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mircea_popescu: ironically this makes army (at least in the pre 90s implementation) very much a college ; which is a determination i stand by.
asciilifeform: a bit more complicated, where i went to school we had ~both~ types, on one campus
adlai: i've yet to witness a student getting thrown out of a lecture at TAU (was done reasonably often by certain teachers at exeter), although - they often basically tell students to shut up and ask questions privately afterwards
mircea_popescu: therefore i proclaim her the winner, with the mention that while none of the participants are exactly yet shakespeare, they're certainly much further down the path of shakespearing than the common man, and so congratulations!
mircea_popescu: ok, so i'm ready to adjudicate in the matter of the hallo ween st. elliot fanfic contest.
ben_vulpes: oh good grief and in which i discover https://www.planetoftheapps.com/
adlai: er that's not quite right either. confirming that i didn't spew nonsense into the internet reveals that, while cracking does describe part of the process of turning heterogenous crude into several homogenous smaller-chain hydrocarbons, it typically does involve breaking bonds
ben_vulpes: yeah, i'm aware that it's a term of art in the refining biz.
ben_vulpes: odds are that The Vacuum System actuating the blend door is leaking. upside is that this may take my idle from 1050 down to 800 (and possibly even reclaim some HP) if i do plug some leaks.
ben_vulpes: i have 2 smallish repairs on the docket: replacing the seatbelt and fixing the blend door in the HVAC system. coming up with a plan for the first was trivial, once i had assembly plans for the seats and restraints in hand. i have a bead on how to diagnose the hvac blend as well, similarly derived from the heat control actuator harness assembly diagrams.
adlai: ben_vulpes: i assume this is more of an "owner's manual" type thing, and you're not now staring at twenty crates of corvette parts that you're gonna put together yourself?
adlai: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-09#1554171 << meanwhile a tale from the local unreal-college-cum-kindergarden: "in this class, i teach you classical mechanics. we will not cover quantum mechanics, which tells you how small things behave over small distances; nor special relativity, which describes the behavior of things at high speeds; nor general relativity, which describes the effect of standing next to ☝︎
soneelks: okay so now i look like a total faggot. just let me know if you need anything
soneelks: if i might, you cunts are stylish as fuck
soneelks: i must confess its not rly sonelks but the election is near
mircea_popescu: i shall however presently dump teh irc for ... well, a sweet embrace.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, ask Framedragger neh ?
mircea_popescu: don't worry ben_vulpes by the time you're as poor as mark twain's nigger called jerry, you'll be just as energetic and passionate i'm sure!
ben_vulpes: i retain hope for the glorious trumpenreich
trinque: heh, thinking upon it, I suppose it did.
trinque: We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it the Voice of God. << I suppose the great that'll great again predated Mr Twain.
trinque: http://archive.is/5lyYd << "You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is."
mircea_popescu: you keep going "if disney were king of the hill and i had free run of the studios" sorta scenarios. get off it, kenya dun has a hollywood.
asciilifeform: the old man's -- i have nfi
asciilifeform: dunno, if mr t on the throne, i could swallow the 'they got unplugged from control'
asciilifeform: now i dun work at diebold, but it is hard to picture that a mr t win is not regarded as 'societal seekoority threat' and as such not any more permissible than , e.g., 'pirate party' senator.
phf: yeah, that's the one i explicitly searched for, but i started clicking around
phf: i love comments on su tracks on youtube, they are like something out of Sorokin novels.
phf: asciilifeform: i like "urban exploration", so i've been to a lot of places like that, where america once was and not anymore. entire stretch from philadelphia to trenton is remnants of industrial age
asciilifeform: i watched, with binocular, it was interesting (there was even a well on the premises!)
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-07#1563735 << i expect "alternate sunday driving" is coming up next ? ☝︎
MagnusFox: i'm scared
phf: ben_vulpes: i don't know what you mean by "city water taxi", but this is what i imagine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDohpjD1jvA
BingoBoingo: Naturally I seem to be. James paid the price for getting his Elliot love and Elliot lived the only natural life he could as a racially ambiguous kid in the desrt.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-05 10:06 diana_coman: contest anyway; considering however that it was set for Halloween, I guess I'd go with "goriest" and therefore BingoBoingo should win; as a side, I must say I don't quite follow the point of "all possible positions expressed" since they were quite clear/obvious anyway;
asciilifeform: ftr i did not play 'doom' on this item
asciilifeform: i had, nailed to the wall, 'tick table', like everyone else
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i r disappoint. that sad, sad moment when you're stuck in a world where all the best erotic fiction is written by yourself, so the choice is between familiarity and inferior product. << This is leading cause of male orgasm disfunction. Perhaps train girl to unfamiliarize your own text?
mircea_popescu: i r disappoint. that sad, sad moment when you're stuck in a world where all the best erotic fiction is written by yourself, so the choice is between familiarity and inferior product.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo lol srsly ? << to the extent I can understand the word salad around the term.
mircea_popescu: i suppose if they found any loose octopi on the floor they were delivered to your desk ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i mean for the sheer weird, not money necessarily.
mircea_popescu: can i has link or anything ?
a111: Logged on 2016-11-07 11:46 mircea_popescu: can anyone think of any possible reason thestringpuller is actually voiced here ? i've just about had it, the snr ratio is by my count exactly 0, if you got something i wanna hear it plox.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only did i, but did it with those usb rasterizer dongles
ben_vulpes: somewhere in the back of my head i'm balancing the tradeoffs of continuing to use apple machines as ssh terminals into actually-usable machines vs cutting over to linux or a bsd wholesale
asciilifeform: enjoy, then, the nintendo. (or do as i did when i worked for usg and forced to use winblows xp box -- run gentoo/x11 in vmware, and emacs in ~that~...)
phf: asciilifeform: that was the case since forever, but they not only ensure that you can't apple from outside, they also ensure that you have to be on the upgrades bandwagon. with my 10.9.5 i'm running into things that "require newever version"
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i only pointed out, that microshit's nintendo ecosystem is in fact 'friendlier' to illicit devs than crapple's.
ben_vulpes: am i to reverse engineer which endpoint they want it at every time they upgrade "app uploader" or swizzle the delivery pipeline?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: last i was embroiled in iphonism, circa '10 or so, they only wanted a binary submission
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i've built winblows kernel drivers, for example, without a winblows box or any microshit software (yes, incl. the rsa signature)
ben_vulpes: and if you think you can do that with not-the-latest-xcode-and-os i have a build here that needs sucking through apple's garden hose
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i have a room full of various boxen
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: because i needed a lappy with 300 dpi lcd and working suspend mode ?
mircea_popescu: holy shit i know nothing.
asciilifeform: i have a box here very similar to ben_vulpes's, 'mb pro' circa may '16. it is now probably running the same sw as when it will go to junkyard.
trinque: ben_vulpes: oh the shit I never hear used in a sentence living in TX
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i am grossly familiar with wokeness theatrics
asciilifeform: i have only ever seen such scene in film before, where corpses in stalingrad etc.
asciilifeform: rat, imho, is better company than roach. (incidentally, i was walking in a 'posh' neighbourhood in washington, and saw -- what no one will believe, THOUSANDS of rats, not even around a rubbish pile, but in hedges, right in the earth, SWARMING)
asciilifeform: the way i pictured bitcoin is that it is attempt at experimentally testing the hypothesis that some men are -- men, others -- roaches who were dropped into wrong bin by mistake
mircea_popescu: yeah well, i'm not saying it was definitive or anything.
mircea_popescu: why ? i'd rather have a cs-based bicoin with the described node-miner issues resolved (as described)
asciilifeform: that, as i understand, is the 'nuke' on the rocket, it works best by derps being 'shown the instruments of torment' rather than by setting off
mircea_popescu: just as long as i pay 700 bux to the trb, it's not going anywhere. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: this is connected. simmer down and stop confusing yourself. you said : <asciilifeform> going briefly upstack, my understanding is that this particular batch of forkolade is effectively 'hard', in that no trb-generated tx is likely to be mined. and i said <mircea_popescu> if it is, whatever, we'll release a proper trb and they can all go hang. im pegging it.
mircea_popescu: it's really just building prb complexity for no benefit. i can directly pay to them, they can't pay to me without adding an intermediate step where they desegwit.
asciilifeform: this, as i understand, means to launch the rockets
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's rather simple : i won't upgrade, this means i'm not recognizing segwit txn until they are bridged over.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i thought breitbart was << It's a transitional state, sorta a turning over of the compost pile this year.
asciilifeform: the prb gambit, as far as i can tell, is to siphon as much coin as possible into a must-use-prb parallel world
asciilifeform: i was about to 'do we have rockets ROLLING OFF CONVEYER LIKE SAUSAGES!111' yet
mircea_popescu: doh. prb i mean.
asciilifeform: (and incidentally i suspect that you do not need anything like 51% for demolition of 'segwit' and other 'soft' idiocies, but just enough to feedback 'arse-mouth' and buy moar cycles immediately)
asciilifeform: just that it was an educational moment, when i first thought about why.
asciilifeform: i do not find it puzzling ~today~ that he needed it.
asciilifeform: (as a boy, when i read that a messerschmitt-whatever cost R reichsmarks, it blew my mind, 'why did hitler need money ?!??')
mircea_popescu: it fundamentally changes the role of money, in many ways, but i suspect this may be the most notable.
a111: Logged on 2015-02-21 01:19 mircea_popescu: "she's been going through 6-7k each month since autumn, but i get to go visit p diddy whenever i feel like it. it's a wash"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i tried, and failed, to turn up thread in l0gz, with -- incidentally -- thestringpuller, iirc, where i noted that i could buy a large quantity of, e.g., bricks, but 0 lsd.
mircea_popescu: i thought breitbart was
asciilifeform: i cannot dispute (largely from lack of direct exposure to the venus in question) the ordering, but only mechanism
mircea_popescu: yes but i was discussing degrees on one side of 0 and you seem to be discussing degrees on the other side. let's build a reconciled continuum : speculative gains (-3) -booking-> profits (-2) -realizing-> corporate cash (-1) -donation,salary,etc-> cash(0) -relations-> food (1) -connections-> cunt (2) -expertise-> plutonium (3)
PeterL: "10. Rupert Murdoch fires Sean Hannity from Fox News." << this one I would also like to see happen
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform bad angle/bad light, i'm pretty sure.
PeterL: ok, I'm glad it is not just me that can see it
shinohai: I have forgotten the number of gospels that weren't accepted into the canon
mircea_popescu: (for one thing in that it is variant - next time i might tell the same anecdote an entirely different way)
mircea_popescu: i suppose the point here is that it's insanely hard for system men to come to terms with the realisation that the system is doing more harm than good. after all if they believed that they wouldn't be in it in the first place. so they're bound, by the insane logic that castrates them,. to also believe that proclaiming clinton innocent actually helps her.
mircea_popescu: aha. i have nfi why they thought this is a +ev move, but whatever.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-07 15:34 mircea_popescu: i wouldn't hire a 70yo sales manager, why the fuck would i tolerate a 70yo politician ? go home.
BingoBoingo: But no, talking about Newt and Warren given the "me generation" (i.e. babyboomers) hope that they are still useful at their slighlty lesser but still advanced age.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't hire a 70yo sales manager, why the fuck would i tolerate a 70yo politician ? go home. ☟︎
shinohai: Good God I thought that woman was well past her expiration date anyway.
mircea_popescu: upon re-read, this is almost interesting - the problem is the single sentence "The official fix was merged yesterday into the linux kernel, and so I can know talk freely about it.", which could in principle be reinterpreted to read his intended meaning into it. otherwise he's actually very proper in expression.
mircea_popescu: this "i can't fucking read" problem is getting worse ;/
mircea_popescu: right. why they don't use the actual words that exist for the purpose of describing the situation, "it's a kernel module", even should it be qualified with "ubiquitous" or whatever i haven't the slightest idea.
mircea_popescu: i guess that's a point, huh. i c.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i had nfi firewire is in the kernel.