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mats:
a lot of folks have gotten used to the idea that american airpower will always be available
mats: its pretty rare for someone to spend 250 rounds in
a firefight
mats: some guardsmen in this state i've talked to have never seen
a bayonet irl
mats:
a lot of the ones in regular army service only have semiauto mode
ascii_deadfiber: i would ask 'is it instead designed as
a blunt weapon' but no, because aluminum
mats: they're not really designed to cycle through
a ton of rounds
mats:
a clean ar, when properly cleaned and lubricated, malfunctions once or twice in 250 rounds when used with polymer magazine
mircea_popescu: oh another one of those can't light
a lighbulb technologists ? color me in the nuance of very surprised surprise.
thestringpuller: so its
a race to freeze the dao or buterin and slock.it are at war with someone smarter than them
shinohai: I just noticed the slock.it dress code must be shitty thrift-store suit jackets and
a tshirt.
mircea_popescu: shinohai i linked
a pretty good piece yest, it's not JUST slock.it that are derps, the whole stack's rotten all the way down.
thestringpuller: shinohai: cause they had
a security audit done and still hacked.
mircea_popescu: in other superlulz, Emin Gün Sirer : "If the ETH community bails out the DAO (and I believe they should), we need to put in place
a social wall around Slockit to avoid
a repeat."
thestringpuller: one finally did and didn't know how to use
a bouncer so I can't hit him back.
ascii_deadfiber: the transparent ploy behind the 'soft forks' and related crapolade is to try to siphon btc into corners from which it can no longer be removed with
a trb node.
BingoBoingo: Or you could start showing up to their homes and beating them with
a sock full of quarters.
BingoBoingo: It's soft because they say so. If you want them to admit that it is hard you have to knock on Peter Todd's door naked and holding
a sock full of quarters
ascii_deadfiber: i don't grasp how 'this tx is valid if $offchainsoup condition is true' is
a 'soft' fork.
ascii_deadfiber: the one thing i'm failing to grasp is how this is
a 'soft' fork
ascii_deadfiber: 'Despite this limitation, we do have
a way to provide something functionally similar to retroactive invalidation while preserving irreversibility of past commitments using CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY. By constructing scripts with multiple branches of execution where one or more of the branches are delayed we provide
a time window in which someone can supply an invalidation condition that allows the output to be spent, effectively inva
a111: Logged on 2014-11-13 19:04 asciilifeform admits that he suspects bip64 of being
a plot to create usg-like bonds in btc. folks will be asked to trace X proper btc for X+epsilon 'locked' ones that are to land back in their pocket 'in the future', should they live long enough, but are actually recovable 'because this is how the world works'
a111: Logged on 2014-11-13 19:06 asciilifeform: bip64, aside from complicating the protocol and giving relevance to the gavin shitgang, is also
a jam-tomorrow chumpatronic engineering structural element
BingoBoingo: Described in mines as "checksequenceverify (CSV) is
a group of 3 BIPs that will enable relative time locks. This will let you lock money for
a predetermined period after your transaction confirms. The time can be
a time measured in multiples of 512 seconds or
a block count."
BingoBoingo: In other news apparently another soft fork no one has
a srs use case for was "voted" in by miners
BingoBoingo: Apparently your gas is allowed to leak, but when we have some idiot tear up
a pressurized line with backhow somehow Middle west is Zimbabwe while James Lafond presents alf in the hood is pocket of civilization
ascii_deadfiber: srsly there was
a gas leak on my street last year and they dug up half of it and put in the hose in place of pipe.
BingoBoingo: Oh it looks like Forbes hooked
a higher quality of kid than they usually do.
mircea_popescu: when you wait for
a compile, the compile waits for you!
a111: Logged on 2016-06-21 13:27 mircea_popescu: phf feature request : can log search have
a parameter indicating how many later references are needed for line to qualify ?
a111: Logged on 2016-06-21 15:24 mircea_popescu: they have pages worth 20 to 100 mb worth of shitty gifs, but can't display 10mb of
a god damned s expression.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger that may explain the part where the first part fails, i guess. but not the 2nd part. both php items (wp, phpmyadmin) should be able to list
a 10mb sql record.
mircea_popescu: but yes i'm sure there's "
a limit" put in there by people who don't belong touching computers.
mircea_popescu: for which part ? at no point is
a FILE being manipulated here.
mircea_popescu: they have pages worth 20 to 100 mb worth of shitty gifs, but can't display 10mb of
a god damned s expression.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and in other lulz : wordpress interface dies if one tries to publish
a 10mb text article with "unknown error". apparently this has never happened before.
☟︎ iKant: :) more on the line of the German Philosopher with
a nod to the vogue of the single letter prefix
mircea_popescu: the signature here however is prospective. "this is
a signature you don't know what to do with. at some later point, maybe you will."
mircea_popescu: in other words : signatures there were retrospective, attempting to build
a historical chain. "this x is that x which you respect so respect this".
mircea_popescu: here, there's no historical establishment. the guy lives through his deeds not through
a lengthy, boring story about "hey listen, back in 1920 carnegie and j p morgan were pretty cool so we should still be getting free petrocheese and chinese plastics for this reason".
mircea_popescu: the difference between those two and this third is instructive and important : in those instances, the usg was trying to spin
a narrative that'd allow it to claim it's still alive and relevant, in front of proof to the contrary from ~already established accounts~. ie, satoshi.
mircea_popescu: then there was the whole craig whatever incident. where the usg assets in bitcoin (gavin & all) swore as to the authenticity of
a gross fake.
mircea_popescu: because this isn't
a single item, it's
a third in
a trifecta.
tfoxbrewster: For that reason, I'm certain that the message is
a fraud, written by someone who wants to stir up trouble in the community."
tfoxbrewster: If the attacker wrote the message, there would be no reason for him not to provide
a valid signature. If the message were written by an impostor, on the other hand, they'd be unable to generate
a valid signature, and would have reason to make their message more convincing by adding
a fraudulent one.
tfoxbrewster: Their comment: "The message claims to contain
a cryptographic signature in the last line. ECDSA signatures of the sort used by Ethereum are 65 bytes (130 hexadecimal digits) long, and end with '00' or '01'. The number at the end of his message is the right length, but ends with '20', making it an invalid signature.
mircea_popescu: phf feature request : can log search have
a parameter indicating how many later references are needed for line to qualify ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (seems to me unavoidable, 1bn (atomic) txn ~= 100gb, yet 1bn people that know half
a dunbar's number worth of others ~= 100 Gb * however much each record takes.)
a111: Logged on 2016-06-21 05:17 trinque: thing is even if I change the schema I'll probably replace rating with
a view of same structure
a111: Logged on 2016-06-20 18:49 phf: Framedragger: despite the rhetoric people here are extremely pragmatic. but when you think about these things there's no reason to allow sloppy thinking. the question is "how much of
a dick up your ass is too much dick", and the healthy answer is "none at all". llvm is good technology (it gives you same kind of layering that
a decent common lisp compiler does, but for languages that are not used to that kind of richnes
trinque: thing is even if I change the schema I'll probably replace rating with
a view of same structure
☟︎ trinque: had
a moment of "dear fucking god, IRC is case insensitive" after he complained
phf: trinque: perhaps having from and to be fk with constraints is also
a good idea
trinque: hell, that sig sauer of recent fame seems like
a great gun
mircea_popescu: (undersigned john hat, workman without
a dick : why should i pay the tax when i can't fuck ? warmly esteemed mr john hat, workman without
a tool : while you've got your fingers & tongue the law stands.)
mircea_popescu: there's ~no way for slave to avoid slavetax. that's the point of having
a) slave and b) slavetax.
BingoBoingo: "
A 34-year-old woman seduces
a 15-year-old boy and becomes pregnant. She gives birth to
a daughter and thereafter applies for Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Is the child's father obligated to pay child support even though he is
a victim of statutory rape? (Pen. Code, ? 261.5, subd. (d).) We conclude he is liable for child support."
BingoBoingo: And GAW was the story that cazalla used to hammer Qntra into being
a thing that made our asperzoring competitors feel shame
mircea_popescu: well no, cessna is "have
a retarded butler and an old maid" sort of machine
mircea_popescu: in the sense
a luxury car is "100k" or
a cellphone "1500". yeah, right, read the maintenance contracts.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Mebbe some ISIS kid in California decided if he went firebug he could get
a higher score than if he went an hero?
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, romanian redditards found out that mp was also born there, think that "hey, wtf, i don;'t think it can be him. if it were he would be starting
a revolution"
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder 15 acres not such
a big deal, considering what california scrub can provide neh ?
mircea_popescu: very different (in the sense of being opposite) to pragmatism as
a current in anglosaxon thought. which is more like, "keep all doors and windows shut and only open something once you're sure there's nothing there".
mircea_popescu: well, it seems to me to be
a very apt summary of the type of pragmatism prevalent here.
a sort of "keep horizon maximally open" flavour of pragmatism
mircea_popescu: phf "
a house enough to sit in and land as far as your eye can see"
mircea_popescu: yeah, discussion may well continue, but it does altogether not seem likely there's going to be
a "chosen respirator"
a111: Logged on 2016-06-20 18:49 phf: Framedragger: despite the rhetoric people here are extremely pragmatic. but when you think about these things there's no reason to allow sloppy thinking. the question is "how much of
a dick up your ass is too much dick", and the healthy answer is "none at all". llvm is good technology (it gives you same kind of layering that
a decent common lisp compiler does, but for languages that are not used to that kind of richnes
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah. i just meant the vidcard gnarl could maybe be excised in
a politically defensible manner. historically it was ~60 to 70% of all the mess.