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00:00 ben_vulpes douchia law, cute
00:04 BingoBoingo http://www.27bslash6.com/interviews.html
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00:23 ben_vulpes subject of pacific dindustan ("hobo island"): http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2016/07/theres_a_homeless_camp_on_a_ci.html
~ 3 hours 47 minutes ~
04:10 mircea_popescu pete_dushenski please add entries to the bot page for !% !Q !W !R !A !S !X !1 !2 !3 !4 !5 !q !w !r !a !s !x with the mention "not currently allocated" or such, and a note at the end saying in sum that if one wants to make a bot for #trilema they're to take the next unallocated string for his bot's UNIQUE control code, and display what it does to us in channel.
04:11 mircea_popescu trinque asciilifeform & everyone : without detracting from the more important gossipd spec work, im thinking of making a bot spec. it'd require bots to answer in pm to help, help json and help sexpr. comments/ideas ?
04:14 mircea_popescu http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160913/#28 < no trb node of mine ever allocated 4gb ram. there's something weird there.
04:14 scriba Logged on 2016-09-13: [03:12:59] <ben_vulpes> i've been running this one for 9 days straight (previous box would OOM-kill the process every 2 days or so), and it's currently holding 3846M RES
04:14 mircea_popescu or maybe not, anyway, doesn't seem unbounded.
04:15 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: "weird" might be connected to the net at large and hearing all sorts of strange
04:15 mircea_popescu more like, weird might be having a shit malloc implementation or such, so what we do in 3.x ish you do in 4 ? i dunno.
04:16 mircea_popescu anyway ; i've never myself seen it cross 4. if anyone has plox to say.
04:17 mircea_popescu (yes it adds ~200 bytes per block due to index, but 1 gb is you know, five million of these.)
04:17 ben_vulpes mine's 3874 right this moment
04:17 mircea_popescu well add a watcher or something, mildly curious.
04:19 mircea_popescu grated, the notion this thing would actually allocate that much, considering what it actually does, is pretty shocking.
04:26 ben_vulpes it's not about to oom, so i'll just keep an eye on it personally
04:38 mircea_popescu http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160913/#52 << in which we find that i actually qualify for lafond's dindu status ?!
04:38 scriba Logged on 2016-09-13: [03:40:40] <BingoBoingo> Oh, news from near ben_vulpes land http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=5220
04:41 mircea_popescu but bonus points for his unexamined notions that monogamy-beer-and-watching-sports constitutes some sort of universal moral code.
04:55 ben_vulpes is there any particular reason why everyone renders block hashes in big-endian format?
05:05 shinohai oh hey ben_vulpes ... re: memory use growth. yes it does at first but seems to stabilize after a restart
05:06 ben_vulpes do you have a ballpark estimate of your nodes memory consumption and restart frequency?
05:11 shinohai mines like mod6's it munches 3 or so ... but i stop and restart it every Sunday.
05:11 shinohai I back bc up to pogo then restart it
~ 17 minutes ~
05:29 ben_vulpes thanks shinohai
05:30 shinohai np
05:32 shinohai mircea_popescu: a bot spec would help clarify things, yes
~ 2 hours 59 minutes ~
08:32 mircea_popescu and for the amateur gynecologist class, http://67.media.tumblr.com/e596abe4184992a80292bcb920b39f48/tumblr_nq2t6eDNk91upfzuro1_500.gif
~ 23 minutes ~
08:55 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-13#1540909 << mircea_popescu is a wolf in the forest..?
08:55 a111 Logged on 2016-09-13 08:38 mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160913/#52 << in which we find that i actually qualify for lafond's dindu status ?!
08:55 scriba Logged on 2016-09-13: [03:40:40] <BingoBoingo> Oh, news from near ben_vulpes land http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=5220
08:56 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-13#1540897 << sounds like a ~complete spec right here where it stands
08:56 a111 Logged on 2016-09-13 08:11 mircea_popescu: trinque asciilifeform & everyone : without detracting from the more important gossipd spec work, im thinking of making a bot spec. it'd require bots to answer in pm to help, help json and help sexpr. comments/ideas ?
08:58 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-13#1540898 << mircea_popescu never used, afaik, the verstring patch, his heathen traffic is small , as prb ignores his nodes. which is one possible reason behind his sometimes isolation on the path to miners. not all - but many - paths lead through prb heathendom.
08:58 a111 Logged on 2016-09-13 08:14 mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160913/#28 < no trb node of mine ever allocated 4gb ram. there's something weird there.
08:58 scriba Logged on 2016-09-13: [03:12:59] <ben_vulpes> i've been running this one for 9 days straight (previous box would OOM-kill the process every 2 days or so), and it's currently holding 3846M RES
08:59 asciilifeform at any rate, aside from the 300byte/block index, the rest of the load depends on mempool , and in particular mempool fragging.
09:00 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-13#1540902 << if mircea_popescu built a rotor, he has same STATIC musltronic binary as other people with his patchset. which includes malloc etc.
09:00 a111 Logged on 2016-09-13 08:15 mircea_popescu: more like, weird might be having a shit malloc implementation or such, so what we do in 3.x ish you do in 4 ? i dunno.
09:01 asciilifeform (trb is 100% static, i hope this is not news to anyone)
09:02 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-13#1540907 << it doesn't, strictly speaking, good chunk of it is frag ullage
09:02 a111 Logged on 2016-09-13 08:19 mircea_popescu: grated, the notion this thing would actually allocate that much, considering what it actually does, is pretty shocking.
09:03 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-13#1540911 << where were these things mentioned?
09:03 a111 Logged on 2016-09-13 08:41 mircea_popescu: but bonus points for his unexamined notions that monogamy-beer-and-watching-sports constitutes some sort of universal moral code.
09:06 asciilifeform incidentally, i still have nfi what mircea_popescu's patchset is. understandably he can stay mum about it if he likes, but it makes his debugging reports ~useless from a trb pov.
09:08 asciilifeform half the time i do not even know if he is speaking of a trb -- or mpb! node.
09:10 asciilifeform and i have reason to suspect that mpb is catastrophically defective and fails to pass tx to trb (which, recall, is a reference, one does not get to say that it is broken in vs the unpublished mpb) under certain circumstances.
09:10 shinohai no one ever said chanting magic spells would be easy.
09:10 asciilifeform shinohai: shamaning is easy, engineering - less easy.
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09:45 asciilifeform in other lulz, https://archive.is/8Sb0n : 'Paramount Pictures recently sent a DMCA takedown to Google, listing a copy of the popular operating system Ubuntu.'
09:46 asciilifeform in other other noose, http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/pokemon-themed-umbreon-linux-rootkit-hits-x86-arm-systems << run MOAR dynamic linking !11
09:50 mircea_popescu asciilifeform you might have noticed that in a dispute between wolf and cow the fellow sides wiht... the cow ?
09:50 asciilifeform i thought it was with the farmer.
09:51 asciilifeform vs usg and its fines for shooting 'rare' wolf etc.
09:51 mircea_popescu i certainly am not about to subscribe to his homo homini bovem est
09:51 mircea_popescu heh. mno. he fails to say "wolf does the right thing - farmer is a fucking idiot for not shooting it. law ? what fucking law."
09:52 mircea_popescu in the debate of yet-another-flavoured-socialism vs wolf, i'll sit with the wolf.
09:53 asciilifeform wolf is a winner.
09:53 mircea_popescu evidently.
09:53 asciilifeform relatedly, i've always wondered if the thing re wolf population post-ww2 were factual.
09:53 mircea_popescu so you know, "honor code". what honor code, precisely ?
09:53 mircea_popescu and i'll tell you : he takes issue with, eg, the latin "child goes after his mother", apparently this is "an excuse of deadbeat dads".
09:53 mircea_popescu hurr durr.
09:54 thestringpuller !~later tell BingoBoingo none of the articles on my draft table seem compelling enough yet to publish. call me one of those tortured artists.
09:54 jhvh1 thestringpuller: The operation succeeded.
09:54 mircea_popescu asciilifeform pretty sure they were, many parts in transylvania wolf was only coming back cca 1980s
09:58 mircea_popescu anyway. dude's "moral code" is a vaguely digested version of picket fences, whereby "hardworking man" "should" "get things" "just like all the others". it's a strand of labour thinking from the 1800s that was born out of a very strange, but temporary and self-limiting situation, and otherwise has no place in the world.
09:59 mircea_popescu da fuck i care that he feels equal to the plumber down the street and the banker two streets down and in the legobox that plays the role of his thinker they're "all the same" plastic figurines.
09:59 asciilifeform his thought process, as i gather, was roughly 'there were picketfences. and working men Got Things. and petrol was twopence/gallon. and then the weevils came. and the zombies came. if we could be rid of the zombies, of the weevils...'
10:00 mircea_popescu ya well. it's ridiculous, what. nobody has any need or use for him.
10:00 BingoBoingo thestringpuller: It's your personal blog, you can run anything.
10:00 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: seems like his trainees have a use
10:00 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: fella teaches, iirc, boxing.
10:00 asciilifeform for money.
10:00 mircea_popescu i sure as fuck am not about to go watch di maggio pitch with him ; nor drink the beer-flavoured-sprite he guzzles. and i'll fuck his woman, without any concern for him ; while he can't fuck mine, because she won't put up with his dumb head. life is so unfair.
10:01 mircea_popescu asciilifeform trains ~reddit posters in a different color scheme.
10:01 asciilifeform as i recall, lafond is old man, has no women.
10:01 mircea_popescu that's the use, they... opine.
10:01 mircea_popescu was talking symbolicly, of teh "i watched steven segal movies and it gave me an honor code"
10:01 asciilifeform well i did not go to his boxing school, and have nfi if factual or cover story or wat.
10:02 asciilifeform perhaps BingoBoingo knows.
10:02 mircea_popescu what i'd be more interested in is, if BingoBoingo can explicit the "honor code" symbol as used by lafond, seeing how i read much less than him from the man.
10:04 BingoBoingo To the extent honor code exists in my reading of lafond, the lynchpin is Lafond won't give up his wallet to muggers and the people who do have deep failings in their attunement to reality.
10:04 mircea_popescu hm.
10:04 BingoBoingo Beyond that he's rather moral flexible
10:04 mircea_popescu some questions for you. fucking neighbour's wife - ok or not ok by lafond.honor-code ?
10:05 BingoBoingo see http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=4838
10:05 BingoBoingo ok
10:05 * mircea_popescu sees
10:05 BingoBoingo fucking neighbor's wife is fine. Keeping your own wife after she fucks neighbor not fine.
10:07 asciilifeform does subj link read like 'cow man' to mircea_popescu ?
10:07 mircea_popescu mk. i guess i just stereotyped him on narrow basis with poor results.
10:08 mircea_popescu of course, now i don't like his idiotic position on women, but this is now on the exact opposite side of before.
10:08 asciilifeform 'I will not lie to honorable men, but am committed to lying to women, because they cannot handle the truth and cannot be trusted with it in the face of your enemies.' << this ?
10:08 mircea_popescu i will daresay that if your women can't be trusted in front of enemies you've been wasting your time.
10:08 mircea_popescu yeah.
10:08 asciilifeform and where's he to get 'trustable' ones ?
10:09 mircea_popescu generally you make.
10:09 asciilifeform suitcase, airplane, namibia ?
10:09 asciilifeform make out of what? americans ?
10:09 mircea_popescu hey, i have chicks that started life as americans.
10:09 mircea_popescu namibia, no idea.
10:10 mircea_popescu anyway, he actually almost-says the wot word.
10:12 BingoBoingo In other news the Bureau adds. "Lastly, you could consider modifying your vehicle with a vehicle security system or secure the catalytic converter to the vehicle frame with additional welding."
10:12 mircea_popescu asciilifeform all kids are born in shit. as the gypsy wife said to her husband, "do we wash it or do we make another"
10:12 BingoBoingo lol, yes. Weld the wear item!!!
10:12 mircea_popescu heh
10:13 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: aha, anything! but impaling thieves.
10:13 asciilifeform and lafond is basically correct, in any confrontation between honest men and thieves, usg takes the side of the thief.
10:13 mircea_popescu abd speaking of gynecaeum an' washings, http://67.media.tumblr.com/970a39fe189cce3011a2c85df4bb7829/tumblr_nugtx3V2Eu1slcdnxo1_1280.jpg
10:13 asciilifeform recall the copper thread.
10:13 mircea_popescu asciilifeform and you know why, yes ? thief isn't asking anything from usg.
10:14 asciilifeform not even
10:14 mircea_popescu natural preference for the "quiet" child ; they're all usg's children, cuz modern democracy much like ancient tyranny is definitionally inclusive.
10:14 asciilifeform thief supplies valuable services to usg
10:14 mircea_popescu that's not a required premise.
10:14 asciilifeform by justifying the existence of the 'catch and release' system of police, judge, jail, etc.
10:15 mircea_popescu it's very much self-flattery of the monogamy-beer-and-watching-sports trabajador, that the usg somehow fears him / cares.
10:15 mircea_popescu usg couldn't care less.
10:15 mircea_popescu it's not even in any way ~aware~ mb&ws trabajador even exists, as any sort of separate or separable entity.
10:15 asciilifeform but it does fear the thief. at the very least, as a class. rulers who interfere with a mass plunder in progress tend to develop 'problems'.
10:15 mircea_popescu he's just an ex thief or a future thief.
10:20 mircea_popescu an' speaking of crossing your ankles, http://66.media.tumblr.com/71a3dfbdc863ee9ba9afed33d4f7b9e3/tumblr_oczn2ejuJB1u8a8ydo1_1280.jpg
10:21 asciilifeform also the 'thief isn't asking anything' model is quite a bit off. the 'dindus' of bmore are as actively managed and externally fed as the animals in any other zoo. no less so than the white suburban folk. neither sows, nor reaps, etc.
10:23 mircea_popescu yeah. but he thinks 1k in cash is "oprah rich" whereas mb&ws derp expects millions in expenditure and still whines about it.
10:23 mircea_popescu take the following poll : if you were given the choice of living permanently with 1 of : rodger elliot ; trayvon whatever, which'd you pick ?
10:24 asciilifeform the penguins, in antarctica.
10:24 mircea_popescu one can't talk to girls because sex ; the other can't talk to girls because sex.
10:24 mircea_popescu the only difference is that one has "a taste for opulence" and dings your imported german car.
10:24 mircea_popescu whereas the other wants to go to burning man and rub in the human dogvomit.
10:26 asciilifeform something is buggy here, 'trayvon' would not be found withing a cannon's shot of 'burning man' as i understand.
10:26 asciilifeform from yesterday's thread.
10:26 asciilifeform *within
10:27 mircea_popescu both liberal and dingus is found in all colors.
10:27 mircea_popescu burning man is for white wanna-bes, the black dudes have different rubspots.
10:27 mircea_popescu and speaking of japan, http://67.media.tumblr.com/fca47fe0afa5fde8b94b3974564274d8/tumblr_o8j5i25yBf1tj991so7_r1_1280.jpg
10:28 asciilifeform ^ perfectly fine chix
10:29 mircea_popescu how about http://67.media.tumblr.com/b1cd39c5f24a89a559007dc74c4773ac/tumblr_o4lp1woPln1s3zysso1_1280.jpg ?
10:29 asciilifeform l0l! where was this, 'pussyriot' ?
10:30 mircea_popescu pretty sure a) those neurotic ceramic salesgirls don't matter-of-factly expose their cunt as seen there and b) they've no guns.
10:32 asciilifeform well noshit.jpg
10:32 asciilifeform folks who work with pieces that actually shoot, do not have this stance.
10:33 asciilifeform certainly would not abide barrel in the face as pictured, etc.
10:33 mircea_popescu o god. myeah.
10:33 mircea_popescu speaking of, i wonder why not more store robberies perpetrated by nude women.
10:34 mircea_popescu this makes no sense to me. so you've supposedly "given up on society" and everything, right ? why the fuck are you dressed.
10:34 asciilifeform camouflage for getaway >
10:34 asciilifeform ?
10:34 mircea_popescu go rob the bank in the buff like your ancestors teh greeks.
10:34 mircea_popescu asciilifeform no, more like "i don't care about what you think enough to not rob the place ; but god damned i care what you may say about my genitalia"
10:34 mircea_popescu pick a road, woman!
10:35 asciilifeform ~0 robberies by woman on typical day where i live.
10:35 mircea_popescu that's another thing.
10:35 asciilifeform (unless they're all seeekrit)
10:35 mircea_popescu maybe they're all nude and the media can't report on 'em
10:35 mircea_popescu http://66.media.tumblr.com/c35e4918dd0193a12a9b57a5d86da76a/tumblr_mkan9o7iP71rfba0vo1_1280.png << visual aid.
10:36 mircea_popescu "i think the machine gun works by stabbing its victims ; but you won't notice because tits."
10:37 asciilifeform also won't notice that papier-mache.
10:37 mircea_popescu suddenly explanation re ~0 robberies is apparent.
10:38 mircea_popescu fact is, average woman willing to give it all away will make more over any period than average convenience store robber willing to give it all away.
10:38 asciilifeform ( i have been told that a surprising number of robberies involves arms that are obviously, to naked eye, shams. evidently many folks lose their shit and fail to notice... )
10:38 mircea_popescu as the police joke goes, "every victim describes the assailant's gun the same way : it was big"
10:39 asciilifeform BIIIG
10:45 asciilifeform in other orlols, 'In terms of where the Soviet Union stood beside the United States for instance, in the '70s during the oil embargo and all of the troubles that the US was going through, the economic troubles at the time, the Soviet Union was looking pretty good. In fact, that's when we left the Soviet Union thinking we were going to this dreamy place. We got there and it's a dump. It was just an unbelievably sad sight.'
10:46 asciilifeform 'One thing I've observed which is interesting which is that a lot of people will not admit that they're going to vote for Trump but you see it in their eyes. ... they're just keeping mum about it because their own family members will turn on them if they announced the fact that they're about to vote for Trump. There's going to be a huge number of men, specifically, angry ones who keep their anger hidden most of the time, who will wal
10:46 asciilifeform k into that voting booth and out of spite pull the trigger for Trump. '
10:47 asciilifeform ( http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2016/09/kunstlercast-transcript.html but most of it is a snore )
~ 38 minutes ~
11:26 asciilifeform !!up r00s
11:26 deedbot r00s voiced for 30 minutes.
11:28 asciilifeform mircea_popescu et al : http://trilema.com/2016/gossipd-design-document/#comment-119069 << proposed 'lighthoused' spec
11:30 asciilifeform aaaand happy 128th comment!1111
~ 23 minutes ~
11:54 mircea_popescu hm i suppose 128 is better than 100 huh
11:56 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: ftr, i'm still torn on the unauthenticated lighthouse thing. enemy can still make headaches for folks by silently mutating suspected lighthouse datagrams in transit.
11:56 mircea_popescu eh, the soviets looked good in the 50s/60s only, and strictly because the old austro-hungarian empire was ground to dust by hovitzer fire, literally, and france/low countries etc had been bombed pretty badly. so west europe starved which it hadn't done for 3 centuries while russia starved which it had done each other decade.
11:56 mircea_popescu by the 70s it was already hopeless.
11:57 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: 'the cow barn looked great after the mansion next door was burned down by drunken sons of old man rockefeller'
11:57 asciilifeform fact is - looked good.
11:57 mircea_popescu not really. just in comparative terms. you know, like the sow looks good next to the goat.
11:57 mircea_popescu "at least it's shaven"
11:57 asciilifeform well yes.
11:58 asciilifeform 'in the great birdlessness, my arse is a nightingale.'
11:58 mircea_popescu and whatever, they had some maybe-promising beginnings in modernist art ; but the narrowminded soviet derps (lenin & gf front and center) fucked it up.
11:58 asciilifeform where did narrowminded derps not fuck it all up.
11:59 mircea_popescu incidentally, i suspect this is the whole recipe of south amercan socialism : "we're just as much a bunch of idiot subhuman iron age farmers ; unlike lenin we won't fuck with proletkult"
11:59 mircea_popescu so there's all these "art" craps that consist of that same image of che etc.
11:59 asciilifeform this cult was a thing quite particular to the time and place - folks who are not making motions to industrialize etc. are not at risk.
11:59 mircea_popescu also.
12:00 mircea_popescu and industrialize in particular manner - "we'll cull the peasantry and build towns"
12:00 asciilifeform the hammer, if you will, is absent, south amer. is approx. 'sickle-only' place.
12:00 mircea_popescu sickle is unknown here.
12:00 mircea_popescu you know why ?
12:00 mircea_popescu TOO MUCH WORK.
12:00 asciilifeform will be known again as soon as chinese tractors quit coming in.
12:01 mircea_popescu (for the innocent : the sickle is the pinnacle of agricultural slavery. it requires one to literally walk bent over and using arms for 10-12 hours. only miner has harder time.)
12:01 mircea_popescu asciilifeform nah. these monkeys will just starve.
12:01 mircea_popescu they're already starving ; 0 willingness to do anything about it.
12:01 asciilifeform there is never an ~all~ monkeys starving - some remain, rediscover sickle, and work.,
12:01 asciilifeform .
12:01 mircea_popescu if carrots become scarce, rabbit doesn't start a carrot farm.
12:01 mircea_popescu i do not believe so.
12:02 asciilifeform afaik communists have not yet succeeded in actually turning people into rabbit.
12:02 mircea_popescu these weren't ever people.
12:02 mircea_popescu they appeared people back when german empire kept them afloat.
12:03 mircea_popescu but in the 80 years hence, slowly wound down back to their hole.
12:03 asciilifeform the spaniards were people.
12:03 mircea_popescu and it's an insult to communism to call south american communists. they're not communists, they're just dumb and lazy.
12:03 mircea_popescu the two may be hard to distinguish in practice, but nevertheless.
12:03 mircea_popescu asciilifeform the spanyards from spain were people.
12:04 asciilifeform well yes.
12:04 asciilifeform it was a spanish production originally.
12:04 mircea_popescu but argentina is mostly built out of the italians that couldn't find us army tit to suck in europe. ie, the rejects of rejects, it's dubious italians are people at all.
12:04 asciilifeform where did the smart italians go ?
12:04 mircea_popescu nah. listen, the way these "spanish dominions" worked was that the spanish kind simple claimed the land. there wasn't a 1 spanyard per billion acres.
12:04 mircea_popescu which is how and why the us annexed florida.
12:04 asciilifeform there was a venice, (most serene!111), a genoa, etc
12:04 mircea_popescu that's 1500!
12:05 asciilifeform aha! what hole did they fall into ?
12:05 asciilifeform is what i'd like to know.
12:05 mircea_popescu i do not know. but gone they are.
12:05 mircea_popescu what hole did tall, slender, fine nosed egyptians fall into ?
12:05 asciilifeform probably same hole.
12:05 mircea_popescu reversion to mean is a bitch.
12:07 mircea_popescu think, re the "rediscover sickle and work", that sickle is a necessary product of very intensively worked lands in like europe. it's trying to adjust to pressure.
12:07 mircea_popescu there's no pressure here. they'll just revert to subsistence hunting/gathering.
12:08 asciilifeform dunno that this is still there to be reverted to.
12:08 mircea_popescu born tupi ; will die tupi. with the reed skirts and all.
12:08 asciilifeform the necessary ecosystems are ~gone.
12:08 mircea_popescu the grass is still there.
12:08 asciilifeform people dun eat grass.
12:08 mircea_popescu yeah, but where's grass there's rodents and bugs. people can live off dung, rodents and bugs.
12:09 asciilifeform at any rate, this will be tested experimentally.
12:10 mircea_popescu aha.
12:10 asciilifeform will not long remain an open question.
12:10 mircea_popescu not particularly an open question even now. since 1966 - 2016, 10 5-year-plans of constant decay.
12:11 asciilifeform i meant the q of 'how many can survive on forest rodent and cicada' etc.
12:11 mircea_popescu iirc it's about 0.03-0.04 / sqkm
12:12 mircea_popescu argentina is close to 3mn sqkm, so you're looking at possibly even 100k.
12:13 asciilifeform post-industrial shitholes do not necessarily cleanly fallback to '100k pygmies'
12:13 mircea_popescu there is no / was never any industry here.
12:13 asciilifeform quite possibly they will fall back to '100k cellar dwellers in stalingrad'
12:14 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: 'their' industry, as i understand, is in shanghai.
12:14 asciilifeform exactly like usa's.
12:14 mircea_popescu and elliot's girlfriend was in some dude's bedroom.
12:15 mircea_popescu us and argentina have a lot more in common than the usian would like to think ; certainly much closer to argentina than to europe.
12:15 mircea_popescu ~same vastly unpopulated land with pompous idiots concentrated in ports.
12:19 mircea_popescu anyway - the great agricultural jump between 2k and 1k bc almost doubled world population (from about 60-70 to about 110-120 mn) ; before that, the great move from subsistence hunter/gathering to pastoral lifestyle cca 7k/5k tripled it, from about 7ish to about 20ish. the earth was throughout the same 500mn sq km ; and so you can say that truly primitive men will live about 0.01 to the sq km ; mongoloids (ie, you know, horse
12:19 mircea_popescu riding cattle herders, like the cowboys, or Gingis Khan's men) about 0.04 or so ; and ancient world agriculturalists can get as high as 0.2 people per square kilometer.
12:19 asciilifeform well this is the usual picture, but it presupposes intact systems.
12:20 mircea_popescu then piling up two millenia of advances you get almost 1, about .8 pre-industrialization ; and our current ~8 post, via railroad, refrigeration, sanitation, etc.
12:21 mircea_popescu asciilifeform nature is very stable. recall all the inept drama about how "chernobyl is permadestroyed" ? people like to flatter themselves.
12:21 asciilifeform sahara ain't getting smaller, aral sea - wetter.
12:22 mircea_popescu with time, it will, yes.
12:23 asciilifeform geological time./
12:23 mircea_popescu aha.
12:23 asciilifeform perhaps gigantic cockroaches will plow it.
12:23 mircea_popescu when you're discussing the earth you're discussing geological time. nobody cares about people.
12:23 asciilifeform well iirc original q was, partially, 'will it be people'
12:24 mircea_popescu depends. do you mean "people" in the sense of monogamy-beer-and-watching-sports, "what my daddy told me" etc ? or do you mean people in the sense of, whoever is on the land is the people ?
12:25 mircea_popescu these two are only confused in the mind of the derpy englisher trying to flatter britannia.
12:25 mircea_popescu "I'm a 23 year old female who believes in all things kinky. I have major breeding fantasies, and have had multiple children already, all whom I have given up for adoption. I'm helping the world and being a slut all at the same time." << deeze internets.
12:25 asciilifeform people in the sense of continuity with the present whoever. vs 'giant cockroaches that replace us' or similar.
12:26 asciilifeform waiwat
12:26 asciilifeform what's 'breeding fantasy'
12:26 mircea_popescu there is nothing contiguous in the present upon which to build future contiguity.
12:27 mircea_popescu an' i imagine breeding fantasy is when she fantasizes about being tied in a barn, fed, impregnated etc. like a human domestic animal mix.
12:27 mircea_popescu ie, that exact lack of agency that itches lafond.
12:30 asciilifeform lol
12:31 asciilifeform there was iirc at least 1 american writer dude whose alien invaders had nonsentient, entirely cow-like females
12:31 mircea_popescu what, like ancient greece ?
12:31 asciilifeform like meta-greece.
12:32 asciilifeform y'know, the parallel greece that actually ran 'by the book' or however.
12:32 mircea_popescu technology breeds differentiation. pretty sure this is a stable node ; so they'll exist alright.
12:32 mircea_popescu entirely, however, seems unlikely.
12:33 mircea_popescu not sure who'd describe average working crack whore as sentient. ~same sentience as cow.
12:35 asciilifeform well yes, niven (and iirc it was niven, otherwise unremarkable hack) did not pull the idea out of his arse ex nihilo.
12:36 mircea_popescu http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160913/#225 << if you think that is what spec looks like you must be new here!
12:36 scriba Logged on 2016-09-13: [15:28:28] <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu et al : http://trilema.com/2016/gossipd-design-document/#comment-119069 << proposed 'lighthoused' spec
12:37 asciilifeform i'm not convinced that specs have been invented yet.
12:37 asciilifeform (if it were an adequate and total description, it would BE the proggy)
12:41 mircea_popescu mno.
12:41 mircea_popescu not at all.
12:42 asciilifeform any statement that can be mechanically transformed into a working program, is a program.
12:46 mircea_popescu maybe ; but a spec is not defined as "can mechanically be transformed into a working program".
12:46 mircea_popescu much like a definition of an apple is not an apple ; just so a spec is not a program.
12:48 mircea_popescu this idea of "code is specification" is on about the same level of intellectual sophistication as "definition by example". ie, something morons with schoolhouse jobs do.
12:49 asciilifeform the impracticality of 'code as specification' is wholly from the nonexistence of sane programming systems
12:49 asciilifeform rather than from same impracticality as 'the 10-34 thread is this here screw in washington'
13:01 PeterL what is the procedure for gettiing a bot voiced? I rewrote scoopbot to get titles of links, do I need to get it talking to deedbot/gpg decrypting things too?
13:16 asciilifeform http://trilema.com/2016/gossipd-design-document/#comment-119078 << seems like we're back to start, eh.
13:16 ben_vulpes http://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/ardupilot-and-dronecode/11295 << "Due to their overwhelming desire to be able to make a proprietary autopilot stack the Platinum members staged what can only be called a coup. They removed all top level open source projects from DroneCode, leaving only their own nominees in the Technical Steering Committee."
13:24 asciilifeform http://adapilot.likeabird.eu << linked from ben_vulpes's link.
13:25 PeterL could somebody up scoopbot a sec?
13:25 asciilifeform !!up scoopbot
13:25 deedbot scoopbot voiced for 30 minutes.
13:25 PeterL asciilifeform> http://adapilot.likeabird.eu << linked from ben_vulpes's link
13:25 scoopbot AdaPilot - The Open Source Ada-ARM Autopilot Project
13:26 asciilifeform PeterL: in order to work correctly, this bot would have to know about every other bot, neh ?
13:26 asciilifeform otherwise it risks shitting out 'scoops' when scriba, a111, et al shit links.
13:26 asciilifeform which imho would be quite annoying.
13:26 PeterL right, I have an ignore list
13:27 PeterL http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-13#1541189 << things like this
13:27 a111 Logged on 2016-09-13 17:26 asciilifeform: PeterL: in order to work correctly, this bot would have to know about every other bot, neh ?
13:28 PeterL question, should it also ignore links in quoted lines?
13:29 PeterL http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-13#1541168 << like If I quote a quote
13:29 a111 Logged on 2016-09-13 16:36 mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160913/#225 << if you think that is what spec looks like you must be new here!
13:29 scriba Logged on 2016-09-13: [15:28:28] <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu et al : http://trilema.com/2016/gossipd-design-document/#comment-119069 << proposed 'lighthoused' spec
13:29 ben_vulpes nifty little board, asciilifeform
13:29 asciilifeform i'd say yes. but ask mircea_popescu when he wakes up, iirc he doesn't even like the idea of a scoopbot
13:29 PeterL hrm, not that, let me try again
13:29 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: i know 0 about it, it was simply mentioned in thread.
13:29 PeterL http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-13#1541183
13:29 a111 Logged on 2016-09-13 17:24 asciilifeform: http://adapilot.likeabird.eu << linked from ben_vulpes's link.
13:31 ben_vulpes me neither, but makes grand claims!!1
13:31 ben_vulpes also dev kit not actually for sale?
13:31 asciilifeform i did not even bother to look, ben_vulpes
13:31 asciilifeform at this point i have ~0 interest in heathen flying machine controllers.
13:32 asciilifeform if we make one, it will be from 0, and not from them.
13:32 asciilifeform if not - not.
13:32 asciilifeform and it isn't as if we did not go to highschool and did not learn how an ODE is solved.
13:33 asciilifeform ( you do not, in point of fact, even need a digital computer; there were ODE solvers before the computer, and before the transistor. )
13:36 ben_vulpes indeed!
13:36 asciilifeform so we do not need fartupilot or whatever, for anything.
13:37 asciilifeform at least i don't.
13:37 asciilifeform i cannot speak, for instance, for diametric, i'm pretty sure he used it.
13:38 ben_vulpes it is fairly commonly used by people actually flying things, yes.
13:38 ben_vulpes adapilot, dunno. ardupilot, quite.
13:38 asciilifeform one of those ill-fated 'de-facto standards', like gcc.
13:38 asciilifeform 'because no reasonable fella would ever try to write an ... !'
13:39 asciilifeform these are to go away. not be propped up.
13:39 asciilifeform if it turns out that it is impractical for one man to wrap his head around a cpp compiler, it is cpp that will have to vanish
13:39 asciilifeform and not fits-in-head.
13:39 ben_vulpes unrelatedly, asciilifeform: do you have any insight re reversed block hashes per http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-13#1540912 ?
13:39 a111 Logged on 2016-09-13 08:55 ben_vulpes: is there any particular reason why everyone renders block hashes in big-endian format?
13:40 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: artifact of 'standards org' idiocy
13:40 asciilifeform for some reason bigendian is considered 'canonical network order'
13:40 asciilifeform pure simonsays.
13:40 thestringpuller simon says get the fuck up - pharoah monch
13:41 ben_vulpes aight well in light of how they come in blocks in little-endian format i propose they also get rendered that way wtf
13:41 asciilifeform to be fair i have nfi how to possibly escape from specifying byte order.
13:41 asciilifeform but to specify TWO byte orders in 1 protocol !
13:41 ben_vulpes hard, yes. but consistency i think here will be fine.
13:41 asciilifeform that is something only a jwz could love.
13:41 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: i don't think the big-endianness is even in the protocol is it?
13:42 ben_vulpes i read previous block hashes out little-endian just fine
13:42 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: well where is it then ?
13:42 ben_vulpes all of the block explorers!
13:42 asciilifeform ask them, then.
13:42 asciilifeform not me.
13:43 asciilifeform i operate 0 block exploders.
13:43 ben_vulpes so then "no"
13:43 asciilifeform right.
13:43 asciilifeform if i had to guess - i'd guess 'openssl'.
13:43 ben_vulpes gross
13:43 asciilifeform well, they gotta hash and shit with ~something~, eh
13:46 * trinque has a flash of insight
13:46 trinque llvm will never actually implement c/c++ as currently "specified" by the existence of gcc
13:47 asciilifeform correct.
13:49 asciilifeform even gcc5 no longer does.
13:49 asciilifeform (it 'optimizes' away essential security checks, as discussed in at least 2 past threads )
13:50 asciilifeform specification-by-program is probably one of those evils that is here to stay, like cancer and airplane crashes.
13:51 asciilifeform it will die with the last programmer.
13:51 asciilifeform (who is probably already born.)
13:51 asciilifeform the reason why we ~have~ spec-by-program is because it is the only actual alternative to fits-in-head.
13:52 asciilifeform you get one, or you get the other, tertium non datur.
~ 15 minutes ~
14:07 asciilifeform a specification can exist as a real object (which is very painful, consider the standard kilogram block, or trb) or an ideal object.
14:07 asciilifeform however an ideal object that is two+ heads wide is not a thing.
14:08 asciilifeform just like you cannot keep a whale in a bowl in your kitchen.
14:08 asciilifeform or in 10,000 bowls.
14:08 asciilifeform (not, at any rate, a ~live~ whale)
14:10 asciilifeform this is why i suspect that folks such as mircea_popescu are not allergic to the idea of a program specifying a concept, but of a concept that CAN ONLY BE specified by THIS HERE PROGRAM
14:11 asciilifeform granted, these have gone together inseparably for the entire history of programming.
14:11 asciilifeform just as folks allergic to cat often do not know that they are in fact allergic to a certain parasitic mite that lives in the animal's fur.
14:17 asciilifeform the fundamental mistake of 'spec by gcc' is to consider a large computer program as an ideal object.
14:17 asciilifeform it is not one.
14:17 asciilifeform it is merely a real object that can be copied and teleported.
14:17 asciilifeform the only computer program that qualifies to be thought of as an ideal object is one which fitsinhead.
~ 28 minutes ~
14:46 Framedragger http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160913/#16 << very cool stuff re lighthoused, been following comments, will try to properly grok once i get some time and energy (~tomorrow). very neat work indeed
14:46 scriba Logged on 2016-09-13: [02:32:33] <asciilifeform> ben_vulpes, trinque, Framedragger, et al ^
14:47 Framedragger (um sorry for unnecessary pings)
~ 23 minutes ~
15:11 ben_vulpes 3913 MB, in case anyone's following along at home
15:12 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: 3913MB of what ?
15:14 Framedragger http://trilema.com/2016/gossipd-design-document/#comment-119079 s/DZ/SD/ i don't know why i wrote DZ, very unclear freudian slip
15:16 asciilifeform Framedragger: answr'd.
15:19 Framedragger A N A R C H Y
15:20 trinque freenode adding its 2 bitcents to the gossipd discussion.
15:20 asciilifeform lol
15:21 Framedragger "CASE IN POINT"
15:21 asciilifeform Framedragger: answr'd x2.
15:21 shinohai lolz
15:22 shinohai i win the most reliable bot award
15:22 Framedragger (deedbot not in room, and so bots don't self-voice)
15:23 shinohai !~bcstas
15:23 jhvh1 shinohai: Error: "bcstas" is not a valid command.
15:23 shinohai !~bcstats
15:23 jhvh1 shinohai: Current Blocks: 429662 | Current Difficulty: 2.2583287217945956E11 | Next Difficulty At Block: 431423 | Next Difficulty In: 1761 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 4 days, 1 hour, 48 minutes, and 40 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
15:24 shinohai yay
15:24 * Framedragger pats bots
15:24 trinque shinohai: your bot has precisely zero to do with when it rejoins during netsplit.
15:24 shinohai i know mine usually is the first to barf :D
15:24 shinohai im happy it didn't this time
15:25 asciilifeform phf's bot looks to be knocked out ?
15:25 trinque things still trickling in.
15:27 Framedragger asciilifeform: answer't answer't
15:27 Framedragger filtering udp, seriously. so no dns over udp ("dns must die" - well, i guess, fair...)
15:28 trinque hm, wget -r seems to not be bringing back a111 this time, lol
15:29 asciilifeform Framedragger: all it means is that you need a patched kernel to send and receive.
15:30 Framedragger asciilifeform: right. which is not a super strange thing to require anyway imho; this may be required when IP is dissected for gossipd purposes, anyway. (sure, ideally the whole thing should be (eventually) ditched.
15:30 * trinque got moar dakka, still no a111
15:30 Framedragger )
15:30 asciilifeform Framedragger: i'm not yet entirely certain if mircea_popescu understands that the choices on the table are strictly a) use radio b) use ip c) lay own oceanic fiber.
15:30 Framedragger yeah.
15:31 asciilifeform and that (b) means either being retarded (services built on tcp, such as www and irc) or some variation on udp.
15:32 Framedragger imho one should not start prototyping gossipd on tcp due to the whole stateful nature of tcp. it would make things *appear* to be so much easier - implicit packet ordering and stream control, etc. - and when things eventually need changed it's gonna suck00r bigtime
15:32 asciilifeform Framedragger: i won't touch a tcp 'gossipd'
15:33 asciilifeform not for love, nor money
15:33 asciilifeform who wants - go, do.
15:34 asciilifeform http://www.thescreamonline.com/essays/essays2-1/tsarsthumb.html << see also.
15:35 Framedragger [looks good, gun read laters. meatspace stuff, ttyl]
15:36 Framedragger ftr, the relevant capabilities in linux seem to be CAP_NET_RAW and CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE
15:36 asciilifeform https://archive.is/NihIk << claims the railway story was a gag. whatever.
15:36 asciilifeform Framedragger: we all have man pages.
15:37 Framedragger ..and now the relevant stuff is in searchable logs! YOU'RE WELCOME no but, sorry for spam
15:37 asciilifeform lolk
15:39 trinque spb (~stephen@freenode/staff/spb): [Global notice] We've put a cloth over the self-destruct button so that nobody pushes it again. << ahahaha
15:40 asciilifeform how do we say http://lurkmore.to/%D0%A3%D1%87%D0%B8_%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C in ro ? or for that matter eng.? or any of the languages mircea_popescu knows.
15:42 asciilifeform !~translate RU to EN матчасть
15:42 jhvh1 asciilifeform: materiel
15:42 asciilifeform mno. not quite.
15:43 asciilifeform e.g., what would you say to a dude who demands an airgun that fires supersonic bullets.
15:44 trinque sounds a bit like the "do you even" thing.
15:45 trinque or that page mentions "RTFM"
15:45 asciilifeform it is pointedly NOT same.
15:47 asciilifeform 'матчасть' (contraction of, approx, 'material part') is a military term of art, refers to, e.g., how far a ru 120mm howitzer shoots when pointed at 45deg, vs 'how do we make a pincer'
15:47 asciilifeform it is the domain of things everyone who has direct contact with the battlefield is expected to understand.
15:48 asciilifeform (and to an extent, those who have indirect contact, generals, also)
15:48 trinque heh, this guy expects english to have a phrase for insulting someone lacking knowledge of specifics / experience
15:49 asciilifeform if it doesn't , it is a dire problem
15:49 asciilifeform and not mine, but the language's.
15:49 asciilifeform and it does not have to insult, but to prod - it must.
15:49 trinque certainly.
15:50 Framedragger http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160913/#6 << HAH :D butdon'tyoulikelongshotsandstuff
15:50 scriba Logged on 2016-09-13: [01:13:01] <hanbot> http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160911/#220 << moar like retribution for that "elena" monstrosimovie, an exhilarating tale of beige and waiting.
15:50 Framedragger (in truth, can't compare to *actually great* moving long shots etc, not in the same league at all, admittedly)
15:54 trinque !!up phf`
15:54 deedbot phf` voiced for 30 minutes.
15:54 phf` something something не заметили потерю бойца
15:55 trinque !~translate RU to EN не заметили потерю бойца
15:55 jhvh1 trinque: We did not notice the loss of fighter
15:56 phf` fancy, like we're in the future or something
15:56 asciilifeform eh, заметили, заметили.
16:00 mircea_popescu heh check out the netsplits
16:01 mod6 ^
16:01 phf` another exciting way in which logging can fail. bot sitting on one split server, znc sitting on another split server
16:02 asciilifeform phf`: it is quite possible for a bot to sit on >1 server. just needs >1 nick.
16:04 phf` :)
16:15 mircea_popescu http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160913/#342 << no, actually, they're fundamentally different items.
16:15 scriba Logged on 2016-09-13: [16:49:30] <asciilifeform> the impracticality of 'code as specification' is wholly from the nonexistence of sane programming systems
16:15 mircea_popescu i suppose effort to bridge the gap has been made, perhaps most notably the "literate code" thing, but still. spec is not code ; code is not spec.
16:16 mircea_popescu http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160913/#344 << to limit noise the idea is that whoever puts a link in is responsible to provide context for it ; rather than rely on automatic bot function. bots are to read their own www logs when referenced and that's it.
16:16 scriba Logged on 2016-09-13: [17:01:55] <PeterL> what is the procedure for gettiing a bot voiced? I rewrote scoopbot to get titles of links, do I need to get it talking to deedbot/gpg decrypting things too?
16:17 mircea_popescu separately, if you want to register a bot you can have autovoice for it ; but in general it's a good idea to sort out the part where it voices itself as we're headed that way ; the autovoice thing is a stopgap and temporary.
16:17 mircea_popescu you can just take the next control code free from pete's list and go with it.
16:18 mircea_popescu http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160913/#346 << aqhahaha they un-open-sourced it ? lol.
16:18 scriba Logged on 2016-09-13: [17:16:41] <ben_vulpes> http://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/ardupilot-and-dronecode/11295 << "Due to their overwhelming desire to be able to make a proprietary autopilot stack the Platinum members staged what can only be called a coup. They removed all top level open source projects from DroneCode, leaving only their own nominees in the Technical Steering Committee."
16:20 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: answr'd.
16:34 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: it ~would~ be a considerably easier job if you answered the q, which is, do you want a description of the thing on all possible physical carriers (radio, pigeon, ip, telex, ...) or just particulars. and if so, which.
16:45 mircea_popescu doesn't matter which, pick one.
16:45 asciilifeform at any rate, i stand by my assertion that a synchronous (if you don't know what this means, look it up) carrier is unsuitable for gossipd.
16:46 mircea_popescu "i stand by my assertion that x" isn't terribly helpful.
16:46 asciilifeform i.e. if A has to ~ask~ B something and wait for a reply every time they communicate, it violates nothing-to-allcomers.
16:46 mircea_popescu i generally think everyone stands by their assertions until they say otherwise anyway
16:47 asciilifeform the other fundamental aspect, other than 'nothing-to-allcomers' is that synchronous comms over lossy media (e.g. radio) do not work well. the thing that works well is 'i'll pour a bucket of luby in your direction, and you - in mine.'
16:48 asciilifeform if this is not clear, i do not know how to help, perhaps somebody else ought to try.
16:48 mircea_popescu never you mind all that.
16:49 mircea_popescu http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160913/#396 << if you don't do it one way, it'll have to be done the other way. either way - it'll be the other way from the other way. what can you do.
16:49 scriba Logged on 2016-09-13: [17:41:16] <asciilifeform> to be fair i have nfi how to possibly escape from specifying byte order.
16:50 mircea_popescu http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160913/#413 << doh. hence the "wars" (raging mostly in rms' mind)
16:50 scriba Logged on 2016-09-13: [17:46:58] <trinque> llvm will never actually implement c/c++ as currently "specified" by the existence of gcc
16:52 mircea_popescu http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160913/#420 << no, it's a "workable" alternative to go to fucking school and learn to think. which means languages, not math. "but mp, i'm a slut, i have big udders, why should I" oops i was reading from the wrong sheet, i mean "but mp, i'm a mathgeniusboy, why should i" blabla.
16:52 scriba Logged on 2016-09-13: [17:51:53] <asciilifeform> the reason why we ~have~ spec-by-program is because it is the only actual alternative to fits-in-head.
16:53 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: from which sheet would you read to herr knuth ?
16:53 mircea_popescu let him ask me this.
16:54 asciilifeform 'i won't answer because there is not an answer that doesn't rupture my argument' lolk.
16:54 * asciilifeform straps on heavy gas mask.
16:54 mircea_popescu no, but because the question is based on a presumption that doesn't hold in practice.
16:55 asciilifeform which presumption ?
16:55 mircea_popescu "what would you say to this mental image of mine which i call by a name i culled from reality and whose existence is here predicated on supporting my position in an inexistent argument ???"
16:55 asciilifeform and the 'mathgeniusboy' with his udders is not a same caricature ?
16:56 mircea_popescu sadly.
16:56 asciilifeform or is it somewhere written that mircea_popescu gets to bring in these cartoons and nobody else does.
16:56 mircea_popescu i wasn't asking you a question with it!
16:56 asciilifeform aha, was making 'naked' assertion. this is better ?
16:57 mircea_popescu depends how you define better. but it stands in a way the question does not.
17:00 mircea_popescu i can say "the population of argentina has a total sum IQ of 170 over ~40mn people" ; this may be so or not, whatever ; interpreted by the reader. you can ask "o yeah, if you can build things then how would you go about building folded hypercube ?". to which i won't answer. for the reason. are they both caricatures ? maybe so. does that do anything ?
17:00 asciilifeform let's revisit thread - what part of 'fits in head, and speccable, or doesn't-fit-in-head, unspeccable, t. non d.' does mircea_popescu disagree with ?
17:00 asciilifeform can offer item that doesn't fit + is sanely speccable ?
17:00 mircea_popescu the part where you can spec things that don't actually fit in head. for instance, i can specify "a good fuck", or "an acceptably behaved slut" or "a boring housewife"
17:00 asciilifeform or of fits + unspeccable ?
17:01 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: that's a spec ?!
17:01 mircea_popescu no, it's the title of a spec.
17:01 asciilifeform is 'tasty' a spec for food ?
17:01 mircea_popescu i said "i can specify X" not "X is the spec for X"
17:02 asciilifeform specify, for my education, 'good fuck'
17:03 mircea_popescu intercourse lasting above ten minutes with female capable of orgasm on command with pelvis sufficiently toned to appreciably seal on who is serious about and dedicated to the task of pleasing the cock.
17:03 asciilifeform see, if you say 'fuck so strong that it leaves me unable to get up' then you did not actually specify anything, but merely offered the use of your head as a physical test standard,like that kilogram weight in france.
17:04 mircea_popescu except i didn't.
17:04 asciilifeform robert sheckley even had a hilarious story about a dude who gets conscripted to be the 'standard average fuck'.
17:04 mircea_popescu lol
17:04 asciilifeform aha, he ends up most-fucked bloke on the planet.
17:04 asciilifeform standard! y'know.
17:05 mircea_popescu anyway. standard allows you to (predictably, ie, unsurprising to third party) accept or reject instantiated examples. this does not automatically allow you to instantiate examples, though it very often helps.
17:05 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i notice you got an 'appreciably seal' in there. looks like we'll be needing the instrumented standard cock, and a figure in newton-metres ?
17:06 mircea_popescu yes, but that's an anthropological measure, of the ilk of "femur length in humans is 26.75% of height"
17:06 mircea_popescu those two decimals, 4 significant digits, are actually accurate over the fucking population. variations are rare and slight.
17:07 asciilifeform aha. and so it looks like this is a replay of the iq thread - it is quite impossible to specify 'smart', but trivial to specify stupid; impossible - good fuck, easy to describe a useless one; the list of horrible food is easy to make (start with, say, asphalt) but not so of tasties; etc
17:07 mircea_popescu and this is rather what a specification is. doesn;t allow you to produce a human ; but it allows me to reject some of your "human" products as not-human.
17:07 asciilifeform aha, it only rejects.
17:08 asciilifeform the problem is that in order to engineer, you gotta have something left after you rejected.
17:08 mircea_popescu large part of spec's job is exactly in the negative. a good spec allows me to construct a complete negative of the item. this is much more important than commonly realised
17:08 mircea_popescu most people approach spec work as a positive endeavour ; which is why mine read so bewildering at first.
17:09 asciilifeform it isn't bewildering.
17:09 mircea_popescu well not for everyone.
17:09 asciilifeform but imho it is missing a serious negative - synchronicity - this was 100% of my entire argument.
17:09 asciilifeform synchronicity is incompatible with long-term sanity.
17:09 mircea_popescu possible. the problem there being that the concept itself is like recursivity - poorly understood.
17:10 asciilifeform it so happens that i understand it, and am willing to take on whatever 'you're full of shit, explain turbulence' offered.
17:10 mircea_popescu well so then go for it.
17:10 asciilifeform i need a 'you're full of shit, explain ___'
17:11 mircea_popescu "you're a very pretty boy, explain your lighthouse mechanism".
17:11 mircea_popescu but do it over there and in whole not in part.
17:12 asciilifeform the part mircea_popescu took issue with was, as i understand, the mapping of 'rng that broadcasts to planet' into 'ip network' (which does not have such a thing as broadcast.)
17:12 mircea_popescu never mind THE PART
17:12 asciilifeform yes but patient - barfed. i need to know why.
17:13 mircea_popescu we'll find out after you tell your whole story, eh.
17:16 asciilifeform i'ma bake a knuth-style recipe and drop it on mircea_popescu's www, but probably not before week is out.
17:17 asciilifeform btw i was hoping for at least a few 'yer full of shit, how about ___' from folks ~other~ than mircea_popescu also.
17:20 mircea_popescu http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160913/#502 << i always thought this is what you meant by your lsd / gasmask references.
17:20 scriba Logged on 2016-09-13: [19:45:32] <asciilifeform> it is pointedly NOT same.
17:21 asciilifeform approx.
17:22 mircea_popescu http://lurkmore.so/images/6/69/I_wanna_be_a_stripper.jpg << in other boobs
17:22 asciilifeform it means 'dude REALLY demands a pneumatic rifle with supersonic bullet, and thinks that his classical education, 400 chick harem, 9000 battleship fleet entitles him to one' approx.
17:23 mircea_popescu (the joke being, for the physically innocent, that sound is shockwave in gas, and consequently getting gas to move faster than sound is a challenge.)
17:23 asciilifeform euclid had a friend like this also iirc.
17:23 asciilifeform called alex.
17:23 asciilifeform who was pretty great, but wanted 'royal road' etc.
17:24 mircea_popescu http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160913/#506 << maybe it should be named in his honor!
17:24 scriba Logged on 2016-09-13: [19:48:48] <trinque> heh, this guy expects english to have a phrase for insulting someone lacking knowledge of specifics / experience
~ 26 minutes ~
17:51 pete_dushenski http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-12#1540185 << a10 is only 15 tons it turns out, so just a single order of magnitude off of chopperpistol
17:51 a111 Logged on 2016-09-12 15:07 mircea_popescu: seems the cannon fires 400gram projectiles, about 70/s. so it expells 30kgs of material per second ; and it weighs 150 tons.
17:52 pete_dushenski http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-13#1541354 << yup. updated.
17:52 a111 Logged on 2016-09-13 20:17 mircea_popescu: you can just take the next control code free from pete's list and go with it.
17:55 pete_dushenski http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-13#1540863 << i'm seeing closer to 2gb sustained ram footprint with very choosy node and 3-4gb with slutbanger
17:55 a111 Logged on 2016-09-13 03:11 ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: does your trb node's memory usage grow unboundedly?
17:56 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: you will notice that they did not put the cannon in a chopper.
17:56 asciilifeform ever wonder why not ?
17:56 asciilifeform (american love chopper like no one else)
17:58 pete_dushenski asciilifeform: i have no issue imagining the mechanics and forces at play. it's obvious to me why there's no cannonchopper.
17:59 pete_dushenski it would be like jetpack bazooka
17:59 asciilifeform one of the reasons there are no man-sized military quadcopters is that the thing has ~0 INTRINSIC stability
17:59 asciilifeform it must continuously work to stay in the desired orientation.
17:59 pete_dushenski or challenger shuttle from iss
18:01 pete_dushenski asciilifeform: sure, unless flying machine had 'osprey' like directional boost flexibility and could counter the projectile forces directly
18:03 phf fire in the opposite directions at the same time
18:03 asciilifeform phf: that's sorta what a recoilless rifle does.
18:03 pete_dushenski lol! /me imagines umbrella of fire from middle of battlefield
18:03 asciilifeform (in the 19th c variant, one side actually fired sand)
18:03 phf i'm sure that's a long considered designed, but my take on it definitely comes with a trollface
18:04 asciilifeform however a rocket is a considerably simpler device than a recoilless rifle, with the vortex tube, and is the correct solution to 'fire from a floating turd'
18:04 phf incidently before fake-russian did that quadcopter video with guns, there ~was~ a youtube video of a shotgun mounted on a uav, which resulted in the poster being arrested. i can't find it though, was it in logs?
18:05 asciilifeform phf: perhaps you were thinking of the dude who shot a neighbour's flying snoopcam ~with~ a shotgun ?
18:06 phf no
18:06 trinque https://news.vice.com/article/teen-who-created-drone-mounted-gun-arrested-after-assaulting-cops << ?
18:06 phf and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqHrTtvFFIs
18:07 asciilifeform looks like pistol
18:07 trinque recoil doesn't look that bad
18:07 asciilifeform and apparently http://wtnh.com/2016/06/29/clinton-drone-teen-arrested-for-child-porn
18:07 asciilifeform Can Also Have Problems (tm)
18:07 asciilifeform 'Police say 19-year-old Austin Haughwout never broke the law by putting weapons on drones, but he is in handcuffs now, and it’s all because of what police found on his cellphone. “There were images of children in obscene acts found on his phone,” said Sgt. Jeremiah Dunn, spokesman for the Clinton Police Department.'
18:08 phf ahaha
18:08 phf nigga had some crack on him, apparently
18:08 asciilifeform 31333333337 terrorist even though broke no written law? now explain this comp full of cp.
18:08 mircea_popescu lmao
18:08 asciilifeform to the nice jury.
18:09 asciilifeform 'Those videos led to an investigation by the FAA. Clinton police told News 8 that the video didn’t seem to break any laws. Those videos did get Haughwout kicked out of Central Connecticut State University. He is suing over that.'
18:09 asciilifeform lulzy.
18:09 asciilifeform can still sue from the prison when penniless, i wonder?
18:09 asciilifeform seems doubtful.
18:10 asciilifeform i suppose if heemeyer had showed off his killdozer on youtube instead of killdozing immediately when he finished building it, he would have gone to same place as this fool.
18:10 pete_dushenski phf: 'this nigger hung up pictures of his family everywhere!'
18:10 asciilifeform don't build nuke to brag on youtube.
18:10 asciilifeform it isn't what it's for.
18:10 mircea_popescu http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160913/#638 << not altogether a bad solution.
18:10 scriba Logged on 2016-09-13: [22:03:02] <phf> fire in the opposite directions at the same time
18:10 phf pete_dushenski: +1
18:12 mircea_popescu check it out, the pistol on quadcopter thing a lot more workable in practice than in alf's theory ?
18:12 mircea_popescu tsk tsk
18:12 phf it is the kind of solution one were to find in yakov perelman books, with a handy back of the napkin classical mechanics calculation explaining how it would work
18:12 mircea_popescu anyways, i shall be back shortly.
18:12 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: hey, can have cannon, just need massive chopper
18:13 asciilifeform and does anyone find it strange that the dude was not tried for the electrically fired pistol, which is banned as 'convertible to full auto' in usa ?
18:13 asciilifeform why did they have to cook up a cp trial for him.
18:13 asciilifeform pistol fired with solenoid is, per my reading, a 5-15 yr offense in usa. (ianal)
18:15 phf http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-12#1540616 where's cp department is well oiled and can be deployed at will. that's some fine police work, Lou
18:15 a111 Logged on 2016-09-12 20:15 mircea_popescu: that this hasn't deteriorated into an endless battle of injunctions is even more shocking. bejewels, not even the lawyers work in the us anymore ?
18:18 pete_dushenski reading all the spec chatter in the logs, it's worth linking the mega-thread on the same topic from june (via levitan) : http://www.contravex.com/2016/06/15/a-brief-discourse-on-specification/
18:22 pete_dushenski frankly, it'd be swell as hell if mp and alf continued this debate in the comments section there - a la gossipd thread model - and then we'd have something to look back on weeks, months, or years from now.
18:22 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: there is such a thing as logs
18:23 pete_dushenski logs can be messy
18:24 pete_dushenski and finickity to grep
18:25 pete_dushenski or finicky
18:38 pete_dushenski https://www.amazon.com/Proud-Member-Basket-Deplorables-Tshirt/dp/B01LW5XL29 << "i'm with her" has, perhaps inevitably, become "proud member of the basket of deplorables"
18:40 pete_dushenski o no wait i got clintons mixed up lol
18:40 pete_dushenski it's the "make america great again" that's become "proud member of the basket of deplorables"
18:43 pete_dushenski http://phys.org/news/2016-09-amazon-chief-jeff-bezos-unveils.html << speaking of blasts, amzn/bezos preparing to steal musk's thunder
18:44 asciilifeform i can't wait for the massive rocket 'new mbwebwebwe', which will be named for the first NIGERIAN to 419 around the earth.
18:45 asciilifeform (this in re 'The rocket is "named in honor of John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth," he added.')
~ 17 minutes ~
19:02 pete_dushenski "The U.S. government posted a $107 billion budget deficit in August, a 66 percent increase from the same month last year, the Treasury Department said on Tuesday… The fiscal year-to-date deficit was $621 billion through August, up 17 percent from a $530 billion deficit at the same time last year. " << a hundred $bn a month short… fuckin way to go 'world's largest economy', you ARE detroit.
19:09 phf even klf did it better, http://btcbase.org/log/2016-03-31#1442364
19:09 a111 Logged on 2016-03-31 01:55 phf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6q4n5TQnpA via jwz, an old interview with klf after they burned million pounds, for the amusement of #t-a
19:10 mircea_popescu wut is t-a again ?
19:10 phf trilema, it was briefly a thing after the switch
19:11 mircea_popescu ah
19:11 mircea_popescu http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160913/#681 << lol check him out.
19:11 scriba Logged on 2016-09-13: [22:22:28] <pete_dushenski> frankly, it'd be swell as hell if mp and alf continued this debate in the comments section there - a la gossipd thread model - and then we'd have something to look back on weeks, months, or years from now.
19:12 phf actually i'm the only one who did. and adlai
19:12 phf http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-08#1478986
19:12 a111 Logged on 2016-06-08 18:13 asciilifeform: trilema-assets, clearly!11111111
19:14 mircea_popescu http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160913/#692 << it is worth noting that the deficit as accounted for is just about 10% of the gdp as accounted for, which is to say one's probably understated and the oither probably understated.
19:14 scriba Logged on 2016-09-13: [23:02:16] <pete_dushenski> "The U.S. government posted a $107 billion budget deficit in August, a 66 percent increase from the same month last year, the Treasury Department said on Tuesday… The fiscal year-to-date deficit was $621 billion through August, up 17 percent from a $530 billion deficit at the same time last year. " << a hundred $bn a month short… fuckin way to
19:14 scriba go 'world's largest economy', you ARE detroit.
19:15 mircea_popescu which in practical terms means the usg is taxing a further 10% of the whole gdp, on top of whatever it admits to
19:17 pete_dushenski 0, 1, infinity. tax over 20% >>>>> 80%
19:18 mircea_popescu aha.
19:18 mircea_popescu http://66.media.tumblr.com/26ef780a6217be674356a057818ae453/tumblr_o9pxbhtW4L1u5he87o1_500.jpg < as the romanian joke goes, "what's the peak of sexual exhaustion ?" "when you ejaculate powder."
19:19 * pete_dushenski tries to read card. in vain.
~ 24 minutes ~
19:44 pete_dushenski http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-07#1536231 << same feller ripping on laocoon atm. busy bee.
19:44 a111 Logged on 2016-09-07 16:29 asciilifeform: in other noose, 70.33.211.11 (yes, 1 box) has been ddosing trb nodes, in particular zoolag.
~ 20 minutes ~
20:04 * pete_dushenski to showing
20:13 deedbot http://www.contravex.com/2016/09/13/check-out-this-piece-of-shit/ << » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - Check out this piece of shit.
20:20 mircea_popescu i guess now i gotta look
20:23 adlai phf: i wot m8?
20:23 mircea_popescu nope.
20:24 mircea_popescu and in other delicious adolescent ineptitude, http://66.media.tumblr.com/8aea18e3369e73df6af65bebe572c11c/tumblr_o496qbibXR1usejhlo1_500.gif
20:25 mircea_popescu shinohai trinque phf Framedragger any of you wanna get the links autoarchive thing going ?
20:26 shinohai looks at bot parts everywhere
20:29 mircea_popescu in other lulz, http://rapebaitacademy.com/RNapplication.html
20:30 shinohai did u apply?
20:30 mircea_popescu nah
20:31 mircea_popescu wtf, i'm gonna apply. what am i, 16 ?
20:43 shinohai !!rate covertress 1 huffing Krypton causes narcosis in humans at levels > 50%
20:43 deedbot Get your OTP: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/r/ryy8g/?raw=true
20:45 shinohai !!v 06901D77BFA0A8210D4424D257866EAABE98CFDFA0B145766E21F5A043A7F271
20:45 deedbot shinohai updated rating of covertress from 1 to 1 << huffing Krypton causes narcosis in humans at levels > 50%
~ 2 hours 3 minutes ~
22:49 mircea_popescu and in dumpster diving today, http://67.media.tumblr.com/701b074766efeb4fc730e38a9a092c67/tumblr_o05tuownqG1uuzcs7o1_1280.jpg
22:54 asciilifeform l0l!!
22:55 mircea_popescu might be the most revolting thing i ever saw.
22:56 asciilifeform what, some dude fucking a ??? behind a dumpster ?
22:56 asciilifeform could be a pile of rags.
22:56 asciilifeform or maybe not. but not clear that it is a chick.
22:57 mircea_popescu dude, they're laying in a wet spot
22:57 mircea_popescu which consists of dumpster juice
22:57 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-14#1541531 << these turn up periodically, and i mentioned it here not so as to encourage folks to play 'whack-a-mole' but to illustrate that bitcoin's socket handling sucks donkey balls
22:57 a111 Logged on 2016-09-14 00:13 deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2016/09/13/check-out-this-piece-of-shit/ << » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - Check out this piece of shit.
22:58 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: this is not clear to me from the photo. but i'll take your word for it.
22:59 mircea_popescu aaanyway. let's move on to mother-daughter teams. http://66.media.tumblr.com/7e002f7a293eb5810e6f2b8fd66e374c/tumblr_nzoni3ll881ukpp39o1_1280.jpg
22:59 mircea_popescu better scandalous than revolting.
22:59 asciilifeform pretty lulzy
23:01 asciilifeform 'Sep 13 xx:xx:xx humanoid kernel: NET: Unregistered protocol family 39' << oh hey hey lbj! turns out somebody is already gossipdating at me from the phyootoor.
23:02 asciilifeform don't be shy, say hello.
23:02 mircea_popescu lol
23:02 mircea_popescu technically it could be you.
23:02 asciilifeform aha!
23:04 asciilifeform perhaps it's just the usual rc6'd control packet from ftmeade for the implant in my left arsecheek. etc
23:06 asciilifeform eh, nm, turns out that nonsense is debugola from a packet diddler thing i was using.
23:07 asciilifeform snore.
23:09 mircea_popescu lmao
23:13 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: http://www.contravex.com/2016/09/13/check-out-this-piece-of-shit/#comment-50174
23:17 mircea_popescu trinque pete_dushenski : !!subscribe missing from your docs eh.
23:24 trinque updated.
23:24 mircea_popescu an' bot spec published, lemme know
23:24 mircea_popescu esp if a specific sexpr format should be included there.
23:25 trinque ah I was just quoting that
23:25 asciilifeform this is pretty spiffy
23:25 trinque we could go as wild as grammar for commands/args
23:26 asciilifeform !~step 99
23:26 jhvh1 asciilifeform: Error: "step" is not a valid command.
23:26 asciilifeform hm.
23:26 trinque i.e. bot barfs something like bnf in sexp form
23:27 asciilifeform trinque: imho that's gilding the lily.
23:31 mircea_popescu trinque i'm all for it, but feed it to me. i dun code much.
23:33 trinque argument grammar is more essentially descriptive of the item than a pile of html
23:34 trinque with smelly things such as html, I tend to avoid making them the canonical representation of an item
23:35 * mircea_popescu is kinda curious what comes out of this.
23:35 trinque if one had the arg grammar, he could in later days mash tab on his client and get useful completion
23:39 trinque commands-over-gossipd *entirely* replaces the www, and there will eventually be UI for that.
23:39 mircea_popescu nb.
23:42 BingoBoingo !~step1
23:42 jhvh1 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
23:43 asciilifeform !~step0
23:43 jhvh1 asciilifeform: Error: "step0" is not a valid command.
23:43 asciilifeform damn.
23:45 deedbot http://trilema.com/2016/trilema-bot-spec/ << Trilema - #trilema bot spec
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