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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 ☝︎☟︎
mod6: once we have a text-client for eulora, will work pretty great on a rockchip
asciilifeform: jurov: nope, simply needs the nodes to pick up ~each other~. sorta 'firing squad problem', i will leave it as exercise
asciilifeform: meanwhile in lulzplagiarism, https://cybermashup.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/amiet-romailler-reaping-keys-final-slides.pdf << ( yes pdfturd ) >> best usg.phuctor to date
mod6: trinque: updated the Advertised Republican Node list with 161.0.121.250 - Cheers!
BingoBoingo: Precision clocks aren't too expensive if you aren't trying to fly them, but it's yet another thing to power
jurov: asciilifeform: is it so easy to maintain the phase? i imagine that requires nanosecond precision clock or one central source with feed lines? ☟︎
asciilifeform: ( effect -- transmitter appears to fly )
asciilifeform: upstack, the thing i find extralulzy re the shortrange/fm 'pirates', is that for no apparent reason, they refuse to use the most obvious anti-df pill -- multiple geographically-dispersed antennae operating b/w pi and 2pi out of phase
asciilifeform: ^ peculiarly-usaschwitz tradition, pretty much exactly like snake oil cures but for usg.bureaucratic problems
asciilifeform: 'We expect that letters so addressed would more properly come from your company's International Bureau and then only after there's been some treaty of other discovered to which we are signators' << >> http://trilema.com/2013/the-sops-or-what-might-you-expect-from-government-clerks/#selection-163.0-163.589 ( & elsewhere lulz )
asciilifeform: '90.1 frequency in Austin' << yea definitely not the sw.
asciilifeform: but some local thing
asciilifeform: ( it , funnily enuff, was the ~only thing that could be heard here ! )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: re qntra -- i was listening to that very station just last wk
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/08/usg-sues-free-texas-radio-station-over-outlaw-broadcasting/ << Qntra - USG Sues Free Texas Radio Station Over Outlaw Broadcasting
asciilifeform: is the expected picture, yes
trinque: before aggression, I saw long periods where it wasn't doing a damned thing
trinque: I switched to aggression midway, after waiting months, and from there took a few weeks
asciilifeform: trinque: out of curiosity, how long sync took ? ( and was it with 'aggression' ? )
deedbot: http://trinque.org/2018/08/16/new-trb-node-at-1610121250/ << trinque - New TRB Node at 161.0.121.250
asciilifeform: congrats trinque
BingoBoingo: Well, that and the opportunity to run the printing press and spread bezzel to favored lizards bringing back a number of them along the way
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The fancy dope tends to cause less collateral damage when it works suddenly. When bottle takes suddenly usually a motor vehicle is involved
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 2017-07-18 13:28 asciilifeform: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20170718/#143 << they're already 'eltsining' to death , with the good old bottle, no fancy dope needed necessarily
trinque: about time I announced it, seems like
trinque: BingoBoingo: indeed, thanks!
asciilifeform: ( picture d00d, thin as a matchstick, but 50kg top half )
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i don't actually know of this deformity
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.'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: recall the hypertrophies of 19th c railroad men. 'so, don't work on the railroad, then!' ( oblig http://btcbase.org/log/2015-08-19#1243116 ) ☝︎
ben_vulpes: head UP! tits OUT! hips TILTED BACK!
ben_vulpes: haw someone just sent me an ad for a nylon "posture brace"; not that a brace is going to do anything for the lump of muscle developing at the base of millenial skulls from supporting their heads at a thirty-degree angle all day
BingoBoingo: Congrats trinque on what appears to be the sync of your Pizarro node
diana_away: lmao; totally noob
asciilifeform: ( 'wherever' includes, e.g., pv panels glued to tritium glow tube, or peltier to iron stake, or even antenna, if convenient geography )
asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform obtained and testing a LTC3108 , 'energy harvester', they've become cheapo ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: yes, and uncannily ties in with prev thread..
BingoBoingo: But you gotta sort em. Males are nothing but shells full of air for the noise making. Gotta eat the females
BingoBoingo: One of my university stints placed me in an emergence. pretty tasty critters.
mircea_popescu: yes, this sort of thing happens, they have different periods so sometimes collide.
asciilifeform: i was here for the 17-yr collision of three species, was unspeakably loud, as in firing-range loud
trinque: sound like they oughta be able to eviscerate a man in swarm
asciilifeform: they live, for, what, 20yr inside the earth..
mircea_popescu: but they totally are fucking alien.
trinque: I like the alien little buggers
asciilifeform: i was doing some work with a large tree, fulla'em
trinque: we've got the cicadas up this way too, astonishingly loud
asciilifeform: they could even be synced to some migratory lifeform that hangs out where there ~are~ seasons
mircea_popescu: insect timekeeping, it's a weird thing. possibly sideral.
mircea_popescu: that whole genera is very time bound, has 7 year periods and whatnot
asciilifeform: i'd imagine theirs would be 'sliding' tho, if the terrain has none
asciilifeform: hm i had nfi that mircea_popescustan had seasons
mircea_popescu: not season yet tho. blessfully.
asciilifeform: i'd also look for the 'dying hdd bird'
mircea_popescu: gotta get it from the peasant guys rtho, supermarket fruit is ~ok.
diana_away: mircea_popescu: I guess I'll give it another try, I never liked papaya; I do like those tiny bananas
mircea_popescu: diana_away tried a papaya yet ?
asciilifeform intends to see mircea_popescustan some time this yr
diana_away: and coconuts + vendor on a sort of trike
diana_away: asciilifeform: lol! so far made inventory of wind turbines on top of hill, huge butterflies and weird, coloured insects
diana_away: although the diminutive toyota sort-of-cars are funy
diana_away: eeringly similar to Romania not so many years ago on various levels
diana_away: yes; almost too hot atm
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: why stop there, i hear amoeba can live on <1cal/day
ben_vulpes: shed thirty years and three tonnes, do css on fiverr for bitdribbles
asciilifeform: soon as i grow enuff brain to find how to eat without working for anglo-lame, i'ma do exactly as pictured
mircea_popescu: leave the premises, let them collect
asciilifeform: there's pretend, there's collect, neh
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to get the fuck off usg's tax rolls, say
mircea_popescu: i don't get it, what;s the rush ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: though might give you history / lang test, i dun recall
asciilifeform: i was speaking of human timescales, rather than 'the king may die, the horse may die' ones
asciilifeform: iirc they also have variant where you sit in rented flat for 10y.
mircea_popescu: you register company, you have company receive some dough, which it can use however it pleases, such as buying you a dozen cars or a piece of real estate or w/e, then you use that for right of stay and eventually passport.
asciilifeform: iirc we had thread
asciilifeform: no passport, no title
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dunno where this worx, in current ro is catch22
mircea_popescu: afaik it's not even a "is x". if you're willing to spend some dough, like, buy a house or something, you can have it.
ben_vulpes: and while the uncleals are convinced it'll be highway maintenance that blows a crater in the usg budget, i have high hopes that the heavy metal poisoning from 'vape pen' use will eclipse it by a few orders of magnitude
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2018/fetlikeslol/ << Trilema - fetlikes.lol
asciilifeform: you'll find rusted tubs on the road that look like they belong in havana, owner changes hydraulic oil ~daily, but keeps the thing going , if he can't make rent he'll live in the tub, not having the tub is not option if you like eating
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall, usa is this peculiar gulag that's ~unnavigable w/out auto
mircea_popescu: locals are lucky if they get 10-15k pa.
mircea_popescu: 2bux/hr here. even moar expensive in ppc terms.
BingoBoingo: The problem with Mexico is the strong government that either might not like you or might decide to have fun with your holes
ben_vulpes: haven't even heard a peep about putting trans rights into the corporate handbook in at least three years!
ben_vulpes: less blue hair and fewer kilts as i move through the digestive tract
mircea_popescu: that's just a tumour. anal pore something else.
asciilifeform: hard to picture a dourer arsehole than where asciilifeform is
mircea_popescu: other than being the intercontinental asshole you mean ?
ben_vulpes: juarez is right there
mircea_popescu: i just hope the anus isn't mexico city
asciilifeform: aa the good sort of digested
mircea_popescu: started in duodeniscadia, moved through cardia into washingtomach, now being excreted into texasbowel.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: how come yer still in usa, anyway ? i thought you finally cut the tether a while back
asciilifeform: anglogulag dun have a wire fence , it is 'guarded by taiga'
asciilifeform: angloproblems typically happen back home.
mircea_popescu: fucking loved me, though.