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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sorta hilarious, imho, took usg 5 whole yrs to finally implement bernstein ( supposing thing even worx, i haven't found the giving shit to actually try it )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pretty lulzy , d00d presented 'his' work at the http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-10#1840795 thing, and loox like even ripped our ui etc ☝︎☟︎
scriba: Logged on 2017-07-18: [05:45:01] <mircea_popescu> gotta cut the total male-years somehow, and chem cockcage prolly even cheaper than the steel item.
a111: Logged on 2015-08-19 00:18 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.'
diana_away: mircea_popescu: I guess I'll give it another try, I never liked papaya; I do like those tiny bananas
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: interestingly, we have papaya here, flown from.. cr
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: couldn't disagree
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to get the fuck off usg's tax rolls, say
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dunno where this worx, in current ro is catch22
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall, usa is this peculiar gulag that's ~unnavigable w/out auto
asciilifeform: well , notmuch for mircea_popescu , but possibly moar for anglozeks
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Imma prolly have to do that in light of the parallels to Brazillian history.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's when Alexander Crummel died. Was a black nationalist who worked on making a black zion in Liberia, put skin into the game, mourned the results.
a111: Logged on 2018-08-16 16:38 mircea_popescu: the fact that anglotard english "does not have a cannonical body of works", the necessary result of "ameritards stole england's language but had no room in pocket for culture", resulted as it has in "no great american novel" makes it impossible for engl dept to see what classical lang dept did and do it one better.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it dun fire, generally switch into longmode dun go.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can take, idk, 1930s oxford dict, or whatnot
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm still waiting to ever see a dict like perseus for living langs
a111: Logged on 2018-08-16 15:56 mircea_popescu: italians naturally learn german, germans not so naturally. there's a fundamental problem with germanic languages ; and if one follows the tree, that problem is best realised in fino-ugric group.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re kbd -- seealso http://btcbase.org/log/2015-08-02#1222715 ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu reads veryveryquickly, i still gotta eat $subj
a111: Logged on 2018-06-12 14:55 mircea_popescu: there's this joke in romania that "if you hear a hungarian speaking foreing languages you're looking at a jew".
a111: Logged on 2018-08-16 14:03 mircea_popescu: imo nothing wrong with using english AS LONG AS ITS NOT A FIRST LANGUAGE.
a111: Logged on 2018-08-16 15:06 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only 1. history of dyes ~= history of chem industry, for ~century
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what was #lrh ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only 1. history of dyes ~= history of chem industry, for ~century ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-09-12 19:34 mircea_popescu: you know what a faberge egg is for instance ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the old man isn't exactly a massively distributed net
a111: Logged on 2018-08-15 21:49 mircea_popescu: and since i'm doing "strategic superiority in review" for some reason, do we count http://trilema.com/2017/lets-put-one-and-two-together/#selection-145.0-149.12 as having protected trump / fizzled the "impeachment" lulz ? or "coincidental" in the sense man who says he's going to do x doesn't do it not because "if you do it ima fuck you up" but for ~coincidental reasons altogether~.
a111: Logged on 2018-04-30 18:21 mircea_popescu: in front of this, whether we idly decide that he's just dumb or actually evil, ie, his brain dun work like in the case of say bernstein ; or his brain doth work, but he deliberately attempts to shannonize republican words into imperial outcomes, a la curtis yarvin, jwz, whatever.... well what fucking difference does it make.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i recall a trilema where 'the house smelled of poverty'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only , but betcha the ants in yer kitchen have demands!11, little picket signs, 'sugar is stored inappropriately' in tight jar
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, Argentina won't take em. They won't fit or be escpecially welcome in Uruguay... They are kinda stuck waiting in New York, California, and Chicago
a111: Logged on 2018-08-15 14:07 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-14#1841659 << such fucking lulz, incidentally. really, all blue usg has left is this lame attempt to capture "the international" ? make 6th reiteration or whatever, keep rando nations in its "sphere of influence" ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2018/lets-put-three-and-three-together/#comment-126476
a111: Logged on 2016-02-03 01:32 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally do you recall that very ingenious thing that worked essentially as a vinyl record player needle but on a random chunk of clay pot ?
a111: Logged on 2015-03-17 02:26 mircea_popescu: "I’m too smart, Professor. I’ve got nothing to say to normal children. Adults don’t respect me enough to really talk to me. And frankly, even if they did, they wouldn’t sound as smart as Richard Feynman, so I might as well read something Richard Feynman wrote instead. I’m isolated, Professor McGonagall. I’ve been isolated my whole life. Maybe that has some of the same effects as being locked in a cellar. An
a111: Logged on 2015-05-11 00:08 mircea_popescu: This would also be why I don't think so very much of the libertards, and why I find myself so often in contradiction with people who view them as either powerful or in any sense a threat (usually both) : they aren't, either, nor could they really be, either, because the only tool they know actually works for them only a short distance of its run, and for us the entire length of that same run. The libertard's gambit is
a111: Logged on 2015-06-27 03:23 mircea_popescu: "runs for them a short part of the way and for us the whole way".
a111: Logged on 2014-07-19 03:16 mircea_popescu: so, this poor unfortunate soul found herself living her parent's dream : an assistant professor! at the prestigious ubb no less!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they walk in and ask to replicate uncle al's eotvos? or how does it go
asciilifeform: ( unrelatedly, dug up vintage lul http://trilema.com/2017/how-i-almost-created-a-constellation-of-bitcoin-nodes/ , where mircea_popescu went through the sweat to replicate my failed pipes experiment . where in the end, yr+ later, the correct pill turned out to be entirely unrelated aggression patch )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: threading in trb is exactly variant of ye olde http://btcbase.org/log/2016-01-21#1379603 -- it's there because idjit had nfi how to do nonblocking i/o ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the yew thing, similar
a111: Logged on 2018-08-14 21:11 mircea_popescu: the necessary correlate to "no, you can't have your lunch and eat it too, just as you couldn't when you asked me earlier, and just as you won't later on", ie, "you won't get the answer you wish to hear no matter how many times you ask", ie, immutably in front of idiocy -- there's not that much to lose, not really, out of public conversation.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: often whole life -- still notenuff
a111: Logged on 2018-08-14 17:43 asciilifeform: my understanding was that mircea_popescu refrained from giving signal 'build us a fleanode' in the past on acct of (but not limited to) the reason where heathens (e.g. fetgurlz) would have difficulty visiting . but we already have the +r hoop for them to jump, i dun see how much worse would be own fleanode.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: imho log is important labour-saving device, lack of ability to point n00b to $oldlog , instead of having to say same thing 10,000 times, is one of the plagues that killed usenet
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall thread where ( i fughet which one of us ) posed gedankenexperiment, put in an eliza made out of collection of ' n00b: $input mircea_popescu: $output ' pairs, and see what it does to n00bs
a111: Logged on 2018-05-29 17:28 mircea_popescu: trinque, the whole fucking idea is to replace it once and good, with gossipd.
a111: Logged on 2018-04-16 18:04 mircea_popescu: aand in today's cogitations, "all machines are milling machines -- some self-milling, some not entirely".
asciilifeform: what was the line with the mills , from mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: sure does. if mircea_popescu speaking into a gpgtron, then deliberate off-forum. if he's talking into a wire that turns out aint plugged into nuffin, then weather.
asciilifeform: as in !later tell mircea_popescu http:...gpgturd
a111: Logged on 2018-07-30 16:14 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/W9sYG/?raw=true
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this being so, still imho suxx when , we yes had convo, but then it aint in any logs anywhere
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i think you ro folx had ~similar tale, with the pike fish and the magic stove
asciilifeform: oh mircea_popescu , recall the flowgraph project ?
a111: Logged on 2018-08-13 17:27 mircea_popescu: george sanders has an excellent point re this : "for new yorkers who want to go out of town, new haven is a stretch of sidewalk between the taft hotel and the schubert theatre, surrounded by what appears remarkably like a small town".
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 1 hole, is that 'generation-fara' dun buy $4k lappy. they buy ipnoje.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pretty sure it's ~all~ he got time for. well, possibly aside from buggery, and from deciding which connectors and keyboard keys to remove from crapple product next
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dun fughet to nuke the 'ata hidden partitions' nonsense
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, I think it did but by now I don't even remember for sure re this particular one
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, it has otherwise gentoo, no problem
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: at this point this is a decade-long pestilence, even asciilifeform's x60 (circa 2009, iirc) terraforming recipe includes patching bios to permit hand-installed nic to work , followed by installation of same
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the new biosen are lulzy also, often they have tcp stack nao, and read file system , and even show spam in the setup
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: at least you found box where it ~has~ the off switch
asciilifeform: my understanding was that mircea_popescu refrained from giving signal 'build us a fleanode' in the past on acct of (but not limited to) the reason where heathens (e.g. fetgurlz) would have difficulty visiting . but we already have the +r hoop for them to jump, i dun see how much worse would be own fleanode. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 09:50 mircea_popescu: incidentally phf is there a log bundle for download somewhere ?
a111: Logged on 2018-08-04 20:51 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu sets mode +r #trilema << RIP from_xxxx users...
asciilifeform: phf: mircea_popescu specificially switched on +r to cut down on spamola, see http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-04#1839441 thrd ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: about a decade ago, i bought, on a lark, a keychain thing that claimed to contain all of the text of the then-pediwikia, and had 'random' button. ~99+% of presses of this button, resulted in 'flyshit, montana'-type nowhere-village article. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc it is raw crapola straight from the sslolade
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: subj is detailed further down in #t log from the night
trinque: mircea_popescu: http://logs.bvulpes.com/asciilifeform
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only it, but just about surely the other recurrent idjiocies in the zoo ( http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/factors )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the even powers thing is a real effect tho, it's why we still occasionally get 'mod phuctored! factors : 3' etc
a111: Logged on 2018-08-12 18:29 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: depending on how long it takes to get disks, we can do what i suggested a while back ( but for some reason can't dig up, in l0gz) where we trade space for time, and run on randomized subsets of the db continuously
asciilifeform: !Q later tell ben_vulpes plox to give mircea_popescu & asciilifeform a quote for getting 5 10TB mech disks of reasonable quality to BingoBoingostan
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-12#1841047 << ok, but i mean, can't have phuctor grind to a stop because of it neh ? << If it's critical, it's critical, and will sell disk to S.NSA. ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: depending on how long it takes to get disks, we can do what i suggested a while back ( but for some reason can't dig up, in l0gz) where we trade space for time, and run on randomized subsets of the db continuously ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: primary dulap has 4 holes, all fulla ssd ; spare dulap has 4 empty holes
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: erry box is doomed to one day run out of space
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this box dun belong to pizarro, recall
a111: Logged on 2018-06-13 21:44 mircea_popescu: "get the rigging match the wind".
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they're in order of submission, so the top MB or so is ssl certolade, the rest -- sks
asciilifeform: i'ma not ask for anyffing to be bought until mircea_popescu wakes up.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we are gonna have to activate the s.nsa spare box, as a storage cluster ( and get disks to fill same )
asciilifeform: ( i'ma see what mircea_popescu thinks )
a111: Logged on 2018-08-11 18:31 mircea_popescu: viznut anyway, your past history of being an imbecile caught up with you finally. get the fuck lost.
mod6: mircea_popescu: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/KIz1h/?raw=true
a111: Logged on 2017-12-31 15:01 mircea_popescu: this is a reminder to future self : plox negrate countercomplex / viznut on sight ty.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ^ et al
asciilifeform: oh hah, mircea_popescu already pointed out.
a111: Logged on 2018-08-10 14:42 kaniini: mircea_popescu yes, but requiring accounts older than X days would help to mitigate
asciilifeform: http://logs.bvulpes.com/pizarro?d=2018-8-10#412082 << adlai : folx on mircea_popescu's list of the officially sad, can't lease boxen, i thought this was clear
a111: Logged on 2018-08-10 14:39 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "evil maild" mandatory\!!!
a111: Logged on 2018-08-10 15:04 mircea_popescu: this, btw, is why you DO NOT WANT "electronic" key. wtf is this dumb shit, "key no longer works" ? i paid for a fucking day, i own the fucking lease, you can have your room again tomorrow when im done with it AND NOT BEFORE. jesus fuck wtf is wrong with these people.
a111: Logged on 2018-08-10 14:52 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-07#1840131 << interesting. can prolly declassify once erect, make a picture blogpost ? not like someone can alter physics.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-10#1840833 << i expect we'll publish buncha pr0n of the thing, once it starts working ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2018-08-07 16:09 asciilifeform: !Q later tell mircea_popescu http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/IHgO2/?raw=true