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pete_dushenski: this being the dominion of people for whom grunts and shouts pass for 'communication'
pete_dushenski: which i guess is just 'if you can, you must' re-stated
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assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 09:05:26; BingoBoingo: So far October has been an frustratingly boring part of Bitcoin. I am worried though that Qntra is crossing into its second year and people don't want a giftwrapped chance to write a first story. Is qntra insufficiently established or does this seem too much of a trap. I the cost of fucking up in #b-a seeming too high? I am confused.
pete_dushenski: the problem the preacher has is that he never knows who he's going to convery
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 09:48:04; cazalla: punkman, been a daily thing for almost 3 years for me, just grown tired of it and the conversations about it past few months, i'm not saying "bitcoin is dead" just that i'm tired of talking/reading about it after this long, feel like going to do something else for 6-12 months and looking at it then after a break
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have nfi where you expect "foss" code without shitgnome signatures to come from.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> whereas an fathering hero is me ! << this too shall pass.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform : historical version is historical version, whadda ya want from me.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu so will all my days, doesn't mean i'm not going to milk each and every one of them
assbot: Tips and tricks for being a successful (small time) landlord. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1GarvQ1 )
mircea_popescu: ah yea, managed some small office building thing, i recall.
mircea_popescu: i on the other hand have held under lease tens of millions worth (dubviously, which is why i lease in the first place) of real estate the world over during the past decade or so...
mircea_popescu: i guess b-a is a very good venue to discuss the matter.
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pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu fwiw you're new keyboard seems markedly worse than you old one in terms of accuracy, at least on irc if not trilema. many a spurious \\\ etc
pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=13-10-2015#1298016 << update: adam_obrien and i played golf this afternoon and chatted about pgp key-signing. in his excitement at discovering the command line tools, he tried out everything he could find (he's an enthusiastic kid!) and yes, signed my key. he was quite surprised to learn that this changed the key block on the sks etc servers.. fwiw
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 13-10-2015 18:24:46; mircea_popescu: anyway, pete_dushenski : someone (o'brien) signed your key and uploaded it to one of the servers. the result is a different pubkey there.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu tsk tsk ?? lol like someone's been bad ?
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 14:45:54; thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: if your mark is bad << what a british way to say "grade"
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cazalla: pete_dushenski, ya know, i can't honestly remember what they're called down under (thanks for other comments too)
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assbot: Logged on 17-10-2015 00:16:36; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform : historical version is historical version, whadda ya want from me.
assbot: Logged on 17-10-2015 00:15:17; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have nfi where you expect "foss" code without shitgnome signatures to come from.
assbot: Logged on 17-10-2015 00:19:54; mircea_popescu: nubbins` iirc is a full fledged rentier, lives off of it
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funkenstein_: funk_add_privkey_wallet_tools.vpatch <-- experimental patch sent to btc-dev mailing list
funkenstein_: i thought so but hey, you know how that goes..
ben_vulpes: armored and clearsigned body + patch + patch.sig, right?
funkenstein_: asciilifeform, well then somebody's messing with me
funkenstein_: i grabbed some source labeled 0.6.0 which had importprivkey
funkenstein_: i input a few keys.. they went into the keystore, nothing odd happened
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assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 18:23:53; mircea_popescu: gabrielradio it's "guide for half the oral sex". see, because two sexes ?
mircea_popescu: but i guess the old adage stands, that there's no better way to understand a text than to try and translate it\
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mircea_popescu: if you measure correctly you can get her to where she's not totally murdering herself on that thing. not trivial.
phf: sort of the whole point
mircea_popescu: aha. it's particularly difficult in humans, because as ben_vulpes observes, flesh.
mircea_popescu: also that's probably the worst presentation for it, seeing how the shoulder articulation actually unhinges.
ben_vulpes: no closed form solution for the three body solution eh?
ben_vulpes: orbital subset is just a subset of the general stability problems
ben_vulpes: all bodies are in motion in some reference frame
ben_vulpes: fine it's not a three body problem its a stretchypainavoidantthing/gravity/pointything problem
mircea_popescu: ;;google "moving bodies in own gravitational field" visegrad
mircea_popescu: ;;google first step to nobel prize in physics visegrad
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mircea_popescu: Second, one might ask why this is happening to boys more than girls. It's obvious to anyone who has ever seen a boy that they appear, as compared to a similarly aged girl, completely retarded. So it makes sense that affluent parents-- any parents-- who have the option, will redshirt their five year old boy and hope he gets another year of maturity under his belt so that-- and this is my point-- he can keep up with th
mircea_popescu: e girls. So the problem isn't simply that boys mature slower than girls, it is that they are required to perform the same exact skills at the same exact time. Any surprise boys hate school more, "ADHD" is more prevalent, etc? And there is more anxiety and thus pressure about the potential ineptitude of sons than daughters.
mircea_popescu: the result of making education "more inclusive" ? society gets tuned out by the most important half of itself.
mircea_popescu: somehow the obvious "if you've not managed to sell school to boys you failed" is not getting across. "girls will stick with it because that's what girls ARE" is not even possible to contemplate.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many people are willing to earnestly contemplate the sad truth that you HAVE TO tell small boys that they're better than small girls, and you HAVE TO construct everything to make them actually believe it. nobody wants to do this, everyone has to do this, because the alternative is, plainly speaking, death.
mircea_popescu: the death where everyone runs around like a headless chicken while the economy disappears "all by itself" and every war is lost (and scarcely even worth the name)
mircea_popescu: the death where mp is NOT EVEN IMPRESSED. and he's from fucking romanistan!
mircea_popescu: " It's obvious to anyone who has ever seen a boy that they appear, as compared to a similarly aged girl, completely retarded."
mircea_popescu: the problem is that boys are retarded while girls are useless.
mircea_popescu: not for all of them, but you don't need to, and it doesn't work reliably either, but you don't need it to, either.
mircea_popescu: who designed their winning rockets, and more importantly, who decided to even go that way ?
mircea_popescu: school is for providing the background where korolev grows up. both he and the background are unaware of what they're doing there.
phf: sort of like ender's game model, other boys are also there for him to sharpen his faculties
mircea_popescu: to the extent it EVER worked, it was specifically designed koan-style by koan-aware people for that one guy.
mircea_popescu: yes murican "educational experts" never got wtf the thing is for or about. because whatever, paint copysts.
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mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the point : unless you actually spend the inordinate amount of effort and make-believe into getting boys appear (to themselves, and to others) actually worth the effort, they won't be. and from there on the whole shebang unravels.
mircea_popescu: it's rather instructive to compare the "what they were telling 5yo boys" sides of historical conflicts, with the "who won", check out that r!
mircea_popescu: and no, bismarckian public education is the original PRODUCTIVE scam. that's why the system even survived through centuries (and really, the same shit held up classical antiquity, just, different name)
mircea_popescu: "lie to little boys about their value, which is absent ; lie to little girls about their inferiority, which is nonsense. come out ahead of "saner" people."
mircea_popescu: who did you think was prescribing all the ritalin, obgyns ?
mircea_popescu: yet another reason i don't feel inclined to procreate : i don't actually know of a group for whose sake i'd be willing to lie to eventual daughters.
ben_vulpes: that's the sweetest thing i've ever seen from you, mircea_popescu
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gabrielradio: mircea_popescu, i find your stance on procreating intriguing. i'm curious, would you be inclined to say have biological kids, but not raise them yourself?
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't raise them myself anyway, what do they have mothers for ?
gabrielradio: so i for one don't find that many drawbacks to parenthood
mircea_popescu: how about "i don't feel like wasting any of the women i can stand enough to fuck on this fool's errand" ?
gabrielradio: just curious. i'm on the other end of the spectrum, i would like to have as many kids as possible, and ideally be involved as little as possible, maybe in their education or such
mircea_popescu: what am i, like harlan ellison's noob that fell off the turnip truck ? so excited to be published i forget to pick up the check ?
mircea_popescu: dawg, that's where they play that game. you wanna play that game, gotta go where they play it.
gabrielradio: i like to think i can mold the chicks into being cool with that wherever
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assbot: Logged on 17-10-2015 00:48:53; pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-10-2015#1300614 << hey nice ! i was looking at this one a few months back as a potential victim for my rom-eng secret sauce machine. i think i might just take this translation as a more than adequate starting point, clean it up, and post it :)
gabrielradio: !rate pete_dushenski 2 nails stuff on contravex.com
gabrielradio: !v assbot:gabrielradio.rate.pete_dushenski.2:5e88e7552755a7276c0a6f8ed254ece447f8f0ac6427931269871c80af36e710
assbot: Successfully added a rating of 2 for pete_dushenski with note: nails stuff on contravex.com
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funkenstein_: <gabrielradio> i would like to have as many kids as possible, and ideally be involved as little as possible <-- perhaps you'd also like to have girlfriends, but never see or fuck them
HeySteve: so he wants to be a sperm donor
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funkenstein_: i'd like to have a thousand bitcoins, but somebody else to hold and spend them for me
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_> <-- perhaps you'd also like to have girlfriends, but never see or fuck them << you don't understand what the internets is for, or what the mobile revolution all about.
shinohai: ;;later tell funkenstein Yo fam, if you need holding and spending assistants when you hit 1000 BTC I'm your guy.
mircea_popescu: trinque hey, is there a url to download deedbot's db, i forget ?
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mircea_popescu: " you can support associative array lookups, appending to unbounded-size arrays, and the like, as fundamental machine operations."
pete_dushenski: holy lolz that's a first, i just had an entire half-hour convo between myself and assbot
assbot: Logged on 17-10-2015 09:35:16; gabrielradio:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-10-2015#1300901 << pete_dushenski go right ahead. next on the list are /2011/in-sprijinul-eugeniei/ , /2009/insarcinati-va/ and /2009/ce-ma-intereseaza-pe-mine-intr-un-proiect/ . if you have any one in particular you were looking at, shoot!
pete_dushenski: "Forget Colorado, stoners. The real frontier of narcotic edibles is in Shaanxi province, China. A restaurant owner there just confessed to police that to keep customers coming back, he had infused his noodles with 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of pulverized poppy buds—which can contain narcotics like morphine and codeine—that he bought in August for 600 yuan ($98)"
pete_dushenski: so it's $1.39/oz, or about $0.05/g, for opium in mainland china in case anyone was wondering how badly their silk road dealer was ripping them off.
pete_dushenski: in other news, hyatt hotels, following the leads of marriott and hilton, no longer off in-room cable porn.
pete_dushenski: this might seem like a loss for the lonely business traveler, but until hyatt offers 'safe' internet with the 5 'safest' websites and those alone, i wouldn't worry about it too much
pete_dushenski: though hopefully a dose or two of quaaludes are thrown in to spice it up a bit 'wolf of wall street' style
pete_dushenski: re : song : "My suggestion is that our ancestors turned loud singing into a central element of their defence system against predators. They started using loud, rhythmic singing and shouting accompanied by vigorous, threatening body movements and object throwing to defend themselves from predators."
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2014 04:56:39; assbot: All Blacks vs France mean haka 2011 World cup winners - YouTube ... (
http://bit.ly/1FH7KJh )
pete_dushenski: re : burial : "When a human dies naturally, make sure the corpse is properly disposed of. The corpse is a liability because a predator will associate even a scavenged meal (of human meat) with 'profitability'."
mircea_popescu: one day im going to understand how stupidity in very smart people works.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 23:45:19; mircea_popescu: tis a problem.
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 23:45:16; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1299071 << more like smart people do stupid shit all the time and often enough it happens that you're impressed with something someone does only to discover they "did it" by pure coincidence later on.
assbot: Logged on 17-10-2015 16:00:29; mircea_popescu: check out the anti-c machine
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2015 23:05:08; assbot: The Architecture of Symbolic Computers - Peter M. Kogge - Google Boeken ... (
http://bit.ly/1HiVST5 )
mircea_popescu: "So I bought a sewing factory makes a good title but the truther is that I bought a near perfectly sized industrial building and remodeled it to become a sewing factory."
pete_dushenski: "3. On October 16th, 2014 cazalla notified the board of his intention to take a vacation. " << it's 2015
pete_dushenski: "Given today, October 17th, in the capital city of our beloved Republic." << why no year ?
trinque: I'll fiddle with this in private a bit and let ya know when it goes through.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: sure you have, it's right there in the contract: 2014 is the only year that ever was.
trinque: mircea_popescu: sure; easy cron job. I'll provide a URL for that
mircea_popescu: here's what i was thinking trinque : how much complexity would it add if the download was of the format
mircea_popescu: and it delivered a blob consisting of all matter signed by that fingerprint, encrypted to that fingerprint
trinque: ah cool. yeah that can be done
trinque: sqlite backs it all, just queries and loops and a call out to gpg
punkman: yeah but you'd want that in whole bundle parts, so you can verify it
mircea_popescu: (this is turning more and more into the only legitimately useful implementation of "blockchyain technology" known to date)
trinque: punkman: how do you mean? bundles are currently multiple fingerprints
trinque: so if I then pulled by fingerprint and dumped them out, would not have anything a spend referred to
trinque: potentially it would but not as a rule
mircea_popescu: trinque pull out the whole bundle with a fingerprint in it, not just the deed
trinque: mircea_popescu: that means your backup gets the other guy's stuff too, right?
trinque: "if I was a part of this bundle, my backup has the whole bundle" ?
mircea_popescu: dja understand how this models out or should i go into it ?
trinque: I understand why the unit to work with here is the verifiable one. is there something more to it?
trinque: you would lose the time aspect without the whole bundles
mircea_popescu: trinque yes. imagine there's a millenium worth of deedbot, in the library of republixandria ; and imagine this is burned. now, we aim to reconstruct it.
mircea_popescu: some people who wrote deeds are dead. some are not. some LINES of deed writing exist ; some are dead.
mircea_popescu: what shall be remembered of the thousand year archive is exactly what should be remembered : that which touched something that still interests.
mircea_popescu: as to archeology : find a source. that is the only way archeology works. you must find someone who remembers the history.
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mircea_popescu: so i spent four dollars for eight ounces of jasmin green tea.
mircea_popescu: it turns out to be not only the best green tea i ever had, but so fucking great i'm actually drinking some.
mircea_popescu: ALUMINUM DOESN'T CHIP << yes it does ben_vulpes ; poorly formulated aluminium's major problem is chipping. that's why it wasn't used in airframe fabrication from the get-go.
punkman: mircea_popescu: great flavour for home-made pastries too
ben_vulpes: yes, crack propagation under vibratory load is a thing, but shouldn't this shit be deforming instead of chipping?
mircea_popescu: well depends what you alloy it with and how well you do that.
ben_vulpes: if your al is chipping under hand load i'm not really willing to accept that it's aluminum
ben_vulpes: "but i can see the coke bits floating in it. and it shatters when i hit it with a hammer."
ben_vulpes: "in aggregate though, the chemistry's totally right!"
mircea_popescu: the only thing is that "aluminum" is not like steel, it's like iron. ie, an element.
ben_vulpes: is the ceramic-puffed "gold" in the "watch" gold?
mircea_popescu: duralumin, which is its first serious application, and what those large cow milk receptacles were made out of, in the 1920s pictures of farmers throwing milk away
ben_vulpes: short walk? or did the walk end in a shart?
mircea_popescu: "all of their tools live in the Web, that bloated, miserable heap of accidentally co-executing text-as-sort-of-program."
mircea_popescu: "The Monte-Carlo approach to engineering, if you will, but with humans doing a really bad job of playing RNG." << how mp's view of VC world sounds, without any of the bile.
ben_vulpes: the "web tekmologys" assemblage is approaching the complexity of protein engineering, and the only thing that can be done is shake your problem space really hard until usable building blocks fall out.
mircea_popescu: there is a very fundamental difference between constructed complexity ("web technology", astrology, political science etc) and actual complexity (protein folding, moving bodies in grav fields, etc)
mircea_popescu: the difference is that if you ignore the former you get paid, and if you ignore the latter you get hit in the head.
mircea_popescu: "TYRANNY IS A PREREQUISITE FOR QUALITY, APPLE RETCONNERS." << holy shit this may even actually be defensible.
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mircea_popescu: But more importantly, forensic brain scans represent the worst kind of classism. They say, essentially, that because your brain looks very similar to other brains, then you belong in that class; and you take on their other qualities. They may be appropriate for scientific investigations-- as early clues directing further research, "hey, this is interesting, let's look over here from now on"-- but they have no place i
mircea_popescu: n the justice system. I'd argue any association studies have no place in court, especially when they are read backwards ("because he has this, he is this.")
mircea_popescu: quite exactly. it's not okay to say "this man is black, therefore he's guilty, because that's the nature of people that are black"
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the argument is almost always presented as "the glucose consumption picture in this guy's brain looks like THESE splotches of blue/yellow/whatever, therefore he's so-and-so like these other guys whose pictures look similar".
mircea_popescu: trying to package and sell stupidity as racism is mostly a symptom of that same problem.
mircea_popescu: "Do you want to live in a world where the criminality of an act-- the culpability of a person-- is based essentially on the moral ADHD of a bunch of doctors with third hand understanding of MRI results? Strike that-- on a very select bunch of doctors who purport to speak for these other doctors, who claim to have the greatest grasp of the science, and who claim in complete and absolute seriousness to have the best un
mircea_popescu: derstanding of the ethical progressivism of society-- better than lawyers or engineers or teachers or priests or anyone else-- ethics which they admit are constantly evolving-- but have thankfully, magically, and conveniently reached their culmination with today. The end of history. 4000 years of ethics, useless; they got it all right with a grant from the NIH and a subscription to The New Yorker."
assbot: Logged on 11-10-2015 20:06:41; asciilifeform: folks familiar with usg 'scientocracy' will laugh, but the fact is, the mind-reading box does not necessarily have to... work. to be put in use.
mircea_popescu: also, my nirvana inducing anal pole doesn't have to work
mircea_popescu: dude, before everything it was "mom leaves, and kiddie follows".
assbot: Logged on 19-10-2014 18:31:23; asciilifeform: chetty: the whole purpose of 'biometric' crap is to administratively fix the designated chump as the permanently-designated chump.
mircea_popescu: ansd you know, the universal supreme goat council (USG) had a secret conspiracy to import wolves into the forest, to keep the baby goat herding behaviour going\
mircea_popescu: does the jump make sense or should i drop some pontoons ?
mircea_popescu: (the reason is that mine's really the affirmative - the dictum masquerades a negative as a pop-positive, is all)
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: even greats had to write horoscopes to justify telescopes
mircea_popescu: "even lord tolstoy had to write shakespeare teardowns to justify the great russian novel!"
ben_vulpes: but i am an orc, ignorant history and might be picking the wrong feller.
trinque: I have put that doc back through.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes but if ignorant why pick at all. do you also run in the dark ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you are not promised at birth a "good" life.
mircea_popescu: you are promised at birth a life on your own terms, or to the breaking of your bones, whichever comes first.
ben_vulpes: the higher level point is that normal schmucks like me must suck cock.
mod6: wtf? sorry about this line: log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-10-2015#1299790 I must have accidentially pasted it. :/
ben_vulpes: mod6: i thought it was a sneaky release
mod6: haha. just checked the log and was like "what in the heck?!"
mod6: "when did i say /that/?!"
mod6: oh yeah, i see now, those three things are in a line of my ls output in one of my term windows.
mod6: this weekend was going to take a long road trip.... my buddy pussed out in Des Moines so we stopped at a hole in the wall stripclub then proceeded to drive directly back.
mod6: long drive. girls were pretty hot tho.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform guy was tycho brache's cock puppet, what.
mircea_popescu: oh dude... am i going to hear cca 2500 that i had a sideline in "poetry writing" ?
mod6: there was a tall blond with a nice rack-of-lamb that was just for you Mr. P. You would have liked her I think. :]
mod6: naw. didn't say much to her. just let her dance on me.
mod6: she was about.. 6'2", 6'3", maybe taller in 5 inch heels.
mod6: nice rack, nice proportions.
mod6: lol, I had to look up at her.
mod6: This other girl with the hula-hoops had me mezmorized. :D
mod6: Shorter brunette girl. Yow!
mircea_popescu: for hall in the wall this sounds actually far above buenos aires' best and brightest.
mircea_popescu: i've yet to find a strip joint that's not really a kindergarten of the retarded.
mod6: The reviews on google for this place was HORRIBLE, but we were like "fuck it".
mod6: And for a hole-in-the-wall, it actually had 4 pretty hot strippers.
mod6: So yeah, the reviews were pretty much bullshit -- at least for that night.
mod6: Ahah. You know.. it was funny how this place was zoned... there was a Library with a childrens place across the street. few other bars. Post office.
mircea_popescu: maybe the managers were like "hey, b-a luminary and trb maintainer mod seeks is coming over, EVERYONE ON ATTENTION!!1. Joe, call your wife, I know we said we'd never put her on but man... THIS IS TMSR!"
mod6: In minneapolis they'd have never let them put that in the same neighborhood. So Iowa is a bit cooler? Still shocked by this.
mod6: lol, we didn't see one, just a lot of books that probably never get read.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i certainly am not rich yet.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just because he's richer than you doesn't automatically make him not poor you know :D
mircea_popescu: i wonder how come they make sake argument and not say wine argument, or rum argument.
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mircea_popescu: i own like 3 of the things, i used them for maybe five hours total the past year.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: useful for hauling around the office, showing stuff in meetings etc.
PeterL: I still use my 2007 MacBook as my only puter
ben_vulpes: someday i'll offload all this onto staff.
mircea_popescu: it occurs to me i have in this selfsame year never showed anyone anything.
mod6: ben_vulpes: yeah, i couldn't imagine trying to do the same with a tablet or something. but i like the desktops that I have at home for stuff too.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: there was that eulora demo for which you had a whole computer set up.
mod6: i just need to get a fantastic display array like asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: i'm playing it as we speak, making congressional pulp.
mod6: i just pulled down the new version of eulora btw. about to try to build it...
☟︎ mod6: i gotta learn how to use Foxy's bot!
mod6: i like manual mining though... in a way, it's just some time for me to do some clicking and thinking about other things.
mircea_popescu: it's ten minutes to set up and ten minutes of use to make itself indispensable. the chick can code, i don't remember a tool becoming THIS FUCKING NEEDED in recent times.
mod6: wow yeah, think i read that. lol, I've used 2 of 'em.
mod6: it's how I found a whole 'nother patch of Elusive Snails.
mod6: I saw there is some structures in the pictures, gotta check that out.
mod6: I saw a mining map that seemed to be autogenerated by the bot?! Looked fantastic.
mod6: If that's what you mean, yeah.
mircea_popescu: you don't even have to boither with anything, keeps its own logs, they get awked and gnuplot.
mod6: that is really sweet.
mod6: Sure beats what I was doing.
mircea_popescu: actual community maintained game client ius such a fucking all-obliterating win...
mircea_popescu: the only example i can think of would be "consumer designed laptop". you go in the shop with the definition files and they fedex you the item later that week
mircea_popescu: and "i want one like joe has" is a perfectly valid definition file.
mod6: pre-september desktops for the win
mircea_popescu: yes well, the eulora box is maybe 30lbs, and it's made of common materials.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck did you get a laptop that supplants a half ton desktop ?
trinque wonders aloud what a half-ton desktop looks like
trinque: must be counting the desk and room!
ben_vulpes: a yeah well apple machines don't really come with anything
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: any suggestions on time series plotting from cl?
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ben_vulpes: any point to using a cl wrapper/bridge to gnuplot or just pipe out?
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cazalla: mircea_popescu, can you revise a copy of the contract with correct date in historical recitals (2015, not 2014)
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phf: ben_vulpes: for something like gnuplot i've discovered that learning all kinds of fancy ways you can output a string with #'format is a lot more useful skill then learning a specific library. short of writing an equivalent of gnuplot command ast you're going to run into impedence mismatch one way or another
ben_vulpes: i'm dinking around with clnuplot as we speak, already seeing the end of its utility for me.
phf: i think canonical example of solving that sort of problems (i.e. generating command language from a higher level lisp solution) comes from cltl2 section on trig functions for complex values, where guy steele for whatever reason decided to include pretty graphs of function behaviors. he also included the program that he used to generate the graphs, by producing .ps from lisp
phf: (the program is at the end and worth the study to grok the meaning of the word "hack" before perl corrupted it)
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell funkenstein_ submission came through this time
mircea_popescu: yes the result is directly equivalent with "enemies control the decision process at all points and at all levels". but the cause is much more pedestrian : the innate MISTAKEN belief that "anyone can make a summary".
mircea_popescu: meanwhile at reality ranch, training a sex fied takes me six weeks, training a perfect soldier takes six months, and training a PASSIBLE intel summarizer takes six years.
assbot: Logged on 17-10-2015 18:16:21; mod6: i just pulled down the new version of eulora btw. about to try to build it...
mod6: i'm workin on it here. i forget my build rank... 70 somethin i think.
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mircea_popescu: "She can't understand why the ideal isn't the same as the average. So she wants to create reasons why the average is the ideal. " <<< Elizabeth Cashdan, woman in science.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck permits these imbeciles to pretend like they're faculty i have no idea.
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