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nubbins`: print sale was a smashing success, gonna get drunk
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benkay: <mircea_popescu> for a coupla hours there it looked like the whole damned charade'll have to be taken down and redone. // mpex?
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kakobrekla: asciilifeform having one thing machined once is not same as having the machine at home
kakobrekla: impatient. < off the shelf thing is your best bet then.
kakobrekla: well im getting mixed readings here - the offer in otc was 2btc? which is 1k or something?
kakobrekla: something like what im building should be 15-25k - this is custom made.
kakobrekla: at least that was the estimate that a company here gave me.
kakobrekla: 0.1 is not much to ask as far as i know.
kakobrekla: iirc i paid about 5k back them for my stuff.
hanbot wonders how big an ideal robot is
hanbot: well exactly. something bound by accidental inhalation on the lower end and hernias on the higher
kakobrekla: Z axis of 50 is most problematic parameter :)
kakobrekla: mostly - Z is a small fraction of X or Y
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assbot: U.S. Senator blasts Microsoft's H-1B push as it lays off 18,000 workers - Computerworld
decimation: But the senator's attack on "three of our greatest masters of the universe," and "super billionaires," was clearly primed by Microsoft's announcement, also on Thursday, that it was laying off18,000 employees. "What did we see in the newspaper today?" said Sessions, "News from Microsoft. Was it that they are having to raise wages to try to get enough good, quality engineers to do the work? Are they expanding or are they hiring? No,
decimation: that is not what the news was, unfortunately. Not at all."
decimation: indeed. and the question of banning the import of said coolies is off the table of course
atcbot: 1 hour 17 minutes and 57 seconds
decimation: the irony being that the very many who can make such policy (a senator) is whining about what bill gates says in the newspaper
decimation: yeah that's the underlying driver. bezzle -> real estate values -> suddenly life is unaffordable for the peasants
decimation: one would think that the voters would be against the dilution of their own power
decimation: but this is a case of the deer kneeling in front of the hunter
decimation: there were plenty of the early ones who cashed in on bezzle money - real estate prices are not cheap around bellingham
decimation: according to mircea's theory, the us voter want to emulate their soviet brothers - turn themselves into the third world gulag so that they can be a somebody
decimation: even if they are technically free to do otherwise, they are not free.
decimation: "they are not free" << I mean that they lack the will to do otherwise, making their "rights" and "freedoms" as useful as toliet graffiti
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decimation: ie as long as the peasants are fat, dumb & happy they don't give a shit what the remote lords might wish, even if on paper the peasants are in charge
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mircea_popescu: this "we got the courts rigged so you gotta say you did what we say you did and then go to siberia" bs only goes as far as it goes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mpex modem << as i recall, reliability of net connection is not an issue at mpex << so far that's the part that works best.
mircea_popescu: hanbot:well exactly. something bound by accidental inhalation on the lower end and hernias on the higher << i agree. half meter cube, ideal robot.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: Theodore Y. Ts'o doesn't comprehend what random means << 'random' is simply a non-scientific qualifier. like 'big'. << looking forward to reading medicine treatises in similar terms. something tells me teh colonies will soon deliver.
decimation: why would usg bother with the minor part of the little brother anyway
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decimation: "It seems unlikely that he?d have been hired at Galleon were he not Raj Rajaratnam?s brother. Even then, his older brother demoted him several times and he made less money there than some secretaries."
mircea_popescu: "That seems to have been the end of the courtship. (Mr. Palecek died from an infection in 2010.)" << the rate at which these people die of preventable causes is ridiculous. seriously, work for supposedly the masters of the country, best paid job, corridors of power, die of "an infection" ?
benkay: <asciilifeform> <hanbot> well exactly. something bound by accidental inhalation on the lower end and hernias on the higher // 6-8 axis arm on an actuated sphere. hernias not an issue, follows one around.
decimation: mircea this insider trading thing is relevant to your post I linked above. information doesn't want to be free, but who gets to decide if it is secret?
mircea_popescu: that problem is a lot worse than anyone wants to admit.
benkay: mircea_popescu: well keep la serenissima posted
mircea_popescu: there's simply no logical way to reconcile the naive want for "fairness" with the practicality of trade.
mircea_popescu: "insider trading" is what trading is. irrespective of what people who don't trade wish to think trading is.
mircea_popescu: much like you know, trying to prosecute "buggery" because people who don't have sex don't want to think of sex in terms of "all holes, dp and your girlfriend". as if.
decimation: yeah what is trading without "insider" knowledge? trades based on an account's report and a brochure?
hanbot: is there a logical way to reconcile the naive want for "fairness" with -anything-?
decimation: I can't imagine a way to be more ignorant about a business and its prospects
mircea_popescu: benkay so far fighting with the obscurity of free and open source software, which is this endless bundle fifty million lines long that nobody ever read, in spite of you know, how "open source" etc.
mircea_popescu: decimation now granted, what the indians are doing in the us finance (btw, have you noticed how few 3rd generation americans are involved in anything worth the mention ?) is nothing short of scandalous
mircea_popescu: however, the solution is emphatically NOT to try and prosecute them, because this just drives the specific behaviours enshrined in indian culture that cause the mess.
mircea_popescu: the solution is to open the whole thing, let the market drive it down to zero, then you won't care someone made fifty bucks or w/e.
decimation: and note that Mr. Bharara is also one of them...
mircea_popescu: yeah. it's that whole "italian mobster turned policeman to clean up ny" story all over again
mircea_popescu: (which was the same cca 1890, except then it was irish criminal etc)
decimation: in my undergrad it was assumed knowledge that the indians got together to "strategize" on exam-taking
decimation: in India, it would probably be expected for a Brahmin C-suite guy to tell a fellow Brahmin trader what is going on
benkay: mircea_popescu: that nobody ever read // it's p lulzy people still buy that
benkay: mircea_popescu: die of "an infection" ? // i prefer the interpretation where the us is always on the verge of horrific viral outbreaks due to decades of antibacterial abuse
decimation: 'don't talk politics around the table (so we can just eat)' -> 'don't question the code(so we can just use it)'
mike_c: any audiophiles around here? my headphones of 15 years finally bit the dust.
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mike_c: not so good for the office.
mike_c: or for sleeping babies.
decimation: my sennheiser HD280's studio monitors work very well
Vexual: er.. what decimation said
mike_c: although i agree with the office. my office neighbors annoy me often enough.
decimation: do you want to attenuate the surrounding noise?
mike_c: i mean, i don't need cancelling. i don't want to hear surrounding noise.
decimation: I find earbuds and the like extremely uncomfroatble, you aren't going to get better quality than bigass headphones
hanbot: mike_c imo etymotic earphones rule all.
mike_c: are those buds? i'm looking more for over-ear.
decimation: yeah those are earbuds that block sound
decimation: I'm a sennheiser fanboi, but I'm sure there are other quality headphones out there. examine the spec sheet
cazalla: m50 has coiled cable which i don't like, m50s does not
mike_c: that just personal preference? my dead ones had coiled and i kinda did like that.
cazalla: yeah, makes no difference to audio afaik
mircea_popescu: hanbot no, not as such. the traditional way is for the naive to train their submission, as practiced in say india.
mike_c: cool. thanks for the suggestions.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> 'don't talk politics around the table (so we can just eat)' -> 'don't question the code(so we can just use it)' << ;/
mircea_popescu: the whole fucking point of code is to make the world more like salem cca 1700 now ;/
mircea_popescu: mike_c mice don't actually attack babies. you're thinking rats.
mike_c: now rats to attack office neighbors.. that would be an idea.
mircea_popescu: specially-constructed oubliettes with a terminal in the lid and a hole for shit in the bottom. <<< ahaha ok.
mircea_popescu: mike_c armored battlerats! with a terminal upside the head!
dub: my dj1200 are not that comfortable for long but they are hard to kill
mike_c: definitely need comfort for hours.
Vexual: are those insertable or over ear dub?
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mike_c: fucking amazon needs to take btc already. i bought some fiverr shit the other day with btc and it was so smooth. kind of changed my opinion on using btc for random purchases.
dub: good for lugging around
decimation: man the spec sheets for headphones suck
dub: the ear pad rubber is perishing on mine which is quite astounding considering how briefly every other set I've owned has survive
mike_c: my sony mdr's ear pad rubber lasted about 5 years on average
mircea_popescu: mike_c they dun wanna end up with a bunch of terrorist bux
Vexual: kill it with half a bottle of red and go to sleep
mike_c: terrorist bux are as green as everybody elses.
mike_c: wait, is that a saying in other countries? your money probably isn't green.
dub: murican folding is fucking retarded in that aspect
dub: every note looks the same
mike_c: i can't stand bills of different size. such a pain to roll.
dub: bitches don't know about mike_c's pimp roll
mircea_popescu: mike_c makes it quite impossible to get the wrong change.
mike_c: paying attention fixes that problem too
mircea_popescu: once you get the bitches you have no attention to spare.
mike_c: hehe. that's why i stick with one.
dub: 3rd world money tends to either be shit quality or stay in circulation long enough to wear any markings off
mike_c: no way. ben lawsky is going to make america the center of btc bizness
decimation: I would like to see the basis of his regulation
decimation: like, how is bitcoin different than plain speech?
decimation: if it isn't different, how is it legal for the government to regulate it, state or federal?
Vexual: afik aust was the first to deploy polymer banknotes
mike_c: idk.. ever since 9/11 the goverment just regulates whatever the fuck it wants.
decimation: if there's an exception for "game" currencies, how does one demonstrate that bitcoin is demonstrably different than a "game" currency?
mircea_popescu: that's why regulation is taking over legislation as a normative process.
mircea_popescu: decimation anyway, one doesn't "demonstrate". one claims, and prays nobody calls the bluff.
mircea_popescu: which is why the 100% conviction-through-plea-bargain system is so important.
mike_c: this doesn't work quite as well with companies. Lyft is testing this in NYC by blatantly ignoring all their regulations and fighting the state in court.
mircea_popescu: but anyway. the 2012 peg in the eye of the beast has been holding out splendidly well. they're trying to enact this difference between game currencies and bitcoin, and who knows, maybe it'll work. who;s to say that's the last peg trilema go.
dub got some good news today
dub: won a 17 year olf legal battle
dub: bad news is $200k legal bill
decimation: the layers upon layers of outlandish claims fossilize into a hardened mess - nothing can change the status quo - until the whole thing fractures and breaks in a massive earthquake
decimation: ie fragile, not robust or anti-fragile
Vexual: er that was for the fossilized mass, not dubs divorce
mircea_popescu: anyway, one of the comparatively more important btc valuations is, "cost incurred by the usg litigating per btc available to defendant".
mircea_popescu: definitely more important than derpstamp or w/e. and this is pretty hefty as we sit now.
mike_c: cazalla: m50x has detachable cable and you get coiled and straight. everybody wins.
decimation: mircea: the usg tends to maximally claim & minimally deliver
decimation: if bitcoin goes up another one or two orders of magnitude in dollar value, it will be that much worse for the usg to do anything
Vexual: mike_c get rabbit fur bads for extra boss
decimation: my sennheisers have detachable cables too, although the oem cable was crap - conductors broke after awhile
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decimation: according to their spec sheet, the ath m50's only go down to 15 hz, the sennehiser hd280's go down to 8 Hz
decimation: that's going to be more audible than whatever the top frequency in the ultrasonic band is
mike_c: hm. ath has lower impedance.
decimation: human hearing being a logrithmically spaced filter bank and all
decimation: impedance is a matter of what you are connecting with
mike_c: yeah. won't matter for computer.
mike_c: could matter for phone?
decimation: impedance actually varies with frequency, which no one gives a spec for
decimation: in a basic sense, impedance mismatch will just lower the effective power delivered to the headphones
mike_c: right, phone can only deliver so much though. but probably enough for either.
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decimation: "The issue as I understand it is that the output impedance of the iPhone 5 is around 3.7 ohms whereas the older phones and iPods are around 5.5 ohms. What is not clear is whether this has been changed by software or by hardware. There are reports that this is an issue in the EU region only. Yet some folk in the USA are also complaining."
decimation: so either headphone is going to have an impedance mismatch
decimation: because apple has neither the room on their board or the inclination to deliver studio quality audio
decimation: if you think about it, headphones that block surrounding audio will increase the effective signal/noise ratio delivered to your ears
Vexual: just buy the 50s you wally
decimation: I suspect the average listening would be unable to differentiate most of these headphones in a blind test
Vexual: get the velvet, and if you get too stoned you can hide in the curtains
mike_c: yeah.. sennheiser doesn't have velvet.
decimation: if you are going to use them for 8 hours per day in the office, comfort is probably more important than audio quality
mike_c: it is, but that is difficult to know before trying for 8 hours
decimation: indeed, I guess the solution is buy one and sell it on craigslist if it sucks
Vexual: for $120 try a fresh set
dub: the solution is dont work in an office
mike_c: i like working in an office. fewer distractions.
decimation: I find comfortable headphones with classical music encourage focus
mike_c: i find the same with electronic music. di.fm ftw.
dub: boombox with gangster rap tbh
Vexual: ghetto blaster is best
dub: heh, famous actor lives across road, pulling into my drive earlier I see another actor getting a box of beer out of his car and going inside
dub: they're now playing what looks like GTA5 on his huge ass tv
Vexual: lets go around with a bottle of glen fiddich
Vexual: pitch mp's idea, wich is way better than his last
cazalla: mike_c, didn't know they had an m50x, i still think i'd go the m50s due to no coil and i would likely lose the cable if i could detach it anyway
dub: fresh out of glenfiddich but I'm now sipping a glenrothes, good suggestion
cazalla: Vexual, i think aus was first, i still have some of the first abo polymer notes around somewhere
mike_c: cazalla: m50s is cheaper too, just b/c it isn't 'current year model'. sound is supposed to be the same.
cazalla: you can get the m50s for around $100 on special sometimes
Vexual: d'you keep your rabbit skins cazalla?
cazalla: mike_c, only thing i dislike about m50s is the soundstage is a little too small for fps gaming, i switch to my speakers when gaming but they aren't gaming headphones to begin with so isn't a big issue
mike_c: yeah, not a problem for me
mike_c: ok, i'm off to buy something and hit the sack. thanks for the help.
Vexual: i was joking about what mike hunt bought dick nob
cazalla: beats give you +10 swag, that's about it
cazalla: hey Vexual, you know the aussie victims of the MH17 crash, my old primary school teacher was on it
Vexual: was it some year 4 hex?
cazalla: well, he made me write lines
cazalla: had to do em again as taping 2 pencils together to write 2x was too obvious
cazalla: dunno if being asploded was warranted punishment for him though
Vexual: im not a big fan of sams
Vexual: commericail airlines flew over iraq and afghanistan for the last 10 years, this might be a proper war
benkay: <decimation> benkay I think you mean bacterial outbreaks. They are already happening: // yup. been drinking all day.
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Vexual: dou so digital it hurts
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Vexual: d'you pay .15 for 3 tits?
Vexual: i dtill think a cell phne cam is an excellent source of entropy
Vexual: but, poison is the thing more than reverse anything
Vexual: i might even understand it tomorrow; this water is giving me heartburn
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jurov: next time i see someone reading from bones or coffee stain imma pester them whether they have tested past output for enough entropy
Vexual: entropy is irrelevantr oto these soothsaysers
jurov: i daresay otherwise
jurov: they certainly seem to need some randomness source
jurov: without it, their output could be too predictable
jurov: what would expose them to potential problem
jurov imagines soothsayer's ad "We use FIPS-compliant oracles"
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: you've seen Total Recall, no?
Vexual: dies the new one have 3 titites?
fluffypony: personally I prefer the old one, but at least they kept that bit in for continuity :-P
mircea_popescu: fluffypony the one film schwarzy made that was trying to not be hack and slash ?
mircea_popescu: jurov generally their whole claim is butressed on such past history.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: yes, otherwise known as "that movie that came out when I was 8 or 9 years old that I wasn't allowed to watch because it had a chick with 3 tits in it"
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fluffypony: but that I watched a couple of years later anyway when one of my school friends got it on VHS
mircea_popescu: which is why the warning came to be on financial products, that "past performance is no indication of future success". the fortune teller makes two spurious claims, one that his arbitrariety is systematic, the other that he has a good historical record.
mircea_popescu: the latter is easier to disprove, but the former easily sticks with people, who then form the spurious belief that everything is systematic
Vexual: yeah buy you wer like 14
Vexual: you woulda been mean then
fluffypony: my parents let me watch all measure of stuff, but Total Recall was bad because they didn't want an 8 year old believing that girls had 3 boobs
Vexual: most 8 year olds prolly have livelank now
mircea_popescu: anyway, the baby-in-belly was the more disturbing part i thought
Vexual: is he in the new one ?
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Vexual: fluffypony, your iris dna assay is in, you're 5% negroif
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mircea_popescu: in a randomly selected lit of numbers, 30% will start with 1.
mircea_popescu: maybe i visit after the fall. play fallout in new reno irl or some4thing.
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fluffypony: an Oculus Rift, or the entire research lab they have?
fluffypony: Vexual: yes definitely, hopefully when it's finally released they'll have the motion sickness stuff fixed etc.
fluffypony: the redirected walking stuff is amazing
xmj: when will oculus move its Rift to Google Glass dimensions (ie tiny) ?
fluffypony: Valve is working on a display that can fit in tiny dimensions - it beams the image straight on to your eyes
Vexual: does chinny get seasick?
xmj: is valve still scheduled to release a steambox that'll eventually make 2014/2015/whenever they release it/ the year of linux on the "desktop" ? :)
Vexual: buy a few devkits and leave that dog fuck voin alone
Vexual: you'll make mor emoney
fluffypony: Vexual: no not at all, but I would imagine I'll use it with friends who may get motion sickness
dub: motion sickness instafix
xmj: still not legal here :|
Vexual: tell the judge its for virtual reality
xmj: motion sickness ===> medical purposes
Vexual: take a unit into court and a fat bifter
Vexual: fluffy are you making aircool racks to datatabk specs?
fluffypony: but smaller than a standard rack since it doesn't need all the extra fluff on the sides and back
Vexual: if datatank get sucessuful they will be dumping hardware onto hobbyists on a regular basis
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cazalla: gee le happy merchant meme gets /r/bitcoin up in arms
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thickasthieves: <+cazalla> i love my m50s /// mike_c those are the best in that price range imo
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thickasthieves: the headphones really weren't designed for the velvet pads and the sound becomes obviously worse to any ear
thickasthieves: I use the JVCs for going on walks and such, and the ATs for making music and while flying
thickasthieves: I have more expensive ones and i dont really like them as much
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thickasthieves: "Since there is no way anybody will mine on a pool with those requirements, it means that any pool in the US will be forced to shut down, or operate illegally and hope they're ignored."
thestringpuller: dude what the fuck is even going on? All bitcoin companies are gonna vacate the US
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nubbins`: muffs would be the ideal solution
nubbins`: airport workers use -90dB ones
nubbins`: there's also these earplugs that some drummers use, they mold to fit your outer ear like an old-school hearing aid
nubbins`: although they're more geared towards muting w/ a flat frequency curve than blocking out all sound
nubbins`: pascale uses the standard orange squeezey ~30dB ones
nubbins`: you ever try white/pink noise?
nubbins`: standalone (speakers rather than earphones) noise cancellation system?
nubbins`: iirc some high-end car manufacturer did this with the sound system
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nubbins`: i suppose individual room configurations would make it tough to pull off in a general sense
nubbins`: you could always build a soundproof room and put the fans outside it
nubbins`: not prohibitively expensive. musicians do it all the time
nubbins`: i have a friend who can play drums in his bedroom with the door closed and you can barely make out the beat
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nubbins`: we have climate of a different sort here, to the point where i can't recall ever seeing an air conditioning unit in a private home. at the risk of asking a silly question, could one have the unit outside the room and vent the cool air in?
nubbins`: (isn't this roughly what an air exchanger does?)
nubbins`: and it's the actual noise of the air being ducted in that you're trying to eliminate?
nubbins`: $500k home here *might* have an air conditioner :D
nubbins`: liquid cooling system built into chair ;D
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kakobrekla: * asciilifeform uses headphones mainly to 'turn off hearing' to improve concentration. < you wear those cause model m, admit it!
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xmj: so, FACTA has an impact on my european union bank
xmj: even if i don't deal with US through it.
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nubbins`: (clickbait headline but amusing nonetheless)
xmj: fluffypony: are you aware of anyone pushing Cloud as a Service?
xmj: oh, i mean the four-letter-marketing-combination
xmj: AWS/Rackspace/etc do the whole CaaS thing anyway
xmj: I want to see how far you can push verbal boundaries into bulshytt territory. think Virtual Cloud, Virtual Enterprise Cloud Management, blabla
fluffypony: Virtual Cloud Enterprise Single-Sign On Management as a Service
xmj: this will do for 300th tweet. thank you fluffypony
xmj: the profile page on twitter
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mircea_popescu: i have no idea who fucking asked amazon fanboi there to pass his judgement on de raadt, but i can state for teh records it wasn't me.
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mircea_popescu: the better news here is that while i tried to sleep my cold off people actually got to the bottom of the whole gpg snag. hallelujah.
kakobrekla: any guesses why they stopped making them?
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xmj: fluffypony: awesome :)
mircea_popescu: chetty gotta love how the sm people keep pumping out more articles about how essential sm is.
mircea_popescu: it'd read "cern laboratory using social media to collide large hadrons" if the movie of the week were about the cern
assbot: I wasn’t going to actually post this, but… pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: you've bought into the entire sm swag just like other generations have bought in the shit offered for their consumption. guess what : the fact that you all get it only hides the fact that it's shit from you yourselves,
mircea_popescu: not from anyone else. and it doesn't even do such a good job of hiding it from you yourselves on a long enough timeline.
mircea_popescu: it's still shit, in the manner the local fair in lexington, kentucky, even if called "the flaming man", is still a very poor approximation of the actual burning man.
chetty: social media seems to do a really good job of killing social
mircea_popescu: and even if parents would much prefer their 17 yo rebelious teenager goes to the flaming man instead of the burning man, and even if they give the car with a full tank of gasoline and two small bottles of ginger ale for the former and punish the latter,
mircea_popescu: fucking lexington is still a joke, and you're going to be a joke for going there. not just in my eyes, which whatever, who cares, but in your own 60yo eyes. and that burns.
mircea_popescu: social media, fucking chewing gum. what is it ? it's not social, nor is it media. it's not a food, not a liquid, basically a stationery bike for you jaw.
chetty: seems more like a cattle prod
mircea_popescu: is it the day of the married man's secret homosexual friend ? like "jour de la chere amie" would be in france ?
benkay: ;;later tell vexual no lend, but doubtful that it'd be serial.
benkay: <mircea_popescu> maybe i visit after the fall. play fallout in new reno irl or some4thing. // empire collapse when
chetty: seems to be a sort of generic friends day, can't walk down street without hearing it today
benkay: my kind of country i tell you
benkay: <fluffypony> an Oculus Rift, or the entire research lab they have? // i can't wait for the full-wraparound displays with lots and lots of pixels
benkay: no more monitors, headsets only
benkay: <thestringpuller> ugh, I guess I'm moving to France. // oh ffs really?
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chetty: The company does not plan to register for money transmission licenses in the US immediately
mircea_popescu: all these people derping about "quantum-computing-strong hashes" and whatnot are starting to get on my motherfucking nerves. yo idiots! are you aware that every rng out there actually uses some sort of quantum noise ? WHAT THE FUCK ARE HASHES GOING TO DO WHEN I KNOW ALL THE SEEDS!
mircea_popescu: the rules as they are preclude its existence. that may not mean it can't exist,
mircea_popescu: but it does mean that IF it were to exist, we can't say anything about what it can't do./
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chetty: quantum = magic (at least vocabulary wise)
mircea_popescu: but feynman's hypothetical is not wholly self-contained.
mircea_popescu: so, i can argue that yes, it is just as readily inferred as anything else.
mircea_popescu: the day false evaluates to true, you're nine feet tall
mircea_popescu: moreover, you trying to sell my king a device to harden the fortress against perpetuum mobile which relies on the 1st law of thermo will get me to advise him to hang you.
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BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: That one's some regional school. Probably sponsored because it is close not BitPay's Atlanta HQ.
mircea_popescu: this is the package maintainer's path to divinity : prevent all the f-students, masquerading as women-interest, "general public" interest etfuckingc from breaking math.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo this is starting to look so much like classic doctom bubble burnage...
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 6 @ 0.17100833 = 1.026 BTC [+] {2}
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: For sure. With one of these discovering how much was spent will be a hard problem unless they just let the number slip.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 9 @ 0.16494445 = 1.4845 BTC [-] {4}
mircea_popescu: thanks to all the inflation, they're safe : they didn't have that much to spend anyway. i doubt anything under 1bn even registers anymore, especially after the great successes of govt contractors in the mideast.
BingoBoingo: Also not there aren't very many "Halliburton Stadiums" because the contractors that abide know lean years are possible
mircea_popescu: it's a mpex sort of corp, not a hot topic sort of corp.
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BingoBoingo: Right, or an AT&T or another sophisticated herder of consumer cattle
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BingoBoingo: Pierre_Rochard: It seems that list strengthens the case of it as a regional school when it comes to Athletics.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform omfg, it's got BEK! pankkake you sly dog.
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mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard so basically it's the georgia tech stadium ?
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BingoBoingo: Rather small for a college football stadium
BingoBoingo: Pierre_Rochard: Regionalness is an attribute that can feature differently on Aspects of a University. Consider a school in the opposite situation, Texas Tech. National University in athletics and very regional school academically.
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mircea_popescu: this is the most preposterous shit i ever read. hey, fifty million jewish people ? about a billion people happen to not give a shit. this is how it should be.
mircea_popescu: ima end up persecuting fucking jews as the initiators of this "vocal minority trying to opress majority" meme.
Pierre_Rochard: BingoBoingo: I guess we’re just using different definitions of “regional”, the one that’s “bachelor + master” is more commonly used
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard i originally thought it's a highschool/municipal sort of stadium for some reason.
mircea_popescu: "Don’t call Jews you agree with “the good Jews.” Imposing your values on another group is not okay. Tokenizing is not okay. Appointing yourself the judge of what other groups can or should believe is not okay." << omfg. this is about as offensive as it gets.
Namworld: So I have this cat I just adopted. He's always following me around and tend to lay down at my feet. Won't let me sleep, walking on me and trying to get under the sheets. So I close the door to the bedroom. Then shortly later, I hear the cat and look. He's inside the room playing. I think wtf, must have slipt back in while I was closing the door. I go put him out, close the door, go back
Namworld: to bed. Noises in the room. I look, he's back in the room.
mircea_popescu: appointing yourself the judge of all fucking creation is the point of life.
BingoBoingo: Pierre_Rochard: There's a lot of small shit schools getting on the doctoral train trying to escape their regional labels, so it is best not to use bachelor+masters as a measure. That and there are Bachelors (sometimes + masters) schools that are better candidates for escaping regionalness than some shitholes like Ohio State.
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Pierre_Rochard: BingoBoingo: I agree, “national research university” has gotten diluted.
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mircea_popescu: "Don’t depict the Magen David (Star of David) as an equivalent to the Nazi swastika. The Magen David represents all Jews—not just Israelis, not just people who are violent against Palestinians, ALL JEWS. When you do this, you are painting all Jews as violent, genocidal racists. DON’T." << and for that matter, the swastika represented all germans, not just the ones involved in homicide.
mircea_popescu: so you know... stop misrepresenting the swastika as something bad just to serve your need to scapegoat imagery.
Namworld: So I wonder what kind of sorcery this is. Then I notice a service panel to pipes slightly opened. That fucker was opening the cabinet under the sink, crawled into the walls with the pipes and made it's way to the room.
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Namworld: Well definitly. That cat would chew a door to get to me. Can hear it scratching doors to follow me. That plus always laying at my feet. It's more like a dog.
Namworld: All I need now is to find it a name, eh.
mircea_popescu: what's this, a way to reduce key entropy to breakable levels ?
mircea_popescu: "have a 4096 rsa key made out of 8 parts! it may not be as strong as the proper key, but that's good : if you forget your passphrase you can break the key and retreive your stuff!"
mircea_popescu: "and it's illegal to not let us do illegal shit when we want to anyway, so."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, it COULD be designed as a concatenation somehow, thus actually retaining 500ish bits. maybe.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It's hard to predict derpitecture
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decimation: I was thinking about the "poisoned soup" model of determining the "randomness" of some numbers
decimation: it seems to me that if you had an infinitely large pot, you could tell whether the numbers were random or not
decimation: any source of finite entropy would eventually exhaust
decimation: heh yeah my point is of academic interest only
thickasthieves: "The U.S. government is rapidly expanding the number of names it accepts for inclusion on its terrorist watch list, with more than 1.5 million added in the last five years, according to numbers divulged by the government in a civil lawsuit."
decimation: although, the first practical test of any source of random numbers is to get a large quantity of them and see if there are any repeats
decimation: indeed, and some of source must shine through with a mechanical generator
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decimation: but after about 3 hours it feels like you have your head in a vise
benkay: i don't watch nicks/joins/parts
benkay: i've not customized this irc client to both show those things but not display notifications for them
BingoBoingo: benkay: For a thing that updates weekly it seems the optimum haw to handle feed generation
decimation: what proxy bot do you guys use generally?
benkay: curse of emacs - it can behave any way you want it to, provided you put the time in to make it so.
benkay: decimation: emacs running on a vps, mosh for flaky mobile connections
decimation: interesting, you use ERC to host proxy?
mircea_popescu: so it turns out that ssh specifies ports with -p, but scp specifies ports with -P and -p is something else entirely.
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fluffypony: the owner was arrested and deported to Argentina
fluffypony: I believe they're about to start waterboarding him
decimation: yeah I've been hit by that ssh/scp thing many times, enraging
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decimation: turn the screwdriver clockwise screw turns, turn it counterclockwise and it explodes
mircea_popescu: <decimation> any source of finite entropy would eventually exhaust << this breaks physics.
mircea_popescu: one of the core (if unknown) principles underscoring all creation is that the qty of entropy in a system remains the same if it's cut in half.
mircea_popescu: this is fundamentally why reductive (and most not-so-reductive) physicalism does not work.
mircea_popescu: and about as close as one can get to physically proving divinity.
decimation: indeed, it makes determinism persuasive
mircea_popescu: no, the contrary. in the quest to make determinism infeasible, it requires some sort of entropy reservoir outside-the-world.
mircea_popescu: basically god is just this very large dice assemblage in non-space, feeding all the quarks dicerolls.
mircea_popescu: sheldonthomas anyway, that was then. meanwhile a lot of progress'been made (notices of which scattered all over the log), and we're coming out of da woods.
sheldonthomas: what’s to be expected when you finish the migration? everything back in place, accounts and the like?
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decimation: I guess I was picturing "determinism" as "God sets the outcome of the quark-dicerolls in the way He sees fit"
mircea_popescu: <thickasthieves> "The U.S. government is rapidly expanding the number of names it accepts for inclusion on its terrorist watch list, with more than 1.5 million added in the last five years, according to numbers divulged by the government in a civil lawsuit." << hey asciilifeform look at that! what was gulag, 50mn ?
mircea_popescu: obviously if one applied the same standards to quarks as it does to bitcoins, one could never trust the fucking quark. obviously quark-nsa is behind it.
mircea_popescu: i have this impression your name's familiar, any idea whence ?
sheldonthomas: not really. i occasionally linger on assets. maybe we met back at the bruce wager bitcoin conference. i sat in the 2nd row
fluffypony: with the bushy hair and the moustache?
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decimation: unintelligent as possible. Stupid is predictable; predictable is learnable; learnable is usable."
decimation: I would note that Mr. Wolfram & co. are slowly migrating Mathmatica to be "pay us to use Wolfram Alpha in the cloud"
sheldonthomas: i’ve lost my fucking wot identity more times than i like to admit
mthreat: it's ok, your other identity will admit it for you
sheldonthomas: i know man. i had reviews from trades in 2011 with people like justmoon and then i lost that harddrive and thus that wot identity
nubbins`: some guy who bought a print off me yesterday now wants to use it for his band's next album cover
assbot: Domain Registry Of America Suspended By ICANN
xanthyos: benkay: i'm a friend of danielpbarron 's
mircea_popescu: Q : "ie. mining your competitors’ data to send unsolicited and misleading marketing messages isn’t allowed, so if you didn’t breach this clause how exactly did you send those notices?"
thickasthieves: <@assbot> Domain Registry Of America Suspended By ICANN --- fuk ya!
thickasthieves: clients always asking me what the deal is when they get DRA letters
thestringpuller: nubbins`: so are you gonna sell him the album cover rights?
mircea_popescu: "I actually have been thrilled to see that finally there is movement to replace the straight access to /dev/random and /dev/urandom: Ted's patch to implement a getrandom() system call that can be made compatible with OpenBSD's own getentropy() in user space. And even more I'm happy to see that at least one of the OpenBSD/LibreSSL developers pitching in to help shape the interface.
mircea_popescu: Dropping out the egd support made me puzzled for a moment, but then I realized that there is no point in using egd to feed the randomness to the process, you just need to feed entropy to the kernel, and let the process get it normally. I have had, unfortunately, quite a bit of experience with entropy-generating daemons, and I wonder if this might be the right time to suggest getting a new multi-source daemon out." << a
mircea_popescu: sciilifeform do you read this thing like i do, ie, a nsa-sponsored attempt to survive the "everyone has cardano rng on board" apocalypse by making good entropy sources still circumventable ?
nubbins`: thestringpuller: blonde-dyed mullet kid with a skateboard making 40 tapes for his band
thickasthieves: lol, so my wife has been buying these cat litter coupons on ebay for mos, free box, any size
BingoBoingo: do you read this thing like i do, ie, a nsa-sponsored attempt to survive the "everyone has cardano rng on board" apocalypse by making good entropy sources still circumventable ? << I read either that or some kernel afficianado who would buy a unix pacemaker
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves i don't follow, so did the coupons yield boxes or not ?
BingoBoingo: OMG USG Side channel attack on TaT via Ebay-Wife interaction
mircea_popescu: so wait, basically your wife used some paper altcoin to defraud grocery chains ?
mircea_popescu: decimation here's more. sha1 is implemented as "sha1sum". sha256 however is implemented as "sha256". then sha512 is... "sha512sum"
benkay: can one do merged-mining on a premined coin?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I haven't read the comments yet, but I wonder how many read it as a proposal for linux developments as opposed to IBM advertorial
mircea_popescu: dude this entire bitcoin-assets system with its tools is turning me into a fucking singularity, im like brain on steroids.
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 687182.56 Est. Next Diff: 632330.36 in 1859 blocks (#42336) Est. % Change: -7.98
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moiety: :D i thought it was so funny
Fairlay: just wanted to apologize for user posting links to Fairlay on Bitbet
Fairlay: googled for Fairlay and found it in this history here
Fairlay: ok - than sorry again and goodbye
mircea_popescu: Fairlay you know, it may be a good idea to get in the wot.
Fairlay: I guess we are addressing more the new user that have never heard of WOT - since the old seems to be happy with bitbet
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FabianB: artifexd: where is []bot btw.?
mircea_popescu: FabianB he said he's travelling and the bot croaked, can't touch till he's back
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decimation: yeah I've been burned by "md5sum" suddenly is "md5" on osx
FabianB: mircea_popescu: ah ic, bitcoin taking summer vacation :)
benkay: thickasthieves: is atc a merge-mine thing?
dub: week since the last update
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benkay: say hi to diego for me mthreat
mthreat: i've been meaning to check out that bar
benkay: dunno if he'll remember me, but it'd be cool.
gribble: Current Blocks: 311728 | Current Difficulty: 1.733631697850783E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 312479 | Next Difficulty In: 751 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 4 days, 16 hours, 39 minutes, and 0 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 19146535925.6 | Estimated Percent Change: 10.44177
benkay: is there a hashpower command?
thickasthieves: <+benkay> thickasthieves: is atc a merge-mine thing? /// no, but i think it could be, and if it is, i might be willing to put some funds towards the dev, but no one wants my money so far
mircea_popescu: mthreat possibly, depending on how smoth mpex starts-up
dub: you want to be at least bigger than whatever Luke-Jr can steal before enabling mm
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 687182.56 Est. Next Diff: 644621.51 in 1847 blocks (#42336) Est. % Change: -6.19
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benkay: <dub> you want to be at least bigger than whatever Luke-Jr can steal before enabling mm // pardon?
thickasthieves: he means you dont wanna give bigger miners an easy excuse to fork ATC
dub: he (and atm any number of miners) will kill your chain if you turn on merged
dub: rule of thumb, be bigger than eligius
benkay: "kill your chain" what do you mean by this?
dub: with iocoin (maybe ix too) he just mined the longest chain and didnt include any transactions
dub: because his goal is/was to stamp out altcoins
mircea_popescu: i don't get how this is supposed to work. so he mines and doesn't include txn
dub: he has 99% of the network, no other miners get to play
benkay: if you're 95% of a given network...
atcbot: [CoinMiner Hashrate]: 0.00 TH/s [PityThePool Hashrate]: 5152.05 GH/s
dub: you'd need to get 'good' pools on board
mircea_popescu: dub but there's ALREADY 5 th on board, and these are atc dedicated, they're not merge mining.
mircea_popescu: so if you add 8th from elegius that's what, 60% for luke, provided nobody else joins.
dub: you sure? at a glance the diff doesnt look right
mircea_popescu: 03-07-2014 01:50:42 <atcbot> [CoinMiner Hashrate]: 0.02 TH/s [PityThePool Hashrate]: 14243.64 GH/s << this is the peak this month.
dub: is that a chain hopping pool though or atc dedi?
dub: it might not be on atc right now
mircea_popescu: anyway, news at eight : luke still irrelevant. big whoop.
mircea_popescu: this situation actually allows a window be thrown into bitcoin, to understand how it works. jesus atc is useful, props tat.
mircea_popescu: so : atc is not driven by "user adoption". it's driven by the fact that i'm buying it. in this context, if "evil" entity decides to just mine all the blocks, nobody gives a shit. so txn aren't included ? whatever.
dub: you dont want to look through that window either
mircea_popescu: that entity can either sell the coins it mines, in which case they end up with me, which is what i want anyway
mircea_popescu: or keep them, in which case it's actually making the coin more valuable.
mircea_popescu: this is the situation o nthe field : one has NO FUCKING CHOICE. this is how bitcoin works, and why it wins out.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin has been enacted by the fiat of a few important people, a few years ago, exactly in the same manner. they weren't THAT important as a % of the world, but that doesn't matter : bitcoin can't be un-enacted by the fiat of much larger entities. it has a cost of x to make and 1mn x aren't enough to undo it.
mircea_popescu: compared to this, user derpage and luser derpage on -dev is about as relevant as fairies in the spring rain.
dub: the scary thing about lukes altbashing was that, at the time tycho and eutheria were cheerleading for him
dub: so right there, a 90% mining cabal
dub: for it was the point where I was closest to losing trust in the system
dub: bitcoin was in the hands of 3 people
mircea_popescu: modern science has not yet found a way to shove it back into the womb.
dub: probably still not far off
mircea_popescu: whatever you may think of the matter, bitcoin was never in the hands of THOSE 3 people.
dub: well, if you are presuming some kind of economic principle would come to your rescue, im sorry
dub: you are talking about zealots and morons
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform time has compressed since then. their ability to hold out had a lot to do with the difficulty of seafaring then, and lack of satellites.
dub: bitcoins single defense from evil miner conspiracy is incentive
mircea_popescu: dub more's to it. as i explained to asciilifeform a while ago, it actually makes it impossible to be evil in raport to it.
mircea_popescu: and it has this major make/destroy inequality baked in, to cherry on top.
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i appreciate consensus scoring under fiat.
dub: penguin is not really flightless per se
mircea_popescu: anyway, the argument against merge mining atc has more to do with the value of having an actual sha competitor for bitcoin, which may well be very instructive
mircea_popescu: all the various altcoins of any description are scrypt.
dub: well yeah, because teh sha ones have been eliminated (see above)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform litecoin is scrypt, and yea iirc was 1st
mircea_popescu: dub no, just because people are a) poor and b) cluieless, in that order
pankkake: no it was not first, far from it
pankkake: don't listen to litecoiners history rewriting
mircea_popescu: pankkake we're not going to go into solidcoin and all that ?
pankkake: namecoin was there before, and litecoin isn't the first scyrpt before
xanthyos: danielpbarron: who is better: dub or dubs?
mircea_popescu: o yeah, darkcoin had a "tenebrix" early run. anyway, aborted all.
BingoBoingo: In between namecoin and the Scrypt pre-mined anscestors of LTC there were a lot of other forgettable alts, many mergemined.
BingoBoingo: If I remember right CoiledCoin was the one Luke killed
mircea_popescu: actually this may be a good thing to do for a blogger : make the altcoin history chart.
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mircea_popescu: "For instance, hundreds of thousands of bacteria can form daisy-chained "wires" an inch or so long, and tap seawater oxygen for energy. Such filaments can hold soil together and conduct electricity about as well as standard copper wire." << wow.
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decimation: if only you could harness bacteria to grow onto circuit-board test points...
mircea_popescu: decimation the better application seems self-building, self repairing connectivity.
mircea_popescu: who said we want or actually need mesh networks implemented over radio ?
mircea_popescu: how about the entire fucking ocean floor is a mesh network of bacteria guys
mircea_popescu: for all of 2011-2013 i've been strictly ignoring alts, and look at all the time it's saved me!
assbot: "High-level CPU": follow-up
mircea_popescu: i dunno asciilifeform, i hear a lot of "please use me hard master" from some of the higher order "nature's computers".
mircea_popescu: anyway. someone "like us" as the author fills that symbol does not belong above ground anyway.
mircea_popescu: can anyone explain to me why would latency be ever so slightly more going one way through a wire than coming the oher way ? same identical endpoints.
mircea_popescu: "the point about women not wanting to be used can only be appreciated by rapists". DOING IT WRONG
dub: re: latency, its probably how you are measuring it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consider how eminently used e coli are in the intestines of every mammal.
dub: but you'll get all kinds of inconsistency between network stacks, hardware, drivers etc
mircea_popescu: same exact model netcards. same firmware on the netcards.
BigBitz: could just be the ASIC on the Switchports.
BigBitz: or it would be your machine badly timing the latency.
BigBitz: clocks have a tendancy to be 'shit'
BigBitz: silicon/ASICs have a tendncy to be better than 'shit;
mircea_popescu: it's equalizing over time. hey asciilifeform ! i just got some entropy!
BigBitz: yup heat can fuck shit up.
mircea_popescu: btw, did they ever make that rubidium superclock thing ?
assbot: Turning a rubidium standard into a proper tool
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there was some design to make them stable-er than cesium and get rid of the cs standard entirely.
thickasthieves: <+mircea_popescu> so if you add 8th from elegius ///8PH
BingoBoingo: It happens because the idiots buying miners are the same idiots who ever bought miners
mircea_popescu: In addition, the following individuals have been added to OFAC's SDN List: BESEDA, Sergey
mircea_popescu: lmao. so let me get this straight, if putin v2.0 decides to visit the us, they'll know ?
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mircea_popescu: BORODAI, Aleksandr (a.k.a. BORODAI, Alexander); DOB 25 Jul 1972; nationality Russia (individual) [UKRAINE]. <<< aww, no prime minister of donetsk republic ? tsk tsk
mircea_popescu: bazalt.ru << click on this, get added to some list or teh other.
BingoBoingo: This Dontesk Republic is basically just like a standard Hollywood sequel to Transndstria i.e. moar explosions
dub: mircea_popescu: back to your wire, validate your instrumentation first.
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benkay: <mircea_popescu> how about the entire fucking ocean floor is a mesh network of bacteria guys // okay
BingoBoingo: I kind of wonder what the ruse it, seems like an overly strong emphasis on CD player much as the headshops emphasize their glass pipes are for tobacco
BingoBoingo: I didn't know it was /this/ bad. I almost would rather believe this is for people building plasma rifles on the down low.
assbot: The Cheapest Crystal Oven
dub: these problems almost always compounded by failure closer to the chair
nubbins`: SR/TD correction in GPS sats blew my mind
benkay: hey nubbins` what's with these threaded beers you can't twist the tops off of in bc?
nubbins`: england is closer to bc, but i uh
dub: had an identical problem brought to me after months of hand wringing by systems teams, 30 minutes later they had data to smack vendor with who later admitted to hidden NIC revisions and supplied new driver
nubbins`: threads mean you can twist 'em off, doesn't it?
BingoBoingo: I've long imagined a wrist portable watch with RTG (RTG also heats crystal) I'm resigned to knowing such a device probably wouldn't have the power to offer man readable time without an unacceptable risk of wrist cancer
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i recall reading about that, why teh russians couldn't make good crts. quantum effects.
dub: you're missing the point, make your dudes prove the test suite
dub: 99% of people who sell themselves as experts at this are probably trying to use 'ping'
BingoBoingo: Prolly ought to start ordering Rhubidium clocks for next downtime
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo what, and pass the chance to scramble madly for a week ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Nah, you still scramble madly for a week as you chase cesium precision
BingoBoingo: After that you chase caesous precision because the fans can't slice cheese or something
BingoBoingo: So now there's a paper that helps to explain MPEx and threaten Rassah's usb wallet
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform userpages.umbc.edu/~rfink1/skew/papers/StatisticalFingerprinting03.pdf ?