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shinohai: https://www.eater.com/2017/10/18/16497858/florida-brewery-hatches-clever-plot-to-thwart-richard-spencer-event?
asciilifeform: a clever buffering scheme would work mircea_popescu-style, by sending otp rngolade during idle pauses in conversation, and thereafter using.
asciilifeform: esp. if you make clever use of the magnetic pulse for confinement, while the electric does the work
asciilifeform: ( point was, academitards swarm around 'demonstrations of clever' glass beads rather than items that demonstrably work, as discussed in http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-02#1621290 and elsewhere ) ☝︎
asciilifeform: any attempt at proceeding in the absence of said theory, is guaranteed to give you a 'it seemed clever and unbreakable to ME!' idiocy, a la aes et al.
asciilifeform: clever, seems to use unique rf characteristics of a random wire hairball ☟︎
asciilifeform: not only tax. old associate of asciilifeform's thought he was clever , went off to taiwan, keeping same (tele) job. found himself with 'cost of living adjust' to half the pay the next month.
asciilifeform: clever
mircea_popescu: and it doesn't work without withening ; or in other words : he intelligently used the otherwise useless whitening step as an assurance provider. was pretty clever move, esp considering the standard for intelligence at the time.
gabriel_laddel_p: rich kids who think they're clever hate this, apparently.
kanzure: e.g. daylength can be shortened by ~1 hour by clever shading
mircea_popescu: is he clever ?
BingoBoingo: Today's Trilema re-read http://trilema.com/2015/these-fools-have-been-handed-a-technology-so-clever-so-disruptive-and-revolutionary-that-the-rulers-of-the-world-would-have-to-fully-unmask-themselves-as-ruthless-tyrants-in-order-to-suppress-it/
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-02#1692489 << this is actually a pretty clever move. ☝︎
phf: "Like you, I also wanted to study the TeX code. After all, it was written by an eminent computer scientist, and, for a large piece of software, it is remarkably free of bugs. It looked like something significant could be learned. But, I gave up after a while. Mostly because the code is full of clever tricks to pack data into memory locations to save space. This made sense 30 years ago, but not so much today, and it makes the code very difficult to read
asciilifeform: a clever man might be able to think of something involving vectorized 'brush strokes' rather than raster. might be moar searchable. but inevitably moar complex also.
erlehmann: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-23#1673846 << a type of situation, where if you are clever enough to react in a calm and decisive manner, you are probably not obnoxious enough to end up in it ☝︎
BingoBoingo: <js-of-mp> recall the clever chick that couldn't make it ? i think he's in a much better position, for being male. << AHA
js-of-mp: recall the clever chick that couldn't make it ? i think he's in a much better position, for being male.
asciilifeform: ( chinese folx are observably clever enough to sometimes signal 'we kowtow' without actually ~doing~ any such thing -- as per the infamous july '15 forklulz
mircea_popescu: to be honest, back when the fucktards were like "o hi guise, i am 12 and expert, never heard of wot but i made this keybase", i was all pissy because of the whole "i have never heard". now that they do the "oh i know tmsr is my true and proper sovereign, but might i not talk my way out of it ? i'm really clever like, plus i use words i can't define borrowed from an old copy of wikimedica" i'm pissy because of the whole clever
mircea_popescu: clever enough
mircea_popescu suspects this may well be alf's favourite passtime. the endless field of register-clever, like a sort of chess.
mod6: i've always wanted to do my best, or be as good as I can be at something that interested me. im not as smart or as clever as many, but I put in the work. i find that putting in the work pays dividends later.
mircea_popescu: could make a whole bunch of "clever" romcoms around the newly upgraded mistaken identity comedy, omg his watch flashed.
mircea_popescu: ^ http://twitter.com/akekmememorph for the curious. clever see, cuz kek and meme and stuff. and ironic. and everything. you should prolly date him.
mircea_popescu: i'd propose anyoen with a degree from the same place and an ounce of self respect worth would return it, but then again it's transparently a ploy by whatever rando nonuniversity's too-clever-by-half administrator.
asciilifeform: if rsatron becomes slightly more readable, and a dozen lines shorter, and less 'clever', and as result generating key takes two days instead of 1 -- i call it a win!!
Framedragger actually went on their channel (whichever it was, they have like tox-talk and -dev and just tox or sth) to see if any clever people. yes, one iphy (also on ##crypto) understood that (1) it was an issue and (2) these other 'core member' fuckwits were destroying any goodwill
asciilifeform: these, apparently, too clever for cage.
asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform is in the process of exterminating some squirrels and finding them to be surprisingly clever )
mats: https://www.scribd.com/document/344995943/Report-by-White-House-Alleging-Proof-of-Syria-as-the-Perpetrator-of-the-Nerve-Agent-Attack-in-Khan-Shaykhun-on-April-4-2017 Prof. Ted Postol believes the current us administration is being manipulated by clever propaganda
asciilifeform: if you wanted to be even more clever, could use strictly beta detector, and rely on the fact that the things go in two opposite geometric directions every time.
shinohai would love if some clever haxor made this happen https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8XdC1tUQAANzgC.jpg
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 22:32 asciilifeform: 'The situation is somewhat akin to a retarded girlfriend trying to flood your apartment, that not only opens all the faucets and stops all the drains, but also takes the "extremely clever" measure of puncturing the water pipes, so she can then preciously inform you that "turning off the faucets won't help" and you must work with her to somehow create a raft out of your widescreen TV so as to navigate the marshy terrain that used to b
trinque: surely that wasn't 'every clever kid wants a fish to eat and a cock to sit upon' ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the thought process is that every clever kid wants to 'и рыбку съесть, и на хуй сесть' (tm)
asciilifeform: if you haven't yet tried mod6's buildtron, run it per the recipe literally first, it will not rebuild the deps every time, is reasonably clever
mircea_popescu: tru story : i wrote to romanian minister of foreign affairs incensed romanian consul failed to answer my emails. turns out... clever spamfilter, woman was mortified.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 22:32 asciilifeform: 'The situation is somewhat akin to a retarded girlfriend trying to flood your apartment, that not only opens all the faucets and stops all the drains, but also takes the "extremely clever" measure of puncturing the water pipes, so she can then preciously inform you that "turning off the faucets won't help" and you must work with her to somehow create a raft out of your widescreen TV so as to navigate the marshy terrain that used to b
asciilifeform: i could picture some clever mathemagical route whereby each hop can only take a portion of what the n-1-th node consented to -- but i know of no algo to make it thinkable.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: perhaps under explained in "if you accept the thesis" where <thesis> is entire stack of usgola. yes, 401kholder seeks to eat cheese, turn around put money into house do all the clever tricks with it. also many don't! and many like myself look at the whole thing as a stupid intellectual complexity trap not worth entertaining.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-25 22:32 asciilifeform: broken searches are nearly always a result of some pathetic piece of shit trying to 'be clever'.
ben_vulpes: postgres full text search; "some pathetic piece of shit trying to be clever"
asciilifeform: (and the occasional literate d00d, e.g., phf, naively making use of a library written by 'clever' peopel)
asciilifeform: broken searches are nearly always a result of some pathetic piece of shit trying to 'be clever'. ☟︎
asciilifeform: but if you had something clever in mind, around this, i'm all ears
mircea_popescu: in other news pete_dushenski is actually a pretty clever auctioneer, once he overcomes not having done homewerks through listening to the market chatter.
ben_vulpes: no it's all clever and shit
asciilifeform: (you could try an' do something clever with matrix with deprioritized whitespace, and the like)
asciilifeform: they have clever nozzles now, but there are always mega-heroes who manage to fuel up with entirely wrong liquid
ben_vulpes: what is "clever" territory?
mircea_popescu: so is it 8ball that finally climbed into "clever" territory ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because dr.mengele makes a patch that ~produces~ the genesis, thinking he is oh so clever
davout: because APIs *have* to be clever, because these people are too good for documentation
mircea_popescu: the disadvantage of being clever is that one will be surprised.
mircea_popescu: (pretty clever design - you could hook the glass pane out by lifting it.)
phf: "And when they discover he is Jewish? “The Chinese think we are the smartest people in the world, after the Chinese,” he said. “They say, ‘Very clever, very good at business.’ It’s an honor to be Jewish in China. They say they would like to imitate the Jews.” Among the best-selling books in China this year were “The Jewish People’s Bible for Business and Managing the World” and “The Jewish Way of Raising Children.”"
mircea_popescu: i suppose we start calling nigger assets masquerading as "scientists" trickers from now on, on the basis of you know, "a trick" being "slang" for "a clever and legitimate technique". you know, "in science".
mircea_popescu: r Keith's to hide the decline."[205] In science, the term "trick" is slang for a clever (and legitimate) technique, in this case Michael E. Mann's technique for comparing two different data sets,[206] and "the decline" referred to the already published divergence problem with tree ring density proxies affecting the post 1960 part of Keith Briffa's reconstruction graph. Despite this and the fact that 1999 had just seen record
mats: if it's not 'the alt right is made up of neo nazis' it's 'chinese people are implementing eugenics by selecting for clever and attractive children in band programs'
shinohai: ah clever trinque
asciilifeform: btw tactic of 'bundle stock flash player + dancing-lolcat-cum-exploit-for-same' is clever in the sense of avoiding whatever av
asciilifeform: flea ain't esp. clever either. but he knows how to flea.
mircea_popescu: it's very clever!
asciilifeform: with clever bicycle saddle
mircea_popescu: a clever design for which would be muchly useful.
ben_vulpes: clever little design
mircea_popescu: (and yes the name is very likely a fake, or w/e, a "literary pseudonym". because historical andrew daulton lee, and aren't we fucking clever over at md journo school.)
asciilifeform: a slightly clever mpbot would be guided by what is actually said to it (grep the from:mircea_popescu lines for words or even fragments of the query and return shannonization of immediately subsequent from: s)
asciilifeform: if the indians were clever and looked as if they were at risk for discovering vaccination , quarantine, etc. and laughing off smallpox blankets, how might equally clever englishmen have countered ?
mircea_popescu: but whatever, i'm sure the derps involved think themselves finger-tenting lever clever for it.
asciilifeform: well yes, deliberately picked it as example of humbly-clever opponent
asciilifeform: if anyone knew how to make 'npc rat' as clever as actual meat rat, games with robo-npc would be considerably more interesting !
phf: clever
jurov: i am now matching mircea's answers against regexp? that was really clever retort.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 22:32 asciilifeform: 'The situation is somewhat akin to a retarded girlfriend trying to flood your apartment, that not only opens all the faucets and stops all the drains, but also takes the "extremely clever" measure of puncturing the water pipes, so she can then preciously inform you that "turning off the faucets won't help" and you must work with her to somehow create a raft out of your widescreen TV so as to navigate the marshy terrain that used to b
asciilifeform: 'The situation is somewhat akin to a retarded girlfriend trying to flood your apartment, that not only opens all the faucets and stops all the drains, but also takes the "extremely clever" measure of puncturing the water pipes, so she can then preciously inform you that "turning off the faucets won't help" and you must work with her to somehow create a raft out of your widescreen TV so as to navigate the marshy terrain that used to b ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dunno, here we have some mind-bogglingly bovine rich, and pretty clever poverty..?
pete_dushenski: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ichiro-finds-a-clever-way-to-put-pete-rose-in-his-place-190845491.html << or how one japanese mlb all-star sees usian klass kultur
shinohai: Nah that sly edit was very clever, I like it.
asciilifeform: my current hypothesis is that enemy was a little more clever than reported by the bocks, and divided dupe keys into equivalence classes
mircea_popescu: mats> this presumption of air dominance is not clever << and even if it held, the drone bs is just lazy thinking.
mats: this presumption of air dominance is not clever
mircea_popescu: nah, he'd be friends with bahamas. "oh look, clever guy ALSO built capital in middle of swamp"
mircea_popescu: since we're doing externalities, let's do the whole shebang, not like i'm a fucking redskin and the oh-so-clever ustard is going to get to count MY externalities and just mine.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: modern gps jamming countermeasures play clever tricks with ~direction~
mircea_popescu: imagine the clever mit governance of their scamcoin. by 2018 there will be 10gb of crud. "why is this all here ?!?!?!?!"
asciilifeform: sounds about as 'clever' as my 'shiva' thing nuking its entire guts when you disconnect the term.
mircea_popescu: i had some pretty clever friends that part of the world.
mircea_popescu: he is clever. to wit : "What kind of intellectual climate existed in that time. What happens when everyone is coming up with new ideas all the time? Think about it in contemporary terms. What happens when everybody and his grandma has his own ideas is… a whole lot of signaling spirals."
asciilifeform: clever fella.
mircea_popescu: so, you're a young and enthused, reasonably clever, 19yo girl in random shithole country.
mircea_popescu: admittedly my thinking being that it's time to stop trying to be clever and "cheat", seeing how the only cheated to date is self.
phf: rng posted for comedic value, thing reads like clever parody, while it of course is not
asciilifeform: e.g., an optical delay line arranged in some clever way.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile i want gradients like i want the "clever" ustard namespace. o woe what the fuck will i do without "laundromat" and "chuck e cheese" !!1
asciilifeform: i find it interesting that the enemy did not see it fit to try to sell us a clever dud
asciilifeform: mod6: similar to the old 'armed bear common lisp', except that it was written by a 'clever tricks' crackpot who added in ten truckloads of homegrown ustard idiocy
asciilifeform: the solution to 'clever trick makers' is to kick in their teeth