phf: compiling cyrtex for plain tex, errors out. google gives
phf: “e-TeX is assumed nowadays by everything other than 'pure' plain TeX. AS
phf: such, the \numexpr primitive is used by some of the hyphenation patterns
phf: built into the LaTeX format by babel. ” etc.
mod6: "In his paper, Pearson gave several interesting examples of the previous misuse of statistics; and he also proved that certain runs at roulette (which he had experienced during two weeks at Monte Carlo in 1892) were so far from the expected frequencies that odds against the assumption of an honest wheel were some 10^29 to one!"
mod6: -knuth, art of programming vol. 2. seminumerical algos
phf: right, i had reddit knowledge of it, but now i'm trying to get a nice hardcopy of a book that i only have in text, and i'm rapidly gaining tmsr knowledge of just how rotten it is
mod6: just throwing a matrix together of all the test data.
shinohai: I am not exactly enabled yet but will be putting in the work asap
mod6: asciilifeform: cool!
mircea_popescu: phf "nowadays" rapidly becoming ourdemocracy's chief dirty word.
mircea_popescu: and speaking of the "новые высоты прогресса и цивилизации", it can't quite escape one's notice that EVERY SINGLE FEMALE of reproductive age without exception lives in this thing where the bed is always within physical reach.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: buying a new video card just to slice a part of the possibility space off
ben_vulpes: halfheartedly, entirely deflated dick in hand, bantuized the thing. worked, but...could not muster the spirit to continue with hardware so degraded
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: latest sojurn hung at "Booting the kernel."
ben_vulpes: intel i7, nvidia geforce 550 ti, and as for "which kernel" i do not properly know how to answer the question but built with CHOST="x86_64-gentoo-linux-gnu"
ben_vulpes: VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" at least had the system booting, ="nouveau" hung as described
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: this is not strictly speaking a "hygenic" box
ben_vulpes: but i have at least managed to rid myself of the apple dep
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a111: Logged on 2017-06-02 03:26 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: whatddayamean 'bed always within physical reach'
BingoBoingo imagines alf "porn chick" construction is a redundant labeling like "covetous Jew"
BingoBoingo: Not that I remember, but I did see an awesome swarm of bees today.
mircea_popescu: notbad comedy. somewhat in the vein of leslie nielsen's stuff.
BingoBoingo: One very happy contractor is now a few hundred bees richer
BingoBoingo: I may have to carve out the time to see it.
mircea_popescu: i suppose could keep calling the everyone in dnc to "comment on" the thing. sort-of like how fake news / new york times does it...
jurov: radeon opensource driver works decently here. but kernel config alone is not enough, you have to feed it correct firmware as described in $manual, too
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Well maybe commenter ends up reporting on story in the comments?
mircea_popescu: whole piece needs a re-read, lotta e2l weird in there.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-02 06:48 jurov: radeon opensource driver works decently here. but kernel config alone is not enough, you have to feed it correct firmware as described in $manual, too
trinque: appeared to keep working over here
trinque: but then there's "radeon" and "radeonsi"
trinque: blobware yes, though. something like 16 fucking firmware files
trinque: has some like, files to compile and they go zoom in the terminal
trinque: yeah exactly. it's a participatory democracy of a computer, gotta expect to share
trinque: ah I'm not running multiple vertical screens.
phf: you can buy a patek philippe caliber 89 from christie's for $11m. last time it went for $5m in 2009. at that inflation rate obummer bought a 2009 $4m house, which is a reasonable upper middle for potomac apparatchiks.
☟︎☟︎ phf: i've been to social events at these houses, and they are just glorified mcmansions. i was actually wondering about these mega-houses last time i recently took a trip to Fallingwater. who now among "the wealthy" is building these kaufmann residences that in 100 years time people will want to visit?
phf: oh, i know this area, obama's neighborhood is 5 minutes walking from me, it's all old construction, so not so much a "mega-house" as a large&old dc property (apparently made from real stone!1)
phf: those houses are nifty, because built by sane people until a contractor gets to "renovate" the interior
shinohai lives in 105 yr old house, but revels in the whole "no formaldehyde" smell.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-02 14:17 phf: you can buy a patek philippe caliber 89 from christie's for $11m. last time it went for $5m in 2009. at that inflation rate obummer bought a 2009 $4m house, which is a reasonable upper middle for potomac apparatchiks.
a111: Logged on 2015-08-22 14:05 asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-08-2015#1248273 << in my eyes, a ~skilled~ art forger is a hero second only to a hypothetical fella who puts an actual bullet through a bilderberger. why, exactly, should i have any sympathy for the folks hitching a ride in the only 100% effective inflation shelter known, at the expense of literally everybody else ?
phf: inflation is a dynamic process, so it's neither a scalar nor not a scalar
a111: Logged on 2017-06-02 14:17 phf: you can buy a patek philippe caliber 89 from christie's for $11m. last time it went for $5m in 2009. at that inflation rate obummer bought a 2009 $4m house, which is a reasonable upper middle for potomac apparatchiks.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes because reasons. REASONS == independent, as always.
mircea_popescu: wtf is "corruption" ? people-other-than-usg having control over property!!11
mircea_popescu: wtf is you know, any OTHER crime ? there is no other crime. that's the crime.
phf: maybe they are planning on going for michelle 2020 after all
mircea_popescu: i have nfi how that worked, but it's pretty far out there.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> whole piece needs a re-read, lotta e2l weird in there. << re-read v1
mircea_popescu: "Once again, while Trump the United States a smidge closer to The Great Again, but"
mircea_popescu: in other lulz ~nobody cares about : ucr (universidad de costa rica) is this massively dominant player. apparently it has 3`623 non-tenured, 1`726 tenured faculty. the former are bitchin' that they want "the same salary conditions" as the latter, which is very much representative of latino mental simplicity.
mircea_popescu: but the scandal exposed a coupla lulz, such as that the ucr spends 80% (!!!) of its income to pay salaries, and that income is ~500mn a year.
mircea_popescu: costa rica is a rich country dood. above ohio below arizona or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: you do realise that at least half the 50 us states are below average, in the sense most countries actually are doing better, yes ?
mircea_popescu: so you know, made 50bn gdp, bout same as panama, 4x nicaragua. which is how come all the chicks in strip joints are nigaraguaneans.
mircea_popescu: "highest level of foreign direct investment per capita of latin maerica", ie, a fine definition of whether you're poor or not is whether you have a gf here holding down a fort.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sure, they publish the usual crud. it's where you pick up the girlies, mostly.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-27 02:15 mircea_popescu: his answer ? exito. (success).
mircea_popescu: anyway, they export some ic / medical gear. but plenty of coffee banana etc.
mircea_popescu: they really don't have much of a clue. happy go lucky sort of tree dwellers.
mircea_popescu: lol elon musk quit "forum on job creation" because hey, paris accord was major "job creation" wtf.
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to cr, it's kinda funny. i recall their currency being reasonably stable, but since i've been here it shed about 10% against the dollar. so the natl bank is all "wtf is wrong with you people", put 1bn of the reserve on the market, etc.
mircea_popescu: why not ? troglodyte female muchly preferable to ustarded female.
mircea_popescu: young people are going to be stupid, this is a given. might as well deal with the naive than with the millitantly idiotic.
mircea_popescu: generally speaking, homebrew nationalism is ~worst thing that can happen to a country. way worse than foreign invasion.
mircea_popescu: it's what distinguishes say reddit and to some degree twitter from the average fucktard forum / website. dudes on reddit actually developed some sort of idiotarian self-identity on top of everything else.
mircea_popescu: so they go around you know, "we did it argentina!! sun rise!!!" and inqualifiably dumb shit like that.
mircea_popescu: dude's epitaph is this : he once claimed that when he took power there were all these sacks of gold and dollars and wealth, "hanging around, clearly being misused -- cuz not used to levantar el pueblo" etc.
mircea_popescu: THAT is how they appear, when there's too much wealth and too little noose for the poor to go with it.
mircea_popescu: exactly how it appeared in moscow, too. had the tzar fucking hung twenty million uppity bitches, starting with half of georgia, there'd have not been any problem.
mircea_popescu: and it's not like they're not asking for it and everything.
mircea_popescu: recall that time when they stomped each other on some field ?
mircea_popescu would have ordered ALL the participants hung. what did czar do ? apologize ?
mircea_popescu: you don't fucking apologize to the cow herd for IT having stampeded.
mircea_popescu: next fucking time, stay home, or if you come FUCKING BEHAVE
mircea_popescu: anyway, point being they're asking, and if you dun answer then dun be surprised.
mircea_popescu: sure, once you have 500`000 dead bodies in a pile it's time to build a new church and beg forgiveness for having let things get this far.
mircea_popescu: but nicholas was just ascending, it wasn't his fucking fault alexander was a faggot.
mircea_popescu: 500k idiots who stampede themselves to death vs hussar regiments ? really ?
mircea_popescu: this was 1896. the REASON 1917 happened was that nicholas was a fucktard in 1896.
mircea_popescu: had he fired all available artillery into the crowd, there'd have been no fucking bs.
mircea_popescu: the populace had to have a clear statement of its fault, and punishment comensurate. this is what government is.
mircea_popescu: what he did was, he failed to punish them for their misbehaviour, from which they concluded, quite in the infantile manner of subhumans, that tyhey had done nothing wrong
mircea_popescu: and that there's some room for them to "make judgements" and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: and i don't seem to recall his problems with the fucking reds.
mircea_popescu: and the need for the cure is constantly signalled, and the cure always is exactly that : round them all up and hang them.
mircea_popescu: nor is this only the problem of governance. for years before sham ustardian marriage ends in divorce wife begs for some checks, which husband doesn't provide because idiot ; but then really has no one else to blame.
mircea_popescu: before growing up to be stupid, kids spend their childhood begging for some guidance. and so following.
mircea_popescu: fucking "demonstrations" and whatnot. what are they "demonstrating" ? that "oh look, you're not going to drive the tanks through us!11 like you fucking should!!111 awell, i guess you're not fit to rule then huh."
a111: Logged on 2014-01-26 19:37 asciilifeform: just as the chinese replied, in '89, to 'why tanks?', with 'we aren't the u.s., can't afford warehouses full of "humane" riot gear'
mircea_popescu: well, su really needed new government. the "socialist" bullshit only runs so far.
mircea_popescu: unlike the eurotards, they got out relatively early, 1 century in.
mircea_popescu: but if i had to guess i'd say a larger % of all-wealth-controlled-by-russians belongs to "criminals" and "terrorists" than is the case of the us.
mircea_popescu: but of course they'd be within su wot. that's how these light states work.
ben_vulpes: "perhaps outlawing masculinity is a bad idea?"
mircea_popescu: o i know, let's plead like a little bitch, that'll do something.
mircea_popescu: how about "man ain't interested in your dumb bitch hut, starve."
mircea_popescu: "We are killing masculinity. Maleness in all its forms has been deprecated as an outdated bit of software. Something to be rewritten for the modern world."
mircea_popescu: self important little cunts. what the everloving fuck, "look at me, i live without a roof, WE HAVE DEPRECATED ROOVES!!11"
mircea_popescu: maleness in its you know, male form is doing fucking fine, and doesn'tr care about the stupid tea party.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the tiresome faggots who keedp going "oh mom, i too could be an atlas couldn't i ? i'm tall enough ?" are no fucking object of this discussion.
mod6: got this FG #2 hooked up to the scope
mod6: got the probe setup on the out pin. been waiting to try this. just didn't incause I fuck it up.
mod6: this scope has a usb port, so i dropped in the USB to see if I can get the output saved on there. gotta rtfm i think
mod6: im more... using it as a vehicle to learn how to scope.
mod6: aha, clock has basic predictible pattern.
mod6: 'out' is pretty chatty too though
mod6: i do have two probes...
mod6: i gotta take a pic here i think, but yah, two distinct different wave patterns.
mod6: sorry for the yuuuge
mod6: yellow (channel 1) is the clk output; blue (channel 2) is the 'out' output from the fg
mod6: mircea_popescu: just kinda takin a look at things, nothing in particular. educational.
mircea_popescu: so the clock transitions ~0.1ms ; but the output dun seem rightr
mod6: haha, i dun think im doin it right.
mod6: nada. wasn't sure on that.
mod6: yah, im extreme n00b at this
jurov: S.QNTR distributed
mod6: i've since, just wanna look at the clock, see if i've got it hooked up right. i've got probe on channel one connected to 'clk' pin. probe's crock is attached to a lead coming off 'gnd' pin.
mod6: it's not a square wave tho.
mod6: decent! thanks, ima see if i can get the 'out' in there too
mod6: yeah, i rigged that up, but im having trouble with the space. i suppose i could elminate the USB-TTL for power and just use 5v from Dr. Meter tho right?
mod6: i used the sheilds for gnd this time, feel like im learning a bit, thanks for the help.
mod6: does the clk still look ok?
mod6: these probes have this little switch on them. "1x -> 10x"
mod6: they were set to 10x, gonna see if turning 'em down to 1 shows me anything different
mod6: ok makes sense to what im seeing on the screen
mod6: lol, i simply have no clue what im doing :D
mod6: clk looks better to me in that case, like I somehow have it dialed in more properly.
mod6: not sure about the 'out'
mircea_popescu: looks like maybe it's summed up over a sampling interval or such ?
mod6: im just uber n00b on this thing. gotta rtfm.
mod6: sure, ok. it does seem, that when i clip on to that with the crock, and the probe, it gets square just fine. i read that means that it's "compensated" correctly.
mod6: ah, ok. can do, i did get a breadboard.
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☟︎ erlehmann: phf i still use the neo2 keyboard layout. it has several advantages over qwert(y|z) for me: 1. less strain put on my hands 2. useless caps lock replaced with another mod key 3. built-in layers for useful unicode 4. compose in the base layout