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mircea_popescu: some of the weirdest shit there. including somebody who thought using
a common glass salad bowl as
a receiver is
a good idea, somehow ; lotta casual "your cunt's bare, why not be naked" stuff, and etc
mircea_popescu: this method seems wasteful ; from experience it actually delivers. the more direct, intuitive approach not only always fails, but predictably so, which is why it's such
a great ally of statu quo.
mircea_popescu: the way to owning technologies is ; by picking technologies to own that are small enough on the way there. much like the way to eat
a whale is by eating earthworms while frogsized.
mircea_popescu: anyway, more productively : an actually working lisp environment isn't
a bad idea ; but premature today imo.
phf: from now on i'm working on mp-wp, full time,
a shell of
a man. you can point newcomers at an old shambling figure, "that's phf. he's tending our flower bed"
phf: but the rewrite happened for two reasons, one is that i wanted to do interesting analysis on entire corpus (which is something python will strugle with) and that tmsr canon called for technology ownership. cmucl seems like
a reasonable stack to own, considering that it's abandonware. fwiw it benchmarks faster than either sbcl (by fraction) or lispworks (by
a huge margin, wtf now) on doing bit twiddling like the search that we do
phf: anyway, first version of btcbase was written in python, and ran for
a year as
a proxy to znc with
a synchronizer to kako. basically exactly what Framedragger has right now
mircea_popescu: this is how they think, you know ? and while not conscious, because celenterates, nevertheless effectual. because
a large collection of betas will naturally fall on solutions to the problems of betas.
trinque: one of them at least is
a complete idiot who told me in #sbcl that gpg signing was pointless because "somebody could just pay me to sign something malicious"
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-15: [17:37:23] <ben_vulpes> mircea_popescu, BingoBoingo, pete_dushenski: recommendations for wp footnote plugin? footnotes-in-footnotes would be
a grand feature if any can do that and it's not
a mp-wp-footnotes custom job
phf: there was this idea in the naggum emails that all the problems go away once you stop being cheap and pay for
a real lisp. maybe that was the case in 2001 when he wrote it, but in practice it turns out to not be so
mircea_popescu: oh, so you mean enough to pay for
a dedicated server running lamp for
a whole year ?
phf:
a professional single os/cpu version is $1300
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: i always thought 'garburator' was more of
a garbage-purolator :
a machine for mailing garbage as far away as possible
phf: nah, professional, i have
a license from elsewhere, that i'm .. evaluating
pete_dushenski: 'but eventually relented and traded the garburator for
a hood over the stove,' << current place... doesn't have range hood. smoky ? smelly ? open the windows and patio doors and get
a cross-breeze going
pete_dushenski: 'I was dead-set on finding
a house with
a garbage disposal, or "garburator" as our sorry ("Sorry!") neighbors to the North call them,' << l0l! love the souble dorry. also, i've never lived in
a house or condo with
a garburator and may never.
☟︎ 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 advantage in early automotive work. torx does not cam out ; which was major advantage in
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-15: [23:12:10] * mircea_popescu was reading pete d, ended up on "Knowing that on average humans have one testicle and one ovary, what are the odds that this human's left ovary is
a testicle ?"
mircea_popescu: "how do you fuck
a chicken ?" "wrap it in duct tape" "and how do you fuck
a cockroach ?" "wrap it in duct tape and fuck it with usg scientific penis."
phf: right, but apparently normally this comes in as
a err_nicknameinuse message, now it's err_unavailableresources
mircea_popescu: i think it shall be called
a watcharium from now on. wtf "harem" bs.
mircea_popescu: best enjoyed with
a sammich, after you're done watching girls do dishes.
ben_vulpes: until ~last night the thing was tracking the chain tip like
a bloodhound.
ben_vulpes: this *should* be
a transient affair though wtf
ben_vulpes: right, k. and when it's verifying
a block, does it typically go entirely unresponsive to rpc commands?
ben_vulpes: yaok i'll accept that the engine room needs
a new dial.
mircea_popescu: generally you should be able to open /proc/pid/mem as
a normal unix file.
ben_vulpes: this is
a dark and unfamiliar corner of linux to me
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes, gold is very dense.
a coffee mug full of gold is easily 2x the yearly income of the mug's owner
mircea_popescu: i dunno man... at ~1k usd / cc...
a toilet's pretty bulky.
mircea_popescu: shinohai also, you got that bridge bot going right ? iirc that was
a mn ecu for you ?
mircea_popescu: btw shinohai you wanna dig up
a buncha ords for me ? or did you level building already ?
mircea_popescu: which incidentally... it really makes me chuckle at the predicament of "AAA" studios. so first, they make
a broken game (broken here defined as, not-neutral state-evolution-graph) ; because their game is broken, they have to forbid bots - not just in form, but in practice. then if they don't manage to forbid them too efficiently they die everquest/diablo 3 style, inflation. but if they do manage to forbid them, they die like
mircea_popescu: 443 + 44 flotsam, 120+6 spicy moss ; 112 + 142 boulders, bout
a hundred wpl, cr, some dcs, wwb etc. since ~this time yest.
mircea_popescu: shinohai you know once you get half decent at the metagame you don't have to baby it. i spend about 10-20 minutes
a day changing bot diapers is all.
mircea_popescu: condolezza rice was literate, carly fiorina was an exemplary woman, blablabla in the exact same sense elliot rodgers was
a supreme gentleman "descended of aristocracy".
mircea_popescu: the entire western canon, 1966-2016, is
a fabrication. the entire fucking thing. not "global warming" or "smoking kills" or "rape on campuses" or "barack obama, scholar" or whatnot other pinpoint nonsensical "movements". not even "environmentalism" or "feminism" or you know, "war on" this or that.
mircea_popescu: phf "for
a thousand dollars i make my own hole". who cares what exists in english ? MAKE it. Pizdanutsya = cuntilized or w/e.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> (now, as to ~why~ in the latter case, i do not know) << Usually because people now "finish" basements in new construction placing
a toilet below sewer line. Grinder is so turds can be pumped up to sewer line.
phf: current place has
a decent sized kitchen, it's one of those arrangements where kitchen is part of living room, but it's almost comical how badly it's designed. nobody who's participated in the design of that kitchen has ever cooked anything in their entire lives.
phf: i used to think hanging out in the kitchen is exclusively su thing (i know i know), but iranians do the same thing. and the pattern is exactly the same, everyone's drinking tea, and then somebody will just break out
a skillet and make omelette or whatever, "of course for everyone in the room"
a111: Logged on 2016-09-15 23:59 mircea_popescu: anyway ; i will propose that the large kitchen is
a fundamental part in the happiness and sane social insertion of young women ; that even poor places in orcland implement it as more essential sociocultural component than, eg, men's mechanicizing garage ; that all effort should be directed at having one above all else.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: if he's in
a typical american house, the conduit is solidly drywalled ~into~ the wall. << But he can run new conduit from box along the ceiling anchored to outside of wall
mircea_popescu: anyway ; i will propose that the large kitchen is
a fundamental part in the happiness and sane social insertion of young women ; that even poor places in orcland implement it as more essential sociocultural component than, eg, men's mechanicizing garage ; that all effort should be directed at having one above all else.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: aanyway. you should see the piles produced in
a dirigible. we occasionally (in full formation, chef + sous chef + 2-3 helpers) manage to dirty every dish in the house.
ben_vulpes: otherwise smoke not *really*
a problem, just, can get cloudy.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: pan-searing steaks can make
a bit of smoke
mircea_popescu: very inept job. for the same money could have left the keyboard as
a cover.
mircea_popescu was reading pete d, ended up on "Knowing that on average humans have one testicle and one ovary, what are the odds that this human's left ovary is
a testicle ?"
mircea_popescu: i'm not so up to date on anglotard pretenders. was this the one with
a permanent abscess secondary to inguinal hernia that consequently smelled bad and disgusted some euro princess ?
mircea_popescu: (methods included "put on hot something for
a while" and not much else.)
mircea_popescu: i am proud to say i never to this day restored
a battery ; and this includes the old days of communist romania, for both car batteries and the 4.5 volt zinc-manganese three-cell assembiles
ben_vulpes: the chain mail is moderately more expensive but
a /very/ effective replacement for such as steel wool.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: scraping tools are
a+, and cost ~2.45 from where linked.
ben_vulpes: ah i just realized that i forgot to include
a solid three hundred word rant on the evils of nonstick in this context
mircea_popescu: amusingly, the authors are rather competent fellows, at least the footnote dude is still active etc, drop ~him~
a line.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-15: [20:30:04] <ben_vulpes>
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-15#1542439 << so i've done my own digging and asked
a few others to dig as well, and i can't figure out what "the code" i'm supposed to have is. grepping for 'footnote' turns up zilch in my copy of mp-wp. throw me
a bone here?
phf: in fact, it's best to treat interactions with u.s. infrastructure as
a trip to the zone from пикник на обочине (or stalker for en readers), where rules of physics don't apply, nothing is what it seems and you're not guaranteed to come back alive
phf: and i've been in the vulpes situation, where throwing
a breaker would ~dim~ the bulb
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: most contractors are idiots and don't know how to build
a fucking house.
ben_vulpes: no, there is
a ground stake. i personally caught tingles off the housing though.
ben_vulpes: the particularly annoying thing about this current house is that i don't see
a clean way to install the garburator.
ben_vulpes: when i packed 5 people into
a rotting victorian proximate to the eng/art schools
trinque: Alpha or not, I’m not
a stat. And that’s perhaps the most an individual can hope for. << aha. who the fuck cares? now leave me alone.