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asciilifeform: well yes, you win vs the mine, get pile of pu. which you now gotta machine (ever machine a pyrophoric ?), rebuild the explosive lenses, detonators, neutron source, get moar tritium somewhere (where?), etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform problem is that the deck is stacked so much against people. plutonium is like gold, inert chemically, very heavy, etc. it stands out in physical reality like a naked supermodel among a coder convention.
asciilifeform: and if the 'found' pu is in a boobytrapped chest that noncritically disassembles itself and poisons a square km of your own warehouse if you mis-guess a bit, you have not won, neh ?
mircea_popescu: that dog ran 30mph for a solid 20 minutes until it fell on its face.
mircea_popescu: it made a bird friend! the bird would swoop in squaking, feet in front of the dog, who'd chase it like crazy, then once it's mommentum ran out the bird'd wingflap to the closest tree, rest a little and swoop again.
trinque: I watched it last week, treated it like a dog, and it was fine
asciilifeform: (i imagine that a pyro makes the same face into a fire, a zoophiliac - while pounding into the sow; etc)
phf: that buttery-smooth-emacs was a torture to read. it's like a text equivalent of those "heeeeeeeyyy guys it's me i'm back with yet another!! hello!!" youtube videos
mircea_popescu: ima go pour myself a triple and write a scathing piece about fugazi and mackaye
mircea_popescu: in which interval i doubt i watched a full hour of pronz.
mircea_popescu: well, i guess the livestream of my livingroom irl should count and that sorta thing. but i've not been following teh industry in just about a decade by now.
mircea_popescu: defo not prepared to cogently argue the whys and wherefores of software decisions over a decade old
mircea_popescu: i think i may have a winamp somewhere also
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: xchat (last i tried... has been a while) still built without dbus
BingoBoingo: And Xchat is? Anyways its not a VLC!
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: iirc 'parole' is a gtkism ?
BingoBoingo: mplayer, parole, there's a spectrum on non-VLC players
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a commandline proggy.
trinque: iirc mplayer's list of deps is a bit shorter
mircea_popescu: damn, i wish we knew that back when phuctor story was #1 for half a day. such arguments!
mircea_popescu: wait wait, waaaait. it being #1 now is a criteria ?
asciilifeform: 'You're the guy who hacked Dalvik on Android a few years back, aren't you? So that it would load your broken APKs that have millions of methods for unholy reasons, and break the app for your users when Dalvik updates and this predictably stops to work? Fitting that having created such horrors you would have to deal with other people's.' -- from the comments
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> but who the fuck uses emacs nonfullscreen and why. << Me, I use it like a "sticky note" on screen.
asciilifeform: folks dun even fully grasp, 'whaddayamean, shaved yer head ??' 'no, have hair, but 0 lice' 'yer a liar'
asciilifeform: trinque: not so hot on a box with 64M
mircea_popescu: (retrospectively it is evident this proggy had a large formative impact in young alf, hence all the vermin references.)
asciilifeform: point; it has been a very long time since i ran into anyone else who used it.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-19 18:39 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i've yet to use a "non-full-screen window" for anything.
mircea_popescu: yes. so if it's emacs, then it's emacs, then we need to freeze a package of it or else face the eulora problem
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: imho a correct gossipd simply emulates irc server on the user end.
asciilifeform: that share screen space with the double-buffered region into independent X windows. Overall, it’s a giant hack.' << this is guaranteed to break it on all of my systems
asciilifeform: (probably because it never shares a display with anything)
mircea_popescu: this sounds a lot like "my car engine doesn't run smooth so i'm going to fix the steering wheel, gas pedal etc."
asciilifeform: 'I am a sinner. Unrepentant. Damned. Thusly, for me, Emacs flickers constantly. I hate flicker. I love Emacs. Something has to change. I decided to hack Emacs to eliminate this antediluvian flickering.' << i am hearing about this flicker for the first time.
mircea_popescu: and in other "human encounters trilema", http://trilema.com/2014/consent-is-a-myth-lets-see-how-it-came-to-be/#comment-119601
mircea_popescu: i don't get it. what exactly can it be other than "a text program" ?
trinque: Internally, Emacs still belives it’s a text program, and we pretend Xt is a text terminal, and we pretend GTK is an Xt toolkit. It’s a fractal of delusion. << hahaha oh christ
jurov: "Emacs pretends GTK+ is an old-fashioned Xt toolkit. The entire Emacs philosophy is to force $MODERN_THING to behave just like Xt just like a 1960s TTY. Emacs does awful things to GTK+ to maintain this illusion."
mircea_popescu: anyway, the linked github is like the first laddel piece over a few dozen words that nevertheless made sense from end to end. ☟︎
asciilifeform scratches head, goes wtf, whoever built (laser) machine thought that 1.3v was a logic 'high'
mircea_popescu: actually, here's a theory http://66.media.tumblr.com/6436b5c40f8355e8c7238346a3adff31/tumblr_n5kilrH8zj1s8ixkuo1_1280.jpg
a111: Logged on 2016-10-31 01:12 mircea_popescu: trinque dawg telling people a "^" is pretty fucking evil.
trinque: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-31#1560415 << lol, I'm under the impression that gabriel_laddel trolls logs for highlights with a script, or would've provided better context ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: apparently it was a usg-subsidized ersatz thing for soldiers home from ww2. the vendor vanished when the budget was cut.
shinohai: House in a box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoT47kJYyBU
asciilifeform: it was one lonely 'techno-marvel' in a street of ordinary houses.
asciilifeform: d to reason with cattle. No more. Completing the CLX implementation, as described above should take no more than a few months.' << this is iirc the first time i am seeing 'mean girlz' in a shithub page.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-31 00:19 trinque: https://github.com/gabriel-laddel/clim << this would've been a fine use for V
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-31#1560409 >> 'He's more-or-less lent jackdaniel his signature, and is too much of a pushover to, say, speak up or block access rights to the repository when jackdaniel takes actions he disagrees with. Someone familiar with the fork suggested that it might be premature. Had I nipped this problem in the bud a week ago, I could have had translated the CLIM specifiction to CLIM by now. Instead, I attempte ☝︎
BingoBoingo: Small factories making houses not in assembly line, but in local batches. Then assembled (not built) on site. Also guess where shallow water plays a role.
BingoBoingo: Oh there are still factory built houses, but more of a littoral cottage industry.
asciilifeform: whole-thing-built-at-factory afaik is not making a comeback
BingoBoingo: AHA. Enamled steel roofing is also making a comeback.
asciilifeform: in other 'news', i was walking on a street and saw a house that appeared to be made of steel. overgrown with jungle, apparently for decades, according to city hall. looked up what the thing was, turns out they were stamped out like cars: https://archive.is/isbKL
mircea_popescu: http://65.media.tumblr.com/466f0077e9256ffc4c152c3b1d5490b7/tumblr_nhvzunwhrB1rrq7ino1_1280.jpg << also worth a shot.
mircea_popescu: worth a shot.
mircea_popescu: well pop a cd/stick in it and see what happens
gabriel_laddel: masamune news: I've a machine for hosting the channel + logs+backups, but it is missing a power cord and doesn't have a bootable linux on it :/ Have never installed on a computer that didn't at the very least give me a boot screen, so have nfi how long this will take.
mircea_popescu: trinque dawg telling people a "^" is pretty fucking evil. ☟︎
trinque: https://github.com/gabriel-laddel/clim << this would've been a fine use for V ☟︎☟︎
phf: it does add a visible space though, and i'm not sure why, hmm
shinohai: I rather like we have a room full of editors here to watch for those sorts of things.
mircea_popescu: lol i guess it's a trophy of sorts!
shinohai: First one I ever noticed in a trilema article!
mircea_popescu: "he wished that their friendship played out end to end" >>> http://trilema.com/2013/requiem-for-a-dream/#selection-45.0-45.75
a111: Logged on 2016-10-30 17:25 deedbot: http://thewhet.net/2016/elliot-and-james-a-drinking-song/ << The Whet - Elliot and James, a Drinking Song
deedbot: http://thewhet.net/2016/elliot-and-james-a-drinking-song/ << The Whet - Elliot and James, a Drinking Song ☟︎
phf: and yet "provided by a fork of the bitcoin source". verily https://sjmj91.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/2001space037.jpg
phf: i have by the way fixed url delimiters on btcbase. now if url ends in > ; . , and ) it won't include those chars. that might break a url in a case or two, but in most cases that actually fixes them
shinohai: If he is, I'll give him a bitcent just for taking the artform to a new level.
shinohai: Nah, I sat in my chan with him about a week ago trying to help him once again poor guy
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-30#1560286 << you deeply misunderstand the abundance of esltards who a) have no particular understanding of anything and b) expect to survive nevertheless. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-10-30 03:30 ben_vulpes: "Zooko proposed recently to periodically force everyone to reveal their balance as a solution for the hidden inflation problem." << ahaha i mean fuck what's the point
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-30#1560271 << the point seems to be that for a majority of ustards, the ONLY thing you can do once you have a name is whore out. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-10-30 03:17 ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-29#1560134 << fuck buddy that looks like a great truck
BingoBoingo will prolly write a completely different Elliot fanfic after Nov 1st because surprisingly fun once the plot gets rolling.
BingoBoingo: WTF is a sharrow
ben_vulpes: s/that last singlequote/a double quote
ben_vulpes: "guy we swear is this other guy who nominally but not provably does a thing also came up with a 'cryptocurrency' that doesn't have hard guarantees on monetary base numbers'
ben_vulpes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6RLjcGVUnw&feature=youtu.be&t=17m30s << from the linked piece, in which 'zooko' (this is a name? wothandle? what even jesus shit) 'reveals he doesn't even grok zero-knowledge proofs'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: gotta be a gold standard, of sorts, in promisetronics
ben_vulpes: "Zooko proposed recently to periodically force everyone to reveal their balance as a solution for the hidden inflation problem." << ahaha i mean fuck what's the point ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-10-29 22:05 asciilifeform: https://archive.is/Djt8g << meanwhile, at the circus, 'This is not a “normal launch” like any other altcoin, because ZCash required a so called “trusted setup”. During this setup, some secret (public) parameters were generated based on a “master private key”. These network parameters are needed to create the so called “zero-knowledge proofs”, which is the anonymizing mixer on the ZCash network. The “master private k
BingoBoingo: http://trilema.com/2016/the-story-of-elliot-rodger-by-elliot-rodger-adnotated-part-one/ << "My parents threw a party for me in our field. I had a helicopter birthday cake." If people want to know why "Attack Helicopter" is such a popular gender identification amongst protesters
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-29#1560134 << fuck buddy that looks like a great truck ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: (when i worked at flying a desk for u.s. army, there were posters hanging in the lobby promising 25-35k re-enlistment bonus for DESK FLYERS, with the logic that they CHANCE iraq)
mircea_popescu: that's a great govt style scam.
mircea_popescu: if a college education helps, fine. and if not - a well.
mircea_popescu: it's possible to win the popular vote by a slight margin and still lose the election, but that's all.
BingoBoingo: There's a sort of asymtote that roughly approximates one. The geometry of lulz is not euclidean.
mircea_popescu: there is actually a senator mike crapo. ☟︎
phf: i actually picked up a 1964 pulp print of pkd's the simulacra with his illustration at a tiny "mystery books" bookstore in philadelphia, that since got closed
a111: Logged on 2016-10-29 22:34 asciilifeform: (actually i could swear i saw that pic on a '90s sf cover, when they were being printed on that yellow toilet paper thing)
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-29#1560175 << most likely, that's ed emshwiller a somewhat famous pulp cover illustrator (can recognize by the "emsh" tag) ☝︎
asciilifeform: he can 'win' a la gore with this.
mircea_popescu: "this is not a normal launch like any other scamcoin because we would really like it not to be, and reality shouldn't get in the way of what we want"
a111: Logged on 2016-10-29 19:24 mircea_popescu: just going by it generally. esltards pretend whiskey to be an actual drink (it utterly is not, fruit alcohol is the only stuff worth drinking), and if we grant that faulty premise then 40 bucks for a quart of flawless whiskey compares favourably with a middle of the road cognac going more in the 100-200 range.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-29#1560115 << i went not long ago into 'upscale' booze shop in washington, there was a, iirc, 150k-usd bottle, in a 'hope diamond'-type glass display, shopkeeper claimed that he's sold 2. ☝︎
asciilifeform: (actually i could swear i saw that pic on a '90s sf cover, when they were being printed on that yellow toilet paper thing) ☟︎
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/Djt8g << meanwhile, at the circus, 'This is not a “normal launch” like any other altcoin, because ZCash required a so called “trusted setup”. During this setup, some secret (public) parameters were generated based on a “master private key”. These network parameters are needed to create the so called “zero-knowledge proofs”, which is the anonymizing mixer on the ZCash network. The “master private k ☟︎