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mircea_popescu: what, 10k a month ? when the fuck did that happen
mircea_popescu: teacher makes like a million (27k in cash or w/e it was)
mircea_popescu: average "social worker" makes 500k a year, of which 35k paid in cash and 465k worth of ass blowing.
mod6: Ladies and Gentlemen, I just don't know. Mr. Popescu has it, we were lucky. And it feels like such a shitty, actually, horrible way to have to feel about such a damn tragedy.
mircea_popescu: i just got a bunch, so you happen to have hit hot cache.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the peninsula is ready to give you teh grand deluxe room at 500/night. half price for a whole month. call them.
mod6: Anyway, i shake my head. I mentioned it during the whole thing a month or so ago. It was total chaos at best.
asciilifeform: mmno 20k/mo doesn't even get you a 4star suite in chicago.
mircea_popescu: 20k a month, i mean.
mircea_popescu: and they wanna tell me one sixth of a fat woman and some moldy upholstery is "market competitive" ?
mircea_popescu: mod6 20k a week gets you the penthouse at the taj mahal + your personal dozen hookers.
mod6: and then it's like something like $5k a week for room/board after that + medical expenses.
mircea_popescu: mod6 yeah, it's an iffy thing all around. most hospices are a) insanely expensive considering what that same dollar'd get you in say vegas and b) really worse conditions than ~anything seen in civilian housing.
trinque incidentally had a family friend die of same type of cancer last week
mod6: anyway, it never came to anything, because then we got her into a charity hospice.
mod6: they then turned around on us and tried to get the state involved saying that we were being neglectful of a vulnerable adult.
mircea_popescu: i don't think i've ever seen a jurisdiction where oncology beds weren't short. ever.
mod6: which is fine. everyone is obviously entitled to make a profit.
mircea_popescu: do hookers pay their own way ? subquestion : i know this woman who pays a dude to rent from her, and also has to suck him off. is she paying her way ?
mircea_popescu: white man used to have a literate culture built atop a capitalist society etcetera etcetera. the fucking africans have won, it's all gone by now.
mircea_popescu: his project was a loose talk on the topic of "entrepreneurialness as a sport", and it was through and through pre-literare juju worship.
mircea_popescu: he had a succession of slides (uncredited) depicting mostly obscure sportsmen and singers. he wanted to know what the audience thought they had in common.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: About how long until a live site spins up? Some agriCulture news is dropping tomorrow and Qntra isn't the right venue. Can go on personal blog if the journal is not yet publishing, but... content will be available if the venue exists.
mircea_popescu: such a great name.
mod6: i mean, i had a recent foray into all kinds of nonsense since my mom got sick. the whole thing is just ... b0rk3d. fubar.
trinque: sorry; someone already filed a patent on combustion.
mircea_popescu: ks to be a warning. People also don't expect things to be complicated enough to warrant a tutorial, so they won't allocate time specifically to read one, on any topic, for any reason. They're wrong, of course, but they won't ever find that out, to the best extent of their abilities."
mircea_popescu: "My own experience here is depressing – nobody, not even the smartest folks, is willing to read anything unless they came specifically to read. If they came for any other purpose, forget it. When you're a tutorial, you can tell things to people and they listen. When you're an error message, people read you to the extent necessary to make you go away but no further. And when you're a warning, people simply ignore you. It suc ☟︎
asciilifeform: unless subj concerned a stolen/otherwise 'with legs' item. which is possible, i have nfi.
asciilifeform: imho biggest surprise is that there still is such a thing as a not fully vertically-integrated mining op.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-26 21:12 asciilifeform: 'backdoor allows Bitmain to shut off a large section of the global hashrate (estimated to be at up to 70% of all mining equipment). It can also be used to directly target specific machines or customers.'
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-26#1648148 << trivially bypassed, though. i expect more of a "checking if anyone's awake" sort of thing. ☝︎
asciilifeform: shinohai: ever boil water in a paper cup ?
asciilifeform: or on a barge, like viking.
a111: Logged on 2014-10-19 03:18 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 500 lb. body causes fire at Henrico crematory << one time i spent an evening reading cremator manuals (for no particular reason. happened to stroll by a modern crematory on evening walk in new street, was curious.) every manufacturer has special instructions for the peculiarly fat 'clients.'
BingoBoingo: lulzies, should have refused service. This is a srs warning to funeral home insurers
asciilifeform: 'backdoor allows Bitmain to shut off a large section of the global hashrate (estimated to be at up to 70% of all mining equipment). It can also be used to directly target specific machines or customers.' ☟︎
asciilifeform: for ze l0gz: 'The firmware checks-in with a central service randomly every 1 to 11 minutes. Each check-in transmits the Antminer serial number, MAC address and IP address. Bitmain can use this check-in data to cross check against customer sales and delivery records making it personally identifiable. The remote service can then return "false" which will stop the miner from mining.'
a111: Logged on 2014-07-08 23:51 asciilifeform: if you can stop all miners but yours - for a given interval - you can plunder blocks at far below the expected energy cost
pete_dushenski: i badly wish silbert's latest fund were a late apr1 joke. just seems too cruel to be true!
mircea_popescu: cachegrind is a valgrind plugin eh.
mircea_popescu: yes. it is a valgrind plugin is it not.
mircea_popescu: wasn't a protest.
mircea_popescu: no i was quoting this as a right and proper observation.
mircea_popescu: awk oneliner may not be available, but in point of fact "find the lines" is a ~solved problem, even for borland ide.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, either approach discussed is ridiculous. i don't need valgrind to emulate a processor and then guess how long things' take ; i don't want gprof's sampling either. just awk the codebase to add a printf after each instruction spitting out time and recompile. that's it.
shinohai: If only anyone actually gave a shit about Litecoin.
mircea_popescu: no, i expect something more along the lines of http://trilema.com/2011/deci-de-revelion-acum-niste-ani/ ; ie providing they somehow landed in they'd identify a situation according to their own mental furnishings, which'd have nothing much to do with the actual situation, then proceed to "Strategize" on that basis and the girls would toy with her for as long as that's funny before chewing her up and spitting her out.
mircea_popescu: so... let's offer the... service of... doing what we wanted to do anyway. this is a business proposition, now.
mircea_popescu: the whole "findom" business is a rather funny comment on female behaviour and the nature of the human brain. so out of all the services freeranged cunt could provide to substitute the wife in man's daily economy, "taking his paycheck" is certainly the least useful. but then again as far as the woman's concerned, it's why she got married in the first place.
shinohai: I dunno yet for sure, seems each of the greedy bitches has a different method. I'm sure eventually I can automate this too.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform imbecile somehow missed the point that last reverted "upgrade" got "majority" within a week.
mircea_popescu: twitter takes a fee ?
asciilifeform: reminds me of the dream i just woke up from -- where i found a way to send a bit backwards in time
mircea_popescu: she's got a very nice bj, actually. who dunnit ?
mircea_popescu: "i read a book i like twice, but books i don't like i don't read at all!11"
mircea_popescu: shinohai on a scale of 1 to nuts, that's not even cashews.
shinohai: Was in a discussion this morning with someone regarding mircea_popescu 's "How to take control of your provider" piece and was shown this horror: https://twitter.com/SarahDiAvola/status/857214088471953409
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unfortunately the d00d is quite correct in his description of the mechanism. gprof doesn't work in the obvious, sane way ( a mechanized version of what i did -- per-routine timer ) but using randomized sampling.
mircea_popescu: (for the record, his "proper fixation" quote is opaque. fixation is generally used in medicine, but histopathology branch thereof, to denote preparation of microscope slides. if he means "tying up the person", i'd guess that'd be proper affixation or something (not really affixation, that's a grammar term of art), though it's entirely disused.)
mircea_popescu: mod6 he has a point, it is a pit of vipers, but at least we'd know.
mod6: asciilifeform: unless I'm missing something major from one of your vpatches? (i've also posted my debug.log -- please take a second to see if I'm missing something major if you have a spare one)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "specifically made to" means a lot less than it appears to, for reasons such as euler's equality etc. pi is a fundamental constant, it's everywhere.
mircea_popescu: kinda give a time heatmap for the whole codebase, as it were.
ben_vulpes: https://blog.buoyant.io/2017/04/25/whats-a-service-mesh-and-why-do-i-need-one/ << "everything must run over http" monomania in full effect
asciilifeform: possibly the pi example was a poor one -- no ~automated~ tester, will ever find it, unless specifically made to
asciilifeform: any rng test can be rewritten as a producer of a predictor. or the test is rubbish.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so, to take example, if you found a rng that turns out to emit digits of pi -- the proof-of-weakness will be plouffe's algo.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-26 01:54 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is a pretty hard standard though.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-26#1647917 << imho it's the only sane standard. rng 'weakness' can only be expressed properly as a 'predictor'. anything else is 'suggestively named token' ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-04-26 01:56 mod6: not sure that this is it, but a decent read anyway: https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~chaitin/sciamer.html
mod6: my re-run of eatblock is complete... will re-post stats etc here in a bit
asciilifeform: for some peculiar reason, everybody else (afaik) who implemented a bignumtron, only did this (or claimed, at any rate) for modular exponentiation -- but not for its subcomponent ops
mod6: this is pretty similar to the semi-counterintuitive idea i had been thinking about -- or more probably, was remembering from a previous discussion in here about the same.
asciilifeform: since mod6 mentioned subj, i'll say a bit
a111: Logged on 2017-04-26 02:18 mod6: I was thinking today about a ~tmsr~ crypto lib, and it starts (probably) thinking about bignum
mod6: I did run across one on shithub that was implemented with a linkedlist. this seems like exactly what we wouldn't want.
mod6: I was thinking today about a ~tmsr~ crypto lib, and it starts (probably) thinking about bignum ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 12:08 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-29#1633699 << it is a notbad library to study (no external deps!) -- but it DOES use heap.
jhvh1: mod6: Error: "s" is not a valid command.
mod6: not sure that this is it, but a decent read anyway: https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~chaitin/sciamer.html ☟︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is a pretty hard standard though. ☟︎
asciilifeform: ( approx. 'go and die a hard death' )
asciilifeform: until somebody suggests a better name, i'ma call this hypothetical method 'die maximally hard'.
asciilifeform: but i haven't the original paper at hand, this is a 20y+ memory.
asciilifeform: (without a copy of the tester, even.)
asciilifeform: ideally this output (algo) would consist of a runnable lisp proggy.
asciilifeform: imho it ought to return an ~algo~ for attempting a better-than-chance prediction of nth bit, given n; ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: incidentally i had a thought re what an 'ideal dieharder' might look like.
danielpbarron: apparently one of the firms developing that tech has a building at 666 5th Ave NYC
pete_dushenski: as long as there's a little prayer scroll in all the tinfoil!
jhvh1: trinque: [KJV] Revelation 13:16 :: And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
pete_dushenski: "With phone sign-in, we’re shifting the security burden from your memory to your device. Just add your account to the Android or iOS Microsoft Authenticator app, then enter your username as usual when signing in somewhere new. Instead of entering your password, you’ll get a notification on your phone. Unlock your phone, tap “Approve”, and you’re in."
pete_dushenski: https://archive.is/kb67L << "Here in the identity division at Microsoft, we don’t like passwords any more than you do! So we’ve been hard at work creating a modern way to sign in that doesn’t require upper and lowercase letters, numbers, a special character, and your favorite emoji."
asciilifeform: 'San Francisco and Santa Clara County, which had asked the judge for an injunction, “have a strong interest in avoiding unconstitutional federal enforcement and the significant budget uncertainty that has resulted from the Order’s broad and threatening language,” the judge wrote, referring to Mr. Trump’s January executive order on immigration.'
asciilifeform: in other magas, https://archive.is/SaZEV >> 'A federal judge in California on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to withhold funding from cities that limit their cooperation with federal immigration enforcement...'
a111: Logged on 2017-04-25 02:26 mircea_popescu: phf as a side point, do you know anyone totally into death methal with a bmi under 30 ?
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-25#1647755 << i think this is more of an american thing (and derivative cultures), because ru death metal fan stereotype is a lanky guy with long hair ☝︎
mats: bonus footage: dog takes a dump at the end
asciilifeform: it isn't as if wf were a company, in the customary sense -- it's a usg organ, like microshit. 'tbtf'