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BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> the ancients would've laughed at Al. BUt in the 18th and 19th centuries only nobels had aluminium helmets
BingoBoingo: * asciilifeform still waiting for obsidian terroristknives
<< DO you have a budget in mind?
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> (Al being a creature of modernity.)
<< Elemental Al was accessible to ancients... at lightining strike sites
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> primitives succeeded in making steels of a kind, from naturally carboniferous wootz traded along, e.g., silk road
<< Wootz yes, low hanging fruit. When I read Damascus though I think laminate forging process
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> what about 'damascus steel'?
<< 4 digit number of years innovation
decimation: re: design space
<< so part of the problem with "C" is that it tends to occupy this mental design space rapidly
mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> Shhhhh, you are about to spoil the part where the hittites surprise pete_d with iron weapns
<< the hittites never had iron. you're thinking the franks.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> the kid who gets his first fuck - also disappointed
<< rly ?!
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> catch is, you have to... burn the world.
<< How many people here are seriously opposed to this condition
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> da fuck is platonic hardware supposed to be
<< Aristotle's natal cleft
mircea_popescu: decimation: as I recall it cost around $2k in the late 80's
<< ahh, the days when a shitty mouse was 100 bux.
mircea_popescu: decimation: C is more-or-less a fancy set of macros around assembly
<<< this is actually pretty much it.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> *: asciilifeform opens koraktor, bound in human skin, and searches for a death spell for google
<< wot based search. working towards it.
<< Caled it when you asked about crawling millions of urls
mircea_popescu: *: asciilifeform opens koraktor, bound in human skin, and searches for a death spell for google
<< wot based search. working towards it.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> under rusty old msdos one can, generally, actually program in c
<< because, again, if i want to kil a ms-dos dependency I DELETE THE FILE
thestringpuller: decimation: at any rate, one cannot consider themsleves a programmer today without knowing C
<< unfortunately not a lot of people learn C in what you may call "computer science education" (or is so named)
mircea_popescu:
<TheNewDeal> So I'm reading this conversation about programming languages from 7 days ago (28-10-2014). There is a lot of trash talking about OOPs, like C++. I don't see anyone mention C. Is C just not worth mentioning?
<<< c is really not ~that~ bad.
BingoBoingo:
<devthedev> It would be just the domain essentially.
<< Problem is the first 5 letters of the domain are too popular
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> don't look for the 'incompetent c contest.' it's right there on your desk.
<< It's everywhere
mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> The contemporary idea of the incredibly PC media mafia after the bush election exists as a creature of Nick Denton's creation
<< hm. sort of like anti-drudge ?
decimation: asciilifeform: re: verizon dns
<< didn't they announce that they would helpfully insert friendly cookies in your
http stream?
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> such coincidences.
<< Well, more than even killing Coindesk isn't a point of Qntra ending gawker?
mircea_popescu: "Teen Twitter (the most powerful force in the universe)"
<< really ?
mircea_popescu:
<jurov> if i did not set up alarm, wouldn't have noticed
<<< i imagine this sounds better in german :D
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> but what of the reddit dogcatcher? he noticed?
<< You forget the most dangerous police variety in most US states, the fish and game cop.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: if this thing ends up surpassing trilema ima be well pissy.
<< why? ~_~ you technically willed it's existence.
mircea_popescu: "He’s one of the most masterful wielders of words"
<< you got a ways to go foxy! check out pete's offerings!
ben_vulpes:
<******> as long as there are tools, there will be people using them poorly
<< i give up
mircea_popescu: "The new Foundation, the new deeds system, a real Bitcoin news site, and more"
<< only the stuff of the past month gets a mention because the previous stuff is so ingrained by now it's like a skin.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> when do we get on with one of us proving p==np and the others throwing him off a boat?
<< I have a feeling this is like weaponized bitcoind, if you have it best to keep it concealed
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: knapsack.
<< When restricted to a knapsack I dunno that digging anything bigger than a hole to bury turds should be a bigger priority than evading the force restricting you to a knapsack
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: actual shovel, like actual computer, is not field-portable.
<< Depends on the size of field, and on whether or not portage enhancers are available
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> if everyone gets that tattooed, say on their butt, is the b-a more like a) a cult with weird body mod overtones ; b) a gaggle of ditzy teenaged girls (and therefore, a buncha fags) ; c) none of the above ?
< b
mircea_popescu:
<thestringpuller> if sim city has taught me anything: cut taxes to 0
<< srsly, you too ?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> (spoiler: pretty much everyone who is known to matter, is in leibniz, gauss, etc. 'wot.')
<< in this sense, the hungarian number = crude wot.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> the maniacal fuhrer position is, afaik, open at the moment
<< was shockley's transistor a cult ?
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: for some reason saying no is harder in -assets.
<< cult!
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: why not decide alberta is from now on 600ad byzantine style.
<< because progress. it's completely tragic how badly alberta's original building stock has been treated. perfectly lovely neoclassical buildings are now surface parking lots.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> 'own tablet' - means what? own chipset, nothing from 'arm' ? own os, from zero?
<< From slate with frame is a couple hours, input device is chalk
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> + much better homemade porn
<< noisy as shit though
gribble: (rated
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<nick>, if any.
cazalla: kakobrekla: >2000 coinbase.com accounts in less than 2 weeks for a total of almost 17 BTC.
<<< a lot of the accounts were empty from the sample bitcomsec provide
cazalla: nubbins`: the city has "heritage regulations" for the downtown core, it's a nightmare
<<< we have maintain the facade regulations in some parts of Melbourne, i like it tbh, it's the one part of town that looks nice
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> the age-old mistake of provocateurs - thinking their master's promises are to be kept
<<< this, srsly. as all the various prettygirls are to soon find out, their choices aren't exactly what they thought they would be.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> BingoBoingo is invited to write a ликбез ('likbez' - 'elimination of illiteracy) piece on the waterfall.
<< yeah prolly not a bad blog idea.
mircea_popescu:
<diametric> he comes into #reprap with various nicks promoting his shit
<< actually ?! by hand ?!
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> BingoBoingo is invited to write a ликбез ('likbez' - 'elimination of illiteracy) piece on the waterfall.
<< I guess I have homework now.
cazalla: jurov: cazalla what is inercia?
<<< i'm just quoting the guy
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> how do stories like this usually end? that is, some idiot screams, all day, every day 'loophole! here's a loophole!'
<< Depends on how well they obey their leash. But every now and then you get a Hal Turner.
cazalla: jurov: and it would help to give the context what did you ask
<<< i didn't get answers to my questions, we just talked about bitcoin a little
mircea_popescu:
<nubbins`> cry me a river a goddamn mile wide. also, fuck you, businessinsider.com, for inserting copyright notices into my clipboard
<<< srsly. dark traffic is best traffic.
mircea_popescu: punkbot: [trust-update] added: #bitcoin-otc
<< wait, wut ?!
mircea_popescu: punkman: ;;gettrust assbot delta9
<<< ah yeah you're right.
mircea_popescu: Most internet users, he adds, “would be comfortable with a better and more sustainable relationship between the [intelligence] agencies and the tech companies”.
<<< bwahahaha.