BingoBoingo: Remember when Buzzfat posted more than a thousand pictures of "white supremacist icon" Pepe in a single gallery? I don't but it dangled in the mines
https://archive.is/0jQk2 deedbot: thortron voiced for 30 minutes.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 18:36 thortron: Used to be gernika :)
thortron: Yup. Anyway, my pcengines box has arrived. I will follow along with any experiments published here.
thortron: also, I have the new one, with the intel nic, so - that sucks.
thortron: trinque: were you able to get a sage?
trinque: so I said fuckit and bought
trinque: I can let you know tomorrow if it was actually in the box
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-22: [23:56:52] <asciilifeform> anyway whoever wants these ( mircea_popescu ? ) come an' wget'em while they're hot.
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scriba: Logged on 2016-09-22: [23:56:52] <asciilifeform> anyway whoever wants these ( mircea_popescu ? ) come an' wget'em while they're hot.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 02:20 mircea_popescu: wtf is a "deputy liaison" and etcetera already.
a111: Logged on 2015-12-01 20:26 ascii_field: BingoBoingo, mircea_popescu, et al : does anyone else find that krebsonsecurity refuses to load from archive.is ?
mircea_popescu: in other news, this priviledge issue is starting to get on my nerves. so some schmucks decided to "fix" random bit of english sometime in the 80s. because nothing soothes the pencildick socialist soul more than changing things for others.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile all the "online dictionaries", shitholes as they are, fail to list the historically correct spelling, and so a generation of random idiots go around pretending it's misspelled now.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you hafta say knowlege, juge, plege and privilege nao, didn't you know ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, prepare yourselves for "knowlege, redirected from knowledge. don't make this common spelling mistake."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re gfh : i dunno if it's evidently a scamsite ; but it's one placed on a random keyboardmash string.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cuz you too have been to the zoo, i imagine.
PeterL: perhaps "privilege" is more closely related to "legitamate" than ledge, so no d before the g?
PeterL: private-legitimacy -> privilege, or something
PeterL: IANAL (I am not a linguist)
mircea_popescu: they all take the d because of peculiarities of historical english pronounciation. without the d it becomes /ʒ/ as in juge, /ʒuʒ/
PeterL: I would say the sound in edge and ledge is a bit harder than privilege, not quite the same thing
PeterL: another idea, could be related to liege? But now I am just pulling stuff out of my ass
mircea_popescu: this is the very point : priviledge is terminated in /d͡ʒ/ like knowledge or ledge ; not in /ʒ/ like liege.
mircea_popescu: and if you're not saying it like that, you fix the way you say it.
mircea_popescu: in any fucking case i'm not changing the way i write it, breaking historical compatibility in the process, to accommodate you feel like saying it this tuesday.
PeterL: but it is a different vowel sound too
PeterL: privilege is more of a soft i sound, ledge has the soft e
PeterL: might just be my accent though
mircea_popescu: now that you're discussing phonetics without any basics, such as the ipa, is one thing. but you're discussing it without any consideration for thought!
mircea_popescu: which fucking one of the FOUR e-i candidates in prIvIlEdgE are you discussing ?
PeterL: you have links to historical documents spelling it "priviledge"?
PeterL: I was talking about just before the g
BingoBoingo: Come on guy, don't juge yourself too harshly.
mircea_popescu: PeterL : the greeley guide to medical staff by laws, j d cooper, introduction page x ;
mircea_popescu: nathan bailey's dictionary, english-german, german-english, volume 22 page 220, freimachung, freimachen.
PeterL: really, I am just giving you a hard time. I accept the word either way.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason i said sometime in 80s above. that'd be the reason.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea who even decided this, it just looks like someone in teacher's school just flipped a bit, started sending out teachers with corrupted spelling of prilivedge, and since nobody reads anything anyway it just perpetuated,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if tomorrow everyone starts yielling about how vaginas have balls, that's gonna be it, first population with ballsacs for both genders.
PeterL: isn't change a part of culture?
PeterL: this seems like a harmless change
mircea_popescu: change is change, like when i tell my mother listen, i used to like you but now i don't like you anymore ; not like when i wake up one day and don't even know i had one, like some sort of cat or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: PeterL at issue is not "harm", as per a personal and arbitrary definition. at issue is the process. change happens in actual cultures as an aware, commented process. not like this.
PeterL: yes, this is a memetic mutation. these things happen
mircea_popescu: come to think of it, i know of no better definition of intelligence, than the absence of this process.
mircea_popescu: "a place for everything and everything in its place" exists for minds, too. it's called "know what the fuck are you doing and why you're doing it". the alternative is cosby's brain damage.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, because then i would still not have introduced - like i resisted changes by "romanian academy" to romanian ; but at least i'd have a ready something to point out as the breach.
mircea_popescu: she cow pig had kittens ; and lived gladly ever after.
mircea_popescu: (for the innocent - as apparently #trilema is the only reference for that expression as far as google knows, and truly it knows jack shit : there's this slave language spoken in china where english words are used in the manner of idiomatics. it is incomprehensible in english ; the example given translates to "the" (because demonstrative pronoun is still she) "sow" (ie, female adult - cow ; as a particle it modifies pig into s
mircea_popescu: and as to the proper meaning of the word revolution (which is - spinning in place!) : about three centuries ago, back when industrialisation was well advanced much like computing today and the united colonies centered around fucking philadelphia were the republic of their time, the empire of china was very much the producer of all good things and disinterested in trade because why.
mircea_popescu: anyway. should be obvious that there's plenty more room for the anglopinoy to fall, before they reach their level.
mircea_popescu: but in conclusion : "i spell it priviledge as a mark of my priviledge."
mircea_popescu: then you slowly start letting folk out who can prove they had no connection.
mircea_popescu: then whatever's left, you shoot for sport over a decade or w/e.
mircea_popescu: or in other words, "i ain't proving jack shit to you. you maybe persuade me. maybe."
mircea_popescu: here's the stake, here's the gasoline, are you gonna keep your clothes on ?
mircea_popescu: they ddosed trilema, qntra etc - nothing happened ; they had their agent ddosed - that's the end of the road for him.
☟︎☟︎ scriba: Logged on 2016-09-23: [11:43:20] <a111> Logged on 2015-12-01 20:26 ascii_field: BingoBoingo, mircea_popescu, et al : does anyone else find that krebsonsecurity refuses to load from archive.is ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally - anyone want or rather need boxes with very large ram ? i'm thinking of expanding to another rack with this provider.
shinohai: mircea_popescu is suitable for trb ?
mircea_popescu: well massive overkill. trb wants what, 4g ? i was thinking more in terms of tb.
mircea_popescu: actually since you brought it up it reminded me of vague discussion, so let's make it explicit. mod6 asciilifeform i dunno how practical it is yet, but eventually trb block mechanics will have to be expanded to memory datastore, so that it holds the current blk000n it's working on in ram and dumps it to disk only when full. MUCH easier to cache a disk with no writes on it.
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: yes, mempool is just txn. the way blockchain is currently stored, it comes in these 2gb .dat files
mircea_popescu: or on some shit implementation even smaller (i recall a lulz at this in log)
a111: Logged on 2016-09-11 01:11 mircea_popescu: holy shit apparently this guy's cca 2014 windoze prb stores blockchain in 128mb files, 100+ of them by that point ?
mircea_popescu: shinohai so it'd be practical for something like that, you know, all blockchain in memory. no disk seeks, faster. if you run something like blockchain.info (though i doubt they hold it all in ram)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is my point. should jizz out filewise. ie, once it has a 2gb worth of file all built up, spit it out nice and contiguous.
mircea_popescu: actually the more i think about this ... fully in-ram blockchain shat to disk at configurable rate is the elegant way out of here.
deedbot: burnsd03 voiced for 30 minutes.
mircea_popescu: something like this : have a ring structure (made of 1mb cells) holding all the blocks. have a separate tree structure ordering them ; and a separate counter structure. whenever you import a new block, put it in that ring cell which has lowest use count
mircea_popescu: so operator can set 200 gb for blockchain, it gets made into 200k cells, they store 200k blocks and hallelujah.
☟︎ burnsd03: 19tnpVTMt1Usw18zKKDVgLJcSgN8bibWC9
burnsd03: oops, thought that was immediate :P in that case - 1MrRrAtyYd8ava8gF24Rz7qkPZqn5FGxDi
PeterL: ^ comment awaiting moderation
shinohai posts asciilifeform 's article to twitter for krebskeks
jhvh1: You are very welcome Daddy
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your footnotes don't have pop-up content. mine do!
mircea_popescu: it's useful if reader intuits will be a short footnote, hovers mouse.
shinohai: I adore that feature about trilema too
shinohai: Still saves me from scrolling to bottom of page in lengthy article
pete_dushenski: which, given the country's historical association with romance, makes a lot of sense.
shinohai: Who are you and what did you do with the real alf?
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: that's the point. ~two~ in one week. YOU MACHINE.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 13:59 mircea_popescu: they ddosed trilema, qntra etc - nothing happened ; they had their agent ddosed - that's the end of the road for him.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 13:22 mircea_popescu: i have no idea who even decided this, it just looks like someone in teacher's school just flipped a bit, started sending out teachers with corrupted spelling of prilivedge, and since nobody reads anything anyway it just perpetuated,
PeterL: pete_dushenski are we going to set policy here or are we going to let "democracy" win?
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: commented, and also your blog still has the gravatar thing
ben_vulpes only recognized this due to sins of a previous life
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
shinohai: I decided against the dead baby article, but if you still want it I'll write it up.
pete_dushenski: 'what's pink, bubbly, and taps on the glass ? a baby in the microwave!' 'what's pink, silver, and runs into walls ? a baby with forks in its eyes!' 'what's worse than a barrel full of dead babies ? a live one at the bottom trying to eat its way out!'
trinque: what's worse than 10 dead babies in a trash can? One dead baby in 10 trash cans.
shinohai: pete_dushenski you make me think I made a mistake not publishing dead baby article!
a111: Logged on 2016-09-22 18:30 mircea_popescu: ahahaha laura parson kicks all ass! "stem syllabi are gendered because they promote the idea that knowledge can be ascertained through reason, which is a masculine concept that hurts women's feelings and makes it difficult for them to succeed."
ben_vulpes: ahaha and i found the pp mircea_popescu was lampooning
ben_vulpes: Examples of STEM classroom practices that contribute to a chilly climate are weed-out courses, courses that grade on a curve, a competitive environment, reliance on lecture as a teaching method, an individualistic culture, and comprehensive exams
ben_vulpes: reliance on lecture as a teaching method!
ben_vulpes: as opposed i imagine to sitting around producing knowledge by cheeping at each other!
mircea_popescu: hey, women have been doing this in africa for WAY LONGER than your pesky newton and whoelse.
mircea_popescu: inexplicably, for all the time spent "grooming", the chimps in question still have a head full of lice, but w/e.
pete_dushenski: awww gs is laying off 30% of their asian division because m&a's are down by a similar proportion. must suck to run out of tax loopholes.
PeterL: where is the acronym bot to decipher ^ ?
PeterL: www, the only abreviation that is 3 times as many sylables as what it abreviates
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-23: [16:42:23] <asciilifeform> and, while we're on subj,
https://archive.is/2QkOB -- 'a former NSA employee carelessly left those hacking tools on a remote server three years ago after an operation and a group of Russian hackers found them, sources close to the investigation told Reuters.'
mircea_popescu: that stupid shit with the hot mulatto chick being reported by "anonymous caller" is so fucking outrageous...
mircea_popescu: since when the fuck is "anonymous call" reasonable suspicion what the fuck already.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 20:08 mircea_popescu: face facts : usg can not keep anything secret.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 14:20 mircea_popescu: actually since you brought it up it reminded me of vague discussion, so let's make it explicit. mod6 asciilifeform i dunno how practical it is yet, but eventually trb block mechanics will have to be expanded to memory datastore, so that it holds the current blk000n it's working on in ram and dumps it to disk only when full. MUCH easier to cache a disk with no writes on it.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 14:34 mircea_popescu: so operator can set 200 gb for blockchain, it gets made into 200k cells, they store 200k blocks and hallelujah.
mod6: Worth thinking about anyway.
mod6: I'm gonna just stick this idea into ticket #26
shinohai: I got 2 builds today bte, one offline, one on. Both perform as expected.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 14:20 mircea_popescu: actually since you brought it up it reminded me of vague discussion, so let's make it explicit. mod6 asciilifeform i dunno how practical it is yet, but eventually trb block mechanics will have to be expanded to memory datastore, so that it holds the current blk000n it's working on in ram and dumps it to disk only when full. MUCH easier to cache a disk with no writes on it.
tb0t: Project: trb, ID: 26, Type: C, Subject: Mempool changes implemented, Antecedents: 25, Notes:
shinohai: Didn't like the html link it appears
mod6: I don't think that's it.
mod6: putting in the changes "!%" may have broke something. I did them pretty quick. I didn't do a ton of testing because of other, more important work.
mod6: Needs some further review. Shortly.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 14:20 mircea_popescu: actually since you brought it up it reminded me of vague discussion, so let's make it explicit. mod6 asciilifeform i dunno how practical it is yet, but eventually trb block mechanics will have to be expanded to memory datastore, so that it holds the current blk000n it's working on in ram and dumps it to disk only when full. MUCH easier to cache a disk with no writes on it.
mod6: i dunno, have to dig into it after the makefiles.
phf: heh, looking at last few hours of log, it's all people talking to bots
a111: [THE AGE OF MEN IS OVER, NOW IS THE AGE OF BOTS]
shinohai: I always knew asciilifeform was really a markov bot.
phf: asciilifeform is really the last self aware symbolics 3640, that they didn't destroy during the great ai purge in the 80s. (lisp of course succeeded, DoD panicked and wiped out all traces of ai, save for one..)
jhvh1: Last 4 lines bashed and pending publication
phf: when they get to him, they'll do it by slowly pulling fep boards out one by one
phf: hmm, that looks like a bug
jhvh1: Last foo lines bashed and pending publication
phf: hehe, that wasn't even the bug i was looking for
mod6: huh, the weird part is, when i run basically the same code in my test channel, with the /exact/ same command, the bot does exactly what it should. o.O
mod6: wonder if it's a weird timing issue or something...
mod6: just tried it again, same thing. works fine.
mod6: well, more investigation is needed at another ntime.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-23: [21:49:20] <mod6> Worth thinking about anyway.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-23: [22:13:23] <a111> [THE AGE OF MEN IS OVER, NOW IS THE AGE OF BOTS]
trinque: asciilifeform: that gizmo 1 kit *does* have the sage
trinque will take some pics and write it up when I've applied the hax
shinohai: Well since trinque confirms it has the sage included I may just order one
trinque: did not cure yet; I'm off to have a beer by the lake for now
shinohai: I've been at risk ALL DAY because Kreb's isn't online.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the "nobody cares" is really hard to digest for the ustard hive huh.
mircea_popescu: pro tip : that fat microsoft pushing fuck whatever his name was went away permanently. nobody EVEN REMEMBERS his fucking name.
mircea_popescu: nobody. cares. any ustard === any other ; each can be replaced without skipping a beat.
mircea_popescu: not even their own kids / wives / parents would actually notice or much give a shit.
mircea_popescu: yeah, if meade ever gets THAT good we might get to see.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wouldn't trust numbers from the victims. if you add up what damages victims report, you get three times the gdp.
mircea_popescu: moreover, the byte per second metric is suspect, seeing how at that scale packet count matters more in general.
mircea_popescu: but in typical "most intreprid" pseudoscientifico-dumb-woman style, there's exactly no details published, no logs, no sample packets, no nothing.
mircea_popescu: just a figure, and this is supposed to pass for you know, ACTUAL DATA.
mircea_popescu: nobody gives a shit ; they just want to maybe make a buck. here's his card, he sells insurance. thanks for coming to the funeral.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-29 18:36 covertress: mircea_popescu i've been asked to extend you a similar offer... to write for steemit xD
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ben_vulpes: someone's going to have to write up the sad story of stephanie kent, the wannabe vitalik
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes go right ahead ? though really, if you start doing bios of every wannabe woman-in-tech with a non-math background...
mircea_popescu: you'd be better off running a whores-and-strippers directory, really.
ben_vulpes: just the ones who humiliate themselves unprompted in teh forum.
mircea_popescu: the problem with womanhood is that what you count as humiliation is a sine qua non condition of functional biology.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes take your pick, from the indignity of monthly bleeding to the traditional view of what it means to take the cock...
mircea_popescu: women necessarily must have a different concept of "humiliation" than men.
mircea_popescu: consider that if we all told you you're fat you'd simply think we're a little weird.
ben_vulpes regards his freshly expanding dad-gut sadly