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mircea_popescu: just how fat do you think i am ?

phf: maybe that's something britain can solve, after solving eu. either stop paying the stipend to the royal family, or give them proper living accommodations. i think by now everyone's tired of this bureaucratic half life

phf: i always though kensington was sort of equivalent of president's residence at the whitehouse. symbol of something or rather, but nobody really lives there. or perhaps, in the case of kensington specifically, an equivalent of a harem, i.e. a nursery

BingoBoingo: Anyways Clitler could still win, but I doubt it because the FBI and KGB are working together to MAKE GREAT GREAT again.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-03#1562731 << "media could not be played". i suppose not even twitter can hear 'em. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: no i mean the reason you put abajours or w/e yu call them on lightbulbs.

mircea_popescu: well... i should just say "filament evaporation". dun think tungsten itself has that spectral line.

mircea_popescu: i actually got some very pretty ones, extremely large filament. less light but the tungsten evaporation over time colors the glass a very pretty faint carmine

a111: Logged on 2016-11-03 11:56 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-03#1562650 < eh what are you on about, i got incandescents everywhere.

pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-03#1562706 << o ? i musta misread http://trilema.com/2015/%C2%BFno-se-puede-ba-pe-a-ma-tii/ because it leant the distinct impression that southern orclands were too pilipiziprogre for incandescent bulbs ☝︎

trinque: BingoBoingo: if teh lulz crescendo tomorrow, I'll wait

trinque: weirdest shit I've ever seen

thestringpuller: i figured you was in windsor...

a111: Logged on 2016-11-03 03:12 asciilifeform: ftr i am not making mechanical rsatron.

phf: now i grok where you got your airs from, you're a ct person, that explains it :p

phf: outside of reasonably nyc commute range there are parts of ct that are underdeveloped, new haven has the typical ivy arrangement: university controlled downtown surrounded by ghettos on all four sides. you have bridgeport with whole streets "for sale", i don't imagine they are the only places like that

thestringpuller: iirc to get same sqft I have now in my home town of CT i'd pay 3.5x minimum

phf: they don't really know what to do with "large houses" here. i've been to a few, and i can never discern a cause to any of the rooms. it's basically "place we sleep, place we shit and place we hang out", everything else is a filler, a place to put "artwork". on the other hand not even being "man worth the mention" i can put to use very large spaces. own bedroom, shared bedroom, library room, computer room, workshop (i don't have a lathe,

mircea_popescu: 3. if you're the sort of man worth the mention in the first place, you also engage in some sort of activities. i am not speaking here of an "office" where to sit and engage in bureaucracy, because really, government-made men aren't ever worth the mention. but alf at the extreme could prolly soak up 10`000 sqm, so there is that. call it 500 and let it be.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-03#1562650 < eh what are you on about, i got incandescents everywhere. ☝︎☟︎

shinohai: I'm pretty sure I can fir a RasPi zero in there.

shinohai: Maybe I should seek funding to examine this.

mircea_popescu: and now time for an intromission - i give you merchant-from-the-future girl! http://68.media.tumblr.com/144503737e83614fc6a604fad5072e71/tumblr_n9zc9frpX01sl0njeo1_1280.jpg

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-03#1562629 << i hope you realise that had you organised the topless bundy support alt-burning man, you'd be now in a position to get a govt post in preparation for running for governor there yes ? ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2016-11-03 03:18 asciilifeform: one time i bought a truckload of plinths, made a walking-path, it... sank.

a111: Logged on 2016-11-03 03:15 asciilifeform: i 'parallel-park' on motherfucking city street, yes

a111: Logged on 2016-11-03 03:12 asciilifeform: ftr i am not making mechanical rsatron.

BingoBoingo: Fuck, I go to sleep and Obama steals the rigged World Series for his town.

pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-01#1561434 << even uneducated rappers understand that cars are a visible sign of wealth at least as much as performance machines. the performance writes the cheques saying that "i could" but of course there's essentially nowhere that these cheques might be cashed where anyone is watching. ☝︎

pete_dushenski: lel. one day i tell yeez, one day!!1

pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes | i have half a semi going just at the thought of locking up any fraction of the demcratic party << "honey, i'm feeling #2 tonight, get your furry costume out!"

pete_dushenski: trinque: speaking of semis, my chef at the office and i were chatting today and she was saying how she feels bad biking up steep hills when she thinks of how impossible it is for wheelchairists to do the same. i responded, "what, like i should feel bad for all the dudes who can't get it up when i'm banging?"

ben_vulpes: i have half a semi going just at the thought of locking up any fraction of the demcratic party

trinque: dunno. I don't suspect he's had a totaly passive role in the way the clintons are coming apart.

ben_vulpes: i don't think trump 1 has the imagination for anything interesting

ben_vulpes: "eh, i'll believe it when i see it ten times."

ben_vulpes: unrelatedly, el pequeno took his first steps at his one-year birthday/halloween party while i was on the back porch smoking cigarettes

asciilifeform: i was recently using a proggy called inkscape. vector drawing thing. and recent update broke ~ALL plugins.

ben_vulpes: from other parts of the room: "i'm sure there's some highfalutin' CS reason why -- "

ben_vulpes: "o i see you have a target, i'll just swizzle these files around and source-to-source transform all these other files"

ben_vulpes: no but i also don't call that which isn't a plinth a plinth

ben_vulpes: i'd crucify the architect who tried to tell me that an ionian column could sit aesthetically o 2 inches of plinth.

asciilifeform: one time i bought a truckload of plinths, made a walking-path, it... sank. ☟︎

asciilifeform: i also pay 2-3x per square m. vs anyone else who lives here. because not-mortgaged.

a111: Logged on 2016-10-31 17:27 asciilifeform: i always wondered if the very sad infrastructure in washington, a kind of frozen-in-time 1970s theme park, is at least partly on account of the expectation that anthill will be leveled 'any day'

asciilifeform: i 'parallel-park' on motherfucking city street, yes ☟︎

asciilifeform: i shit thee not

asciilifeform: i've none.

asciilifeform: ftr i am not making mechanical rsatron. ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: i have nfi why actually

mod6: I like the idea of private projects too. Gotta dig into that maybe.

mod6: For sure. I do like how I can use the tickets to track discussions thus far though. Saved the foundation from needing the stenographer.

mircea_popescu: screw you guise, i'm going to bed.

BingoBoingo: Where else from http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_bills/2016/11/ask_the_bills_i_m_still_in_debt_thanks_to_my_sickly_cat.html

shinohai: I always imagined they were drinking Night Train in The Name of the Rose.

ben_vulpes: i was a few centuries off on stills.

mircea_popescu: well i didn't realise you were begging it!

ben_vulpes: no, i'd say that "historic drugs" fits quite nicely into the same time window as "gay = only fucks men"

ben_vulpes: i guess the argument kinda falls apart on 'historic' grounds, 'gayness' not being much of a thing pre late 1800s

mircea_popescu: "i want it to just fit"

asciilifeform: i'm not even convinced that it is about castration - the 'actiony' types are just as fixated, they would sincerely rather make a crappy aluminum musket that eventually kills himself and whoever stands next, than a perfectly serviceable rocket.

mircea_popescu: "and what have you learned in the city, billy bob ?" "oh ma, i have learned how to fail before i even try!"

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562200 << i dunno there's any dispute re this, here. or outside. ☝︎

asciilifeform: i have never even ~seen~ this spinner prior.

asciilifeform: i get a 'loading...' spinner, forever.

mircea_popescu: when i first got laid i had nobody there to show me how it's done so i made do as best i could.

asciilifeform: as for airplanes, i recently read, for instance, an entertaining piece, 'stick and rudder', classic, by one w. langewiesche. but if you wanted to fly in an airplane, i would still recommend going with davout at the wheel, or mthreat, rather than asciilifeform .

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suppose i missed all those steam pressure gauges in cars etc.

hanbot: oh hey, i made it but can't load it. huzzah.

thestringpuller: i'd rather attempt at raising my own shitty veal rather than continuing to eat mystery meat until end of lie

a111: Logged on 2014-05-29 17:55 asciilifeform: i really can't fathom the purpose of buying a mystery meat hardware rng. if you're willing to eat mystery meat, why not use the vlsi turd found in current cpu?

asciilifeform: i was thinking more of the basics that folks learn 'with spinal cord' in training.

a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 17:25 asciilifeform: PeterL: would you fly as passenger in a mig that i offer you a ride in after reading 'how to mig' b0000k by, say, mthreat ?

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562186 << yes, actually. guy is a competent (if self-taught) engine engineer. in between him and the various trainers he had, he's the sane mind i've seen. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: i mean "the miniaturization is important in itself", ie, even if obviously won't work to move large bodies, it's integral to the magical cavity.

PeterL: basically it was like a 100 MHz, I only use 500 and up

PeterL: If I remember correctly, low resolution

PeterL: seemed like it was limited in application, would be ok for some sorts of process management or something, completely useless for what I was doing

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562257 << did i not put in caveat, 'if there is any thermodynamically-plausible path to the end product' ! ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 17:24 asciilifeform: and the feedstock problem is not escapable in postindustrial world. e.g., one can make nitric acid from, say, copper sulfate, saltpetre, and water. but where in the forest do i dig up copper sulfate ?

a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 17:19 asciilifeform: PeterL: you would be surprised at what commonplace thing can be abolished by great inca. i was astonished, after moving to usa, that you cannot buy potassium permanganate in drug store here.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562173 << i wanted to show girls the thing (it's fucking pretty, innit ?) these idiots don't even know what it IS. i mean, pharmacists. they go to medical school here. NO FUCKING IDEA! ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 17:08 phf: failing to find it so far, i think it's the one where we talked about looking through dirt for useful synths and how nobody is doing it (but when they do they get mad gains)

a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 16:46 PeterL: If I were a woman, I don't think I would trust the purity of something made in somebodies garage to not have dangerous impurities

PeterL: I've never made a multi-stage rocket, but me and my kids made a rocket out of a soda bottle and powered it with isopropanol, that was pretty fun

thestringpuller: i.e. "You're the guy who wasn't good enough to sling dope."

PeterL: I suspect this would depend on the year of the truck?

asciilifeform: i once encountered an entire monograph on the drilling, rifling, and tempering of barrels made specifically from old truck axles.

PeterL: I assume that postapocalypse world you start by building small plane, learn to fly that, before moving onto mig

asciilifeform: PeterL: would you fly as passenger in a mig that i offer you a ride in after reading 'how to mig' b0000k by, say, mthreat ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: and the feedstock problem is not escapable in postindustrial world. e.g., one can make nitric acid from, say, copper sulfate, saltpetre, and water. but where in the forest do i dig up copper sulfate ? ☟︎

PeterL: I mean, not specifically wikipedia, just there are a lot of topics that each connect to one another

PeterL: yes, I have thought about this

asciilifeform: PeterL: you would be surprised at what commonplace thing can be abolished by great inca. i was astonished, after moving to usa, that you cannot buy potassium permanganate in drug store here. ☟︎

phf: wait, i'm missing the punchline. i guess brute force here means, that you don't have an optimal process, but rather exploit given environment to achieve objective no matter what?

phf: no, but i suppose electricity is involved

phf: failing to find it so far, i think it's the one where we talked about looking through dirt for useful synths and how nobody is doing it (but when they do they get mad gains) ☟︎

phf: hehe, trying to find it now though i get some really nice results e.g. http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/dmt2.jpg

PeterL: depends on if there is an easy starting material, I'm still reading up on it

PeterL: I guess if you are looking for a DIY abortion, impurities would be low on your scale of things to worry about