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spandrell: they're into drinking parties and constant warfare
mircea_popescu: for that matter we know for a fact that speed of light isn't a constant at large timescales.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let's say that the resulting "age of universe" constant is more a function of what subset of experimental data you look at ; than anything else.
asciilifeform: and end up with something like mircea_popescu's suggested system with constant
ben_vulpes: someone made a cool thing that appeals to certain of my perversities, so i throw the fellow a bone. bonus points, i can write toys for my own phone without having to retch about obj-c or swift constantly, or use one of the eldritch js horrors
mircea_popescu: perhaps the most amusing example for our purposes here being the late forgery known as "donatio constantini")
mircea_popescu: PeterL they use lots of it, and constantly bitch about how expensive it is to handle.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-19 17:42 mircea_popescu: come to think of it, the idea of using acetonitrile is very bizarre. much better polar solvents exist ; unless the remarkably high dielectric constant of the substance is useful.
mircea_popescu: come to think of it, the idea of using acetonitrile is very bizarre. much better polar solvents exist ; unless the remarkably high dielectric constant of the substance is useful. ☟︎
asciilifeform: incidentally, iirc the 'enter constants before launch' thing was originally 'dial-a-yield'
asciilifeform: iirc the way it worked was that the actual timing constants needed for yield Y, e.g., 'pop squib s1, then after t1 ns, squib s2... then after tN, run neutron gen tube for tN' ns, ...'
ben_vulpes: the constant restarts!
asciilifeform: model has proven remarkably durable despite the constant wearying turmoil of exit-scams and hacks and as I write this in mid-July 2015, there seems to be little chance that things will change substantially soon. (If Tor hidden services are cracked, the DNMs will simply move to I2P or Freenet; if Bitcoin starts getting too easily tracked, transactions will be settled in Monero or another cryptocoin with better anonymity properties, et
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, just get the 8ball expander to work constantly, fill a core or something.
asciilifeform: factorable in ~constant time.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you don't have controlled constant diameter, you lose the total internal refraction and it aint fiber nomoar
asciilifeform: end glows blue, to naked eye - constantly
asciilifeform: because your thoughts are never entirely your own. Philosophers, writers, artists, even scientists, not only need encouragement and an audience, they need constant stimulation from other people. It is almost impossible to think without talking. If Defoe had really lived on a desert island, he could not have written Robinson Crusoe, nor would he have wanted to. Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up. Had the Ge
copumpkin: mircea_popescu: also, as general good practice, it'd probably be good to include the address and amount of the withdrawal in the message, perhaps with a date. Currently the message is a constant, so the signature on it feels a little less valuable
asciilifeform: 'In a radio interview last week, Nigel Newton of Bloomsbury Publishing spoke about how the publisher had employed strong security measures to prevent possible leaks, including guard dogs and a constant security presence at the printing press. Seemingly, the company also had the support of GCHQ, the UK's primary signals intelligence and surveillance agency.'
ben_vulpes: diana_coman: "change is the only constant!" (d,tmr~). i've no desire for communiteh and happiness and being in a room where everyone gets along. but the logs were valuable in their own right, for as long as they had that continuity.
asciilifeform: as in, motherfucking constant-space.
davout: well, not necessarily the haet but its constant repetition
asciilifeform: see also the idiocy of 'nothing-up-my-sleeve constants'
mircea_popescu: would make a pretty great blog topic, you know ? for the numerous bloggers among us constantly looking for stuff to feed the woodchipper with.
jurov: well then my comment still applies - miner can keep the nonce constant and churn hash1 by changing one transaction in a cycle
mircea_popescu: too bad i constantly strangle the easy fruit pickers. if only they fucking picked in THAT direction ffs.
asciilifeform: '“The truth is, actually, Putin, in all of our meetings, is scrupulously polite, very frank. Our meetings are very businesslike. He never keeps me waiting two hours like he does a bunch of these other folks.” Obama said that Putin believes his relationship with the U.S. is more important than Americans tend to think. “He’s constantly interested in being seen as our peer and as working with us, because he’s not comple
asciilifeform: ... The original SHA-1 constants are “nothing-up-my-sleeve-numbers“, derived from the binary representation of the square roots of 2, 3, 5 and 10 ...
trinque: I also had to lower a constant which didn't seem worth its own vpatch
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so i'd have to constantly see this.
asciilifeform: i thought 'classic' was just normal prb but with 2mb constant.
asciilifeform: in such a way that the ports tree remains untangled, and the crud is not constantly knocking at the door to come back in.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: trb didn't even get off the runway until magic constants, recall.
mircea_popescu: i distinctly recal trb nearly sunk in the other incident, while mpb provided the magic constants. why was that ?
assbot: CacheBleed: A Timing Attack on OpenSSL Constant Time RSA ... ( http://bit.ly/1VOQ9sc )
mircea_popescu: you may think that "hey, so you just found your solution, have the machine put a ¶ or a § before each paragraph and an anchor on it", but no. flat text is fundamentally different from ADRESSABLE text in general, the "paragraph-addressable" is a least-offensive kludge. and yes trilema is written deliberately, and constantly, with a view to breaking addressability from outside. because that's the sort of text it is, an
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-02-2016#1417213 << i think we'll have to give up the mp's select thing. it apparently doesn't work well enough, for reasons i/nobody can be bothered to debug, and besides, new ones will prolly constantly pop up. ☝︎
punkman: nah fuck fixed size and constant bitrate
mircea_popescu: "bankruptcies" are CONSTANT occurences.
assbot: Logged on 24-02-2016 14:04:42; jurov: kek dat log, again. good mircea_popescu is not trying to pin down ip address of therealbitcoin.org, as it has bunch of IP that constantly change
jurov: kek dat log, again. good mircea_popescu is not trying to pin down ip address of therealbitcoin.org, as it has bunch of IP that constantly change ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Luke-Jr: "Because the cost of increasing the limit is lower than the benefits of peace/not constant fighting and showing that Bitcoin can in fact do a hardfork." https://archive.is/u1Dv9
ben_vulpes: phf: i tried for a very long time with erc in a seperate emacs instance running on a server as a bouncer, and the *constant* muscle memory confusion over the subtle differences between emacs-in-terminal and emacs-with-gui drove me up a wall
asciilifeform: oh one other thing, blocks really ought to live on a storage device where connecting tx outputs is a constant-time operation.
pete_dushenski: it requires constant babysitting to watch for a jam and restart so that it ever keeps eating blox
mircea_popescu: there's all this constant "oh i know why this person that's better than me did what he did, let me tell you!" bullshit.
BingoBoingo: From the mines: "You obviously don’t understand that Bitcoin has already reached thoroughput capacity, and further procrastination will result in the amount of orphaned blocks increasing; costing miners, and frying micro-SDchips with outrageous mempool sizes rewriting constantly. Just one look at the mempool is reason enough to worry. Rasberri Pi’s weren’t designed to be abused in this way… and nearly every node and ASIC u
topynate: if it really is a universal constant, then there are a lot of wasted words on the block size limit, including my own - anyone trying to abrogate it will just fall flat on his face
mircea_popescu: but simply its own kind of universal constant.
mircea_popescu: planck's constant.
ascii_butugychag: and produces CONSTANT timestamp.
mircea_popescu: mostly because the conversion consists of substracting from a constant
assbot: Stopping the asshole who constantly takes an offroad shortcut. : pettyrevenge ... ( http://bit.ly/1nzdEdL )
mircea_popescu: that's the problem here. this constant "turns out" device which allows you to pretend metaphysics beats physics and meta-* rules supreme.
BingoBoingo: jurov: Every city's sewer and all the various indistry along it constantly pump weird shit into it.
mircea_popescu: (the problem, in the simplest terms, is that for h to be constant energy and spacetime must stay coupled. as such, it's impossible to have an original singularity (aka the big bang) seeing how everything solves neatly for a radius of 0, yielding a pretty field of 0's and a pile of nondetermined constants. conversely : in planck terms, the age of the universe is about 10^61, its radius about 10^61 and its energy about 1
mircea_popescu: (actually the only sane model of physical cosmogony i know doth require shifting planck constant, if ever so shyly)
asciilifeform: i am picturing, one day measured value of plank's constant shifts, mircea_popescu goes back to sleep, says 'this shift was implicit all along, could not otherwise happen.' and will sleep until the very integers get up and walk around.
mircea_popescu: not like photons went you know what ? this planck constant's boring, let's get a new one.
asciilifeform: as in stray constants ?
assbot: Logged on 20-01-2016 04:26:44; phf: i know this guy, a master carpenter, he builds wooden structures at burning man (infrastructural stuff, not "art"). he's been clean for 30 years now, but it's a constant aa-ing for him. "an acoholic can never be free", etc. i guess it's working for him, but it's hell of depressing mindset
phf: i know this guy, a master carpenter, he builds wooden structures at burning man (infrastructural stuff, not "art"). he's been clean for 30 years now, but it's a constant aa-ing for him. "an acoholic can never be free", etc. i guess it's working for him, but it's hell of depressing mindset ☟︎
mircea_popescu: SamPatt "Bitcoin isn’t a ponzi scheme by any stretch of the imagination. Ponzi schemes are fraud; there is no real investment taking place. Bitcoin is a real thing, used around the world constantly." << this makes no sense.
gribble: DIELECTRIC CONSTANT AND INDUCED DIPOLE ... - ResearchGate: <https://www.researchgate.net/file.PostFileLoader.html?id=5614bca56225ff66298b458d&assetKey=AS%3A281807657422848%401444199589259>; Chemical Characteristics | The Olive Oil Source: <http://www.oliveoilsource.com/page/chemical-characteristics>; Chemical composition of olive oil - Clackline Valley Olives: (1 more message)
mircea_popescu: ;;google dielectric constant of extra virgin olive oil
asciilifeform: dielectric constant of $liquid differs from that of air.
ascii_butugychag: the ball thing is supposed to keep you constantly writhing
assbot: USG in BTC, a history of constant failure : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1PBCpw5 )
BingoBoingo: Oh what made what where nao https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/41jzly/usg_in_btc_a_history_of_constant_failure/
assbot: Logged on 18-01-2016 16:21:29; deedbot-: [Trilema] USG in BTC, a history of constant failure - http://trilema.com/2016/usg-in-btc-a-history-of-constant-failure/
deedbot-: [Trilema] USG in BTC, a history of constant failure - http://trilema.com/2016/usg-in-btc-a-history-of-constant-failure/ ☟︎
asciilifeform: #6508 61457c2 Switch to a constant-space Merkle root/branch algorithm. << anybody have the time/energy to look? i don't...
phf: fwiw, i've ran it on large data before and it was constant faster then bsd awk that comes with os x
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-01-2016#1373868 << cars were better pre-cpu for a reason you've already pointed out in the (lost) logs, viz. constant firmware crashes and general electrical gremlins living in cars of the last two decades. no cpu in the car anymore ? good riddance. maybe then i'd actually buy a newer model. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: ything good to flow to ~these~ people, and for it to constantly enlarge. that is all.
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-01-2016#1370343 << i see this constantly ☝︎
saifedean: it's not the most exciting place in the world, but it's across the river from detroit, which stands as a constant reminded that shit could be worse
mircea_ahoy: kakobrekla, yes, they're being broadcast constantly.
assbot: Logged on 03-01-2016 03:56:57; BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> last time i tried it was >1gb of ram, so the footprint's coming down. << Ironically my bastart build went from consistent ~300 MB to constant 1 GB of RAM after BDB fix
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> last time i tried it was >1gb of ram, so the footprint's coming down. << Ironically my bastart build went from consistent ~300 MB to constant 1 GB of RAM after BDB fix ☟︎
liquidassets: It's just a her now, a former. High maintenance, very hard to please..Constantly disappointed.
pete_dushenski: thus constant warnings not to leave patio doors open in winter, lest pipes freeze and asplode.
ascii_field: 'In a 2012 newsletter column, NSA's SIGINT Philosopher, Jacob Weber, tells us his vision. After failing an NSA lie-detector test, he says: 'I found myself wishing that my life would be constantly and completely monitored. It might seem odd that a self-professed libertarian would wish an Orwellian dystopia on himself, but here was my rationale: If people knew a few things about me, I might seem
ben_vulpes: "Many women are never raped, most women who are raped experience it only a handful of times, but in a sense it doesn't matter because the threats are constant, and women are trained to live in a state of hypervigilance of these threats"
phf: but for all i know there's all kinds of other sources of leak. the general idea is that btcd without mempool memory use should stay constant when the blockchain is not growing. any kind of memory growth is from mempool adding more transactions. so it stands to reason that a fully working zapmempool should always bring btcd back to some baseline number, but that's not happening.
mircea_popescu: funny how this works, makes me thing socialism is a constant, like the water table.
trinque: and the observation which led to databases in the first place is that questions like the above arise constantly; they are not thought of once and etched into the program in stone
ben_vulpes: tres annoying to pass the same args around constantly.
mircea_popescu: (it's deeper : that any sort of process is broken if it has to be constantly revised by "emerging" metaphysical considerations. basically he ruled that yes, we do release freeze.)
adlai: it provides you with a constant stream so your wallet never runs empty
asciilifeform: anyway, i need not-having-knuth (or table of motherfucking permeattivity constants, or landau, or,or,or,x10,000) like i need to have my arms and legs and cock chopped.
asciilifeform: will be interesting to see the 'fall of constantinopol' moment when linus t. is finally purged
ascii_field: so now you have to constantly chase the largely nonexistent docs for new southbridge, etc
trinque: this log file is a small fraction of the size of the blockchain which is also constantly being written
mircea_popescu: http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/ << check out the scamcoin getting burned into the ground. so after the sucker jump, the volume is up, the mkt cap constant, the price dropping like a rock.
mircea_popescu: neither my e nor my planck constant have "declined" over time.
asciilifeform: 'A friend of mine who is a quite successful doctor complains constantly about her job. When people applying to medical school ask her for advice, she wants to shake them and yell "Don't do it!" (But she never does.) How did she get into this fix? In high school she already wanted to be a doctor. And she is so ambitious and determined that she overcame every obstacle along the way-- including, unfortunately, not liking it.'
asciilifeform: simply that we're encoding constants as ternaries ?
mircea_popescu: i've got the best fucking weather, it's incredible. constantly 16-18ish, nice breeze, beautiful sun...