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mircea_popescu: i never watch them.
ben_vulpes: of course to effectively transport the dirt i'm going to need to buy a trailer
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: i will keep that in mind for that oft-dreamt-of-day when i'm unlikely to relocate in five years
ben_vulpes: "are open to anyone who want to create a bright future that's rich with opportunity and freedom for all" << what if my bright future doesn't include towelheads, but it's still bright for everyone else, am i still welcome?
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: do i hafta buy it from a factory?
ben_vulpes: hey i had a blast with quaternions once upon a time
ben_vulpes: "hi i have a rudimentary understanding that some words related to mathematics exist and have spent too much time glomming strings together. please kill me!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i was here for the past half hour, ended up witha pile of other articles. for instance http://trilema.com/2010/a-fi-fraier/ whiuch i think ima atranslate comments and all.
a111: Logged on 2014-09-08 22:35 mircea_popescu: "Thank you for this clarification Mr. Nakamoto. It has been an honor to be labeled by my friends as "Satoshi's Drunk Uncle" and it's a moniker I'll wear proudly until the day I retire from Crypto. The Goldcoin (GLD) developers truly admire your work and strive to continue improving upon its design as a tribute to your unparallelled genius. Your admirer and relative in spirit, MicroGuy."
asciilifeform: (i end up digging for it every month or so)
PeterL: I'll put it on the list of stuff to think about.
PeterL: more biochemistry than what I usually think about, but still interesting.
mircea_popescu: heh. but you understand what i mean yes ? biological processes are chiefly defined through turning one class of substance into a narrower other class
PeterL: but I get the gist of what you are saying
PeterL: when I google for "biopump", I just get a bunch of pictures of sexy womens' shoes
a111: Logged on 2017-02-13 14:25 mircea_popescu: !~later tell peterl since you're both in the field and unlazy, here's a thought - i would like to see a quantitative history of life in terms of biopumps. i dunno that this was ever done, and it's a crying shame.
mircea_popescu: now, SOMETIMES, it's like in the case of the lisp ai, where i was lazy and didn't actually provision properly.
asciilifeform: at one time i wrote a proggy that generated a few million files every time it ran, for perfectly legitimate reason. it ended up breaking every script i've been habitually using for years, in exactly mircea_popescu's way
mircea_popescu: apparently i'm the first lightbulb to have come up with the theory that IF (and this is a very doubtful if in the first place) your backup process should fail according to the size backed up, then it is logical for it to faill for it being TOO SMALL, not for it being too big.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-13#1613530 << the experience with the sec formed him, i guess. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: what, i'm going to engage it as if it were for reals, now ? they "posited" whatever random bullshit, might as well be on wikireddit for all the difference it can make irl.
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-13#1613506 << in none of the experimentation and blather through which i dug did anyone posit 'coal' as a carbon source. my limited understanding is that its role is threefold: surface area for bacterial colonization; surface area to ameliorate fertilizer runoff and leaching into the ground; and to improve porosity. ☝︎
asciilifeform: now i dun have an intel agency, or even dirigible, but i did read mr.t's campaign brochure and 'surrender to bitcoin' wasn't in there.
trinque: danielpbarron: http://danielpbarron.com/2017/fuckgoats-for-sale/ << I was perhaps interested, but your old blog posts are all gone ?
BingoBoingo enjoys reports saying "dam is fine, undamaged" While substantial parts of the dam (i.e. spillways) are damaged.
mircea_popescu: now some of these pumps i know, but some, especially at the very early bacteria/algae/protist early history we probably do not know.
mircea_popescu: but if i physically extinguish life, it will have to go through its whole ontogenesis, not strictly because of gnosis problem (ie, WHO is doing the jumps ? life's extinguished, there's n oreserve medium) but because of a purely physical problem.
mircea_popescu: what i mean specifically is that if we turned all biomass to ash today, life wouldn't be able to just start right back up with people in the way computers would. if i break all the computers nobody's making the pentium 1 all over again.
mircea_popescu: !~later tell peterl since you're both in the field and unlazy, here's a thought - i would like to see a quantitative history of life in terms of biopumps. i dunno that this was ever done, and it's a crying shame. ☟︎
diana_coman: ftr each and every time I witnessed this sort of flailing it meant without exception that NOTHING was going to be done about it - people needed to let go of steam/put on a show/whatever but basically to avoid doing something about it
diana_coman: hm, in total stillness any change is potentially threatening on an existential level, I can see that, yes
Reuel: I was looking for an article but forgot the name, in it you were talking about Eulora and most games being spreadsheets for people used to work spreadsheets or something like that
mircea_popescu: props to Reuel though, i think he noticed the same second it happened or some shit.
Reuel: I like how you immediately take the mountaintop view there lol
mircea_popescu: Reuel nah it's there. i suppose we've moved on to the 2017 testing of the infrastructure.
ben_vulpes: stand back everyone i'm just going to deform the crust to perform a bit of geoatmospheric arbitrage
mircea_popescu: cue carlin's old "you go vote ; i'll go home to to approximately the same thing, but when i'll be done i'll have something to show for it."
mircea_popescu: it didn't ring any bells so i went to check it out, cracked me up
davout: mircea_popescu: what was this article in which i remember you saying that the "super-rich" advocating for higher taxes was in fact a way to hurt the "reasonably-rich"?
mod6: Last summer I thought I would boil a few days with wool. So, high time to get something ligher. :]
mod6: I talked to my tailor today about getting some linen suits made for this upcoming summer. Guy was shocked.
asciilifeform: china is 'black box' -- i for instance have genuinely nfi whether they nixed their equiv. of 'elbrus', or merely hid it. (and i know of nobody showing any symptom of publicly having half a clue re subj)
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's kind-of the hope, i guess, with all the "loyal disloyalty" and "leaks from wh" bs, that maybe he's doing something. except -- he isn't.
mircea_popescu: nixon didn't run on a "i will tear down washington dc" ticket.
asciilifeform: i can see how the spreading worx, mircea_popescu --- but how does the eating work
mircea_popescu: i still can't believe they actually opted to engage the judicial system. that was supposed to be the reserve. they've no reserves now.
asciilifeform: i dun see where is this 'losing'. nao, winning-slightly-slower-than-usual -- sure.
asciilifeform: and -- i shit thee not -- 373M of src.
mircea_popescu: me either. i suspect it's high time to copy everything one might ever need. because...
phf: holy fucking shit, i'm doing cursory google searches on the subject. "tree shaking gcc" results in all javascript articles. google helpfully expands gcc to "google closure compiler"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have the bins, with symbols, dwarf debug tags, etc. and this is a transformation i can do by hand in, say, ida. but the only reason i even have to think about it is that gcc is MILITANTLY stupid and gloms in trivially provably unused routines
asciilifeform: the annoying part is that there is no reason at all why i should not be able to do this TO AN EXISTING BINARY
mircea_popescu: static linking doesn't work ? ok then, i import the source.
phf: i thought that was the case since forever, last time i asked a question why gcc can't tree shake (10 or so years ago) i was told that i don't understand..
asciilifeform: srsly forfuckssake if routine cannot be JMP'd into, i want it GONE FROM THE MOTHERFUCKING BINARY
BingoBoingo: Also aero/hydro-ponics are for the poor (i.e. stoners)
ben_vulpes: these days, everyone watches twitter to see how donny's going to respond to something happening on the teevee, while he waves the red cloak of nordstrom or even just "make america great again" (which i fucking die laughing every time he tweets that phrase naked), while the white house press bureau releases some very well-written copy on "failure(s) to enforce sovereign duty"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile gramps goes along with the charade, "for as long as they think i watch tv, what can they break"
ben_vulpes: i am spectacularly unqualified to opine as to how it might happen this time, so i wonder.
ben_vulpes: i wonder what the 'tacoma narrows' moment looks like for intel and friends.
ben_vulpes: i can imagine; seems miserable.
asciilifeform: btw i finally realized that gcc (and consequently all known GNATs likewise) deadcode elimination is entirely broken.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you find that they are playable on a box with soft-emulated ('mesa') gpu, i will be pleasantly surprised
mircea_popescu: i dunno, about half their games are actually from the matrox period.
mircea_popescu: i don't care "whjat this says", it's not fucking fashion.
mircea_popescu: this isn't a theoretical discussion. i'm not about to upgrade libc.
mircea_popescu: then 1.0.0.20 depends on "libjpeg-turbo8" i mean
thestringpuller: oh. i thought that was the joke.
asciilifeform: i get a 'Not Found (yet?)'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i've never seen "assertion failed" before.
trinque: I'd settle for not liquifying on impact
asciilifeform: i'ma probably release 'g' some time before month is out.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: i can't help but picture you on a box with 6 months of old reddit browser tabs...
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-10#1613027 << i was waiting for that. first article i open mentions that the gold is there to put it out of moscow's reach, mentions european financial troubles and the lack of trust in trump in three paragraphs. almost can admire the fuckers, sort of like reading particularly gnarly piece of soviet propaganda ☝︎
phf: that does look neat, i'd like to make my way to south america at some point. most south i've been is costa rica
mircea_popescu: i spent my time in veracruz, other side of the place.
phf: there aren't often local cable networks. at least judging by number of microwave relay towers where i am now, and their frequency, that's all you get.
mircea_popescu: then again, personally i'm not much for wilderness.
mircea_popescu: personally i'd rather directly hack into the local cable networks than resort to wifi over cell tower bs.
phf: in fact i tested it from nearby Huatulco, mexico, and it was sort of like batched processing. type a bunch of things, wait some time and eventually get feedback, but i had very poor luck with ssh
asciilifeform: this was iirc first proposed under reagan, and i still have nfi why
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if mr.t raised the banner, i suspect there would be plenty of folx, in particular army, who would happily string up judges, berkeley 'professors', j00yorktimes journarasts, etc.
mircea_popescu: he'll simply abandon it at that point, except discoursively, and it'll forever be "hey i tried to fix things but the swamp wouldn't let me". in any possible strategic evaluation of the situation, the best outcome for trump is exactly what's happening.
mircea_popescu: suddenly i don't need to explain why all "police" resources are expended to fight "war on drugs" even as kitty genovese dies in a pool of her own blood. cia wants drugs as its own domain, what.
mircea_popescu: "Most institutions which have undergone a lengthy cultural evolution, such as law (which lowers vulnerability to violence, theft, and fraud)," <<< i gotta say, the ubernaive reinterpretation of reality in the hands of armchair nonviolent "scholars" is endearing. to be plain : law ENTIRELY exists so that the concept of forest may be enforced without the depletion of the villages.
mircea_popescu: i had no idea they could read like, languages.
phf: i've not used it from a cellphone though, i don't grok the whole concept of a shell on a device without keyboard
a111: Logged on 2017-02-10 02:09 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: similar (i never used, however) is https://mosh.org
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-10#1612714 << is handy, but i can't bring myself to replacing safety critical ssh with it. i've had plenty of opportunity to test it though, and it's best option for when you're trying to connect to server over a public wifi running over cell network off a generator ☝︎
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, google query : "am12ani și îmi bag lucruri în pizdă ce se poate întâmpla" (literally, "i am 12 yo and i stuff things in my cunt, what can happen")
asciilifeform: eh if i worked with http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-10#1612791 for a living, i would also consider carving bone flutes to sell at market as new career. ☝︎
ben_vulpes: i am reluctant to consign material from which i may yet extract $use to the public pit
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i doubt you actually get enough bones to make this worthwhile thinking about ; but if you do - make your own bone ash! put in garden!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hey i can throw out a concert piano!!1
asciilifeform: i gotta wonder, what prompted this line of thought
ben_vulpes: as i said, uninterested in full breakdown.
ben_vulpes: i'd be satisfied if the bones were rendered unattractive to pests.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i have been thoroughly terrorized by the fud around passing bones to dogs
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: even i can only scour so much off the bones
ben_vulpes: i suppose the smart thing to do is make a highly reduced stock?