mats: carpal tunnel's a bitch
mats: after recompiling driver
mats: i've tried sleeping supine, slathering bengay, eating ~800mg of ibuprofen, splints, setting 30min interval alarms when i needa type continuously for hours, and giving up computing after hours -- has helped
mats: but it flares up now and again and i'm useless
BingoBoingo: I don't see topical diclofenac on that list!
mats: some things i've run into during my leave that i thought you folks might find a passing interest in:
mats: asciilifeform: sadly no. still on the five year plan.
mats: no updates re: esp8266, don't have time for it but i'll cough up the coin if someone wants to try a bulk purchase and play with one
mats: BingoBoingo: any side effects i should know about, do you know if its effective with ulnar nerve entrapment
BingoBoingo: mats: None I know about, and no specifics on that application. It will however allow for greater effective dosing than continuing 800 mg ibuprofen
mats: the ibuprofen hasn't done shit for me besides give me heartburn
BingoBoingo: mats: Well that's why you ought to go topical
a111: Logged on 2017-04-16 03:26 asciilifeform: ( where do i even buy a provably nonwhitened trng ?! to compare to, i mean. i tried to buy such a thing, failed. not sold afaik for any amount. )
BingoBoingo: Clearly Puntin needs to redirect Assad to this dire threat
mats: same fella is also known for debunking an earlier attribution to assad for the 2013 damascus attack, disputing israeli claims as to 90% effectiveness of the iron dome (discussed here iirc), and pissing on the effectiveness of the patriot pac-2 system in 'desert storm'
a111: Logged on 2017-04-16 03:49 asciilifeform: the 'mules' piece i read, and wondered why it does not discuss the people actually fucked by cc fraud (vendors) and instead dwells on the people not-fucked-at-all (banks)
mircea_popescu: mats or perhaps more properly put, "anti-known", in the sense the tards pretend not to know.
mircea_popescu: somehow they're also insulated from the "isn't it strange, you seerm to know what you're ostensibly not knowing" problem. through wishing they were, because that works irl!!1
mats: i suspect it was delivered with an artillery shell rather than a rocket dropped by su-22, american radar may be able to disprove this
mats: but then why not publish this evidence?
mircea_popescu: the syrian story is the rebels were stockpiling it and it broke out once bombed.
mircea_popescu: this is rather likely true ; if it is by far the best strategy for the terrorist state involved is to publish nothing and yak loudly.
mircea_popescu: it still enjoys a lot of support among ~300 million moral idiots without any sort of conscience.
BingoBoingo: The point that matters is that someone needs to make POTUS great again
BingoBoingo: take the fucker's tv and put the old man on a strict diet of AM radio
mats: i have been thinking usg destabilization of dprk is a great way to jam a fork in the party's eye
mats: this month has been entertaining
mats: (chinese communist party)
mircea_popescu: usg has a lenghty history of monumentally inept intl politics
mircea_popescu: honestly i'd rather trust a gaggle of ghana street urchins than us state to achieve anything.
mats: there's footage suggesting massive .cn troop movements to the border
BingoBoingo: Which is why Trump needs to listen to Rush Limbaugh like real Americans do on their drive home from work.
mats: although this is consistent with specific brinksmanship events
mircea_popescu: if china decides to annex korea, both of them, who's gonna say anything ?
mats: perhaps mr. trump will let a nuke off the chain
mircea_popescu: nobody ever will. nukes are a unique item that a) doesn't work and b) everyone thinks it does. it's the exact equivalent of the "valuable inheritance".
mircea_popescu: it ain't ever getting sold because it's more valuable as a tool to control the children than it'd ever fetch on the market.
mats: what would the party want with dprk anyways, they'd be picking up the tab for an entire generation
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i dunno, don't ask me, there's a reason i don't try to run a geostate.
mats: i agree that its unlikely anyone will use a nuke and claim responsibility for it
mircea_popescu: if anyone "uses" one there'll be auto-allocated responsibiolity. just like in the case of assad.
mats: but the use of, say, one of those long-lost ussr suitcase nukes in uncertain circumstances, well...
mats: great excuse to annex a wealthy neighbor experiencing a fictitious civil war, under the pretense of martial law
mircea_popescu: eh amnd what's that gonna do. bl;ow up a parking lot ?
mircea_popescu: hence the earlier comment re "buy ssds whole they still exist"
mircea_popescu: not like china believes in free market in the sense of selling you anything but the dregs.
mircea_popescu: you know, just like the usg wouldn't sell it anything but the dregs for a century.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-16 04:51 mats: what would the party want with dprk anyways, they'd be picking up the tab for an entire generation
mats: the border with dprk is enormous, how do you unfuck the refugee problem
mats: guess you could put a couple divisions to work shooting people and digging holes...
a111: Logged on 2016-11-01 22:30 asciilifeform: but to appreciate it, you'd have to actually think re subj and not simply swallow south kr (usg) nonsense
mircea_popescu: from experience it always works out to "we'll link up to protect our stupidity in a group of idiots"
mod6: <+asciilifeform> and spiffy scope, mod6 << thx!
mircea_popescu: i suppose the commie dorks forgot what all happened to the guys hitler's sa practiced on.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> incidentally i'd be curious to hear if anybody's ever seen a dieharder output on something that isn't a prng or prng-whitened trng, that consistently produced no 'weak'. << werd.
mats: the 'antifa' people are all out of shape compared to the other guys on scene
mod6: i'll be testing the other ones and will report back how the ent/dh results look on each.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> NOW if it happens with all of the units in mod6 's parcel, and ~every~ run -- then problem. << this is key too. i'll perhaps collect another 1Gb+ a few more times from that initial first one and report back on the ent/dh results too.
mod6: asciilifeform: werd. anyway, it's exciting to test these.
mats: i look forward to watching riots in vr
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just because the ustard is a sad excuse for monkey nation does not imply we'll now accept the turd soup of "nations" does it ?
mod6: i'd like to get more familiar with the types of statistical tests from `ent` and `dieharder`.
mircea_popescu: i'm certainly no product of a (wholly imaginary) romanian "nation".
mircea_popescu: if you're definition of a nation is a language then you're very much not talking of the same thing as in the case of best korea.
mod6: asciilifeform: aha. ok, just read about that on the `ent' page. mine was: Monte Carlo value for Pi is 3.141730891 (error 0.00 percent).
mod6: Looks pretty solid to me.
mircea_popescu: there's certainly no such thing as "the ardeal nation"
mircea_popescu: and for that matter i don't recall you being much of a "nation of ukr" either.
mircea_popescu: so then lettuce leave this 1800s hillarytardism rot in the 1800s.
mircea_popescu: nations are for people too stupid to have been born this century.
mircea_popescu: teach the girls to whore and the boys to die, that's all the nation you'll ever need or for that matter want.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (note that this is also exactly THE OPPOSITE of what every "nation" aims or attempts)
a111: Logged on 2017-04-15 01:17 mircea_popescu: i expect about half are white, unsexed, males in their 30s +- 8 years.
mircea_popescu: lazy is not in any sense precluded by smart. just look at bernstein.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-16 05:36 mircea_popescu: teach the girls to whore and the boys to die, that's all the nation you'll ever need or for that matter want.
mircea_popescu: i don't think it worked on anyone but illiterate peasants, that trick.
mircea_popescu: again, historical accident dun enact engineering lest we end up building planes of roof since tornado happened.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-01 23:12 asciilifeform: and in re last thread also, i know of 0 examples of anybody pulling this kind of thing off using strictly volunteers having no blood relation.
mircea_popescu: how about we let a chechen join the wot, make it to the lordship, then he can tell us they work if they do.
mircea_popescu: till then, they work as well as drinking gasoline works.
mircea_popescu: that's my whole fucking point, i need another set of "oh, we have slavegirls! no they can't dance and what is this cocksucking ? BANNED BY GOD!!11" bullshit.
mircea_popescu: the notion that random-dorks may make "their own" l1 is not unlike the proposition princeton made its own alt-world in which it is relevant and "Blockchain technologees".
mircea_popescu: the problem isn't "princeton is tendril of XXX". the problem is "if princeton didn't suck it would have been in here."
mircea_popescu: well, in my apparently peculiar view "here" is a construct of thought rather than a mpapacy.
mircea_popescu: eh, let them be the better mps, if they got the wetware. what, you think i'd object ?
mircea_popescu: save me the fucking trouble, i'll throw a ticker tape parade.
mircea_popescu: if power rangers weren't terminal fucking retards it's altogether unlikely anyone'd even know the name.
mircea_popescu: i don't even mean "if they were brilliant" or anything.
BingoBoingo suspects nation scam is simple effort to hijack tribal tendancies for gr8 tragedy
mircea_popescu: i do not understand why all the girls are old ugly and dressed in this porn ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seriously now, what's with the syncrhonized glass clinking, is this one of those mass weddings or something ? scientology run event ?
mircea_popescu: i expect this pretty much summarizes north korea altogether.
mircea_popescu: aaanyway, must be one helluva trip for good soviet, it looks exactly like what su'd have been in 2017 had everyone involved been braindamaged enough to permit it to continue past 88.
mircea_popescu: including the terrible apples and all the food fixation of an evidently hungry people.
mircea_popescu: my objection is that if i invited any of those girls with nice tits to my hotel room she wouldn't have sense enough to strip while walking the hallway.
mircea_popescu: it's funny how you don't regard the is-organized rape of the us as is-organized but you DO regard the best korea-organized famine of best korea as us organized.
mircea_popescu: it's also their very largest trade partner by huge margin.
mircea_popescu: someone would not rather the usg problem quietly evaporate ?
mircea_popescu: what, you imagine if tomorrow there were simply a hole in the ocean where the us stood anyone'd miss them ?
mircea_popescu: i must confess it's first thing i hear man's dwelling under threat from squirrel.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> for instance, squirrels have dug a tunnel into my wall, it would be great if they disappeared suddenly. but they won't, will have to get specialists << THere's a version of polyurethane foam marketed for this purpose.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> these cardboard dwellings , they take heroic efforts simply to keep from coming apart. << The general movement seems to be converting the cardboard into polyurethane in place at sucker's expense
BingoBoingo: Ah, yeah. Apparently D-con is popular for this purpose as are veteran barn cats
BingoBoingo: You need a redneck kitty that ain't going to let any of those coons/squirrels/mice onto kitty's land
BingoBoingo: Common theme of "ode to barn cat" postings is week after mourning presumed loss of barncat, barn cat returns from spec ops mission of murder
BingoBoingo: First rule of barn cat is you feed them well so that they do not try to ration their murder in instead recreate in their death skills
BingoBoingo: Second rule of barn cat, is you wait for barncat to approach you for petting.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: If you do not wish to travel to civilized lands in search of barncat other things squirrels hate include OC spray and .22 LR
a111: Logged on 2014-05-26 21:42 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: reminds me of a time when i stowed some stuff in plastic garbage bags, then discovered they were... biodegradable. turned to astonishing quantity of dust. when vacuuming old flat, found fragments - years after the fact.
mod6: not sure if I mentioned yesterday, but I did start a collection of another ~1Gb of entropy from the same fg as I wrote up the blog post about.
mod6: gonna see what those results look like... then will probably continue on and test the remainder of the fgs I've got.
mod6: update on offline-eatblock: 431K+ and into blk0041
mod6: looks like 7655 minutes running so far. ~5.3 days.
mircea_popescu: soo... i spent most of the day in the casinos, during which amiable passtime i happened to pick up the following tidbit :
mircea_popescu: ford made a fucking crib. like for kids, for your house. except it mimics your driving
☟︎ mircea_popescu: lights and errything. you can even register actual tracks and have it play them back to the poor baby.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: lol, sprays into house ?! and .22 may as well be dynamite, where i live << Nah, onto squirrels looking at your house. Get picnic chair, grab coffee, and wait
☟︎ BingoBoingo: "Wozniak envisions Earth zoned for residential use and Mars for heavy industry." << Tard, residences can only be so far from heavy industry or "Y no Roads?"
ben_vulpes: relatedly, light industry in p-town is gearing up for some serious wailing on the topic of how all of the cheap housing for their cheap labor is ~gone and now cheap labor has to buy a car and fuel/maintain/operate/park it instead of biking ten minutes to the shabby-chic warehouse from their squalid shared living setups
☟︎ ben_vulpes: the naive counter that "cars and more land area covered with rapidly-depreciated asphault solve nothing either!" is stupidly ignorant of path-dependent processes. america is the land of cars (thanks eisenhower) and will remain so for as far out as i can see.
ben_vulpes: plastification of typical vehicle mitigates against wear and tear from ever more degraded roads. less mass, less demand on the shock absorption system.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: there's a very real lower bound on the savings to be delivered with this vehicle though, and they're probably going to get burnt down by the poor folks who can't afford any better than the plastic having to drive further because must ams cities.
mircea_popescu: the decision was made cca 2006 us infrastructure will not be maintained. the plasticar is unavoidable "squeeze last drop"
mircea_popescu: but the curious are encouraged to do a court survey of cases of "motorist killed by large road debris", there's been 100s of cases to date.
ben_vulpes: bridges still fall down in the great again
ben_vulpes: mitigation actually runs in two directions; reduction in wear on road from lighter vehicles and reduction in wear on lighter vehicles from their own asses bouncing around. human-mass will keep going up, though, which will also eat the savings.
ben_vulpes: aaaand because the rail system is nonexistent, freight weight will not change and continue to rip roads up.
mircea_popescu: not so much freight left. most of the "goods" consumed by average ustard being "virtual" ie ipad bonbons.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: who could've predicted that a transportation system designed to give every schmuck their own car for driving as far as they can would be so expensive in the long run. who could've predicted the automatic transmission would accelerate the trend, or that robocars idem.
mircea_popescu: whocouldhavepredicted/condolezzariceism pays well and wins no wars.
mircea_popescu: in other news and fwiw -- mp's stable of expert pic interpreters diagnosed the usgtard face smashing brigades as "likely oakland, maybe some rural oregon"
mircea_popescu: in any case chick getting facepunched will be new trilema header.
ben_vulpes loled at an old local liberal spitting on the ground when having to discuss "eugene anarchists"
mircea_popescu: that dork is precious though. overweight, totally cockroach-headed female going at a very hurr durr pace right into a fist.
mircea_popescu: hopefully it fractured her nose in such a manner she's still bleeding.
ben_vulpes: glorious socialist republic, at the forefront of socialist innovations claimed and actual, from right to die to filthy black-brigaders messing up all of our lovely peaceful protests
mircea_popescu: she's like something from a coloring book for mongoloid kids.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, the trump still delivers even in his hour of senile irrelevancy.
ben_vulpes: something something also "involved in 'porn'"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Apparently she does unshaved cunt porn
ben_vulpes: 1% compiler flags, 99% syntax gynmastics
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> who the fuck ? "police" pantsuit clown ? << Punched antifa cunt
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: unless i've made a terrible mistake, do believe it builds
ben_vulpes: is there a reason to think that it wouldn't?
ben_vulpes: gcc's c++11 mode began complaining about such
ben_vulpes: something along the lines of string literals next to template macros
ben_vulpes: i can reproduce up the specific barf if you'd like
a111: Logged on 2017-04-16 21:54 mircea_popescu: ford made a fucking crib. like for kids, for your house. except it mimics your driving
a111: Logged on 2017-04-16 21:55 BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: lol, sprays into house ?! and .22 may as well be dynamite, where i live << Nah, onto squirrels looking at your house. Get picnic chair, grab coffee, and wait
ben_vulpes: although wtf, perhaps this vpatch does not nuke all barfage
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Nah, that's where you deploy OC spray. If cops come you just say brown man was near, feared rape
BingoBoingo: Move to place where neighbor has productive barncat.
mircea_popescu: you don't understand her search for her own cultural identity.
mircea_popescu: also, she's not white. she prefers to be referred to as "buttery"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> also, she's not white. she prefers to be referred to as "buttery" << i.e. wants to trap a black man and get Obeast on him
mats: and while i'm being hateful, i think the chinese owner of my favorite chinese takeout spot sold the place because i received complementary dinner rolls with my meal
mats: probably bought by a white person
mircea_popescu: mats i get free shit in chinese restaurants half the fucking time.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform truth gotta be spoken somewhere on the www.
mats: i've never seen a dinner roll in any asian restaurant in my life
mircea_popescu: mats it's a CONTINENTAL!!11 chinese restaurant nao, beotch!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform very typical of the "expert in metaphysics" generation.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-16 22:25 mircea_popescu: not so much freight left. most of the "goods" consumed by average ustard being "virtual" ie ipad bonbons.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-16 22:10 ben_vulpes: plastification of typical vehicle mitigates against wear and tear from ever more degraded roads. less mass, less demand on the shock absorption system.
mircea_popescu: if i water MY tree with beer one day and with piss another, i still don't want to hear what it thinks on the topic.
mircea_popescu: only thing for tree is to be thankful watered at all, and thankful WAS watered once not watered anymore.
mircea_popescu: o wait, you say buyer because he... umm... what does he do ? "buys it" on "credit" ie govt gives him a car ?
mircea_popescu: oh oh oh don't tell me... inca takes his own car back, used ?!?!?!
mircea_popescu: many different flavours of "please don't notice same thing".
mircea_popescu: same reason it keeps bombing asphalt stretches in syria / produces "airplane" etc.
mircea_popescu: makework. at the height of communism, 150% of soviet gdp.
mircea_popescu: 40k turkey dollars buys you an ukrainian split, why the fuck would you trade it for a car.
mircea_popescu: yes, i linked the paperwork coupla days ago. what the ukr split cost was 40k.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but -- turkey dollars 40k. us embassy barely scraped it together.
mircea_popescu: you know, when two groups of niggers call each other names.
mircea_popescu: if asciilifeform can't split with 40k, asciilifeform gotta find a better shop.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-16 22:02 ben_vulpes: relatedly, light industry in p-town is gearing up for some serious wailing on the topic of how all of the cheap housing for their cheap labor is ~gone and now cheap labor has to buy a car and fuel/maintain/operate/park it instead of biking ten minutes to the shabby-chic warehouse from their squalid shared living setups
mircea_popescu: no, had lulz at all time checking out the "fox central nitro"
a111: Logged on 2017-04-16 23:06 asciilifeform: it ain't local of course
mircea_popescu: phf so if i paint the car in alaska it's a local car now ?
phf: well, if you assemble a car out of chinese parts in alaska it still wouldn't be an alaskan car, but the line gets blurry
mircea_popescu: moreover, the best thing roaster can do is not ruin the coffee.
mircea_popescu: this is not a substantial contribution. but i suppose assemblage is not that different after all.
phf: well, in u.s. dominant roasting brands tend to ruin the coffee
mircea_popescu: phf this is true but also you know, "everyone assembles the car with wheels on hood -- we do not"
phf: like many things discussed here, it is a situation of many causes and effects also known as "the whole spitoon"
phf: but what i was actually going to say, is that openbsd disks apparently weren't pressed. it seems like theo de raadt has been burning them by hand up until now
phf: "Anyone want to buy some well-used CD burners?"
phf: it could be a joke, but the "well-used" part, i dunno if that's the kind joke somebody with a proper pressing plant contracts would make at the end of a long run
danielpbarron: huh, yeah the CDs i have are the "real" kind that look aluminum
danielpbarron: i haven't opened versions 5.6 through 5.8 but my 5.5 is the official kind of cd that looks shiny metal (not colorful)
phf: also, in case nobody noticed, 6.1 release has arm64 support, that relies on the base clang (that in turn was included but otherwise not used in base last december)