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11:17 BingoBoingo In other news, some sort of Derp about Vzla meeting in town today. Going to be popping in and out of Datacenter just to be seen and watch the glory of the blinkenlights
11:20 BingoBoingo Also in local news the police apparently raided the wrong house yesterday and a lulzy tape of herps hammering for minutes on the mundane for here front door gate before entering is lulzy tape.
11:25 asciilifeform guten morgen BingoBoingo
11:26 BingoBoingo Mornin'
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11:49 asciilifeform in other cuntooisms : if anyone is short a x64 box to test-fire cuntoo with, asciilifeform has a surplus disposable box, 'lenovo s10-3' , with that same chipset as in x60 etc period ( https://archive.is/Dny84 ) , if anyone in l1 wants, it's yours for the cost of postage ( has a mechanical hdd in it, i fughet of what size )
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11:50 asciilifeform ( cpu is intel , 'N455', 1 of their earliest 64bit lappy product )
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12:19 BingoBoingo !Xview 1037
12:19 auctionbot Buy order # 1037: 2k Wired Filthy Fiats (WU esta bien) Opening: 610mn ecu Leading Bid: None Ending: 2019-02-08 02:11:49.889189 UTC (20 hours 48 mins)
12:19 BingoBoingo ^ Just under 21 hours left to bid in the Pizarro fiat buying auction
12:19 feedbot http://qntra.net/2019/02/france-withdraws-ambassador-from-rome-over-macrons-opposition-to-italian-support-for-french-democracy/ << Qntra -- France Withdraws Ambassador From Rome Over Macron's Opposition To Italian Support For French Democracy
12:21 BingoBoingo BTC/USD price implied by the opening offer is 3278.69 USD/BTC
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12:36 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: s/participate diplomacy/participate in diplomacy/
12:40 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: ty, fxd
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13:06 BingoBoingo !!invoice mircea_popescu 0.03542500 hanbot AMD64 playground
13:20 mircea_popescu meanwhile in the everlulz, Cisza 21F sub 3h "Don't you know what lesbian means? fuck you" LordMPofTMSR "Lmao. I should know, I'm sure I fucked more than you."
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13:20 mircea_popescu very much truth, btw, i don't know there exist three girls alive that've fucked more lesbians than you truly.
13:21 trinque sorry about that ^
13:22 trinque BingoBoingo: you'll have to re-run.
13:22 asciilifeform guten tag trinque , mircea_popescu
13:22 trinque now that we're at something of a cuntoo interude while folks are testing, I'll find some time to figure out what deedbot gags on time to time re: reconnecting
13:22 trinque hola asciilifeform
13:23 mircea_popescu hola!
13:23 mircea_popescu trinque iirc spyked was sorta chasing the same bug.
13:24 mircea_popescu can just as well eat something else off plate.\
13:30 mircea_popescu dat trilemalotto, such wins in gems and goldbricks.
13:34 BingoBoingo !!invoice mircea_popescu 0.03542500 hanbot AMD64 playground
13:35 deedbot Get your OTP: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/cqlFK/?raw=true
13:35 BingoBoingo ty trinque
13:35 mircea_popescu three-an-a-half tits!
13:35 BingoBoingo !!v 20D69B251E0AE308BC6F1FC96C91FE2BB5C9385B3E9F8D624E063793A34A97B4
13:35 mircea_popescu 0.01 bitcoin, also known as a titspot.
13:35 deedbot Invoiced mircea_popescu 0.03542500 << hanbot AMD64 playground
13:36 BingoBoingo Titspots indeed
13:37 * mircea_popescu goes to write the last month;'s report. which was going to get done sooner if we didn't end up drinking a lot of sangrias an' partying with the hooters waitresses.
13:38 asciilifeform !!later tell diana_coman: finally dug up the http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-03#1892086 item ( believe or not, '98 disk reads a++ ) : http://nosuchlabs.com/pub/vintage/oldies.tar.gz . you'll need 'arj' but that ought not to be problem on dos box.
13:38 a111 Logged on 2019-02-03 17:42 asciilifeform: diana_coman: it's on a mitsumi gold cd thing, i'ma excavate it tomorrow morning
13:41 asciilifeform ( ~700MB , and cannot guarantee that all items will work on emulator, some of'em did require fiddling w/ config.sys etc in the olden days.. )
13:45 asciilifeform diana_coman: if you can get hold of actual dos box with e.g. 'soundblaster', most of what's in there oughta work, in principle.
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14:11 diana_coman thanks asciilifeform! I'm downloading it
14:12 asciilifeform diana_coman: np. lemme know which flavours the kid ended up liking, i may have moar in the depths of the warez chests along those lines.
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14:13 diana_coman atm he's struggling to become finger-agile enough for supaplex-proficiency so it might take a while
14:13 diana_coman he still has restriction on too much screen time so there is that factor too
14:14 asciilifeform i played good chunk of those back when was same size as him and at elder brother's mercy for cpu cycles, lol, also
14:15 BingoBoingo In other olds, the present live version of this archived url shows nothing but EU General Derp Protection Act redaction notice https://archive.is/msyuN
14:15 diana_coman iirc I was a bit older actually; at 6-7 it was only Basic and casette loading stuff, I think I was more like 10-12 for supaplex
14:15 asciilifeform ah hm i may have overestimated the size
14:15 mircea_popescu diana_coman not as long as you think, i recall the same exact summer i went from fearing the forks in june to playing with them for sport in august.
14:16 mircea_popescu (i am right in thinking the "move just as it approaches so it turns around" trick is common knowledge yes ?)
14:16 diana_coman heh, yes; he still gets caught at "run down chased by stuff and turn sharply left/right"
14:16 mircea_popescu hehe.
14:16 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i can't picture one'd get far in supa w/out knowing that, yea
14:16 mircea_popescu i think i was more like 7 than 5
14:17 mircea_popescu btw, if anyone cares -- i never had "screentime restrictions" besides a purely oral "would you be reasonable!!!" ; doesn't seem to have done me any harm.
14:18 mircea_popescu the high level i suppose is disputable ; but when getting down to practicals, i was still reading the bottom line on the eye chart at time-and-a-half the distance when we fitted bimbo for glasses.
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14:18 diana_coman mircea_popescu, I never had screen restriction either but for one thing, I did not start at 4 and for the other there is plenty other stuff (including sleep!) that needs to fit it so...
14:18 mircea_popescu sleep is for later, when he goes to bed with girls. ALL THE TIME FOR SLEEP IN THE WORLD THEN!
14:18 * asciilifeform didnt have 'restriction' as such, but when was single-digit y.o. shared what was left of the day's cpu after brother had eaten
14:19 mircea_popescu now computers, that's important.
14:20 asciilifeform arguably both asciilifeform & brother had 'too much screen' , given as both grew to program for bread, life of sin.
14:20 mircea_popescu the sad truth of the matter being, that with the machines in the shit our simpler brothers (whom jahweh still awaits in his special place in his kingdom) it's much easier for children than for adults to maintain interest in the damned things.
14:20 mircea_popescu too much shit to annoy and irritate once one's past his prime.
14:21 diana_coman hm, I'm not even sure he doesn't disagree on that already given that he was at his happiest when among 3 sisters
14:22 mircea_popescu lol.
14:22 mircea_popescu did he splash 'em ?
14:22 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: a greybeard once told asciilifeform , 'you dun know it, but you got finite # loc in you, once you've written them will stand the machine no moar and have to move to forest and eat bark'. i'm not even convinced that it was joke.
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14:22 diana_coman no idea but according to reports he "looked totally like a satisfied cat and didn't want to leave"
14:22 mircea_popescu now you see why i save.
14:23 diana_coman asciilifeform, q being though ...what's wrong with moving to the forest anyway?
14:23 asciilifeform diana_coman: the moar loc, the less i see wrong w/bark, lol
14:23 mircea_popescu his appreciation for culinary virtues of treebark isn't fully developed yet.
14:24 asciilifeform it develops as the odometer rolls.
14:24 diana_coman well, just choose some forest with...mushrooms at least!
14:24 mircea_popescu who knows, maybe you end up reinventing java then.
14:25 asciilifeform the idea , i think, is to stop before the fungus sets in an' you start producing those.
14:28 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-07#1893445 << who was bimbo ?
14:28 a111 Logged on 2019-02-07 19:18 mircea_popescu: the high level i suppose is disputable ; but when getting down to practicals, i was still reading the bottom line on the eye chart at time-and-a-half the distance when we fitted bimbo for glasses.
14:31 mircea_popescu you know, http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-05#1892631
14:31 a111 Logged on 2019-02-05 01:24 feedbot: http://bimbo.club/2019/02/philosophical-transactions-for-the-months-of-june-july-and-august-1715-account-of-books-ii/ << Bimbo.Club -- Philosophical Transactions. For the months of June, July and August, 1715. - Account of Books - II.
14:31 asciilifeform aaa
14:37 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo ftr, ~each~ memo line for the ~same machine~ during the past 4 billings reads differently.
14:37 mircea_popescu why not just pick something and go with it ?
14:37 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Will do
14:38 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: imho oughta formulate as ' $machine ; $interval ; $ cost '
14:44 BingoBoingo Will make sure all that information is included
14:47 BingoBoingo In other wild finds relating to http://trilema.com/2015/heres-what-they-dont-tell-you-when-they-bring-you-those-papers-to-sign/ See: Pinned Tweet Charlie Shrem Verified account @CharlieShrem 20 Feb 2017: Watch me go from CEO to Dishwasher in "Disrupting Money" (derpurl)
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14:47 asciilifeform lol 'surprised by wealth'(tm)(r)(esr)
14:47 mircea_popescu guy was always a dishwasher.
14:48 asciilifeform i expect will soon write megab00k, 'how to lose friends and infuriate people'
14:49 mircea_popescu it's a wonder nobody ever "figures out" the grand usgistani preoccupation with "youth" is entirely built out of a solid bedrock of "you will disapoint" certainty.
14:50 mircea_popescu is this format irritating actually ?
14:50 asciilifeform imho this is great format ( tho phf hasn't baked the eater of it yet )
14:51 mircea_popescu kinda seems to me the alternative of unanchored urls even more infuriating
14:51 asciilifeform if he finds how to make the eater survive broken lines , will be double win
14:53 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i dun find the [] irritating at all
14:53 asciilifeform think, could actually ~use~ hypertext...
14:56 mircea_popescu !!deed http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/OVeeP/?raw=true
14:56 deedbot accepted: 1
14:59 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the usg.'youth' eagerly and w/out much massage swallow the 'you have Great Ideas!11' idjicy ( where reality is 'yer a not-yet-dry lemon to squeeze' )
15:00 asciilifeform iirc mircea_popescu had a piece where described this algo, on which errything from hollywood to softwaretardism has been running for ~100y
15:01 asciilifeform koschei economy.
15:01 mircea_popescu the problem is the breakdown of the fambly. father should have craked skull let all the goange & gargauni out long before 18th bday.
15:02 asciilifeform hm i thought it was 'gargauni & barzauni'
15:02 mircea_popescu also. many kinds.
15:02 asciilifeform ( on asciilifeform's home planet typically folx say simply тараканы , i.e. cockroaches , in skull )
15:05 mircea_popescu romanians imply various subtle distinction. eg, "gargaun" would be the sort of skittering beetle that digs unseen and ruins structures, like termite or weevil (the folk name of which, "gargarita", very much model for name)
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15:05 asciilifeform nifty, descriptive.
15:05 mircea_popescu whereas barzaun would be loudly and ineptly flying item, like various carabidae
15:06 mircea_popescu so in this sense, inept shit like "o guys, i'm bitcoin jizzus" very much barzaun, whereas inept idiocy like "oh, why should i read log, i am busyman", gargaun.
15:06 mircea_popescu goange more generic name, and i fear the implication is that female headspace not worthy of such distinctions, to be described generically.
15:06 mircea_popescu hence why "goange & gargauni" implies a gender-balanced population, whereas the other'd go better with eg gunnery sgt hartman's job.
15:08 mircea_popescu (in the direct, barzaun is the euro hornet, vespa crabro)
15:08 asciilifeform sadly seems that father can not only remove these , but insert.
15:09 mircea_popescu there's a reason maga's but a dream.
15:09 asciilifeform y'know , sorta like how zoologists found iirc that hedgehog (the most flea-infested known , afaik, beast) can be de-flea'd, and breed similarly clean hedgehog
15:10 asciilifeform but erry known specimen from wild carries multiple grams of flea
15:11 mircea_popescu i wouldn't want to play any computer games hedgehogs made.
15:11 asciilifeform ( incidentally afaik hedgehog is not found in the americas. and i do not know specifically why, gotta presume that ~someone~ must've set some loose at some point -- but they cannot live here )
15:11 mircea_popescu possibly raccoon eats ?
15:11 asciilifeform could be
15:14 asciilifeform if can eat hive of hornets whole, and even drywall -- wainot hedgehog.
15:15 * asciilifeform bbl,meats
15:28 feedbot http://trilema.com/2019/minigame-smg-january-2019-statement/ << Trilema -- MiniGame (S.MG), January 2019 Statement
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16:02 diana_coman I'll add to gargauni, goange and barzauni the "fluturi" as one might have those too!
16:03 diana_coman since fluturi are butterflies, they are obviously lighter and not loud but also without much substance and not long lived
16:03 diana_coman sort of day-dreaming stuff
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16:21 mircea_popescu arguably least harmful variety.
16:21 mircea_popescu fwih esl gals only get them in the stomach.
16:22 mircea_popescu a more practical-minded culture, aka "numa' la foale ti-i gindu', sa le-ndopi!"
16:22 diana_coman well yes, less harmful, perhaps even pretty for a bit (until one remembers that they are anyway just flying worms of sorts)
16:23 mircea_popescu sa scoatem untul din fluturi, tovarasi!
16:23 diana_coman sometimes I wonder if practical-minded is not the polite way of saying unimaginative but anyways
16:23 diana_coman daca-i cu tovarasi e cu margarina, nu cu unt!!
16:25 mircea_popescu well... what comes out lol
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17:42 feedbot http://ossasepia.com/2019/02/07/seppuku-job-market-minimal-dynamic-tasking-in-ada/ << Ossasepia -- Seppuku Job Market: Minimal Dynamic Tasking in Ada
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18:27 feedbot http://trilema.com/2019/where-da-party-at/ << Trilema -- Where da party at ?!
18:35 shinohai mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2019/where-da-party-at/#selection-127.0-127.12 <<< space?
18:37 mircea_popescu it is actually a word.
18:38 shinohai O.o
18:39 * asciilifeform reads diana_coman's opus..
18:40 asciilifeform a++ title btw.
18:42 asciilifeform diana_coman: 1 immediate q : why do the worker jobs have to be terminated & rebirthed ( rather than having N , 1 per cpu, and 4evah infinite loop of plucking work from queue & placing in finishedworx queue when done ) ?
18:43 mircea_popescu because there's potentially more types of jobs than cores.
18:44 mircea_popescu if you go "job is the player", then you'll trivially want to support more than 1 player/core. if you go "job is crafting or w/e", you will have 50 cores doing "crafting" one time and 5 another time depending and so on.
18:44 mircea_popescu ie, you can't really have static jobs.
18:45 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the 'workers' are specialized for particular type of job ? ( i haven't read the proggy yet -- but seems to me that if that's the case, oughta specialize'em by case selector inside 'worker', rather than eating the overhead of rebirthing thread 9000/sec )
18:45 asciilifeform anyways i'ma only say moar after read proggy.
18:45 mircea_popescu i find apache an excellent model for the problem here. the concept of "worker" as used there specifically.
18:46 * asciilifeform has not used ada threadism yet, so quite interested to see what diana_coman made of it
18:48 mircea_popescu i actually quite like the encapsulation she calls "sjm"
18:50 asciilifeform http://ossasepia.com/2019/02/07/seppuku-job-market-minimal-dynamic-tasking-in-ada/#selection-101.42-101.207 << possibly i mentioned this prev., but asciilifeform avoids secondarystack not because it doesn't work reliably , but because it makes audit of binary moar difficult. i dunno if this concern is really applicable to items other than ffa.
18:52 mircea_popescu it is most wise to start restricted and push out as need be, no sooner.
18:53 * asciilifeform does not disagree
18:56 asciilifeform http://ossasepia.com/2019/02/07/seppuku-job-market-minimal-dynamic-tasking-in-ada/#selection-109.1672-109.1738 << will be interesting to see if this functions if stuffed into a static lib, in light of the http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889467 puzzler
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18:56 a111 Logged on 2019-01-22 22:35 asciilifeform: this is done with a standard ada feature called 'controlled limited type'. which i found that, for no documented reason, dunwork in gnat's static lib.
18:59 asciilifeform i'm betting that it will work , cuz the type aint exported.
19:04 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: http://ossasepia.com/2019/02/07/seppuku-job-market-minimal-dynamic-tasking-in-ada/#selection-139.9098-139.9968 << dun seem like diana_coman's mechanism specialized by creating different 'species' of 'worker' -- but by using case selector, as i expected it would. therefore it remains a puzzle to me why to terminate an' rebirth'em ( to save a few kB of ram when machine load is light ?? )
19:06 mircea_popescu it's just wireframe!
19:06 asciilifeform hm?
19:07 mircea_popescu you can't go "it doesn't seem to me this architectural model is very strong, seems made of polystyrene". yes, the model's made of polystyrene.
19:08 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i was nitpicking re the algo, rather than the draft coad per se
19:09 mircea_popescu ...
19:10 mircea_popescu "i was nitpicking re strength, not the model per se". wth, it's not necessary the model airplane used to test out the worker hive's going to contain the sort of seating inside you can ~rely on~ to see in the finished item.
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19:10 asciilifeform fair'nuff
19:13 asciilifeform http://ossasepia.com/2019/02/07/seppuku-job-market-minimal-dynamic-tasking-in-ada/#selection-185.130-185.193 << (again given that i haven't used the threadtron) interested to learn the answr to 'what do they weigh'
19:17 asciilifeform http://ossasepia.com/2019/02/07/seppuku-job-market-minimal-dynamic-tasking-in-ada/#selection-91.517-91.599 << when might this happen ?
19:18 asciilifeform ( as i understand, it could only happen if there is catastrophic error in the logic ? )
19:22 mircea_popescu well no, it couyld happen because hardware is shit, software is shit, electromagnetism, you name it.
19:22 mircea_popescu why did your rk reboot ?
19:22 asciilifeform lol rk crashed and ate own shit, not reboot, yer thinking of the x64
19:22 asciilifeform but yea
19:23 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i have similar pieces , in http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-05#1892778 .
19:23 a111 Logged on 2019-02-05 14:49 asciilifeform: on that subj, attentive ffa reader will notice in certain places asciilifeform marked in comment 'cosmic ray resistance' . this indicates mechanisms where there are two or more separate pieces that ensure a correct computation (or death with alarm bells) if somehow bit flips , when this is inexpensive.
19:25 * asciilifeform intends eventually to actually try ffa on a micro with deliberately-glitchy environment, e.g. inside that xray oven, and see how this goes in real life
19:26 asciilifeform the tricky bit with experiments like that, is that if you fry it enuff you get sram cells that go metastable, rather than simply flip, and then all bets off
19:28 asciilifeform sorta why people still occasionally bother to bake 'si on saphire' etc rather than 'hey let's tandem 9000 konsoomer z80'
19:29 asciilifeform will note tho, that if yer machine aint actually intended to fly on a rocket, placing it in a pb bottle is cheaper than baking saphire ic.
19:33 asciilifeform mircea_popescu may also find interesting , that apparently ~soft~ xray is 'glitchier' than hard ( the latter tends to penetrate w/out transferring energy )
19:33 mircea_popescu certainly.
19:34 asciilifeform in that light the oven oughta make a good ic frier, has adjustable voltage.
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19:40 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-08#1893553 << as a very small boy, asciilifeform had this toy, where little rocket with two plastic cosmonauts inside, and they were molded in such a way that they only had torso/arms/head, were whole with the cockpit; and took it, as 3-4y.o. might, quite literally, 'in the dark fyootoor man will be grown into ship, live an' die together'
19:40 a111 Logged on 2019-02-08 00:10 mircea_popescu: "i was nitpicking re strength, not the model per se". wth, it's not necessary the model airplane used to test out the worker hive's going to contain the sort of seating inside you can ~rely on~ to see in the finished item.
19:40 asciilifeform later actually encountered this trope in fiction and thought of the toy.
19:40 mircea_popescu you might've not been the only one, seen a lot of these
19:40 mircea_popescu tho it's more usually woman-spider than man-starship.
19:41 asciilifeform lol
19:42 asciilifeform i dun think i had a woman-spider single-mold tentaclerape scene as toy. ( maybe in jp they do ? )
19:43 asciilifeform oddly enuff i did not have this reaction to e.g. tin soldier molded in permanent pose with rifle, or similar .
19:44 asciilifeform the rocket pilots specifically looked as if intended to suggest this thought.
19:46 mircea_popescu reportedly centroamericans had same thought when presented with equestrian tin toys.
19:46 mircea_popescu "manhorse!!!"
19:46 asciilifeform oh ha, apparently ~errything~ is sitting on teh net somewhere, https://archive.is/gReBS << subj, behold.
19:49 asciilifeform https://archive.is/5dIdw << apparently other variants were even moar depressing, this poor fucker has only head
19:50 mircea_popescu this might be the first tracked spaceship i ever saw.
19:51 * mircea_popescu goes away whistling "a mudslide to paradise"
19:51 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i misremembered, item was a 'moon buggy'
19:52 asciilifeform tho could've sworn also were rocket etc with similar 'feature'.
19:53 asciilifeform i recall pulling the magnets from the motors ( 2!111 of'em ) of that thing.
19:53 mircea_popescu what else is an honest toy motor for!
19:54 mircea_popescu it got so bad in mini-mp household, my father got me a stack of superalloy things. "how can you give that to a child ? you realise what can happen if he swallows one ?" (they were these thin tiny discs with hole in middle, enameled)
19:55 mircea_popescu "do you realise what happens if he keeps mining $50 toys for 35 cent magnets ?"
19:55 asciilifeform i dun think we had neodymium magnet in my orcistan
19:55 mircea_popescu was the only way -- they had to be better, i wouldn't lower myself to mine inferior stuff.
19:55 asciilifeform i mean at all. i dun think even in actual rocket su had'em.
19:56 mircea_popescu i suspect might've been cobalt-nickel or w/e.
19:56 asciilifeform these -- possib
19:58 mircea_popescu in other lulz : "Chinese manufacturers have become a dominant force in neodymium magnet production, based on their control of much of the world's sources of rare earth mines. The United States Department of Energy has identified a need to find substitutes for rare earth metals in permanent magnet technology, and has begun funding such research. The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy has sponsored a Rare Earth Alternativ
19:58 mircea_popescu es in Critical Technologies (REACT) program, to develop alternative materials. In 2011, ARPA-E awarded 31.6 million dollars to fund Rare-Earth Substitute projects."
19:59 mircea_popescu the sheer pomposity of these morons.
19:59 asciilifeform lol substitutes ?!!
19:59 asciilifeform 'spreading -- works'
20:00 mircea_popescu the sheer unmitigated gall to announce "they identified and sponsored". what the fuck's it supposed to do, i identified a need for more sluts and sponsored the creation thereof at two bits a titpair. what, usg,dea is better than me or something, is the hallucination here ?
20:01 mircea_popescu leaving aside how the 2011 thread seems to never have return to nobody's concern. coulda baked some quantum computing magnets for the same money.
20:02 mircea_popescu in fact, pressed shitboard supermagnet just as likely as 3d-printed quantum computer or whatever the fuck else. they get all the amateur twerps to pretend like pressed shitboard made houses are 100% true and real houses, what's keeping the imaginary magnets and imaginary computers i wish to know ?
20:03 asciilifeform i suppose in 1 sense 'succeeded', iirc principal eater of nd magnet was ye olde mech hdd. tho i dunthink the rise of ssd had any to do with usg idjicy, only w/ korean coolies slaving in 4 shifts
20:03 mircea_popescu the us could be producing supermagnets out of discarded starbucks cups just as well as it makes "bridges" or "college graduates" or whatever else they supposedly make.
20:04 mircea_popescu asciilifeform still no way to have high performance electric engine without high performance magnet. which is all the lulzier considering usgistani "innovation" in "how to go three miles to the galon by first turning it into a large lithium battery"
20:04 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: small ones certainly
20:04 asciilifeform ( large motors include 0 magnet, i suspect mircea_popescu knew this )
20:05 mircea_popescu large electric engines also ~useless.
20:05 asciilifeform y'know , lifts, submarines, etc
20:05 mircea_popescu sure, and trains.
20:06 asciilifeform it's a bitch to make e.g. small stepper w/out magnet.
20:06 mircea_popescu except the us has no train infrastructure to speak of still, and instead of fixing that obvious problem blew wad on anti-car ; and the sligtht advantage submarine had historically is mostly gone, by now sub and ship equally detecvtable.
20:07 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: pretty sure even ~these~ they buy from siemens.
20:07 asciilifeform amerisads forgot long ago how to make even such thing as electric motor.
20:07 mircea_popescu well, it'd be unfair to women of color or some shit to make them.
20:09 asciilifeform i expect there will be plenty of attempted-'substitute' lulz, a la the wooden spokes in wheels of late imperial jp trucks.
20:10 asciilifeform it is even rumoured that usg is pouring printolade into fischer-tropsch , a la the ~prev~ reich
20:11 mircea_popescu already in full swing. the one response when getting $item for enslaved usgistani girly is "o wow this is the best $item i ever had".
20:11 asciilifeform ( coal is moar or less the 1 mineral resource left in north a in any substantial qty )
20:11 mircea_popescu which is so su it screams, except of course it dun scream audibly enough to penetrate the us moron shell.
20:12 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: verily. see also e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-02#1891456
20:12 a111 Logged on 2019-02-02 02:40 asciilifeform: asciilifeform's pet , ~erry day at breakfast : 'when can i eat apple that tastes like apple again'
20:13 asciilifeform see, they haven't found how to make a jonathan apple from anthracite just yet. Moar Studies Needed (tm)(r)
20:15 mircea_popescu a need to not fucking starve was identified, and the ministry of idle pomp and spurious circumstance has issued a raft of confetty with scribblings on them in this general direction!
20:15 asciilifeform in su there were always legends of d00d who keeps cow in city flat and feeds to it 'pravda'
20:16 asciilifeform but usg moar 'modern', goin' 'paperless' supposedly.
20:16 asciilifeform so won't work here.
20:21 mircea_popescu that's not even so much the problem, rather us unlike su very dedicated to feeding moron's vanity, consequently lots of http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-07#1893406 sheer cheek.
20:21 a111 Logged on 2019-02-07 18:20 mircea_popescu: meanwhile in the everlulz, Cisza 21F sub 3h "Don't you know what lesbian means? fuck you" LordMPofTMSR "Lmao. I should know, I'm sure I fucked more than you."
20:22 mircea_popescu famously, a hungarian was defined cca 1890s, as that species of moron who would rather eat soap wrapped in paper painted his coutnry's flag than french cheese in a plain wrapper.
20:22 mircea_popescu the ustard is that species of moron who imagines anything outside his shithole doesn't, properly speaking, exist.
20:23 BingoBoingo Blog post incoming, an Indula in one of the giant, ancient concrete human warehouses on the Rambla is engulfed in flame. Rest of the building looked ok.
20:24 BingoBoingo 1 fire truck and 4 bombaderos on their motocicletas were on their way down the street when I finished my rubbernecking
20:25 mircea_popescu they have fire bicycles in uy ?!
20:25 BingoBoingo I did not see fat powered fire bikes
20:26 BingoBoingo Smell of burning chicom plastic carried a few blocks. Have a handful of usable pictures.
20:27 BingoBoingo The motos however did not get sirens, only the apparatus
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21:01 feedbot http://bingology.net/2019/02/08/fire-in-montevideo/ << Bingology - BingoBoingo's Blog -- Fire In Montevideo
21:01 BingoBoingo Apparently I beat the local news to this too
~ 1 hours 23 minutes ~
22:24 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: wtf is even flammable in these.
~ 15 minutes ~
22:40 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: The plastic grocery bags they hoard
22:40 BingoBoingo also apparently this unit had plastic window trim
22:44 BingoBoingo Also multi 10kg gas cylinders are popular for stoves
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