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a111: Logged on 2016-12-04 05:39 mircea_popescu:
http://www.niquette.com/books/sophmag/bourke.htm << for the engine-vs-thermodynamics afficionados. you surely heard of the famous bourke engine (2 two-stokes placed in
a cross, with
a double scottish yoke driving the shaft).
mircea_popescu: walter the scheme here proposed is that
a project (linuxbios) which was useful on account of actually having drivers for extant hardware was killed by hardware maker conspiracy. on its now useless ruins, as it's dead, an idiot with
a "sexual identity" political agenda tried to build
a grassroot activism thing called libreboot ; and some unrelated packrats with
a penchant for software try to build
a cluttered warehouse called
walter: em.. sorry?
A working kitchen sink?
a111: Logged on 2016-12-05 12:52 mircea_popescu: in other news/lulz,
http://www.lincolnks.org/Housing.html << apparently
a lot of places in kansas and around kansas that have this free housing plots giveaway thing
mircea_popescu: yes i know scene friendly, but rar was
a fucking stupid idea even in oslo 1990.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am pretty sure that the one actually had cache and the other had more than
a dozen items last i looked. but that was
a while ago.
phf: was also sort of
a lul after adjustment and recovery from the eternal september, i.e. aol of '96 and yahoo of '99. i think we are now in the aftermath of the second wave of the eternal september
mircea_popescu: you're right huh. i guess my russian is
a little... approximative.
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-05#1577731 << also 2005 (if you search the logs knowing what you're looking for) is
a stand in for "decade of tail end of somewhat sane computing". linux on desktop hasn't wrecked the ecosystem yet, apple is selling unix boxes (and not phones), ibm is selling professional laptops, no reddit, no smartphone culture, no facebook, etc.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-12-05 14:24 mircea_popescu: also in which vein, see the discussion re busybox and the complete trb machine tmsr created for deployment on pogos (and the whole discussion with pogos) ; also perhaps of interest the failure to create
a useful gentoo and so forth.
mircea_popescu: anyway ; what i linked above is
a period scrape of the original website (the way this leak worked was the whole pile was found on
a poorly secured taiwan server of jetway) ; the mmnt.net site generally has all sorts of useful things.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at first it looked like possibly
a stack smash somewhere in there.
mircea_popescu: well after wasting
a coupla hours off everyone, it finally went away.
mircea_popescu: total fucking casual-boner-archy that thing, and utterly unwatchable. i used to mock romanians
a decade ago as "o populatie cu mize mici" ie,
a population with low stakes. but lawds have mercy, the hopes, aspirations, projects and projections of the contemporaneous ustard (stanford grad & waitress-journaho) barely cover
a used bottlecap.
mircea_popescu: in which vein, /me watched
a half hour of something last night, because i tried to do
a christina applegate retrospective. holy shit that girl has been in all the shitty snl derivative crap. how do these idiots even live, how do they get out of bed ? that ben affleck imbecile, he's like baudoinia, blackening the walls of anywhere alcohol is customarily found. unfunny as cancer, stupid as broken shoelaces, ubiquitous as
a sac
BingoBoingo: Freenode isn't deterministic enough to have
a "normal" way of doing anything.
walter: and then somehow to generate
a key _properly_
walter: no, 'walter' is registered. I need to come up with
a sane available nick
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> why the fuck is va' fa'n culo spelled as one word with
a double f ? cosi fan' tutte is not cosiffantutte ? << ty fxd
mircea_popescu: we really should systematize the "box verification" thing, with
a view to actually certify hardware configurations.
mircea_popescu: also in which vein, see the discussion re busybox and the complete trb machine tmsr created for deployment on pogos (and the whole discussion with pogos) ; also perhaps of interest the failure to create
a useful gentoo and so forth.
☟︎ walter__: my other guess was the idea was to hunt the last machine with
a CPU without microcode updates
mircea_popescu: which turns out to be
a much higher bar than the general population realises, and experimentally reduces to the various thinkpads of the end of ibm / start of lenovo era.
mircea_popescu: walter__ the 2005 was just
a reference to something i mentioned, iirc in
a discussion with asciilifeform ; it's not an exact date (fwiw i use ts etc). but the idea is -
a laptop which runs with no binaries whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck is va' fa'n culo spelled as one word with
a double f ? cosi fan' tutte is not cosiffantutte ?
mircea_popescu: i've watched about
a half hour of tv total since seinfeld.
phf: for example in the original there's
a byte sequence \xc3\xb0, it's
a valid utf-8 for code point #240, which if it renders looks like `ð' and in html can be represented as ð
phf: nah, in the first case bot's sending raw bytes on the the wire (which are valid utf-8 for
a bogus code point sequence), in the second case the raw bytes have been intrepreted as code points and are sent as html escape codes for code points.
mircea_popescu: just did
a hexdump on the logfile. the relevant portion "or ðŸ†if" reads hexdump or ðŸ†if0000000 726f c320 c2b0 c29f c28d 6986 0066
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes</
a>: heh, today i learned the unitards are so fully vested in the anti-sex brigade that U+1F346 or 🍆if my client doesn't mangle it
mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu</
a>: except it isnt : the website shows �if whereas a111 says 🍆. these two will appear the same in the btcbase log, but i trust you see them different in terminal ?
phf: and the original sequence that ben_vulpes sent ~can~ be parsed as valid utf-8, so it gets mapped to some code points and rendered
a such.
mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu</
a>: ðŸ vs ðŸ << from your source.
phf: well, it isn't in
a sense that ben_vulpes sent
a sequence of bytes that can't be parsed as valid utf-8
phf: the log website ~and the bot~ render everything as unicode, because you can't mix multiple encodings in rendering. before rendering
a decision needs to be made about the validity of original content. the validity check is "if this is not valid utf-8, then assume it's latin-1, in which case take latin-1 string and encode it as utf-8"
phf: well, a111 takes
a pill against the convention. otherwise you get the mangled lines in log rendering for all the latin-1 posted content
phf: mircea_popescu: you see above as square with numbers because that's
a unicode convention for missing font symbol
mircea_popescu: phf there seem to be 3 layers of manglizing. yours above i saw both as
a square with numbers, so i suspect your irc client fucks it up ; mine above is fucked up differently (looks like byte-interpreted rather than unicode) and then the scarfer/www displayer prints them out correctly but a111 reads them eggog'd.
pete_dushenski: just sold the is300 this morning on its first showing and fifth day on sale, have an appt to rent out
a condo shortly here. looking to go 2 for 2 on the day. abc baby!
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: caught the 'commie is someone who doesn't drive
a v8' reference! 'grand tour' was finally released in canada and i caught up this weekend. skipped most of ep2 but had
a fair few chuckles throughout 1&2.
pete_dushenski: like all 'empowering' devices. they do ~jack shit but they FEEL phenomenal for the user. at least that's my impression. god help me if i ever find myself using
a blower first-hand.
BingoBoingo: ANd they are not sensory offenses. They are sensory aggression. They are
a challenge to all who hear their roar.
pete_dushenski: i've even been using
a broom on the light dustings of snow we've been graced with this fall. big fan for the drier, powdier varietals of the flakey stuff.
BingoBoingo: This is very true. The lawn niche where electric consistently still loses to gas is blowers and blowers lose to strong back and
a rake.
mircea_popescu: (to properly math 3.3*745.7 = 2460.81 watts of work for 47 * 10**6 / 2.20462 / 3600 = 5921.90742874 watts of burned off fuel. that's 41.5% which is still pretty remarkable, around the upper bound for
a large 4stroke.)
mircea_popescu: it's very strictly speaking
a transfer of raw, unadulterated power from the bureaucrats to random anonymous gurus and other populist figures. that trump stole hillary's cake is one thing ; but that the ability of usg department to dictate discrete behaviour in regards to whatever topic is decaying because the ability of joe videoblogger's ability to dictate same is increasing... now that smarts.
mircea_popescu: the whole "downshifting" subculture is headed for
a serious collision with the bureaucratic tradition. from the etsy "textile creator" and "vintage" "reclaimer" all the way to lazy bums generally there's this entire "we don't need no exit paths wtf are fire extinguishers 50 to the room is good man because we can't just walk up to
a girl and tell her to strip and dance". serious fire hazard to say the least.
ben_vulpes: the wanting to /be/
a horse only sticks until girly figures out what kind of 1500 cc vibrator her parents strap her to after school
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i suspect it's more of the same "i want to want something i can't get because i want to want". horses and dogs more accessible, but horses are very much
a showoff thing and dogs well... the afficionados tend to keep it quiet and get rammed often.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: tastes great with "i just want to be
a mermaid"
ben_vulpes: relatedly, there are interesting fault lines at work in the left: anti-sex activists masquerading as feminists (see the CoC mentioning "sexualized language") vs the rad-fems who are cooking
a whole pile of wtf for the left's pet "feminists" on the topic of "but i love cock and babies and mothering and what precisely is wrong with that and no you chicks with dicks can't come to my moon party"
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: not particularly robustly, at the moment. when the log-follower observes
a line containing REORGANIZE, it re-dumps from the head of the chain back 20 blocks
mircea_popescu: yeah, arresting all the dudes women bitch about is going to result in
a very cheap way to cut down on complaints once teh muslims move in.
BingoBoingo: "The idea for these arrests came from something called the Minneapolis Police Experiment (MPE) of 1981-82. In the experiment police offices were given pads with one of three words written on them... The results show counseling resulted in
a future assault in 24% cases, send was 19%, and the arrest option resulted in
a future assault in only 10% of the cases. Perhaps
a cheap way of cutting down future domestic violence."
mircea_popescu:
a small one with which you pee and
a bigger one with which mrs neighbour brushes her teeth ?
a111: Logged on 2016-12-03 23:21 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in re
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-06#1515745 << we've completed tests and confirmed we can actually link ada code. i'm thinking, prolly the best way is to make an official and definitive tmsr-rsa ~in ada~ as
a v root ? or hows's your general numeric thing coming along and more importantly what's it written in ?
mats: just some folks that make
a wordpress plugin
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in re
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-06#1515745 << we've completed tests and confirmed we can actually link ada code. i'm thinking, prolly the best way is to make an official and definitive tmsr-rsa ~in ada~ as
a v root ? or hows's your general numeric thing coming along and more importantly what's it written in ?
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: generally the question you want to answer is "is this tx included in this block". with
a hash tree that is log N, with
a hash list that is N proportional.
mircea_popescu used to have
a landline thing installed for the same purpose.
mircea_popescu: and bbs-es existed. of course they existed. but there was
a significant change about the time it also happened in the su.
mircea_popescu: well however it shall be explained, most got
a "free" ride.
mircea_popescu: and re diamond train : the historical item worked as such : that
a coupla dozen businessmen paid for all of it, and then there were 5x that many people who didn't pay
a dime that also went with it.
trinque: gotta establish business in another place well before you leave if you don't want to be
a refugee
mircea_popescu: in continuing lulz, "Advanced Patent Technologies, Las Vegas, NV. 1978 – 1981, Consultant, Business Development. Mr. Niquette marketed
a patent portfolio and managed the launching of startups in diverse industries, including video animation and special effects, dental instruments, and advanced engine designs for public transportation vehicles and farm machinery." << check it out, someone did start-ups before graham ?!?!? HE
mats: nvm. gdp as
a measurement has only been around since near the end of the great depression