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BingoBoingo:
<thestringpuller> no adderall is pretty much meth
<< Not even a proper amphetamine
assbot: Logged on 25-08-2014 03:08:03; asciilifeform: busy as a bee
<< funny that they show an idiot sow scrubbing, and not, e.g, paul erdos crapping out theorems
BingoBoingo: www.raspberrypi.org/xenon-death-flash-a-free-physics-lesson/
<< Engineering oversight mega-lol
danielpbarron: "GIT - the stupid content tracker, the revision control system heavily used by the Linux kernel team"
<< description of git package in gentoo, lol
thestringpuller: "The world doesn't need millions of copies of the blockchain. 10,000 copies is probably enough."
<< the pseudo-arguments just get funnier and funnier
gribble: peterl was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 3 days, 0 hours, 37 minutes, and 1 second ago:
<PeterL> My wife's bike was once stolen out of our garage ... whoever took it left their bike sitting in our yard. It was the weirdest thing.
cazalla: nubbins`: incidentally, a guy i went to uni with, and whom i help get oriented on his first day in south korea, is now a straight-up major label pop star
<<< western kpop stars exist?
mircea_popescu: assbot: America’s Booty Obsession Is Another Symptom Of Social Decline
<< i also like ass.
mircea_popescu: davout: never heard about it, but apparently they're putting bs&t to shame with a $400mn loss, sounds doubtful
<< yeah srsly, sounds like pure bs.
cazalla: thestringpuller, "results in a complete loss of any pm’s I may have had open."
<<< now it all makes sense!
ascii_modem: gas distribution more reliable than electric...
<<< no one has yet devised a way of attaching gas pipes to poles above ground. hence - reliable.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: My gut is telling me that changing the public keys to garbage is going to be the quick
<< not that dirty, either.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "In the United States polite letters was a cult of the Brahmins of Boston, with William Dean Howells at the helm of the Atlantic."
<< Release Date: August 20, 2006 [EBook #3190]
decimation:
http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1299 < "One clever soul suggested applying this doctrine to yet a fourth profession, creating a kind of “programmer priest.” Perhaps one day there will indeed be someone you can trust to pronounce – truthfully and competently – that a crypto-system is strong, that a protocol has not been diddled, that your computer serves only a single master."
BingoBoingo: ^mircea_popescu: sometimes i fantasize about buying an old english castle, turning it into a computing school for nude 18 to 22 yo ladies, and putting alf in charge of it, with a flexible bamboo cane.
<< wrong pasta buffer
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu still vividly remembers this event when he was maybe 13 or so. this kid "got really psised off" and was going to hit me. every time he launched his fist, he also closed his eyes. every time i'd dodge and he'd mash his fist into the nearby wall. his hits got softer an softer, but he never figured out why exactly he's not making contact.
<< Airstrip One must first be cast into the ocean
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu still vividly remembers this event when he was maybe 13 or so. this kid "got really psised off" and was going to hit me. every time he launched his fist, he also closed his eyes. every time i'd dodge and he'd mash his fist into the nearby wall. his hits got softer an softer, but he never figured out why exactly he's not making contact.
<< Silimar event in middle school. Bigger kid pesters me for days about how he's
mircea_popescu: decimation> in particular with paragliding, I think that it attracts a certain set of folk who might not consider safety as a top priority
<< i think paragliding is much like hunting, a sport intended for empty land.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: the best chemistry lab, were it to be maintained as a collection of bottles going "stuff" "Good stuff!" "REagenT" etc 18:23:12 mircea_popescu: would not really work.
<< This is why other big cause of home explosion is meth "labs"
BingoBoingo: decimation: in the us gas heat is common, but typical large us house has a 'forced air' system that moves heated air around the house
<< Natural gas backup generators for homes are not unheard of here, occasionally going up to home's normal electricity consumption.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform not so foolish as to think about 'homogeneous enforcement environments', knows that there are, e.g., vast deserts in usa where folks set off trucks full of dynamite for amusement, etc.
<< Sometimes law enforcement attention comes to these folks too.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: fwiw there aren't many orcs in the rural bits of ussa, and one can shoot trespassers on sign in those provinces too
<< Different kind, even tolkien had different kinds of orcs
decimation: re: parasail
< I've heard of incidents where pilots of parasails fly too close to moving trains. They get caught in the vortex and then crash
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> so take up bobsleigh. better for your health.
<< or bicycles, more actual physical connection of your meat with the dynamic systems in question. airplanes and helicopters worth looking into as well
gabriel_laddel: " As far as I can tell, were one to extrapolate from the given information to a set of concrete requirements we see that NixOS plans to rewrite the build scripts for every version of every project on unix. Again, this is insane. The correct thing to do in this situation is to realize the utter impossibility of the task that has been set forth and re-evaluate one's approach.[1]"
<< [1] links to the quote previously d
gabriel_laddel: as for my id, I'm currently fixing
<irritant to livelihood>. First chance I get I'm sitting down and sorting out the whole GPG thing. As it stands I was not particularly happy with the documentation it supplied and wasn't sure which parts I'd have to rewrite. My previous key got destroyed in a failed backup becuase I didn't spend enough time on it the first time around. Also, I don't think gossipd is happening via w
mircea_popescu: "Examples: at what point is appropriate to leave package management up to a language's ecosystem? Is there ever a reason to? "
<< one hell of a problem.
mircea_popescu: "the human's inability to fully comprehend the parsing and syntactical schemes they're able to create"
<< this is actually a generally valid point, and about half of all problems of humanity come from this impedance mismatch.
mircea_popescu: jurov: when putin arrives everyone will be caught with pants down
<< everyone still there, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> those who don't, typically own a small (5-10kW) genset on wheels
<< i have no idea what this would do. suppose a 2kw air conditioner unit, or fridge, or even washing machine.
decimation: re: 3mw genset
< yeah that's basically a diesel-electric locomotive
decimation: re: generators
< the power is so unreliable in many areas on the east coast that many folks have a propane or natural gas powered generator permanently installed at their house
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: kakobrekla: and, as shown here, 'opaque' plastic - isn't necessarily ideally opaque
<< actually, only metals are opaque properly.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it most certainly cannot be true that he cannot get a pogo shipped in. but quite likely true that he cannot get a pogo shipped in for 18 usd per.
<<< it doesn't even reach that. the value of ME running pogos is minimal. there are N+k**p things i can do to halp bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i distinctly recall that machine tools are uncommonly difficult to obtain in ar, for example
<< do i need to show you pictures of the casa del transformador again ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: my plaintive cries
<< it's not a bad plan i don't think.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: there are all of these things that make sense in the context of it, but...
<<< i come fresh from a three hour session of discussing eulora game model with c people.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: 'we've never heard of you'
<<< i'll insure against that one, for cheap.
mircea_popescu: trinque: how many countries have to be fighting a war for the phrase "world war" to apply?
<<< ww1 was instituted by gallup poll.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: better than refreshing a faucet
<< pretty much teh point.
ben_vulpes:
<adlai> [] this is actually why i suggested that for an mpif pc, it'd make the most sense to run the bot on s.mpoe itself
<< i admire the guys persistence
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> [] like, the node, which is an always on demon, and then various things connecting to it : such as other nodes, on the eth card, or the user, always on the specifically delegated interface, etc ?
<< working towards this is the root my plaintive cries about what it means to "bitcoinate"
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> [] how do you plan to use it w/o a wallet ?
<< gotta move all the transaction generation logic out of the turd. implies a database replacement using something that can actually be queried, not a braindamaged k/v store.
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> [] actually i'm kinda half curious how many us based conf attendants discover at the border that the newly expanded tsa doth not agree their passport holds any value.
<< me too.
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> [] interesting idiots are sometimes (temporarily) tolerated. tedious idiots - never.
<< /me waves
ben_vulpes: * asciilifeform not a fan of 'pattern matching' languages
<< i worked with a database with queries in datalog recently.
ben_vulpes:
<chetty> [] and you had to rent the state company ones// coming soon to us, internet public utility will make it so
<< pretty much here already in the states