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00:03 mircea_popescu ahahahaha check out the hysterical history of pantsuitism! http://offbeatoregon.com/1502a.rebel-flag-over-oregon.324.html
00:04 mircea_popescu choicest bits : "Staunch Unionists in Eugene were outraged. They did not, however, feel outraged enough to brave those grim-faced Smithfield sharpshooters in an attempt to do something about it. So instead, they complained bitterly to every authority they could reach: the sheriff, the state legislature, and yes, the federal government in Washington, D.C."
00:04 mircea_popescu "A few weeks later, one of the Smithfield rebels was caught in Eugene trying to buy supplies, and arrested and lodged in a jailhouse. Word spread quickly, and a lynch mob soon had assembled to lay siege to the jailhouse. But the rebel, who had hidden a tiny penknife somewhere on his person, put up such a ferocious fight that vigilante justice was delayed long enough for the sheriff to arrive with a posse, and soon the mob was
00:04 mircea_popescu dispersed."
00:06 ben_vulpes complaining bitterly to any mother who might be nearby is how oregonians do everything
00:06 ben_vulpes https://bikeportland.org/ modern variant
00:06 mircea_popescu oh, don't forget the send-off, "if anyone had shot at mommy, THE ENTIRE WORLD WOULD HAVE BEEN RAZED DOWN!!!! but since i could find no record of it happening..."
00:07 ben_vulpes womxn is the new word in other linguistic backflips
00:09 mircea_popescu why not dumbxss
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00:36 hanbot <ben_vulpes> womxn is the new word in other linguistic backflips << why, has the average one gotten so large you can't tell whether or not she's a plurality?
00:36 mircea_popescu lmao
00:38 mircea_popescu o wow BingoBoingo is getting an uruguayan cedula ?!
00:40 mircea_popescu but i lolled at the fbi check through interpol. "send me an aba wire through sepa!"
00:42 mircea_popescu and check out ben_vulpes ; he actually knows the terms of art now. been doing some reading ?
00:44 ben_vulpes which in particular?
00:44 mircea_popescu lol.
00:44 ben_vulpes niggardly?
00:45 mircea_popescu ok, why not. "catastrophes in complex systems fall out of failure cascades" is almost bibliography calc, neh ?
00:45 mircea_popescu amost exactly*
00:46 ben_vulpes iirc that nugget stuck with me from a piece on five mile island i read lord only knows how long ago
00:46 mircea_popescu ic
00:47 mircea_popescu well, it's how the people who make this stuff their business call things, anyway.
00:48 ben_vulpes i think i will take the avuncular head-pat
00:49 mircea_popescu lol.
00:49 mircea_popescu why were the posts too far for your rails!
00:49 mircea_popescu buncha starstruck noobs.
00:50 ben_vulpes i halfway suspect that nobody had ever looked inside that cabinet until BingoBoingo; maybe arrived from the boat preassembled even, to dimensions convenient to assemblers and not users.
00:50 mircea_popescu incidentally, i'm such a fan of crescent wrenches i actually keep them around as art objects / use them idly while walking around the house as sceptres, gesture with them and so forth.
00:51 mircea_popescu "french wrench" in romanian, an they kick ass.
00:51 ben_vulpes "llave ingles" in sudamerica
00:51 mircea_popescu i actually have a 12 inch truper right on this desk
00:52 mircea_popescu i've had it for a year, afaik never used yet for anything in the vein of its intended utilities.
00:52 ben_vulpes they've always been my "wrong tool for every job"; i'd rather have a set of deep sockets in pretty much every situation.
00:53 mircea_popescu but this is better to crack almonds with.
00:53 ben_vulpes now see that's a job for vice grips
00:54 ben_vulpes can get them to bottom out just beyond the cracking distance!
00:54 mircea_popescu next you're going to build elaborate nutcrackers like those doomed bavarians.
00:55 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes it's not "a chance", it's a virtual guarantee. were you there and pissed they'd have pushed you though apologetically.
00:55 mircea_popescu but stuck for hours with $mysteriousbag... and bored...
00:57 ben_vulpes perhaps i'll have the opportunity to run the experiment some day and we can see
00:57 mircea_popescu but the point is solid, you need the forum MORE when you're in the shit, not less.
00:59 ben_vulpes expensive lesson
01:00 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-03-14#1787815 << bahaha i was near certain nobody else did this !
01:00 a111 Logged on 2018-03-14 04:50 mircea_popescu: incidentally, i'm such a fan of crescent wrenches i actually keep them around as art objects / use them idly while walking around the house as sceptres, gesture with them and so forth.
01:01 mircea_popescu "anyone taking hardware to Spaceship Montevideo must conceal as much of it in servers as possible" << - >> http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-06#1782043 and all that, yes ? i thought this was amply discussed in february.
01:01 a111 Logged on 2018-02-06 13:13 mircea_popescu: intel thinking at the time being is, "have the paperwork for mbs and chips in slot 1 ; paperwork for disks in slot 2 ; for ram in slot 3. then if asked for papers, present slot 1, offer to pay, whine and ask for discounts, etc. if that dun pass, add slot 2, whine more insistently."
01:02 mircea_popescu asciilifeform as he says, they're not actually useful other than symbolically. but symbolically AND HOW
01:02 asciilifeform 'vicegrip' evenbetter toy
01:02 asciilifeform ( and even more monumentally useless in actual use )
01:03 mircea_popescu i dunno, by now we're starting towards gynecological instruments.
01:03 asciilifeform i'm half convinces that ~every d00d, whether admits or not, owns at least a speculum
01:03 asciilifeform ( if not a tenaculum )
01:04 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo ben_vulpes next time, turn the damned things on for half an hour, covers off, so they suck in some dust also.
01:12 ben_vulpes 'tis more or less what i had, but inapplicable to a bag of parts. the three new-in-box drives plus the expediter's fee plus a honking pile of taxesnfees-that-aren't-IVA was the bulk of the bill.
01:13 ben_vulpes net tax on the miserably small pile that was actually declared ran in the 45% range
01:13 ben_vulpes http://pizarroisp.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/vulpes.pdf
01:13 ben_vulpes ( http://logs.bvulpes.com/pizarro?d=2018-3-14#312455 )
01:14 ben_vulpes interestingly, drives bolted to trays were effectively untaxed.
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01:33 mircea_popescu meanwhile in "traffic" and other web 2.0 lulz, https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/namesakeoscilloscopemarquis.com
01:34 mircea_popescu (not solitary case, https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/potpourrichordataoscilloscope.com etc)
01:35 mircea_popescu germany's crazy with 0-length content "webstites".
~ 1 hours 40 minutes ~
03:15 diana_coman trinque, sounds good; and I'm certainly interested in a recipe for transitioning a classical gentoo as well since I can quite see I'll need it anyway
~ 16 minutes ~
03:32 mircea_popescu in bonus lulz, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShV5nfgmaOI
03:33 mircea_popescu imo much better than the baez original, specifically because it's the same pantsuitism (tho for all the bonus levels of involuntary lulz one actually needs fluent romanian)
03:33 mircea_popescu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6-6JXQY558 same gal, for balance.
03:34 mircea_popescu "luciri de lampadare" takes all the caek.
~ 5 hours 42 minutes ~
09:17 mod6 mornin'
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11:39 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> o wow BingoBoingo is getting an uruguayan cedula ?! << Well, kind goes with the de-empirification process
11:40 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> but i lolled at the fbi check through interpol. "send me an aba wire through sepa!" << Apparently US law enforcement does not answer these requests from US persons, hence the WTF intermediary
~ 2 hours 17 minutes ~
13:58 deedbot http://qntra.net/2018/03/us-sec-elizabeth-holmes-and-theranos-announce-massive-fraudcharges-and-proposed-settlement-together/ << Qntra - US SEC, Elizabeth Holmes, And Theranos Announce "Massive Fraud"Charges And Proposed Settlement Together
~ 4 hours 13 minutes ~
18:12 deedbot http://trilema.com/2018/lili-marleen-the-only-english-version-that-doesnt-suck/ << Trilema - Lili Marleen, the only English version that doesn't suck.
~ 2 hours 5 minutes ~
20:17 BingoBoingo !~ticker --market all
20:18 jhvh1 BingoBoingo: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 8239.94, vol: 21206.61521357 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 8204.9, vol: 78055.15947485 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 8199.8, vol: 16286.7813589 | Volume-weighted last average: 8210.61203341
~ 26 minutes ~
20:44 hanbot phf fwiw btcbase.org/data/vtools/vtools_vdiff_sha.vpatch.phf.sig 404s
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21:19 mircea_popescu soo this actually (mostly) functional drive actually fails to read its own smart data.
21:19 mircea_popescu i've never seen something like this before.
21:20 * asciilifeform seen
21:20 asciilifeform but it was a drive where i , uh, molested, the firmware
21:21 asciilifeform ( a la http://qntra.net/2015/02/your-disk-controller-and-you but 'before it was cool'(tm) )
~ 29 minutes ~
21:51 mircea_popescu this is just an ancient (80gb) drive.
21:51 mircea_popescu 2057 bad sectors.
21:52 mircea_popescu old style ide
21:55 asciilifeform lol! i thought you'd boiled those in tomato soup
21:55 asciilifeform ( http://trilema.com/2014/spy-stuff/ )
21:57 asciilifeform fwiw 'smart' wasn't marketed till 2004 iirc. so possibly the thing dun even have it.
21:58 asciilifeform ( prior to the standard, you could only read diskrot data via proprietary magics )
22:00 * asciilifeform pulls a 80G ( circa 2001 ) out of the depths of the depths -- and - as expected - no 'smart'
22:01 asciilifeform sorta how my '92 toyota had no obd plug
22:01 * asciilifeform bbl.
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