mircea_popescu: and in other ethereum news : the "white hack" attackers... stole... the pot.
mircea_popescu: shows what a vibrant space one'd have without the usg.mpaa idjits
BingoBoingo: Not like grotesque fat, but like WTF? Why bother sending someone when your best swimmer is 20-30% worse than the next worst country's swimmer?
BingoBoingo: Like someone paid for the dude to be last place. Not even with reasonable expectations they could do otherwise, but solidly knowing what would happen.
mircea_popescu: ie, there's an allowance the olympic lizzards make for each country to participate. many of them spend many times more on their teams ; but for shitholes from the country of africa it's actually lucrative in the sense of, pay fiddy bux to local derp to spend a week in a hotel for the first time in his life ; cash in on the olympic committee millionz.
BingoBoingo:
https://archive.is/E7JJG << Delusion Update "Instead, Seaman noted, Classic is an “insecure orphan chain” being promoted in a way that would be illegal if Ethereum were a publicly traded company, which it could eventually be." and other lol
jurov: today is IPO, tomorrow is GLORY
mircea_popescu: ethereum "publicly traded company" ? in what alternate universe.
BingoBoingo: In the one where the entire thing turns into the DAO
mircea_popescu: "david seaman, a crypto blogger". way to go. "nobody on a stick" etc.
mircea_popescu: anyway, feel free to publish trash piece. derp has exactly no clue, EVERY single thing he says is remarkably stupid and pointedly wrong.
PeterL: is that a weed or some kind of fruit?
shinohai consults the voynich manuscript
mircea_popescu: ah nm, they're putting a large ack limit in conf so as to... BYPASS THE MAGIC NUMBERS BAKED IN.
mircea_popescu: lemme link to the previous instance of me losing it over this. where was it.
mircea_popescu: nono, some idiot/genius explaining how he "fixed" something or the other in kernel
mircea_popescu: you recall ? was some foss "expert" blog article, in which he detailed some bugfixing he did, except it was of the nature of "i removed undigested corn kernel from shit on wall - all better now"
mircea_popescu: speaking of "actionable steps towards better itnernet", do i have benchmarks yet ?
mircea_popescu: oh btw, apparently brasil can't keep drones out of stadiums, try as it might. there's always half dozen flkoating about, and the "heads of state" muppets in attendance might as well get used to it.
jurov: are there any engineers left capable of this? other than alf?
mircea_popescu: his question stands lol. gl finding an undergrad that's not an imbecile.
jurov: undergrads are content with reflashing tv dongle and listening to cops
mircea_popescu: a sort of youtube for obnoxiously voiced dorks to stream their voice and upper-left efigy atop game video captures.
phf: probably a live streaming service?
mircea_popescu: turns out it wasn't the tv making people stupid - people were stupid to begin with, tv fit like a glove. with its demise - the cowsies moo for a replacement. so they watch others play games.
phf: i think i watched notch livecoding a wolfenstein clone in java on twitch. it was mildly entertaining, because he was writing everything from scratch (i.e. tick locked mainloop, ray casting onto an awt canvas, etc.)
mircea_popescu: there is some legitimate space for this, in high performance rts type of games where watching a high ranked player play is very instructive.
mircea_popescu: then average wowhead started doing it too, mostly for the pretense, and this is what gave us the lulz of
phf: even in rts you want demos, rather than flat rendering
phf: like i remember watching fps speed runs and tricks on youtube back when it started and it was wholy unsatisfying experience. you want to be able to fly around and look at trick from different directions to know what's going on. not to mention pro level duels, where half the info comes from sound, you want to be able to figure out what player B did that player A reacted to, so you have to pause, rewind, and switch to other player, to
phf: grok things like "oh, it was armor pick up in this corridor, and let me see there's two exits, but the guy would be going for quad next, so he'll take exit 2, so naturally you want to intercept blah blah blah"
mircea_popescu: the problem is that in the consumer "mind", easy always beats good.
mircea_popescu: nothing quite as lulzy as the libertard waking up to the cold reality that a) nobody likes him ; b) everyone wants him dead and, AND, paramountly, c) his "being nice" has exactly 0 impact on a and very slight impact on b.
phf: the progression from "feel the bern" to "Hillary just so it's not trump" to "ohmygod there's trump stickers everywhere outside of my panera bread plaza :o:o:o"
mircea_popescu: the net result of a collection of idiots whose bills are paid by govt being... the collection itself.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform black people are like 11.5%. of those, two thirds are wiggers, and the remainder just too obtuse to admit to it, wank it to "rap" and otherwise try to show up on time for work.
ben_vulpes: oh oh! relatedly. jq doesn't do ints. floats only. cuz reezuns.
phf: i know there are all these asm.js extensions that add uint32 and such
ben_vulpes: in json you mean? or are you talking about the jslib 'jquery'?
phf: ben_vulpes: stock javascript doesn't have integers.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: 'jq' is this mostly-c-thinger that parses json.
ben_vulpes: i mean hey that's pretty amusing as well, that js doesn't have ints.
phf: ben_vulpes: json also doesn't have integers
ben_vulpes: "but you can just staple a bunch of digits together and make an int, right? RIGHT?"
PeterL: why not just use strings of ints, it's the same thing, right?
phf: ben_vulpes: well, json integer is number without fractional part, but from my reading of "standard" it's not mandatory to treat number as such. as far as numerics it has type "number", which is up to client to interpret. here on rum island we do not believe in rum
phf: everything i need to know about javascript i learned from mochikit, which was written by a bunch of sane hackers back before "javascript library" was a thing. ~first~ thing they implemented is comparator, iterator and printer protocols (they gave up on numerics as braindead). because javascript doesn't have those. they were also the last ones who even bothered to.
mircea_popescu: fibroin is part of insect metabolism ; not really part of mammals.
PeterL: it's just a protein, you could get the amino acid building blocks from pigs and synthesize it
mircea_popescu: you can make it synthetically at considerable cost ; but not really out of sow's ear.
PeterL: chemically digested and separated pigs ear - debatable wether that would still be a pig ear
mircea_popescu: PeterL sow-killed-and-fed-to-mulberry-tree-leaves-fed-to-silkwork silk purse from pig ear prolly dun qualify.
PeterL: see also most labels of materials "made from natural products" listed as a selling point
shinohai: lemme resubmit, snapshillbot is failing me
PeterL: carbon tetrachloride is an organic solvent, they don't lie
PeterL: I would never use an inorganic solvent like dihydrogen monoxide to clean clothes!
mircea_popescu: oh it has to have carbon ? so co is organic ; h20 inorganic ?
mircea_popescu: my definition was "any compound of elements from this list".
PeterL: organic === has carbon (except carbon monoxide and dioxide are considered inorganic)
PeterL: depends on your symbol table, neh?
PeterL: HCl is inorganic, it has Cl not C
PeterL: chemistry was invented before regex
PeterL: at least they switched to alphabetic chemical symbols instead of the weird ones they used in alchemy
mircea_popescu: this incidentally might make the basis for an excellet sf piece. a sentient star!
PeterL: chirality centers are just a trick of the imagination to help students, the chirality property is actually of the whole molecule (or so one of my professors tried to explain to me once)
mircea_popescu: cno cycle playing the role of citric acid cycle in mammals.
PeterL: there are a few organometalic that are tricky because they have sort of "chiral surfaces" instead of points, there are some interesting examples out there
PeterL: I seem to remember there are things like F-HC=C=CH-F which are chiral too
PeterL: Might need to be F-HC=C=CH-Cl
deedbot: sedition voiced for 30 minutes.
sedition: Thanks much. Saw the channel on NoSuchlAbs and thought I would idle for a bit.
jurov: "The Million-Key Question—Investigating the Origins of RSA Public Keys"
jurov: ^ analyse distribution of primes and moduli
mircea_popescu: sedition consider registering your pgp key with deedbot.
sedition: mircea_popescu: Noted. Thanks much for the info.
mircea_popescu: i can't summon the interest. "vague discussion of a topic that previously didn't exist for reasons we won't discuss by people who aren't qualified to participate"
a111: Logged on 2014-11-07 05:25 asciilifeform: financial memory leak.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: qntra snarfed a comment of mine containing a youtube link about a week back. just a heads up in case you're sifting through spam.
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell davout wd on moving to mauritius. the few ppl i've met from there speak ~the~ mostly lovely, most noble french i've yet encountered. enjoy!
pete_dushenski:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37020906 << pretty sure this is how tesla started : "i have a wacko idea" said elon, "we have a whackload of fake paper money" said the obama.gov. whether 'transit elevated bus' has a 15-year++ scam in it remains to be seen, but it looks no worse than the endless miles of surface-level light rail transit edmonton is vapidly installing atm.
pete_dushenski: they all carry iphones and wear chuck taylors and ray bans, how much more obvious can it be ?
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: an iphone is this calculator/telephone combo that's about the size of a deck of cards, the others are shoes and sunglasses, respectively :P
pete_dushenski: didn't open laptop once in 6 days. barely kept up on a few emailz/sms on mobile.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-02 21:33 asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: for bonus gross, the entire inside of the metal cup that comprises the body of the pnoje, is razor-sharp, literally you will not notice as it opens all of your fingers at once
phf: (i fixed the order, i'm so happy about that)
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: caught the later tell about the bloat, missed the blade of death part. aha.
phf: i have a new bot ready too, but i need some stretch where i can hand hold it if it starts acting up to switch
phf: i need the bot in a fully autonomous state, for the week of burning man
phf: will probably rig up some in-wot "hard reset" c&c
☟︎ ben_vulpes: subject of burning man, girl got a text last night
ben_vulpes: "hey i'll be out of town from aug 25 through sept 6, so if you want to come down south and bring the bambino i'll fly y'all in"
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell danielpbarron see ^^^ if you're looking for blog post fodder
phf: asciilifeform: there is
ben_vulpes rummages around for gas mask, loses interest
phf: asciilifeform: frostburn, masontown, west virginia, in february
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: gotta update the mitm on webchat
phf: mircea_popescu: that's what i thought when i saw it too
phf: asciilifeform: it was rough. nothing a frosty crust of sleeping bag as you're trying to get into it
mircea_popescu: oic, ben_vulpes is going to be posting inebriated sluts pix while wife barefoots around the deep souths ?
pete_dushenski: oh snap there's fresh honey from the rooftop beehive. bbs.
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: more likely tell the mistress the wife demands the entire week and spend it in the lab.
phf: лучше всего иметь и жену, и любовницу. жене сказал, что ушёл к любовнице, любовнице-что остаёшься с женой, а сам в кремль, работать, работать, и работать! -- lenin
phf: "it's best to have both wife and mistress. you tell wife, that you went to mistress, you tell mistress, that you're staying with wife, meanwhile -- to kremlin, work, work and work"
ben_vulpes: yeah although i don't actually have a mistress
phf: you only say that because your wife reads the log
ben_vulpes: dunno that i'd be willing to trade the time sink of mistressmgmt for the sweet relaxation of being brought beers and snacks on the hammock after biking home from work
pete_dushenski: kremlin had advantage of no public log. oh rose tinted days were those.
ben_vulpes: plus i don't know that i have the energy to disabuse another twenty something of a lifetime of miseducation again
pete_dushenski: there's that. the meat in na needs a hell of a lot of tenderising
phf: salaryman is awake only for the benefit of bossman
phf: salaryman sleeps also for the benefit of bossman, he's restoring strength
phf: "так, так, так!" - говорит пулеметчик, "так, так, так!" - говорит пулемет.
ben_vulpes: fired everyone in a fit of pique after the pokelolz
a111: Logged on 2016-07-12 03:02 ben_vulpes: needless to say, everyone's fired.
ben_vulpes: well, not entirely serious pete_dushenski
ben_vulpes: eh, not really * monkey. more paratroopers to parachute into whatever and take arbitrary pillboxen.
BingoBoingo: Anyways roots far too deep to dig. Responds to glyphosate. Responds very quickly to glyphosate/triclophyr mix often sold as "poison ivy" killer.
phf: ben_vulpes: did you really? :o
phf: "i want 40 days of outstanding pto" "your own calendar says you took 60 days already, so you should be paying us" "..."
ben_vulpes: > because i have no shame or self-awareness!
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I dunno, but I accidentally defeated two of the things last year with overspray from actual target weed.
phf: ben_vulpes: that video is now the prism through which i see majority of millennials. our support team were literally like this, down laugh, awkwardness, and the painful "whiteness".
pete_dushenski: thermostat ransomware is sure to be a hit everywhere other than san fran where it's 20c year-round
ben_vulpes: > I'll stay because i'm full of unearned confidence!
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> BingoBoingo: qntra snarfed a comment of mine containing a youtube link about a week back. just a heads up in case you're sifting through spam. << Youtube disallowed, too far in the past to dig out of anywhere. Resubmit.
phf: "no external links unless they are in mp's host file"
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: all good. couldn't have been that important.
pete_dushenski: "The iris-scanning technology, which relies on an infrared camera lens mounted on the front of the phone, can also be used to unlock a secure folder within the Android operating system. Users can store sensitive documents and apps in the directory, which remain encrypted even if the phone is unlocked. Iris-detection is fast, identifying a registered face and unlocking the device in less than a second duri
ben_vulpes: phf: fired whole department? well done
ben_vulpes: ideally you want to hang on to 2 or 3 of the meekest so they can tell the story to the next round of draftees
ben_vulpes: "take more than a week of your PTO and they FIRE THE WHOLE DEPARTMENT!"
phf: nah, they were all pampered, a kindness they took for weakness. next round will simply be on tighter specs-- "clock in/clock out", "this many days off", etc.
phf: one guy was convinced we'll let him open a uk department (he's ~support~, answers tickets, but has a degree in business something or other), wouldn't let the thought go even after told no multiple times. he would schedule meetings on behalf of company with various uk foundations, etc. he had a meeting with richard branson as part of handful "young entrepreneurs", to talk about, yes, moving the company to uk.
☟︎ phf: there's some kind of massive delusion going with these people, that even video above doesn't fully do justice
ben_vulpes: whoa that last tidbit sounds insanely familiar
phf: possibly because i might've ranted about it before. anyway, gate gate paragate..
ben_vulpes: and it's hysterical that i should say "these kids" because wtf i'm younger than many of the worst specimens i've met
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski> are mistresses much to manage ? (open q to tmsr~) << no. the whole point of the fucking mistress is that she's a negative management cost. she helps with the wife ; and if the wife's any good she helps with the mistress etc.
mircea_popescu: phf the unending lulz of gunner being "pulemetchik" will never be explained.
phf: a sort of lesser version of zeus
mircea_popescu: phf> ben_vulpes: that video is now << the logs prevail.
ben_vulpes: how do mistress and wife mitigate each others management costs? is this one of those "well you put them in the same room and they just start eating each other out" things?
pete_dushenski just learned in the most untimely way possible, in the midst of an unexpected rainshower apparently on his building and his building alone, that his lexus (jay) has 'feature' whereby remote unlock button is held and all windows incl. sunroof open simultaneously. and ofc, he'd sat on the button or something jit. quelle experiment!
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <phf> "no external links unless they are in mp's host file" << Not quite, but basically no links to places spamzors like such as youtube/tumblr/etc without pretty pleasing an approval right after comment is submitted.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes suppose woman is depressed. much more effectual for you + OTHER WOMAN to tell her a nice story
mircea_popescu: and yes, they teach each other things ; if you're not fucking boring / mommy fixated, you'll end up with very different girls which makes it better.
mircea_popescu: phf> there's some kind of massive delusion going with these people << they were never humiliated. it rots the brain. idiot literally imagines that just because he doesn't understand how the ocmpany is run, then therefore it's not run at all and there';s room for him to pretend it's like washington state cca 1916 and one gets to be mayor just for showing up, population 1 town.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Technology means doing more with less. In the absence of technological progress, we end up with a zero-sum world, in which there must be a loser for every winner. It is not clear whether a capitalistic economic system could function without growth; and it is unlikely that a representative democracy, which requires the give-and-take of win–win compromise, would continue to function." << why hate on the guy ? other than the
mircea_popescu: ludicrous doublespeak (really bitch, it's "win-win" ?), he has it exactly right :
mircea_popescu: the delusion of growth is coming to an end and there's going to be a loser for every winner and a ravished maiden for every satisfied gunner.
mircea_popescu: moreover, who the fuck wants "actual things". will any sane lord trade lordship for ipad ? so that what, you can click on pictures of farms ? like a chicken ?
mircea_popescu: this "trade power for fetish of power so we can fit more shiny happy faux people on the marble" was bullshit since day one.
mircea_popescu: there's a good reason optimism and pedophilia appear indistinguishable in the afflicted, as this inexplicable, howling madness of unfathomable profundity.
mircea_popescu: back at the ranch, i wish to make 10 dollars in a world where the peons make one ; and i specifically do not wish to make a hundred in a world where the peons make ninety. to say nothing of fucking equality ; let alone the hollywoodian imbecilism of lottery winners.