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cazalla: pete_dushenski, how is it on fuel economy?
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 00:19:29; mircea_popescu: i guess they couldn't properly have called it "estic system" and be done with it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i had one in artillery (physics) and one in field hospital (surgeon)
asciilifeform: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F#/media/File:Red_Army_section_Olsany_Cemetery_Prague_CZ_056.jpg
mircea_popescu: gotta ask dank about that ben_vulpes
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 21:33:51; mircea_popescu: no, they aren't. theyt're exactly the grade of orc ukrainians are. except here they have good steak and there they have good whore.
ben_vulpes: http://40.media.tumblr.com/f584252cb295b9c45307981283a45bda/tumblr_nrp3qz7xyh1s3xdydo1_1280.jpg << lol ty mp
asciilifeform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pankr%C3%A1c_Prison#/media/File:Pamatnik_pankrac_02.JPG
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 20:57:45; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2015#1271285 << i hear emplacing a workstation is the first step to building a Dark Spire of Darnkess, from which as we all know all atomic dirigibles must proceed.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: speaking of these, one type of potion that appears to have vanished is the 'strength increaser'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: used to be, the 'back pages' were a kind of bazaar, that had pyramid schemes, cock machines, and legit things alike, all in one gigantic pile.
hanbot imagines mircea_popescu absolutely slaughtering 'the price is right'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: best source is the back pages of old (period) american magazines
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: !
asciilifeform: such as ben_vulpes
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: update me, what are they worth today ☟︎
asciilifeform: neato ben_vulpes
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the court thing happens if there is dispute (normally there is) about payment
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: It certainly does, just yesterday I heard a girl maybe a few years older myself bragging (in a thick western accent) about her mother doing Cocaine and Ecstasy while heavily pregnant, and how "she turned out alright"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes no but meta-eviction!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: very easy in md. just takes a while (~3 mo.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it does not. now, granted, in some states (e.g. maryland) it is very difficult for the employer to prove 'fired for cause'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if there exists such a jurisdiction in usa, it is a well-hushed-up fact.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can picture some schmuck continuing to show up, but the salary cheque will not continue to get mailed out.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's when the bouncer shows you the door, aha. they had (i was told) some of these, also.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: sometimes he ~is~ around the corner.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: at least one fella didn't, was threatened - in writing - with sacking for breach of protocol if he were ever found outside of his assigned cattle stall again.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: when i worked, briefly, for a megacorp (it bought the little outfit i was in at the time) we were moved to a virtually EMPTY building, placed - all two dozen of us - in the middle of an EMPTY floor, having forty or so proper door-closey offices, and a flunkie was sent JUST TO WATCH THAT NO ONE MOVED INTO THEM
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ever hear '... И на груди его могучей. / Сверкая в несколько рядов. / Одна медаль висела кучей, / И та за выслугу годов' ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i had the distinct notion that he was beheaded.
asciilifeform: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9,_%D0%95%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BC_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 << him, apparently
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: purged ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if i hadn't set up a fresh gentoo box a year ago, from vacuum, i would not be certain that it is possible to do so today
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 17:36:44; asciilifeform: funkenstein_: since you apparently missed the whole thread, the reason is TO HAVE A PORTABLE UNIX BOX THAT EVEN SORT-OF WORKS
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: inria is sorta like their mit.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: in the exact way that, to borrow a mircea_popescuism, tsipras is greek.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 23:14:41; mircea_popescu: (the other thing is that while the audience is struggly to follow [some appear to merely struggle to appear to be struggling to follow], or to even see, brin has this very clearly cut disapproving disappointment on his face, like a major stupidity was just uttered and well... they'll never know.
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Newton Abbot
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 23:03:50; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2015#1271551 << there is, actually. harem. the romans you mentioned did this deliberately, it was called "veteran settlement".
cazalla: pete_dushenski, your article i mean
cazalla: pete_dushenski, is that right now?
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Never thought I'd see my hometown mentioned on #b-a..
trinque: mircea_popescu: because hacker. and spreading hacking!
trinque: mircea_popescu: that was the thing criminalized at my public school, certainly
shinohai drinks a toast to pete_dushenski
cazalla: mircea_popescu, perhaps, mine was a shitty public school, missus was exclusive private and seems to be that is just another type of bezzle (all students must go to uni to get loaded up on debt type thing)
cazalla: mircea_popescu, yeah pretty much, could've left in 1997 but they managed to stretch it out to 1999
cazalla: gotta go through bezzlar wringer of naughty boy schools, career counselling and other make work positions before principal gets the parents in the office mircea_popescu ,least that was my experience
cazalla: pete_dushenski, with added monthly subscription!
mircea_popescu: and to settle this once and for all : http://minigame.bz/download_button.png << say i want this. here's the gimp script that does it : http://dpaste.com/22S0MW2 it's 20 years old by now. show me the ps equivalent.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: girl is well taught.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 06:41:58; mircea_popescu: see, this is the problem. we go around like we're all people and shit. but then some of us go home to where we know what fractals are, and some of us go to whatever that is, where they don't.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 06:28:45; mircea_popescu: the geometric notion of the point, and the geometric notion of a line, and the geometric notion of a plane, and the geometric notion of wolfram's mother impaled on a triple cheeseburger ALL SATISFY THIS DEFINITION
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: everybody was in the fscking church
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 10:00:26; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1269929 << that's rank nonsense, but the exact discussion of why and how "studies" about sicily aren't worth the paper they're printed on is too long for me now
asciilifeform: where was that mircea_popescu article about the old jail
mircea_popescu: http://41.media.tumblr.com/67b07a8bf5e1a23077a918caada9f192/tumblr_mzv6n6R30a1s3xdydo1_1280.jpg
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i said 'does not cleanly compile', that is, requires a runtime component, rather than 'does not compile'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was nyoozworthy because fsf/rms
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu would probably enjoy abelson & sussman's classic 'sicp', which contained, in very succinct notation, exercises such as this.
mircea_popescu: what if i make the program branch, and then load itself as $_ ?
phf: $_=sub() {print 'hello';} but then $_->() to call
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 21:09:39; mircea_popescu: gavrea, whom i've recently mentioned, had a very similar saying to distinguish between the "mathematical understanding" as described by funkenstein and the genuine article, by using the difference between the romanian words muzician (musician) and muzicant (roughly speaking, illiterate gypsy that can play by ear)
assbot: Logged on 04-09-2015 22:33:02; assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 14:16:12; assbot: Logged on 10-12-2014 00:51:50; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had an article (or perhaps a thread here? but can't seem to find it...) about an archetypical u.s. expat. fellow keeps a pub somewhere in thailand, or cambodia, etc. the locals - drink for free. he fancies that if he begins to run out of dough, he can always start charging. but somehow in the back of his head
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'just in time' compilator is something like a memoized interpreter, yes.
mircea_popescu: but nevertheless $_ can take the value of being a function
mircea_popescu: is support mandated throughout the whole namespace ? can i assume randomfunction knows of $_ ?
assbot: $_ the default variable of Perl ... ( http://bit.ly/1M4lOSn )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://perlmaven.com/the-default-variable-of-perl << it
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 15:52:48; ben_vulpes: Using 'if' or the ternary operator as a function is quite common in perl. Using data structures to control flow is common in perl. Trying to learn C# after learning perl was like running head first into a brick wall. I'm really glad this guy is trying to make programming a bit more perl-like."
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu presumably wouldn't do it unless it were sufficiently profitable to justify flying a 'spruice goose' with mobile lab.
asciilifeform: this a contradiction in terms because a mircea_popescu, with his slave army, would never be in such a position to begin with.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 15:49:14; ben_vulpes: i do dream of having a workstation though, and the lifestyle to support it.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 15:47:45; asciilifeform: i did try to explain this to mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2015#1271281 << you can try all you want, i've seen mod6 's portable openbsd. so has ben_vulpes ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 20:38:00; mircea_popescu: for the reason discussed! no access to verifiable, predictable small parts
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 14:22:29; funkenstein_: "a number like 2 is a rank zero tensor, now you know tensors"
asciilifeform: and perhaps now mircea_popescu figured out how i got on my 'computer algebra' kick in recent months.
asciilifeform: where is this magic mircea_popescu sees.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 14:21:00; funkenstein_: bravo re: fractals are everywhere continuous nowhere differentiable
asciilifeform: since mircea_popescu is asleep, i will have to fill in for him and point out that cockroaches COULD develop civilization after ten million years of inhabiting the burned-out husks of the skyscrapers.
asciilifeform: 'Grow up, graduate, marry, start a family, buy a house, have an accident, get seriously ill for a while, or a number of other very expensive things people actually do all the time, and the value of your work starts to get very real and concrete to you, at which point giving away things to be "nice" to some "community" which turns out not to be "nice" _enough_ in return that you will actually stay alive, is no longer an option.'
assbot: Logged on 01-08-2015 05:46:04; mircea_popescu: taci si suge.
asciilifeform: this is why i'm fundamentally in agreement with mircea_popescu's traditional retort 'go back in time and make better life choices'. but it applies just the same to my own sins, just different ones, not involving linux
trinque: if gabriel_laddel's is masamune, I guess mine can be "sting"
phf: funkenstein_: when gentoo came out it had a reputation of being a "ricer" os, like how people put spoilers on cheap cars to make them "racing cars". all you need to know is how to tweak a few flags, and then spend a night watching a compilation log. of course these days ~even that~ is an arcane skill
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: you are running a closed turd
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: and did you PERSONALLY build the kernel, without closed blobs ?
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: what res display ?
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: since you apparently missed the whole thread, the reason is TO HAVE A PORTABLE UNIX BOX THAT EVEN SORT-OF WORKS ☟︎
asciilifeform: thing is, i can entirely predict, i think, what mircea_popescu will say: 'your life choices are wrong, you should not need a laptop'
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 10:18:46; phf: ascii_field: mircea_popescu: go give ben_vulpes a unix and laptop co-designed with it, then he can throw away the crapple << there's three apples in my mind, 90s one, the early 2000s one when programmers migrated from linux to a unix that Just Works, and the post iphone explosion apple. the first two are dead (10.10 is the final reason i froze my setup and migrating my entire stack away). but my point is that
trinque: ;;later tell pete_dushenski bitbet added to rss feeds
asciilifeform: ;;later tell pete_dushenski https://cryptome.org/2015/09/xiaoxing-xi-files.pdf << the 'chinese spy' case.
asciilifeform: l0l srsly ? i thought ben_vulpes was a travelling www consultant
assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 00:18:24; asciilifeform: cabbie: 'this ford is a piece of shit. stalled again.' mircea_popescu: 'i have a solution!' cabbie: 'oh???111' mircea_popescu: 'here, have this broomstick.' cabbie: 'how do i drive customers on that, feed my family' mircea_popescu: 'you misunderstand, my good man. you stuff it in your arse.' cabbie: 'and... how does this feed by family?' mircea_popescu: 'no, you sit there with it in.'
asciilifeform: i did try to explain this to mircea_popescu ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 06:14:17; mircea_popescu: so : some chemical reactions are strongly exothermic (they give out heat). aluminum salts chief among them.
punkman: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIrCnruWEAE8_Dx.jpg:large