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shinohai: !~later tell thestringpuller will ping in
a bit, got pm's shut off again so I can concentrate
mircea_popescu: bout same as current cunts. there's
a reason all that's available to the general population on dating sites is well used 40+yos
thestringpuller: Every time I mention miners to
a supplier they freak out and vanish.
thestringpuller: Why is ASIC procurement feel like I'm trying to set up
a large drug deal????
mircea_popescu: dude... so you sit down to read an article, like
a phrase in it, keep going only to notice you're actually mentioned.
mircea_popescu: "Either
a priapic clown or an embalmed witch are going to be running this country next year, and all I have is
a case of fermented corn syrup." << lol!
mats: he doesn't have
a passport at any rate
Framedragger: maybe it's just
a matter of having cronjob hit server in intervals which are smaller than cache expiry time.
Framedragger: i don't know if it's better, but yeah
a cronjob would indeed work. *however*, you then may not get around those exceptional cases where client requests page which is still processing from cronjob request - and cache already expired. unless you set it to be tightly timed i guess?
scriba: Logged on 2016-10-18: [04:38:11] <mircea_popescu> now it does. what hapopens i suspect is that the queue for the cache becomes overlong, then when
a requyest hits the machine starts processing it, takes > 30 s or w/e it is, the connection timeouts
Framedragger:
http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20161018/#23 << it is
a pity that nginx caching mechanism does not support stale-while-revalidate - which is: if client requests page which hasn't expired in cache, serve from cache; if expired in cache, serve (the stale version) from cache, and update *in the background*. this is RFC 5861. apparently supported in newer varnish tho.
ben_vulpes: mega promisetronics in urbit docs: informal conventions designed to motivate
a healthy ownership structure "
mircea_popescu: now it does. what hapopens i suspect is that the queue for the cache becomes overlong, then when
a requyest hits the machine starts processing it, takes > 30 s or w/e it is, the connection timeouts
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform phuctor/stats just times out. i suspect this happens
A LOT. nething we can do about it ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. german state/govt has
a point : peons are replaceable. if they won't fuck - there's orcs somewhere that will.
shinohai: They got
a personal army of similar-minded folks to flag post and get it removed, that'll show 'em!
pete_dushenski: ad is included in article and is eminently reasonable. nothing
a pa or nanny wouldn't do. i seriously dun get it and it drives me up the fucking wall. the gall of these impotent shits. to think that it's evil for employers to have specific expectations rather than being 'universally' 'inclusive'.
pete_dushenski: "It’s essentially an ad for
a personal servant, said one UBC professor, who added she was not surprised to see it given the country’s growing income inequality. “They’re not calling it
a personal servant but that is what they’re asking for,” said Sylvia Fuller, who studies employment and inequality. “Its not surprising that you start to see more of this kind of arrangement because there are
pete_dushenski: "Craigslist ad for ‘personal servant’
a sign of growing inequality says UBC professor
mats: usg has done
a good job helping the kurds hold down the area
mircea_popescu: in other news, the b2b cocksucking season is open early this year. if anyone wants to receive those inane gift baskets corps keep trying to send on my behalf, drop me
a line (with your physical address).
a111: Logged on 2016-10-15 05:05 mircea_popescu: anyway, it's pretty evident russia is pivoting from syria to
a iraq spur via turkey. so yeah, sure, whatever, bazaar al-asado won't be there forever.
mats:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-15#1555598 << .ru appears committed to turning the fight into
a cage match among extremists, by diligently double tapping remaining civilian infrastructure - water & food storage facilities, courthouses, hospitals
☝︎ mircea_popescu: and yes the chamber varied, so they had
a "top-up" propellant depot nearby
mircea_popescu: so yes, there is ONE possibly useful application of
a military railgun : making the deep space interdictor. but this is slight.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that's the point here.
a 10 gram pellet that got accelerated for 200kJ is now moving at 5km/s
ben_vulpes: i throw it up. straight up. just in time for your railgun to go sailing through
a relatively stationary cloud of shrapnel.
mircea_popescu: no, the point is, the dust in the rings of saturn doesn't enter spontaneous fusion because it all moves ~the same direction and ~the same speed. so sure, leave it there, it'll make
a nice bing sound as it hits the outer casing.
ben_vulpes: i'm seeing buckshot in orbit where
a target will pass in the next 2 seconds.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it means that they never hit you with
a speed in excess of say 100m/s. and if they do, it's goodnight
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform supposedly this is
a battlefield far, far away.
mircea_popescu: and your 100kw won't actually allow you to make
a laser strong enough to cut al alloy or w/e ther fuck i use.
mircea_popescu: let's agree that
a hit means an interaction which delivers 1MJ ; let's agree we start our engagement 1mn km apart.
mircea_popescu: i fire them at
a rate of three
a minute, meaning each 10 gram pellet acquires an energy of 200kJ
mats: its not
a typical artillery piece, depends who you ask i guess
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Error: "schwerer" is not
a valid command.
ben_vulpes: 15 identical sats beat the crap out of
a single sat with one finnicky fucking railgun on it.
mircea_popescu: em is very expensive. think : i want to shoot
a ship 5500 km away. how do you em it ?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: em is going to be
a far simpler engineering challenge.
mircea_popescu: space encounters also have much easier
a time hitting targets.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the "interdictor" is this item which has
a railgun,
a supply of pellets, and
a huge array of solar panels etc to power them. this item can then shoot fast pellets towards any other ship, crippling it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (the outer space idea being that you get up there
a thing with immense rtg / solar panels, and
a supply of bb shells. because far from heavy grav fields (as per definition of outer space) all shots are guided by default - you just gotta get close enough. fast flying bb projectile hitting the other ship is ~doom.)
ben_vulpes: eh, it's
a mass-produced plastic thing at this point
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: but imagine
a really really large KE mortar
a111: Logged on 2016-10-17 04:30 ben_vulpes: the point is that deployed systems have
a hard upper bound of inbound targets they can handle, and there is no such hard upper bound to how many inbounds can be lobbed at them, much less any sort of constraint on btc/lobbed body.
mats: >The Florida test will place
a static floating target at
a range of 25 to 50 nautical miles from the test ship and fire five GPS guided hyper velocity projectiles (HVP)
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes of the total energy available to the projectile, some % is given at launch and some % is given in flight. if you got
a bullet (100-0) ballistics dun work. if you got
a missile (0-100) ballistics work
mircea_popescu: it's
a dynamic pressure problem - on the bottom it's high on the top it's low, your projectile trajectory curves badly.
mircea_popescu: nono. think. railgun is
a direct fire superfast projectile. if its target is not taller than 1m above "waterline", both the "ground effect" of flying so close to water and the actual wave/spray will make your trajectory impossible.
mats: on land you'd use passive, reactive armors like ceramics, composites, ERA, i don't think
a ship could in practical terms carry it
mats: i dun see how
a ship could possibly defend against
a railgun
mircea_popescu lolz at the notion of
a railgun array. because slow to fire and not really directionable.
ben_vulpes: so i know that salver is
a dish and that salivate is to drool, and was dead convinced that "slaver" was "to drool" but congugated
a111: Logged on 2016-10-17 04:01 mats: this cycle, 'nazi' is
a catch-all word used by the unimaginative and slow
a111: Logged on 2016-10-17 03:50 asciilifeform: if the d00d weren't
a zhirinovsky-style muppet, he'd be recruiting good old-fashioned brownshirts just about now.
ben_vulpes: mats: has the usg defense industry made
a thing that was ready for use against anything-thats-not-goatfuckers-with-twenty-year-old-mortars?
ben_vulpes: the point is that deployed systems have
a hard upper bound of inbound targets they can handle, and there is no such hard upper bound to how many inbounds can be lobbed at them, much less any sort of constraint on btc/lobbed body.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: mats: granted they can handle 1, 2, 3 at
a time.
mats: that could possibly cause incoming to dump into sea, and look like
a soft kill to untrained observers
mats: or maybe they used some other sekrit forward deployed countermeasure, like
a directed energy anti missile weapons system
ben_vulpes: some insane northrupgrumman "shoot
a rokkit out da skye"?
ben_vulpes: mats: is there
a 'hard kill' in this context?
mats: 'i can't properly describe what you believe so i'll use
a word people commonly think is offensive'
BingoBoingo: If you only have one cycle you have
a torch or
a firecracker, not
a motor.
mats: this cycle, 'nazi' is
a catch-all word used by the unimaginative and slow
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Trump is single cycle.
A second cycle is needed for
a motor
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> eh we've got
a few more cycles between here and there << Trump's too old to have more cycles
ben_vulpes: eh we've got
a few more cycles between here and there