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asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: this is called 'ladder logic' among factory automation folks
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: he had another book where computing happened by specially trained singers belting out gregorian-style chants
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: destroying the "industrial" paradigm << expand on this. recall also the thread where we discussed how pashtun blacksmiths can make kalash, yes they can, not not one of them can make a single 7.62x39 round from brass scrap ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: basic idea - sure
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's actually reminiscent of one idea i looked into - optical logic produced photographically via laser
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hypothetical chip fab experiment does not require new computer.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the folks mentioning clean rooms show symptoms of not having understood
Xuthus: mircea_popescu, why don't you go and code something ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: !up guntha_`
mircea_popescu: !up hguux__
mircea_popescu: !up evian11_____
ben_vulpes: i was hoping for a /mircea_popescu eyes a cockbrow
mircea_popescu: in other news, the "toilet seat debate" has been resolved. http://38.media.tumblr.com/a3df8a95aba72f77c3dd84453d8e0201/tumblr_n4q32bciEb1st3pp0o1_400.gif
punkman: mircea_popescu: of course he is ;)
punkman: ben_vulpes: for?
punkman: mircea_popescu: yeah but the millenarian rhetoric was there from the beginning
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: soon enough you'll be pretty disatisfied with the world in general << i thought this was naturally a part of the aging process. i.e. "the old man".
assbot: Logged on 16-02-2015 23:48:30; mircea_popescu: lobbes wd.
assbot: Logged on 16-02-2015 17:35:59; mircea_popescu: danielpbarron you don't say. try it while ejaculating suddenly sometime.
Adlai: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=16-02-2015#1021145 << incidentally, whippits are also sold in sex shops. surely the local systemd has monetized pleasure? ☝︎
punkman: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-Avwh6CYAAl_aS.jpg
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: He's the FCC commisioner
BingoBoingo: Mega lol >> http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/02/st_louis_should_move_to_illinois_it_doesn_t_belong_in_missouri_anymore.html#
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Alright Just wondering, because my personal 0.7.2 WTF build should sync sometime next week at the latest
ben_vulpes: !up pete_dushenski
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: What does 0.5.3.1 resource usage look like when synced?
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell the_scourge hey ninjashogun managed to crap more lines into the log over a longer time than you. howzat feel?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: what, you think i don't get this?
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> those early ipods were phenomenally well designed. << yes. because they were built around exactly one core value. "what's that for ? fuck you, you're not putting that in here."
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: the best being ?
ben_vulpes: http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-COLLECTORS-Apple-iPod-classic-2ND-Generation-MAC-10-GB-ORIGINAL-BOX-/181536114101?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a446545b5
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: highlights the next album, displaying its tracklist.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Did Apple even release iTunes ever for Mac OS
BingoBoingo: !up pete_dushenski
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2015 01:42:33; decimation: then I heard this podcast: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/02/glenn_reynolds.html << "Guest: It's funny--one of my friends, who has been a long-term, upper level bureaucrat in Washington said to me his favorite phenomenon to see is these people coming through these usually politically-appointed jobs and, he says: They think everybody loves them. And then they leave the job and they realize that eve
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> In other words, is it possible that our enemies judge us by our actions, regardless of intent-- and if you support Ahmadenijad on TV, then that counts-- while we retreat into the narcissists' hideout of identity-as-declared, where any actions can be disavowed as "not who we are?"" << AKA argument by "FYIAD"
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/05/the_wrong_lessons_of_iraq.html << this one's fucking exquisite.
mike_c: mircea_popescu: two lines above are one example.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what is remarkable in the above clips ?
mircea_popescu: sooo weirdest thing you've ever seen ? http://38.media.tumblr.com/b7a8237ecb0b4d31b46cfdf254b03c5b/tumblr_mu6xwxDraP1sny350o4_400.gif http://33.media.tumblr.com/e44a3d56567af39df11d0866b85d20ed/tumblr_mu6xwxDraP1sny350o2_400.gif http://33.media.tumblr.com/1d70563d6f79e92a2115badd1e63d6ff/tumblr_mu6xwxDraP1sny350o5_400.gif
asciilifeform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_sprat#mediaviewer/File:Sprattus_sprattus.jpg << salivating just looking at this
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Taged mega lol for a reason
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=01-02-2015#1000695 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: mike_c: hm. is it kosher for two nicks in the wot to have the same gpg key? << notrly. is this observable ?
decimation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_sprat << wiki thinks so
decimation: asciilifeform: sure: http://www.amazon.com/Adro-Riga-Smoked-Sprats-5-6-Ounce/dp/B004H4SEZS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1424144408&sr=8-1&keywords=sprats
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> decimation what srsly ?! << Pickled hering much more common is USia. We care to stock for our Joos but not eastern Europeans
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: an fpga that isn't a usg-proprietary piece of shit would go a long way
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for extra lulz, the statute applies to u.s. subjects going off the reservation and working elsewhere
gribble: Bruce Hornsby & the Range - The Way It Is - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeKidp-iWo>; Tupac - Changes (That's Just The Way It Is) + Lyrics - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnwU2iMRUqA>; That's Just the Way It Is - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <' target='_blank'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That's_Just_the_Way_It_Is>
Adlai: mike_c: i'd rephrase that as "is it kosher to associate a single wot node with multiple nicks" ie ratings to nicks sharing a gpg key should apply to both equally
assbot: Logged on 16-02-2015 17:43:06; mircea_popescu: i guess this drama's dried up, need to move on to something else to keep the btc price up.
BingoBoingo: WHat lab is full of http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sun-Ultra-60-Workstation-2x-450MHz-2GB-RAM-73GB-HD-/380274164694?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item588a1b43d6 << Not same price as Ultra 80 which is twice the processors of this one
BingoBoingo: Even Beastmode looks like it comes to under $500 with shipping http://www.ebay.com/itm/SUN-Ultra-80-Server-Quad-450MHz-4GB-Memory-73GB-HD-/380342615233?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item588e2fbcc1
BingoBoingo: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tadpole-RDI-General-Dynamics-UltraBookIIi-UltraSPARC-Solaris-UNIX-Laptop-/161106196715?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2582ad78eb
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it's a 'not whether death, but when' sorta thing
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: regardless of what else, the unbounded data structure has to go
asciilifeform: used as such - https://farm9.static.flickr.com/8483/8250761184_8a3331953d.jpg
asciilifeform: http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTI4OVgxNjAw/z/lDUAAOxyRhBSs3Px/$_35.JPG
asciilifeform: it is done, like the 'anal child' in mircea_popescu's essay, 'because they can get away with it'
mircea_popescu: http://33.media.tumblr.com/904ca035334c9b3ddba2959a6f7bbef7/tumblr_n7xwm8eVU11sgur0go1_400.gif
cazalla: mike_c, that is specific to #b-a moreso than Bitcoin in general isn't it? and anyway, if i pursue this by myself in the short-mid term, it'll reflect on me instead of b-a website
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: Child soldiers make the best kids.
BingoBoingo: mike_c: Pretty sure I threw in the towel because sources that needed consulted were threatening brain damage
cazalla: mike_c, that's what friends are for, real friends, the ones with balls, the ones who will grab his arms from behind while you sock him a couple times
cazalla: pete_dushenski, or smash the kid and have him move instead
cazalla: pete_dushenski, well he is either going to turn around and smack the other kid upside the head or allow another kid to hen peck him
cazalla: pete_dushenski, how do you feel about actually letting the little shits in the playground run amok so that you can gauge how much of a pussy your own kids are if they don't stand up to him?
mircea_popescu: you and mike_c have each one afaik, that being teh record.
Adlai: where is mircea_popescu and what have you done with him!?
PeterL: no pete_dushenski, I still don't know why yours are failing
punkman: http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/207931en
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes oh kk
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> shoul;dn't that really be a function/object/we ? << being a bit sarcastic here boss
mircea_popescu: http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/file.php?40,file=30897,filename=dre_burning_man.jpg << lol ?
thestringpuller: ben_vulpes: wish I had bashed that.
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/05/the_wrong_lessons_of_iraq.html << guy knew about 5 years before me.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fetlife article << mega-lol!
thestringpuller: ben_vulpes: Yosemite is the best upgrade evah tho
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: this is how I feel when I listen to your stories MP.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: speaking of which, gnat built and functions on another box (presently i lack the time to investigate why, but will eventually say)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suspect that 'grandfather time' has already clobbered most of'em
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lulziez
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i learned of it from ilkka kokkarinen. despite the format, worth the evening or two to read.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is a very entertaining comic book (yes) titled 'samurai executioner', about the life and times of a (loosely historic) fella who famously specialized in testing swords on whole bodies (alive and dead).
mircea_popescu: http://36.media.tumblr.com/41c9f07f7468fc09605f0698ad415ca6/tumblr_mos7vz0RqF1rlxsb8o1_1280.jpg have a pretty blonde with impossible tits as your just reward.
PeterL: mircea_popescu:right, no2 can't even exist. << does exist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_dioxide "reddish-brown toxic gas has a characteristic sharp, biting odor and is a prominent air pollutant."
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lol, anybody with a kitchen knows that 'meat' isn't strictly flesh, yes
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: perhaps the ancient art of 'sword test' will be revived one day.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: strictly... to the skilled hands << against bare flesh ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: close quarters, unskilled hands, unarmed target - blade has something to recommend itself over pistol
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: this reminds me of d00d who attacked guy with a katana at Tech. << http://nique.net/news/2010/02/11/officials-release-sword-attack-details/
gribble: The Last Psychiatrist: University Shootings: I'm Sure It's All Just A ...: <http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/05/university_shootings_im_sure_i.html>
gribble: San Diego State University shooting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_State_University_shooting>; Frederick Davidson | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers: <http://murderpedia.org/male.D/d/davidson-frederick-martin.htm>; 3 on San Diego State Faculty Fatally Shot - Los Angeles Times: <http://articles.latimes.com/1996-08-16/news (1 more message)
thestringpuller: :( i thought we were bff ben_vulpes
thestringpuller: ben_vulpes: likes plants
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> so war on drugs that are powders ? gases are ok ? << don't forget plants
mircea_popescu: also useful, http://38.media.tumblr.com/00984e56d18f885fdaa213761577a56f/tumblr_mlvpd4F8jh1rvhqkto1_250.gif
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and n2o not no2
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for all i know, this is precisely how it is used.