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02:58 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4400 @ 0.00052437 = 2.3072 BTC [+] {3}
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03:26 punkman http://searchengineland.com/rip-google-pagerank-retrospective-244286
03:26 assbot RIP Google PageRank score: A retrospective on how it ruined the web ... ( http://bit.ly/1TvcDRh )
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03:57 mircea_popescu asciilifeform> or did i read that backwards ? <<< seems so ?
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04:52 mircea_popescu asciilifeform> for the 5 people or so worldwide << oif which apparently two here ?
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05:19 mircea_popescu assbot> RIP Google PageRank score: A retrospective on how it ruined the web << this is not an idle comment. google, like every other usg item, like usg collectively, was entrusted with great responsibility in many fields after the war.
05:20 mircea_popescu without exception it fucked up ALL of these. and not lightly fuck them up, either.
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05:43 mircea_popescu in other news - it still remains likely that this summer will see a bevy of various hardforks on offer. practically speaking, trb can offer either its own candidate, which takes a lot of work, or else sit tight and we'll follow the more intelligent of the avaialble offerings, which takes less work but also implies a lot of risk - experience to date shows that there's precious little intelligence available outside the w
05:43 mircea_popescu alls, and more likely than not we'll be stuck picking between a warty rat and a sickly mole.
05:43 mircea_popescu in any case we should prolly have a strategy discussion here. paging mod6 asciilifeform jurov trinque phf an' the other interested parties.
05:47 davout i'm really not convinced we'll see a HF this year
05:47 mircea_popescu i'm not convinced either. but there's the possibility.
05:48 davout !s segwit
05:48 assbot 26 results for 'segwit' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=segwit
05:49 mircea_popescu so far, nsa-gavin, prb and [prolly] the miner cartel are all preparing something or the other.
05:51 jurov extract alf from mordor?
05:52 mircea_popescu but hwat if the princess is in another castle!
05:52 jurov but seriously, what is a must have? mempool sanity and anything else?
05:53 mircea_popescu well ideally a sane pow ; better ciphers ; etc.
05:53 davout pogo's still high on my personal what-do-if-spare-cycles list
05:53 mircea_popescu but by and large, a working miner people can deploy.
05:53 mircea_popescu davout how's that coming along ?
05:54 davout not much happening on my side
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06:52 danielpbarron !up kodemurani
06:57 * shinohai will take notes http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428463
06:57 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 10:43:46; mircea_popescu: in any case we should prolly have a strategy discussion here. paging mod6 asciilifeform jurov trinque phf an' the other interested parties.
07:00 kodemurani wondering if there is any discussion here on ether
07:01 kodemurani Thank you danielpbarron for the voice
07:02 shinohai Plenty of discussion here. When there isn't, there is a plethora of information in the logs.
07:04 kodemurani Thanks shinohai. Going through the logs
07:04 shinohai !h
07:04 assbot http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/irc_bots/assbot
07:04 shinohai also that
07:05 davout kodemurani: https://medium.com/@bedeho/why-your-ethereum-project-will-most-likely-fail-d14b6d8f1c7c#.oqv393xrf <<< interesting, re ether
07:05 assbot Why your Ethereum project will most likely fail — Medium ... ( http://bit.ly/1Wbtsyp )
07:05 davout "The lesson of the very well built lighthouse Bitcoin project, which has resulted in no more than a few thousand dollars of funding over the past years, has to be that there is extremely little value to be gained by introducing trustless escrow in crowdfunding. Even if you wanted to crowdfund something very controversial, where traditional web platforms will ban you, its not at all clear that disintermediating holding funds before cap is re
07:05 davout ached is a big part of making this type of crowdfunding effective. Even worse, the project organizer could always fund the remainder of the contract privately, hence it is not at all clear that there is any actual gain of security. While it was a nice use of SIGHASH_ALL, it really solved a non-problem"
07:05 davout ^guy has it
07:07 shinohai Ether is simply a Rube Goldbergesque way of making money for it's founder to buy a lifetime supply of Retin-A. When he has it *poof*
07:08 davout "The best case scenario for most of these projects is that there are end user benefits for other reasons, and that Ethereum is not required to deliver them. The complexity, and cost, of doing blockchain based products will in such cases eventually drive such products off chain, the same way changetip eventually went off-chain, and now recently into fiat mode."
07:14 fluffypony davout: I made that exact argument at a meetup in Berlin last year where someone presented some junk they're building on Ethereum
07:15 shinohai "This is the Ethereum app directory with all non-working, gambling and meta apps removed." https://i.imgur.com/9OFeOiG.png <<< I kek'd at this.
07:15 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1Legaku )
07:15 fluffypony and I asked them why they were building on Ethereum, and despite much hand-waving they couldn't give me an actual reason
07:17 fluffypony most people building crap on top of "a blockchain" have no idea why they're doing so
07:17 davout to me there are exactly two use cases for bitcoin/blockchain
07:17 davout 1. decentralized timestamping
07:18 davout 2. making taxes optional
07:18 davout bbl
07:27 shinohai !up kodemurani
07:29 punkman https://i.imgur.com/9OFeOiG.png << we have pretty much all of those here :D
07:29 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1Legaku )
07:29 kodemurani That report on ethereum is rather discouraging. (why ehtereum project will most likely fail) :-(
07:30 kodemurani May be true
07:31 shinohai heh punkman you are right! xD
07:33 fluffypony kodemurani: this is not new information
07:34 fluffypony all rational, thinking people have known this to be the expected outcome from the very beginning
07:35 danielpbarron welp, AlphaGo is 2-0
07:35 asciilifeform moar of the same.
07:35 asciilifeform as last night.
07:36 danielpbarron glad i didn't bet
07:36 danielpbarron sfyl
07:36 asciilifeform l0l
07:37 asciilifeform losing at bbet is pretty much the only place i can blow btc !
07:37 asciilifeform (it is certainly where most of the ones i ever had, went.)
07:37 danielpbarron i'm pretty good at doing that too
07:38 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428461 << guess what ~i personally won't ever be caught dead doing~ ???
07:38 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 10:43:06; mircea_popescu: in other news - it still remains likely that this summer will see a bevy of various hardforks on offer. practically speaking, trb can offer either its own candidate, which takes a lot of work, or else sit tight and we'll follow the more intelligent of the avaialble offerings, which takes less work but also implies a lot of risk - experience to date shows that there's precious little intelligence avai
07:38 asciilifeform while there many be 'intelligence available outside of the wot', it is ~dead to me~
07:39 asciilifeform because not separable from usg in any meaningful way except - DEFINITIONALLY - by entering the wot and doing a LONG tour of duty as a Real Person
07:40 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428468 << again, anyone who wants to follow a usg fork, can do it without me. and who wants to use a prb fork of whatever variety or rationale, can do it without me. ditto halfcocked crud conceived to enrich chinese scum.
07:40 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 10:49:38; mircea_popescu: so far, nsa-gavin, prb and [prolly] the miner cartel are all preparing something or the other.
07:41 asciilifeform i was willing to deal with the cpp miseryu of trb because 1) it pre-dates bitcoin being valuable 2) it was - and remains - the schelling point, 'father's pistols'
07:42 shinohai I will use trb as long as it works on the overall network, failing that I will have to find something else to occupy my time.
07:42 asciilifeform this pointedly does not mean that i am interested in attempting to wash the smell of shit off a rando sickly rat from rando sewer.
07:42 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428471 << ada.
07:42 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 10:52:32; jurov: but seriously, what is a must have? mempool sanity and anything else?
07:43 asciilifeform i am sick and tired of there being usg c/cpp code in the loop ANYWHERE.
07:43 asciilifeform ENOUGH wotless nonboundschecked language.
07:44 asciilifeform (i loathe ada, but this needs a BOUNDS-CHECKED language where i can AUDIT THE BINARY and NO RUNTIME COMPONENT / GC - which leaves exactly ONE)
07:45 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428469 << l0l you and with what crane, will extract.
07:45 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 10:51:47; jurov: extract alf from mordor?
07:47 asciilifeform it would, i suspect, take me 1/2 y to 1y of UNINTERRUPTED full time to come up with the goods. which pointedly isn't in any danger of happening.
07:48 asciilifeform so if you lot end up surrendering, i will simply have to add 'bitcoin replacement' to my already tall pile of 'redo computing' pyramid, slowly grind it in my mostly nonexisting spare time, and wait another 20 years to find a new set of sane people, if i live that long.
07:50 asciilifeform i will repeat, i have NO interest in any 'bitcoin replacement' originating from outside of the wot.
07:50 shinohai As I told mod6 I do not advocate surrender myself :/
07:51 asciilifeform anybody who wants to surrender, can go and do it without me.
07:52 jurov so whole shiva stuff is ded alley for you?
07:53 asciilifeform jurov: it is for working on trb !
07:53 jurov oh i misunderstood
07:53 danielpbarron who suggested using a non-wot fork??
07:53 asciilifeform danielpbarron: mircea_popescu ! unless i misunderstood him somehow.
07:54 shinohai http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428461 <<< this?
07:54 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 10:43:06; mircea_popescu: in other news - it still remains likely that this summer will see a bevy of various hardforks on offer. practically speaking, trb can offer either its own candidate, which takes a lot of work, or else sit tight and we'll follow the more intelligent of the avaialble offerings, which takes less work but also implies a lot of risk - experience to date shows that there's precious little intelligence avai
07:54 asciilifeform aha.
07:54 asciilifeform it melted my brain that he even half-seriously hinted at the possibility of such a thing.
07:54 danielpbarron oh, ew
07:55 shinohai mircea_popescu is under stress lately perhaps and needs a nice lsd trip to put things in perspective :D
07:56 asciilifeform shinohai: possibly he thought this also, and ate some ? and during it, suggested prb ...?
07:56 * danielpbarron once had a 'vial' of the stuff; used it to put drops on sugar cubes, eat and go for bike ride in the summer
07:57 * asciilifeform doesn't expect to get to eat lsd in his natural lifespam, just as doesn't expect a real tailored suit or to sail on a dirigible
07:57 shinohai lsd usually inspires clarity of thought and creativity tho.
07:57 danielpbarron still had a little left for my great purge when i burned the contents of my drug box as well as some eastern philosophy texts and my karate uniform
07:58 shinohai Heh I forgot I have mebbe 1/2 gram of 25C-nBOMe left xD
07:59 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428499 << davout you forgot 'making it possible to save again'
07:59 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 12:17:49; davout: to me there are exactly two use cases for bitcoin/blockchain
08:00 danielpbarron yeah that's the question.. what to 'divest' into.. old computer parts?
08:00 shinohai That's mainly what I use BTC for - equipment. (When I can actually acquire it!)
08:00 danielpbarron someone set up that sommelier thing already
08:01 asciilifeform i have NO use for btc other than escape glider from my auschwitz
08:01 asciilifeform and this means absolutely NO use for sub-orbital quantity.
08:01 asciilifeform except to 'hodl'.
08:02 danielpbarron although without a bitcoin i don't have much interest in computer parts anyway, so that's a catch-22
08:03 danielpbarron i had all but given up on computers entirely until i found bitcoin
08:03 danielpbarron for several years even
08:04 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428562 << it is set up right here.
08:04 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 13:00:57; danielpbarron: someone set up that sommelier thing already
08:04 danielpbarron i got that hp workstation you recommened
08:04 asciilifeform i recommended it ?!
08:04 asciilifeform l0l
08:04 danielpbarron you linked some thing on ebay, has amd processer and ecc ram or whatever
08:05 asciilifeform aha but i didn't buy it!
08:05 asciilifeform i don't buy whole computer (other than portables, for restricted uses)
08:05 asciilifeform and don't recommend to others to do it!
08:05 asciilifeform notice how mircea_popescu pointedly also doesn't ?
08:06 asciilifeform but re: the sommelier thing, i would happily supply folks with sane hardware, but this would 1) take serious time & effort while 2) wouldn't pay my billz
08:06 asciilifeform so it ain't happening.
08:06 asciilifeform just liek many other things, won't be happening.
08:06 asciilifeform i am having to work 14-18 hrs/day (including slavemine) just to make some of these not-happenings possibly happen.
08:08 danielpbarron how much do you need for this year off to build sane trb ? maybe we can crowdfund it
08:08 asciilifeform danielpbarron: i'd have to spend half of that year looking for next work.
08:08 asciilifeform and half of what remains, as usg tax
08:08 danielpbarron next work is maintaining said trb
08:09 asciilifeform also on loose change from folks' sofa cushions ?!
08:09 asciilifeform l0l
08:09 danielpbarron well i got nothing else to spend my stupid btc on
08:11 asciilifeform 'crowdfundings', as i understand, have worked for mass crapolade
08:11 asciilifeform but that is pointedly not what we have here.
08:11 asciilifeform the 'reddit appeal' of what we do is ~0, and this is PROPER, and it is in many ways a barometer of doing The Right Thing
08:11 davout http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428526 <<< have to disagree here, bitcoin had value to me sometime in 2010, the minute i finished the white-paper
08:11 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 12:41:33; asciilifeform: i was willing to deal with the cpp miseryu of trb because 1) it pre-dates bitcoin being valuable 2) it was - and remains - the schelling point, 'father's pistols'
08:11 asciilifeform davout: value to me also.
08:12 asciilifeform but i was speaking of value to usg looters.
08:12 asciilifeform who have a five-minute attention span and atrocious tunnel vision, and need ~immediates~
08:17 davout http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428558 <<< true, all these points neatly coalesce into "actually being money" anyway
08:17 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 12:59:27; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428499 << davout you forgot 'making it possible to save again'
08:18 danielpbarron asciilifeform> the 'reddit appeal' of what we do << i didn't mean reaching out any further than in this very channel
08:20 asciilifeform danielpbarron: mircea_popescu believes (and i'm not convinced that he's wrong) that hiring people lowers them into pederasty. and he's the ~only fella with money here. so then.
08:20 danielpbarron i have some
08:21 asciilifeform we're talking about ~= 1/2m u.s. here.
08:21 danielpbarron 20 people with 25k
08:22 asciilifeform danielpbarron must have eaten that last vial of lsd! i sincerely wish him a good trip. but now i gotta go and start the engine and ride to the place where i sit on a stake for most every day.
08:22 * asciilifeform bbl.
08:30 shinohai Speaking of stakes, I wonder how BingoBoingo impalement project is coming.
08:30 punkman you need $500k a year ?!
08:36 punkman anyway, doesn't hurt to come up with a pricetag. who knows maybe the satoshi hoard might move this year.
08:39 davout punkman: unless these particular inputs are blacklisted by the Chinese Cartel(TM)
08:39 danielpbarron is it funny?
08:50 thestringpuller asciilifeform: "Pederasty is an ancient Greek form of interaction in which members of the same sex would partake in the pleasures of an intellectual and/or sexual relationship as part of a socially acceptable ancient custom " << uh ok...
08:51 thestringpuller "a (usually erotic) homosexual relationship between an adult male and a pubescent or adolescent male. "
08:55 jurov drat. so far i failed to observe it with people that i hired
08:56 nubbins` never too late
08:56 nubbins` still no signed financials from s.bbet
08:56 nubbins` s.mpoe still tanking
08:57 nubbins` still business as usual
08:57 * danielpbarron stabs nubbins`
08:57 nubbins` * danielpbarronhugs nubbins`
08:57 nubbins` wai what?
08:57 nubbins` i thought you didn't like me anymore
08:57 danielpbarron that's a violation of the rules you like to cite so much
08:58 nubbins` o.O
08:59 danielpbarron >> On the other hand professional also implies that you understand how context works, and will never ever under any circumstances omit relevant context when quoting, especially when such omission changes the meaning of your quote and the quoted then has to point this out to you like you were some sort of politician or assimilated retard.
08:59 nubbins` which rule now?
08:59 * nubbins` searches for something he quoted, comes up blank
09:00 nubbins` danielpbarron your logic doesn't follow, again
09:00 jurov nubbins`: i take it you're stabbing/hugging each other in the pederasty context
09:00 danielpbarron l0l
09:00 nubbins` jurov danielpbarron has a lot to learn, he's come to me for guidance
09:00 nubbins` he's a tough pupil
09:00 danielpbarron at least i'm not the catamite in that case
09:00 nubbins` o o o i see.
09:01 nubbins` sorry, i have a script that changes words of violence to words of kindness
09:01 nubbins` once i checked the log, i understood that you actually "stabbed" me
09:01 nubbins` besides, i didn't quote you without context, i *misquoted* you in the *midst* of context. jeez.
09:02 nubbins` am i literally the ONLY person who understands the rules around here?
09:02 davout http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428614 <<< kek
09:02 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 13:55:25; jurov: drat. so far i failed to observe it with people that i hired
09:03 nubbins` BRUSHSTRIKE: Font not found on the system; missing font has been substituted. DKSensoryOverload: Font not found on the system; missing font has been substituted. Eminent: Font not found on the system; missing font has been substituted. Freshman: Font not found on the system; missing font has been substituted. JerseyM54: Font not found on the system; missing font has been substituted.
09:03 nubbins` thanks, third-party graphic designer who obviously knows what they're doing
09:04 danielpbarron what work did you do for the Ministry of Games?
09:05 nubbins` danielpbarron i did several parcels of work for the ministry of games, in paid official capacity as well as volunteer/unofficial capacity.
09:05 danielpbarron be specific? was it artwork or something?
09:05 punkman is "lower someone into pederasty" a russian thing? the phrase never made much sense to me
09:06 nubbins` we created all of the heraldics for the family lines (yet to be implemented), i also produced the first round of OS X compilation instructions and helped get eulorum set up / own the domain
09:06 danielpbarron ah, so i've yet to see your work
09:06 nubbins` correct
09:06 danielpbarron i thought maybe you designed the item images or something
09:06 nubbins` noooo, nothing so basic
09:06 nubbins` we deal with "real art"
09:07 danielpbarron wasn't implying advanced vs basic
09:07 nubbins` of course not
09:09 nubbins` http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2013#301976
09:09 assbot Logged on 11-09-2013 13:46:32; nubbins`: sneak peek of a concept sketch for the Eulora heraldics: http://imgur.com/Rx0KQDZ
09:09 thestringpuller did those ever get used in game?
09:10 danielpbarron not yet
09:10 danielpbarron no death yet, so no marriage
09:10 thestringpuller placing art in that game is a PITA. the planeshift engine (on top of cs) comes with 0 middleware.
09:11 nubbins` relevant log from heraldic delivery: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-10-2013#352304
09:11 assbot Logged on 17-10-2013 13:29:36; nubbins`: heraldry look OK?
09:15 nubbins` thestringpuller sounds like a job for.... whomever
09:15 nubbins` the only developer, i guess
09:16 danielpbarron who is Pascale Horan ?
09:19 thestringpuller Turning Planeshift + Crystalspace into Unity is like turning Bitcoin into Visa, so I don't think it should be a job for anyone.
09:20 nubbins` danielpbarron mai waifu
09:20 danielpbarron oh, in the context from which I found it, she was called 'he'
09:20 danielpbarron or rather, 'his'
09:23 nubbins` danielpbarron from "paschal", of or relating to easter. in various spellings, it's a male or female name
09:23 nubbins` pasquale, pascal, paschal, pascale, etc
09:23 nubbins` fr. aramaic "pasha" / hebrew "pesah"
09:27 jurov thestringpuller what do you mean, turning them into unity?
09:28 jurov the problem is in opposite direction, to untangle them
09:29 jurov i have not looked to doing art, only to network (de)serialization in order for lisp to be able to send and receive messages
09:31 jurov ended up with horrible hack whereby in the process of deserialization the values are clandestinely pushed into lisp list...
09:32 jurov serialization was not possible this way, fortunately client needs to send only dozen types of messages
09:33 jurov i was thinking about it as potential learning practice for trb... but such things would make alf shit girder beams
09:41 thestringpuller jurov: not that I'm a huge fan of unity, but after playing Kerbal Space Program you have to give it a little credit. What it does have is a large layer of middleware which allows for much better asset management. Whereas in Planeshift + Crystalspace it's all handled in essentially a textfile...
09:47 diana_coman what's wrong with a textfile per se thestringpuller ?
09:49 danielpbarron aha! example of wife and husband sharing same key! one flesh, one key! >> http://trilema.com/2013/15th-blown-other-statements/#comment-93968
09:49 assbot 15th blown, other statements. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1QJIACU )
10:01 diana_coman re asciilifeform's meaning of pederasty in this context, I use his previous explanation: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-02-2016#1416802
10:01 assbot Logged on 27-02-2016 19:14:30; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the other end of pederasty
10:02 punkman diana_coman: ah I missed that somehow
10:03 punkman diana_coman: are you having ideas about getting rid of planeshift yet?
10:04 diana_coman depends on what you mean by "ideas" (i.e. desires in that direction plenty) and by getting rid of planeshift (code is already quite far - in a good sense - from original planeshift and yes, I absolutely want to take it further away)
10:05 punkman right
10:08 thestringpuller diana_coman: it's a textfile that has no middleware for artist to import assets into the engine. you have to either write it yourself or place the geometry in their yourself. It's 2016 not 1993.
10:09 thestringpuller Take Source for instance. You open up hammer, import your geometry (as a map), press play and Half Life loads with your assets.
10:10 punkman the whole game interface was a pain for me. I'd give it another go when that changes.
10:11 diana_coman uhm, thestringpuller I'll certainly have to study that, so I'll possibly get back to you on this then
10:11 diana_coman punkman, what do you mean exactly?
10:15 mircea_popescu punkman well, maybe wehen jurov releases the slime client :D
10:18 nubbins` thestringpuller / diana_coman it's worth noting that for a game like eulora, which should conceivably have massive amounts of art assets down the road, easier tools for getting those assets in place will drastically increase the volume and quality of em
10:20 punkman diana_coman: i just hated everything about it. moving/finding things in inventory, trying to equip things and and ending up with phantom copies if I didn't click just right. Trying to walk and floating at a 45 degree angle, falling to death off smooth hills. The claim sticks that are "points" in space and keys and... I dunno. I suppose some of that might have changed already.
10:24 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428491 << guy does have it. "bitcoin" as seen by the prb/social media crowd is 99% solutions looking for a problem by weight.
10:24 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 12:05:43; davout: ^guy has it
10:24 mircea_popescu and half of those are built in spaces where provably no problem existsw.
10:25 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428498 << they do, but don't wish to say.
10:25 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 12:17:07; fluffypony: most people building crap on top of "a blockchain" have no idea why they're doing so
10:26 mircea_popescu why do you suppose wanna-be singer/waitress sends demos with britney spears' stuff rather than actual music ? "this is fashionable, maybe some rubs off on me!"
10:29 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428522 << don't make me guess, supposed to be a strategy discussion!
10:29 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 12:38:38; asciilifeform: while there many be 'intelligence available outside of the wot', it is ~dead to me~
10:29 mircea_popescu and note that i include (continue with current bitcoin) in the same (intelligence outside the wot) pile. which it is.
10:31 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428537 << there are two important questions that are readily separable, here.
10:31 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 12:48:50; asciilifeform: so if you lot end up surrendering, i will simply have to add 'bitcoin replacement' to my already tall pile of 'redo computing' pyramid, slowly grind it in my mostly nonexisting spare time, and wait another 20 years to find a new set of sane people, if i live that long.
10:32 asciilifeform pointedly not the same.
10:32 asciilifeform like bones pre- vs post- h-bomb strontium.
10:32 mircea_popescu 1 is, the perfect bitcoin. which, logically, would NOT conserve coinbases. as such, it has no meaningful humantime continuity with the present Bitcoin, and so it can be done at any point etc.
10:32 mircea_popescu 2. is the usable interim continuation of the bitcoin prototype. which, obviously, doesn't HAVE TO exist at all points to 1, but it may help if it does. we're here mostly discussing 2, i think.
10:33 mircea_popescu asciilifeform there's no proof you can produce for this strontium assertion.
10:33 mircea_popescu note that hearn and gavin were "there" since year 2.
10:33 asciilifeform it is axiomatic.
10:33 mircea_popescu it was axiomatic.
10:33 asciilifeform they were ~there~ but not effectual.
10:34 mircea_popescu yeahwell..
10:34 mircea_popescu the code looks pretty shitty...
10:35 mircea_popescu in any case : while a hierarchy could perhaps be constructed in the "not in wot" pile, as you propose or otherwise,
10:35 mircea_popescu this doesn't put satoshi in your wot, still.
10:35 asciilifeform right
10:36 mircea_popescu so in this sense, your objections as stated don't cut anything.
10:36 asciilifeform but there were reasons why i was willing to operate on his crud.
10:36 asciilifeform which will NEVER apply to gavin & co.
10:36 mircea_popescu most of the crud you operate on was written by gavin & co.
10:37 asciilifeform and i strip it away.
10:37 mircea_popescu right.
10:37 asciilifeform and intend to strip ALL of it.
10:37 mircea_popescu you ever seen what bitcoin 0.2 was like ?
10:37 asciilifeform yes.
10:37 mircea_popescu right.
10:37 asciilifeform but this discussion is NOT only about code.
10:38 mircea_popescu go on
10:38 asciilifeform a usg fork exists to enrich usg. and i will have NO part in it.
10:38 asciilifeform and give NO quarter to satan.
10:39 mircea_popescu looky here, maybe i'm not communicating well.
10:39 mircea_popescu currently, there exists bitcoin. while this is soupier than we'd like and perhaps the collapsed eigenstate is slowly vibrating away into an undecided cloud, nevertheless, for the sake of discussion, let's say.
10:40 mircea_popescu tomorrow, there will be : 1) mit-hardfork, run by gavin and whatever anand prakashen they can find.
10:40 mircea_popescu 2) a vc-hardfork, run by whatever's left of prb
10:41 mircea_popescu 3) a miner-fork, run by whatever that fat dumb fuck can hire on freelancer.com
10:41 asciilifeform and where did trb go ?
10:41 asciilifeform martians stole it ?
10:41 mircea_popescu 4) to perhaps 12 or whatever, hardforks run by various nuts.
10:41 mircea_popescu at this juncture, tmsr must make the decision if it will continue strictly with trb, or ALSO offer a tmsr fork of trb.
10:41 mircea_popescu in any case trb isn't going anywhere, nor need it go anywhere.
10:42 asciilifeform i'm fine with 'also'
10:42 mircea_popescu but you should note, that there is no good reason to consider current trb so much different from cases 1-3.
10:42 asciilifeform but i did say what i WON'T, under any circumstance whatsoever, be part of.
10:42 asciilifeform and it is NOT the same.
10:42 mircea_popescu you gotta be specific. what it, same with what ?
10:43 mircea_popescu eliding the complements makes this discussion dangerous, both to us and to the future.
10:43 asciilifeform l0l i'm getting ~50 baud here
10:44 asciilifeform i will NOT be complicit in a reallocation of chainvalue to the enemy.
10:45 mircea_popescu there is a very specific danger which you perhaps are not seeing. if indeed we continu with trb as is, and if indeed 3) happens, as these two share pow and we don't control .7 or so exahash we become extremelty vulnerable. recall the fate of altcoin ?
10:45 asciilifeform NOR permit his dirty hands to further rape bitcoin src.
10:45 asciilifeform yes.
10:45 mircea_popescu so in this sense, "trb as is only" opens us up to being forced, later on, to pick among the idiots.
10:45 mircea_popescu which is the meaning ofwhat i said.
10:46 asciilifeform but it will mean that bitcoin died, perhaps to be reborn in~our~ planet
10:46 mircea_popescu perhaps or perhaps. looky, strategy discussions are about strategy.
10:46 asciilifeform but i will not spread legs for the nazis.
10:46 mircea_popescu ever seen black book movie ?
10:46 mircea_popescu chick's hawt.
10:46 asciilifeform would rather eat nagan.
10:47 asciilifeform surrender is not a strategy.
10:47 mircea_popescu lol tell that to stalin!
10:47 mircea_popescu anyway - what isn't a strategy is "if the bad thing happens i'll get really butthurt".
10:48 mircea_popescu strategy gotta be about action not feeling.
10:48 asciilifeform stalin - understood.
10:49 asciilifeform the set of available actions is small, and, i think, well-enumerated at this point.
10:50 asciilifeform if trb gets chainclobbered - it is 2009 again for us.
10:50 asciilifeform but i will not fellate the invader.
10:53 mircea_popescu so you propose to basically wait and see ?
10:53 asciilifeform no.
10:54 asciilifeform i will maintain trb, while 1,001 things incl. writing mine.
10:54 asciilifeform but at my pace it will take 20y.
10:54 mircea_popescu so basically you propose - wait and see on trb, meanwhile i'll also develop a fork variant which i won't either share or have ready in time ?
10:55 asciilifeform archaeologists will, possibly, find it.
10:55 asciilifeform what did mircea_popescu expect me to suggest?
10:55 mircea_popescu i do not expect anything, this is why this is a discussion.
10:55 mircea_popescu whatever your position is, it may be, but it gotta be explicit so everyone can build on it.
10:55 asciilifeform so here it is.
10:55 mircea_popescu alright.
10:57 asciilifeform and i will not spread arse for invader, and am not open to persuasion re same, hopefully this needs no further elucidation
10:58 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428545 << i'm not suggesting anything. i'm saying, plainly, that AT LEAST ONCE in the past, you sucked a cock, which is how you are on THIS blockchain. so the argument "i'm no whore" holds no water. you WILL suck others in the future - best make sure they're ours.
10:58 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 12:53:52; asciilifeform: danielpbarron: mircea_popescu ! unless i misunderstood him somehow.
10:58 asciilifeform well, old cock was gnat-sized.
10:58 asciilifeform new - t. rex
10:59 mircea_popescu hey. i have no artgument there.
10:59 asciilifeform see the schelling point thread.
10:59 mircea_popescu understand that if there's a summer of crazy, a NEW schelling will emerge.
11:00 mircea_popescu i don't see the future well enough to judge what chances we have, but i do see the future well enough to see that if you have no horse in a race, you can't win it.
11:00 asciilifeform it is like saying 'you conceded in a game of chess when you were 5, why not concede your father's house'
11:01 asciilifeform but yes, i would like to have the horse.
11:01 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428549 << could we for maybe 5 minutes stop with this "panic at everything mp says" i'm starting to feel like a fucking divinity or something.
11:01 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 12:54:35; asciilifeform: it melted my brain that he even half-seriously hinted at the possibility of such a thing.
11:02 asciilifeform i never panic.
11:02 asciilifeform had that muscle removed (tm)
11:02 mircea_popescu yeah well, it reads like it. anyway.
11:03 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428554 << ahahaha natural lifespam, im bashing this.
11:03 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 12:57:10; *: asciilifeform doesn't expect to get to eat lsd in his natural lifespam, just as doesn't expect a real tailored suit or to sail on a dirigible
11:05 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428552 << aw dude wtf. link!
11:05 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 12:56:07; asciilifeform: shinohai: possibly he thought this also, and ate some ? and during it, suggested prb ...?
11:07 asciilifeform the 1,2,3,might have to choose thing
11:08 mircea_popescu and you don't see how jumping from that to this is exactly panic ?
11:08 asciilifeform nope?
11:08 mircea_popescu what can i say!
11:08 asciilifeform anyway i did not jump, assumed lsd.
11:09 mircea_popescu things are happening with or without permission, as a general rule. either you're prepared for the possible outcomes, or not.
11:09 mircea_popescu i'd rather we be prepared, if possible, and i pointedly not care how unpleasant a discussion may be to anyone's/everyone's favourite assumptions. so here we are.
11:10 asciilifeform i prepare for many things. but i also use everett's device. so i do not prepare for surrender and cocksucking ignominy.
11:10 mircea_popescu specifically : if miners come up with fork, what are you going to do ? so far all i hear is "blame de gods".
11:10 shinohai Discussion boosts morale.
11:10 mircea_popescu "de gods" are not there for you to blame.
11:11 asciilifeform work for 20 y or until dead to kill them all.
11:11 mircea_popescu too many chuck norris movies or something, srsly now.
11:11 asciilifeform no, that's more or less my whole adult life to date.
11:11 mircea_popescu did the separation discussed in http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428706 connect, at all ?
11:11 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 15:31:37; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428537 << there are two important questions that are readily separable, here.
11:12 mircea_popescu yes, sure, we'll be sooner or later coming out with the perfect bitcoin, or die trying.
11:12 mircea_popescu what of this prototype one!
11:12 asciilifeform it, as i said before, is our shipwreck plank.
11:13 mircea_popescu not in statements of fact, we're not painting a still life here. what do!
11:14 asciilifeform i think i explained what i personally intend to do.
11:14 asciilifeform how ~much~ of it i get to do before dead, i cannot now say.
11:15 mircea_popescu you realise what you're saying is basically, that ~you~ are taking off.
11:16 asciilifeform if the alternative ever consists wholly of surrender- then yes.
11:16 mircea_popescu sigh.
11:17 mircea_popescu wouldja try and engage what's actually on the table rather than what's in the noggin ?
11:17 asciilifeform не шагу назад (tm) (r)
11:17 mircea_popescu jesus shit's hard.
11:18 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428592 << quite.
11:18 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 13:11:28; asciilifeform: the 'reddit appeal' of what we do is ~0, and this is PROPER, and it is in many ways a barometer of doing The Right Thing
11:18 mircea_popescu in general, when your preteen's sister's friends start taking an interest in your party, you're lame.
11:18 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428590 << i know of no case where "crowdfunding" worked, in any sensible definition.
11:18 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 13:11:00; asciilifeform: 'crowdfundings', as i understand, have worked for mass crapolade
11:19 mircea_popescu yes there are some cases where it has redistributed some dollars. in this sense, the numbers racket as practiced between the same poor black marginals 50 years ago also "worked".
11:20 asciilifeform as i said to the lsd folks, if i were free man, there would be a solid weapon in 1/2y - 1y. BUT this is a flight to alpha centauri, because i am NOT a free man.
11:20 mircea_popescu asciilifeform the ideas of a not free man about what freedom'd do to him are null and void.
11:20 mircea_popescu how would you know ?
11:21 asciilifeform mircea_popescu , who IS free man, can sit down & write mpcoin.
11:21 mircea_popescu if there could be solid weapon in 1/2-1y, you would have long ago been free man. that you aren't makes the proposition rather dubious.
11:21 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: well i know what a cage is, and that i live in one.
11:21 asciilifeform am posting from it now.
11:22 mircea_popescu ok, now know the other part of this.
11:22 mircea_popescu it's a whole not a half.
11:22 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: 1/2 y of FULL time.
11:23 mircea_popescu the discussion is a whole not a half. yes we both understand one half of it. now you understand the other half of it.
11:23 asciilifeform but i don't have enough lsd to do that thread again.
11:23 mircea_popescu mkay.
11:24 asciilifeform but as it stands i have about 1/10th of my strength to give.
11:24 shinohai Here you go asciilifeform - arrange a stupid conference and charge a coupla grand to get a foldup chair in the nearest Best Western. http://www.coindesk.com/events/consensus-2016/register/
11:24 assbot Consensus 2016 - Register Your Ticket Today ... ( http://bit.ly/1U58F1N )
11:24 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428609 << doesn't hurt to come up with a pricetag in the ~same sense it didn't hurt to come up with a specific named rotschild, which then didn't count.
11:24 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 13:36:51; punkman: anyway, doesn't hurt to come up with a pricetag. who knows maybe the satoshi hoard might move this year.
11:25 asciilifeform i gave pricetag!
11:25 asciilifeform but what diff does it make.
11:25 mircea_popescu i do not trust it at all. i'm not sure you understand this, but AT ALL.
11:25 asciilifeform it is accurate.
11:26 asciilifeform price of not having to look for work for a year, hypothetically.
11:26 mircea_popescu it goes, for me, in the same pile as xmas cardano, phuctor two weeks ago, and wahtever the fuck her name was,
11:26 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=20-08-2015#1244694
11:26 assbot Logged on 20-08-2015 00:01:57; asciilifeform: 'Élisabeth de Rothschild (née de Chambure; a.k.a. Lili; March 9, 1902 - March 23, 1945) was a member by marriage of the wine-making branch of the Rothschild family.'
11:26 asciilifeform someone asked for this number? i gave.
11:26 mircea_popescu they are the things you say to protect from change, or w/e.
11:26 mircea_popescu sure, you gave.
11:26 mircea_popescu moving on.
11:28 * asciilifeform does not like to waste bandwidth but generally answers folks when they ask things.
11:28 danielpbarron what is a free man in asciilifeform terms? do I qualify by being someone who only needs to work full time for one season out of the year?
11:29 kakobrekla "needs to" is key here.
11:30 mircea_popescu i can readily see a definition of freedom as "one has enough resources to protect himself from the outside world". this definition is impractical, however, belonging to the sphere chicken world.
11:31 mircea_popescu but hey, as a heuristic, works fine.
11:31 mircea_popescu by this logic, the gardener who is free needs a garden, but the movie director who is free needs his own studio. the cost of their respective freedoms, many degrees of magnitude apart.
11:32 asciilifeform i dun need a studio.
11:32 mircea_popescu i was talking in the general!
11:32 asciilifeform but do need a fair bit of floor space
11:32 asciilifeform and quiet.
11:32 asciilifeform and nonrecycled food
11:32 asciilifeform and my library.
11:32 asciilifeform i think this sums it all.
11:32 danielpbarron what kind of floor space?
11:33 kakobrekla with a roof i imagine
11:33 asciilifeform climate-controlled.
11:33 mircea_popescu lol
11:36 PeterL asciilifeform around here you could fill you list for about 20k usd per year
11:37 asciilifeform no.
11:37 PeterL no?
11:37 danielpbarron and all the lead you could want!
11:37 asciilifeform where PeterL lives? mongolia?
11:37 PeterL michigan
11:38 PeterL only flint has lead in water, the rest of the state has great water
11:38 asciilifeform ick
11:39 PeterL rent a 1600 sqft single family home for about 1000 usd/mo
11:39 PeterL just saying
11:39 asciilifeform and eat roomtemp-stable cheese? fuck that
11:39 PeterL we have cheese here too
11:39 asciilifeform roquefort is not any cheaper in mi than md.
11:41 PeterL how much money do you spend on cheese a month?
11:42 asciilifeform discussion involving 'downshifting' is waste of my time and of everybody else's.
11:42 PeterL I'm not saying downshift, just get out of the land of outrageous rents!
11:42 asciilifeform health is still ~1k/mo.
11:45 mircea_popescu asciilifeform> ick << what, this is an argument now ?
11:45 mircea_popescu uhaul will take half a btc to haul your library.
11:46 asciilifeform but this is not a very interesting discussion. would you have it with, e.g., your lawyer?! ask him what pieces of furniture he could do without, so as to charge less?!!
11:46 mircea_popescu i have a lawyer whose yearly budget for family is ~8k.
11:46 PeterL <asciilifeform> health is still ~1k/mo. << you just added another thing to the list, now we are up to 32k, still nowhere near 500k
11:46 mircea_popescu he is a very good lawyer, and a hardworking fellow too.
11:46 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i hauled it 3km in 2014 with own hands and spent more on ~petrol~.
11:47 mircea_popescu also, health at 1k a month is RIDICULOUS. pretty much all over the world, cancer treatment runs you 1k/mo.
11:47 asciilifeform WORLD
11:47 asciilifeform i'm a subject of hitler.
11:48 PeterL That is about what my in-laws pay, and they are on daily medications and recovering from extensive surgery/cancer treatment
11:48 mircea_popescu asciilifeform that's an interesting datapoint, because 100 gallons of gas provide enough energy to haul 100 * 1.2 * 10^8 / 3000 = 4 tons of stuff
11:48 mircea_popescu 3 km VERTICALLY.
11:49 mircea_popescu so you're on the space station now, with your 4ton, ie, 200k volume library ?
11:49 danielpbarron asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i hauled it 3km in 2014 with own hands and spent more on ~petrol~. << gas was twice as expensive then as it is now
11:49 asciilifeform aha but i hauled 4 ton through city traffic. about same joules...
11:50 asciilifeform and yes, it was pre-iran
11:51 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428905 << why not try & persuade him to move to botswana and eat some of his children so he can charge 1k.
11:51 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 16:46:21; mircea_popescu: i have a lawyer whose yearly budget for family is ~8k.
11:53 mircea_popescu he is actually in one of those god forsaken places, doesn't matter which.
11:53 mircea_popescu where he lives, that's middle class.
11:54 asciilifeform so clearly mircea_popescu is paying him too much !11
11:54 asciilifeform if middle-class.
11:54 mircea_popescu not the line contemplated here.
11:54 asciilifeform next take your diesel generator and persuade it to run on water.
11:55 asciilifeform or at least see how much water it can eat..
11:55 mircea_popescu looky, lashing at me is not liable to do much. the point remains that this "i could do except alas" line is a total waste of time and utterly broken in so many parts it's not worth fixing.
11:55 mircea_popescu so can we lay it to rest and move on ?
11:56 asciilifeform thread was not answer to mircea_popescu, who i think gets it, but earlier folks.
11:57 asciilifeform and mircea_popescu is entirely welcome to answer 'you SAY you could do X if you were free, but i know that you're a tard! so you could not POSSIBLY do X!11 haha' and i will be powerless to prove him wrong.
11:59 mircea_popescu i'm not even saying that, nor is it even needed. even if you ~could~ actually, provavly, known from my personal discussion with the all-knowing god, do it, what the fuck sort of arrangement is this, "so b-a exists so that alf can fix it" ? how is it better than you know, hiring microsoft to do it.
11:59 mircea_popescu if you die one day what then ? etc.
11:59 mircea_popescu so no, broken in too many places to be worth contemplating.
11:59 asciilifeform ok then birth five spare alfs if you need them for all time.
11:59 mircea_popescu this is what we're trying for here : a) birth alfs ; b) continuously.
12:00 asciilifeform or write the motherfucking code yourself, why not
12:00 mircea_popescu ideally they'd all be different
12:00 asciilifeform i'll read and test it , i promise.
12:00 danielpbarron how to start writing ADA on sane gentoo?
12:00 asciilifeform danielpbarron: if you have to ask...
12:00 mircea_popescu danielpbarron iirc he published a gentoo mask few days back
12:00 asciilifeform this is why i say that presently we have 1.
12:01 mircea_popescu course... meanwhile things happened, might not work anymopre.
12:01 asciilifeform and at some point my health will give out and we will have 0.
12:01 asciilifeform and mircea_popescu will ahve to write code himself.
12:01 danielpbarron yeah the sane gentoo part i can figure out no problem. just never coded in ADA before
12:01 mircea_popescu there was a manual floating about, lesseee
12:01 asciilifeform danielpbarron: i never did either, before we began.
12:01 mircea_popescu !search ada manual
12:01 assbot 6 results for 'ada manual' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=ada+manual
12:01 danielpbarron i have the manual even
12:01 mircea_popescu !s ada manul
12:01 assbot 0 results for 'ada manul' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=ada+manul
12:01 danielpbarron on dead tree
12:01 mircea_popescu darn.
12:01 asciilifeform Pet The Manul. (tm) (r)
12:01 mircea_popescu ok so then start with the examples i guess ?
12:03 asciilifeform i wish this were not so, but so far afaik the set of folks who understand everything from galois theory to O(..) runtimes to sdram bus timings includes 1) mircea_popescu 2) asciilifeform .
12:03 mircea_popescu the world is not a picture, alf. the world is a moving thing. let people be wouldja!
12:03 * asciilifeform lets.
12:04 asciilifeform and so far we have... what we have.
12:04 mircea_popescu all the things that there are can in principle be understood, or as the old jew said (in fiddler on the roof) - there is a blessing for everything.
12:04 asciilifeform in principle.
12:05 asciilifeform in practice i'm stuck doing pretty much 100% of the ab-initio b-a stuff.
12:05 asciilifeform (YES i appreciate folks testing, cleaning up, etc. ! don't feel sad !)
12:05 mircea_popescu well, either that or screaming at all teh folk who try things.
12:05 asciilifeform and i appreciate mircea_popescu firing death rays at the enemy !
12:06 asciilifeform from his dirigible fleet.
12:06 thestringpuller mircea_popescu: ever seen black book movie ? << Brittany Murphy is hot? ~_~
12:06 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: if i did not scream, we'd prolly be struggling with some 'golang' prb horror now.
12:06 asciilifeform or java.
12:07 mircea_popescu thestringpuller http://trilema.com/2016/black-book/#selection-63.45-63.87
12:07 assbot Black Book on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1UilLYd )
12:07 mircea_popescu asciilifeform orly ?
12:07 asciilifeform i've spend my counterfactual-juice for the day
12:07 asciilifeform *spent
12:07 asciilifeform so nfi.
12:07 asciilifeform gotta go get moar.
12:07 mircea_popescu anyway, why are you so hurt by all this stuff ?
12:08 asciilifeform well, aside from the motherland burning and my being powerless to do anything about it on account of sitting on a sharpened telephone pole, i'm having a marvelous day !11
12:08 thestringpuller ah I was thinking of little black book. was thoroughly confoosed.
12:09 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i can see that angle :)
12:10 mircea_popescu thestringpuller the incredible insanity of naming a girl carice. carici being one of the numerous ways you can say cunt in romanian.
12:10 mircea_popescu so Cunts van Houten!
12:11 asciilifeform hey, englishers call gurlz 'kitty'
12:11 asciilifeform which is not too far off.
12:11 mircea_popescu i guess so
12:12 mircea_popescu anyway, she's great in that film, warmly recommended - not just to watch, but also to get one of your own.
12:14 asciilifeform holy shit
12:14 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428674 < yeah, "turning into unity" or anything alike is not happening. contrary to what alf may think, i'm not about to java-ify things.
12:14 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 14:28:06; jurov: the problem is in opposite direction, to untangle them
12:14 asciilifeform eerom has an an2135sc by cypress
12:14 asciilifeform which... is COMPATIBLE with ezusb !?!?! >>. http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428437
12:14 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 04:16:24; assbot: Loper OS » Cypress EZ-Host Firmware Development Under Linux. ... ( http://bit.ly/1p9qDDf )
12:14 mircea_popescu nb.
12:14 asciilifeform that i reversed in 2012 ?!
12:16 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428686 << pretty much all engineering since 2014 consisted of washing that crud off.
12:16 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 15:03:34; punkman: diana_coman: are you having ideas about getting rid of planeshift yet?
12:29 * asciilifeform could easily sanitize the thing, if .... etc.
12:29 asciilifeform hell, rotorize.
12:29 asciilifeform in fact, you don't need me for this any moar, can do yourself.
12:29 asciilifeform i demonstrated how.
12:29 mircea_popescu lol
12:30 mircea_popescu in other news, phuctor server paid for yet another month.
12:30 asciilifeform ty mircea_popescu . and my offer to cover it with own blood - stands.
12:31 mircea_popescu yaya. i'm all about to encourage ~that~ sort of insanity.
12:32 asciilifeform (re: earlier, i case anyone thinks that winblowz is 'too hard', i have win8 kernel drivers built with GCC and ~zero microshit code~)
12:32 mircea_popescu static linked ?
12:32 asciilifeform in the sense of not invoking dll loader at any point - YES.
12:32 mircea_popescu nb.
12:33 asciilifeform fwiw.
12:34 asciilifeform ditto userland.
12:45 mircea_popescu and in other news, http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3i8a1coqd1r7us0jo1_1280.jpg
12:45 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1U5f6Su )
12:49 asciilifeform https://bitbet.us/bet/1249/alphago-will-defeat-lee-sedol-overall-in-march << mega-commentz lulz.
12:49 assbot BitBet - AlphaGo will defeat Lee Sedol overall in March 2016 match :: 80.22 B (54%) on Yes, 68.59 B (46%) on No | closed 1 day 17 hours ago ... ( http://bit.ly/1Q5VsDd )
12:51 * asciilifeform would be quite stimulated to learn who was responsible for the ~30 btc flurry of 'yes' bets in the 12 hrs or so before the game
12:51 mircea_popescu "No kidding. What a scam this site is. I suppose they're planning on people not really reading the FAQ. I mean it calculates the odds for you and says 1 pays 1 but that's a LIE."
12:51 mircea_popescu what the fuck are these idiots on about ?!
12:51 mircea_popescu "The fee should also probably be taken out of profit only, not the total bet."
12:51 mircea_popescu herp.
12:51 asciilifeform covered in shit from walking through heathen world, and they never wash, so still smell it
12:51 mircea_popescu how about the fee gets taken out of mps fortune, and losers are refunded for good measure.
12:52 mircea_popescu motherfucker....
12:53 asciilifeform much as i would like to prove some variety of shenanigans re: this bet, i cannot.
12:55 mircea_popescu https://bitbet.us/bet/1249/alphago-will-defeat-lee-sedol-overall-in-march/#c5794 << this ia actually a pretty intelligent comment
12:55 assbot BitBet - AlphaGo will defeat Lee Sedol overall in March 2016 match :: 80.22 B (54%) on Yes, 68.59 B (46%) on No | closed 1 day 17 hours ago ... ( http://bit.ly/1U5fPD4 )
12:56 asciilifeform aha, linked strictly for it
12:56 mircea_popescu anyway, thanks god for kakobrekla's idea of implementing that calculator on site, otherwise with bets like these that draw loads of noobs (i don't mean to bitrcoin, or to betting, i mean to thinking) we'd have had degrees of magnitude more idiotic spew.
12:58 asciilifeform but at any rate i would not be surprised if one day i learn that lee sedol was told by a little bird that if he wins he will have an accident like go seigen in '61
12:59 mircea_popescu money is a better play.
12:59 asciilifeform (well, no, i will be surprised ~if i learn~, but not ~that it happened~)
12:59 mircea_popescu "win, either way, 1mn or 10, your call"
12:59 asciilifeform or that.
12:59 asciilifeform thing is, money is not much of a motivator to pro go players
13:00 asciilifeform they want ~to play~
13:01 mircea_popescu or maybe have other theorems to prove.
13:01 asciilifeform (and to exist in the conditions where playing is a thing, for which the money is. but the money is strictly secondary.)
13:01 asciilifeform very few pro go folks have other theorems, they start at 5 y.o.
13:02 asciilifeform think ballet.
13:02 mircea_popescu this is not much of a criteria.
13:02 * mircea_popescu spent years hunting @ballet school. they do have other theorems.
13:02 asciilifeform they'd better, given that they burn out at, what, 19
13:06 mircea_popescu anyway. konspiraci isn't, on reflection and review, much of a persuasive explanation here.
13:06 mircea_popescu computer plays like a shoe - true, but not just any shoe.
13:06 mircea_popescu the same thing exists in bridge, the stickler old lady.
13:07 asciilifeform bulldozer, in the end, always wins
13:07 mircea_popescu usually makes a 3rd to 5th in singles tourneys or else somewhere 4-10th in teams. because her quarter tricks on minor points still buy a lot.
13:07 asciilifeform it will still be a few yrs. before it becomes impossible to play on the net.
13:08 asciilifeform or so thinks my brother, who for ~20yrs has cared for very little other than go.
13:08 asciilifeform ( he went, so to speak, perelman, some time ago. )
13:09 mircea_popescu tsk.
13:09 mircea_popescu sorry for his loss.\
13:09 asciilifeform eh he knew it would not live forever.
13:09 asciilifeform is not a fool.
13:10 mircea_popescu hey, is this the fellow that used to game program ?
13:10 asciilifeform aha
13:10 asciilifeform i only got 1 brother.
13:10 mircea_popescu well if he wqants to go perelman all over eulora... something could perhaps be arranged.
13:10 asciilifeform ~ mircea_popescu's age.
13:10 asciilifeform l0l mircea_popescu thinks he could afford my brother , ahaha.
13:11 mircea_popescu oh, perelman takes money now ? darn, i should headhunt the original
13:11 asciilifeform perhaps !
13:11 asciilifeform maybe p even takes payment in the tree bark he eats
13:12 asciilifeform perhaps he'll cough up a cipher for us.
13:12 asciilifeform (incidentally, any mail re: ciphers ??)
13:12 PeterL did mircea_popescu mean program eulora or play eulora?
13:12 asciilifeform PeterL: prolly program ? i don't recall folks having to be paid to ~play~ it?
13:13 PeterL well, S.MG is sitting on how many thousands of btc? surely that would entice anybody if spent
13:14 asciilifeform PeterL: i dun think mircea_popescu believes in spending
13:14 asciilifeform can't blame'im either
13:14 asciilifeform spending suxxx.
13:15 asciilifeform those thousands will buy some very spiffy tshirts when btc goes to penny.
13:16 asciilifeform (though spending will still suck donkey balls then)
13:24 BingoBoingo http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428607 << Been raining. Have tree down to straight 5'3" section in ground suitable for art
13:24 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 13:30:05; shinohai: Speaking of stakes, I wonder how BingoBoingo impalement project is coming.
13:24 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: he was 'old-school' '90s games man, hand-optimized asm for consoles, 3d engines from scratch, that kinda thing.
13:24 asciilifeform now works on dour industrial control crud.
13:24 asciilifeform but at least doesn't ever have to leave house.
13:27 asciilifeform (the games industry mostly left this part of the world.)
13:33 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: i will have you know that yours is a very thin tree.
13:33 asciilifeform tepes would never sit a man down on such a stake.
13:33 asciilifeform it'd be over in minutes.
13:34 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Yes, very thin weedy thing. But it's height had become a concern given it's proximity to the power line.
13:34 asciilifeform (typically, tree was chosen to be ~telephone pole wide. so that victim would have to wait 2-3 days for the bones to spread, or to die of thirst)
13:35 asciilifeform the stake was in ru penal code through the 18th c. so we happen to know a good bit of craft concerning how & what.
13:36 asciilifeform for instance, you don't want splinters on the pole, the condemned bleeds faster.
13:37 asciilifeform the last instance i recall of a formal sentence of impalement was, iirc, in 1740s, and it was commuted at the last minute to beheading
13:37 asciilifeform but historians in the audience are welcome to correct me.
13:37 shinohai How merciful.
13:38 BingoBoingo Aha! I have three trees several times too big then and none the right size. I like the big ones though. Will have to look up primary sources.
13:40 asciilifeform there is an excellent scene of 16 c. horse-drawn impalement in the pl film 'Ogniem i mieczem' ('with fire and sword').
13:41 asciilifeform four-parter, took, iirc, ~40 years to make !
13:41 asciilifeform longer than 'star wars.'
13:41 asciilifeform mega-film.
13:51 BingoBoingo there is also locust tree I am not candidate because it likely no longer has a solid core and will likely require its removal to be outsourced.
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14:07 jurov mod6 ben_vulpes i have got bitcoin-foundation.info domain, should i toss it too?
14:20 funkenstein_ <trinque> hey, regrind your vpatch and I'll sign it <-- thanks trinque :) trouble is I'm not sure what base to regrind from
14:22 funkenstein_ this seems an unsolved problem in how to use V and/or my broken understanding of how to use V
14:26 danielpbarron http://thesixthirty.com/news/chicago-cell-phone-jammer/ >> Although, if I’m going to play devil’s advocate here, how much fun would it be just to ride the L for hours on end with a case of Old Style and a cell phone jammer solely for the purpose of messing with people?
14:26 assbot Wanted: The Chicago Cell Phone Jammer ... ( http://bit.ly/1RC8LrJ )
14:26 asciilifeform rereading the thread re: the 5 necessary spare asciilifeforms leads me to ask related q, where do we get a spare mircea_popescu if our current one breaks !
14:26 danielpbarron ^^ is now caught, 10k USD bail
14:27 danielpbarron isn't that another "if you have to ask" sorta things?
14:28 asciilifeform re: jammer: idiocy
14:28 trinque publish list of mega-b00ks, or go raid whichever university is still teaching math/eng re: alfs
14:29 asciilifeform if yer gonna jam, have 100 of'em, with solar panels, dropped by quadcopter on rooftops.
14:29 asciilifeform take out gsm citywide for a month.
14:29 asciilifeform this is kindergarten-basic.
14:30 asciilifeform trinque: go, raid.
14:30 trinque I was hoping for the reading list!
14:30 danielpbarron http://danielpbarron.com/ascii_book_list.txt
14:30 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/223ti3i )
14:31 asciilifeform this is mebbe half a shelf.
14:31 trinque here's the thing
14:32 trinque I've heard plenty of reasonable criticism of autodidactism
14:32 asciilifeform i hate to disappoint folks, but i'm .. not made of book
14:32 trinque maybe gotta actually train an army at some point, instead of hoping heaven drops its own
14:32 asciilifeform armies is what the other side has.
14:32 trinque for this very reason
14:33 asciilifeform all i can offer is this other kind of force.
14:33 asciilifeform while i have some to give.
14:33 asciilifeform call it what you like.
14:35 mod6 jurov: why would you toss it?
14:35 jurov i forgot i registerd it and now it is expiring, asking if you want to add it
14:37 asciilifeform i actually understand very well why mircea_popescu does not want any of this to EVER become about armies of trainable fungible folks.
14:37 mod6 jurov: are you using it for anything at all?
14:37 jurov also, just for lulz, got targeted spam - invite to bid on foundationcoin.com
14:37 mod6 heh
14:38 asciilifeform he has a good grip of military craft, and understands that only idiots engage enemy on ~his~ strong turf
14:38 jurov mod6 no, there was promo for .info. so i regged it and forgot
14:38 asciilifeform l0l autogenned spamola
14:38 mod6 ah. i think you can let it go. we've got 'thebitcoin.foundation' for at least the next 4 years iirc. (good until 2020), and im not sure about therealbitcoin.com -- i didn't register that one.
14:40 jurov ok
14:40 mod6 i guess therealbitcoin.com expires on 22-10-2016
14:40 mod6 so whomever may want to renew that one.
14:40 jurov it's me too, i'll keep it for ml
14:40 mod6 sweet thank jurov
14:40 trinque asciilifeform: what does asking for a list of books have to do with fungible cogs
14:41 trinque I can see very well that you're not engaging me on the turf I proposed
14:41 trinque :p
14:41 trinque *they* made this world, and what is the proposal for the other? I suppose engineers and mathematicians will burst from the womb having spent 9 months proving theorems
14:43 asciilifeform trinque: i think i lost the head of the thread?
14:43 asciilifeform list of books for ~what~ ?
14:47 trinque if #b-a is not growing its own theorem-provers, it is merely feeding off the tit of the world it works against.
14:47 asciilifeform the OLD world.
14:48 asciilifeform i fully expect that it will take 100+ yrs of AGGRESSIVE sanity to create the peoplecaliber of 1980 again.
14:48 asciilifeform and 1000 years - 1880.
14:50 trinque what is this magical people-essense we will rediscover other than good leadership?
14:50 trinque *essence
14:51 asciilifeform do you recall the thread re: how people born in '90s cannot think worth half a damn ?
14:52 asciilifeform what, you think ~their~ students, ~will~ ??
14:52 funkenstein_ http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428522 <-- one thing i've learned reading here is that this attitude leads to thermodynamic death / intellectual wasteland more quickly than i had expected
14:52 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 12:38:38; asciilifeform: while there many be 'intelligence available outside of the wot', it is ~dead to me~
14:52 asciilifeform mircea_popescu has several useful articles re: how various unrealities will have to collapse in order for real people to be built again
14:53 asciilifeform but it is not clear to me that those who pick up the pieces will choose to do anything resembling civilization.
14:53 asciilifeform and i could not necessarily persuade them that it is a good idea.
14:53 asciilifeform even if i could speak to them.
14:55 funkenstein_ asciilifeform: health is still ~1k/mo. <-- I LOLed
15:00 * trinque wonders which of the ancient conquerors ever sat waiting for power to show up of its own accord, shield and spear in hand
15:00 asciilifeform who said 'wait' ?
15:00 asciilifeform go, do !
15:00 trinque I suppose spartans just sorta emerged
15:00 asciilifeform conquer !
15:00 trinque fell out the womb and of the random shuffling of life, some were spartans
15:00 asciilifeform fix shiva so lispimage persists !
15:01 asciilifeform or are you stuck in womb.
15:02 trinque I have trb dev time today. it does not address the point made about education and its function in a culture
15:04 asciilifeform mircea_popescu has the canonical advice, i cannot beat it, have 1000 children, beat'em within a mm of their life, kill the dumbest 9/10th
15:04 asciilifeform what else to say.
15:04 trinque oh I don't know, learning math?
15:04 trinque wtf is this
15:05 asciilifeform teach the survivers, maths.
15:05 asciilifeform hell, they will learn it by themselves
15:05 trinque there are more books on mathematics than could ever possibly be read by one person in one lifetime
15:05 asciilifeform by counting yer bonez
15:05 asciilifeform trinque: everything that is ~actually worth reading~ would fit in a large room.
15:05 trinque no shit huh?
15:05 trinque l0l
15:05 asciilifeform aha.
15:06 asciilifeform this is sad but true.
15:06 trinque this is exactly, entirely my point
15:06 trinque make the room!!!!111!!11!1
15:06 funkenstein_ ^
15:06 asciilifeform i have about 1/2 of it.
15:08 asciilifeform oh there is a trick
15:08 asciilifeform one of the items in the room is an hdd with half a TB of ru text.
15:09 trinque if you bothered to breed well a 90% failure rate is deplorable
15:09 trinque the whole rest is what information you put in the skulls
15:09 asciilifeform what's the failure rate for making mircea_popescus ?
15:10 asciilifeform and i'm not even a mircea_popescu !
15:10 asciilifeform there's at least two full platoons of asciilifeforms for every mircea_popescu .
15:16 nubbins` good thing
15:16 funkenstein_ how is blustering idiocy canonical?
15:17 nubbins` by fiat decree
15:17 funkenstein_ aha
15:18 funkenstein_ i guess if it is repeated enough, it is indeed in the canon
15:18 asciilifeform funkenstein_: i dunno about your planet, but on mine it is state of the art.
15:18 asciilifeform nubbins` !
15:18 asciilifeform did that tx confirm yet ?!
15:18 nubbins` yes sir
15:19 nubbins` prepping the crate for airdrop today
15:19 asciilifeform yay!
15:20 asciilifeform only took 3 days for somebody to malleat it, huh.
15:21 nubbins` block 401820 for your records! i'd only re-checked this morning
15:22 asciilifeform it was still in limbo when i woke up.
15:23 asciilifeform i even was starting to think that i'd have to write my own malleatron.
15:24 asciilifeform ftr i still see the high-S thing as a deplorable compromise
15:24 asciilifeform it set a precedent for miner censorship.
15:24 asciilifeform i.e. that the collective of miners CAN exclude certain tx.
15:24 asciilifeform that are VALID BITCOIN.
15:25 PeterL counts as a soft fork?
15:25 asciilifeform it emboldened the fuckers for... what we see now.
15:28 funkenstein_ what's that?
15:28 asciilifeform !s a miner problem
15:28 assbot 21 results for 'a miner problem' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=a+miner+problem
15:28 funkenstein_ can you exclude me from your dinner even though I have a valid mouth?
15:29 funkenstein_ not that again lol
15:29 asciilifeform funkenstein_: if miners can pick and choose who gets to use bitcoin, like you pick dinner guests, bitcoin is broken.
15:29 funkenstein_ they pick and choose what TX to include in a block they mine as always
15:30 asciilifeform ants are welcome to choose which crumb on the floor to eat. BUT it had better be INCONSPICUOUS and they had BETTER stay out of the refrigerator.
15:30 funkenstein_ unless they pay the fee ;)
15:30 asciilifeform the kitchen, regardless of what ants may think, was NOT built as an ant restaurant.
15:31 funkenstein_ heh :) well having to pay miners for their service hardly implies something broken to me
15:32 asciilifeform pay, pay.
15:32 asciilifeform i have nfi btw why mircea_popescu sent a 0fee.
15:32 asciilifeform srsly i have nfi, ask him.
15:32 funkenstein_ whole thing is none of my business
15:32 asciilifeform maybe he hit the button with his elbow, what.
15:32 asciilifeform none of MY either.
15:32 asciilifeform but for some reason folks keep asking about it.
15:33 asciilifeform and i will say, for last time hopefully, i have nfi !11
15:33 funkenstein_ lol anyway asciilifeform, got any comments about how you see patch order established for V users?
15:34 asciilifeform maybe he did it SO FOLKS WOULD ASK!111
15:36 asciilifeform funkenstein_: i suggested 'longest chain with sigs S1, S2, ... Sn' earlier.
15:36 PeterL <asciilifeform> the kitchen, regardless of what ants may think, was NOT built as an ant restaurant. << I dun get it, how does miners not including your txn equate to raiding the kitchen?
15:36 asciilifeform because the ants are not the purpose of the kitchen.
15:36 asciilifeform they are parasites.
15:36 asciilifeform and it anyone knew how to build an antproof kitchen, he ~would~.
15:38 funkenstein_ asciilifeform, so if I would like to make/rebase a patch.. i should take the longest chain I have seen as the base of the diff?
15:38 asciilifeform (maybe ants are not the best example, but ~the mold on the cheese~ is. mold is necessary and useful in the RIGHT PLACES)
15:38 asciilifeform funkenstein_: longest chain SIGNED BY FOLKS YOU APPROVE OF
15:39 PeterL so if your patch is not included, you have to keep rebasing it every time a new patch is added until it does get included?
15:39 asciilifeform unfortunately yes.
15:40 funkenstein_ it seems perhaps a checkpoint might be in order
15:40 asciilifeform we had a brutal but iirc conclusive thread about this
15:40 funkenstein_ also if people don't like a patch SN which you have in the base, they will not get to use your patch
15:42 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-02-2016#1411334 << thread.
15:42 assbot Logged on 20-02-2016 23:42:04; mircea_popescu: you don't "release" a patch.
15:43 asciilifeform where mircea_popescu argues that there being ~any such thing~ as a shared-by-all checkpoint is a Bad Thing
15:43 asciilifeform and leads to prb.
15:45 funkenstein_ this implies there is also no "included"
15:45 asciilifeform yes.
15:45 asciilifeform theer is only 'included by YOU'
15:45 asciilifeform in YOUR tree
15:45 asciilifeform which others can CHOOSE to pollinate from.
15:45 asciilifeform this is key.
15:46 funkenstein_ aha
15:46 funkenstein_ so when trinque asks me to regrind, perhaps I should ask him for his tree
15:46 asciilifeform it took me a week of ??? and radiating high-energy frustratrons at mircea_popescu to fully grasp this point.
15:47 asciilifeform also 'regrind' is familiar in the heathen world under the name 'merge'
15:47 asciilifeform we have NO auto-merge for a REASON.
15:47 PeterL funkenstein_ or do you just have to ask which keys are in his wot, and you can generate a tree from there?
15:47 trinque funkenstein_: it makes more sense for you to make your own decisions about which patches you like, and if I don't like it I'm free to alter your patch to suit me
15:47 asciilifeform ideally you would never have to transmit whole tree, right
15:47 asciilifeform trinque has it.
15:48 funkenstein_ ok thanks for walking me through it
15:53 thestringpuller PeterL: being a chemist what was the formative era when alchemy became chemistry?
15:55 funkenstein_ R. Boyle's name comes up often in this context
15:56 asciilifeform http://www.wptz.com/politics/first-on-cnn-us-plans-to-publicly-blame-iran-for-dam-cyber-breach/38444226 << in other lulz.
15:56 assbot First on CNN: U.S. plans to publicly blame Iran for dam cyber breach | Politics - WPTZ Home ... ( http://bit.ly/1Uj1jqm )
15:56 asciilifeform BingoBoingo ^ qntra ?
15:56 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Was looking at that actually, may make the cut.
15:56 * asciilifeform bbl
15:58 funkenstein_ thestringpuller, imho as long as grant-writers pull the wool over the eyes of the grantors, alchemy continues
16:00 shinohai Funny I was looking at that same article before gf came over.
16:01 thestringpuller modern alchemy? psuedoscience in a sense... But I was more referring from the psychological transition of viewing the world through the lens of alchemy vs. that of chemistry
16:02 thestringpuller I agree we should stop playing fast and loose with the scientific method tho...
16:03 funkenstein_ well if you can get a grant from the king to do real chemistry by suggesting there might be immortality in it, why not?
16:06 thestringpuller i don't think there are any grants for turning led into gold
16:06 thestringpuller and we're well aware the atomic difference in the two...
16:07 funkenstein_ aha but micro-black holes, big bang cosmology, "the singularity", etc.
16:07 thestringpuller "there will always be mysticism, just in another form"
16:08 funkenstein_ there you go :)
16:08 thestringpuller but that's just congealing knowledge from alchemy to chemistry :P
16:08 thestringpuller i'm more specifically pointing out formative moments like in 2001 when the monkeys encounter the monolith
16:09 asciilifeform funkenstein_: my billz are 100% paid by 'alchemy'.
16:09 asciilifeform like, e.g., kepler's.
16:10 asciilifeform (well, he had astrology, same diff.)
16:10 thestringpuller what is computer alchemy?
16:10 thestringpuller trying to discover how to break sha-2?
16:11 funkenstein_ windows security?
16:11 asciilifeform more prosaic
16:11 shinohai I wasn't aware you could use "Windows" and "Security" in same expression?
16:11 asciilifeform modern alchemists are 'clever' and try to claim small things.
16:12 asciilifeform not gold, copper.
16:12 thestringpuller I haven't had to reinstall windows on my gaming rig in 3 years.
16:12 asciilifeform not immortality - live extra day.
16:12 asciilifeform etc.
16:12 asciilifeform same rubbish, but 'modest'.
16:12 thestringpuller I dunno how all these people get malware in windows.
16:13 asciilifeform thestringpuller: typically browser 'driveby'.
16:13 asciilifeform secondarily - via warez.
16:13 thestringpuller I guess using my machine for single purpose- Netflix and Steam, has limited risk.
16:14 thestringpuller would never use windows machine for exploring the jungle
16:14 funkenstein_ http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/i-believe-i-shall-destroy-the-stock-market-again-16327
16:14 assbot I Believe I Shall Destroy The Stock Market Again - The Onion - America's Finest News Source ... ( http://bit.ly/1Xg36LW )
16:14 thestringpuller you'll come home with ticks leeches and tapeworms
16:14 asciilifeform i saw a win98 box once, uninfected, i shit thee not. it was connected to an alarm system, in a closet, no net connection, for decade.
16:15 thestringpuller impressive
16:19 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429067 << nope.
16:19 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 18:12:10; asciilifeform: (incidentally, any mail re: ciphers ??)
16:23 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429103 << well, that's why people are saving, learning romanian, reading up on old theory of law and commercial practice arcana and so on, neh ?
16:23 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 19:26:45; asciilifeform: rereading the thread re: the 5 necessary spare asciilifeforms leads me to ask related q, where do we get a spare mircea_popescu if our current one breaks !
16:24 mircea_popescu jic.
16:25 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429119 << it is a complicated thing, "train an army of samurai".
16:25 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 19:32:16; trinque: maybe gotta actually train an army at some point, instead of hoping heaven drops its own
16:25 mircea_popescu !s momotaro
16:25 assbot 1 results for 'momotaro' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=momotaro
16:29 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429131 << more complicated than that (for instance - i engage enemy on his strong turf all the time, i just don't engage it on its ~chosen~ turf except for final battle), but in principle sure.
16:29 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 19:38:02; asciilifeform: he has a good grip of military craft, and understands that only idiots engage enemy on ~his~ strong turf
16:30 asciilifeform i suggest that the craft of producing mircea_popescu henceforth be referred to as momotronics.
16:30 asciilifeform (per momotaro.)
16:30 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429146 << this is not necessarily unworkable - for a long time humans kept domesticated animals but didn't breed them in captivity - merely captured more. yet otherwise, sure.
16:30 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 19:47:13; trinque: if #b-a is not growing its own theorem-provers, it is merely feeding off the tit of the world it works against.
16:30 PeterL thestringpuller I am not really strong on history, I would say 1800s, peer reviewed journals became a thing
16:31 mircea_popescu PeterL "peer reviewed journals" became a thing in 1950s, together with state-funded science.
16:31 asciilifeform and monasteries certainly did not ~breed~ thinkers
16:31 mircea_popescu they were trying to emulate the previous functioning of actual science, which was very much b-a.
16:31 asciilifeform aha, royal society, etc.
16:32 asciilifeform everyone knows the story of harrison, the watchmaker ?
16:32 BingoBoingo aha
16:32 asciilifeform the one who eventually - in his 80s - awarded longitude prize
16:32 asciilifeform was rebuffed by royal society for ~decades~ because... not in wot.
16:32 mircea_popescu !s story of harrison, the watchmaker
16:32 assbot 0 results for 'story of harrison, the watchmaker' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=story+of+harrison%2C+the+watchmaker
16:32 asciilifeform it cuts both ways.
16:32 mircea_popescu log can take one of everything.
16:33 asciilifeform !s longitude
16:33 assbot 7 results for 'longitude' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=longitude
16:33 asciilifeform http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/08/article-2034658-0DC6E85C00000578-158_634x628.jpg
16:33 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1pj6iMq )
16:33 PeterL <thestringpuller> I haven't had to reinstall windows on my gaming rig in 3 years << I havn't had to reinstall the OS on my mac in 9 years, it mostly sorta still works
16:33 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429150 << not giving a shit, for instance, in incredible short supply.
16:33 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 19:50:53; trinque: what is this magical people-essense we will rediscover other than good leadership?
16:33 asciilifeform ^ his prototype
16:33 asciilifeform https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Harrison's_Chronometer_H5.JPG
16:33 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1pj6jQq )
16:33 asciilifeform ^ his final one.
16:34 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429153 << amusingly enough, it's historically how it works.
16:34 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 19:52:06; asciilifeform: what, you think ~their~ students, ~will~ ??
16:35 PeterL <asciilifeform> i saw a win98 box once, uninfected, i shit thee not. it was connected to an alarm system, in a closet, no net connection, for decade. << my previous job we had a windows 98 box dedicated to a piece of equipment
16:35 asciilifeform PeterL: was it a mass spec ?
16:35 mircea_popescu lol! how did you know.
16:35 PeterL no, NIR
16:35 asciilifeform ah!
16:35 mircea_popescu oh.
16:35 asciilifeform we had both, and yes win98
16:36 PeterL If it still works, why upgrade?
16:36 asciilifeform mass spec is the worst, came with isa card
16:36 asciilifeform no upgrade, ever.
16:37 asciilifeform incidentally, ~no lab ever hires a reverser to build a new interface.
16:37 asciilifeform because how do you budget for that.
16:37 asciilifeform $MAXINT for rusty iron, but not a penny for hiring folks
16:37 PeterL <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429119 << it is a complicated thing, "train an army of samurai". << try the Jedi approach, one-on-one tutelage
16:37 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 19:32:16; trinque: maybe gotta actually train an army at some point, instead of hoping heaven drops its own
16:38 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429161 << this is actually a very juvenal-ish image. yet i don't recall it as a thing.
16:38 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 20:00:05; *: trinque wonders which of the ancient conquerors ever sat waiting for power to show up of its own accord, shield and spear in hand
16:38 mircea_popescu asciilifeform> because how do you budget for that. << i have no idea wqhat the because would be, other than idiots. if i ran the lab i would, simply on grounds of independence.
16:38 mircea_popescu and of course i'd prolly have a wailing chorus of stakeholder idiots, whom i'd tell the usual get fucked.
16:39 mircea_popescu PeterL i only do what with women of a certain age.
16:40 deedbot- [Qntra] US May Accuse Iran Of Office Computer Infection - http://qntra.net/2016/03/us-may-accuse-iran-of-office-computer-infection/
16:41 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429166 << the spartans "emerged" out of a well understood, well documented process modern man prefers to think never existed. specifically : the woman's job to push them out ; the man's job to decide which may live. and runts - off to the apothetae.
16:41 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 20:00:36; trinque: fell out the womb and of the random shuffling of life, some were spartans
16:41 PeterL asciilifeform my current lab goes the direction of paying for "service contract" with equipment manufacturers to keep our software up-to-date
16:41 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i only ever worked in godforsaken usg labs.
16:42 mircea_popescu PeterL and if you tell the head manager that this is a miserable abdication from his job - which is to assure you the stuff will work no matter what, he says ?
16:42 BingoBoingo http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429366 << Actually leads to pederasty. Anyways the Jedi thing was invented by the George Lucas hamplanet.
16:42 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 21:37:58; PeterL: <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429119 << it is a complicated thing, "train an army of samurai". << try the Jedi approach, one-on-one tutelage
16:42 mircea_popescu let me guess, "nobody could have foreseen - no one got fired for following the herd".
16:43 asciilifeform and anyway there's ~6 people you can hire to do the isa card.
16:43 PeterL the equipment does what we want it to, what more do we need?
16:43 asciilifeform ( asciilifeform is one... )
16:43 mircea_popescu PeterL i tohuhgt you were scientists ? "this experiment came out right - what more ?"
16:43 mircea_popescu uh i dunno...
16:43 mircea_popescu !s negative vs positive functioning
16:43 assbot 0 results for 'negative vs positive functioning' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=negative+vs+positive+functioning
16:44 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=07-03-2016#1425915 < that.
16:44 assbot Logged on 07-03-2016 23:26:24; assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 23:20:09; mircea_popescu: you think you're running a node, because, symptomatically, in the windows definition of running code (hey, click items till it works) you are. but the sense of running code contemplated for bitcoin is negative, not positive, and you don't know how to check for that nor do you specifically care.
16:45 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429178 << he's asking you for the index list of that room ; you're not providing it because ?
16:45 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 20:05:42; asciilifeform: trinque: everything that is ~actually worth reading~ would fit in a large room.
16:46 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429189 << cunt runs on perl, it is what it is, it does what it does. 90% failue rate may well be very self-flattering if the criteria discussed are contemplated seriously.
16:46 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 20:09:20; trinque: if you bothered to breed well a 90% failure rate is deplorable
16:46 mircea_popescu 10% failure rate is based on the concept that a)most will be artisans, ie, gardeners and b) periodic war and disease anyway.
16:48 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429190 << this is sadly not much more than a restatement of the independent vertical credo, "where do i get just the facts". bear in mind that this vertical is a creation of the usg agitprop machine and nothing more.
16:48 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 20:09:29; trinque: the whole rest is what information you put in the skulls
16:49 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the books are the EASY PART
16:49 asciilifeform and i listed many of them here.
16:49 asciilifeform over past years.
16:50 asciilifeform go and make a set of ~eyes~ for the books to be read by.
16:50 mircea_popescu being an us style "independent" has about as much to do with independence as being a us style "liberal" has to do with liberalism ; or as much as the 6th grader's idea of "a lothario" has to do with fucking, partying and generally the dyonyssian world.
16:50 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2013/queers/#selection-55.0-55.24 < reference there.
16:50 assbot Queers on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1pj7Ype )
16:50 mircea_popescu asciilifeform "many of them" != "here's list"
16:51 PeterL <mircea_popescu> PeterL and if you tell the head manager that this is a miserable abdication from his job - which is to assure you the stuff will work no matter what, he says ? << If the equipment does not work the way it is supposed to, we speak to our contact and he fixes it, I don't see any abdication of job by manager here?
16:52 mircea_popescu really ?
16:52 asciilifeform my list is not complete until i'm dead...
16:52 asciilifeform take naggum's list.
16:52 asciilifeform it is in the logz even.
16:52 mircea_popescu suppose you get married, and if you or wife need anty money, you go ask your dad.
16:52 mircea_popescu this doesn't abdicate your role, and she would be wise to mary you in this arrangement, yes ?
16:54 PeterL well, the company can pay me to figure out how to program it or pay the guy who built it to program it, it is just cheaper/faster for them to do it
16:54 mircea_popescu (note that this is quite how it worked, for poor people in rural, feudal settings. recommended reading : http://trilema.com/2012/la-terra-trema/ )
16:54 assbot La Terra Trema on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1pj8pjm )
16:54 mircea_popescu PeterL and it'd be cheaper/faster (== easier) for your dad to pay.
16:55 mircea_popescu a discussion of whether x is an abdication or not can not be decided on the basis of "is it cheaper or faster". because of fucking course it would be, that's what abdication means.
16:55 mircea_popescu you give up.
16:55 PeterL do you fix your pipes yourself or do you hire a plumber?
16:56 PeterL is hiring a plumber an abdication of duty?
16:56 mircea_popescu and let's relate here the immorality of capital, as per http://trilema.com/2016/give-computers-the-vote-theyre-cheaper-than-women-even/#footnote_7_65336
16:56 assbot Give computers the vote. They're cheaper than women, even! on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1pj8ALv )
16:56 mircea_popescu PeterL i only hire plumbers because i know how to fix my pipes.
16:56 mircea_popescu i would not hire, eg, "apple laptop fixer".
16:57 mircea_popescu and i have not to date hired anyone to do anything whatsoever i don't know how to do myself. how would i pay them ?
16:57 mircea_popescu (and yes that means i can read my own fucking x rays, and say to the doctor what he says back to me.)
16:58 PeterL and you program your own OS from scratch?
16:58 mircea_popescu no, which is why i don't hire osen.
16:58 mircea_popescu i... don't know how to pay.
16:58 PeterL but you use an OS written by somebody
16:58 mircea_popescu so i do.
16:59 PeterL so wtf is even your point?
16:59 mircea_popescu you think that was a counterargument somehow ?!
16:59 mircea_popescu i also use women i didn't make myself...
16:59 PeterL I'm just trying to figure out what you are trying to argue here?
17:00 mircea_popescu well, i dun know how it'd be otherwise said, so i guess we let it lay ?
17:01 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429211 << it is very difficult to get around this in bitcoin as-is.
17:01 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 20:24:40; asciilifeform: i.e. that the collective of miners CAN exclude certain tx.
17:01 asciilifeform quite impossible, actually, afaik.
17:01 PeterL other than running your own mining pool
17:01 asciilifeform PeterL: they can collude to kill you
17:02 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429221 << the "all data used to eval a tx is found in that tx" point is paramount and controlling here as there. no, they don't "pick and choose".
17:02 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 20:29:36; funkenstein_: they pick and choose what TX to include in a block they mine as always
17:02 PeterL with >50% if nobody else likes you
17:02 mircea_popescu PeterL yes, i'm aware that if we felt like it, we could just buy visa hurr durr.
17:02 mircea_popescu what's any of that to do with bitcoin.
17:02 asciilifeform ^
17:03 PeterL as mircea_popescu always says, "don't be poor"
17:03 asciilifeform there must not BE a 'blackhole tx' button.
17:03 asciilifeform anywhere.
17:03 mircea_popescu that doesn't relate here.
17:04 mircea_popescu "how to fly!" "don't be poor" < works. "how to cold fusion" "Don't be poor" < fails. what'd money do ?
17:06 mircea_popescu incidentally, maybe i have a better approach re the other thread. do you suppose PeterL that if you had to take a job with one of two labs, absolutely the same offer in every respect, you'd take the job with the lab that rents space in random buildings or with the lab that owns its own building ?
17:06 PeterL I guess I would say the one that owns a building
17:07 mircea_popescu by the same measure, i'd prefer the lab that owns its machinery rather than borrow it from unknown people in unspecifiable conditions.
17:07 mircea_popescu just moreso, because machinery > real estate ever since the industrial revolution.
17:07 PeterL Okay .... I don't know where you got the idea any equipment borrowing is going on here?
17:08 mircea_popescu hahaha. what ?
17:08 mircea_popescu a girl i own, i can order to plug into whatever cock i choose. a girl you borrow from her parents - only with prior written permission from owner.
17:09 mircea_popescu which i suppose is as good an explanation as any as to why i don't marry : i own my equipment.
17:09 PeterL we get the equipment, we have the manufacturers give us software to run it, then we get to do whatever we want with it
17:09 mircea_popescu except not use win98 station ?
17:10 asciilifeform btw i once spent year+ reversing (successfully) an instrument.
17:10 asciilifeform de-winblowzated it.
17:10 asciilifeform story is in the logz.
17:10 asciilifeform !s tecan
17:10 assbot 10 results for 'tecan' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=tecan
17:10 PeterL ah, if we want to run on win98 station we would have to make driver ourself, but why would we want that?
17:11 asciilifeform but i was not ~hired to do this~, but for something else, i did it as an extra thing
17:11 mircea_popescu PeterL i thought you did run it on windows.
17:11 mircea_popescu could you have run it on an actual os ?
17:11 asciilifeform and, INTERESTINGLY, i owned the copyright, and then spun off the thing as product, and NO ONE BOUGHT
17:11 PeterL well, sure, but newer winblowz than 98
17:11 mircea_popescu asciilifeform how many of those things in production ? 100s ?
17:11 asciilifeform because 'eh it runs anyway, so what if a postdoc has to babysit it'
17:11 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: 20,000+
17:12 mircea_popescu sad huh.
17:12 asciilifeform aha.
17:12 mircea_popescu this sort of thing readily informs me as to your views re, say, 0day mkt.
17:12 asciilifeform yes.
17:12 PeterL some equipment is non-widows, like the NMR
17:12 asciilifeform http://www.molboxllc.com/products.html << mandatory spam
17:12 assbot MolBox LLC ... ( http://bit.ly/1pjarQC )
17:12 asciilifeform ~still~ for sale...
17:13 mircea_popescu asciilifeform in the sad truth of the matter dept, this is kinda why the closed box crud even exists, that's the vp : "by the time someone undoes the shit, it'll be too late for the world to care"
17:13 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: believe or not, when this was new, i even blew a few hundy on... google ads
17:13 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i believe it. "advertising" works as well as make-up.
17:13 asciilifeform we even got a call with the hw vendor
17:13 asciilifeform no shit, the swiss
17:13 mircea_popescu and ?
17:13 asciilifeform they hungy up once i explained that 'no this is not a winblows app, it is not a plugin for yours, it replaces 'evoware' '
17:14 mircea_popescu PeterL it's just miserable management, whether you see it or not.
17:14 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: story is in the logz iirc.
17:14 PeterL I guess I don't see what you would do instead?
17:15 mircea_popescu only buy open hardware. if hardware is considered for buying, add the cost of reversing and opening it to the bill, to make a proper comparison.
17:15 mircea_popescu ie, the win98 item is 100k in cash + 4,5mn in fixing it to spec ; this is 340k in cash + 0 etc.
17:16 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: there is NO open lab automation sys.
17:16 asciilifeform NO open spectrophotometer.
17:16 asciilifeform NO open mass spec.
17:16 asciilifeform NO open gc.
17:16 asciilifeform etc.
17:16 asciilifeform etc.
17:16 mircea_popescu mostly because of abdication discussed above.
17:16 asciilifeform well no shit!
17:16 mircea_popescu there is also no us research worth the mention.
17:16 PeterL asciilifeform has it, there is no open lab equipment or software
17:16 asciilifeform NO open chinese or russian either
17:16 asciilifeform or brazilian or wtf
17:16 asciilifeform NONE
17:16 mircea_popescu because closed is always a competition of empires, and the chinese got 10x more cash.
17:16 asciilifeform aha and their idiot crud runs for winblowz.
17:17 mircea_popescu what do they care.
17:17 PeterL except NMR
17:17 asciilifeform and, notably, my phone does NOT ring with folks asking for reversed hw.
17:18 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429246 << epic :D
17:18 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 20:40:03; funkenstein_: it seems perhaps a checkpoint might be in order
17:18 mircea_popescu "this decentralized paradigm is great, now can we make it centralized again plox"
17:18 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: notably, my tecan proggy allows user to use non-branded furniture in the machine.
17:18 asciilifeform one would THINK this would make a diff to someone !>?
17:19 asciilifeform but no.
17:19 mircea_popescu heh.
17:19 mircea_popescu wgat is this tecan ting anyway ?
17:19 asciilifeform robot.
17:19 asciilifeform see my film.
17:19 asciilifeform (linked)
17:20 asciilifeform narrated, even, by yers truly
17:20 asciilifeform long ago.
17:20 mircea_popescu molbox labminion hehe cute
17:20 asciilifeform 0 sales.
17:21 asciilifeform so what if the thing let me use a 5k usd spectrophotometre instead of 50k golden toilet that has FEWER wavelengths ?!
17:21 asciilifeform no one gave a shit.
17:21 asciilifeform or half a shit.
17:21 mircea_popescu quite problematic huh.
17:21 asciilifeform not china, not north kr, not fuucking antarktica
17:21 asciilifeform crickets.
17:21 mircea_popescu i mean, this would be the exact textbook example of "work really hard, do something useful, be rich"
17:22 mircea_popescu except by now the shitworld is so thick with shit, it "only works" for approved lottery winner.
17:22 asciilifeform 100% lisp btw.
17:22 asciilifeform and mircea_popescu has it.
17:22 mircea_popescu "be less poor" suddenly a lot bitter than previously contemplated, huh ?
17:22 asciilifeform i busted arse to make that thing. and afaik nothing like it exists to this day.
17:23 * trinque takes off his hat
17:23 asciilifeform aha.
17:23 mircea_popescu asciilifeform if it makes you feel better, i'd buy it for the putative chemistry lab i don't run.
17:23 asciilifeform l0lk
17:23 BingoBoingo !b 2
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17:23 mircea_popescu anyway. i'm sorry.
17:24 asciilifeform applicable to other industrial uses incidentally
17:24 asciilifeform e.g., production line
17:24 asciilifeform anywhere there is moving gizmos.
17:24 asciilifeform anywy this was long ago and now mircea_popescu knows some of the perspective it gave.
17:25 mircea_popescu well guaranteedly you can't make any mircea_popescu 's thus, they'd simply burn down your world.
17:25 mircea_popescu cheap way to make high iq arsonists i guess.
17:25 asciilifeform aha.
17:25 asciilifeform which is what i am.
17:26 mircea_popescu my experience, on the contrary - whenever mp as much as vaguely disliked a world, that world caught on fire by itself and cut off its own head.
17:26 asciilifeform what can i say , mircea_popescu is better arsonist than i
17:26 asciilifeform i came here to learn from him !
17:26 mircea_popescu how;s that coming along ?
17:27 deedbot- [Qntra] Microsoft Bundles Adware With Security Update - http://qntra.net/2016/03/microsoft-bundles-adware-with-security-update/
17:27 asciilifeform methinks i am learning.
17:27 mircea_popescu well then i'm glad to hear.
17:28 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429260 << this is actually quite reasonable. trinque : please rebase ? funenstein_ sure, which tree is yours ?
17:28 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 20:46:17; funkenstein_: so when trinque asks me to regrind, perhaps I should ask him for his tree
17:28 mircea_popescu quite how this'd work in sanity.
17:29 mircea_popescu (well really, it'd be more like "i'd like your x rebased for my tree, here it is, you see problem ?", but w/e)
17:29 PeterL asciilifeform this robot thing looks much like what I saw at Dow, I never used it but I had coworkers who used these things for high-throughput research, I dunno what software they used
17:29 asciilifeform now iam remembering things about lm, i had many nice things, had motion planning, could run the thing 10-20x faster thaan 'evoware' (we called it 'evilware') because mine was ~guaranteed~ not to crash, etc.
17:29 asciilifeform PeterL: everyone uses the thing that comes with the instrument.
17:29 asciilifeform because the alternative is the one discussed.
17:29 mircea_popescu you know, you two could perhaps help each other ?
17:30 PeterL yeah, prolly something winblows
17:30 mircea_popescu PeterL get him in room to pitch his thing, make 15% or w/e ? asciilifeform you should prolly hire someone to make the pitch tho.
17:30 asciilifeform sad thing is that i can't easily demo. my outfit never afforded own tecan.
17:31 asciilifeform when the lab closed, we lost access to the thing.
17:31 mircea_popescu a problem, perhaps not insurmountable.
17:31 PeterL mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is going to reverse engineer an LC-MS? and what, we get better performance out of it or something?
17:31 asciilifeform tried 4, 5 times to buy a used one.
17:31 asciilifeform fell through each time.
17:31 mircea_popescu can you cleanly hook it up to an existing unit ?
17:31 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: every unit is slightly different.
17:31 mircea_popescu PeterL well he did make the 10-20x faster claim ?
17:32 mircea_popescu seems to me a 50% speed gain in high thoroughput research would be worth money.
17:32 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: this is specifically for robot arms
17:32 asciilifeform could not, naturally, make this claim for an ms !
17:32 asciilifeform see, mircea_popescu, simply NOT USING WINBLOWZ is a guaranteed gain in ANY conveyor!
17:32 asciilifeform but do you see folks doing it ?
17:32 asciilifeform skip the ransomware, the usgola, etc.
17:32 PeterL that was at *previous* job
17:32 asciilifeform but anyone does ?
17:32 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i don't see folks PITCHED it either.
17:32 asciilifeform fwiw i pitched.
17:33 mircea_popescu to whom ? how did it go ?
17:33 asciilifeform to 5-6 labs
17:33 asciilifeform it all ended with crickets chirping
17:33 mircea_popescu did you try to close yourself ?
17:33 asciilifeform what's that mean
17:33 mircea_popescu when you say "we did pitch" do you mean, you went into the room, or did you hire someone who does this professionally ?
17:34 asciilifeform we hired nobody, had no money.
17:34 asciilifeform tried to get vc even, also silence
17:34 mircea_popescu while i am not actually saying "well that's why", do bear in mind you're a miserable closer.
17:34 asciilifeform my partner is not nearly as inept as i
17:34 mircea_popescu ah so partner pitched ?
17:34 asciilifeform (ph.d. in his 60s)
17:35 asciilifeform together, we pitched.
17:35 mircea_popescu you have to understand, this is an actual job, exactly as respectable as whore.
17:35 asciilifeform yes.
17:35 mircea_popescu you wouldn't expect to come out of your bosses' cake, on a day's notice, would you.
17:35 asciilifeform fwiw he was well placed in biochem wot
17:35 mircea_popescu at least not to any positive response.
17:35 asciilifeform and many many folks begged management to buy our thing
17:35 asciilifeform but always same reply.
17:35 mircea_popescu hm.
17:36 mircea_popescu same reply being ?
17:37 asciilifeform 'fuckoff'
17:37 mircea_popescu wow they say that ?!
17:37 asciilifeform it is also possible that folks were afraid of voided warranties
17:37 asciilifeform the instruments typically come with service contract, $xx,xxx/y
17:37 asciilifeform the vendor cannot in most jurisdictions entirely forbid the use of 3rd party soft, but can make life harder for the user.
17:38 mircea_popescu funny that you didn't even have to be sued by tecan.
17:38 asciilifeform aha!
17:38 asciilifeform i was half-convinced they would!
17:38 mircea_popescu my previous idea of "normally this is how this sort of thing gets killed"
17:38 asciilifeform but tecan - cleverly - understood that they do not NEED to buy OR sue
17:38 asciilifeform that we would wither away naturally.
17:38 mircea_popescu and that understanding is necessarily not deductive.
17:39 asciilifeform aha, possibly they made some calls somewhere.
17:39 asciilifeform i had and still have nfi.
17:39 asciilifeform note that we were never able to get capital to even get a demo machine.
17:40 asciilifeform much less sell the whole orchestra in kit.
17:40 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429278 << what's your idea of that lens ?
17:40 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 21:01:33; thestringpuller: modern alchemy? psuedoscience in a sense... But I was more referring from the psychological transition of viewing the world through the lens of alchemy vs. that of chemistry
17:40 mircea_popescu asciilifeform for my own curiosity, was this ever on, say, slashdot ?
17:41 asciilifeform nope.
17:41 asciilifeform why would it.
17:41 mircea_popescu it's a good story.
17:41 asciilifeform iirc i spammed reddit, fwiw
17:41 mircea_popescu "here's how we tried - and failed - to do somerthing useful"
17:42 * BingoBoingo starting to think this actually kinda sounds like a pete_dushenski problem
17:44 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i did not want to put a final gravestone on it.
17:44 asciilifeform i do ~not~ think the matter was of insufficient propaganda.
17:44 asciilifeform the matter is that the buyers for this thing simply do not exist !
17:44 mircea_popescu "putting final gravestone" and writing the above story are not the same.
17:45 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> iirc i spammed reddit, fwiw << FWIW, after sporatic success it has taken about "3 ani experienta" before I got rather reliable results infultrating the various web traffic concentrators to gather eyes.
17:46 asciilifeform the other sad thing is that we do not have the capital.
17:46 asciilifeform for one thing, deployment would require ~month+ of my full time at the site.
17:46 mircea_popescu that bad ?
17:46 asciilifeform to fit the thing to the instruments in question.
17:46 asciilifeform aha.
17:46 asciilifeform this is not a mcdonalds deep fryer.
17:46 asciilifeform this is a every-$500K-box-is-unique thing.
17:46 mircea_popescu maybe the economics are just not there, let's try and quantify this.
17:46 mircea_popescu so, what's the list value of the item in question ?
17:47 asciilifeform 'evo' sold, in those days at least, for 250-500k depending on dealer options.
17:47 asciilifeform support - again somewhere north of, iirc, 50k/y
17:47 mircea_popescu ok. say 300k, +50k/y contract.
17:47 asciilifeform this was for the naked instrument.
17:47 asciilifeform straight from the swiss.
17:48 mircea_popescu now, your addon, if deployed would, for the average usecase, provide an improvement of what ? 10% ? 50% ? 300% ?
17:48 asciilifeform case by case.
17:48 mircea_popescu i need a number.
17:48 asciilifeform very difficult to quantify. depends on what they paid their babysitter for the cruddy winblowz thing, how much money they lost to destroyed work on account of microshit.
17:49 asciilifeform how do i quantify this?!
17:49 mircea_popescu i have no idea, but that doesn't mean it's not your job to.
17:49 mircea_popescu did you ever run a typical case ?
17:49 asciilifeform there isa typical case??!!!
17:50 mircea_popescu looky : a "typical case" is a convention, allowing management to make judgements.
17:50 asciilifeform this is a every-lab-is-entirely-different sort of thing, afaik.
17:50 mircea_popescu it is, much like the "average voter", "median consumer" etc, a fiction, made by some methods.
17:50 asciilifeform we had 3 just in the building where i worked !
17:50 asciilifeform and all were entirely diff
17:50 asciilifeform in terms of workflow
17:50 mircea_popescu i don't care how fucking different they are. typical case will be had or the sky falls.
17:51 asciilifeform i went out and did intelligence
17:51 mircea_popescu anyway, if you don't have the experience to discuss typical, discuss case study. the one time you tried this.
17:51 asciilifeform found, later, that MOST evo were bought by forensic (police) labs
17:51 asciilifeform which are bound to usgola
17:51 asciilifeform by statute.
17:51 asciilifeform this handily explained maybe half of my problem.
17:51 mircea_popescu explain this.
17:51 asciilifeform aha
17:51 mircea_popescu no i mean, explain "which are bound to usgola".
17:53 asciilifeform they have to use ~certified~ crud
17:54 asciilifeform this means 1) winblowz 2) massive bag of payola to 'cerfifiers'
17:54 asciilifeform think fda.
17:55 mircea_popescu afaik they still buy whatever donuts they want.
17:55 asciilifeform yeah but this is not doughnut
17:55 asciilifeform this would actually touch the evidence.
17:55 asciilifeform anyway ianal
17:55 asciilifeform but this is what i found out.
17:56 mircea_popescu seeing all the recent scandals with falsifications etc, i'd be much surprised if they even run the equipment anymore, so yeah.
17:56 asciilifeform maaaaaaaybe we could have 'fought city hall' IF WE HAD MONEY
17:56 mircea_popescu and in other news, omfg this provolone is magnificent.
17:56 asciilifeform WE DID NOT
17:56 asciilifeform and still don;t.
17:56 asciilifeform because how.
17:56 mircea_popescu asciilifeform so is it like 10% ?
17:57 asciilifeform which
17:57 mircea_popescu <mircea_popescu> now, your addon, if deployed would, for the average usecase, provide an improvement of what ? 10% ? 50% ? 300% ?
17:57 asciilifeform can be 10, could be 1000
17:58 asciilifeform my lab tested custom compounds in vitro, some worth $50k/gram
17:58 asciilifeform ruined sample is a loss.
17:58 asciilifeform the competition to the machine was asian gurlz for $15/h
17:58 asciilifeform they were accurate, mostly, but could not match the speed.
17:58 asciilifeform but wtf woudl a usg lab care about speed.
18:00 asciilifeform again if it helps to understand this, it is not a plug-and-go thing, i would have to show up in PERSON and work out the process flow
18:00 mircea_popescu ok, so what i'll say is, "this machine, once deployed, would improve your workflow by about 15%, which is worth about 50k or so. it could also be had hiring techs, at a cost of about 60k a year for the machine's lifespan"
18:00 asciilifeform and reverse any proprietary hardware they have that i did not have when i wrote it.
18:00 mircea_popescu "the cost for its deployment includes me spending a month fucking up yoru shit, which is about 10k or so, and our fee, which is 2500 a year"
18:00 mircea_popescu this about it ?
18:01 asciilifeform approx.
18:01 mircea_popescu asciilifeform you forget that in a previous lifetime i made a lot of money out of insepcting and changing production workflow.
18:01 asciilifeform though this is mega-lowball
18:01 asciilifeform and assumes no surgical, if you will, complications.
18:01 asciilifeform and yeah i recall
18:01 mircea_popescu mega lowball ie, re cost ?
18:01 asciilifeform aha
18:01 mircea_popescu i can see why it didn't sell.
18:02 mircea_popescu not to say it is your fault, tho. but i can see why it didn't sell, needn't any conspiracy to explain it.
18:02 asciilifeform didn't say there was !
18:02 asciilifeform and also recall that i'm a nobody with nothing. i dont;' even have the money to make 10k one month and then nothing for 3.
18:03 mircea_popescu this is a large part of the problem. there's a hidden barrier to entry here, that is the "cost to enter wot". ie, as a manager of x item, i MAY consider dealing wioth nobody. but not over anything.
18:03 asciilifeform aha.
18:03 asciilifeform certainly not a half mil machine!
18:03 mircea_popescu much like the cost to send bitcoin txn, that random derps imagine to be "=fee" is in fact something like 0.5 to 5 btc PER TX, if you include EVERYTHING ytou need to run bitcoin payments,
18:03 asciilifeform handling 50k/gram samples !!
18:03 mircea_popescu just so the cost of dealing with some dude is not 0 in any sense.
18:03 asciilifeform agha!!
18:04 mircea_popescu just the fact that i have toi make an entry in my phonebook is $$$.
18:04 asciilifeform mircea_popescu is SMARRT and GETS IT!
18:04 mircea_popescu experience carries a long way.
18:04 asciilifeform that thing was, if you will, my 'formative' naggum experience.
18:04 mircea_popescu i wouldn't take this failure to be more informative than it is. the technology never entered into discussion, it failed on economic grounds.
18:05 asciilifeform certainly did!
18:05 asciilifeform and the solution was 'stop being you, be somebody else'
18:05 asciilifeform but all i had was being me.
18:05 mircea_popescu not exactly.
18:05 mircea_popescu ima finish eating and come back to this.
18:09 mircea_popescu so importantly - understand that it's in no sense a matter of 'stop being you, be somebody else'. anyone else would confront the same exact problem,, which is to say that this is not able to stand on its own. would work superbly as an add-on product of a company offering this kinbd of thing that can x-sell it.
18:10 mircea_popescu but otherwise, it's not workable, and it wouldn't be workable for trump.
18:10 mircea_popescu incidentally, this trap is what informs the vc circus' derpage about "big" bla bla.
18:10 mircea_popescu yeah, it metastasized into idiocy, but originally it's the very logical observation that the draw needed to make sales in b2b is much larger than consumer.
18:13 mircea_popescu http://logs.minigame.bz/2016-03-10.log.html#t19:57:29 << "true quality ~as seen before~". ie, let's just call it that for the sake of calling it something.
18:13 assbot #Eulora log for Thursday, 2016-03-10 ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ra55mS )
18:13 mircea_popescu damn.
~ 52 minutes ~
19:06 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429740 << YES! which is why we called tecan 1st!1111
19:06 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 23:09:57; mircea_popescu: so importantly - understand that it's in no sense a matter of 'stop being you, be somebody else'. anyone else would confront the same exact problem,, which is to say that this is not able to stand on its own. would work superbly as an add-on product of a company offering this kinbd of thing that can x-sell it.
19:06 * asciilifeform is not ~complete~ idiot
19:08 pete_dushenski ;;ticker
19:08 gribble Bitfinex BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 416.65, Best ask: 417.02, Bid-ask spread: 0.37000, Last trade: 416.7, 24 hour volume: 13751.63415602, 24 hour low: 410.68, 24 hour high: 418.24, 24 hour vwap: None
19:08 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429741 << well not quite, he ~could~ buy the whole orchestra and sell machine+nonwinblowz+customization etc.
19:08 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 23:10:07; mircea_popescu: but otherwise, it's not workable, and it wouldn't be workable for trump.
19:09 asciilifeform but usg would not sign off on it.
19:09 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11700 @ 0.00052301 = 6.1192 BTC [-] {4}
19:09 asciilifeform he would have to sell it in north kr.
19:10 asciilifeform consider iran
19:10 asciilifeform siemens sold them stuxnet-os successfully.
19:10 asciilifeform because...???
19:10 asciilifeform because NO ONE GIVES HALF A FUCK
19:10 pete_dushenski or non datur ?
19:10 asciilifeform no one wants to LIVE badly enough
19:10 asciilifeform to make use of sanity.
19:11 pete_dushenski or they want to live plenty and don't seem to be ~sufficiently~ dying on own petard for using winbloze.
19:11 asciilifeform which is why it is important to ~help them die~.
19:12 pete_dushenski god's work
19:13 pete_dushenski http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429323 << 'momo' calls to mind a) steering wheel company famous for racing helms, b) slang name for retard
19:13 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 21:30:24; asciilifeform: i suggest that the craft of producing mircea_popescu henceforth be referred to as momotronics.
19:18 pete_dushenski http://www.rallynuts.com/user/products/large/MOD_07_lge.jpg << momo wheel : the ultimate in minimalism
19:18 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/21lsH7r )
19:29 mircea_popescu asciilifeform> no one wants to LIVE badly enough << sadly, this is ~true.
19:29 mircea_popescu nobody is used to the idea that fuck up and it's your ass. not anymore. because hey, "that's no way to live".
19:29 mircea_popescu well... neither is this.
19:41 thestringpuller mircea_popescu: "only a cynical man would call what these people have lives...this is not how man was supposed to live."
19:43 pete_dushenski http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429640 << fwiw i even enjoy giving pitches in person
19:43 assbot Logged on 10-03-2016 22:42:50; *: BingoBoingo starting to think this actually kinda sounds like a pete_dushenski problem
19:48 mircea_popescu " 1]To whomever is now going to say "it's server fault, deedbot should output GPG signed material with proper mimetype like application/pgp-signature". I can only recommend frontal lobotomy by robot that fetches its instructions with wget." << i lolled.
19:48 mircea_popescu in other news today, how to get married in japan : http://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbyjia9Msv1qlne6uo1_1280.jpg
19:48 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1RCLqGo )
19:49 pete_dushenski with wet floor pylons ??
19:49 mircea_popescu lol
19:50 mircea_popescu i think the "slippery when wet" thing is much needed instruction for otaku.
19:50 pete_dushenski and bukkake
19:50 mircea_popescu isn't that "wet when slippery" ?
19:51 * pete_dushenski hasn't tried. doesn't know
19:58 pete_dushenski http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/travel/venice-italy-jewish-ghetto.html << speaking of all things tmsr
19:58 assbot Log In - The New York Times ... ( http://bit.ly/1RCM9ax )
19:58 pete_dushenski '500 Years of Jewish Life in Venice'
19:59 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6000 @ 0.00052284 = 3.137 BTC [-] {2}
19:59 pete_dushenski "Every Venetian I spoke to, Jew and gentile alike, had expressed deep pessimism about the city’s future." << sounds about right
20:04 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2016#1429767 << momotaro.
20:04 assbot Logged on 11-03-2016 00:13:54; pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429323 << 'momo' calls to mind a) steering wheel company famous for racing helms, b) slang name for retard
20:04 asciilifeform !s momotaro
20:04 assbot 4 results for 'momotaro' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=momotaro
20:04 asciilifeform jp folktale.
20:09 pete_dushenski ya, just sayin'
20:09 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2016#1429778 << what even is happening in the pic
20:09 assbot Logged on 11-03-2016 00:48:50; mircea_popescu: in other news today, how to get married in japan : http://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbyjia9Msv1qlne6uo1_1280.jpg
20:10 asciilifeform also i notice that jp, like ar, does not manufacture ugly chix in any appreciable qty. at all.
20:11 pete_dushenski letting out of doors and manufacturing are different beasts
20:13 asciilifeform they might feed the ugly chix to koi
20:13 asciilifeform but i will point out that there are not enough koi, or even sharks, on the planet3, to feed the ugly anglo chix to.
20:13 asciilifeform just too big of a job.
20:14 pete_dushenski jp just figured out 'organic food' centuries ago. it's a newer concept to anglos.
20:15 asciilifeform afaik they never invented eating shit to begin with.
20:15 asciilifeform most folks didn't.
20:15 asciilifeform until americans 'helped'.
20:15 asciilifeform starvation was good enough for people-who-had-no-food.
20:16 asciilifeform (yes cn ate swallow nests, crickets, etc. and sure. but modern mass poisoning ~requires~ industry.)
20:16 pete_dushenski pre-americans also had insufficient chemistry
20:17 asciilifeform holy FUCK kakobrekla i have 100% 'silentwings' fans, NEW CASE, WITH ACOUSTIC FOAM, and STILL get resonances.
20:17 asciilifeform wtf, what gives.
20:17 asciilifeform it it the motherfucking disks ?!!
20:17 pete_dushenski shoulda bought silentwings case too
20:17 asciilifeform i threw out 2, replaced with ssd for the cost of their weight in plutonium, i suppose now have to do other 2 ?!!
20:17 * asciilifeform grimaces
20:18 kakobrekla hm
20:18 asciilifeform BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
20:18 kakobrekla im curious, which case is it?
20:18 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9700 @ 0.00052284 = 5.0715 BTC [-]
20:18 asciilifeform 3 days now
20:19 asciilifeform kakobrekla: 'Thermaltake Suppressor F-51'
20:19 asciilifeform steel, with silencing foam on 4 sides.
20:19 kakobrekla im spinning rust free - i have a few 'hp microservers' for that running in another room
20:19 asciilifeform i have the fucker standing on fist-sized sorbothane legs, too
20:19 asciilifeform doesn't help.
20:20 pete_dushenski http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9364/IMG_2708_678x452.jpg << cases in question
20:20 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1TQlcqi )
20:20 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: ick
20:20 asciilifeform WTF with the glass, srsly
20:20 asciilifeform that should be an inch thick foam.
20:20 pete_dushenski gurls love it
20:20 asciilifeform ???
20:21 pete_dushenski "check out my sweet machine babe. you can see INSIDE" "omg that's hot [drops pants, bends over]"
20:21 kakobrekla for case i use 'fractal design r4' which looks surprisingly similar to your pick
20:21 pete_dushenski this is how i imagine thinking works in reddit heads, at least
20:21 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: i am not a shrink, cannot catalogue every possible delusion
20:22 asciilifeform kakobrekla: this thing had noise dampeners and intake filters (bottom and front)
20:22 kakobrekla yes same here
20:23 asciilifeform the hdd fittings are, fucktardedly, plastic tho.
20:23 asciilifeform i suppose everyone is expected to ssd now.
20:23 asciilifeform old case had steel brackets with rubber grommets.
20:23 * nubbins` has cheapest fractal design case
20:23 kakobrekla mine are rubberized
20:23 asciilifeform nubbins`: which ?
20:23 nubbins` core 1000
20:23 nubbins` ~$50
20:23 asciilifeform http://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/core-series/core-1000-usb-30 << it ?
20:23 assbot Fractal Design ... ( http://bit.ly/1TQlHk6 )
20:23 nubbins` yep
20:23 nubbins` rubber hdd groms
20:24 asciilifeform has dampeners ?
20:24 asciilifeform i really got the 'thermaltake' on account of the bottom-mount ps
20:24 nubbins` nah, just spied the brand & blurted
20:24 kakobrekla http://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/define-series/define-r4-black-pearl
20:24 assbot Fractal Design ... ( http://bit.ly/1TQlLR1 )
20:24 asciilifeform (hole, that is. bought ps elsewhere, fanless)
20:24 kakobrekla pretty sure that one is mine
20:25 nubbins` vertical mount hdd thing kinda sucks
20:25 kakobrekla the fan that comes with it is useless though.
20:25 nubbins` given that i don't have a turkey-sized gpu
20:25 asciilifeform i would love to buy a case that is just 200kg of copper hedgehog.
20:25 asciilifeform fuck fans.
20:25 nubbins` copper bucket full of thermal paste
20:26 asciilifeform nubbins`: see the immersion cooling thread, physics does not cooperate
20:26 asciilifeform (unless the machine is DESIGNED for it from day 1.)
20:26 asciilifeform like cray was.
20:26 * nubbins` used to work at gov research institute in ottawa, massive cray in lunchroom behind glass doors
20:26 asciilifeform immersion adds parasitic capacitance to pcb traces.
20:27 asciilifeform nubbins`: surely not the immersive cray ?
20:27 nubbins` yeah, as soon as i said, i figured that much muck wouldn't fly
20:27 asciilifeform (cray-2)
20:27 nubbins` asciilifeform nah
20:27 nubbins` would recognize from a picture, but can't recall any details
20:27 asciilifeform prolly one of the shams they made after cray died
20:27 nubbins` only that obtaining time on it was highly coveted
20:27 asciilifeform with intel cpus.
20:27 nubbins` this woulda been early 2000s
20:27 kakobrekla anyway, easy to cut power to hdd to see if that is the bugger
20:27 asciilifeform then - crud, yes
20:27 nubbins` long after glory
20:28 asciilifeform kakobrekla: can't do this when it spins, will rape the raid
20:28 nubbins` afaik cray never really recovered from getting chip supply choked early on
20:28 kakobrekla i dont think i get much resonances
20:28 asciilifeform kakobrekla: it comes and goes.
20:28 asciilifeform nubbins`: it did not recover from cray being dead.
20:28 asciilifeform tends to be how it goes.
20:28 kakobrekla but then again i spin fans at 200 rpm or less
20:28 pete_dushenski ;;seen polarbeard
20:28 gribble polarbeard was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 weeks, 4 days, 2 hours, 47 minutes, and 44 seconds ago: <polarbeard> cpp is full of it
20:29 asciilifeform kakobrekla: i suspect that it is the heatsinks
20:29 asciilifeform they are loosely-coupled and vibrate.
20:29 asciilifeform (2 cpu board.)
20:29 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: prolly he decided that we're a buncha nutters.
20:29 asciilifeform after the 'regrind' thread.
20:29 pete_dushenski this was news ?
20:30 nubbins` ^
20:30 asciilifeform news to ~him~
20:30 nubbins` ...^
20:30 asciilifeform that he'd have to write every patch N times.
20:30 kakobrekla for heatsinks i use http://noctua.at/en/products/cpu-cooler-retail/nh-d14 (ofc not with default fans)
20:30 assbot NH-D14 ... ( http://bit.ly/1MartVs )
20:30 asciilifeform fella couldn't take it.
20:30 pete_dushenski this is why kids should read logs for 6 months before talking
20:30 asciilifeform kakobrekla: this physically won't fit.
20:30 asciilifeform (on my board)
20:30 asciilifeform again, 2 cpu
20:30 kakobrekla ah
20:30 kakobrekla aha
20:31 kakobrekla theres plenty of models
20:31 asciilifeform no socket F tho.
20:31 nubbins` sous-vide computing
20:31 pete_dushenski heh
20:31 asciilifeform it is interesting, i searched for MONTHS to find a new set of socket F hs, found NONE
20:31 asciilifeform had to WASH my old ones.
20:31 pete_dushenski 60c max
20:31 asciilifeform ~decade of dirt.
20:31 asciilifeform vacuuming and even air compressor, turns out, does not really clean the inside.
20:32 asciilifeform it builds up.
20:32 kakobrekla "Thermalright HR-01 X" ?
20:32 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5100 @ 0.00052461 = 2.6755 BTC [+] {2}
20:33 asciilifeform where do you see AMD F in these ?
20:33 asciilifeform i see AM2/AM3 and intel only.
20:34 asciilifeform or, hm, there was adapter.
20:34 asciilifeform sold out eons ago, looks like.
20:34 asciilifeform but that this is actually very similar shape to what i had before.
20:34 asciilifeform looks a tiny bit more cleanable.
20:35 kakobrekla mebbe something liek http://imagehost.losias.net/images/U2y3F.jpg
20:35 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1TQn0iY )
20:35 asciilifeform substantially top-heavy though
20:35 asciilifeform will vibrate even moar than mine !
20:35 asciilifeform heat sink should not be top-heavy!1111
20:35 asciilifeform kakobrekla: i have the dimms b/w the sockets, so this might not fly.
20:35 kakobrekla and the world should not be round, yet ...
20:35 asciilifeform l0l
20:36 asciilifeform anyway these look quite like mine, but stood on end.
20:36 kakobrekla http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-6950-AMD-Opteron-Socket-F-CPU-Heatsink-Y9115-/251322845713
20:36 assbot Dell Poweredge 6950 AMD Opteron Socket F CPU Heatsink Y9115 | eBay ... ( http://bit.ly/1TQnaa8 )
20:36 kakobrekla ?
20:36 kakobrekla not top heavy but all heavy
20:36 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12544 @ 0.00052292 = 6.5595 BTC [-] {4}
20:36 asciilifeform the dell hs need dell mobo holes!
20:36 asciilifeform notice no bracket !111
20:36 kakobrekla fuck do i know what you have
20:36 asciilifeform tyan.
20:36 asciilifeform forever.
20:37 kakobrekla anyway this ends google-fu :)
20:37 asciilifeform aha, extinct!
20:37 asciilifeform reminds me, i gotta get a few moare of those same tyans
20:37 asciilifeform for if this one ever melts.
20:37 asciilifeform (if it blows a filter cap i can replace cap, dead northbridge - no)
20:37 kakobrekla i believe i managed to acquire even more extintier things
20:38 asciilifeform next set of hedgehogs , i expect to machine myself.
20:38 asciilifeform from ingots.
20:38 asciilifeform one day.
20:38 kakobrekla however it took time and luck.
20:38 asciilifeform new hs is not top priority atm for me.
20:38 asciilifeform after all, old ones are clean now.
20:39 kakobrekla i could get a custom adapter machined here if id be in such position prolly
20:40 asciilifeform what i really want is just a 1m long heat pipe from each cpu
20:40 asciilifeform to a 200kg copper hog.
20:40 asciilifeform 'if wishes were horses..' (tm)
20:40 asciilifeform pc oughta look like a mains transformer
20:40 asciilifeform the kind on a pole.
20:41 asciilifeform zalman co. made this for a brief spell a decade ago, it did not sell, cost $3k
20:41 asciilifeform turns out there's ~no market for well-made quiet thing, whodavethunkit
20:42 asciilifeform http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/noiseless-computing,741.html << it.
20:42 assbot Noiseless Computing: New Case Innovation From Zalman - Introduction ... ( http://bit.ly/1MasE7i )
20:42 kakobrekla anyway its possible it just takes effort, like i had to buy 50 high end fans to find be-quiet
20:42 nubbins` oddly, my current mobo has user-swappable op-amp for audio output
20:42 asciilifeform nubbins`: i've even seen ones with tube amp !
20:43 asciilifeform yes, on the mobo.
20:43 kakobrekla nubbins` yet still garbage
20:43 nubbins` lel.
20:43 asciilifeform kakobrekla: as far as im concerned if it had ONE moving part, it is rubbish.
20:43 asciilifeform i don't care where.
20:43 nubbins` kakobrekla i'd imagine a proper op-amp from the start would be cheaper than adding the socket
20:43 asciilifeform nubbins`: presumably it is for folks who habitually blow the amp
20:43 nubbins` lel it is a "gaming" mobo, so...
20:44 nubbins` target market is obv idiots
20:44 nubbins` gold-plated audio connectors! electrically isolated audio section on board w/ LEDs demarcating! zzzzz
20:44 kakobrekla all integrated sound cards are rubbish. ALL of them.
20:45 nubbins` bought because cheap
20:45 nubbins` don't even have speakers hooked up to it
20:45 nubbins` just the piezo
20:45 nubbins` !
20:45 kakobrekla yes, mine is isolated too and yet it still pops when i tested it. (yes have a dedicated card for this)
20:45 nubbins` http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4968#ov
20:45 assbot GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket 1150 - GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 (rev. 1.0) ... ( http://bit.ly/1MasYD9 )
20:46 kakobrekla hooked to ~2 grand speakers - however this is not my main listening setup
20:46 nubbins` we have an audiophile!
20:47 kakobrekla audiofool!
20:47 * nubbins` wonders if kako is vinyl collector or "other" type
20:47 kakobrekla i have some records but not a collector
20:48 nubbins` same, maybe buy a half dozen per year
20:48 kakobrekla i havent bought any in years.
20:48 nubbins` lots of newer pressings are pure shit
20:48 nubbins` poor QC, not properly mastered for vinyl, etc
20:48 kakobrekla i only have the old stuff
20:48 nubbins` but it's just a cash cow now
20:48 kakobrekla the new stuff is digitally recorded and then baked to vinyl
20:49 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> kakobrekla: as far as im concerned if it had ONE moving part, it is rubbish. << Aha, this goes to the power tool dilemma where unless paying out the ass everything is made by TTI in china and it is a competition between which TTI reseller do you trust most to preserve their battery platform. Not directly connected to this utterance of yours, but for some reason this is the one brian in the head clicked the thread t
20:49 BingoBoingo ogether on.
20:49 * pete_dushenski off to old theatre to watch monty python
20:49 nubbins` old records are best, esp. if you have a spin-clean or similar
20:49 nubbins` kakobrekla if you want to hear modern all-analog path, check out a record by Shellac of North America
20:49 kakobrekla nubbins` i havent had a record player connected to my setup for years also
20:50 nubbins` a
20:50 nubbins` https://www.withfriendship.com/images/i/42145/Steve-Albini-picture.jpg
20:50 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1TQp3no )
20:51 nubbins` ^ frontman of shellac, also engineer @ electrical audio, who famously bought an entire batch of reel2reel tape when mfg discontinued
20:51 nubbins` "we'll have enough to last us until we're dead"
20:51 kakobrekla nubbins` not my pic but i use this for streaming flacs (with external clock) http://img.canuckaudiomart.com/uploads/large/1057680-logitech-modwright-transporter-rare-all-black-finish.jpg
20:51 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1TQpcaq )
20:51 nubbins` wild, like a hot rod
20:52 kakobrekla this is the source of the setup.
20:53 * nubbins` has been sucked back into analog synths recently
20:53 * BingoBoingo very thankful in this moment he prefers AM radio for listening to as this avoids very expensive path to financial damnation.
20:54 nubbins` https://www.arturia.com/products/hardware-synths/microbrute << newest member of family
20:54 assbot Arturia - Overview ... ( http://bit.ly/1TQpC0c )
20:55 kakobrekla anyway speakers are the most important part and dipole ribbons are where the music is at
20:57 nubbins` hmm
20:58 kakobrekla see here http://www.soulsonicspeakers.com/gallery.html
20:58 assbot SoulSonic Speakers ... ( http://bit.ly/1MaufKv )
20:58 adlai BingoBoingo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY6PAkLG2p4
20:58 assbot Hot Rod (8/10) Movie CLIP - The King of AM Radio (2007) HD - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1Maugy1 )
20:58 kakobrekla mine were custom made by this guy, a friend of mine.
20:59 nubbins` i'm using a roland keyboard amp in the music studio and crappy infinity speakers on the record player ;/
20:59 nubbins` shocking
21:00 nubbins` kakobrekla there's a guy i know makes speakers too, http://www.areaudio.com
21:00 assbot Are Audio » Are Audio ... ( http://bit.ly/1Maund5 )
21:00 nubbins` will get a pair one day!
21:01 kakobrekla i cant listen to non-ribbon speakers any more
21:01 kakobrekla utter garbage even if made from diamond
21:01 kakobrekla (cant beat physics)
21:03 nubbins` i should read about these ribbon speakers of yrs
21:03 kakobrekla no, you should listen to them.
21:04 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13393 @ 0.00052311 = 7.006 BTC [+] {2}
21:04 nubbins` !
21:06 kakobrekla anyway, classical cone tweeters are problematic because of small surface and therefore large surface volume which makes ears bleed
21:06 kakobrekla and there is no way around it but with large surface (and low mass)
21:06 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2016#1429801 << bwahahah.
21:06 assbot Logged on 11-03-2016 01:13:16; asciilifeform: they might feed the ugly chix to koi
21:08 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2016#1429822 << by now you're prolly well advised to get a performance low freq microphone and inspect the item thoroughly
21:08 assbot Logged on 11-03-2016 01:19:03; asciilifeform: kakobrekla: 'Thermaltake Suppressor F-51'
21:08 mircea_popescu (things are used widely in machining to find problems with mechanical movement prototypes)
21:10 nubbins` ^ actually asciilifeform a simple piezo & some leads might provide some clues as to the source
21:11 nubbins` could tape one to each component and still be out less than $10, even
21:11 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2016#1429862 << you know, all the "artist" metalworking chicks could prolly make you one to order.
21:11 assbot Logged on 11-03-2016 01:25:31; asciilifeform: i would love to buy a case that is just 200kg of copper hedgehog.
21:12 mircea_popescu "first of its kind game of thrones case ; 1/4 ton copper alloy, blades"
21:12 mircea_popescu prolly make it so you can SIT on it, also.
21:12 mircea_popescu kinda fun side project, this.
21:13 mircea_popescu and yes, eminently crowdfundable.
21:13 mircea_popescu give people pictures of you sitting on your casechair for $20 or w/e.
21:25 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2016#1429987 << my ~whole room~ is (yes) isolated. inverter.
21:25 assbot Logged on 11-03-2016 01:45:30; kakobrekla: yes, mine is isolated too and yet it still pops when i tested it. (yes have a dedicated card for this)
21:25 kakobrekla the pops come from other parts of the mobo cant isolate that
21:26 kakobrekla stand alone card doesnt have such issues
21:26 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2016#1430012 << logical
21:26 assbot Logged on 11-03-2016 01:51:20; nubbins`: "we'll have enough to last us until we're dead"
21:26 asciilifeform kakobrekla: aha
21:26 kakobrekla (this one http://www.guru3d.com/miraserver/images/2010/titanium-hd/leader.jpg )
21:26 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1UjJxTI )
21:27 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2016#1430044 << i'ma laser interferometer at it eventually
21:27 assbot Logged on 11-03-2016 02:08:28; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2016#1429822 << by now you're prolly well advised to get a performance low freq microphone and inspect the item thoroughly
21:27 asciilifeform BUT i'd really much rathet be rid of all the moving partz!
21:27 mircea_popescu i can't help but think i'm so blessed to not care about fan noise, loudspeakers, monitors et all.
21:28 kakobrekla life is easy for blind and deaf
21:28 mircea_popescu the last time i even used a headphone was months ago
21:28 mircea_popescu kakobrekla totally.
21:28 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2016#1430049 << mno, hs tolerances are sub-mm
21:28 assbot Logged on 11-03-2016 02:11:45; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2016#1429862 << you know, all the "artist" metalworking chicks could prolly make you one to order.
21:28 mircea_popescu i dunno, maybe it's my time looking at ega gfx and appreciating golden axe music on the 8 bit case speaker
21:29 asciilifeform hey i had same
21:29 asciilifeform prolly longer!
21:29 mircea_popescu how sub mm ? pretty sure they can make 0.01ish.
21:29 mircea_popescu this is how all those fancy interlocking metal slav collars get made.
21:29 asciilifeform to me games ~still~ mean msdos.
21:30 mircea_popescu sukatora sassa!
21:30 mircea_popescu now i wanna listen to it lmao
21:30 asciilifeform ahahahaha
21:30 mircea_popescu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgSEk8kZAu0 totally, check this shit out!
21:30 assbot Sutakora, Sassa! - Golden Axe Music Extended - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1UjJSWx )
21:30 mircea_popescu and i thought it must be some sort of famous tune or w/e ? turns out, no ?
21:31 asciilifeform afaik only in goldenaxe.
21:31 mircea_popescu the things one remembers.
21:31 asciilifeform 'Adlib' ftw
21:32 mircea_popescu Pedalavo come se fuggissi, e in realta fuggivo, da lei, da quelle emozioni, da i sogni, da i ricordi, da tutto. E pensavo che dovevo dimenticare. Ero certo che sarei riuscito a dimenticare. Ma oggi che sono vecchio, che ho consumato banalmente la vita, talchè ho conosciuto tante donne che m'hanno detto "ricordati di me" e io le ho scordate tutte, ancora oggi lei, l'unica che non ho mai dimenticato... Sutakora Sassa!
21:32 asciilifeform goldenaxe2 ruled.
21:36 kakobrekla yes, i made friends because of it.
21:46 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2016#1430052<< cray sofa!!
21:46 assbot Logged on 11-03-2016 02:12:31; mircea_popescu: prolly make it so you can SIT on it, also.
21:47 asciilifeform was a thing, he put the monster power supply there
21:47 mircea_popescu aha
21:47 asciilifeform around the 'horseshoe'
21:48 kakobrekla btw re liquid cooled para capacitance, modern computer gear seem to work in oil immersion setups without any special design
21:48 asciilifeform cray was a titan.
21:48 mircea_popescu sorta like the heated water bed. all you wanna do is fuck all the blustery winter day.
21:48 asciilifeform kakobrekla: electrolytic caps swell.
21:48 mircea_popescu kakobrekla i remember me saying that and alf being all alf all over it!
21:48 asciilifeform they do tho
21:49 kakobrekla i recall one such setup being operable for years
21:49 mircea_popescu hard to argue with practice yo!
21:49 asciilifeform where?
21:49 asciilifeform and in which liquid
21:49 mircea_popescu crazy gamers everywhere.
21:49 * asciilifeform genuinely curious
21:50 mircea_popescu i never gave that much of a shit, myself
21:50 asciilifeform and 'operable' for gamer means typically slightly diff thing than for me
21:50 asciilifeform (years of 24/7 with no bitrot)
21:51 kakobrekla i recall it was office pc that worked years after installed and no i dont have the link written down anywhere
21:51 asciilifeform what did he do with the disks?
21:52 kakobrekla dont recall
21:52 asciilifeform and how about the ports
21:52 asciilifeform cables glued in?
21:52 kakobrekla why would you glue them
21:52 asciilifeform because sealed oil tank??
21:53 kakobrekla ah i thought glued in sockets
21:53 asciilifeform or, what, ick, open to air, spillable idiocy?
21:54 kakobrekla dont change the argument this has nothing to do with capacitance !
21:54 asciilifeform i wonder if he filled with siloxane
21:54 kakobrekla anyway i see you want all the upside with no downside
21:54 asciilifeform hell yes.
21:55 asciilifeform thats what i ~do~.
21:55 kakobrekla hence very little solutions.
21:55 asciilifeform aha.
21:55 asciilifeform but when solved - solved.
21:56 asciilifeform it's a thing...
21:56 kakobrekla more if than when.
21:56 asciilifeform unfortunately.
21:56 asciilifeform ars longa .. (tm)
21:57 asciilifeform for half-solutions, call up yer local halfsolutionmart! it will provide!
21:58 kakobrekla sometimes 95% solution will be better than no solution at all
22:01 asciilifeform call 95%mart!111 it liveth to serve!
22:02 kakobrekla yes i found be-quiet there
22:04 * kakobrekla curious if asciilifeform ever makes a compromise for the sake of his pet
22:08 nubbins` now to have a witbier in bed. nite
22:09 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9200 @ 0.00052462 = 4.8265 BTC [+]
22:10 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12600 @ 0.0005248 = 6.6125 BTC [+]
22:10 punkman /me found a dusty, 20 year old bottle of Canadian Club yesterday
22:11 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7340 @ 0.00052549 = 3.8571 BTC [+] {3}
22:11 kakobrekla does it still work?
22:12 punkman I will find out now
22:15 punkman hmm not bad. I should find a newer bottle to compare it with.
22:17 punkman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4I9iBZNUu4
22:17 assbot Soul MaKossa - Manu Dibango - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1QIAwkR )
22:18 * kakobrekla actually has that album in his collection
22:18 punkman on vinyl?
22:18 kakobrekla neg
22:19 kakobrekla a flac.
22:20 punkman I have a small stash of 60-70s vinyl, but turntable has been out of order for a decade+
22:21 punkman 128kbps is good enough for me anyway
22:23 kakobrekla you know how it is, once you go black you can never go back
22:25 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2016#1430137 << getting out of bed every day is a fucking compromise for me.
22:25 assbot Logged on 11-03-2016 03:04:46; *: kakobrekla curious if asciilifeform ever makes a compromise for the sake of his pet
22:26 phf mircea_popescu: i wonder what happened to him. << i spent some time outside
22:26 asciilifeform phf: good habit.
22:26 phf ^- for reference http://glyf.org/tmp/outside.jpg
22:26 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1QIBpda )
22:27 kakobrekla asciilifeform gotta take a leak at some point
22:27 kakobrekla i dont prefer doing it horizontally
22:27 asciilifeform l0l
22:28 phf ben_vulpes: i spent few hours in your city, long enough to collect loot from Powell's Books
22:29 asciilifeform * mircea_popescu has quit (Disconnected by services) << wat?!
22:29 mircea_popescu damned fleanode
22:29 mircea_popescu incidentally, i just talked to assboy
22:29 mircea_popescu apparently it doesn't know what !v is
22:30 asciilifeform mircea_popescu connected to the ftmeade fleanode or what.
22:30 mircea_popescu asciilifeform that's what it says when i ask nickserv to ghost my name.
22:30 mircea_popescu which i gotta do if i'm reconnecting before being officially disconnected.
22:33 mircea_popescu phf hey, looks just like where i'm from.
22:33 mircea_popescu what is this, cascadia ?
22:33 phf yeah, same, it's like being home. birch, evergreen, moss
22:34 asciilifeform neato
22:34 asciilifeform (precious little of this here in the swamps)
22:34 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3600 @ 0.00052669 = 1.8961 BTC [+] {4}
22:34 * kakobrekla lives in jungle by b-a standards
22:35 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5650 @ 0.00052311 = 2.9556 BTC [-]
22:36 mircea_popescu https://cluj-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/assets/pekus-statiunea-baisoara.jpg << the fashionable place for losing one's virginity at the time.
22:36 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1U5ZBtB )
22:44 kakobrekla my house is approx visible here http://i.imgur.com/2qJEaL5.jpg
22:44 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1U606nr )
22:45 * asciilifeform fires up ac
22:45 asciilifeform without which summer here would not be habitable.
22:45 mircea_popescu still pine
22:45 asciilifeform spring is ~1 week long in the swamp.
22:46 asciilifeform after that - hot sticky mess
22:46 asciilifeform green hell
22:46 asciilifeform like venus prison planet in old sf stories.
22:47 phf asciilifeform: was dreading coming back to dc, it didn't disappoint. it's already getting clammy
22:47 phf meanwhile, in cascadian forest http://glyf.org/tmp/green-outside.jpg
22:47 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1QIDjKC )
22:48 asciilifeform mm
22:48 mircea_popescu so why aren't you two moving to seattle or w/e
22:48 phf or http://glyf.org/tmp/bridge-outside.jpg the whole place is out of slavik fairytales
22:48 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1QIDmq3 )
22:48 kakobrekla its not 100% solution !!!1111
22:48 mircea_popescu oh sorry.
22:48 asciilifeform i can't speak for phf
22:49 mircea_popescu yeah srsly phf looks just about right. i guess once i'm out on parole ima go live with ben_vulpes in his guest bedroom.
22:49 asciilifeform but swamp is one of the two kolymas where they have asciilifeforms toil to mine uranium for the 5yearplan
22:50 mircea_popescu what's the other one, the everglades ?
22:50 asciilifeform (the other being the godforsaken 10,000usd broomcloset flat bay area)
22:51 asciilifeform sf bay
22:51 mircea_popescu and in other news, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Jw_v3F_Q0
22:51 assbot The Kingston Trio - M.T.A. - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1U60qT6 )
22:51 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7211 @ 0.00052309 = 3.772 BTC [-] {3}
22:52 asciilifeform famous!
22:52 asciilifeform i learned it from pet.
22:53 mircea_popescu how about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0TtIRpG-jE ?
22:53 assbot Everglades - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1U60wdx )
22:54 mircea_popescu " Where a man can hide and never be found and have no fear of the bayin' hounds. But he better keep movin' and don't stand still. If the 'skeeters don't get then the 'gaters will"
22:55 asciilifeform sounds right.
22:58 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9350 @ 0.00052284 = 4.8886 BTC [-] {2}
22:58 phf i don't actually have any reason to stay in dc long term, maybe another few months to a year
22:59 phf but unlike ascii i don't have any aversion to shit jobs as long as they pay max and take up min time
23:03 phf i think "full stack" "web" etc. jobs are primarily shit not because you have to hack javascript or manage imbeciles, but because they have notoriously shit pay-time ratios. 9-5-5 for 140k and 1 week vacation? better fucking shoot me
23:04 mircea_popescu you know barrista makes 35k or so.
23:05 mircea_popescu ;;calc 140000 * .45 / 8 / 5 / 51
23:05 gribble 30.8823529412
23:05 mircea_popescu about half what a whore makes, if she's serious about it.
23:06 asciilifeform i thought a good whore can make MAXINT !?
23:06 mircea_popescu how did you think that ?
23:07 asciilifeform the ads in volkischer beobachter ?
23:07 mircea_popescu lol ok.
23:07 asciilifeform few hundy / hr
23:08 mircea_popescu it's mostly opportunity cost. she spends her time with you, she can't be at the blackjack table smooching.
23:09 asciilifeform whatever it is, it beats my profession.
23:10 asciilifeform no whore ever punched a motherfucking clock
23:10 asciilifeform or sat in an office.
23:11 asciilifeform or 'boss screen'-d.
23:12 BingoBoingo I dunno, they might have to actually punch clock at the regulated Nevada brothels
23:12 * asciilifeform has nfi
23:13 asciilifeform i've never set foot there and dont expect to
23:13 mircea_popescu asciilifeform> no whore ever punched a motherfucking clock << you're kidding, right ?
23:13 mircea_popescu 4 an hour, baby.
23:13 asciilifeform waiwut?!
23:13 mircea_popescu most whores alive today, as wel las historically, do punch clock, and also live in a fucking office.
23:13 mircea_popescu it's a large dark damp room, with sheet separated beds.
23:14 asciilifeform client punches clock!
23:14 asciilifeform this is different!
23:14 asciilifeform like lawyer.
23:14 mircea_popescu i think youy maybe haven't seen so many whores at work.
23:14 asciilifeform mebbe not
23:15 asciilifeform i guess the sheet whores are similar to the wwwstack programmers
23:15 asciilifeform many of'em but no nyoozpaper ad
23:16 mircea_popescu take a vacation, go to say costa rica, check out how the girls live.
23:17 * asciilifeform recalls mircea_popescu article on same
23:18 asciilifeform wish i had such a thing as vacation.
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23:29 * BingoBoingo suspects alf may have problem mod6 wrestled with last month, may actually despite protest require time away from keyboard and instead eating delicious beef in southern hemisphere.
23:29 asciilifeform would go right now if could.
23:30 asciilifeform and not come back, if could.
23:31 asciilifeform this hell is not for people
23:31 asciilifeform should be left to mice, fleas, bureaucrats.
23:32 BingoBoingo Honestly I though the swampy aspects of here were bad, but your descriptions of the swamp make me thankful for my present climate
23:32 mircea_popescu ;;google argentina weather
23:32 gribble Buenos Aires , Argentina - The Weather Channel - Weather.com: <http://www.weather.com/weather/today/l/Buenos+Aires+Argentina+ARBA0009:1:AR>; Climate of Argentina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Argentina>; Weather in Argentina - Lonely Planet: <http://www.lonelyplanet.com/argentina/weather>
23:33 BingoBoingo AC is not one yet, though I did spread a bunch of BTi this afternoon to get a head start on mosquito control due to the mild winter.
23:33 asciilifeform i have ~24 yrs of stoked hatred for the fuckngswamp
23:33 mircea_popescu wait, you lived there whole lyf ?!
23:33 BingoBoingo get a reciprocating saw and take that hatred out on nature. It will make you feel better
23:33 asciilifeform what nature.
23:34 asciilifeform scarcely anything to saw here.
23:34 asciilifeform shrubs, sickly things.
23:34 asciilifeform soil is red clay.
23:34 BingoBoingo That just means saw feels even more powerful
23:34 asciilifeform i nearly destroyed the chainsaw last time
23:35 BingoBoingo yellow/orange clay here grows giant plants just fine
23:35 asciilifeform it did not like the shrubs.
23:35 BingoBoingo See, this is not a chainsaw job, too much power... it gets confused and tears at self.
23:35 cazalla arvo'
23:35 BingoBoingo arvo' to you too
23:36 cazalla looks more like a shrub BingoBoingo
23:36 cazalla chainsaw wouldn't be sporting though so all good
23:36 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: You just need cheapest 18 volt reciprocating saw made by TTi and branded with whatever battery system pisses you off least + 5 tpi blade. Instant stress relief.
23:37 asciilifeform not much to saw, again
23:38 BingoBoingo cazalla: Well, didn't have much time
23:38 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: But the shrubs!?
23:38 asciilifeform and mosquitoes eat you alive.
23:38 cazalla how about a hand axe? got that wrist strength, was an ezmode job for the few trees around here i axed down
23:39 BingoBoingo BTi werkz for mosquitoes. Not the adults, but generally can be guerilla applied sufficient radius to protect own yard.
23:39 BingoBoingo cazalla: Neighbor's fence on one side. My shed on the other. No room to swing.
23:39 asciilifeform i'd actually rather have moar treez
23:39 asciilifeform than less
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23:41 cazalla well chopping one down doesn't preclude you from planting a few more
23:41 BingoBoingo Also real trees love hard clay soil
23:41 cazalla that's what i did here.. pissed the non-fruit bearing trees here off, replace with fruit-bearing
23:42 asciilifeform i know a fella who does this
23:42 asciilifeform lives in westvrginia.
23:42 asciilifeform b00lcrap are you alive?
23:42 BingoBoingo aha, him!
23:43 asciilifeform ;;later tell b00lcrap come back to us.
23:43 gribble The operation succeeded.
23:43 asciilifeform old friend
23:45 asciilifeform he has trouble getting a reliable net socket.
23:45 asciilifeform tcp over old slave banjo.
23:45 asciilifeform or the like.
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23:47 cazalla BingoBoingo, got much going on in the garden this spring of yours?
23:48 asciilifeform kakobrekla: l0l wats this, led lamps?
23:48 BingoBoingo cazalla: So far jsut tidying up tree litter out front and clearing feral corner of the back which is pretty much done
23:48 kakobrekla science and technology!
23:51 BingoBoingo https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CdPQmwqVIAA3xV1.jpg
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23:52 kakobrekla unrelatedly, just ordered 9690sa-8l as per ascii, had to do it from the states because it appears to be a rare thing in europe with price factor of ~5
23:53 BingoBoingo cazalla: What about yout garden this fall?
23:53 cazalla got a second batch of cucumbers in, and put some broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower in last week, snow peas go in next month
23:53 BingoBoingo sweet
23:54 cazalla and enough pickled tomatoes from the summer to last until next spring
23:54 BingoBoingo We had a very mild winter so no die back on the rosebushes and the spring bulb have had leaves up testing the weather since late december
23:55 cazalla down under summer was cooler than usually, at least it felt that way, no 3-4 day heat waves anyway so garden did well
23:57 cazalla re: trump image.. you know that's all they're talking about here in the oz media, trump this, trump that, you'd think he was running for PM of aus
23:57 cazalla (which in a round about way, probably is ha)
23:59 kakobrekla >According to the Transmission website version 2.90 was infected with malware.
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