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shinohai: http://archive.is/GgzK6 <<< dao 2.0 I guess will be engineered by *surprise!* a startup ☟︎
pete_dushenski: a whole host of mercs ~are~ made in us of a, however, and yes, are little more than very expensive and equally disposable smartph0nes
shinohai: I found a bug, car is pos made in America. Send bounty plox.
asciilifeform: because lolcats dun look so hot on a 480x320 lcd.
asciilifeform: anyway, exotic lcd aside, i would HAPPILY buy a device with newton's lcd but modern (lightweight) micro inside.
asciilifeform: even as a one-of-a-kind handmade thing
trinque: looks like a neat toy
trinque: I'm not launching a product here, lol
asciilifeform: trinque: bigger than a palm V !!
asciilifeform: and this is not a problem with qi specifically, but with konsoomer crapolade in general.
pete_dushenski: http://qntra.net/2015/11/clinton-found-a-turkey/#comment-64209 << aha.
asciilifeform: thing doesn't take anything like a vga or dvi input.
asciilifeform: i guess modern konsooomer is expected to sit in a cave, like a mole, and not try to use machinery in the sun
asciilifeform: a decade or so ago, there was an outfit ('pixel qi') that purported to sell sunlight-viewable displays, they were, iirc, well-received, but also died.
asciilifeform: epaper is a disappointment, imho; there was some promising tech in 'static lcd' (which draws 0 current when holding image) while retaining the speed/crispness; but afaik it died.
phf: yeah, i have a dx too, i also have two or three small keyboard ones, but they break easily (i broke like 4 or 5) with they way i use them anyway, and since the kindle direction is clearly dodgy i just don't feel like doing anything with them
asciilifeform: and a more recent unit, with frontlight, which i gave to pet, i could not abide the lack of mechanical switches
phf: i was really happy with the old keyboard kindle, it had free internet, and was just generally a very promising oldfag device. hardware keyboard, promising screen, ~lighter than any versions since~, had a bunch of linux hacks including a terminal. i ported a zork interpreter to it. and of course amazon doesn't care about oldfag market, so kindles went downhill fast since
asciilifeform: not a replacement for lcd.
pete_dushenski: like etch-a-sketch aha
asciilifeform: (latest 'kindle' has a frontlight, but it is not same thing, but more like what old electronic wristwatches had)
phf: i use a psion as an organizer, and i still can't get used to the fact that it looks ~good~ in direct sunlight. like it's some amazing novel technology ☟︎
pete_dushenski: it was a bit too geek chic for artsy school but i enjoyed it.
pete_dushenski: aha. i had one as a kid. it was very spiffy toy.
asciilifeform: it was a reasonable simulacrum of handwriting, for short inputs, rather than a futile banging of your fingers against unresponsive surface
asciilifeform: folks with a propensity for this, used to be put in padded cell
asciilifeform: without a mechanical dampener, it is same as banging against the wall.
asciilifeform: and what, precisely, kept him from having exact superset of sks, for that matter, i got quite a few which he did not.
asciilifeform: (a coupla dozen unaccounted for)
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503284 << yeah, also a large piece of the dumbsenal. "this shouldn't be discussed because it already was" "when and by whom ?" "don't ask so many questions" ☝︎
mircea_popescu: you also don't as a matter of principle need or want https. you might notice trilema redirects you to http
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503273 << in principle you don't want logging for browser ; just to identify the owner. this is not so unlike the concept of root. otherwise - logins are mostly a "forum" ie, www-bbs item ☝︎
pete_dushenski: ie. not the high watermark so much as a tenuously related shadow of the thing itself
pete_dushenski: blunt, yes. useless, far from it. it's a highly efficient heuristic
trinque: I criticize "USG" as a category; it barely defines anything ☟︎
trinque: "usg" launched a saturn v once
a111: Logged on 2016-07-12 20:35 mircea_popescu: "oh i know, we've created a sort of monarchy without a king, basically just the court and nobody there to behead us - we'll call it democracy. if anyone inquires into the matter we can always add modern in front and it'll be all good!"
trinque: "usg" is not a cohesive whole
pete_dushenski: danielpbarron: well, dan isn't a nickname for daniel.... except it is. that different people are better known by one or the other doesn't change the fact that 'king dick the lionheart' is perfectly valid
danielpbarron: Dan is not a nickname for Daniel. The former came way before the latter. Dan was a son of Jacob (Israel), Daniel was a prophet who came generations later
asciilifeform: i have nfi for what they are used, for all i know they glue them into a throne for hitler to sit in.
pete_dushenski: " SW in particular has a number of strong benefits but also alters fundamental code that underpins billions of dollars in value. For this reason we have sympathy with the proposal that it be implemented in Litecoin first. After a period of 6 to 12 months SW could then be applied to Bitcoin, incorporating any lessons learned." << why not experiment with eth ? dao ? c-ripple even ? digging up ltc corpse is
asciilifeform: likewise there is no open drawing proggy worth half a sparrow's fart
asciilifeform: diana_coman: it is a trivial technical problem, that will likely never be solved, because there is no open cad proggy worth a sparrow's fart.
diana_coman: hm, as far as I know it should be able to pin the part/shape based on position+pressure and then I don't see indeed why wouldn't it be able to react to turning the pen - maybe it's a precision thing?
asciilifeform: 'Making non-mining full nodes “fork-tolerant” by decoupling them from the miners with respect to the prevailing block size limit. There is no need for ordinary node owners to upgrade as and when miners do, or accept a risky “flag day” event. Bitcoin Unlimited already has fork-tolerant nodes via BUIP001 where non-mining nodes always track the longest Proof-of-Work chain, and are agnostic to block version resizing flags.' << l0
asciilifeform: diana_coman: i do, e.g., cad, and would like to be able to, say, rotate a part by pinning it with a pen, and turning the pen. but this does not, afaik, exist.
pete_dushenski has friends in france atm. figures that they haven't called from nth republican prison yet is a good sign.
diana_coman: ah, I just played around a bit with it kind of tried all sorts from some basic drawing to handwriting (it was supposedly to be useful for some remote discussions kind of stuff) to mouse replacement
danielpbarron: i have a broken toshiba portege m200 that had a decent pen/touchscreen thing, but that was with winbl0wz and I can't imagine it would be easy to get that working on a linux
diana_coman: this was however a tablet so not a display in itself
diana_coman: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503266 <- I *tried* to use a small wacom tablet & pen thing and it was quite atrocious really ☝︎
pete_dushenski: https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/14/nintendos-classic-mini-is-a-tiny-nes-with-30-games/ << whattheshitthisiscoolgimmegimmegimmeonenownownowiwantitrightfuckingnow. ok i can wait until nov 11 but for $60 how not ?
pete_dushenski: http://trilema.com/2013/how-to-live-to-be-rich/#comment-118078 << speaking of the fashion, don't be too harsh u guise!! jeez why can't everyone just take a chill pill
asciilifeform: and re: last night's 'keep on truckin'!' >> 'An eyewitness to the attack described the driver as "a young guy, very focused on what he was doing." "He didn't looking angry," John Lambert told CBC News. "He wasn't screaming or shouting. He was just … focusing on the job."' ( http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nice-truck-bastille-day-1.3680294 )
asciilifeform: in other 'yesterday's nobel is tomorrow's homework' nyooz, http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/07/14/cloudflare-we-have-a-problem
asciilifeform: this would handily eliminate alignment as a thing.
asciilifeform: re: earlier thread: i'm a little surprised that nobody (afaik) has combined the sensing antennae of 'wacom'-like apparatus into the lcd pixel addressing lines themselves.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 15:57 mircea_popescu: if anyone wants the project, can be (probably SHOULD be) implemented as pure html, just a form.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 10:31 Framedragger: regarding LAMP stacks and blog software: static site generators are there for a reason. significantly smaller codebases and attack surfaces cf. wordpress. just sayin'.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dunno about it being a deep problem, wacom sells a $couple-of-k display unit with warrantied alignment
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it may be a quantum problem actually.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503180 << let it be said that if you wander into the courthouse one day and staple an invitation to your hipster fair / recruitment drive on the judge's face he'll whack you once and if that doesn't do it you'll spend the next month in county jail thinking things through. it's a thing, there's a hierarchy in realia, which obviously isn't obligatory to dreamers - up until the dog comes. ☝︎
asciilifeform: this is a shame, because i ~like~ pens
asciilifeform: i picked up an old 'dell' at a junk store not long ago, that had built-in wacom-esque pen, and tried using it
asciilifeform: the strange thing is, a ~pen~ would work quite well for lucas arts / sierra / etc. adventures
mircea_popescu: it's a thing, you're not it.
mircea_popescu: you are not in the demo even vaguely. ipad games are for millenials. kids of a very peculiar plato's cave upbringing. kids that never killed an animal with their own hands ; that never ran until they lost balance, that never fought with the boys or pulled the girl's hair an' skirts.
mircea_popescu: the ~only successful ipad mmorpgs consist of exactly this : make 500 minigames loosely bunched together in a "daily activity meter" list of rewards,
asciilifeform: it is an almost inevitable thing, per the familiar chumpatronic model (consider fiatola 'middle class' fella trying to evaluate his net worth, sitting in a pile of bezzles of 1,001 types)
mircea_popescu: yeah, but the main problem is that the african/pacific islander notion of "water" precludes hydraulics for a number of solidly good reasons a few derivations prior.
asciilifeform: it's a sham, for fooling illiterate natives, what hydraulics.
mircea_popescu: you understand this ? it's not the case of a person making design decisions on some basis leading to some results.
mircea_popescu: but imo odds are yet another replacement group will show up. the notion of coallition success is ridiculous, the arabs are just wearing them down, exact same way they did to the french in north africa a century ago.
mircea_popescu: lol "bitcoin as a real" derps
deedbot: [» Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] “Suppose we have an exchange that, due to resource limitations, is limited to 5 decimal places for orders”, or how Kraken is scamming to stay solvent. - http://www.contravex.com/2016/07/15/suppose-we-have-an-exchange-that-due-to-resource-limitations-is-limited-to-5-decimal-places-for-orders-or-how-kraken-is-scamming-to-stay-solvent/
BingoBoingo: More on the new surveillance revolution "This app [poke-a-man Go] did in 24 hours what Michelle Obama couldn’t do in eight years. It gets kids off the couch and moving."
asciilifeform: 'Welcome to the Blockchain! Your voice is worth something' << this has got to be a parody
jurov: one step at a time, i guess
Framedragger: but at this point im more interested to try my hand at 'p2p/federated content system', a la mp's e2e encrypted generalized forum idea, whatever this resolves to in the particular.
Framedragger: i guess the only way to convince people would be to present a working PoC with working spam mitigation, hm.
Framedragger: i'm amused that it's hard to find something like this, i.e. static generator _and_ a comment handler component
Framedragger: (maybe i just described a spec that i should one day implement, heh)
Framedragger: jurov: that, of course, is a problem. but surely "everything dynamic or everything static & no comments" is a false dichotomy? could you not have an html form which POSTs to a separate dynamic handler which is only responsible for comments? a "current comments" static html page is generated upon every new approved comment, etc.
Framedragger: regarding LAMP stacks and blog software: static site generators are there for a reason. significantly smaller codebases and attack surfaces cf. wordpress. just sayin'. ☟︎☟︎
mats: not sure if you've been following, but they've lost a lot of territory recently
BingoBoingo: What a coinidence the next generation of smartphone surveillance would direct users to places mircea_popescu lived!
mircea_popescu: aaand in random ancient trilema roll, http://trilema.com/2009/a-fost-odata-cand-romania-a-avut-dreptate/
trinque: I see a european ass in the air and a brown guy having the time of his life
BingoBoingo: So even though the weather has been objectively worse here this week than last, I have observed a sharp increase in the number of transmayos walking and biking outside while glued to their smartphones.
mod6: <shinohai> http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-14#1502771 <<< remember i told you i did a test rum where i replaced V's mirror w/ mlocalhost deps and it still builds as expected. << oh yeah, forgot about that! ☝︎
asciilifeform: we do not yet have a modern example of roman-style collapse to work with.
asciilifeform: it isn't as if it were a nuke war, we have plenty of evidence re why
mircea_popescu: this is a matter of you not a matter of it. both order and disorder are subjective reactions.
asciilifeform: looks like a maidanism/tiananmenism, colourful revolution attempt ?
mircea_popescu: this statement has nothing to do with reality and no power over it. all it does is, it identifies the speaker. identifies him as a roman.
mircea_popescu: this is a million man army.
asciilifeform: than anybody but a million-man army could stomp.
mircea_popescu: and yes, i readily agree with you and in effigy with "sensible people" of a generation that died with chet - that all this is barbaric nonsense, and wtf is wrong with people!
asciilifeform: the money printin' folk can print a truckload, hire moar gladiator.