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BingoBoingo: which is exactly wrong. This
a job for pipe wrench and cloth, or in the case of sinks
a basin wrench which works on the UNDERSIDE!
BingoBoingo: From herr vulpes link: "This is like
a cross between
a vice-grip and
a crescent wrench. This is great for bath/kitchen plumbing when you need to remove stubborn fixtures and do not want to embed the channel lock/pipe wrench teeth into the chrome fixture and leave rough teeth marks on the smooth surface. The wrench locks down without marring the polished finish and it will not fall off if your hands are slippery wet. I also would like to
trinque: I have
a shell script that shits out the gentoo I like
trinque: I have
a disk image of old gentoo, but hey, why not see how hte kids do it these days
trinque: braindamaged thing uses the same command to init
a drive as attach the softraid again next time
trinque: commad proposed I provide it
a *new* passphrase
trinque: I went to mount an encrypted openbsd drive on
a different (same endian) arch
mod6: i feel
a gas-can-rage bubbling up
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i hope this is
a comment for the log readers
ben_vulpes: on the flip side, torx work (for now). i sunk oodles of self-drillers this past weekend without
a single slip.
adlai: trinque: fwiw, $10k invested in something with
a sane risk/reward curve can't net more than ~$100/mo for very long.
ben_vulpes: because the soft metal won't drive 3 inches through pine with
a phillips any more.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-16: [19:47:07] <mircea_popescu> ACTION just found out that phillips and torx heads respectively aren't mere "let's arbitrarily change standards to try and extract spurious rents via alleged intellectual property" ; but in fact have proper reasons to exist.
a) phillips head is self-centering ; which is to say driver does not slip out of screw being driven. this was major
ben_vulpes:
http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160916/#242 << plausible, sure, but what has actually happened is that
a) the chicoms have diddled the phillips female bit such that it cams out at the slightest provocation and than on top of that the zamac used to replace it wears after so much as
a single slipped drive and b) torx is
a convenient workaround for the shit metals
adlai: [scalpl] seen from
a distance, is
a pretty good machine for converting ten thousand dollars into twenty thousand. [no footnote here! it can make money in crashing markets, too] But, given the [minimum trade size] it is profoundly useless as
a machine for converting ten dollars into twenty.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Error: "bc" is not
a valid command.
trinque: I have the decency not to goad my friends into joining an industry in
a dark age, tyvm
adlai: my pitch has always been "look at me, i worked in the salt mine for less than
a year and now live off my savings"
trinque: meh, chick I taught lisp said "cool, I know what
a computer is now, sorta" and went back to being
a chef
adlai: "verification is economically feasible only in
a small number of applications???mainly, for fairly small programs that perform lifecritical functions. Verification techniques are being used successfully to help debug programs, at Microsoft and elsewhere" << please, tell me more about these small, lifecriticial, microsoft applications...
trinque: BingoBoingo: aha, in fact there was
a thread where mircea_popescu explained that y'know, you teach the women things
BingoBoingo: <trinque> asciilifeform: thunked
a lady with both that and sicp once, and she actually read them << This is the difference. The fucking.
trinque: asciilifeform: thunked
a lady with both that and sicp once, and she actually read them
mircea_popescu: trinque
a perhaps even workable alternative would be, adalisp.
trinque: there is an honesty to not doing this bootstrapping madness while
a lisp OS is absent
BingoBoingo: <adlai> incidentally, on
a slightly related topic:
a friend has taken me up on my (foolish, drunken) offer to help teach him programming. i'm tempted to start with
a "sheet of paper + mccarthy" approach, since he's yet unspoiled by algol; has anybody tried teaching in this manner? << Don't skip to 12 without working the other steps. Only 13 can be skipped to.
adlai: incidentally, on
a slightly related topic:
a friend has taken me up on my (foolish, drunken) offer to help teach him programming. i'm tempted to start with
a "sheet of paper + mccarthy" approach, since he's yet unspoiled by algol; has anybody tried teaching in this manner?
mircea_popescu: why pretend then. just have
a honest interpreter written in c sit down and take your repl.
adlai: "I was having dealings with
a corpse, so she has no cause for complaint." << excellent argument for gutting cmucl rather than sbcl, unless you get off on the screams
mircea_popescu: onsider it
a crime that I squatted down and defecated on my victims -- that is really, if you'll excuse me, absurd. Defecation is an urge of nature and consequently can in no sense be criminal. All things considered, I do understand the misgivings of my defence counsel, but all the same I am hoping for
a complete acquittal."
mircea_popescu: s thin neck that did that. He was simply not created for this life. It's true that I stomped their dog to
a pulp around the floor, but it's really cynical to accuse me of murdering the dog when in the immediate vicinity, it might be said, three human lives had been obliterated. The infant I don't count. Well, all right then, in all this (I can agree with you) it is possible to discern
a degree of severity on my part. But to c
mircea_popescu: the most trivial of crimes. And also I did not rape Yelizaveta Antonovna. In the first place, she was no longer
a virgin; and secondly I was having dealings with
a corpse, so she has no cause for complaint. What about the fact that she just happened to have to give birth? Well, I did pull out the infant. The fact that he was not long for this world anyway, well that's really not my fault. I didn't tear his head off; it was hi
mircea_popescu: still alive then. Whereas Andryusha I killed simply from inertia, and I can't hold myself responsible for that. Why did Andryusha and Yelizaveta Antonovna fall into my hands anyway? They had no business springing out from behind the door. I am being accused of bloodthirstiness; they say I drank blood, but that is not true: I licked up the pools of blood and stains -- it is
a man's natural urge to wipe out the traces of even
mircea_popescu: i dunno, and i can't be arsed to find out. everyone involved sounds exactly like
a bunch of whiny fucktards with clitorii.
trinque: Therefore, under this system there should be no need to resort to hairy hacking when fundamental internal structures are to be changed, or to "compile it with itself
a few times until things settle down". << what the fuck?
trinque: the guy just added optimization flags to
a debian benchmark
adlai: trinque: maybe you're confusing the slowness of compilation with that of execution? python is
a very slow compiler.
adlai: it DOES know that different markets on the same exchange could overlap, so
a lower fruit is "triangular arbitrage" (eg, simultaneously trading btcusd, atcusd, and btcatc)
adlai: well that's
a bad analogy, cross-exchange arbitrage is entirely possible programmatically, just not yet implemented
adlai: but neither does
a lens notice that
a cork slice looks like
a grid from close up
adlai: (in case it's unclear, "time-arbitrage" is not
a risk-free enterprise)
adlai: the fact that usd (and other assorted shitcoins) are traded across multiple exchanges is merely an additional profit vector for future implementation... lone wolf projects lope one leap at
a time
adlai: fwiw, whenever i fantasized about owning
a lisp compiler, the imagined object went one step further than sbcl, and didn't depend on
a C compiler for the 'kernel', but rather shat ELF objects (or whatever other format) from lisp
adlai thinks out loud: 'crystallising' might be
a better metaphor than 'freezing', since the purpose isn't only to reduce code temperature, but also to remove impurities as they emerge
adlai: it's almost "job security"; lets me publish my cake while preventing anybody else from eating it. whether i can eat it too (ie, debug this
a decade after writing it) remains to be seen.
adlai:
a) nobody asked you to debug b) it's not seeeekrit, i "backup" on github
adlai: (format () "~{~
A~^ ~}" (mapcar 'funcall '(lisp-implementation-type lisp-implementation-version machine-type))) => "SBCL 1.2.4.debian X86-64"
adlai: asciilifeform: i suspect the culprit is the one CL lib of such quality that it has
a plus in its name
mircea_popescu: large part of it is berkley db being incredibly slow to put itself in
a sane state.
adlai:
a db on another box would probably count, unless "what color are your packets"?
adlai: i never got this when dealing with mpex, but mpex moves slowly enough that parallel queries weren't
a concern
mircea_popescu: adlai : tell you what, put whatever does the equivalent of php up, hit it with 10loads/second for half hour and see how hairy
a shirt it is.
thestringpuller: LOL. 4 srs tho. spider-man is
a pretty good example. why do you think sony sunk money into
a 2nd spiderman trilogy (which became
a disaster)? they wanted to keep the movie rights.
thestringpuller: adlai: but royalties are where all the sweet money is in comics! if
a comic, does really well, the license holders get
a cut of pretty much everything spawned from the franchise.
thestringpuller: cuz really
a monthly series should be like an episode of tv
adlai: serialization is how most (?) novels were published for ~ever. strikes me as
a fairer economic arrangement than premium+royalties but i'm probably just
a clueless outsider
adlai is still using sbcl, this only happens every few months of scalping so it's not too hairy
a shirt
mircea_popescu: i'm kinda amused at the notion that anyone much gives
a shit either way.
mircea_popescu: just as long as you make sure that
a) usg can't get at your wealth and b) you left
a network behind you're liable to find the prison term more pleasant than life at home./
mircea_popescu: in practical terms, if you'll be going to prison for limp dick shit, your best move is to have bitcoin and
a wot. the personnel is poorly paid, greatly infiltrated by gold diggers who correctly intuit this is their easiest way to endear themselves to the sort of people who can touch real money, however briefly, and generally very supportive. for as long as you got leverage outside you'll be fine.
mircea_popescu: anyway. "don't gamble" is solid advice. gamble works in prison exactly like outside - as taxation. unless you're running the joint, gambling is just another way of looking for
a boyfriend.
mod6: tmsr even has
a cia factbook
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the retiarius' weapons may well make
a comeback. drone should be able to drop weighted net on, say, schoolgirl, neh ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. hard to tell from
a pic, there's considerable variance in abdominal swelling.