mod6: workin on ada stuff?
mod6: ahh. ok. yah, i suppose it requires a bunch of on-paper - try it yourself until blue in face.
mircea_popescu: as the one, the only, the forever carlin said, "the man himself was philosophical about it : it's that much less skin to wash."
a111: Logged on 2014-09-18 19:37 asciilifeform: 'happy is the man who has one leg, one sock doesn't tear, one boot isn't needed.'
shinohai: implying asciilifeform actually codes in perl
mod6: are you looking at some variant of mult reduction?
mod6: or something like SRT with a lookup table?
mod6: cool. that's good anyway, we don't need revenge of the floating-point bug.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in principle you could just do mirror ops of all things anywya neh ?
mod6: do i follow if i store 10 on rising-edge for odd, and 01 at the same time for falling edge even?
mircea_popescu: every piece of shit intel crapware was prototyped. reasonable cost is an entirely conventional notion. malia obama gets to keep her head for another month, how's that for reasonable.
mod6: yeah, just was trying to grasp that concept.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> ( you can't do it on fpga. ) << needs actual crystal?
mircea_popescu: mod6 basically, a digital machine has no real reason to store a 1 as a 1 rather than any other arbitrary time-pattern
mod6: ah. thanks for the input. this is interesting.
mircea_popescu: it wasn't done originally because it'd have made core dumps much less readable.
mod6: asciilifeform: someday.
mod6: maybe someday nsa makes it's own mgft plant/process, etc.
mod6: speaking of which, i have new results to post.
mod6: interesting this time. collected ~1.5Gb. All tests passed the dieharder.
mod6: I'm pretty sure that's the first time. But will do follow up analysis after 3rd run against this 5th FG>
mod6: yah,thanks! this is awesome ftr. having fun doing it.
mod6: i've read through it ~twice. so far, it makes sense to me, but I need a more careful going-through. part of why I'm learning verilog.
mod6: stuff is impressive
mircea_popescu: by the time you're done with logs, you'll have like 5 diff careers mod6
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, qualcomm-apple battle heats up. iphone 8 might be banned from us market &c
mod6: mircea_popescu: aha, im getting an education. trying to relentlessly get better/learthese disciplines
mod6: altogether, i'm trying to stay focused on trb too. and learn these other topics as I go.
mod6: some of the topics reach far and wide. gotta stay on task. but always will try to pick up what I can, where I can.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> on the upside, really can't be fired anymore. << probably not. i don't worry about it. if one door closes, another opens. besides, someday not too far off, this will be the thing.
mircea_popescu: trinque teens also can't take gf into woods to fuck her intensively no mo ?
mod6: i've always wanted to do my best, or be as good as I can be at something that interested me. im not as smart or as clever as many, but I put in the work. i find that putting in the work pays dividends later.
trinque: no woods to speak of inside city limits
trinque: plenty of woods with camping outside, which is where anybody camping does.
mircea_popescu: apple story being apple got ftc to sue the chinos, ftc got lapdogs (intel, samsung) to join in. the chinos might actually slap an ic export ban on us.
trinque: this is highway barnacle removal
mod6: heh 'highway barnacle'
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 16:10 mircea_popescu: (basically, long story short, usg financed a coupla units in georgia and ncarolina with japan's money, ain't giving it back. loss is whatever you want it to be, 3 to 10 bn)
mircea_popescu: mod6 i find that the people putting in the work end up actually being the smarter among the many.
mod6: fair enough. there is the separate case of enbracing the beatings too.
mod6: i told some administrtion people at the mines recently something very much the same.
mod6: "I'm here because of the beatings I've taken."
mod6: they just looked at me like: O.O (wtf is this dude on about...)
trinque: they also can't block a walkway or entryway to panhandle. next year they can ban the panhandling outright.
mod6: it's different now tho. back in the day, if you did something retarded, you would be dressed-down for your failures. these days, mines are ~safe-spaces where no blame can be placed or else lawsuits.
trinque: I dunno; I worked for folks that had their own lawyers, when working in mines.
trinque: can always drag you through them longer than you can manage.
mod6: i mean, how is one to learn if one doesn't know he did incorrect action/whatevers?
mircea_popescu: the lazy and the stupid ganged together and convinced "everyone" ie themselves that placing blame is bad, evil, counterproductive et all.
trinque: I think people vastly overestimate this "the gendercommitter shall sue"
mircea_popescu: trinque people vastly overestimate the importance of social media howling, also. and this is entirely borne out of stubbornly ignoring the numerous cases of it being raped to shreds.
mircea_popescu still chuckles at the "indignant community" back when fetlife turned out to be a shithole.
mod6: ya. i was just talking about this today, in fact. long story, but at the end, he fucked up, and how's he supposed to learn that he fucked up if no one slaps his dick and says "you fucked up, don't do it again" ?
mod6: mines churning out cucks like Sam.
trinque: mod6: you were in new england right?
mod6: heheh, i dig it mp.
trinque: ah maybe that was mats or something.
mod6: trinque: yah, minnesota.
trinque: ah ok, can't say I've been there.
mircea_popescu: me either. most obscure state! but apparently great hunting.
mod6: imagine texas in the summer. then imagine texas in the winter -90 degrees.
trinque: probably has its charm. I like when the environment tries to kill me.
trinque: folks must not go outside; you'd think that'd toughen them up
trinque: yeah, that tornado on the highway recently, good try.
mircea_popescu: tornado be like "bitchez, didn't you want flying cars ???"
mod6: my ancestors lived in a covered wagon for like 2 years.
trinque: oh? actually settled the place?
mod6: they came from germany or whatever, bought/steaked a claim; took 'em 2 farming seasons to get enough money to buy the supplies to build the house.
mod6: house is still there.
mod6: meanwhile, all 6-8 of 'em or whatever lived through 2 minnesota winters in a covered wagon.
mod6: staggers the imagination - the sheer determination of a generation long since gone bye.
mircea_popescu: well no because back then they had anthropogenic minnesota warming see.
mod6: but shit, i figure, if they could do it, I could do it too. not that i look forward to that, but it's not impossible. hell, it might be downright necessary.
mod6: mircea_popescu: haha
trinque: look if the cows all fart at once it sets off a positive feedback loop
mircea_popescu: anyway, cold hardness is very much developed trait. i think i told the story of the pubescent girls at the black sea playing around in the freezing water like fucking sirens.
mircea_popescu: fucking cape cod style winds, i was cold in my winter gear. they were the color of liver.
mod6: i think you did, ya.
trinque: never jumped in the water, but I've hopped in a few snowbanks naked. it's a riot.
mod6: once, i was walking on a frozen lake. fell through some thin ice (~january-ish time), by the time i walked ~2.2km home, my pants were frozen and my legs were blue.
mod6: like, my pants stood on the own.
mod6: frozen damn near solid. lol
mod6: probably some. i think i've had it quite a bit. not to the point of decay or amputation or anything. but there've been many times I remember playing hockey outdoors as a kid in 10 or 20 below f weather.
mod6: by the time i took my skates gloves off... feet/hands really painful. i used to put them in very luke warm water to thaw them out.
mod6: feels like your hands/feet getting hit with a hammer
mod6: once you get frostbite, they say that it's pretty easy to get afterwards because your capillaries never heal fully. making you susceptible.
mod6: not a year goes by that I don't read about some person who got drunk, fell asleep on their porch mid-winter, and loses some digits due to frostbite.
mod6: i suppose they should consider themselves lucky.
mod6: anyone else playing with ffa?
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: ran when parked << lol << :D
pete_dushenski:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-15#1656491 << well, they are made of ye newe nose-cutty plastique. this is, however, the least annoying of its 'features'. cracking and breaking due to temperature fluctuations and extremes is markedly more of a nuissance. 'moar durable! progress!' is anything but. nooz at 11.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-05-15 19:20 BingoBoingo: Wait, Canadian bills are diabetic?
lobbes: <mircea_popescu> snow is not so terrible because very insulating. << I can attest! I grew up on cape cod; while the winters never usually got below ~30 F on average, the occasional noreaster would punch you to the bone. cold rain + high winds = no fun
lobbes: the 5 years I then spent in northern Ohio (where it'd get below 0 F often) were comparatively more bearable
lobbes: of course now I'm in the warm, sub-tropical southeast! Barely had a winter this year :D
pete_dushenski:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655841 << why did btc4rx7 deal fall through ? /me offered previous owner of saddam 10btc. he declined because 'too volatile' and 'family to feed'. i didn't think he'd bite, but now there's at least one more schmuck who can't say he never had the olive branch extended to him. i guess that's something.
☝︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 16:13 asciilifeform: i almost bought a wankel car once
BingoBoingo: In other threads completed: The best late model consumer vehicle is likely the pre-2017 model year Honda Rebel. 4-stroke combustion is a bummer to see on it, but air cooled and carbeurated. Better would be humble bicycle with "echo CS-800P" chainsaw swapped in to replace pedals.
BingoBoingo: (Primary advantage of 2-stroke motor is lubrication in any rotational configuration such that gravity glove shennanigans need not deprive motor of friction protection)
BingoBoingo: Advantage of chainsaw as powertrain is having a chainsaw to clear road obstructions provided rest of chainsaw is kept in saddle bag.
BingoBoingo: Only disadvantage I am seeing here is that reconfiguring chainsaw to be chainsaw instead of bike mover takes time. Time that could be used to clear obstructions like hamplanets had one been simply traveling as a pedestrian with a chainsaw.
BingoBoingo: And unlike turbine, trivial fuel is required to spin up motor
☟︎ BingoBoingo: In further trivia at apex on technology, chainsaw maker also produces appliance called "Bed redefiner"
mircea_popescu: chainsaw bike eh. why not microwave tv and tower laundry machine dildo, while at it.
mircea_popescu: shinohai its position as 5th altcorn yo. not it's. its.
danielpbarron: the damage from frostbite happens in the warming up. i've had it happen more than a few times where my feet would get cold and then i'd hop in the shower and get that "hit with hammers" sensation. also feels like bones are itchy.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> chainsaw bike eh. why not microwave tv and tower laundry machine dildo, while at it. << Microwave tv would be great for solving problem of people immersed in tv.
BingoBoingo also though laundry machine dildo was already a thing.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, motorcycle and chainsaw both are essentially motors powering sprockets to drive chains. Only really difference is the parts the chains touch
a111: Logged on 2017-05-16 01:36 asciilifeform: in other near-term lulz, a 'pbot' is in the worx, so that folx can play with various input->output pairs in-chan
a111: Logged on 2017-05-16 05:23 pete_dushenski:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655841 << why did btc4rx7 deal fall through ? /me offered previous owner of saddam 10btc. he declined because 'too volatile' and 'family to feed'. i didn't think he'd bite, but now there's at least one more schmuck who can't say he never had the olive branch extended to him. i guess that's something.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-16 06:59 danielpbarron: the damage from frostbite happens in the warming up. i've had it happen more than a few times where my feet would get cold and then i'd hop in the shower and get that "hit with hammers" sensation. also feels like bones are itchy.
mircea_popescu: i don't get it, so india apparently sees a rider for the very first time, gets all excited ?
mircea_popescu: also, i don't expect the hotel makes any money from the deal. they're giving the rooms away free. etc.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: even artist can grow up as poor canadian, never exposed to culture, and continue 'successful career' equally sheltered, shuttling from airport to hotel and hotel to arena, forever contained in $bubble.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: india isn't as socially stratified as it used to be. member of parliament was recently banned for ~all air india flights~ for chiding an attendant who stuck him in an economy seat.
mircea_popescu: and, of course, air india is consequently losing its subsidies, because they'll get hold up in parliament.
pete_dushenski: i dun think so. firebrand indian mp just has to helicopter or drive in car now. it's some fubar shit.
mircea_popescu: i totally would. the name of the game is disproportionate retribution. let your $100 seat savings cost you $10 mn in financing, why the hell not.
pete_dushenski: ravindra gaekwad is the mp's name. a 'shiv sena' (far-right) party leader.
mircea_popescu: it's kinda funny for me to read all the nightmare stories of various ppl trying to airtravel, because i've had nothing but great experiences and well... sucks to be them i guess.
pete_dushenski: the story is basically that geeky had a business class ticket only to discover that air india had turned the plane into all economy seats. geeky still boarded the flight but flipped his lid when they landed and refused to deboard before roughing up some airline staff.
pete_dushenski: anyways, geekwad, no, evidently doesn't have dirigible.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: not saying you should depart with btc for $car, but i've yet to meet the seller who turned down, as you say, incadollars.
pete_dushenski: this has also been my issue in current $porsche market. brainbrakes are stronger than heartthrottle.
pete_dushenski:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655830 << speaking of throttles, 'car throttle' was started at the same time as my old car site by a very entrepreneurial brown brit by the name of adnan ebrahim. we used to email back and forth in those early, uncertain days and we met up in london in 2014 for a few drinks. he obviously went the vc-route and has done very well by the metrics of that world, certainly better
☝︎ pete_dushenski: adnan's is an object lesson in catering to video game playing, basement dwelling, fanbois of the 'like' generation.
pete_dushenski: certainly no one's done it better in the online auto enthusiast space than he.
pete_dushenski: in other hooks, baizuo (白左), or literally, the ‘white left’ is the newest insult in china. love it.
ben_vulpes: psh, also who wants to hump the accumulator around
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: otoh air tools have turbines in 'em
a111: Logged on 2017-05-16 06:12 BingoBoingo: And unlike turbine, trivial fuel is required to spin up motor
BingoBoingo: But do turbines harness lubricating explosions like wet farts?
ben_vulpes: how about we compromise on a gas turbine powered air compressor backed drivetrain
BingoBoingo: Nah, unless it's burning petroil mix, the exhaust won't smell right
ben_vulpes: even if burning petroil, gas turbine will get hot enough to break down the lube oil
ben_vulpes: oh wait we need a total loss lubrication gas turbine
ben_vulpes: could cool it with liquid fuel and recirculate the evaporate into the combustion chamber
ben_vulpes: except applied to turbo instead of combustion chamber/nozzle cooling
ben_vulpes: prototype the stack as a "turbo furace"
hanbot: diana_coman i got myself up to date just to quote my last problem with the character in the logs, ha. thanks for asking, and i'll see to it this week for sure. meatland has been fairly crazy these past months, i'd love to have a software problem (she said naively).
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
shinohai: Only mETH heads can make DNS shittier than it already is.
mircea_popescu: i suppose if they ever manage to adapt the fingernail rfid for cattle usage, the cows'll be tweeting about how they're testing the barn app, and act like all serious about it, too.
shinohai: I wouldn't be surprised if they actually found that entertaining.
mircea_popescu: i've been watching it in 10 minute installments with half hour cussing breaks.
shinohai: I was already convinced that Roger Ver populates r/btc with markov bots. Can't even find anything to Qntra about there unless BU breaks, etc.
Framedragger: hailed as "citizen kane of bad movies". for a reason! it's terrible, horrible, amazing movie you should watch!
mircea_popescu: this isn't a bad movie. it's insufferable, because it is a good movie about cockroaches that really shouldn't exist.
mircea_popescu: lmao. wtf is with the florist scene, sounds like porn dialogue.
scriba: Logged on 2017-05-16: [05:15:35] <pete_dushenski>
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-15#1656143 << lol i'm afraid i don't understand this 'fix' well enough to implement on disposable craptops that actually have intel me on them. let me know if you take the plunge :)
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: you mean the completely unnecessary scene in the room? film is full of those. it's amazing i tell you
Framedragger: asciilifeform: yeah esp. for x220 and the likes when it's truly only very partial
Framedragger: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re verify, presumably one may be able to set some parts of the firmware to be RO? problem is, not all parts, and even then, "how deeply do you trust". so yeah i guess sisyphean
ben_vulpes: will pay for solar panels, community gardens for the poor, and jaeorbs for women/people of color!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes hey, i have various cos paying 3% of gross in ro. works great for high margin operations.
mircea_popescu: (no, it's not "on top of everything". it's either of net or of gross, your option._
mircea_popescu: suppose you have 1mn gross receipts. if you pay 3% of gross, you're paying 30k. if you instead pay 16% of net, you'll have to produce expenses worth 850k before it's cheaper that way.
mircea_popescu: discount cost of expenses is about 6-7% depending, meaning it's not worth it to buy them straight.
ben_vulpes: there is no 'either' on the table here.
ben_vulpes: femfuhrer simply wants 1% of the largest pile in sight.
mircea_popescu: yes, but you were discussing the thing in general, so i gave you specific example of exception.
trinque: pdx income tax has been otw since that arts tax thing
trinque: asciilifeform: because they can argue a greater percentage of "omg they were just going to pocket it" than of "and we also have to pay things you don't know about"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but then you have to actually have the expenses. and then the inept game of "oh, disallowed extemption, we decided you owe money retrospectively plus penalties etc"
mircea_popescu: and so now you have to maintain accountants + hitmen, and neither one is sufficient, to keep enough pressure on the crown so it can't come up with bullshit.
mircea_popescu: irl, paying tax out of net is a sucker's game. you want to pay the talent out of net, like they do in holyingwood, and the criminals out of gross.
mircea_popescu: but the alternative is to shoot the "democratically elected" and take over. and the sad truth of the matter is that it's actually AN EVEN WORSE DEAL.
mircea_popescu wouldn't take over eg romania if they paid. i can't imagine oregon or w/e is any better
ben_vulpes: and he asks why i don't burn down city hall.
trinque: asciilifeform: think of the expense of holding that territory, and then you have all these underlings who don't want to pay you!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i could think of less useful myself, or of more useful also. but i can think of no ~useful~.
mircea_popescu: less clean sewage, more clean sewage, just no potable water s'all.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i personally know two ... groups, let's say, that triedf the whole take over game. leaving aside the petty private satisfactions [of jailing the other trailer park trash they grew up with], economically it's been improductive.
mircea_popescu: romania incidentally has a long history of just this, it's called fanarioti period. hundreds of groups over 3-4 centuries did just this, kept taking over because pissed off with insolence of ex crown. discovered worse deal to be king.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, heuristic remains : pay anyone you can fire out of net, anyone else out of gross.
mircea_popescu: trinque the adventure of say rhodesia is instructive. suddenly the imbecile twitter horde is trying to play counterstrike around your borders "for democracy", while the idiots are cheering them on. god fucking forbid black dudes with machine guns start pouring over border in us, at the rate of a few thousands a year.
mircea_popescu: TERRORISM!!!! and THE WHOLE WORLD MUST GIVE A SHIT!! AND THEREFORE DOES!!!
mircea_popescu: and the netflix scum nod along, "oh yes, terrible, terrorism, moo, moo"
mircea_popescu: then again, the us of today would pretty much collapse in a year of rhodesia treatment, supposing anyone could be arsed to apply it.
mircea_popescu: its continued existence signifies the absence of interest and exactly no more.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform remember when teh politburo shat it because they imagined the chinese'll start pouring over the border ?
trinque: all these fat women, and sidewalks filled with human shit and shit humans.
mircea_popescu: you say you worked in biolab. you must've encountered the phial not worth the washing, yes ?
trinque: there was perhaps some land worth ruling, who knows. but wtf, somebody's going to be father-janitor to these people.
mircea_popescu: fact is, the crap growing in agar bottle manages to soil the bottle. permanently.
trinque: the future being at all worthwhile is going to involve massive ratios of man to drone and drone to bodycount.
mircea_popescu: while that lasts. god knows the scum are trying their best to scumify china as well ; and sadder still -- the ~only reason it exists is that it's really just an alternate pathway to scum. slightly different sort of cockroach, that's all and no more.
mircea_popescu: notice how silent the "crowd wisdom" is about all that ?
trinque: when slurping the USSR's cock?
mircea_popescu: anyway. the reason i point out burma is because the coup was successful, and the country is industrializing at chinese pace.
mircea_popescu: whereas korea... whatever. it's gone, has been gone for decades.
mircea_popescu: by now, pretty much everything, all the way to diesel trucks, tractors etc.
mircea_popescu: chinese help. you know, just like n korea had ru help.
mircea_popescu: but ~just~ like. on schedule to "spit it out" 2025 or so.
mircea_popescu: borders are quite closed, to eg, esl precious cuntlet.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, same as in korea - 20 years of slowly fading away.
mircea_popescu: but the general point being : the anglotard narrative is fundamentally broken. it's not you know, "broadly correct, needs adjustment". it can't be fixed. whatever you read in english newspaper makes you dumber, and you can't fix this.
mircea_popescu: where by newspaper we mean the whole gamut of fake news, from redditwittetardopedia to "the new socialist" or w/e it's called.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: aha, "the new wokesman"
ben_vulpes: haw haw haw "Italian Commission Says More Controls Needed on NGO Rescue Boats in Mediterranean"
ua: I have 20x Dell SC1435 available, these are 2x quad 2.2 Opteron 2374HE 16GB RAM 80GB HDD
ua: there are post leasing from poland, 175 euro apiece, 50 euro cheaper than i saw on ebay.de
ua: also i could deliver them in person in like east germany
mircea_popescu: ua logging -otc since 2013, still not made a key ? what is this, some kind of joke ?
ua: i was just reading and stuff
ben_vulpes: best binary give-a-shit filter on randos.
ben_vulpes: no key, not even worth a cursory second look.
mircea_popescu: not even a rando. the newborn has the excuse that he wasn't there to hear the calling ; but the dorks who frittered their time away in presence have no excuse, nor any way to wash the shame of their cowardly, subhuman build.
mircea_popescu: there is no difference in this sense between nubbins, an idle idiot, and nanotube, a respectable professor. scammers known like theymos and lukejr, supposedly honest idiots like szabo, agents known like gavin or unknown like whatever others have this much in commom -- the call was made, and they strayed.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: no way to wash this, and i will prosecute them. all, the same scum.
mircea_popescu: the whole "so email him" comes with quite the heavy backhand. there's no washing of the treason of not showing up.
ben_vulpes: the genuinely naive with two brain cells to rub together mighta at least asked "what dat" "how do i register" etc
mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as genuine naivite enduring over half a decade unchanged.
ben_vulpes: yes well, i'm not going to grep through my personal logs to find out if a fleanode name'd been used before
ben_vulpes: sit on couch, smoke pot, print things.
shinohai imagines this is speshul snowflake of redditard variety.
ben_vulpes: the "could i" construction indicates a particular breed of poverty-stricken subject of her "majesty"
mircea_popescu: perfect medium for knowledge : while you wait for them to show up, you become more knowledgeable.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes let me guess, the ever-sweet delusion that there's room "for everyone" and that whether random sack of flesh burns or achieves is somehow my fucking problem, not its fucking problem, cuz im supposed to be his mommy.
ben_vulpes: more of a sad little "what would getting into the wot at this late date get me anyways?"
mircea_popescu: isn't this a little like the 18 yo girlie asking "what'd getting into fucking this late get me anyways, people'd been fucking forever"
mircea_popescu: obviously not the fucking same question for the deeply retarded female that waited to be 50 first.
trinque: ben_vulpes: this guy somehow reminds me of teh spike-sitting salesbro
trinque: tone of "hmph so hurt omg having fit"
ben_vulpes: do salesbros of commodity hardware throw fits where people can see?
trinque: head too far up ass to tell who's looking.