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BingoBoingo: Seriously why is eating config options from the input file a thing?
mircea_popescu: i expect what the fuck happened was -- this dude's mortgage being underwater, the bank clerks started making noises about selling his actual place. so he went "fuck you, ima do a tour, make like 100k or w/e i owe you schmucks, pay off the whole loan!!!"
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, bon jovi (obscure 90s act) is engaged in a "this house is not for sale" tour
mircea_popescu: you meant "i have to repay a coin" not "i have a coin to repay"
mircea_popescu: a ok np
Mocky: mircea_popescu: I don't have 1btc worth now, I have enough left over income to start buying on regular basis. Will still take a few months to amass the total.
mircea_popescu: haha nicoleci that was a lovely piece!
a111: Logged on 2019-06-06 11:32 Mocky: i have a coin to repay mircea_popescu and now that i have what with to trade, expect to be a continuous bidder on piz auctions
BingoBoingo: "En ese punto, la mujer encuestada le preguntó quién realiza la encuesta, a lo que el interlocutor asegura que la Fundación Latinoamericana para la Promoción de la Democracia. A continuación ella le preguntó si la fundación tenía sede en Uruguay, a lo que el encuestador respondió que sí. Pero esa fundación no tiene sitio web, ni forma alguna de contacto disponible. "
feedbot: http://thetarpit.org/posts/y05/093-hunchentoot-i.html << The Tar Pit -- A review of Hunchentoot's code history
asciilifeform: e.g., last pc that i personally opened that had standalone sram for l2 cache, was a 486 dx2.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: from asciilifeform's archaeologies, got hypothesis that market for standalone srams is 99% for repair/reproduction of '80s-'90s designs -- current-day ic which require sram tend to 1) need a few kB, maybe a MB or 2 , and 2) include it on-die
asciilifeform: ( why should 8GB of 'drepper-os' or winblowz get 8GB of sram ? it'd be rather a penicillin for a corpse )
asciilifeform: even if doesn't interrupt a burst, still leaks 'fact of'
asciilifeform: diana_coman: it makes sense, if it can't correct in O(1) cuz it has to interrupt a burst (all dram since mid-90s runs in long bursts much of the time, typically fill 1 or moar cache lines) then leaks via time.
diana_coman: information through a timing channel, where memory accesses
BingoBoingo: Similarly there's a lack of SRAM and boards supporting it.
asciilifeform still doesn't grasp why is it that no one sells mobos where can use redundant (majoritated, rather than failover, the latter is dime a dozen) banks of ram.
mircea_popescu: anyone wanna do a small paypal for me ?
mircea_popescu: in other news, pillars of eternity is a fucking great "good old Infinity engine days". up there with planescape : torment i'd say (not as deliberately-artsy-quirky-???).
spyked: I'd made a small toy proggy to draw a mandelbrot set, zoom in etc. when the time came to show it, no one in the room even knew what a fractal was, although ~all~ the teachers there were math-informatics graduates
a111: Logged on 2019-05-13 18:27 lobbes: I may indeed take some time in the next months to make a trip down there at least. If anything to clear my head and sort some things out (plus, I've never met another Republican in the meat, so there is also that plus)
asciilifeform for many yrs nao could not muster the giving-a-fuck to mine shitcoin
a111: Logged on 2019-02-16 17:10 mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo found it http://trilema.com/2016/usg-in-btc-a-history-of-constant-failure/#selection-39.0-39.51 <<
asciilifeform: very briefly in late 'vhs' era there was such sea of usg money that a select few folx managed to embezzle a little and do something substantial. but all evaporated, or, worse, relabeled with 'correctly aryan' names
mircea_popescu: i suppose lisp stands as a leftover of the time you speak of, so it must've existed.
mircea_popescu: i honestly don't recall a time anyone took cs for not-tradeschool.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: laff, but they opened a 'biznis cs' dept, for folx who ~can't count.
mircea_popescu: afaik all the "oh, not trade school, true universal education, APPLIED MATH!!!" hullaballoo ever produced was ~xml/wikipedia/that sorta thing. a lot of very overbearing, insufferable, nonsensically overspecified minutia.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik there aint even a wet stain left, of these pretensions, today
asciilifeform: asciilifeform out of school was dumb, from chumpatronic pov, as a sack of rocks, got conned into designing for these people a certain iron part, ~in off hours~ from cleaning ducts. it was, as i understand, put into production, with a mit grad's name attached.
asciilifeform: was a sort of usg in-miniature (unsurprising, perhaps, for it was a quite typical '90% of revenue is from usg' software circus )
asciilifeform: ftr asciilifeform when graduated did not become gruppenfuhrer at microgoogle. instead did coupla yrs of hard time in a java saltmine.
asciilifeform: point is, most of the folx in the room were already there on acct of thinking uni was a somehow classier 'trade school' for programmer
asciilifeform: diana_coman: we had a (and 1 of the moar intelligent...) profs , who tried to 'drum up morale' by telling 'success stories', e.g. 'didja hear of bob, he's a gruppenfuhrer at microshit nao!' 'joe from last year is head of chromism at google' etc
asciilifeform did, however, go to a 'by exam, 2 dozen bodies to 1 spot' high school, but it was in usa, and full of... i guess modern-day ameri-equiv. of komosomol. disgusting 'climber' types. 'young republicans'(tm) etc
diana_coman: eh, what royalty to speak of, lol; any exam-admission is already a form of "not for everyone"
asciilifeform never attended a 'for only royalty' school , and cannot comment re 'not for-everyone'
diana_coman: that makes sense once it's a chickenhouse already, yes; supposedly it's not /was not, to start with.
a111: Logged on 2018-07-13 18:52 asciilifeform: funnily related story, back when asciilifeform was a uni student, cellpnojeism was beginning to spread among plebelands, and asciilifeform noticed that folx were paying telco fiddycents/minute to talk over 1-2km ! so asciilifeform went, like naive idjit, to engineering profs, with 'p2p telephony' proposal thing, reaction was the exact sort of through-the-teeth laughter of today's bernstein re phuctor .
asciilifeform: it competed with the gsm people, who engineered a corporate 'oops, no money' for it to die on
asciilifeform: there's still a couple 100k of'em, drawing half an amp from light poles all over usa
a111: Logged on 2014-02-19 04:25 asciilifeform: they still respond to signals! i once bought a ricochet modem just to determine this.
asciilifeform: on top of this (and, uncharacteristically, is hyped 'feature', rather than seekrit 'nobus') the boxen no longer 'off' if there are any joules left in battery; nao serve 24/7 to relay gps coords from neighbouring crappletrons (both running and 'off') on the off-chance that someone didn't plug in a nic etc
asciilifeform: thing actually does a deedbot-style rng turd decrypt/confirm when pressed
asciilifeform: to add to this already tall pile o'lulz, per crapple, epoxy aint enuff , power switch (deliberately flimsy) nao includes a cr50-style rsa ic, and not replaceable w/out Official Blessing from vendor (and for good measure, epoxied into the lump)
mircea_popescu: there should be a short story about this, 1988 soviets don't spontaneously combust, but instead invade. find a mexican dude in all of new york
BingoBoingo: Meanwhile in local kids https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/a-la-carcel-delincuente-que-prendio-fuego-a-dos-mujeres-en-local-de-cobranza-2019610152913
phf: no, i'm also in US right now, for a brief visit
phf: i've typed it every day for the past couple of years, multiple times a day, woke up last tuesday with no idea what it might be
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, getting nvidia driver installed on gaming box requires a) arcana getting rid of "nouveau" (their derpy cvasi-driver). and no, absolutely nothing of system internals is exposed on tabletOS, you gotta know what you're doing in a terminal ahead of time, there's no "visual GUI" way or manner to even touch anything system-relevant.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, pillars of eternity is a great baldur-like i never knew about.
billymg: in my current situation, there is not enough leftover energy for the tasks i'd like to be doing. this could be helped by transferring to a less demanding galley but my current thinking is to do my time, save resources, and then make it a clean break
billymg: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-13#1913031 << something i'm thinking a lot about as well ☝︎☟︎
billymg: tried a few different ways, letting it auto-save with no title, explicitly saving with no title, both of those with a space only: " "
feedbot: http://thewhet.net/2019/06/a-thermo-rental-odyssey/ << The Whet -- A Thermo-Rental Odyssey
a111: Logged on 2019-05-27 21:35 diana_coman: in other stepping-in-all-the-holes : it seems I found a fail-mode of mp-wp browser interface namely if one pastes the content of a post first and only then (possibly after it rushes to quick save it or whatevers) the title, it fails miserably as it apparently tries to save it with title "" (notwithstanding that no, it should not, there is actually a title to it)
mircea_popescu: such a pity.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-08 11:49 mircea_popescu: in other news, the russkis apparently made a vampire-succubus-orc mod for king's bounty while nobody was looking.
mircea_popescu: as anil dash would no doubt wish to know, "are you even familiar with the redemption cycles in that culture".
hanbot: sure. i'm used to seeing freedom used on slavemaker apparati like stickers proclaiming some homeopathic garbage is detoxifying or whatever, though. FREEDOM!!1 Eat it and live forever, pleb! rare to see it approached like the foreign, dead carcass i suppose it actually has become, like this, poked with a stick from a distance, "freedom of expression".
hanbot: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-08#1917763 << haha check out the scare-quotes on supposedly sacred institution: Publishers in Japan argue that the graphic depiction of underage boys and girls having sexual relations in manga doesn’t necessarily exploit real children, and that such a move would infringe on someone’s “freedom of expression.” ☝︎
mircea_popescu: in other news, the russkis apparently made a vampire-succubus-orc mod for king's bounty while nobody was looking. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: but if we live in a shit world today, it's in no small part because ~everyone has neglected to crush bitchslap the provincialist lobby lo these many decades.
asciilifeform: i suspect it was a 'techie' 'wouldn't it be 13337 if we...' featurism
mircea_popescu: i imagine it was a major loss leader
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : apparently cca 2016 steam had a "run windows titles under linux" thing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu iirc had a piece re why poker , how it was a social circle thing for the rich, and then not. so, unsurprise, coin machines
asciilifeform: there's a reason these figure prominently in spamola of erry type, tho, hard to picture anyone with two working neurons playing
mircea_popescu: item existed at a certain point because from one hand technology sucked just enough to be able to make that kinda blinkenlichten box but no better ; and from the other hand because country bumpkin were just bored enough at home on the farm to find the box entertaining.
mircea_popescu: https://www.sosgame.com/ << other sduch lulz. "We are saddened to share that SOS and SOS: Classic has been permanently shut down. However you can use this website to play free Slot Games and win $25 per day by simply spending time on this website. [...] Free slots were created as a consequence of a growing need of the market to play slots..."
mircea_popescu: how the fuck are they gonna make a game worth half a 32 inch monitor is anyone's fucking guess.
mircea_popescu: doesn't seem a bridge too far for plenty of these.
mircea_popescu: they've gotten cheeky btw, i recall the furore when blizzard dared break the tacit "no game shall cost over 19.95". by now ? 80 euros (ie, aboyut a benjie).
mircea_popescu: http://legendsofpersia.com << wants 20 bucks on steam, meanwhile cant' afford a mysql install.
mircea_popescu: tons and tons of fruit flies with driveways and car payments, pretending to granite gravestones and "a normal life". THEY'RE FUCKING FLIES.
mircea_popescu: sells in the end for 1,5mn or some shit. that site fucking owned the internet before altavista could return a search page on "google"
mircea_popescu: it's just... look, i guess a preoccupation with gravestones and old musty writs and whatall else is to some degree a professional deformation / professionalized mental issue. but nevertheless, consider : slashdot. fucking slashdot, yes, the people who named the site so that lamers couldn't tell it each other over the phone, calling each other from the video store (which, face it, early ,com internet was 100% videostore cle
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu had piece where he got hold of a lolpad or the like, installed buncha '2 chinese d00dz on a napkin'-type gamez, and 6mo later all 'eggog, cannot connect to serv' etc
a111: Logged on 2019-06-07 21:06 asciilifeform: what was this ? ( a mud ? )
asciilifeform: barrett is admittedly slightly tricky to 'load into head', but it's where we beat the living shit out of koch et al speedwise (for some reason they never bothered to bake a barrett, even tho method was known since '86
diana_coman: btw asciilifeform ch14 and esp the 14Abis (the bounds proof for barrett's reduction) were a pleasure to read.
diana_coman: funnily enough (though quite usual in my xp) precisely after I complained re the left/right confusion, I had now the pleasant surprise to find out that meanwhile my brain sorted it really; I suspect it was more that initially I did not realise that there was a mismatch rather than the actual changing of convention; getting back to it was fine.
diana_coman: it's much more sanely structured so one CAN actually understand it, you know; that's the main thing; not to mention it's ...worth getting it into one's head to start with; anyway, unless I end up writing a blogpost on "why size is really not all re code", it's probably enough to say it's saner really.
diana_coman: "a break" as in taking a break (from the mess)
diana_coman: on the bright side, ffa is such a contrast to euloran client to make digesting FFA a break in itself
asciilifeform: what was this ? ( a mud ? ) ☟︎
asciilifeform: it needs veehehery small current, on the order of a coupla microamps
asciilifeform: ( the 1 annoying aspect of lysotronic fg as currently drawn, is that it gets the +45v bias voltage for the detector, from batteries, as asciilifeform does not know of a 'rng safe' method to generate it from +5 without oscillators )
mircea_popescu: that's a thought! "save my own time!"
asciilifeform: primary win imho from a hypothetical 'fast fg' isn't even any of this, but that it is faster to test
mircea_popescu: decent consulting gig, $1mn budged A++
asciilifeform: given that asciilifeform does not buffer fg ( exercise for reader: why not? ) these waits do not happen in parallel with the computation, and by all rights ought to expect that a live-fg test (not yet performed) can be expected to take longer by the above interval, vs. the bottled-entropy test pictured in yest. thrd.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-06 15:46 asciilifeform: loox like diana_coman also used 2048b primes in test of diana_comantronic system ; 'A relatively short test run obtained 40 random primes of 2048 bits each in 13274 seconds in total (3.7 hours) meaning on average 331.85 seconds per prime (~6 minutes)' and diana_coman's 'winner' gets 16 shots; but caveats, a) we have diff iron
asciilifeform: fwiw asciilifeform's 'i'ma build gamez box!11' adventure from 2y ago, ended very similarly to mircea_popescu's : that box is cold nao an' waiting for when asciilifeform next time needs to route a pcb
mircea_popescu: a
asciilifeform: incidentally, re 'valve co.', and also elliotisms, didjaknow -- it appears to have been named for... an actual valve. as in, 1 of those nyc-style steam main valves, as big as a desk, it is ceremonially mounted in their house...
mircea_popescu: a ty!
BingoBoingo: Fuck, my gut says the year is 2014. I remember, can dig. My gut is also suggesting the Vessenes Bitcoin Foundation with a low probability.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, do you perchance happen to recall which trilema article had a gif of SLUT spelled in pink glitter ?