a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 18:08 BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> this is a ssd box, on very reasonable fiber, no less. << I am very glad/sad that asciilifeform's sync from wild experiments are concordant with my own
TomServo: Closing in.. 482269, average 8-9 blks/quarter hour.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Current Blocks: 496764 | Current Difficulty: 1.347001430558E12 | Next Difficulty At Block: 497951 | Next Difficulty In: 1187 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 6 days, 20 hours, 16 minutes, and 29 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
TomServo: I was under the impression that using -connect $tsmr.node.ip -nolisten would be a faster sync, but seems a bit faster without.
TomServo: Most of my sync was from deedbot, but I would frequently get blackholed? No blocks for hours, wouldn never resume on it's own, had to restart.
ben_vulpes: TomServo: you're wholly dependent on that node's willingness to send you blocks. it may be blackholed, not in the mood, etc
BingoBoingo: lol: "His office was in a secluded space, and he had a button under his desk that allowed him to lock his door from the inside without getting up. This afforded him the assurance of privacy. It allowed him to welcome female employees and initiate inappropriate contact while knowing nobody could walk in on him, according to two women who were sexually harassed by Lauer."
http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/matt-lauer-accused-sexual-harassmen a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 18:33 trinque: what's the point of putting a company pitch in a cover letter for another job?
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 18:57 BingoBoingo: <gabriel_laddel> but beyond that, I was applying to accelerators with this company because I don't want a real job << Sometime at a "real job" would be good for you. Work at BingoBoingo store, call it "field research" if that makes Brian in the head feel better. Show up, bust your ass, eat shit, THEN ask yourself "Why wasn't I working this hard for myself before?"
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744393 << i think i knew hundreds. widely abused in post-soviet medical system, for instance ; at some point a whole surgical section was losing it at the same time, one step away from ending up discussed in the national security council.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 19:06 BingoBoingo has only met one "clean productivity mether" who tried the recovery thing. Bounced in/out and then allegedly a heated argument did in his cardiovascular system
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 19:15 asciilifeform: dun i gotta take to drink 1st, and then quit..?
mircea_popescu: back in those days, you couldn't be a doctor if you couldn't make your own. just not possible.
mircea_popescu: understand, hospitals still had whole floors for labs, with bunsen burners, cut-and-seal your own tubes etc.
mircea_popescu: people routinely ran out of / couldn't afford the western reagents, ended up doing 1800s glucose tests for urin and so on.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform also, i think i mentioned this, but in any case : 4yo me was prescribed codeine as phosphoric salt for kiddy cough. double dose what chet got for back pain.
mircea_popescu: generally substance abuse in post soviet world would curl the contemporaneous mind. cluj tribunal, three levesl, maybe say 50k sq foot of floor space, a thousand or two (mostly women) working there had A TRUCK. i don't mean a van. i mean a semi.
mircea_popescu: every morning delivered ciggarettes to the local outlets.
mircea_popescu: the walls were not simply black, it fell off as a dust.
mircea_popescu: that shit even works, other than the collapsible lung sechellae etc. but it will kill it.
mircea_popescu: yeah but i mean glucose ffs. approachable with "my first spectrometry kit" even
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 21:11 asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: have some patience, ffs, post things in-chan
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 21:11 gabriel_laddel: n idea, or some form of sensory input bodily electrical resonance. MP's 'women are only useful as slaves' comes to mind. Are men only useful when tweaking? 'Bennies' were readily available at Los Alamos during MP. Did no-sleep-drive-and-read-johnny use? I can't find primary sources and am also digressing... Tweaking. Something WILL grab your intere
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 21:48 asciilifeform: puyi famously got cleaned out, 'palace uh.. burned down, uhyea' sort of thing
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744508 << the problem with amphetamine in ww1 (which is what that was), then confirmed in ww2, is that it is actually a disadvantageous tradeoff. the fundamental problem of mammals, which includes humans, is that yes they can charge, but they are ridiculously vulnerable after having charged. this has shaped the face of war, is the principal underlying engine of war, and so on. in ~general~ t
☝︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 21:53 asciilifeform: for pre-history -- edeleanu (romania!)
mircea_popescu: he positive results from a successful charge do not come close to the potential negative results of your exhausted troop being attacked.
mircea_popescu: it is also why methamphetamine is not actulaly militarily useful : it aggravates instead of balancing out a natural disadvantage.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: works, so to speak, like a rocket tied to a formula 1 car. those items need more thrust like i need more nose ; they need more adherence is what they need, and rocket dun help that.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 21:59 trinque: these are not slaves in your book?
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 22:01 asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: if so, why no one isolated the contaminant and sold as own dope ?
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 22:03 gabriel_laddel: the cartels are not sophisticated enough to read the logs & go "hey, if there is enough variation in alcohols for one of the world's most wealthy men to comment on them, perhaps also for our product"
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 23:23 asciilifeform: ( also not sure how comparable is the psychology of krokodilism, which is a form of morphinism, to gabriel_laddeling. )
lobbes: I'm pleased to at least report my archive-to-zip engine is functional. I have zipped some 1300 links so far leading back to Nov 8. All routing through archive.is without exception
lobbes: ~93% of the urls passing through both #trilema/#eulora in this time have been 'archivable' through archive.is; failures account for what you'd expect: typos in url, tar.gz files, misc. webpages that archive.is evidently barfs on
lobbes: historical log-walk is next in the conveyor. still thinking through the distribution system.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-30 02:56 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744508 << the problem with amphetamine in ww1 (which is what that was), then confirmed in ww2, is that it is actually a disadvantageous tradeoff. the fundamental problem of mammals, which includes humans, is that yes they can charge, but they are ridiculously vulnerable after having charged. this has shaped the face of war, is the principal underlying engine of war, and so on. in ~general~ t
a111: Logged on 2017-11-30 02:57 mircea_popescu: it is also why methamphetamine is not actulaly militarily useful : it aggravates instead of balancing out a natural disadvantage.
BingoBoingo: "In the last 24 months, Commanders and/or Sergeants Major at the Group and SWCS level have systematically removed numerous fundamental SF standards, lowered and undermined the grading metrics for others, all while simultaneously ensuring that a gagged cadre population was expressly prohibited from holding students accountable for their academic, physical, and character performance."
mats: also, asciilifeform finally made the front page this morn
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo o check it out, usg self-anticorruption squad ?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amphetamine (generally not very pure, and more or less racemic) was used to treat depression in the us from about the 30s. it was also used indiscriminately along with blessed chamrs/amulets and eg pink pills by soldiers.
mircea_popescu: no systematic effort by the army itself to issue it, sure.
mircea_popescu: lmao alf got 50 comments from idiots. hang it there alfie, this isn't any kind of basis for judging blog. hackertards are just trying to drive wedge between man and man's tools.
mircea_popescu gloats at just how fucking convenient everything about that piece is.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, it makes a number of historical points for me. "but how could mp have known" etc.
mircea_popescu: of course, i'm unconvinced. include counter for instance.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well you can't "retransmit" at a time before transmission. so yes unidirectionalyl in time.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the current way gps/glonass works is not authenticated by definition, as you correctly point out.
mircea_popescu: but the discussion was re an authenticable alt-item that dfun exist.
mircea_popescu: receiver listens to frequencies for specific quanta of transmission : "this is station X transmitting count Y", rsa-signed. IF the signature verifies, and IF the y was not before seen (and if x on unit's access list etc) THEN the item is placed into quueue, to be sorted by signal strength. otherwise, dropped as noise.
mircea_popescu: this will require MUCH more powerful sats, evidently, and a lot heavier navgear. but whatever, discussion was re possibility not feasibility.
mircea_popescu: but basically, a blockchain-gps will be the next upgraded version of gps
mircea_popescu: not necessarily. but yes, small errors are major errors.
mircea_popescu: in general -- if enemy can silence your emitters AND retransmit them stronger, there's no saving you.
mircea_popescu: not clear wtf it will need. but yes, in principle a thousand-to-million-ton satellite is warranted by the gps needs. nobody said satellite stays thinspired forever.
mircea_popescu: the problem with terrain trackers is that eg suddenly sahara becomes mega-valuable strategically.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform depends where. i don't see china clearly enough to say. maybe they got turkeyws.
mircea_popescu: maybe that's what they're training for, with the ghost towns.
mircea_popescu: resistence of materials starts fucking with you rapidly. (daddy, why is there no ant larger than a toyota prius???)
mircea_popescu: if it had lungs it'd have muscles (because current system not powerful enough and because since you got all that oxygen..). ant with lungs and muscles is called rat.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, evidently gas diffusion was a problem. but this was re hypothetical item which is still ant-sized in body, but has really lengthy legs, rather than proportionate scaling
mircea_popescu: "chitin is great, better than steel for sub-cm foils".
mircea_popescu: the exact same is true of... well... steel. wtf are you going to make the 850`000 ton megasat out of ? "um... poured concrete ?" "what the fuck!?" "hey it worked for bridge engineering"
mircea_popescu: i expect the large sats to be actually weaved, but the materials aren't there yet (and no word on weaved nuclear reactor yet, either)
mircea_popescu: (the iss is about half that, for the curious, and dun do much.)
mircea_popescu: roughly same weight class as deep sea dome / oil sucker.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-17 05:22 mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the "interdictor" is this item which has a railgun, a supply of pellets, and a huge array of solar panels etc to power them. this item can then shoot fast pellets towards any other ship, crippling it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the "weaved" sf : kinda the whole point of "3d printing", as i saw it at the time. useless wankery but who's gonna make the weaved nuclear reactor.
mircea_popescu: i dun recall the soviets ever managing such a crisp icon of "the meeting with the politruk".
mircea_popescu: waldhauser's face is worth a million unified standard dosidoes.
mircea_popescu: (for the complete noob : actual competent, technically minded staff depicted on the left meets ambitious, cerebrally vacuous imperial legate, depicted on the right.)
mircea_popescu: this isn't true, incidentally, i bought sixty a few weeks ago.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-30 15:26 asciilifeform: every so often somebody linkes from hn, reddit, etc ( and here i was thinking 'aaah, finally permabanned' ! )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform << “He’s dead, Jim” << how do you even produce the windows quotes ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently dood had a treasure trove of such lulz.
mircea_popescu: basically, inflaiton. "this is the new currency, worth 1/10 what it was buy you deem it as acceptable substitute"
mircea_popescu: back when usg could actually repel three dozen enemy aircraft, even libya had them.
mircea_popescu: very simple rule is, drink straight alcohol (i do mean, pharmaceutically pure, 99.999%) to get an idea how your drunkedness goes.
mircea_popescu: then you can proceed to compare the unbeatable ro plumb distillate / fine old french wines etc with the tequilla/bisulphited california wine/random swill.
mircea_popescu: proper alcohol (which includes no grains as well as nothing ever made by any english speaker anywhere) gives you a very pleasant, mellow morning after. a fine reason to drink is not even the drunkedness but THE "HANGOVER".
mircea_popescu: the improper wood-and-rags ooze will give you headaches, blurred vision, sickness, etcetera etcetera.
mircea_popescu: well, according to some idiots somewhere there exists such a thing as african literature
mircea_popescu: hey, alcohol intake will deplete water and various metabolytes in the liver, that's how that goes.
mircea_popescu: you can be as hydrated and vitaminized as you wish, anything diageo sells is going to give you a hangover.
ben_vulpes: grainbooze makes for nasty distillation byproducts? or what is the difference between fruit and grain spirits that makes for this difference in hangover quality
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the continuator of gangster era alcohol production methids. sells of all the 40% abv crap distinctly labelled but singuarily produced.
mircea_popescu: same vat powers the "beefeather" gin as the "Smirnoff" vodka as the "walker" whisky as the everything else.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i have no deeper understanding than european alimentary tradition. fruit alcohol only item fit for human consumption.
mircea_popescu: there's a coupla "competitive" alt-flavoured soda producers (they call the swill beer for some reason), as a direct result of distilled spirits available in the anglo world beiong so fucking toxic
mircea_popescu: "heineken" flavoured sprite is just as toxic, of course, but because the angloworld swallows so much soda anyway, the effects are not specifically detectable.
ben_vulpes: fuckin a inbev owns pilsner urquell too
mircea_popescu: it's not practical to run independents in nato reich. they're all government agencies.
deedbot: mquander voiced for 30 minutes.
mquander: i haven't used deedbot, so no, not yet, i will go do it once i clearly understand the mechanism
mircea_popescu: rsa key is a basic tool of computer literacy anyway. like ability to write down own name basic standard of traditional literacy.
mquander: mircea_popescu: i understand asymmetric encryption and RSA
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: aye, on a heathen dnsulated thing
mquander: ben_vulpes: i quit that job :)
mircea_popescu: mquander you know eulora's been looking for coders liek forever.
mircea_popescu: not to mention various pieces of trilema refiction awaiting their literary criticists.
mquander: as you might surmise, i did not know that because until just now i didn't know about eulora, but i like MUDs and MMOs so i will be interested to look at it
mquander: anyway afk for now getting work done
mircea_popescu: i can understand why the people that invented swinging'd be a little bit cooler than the people that invented tech support.
mircea_popescu: not too bad but not too large and nowhere near "kick the tires, light the fires..."
mircea_popescu: most of this is attempted-preservation of the perceived grandeur.
mircea_popescu: even in the 90 ie 91, i don't expect a majority of nubile collegiate sluts perceived AS AN OBLIGATION the invitation to whore out for the airmen.
mircea_popescu: i can see the point re "birds gone by". by the time your fighter jet comes with "and don't turn left lest its jew nose cuts off engine compressor" its like... WHO DID THIS IN RAILS!
mircea_popescu: at the time enemy is happy his propeller isn't cast in concrete, you can put up with tasting the fuel.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-08 18:28 asciilifeform: gymnasts may not be perfect example. when you have a role where the training per se is costly, you're stuck picking. e.g., pilots; i recently read a quite interesting autobio, 'Обречены на подвиг' ('condemned to heroism', roughly) by su flying d00d / instructor / colonel. described how children having any physical imperfection, even tooth cavity, were mercilessly rejected from flight academy even if they passed all of
mircea_popescu: i dunno about cavities ; but training commander mp would sack pilots who fail to synchronize bowel movements to "half hour before flight duty" within the first month.