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BingoBoingo: nm. Flase alarm on new Oglaf. rss reader was borked
shinohai: You had me thinking it was Sunday night.
BingoBoingo: For aspiring qntra writers note that dollar is never "Dollar" and that price news is never strictly Bitcoin news as evidenced by the Bitcoin category being omitted from the latest piece about exchange noise. That is all.
deedbot: jsgrant voiced for 30 minutes.
jsgrant: Probably going to bed soon in the meantime anyways, but will lurk regardless.
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BingoBoingo: This Split between Chinese exchanges and not Chinese is rather persistent. Far more than that $20 premium people bitched about for months.
shinohai almost wishes he had a @nigge.rs hostmask
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform thinking about it, it occurs to me that locklin's maudlin piece about reals is exactly typical of him and his "i am not intelligent, nor creative, but here's a bunch of hood ornaments i stole from other people's cars so you may think me intelligent and creative if you've never seen a car before" stance.
mircea_popescu: what an actually intelligent, creative person would have said would have been that the sad, sad excursion in reals on mid-early machines was an utter disaster, the scars of which we may only hope one day to outlive ; that the move away from that stupidity and to purely int machines and appliations is the heart of sensibility,
mircea_popescu: and that finally there is absolutely no reason to implement arbitrary division in the machine, nor does such idiocy exist in nature ; that the correct machine representation of numbers is FRACTIONS not fucking "decimals", and that computers that natively support bignum up to the size of memory and execute gcd in hardware aren't either particularly hard to make nor their absence to date excusable.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: but pi is not motherfucking "3.141592...". pi is 355/113, or whatever the fuck polygon you decide to use.
mircea_popescu: because that's what pi IS. you understand this, IS! IS!
a111: Logged on 2016-05-28 17:12 phf: pre-split btcbase log's purpose was analytical, where's now i spend my time on ux and ops issues. juxtaposition of kakobrekla doing low key malicious shit and asciilifeform trying to search cyrillic prompted that line
mircea_popescu: gotta love the logic, "can't get dudes to marry, so the solution is to make the few that do even more burdened." isn't this exactly opposite oif the usual socialist "share everything into the ground" mantra ?
mircea_popescu: how is this stance different from "the nazi military police can't find as many gypos as they used to, so therefore flaying alive of gypsies for fun should be regarded as aperfectly normal passtime, and in no sense wrong, even if it was rare before"
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: how about being consistent and arguing for "remove laws from the books until the number of male prison inmates === the number of female prison inmates" and "if you can't get married, beg your girlfriends to join you! if one of you cooks, one washes, one sees after the kids and one learns to pole dance, 4 millenian shitheads may just about cover the traditional role of womanhood"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: let this be a lesson to all kids watching at home : don't follow your fucking dreams. your dreams are shit. follow your principles. just as long as they're correct, you can't lose.
mircea_popescu: hey ben_vulpes can has links to home and to raw right under the wotpaste header ? like dpaste does it ?
a111: Logged on 2016-05-29 14:42 mircea_popescu: how is this stance different from "the nazi military police can't find as many gypos as they used to, so therefore flaying alive of gypsies for fun should be regarded as aperfectly normal passtime, and in no sense wrong, even if it was rare before"
a111: Logged on 2016-05-29 14:43 mircea_popescu: how about being consistent and arguing for "remove laws from the books until the number of male prison inmates === the number of female prison inmates" and "if you can't get married, beg your girlfriends to join you! if one of you cooks, one washes, one sees after the kids and one learns to pole dance, 4 millenian shitheads may just about cover the traditional role of womanhood"
a111: Logged on 2016-05-29 14:21 mircea_popescu: and that finally there is absolutely no reason to implement arbitrary division in the machine, nor does such idiocy exist in nature ; that the correct machine representation of numbers is FRACTIONS not fucking "decimals", and that computers that natively support bignum up to the size of memory and execute gcd in hardware aren't either particularly hard to make nor their absence to date excusable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform orly ? do this experiment. "has wasitline" is defined as " waistline < (tits + hips) / 3". pick up a tape and measure!
mircea_popescu: i suppose alternatively it could be "waistline in human females goes from 22 to 24 inches", if you want an absolute value. the problem is it'll admit all sorts of nags + most children. this is a debatable stance.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i can't quite make sense of that lafond piece. do you get what the man's trying to say ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, "the legion estranger" would be pretty lulzy if only it were intentional.
shinohai: Anyone with a twitter care to reach out to Victoria Van Eck for me? SHe still has me blocked lol.
shinohai wants to find out if she is still affiliated with ChangeTip
mircea_popescu: (in the rest of the world, it's legion etrangere, because legion is feminine in french and because s tends to drop, it's a complicated dicussion.)
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: yeah, haven't forgotten
a111: Logged on 2016-04-30 01:55 ben_vulpes: i'll probably be even less communicative than i've been for the next month or two
ben_vulpes: but yeah it's a trivial change i shoulda had it out
mircea_popescu: "Because I don't want to change how processes daemonize in general, just a few specific processes: tmux, screen, x2go was also mentioned."
mircea_popescu: and we hit paydirt. who the fuck is keszybz and who is the irresponsible asshole that lied to him to the degree of making him think he has any business touching computers!
mircea_popescu: it's ever fascinating what the internet knows or doesn't know.
mircea_popescu: yeah. in the process doing what agriculture is all about - improvement by selection.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it seemed to me the sort of obscure-but-very-interesting item that i've by now grown accustomed to the web NOT knowing.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i've yet to hear one of the "animal rights" derps mention it on its own power.
mircea_popescu: shinohai the only weird part being that they'd take a guy's money TO GIVE IT TO THE SCAM!
mircea_popescu: imagine, usg.mit actually has derpy 20something chicks so fucking insane, they run out to whore for it. FOR IT!
mircea_popescu: (noteworthy that the schmucks have the audacity to "such sites" "a site" etc. fucking link, bitches.)
shinohai: I couldn't agree more. What's a degree gonna get you? You'll be a straight-up prostitute anyway in a few years or less so go ahead and embrace it.
mircea_popescu: check out all the cute black wagons teh police has now. i wonder if there's a minuature collection anywhere for kids to play with.
shinohai: I remember having a chuckle this Halloween past, a few stores had child size swat outfits to dress kids in.
mircea_popescu: well no, swat was mostly the source of bodyes for bags there.
mircea_popescu: "proper armour" is like "battleworthy aircraft carrier".
mircea_popescu: there's a reason we like the de. get a decent tungsten/zirconium powder mix, glwa.
mircea_popescu: will even fire out of a fucking m2 browning, possibly the world's most abundant machine gun.
mircea_popescu: still, stuff like the raufoss mk211 is the exact pill for "oh, we're armored". orly ? well done, so the round won't blow clear through you! enjoy zirconium fire in your spleen!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: or more generally : there is no stable solution in war.
mircea_popescu: not even. pretty much all "stable solution" talk reduces to george costanza's "do you realise toilet paper has never changed" talk.
mircea_popescu: (notably, all civilised countries consider said he/incendiary round not suitable for anti-personnel applications. except the us, of course, here as everywhere else the epitome of the rogue state.)
mircea_popescu: same place he gets his super duper special grass pills or w/e ?
mircea_popescu: isis have tons, taken in "battle" from cowardly us mercs.
mircea_popescu: for lack of demand, only. opium, the other thing isis has tons of, is.
mircea_popescu: myeah. but in other lulz, anyone ever saw the RARDEN (ie, Royal Armament Research and Development blabla) ?
mircea_popescu: these people came up with the brilliant idea of mounting an autocannon in lieu of a proper cannon on a tank chassis. which is dumb enough ; but... instead of a belt feed, they came with the even briliant-er idea of having it manually loaded, with 3 round clips.
mircea_popescu: "all we really wanna do is bring matilda back hurr durr"
mircea_popescu: as late as 1944 anglos were not producing usable tanks. the us versions were midly miserable, the british versions were at best laughable.
mircea_popescu: as crude as they were, the russian couple were much better
mircea_popescu: actually history of british "engineering" of tanks in ww2 is good subject matter for its own chapter in "history of human idiocy".
mircea_popescu: "they came up with the idea of having the access hatch block the gun turret!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ze germanz hated the russian tanks and despised the anglo tanks (sherman included). there IS a difference.
mircea_popescu: (though honestly it - esp the m4 - looked to me more like a hastily copied t-34 than anything)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, you ever read von mellenthin's study in russian soldierly psychology (and other things) ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: gotta love this inept shit, "stupid idea is broken in many ways, most of them unfixable for good reasons - we'll consider here an irrelevant subset, that could be fixed."
mircea_popescu: somehow the realisation that "proposing a subset could exist IS ALREADY PREDICATING you can fix things you can't actually fix, so you're begging the question something massive".
shinohai: Polished turd is still a turd.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-29 20:43 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, you ever read von mellenthin's study in russian soldierly psychology (and other things) ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo i can't quite make sense of that lafond piece. do you get what the man's trying to say ? << Don't know that it somes to anything beyond him almost getting to somewhere
shinohai: White noise is useful for the masking of sensitive conversations!
jurov: or masking of farts
mircea_popescu: someone needs to take alf to heavy metal concerts back when he's 16
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> so where is mr. postal supposed to get his he autokanone rounds ? << cheaperthandirt.com
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-05-29 21:42 BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> so where is mr. postal supposed to get his he autokanone rounds ? << cheaperthandirt.com
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: literally that is the url. May or may not have, but gets interesting USG surplus from time to time. Gott get it when they have it before it sells out.
BingoBoingo: Oh you wanted HE, I thought you wanted incendiary
a111: Logged on 2016-05-29 21:41 mircea_popescu: someone needs to take alf to heavy metal concerts back when he's 16
BingoBoingo: They used to occasionally have surplus .30-06 AP, incendiary, tracer, etc. Prolly Obama's fault.
BingoBoingo: And where did you say HE until a link to maybe was posted?
shinohai: "I just really need your ass with me" <<< LOLOL
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mircea_popescu: in other news, the dictator is a shitty pile of forced memes, unfunny as all hell. its only distinction being that the progress is show to benefit some derpy woman whose only qualification is that she's not shavign her armpits (but she's willing to drop that), whereas the only loser is the actual competent engineer ; and that peter norton is cast as yet-another-celebrity whose only utility, value and stock in trade is being u
a111: Logged on 2016-05-29 22:52 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually no, power unit hissed alright.
jurov: inb4 tmsr sets out on researching fully laminar flow cooling system
a111: Logged on 2016-05-29 22:59 BingoBoingo: Or convince alf to leave the swamp
jurov: what about.. i don't know what is called - these accordion things ancient blacksmiths were usign to blow air?
jurov: idk, maybe the flapping noise would be more palatable :D
jurov: i'm sure they can be done silent with modern materials as they have no fast moving parts
jurov: um.. and what about combining them with keyboard?
jurov: keep typing or else!!!
jurov: dunno maybe it's even patentable? 1. computer cooling with leg-powered bellows 2. compuer sooling with keyboard microbellows :D :D
jurov: and actually, if every key had its own air tube, that would solve RF emanations, too :D