trinque: firearm discharge depends on acreage iirc, but I don't think anybody would arrest you for killing a fucking squirrel around here.
BingoBoingo: And no, I dun believe the news fatbook picture
mircea_popescu: trinque this "state / usg" distinction carried water pre-lincoln.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure "the commerce clause" gives random swampocrat full authority to legislate squirrel rights.
trinque: what a bunch of idiots, leaving such giant gaping holes in the thing.
mircea_popescu: the pretense that commerce clause enables washington bureaucracy is exactly like the usual fare of prison toughs. "you dropped your soap".
mircea_popescu: if i write "roses are red" and some douche goes "by roses he means milk, amirite ?" the failure of the douche's companions to knock him one upside the head does not translate in my having left any kind of hole in my text ; nor does it enact changing it to "roses are red and by roses we do not mean milk" into being reasonable. it's not fucking reasonable, the douche will just go "oh, by red he meant square"
mircea_popescu: and it all comes back to should-have-beaten-the-wives, of course.
trinque: words have meanings yes, and oughtn't need smearing of extra "no really they do" around, which immediately reminds one of OSS.
trinque: also can't deny that it wasn't the document that did anyting; the folks who wanted USGism killed more of the ones that didn't
trinque: eh poorly put. while the southern civilian death toll was certainly high and under-reported, also lots of the same on the other side. at any rate, lost.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-21 20:44 mircea_popescu: davout i don't get it, what'd you ask around for ? people in the wot who you know but we somehow don't ?
davout: looks like it at first cursory examination
mircea_popescu: fancy that, tmsr machines within em spying range of usg top sikrit sea of china equivalent
davout: the opposite would be surprising
davout: i'm off to .za ttyal later
mircea_popescu: in other random lulz, i ended up with this pair of very nice 8 carat diamonds and i've been playing with them in the light like a complete down case for the past half hour
☟︎ shinohai: Of course not, scamcoin devs likely pay handsomely to get CoinDesk to spread teh word.
mircea_popescu: ah right, that's the end. he's not trying to get anyone to "buy his picks", he's trying to get the lesser scammers to pay him for his supposed crystal ball publicity services. the paul graham scam.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-21 14:20 asciilifeform: 'Mike Pompeo, director of the Central Intelligence Agency ... "WikiLeaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service," he said in prepared remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Assange is a narcissist who has created nothing of value," Pompeo said. "He relies on the dirty work of other to make himself famous. He is a fraud — a coward hiding behind a screen. "And
shinohai will lulz until death over his tweet about ETC being "First non-Bitcoin coin I evah bought" when guy was a Zooko supporter from day 1.
mircea_popescu: the cost of keeping the story straight is an exponential function of time whereas the gains for imperials are fixed at best -- their intended audience has no intelligence or culture. consequently, every usg shill will be leaking lulz after about 6 to 9 months depending on the volume he outputs.
mircea_popescu: in certain edges of the swamp there's ancient frogs of this nature, who've been chasing the same five dollah in clueless nigger spending for all their life, 30-40 years, firebranding nonsense all through. in the us they're called "senators" often enough, but the romanian word is "panarame".
mircea_popescu: the "famous dr luther waxling" in scorsese's seek and destroy would be a paradigmatic example i guess.
shinohai actually thought Dennis Hopper played that role well ....
mircea_popescu: "you wanna sit at the grown up table talkin' movie deals ? GET SOME FUCKING MONEY! YOU GOT NOTHING IN YOUR POCKETS!!"
mod6: TomServo: any update on your node?
mod6: TomServo: also, been watching any of the new MST3K?
shinohai: Hah yeah it just dawned on me the show got started in your neck of the woods lol.
mod6: I just watched the 3rd episode of the new season, "The Time Travelers." There's a line in there that's something like 'Steve, what will it be like after all these centuries? Are you sure? I'm sure of one thing.' '[Crow]: Bitcoin.
mod6: im just gonna come out and say it.
mod6: well, i try to compile some simple examples and it talks shit to me
mod6: maybe it's just the example that isn't mean to bean compiled.
mod6: thought it might be inherited from Ada.* or whatever? or do i just need to implement my own?
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 02:17 mircea_popescu: in other random lulz, i ended up with this pair of very nice 8 carat diamonds and i've been playing with them in the light like a complete down case for the past half hour
shinohai: That asciilifeform too would have lost head in French Revolution.
shinohai: Mauve has the most RAM remember.
BingoBoingo: Back to this Koran bsns... It sure talks about jihad a lot... Have any of these SJW's (i.e. moldylocks the haircunt) actually read the other SJW's (Scary Jihad Warrior's) book?
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: gotta skim through their book. It's basically ad copy for ISIS. Incites feeling that the proper sane foreign policy to handle the middle east is wall building and enticing a greater idiot to occasionally hurl missiles over there when the mohammadeans get aggressive beyond their station.
ben_vulpes: embrace the imminent hairy rape, BingoBoingo
ben_vulpes: if the us could still glass places, perhaps i'd not despise it so
jhvh1: Last 8 lines bashed and pending publication
ben_vulpes: may your hirstute frame hold the horde at bay
☟︎ trinque: BingoBoingo: yeah but what they really want is pixar movies about inclusiveness and to behave.
BingoBoingo: As is all of the "nobody could have forseen" that ISIS does
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.
ben_vulpes: i gather i should be impressed that the us can hit a ship under full steam with guided ordinance
ben_vulpes: what, this implies it's actually hard?
mats: and how would ben_vulpes accomplish this without sat or gps guidance?
mats: 'TACTOM' uses an illuminator that appears to require line-of-sight
TomServo: mod6: Sadly neither. I need to make time to wrap my head around dumpblock.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-28 05:21 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1632901 << yes, goes by spyked on trilema ; bright undergrad and then grad at the bucharest politechnic (which still is a fine technical school, though it was better pre-democracy).
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
Framedragger: re the tarpit, ooh a blog written in CL with sane commenting system (yet to be seen, of course) sounds interesting enough
shinohai: ^ now that is nice and clean looking.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 05:13 ben_vulpes: may your hirstute frame hold the horde at bay
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 14:10 Framedragger: maybe he has an allergy, who knows these things
mircea_popescu: if you wait in a closet long enough, a) all problems resolve themselves eventually and b) your real life will start by itself also. because this is something people can do, decide what problems to apply themselves to and when to condescend to call their daily activity by that lofty name of "my life".
Framedragger: yeah... in fairness, he seems to be operating in his own meatwot, not in total isolation.
Framedragger: (but then, maybe that's only the presented impression. there is that closet smell, yeah.)
mircea_popescu: the argument of irrelevancy is not as to isolation. it is as to irrelevancy. if the modernist delusion of "hi i can of myself and by myself choose what problems to apply myself to" rots one's brain, the result isn't necessarily a loner ; but what difference does that make ?
BingoBoingo: ^ Unlike sweden where refugees terrorize locals, in Saint Louis local terrorize
BingoBoingo: Nice, did that trap in rights one fire? it's a it blurry
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Have you also considered setting up a shallow bowl full of "mole & gopher peanuts"
shinohai: asciilifeform strikes me as the type that will leave vermin carcass on a pike as a warning to the others ....
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ( the airgun film from youtube linked earlier was interesting imho, in re how rodents will happily climb on top of a pile of corpses of their fellows and sit there, chewing whatever snack... ) << Pretty sure this is part of the criteria for being rodent
shinohai: Nah, they are artistic photos, meant to capture the melancholy and precarious situation the rodents find themselves in, teetering on the brink of life and death in a cold, unforgiving attic.
shinohai wonders if alf's attic would make a better BDSM hangout than that place mircea_popescu mentioned in Disk Less Terminal
ben_vulpes: mats: for my education, over how large of an area can a carrier group jam gps?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes its amusing to me to see all the usgistani youtube rarararing (a fine example :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vej_aLJpFYo ) deeply rely on satellites. fact : large scale involvement with either russia or china will contain the end of satellites as the very first step.
ben_vulpes: that'll be the end of orbital access as well.
mircea_popescu: the russian thing may survive slightly longer because it is a later, better design with some concern shown to this problem ; and because the americans are inept and ineffectual. but it's iffy.
ben_vulpes: once satwar begins, debris is going to knock out *all* birds and make orbit useless until someone decides to burn epic piles of btc cleaning it up.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, that's why things like the guided missile yest use direct sighting etc.
mircea_popescu: by and large, if there's a gps there's not a war and vice-versa. they're entirely and without remainder mutually exclusive.
mircea_popescu: but yes, you're right, it also means no more iss etc. though it's unclear what that will do -- currently outer orbit is not exactly friendly anyway.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: dead reckoning works reasonably well, in that it has an error distribution and one can handle that with volume.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 17:36 mircea_popescu: alf takes terrible pictures.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 17:45 ben_vulpes: mats: for my education, over how large of an area can a carrier group jam gps?
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 17:48 ben_vulpes: once satwar begins, debris is going to knock out *all* birds and make orbit useless until someone decides to burn epic piles of btc cleaning it up.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-17 05:41 mircea_popescu: so yes, there is ONE possibly useful application of a military railgun : making the deep space interdictor. but this is slight.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 17:48 mircea_popescu: and that's also why all the expenditure on maps and so on.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-22 17:49 mircea_popescu: but yes, you're right, it also means no more iss etc. though it's unclear what that will do -- currently outer orbit is not exactly friendly anyway.
mircea_popescu: but alf! the humanity! and its "our goals" of cooperation ands etc!
Framedragger: (worth a read. can argue later. but recommend. but probably known to alf et al.)
Framedragger: (shitty tl;dr: iss is a toy which is nasa's bureaucratic instrument to get constant, predictable budget assignations (consider that iss always has to be crewed). now-defunct space shittle + iss was a perfect self-sustaining devil's pair.)
mircea_popescu: the problem with research is that it's not a reasonable activity from accounting pow.
phf: “adapting to industry shifts and student feedback, the computer science department has implemented various changes to its introductory courses, CS106 and CS107. This spring, a pilot version of CS106A, tentatively called CS106J, will be taught in Javascript instead of Java. Meanwhile, CS106S: “Programming Abstractions and Social Good” is being offered as a standalone class for the first time this winter, encouraging students to consider the s
phf: ocial impact their work can have.
Framedragger: i will claim that for all the free burning-in-hell credits that java has honourably accrued, it is at least somewhat of a programming language. at least you learn what a fucking type is. JS is something like a 24/7 d0pe weed smoking experience in class (unoriginal redundant repetitions are redundant, but still...)
shinohai: If I don't haz to go to class, then I need not know what class is :D
Framedragger: shinohai: that's the thing, this'd actually be somewhat consistent :D and possibly less of a waste of time
a111: Logged on 2014-04-15 18:34 asciilifeform: 'we refuse to produce any more C programmers who are a danger to themselves and others.' -- my old dean
Framedragger: i actually never got to know what the major issue with pascal was. (i mean, as long as you're teaching imperative programming..)
☟︎ Framedragger granted, mostly avoided pascal in high school by way of teachers being tards, so maybe not enough radiation exposure to develop rash
phf: pascal is still taught as main language in some european universities including moscow state cs department
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-18#1645317 << this was an experimental place, after doing more traditional club with table service, which i'm honestly not good at. it was a frat bar, and 3 of us had thursday which typically was really slow night, bar % and door. so we had a chance to build up various gimmicks, and see how they play out. i was good at that. at height the take home was about 2k each, which is way low compared to a club, but really go
☝︎ phf: od for a divy bar. fun stuff when you're 25.