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phf: i heard about amiga prods, but at least in moscows i didn't know anyone who had it
mircea_popescu: and since we're on it, i'd say the scene was the early republic, not derpy "cyberpunks/cypherpuns/whatever"
phf: true, i was a small child then, but my first exposure to gatherings were through demoscene
mircea_popescu: i'd say the release groups being the first and to date the best example of async teams solving problems that benefit from face to face.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i imagine what they mean by hackathon is one of those pbs donation drives. except instead of girls at phones now they have boys at keyboards.
asciilifeform: for some reason i always picture it as one of those basque wood-chopping competitions
mircea_popescu: can i just buy a hackathon keychain already ?
mircea_popescu: so fucking endearing i swear.
asciilifeform: i still wonder how come nobody, afaik, ever even once sold rng where the debiaser and analogue halves came apart.
mircea_popescu: come to think about it - maybe i should do exactly that.
asciilifeform: though i may have explained this before, long ago in the l0gz, it is NOT difficult to make a quite acceptable trng
mircea_popescu: i suppose getting two tuned to the same frequency and then debiasing them together may result in something (precisely because taking advantage of n in that horrible snr). otherwise with a single item... tough.
asciilifeform: i have that radio
asciilifeform: if this is so (and i'll take mircea_popescu's intel for its word) they are on the american train to nowhere, then.
asciilifeform: i dun have a good eye inside cn. but from outside it would appear that it still belongs to the chinese, and is resistant to twitterocratization
mircea_popescu: i don't perceive this.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-02#1576270 << imho this thread is worth expanding -- i remain unconvinced that chinese great firewall 'never worked'. it -- works, on the target audience. ☝︎
thestringpuller: Not that it does anything but no error when submitting blank form >> http://i.imgur.com/3mXz6CR.png
mircea_popescu: trinque here's a strategic point for your consideration : eulora will move to a rsa auth model sometime next year. this means the client generates itself a key, and talks to the server. i don't want to create a special deedbot for eulora, and so, how do we best interoperate them so that i have rate and deeds in-game ? (ideally the wot visualisations and other such beauty also) ☟︎
mircea_popescu: "i and other open source contributors" sez mr. sieradski. open source is starting to be quite shameful an association by now.
mircea_popescu: "thios website is considered a questionable source" being the giveaway. i suppose the idea is thetimes.whitehouse.gov is unquestionable ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. the battle for mosul, originally slated to end about a month ago, and then upgraded to end about today, has been upgraded again to take "months" hence. i think i want a refund.
Framedragger: yeah. good to have a concrete reference in mind i guess.
mircea_popescu: "and yet here i am."
Framedragger: gonna sound dumb, but not sure where i could go. i hate clubbing. i guess i should find nice places etc
Framedragger: "i'm coding". yeahyeah. i'm off to the DMZ/JSC tomorrow which is sth i wanted to go to. will have opportunity
Framedragger: i guess i should try to talk to girls here huh
Framedragger: interestingly i find the .ko boyz quite subdued, i mean in all kinds of senses incl libido, but that may very well be a very superficial impression
mircea_popescu: very well spread in the old world, it's çorba in turkish, ciorba in romanian, i would identify it as the core of cultural identity for non-western europe.
mircea_popescu: eh, i'm more partial to drier, vegetable heavy, lovage ladden شوربا-style things.
Framedragger: (i need to uh reconnect with my kin-nature or sth, forgot)
mircea_popescu: anyway, i thought .lt also did pigs.
mircea_popescu: i dun think i saw it.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if i wrote my sandwich down
shinohai: The work of a milkmaid is honorable work http://i.imgur.com/fZs0RHz.jpg
Framedragger: hmm i guess you can, like, spill that on girls, etc.; i can see that.
Framedragger: never had a thing for large asses and boobs. maybe 'cause i'm quite small...
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: totally. i hear you. and lots of sour cream. like srsly lots. to ease the potatoes in
shinohai: I had iguana while I was in central america, about as exotic as I got with the locals
Framedragger: it's pretty cool :) what's that tho? i am most uncultured. lots of octopus, fish, assorted seafood was had, tho :)
Framedragger: (there is that feeling (maybe just a feeling) that folx here (.ko) always have some spare cash. (i mean like jb financial group, etc.) whereas in yurop, everything's on the brink of bankruptcy, disaster's around the corner.)
Framedragger: (oh god, i'll come back from asia believing that lithuania should seriously suck china's cock as much as possible so that it could *maybe* get bought by them. like, that's the best option for them. idem poland, only that the latter are way ahead (and a tad bit more autonomous from bruxelles.usa) (e.g.: coaxing chinese to invest into gdansk port; .lt's port is just about done.))
Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-29#1574600 << i'll pass, busy as well :) glory awaits someone! ☝︎
pete_dushenski: maybe a russian invasion, or at least a smattering of carpet bombing campaigns, will straighten out their obsession with risk aversion. but that might be a few decades off. unlikely trump can live that long, even if i wouldn't be surprised if he put an end to the two-term limit.
mats: anyway, i don't believe that combat vets (or vets of any kind) are suitable for public service in this manner
pete_dushenski: speaking of blogs, this comment came in recently with a link to an reuters piece about how the tsx had just turfed canadian scammer king anthony di iorio as their 'chief digital officer', just as i told them to do exactly five months ago. so goddam golden. mega-satisfying even though i didn't make a penny off the prediction.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-01 19:25 mircea_popescu: i have personally repaired malfunctioning electronics with a well placed hit to the side.
mircea_popescu: i do not know.
asciilifeform: 'Public Note: Colorful eggs! You find it! Then what? Donate back to me if you like it. Other eggs are not far, I'd like to leave some clues about the pages or the keys, but I'm sleepy now.' << wat
mircea_popescu: i think maybe it was reddit's rendition of a cock ? crushed ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i clicked on some link in there and it showed me an orange pile with some sort of teddybear crushed under it
asciilifeform: iirc it was in #ba before i was
mircea_popescu: oh i see!
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-01#1576026 << and i thought it was from latro (thief - lat) ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i'm confused. what happened ?
ben_vulpes: i didn't actually know that the fire marshall planned to let himself in, but GLORIOUS SOCIALIST UTOPIA OF PORTLAND
trinque: I've got a bunch of italians sitting around getting mops stapled on in my head
ben_vulpes: funny thing is that i can guarantee if i'm drawing any serious amount of amperage it will be the walls that ignite and not my nigga-rigged workstation
ben_vulpes: i wish
mircea_popescu: that's what, 2 petahash ? i'm sure some venezuelan derp is running 2ph.
mircea_popescu: i would say it is very apt.
asciilifeform: but i have not been there.
mircea_popescu: i mean, IVECO trucks, clearly made for municipal use, clearly delivered new sometime in the past 2-3 years. as loud as a zil uphill.
asciilifeform: (i learned of this existing when finally found the schematics for own auto, and marvelled)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform currently i suspect they unseat and reseat the engine blocks wrongly.
mircea_popescu: at which point englithment struck me : do you know that in two years here i NEVER heard an engine as quiet as the item left the factory ?
shinohai: I agree it should be prioritized by fee ... but "democracy" and all
mircea_popescu: i can't say i grasp what the dude thought he was doing exactly.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-01#1575976 << i suspect that 'the dose makes the poison', as often is the case, most 'erdos' success stories involve very very small ones. ☝︎
asciilifeform: but maybe i dreamed this.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-01 18:24 trinque has advocated various dopes in the past solely because they were fun, like camping is fun, but I don't write code camping either. I camp.
phf: sort of reminds me how i was trying to teach a group of script kiddies to program. "this here shellcode -- that we use to pwn newwwbs!!! -- yes, yes, see it's x86 assembly -- ... -- and you disassemble it, and then even write your own -- so we can pwn newbs better????!!! -- yes yes precisely"
a111: Logged on 2016-12-01 18:07 asciilifeform: the 'culture' was, as i gather, never actually ~about~ the code, but... about the coffee; the shared deathmarches; the dope; the sensory deprivation bottles; the 'scene'; and other pretenses.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-01 18:06 phf: also made me rather mistrustful of a lot of "hacker culture" elements, like too much coffee, night hacking, after hour sprints, weekend hacking, all things that i've confirmed from experience to contributing to atrocious code
mircea_popescu: a good 2/3 of how girl gets in trouble. "but i've always done this".
asciilifeform: it is pretty lethal to most folx i dare say.
asciilifeform: the idea (or at least the popular notion, i was not at his deathbed and have nfi re fact) was that the man , with infinite money, could have likely lived if he had spent it on the 'brezhnev-grade' medical fuckery earlier.
mircea_popescu: and it also works! but w/e, i'm not proposing this shamanism is medicine.
asciilifeform: some variant of this exists in every drinking country, i suspect
mircea_popescu: and ftr in the "Self administered medication" above i don't just count "performance enhancing psychoactives" but also colodial silver, large servings of c vitamin and for that matter fucking steroids.
mircea_popescu: i have personally repaired malfunctioning electronics with a well placed hit to the side. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: and i have yet to see people who altered their neurons prior to doping.
mircea_popescu: no but i mean, something equivalent to the fortified wine / bitter craze of the 1700/1800s.
mircea_popescu: come to think about it, i find it deeply regrettable that fuel teas aren't fashionable. imagine, if people actualyl did plant mix decoctions to mix in their gas tanks.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-01 19:08 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-01#1575840 << he will no doubt be less than pleased to hear that i can / historically have stayed up for days at a stretch because i wanted to. it's all in the brain, man!
mircea_popescu: i'm sure he MEASURED this shit.
mircea_popescu: trinque try as i might i fail to see self-administered medication in any better light than self-mixed gasoline. "oh, my fuel mix gives me much better power and gas mileage". meanwhile derp drives a fucking honda and has an evil eye pendant dangling from the rear view mirror.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-01#1575666 << "i fucking love science!" there's a lot of these. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-12-01 18:57 trinque: when this occurred, I changed my perspective. to not do so is insanity.
mod6: so now, i see that 'nosuchlabs.com' homepage is the 'fuckgoats' page -- no middle finger
a111: Logged on 2016-12-01 18:57 trinque: this dope topic is a perfect example. I was making a similar "psychedelics open your mind, man" argument a year or two ago, and mp thoroughly trashed the argument.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-01#1575840 << he will no doubt be less than pleased to hear that i can / historically have stayed up for days at a stretch because i wanted to. it's all in the brain, man! ☝︎☟︎
trinque: when you encounter the truth, it better flip bits in your skull, or you are broken. this includes "I must build/learn/etc X"
trinque: I would say one of the functions of a republic is to do precisely this, i.e. http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-01#1533200 ☝︎
mod6: but, i don't have a link handy for ya or anything, it's just 'http://nosuchlabs.com' in a private-window with all history cleared, no 'shop' link in menu bar.
asciilifeform: lol i have nfi
mod6: and btw, i get a 401 auth required when trying to hit: www.nosuchlabs.com
trinque: when this occurred, I changed my perspective. to not do so is insanity. ☟︎
trinque: this dope topic is a perfect example. I was making a similar "psychedelics open your mind, man" argument a year or two ago, and mp thoroughly trashed the argument. ☟︎
mod6: ooooh. i see what the problem was. the homepage doesn't have a link to 'shop'. after clicking on 'the real bitcoin' link, then was taken to that page, where a 'shop' link exists.