need even be discussed. who cares WHAT was in the dumpster girly put on her head ? point remains, FREE!!11 is a garbage heuristic.
asciilifeform: it's a multi-meg atrocity, it is broken DEFINITIONALLY
mircea_popescu: he missed out on getting a trilema link because of the letsencrypt bs ?
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: just fyi, the site (osalabs.com) loads - you don't have a root CA which signed their certificate (letsencrypt cert). of course the point is still valid
asciilifeform: 'the real nexus of this photo is the government official with the "you've got to be kidding me" expression, who exists in a power-structure that requires solemn professions of belief in this powerful weirdo's dumb rituals (including, but not limited to, spraying electronic devices with water, and not because a computer that has been rendered inoperable due to electrical faults is incidentally and thoroughly immune to malware)' >>>>>
asciilifeform: 'On account of timely measures, about a thousand infected machines were blocked off , which constituted less than 1%'. (?) ☟︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-18#1657831 << i dun wanna let this slip by . so : '12 May , the dept. of IT and information defense of the ru ministry of internal affairs detected a malware attack against PCs belonging to the ministry which were running Windows.', ☝︎
Framedragger: well yes, JS is a mixture of things, Self, C, etc, the best mixture of them all
mircea_popescu: apparently i lived a whole life without doing these strange conversions.
asciilifeform: which turns out is not actually a button that's connected. by paying mega-rent, asciilifeform is buying OTHER d00d a house.
mircea_popescu: because obviously you're doing a good job of it.
asciilifeform: i dun see how this is unclear, if i walk into bezzlebroker with 1% of what house costs, i can't walk out with 1% of a house.
asciilifeform: upstack -- point is that nobody's about to run city pipes to a square metre.
mircea_popescu: and i have like a suspicion north korea would take dollars if available.
asciilifeform: 'hi, this is pyongyang? i'ma a schmuck in usa, i want to buy a square metre'
asciilifeform: real estate is quantized, asciilifeform can't go and buy a ~usable~ square metre of land for 1000 $
mircea_popescu: you want to lift a gram, you need a mN just like if you want to move a ton you need 1kN. there's no tiny discounts.
mircea_popescu: i don't see it. piece of orbital rubbish 1/10^9 of planet doesn't go "you know what, your force isn't enough to move planet a meter, but i'll move 2*10^9 meters because hey, i'm just piece of rubbish not planet!
asciilifeform: there's a harvester, it harvests, wat.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-18#1657737 << as i understand it, house 'buying' (virtually nobody actually buys , in usa, they take out massive mortgage) by a human, is not a financial transaction in the usual sense, in the sense you buy petrol . it is instead a fat-harvesting transaction, where you pay 100% of what the lizards weigh you to be worth. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-05-18 12:36 phf: i moved into a new place closer to the lizards, had a funny exchange in the lobby. this lady "got lucky" and "bought a house at list price" because apparently "everyone's scared because of the upcoming impeachment".
asciilifeform was reading, for lulz, a js bignumatron , a few days ago, and marveling at the sheer wtf
mircea_popescu: i had to talk of javascript. who the fuck thinks like this, i wish to know, "oh, i'll htmlencode a string and then replace some of the escaped items".
mircea_popescu suspects this may well be alf's favourite passtime. the endless field of register-clever, like a sort of chess.
ave1: at least trying first, made understanding it a lot easier
mircea_popescu: how to ensure a rating ? make it fucking irresistible lol.
ave1: my division was many times slower (as I did a shift N left on every iteration)
asciilifeform: only reason i haven't posted one yet is the square, presently making a proper one
ave1: It's a basic adaptation of what you can find on the web
mircea_popescu: it's a cannonical example of what gui is/needs to be, obviously command line works but fuck me, really, i will type select so and so by hand each time all the time ?
asciilifeform: all i got is a txt full of schema and various crib sheet...
mircea_popescu: i spent five whole minutes belabouring under the misapprehension that it's metasyntactic reference, some sort of prototype and you gotta replace the a and b.
mircea_popescu: i don't imagine these people are all trillionaires and so couldn't possibly care less about a million-ish item, chiefly because the us has no trillionaires.
mircea_popescu: but i do occasionally buy at list price, for small occasionals like say when going out to a restaurant. i could have the slavegirls replicate anything on the menu, and it would come out even better half the time, but unless i care it's not worth the hassle.
mircea_popescu: i dun has a wife ;/
mircea_popescu: yes, if you buy it at a discount.
mircea_popescu: or what, you're going to tell me these prices aren't based on discounted cash flows and other such actuarial judgements ? in the world's greatest economy the world's smartest people acting like a bunch of nation of africa retards ? unthinkabru!
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would anyone buy if they're not getting a discount from list.
mircea_popescu: i don't get it, there's a price higher than list ?
phf: i moved into a new place closer to the lizards, had a funny exchange in the lobby. this lady "got lucky" and "bought a house at list price" because apparently "everyone's scared because of the upcoming impeachment". ☟︎
a111: a BUILDING full of feeble minded liberals
asciilifeform: whereas i finally have a quadracode reader. courtesy of an ex-ratshack's cash register.
ben_vulpes: i will be SURE to listen VERY CLOSELY the next time a portlander has something to say about environmental justice and global warming.
ben_vulpes: on a floor where very nearly every door features a black lives matter and "in our democracy love wins" ☟︎
ben_vulpes: a BUILDING full of feeble minded liberals
mircea_popescu: almost as if it were the case the whole "contradictions" bs is really a subcase of "unearthing hypocrisy", ie the traditional codeword of the inept adolescent "fighting" with authority.
mircea_popescu: and in other random, isn't it funny that for all the millions of dorks going about finding "contradictions in the bible" there can't be had a single dork going about seeking "contradictions in wikipedia" ?
ben_vulpes: do find it funny that mircea_popescu eschews the "muh characters have a mind of their own!" line
ben_vulpes did not expect a response
mircea_popescu: what's a tenterhook ?
asciilifeform has nfi, and will bbl, off to visit last gasp of a ratshack
mircea_popescu: ~all comes back to the eternal "i'm a dog that thinks on the internet nobody can tell i'm a dog."
mircea_popescu: anyway, that was the original "sting" re silk road, some narc pretended to be a seller there ("hacked account, ie social engineered) and tried to sell pound of coke, nobody was buying so dork in charge decided to buy it on his own accouint. to "save face", because apparently "drug marketplace" that can't place a pound somehow has some face to be saved
mircea_popescu: whatever, considering the "Fake it til lyou might eventually make it" attitude prevalent among the herd, it migh've been a nickle bag everyone kept pretending.
asciilifeform: i thought it was supposed to be a whole kg
mircea_popescu: it's almost like that tyime when mp said silk market is a joke and then it turned out couldn't sell a pound of coke over xmas.
asciilifeform: for solving a riddle
ben_vulpes: what not sinking, that's a tidy pile of usd is it not?
asciilifeform: that ain't a sinking
mircea_popescu: dude also wrote a book. about coffee tables.
mircea_popescu: in the sense that kramerica industries aka the new york living wage dept funded a decade of kramer's reading and beach shitting.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: he wrote a browser for pre ios mobile devices, it funded some half-decade of reading, fathering, beach-shitting.
mircea_popescu: in other news, wtf are they talking about, "death threat." they call it "life insurance", why the fuck is it a death threat. it should be a life threat.
asciilifeform: ^ this is a costly diode btw. 150 $ in small qty.
asciilifeform: 'what's the use of a comp with no command prompt' -- asciilifeform 20y ago ( and now ! )
asciilifeform: and why sell electronic parts : Only A Terrorist would want such a thing.
asciilifeform: a little like how reddit lives on, unharmed by the depth of its -ev
asciilifeform: it was a sort of canary - dying co. since 1990s, propped up by hell-knows-what, 'brand value', 'must maintain business-as-usual', i have nfi
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't mind chasing some usians around a little from a truck before finally shooting to maim and leaving them for dead.
asciilifeform: in other lulz, the venerable rat shack, american retail chain, that survived great depression ( founded 1921 ) -- is finally dying. ( for 2nd time ! 1st time had last-minute reprieve, a telco bought it )
mircea_popescu: i hope it shall be a lesson for all of us!
mircea_popescu: because we didn't take seriously whatever random dork last made a social media post about things and matters and saving bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: i try to have a little for everyone!
asciilifeform: i can still observe sharpened stick and guess, likely correctly, that it was made so as to go into flesh; vs different stick, that - again correctly - i will say broke off a tree, by the wind.
mircea_popescu: once it's obvious that either everything has a purpose or nothing does, it's therefore established there is no such thing as purpose.
mircea_popescu: which is why a good hospital is the one where the doctor says "well mr p, here's what we could do to you" as opposed to "here's what we want to do "
asciilifeform: well yes. redditus is a wild beast
mircea_popescu: leaving the aesthetics aside for a minute to focus on the technical -- i imagine these are testers, ie, "whether it works". no links.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> what can i tell you ben_vulpes , i'm a writer not an engineer. i don't know so much about engines, just seemed to me like the right number. why, is it wrong ? << This actually might be most right
asciilifeform: ( with the 1 diff that a spambot has some sort of constructive purpose, if only to detune filters, whereas redditus has none )
trinque: asciilifeform claiming a distinction must still point to the distinction!
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2012/o-hai-i-was-justing-doing-a-penetration-test-of-your-site/#comment-122056 << ftr these are bots
mircea_popescu: also amusingly, but on purpose, this sam story is becoming quite the intertextual lulz. it's a joy.
mircea_popescu: what can i tell you ben_vulpes , i'm a writer not an engineer. i don't know so much about engines, just seemed to me like the right number. why, is it wrong ?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: a three stroke engine?! ☟︎
mircea_popescu: (notice how this cycle goes ? i recall a 1990s large font craze also.)
mircea_popescu: anyway, but the misnotaiton : it's not /a/ it's /ə/. dr/ə/kula.
mircea_popescu: if alf had a kid and he was worth a ro name he'd probably be alfisor
mircea_popescu: now the ~kid~, was named draculea /drəkulea/. this is a diminutive, exactly in the way "little boots" worked in latin. the term'd denote exactly that, little dragon-guy spawn.
a111: Logged on 2014-02-17 15:20 asciilifeform: try this one on for size then. 'once drakula proclaimed: let it be known throughout all of his lands, that all who are old, or invalid, or diseased, or poor, shall come to him. and so came to him an untold multitude of beggars and vagabonds, awaiting generous alms. he ordered them all brought to a house for this purpose built, and had food and wine brought to them. they feasted amidst great merriment. drakula t
ben_vulpes: from a worms handle.
asciilifeform: iirc this roman custom is somewhat misunderstood by modern folx -- they actually thought they were fixing a rusted ~luck~ by offing the ~unlucky~