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asciilifeform: i haven't waited for a node to shut down in years
ben_vulpes: i am considering testing this in conjunction with a solipsistic miner, but may test it against the extant blockchain instead. input on this also welcome
asciilifeform: i'ma read this when i wake up
ben_vulpes: once this patch works (which it almost certainly does not, as i have only finished drafting it), it will serialize unspent outputs to disk in a simple format for...later use.
ben_vulpes: now i have to decide how to test it, for the odds are that it does not work as-written. but i do invite commentary on the design!
asciilifeform: one time i went to an exhibit of electric vehicles, there were not only modern machines but lovingly handcrafted (from ordinary chassis) items, from as early as '80s, still working
ben_vulpes: on an eeeentiiiiirely different topic, it took months but i recently got the part of my output indexer that excises spent outputs from the index map to compile, which i believe brings the indexer part of this foray to completion. i invite any who'd like to read and comment to download the (unsigned!) vpatch from here cascadianhacker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/export_outputs.vpatch ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: this being said, if ben_vulpes builds with own hands an electric auto with ni-fe cells, made by own hand, i will clap!
asciilifeform: btw ben_vulpes -- know where i can get a ni-fe cell ?
ben_vulpes: and i await the drivetrain's arrival in trucks eagerly.
asciilifeform: i dungetit
asciilifeform: i rode in a 'prius' taxi not long ago, and was astonished to discover this
ben_vulpes: shall i go get my sophistry canister?
asciilifeform: i suffer these in lappy, and it is infuriating, 20-40% capacity loss/yr. why the everliving fuck would i volunteer to suffer this in an auto.
asciilifeform: for, last i knew, 'tesla' battery
ben_vulpes: are you reading what i write or just repeating from your queue of stored battery slights?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655439 << i have a bunch of these here, they're mighty spiffy ☝︎
ben_vulpes: i have the block hash untruncated in the one place i wanted it recently, have not yet ploughed through the rest of them.
ben_vulpes: lol i just told $girl that she was lazy, she retorted that she "is efficient, and it's a feature"
asciilifeform: speaking of which, i wonder if they'd like a FUCKGOATS.
asciilifeform: i dunno that there are private-companies in usa above cafe size
asciilifeform: i suspect it is because lamp -- was weak ( i used PROM zeroizer with the tray ripped out )
Framedragger: ^ relevant (yes i know stross is not really liked here, but this was ~ok)
mircea_popescu: by the time i'm typing . )).). you know the current article's gonna be involved
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i won't be surprised if the prisoners become 'pioneering volunteers' for 'assisted suicide'
mircea_popescu: uniquated, i guess. what he says dun actually exist.
phf`: it's like a mixture of all the oh-i-remember-this-was-popular chav styles from across the world
phf`: i'm not even sure my office is ready for this. i kind of want to open a hookah bar with really bad rail drinks and bottle service just so that i can play that stuff on TVs
asciilifeform: i can't distinguish subj from shannonizer output
phf`: i'm going to play this at the office, to confuse both romanians and the iranians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjLSZ-K0kog
phf`: apparently something called manele. i was wondering why it sounded vaguely iranian, vaguely turkish
mircea_popescu: there is no romanian in there, though. fat guy is a popular gypsy singer, the ~only actual word in his speech would be "carolina" which is only romanian inasmuch "o iubesc pe carolina, e o fata din carpati, are ochii ca si marea si-i frumoasa ca o stea, o carolina lina lina carolina cha cha cha" etc 30 yo kid rhymes.
phf`: i have a very what's the word straight? romanian coworker. i like to periodically send some of the things i glean through mircea_popescu about romanian this guy's way. just to watch his reaction.
mircea_popescu: anyway, reason i didn't buy is because the commies didn't sell. otherwise -- money, had.
mircea_popescu: yes well i don't see that many phosgene to ac unit cia goons out there combing the streets.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suspect you are thinking of ~natural~ Rn concentration
phf`: come to think of it the whole exhaust in the kitchen applies to other cases where exhaust is mandatory: i like the small of soldering rosin or the smell of freshly sawed wood, but i wouldn't want to spend much time in a workshop that doesn't have an exhaust. and you have similar failure mode: "come all to work on projects!" hackerspaces notoriously don't have exhaust
mircea_popescu: (i have azn friend who likes trying to bother me. feigned surprise at how we here in the decadent west let the toilet water go to waste, when we could raise a koi in there. jsut think alf! millions of toilets! tons of carp!)
asciilifeform: hey, americans rediscovered it : dishwasher ( i shit thee not ) fish.
mircea_popescu: i guess somehow the obvious got unhappened in all languages because why would they wanna think of such things!
phf`: ahaha, that's a great metaphor. i think somebody, possibly Gogol had some similarly visceral imagery, but i don't remember it as a phrase
phf`: diana_coman: i think smell of food is different in home kitchen vs industrial kitchen like at a restuarant
diana_coman knows people who LIKE the smell/to smell of food; I'm quite sure they know also what hunger means - firsthand as it were, even if in their past rather than present
phf`: there's too many places to name that fuck up the whole vent thing. there's a small cafe next to my apartment that i can't go to because they don't have exhaust. but i think it's a general "oh we need to cook? i'm going to replicate my mom's kitchen". at least they now all get proper stoves, probably after watching cooking shows where fire goes "woosh" when it's cooking
mircea_popescu: subtle flaws, because nobody has any books and the masters all went to boring island and are sitting there fishing all day or i dunno wtf.
mircea_popescu: i asked him why he put it in though, he explained "to neutralize the bla bla bla".
mircea_popescu: i pointed out to him he's not supposed to do that, salt is terrible for your health. he explained it's hymalayan rock salt, has no fluoride, is all good for health.
phf`: ugh, i'm not sure which one's worse
mircea_popescu: he put salt in. chunks, not flakes or anything. i fished out half dozen pea sized rocks of salt.
mircea_popescu: utterly noob mistake. i've owned restaurants enough to know you build the whole fucking kitchen around the vent, first you put that in then you places the stoves. how's she to know and how's she to guess ?
phf`: i'm not sure how you can subtly fuck up that one
mircea_popescu: but i belittled and insulted the mousy brunette playing the ocd type, we had a lot of fun.
mircea_popescu: ok. now, wanna guess the subtle ways or shall i just say ?
phf`: it's nifty, i think i've seen variations on the idea, but this sounds like a solid execution
phf`: i'm mostly just find it fascinating how everything is broken in subtle ways
a111: Logged on 2017-05-12 06:38 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-12#1655048 << i'm sorry, "Delayed action radioactive magicgas" ?
a111: Logged on 2017-05-12 05:49 danielpbarron: i obliged, even though the song was terrible and i had never done it before
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-12#1655048 << i'm sorry, "Delayed action radioactive magicgas" ? ☝︎☟︎
danielpbarron: i did a better job of it than she did though
danielpbarron: i obliged, even though the song was terrible and i had never done it before ☟︎
danielpbarron: i found a karaoke venue that lets me sing "offensive" songs. at some point after i finished singing one of my songs, a girl calls for my attention using my name. i don't recall what i said, but her reply was to say that i was "rude" to her. i lose interest and walk away. later on i'm outside having a smoke and she confronts me again. says she "has a bone to pick" with me about something she heard i had said to one of her male frien
asciilifeform: i srsly have nfi where punkman gets the noose, for all i know he writes himself.
asciilifeform: ( anticlimactic: taken alive by the hired catcher, i have nfi what he wants with them )
asciilifeform: this type of thing is called 'day job', and it so happens that i already have one ☟︎
asciilifeform: i.e. months, perhaps years, of sweat
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: unless i misunderstood -- it is even funnier, he was asking for an entire encyclopaedia to be written
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asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-12#1655022 << i can only picture the frustration of gabriel_laddel_p -- he read the l0gz and went off to get subj b00k and presumably tried to eat it -- but never afaik learned ordinary classical electromagnetism ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i suppose official usg-lese for "tmsr" is "non-nation-state actors" nao.
ben_vulpes: underservedly vested, i might have said.
pete_dushenski: i'd like to take this opportunity to introduce 'constantine' (37.59.43.190) as an infrastructure trb node. he will be replacing 'laocoon' (62.113.203.216), who will be henceforth relegated to testing duties. cheers!
asciilifeform: i had nfi
shinohai: AT least I died knowing I had grip like a virgin vagina filled with alum.
asciilifeform: i confess i dun have much interest in ever using llvm for anything.
asciilifeform: ( i wasn't tuned in tho )
asciilifeform: 'Support for the IBM z13 processor has been added' << just when i thought perhaps zombie was properly dead & buried
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Nice. That is indeed a part of the root vegetable paradox. I imagine the best beets are grown in potter's clay
shinohai: I know lots of Mexicans that work cheap, no biggie.
shinohai: I use the ball peen for hammering out teeth.
shinohai: I shall! Then when someone knocks and asks "Pardon me, do you happen to have a ball-gag handy?" I can reply with an enthusiastic "Yes!"
shinohai: I suppose, lacking such instruments, a simple rag and some rope will suffice.
shinohai: You never know with me. I have a girl here I'd love to stuff a ball-gag into as we speak.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-10 11:37 shinohai: Nifty phf, I kinda want a copy myself now.
phf`: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-10#1653984 << so i got a copy, mine had a mechanical looking gash in the spine, had to send it for replacement. otherwise it's not horrible. it's a cheap thermal binding, but the paper is crisp, and the source is TeX so it looks reasonable. ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: tbh i'm not especially hot an' bothered about a license-built-from-usa mips.
asciilifeform: not rly, said 'Письмо сгенерировано автоматически.' right in there, in tail end of email crapolade, i just missed 1st time
mircea_popescu: guy's name is fucking epic for the purpose, i confess.
trinque: asciilifeform: "An NDA may or may not be appropriate but I'm unable to evaluate the matter without ..." and give him something to do
diana_coman: that's quite how I read it too tbh but I admit I have limited experience with this sort of interactions
diana_coman: have you considered that they might be simply *copying* IBM and the like 'cause that's "how it's done"? i.e. nda etc
asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform wrote a mips in school and i bet phf also did )
asciilifeform: also i gotta wonder why anybody (this is re not only baikal but loonson of cn) PAYS FOR 'imagination tech incl' mips license -- when the thing has been out of patent since 1980s
asciilifeform: i quite like folx who sell actual product , for cash on barrelhead, without demanding offers of marriage or vows of eternal fealty etc.
mircea_popescu: in any case, i guarantee you it'll make their day.
mircea_popescu: not like i'm married to it.
mircea_popescu: i thought he was talking to you ?
asciilifeform: i used the box on their www, it apparently works.
asciilifeform: this is where i bow to the peopleskillz muscles of mircea_popescu and ask if he'll try an' write .
asciilifeform: i won't sign.
asciilifeform: at any rate i mailed'em and asked for quote for 100 units