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assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 21:13:30; ascii
_field: well, in usa, if toilet doesn't flush and facebook doesn't load, they want nothing to do with it, likewise.
shinohai: I like your idea better ben
_vulpes. Wife implies marriage and I sure as hell have had my lifetime dose of that.
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 18:25:13; mircea
_popescu: the fact that most of the world agrees girls can marry once they can walk, that doesn't count.
assbot: Logged on 21-08-2015 21:04:08; ascii
_field: 'The absence of evidence shouldn’t be viewed as proof of guilt, but tell that to the U.S. federal court—where Khairullozhon Matanov received a 30-month sentence in mid-June, in part for deleting his browser history. Though he wasn’t an accomplice in the Boston bombing, the FBI charged that the friend of the Tsarnaev brothers with obstructing justice by destroying evidence in the case. That evidenc
ascii_field: ;;later tell mircea
_popescu guess what, they're 104's - 'connection reset by peer.' your end hangs up.
williamdunne: mike
_c: Sorry I meant 16. And because for a whole bunch of the countries they process euros not the national currency
thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu: this is how "gamergate" happened too, and everthing else. << I was under the impression gamergate happened because d00d published blog about ex-gf cheating on him who works in games. That's at least what personally brought my attention to it.
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 he knows what will happen to his sorry arse if he were to do so.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 13:32:07; mircea
_popescu: the pissants have come to expect
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 06:22:52; mircea
_popescu: "despite the objections from Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia." << romania ignored the soviets throughout, decided to make its own. they... sucked.
punkman: mircea
_popescu: certainly modern lenses did get better, but the cheap chinese lenses on ebay are rarely better than cheap vintage glass
cazalla: pete
_dushenski, you snipped? (circumcision questions got the better of my curiosity tbh)
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: It's part of the US department of words really don't mean anything anymore
assbot: Logged on 03-03-2014 22:19:37; mircea
_popescu: matheny needs to be out of a job.
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 23:53:24; mircea
_popescu: and no stack's not fucking germane. he was trying to insulate HIS INCOME. i was discussing optimizing YOUR EXPENDITURE. not like items.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 05:34:43; mircea
_popescu: <asciilifeform> and just about everybody, right, left, center, happily buying in. << i'm buying in because i do not believe local resistence is a good idea. the whole thing should burn, and pockets of sanity just make the burn last longer and hurt more.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 05:33:47; mircea
_popescu: <asciilifeform> orlov fellates the boston harvaprinceyaleton liberast-wing-usg orthodoxy <<< and moscow does not ? puhleaze.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 05:38:14; mircea
_popescu: "Mastering the operating system of the IBM-360 will require 2200 man-years and 700 workers. "
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 22:14:20; ascii
_field: iirc san fran.
mircea_popescu: <pete
_dushenski> "Contrary to the myth that 97% of climate scientists believe we are headed toward a man-made climate doom, the truth is that a very small group of second rate climate scientists have captured the attention of some prominent political and media figures. " <<< this is how "gamergate" happened too, and everthing else. "race relations", "gender issues", you name it.
mod6: (19:17) <+ben
_vulpes> mod6 probably has his own as well. << mine is basically a by hand list. it really needs some attention/tlc. I gotta get something more structured.
mats: funkenstein
_: i am having difficulty finding the source of the idiom (and subsequently how it is properly written) but the second half does not parse
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea
_popescu.rate.VariaVarietatis.1:f7aa6b3fcbc2ebb3075b180556394cded6a0dfe953805ad91bd3adaad4b9156a
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 23:50:16; mircea
_popescu: i have a mile of logs showing the behaviour without exception.
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 23:53:24; mircea
_popescu: and no stack's not fucking germane. he was trying to insulate HIS INCOME. i was discussing optimizing YOUR EXPENDITURE. not like items.
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 22:40:34; mircea
_popescu: he also isn't germane.
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 22:19:12; mircea
_popescu: trinque note that, importantly, you also need a particular sort of helpless population. the afghani have been bombed pretty much constantly since the 70s, did nothing.
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 19:10:19; mike
_c: but "know each other" != "know what everyone is working on at all times"
hanbot: getting ready to implement something ben
_vulpes?
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 19:07:20; ascii
_field: people like this imho do not need mechanized 'bug tracking' machinery
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 18:50:51; ascii
_field: also mircea
_popescu appears to have forgotten about mr stack and his programmatory llc ?
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 17:16:07; ascii
_field: i can't help but wonder if someone is getting a red star pinned on his uniform in moscow, for having planted this bug
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2015 22:07:54; asciilifeform: mircea
_popescu: the llvm thing, prior to career as apple crud, had a previous life as a darling plaything of u.s. 'comp sci' academitardia
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 16:42:32; ascii
_field: little monkeys who want to take the 'good bits', file off the serial numbers, and run with'em
ascii_field: we might be nearing mircea
_popescu's magic 3% figure...
punkman: ascii
_field: which part in werker takes 6 weeks?
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu is very much right that the thing ought to save itself nightly. but this in fact requires rewrite.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: some things cannot be retrofitted. this is one of them.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: not effectively. recall, the two processes do not know about one another.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field go in as root, lock the db, dump it, unlock it.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: not without stopping all of it
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field so that db, can't it be snapshotted by a third thing ?
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: yes. and nothing whatsoever can happen when it dumps
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field can't it be made to dump the product to disk along with some state every however long ? once a day ?
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field was quoting from a summary of that ast debate someone linked.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu did say, 'if you need x hour outages you will get'
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field 24 hours is within range. even, maybe, a week.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: even with optimal design, it can save the product of moduli perhaps once per 24h