Transcript for 22-02-2015, 1707 lines:
00:00:32 mircea_popescu: nubbins`: why do i get the impression [...] << because you're an asshole. just like me.
00:01:13 ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: just appreciating the pun
00:01:24 mircea_popescu: hehe
00:01:34 mircea_popescu: i need tp for my punhole.
00:02:21 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 33800 @ 0.00045029 = 15.2198 BTC [+]
00:03:46 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: what's the equivalent of the 'stop gluttony and exercise' here << start dating whores.
00:04:48 mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: now *that*s tears. << i met a chick that quit her previous job, is learning to program in html nao.
00:04:59 mircea_popescu: but it's kinda complicated.
00:05:24 mircea_popescu: nubbins`: you know i took a ninety per cent pay cut two years ago? << you actually made money at some point ?!
00:05:41 jurov: mircea_popescu: with due respect, are you sure asciilifeform can attract any federal-level whore?
00:06:04 mircea_popescu: but this is a quantitative discussion and he was making a qualitative challenge
00:06:07 mircea_popescu: "what type of thing".
00:06:59 jurov: you too mentioned obama daughters and so explicitly
00:07:11 mircea_popescu: inasmuch as i understand it, his chief complaint was, "no criminal empire footprint". easiest way to get into that, from memory, is dating the whores.
00:07:36 mircea_popescu: most common, of course, is spending some time in jail, but hey.
00:09:28 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 77500 @ 0.00047354 = 36.6994 BTC [+] {2}
00:09:55 *: jurov just remembered how it woks among fags. yes, mircea is right
00:14:56 mircea_popescu: nubbins`: what's a young anti-consumerist to do ;/ << shit look at that, "mother earth news" is actually a thing.
00:15:29 ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: good for her?
00:15:34 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9200 @ 0.00047857 = 4.4028 BTC [+]
00:15:37 ben_vulpes: kinda curious about the complexity
00:15:44 mircea_popescu: you know, for a cult this chan is one of the most diverse places in the world.
00:15:53 mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes direct quote. "but it's kinda complex"
00:16:11 mircea_popescu: i explained a little about the difference between imperative and notation, i think she got the gist.
00:16:29 ben_vulpes: hah yeah i mean you have to learn 3 different chodes at the same time
00:16:32 ben_vulpes: html, css and js
00:16:35 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19632 @ 0.00045846 = 9.0005 BTC [-] {2}
00:16:53 mircea_popescu: js is sort-of imperative i guess.
00:17:03 mircea_popescu: kinda like c pigdin neh ?
00:17:49 mircea_popescu: but otherwise the css/html difference is not unlike the "food division" and "detergent division" difference at unilever.
00:18:16 assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/17mj2Z7 )
00:18:52 mircea_popescu: not bad but why teh panties!
00:19:31 assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/17mj96T )
00:20:53 ben_vulpes: fish move
00:21:32 *: mats adds cattle prod to purchase list
00:21:54 mircea_popescu: stop objectifying women.
00:22:03 mircea_popescu: it's a cuntprod.
00:22:49 ben_vulpes: cunts are objects too
00:23:13 thestringpuller: that's hawt
00:23:25 thestringpuller: i can't stop watching this gif
00:23:33 mats: as a boy i found a guide for modifying a disposable camera into a single-use taser
00:23:49 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: this actually explains quite a bit << why did you think the pentagon spends so much.
00:23:53 mats: i used it on my buddy and he shit himself. one of my fonder memories of childhood.
00:24:04 mircea_popescu: mats the flash ?
00:24:13 mats: ever since, i've wanted to buy a taser, but modern things have tags now
00:24:18 mats: yeah
00:24:41 mircea_popescu: you can basically build a taser out of a battery and a capacitor
00:24:54 mircea_popescu: whioch means, "Any old tv set"
00:25:00 ben_vulpes: conveniently packaged in disposable cameras!
00:25:39 mats: i've never given any thought to building one
00:25:47 mircea_popescu: mats: folks are encouraged to get married so they can eat fo free << which is how the dependopopotami are born. "i don't care about the chick but i gotta be married for money so w/e"
00:26:09 mats: although its a reasonable segue into building other toys ... like shock gloves for bum fights
00:26:26 thestringpuller: lol shock gloves!
00:26:26 *: mats adds it to the list
00:26:45 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 44768 @ 0.00045846 = 20.5243 BTC [-]
00:26:56 mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/YHMjGGf.jpg
00:26:57 assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1B2jRnq )
00:27:06 thestringpuller: mats: http://www.adultswim.com/videos/the-boondocks/the-black-power-fist/
00:27:19 mats: ya i know
00:27:39 mats: i'm a fan
00:28:07 thestringpuller: mats: mah nigga
00:28:25 mats: i'm yellow on the outside and black on the inside
00:28:33 thestringpuller: Hahaha
00:28:46 thestringpuller: chocolate twinkie?
00:29:06 mircea_popescu: "tricare, formerly known as chump-us"
00:29:21 mats: i've been on the search my whole life for a proper descriptor
00:29:23 mircea_popescu: mats you mean yellow as in azn ?
00:29:34 mats: yes. surprise!
00:29:52 mircea_popescu: do you agree with that fat fag's evaluation that no women ever date azns ?
00:30:24 mats: uh
00:30:29 mats: no
00:30:58 mats: certainly, asians are undersexualized in e.g. US media, but i haven't had problems picking up white women
00:31:20 mircea_popescu: myeah. BUT HE HAD STATISTICS
00:32:02 thestringpuller: what's with the US and the pursuit of bwg (basic white girl)?
00:32:19 mircea_popescu: thestringpuller if you look at the demos, it's the most common item on menu.
00:32:22 thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: over there with all the brazillian hotties.
00:32:30 mircea_popescu: like salmon at the seafood restaurant
00:32:49 thestringpuller: most highly sexual girls I've met spoke portuguese as a first language
00:33:25 mats: i prefer 'bwg' over 'abg' (asian baby girl)
00:33:36 mircea_popescu: i think anyone under 55 or so does.
00:34:31 mircea_popescu: i don't think*
00:34:40 mats: !ud ABG
00:34:42 mircea_popescu: or wait. no, it was right the first time
00:35:14 mats: ;;ud ABG
00:35:15 gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ABG | An acronym for an "aznbbygirl" meaning an asian female gangster. ABG's like to hang with gangsters and wear thin (slutty) clothing. They like to ju...
00:35:35 thestringpuller: aren't ABG's over sexualized?
00:36:25 mircea_popescu: gangster ?!
00:36:34 mircea_popescu: somebody was having a tough time in class.
00:38:00 mats: thestringpuller: hows that?
00:38:28 mats: maybe we're exposed to different media, but i don't see it
00:38:58 thestringpuller: ah, always thinking of the ABG's in high school/early college who would hang out with negros
00:39:24 thestringpuller: lots of make up, skimpy clothes
00:39:50 thestringpuller: "rumors" from the guys (note how I said "rumors")
00:41:24 mircea_popescu: aren't skimpy/no clothes mandatory in college anyway ?
00:41:44 mats: i mean, asian women are hypersexualized in p much the same way as black dudes in media
00:42:17 thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: although it is the most common item on the menu, there is still some "allure" as a minority "banging one out"
00:42:33 mats: i've read a few things here and there about 'the white man's asian fetish' and 'the hyper-femininity of the asian woman'
00:43:07 mircea_popescu: i dunno... i kinda aren't attracted to other types, by and large. i assume it's similar across cultures.
00:45:13 thestringpuller: i guess the media portrayal of the sorority bwg places a false imagination
00:45:49 mircea_popescu: where's this depicted in media ?
00:47:58 thestringpuller: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Breakers << stuff like this
00:48:36 mircea_popescu: but this is specific softcore/exploitation. in comes in all color schemes neh ?
00:48:47 mircea_popescu: i guess for black girls it's mostly rap videos and derivative material.
00:49:18 mircea_popescu: grossed 30mn over a 5mn budget. not exactly a killer anyway.
00:50:40 mircea_popescu: "I cannot speak to the contents," he told Ars via online chat. "Except that they are mine. This is the only salient detail as far as I'm concerned. I am not on trial, nor is my data, and I am under no obligation to speak for it. But my property is being withheld from me, and that must be justified. The current justification is due to the inability of the NCA to understand certain data. It remains for them to establish
00:50:40 mircea_popescu: why this is my problem and for the court to decide if this gives them authority to convert chattel."
00:50:55 mircea_popescu: ha! this Lauri Love dude got it right.
00:51:51 mircea_popescu: "As a matter of policy, we generally do not comment on extradition-related matters."
00:51:56 mircea_popescu: herp. as if fucking policy matters.
00:52:10 mircea_popescu: "as a matter of policy, we don't comment on rape cases" should be the new rape trial defense.
00:52:18 mircea_popescu: because POLICY. it's a reason now.
00:52:40 thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i guess for black girls it's mostly rap videos << hmm perhaps American media just blinds one to the broader cultural spectrum
00:52:46 mircea_popescu: "You have no idea how much we can fuck with the US government if we wanted to," Love told a hacking colleague in one exchange over Internet relay chat, prosecutors alleged. "This... stuff is really sensitive. It's basically every piece of information you'd need to do full identity theft on any employee or contractor" for the hacked agency.
00:52:51 mircea_popescu: this, for the record, is exactly correct.
00:53:30 mircea_popescu: any single usg employee's security, in all respects, continues at the MERCY of unidentified party. in no sense and in no manner does it flow from usg-anything.
00:53:45 mircea_popescu: you're still there, your house is still there, your family is still there because we can't be bothered to take them away. that's all.
00:56:54 mircea_popescu: fluffypony: Frankly, handing off to a reference counting system <<< "One day a student came to Moon and said: I understand how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons. Moon patiently told the student the following story: One day a student came to Moon and said: I understand how to make a better garbage collector..."
00:58:09 mircea_popescu: but sure, it'd be great if it worked.
00:59:01 mircea_popescu: wow lol, that log bit got pretty intense huh.
01:00:58 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: now, i get it, damn-near everybody is stuck in his particular gulag. << hey, you made your bed for yourself here :D lie in it! he can't get out because he can't get out, what more do you want ? :D
01:02:17 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but how often linus commands 'shit' << an argument of an entirely different consistency hehehe
01:02:27 mircea_popescu: man i miss out on the best logs.
01:03:07 mircea_popescu: http://40.media.tumblr.com/9af3649f763191c778bc1eee6fbf4909/tumblr_ngzbtp8QvJ1trst71o1_400.jpg << this is an illustration on the fertile juicy ideas i miss out on and so forth.
01:03:08 assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1D400BP )
01:03:25 asciilifeform: l0l!
01:03:29 asciilifeform: ^ that looks industrial
01:04:06 mircea_popescu: http://41.media.tumblr.com/3061dc1244af510c2168542c45f1943c/tumblr_ngijxgsWZ51tk0hzgo1_500.jpg urinal to go with industrial.
01:04:07 assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1D40gRv )
01:04:31 mircea_popescu: decimation: he's getting kinda old and tired frankly << yeah we should have a linus retierment betting pool
01:04:40 asciilifeform: most common, of course, is spending some time in jail, but hey << workin' on that
01:04:59 asciilifeform: at least jail's free (for now)
01:05:19 mircea_popescu: only if you go there lawfully. otherwise you have to pay.
01:05:50 asciilifeform: disposable camera into a single-use taser << why single use. charge cap again, again. who here -hasn't- done this?!
01:06:06 asciilifeform: battery and a capacitor << mircea_popescu has it
01:06:31 mircea_popescu: no i don't. i used to, but then my mother threw a shitfit once she realised why her aunt's entire chicken population was dizzy
01:07:06 mircea_popescu: so they BURIED IT. somewhere. i was in the fucking sticks. couldn't get another one for coupla weeks, until back to town, at which point...
01:07:08 mircea_popescu: no chickens.
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01:08:34 asciilifeform: !b 7
01:08:34 assbot: Last 7 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/30SPFQX.txt )
01:13:10 mircea_popescu: decimation: out, that we should think very carefully about eliminating or demonizing genetic engineering." << to a large degree, the debate is sorely misstated. nobody is seriously discussing "genetic engineering". what's being discussed is, "let's make random combinations of genetic material we do not at all understand and see what happens. this will necessarily result in novel/ununderstood proteins and other hydrocar
01:13:10 mircea_popescu: bons being synthetised. the plan kingdom is, historically, the largest producer of poisons on the planet and to a large degree a controller of animal population counts and animal species survival rates, which is why you even need a liver in the first place - notice that your imune system doens't REALLY have an organ (thymus, w/e)." this is not "genetic engineering", this is chromogambling.
01:13:16 mircea_popescu: and yes i typed all that in the box!
01:13:56 thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: http://40.media.tumblr.com/9af3649f763191c778bc1eee6fbf4909/tumblr_ngzbtp8QvJ1trst71o1_400.jpg << hood nigga's dream
01:14:00 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: by and large, nothing interesting (not even new poison!) happens if you mutate at random.
01:14:07 mircea_popescu: i can readily live with a complete demonization of chromogambling. it would not do anything, in my head, to either engineering or genetics.
01:14:22 thestringpuller: I wish I was one of those black guys :(
01:14:23 asciilifeform: that style of 'engineering' is 1940s state of the art
01:14:28 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the substantial difference between ENGINEERING and GAMBLING is important here
01:14:32 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8850 @ 0.0004196 = 3.7135 BTC [-]
01:14:37 asciilifeform: when folks would 'let that thing eat gamma until almost dead, then plant it'
01:15:08 asciilifeform: who and where is still doing this, i cannot say
01:15:30 mircea_popescu: how do you think the gmo stuff is made ? same principle, different lego blocks
01:15:43 mircea_popescu: thestringpuller why ? and if so, join some swinger's club.
01:15:44 asciilifeform: nope.
01:16:08 mircea_popescu: do tell.
01:16:31 thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: why? << Maybe subconciously I fetishize white girls? I honestly don't know.
01:17:18 asciilifeform: not same principle. snippets of synthetic nucleic acid are used, it goes (or more often, doesn't..) to a specific place, there is a (usually bad) protein model to predict effect, etc.
01:17:21 mircea_popescu: thestringpuller move to wash dc, put up craigslist "Black man looking to humiliate married white women. Husband may be included.". watch how you make more money than alf.
01:17:24 asciilifeform: by and large none of it works
01:17:27 asciilifeform: roi - terrible
01:17:41 asciilifeform: that's the 'big secret', really
01:17:53 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suppose a better framed debate would then be this exactly, as above. "is this engineering or is it just dumbery"
01:18:04 asciilifeform: it's approximately how software 'engineering' is done now
01:18:12 asciilifeform: check back on it in a decade, they'll look rather similar
01:18:14 mircea_popescu: to nobody's credit.
01:18:15 asciilifeform: these two 'engineerings'
01:18:32 mircea_popescu: at least software has the excuse it takes any retarded kid.
01:18:40 asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=41 << obligatory
01:18:42 assbot: Loper OS » The Future of Programming: Ignorance and Superstition? ... ( http://bit.ly/1D43ZhM )
01:18:55 mircea_popescu: thestringpuller http://41.media.tumblr.com/b0bf3a6a3f32fa7cbfc6bbf1c5e7c652/tumblr_nihqzq4vJ41t33m1bo1_500.jpg prepping of same, jus fer ya.
01:18:56 assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1D440lX )
01:19:11 asciilifeform: any single usg employee's security, in all respects, continues at the MERCY of unidentified party. in no sense and in no manner does it flow from usg-anything << to be fair, the very reason why 'identity theft' is a real problem for anybody is usg
01:19:29 mircea_popescu: orly ?
01:19:37 asciilifeform: aha
01:19:50 asciilifeform: why is it possible to borrow $maxint in mr. chump's name without his pgp key
01:19:53 asciilifeform: - usg.
01:19:56 mircea_popescu: you know you WILL end up having to come up with "the only reason sun raises in the morning is usg" at some point
01:19:58 mircea_popescu: the way you're going.
01:20:00 asciilifeform: l0l
01:20:08 asciilifeform: how is the above picture mistaken
01:20:09 asciilifeform: ?
01:20:38 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34900 @ 0.0003831 = 13.3702 BTC [-] {3}
01:20:39 asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=06-02-2015#1009868 << see also
01:20:39 assbot: Logged on 06-02-2015 03:02:19; *: asciilifeform once worked with a nearly-penniless foreign postdoc whose departure from usa was hastened by some bureaucrat (who handled his papers) deciding to... buy a house in his name
01:20:52 mircea_popescu: it holds the same logical strength as "the very reason why 'identity theft' is a real problem for anybody is that women are whores"
01:21:19 mircea_popescu: there may be some relation even, and some factuality to the claim and existence to the group. nevertheless...
01:21:23 asciilifeform: is it possible for someone to steal the identity of mircea_popescu? if not, why not ?
01:21:37 mircea_popescu: depends where.
01:21:43 asciilifeform: anywhere it matters
01:21:46 mircea_popescu: im sure all sorts of romanian kids claim to know me for their own circle ?
01:22:02 mircea_popescu: im sure all sorts of adults tell stories that happened to me as if - them.
01:22:06 mircea_popescu: etc.
01:22:35 asciilifeform: but none of this is so much as a mild annoyance in Castle Mircea_popescustein proper
01:23:02 mircea_popescu: sooo ?
01:23:21 mircea_popescu: http://38.media.tumblr.com/09a98729739cc9ed4b2a28e9988ba91f/tumblr_nepprjHYH01u2qk73o1_400.gif << helping thestringpuller work productively, one gif at a time.
01:23:23 assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1B1N3JN )
01:24:10 asciilifeform: sooo >> usg could mandate pgp for letters of credit just as easily as it mandates the garbage we see today
01:24:13 asciilifeform: but doesn't
01:24:22 mircea_popescu: how do you know this /
01:24:43 asciilifeform: ?
01:24:52 mircea_popescu: could the roman empire have mandated its legions wear the fucking scutum, pilum and thorax ?
01:25:08 mircea_popescu: "ow but your majesty, shit's heavy"
01:25:09 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu suggests that such an order would not be obeyed? probably true
01:25:30 mircea_popescu: i merely am pointing out that your jumps go over lenghty stretches of weak bridging
01:25:52 asciilifeform: interestingly, hitler's 'table talk' contains a few instances of whining that he'd like xxxxx but the orders don't get carried out
01:26:08 mircea_popescu: what, by 1945 there's nothing BUT that.
01:26:21 asciilifeform: well yes
01:26:22 mircea_popescu: das war ein befehl!
01:26:25 asciilifeform: but long prior
01:26:50 mircea_popescu: wer sind sie eigentlich, dass sie einen befehl, den ich gebe, zu missachten wagen!!??!?!!!?! etc
01:26:56 asciilifeform: l0l
01:27:41 thestringpuller: "U.S. NIH spends ~30b annually to found research. However, many resulting papers are NOT repeatable In my merely 8 years experience in academia, I believe >50% papers are not repeatable especially those claiming therapeutic effects.
01:27:42 asciilifeform: ^ anyone -not- recognize source ?
01:27:45 thestringpuller: We all know the reason : Disproving or confirming others finding won't get you very far in a scientific career. One needs to have novel finding to get published in Nature , Cell or Science, which are powerful tickets for next round of NIH funding. Because research resources are scarce, no scientists can survive by examining others papers. Therefore, faking a cute and novel discovery is effective to survive the academia with min
01:30:53 mircea_popescu: thestringpuller incidentally, exactly how teh neanderthal got wiped out.
01:30:57 mircea_popescu: cro cutegnon.
01:35:22 mircea_popescu: "There are no homeopathic automobile repair shops, that try to repair your car by putting infinitesimal dilutions of rust in the gas tank. There are no automotive faith healers, who lay their hands on the hood and pray."
01:35:35 asciilifeform: ^ true at time of writing
01:35:45 mircea_popescu: this, fwiw, is patently false. even now is being advertised a device which, iof placed on tank, will make the car not use fuel.
01:35:46 assbot: Micon Details The Operational Security Concerns Of Seals With Clubs | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1B1Orft )
01:35:52 mircea_popescu: and always was there.
01:36:39 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i do recall this, now that you mentioned it
01:38:15 mircea_popescu: cazalla fwiw, exactly nothing in ro press re voxility srl.
01:38:31 mircea_popescu: http://www.listafirme.ro/voxility-srl-16633718/ reg if you care.
01:38:32 assbot: SC VOXILITY SRL din Sectorul 2 Bdul. Dimitrie Pompei 9-9a, CUI 16633718 ... ( http://bit.ly/1B1ONmo )
01:39:20 cazalla: seems a bit suss he would say he is unsure what happened with the servers but is already moving forward to relaunch
01:39:46 cazalla: prob has an idea but he didn't speculate further anyway
01:45:51 mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/10/kerouacs_on_the_road.html << did i say what a fucking great review this is ?
01:45:52 assbot: The Last Psychiatrist: Kerouac's On The Road: The 50th Anniversary Of A Book I Had Not Read ... ( http://bit.ly/1B1PITO )
01:45:56 mircea_popescu: The entire spirit of the book can be summarized by Dean's words: "Sal, think of it, we'll dig Denver together...!" That's what a man who is trying to con a woman into running off with him would say. Denver, really?? Really? Why? Because it starts with D? I'd at least momentarily entertain the theory that D cities are great places to get to, but the real reason he wants to get to Denver, or anywhere else, is preci
01:45:56 mircea_popescu: sely because the longer he stays in any one place, the better chance he'll be discovered to be a loser. Time to go where the grass is greener, somewhere people don't know you're there to crap on it.
01:52:33 *: asciilifeform realized that he built the fscking netbsd -installer- into the eeprom
01:52:43 *: asciilifeform proceeded to stuff in a drive and... fire it
01:58:47 asciilifeform: (why do i need a conventional install? because want to test my attempt at driver for the nand as a kernel mod)
01:59:22 asciilifeform: having actual support for the nand would make it possible to eliminate the 'ramdisk' and shave a few MB off the memory footprint.
02:04:31 *: asciilifeform read that tlp article, wakes up to having known precisely the type of animal described therein - in real life
02:04:43 mircea_popescu: sure. plenty of 'em.
02:05:06 assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1z7LNit )
02:05:21 trinque: I might've gotten past the first chapter of that book
02:05:24 trinque: certainly not the second
02:06:04 asciilifeform: butugychag.
02:14:01 mike_c: cazalla: http://pastebin.com/sQzqvV4F
02:14:02 assbot: (several um's, uh's, you knows, removed) Hello the internet. Bryan Micon her - Pastebin.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1B1SxnV )
02:14:34 cazalla: mike_c, did you transcribe that?
02:16:01 decimation: asciilifeform: so you are still using the u-boot copy-to-ramdisk method if you don't have a driver for the eeprom?
02:16:26 asciilifeform: decimation: at the moment, yes
02:17:31 decimation: ah, still it's neat that you got it working
02:17:33 asciilifeform: decimation: i forget if mentioned earlier: got the whole build to work
02:17:37 asciilifeform: for what it's worth
02:17:44 decimation: yeah you mentioned
02:18:07 *: decimation find this to be a good reason to buy a pogo and play along
02:18:47 danielpbarron: how can i repeat this? i'm stuck on your last tip about something in a TOOLS directory
02:19:02 asciilifeform: danielpbarron: i will post a patch to the netbsd src tree
02:19:16 asciilifeform: that results in a netbsd.ub which can be used straight
02:20:08 asciilifeform: basically, used like this,
02:20:15 asciilifeform: flash_erase /dev/mtd4 0 0
02:20:15 asciilifeform: nandwrite -p /dev/mtd4 netbsd.ub
02:20:15 asciilifeform: fw_setenv boot_bsd 'nand read.e 0x800000 0x1000000 0xc00000; bootm 0x800000'
02:20:31 asciilifeform: then you halt uboot on the next powerup and 'run boot_bsd'
02:20:40 asciilifeform: (for manual testing, can make this default behaviour if want)
02:21:03 asciilifeform: the 0xc00000 is a round number here, you want it to encompass your binary's size
02:21:12 asciilifeform: (i just eyeballed it)
02:21:37 danielpbarron: is halting uboot something i'd need the serial thing for?
02:21:38 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 32450 @ 0.0004097 = 13.2948 BTC [+]
02:22:05 asciilifeform: ideally
02:22:14 asciilifeform: unless you have it configured to do the udp console thing
02:22:28 *: asciilifeform forgot that not everyone's pogo has the serial jack
02:23:04 decimation: asciilifeform: it would go nicely with an old-timey ibm serial terminal :)
02:24:41 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12687 @ 0.0004097 = 5.1979 BTC [+]
02:24:58 asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/piece_of_shit.tar.gz
02:25:03 asciilifeform: ^^^^^^
02:25:17 asciilifeform: i will not sign this. if it annihilates your home planet, i am not responsible.
02:25:32 asciilifeform: use as described above. will boot into a netbsd installer.
02:25:55 asciilifeform: can find binary sets for arm at http://ftp.twaren.net/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.1.5/evbarm/binary/sets or your local sets build
02:25:57 assbot: Index of /NetBSD/NetBSD-6.1.5/evbarm/binary/sets ... ( http://bit.ly/1B1TCfk )
02:26:03 asciilifeform: (throw it up on ftp on your own box)
02:26:43 asciilifeform: the only conceivable use of the above sample is to demonstrate that netbsd will function correctly on 'pogo'.
02:27:10 asciilifeform: and possibly in case someone wishes to install on larger disk and boot from it, for purposes of dev work.
02:27:47 asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, jurov, mircea_popescu, et al ^^^
02:28:11 mike_c: cazalla: yeah. i hate watching videos. figured i'd spare others the pain.
02:28:31 asciilifeform: i have demonstrated that netbsd kernel (of my custom trimmed build) will correctly init the periphs on pogo
02:28:38 asciilifeform: for whatever that's worth.
02:28:53 asciilifeform: will post patch set once i can be bothered to crap one out
02:29:25 cazalla: mike_c, k thanks, i tossed it into the article in blockquotes
02:29:35 asciilifeform: i possibly ought to discuss the constants
02:29:46 asciilifeform: the 0x1000000 is the offset of the default mtd4 eeprom partition
02:29:59 asciilifeform: if you monkeyed with your pogo's mtd mappings, you will have to recalculate
02:30:35 asciilifeform: (the value is simply the sum of the lengths of mtd0..3, naturally, and these numbers are available in the uboot console if that's all you've got)
02:31:33 asciilifeform: incidentally it is possible to write the eeprom from uboot (you gotta pump in the new payloads via tftp in that case, but you save time by not needing to wait for an os - such as the terrifying bloat of systemdized-archlinux - to load)
02:33:28 asciilifeform: 0x800000 - if it wasn't obvious - is where uboot parks the kernel prior to jumping in
02:33:34 asciilifeform: don't change.
02:33:44 asciilifeform: that's really all.
02:36:33 asciilifeform: 'NetBSD: running on a dead squirrel in a cardboard box since '03'
02:36:52 asciilifeform: (srsly, there is an 'atari' port.)
02:37:35 asciilifeform: 1ad4391c46ab3520e9aaf8dce2d48d4788fd3752e93c70fabf0dc66f770628d835e764855ab933905a4152524b100358c82b27ca0471a77af02836740e9c41be piece_of_shit.tar.gz
02:37:37 asciilifeform: (sha512)
02:40:35 danielpbarron: can i ssh into this thing?
02:40:41 asciilifeform: nope
02:40:44 asciilifeform: bare bones.
02:41:04 asciilifeform: once you actually install netbsd with it on something else - sure
02:41:13 asciilifeform: posted here mainly as proof of concept.
02:42:42 asciilifeform: and everybody who is seriously dealing with this stuff ought to have at least one 'pogo' with serial jack.
02:43:30 assbot: primus shake hands with beef - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1Fcckjg )
02:43:33 danielpbarron: what would you advise that i purchase?
02:44:39 asciilifeform: danielpbarron: a CP2102 or equivalent
02:44:52 asciilifeform: and, if you don't own one: soldering iron...
02:45:33 assbot: cp2102.jpg on Hardware/CP210xTutorial – Attachment – OsmocomBB ... ( http://bit.ly/1B1Vip6 )
02:45:33 asciilifeform: ^ it
02:46:01 asciilifeform: ubiquitous. should cost no more than a few bux
02:46:24 asciilifeform: plug into linux box, you get a /dev/ttyUSBx
02:46:38 asciilifeform: and ttl logic rx and tx on the other end of the hose.
02:46:45 asciilifeform: set to 115200 baud.
02:47:07 asciilifeform: (theoretically, default, don't have to set. but if your favourite term emu makes you set - then above)
02:47:15 *: asciilifeform uses 'gnu screen'
02:47:43 danielpbarron: http://www.amazon.com/KEDSUM%C2%AE-CP2102-Module-Download-Converter/dp/B009T2ZR6W/ will this do?
02:47:45 assbot: Amazon.com: KEDSUM® CP2102 Module STC Download Cable USB 2.0 to TTL 6PIN Serial Converter For STC: Computers & Accessories ... ( http://bit.ly/1B1Vwws )
02:48:03 asciilifeform: aha
02:48:08 asciilifeform: even appears to come with wires
02:48:15 danielpbarron: there was a cheaper one, but this one has more reviews
02:48:16 asciilifeform: behead'em and solder as pictured
02:48:19 asciilifeform: in earlier thread
02:48:31 asciilifeform: you need three leads, tx, rx, ground
02:51:07 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31425 @ 0.00041688 = 13.1005 BTC [+]
02:51:34 danielpbarron: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009GXEF8A/ << this one might not need soldering?
02:51:36 assbot: Amazon.com: NooElec PL2303 USB to Serial (TTL) Module/Adapter with Female and Male Wiring Harnesses & Test Jumper. Compatible with Windows 98 through Windows 7; Mac OS 8 through OS X, Linux and Android!: Computers & Accessories ... ( http://bit.ly/1Fcekbo )
02:51:43 asciilifeform: danielpbarron: -any- of them will need soldering
02:51:49 asciilifeform: because there is no connector inside the 'pogo'.
02:51:52 asciilifeform: only bare pads.
02:52:10 asciilifeform: they omitted it to save a penny.
02:52:28 asciilifeform: (not a wholly illogical thing to do, but annoying to us junkyard dogs)
02:52:40 asciilifeform: in unrelated nyooz,
02:53:47 asciilifeform: ''After careful consideration of the public and classified pleadings, the Court holds that Plaintiffs claims must be dismissed under the state secrets privilege because (1) privileged information is at the heart of Plaintiffs claims for discrimination on the basis of disability and race, hostile work environment and retaliation, (2) Defendants cannot defend this action without relying on privileged information, and (3) further
02:53:47 asciilifeform: litigation of Plaintiffs claims would present an unjustifiable risk of disclosure of classified information regarding (a) the identities of CIA officers and employees, (b) the job titles, duties, work assignments of Plaintiff and other covert employees, and the criteria and reasons for making the work assignments and employment decisions regarding them, (c) sources and methods used by covert employees, including operational t
02:53:51 asciilifeform: radecraft and the identity of human assets; (d) the targets and focus of CIA's intelligence collection and operations, and (e) the location of CIA covert facilities. Accordingly, the Court grants Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment'. Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 28) is GRANTED, and this action is DISMISSED without prejudice.'
02:54:07 asciilifeform: ( http://cryptome.org/2015/02/brennan-grandiosity-v-abilt.pdf )
02:54:28 asciilifeform: so for all those who were wondering re: the proverbial 'who is stronger? the elephant, or the whale ?'
02:54:32 asciilifeform: we have an answer.
02:56:49 asciilifeform: danielpbarron: you will end up with something roughly like http://i.imgur.com/d2ivsPk.jpg?1
02:56:50 assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1FcfzYf )
02:57:16 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 38300 @ 0.00038107 = 14.595 BTC [-]
02:57:44 danielpbarron: ordering a few of these things now; i needed to get some other stuff anyway / added to order
03:01:36 danielpbarron: !up adam_obrien
03:02:01 adam_obrien: Thanks danielpbarron
03:02:24 danielpbarron: is this you? https://twitter.com/adamobie
03:02:26 assbot: Adam O'Brien (@Adamobie) | Twitter ... ( http://bit.ly/1FcgKXz )
03:02:41 adam_obrien: Yes that is me
03:02:49 danielpbarron: and nice job already getting in the WoT before joining :D
03:03:01 danielpbarron: or rather, registering with assbot / you're not in the WoT yet
03:03:49 decimation: asciilifeform: apparently the CIA has infinite leeway to do whatever it wants, as long is it can claim that some kind of secret is at stake
03:04:02 adam_obrien: Thats right. A friend of mine will up me later.
03:04:11 adam_obrien: I am registered with assbot and gribble
03:04:31 danielpbarron: who's your friend?
03:04:45 asciilifeform: decimation: just demonstrating that d1scr1m1n4t10n!!!111!! is not the root password to usg
03:04:59 adam_obrien: Not sure his username. He is the one that got me on here
03:05:12 danielpbarron: oh, i bet it's pete
03:05:43 adam_obrien: https://twitter.com/pete_dushenski
03:05:45 assbot: Pete Dushenski (@pete_dushenski) | Twitter ... ( http://bit.ly/1FchwUk )
03:05:46 adam_obrien: It sure is :)
03:05:47 adam_obrien: Small world
03:05:48 danielpbarron: ding ding! :D
03:06:05 adam_obrien: Haha ding ding indeed! I have to run.
03:06:06 decimation: nah, the whole 'd1scr1m1n4t10n!!!111!!' has everything to do with the general divide & conqueror the kulaks program, and nothing to do with the exercise of actual power
03:06:34 adam_obrien: Glad everything is set up and verified! I had a whale of a time doing so
03:07:05 mircea_popescu: wait. adam_obrien ?
03:07:11 adam_obrien: yes?
03:07:24 mircea_popescu: are you the obrien of 1984 fame ? :D
03:07:49 adam_obrien: Hhaha, I wish. Unfortunately I wasn't around then so it couldn't have been me
03:08:05 mircea_popescu: aite
03:08:06 danielpbarron: !v assbot:danielpbarron.rate.adam_obrien.1:16a107bffd732882d64be75907707e8fe8803d1ac2313935c1131479ca3b5744
03:08:07 assbot: Successfully added a rating of 1 for adam_obrien with note: Comes prepared.
03:08:54 mircea_popescu: mike_c whai u no gpg ?
03:08:57 adam_obrien: Thanks, again Daniel.
03:09:09 mike_c: gpg what?
03:09:18 mircea_popescu: the pastebin
03:09:33 mircea_popescu: google indexes that shit.
03:10:03 mike_c: i made it unlisted, but it will get the link from b-a log..
03:10:08 mike_c: yeah, my mistake.
03:10:27 mircea_popescu: no biggie. just needs repeating till ppl get in habit
03:12:30 decimation: adam_obrien: do you work for those bitcoin atm folks?
03:13:10 mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: this one might not need soldering? << really, it doesn't NEED soldering, you can just glue it in contact, with conductive paste, whatever.
03:13:17 adam_obrien: I own bitcoin solutions (www.btcsolutions.ca) we operate some Bitcoin ATMs as well as a margin trading platform
03:13:40 danielpbarron: i can get it soldered, i just thought that unit might have been a good fit for people without access to one
03:13:43 mircea_popescu: didn't the atms recently get shut down or is that a different country ?
03:14:03 adam_obrien: Hmmm. I haven't heard that. I think they are having issues in Russia. But in Canada everything is all good :)
03:14:41 assbot: Quebec Regulator: Bitcoin Businesses Need A Licence | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1B1XOvJ )
03:14:44 mircea_popescu: mebbe not.
03:14:51 decimation: do you have a relationship with those cavirtex guys?
03:15:02 adam_obrien: Ah - Quebec is on it's own. They operate by their own rules for some strange reason
03:15:31 adam_obrien: We are fully compliant with Fintrac (Canada's Fincen) and are operating under MSB license rules
03:15:49 adam_obrien: I don't. I have never liked cavirtex and haven't used them since there was other options
03:16:48 adam_obrien: I have to run here, if any of you need Bitcoin give me a ping adam@btcsolutions.ca
03:16:51 decimation: unfortunately it seems that here in the us there is much less clarity about how to be 'fully legal'
03:18:29 decimation: interesting it looks like they use this exchange https://www.quadrigacx.com/
03:18:29 assbot: Quadriga Coin Exchange | Home ... ( http://bit.ly/1Fcl1u5 )
03:21:41 danielpbarron: asciilifeform, http://imgur.com/a/e2RWY << this is correct? or did you say it needed fixing?
03:21:43 assbot: JTAG on PogoPlug. - Album on Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1FclJHD )
03:36:55 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 62879 @ 0.00038107 = 23.9613 BTC [-]
03:37:42 mod6: <+asciilifeform> danielpbarron: in other news, i got netbsd ramdisk to build. << great work! & thanks for posting a tarball.
03:39:58 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 74345 @ 0.00037325 = 27.7493 BTC [-] {4}
03:41:28 mike_c: btcalpha, never more than six months late. http://www.btcalpha.com/mpex/stocks/s-qntr/
03:41:29 assbot: S.QNTR Analysis - Btc Alpha ... ( http://bit.ly/1Fcq4ul )
03:42:07 mike_c: i'm a fan, but that stock price! idk.
03:43:05 thestringpuller: funny what a little demand will do to the price of something
03:43:15 danielpbarron: so write something!
03:43:39 mike_c: what, write another article saying what the price should be? I already did that.
03:43:48 thestringpuller: write an article for qntra
03:43:51 thestringpuller: to acquire shares
03:43:52 mike_c: oh
03:43:56 mike_c: yeah, i have.
03:44:09 mike_c: but i was more thinking i should borrow shares from a founder and short it.
03:44:18 danielpbarron: oh, hah
03:44:42 mike_c: maybe a bitbet would be interesting.
03:46:10 thestringpuller: if you can return my shares to me I'd loan some :P
03:46:47 mike_c: I don't think we'd have the same quantity or timeframe in mind.
03:51:40 thestringpuller: :P
03:52:26 thestringpuller: mike_c: you realize there aren't enough shares to push down the bids right now?
03:52:48 thestringpuller: "This brings the total shares issued to 158`788"
03:52:54 mike_c: yeah, i know
03:53:36 mike_c: a lot can change in a year. but i don't think there are enough shares in existence to make it worth it anyway. i mean, what, bingo maybe has 50k shares?
03:58:31 thestringpuller: ya
04:01:17 mircea_popescu: !up kyuupichan
04:02:36 mircea_popescu: mike_c 158k includes whole shebang, 50% are issued, i'd guess 20-30k more likely for either cazalla or bingo
04:03:14 mike_c: ;;calc 158000 / 6
04:03:15 gribble: 26333.3333333
04:03:27 mike_c: ^ that should just be what they have from being owners, no?
04:03:34 mircea_popescu: however, betting against qntra being worth w/e, 5 btc ? seems insanity.
04:03:38 mike_c: plus whatever they get for being authors
04:03:56 mircea_popescu: mike_c the 50% owner's chunk you can't acquire tho.
04:05:10 mike_c: ah, yeah. i'm not saying qntra is currently worth more than 45 btc.
04:05:15 mike_c: *isn't
04:05:25 mircea_popescu: anyway jurov may be able to write you a contract, seeing how he probably has a large chunk
04:05:38 mircea_popescu: !t m s.qntr
04:05:38 assbot: [MPEX:S.QNTR] 1D: 0 / 0 / 0 (0 shares, 0 BTC), 7D: 0.00028529 / 0.00028529 / 0.00028529 (22381 shares, 6.39 BTC), 30D: 0.000175 / 0.00025036 / 0.00028529 (50436 shares, 12.63 BTC)
04:05:57 mircea_popescu: ;;calc 0.00025036 * 158788
04:05:57 gribble: 39.75416368
04:06:02 mircea_popescu: 40ish, like 8k ?
04:06:16 thestringpuller: damn. where did all these bids come from?
04:06:53 mircea_popescu: pretty good support huh
04:06:56 mike_c: i'm saying the stock price is too high, not the market cap.
04:07:03 mike_c: it gets weird with qntra.
04:07:04 mircea_popescu: mike_c you can't be sayin that.
04:07:18 mircea_popescu: it's a nonsense statement, "mkt cap is fine, stock price too high"
04:07:42 mircea_popescu: moreover, ;;calc 0.00025036 * 250
04:07:48 mircea_popescu: ;;calc 0.00025036 * 250
04:07:48 gribble: 0.06259
04:08:07 mircea_popescu: too high as compared to what
04:08:09 thestringpuller: ^- wow so this is average price of qntra article?
04:08:21 thestringpuller: ;;calc 0.06259 * 245
04:08:22 gribble: 15.33455
04:08:28 thestringpuller: notbad.jpg
04:08:29 mike_c: too high as compared to the discounted future cash flow.
04:08:50 thestringpuller: you could say the same for changetip :P
04:09:00 mircea_popescu: heh, let him say it @fb lol
04:09:58 mircea_popescu: anyway, i suspek jurov is perhaps in the best position to write you a short of some kind.
04:11:01 thestringpuller: mike_c: do you not see stock price as measurement of "value of eyeballs watching"
04:11:17 mike_c: i see the stock price right now as one of two things.
04:11:45 mike_c: nevermind, i don't even want to get into it.
04:11:59 mircea_popescu: i dun think 8k buys one anything like a qntra, tbh.
04:12:07 mike_c: or a qntra.
04:12:17 mike_c: obviously, since you can't buy the company for 8k.
04:12:28 mircea_popescu: well, in the sense apple coudl buy russia
04:12:31 mike_c: all you can buy is a few shares. at an inflated price.
04:13:00 mike_c: geezus, my fucking blood pressure today.
04:13:12 mircea_popescu: lol wait, this is anger inducing /
04:13:24 mircea_popescu: dun mind me then, i was merely conversin'.
04:13:25 mike_c: who knows. lots of straws on the camel back today.
04:13:46 cazalla: mircea_popescu is right on that ball park figure
04:13:47 danielpbarron: i thought it seemed high too, but i'm not in a rush to sell my 204 shares, so...
04:14:29 mike_c: in a lot of public companies the market cap is related to what you could acquire the whole company for.
04:14:43 mircea_popescu: i think you at least theoreitcally could make a buyout offer.
04:14:43 mike_c: this is more and less true for different companies, but generally it's the ballpark.
04:14:59 mircea_popescu: obviously, management doesn't HAVE TO sell.
04:15:31 mike_c: yeah, but, buyer would have to hire bingo & cazalla to keep running it
04:15:34 mike_c: and pay writers
04:15:51 mircea_popescu: conceivably they could run it as it runs now, which brings us to the point :
04:15:53 mike_c: it's like a very early stage startup, you really can't just buy the whole thing yet because the founders are so critical
04:16:05 mircea_popescu: there's really no logical reason to buy it unless you got a better way to run it
04:16:16 mircea_popescu: ie, control and ownership are really separate concerns.
04:16:59 mircea_popescu: mike_c you wouldn't need to hire them specifically, but you would need someone. and as there's very few people outside of b-a with brains working worth two shits...
04:17:15 mike_c: this is the whole point, right? people tried to make news sites and they sucked.
04:17:25 mircea_popescu: right.
04:17:39 mircea_popescu: kinda interesting discussion of value creation tbh.
04:17:44 mike_c: it's not like the domain is worth anything. so it is unbuyable, and the market cap is not related to its worth yet.
04:17:53 decimation: ;;isitdown qntra.net
04:17:57 gribble: qntra.net is down
04:18:00 mike_c: hehe
04:18:02 mike_c: sell!
04:18:02 mircea_popescu: but your point seems self contradictory to me. on one hand, oh, this is irreplaceable, on the other, oh, this is not worth its market value
04:18:03 mircea_popescu: lol!
04:18:10 thestringpuller: and its down! haha
04:18:24 thestringpuller: it's had good uptime recently. despite being attacked.
04:18:33 thestringpuller: which is odd given it is a baby.
04:18:42 thestringpuller: "squelch the truth"
04:18:47 thestringpuller: !up adam_obrien
04:18:48 decimation: eh, something is worth exactly what its mutually agreed purchase price is
04:18:52 decimation: all else is speculation
04:19:35 mike_c: mircea_popescu: it's because you are thinking of what the company is worth, not a share. For many companies this is a simple calculation. not so for qntra.
04:20:13 mike_c: because dilution. for the next year, massive dilution.
04:20:15 decimation: mike_c: how would you evaluate the 'worth' of a company? ben graham?
04:20:35 mike_c: decimation: like so. http://www.btcalpha.com/blog/2014/how-much-is-a-share-of-sqntr-worth/
04:21:41 decimation: well, I would assume that the policy of share dilution would end at some point, and would not approach infinity
04:21:51 mike_c: it doesn't approach infinity
04:22:05 mike_c: dilution drops off as a matter of %
04:24:42 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 49100 @ 0.00036704 = 18.0217 BTC [-]
04:25:44 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28850 @ 0.00036925 = 10.6529 BTC [+]
04:27:23 thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: so I was getting beer with Pierre_Rochard the other night, and got on the topic of off "blockchain solutions" in relation to derps wanting to buy coffee on blockchain. so eventually came to realization MPEx can do what Coinbase does but better. PUSH is free of charge, so in theory persons with MPEX accounts could make payment processing network with various bank thingies. they take derps money, put in mpex, and
04:28:18 thestringpuller: MPEx may one day allow redditards to buy coffee (and yes one day also pigs may fly)
04:30:23 mike_c: anyway, i'm a qntra fanboy for the record. g'nite all!
04:30:45 danielpbarron: and with cardano, they can do it safely from any internet cafe
04:30:48 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14957 @ 0.00035807 = 5.3557 BTC [-]
04:31:07 asciilifeform: danielpbarron: correct? << nononononono. 1) you want serial, not jtag 2) the jtag in my photo is wrong
04:31:41 danielpbarron: these are different things?
04:31:51 asciilifeform: yes!
04:31:54 asciilifeform: entirely different
04:32:06 danielpbarron: i don't need jtag though, right?
04:32:15 asciilifeform: jtag is a protocol for directly reading/flipping bits in the cpu, eeprom, ram.
04:32:41 asciilifeform: it is very spiffy but you probably don't have the required machine to connect to it
04:33:13 asciilifeform: you want the serial.
04:33:43 danielpbarron: i should have something tuesday
04:33:55 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it doesn't NEED soldering, you can just glue it in contact, with conductive paste << Nnn-o. conductive glue is a -waste of time and money- unless you're making cheapo resistors
04:34:00 decimation: I bought my ttl-level serial/usb converter on ebay
04:34:10 mircea_popescu: ;;LATER TELL mike_c but logically a share can not be differently worth from mktcap/sharecount.
04:34:10 gribble: The operation succeeded.
04:34:25 mircea_popescu: this is like telling me that a dollar's not worth 1/100 of a hundred dollars.
04:34:29 asciilifeform: phriends don't let phriends conductive glue. it just sucks.
04:34:53 asciilifeform: (and if not today then tomorrow when room temp changes)
04:35:06 mircea_popescu: and for that matter... a) in fact qntra is set to have MUCH LESS dilution than absolutely ANY start-up.
04:35:13 decimation: the 'proper' solution would probably be to solder the 1mm pin headers you mention in your photos and then use a ribbon cable with pin-header plugs
04:35:32 mircea_popescu: the qntra dilution argument is similar to the bitcoin inflation argument, saying something like "bitcoin is set to inflate at a fixed rate, fiat currenciesa are not"
04:35:43 asciilifeform: mod6: thanks for posting a tarball << it contains a 12MB turd (mostly nulls) that can be booted to show that netbsd boots on pogo and diddles the network. that's all
04:36:02 mircea_popescu: this is true but misleading : in fact you know the fiats will inflate to all shit. and you know start-ups will dilute to all shit. in absolutely no proportion to "Words added" or any other sort of metric.
04:36:15 mircea_popescu: pity he left.
04:36:25 decimation: re: qntra > I guess my thinking is that he is using pretty speculative thinking about the rate of dilution, who knows how management is going to act in the future
04:37:00 mircea_popescu: thestringpuller this theory is in fact long standing practice, it's just that the derps filling up the www with their words don't know what they don't know
04:37:37 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ...there's very few people outside of b-a with brains working worth two shits... << l0l! or were you just thinking of the 'non-marginal' folks who don't 'depend on paycheques'
04:37:49 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he's making a poc, for himself, as the first thing. he can solder later if he can't solder now
04:38:15 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if can't solder this, should ask a friend. it is a first class bitch to debug pogo w/out a serial console
04:38:28 mircea_popescu: glue omg!
04:38:36 mircea_popescu: you have never used glue ?
04:38:39 asciilifeform: have
04:38:41 asciilifeform: to my grief.
04:38:44 mircea_popescu: so then stop bitching lol
04:38:54 asciilifeform: good way to make a resistor randomly between 100k and 1Mohm
04:39:16 decimation: asciilifeform: are the pogo serial port 'holes' filled with solder?
04:39:19 mircea_popescu: for this application! not for treating his blepharospasm
04:39:23 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you actually used conductive flue and didn't regret ? where ?
04:39:26 asciilifeform: *glue
04:39:33 mircea_popescu: in one off sort of applications like this.
04:39:47 asciilifeform: decimation: they were on my unit
04:40:33 asciilifeform: anyway, whoever wants to prepare conductive glue can follow simple recipe, epoxy resin and aluminum powder. heavy on the latter. but don't say i didn't warn...
04:41:00 decimation: yeah soldering really isn't that hard, and this is good practice
04:41:28 asciilifeform: for the record: this is not needed on 'production' units! only for folks actively screwing with the os
04:41:46 asciilifeform: and in particular, in ways liable to render it unbootable
04:41:57 decimation: speaking of which, did you see the apple macbookpro recall ascii?
04:42:03 asciilifeform: nope
04:42:05 *: danielpbarron hasn't bricked on yet, thankfully
04:42:12 asciilifeform: (don't have any here, either)
04:42:12 danielpbarron: one*
04:42:13 thestringpuller: "/u/thestringpuller has helped pay for 216.25 minutes of reddit server time." << badges now cause reddit can't pay the bills. derped into socialism...
04:42:33 mircea_popescu: how much is 216 minutes cost ?
04:42:44 thestringpuller: apparently 1 reddit gold...
04:42:53 danielpbarron: reddit is like reverse qntra
04:43:09 decimation: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/02/apple-launches-repair-program-for-longstanding-2011-macbook-pro-gpu-problems/ << apparently it was in response to a lawsuit
04:43:10 assbot: Apple launches repair program for longstanding 2011 MacBook Pro GPU problems | Ars Technica ... ( http://bit.ly/1BzKShD )
04:43:45 danielpbarron: "in soviet reddit, you pay them to write!"
04:43:51 decimation: the lawsuit alleges (based on what evidence?) that the gpus on the macbook pros would heat too rapidly for the lead-free solder, and would thermally shock it, causing cracks
04:58:15 asciilifeform: decimation: notice that this has been ongoing since 2007
04:58:22 asciilifeform: on *all* machines featuring nvidia gpu
04:58:40 asciilifeform: i had half a dozen die in precisely this way on my watch.
04:58:50 asciilifeform: usually a month or two after warranty expiration.
04:59:36 asciilifeform: (to clarify: all portable machines)
05:00:04 asciilifeform: and yes, it started with eu 'rohs' mandate for lead-free.
05:04:21 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3307 @ 0.00035807 = 1.1841 BTC [-]
05:06:34 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: reference counting... [david moon tale] ...but sure, it'd be great if it worked << there are quite a few systems which used reference-counting in garbage collector (other than in the demented c++ and apple systems, it is generally used in a garbage collector to determine 'what's garbage?'.) appears in, e.g., wolfram's 'mathematica.' down side: cannot have circular data structures.
05:06:49 asciilifeform: well, not merely circular, but self-referential in any form
05:06:55 asciilifeform: they will not get collected - ever.
05:07:07 asciilifeform: because - elementarily - reference count never nulls!
05:07:15 asciilifeform: hence the david moon anecdote.
05:07:21 jurov: thestringpuller: MPEx may one day allow redditards to buy coffee << lawl
05:07:42 asciilifeform: jurov: last i checked, they are already able to buy coffee, lol
05:08:03 asciilifeform: MPEx may one day -prohibit- redditards from buying coffee!
05:09:26 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12000 @ 0.00036925 = 4.431 BTC [+]
05:10:30 jurov: ;;later tell mike_c most qntra shares in coinbr custody was claimed and afaik sold already. And I promised 14 day delivery of the rest on request, so prolly not what you want
05:10:30 gribble: The operation succeeded.
05:21:28 asciilifeform: the apple gpu thing is a true plague
05:21:34 asciilifeform: and the repairs -are a scam-
05:21:46 asciilifeform: they give you a board with the same ticking bomb
05:22:04 asciilifeform: whatdidjathink, they'd run a one-off with leaded solder just for you?
05:22:09 asciilifeform: because of some lawsuit ?
05:22:42 asciilifeform: and the comments on the article are blood-boiling
05:22:50 asciilifeform: 'who cares about 4 y.o. machines'
05:23:15 asciilifeform: i buy hardware, it is expected to last for 15-20 yrs.
05:23:31 asciilifeform: if it doesn't - that is to say, doesn't match fucking 1980s state of the art - it's a turd.
05:23:39 asciilifeform: and should be sold to coprophagiacs specially labeled.
05:24:51 asciilifeform: it was precisely the gpu thing that cured me of the 'omg only apple knows how to make Quality Hardware' (tm)
05:25:21 asciilifeform: and not only gpu;
05:25:34 asciilifeform: colleague of mine bought a $3k 'macbook' a few mo. ago
05:25:51 asciilifeform: the screen developed a hairline crack right in front of my eyes
05:25:55 asciilifeform: apple wouldn't refund.
05:25:59 asciilifeform: 'it was something you did'
05:27:09 asciilifeform: and sure, he could join a class-action and possibly get $10 seven years later.
05:27:12 asciilifeform: big fucking whoop.
05:28:17 asciilifeform: the 'secret' is that *no one* is making quality hardware. but apple is the most egregious sc4mz0r, for continuing to maintain the pretense.
05:28:35 asciilifeform: on the strength of a reputation that has long been entirely, thoroughly baseless.
05:29:14 jurov: i once won a free ipod mini from ibm...that thing recharged longer than played
05:29:34 thestringpuller: jurov: ah the nightly recharge of the ipod
05:29:45 thestringpuller: makes me think of high school. charging that thing each night
05:29:49 thestringpuller: before school.
05:32:09 asciilifeform: 'My wife got through her Master's on a G3 iBook, and we paid to have its motherboard replaced twice for the same graphics issue, a little over a year apart. Having to pay for the first repair sucked, but sometimes those are the odds. Having to pay to repair it a second time due to identical symptoms a couple of months after the initial repair warranty was up was a kick in the teeth, and was a good indicator that there was some
05:32:09 asciilifeform: thing fundamentally wrong.'
05:32:14 asciilifeform: ^ thoroughly typical
05:32:36 asciilifeform: for the record, it is very important to understand why folks put up with this.
05:32:42 asciilifeform: it is specifically, and entirely,
05:32:44 asciilifeform: to avoid winblows.
05:33:26 asciilifeform: i suspect that a sizable majority of apple users, if offered the choice between using winblows and being buggered with a thermos, complete with handle, every night,
05:33:31 thestringpuller: asciilifeform: are you familiar with giant douche vs turd sandwich?
05:33:33 asciilifeform: would take the thermos smiling
05:33:37 asciilifeform: and without hesitation.
05:33:56 asciilifeform: thestringpuller: ?
05:34:07 asciilifeform: i imagine it's an archetypical 'good cop/bad cop' duo
05:34:37 thestringpuller: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douche_and_Turd << no its essentially having to choose between giant douche or turd sandwich
05:34:54 asciilifeform: !s fork in the eye
05:35:05 assbot: 3 results for 'fork in the eye' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=fork+in+the+eye
05:35:59 mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i have no idea what that is. what's a reddit gold ? a dollar ? 2 ? 10 ?
05:36:03 mircea_popescu: !up chatquack
05:36:24 *: chatquack wabes
05:36:36 thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: 30 bucks for a year
05:37:06 *: asciilifeform chatquack wabes << gyres and gymbles
05:37:07 thestringpuller: or 4 bucks a month
05:37:10 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but you dunno to begin with wtf data strcutres its gonna have.
05:37:14 chatquack: *pours mircea_popescu some honey mead*
05:37:27 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is correct
05:37:50 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on systems with reference-counting, users are normally barred from directly manipulating cons cells
05:38:11 asciilifeform: which would be, on such systems, the only means for crafting a self-referential data structure
05:38:26 asciilifeform: mega-lulz when they pop the hood and succeed anyway
05:38:34 asciilifeform: creating eternal turds that never get collected
05:39:04 thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: looks like I provided 4 bucks.
05:39:16 thestringpuller: wait nvm 30
05:39:19 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> to avoid winblows. << it could be because they don't givew so much of a shit about the money. if he/she could afford a pointless masters,
05:39:19 thestringpuller: :(
05:39:23 mircea_popescu: they can afford a pointless "repair"
05:39:40 mircea_popescu: ;;calc 30*24*60 / 216 * 30
05:39:40 gribble: 6000
05:40:01 mircea_popescu: thestringpuller reddit runs out of 6k a month worth of servers ? impressive if true.
05:40:15 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't about the money. talk to a 30+ year apple user. the kind that stuck to it 'through thick and thin'
05:40:33 asciilifeform: it's about the get-the-microshit-out-of-my-fucking-face-i-dont-care-what
05:40:48 thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: I wouln'dt be surprised cause shits always going down.
05:41:19 mircea_popescu: chatquack i just went through home made cherry brandy, im full up on sweet liquor
05:42:25 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so i fail to see how "reference counting" is any sort of anything resembling a solution nor c etc demented for not having it.
05:42:36 chatquack: Oh I bet! Sounds tasty though
05:42:41 asciilifeform: c doesn't do the garbage collection thing at all
05:42:51 mircea_popescu: well cause it can't be fucking done.
05:43:21 mircea_popescu: i can follow that logic there. "for ten cents we can't be bothered, write your own damned card"
05:43:34 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: beg to differ. there are very good algos for garbage collection with hard real-time guarantees. they are complicated and i know of no system other than common lisp where they are implemented with any quality.
05:43:45 mircea_popescu: so there you go.
05:43:49 asciilifeform: typically one has multiple levels of storage for objects with different ranges of expected lifetime
05:43:54 asciilifeform: e.g. a 'nursery'
05:44:05 asciilifeform: from which objs are promoted, optionally
05:44:06 asciilifeform: etc
05:44:34 mircea_popescu: i think you see my point. well "my". porobably the oldest point in computing.
05:45:13 asciilifeform: the ultimate mega-death-star reference work on the subject is 'garbage collection algorithms for automatic dynamic memory management' (r. jones & r. d. lins)
05:45:17 asciilifeform: ^^^^^ recommended
05:45:21 asciilifeform: to anyone who gives half a fuck
05:45:46 asciilifeform: in fact, i dare say it is the only good work on the subject in dead tree.
05:46:32 asciilifeform: but yes, garbage collection will have a terrible reputation for at least another half century on account of the state-of-the-art half a century ago when john mccarthy invented it, 'stop the world'
05:46:55 asciilifeform: literally, like keeping two flats, occasionally taking useful objects from one to the other, then setting off dynamite in the old flat.
05:47:24 asciilifeform: 'stop the world' is also called 'semispace'
05:47:30 mircea_popescu: everything should be dereferenced every 1337th instruction
05:47:31 asciilifeform: !s semispace
05:47:32 assbot: 3 results for 'semispace' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=semispace
05:47:36 asciilifeform: ^ we did it
05:47:37 mircea_popescu: that way, it defnitely fits in head.
05:47:42 asciilifeform: l0l
05:48:20 mircea_popescu: "how long is a program ?" "that depends. on 64 bit registers, roughly 21kb
05:50:51 asciilifeform: i'll add that neither 'mark and sweep' (stop-the-world in its basic form) nor 'reference counting' are necessary on a dataflow machine
05:51:08 asciilifeform: where you can determine precisely what objects are live simply by... forming electric circuit (yes) from the root node
05:51:18 asciilifeform: and whoever 'lights up' is live.
05:52:08 asciilifeform: obligatory:
05:52:09 asciilifeform: !s spaghetti sort
05:52:10 assbot: 1 results for 'spaghetti sort' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=spaghetti+sort
05:52:56 asciilifeform: ^^^ wtf!!!! stemming is back!
05:53:04 asciilifeform: die stemming, die
05:53:37 asciilifeform: http://everything2.com/title/spaghetti+sort
05:53:38 assbot: spaghetti sort - Everything2.com ... ( http://bit.ly/17mLhXC )
05:53:38 mircea_popescu: how is it stemmed ?
05:53:46 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: look at the result
05:53:55 asciilifeform: does the string 'spaghetti sort' occur in it ?
05:53:58 mircea_popescu: sort-of ? that's proper break
05:54:08 mircea_popescu: but it never was strict sting, it was boith words.
05:54:18 mircea_popescu: you want quotes.
05:54:31 mircea_popescu: !s 'spaghetti sort'
05:54:32 assbot: 1 results for ''spaghetti sort'' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=%27spaghetti+sort%27
05:54:40 mircea_popescu: !s "spaghetti sort"
05:54:41 assbot: 0 results for '"spaghetti sort"' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=%22spaghetti+sort%22
05:54:41 asciilifeform: aha
05:54:49 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is correct
05:54:49 mircea_popescu: you want " quotes specifically.
05:55:42 asciilifeform: back to thread, momentarily, before i nod off to sleep; certain problems (i dare say most of the 'big ones') in algorithms magically dissipate when you burn the retarded von neumann thing
05:57:42 asciilifeform: for real life implementations of 'spaghetti sort', see adi shamir's 'twinkle' and 'twirl' machines.
05:57:56 asciilifeform: (i'm nearly certain we did these here)
05:58:40 asciilifeform: in a von neumann machine, you'd have to individually address and ask each cell what its output is, to take the sum, like a total idiot
05:59:04 mircea_popescu: is shamir still working on those light machines ?
05:59:04 asciilifeform: in 'twinkle', you just have a led in each and a phototransistor on top.
05:59:08 asciilifeform: ask him.
05:59:37 *: asciilifeform never saw shamir alive and doesn't expect to, iirc he was perma-banned from usa
05:59:50 mircea_popescu: was he ?
06:00:06 asciilifeform: http://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2013/10/shamir
06:00:08 assbot: Cryptographer Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending NSA History Conference ... ( http://bit.ly/17mLJVM )
06:00:58 mircea_popescu: mebbe we should ask adlai to pay him a visit ? do an interview for qntra
06:01:31 asciilifeform: see also comments
06:01:34 asciilifeform: for other banned folks
06:02:04 assbot: How The Government Blocked An Expert From Attending Its Own Cryptology Symposium | Techdirt ... ( http://bit.ly/17mLSIV )
06:02:26 asciilifeform: 'In July 2013 I told the NSA-affiliated conference organizers that I was having some problems in getting my visa, and gently asked whether they could do something about it. Always eager to help, the NSA people leaped into action, and immediately sent me a short email written with a lot of tact: ?The trouble you are having is regrettable?Sorry you won?t be able to come to our conference. We have submitted our program and
06:02:26 asciilifeform: did not include you on it.?
06:02:28 asciilifeform: '
06:03:09 mircea_popescu: In my humble opinion, we are heading toward a disaster, and I have heard many people, among them our top scientists, saying that they are not willing anymore to visit the US, and collaborate with American scientists, because of the difficulties.
06:03:11 mircea_popescu: heg
06:03:19 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36300 @ 0.00036925 = 13.4038 BTC [+]
06:03:46 pete_dushenski: aw i missed adam_obrien's cherry popping
06:05:39 mircea_popescu: "As a friend of the US I am deeply worried that if you continue to delay visas in such a way, the only thing you will achieve is to alienate many world-famous foreign scientists, forcing them to increase their cooperation with European or Chinese scientists whose countries roll the red carpet for such visits. "
06:05:40 mircea_popescu: heh.
06:06:03 mircea_popescu: "why get now for free what you won't be able to afford later on ?!?!?!!?"
06:06:04 pete_dushenski: us just wants to bury its head in the sand
06:06:20 asciilifeform: 'we don't need no stinking jew crypto here in the reich'
06:06:46 *: mircea_popescu tries real hard to imagine the next generation shamir putting to paper the 'friend of the us' string.
06:06:57 asciilifeform: that was probably a first and a last.
06:06:59 mircea_popescu: hegel and shaw were great friends of the third reich,
06:07:05 mircea_popescu: but who in the 60s said the same ?
06:07:12 pete_dushenski: asciilifeform:it's about the get-the-microshit-out-of-my-fucking-face-i-dont-care-what << now, as ever
06:07:46 asciilifeform: iirc pete_dushenski is a hereditary apple user, ought to deeply grok this ^
06:07:46 pete_dushenski: lol jew crypto!
06:08:07 pete_dushenski: asciilifeform your memory serves you well.
06:08:24 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 37135 @ 0.00036925 = 13.7121 BTC [+]
06:08:25 asciilifeform: i'm friends with several folks like that in meatspace
06:08:30 asciilifeform: and thereby know
06:08:32 pete_dushenski: and while the new stuff is faster, it certainly isn't built to last
06:08:50 pete_dushenski: the screen on this 'air' is already mroe borked than us science
06:08:54 pete_dushenski: not 2 years old
06:09:28 asciilifeform: the only apple box currently in my collection is a circa-'09 'air'
06:09:39 asciilifeform: it is very well preserved but survived a burst (yes) battery
06:09:41 pete_dushenski: 6 year old al macbook is slow, but a bit weighed down with junk, still mechanically solid
06:09:53 pete_dushenski: burst!
06:09:57 asciilifeform: aha
06:10:08 asciilifeform: looked like a botulismed tin can
06:10:15 asciilifeform: the whole machine!
06:10:19 pete_dushenski: don't eat it!
06:10:24 asciilifeform: keys discorged from kbd, etc
06:10:28 asciilifeform: *disgorged
06:10:39 asciilifeform: vendor repair for a few hundy, iirc
06:10:45 asciilifeform: included new kbd and chassis
06:10:48 pete_dushenski: !gettrust adam_obrien
06:10:49 assbot: Trust relationship from user pete_dushenski to user adam_obrien: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 1 via 1 connections. | http://w.b-a.link/trust/pete_dushenski/adam_obrien | http://w.b-a.link/user/adam_obrien
06:11:17 pete_dushenski: asciilifeform not bad.
06:11:45 pete_dushenski: i think a new screen will run about 200 for this air
06:11:53 pete_dushenski: procrastinating...
06:12:10 pete_dushenski: mostly because i'm annoyed
06:12:16 mircea_popescu: http://41.media.tumblr.com/40c900a0b6e296ee104f65275903124f/tumblr_ncoltiHwzR1rdc5oto1_400.jpg << anyone know that signature ?
06:12:17 assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/18e6wMk )
06:12:17 asciilifeform: what vintage air ?
06:12:33 asciilifeform: i've a dead one with intact lcd.
06:12:44 pete_dushenski: 2013 air
06:12:50 asciilifeform: standard res ?
06:12:55 pete_dushenski: ya
06:12:58 asciilifeform: find if part is compatible with circa 2010
06:13:07 pete_dushenski: kk
06:13:22 asciilifeform: if yes, gpggram a post box addr and i'll mail you.
06:13:35 asciilifeform: itching to get rid of that thing to good use, it's cluttering up my machine shop
06:13:53 jurov: http://english.pravda.ru/world/europe/20-02-2015/129881-minsk_munich-0/ lol. i can't even..
06:13:55 assbot: Minsk and Munich: History repeats itself - English pravda.ru ... ( http://bit.ly/18e6GmV )
06:13:56 asciilifeform: the bottom half is melted
06:13:59 asciilifeform: into heap of slag
06:14:04 asciilifeform: but lcd ought to work
06:14:29 pete_dushenski: asciilifeform danke for the offer at least!
06:14:36 *: pete_dushenski still digging
06:16:37 asciilifeform: i'm actually the only person i know who keeps an apple box 'for testing xxxx on apple once in a blue moon' without sitting on it all the time
06:16:48 asciilifeform: somehow this is simply not done...
06:23:39 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4400 @ 0.00036925 = 1.6247 BTC [+]
06:23:59 pete_dushenski: i have an old apple box or two that is blue mooning
06:24:50 pete_dushenski: asciilifeform ok, so here's the air display situation: if you have the 1280x800 screen, i'm out of luck, if you have the 1440x900 then we're good!
06:24:59 asciilifeform: sadly it's the former.
06:25:09 pete_dushenski: myeah
06:25:12 asciilifeform: (it being the original series)
06:25:16 pete_dushenski: just our luck eh
06:25:20 asciilifeform: eh well.
06:25:32 pete_dushenski: thx for the offer though
06:25:37 asciilifeform: np
06:26:05 asciilifeform: if anybody else here wants it, mail me.
06:26:41 asciilifeform: incidentally, it died of nvidia gpu
06:26:58 asciilifeform: bottom is molten slag because i tried the traditional hot air reflow machine repair method
06:27:06 asciilifeform: and couldn't be arsed to take the mobo out beforehand
06:27:12 asciilifeform: and overcooked it a wee bit.
06:28:11 pete_dushenski: jurov lol oh pravda...
06:28:14 asciilifeform: had to issue pet new box.
06:28:52 asciilifeform: комсомольская правда!
06:28:54 pete_dushenski: what'd you replace it with ?
06:29:06 asciilifeform: ☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭
06:29:16 asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: similar
06:29:32 thestringpuller: all these unicode characters!
06:29:43 thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: i bought a car lol.
06:29:50 thestringpuller: Subaru. not quite a saddam.
06:30:00 pete_dushenski: a nice!
06:30:11 pete_dushenski: saving the volvo idea for later ?
06:30:23 *: asciilifeform used to have a 'subaru'
06:30:24 thestringpuller: d00d was telling me about forrester he sold that had 400k miles on it
06:30:35 thestringpuller: and was still running, had been driven all over the country
06:30:55 asciilifeform: incidentally, there is no firm 'subaru'
06:30:55 pete_dushenski: asciilifeform that bit of russian gets spit out as "tvnz" by google translate
06:30:58 asciilifeform: there is only fuji heavy industries.
06:30:58 thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: saving the volvo idea for later << can't find one that's bene taken care of
06:31:37 pete_dushenski: ;;later tell kakobrekla please to add !translate function to assbot wish list.
06:31:38 gribble: The operation succeeded.
06:32:23 pete_dushenski: asciilifeform of which toyota owns a chunk
06:32:42 pete_dushenski: thestringpuller not so surprising really
06:33:24 *: asciilifeform is not 'car guy' despite - or perhaps because of? - spending a rather extraordinary amount of time in cars
06:33:40 pete_dushenski: !rate adam_obrien 3 the kid can hustle. cad-btc broker.
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06:34:05 pete_dushenski: asciilifeform sorta like taxi drivers aren't "car guys"
06:34:10 pete_dushenski: per se
06:34:13 asciilifeform: sorta
06:35:30 *: asciilifeform drove on what must've been a 20km solid strip of ice today
06:35:53 pete_dushenski: drove or was driven ?
06:35:59 asciilifeform: the former
06:36:07 asciilifeform: driven lol
06:36:10 asciilifeform: whos gonna
06:36:47 asciilifeform: the woman - doesn't drive
06:37:11 pete_dushenski: orly ? no license even ?
06:37:14 asciilifeform: aha
06:37:20 asciilifeform: believe or not there are such people
06:37:25 asciilifeform: in modern day
06:37:46 *: pete_dushenski fuming at 'air' now. $450-600 for new display!
06:38:08 pete_dushenski: sure, i just thought they mostly lived in montreal
06:38:08 asciilifeform: apple tax (tm)
06:38:25 asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: iirc it is possible to forgo cars in montreal
06:38:39 pete_dushenski: very much so
06:38:54 pete_dushenski: one of the only places on the continent
06:39:13 pete_dushenski: i should say, one of the only that i'd live in and not have need for car
06:39:54 pete_dushenski: so it's 1) real city, 2) pleasant (for me), 3) doesn't require car
06:40:10 *: asciilifeform went there, once, as a schoolboy
06:40:23 pete_dushenski: nyc is 1 and 3, not 2
06:40:31 pete_dushenski: asciilifeform school trip ?
06:40:36 *: asciilifeform for some reason only remembers the chinese quarter with the monstrous fish hanging in the market
06:40:38 asciilifeform: with spike
06:40:45 asciilifeform: nah not school, went with family for kicks
06:40:52 asciilifeform: just because we could
06:41:45 pete_dushenski: hey why not
06:42:12 pete_dushenski: !v assbot:pete_dushenski.rate.adam_obrien.3:2dcac74653866d7b577b42d50842fd1c1258e54ebd97872ccff075cdfb32fb26
06:42:13 assbot: Successfully added a rating of 3 for adam_obrien with note: the kid can hustle. cad-btc broker.
06:43:30 pete_dushenski: asciilifeform did/do you have siblings ?
06:43:34 asciilifeform: aha
06:43:36 asciilifeform: brother
06:44:30 pete_dushenski: heh i somehow imagined that you had all this time as a youf to diddle computers because you were an only child!
06:44:37 asciilifeform: l0l no.
06:45:59 asciilifeform: elder brother, led me to the sinful life.
06:46:23 asciilifeform: but more clever than i - he has virtually no net presence at all.
06:47:06 pete_dushenski: how is ignoring the best first largest cult 'more clever' ?
06:47:28 pete_dushenski: other than less gasenwagen
06:47:31 asciilifeform: mainly ^
06:47:47 pete_dushenski: he won't have a chance to be teh gwagon driver though!
06:47:59 pete_dushenski: when we put the shoe on the other foot
06:48:08 pete_dushenski: WHEN i tell you.
06:48:27 pete_dushenski: heh
06:49:00 asciilifeform: obligatory:
06:49:03 assbot: George Orwell: Revenge is Sour ... ( http://bit.ly/18e7V5A )
06:49:10 *: asciilifeform for the record, does not agree with mr. o
06:49:15 asciilifeform: on this subject
06:49:16 pete_dushenski: http://dpaste.com/32BQMT1.txt << lulzy btc-e phish i just received
06:49:17 assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/18e7Yyk )
06:49:18 asciilifeform: but the piece is relevant
06:49:33 pete_dushenski: with "btc-e wallet.rar" attachment
06:51:21 thestringpuller: lol. i've noticed a slight pattern.
06:51:31 thestringpuller: pete is most active in #b-a after writing an article
06:51:57 thestringpuller: got this pavlov goin on here. saw your name pete, and subconciously refreshed tab with your blog in it. voila new article. ;)
06:52:07 asciilifeform: i've always wondered if vonnegut wrote the leather suitcase strap scene in his 'mother night' after reading that orwell piece
06:52:18 pete_dushenski: thestringpuller lol except that was from this morning!
06:52:23 pete_dushenski: like 15 hours ago
06:52:31 asciilifeform: it's similar to the point of being misfiled together in my head
06:52:58 pete_dushenski: but yes, the routine is something like 1) publish, 2) self-scoop, 3) catch-up
06:53:12 asciilifeform: Mengel was speaking of Rudolf Franz Hoess, the commandant of the extermination camp
06:53:13 asciilifeform: at Auschwitz. In his tender care, literally millions of Jews were gassed. Mengel knew a little
06:53:13 asciilifeform: about Hoess. Before emigrating to Israel in 1947, Mengel helped to hang Hoess.
06:53:13 asciilifeform: And he didn't do it with testimony, either. He did it with his two big hands. 'When Hoess
06:53:13 asciilifeform: was hanged,' he told me, 'the strap around his ankles ? I put that on and made it tight'
06:53:13 asciilifeform: 'Did that give you a lot of satisfaction?' I said.
06:53:15 asciilifeform: 'No,' he said, 'I was like almost everybody who came through that war.'
06:53:17 asciilifeform: 'What do you mean?' I said. 'I got so I couldn't feel anything,' said Mengel. 'Every job was
06:53:19 asciilifeform: a job to do, and no job was any better or any worse than any other.'
06:53:21 asciilifeform: 'After we finished hanging Hoess,' Mengel said to me, 'I packed up my clothes to go home.
06:53:23 asciilifeform: The catch on my suitcase was broken, so I buckled it shut with a big leather strap. Twice
06:53:25 asciilifeform: within an hour I did the very same job ? once to Hoess and once to my suitcase. Both jobs
06:53:27 asciilifeform: felt about the same.'
06:54:19 pete_dushenski: makes sense
06:54:27 pete_dushenski: (from the armchair)
06:54:40 pete_dushenski: depends on one's own disposition too
06:54:52 asciilifeform: http://schoolsites.schoolworld.com/schools/Cheltenham/webpages/rwilman/files/kurt%20vonnegut%20-%20mother%20night.pdf << l33t w4r3z copy
06:54:54 assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/18e8dtk )
06:54:57 pete_dushenski: do you give a shit when you see roadkill ?
06:55:21 asciilifeform: i'm told that in subsaharan africa, human roadkill is sop
06:55:29 asciilifeform: as in, no one stops to clean it up or id it
06:55:42 asciilifeform: just not anybody's business.
06:55:50 thestringpuller: asciilifeform: your stories make me never want to go to jail.
06:55:51 asciilifeform: it goes flatter, spins around now&then
06:56:09 thestringpuller: i mean no one wants to go to jail. but your stories REALLY make me not want to go to jail
06:56:09 asciilifeform: thestringpuller: and i'm not even in the jail
06:56:39 *: asciilifeform has not even yet been in the jail
06:56:42 asciilifeform: so which stories
06:56:44 pete_dushenski: you have a lot less time to fuck around worry about someone else's problems in a country where there's not 50x more wealth than needed for sustenance.
06:57:20 asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i can only guess at why they do, but the human roadkill thing isn't so surprising
06:57:40 pete_dushenski: it isn't to me either
06:58:00 pete_dushenski: there's >1bn 'lives' in africa
06:58:19 pete_dushenski: yet less productive output than the northern tip of israel
06:58:44 *: asciilifeform kicks a small crate labelev 'nuvoton'
06:59:22 *: asciilifeform shoves a larger crate of israeli gas masks
06:59:57 *: asciilifeform looks for manufactured object from africa in room, can't find
07:01:16 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27300 @ 0.00036402 = 9.9377 BTC [-]
07:01:22 pete_dushenski: precisement
07:01:55 *: pete_dushenski guesses that asciilifeform isn't much for aesthetic diamonds
07:02:14 *: asciilifeform has a diamond cutoff wheel somewhere
07:02:15 pete_dushenski: or 50-year-old pianos
07:02:20 asciilifeform: actually
07:02:28 asciilifeform: i've a sack of piano keys, circa 1890
07:02:34 pete_dushenski: elephant keys!
07:02:37 asciilifeform: aha
07:02:43 asciilifeform: but then could even count the tantalum in capacitors
07:02:53 asciilifeform: i was specifically looking for manufactured goods
07:03:01 pete_dushenski: not more roadkill
07:03:03 asciilifeform: if vegetable, mineral - can probably turn up a dozen
07:03:45 asciilifeform: (why piano keys - story for another day)
07:03:46 pete_dushenski: africa: come for the adventure, leave with the roadkill
07:03:55 asciilifeform: stay as the roadkill
07:04:11 asciilifeform: depending how the dice fall
07:04:34 pete_dushenski: if you're traveling to africa, you can probably afford to stay out of the anonymous ditch
07:04:41 asciilifeform: obligatory mega-classic: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/924795/posts
07:04:43 assbot: Let Africa Sink ... ( http://bit.ly/18e8vAl )
07:05:31 pete_dushenski: asciilifeform aha i recall reading that while writing this: http://www.contravex.com/2014/11/21/why-are-you-in-such-a-huff-all-i-said-was-we-should-think-about-quarantining-africa/
07:05:32 assbot: Why Are You In Such A Huff? All I Said Was “We Should Think About Quarantining Africa” | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/18e8xbi )
07:06:03 pete_dushenski: in the olden days when ebola was scary...
07:06:11 pete_dushenski: all of 3 months ago ?
07:06:21 asciilifeform: would be interesting to know where it went
07:06:39 asciilifeform: for all i know, it rages still somewhere in midwest
07:06:44 asciilifeform: amidst news blackout
07:07:09 asciilifeform: or, alternatively, 'politicians want to live too' and quietly orders were given
07:07:25 pete_dushenski: eh if news is leaking out of ukraine, it can find its way out of midwestia
07:07:46 asciilifeform: the stopper on ua bottle - in english - is nearly airtight
07:08:24 pete_dushenski: i call baloney
07:08:42 pete_dushenski: what is this, 1950 ?
07:08:52 pete_dushenski: 950 ?
07:08:55 asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: care to show counter-example ?
07:09:17 asciilifeform: as in, who - other than orlov - is spilling the beans in engl. ?
07:09:49 pete_dushenski: tlp, mp
07:09:56 asciilifeform: tlp ?
07:10:00 pete_dushenski: hell, fox news
07:10:07 asciilifeform: lol srsly ?
07:10:34 pete_dushenski: not that seriously, but not that jokingly either
07:10:46 pete_dushenski: the last psychiatrist, chris ballas
07:10:53 asciilifeform: i know who
07:10:58 asciilifeform: but thought he disappeared a while ago
07:11:07 *: asciilifeform has read the complete tlp
07:11:08 pete_dushenski: not really
07:11:21 pete_dushenski: his last article was only 7 months ago
07:11:34 pete_dushenski: *only*
07:21:40 *: pete_dushenski did more digging on foxnews.com, came up utterly blank trying to find anything of value. retracts earlier statement.
07:22:25 thestringpuller: asciilifeform: which << http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-07-2014#770561 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-08-2014#817435 << those two in particular. i guess no one wants to be in gulag, but stories like this REALLY make me not wanna be in US gulag. The latter means once prisoner of US gulag, US polezei will toss you back in as the feel like it even if you escape.
07:23:34 pete_dushenski: asciilifeform either way, i figure the burden is on you to prove air tightness, not me to disprove
07:23:52 thestringpuller: as you further state here asciilifeform >> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-08-2014#817449 << the real escape has costs and stuff
07:23:56 pete_dushenski: lack of news in midwest doesn't prove 'cover up'
07:24:09 pete_dushenski: the midwest is just... dull
07:24:29 pete_dushenski: if 'cover up' were in effect, no one would've ever heard of ferguson mo
07:24:45 pete_dushenski: and i'm pretty sure africa's heard of ferguson mo
07:30:46 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 99100 @ 0.00036451 = 36.1229 BTC [+] {2}
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11:01:58 punkman: http://www.getmagicnow.com/
11:01:59 assbot: Magic ... ( http://bit.ly/1D6co4s )
11:33:20 jurov: ^ lol asciilifeform can ask them for stuff and pay in bitcoin... but quite bezzle rates
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12:51:00 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15800 @ 0.00036478 = 5.7635 BTC [-]
12:55:16 BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: so far i don't disagree - the problem i described could indeed be magicked away entirely and semi-permanently by judicious application of ~100k usd << 100k usd seems to be "magic number" in USia's /etc/moduli
12:58:32 BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: danielpbarron: in other news, i got netbsd ramdisk to build. << Beautiful, but there's going to be some very sad japs who still can't netbsd up their pogo next to their toaster because nand
13:01:32 BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: nubbins`: elementary fact is that i can only keep my wot obligations (s.nsa) if i have present level of equipment and time << When BTC funded taxi leaves USia, maybe missile takes it down in interesting place and we all meet the "boys from brazil"
13:06:14 BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, decimation: the point that i was trying - and failing - to make, was that a fundamentally fiat-based business arrangement like renting a house from a fella on opposite end of continent who you've never met and never expect to meet, cannot be 'bitcoinized' in the sense of turning you loose from usg financial jail << Even when "fiat poor" developing "escape WoT" is obstacle
13:09:27 BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: this doesn't include private 'consulting' gigs, also, which many of these folks take part in << Seriously perverts rents. All around the country bubbles aroud various installations push rent up $BigInt for $ConvenientInt radius
13:12:18 chetty: All around the country bubbles aroud various installations push rent up $BigInt for $ConvenientInt radius// which makes stupid ideas like min wage even more ridiculous
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13:19:28 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 29022 @ 0.00037316 = 10.8298 BTC [+]
13:20:19 assbot: Innovation Patterns: 4-23-2012 | Vladislav's Masterpiece ... ( http://bit.ly/1MLxrie )
13:20:35 BingoBoingo: decimation: fluffypony: what about rhodesia? << meatspace friends blessed me with three rare books as birthday gift "Slave to her nigger", "Temptress in the Slave Quarters", and "A Craving for Black Flesh" these people know me too well
13:22:30 BingoBoingo: 0 fluffypony: that's not been done, right? << Should be done to death by now, unfortunately undeath and zombies
13:29:10 BingoBoingo: Nice boobie trap trigger too, no nipple will not engorge when the capacitor shorts
13:40:14 danielpbarron: height=217183 vs height=189334
13:40:49 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28200 @ 0.00036478 = 10.2868 BTC [-]
13:46:06 jurov: got curious about bingo's books and unearthed this: http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Perspectives_1/Willie_Lynch_letter_The_Making_of_a_Slave.shtml
13:46:07 assbot: Willie Lynch letter: The Making of a Slave ... ( http://bit.ly/1MLCNtK )
13:48:32 BingoBoingo: jurov: Good find
13:49:32 BingoBoingo: "I HAVE OUTLINED A NUMBER OF DIFFERENCES AMONG THE SLAVES; AND I TAKE THESE DIFFERENCES AND MAKE THEM BIGGER. I USE FEAR, DISTRUST AND ENVY FOR CONTROL PURPOSES." How the British controlled hundreds of millions in india with hundreds of their own
13:57:34 BingoBoingo: Wow, principles discussed recently >> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-02-2015#1028170
13:57:34 assbot: Logged on 22-02-2015 03:06:06; decimation: nah, the whole 'd1scr1m1n4t10n!!!111!!' has everything to do with the general divide & conqueror the kulaks program, and nothing to do with the exercise of actual power
13:58:06 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8150 @ 0.00037316 = 3.0413 BTC [+]
14:02:57 BingoBoingo: mike_c: a lot can change in a year. but i don't think there are enough shares in existence to make it worth it anyway. i mean, what, bingo maybe has 50k shares? << Beauty of MPEx is neither you nor the pederasts can truly be sure.
14:07:54 BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: there's really no logical reason to buy it unless you got a better way to run it << ALso can't seriously discount the glory of major sharholders split across 3 continents. GAW could prebtebd to sue coinfire, Qntra???
14:12:37 BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: this is true but misleading : in fact you know the fiats will inflate to all shit. and you know start-ups will dilute to all shit. in absolutely no proportion to "Words added" or any other sort of metric. << Scary thing is the longer this goes on and the harder we look for news, the less news words there seem to be to write in my observation. As time goes on I hope pieces like 'Your Disk Controller and You" Take an
14:12:37 BingoBoingo: increasing percent of equity
14:13:45 *: BingoBoingo also offer that the qntra principles could likely drink any other "BTC News" venture under any table.
14:16:56 BingoBoingo: decimation: re: qntra > I guess my thinking is that he is using pretty speculative thinking about the rate of dilution, who knows how management is going to act in the future << So far surprisingly predictable
14:17:25 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 57131 @ 0.00036442 = 20.8197 BTC [-] {2}
14:19:01 BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: and yes, it started with eu 'rohs' mandate for lead-free. << Amazing how much civilization depends on this humble metal
14:19:01 assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
14:21:43 BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-02-2015#1028418 << Bought iBook G3 at insane discount because display broken. On list of machines I wish I would have kept.
14:21:43 assbot: Logged on 22-02-2015 05:32:09; asciilifeform: 'My wife got through her Master's on a G3 iBook, and we paid to have its motherboard replaced twice for the same graphics issue, a little over a year apart. Having to pay for the first repair sucked, but sometimes those are the odds. Having to pay to repair it a second time due to identical symptoms a couple of months after the initial repair warranty was up was a kick in the teeth, and was a good ind
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14:33:10 BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: 6 year old al macbook is slow, but a bit weighed down with junk, still mechanically solid << loving cheapest thinkpad of 2011 still. working on hoarding fans for it and learning enough hardware diddling to do cell replacement in battery apparatus
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14:44:16 BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: for all i know, it rages still somewhere in midwest << Maybe in Ohio? Biggest Illinois news is pro-Austerity governor proposing operation as advertized
14:47:00 BingoBoingo: ;; later tell pete_dushenski How do you know the ferguson drama wasn't to keep Africans from wanting to go to Middle West?
14:47:00 gribble: The operation succeeded.
14:57:19 nubbins`: mircea_popescu:nubbins`: you know i took a ninety per cent pay cut two years ago? << you actually made money at some point ?! <<< i actually make money *now*, just... less 8)
14:58:21 nubbins`: mircea_popescu:nubbins`: what's a young anti-consumerist to do ;/ << shit look at that, "mother earth news" is actually a thing. <<< print issues are a bit lacking these days, but for the $20/yr or w/e...
14:58:29 nubbins`: website + backlogs are literally a trove tho
14:58:45 nubbins`: you can get every back issue to the 70s on dvd for <sale of the month price>
14:59:14 jurov: is it searchable?
15:05:12 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 70300 @ 0.00036718 = 25.8128 BTC [+] {2}
15:13:32 jurov: nubbins`: ^
15:13:44 nubbins`: jurov i'd imagine.
15:13:48 nubbins`: ;;google mother earth dvd
15:13:49 gribble: Shopping - Mother Earth News: http://www.motherearthnews.com/shopping/home.aspx; MOTHER EARTH NEWS Archive 1970-2013: Multiplatform Edition: http://www.motherearthnews.com/shopping/detail.aspx?itemnumber=7210; Mother Earth Tour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Earth_Tour
15:14:02 nubbins`: i probably have coupon codes somewhere if you actually want it
15:14:09 jurov: you know, it may easily be scanned turds
15:14:40 nubbins`: "The Multiplatform Edition contains files for each year of the magazine in a format that can be transferred for viewing and searching on multiple devices. The content can only be viewed and searched year by year. • The Classic Edition provides a browser-based interface for accessing the archive on your desktop computer or laptop. You can do advanced searches and view content from the entire 44-year archive, all at once!"
15:14:52 nubbins`: they really do put a fair amount of effort into what they do
15:16:40 assbot: Mother Earth News Blog Landing page ... ( http://bit.ly/1CYMeOv )
15:16:45 nubbins`: ^ some of the homesteading blogs are rad too
15:16:51 nubbins`: neat seeing how people do things
15:20:58 jurov: looks good, you can look up the coupons someday
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16:26:06 asciilifeform: jurov: can ask them for stuff and pay in bitcoin... but quite bezzle rates << same as 'bitpay' but spammier flavour. and same problem. you can't bitcoinize a fiat business relationship not because of the funny green usg money but because it is wotless
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18:13:31 asciilifeform: jurov!
18:13:43 asciilifeform: wtf did turdatron do with my message.
18:13:55 asciilifeform: seriously that thing does not work at all.
18:14:37 mircea_popescu: !up indiancandy1
18:14:57 asciilifeform: jurov: it even mailed it back to me, but not showing in the www.
18:14:58 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform scoopbot's down, deedbot not here, it's like microsoft over here.
18:15:01 indiancandy1: quick question
18:15:04 mircea_popescu: shoot.
18:15:14 indiancandy1: does anyone kno anything bout viral marketing
18:15:40 asciilifeform: indiancandy1: yes. if you have a rare viral sample (e.g. Marburg) various folks will offer to buy.
18:15:43 mircea_popescu: about as much as they know about psychiatry : everyone has his own story.
18:15:56 fluffypony: further to asciilifeform's point, containment is critical
18:16:14 mircea_popescu: ;;later peterl what happened to scoopbot now ?
18:16:15 gribble: Error: The "Later" plugin is loaded, but there is no command named "peterl" in it. Try "list Later" to see the commands in the "Later" plugin.
18:16:17 fluffypony: most buyers prefer it to be kept as cooled specimens / samples
18:16:19 mircea_popescu: ;;later tell peterl what happened to scoopbot now ?
18:16:19 gribble: The operation succeeded.
18:16:26 fluffypony: not just on some petri dish or something
18:16:31 mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 you have voice silly.
18:17:04 mircea_popescu: fluffypony you're a bunch of aholes you know :D
18:17:09 fluffypony: :-P
18:18:26 asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/this_is_retarded.txt
18:18:27 assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1vq2hYa )
18:18:28 asciilifeform: jurov ^
18:18:55 mircea_popescu: http://33.media.tumblr.com/df2fcf02fd786b354f2a5578d437180d/tumblr_mxfx4rar6b1srb2awo1_500.gif << acquiring viral samples in the wild.
18:18:58 assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1vq2jiH )
18:20:39 mircea_popescu: jurov "Behind the scenes, however, some new that peace was definitely not secured."
18:20:49 mircea_popescu: it looks like a pretty good attempt at being the onion
18:23:26 mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: asciilifeform that bit of russian gets spit out as "tvnz" by google translate << it's not russian ye kook, it's the hammer and sickle sign
18:23:43 asciilifeform: it had a translation!?!
18:23:44 asciilifeform: l0l!
18:23:45 jurov: asciilifeform: dat clearsigned tftp vomit /o\
18:24:00 asciilifeform: wtf's wrong with my chunder
18:24:06 asciilifeform: why won't it eat.
18:24:18 asciilifeform: perfectly good chunkz
18:24:46 jurov: it's kilometer line. we already had this discussion
18:24:54 asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DDqgnxPnyI
18:24:55 assbot: Alien goat vomit - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1vq2Z7M )
18:24:58 asciilifeform: ^ obligatory
18:24:59 jurov: that stmp just won't do kilometer lines
18:25:07 jurov: *smtp
18:25:35 jurov: Pogov4> tftp 0x800000 netbsd.ub Using egiga0 device TFTP from server [censored]; our IP address is [censored] Filename 'netbsd.ub'. Load address: 0x800000 Loading: ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# #############################################################
18:25:36 jurov: ################################################################# ################################################################# #################################################################
18:25:41 jurov: ^ this
18:25:46 asciilifeform: could've guessed
18:25:47 asciilifeform: but why?
18:25:52 mircea_popescu: o.O
18:26:02 mircea_popescu: why didn't you guess! and why. because fucking email.
18:26:17 mircea_popescu: stupidest protocol in common use since the bretton woods agreements
18:28:16 mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: got this pavlov goin on here. saw your name pete, and subconciously refreshed tab with your blog in it. voila new article. ;) << ha.
18:31:13 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: (why piano keys - story for another day) << im pretty sure those are illegal in your jurisdiction.
18:31:35 asciilifeform: technically grandfathered
18:31:44 asciilifeform: but i won't be surprised to have them exhibited at my hanging
18:32:01 asciilifeform: 'prove you didn't shoot the elephant'
18:32:24 mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as grandfathered for parts.
18:32:27 mircea_popescu: only for whole item.
18:33:59 mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: and i'm pretty sure africa's heard of ferguson mo << at least the part that can read. although... it seems improbable that if they did we don't see the output.
18:34:14 mircea_popescu: "i represent the family of a rich ferguson, mo merchant who has died in the recent troubles..."
18:35:52 mircea_popescu: http://www.getmagicnow.com/magic.jpg << lol that shit looks kinda like my shit. of course, i would suspect they'd choke if i put my lists through them, as i don't order pizza.
18:35:54 assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1vq4cvO )
18:38:05 mircea_popescu: chetty: [...] which makes stupid ideas like min wage even more ridiculous << there's simply no way to avoid it. it IS a stupid idea, of course, but in an inflation driven economy everyone just keeps trying to climb on everyone else.
18:38:23 mircea_popescu: inflation economy is basically the cheapest most reliable implementation of "crabs in the pot" to human society.
18:38:35 mircea_popescu: nothing ever gets done anymore because everyone's energy is spent dragging everyone else down.
18:39:39 mircea_popescu: and if in a scored sport, say baseball or soccer, they started messing with the scoreboard, the game'd stop right then and all the players etc would just move to working teh board.
18:39:50 mircea_popescu: "come watch a bunch of folks sit at desks on a green field, make numbers go up."
18:40:24 mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: meatspace friends blessed me with three rare books as birthday gift "Slave to her nigger", "Temptress in the Slave Quarters", and "A Craving for Black Flesh" these people know me too well << wtf, these are books or more like photo albums ?
18:43:58 mircea_popescu: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/abaufda8t.html << if anyone's curious to see 1845 pious fraud, here's the "great philosopher" frederick douglass making shit up.
18:43:59 assbot: Douglass' Narrative ... ( http://bit.ly/1vq54Aw )
18:44:48 mircea_popescu: he sounds exactly like a better read joseph smith. substantially the same inclination to pass counterfactuality for fact "because who's to say it didn't happen" and "it damned well serves the purpose of making my understanding of the world more palatable ot others".
18:45:13 mircea_popescu: kinda lends a lot of substance to a notion that usians are actually broken in the head structurally, rather than accidentally. at least the usians of the time.
18:46:44 ben_vulpes: douglass was a fraud?
18:47:03 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only were the colonies (and then usa) the world's premier nuthouse for sectarian nutters, but the era of 'we have empty space now' promoted the 'tell'em tall tales and who's to say it didn't happen out there in the woods' mentality
18:47:21 mircea_popescu: i never read anything important he wrote. he did a lot of abolitionist propaganda, for which his party attached titles to him.
18:47:36 mircea_popescu: this makes him no more a philosopher than the soviets.
18:47:59 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently. it's kind-of strange that this shared psychosis was never investigated.
18:48:21 mircea_popescu: then people jump at the fundamentally antiscientific restructuring of science the americans did (and many places copied) after 1950 as a sort of noivel phenomena
18:48:45 mircea_popescu: fucking bs, there's nothing novel about it, they just did to science what they had been doing all through 1800s. which apparently is, for unclear reasons, all the ycan intellectually do ?!
18:49:29 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: marc twain did a pretty good job investigating
18:50:00 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and you obviously notice that after the "god spoke to me through stones in hat" west of the early 1800 and the "god spoke to me re black people" of the mid 1800s, they moved on to "god spoke to me re rhodesia" almost seamlessly. and before that it was...
18:50:19 asciilifeform: even mr mold got this much
18:50:22 mircea_popescu: basically, THIS if anything is the red thread of a putative "american nation". religious obscurantism divorced from religion per se.
18:50:39 asciilifeform: his whole thesis was approximately this sentence
18:50:46 asciilifeform: 'christianity without the chris'
18:51:04 mircea_popescu: it may well hold some value.
18:51:13 mircea_popescu: well, also notably without the virgin whore.
18:51:30 mircea_popescu: the only other people i know about this stupid and stupid in this manner are the sicilians, and they are fucking fixated on the holy cunt.
18:52:11 asciilifeform: iirc he compared it to certain genetically engineered bacteria that end up shedding the payload - 'why should i piss out $protein when i can be making more copies of self faster'
18:52:15 mircea_popescu: (sicilians more in the "kingdom of two sicilies" than in the island of ~ sense)
18:52:36 mircea_popescu: no cause they do have a payload.
18:52:49 mircea_popescu: the payload is, amusdingly enough, a very primitive answer to the same problem.
18:53:00 asciilifeform: that is, evolutionary pressure to jettison whatever payload is no longer serving the ultimate purpose
18:53:01 mircea_popescu: they STILL deal with their own fear of death, just, not iun the very refined jewish manner.
18:53:09 ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: re "piece of shit" neat stuff
18:53:17 asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: tried it ?
18:53:30 ben_vulpes: nope.
18:53:35 ben_vulpes: no pogo.
18:53:49 asciilifeform: once have pogo: if you use the tftp recipe, you no longer need to wear out your nand to run these
18:53:52 ben_vulpes: have not the shiva arms
18:54:23 asciilifeform: ^ pun intended ?
18:54:42 asciilifeform: (the original machine in the series was marketed as 'sheeva plug.' and ran on same 'arm' chip by 'marvell'...)
18:55:09 mircea_popescu: much more brusquely, as if a cowboy in dirty footwraps at a bar somewhere decided to cut it short and end with a joke.
18:55:20 ben_vulpes: somewhere deep in the stack, something insisted on saying it. same way the rest of my puns happen.
18:55:38 mircea_popescu: your punhole's leakin'.
18:55:50 ben_vulpes: i can't reason about my bioware
18:56:06 *: asciilifeform wonders how many u.s. folk, other than historical re-enactors, know what footwraps are
18:56:25 mircea_popescu: yes well real cowboys don't wear fucking socks.
18:56:58 asciilifeform: socks are finicky high-tech
18:57:03 mircea_popescu: aye.
18:57:08 mircea_popescu: also don't wash well.
18:57:24 asciilifeform: esp. not if 'wash' means 'fording a river'
18:57:29 mircea_popescu: quite.
18:57:48 asciilifeform: phun phact: degenerating ru army recently moved to socks!
18:57:55 asciilifeform: yes, and with american-style boots.
18:57:59 mircea_popescu: o did they ?
18:58:04 asciilifeform: (can't use trad ru boots with socks)
18:58:21 *: mircea_popescu pictures legion of corporals going "omfg end of fucking world igmme a drink"
18:58:27 asciilifeform: sure did.
18:58:30 asciilifeform: or so i'm told
19:00:03 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 40100 @ 0.00037113 = 14.8823 BTC [-]
19:00:10 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.aif.ru/dontknows/eternal/1084962 << turns out it was proclaimed, but not quite implemented
19:00:12 assbot: Правда ли, что в российской армии отменили портянки? | Вечные вопросы | Вопрос-Ответ | Аргументы и Факты ... ( http://bit.ly/1vq6ATi )
19:00:16 mircea_popescu: ah
19:01:03 asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKZbHMhP9Q4 << how-to for interested folks
19:01:04 assbot: Портянки: мастер-класс от курских военных - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1vq6FGt )
19:01:32 asciilifeform: good enough for the romans, etc
19:01:47 mircea_popescu: !up indiancandy1
19:04:32 mircea_popescu: "Ancient Rome would envy us if my program is implemented. As our boat sailed south on the James River, named for our illustrious King, whose version of the Bible we cherish"
19:04:36 mircea_popescu: what fucking bs is this lmao.
19:04:57 mircea_popescu: no, and i do mean NO english speaker of 1712 would have come up with that string.
19:06:09 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 38375 @ 0.0003746 = 14.3753 BTC [+]
19:09:19 assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1vq7tLs )
19:10:35 ben_vulpes: o
19:10:49 ben_vulpes: http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/3 << fucking linkrot
19:10:51 assbot: Page not found | RubyGems.org ... ( http://bit.ly/1vq7DCD )
19:11:14 ben_vulpes: i'm beginning to think that each and every ruby developer's computer is configured to work on exactly one project, and they have no idea how they made it work in the first place.
19:11:26 mircea_popescu: this is quite exact.
19:11:43 mircea_popescu: !b 4
19:11:43 assbot: Last 4 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/1HVWTK3.txt )
19:11:53 asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: lol!
19:11:55 ben_vulpes: this leads to such inane babble like "oh rbenv and rvm are neither any better nor any worse than each other, they do different things differently"
19:12:15 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15758 @ 0.00037113 = 5.8483 BTC [-]
19:12:20 ben_vulpes: a) whenever i hear "neither better nor worse" i actually parse "i cannot evaluate things and exist in a perpetual fog of 'oh iono'"
19:12:45 ben_vulpes: b) EVERYONE HACKING ON RUBY IS FAKING COMPETENCE
19:13:01 ben_vulpes: holeeeeeee shit i'm angry.
19:13:04 mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes "computers are not about hurtful things like math but more like about feelings and so the fact that there exist unevaluable statements does not worry me, but on the contrary"
19:13:33 ben_vulpes: AWGIBELRUN
19:13:36 ben_vulpes: and the wayback machine is down
19:13:39 ben_vulpes: obab hates me.
19:14:03 mircea_popescu: lol
19:14:15 asciilifeform: http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3244650451628407@naggum.no.html << obligatory naggum
19:14:16 assbot: Re: Lisp advocacy misadventures - Naggum cll archive ... ( http://bit.ly/1vq80x5 )
19:14:22 mircea_popescu: the wayback machine thing reminds me of one of the lulziest things ever drug up in my nets :
19:15:11 mircea_popescu: "The problem is the people cannot fit the behaviour into any customary category. It does not look like usual editor's behaviour, does not look as usual spammer's behaviour, etc. They do not know what expect from it. They still cannot stop the bot fixing the dead links. They have angst.
19:15:11 mircea_popescu: And as it is something unusual, the usual verbs cannot be applied to it. Can the ants from the outer space be "forgiven"? No. They can be only wiped out. It is an existential issue, not a technical one. That's why your brilliant arguments won't work"
19:15:14 mircea_popescu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.is_RFC
19:15:17 assbot: Wikipedia:Archive.is RFC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1vq867M )
19:16:31 mircea_popescu: tl;dr : someone came in and fixed linkrot for wikipedia without bothering to ask the "anyone can edit" powers whether they aprove.
19:16:35 mircea_popescu: whole thing got burned down.
19:17:01 mircea_popescu: probably best argument ever in that entirely nonsensical "anyone can edit" line of conmanship.
19:17:07 punkman: archive.is (now archive.today) is ran by single russian dude using his own money
19:17:11 mircea_popescu: so ?
19:17:25 punkman: just mentioning
19:17:40 mircea_popescu: aha. anyway, the way back machine being still down...
19:18:12 mircea_popescu: fucking shit how did this never occur to me before http://38.media.tumblr.com/f7f006d83ac11ada3ce11c33a5af21bf/tumblr_nhd5gurIzB1rdc5oto1_500.gif
19:18:14 assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1vq8rrd )
19:18:18 mircea_popescu: this is the internet! everyone learns from it!
19:20:12 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that reminds me: i've long imagined that 'in the dark future where there is only war (tm)' zip ties will be used for expedient field hangings.
19:20:39 asciilifeform: sorta how current american cops use them as handcuffs
19:21:32 asciilifeform: cheaper than bullet, and ever more effete gestapo peopled by folks afraid of blood - perfect match
19:21:47 mircea_popescu: yep.
19:21:59 asciilifeform: zzzip - hrrrrk - next
19:22:11 mircea_popescu: wrists first.
19:22:16 asciilifeform: sure
19:22:18 asciilifeform: complete 3-piece kit
19:22:21 asciilifeform: in envelope
19:22:24 mircea_popescu: just wrists behind back
19:22:30 mircea_popescu: otherwise most men can actually break the shit off.
19:22:46 decimation: basically, THIS if anything is the red thread of a putative "american nation". religious obscurantism divorced from religion per se. << Christians who had other ideas quickly 'got with program' http://sothl.com/2011/03/06/the-americanization-of-the-lutheran-church-missouri-synod/ < "Even so, despite the initial Americanization that had already taken place, further inroads were held at bay as German immigration kept increasing into the
19:22:48 assbot: The Americanization of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod — Shepherd of the Hills ... ( http://bit.ly/1vq8SBQ )
19:22:48 decimation: 1880s and the LCMS took measures to keep its German heritage, such as parochial schools in the German language. Such was broadly the case until World War I, which was the most-decisive occurrence Americanizing the LCMS. It was then we could no longer deny that we were Americans, since being German in America was then disdained. It was then that the American flag began to adorn God’s house, His Church, intermingling Church and
19:22:49 decimation: State. It was then we self-consciously began to relate ourselves to American Protestantism, and so patterned our public worship and viewed ourselves on that basis. "
19:22:50 asciilifeform: feet optional (why did 'dancing the hempen jig' go out of fashion ?)
19:23:20 chetty: <mircea_popescu> otherwise most men can actually break the shit off.// not usains
19:23:22 ben_vulpes: i'm fucking chowning /Library/Ruby to my user
19:23:28 ben_vulpes: bleeeeee
19:23:43 ben_vulpes: ran into a smart cookie of a babe last night
19:23:52 punkman: ben_vulpes: is that why rubyists love docker?
19:23:55 asciilifeform: chetty: complicated. at [censored] we got a shipment of zip ties in recently, and they break with one hand.
19:24:01 asciilifeform: progressively more chinese crud
19:24:12 ben_vulpes: when i explained to her why software as a career might be worse than working in a woodshop with limb loss risks etc, given the decades of shit and bad decisions i have to deal with on a daily basis
19:24:28 ben_vulpes: she said "ah like city planning in europe. this road goes off at 12 degrees because fuck you?"
19:24:31 ben_vulpes: precisely, dear.
19:24:43 mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes lol didja bring her here for us to scare her off ?
19:25:04 ben_vulpes: nah i keep the girls away from you terrists.
19:25:06 punkman: ben_vulpes: road goes off at 12 degrees because not city plan at all
19:25:08 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they probably replaced the polymer.
19:25:35 mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes punkman road goes off at 12 degrees because FUCK YOU YOU WORK FOR US so you adapt to us. not the other way around. god dang it.
19:25:41 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: funnier still. the polymer's fine (pulled it with pliers and it stood)
19:25:50 mircea_popescu: this is like the complaint of hairdressers about unspherical heads.
19:26:03 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ew.
19:26:08 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but they botched the molding - the ratchet doesn't hold. it's almost as if someone made the injection mold dies from... an n-th generation zip tie
19:26:11 ben_vulpes: punkman: i could not tell you why rubyists like anything.
19:26:41 asciilifeform: we were tying low-voltage cabling, not necks, so nobody gave a fuck
19:28:03 mircea_popescu: "Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also."
19:28:31 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19400 @ 0.00037113 = 7.1999 BTC [-]
19:28:34 mircea_popescu: check it out! jesus! orwell understands this much, but does not make the step to grasp that socialism is somethin you want when you're stupid, because you're stupid, and as your brain starts working you stop wanting it./
19:28:38 mircea_popescu: how in the world.
19:28:44 mircea_popescu: o wait. because stupid. okay.
19:29:16 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: remember your article on how 'oceans of pussy' is something boy only wants when he's 14 and living in a cellar ?
19:29:30 mircea_popescu: i do, having written it.
19:29:47 asciilifeform: just like 'drinking an ocean' is something we only 'want' when thirsty
19:29:47 asciilifeform: etc
19:29:57 mircea_popescu: "i could eat a horse". "here you go"
19:30:00 asciilifeform: it isn't stupid as such
19:30:03 asciilifeform: just hungry
19:30:16 jurov: nothing sturdy enough for hangings available.. truly a demise of civilization
19:30:40 mircea_popescu: jurov slash reign of peace.
19:30:55 asciilifeform: jurov: the zip tie and the effete executioner of the future are a match made in heaven. no need to watch the victim struggle, dance. zip - next.
19:31:30 asciilifeform: there was something like this, iirc, depicted in the film 'clouds atlas'
19:31:32 mircea_popescu: where is that proposed vat
19:32:22 asciilifeform: where they kill the meat girl
19:32:24 ben_vulpes: re: field hangings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHvJ5WTF3qM
19:32:25 assbot: The counselor scene Brad Pitt killed - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1vq9CH0 )
19:32:42 mircea_popescu: http://fraudsters.com/2011/ghilotina-moderna/
19:32:43 assbot: Ghilotina moderna pe fraudsters - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1vq9GH0 )
19:32:47 jurov: btw, i doubt they can get more effete than today
19:32:50 mircea_popescu: if someone feels like reading romanian horrors.
19:33:45 ben_vulpes: "post install message from httparty:"
19:33:49 asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what was that?
19:33:52 ben_vulpes: "when you httparty, you party hard"
19:33:54 ben_vulpes: wat
19:34:54 ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: ratcheting wire decapitator, slung around target's neck
19:35:01 asciilifeform: well yes
19:35:05 asciilifeform: but from where is the scene
19:35:19 asciilifeform: (the scheme itself dates to ancient china, as is well known)
19:36:02 punkman: asciilifeform: stupid movie called "The Counselor"
19:37:03 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Parallel_20Guillotine and of course http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Serial_20Guillotine#1123019517
19:37:05 assbot: Halfbakery: Parallel Guillotine ... ( http://bit.ly/1vqa5ZQ )
19:37:06 assbot: Halfbakery: Serial Guillotine ... ( http://bit.ly/1vqa5ZS )
19:37:13 asciilifeform: as for the hydraulic variant, who hasn't considered that.
19:38:48 mircea_popescu: lol
19:38:53 punkman: I was wondering if anyone ever built multi-seat guillotine few days ago
19:39:19 assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1vqamMs )
19:39:23 mircea_popescu: you could have a replica of the piss fountain
19:39:27 mircea_popescu: except heads and blood fountain
19:41:15 ben_vulpes: punkman: yeah i guess now i try to docker this thing
19:41:56 asciilifeform: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2538178/Found-guillotine-used-kill-Hitlers-enemies-But-device-executed-heroine-21-show.html << supposedly original nazi chopper found
19:41:58 assbot: Found, guillotine used to kill Hitler's enemies: But will device that executed heroine, 21, go on show? | Daily Mail Online ... ( http://bit.ly/1vqayLF )
19:42:37 asciilifeform: i don't see any provisions for the infamous 'chin trigger' though
19:42:41 asciilifeform: were the legends a lie?!
19:43:15 ben_vulpes: imho wrong: http://phusion.github.io/baseimage-docker/
19:43:16 assbot: Baseimage-docker: A minimal Ubuntu base image modified for Docker-friendliness ... ( http://bit.ly/1vqaFXB )
19:46:56 mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-02-2015#1028814 << that's a point huh.
19:46:56 assbot: Logged on 22-02-2015 14:12:37; BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: this is true but misleading : in fact you know the fiats will inflate to all shit. and you know start-ups will dilute to all shit. in absolutely no proportion to "Words added" or any other sort of metric. << Scary thing is the longer this goes on and the harder we look for news, the less news words there seem to be to write in my observation. As time goes on I hope pieces like 'Your Disk
19:47:31 mircea_popescu: it would seem that a correctly run news outlet turns more into rotten.com's library than the gawker empire of shit.
19:48:28 mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-02-2015#1028816 << any other news site period. it's the goal here : make "fiat" news impossible.
19:48:28 assbot: Logged on 22-02-2015 14:13:45; *: BingoBoingo also offer that the qntra principles could likely drink any other "BTC News" venture under any table.
19:51:32 asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtBT4hBFL40
19:51:33 assbot: Das Fallbeil - Breif history and demonstration of the german guillotine - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1vqbvDK )
19:58:41 mircea_popescu: "Articulate" has a certain meaning, look in the dictionary; it is fairly consistent throughout all settings except one: when it is used by a white guy to describe a black guy. In that case, the word suddenly means something completely different than it ordinarily does: it means "not hung up about race." Here's the point: the black guy may actually be articulate, or not be articulate-- who knows? But white people kno
19:58:42 mircea_popescu: w exactly what it means in that context.
19:58:59 mircea_popescu: uh... has this usage gone out of fashion in the past five years ? i'm completely unfamiliar with it.
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20:00:45 mircea_popescu: and for that matter, articulate does not mean a vague "able to express ideas clearly and effectively in speech or writing" a la webster. what it means is, "all words used according to their definition, so that the receptor does not have to make ANY adjustments to the text to turn it into 'probable' meaning".
20:01:03 mircea_popescu: generally, being articulate is the opposite of thinking there's such a thing as synonymy
20:01:04 asciilifeform: with tftp can go from changed netbsd kernel option, rebuild, run, in less than five seconds
20:01:17 asciilifeform: damn, feel like a moron for not having done this on first day
20:01:29 *: mircea_popescu gives asciilifeform pointed hat.
20:01:36 *: asciilifeform wears
20:02:15 decimation: asciilifeform: does u-boot support tftp?
20:02:21 asciilifeform: decimation: mine does
20:02:29 asciilifeform: can't recall re: the crufty one it ships with
20:02:31 asciilifeform: iirc also yes
20:02:42 decimation: ah yes, that's sop in datacenters with pxe
20:03:07 asciilifeform: it also supports pxe-style bootp but that isn't needed here
20:11:36 danielpbarron: fw_setenv << how to use this?
20:18:21 mats: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9089549 << luls. 'idk nething about security but i wanna create a security startup' and "I think that is an awesome idea. I am currently a Business student with a computer science minor so I consider myself very technical." (real quote)
20:18:22 assbot: Ask HN: What is missing in the IT security world? | Hacker News ... ( http://bit.ly/1vqesnK )
20:20:52 mircea_popescu: mats better than reddit.
20:21:30 mats: i wonder sometimes.
20:23:25 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 53842 @ 0.00037109 = 19.9802 BTC [-] {2}
20:27:50 mats: https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/IntrinsicsGuide/ this is cool.
20:27:52 assbot: Intel Intrinsics Guide ... ( http://bit.ly/1CZX2Me )
20:28:19 decimation: mats: if you are on an intel cpu, that's the book to use to optimize your warez
20:32:06 asciilifeform: mats: for folks with crippled compilers ?
20:32:16 asciilifeform: gcc supports traditional inline asm
20:32:22 mats: why you gotta rain on my parade.
20:34:21 asciilifeform: val[63:0] := HW_RND_GEN.data << lol
20:34:34 asciilifeform: wake me up when they say what HW_RND_GEN is.
20:34:50 asciilifeform: in some magically externally verifiable way
20:39:24 decimation: 'icc' actually works pretty well
20:39:41 decimation: if you are gonna be on the intel wagon, might as well use their tools
20:39:49 asciilifeform: mmm no.
20:39:56 asciilifeform: a closed-source compiler is even more of a circus-grade laugh than closed os
20:40:08 asciilifeform: belongs in the side show
20:40:13 asciilifeform: and nowhere else.
20:40:38 decimation: I get your point, but what if you are already on a closed-source microarchitecture?
20:41:09 asciilifeform: sorta like the argument that if there is already the usg-mandated maximum of xxx ppm of turd in your dinner, might as well go full-blown coprophagiac
20:41:52 mats: sure.
20:41:59 decimation: but asciilifeform, if you sell out to intel, your warez can go %x faster!
20:42:46 asciilifeform: if you actually need the x% gains from intel's fortran, or whatnot, you really ought to be doing hand asm optimizations of the bottleneck routines
20:42:53 asciilifeform: and spend lots of quality time with your profiler
20:43:15 mats: http://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/1ph882/a_donglebased_nofootprint_session_is_this_in_any/cd2exm3 << reddit's not so bad sometimes.
20:43:16 assbot: Gorlob comments on A dongle-based "no-footprint" session. Is this in any way valuable or useful? ... ( http://bit.ly/1vqh7hd )
20:43:26 decimation: my understanding is that intel actually hires skilled folks from ru to hand-optimize their libraries
20:43:53 mircea_popescu: "In 1994, there were 20,000 visits for pediatric (under age 19) bipolar disorder. In 2003, the number was... 800,000. The diagnosis, therefore, was 25/100,000 in 1994, and now it's 1000/100,000. In other words, 1% of the population. "
20:43:56 asciilifeform: the kind of optimization i'm speaking of is not libraryizable
20:44:09 asciilifeform: but maximally unique to a particular problem
20:44:11 decimation: aye, understood
20:44:11 mircea_popescu: check it out, bipolar is a virus inf% more effective than ebola, nobody noticed.
20:45:01 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as he later explains (and ask any depressive patient from usa) it was so that pharma vendors could push patented antiepileptics (and even antipsychotics) to depressives
20:45:41 mircea_popescu: sure, but the advantage of "Science" and "facts" is that, you can build on their solid footing anything you wish.
20:45:57 mircea_popescu: the us MD crackpots are held to explain why the CDC is not going crazy over the bipolar virus yet.
20:46:11 mircea_popescu: such an increase can ONLY be viral. not even a bacteria can do that.
20:46:23 asciilifeform: we all know which 'virus'.
20:46:28 asciilifeform: it isn't any kind of secret from anyone.
20:46:36 mircea_popescu: we are not the subject. let THEM explain.
20:46:40 decimation: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=184107 "Conclusion This meta-analysis yielded no evidence that the serotonin transporter genotype alone or in interaction with stressful life events is associated with an elevated risk of depression in men alone, women alone, or in both sexes combined."
20:46:44 assbot: JAMA Network | JAMA | Interaction Between the Serotonin Transporter Gene (5-HTTLPR), Stressful Life Events, and Risk of Depression: A Meta-analysis ... ( http://bit.ly/1D01pXQ )
20:47:04 asciilifeform: 'their' job is not to explain anything, but to roll in the hookers and blow while plebes poison themselves
20:47:16 asciilifeform: (expensively!)
20:47:17 mircea_popescu: their job is whatever the fuck i say it is.
20:47:23 mircea_popescu: let's not get over ourselves here.
20:47:53 asciilifeform: whatever the fuck i say it is >> can that be wearing-zip-tie? though hydraulic chopper has its attractions
20:48:13 asciilifeform: because their current job - meh
20:48:30 mircea_popescu: first they gotta fail. then internalise it. then despair.
20:48:33 mircea_popescu: only THEN.
20:48:55 asciilifeform: not already failed ?
20:49:00 mircea_popescu: it's bad policy to kill people before they're completely squeezed of any possible anguish they could provide for themsleves.
20:49:09 mircea_popescu: yes we're in between 1 and 2, working on 2 atm.
20:49:11 decimation: ^above paper implies that treating depression by attempting to inhibit serotonin is useless
20:50:24 asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-06-2014#722630
20:50:24 assbot: Logged on 18-06-2014 00:36:44; asciilifeform: interestingly, sometimes the pharma folks fail: they spent some years trying to cough up a dopamine reuptake inhibitor that doesn't reduce to a synthetic cocaine, and, afaik, gave up
20:50:49 decimation: asciilifeform: maybe they read #b-a for research 'ideas'
20:50:50 asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-06-2014#723978
20:50:50 assbot: Logged on 18-06-2014 22:56:07; asciilifeform: you can get 'real' dopamine reuptake inhibitors - but in dark alley, not pharmacy.
20:51:29 asciilifeform: the entire american 'antidepressant' tech is a bizarre tour of the protestant mental pathology of 'mustn't have too much fun'
20:51:58 decimation: and yet, tomorrow millions of us inhabitants will be dispensed their placebos
20:52:00 asciilifeform: the pyre on which these defectives have been burning more or less whole planet for 200 yrs
20:52:01 danielpbarron: isn't caffeine such a thing?
20:52:43 asciilifeform: the engineering spec, not written anywhere, is 'drug must make patient less apt to complain but oughtn't be detectably pleasurable'
20:53:12 asciilifeform: hence the preference for handing out sedatives and drugs with sedative side effect profile
20:53:13 mircea_popescu: danielpbarron nah, caffeine works as a general stimulant
20:53:41 decimation: if caffeine were unknown and sudden discovered yesterday, it would be banned by the fda
20:53:54 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform pretty much the best way to indict anything in the anglotard space is 'but it's enjoyable"
20:53:59 *: danielpbarron sips his tea
20:54:06 asciilifeform: decimation: much as cathenone (similar naturally occurring item) was
20:56:37 assbot: Magic Mushrooms Help Smokers Kick Habit in Small Study - Bloomberg Business ... ( http://bit.ly/1D03tih )
20:56:55 asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2015/02/prz-pk-1992.htm
20:56:56 assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1D03xig )
20:57:07 asciilifeform: ^ revoked in '10, interestingly
20:59:36 asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2015/02/jane-doe-3-v-dershowitz.pdf << entirely unrelated mega-lol
20:59:56 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo ^^^ can you comment on this drama ?
21:01:02 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10758 @ 0.00037076 = 3.9886 BTC [-]
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21:04:35 asciilifeform: http://www.wsj.com/articles/alan-m-dershowitz-a-nightmare-of-false-accusation-that-could-happen-to-you-1421280860 << other side of the story
21:04:37 assbot: Alan M. Dershowitz: A Nightmare of False Accusation That Could Happen to You - WSJ ... ( http://bit.ly/1D058Ve )
21:04:49 assbot: yunojuno/dev Repository | Docker Hub Registry - Repositories of Docker Images ... ( http://bit.ly/1D059Zj )
21:05:07 ben_vulpes: "the approved method of installing rvm simply causes too many issues"
21:05:19 asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what's that do ?
21:07:47 asciilifeform: cathenone << there is a catha edulis in the u.s. national botanical garden. i saw it many times with own eyes. but, iirc, they don't have a cannabis sativa or any other 'forbidden fruit'
21:08:55 ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: you're familiar with the "hot" "trend" of "containerization" in the linux space?
21:09:03 asciilifeform: vm?
21:09:22 ben_vulpes: i honestly don't know what the technical difference between VMs and containerization is.
21:09:28 ben_vulpes: feels like a poor man's jail.
21:10:04 ben_vulpes: anyways, best as I can tell, the thing forgoes the entire ruby "version management" stack and installs some version of ruby.
21:10:13 asciilifeform: does the item running inside think it is on a genuine machine of its own ?
21:10:24 ben_vulpes: more or less, yes.
21:10:37 ben_vulpes: there are various and sundry privilege escalations and container escapes available, however.
21:11:08 asciilifeform: quite a few escapes for various vm have been found
21:11:14 asciilifeform: and this is only those that have been found.
21:11:31 asciilifeform: (interested folks - straight to the literature)
21:14:32 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform all the drama of divource court, now for internet consumption.
21:14:38 mircea_popescu: because hey, running out of cheap material.
21:15:00 asciilifeform: interesting only for the jurist/procedural quirks featured
21:17:17 mircea_popescu: only funny thing to me is that the anal children (they self identify as "radical" something or the other) actually have the unmitigated audacity to challenge the old ny jew.
21:17:21 decimation: asciilifeform: every time I went into the botanical garden I got terrible allergies
21:17:47 asciilifeform: decimation: guaranteed!
21:18:05 mircea_popescu: at least it's rather clear how exactly they plan to organise the exchange of power.
21:18:15 mircea_popescu: tbh gorbachev & co set had better strat, but anyway
21:18:21 asciilifeform: wai wat
21:18:42 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what do you think this is other than politburo change of guard ?
21:18:54 asciilifeform: ah then ancient sop
21:18:56 asciilifeform: clinton, etc
21:19:03 asciilifeform: sn0re.
21:19:48 asciilifeform: new guard - same as old
21:20:02 asciilifeform: if i understand correctly.
21:20:16 thestringpuller: asciilifeform: it's all a gulag for your mind.
21:20:19 assbot: Clintons’ foundation has raised nearly $2 billion — and some key questions - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1D08Del )
21:20:37 decimation: ^old guard has a strategy too
21:21:26 mircea_popescu: decimation unless they come out with "poor young girls are for the fucking', it does NOT have a strategy.
21:21:53 mircea_popescu: the only correct strategy in this situation is what the chinese did : round all the opposition up, shave their heads, parade them naked with legends.
21:22:02 decimation: what about 'we can raise $x bil from old men in the UAE
21:22:11 mircea_popescu: money is worthless without power.
21:23:49 mircea_popescu: this is why we regularly succeed where cardboard fiat "billionaires" fail.
21:24:31 asciilifeform: 'fail' seems to come with peculiarly much physical security and ample hookers&blow supply in that case
21:24:51 mircea_popescu: you have seen this ?
21:25:10 mircea_popescu: apparently there were no hookers "anywhere in sight" and the blow was from a sandblaster.
21:25:24 asciilifeform: can't say that saw alive. but i also haven't seen them sitting in rags covering their gangrenous limbs in the street, begging for coin
21:25:26 mircea_popescu: i have declaration at the ready : "In a statement accompanying the court filing, Mr. Dershowitz said the encounters could not have occurred for several reasons, including the one time he had visited Mr. Epstein?s house in New Mexico. The house was still under construction, and Mr. Dershowitz said he had stayed for about an hour. He was accompanied, he said, by his wife and daughter and another couple."
21:25:44 asciilifeform: instead i see them in the washington volkischer beobachter
21:25:51 mircea_popescu: with coke ?
21:26:25 asciilifeform: i can't see their cocks either
21:26:29 asciilifeform: but know they're in the pants
21:26:38 asciilifeform: don't need to see it, no ?
21:27:03 mircea_popescu: depends. if you don't discuss anything related to cocks, it doesn't matter. you don't know anything, but you also don't care.
21:27:12 mircea_popescu: would you hire them for your gay porn studio, sight unseen ?
21:27:17 mircea_popescu: "o but i knew cocks in pants" ?
21:27:48 asciilifeform: in press devoted to the subject, the lives of the kleptocrats can be seen - islands, castles, idiot 'foundations', etc
21:28:00 asciilifeform: (must confess i'm not up to date on this literature)
21:28:31 asciilifeform: ask a female usian
21:28:55 mircea_popescu: i think your summaries may have deceived you.
21:29:01 asciilifeform: not out of the question
21:31:12 decimation: mircea_popescu: are you asserting that these islands and castles don't exist? or that they are ultimately worthless baubles?
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21:34:41 mircea_popescu: i am asserting that they're for actually powerful men (such as, russian billionaires) not for american aparatards.
21:35:08 mircea_popescu: when someone as high up as a four star general dares do as much as get a meaningless title for an old ugly she-horse, he gets beheaded for it.
21:35:24 mircea_popescu: what hookers ? what blow ?
21:35:49 asciilifeform: beheaded the day he did it? week later? or when superior ordered it for unrelated reason.
21:36:03 mircea_popescu: you think there exists a meta-usg that enjoys life like there exists a meta-nsa that enjoys thinking ?
21:36:08 asciilifeform: aha
21:36:14 mircea_popescu: it's a bureaucracy, not a fucking world. they don't have most things.
21:36:41 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that woman doesn't look like what the average brothel goer would consider.
21:36:41 asciilifeform: but what do the folks with unaccountable $maxint in bank, whose names never appear in the beobachter, do with their time ?
21:36:52 asciilifeform: pull own cock ?
21:36:54 decimation: heh. well, the world of official usg is quite different from the world of finance for which usg provides a krysha
21:36:55 mircea_popescu: he only went with her for EXACTLY the same problem you were describing for yourself earlier,
21:36:56 asciilifeform: and if so - why ?
21:37:01 mircea_popescu: but somehow magically are unaware it's not limited to you.
21:37:18 mircea_popescu: where the fuck is he going to find the wot that'll get him the 19 yo hussies that love being fucked in public ?
21:37:34 asciilifeform: it only exists for me because all i can personally bankroll is a plane ticket but not any of what comes after
21:37:36 asciilifeform: but - them ?
21:37:38 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25630 @ 0.00036989 = 9.4803 BTC [-]
21:37:40 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, they pull on their own cock. what do you do with your own time ? blow much ?
21:38:14 asciilifeform: correct if i'm thick, but $maxint will buy a whore or two ?
21:38:20 asciilifeform: of whatever octane grade
21:38:38 asciilifeform: without having to bid
21:38:44 asciilifeform: as in, let it be known that you have $maxint
21:38:49 mircea_popescu: no, it will not.
21:38:57 mircea_popescu: 20 bucks buys a whore or two. depends for whom.
21:39:06 asciilifeform: they aren't all old men
21:39:15 mircea_popescu: really.
21:39:27 asciilifeform: (do whores now forgo old men? who even goes to whores now?)
21:39:40 assbot: Spitzer Prostitute Details: $80,000 Spent, Mood Music, Multiple Prostitutes, Up To A Decade Of Use And An Ever-Present Security Detail ... ( http://bit.ly/1D0cZCf )
21:40:08 asciilifeform: there we go.
21:40:12 asciilifeform: herr spitzer's whore.
21:40:29 decimation: he paid a couple $k per night apparently
21:40:41 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 175070 @ 0.00035994 = 63.0147 BTC [-] {4}
21:40:54 mircea_popescu: pics ?
21:41:00 mircea_popescu: you know how this goes, right ?
21:41:24 mircea_popescu: or what, we suddenly have memory hole effect, we forgot about all the lies in filings, starting with the "confiscated btc" that never existed ?
21:41:27 assbot: Photos Of Eliot Spitzer's Hooker | The Smoking Gun ... ( http://bit.ly/1D0dyMl )
21:41:28 asciilifeform: ^ supposed
21:42:02 *: asciilifeform wasn't there, didn't see him fuck
21:42:05 decimation: lol she had a myspace page
21:42:08 mircea_popescu: notbad.jpg
21:42:49 asciilifeform: spitzer et al probably account for lion's share of my mental picture of usg elite
21:43:17 thestringpuller: "Meet 'Kristen,' the 22-year-old woman who brought down the governor" << LOL so dramatic
21:43:30 asciilifeform: and yes, everyone knows that below each spitzer there are 100,000 faceless shmucks who go home to cry in beer
21:43:53 asciilifeform: and fuck dolls
21:44:21 thestringpuller: ^- is this america now?!?
21:44:46 decimation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Alexandra_Dupr%C3%A9 < now she works for google (youtube)
21:44:48 assbot: Ashley Alexandra Dupré - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1D0efoK )
21:44:49 asciilifeform: from the other side of the pond, it is known with some certainty that brezhnev had not only all of the racing cars he could wish for, but gurlz whenever he could still get it up
21:45:37 jurov: http://www.prezidentpress.ru/news/2762-sto-let-nazad-rossiya-i-kitay-sozdali-frs-ssha.html ... i stumble on such nutritional stuff recently
21:45:39 assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1D0en7L )
21:45:40 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is not the important point.
21:45:46 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 37560 @ 0.00037784 = 14.1917 BTC [+]
21:45:59 mircea_popescu: the important point is that should anyone have had as much as anything at all to say about it, he'd be cutting ice in front of the lenin icebreaker
21:46:02 jurov: apparently tsar nicholas arranged a business with lincoln
21:46:19 jurov: and borrowed 1000 tons of gold to that purpose
21:46:28 ben_vulpes: re "brought down the governor", kitzhaber had one of these recently: http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-32827-gov_john_kitzhabers_office_sought_to_destroy_thous.html
21:46:29 assbot: Gov. John Kitzhaber's Office Sought To Destroy Thousands of His Emails ... ( http://bit.ly/1D0etMJ )
21:46:40 decimation: jurov: is that why the tsar sold alaska for a pittance?
21:46:40 jurov: but rothshilds stole it and caused general havoc
21:46:50 jurov: alaska is not mentioned
21:46:53 ben_vulpes: he also ran his personal emails through state servers.
21:47:08 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually, disgraced soviet bureaucrats (usually posthumous - see hruschev's speech re: l. beria) had 'rapacious daily rapist' tags nailed on
21:47:18 mircea_popescu: right.
21:47:21 asciilifeform: with juicy tabloid-grade legends told via official microphones
21:47:22 mircea_popescu: but the timing is allimportant.
21:47:34 decimation: or they were disappeared from pictures right
21:47:40 asciilifeform: same timing here. herr spitzer was defrocked, out come the rape stories
21:47:45 asciilifeform: or equiv.
21:47:52 mircea_popescu: i dunno...
21:48:39 asciilifeform: jurov taken to reading ru tabloids regularly ?
21:49:07 jurov: i keep getting fed them via facebook
21:49:12 asciilifeform: l0l
21:49:32 mircea_popescu: he's preparing for the great progress.
21:49:33 asciilifeform: jurov's facebook full of dyspeptic middle aged ru folks ?
21:49:53 jurov: no.
21:49:58 decimation: jurov clicked "like" on "putin please don't invade slovenia"?
21:50:01 jurov: it's starry eyed putinjugend
21:50:09 mircea_popescu: ahahaha
21:50:29 mircea_popescu: actual people or just fb dead souls ?
21:50:41 jurov: actual ppl
21:50:47 asciilifeform: jurov: those have own publications, normally, full of meticulously chromed rockets of various shapes
21:51:20 asciilifeform: in one of these, it was recently claimed that БЖРК is back
21:51:35 asciilifeform: (railroad-based nuke-thrower)
21:51:51 asciilifeform: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81_%D0%91%D0%96%D0%A0%D0%9A_15%D0%9F961_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%86_(2)_-_edited.jpg << the classic
21:51:56 assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/18eYEKy )
21:52:14 asciilifeform: ^ can't see in this shot, but the middle car has eight axles instead of the usual four
21:52:19 asciilifeform: 135t.
21:52:35 decimation: asciilifeform: I never figured out why these went out of fashion
21:52:51 asciilifeform: still would've bent the rails if there were not a clever system of springs to spread weight to adjacent cars
21:53:11 asciilifeform: decimation: they didn't. usa spent $maxint trying to copy, but then changed their mind when realized they have scarcely any railroads
21:53:31 jurov: hehe
21:53:40 asciilifeform: so instead they went to ru after the ussr croaked and ordered these things sawed apart on camera
21:53:53 asciilifeform: '93-98
21:53:56 decimation: asciilifeform: yeah sounds legit
21:54:37 decimation: actually usa has plenty of railroads, but none of them are open for usg to roam freely
21:54:48 asciilifeform: there is a legend, based on released usg docs of reasonable plausibility, that usg knew where the trains were at various times by sneaking neutron counters into passenger/cargo rail
21:55:25 asciilifeform: open for usg to roam freely << the rocket train was disguised (thinly) as a cargo train and went on ordinary rail
21:55:31 asciilifeform: mixed freely with usual trains
21:56:26 asciilifeform: http://lenta.ru/news/2014/12/26/barguzin << the new model is claimed to use a smaller rocket and be externally identical to a passenger car
21:56:27 assbot: Lenta.ru: Силовые структуры: Вооруженные силы: Первые «ракетные поезда» встанут на дежурство после 2018 года ... ( http://bit.ly/1D0gyrV )
21:56:34 asciilifeform: (smaller but same range, claimed.)
21:56:50 asciilifeform: lighter payload.
21:58:02 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 45100 @ 0.00039549 = 17.8366 BTC [+]
21:58:45 asciilifeform: http://lenta.ru/articles/2015/02/20/fskn << ru closes their equivalent of u.s. DEA on mar 1.
21:58:46 assbot: Статьи: Lenta.ru: Силовые структуры: Полиция и спецслужбы: Есть ли будущее у госнаркоконтроля ... ( http://bit.ly/1D0gWH1 )
21:58:48 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> decimation: they didn't. usa spent $maxint trying to copy, but then changed their mind when realized they have scarcely any railroads << so lulzy this.
21:59:03 asciilifeform: official story was 'budget overrun'
21:59:10 mircea_popescu: "most civilised country in the civilised world, has no railroads and most of demographics replenishment comes out of cosanguine marriages"
21:59:23 mircea_popescu: "welcome to 1700, you're doing pretty well!"
21:59:27 asciilifeform: comes from south of border, actually
21:59:33 asciilifeform: so not even 1700 state of the art
21:59:33 decimation: if you look at any map of the us circa 1880 or earlier all you see are railroads
21:59:38 mircea_popescu: that's exogenous. i was talking endogenous
21:59:39 decimation: then if you look at maps over time, the railroads disappear roughly 1940, to be replaced with national highways
21:59:49 asciilifeform: endogenous - from the rookeries
22:01:09 assbot: Peacekeeper Missile Rail Garrison Car ... ( http://bit.ly/1D0hrAZ )
22:01:22 asciilifeform: aha it
22:04:08 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 68713 @ 0.00039558 = 27.1815 BTC [+] {2}
22:05:09 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8287 @ 0.00040197 = 3.3311 BTC [+]
22:07:30 danielpbarron: the train around where i live only exists because of subsidies; it's stupidly inexpensive to ride, and yet most people still prefer their cars
22:09:44 danielpbarron: when i had an office job, i used the train to commute; the monthly pass cost ~120 USD and I didn't even have to pay this; my employer got money from the state for covering this cost -- probably some misguided attempt to protect the environment or cut down on traffic
22:12:38 chetty: US transport is horridly set up, people prefer cars cause train and bus stations are in bad locations with no useful taxi service
22:13:18 ben_vulpes: i do love the pubtrans in my socialist paradise.
22:13:47 danielpbarron: i was within biking distance at both ends -- luck i guess
22:14:00 ben_vulpes: what is biking distance anyways?
22:14:03 ben_vulpes: .5 mi?
22:14:05 ben_vulpes: 2 mi?
22:14:08 ben_vulpes: people are fucking lazy.
22:14:13 danielpbarron: 5 to 10 minutes
22:14:29 danielpbarron: it was actually a 10 to 20 minute walk on one of the ends
22:15:22 ben_vulpes: re submaring/aircraftcarrier thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBi0LqgwrH8
22:15:23 assbot: Marvel's The Avengers - Clip: Helicarrier (2012) | HD - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/18f0B9Q )
22:16:25 chetty: oh and us has lack of sidewalks too, half the time you cant walk without risking life on roadsides
22:17:36 danielpbarron: in CT you run the risk of getting harassed by COPS for daring to take a walk somewhere
22:17:55 danielpbarron: walking ~= homeless
22:18:26 danielpbarron: if you want to avoid suspicion, wear yoga pants and jog
22:18:28 mircea_popescu: nuts.
22:19:23 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 122485 @ 0.00040282 = 49.3394 BTC [+] {3}
22:19:47 thestringpuller: danielpbarron: Only the homeless would be willing to brave the snow to walk somewhere...
22:21:25 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3000 @ 0.00040641 = 1.2192 BTC [+]
22:21:49 mircea_popescu: !up Ginux
22:50:00 assbot: Komodia/Superfish SSL Validation is broken ... ( http://bit.ly/1D9fEvY )
22:53:09 mats: not so big a deal since Windows Defender is now taking care of it, but nonetheless
22:59:02 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 143200 @ 0.00040675 = 58.2466 BTC [+] {2}
22:59:22 danielpbarron: mwahaha; i got the netconsole thing to work!
22:59:31 danielpbarron: v.cool
23:01:29 danielpbarron: i used this -> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-02-2015#1023615
23:01:29 assbot: Logged on 18-02-2015 14:56:09; nubbins`: http://blog.qnology.com/2014/07/hacking-pogoplug-v4-series-4-and-mobile.html
23:03:21 danielpbarron: in the same process, I got it to boot from a memory card
23:03:39 danielpbarron: and i'd like to now try using a USB3 flash drive as the datadir
23:05:49 danielpbarron: the memory card is required in combination with USB3 because the thing cannot have a root filesystem on drives attached to the ports on the rear, and the usb on the top (next to the sata port) is USB2
23:06:57 danielpbarron: but when the netbsd thing is ready to go, the memory card should not be necessary
23:07:37 danielpbarron: and if anyone has a pogo already and doesn't want to wait, i'd say go with debian over arch; right off the bat it looks like there's no systemd with debian
23:08:11 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42815 @ 0.00040641 = 17.4004 BTC [-]
23:09:34 pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu it's not russian ye kook, it's the hammer and sickle sign << i meant this! комсомольская правда!
23:09:43 pete_dushenski: hammer and sickle is... hammer and sickle
23:10:04 mircea_popescu: komsomolskaya pravda /
23:10:41 mircea_popescu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komsomolskaya_Pravda
23:10:43 assbot: Komsomolskaya Pravda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1B3v31y )
23:10:59 pete_dushenski: that'd be the one
23:11:00 thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: re: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-06-2014#735984 << from front page of bitcoin-tardland: "This project is completely open-source and I take 0 profit from it. Please note that there are more cost-effective ways of deploying full nodes and I mention that in the FAQs. This website is an experiment and an excersize on automatically deploying nodes when a certain balance is reached"
23:12:58 pete_dushenski: thestringpuller mya?
23:13:16 pete_dushenski: kake's code doesn't work anymore
23:13:21 pete_dushenski: last time i tried it at least
23:14:09 punkman: quotes from ISIS on ask.fm http://www.rferl.org/content/islamic-state-questions-askfm-western-militant-wannabes/26686817.html
23:14:10 assbot: 'I Want To Wage Jihad But I Don't Have A Thing To Wear' -- Western IS Wannabes Ask Burning Questions ... ( http://bit.ly/1D9m6Dg )
23:14:42 pete_dushenski: reference: https://bitbucket.org/pankkake/bitcoin-node/src
23:14:43 assbot: pankkake / bitcoin-node / source / — Bitbucket ... ( http://bit.ly/1D9meT1 )
23:15:18 thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: ah i was referring to http://fullnode.co
23:15:47 pete_dushenski: a i see they're back
23:15:56 pete_dushenski: their site was down last i checked
23:16:05 pete_dushenski: a whopping 66 nodes ! wowee!
23:16:15 punkman: thestringpuller: when did assbot start ignoring your links
23:17:03 punkman: kinda confusing to see log link without assbot spitting out the line
23:17:42 thestringpuller: !gettrust kakobrekla thestringpuller
23:17:44 assbot: Trust relationship from user kakobrekla to user thestringpuller: Level 1: -1, Level 2: 8 via 6 connections. | http://w.b-a.link/trust/kakobrekla/thestringpuller | http://w.b-a.link/user/thestringpuller
23:23:09 asciilifeform: fullnode.co << who is not with us, is against us.
23:23:28 asciilifeform: (TM)
23:23:47 pete_dushenski: there's no shortage of that "in bitcoin"
23:24:12 asciilifeform: also wtf with calling a vps fakecomputer 'full node'
23:24:39 asciilifeform: may as well run one node and give it 10,000 spam ip addrs
23:25:22 thestringpuller: Blow up the datacenter, good bye nodes.
23:25:30 asciilifeform: also didn't that thing appear around the same time as 'fakenode' (?) was published ?
23:25:32 asciilifeform: pseudonode.
23:25:45 thestringpuller: i think fullnode is a little older than pseudonode
23:25:57 pete_dushenski: o what words mean things now ?
23:25:58 asciilifeform: is it having any sizeable listing older than pseudonode ?
23:26:15 thestringpuller: it was before pankakke ragequit?
23:26:30 asciilifeform: speaking of, anyone know what became of herr pankkake ?
23:26:58 pete_dushenski: he's been even quiter than thickasthieves
23:27:10 asciilifeform: and did anyone ever come up with a logical explanation for his rage ?
23:27:12 pete_dushenski: tat still seems to do the twitter thing
23:27:37 pete_dushenski: asciilifeform ya, he didn't like the flavour of punch we were serving
23:27:53 thestringpuller: asciilifeform: i think pseudonode is kinda like https://github.com/mattdiamond/fuckitjs and more of a comedy measure and not srsbsns
23:27:56 *: asciilifeform observes that it is not necessary to drink the punch to enjoy the company
23:28:15 pete_dushenski: but you're not french
23:28:18 mats: while we're on the subject, pankkake on fullnode: http://pankkake.headfucking.net/2014/06/27/fullnode-co-is-a-scam
23:28:19 assbot: Fullnode.co is a scam | pankkake ... ( http://bit.ly/1D9pFZU )
23:28:20 asciilifeform: thestringpuller: pseudonode works as printed on the tin
23:28:30 punkman: pseudonode also useful for DoS experiments and such
23:28:48 thestringpuller: asciilifeform: still not srsbsns tho! it's a joke!
23:29:07 thestringpuller: don't be kanye, nao.
23:29:08 asciilifeform: the joke's on naive node counters
23:29:20 thestringpuller: ^- exactly that's why it's funny!
23:33:04 pete_dushenski: are there non-naive node counters ? or a way to count nodes non-naively ?
23:34:37 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 39150 @ 0.0004039 = 15.8127 BTC [-] {2}
23:40:43 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28190 @ 0.00040818 = 11.5066 BTC [+]
23:40:53 pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu socialism is somethin you want when you're stupid, because you're stupid, and as your brain starts working you stop wanting it./ << lol so money.
23:41:53 mircea_popescu: yep
23:43:59 ben_vulpes:
23:43:59 ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> may as well run one node and give it 10,000 spam ip addrs << you wrecker, you!
23:44:37 mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> may as well run one node and give it 10,000 spam ip addrs << this is part of the problem, and why the 61 figure is an upper bound
23:44:55 mircea_popescu: plenty of perfectly legitimately netops reasons to show the same server on multiple - and perhaps changing - ips
23:46:01 mircea_popescu: !gettrust assbot pankkake
23:46:02 assbot: Trust relationship from user assbot to user pankkake: Level 1: 1, Level 2: 6 via 6 connections. | http://w.b-a.link/trust/assbot/pankkake | http://w.b-a.link/user/pankkake
23:46:14 mircea_popescu: apparently quitting doesn't actually do anything.
23:46:29 thestringpuller: Mafia-eque
23:47:17 thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: I guess if the boys still play with Cartman, despite...
23:48:25 mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je-CPZRwbh8 << sheeit, apparently garbage still exists.
23:48:26 assbot: Garbage - When I Grow Up - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1D9v5UK )
23:54:12 mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PFTGfwJNmM << finally found the right fucking version.
23:54:14 assbot: Garbage - When I Grow Up (Live) - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1D9wKdb )
23:54:27 mircea_popescu: wtf is wrong with people, bowdlerisation of everytrhing everywhere all the fucking time.
23:55:14 mircea_popescu: obscure grunge-pop band from wisconsin, they re-release their pre 2000 songs to sound like shit. and not sort-of like shit. actually fucking shit, audibly so. you don't even have to be an opera critic with 20 different mezzo and coloratura sopranos under your belt.
23:55:41 assbot: Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Reaches Yet Another ATH | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1D9x6jQ )