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decimation: apple doesn't "improve",
they just go an buy 5 years supply of a part
benkay: it's also not a strategy suited
to any but
the market leaders in quality.
benkay: unlike
the rest of
the combudder world apful appears
to
take
the notion of 'kaizen' seriously.
this in my humble opinion is
the only way
to stay profitable as a manufacturing shop.
benkay: the most recent models have gorgeous screens and chassis'
the rest of
the industry can't match
BingoBoingo: benkay:
That's what I wonder. You have dealt with more recent hardware from
their ecosystem, any particular generations stand out?
benkay: the macbook pro's are good, but i have
to run aroud
to client shops constantly. if you're stationary, well, why not a real nix?
BingoBoingo: benkay: You're a Mac person right? What was your favorite piece of iron
they released?
benkay: clojure's great, boot
time aside.
BingoBoingo: Shame Mizzou dumped DGB over his punching people in
the face problem
BingoBoingo: benkay: But all of
the
things you put effort into mocking!
BingoBoingo: benkay:
Throw a latteral, and I say your blawg went 404
moiety: allow
the curious beast some dignity ffs men!
benkay: this is what i get for waiting
to do my deploy scripts
benkay: god fuck web stack
technologies
BingoBoingo: I want
to see if such a fuzzy animal gets dingleberries!
benkay: <BingoBoingo> ;;google manul
taking a poop
mircea_popescu: someone said
this isn't feasible.
that someone is wrong :
takes you about
the same
time
to wait for gnupg
to cook up a new keypair whether
the source is dev/random or your dice.
mircea_popescu: the idea was
that you can replace
the platform's rng, in extremis, by rolling dice.
mircea_popescu: <benkay>
this is a correct use of "in extremis, correct?" << sure.
decimation: mircea of course
that's how
things are done
today, but you are back in deterministic world at
that point...
mircea_popescu: <decimation> mircea:
the chance of a random integer from 1
to x being prime is about 1/ln(x) << you just use
the entropy
to seed, much like pgp does. you don't actually roll
the prime itself.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform>
twitter... botnet << no 'captcha' ? <<
trivial
to bypass.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: But catching slaves. I spared megaton
the bomb, because it deserves worse...
benkay: now you get
to prove me wrong
assbot: Rocket Moonlighting:
Testing
the New Chambers
mircea_popescu: <benkay> i will bring ruination on all social everythings <<hence my comment re partially implemented wots and
their fundamental unsustainability.
benkay: fucker's never going
to fly, but it's a grand
thing
to build nevertheless
benkay: yeah but where's
the fun in
that, decimation. it's not like
the
thing'd be useful anyways
BingoBoingo: ;;google site:trilema.com Bitcoin drama
timeline
decimation: and if you are going
to go
through
that
trouble, might as well build a high bandwidth source of random values
benkay: put a nice HD camera in
there and you might capture...*some* entropy.
benkay: that's
the biggest damn boggle box ever!
decimation: in
the limit you are not going
to move a m^3 of dice at all
decimation: thinking about
this last night,
there's a limit
to
the number of dice you can roll simultaneously
decimation: so a number from 0
to 2^4096 has about 1 in 2900 chance of being prime
decimation: mircea:
the chance of a random integer from 1
to x being prime is about 1/ln(x)
moiety: he
took cwo ogff
the shelves himself
moiety: ah well
that makes sense
moiety: BB i have heard of one strangelove film...something
to do with a bomb. how many are
there?
BingoBoingo: What has no one
talking nao ever seen Dr Strangelove? POE, Purity of Essence.
BingoBoingo: I watched Dr Strangelove again and fired up Fallout 3
this week so on a nuclear apocalypse kick. Drinking grain alcohol and distilled water
moiety: lady v sounds cool, can you bring here here
too?
benkay: lady v made a chocolate cake with raspberry compote and a chocolate ganache
to boot
BingoBoingo: beer's not drinking,
that's
taking a hydration break
benkay: we also split 2 bottles of prosecco
to celebrate
the new digs.
moiety: i was just about
to ask you not
to do
that
too
moiety: can i just say
tht ^ made sense in my head before aloudness?!
moiety: no wait im usually
the platform being griefed!
moiety: ofc i know everything about everything
tho
benkay: lol yeah moiety you know all about
that huh
benkay: griefing users is boring. grief
the platform.
benkay: why is griefing
the platform not a
thing?
mircea_popescu: by
the
time every human is surrounded by 100s of bots, it's dead.
mircea_popescu: benkay all it needs is a bunch of ips making accoutns and generating
text.
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD
ticker | Best bid: 613.9, Best ask: 616.89, Bid-ask spread: 2.99000, Last
trade: 614.18, 24 hour volume: 5390.40583525, 24 hour low: 610.01, 24 hour high: 625.0, 24 hour vwap: 616.720660682
benkay: <mircea_popescu> not
that it'd be so hard
to repurpose a botnet for utterly destroying
twitter. // now
there's a notion
Rawted: Thanks for
the help everyone, hopefully
that reenforces
the nick
benkay: it's !up, i
think
that you want.
moiety: also... gribble works in pm..cus.. other folk like
to
talk
too sometimes n all
that :]
gribble: (bcauth <nick>) -- Initiate authentication for user <nick>. You must have registered with
the bot with a bitcoin address for
this
to work. You will be given a random passphrase
to sign with your address, and submit
to
the bot with
the 'bcverify' command. Your passphrase will expire within 10 minutes.
BingoBoingo: moiety: Blockchain as a collection of lucite bocks with
the data engraved. Machine spits a new one out each
time a new one is confirmed
Rawted: whats
the one for btc addy lo. been a while...
moiety: Rawted: did you decrypt
the
thing given
to you?
moiety: i was
thinking lucite cube avec neopixel stick
gribble: Error: Incorrect one-time password.
Try again.
moiety: BingoBoingo: HOW about
the paperweitghts lit up
though? as per
transaction or confirmation?
BingoBoingo: Huh, well... Imma
trying
to remember what sort of lucite blocks I'd invented
the idea of
then...
moiety: BingoBoingo: it was a random birthing of creativity on your part i
think.
BingoBoingo: -1
to Bitcoin signature's for shit other
than
tx signing
Rawted: yeah core is
telling my it doesnt match when i
try
to verify
BingoBoingo: moiety: Wouldn't hurt... In what context did I mention
those?
Rawted: in
the new core distro
moiety: and having strokes every
third day
BingoBoingo: moiety: Because Freenode is always
the weakest link
BingoBoingo: moiety: Well,
this is
the freenode
thing about
the nicks
Rawted: michail
told me after 10 weeks it falls off and i need
to log back in. said someone was squatting on my nick
today
moiety: you set it
to on, it stays on
BingoBoingo: moiety:
This is why I hang out with my brother's dog occasionally. So I don't have
to do
the heavy lifting.
Rawted: so i am
trying
to remember how
to do it again
Rawted: someone's nick squatting on my nick. its been long enough
that i havent logged into otc
that
the enfore wore off