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mircea_popescu: !up bitcoinquestinos
bitcoinquestinos: thanks man, what is this IRC? I read about it in a blog post
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> those who don't, typically own a small (5-10kW) genset on wheels << i have no idea what this would do. suppose a 2kw air conditioner unit, or fridge, or even washing machine.
mircea_popescu: capacitive charge being what it is, the 2kw would serve for what exactly ?
mircea_popescu: bitcoinquestinos irc is a way to talk to people
mircea_popescu: !up BlueMatt
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they typically have surge rating of 5-7x
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the generators ?
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah can't run a/c but you could run fridge
bitcoinquestinos: mircea_popescu: I know I'm asking what is the purpose of this IRC?
mircea_popescu: decimation depending on the fridge. i think they make gen friendlier models now.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinquestinos this is where bitcoin happens.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but what're they used for: typically stands between user and death from exposure. runs furnace blower/igniter in the cold months; a window ac unit in summer; fridge, a few lights, etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, if it's all resistive charge it's useful.
decimation: yeah if you have a gas furnace, and you can run the blower, you can save your house water lines from freezing
decimation: because it could take days for the incompetents to fix the power lines in poor winter weather
mircea_popescu: otherwise i dunno what household can be run on 5kw (bottlenecked at 1.5ish)
asciilifeform: 'skeleton' systems as described above.
asciilifeform: that's pretty much it
mircea_popescu: decimation eu mostly heats on gas, these micro units that mostly don't need power. either because battery or ingenious.
bitcoinquestinos: mircea_popescu: What do you mean? Is this a place where people find the best way to spend their bitcoins so they can hold tighter?
mircea_popescu: bitcoinquestinos mno. i mean, when it's decided that mtgox dies, it;s decided here.
mircea_popescu: when it's decided gavin is of no further utility for bitcoin, it's decided here.
decimation: mircea_popescu: is it hydronic heat?
mircea_popescu: whenever something happens, or doesn't happen, it starts or doesn't start here.
mircea_popescu: decimation i have nfi what that is ? but no, either keep a pilot going, or w/e.
decimation: in the us gas heat is common, but typical large us house has a 'forced air' system that moves heated air around the house
mircea_popescu: decimation a yes, turns out it is!
bitcoinquestinos: mircea_propescu: Is everyone here anonymous?
mircea_popescu: nah, in europe it's a water pipes and radiators.
decimation: forced air is 'cheaper' to install
mircea_popescu: bitcoinquestinos you are anonymous. i'm not.
decimation: otherwise it's a worse solution
mircea_popescu: not better in any sense tho.
asciilifeform: bitcoinquestinos: about half the people here have www sites with human name, contact info, etc.
decimation: yeah if all you need to do is heat boiler, then you don't need electricity
mircea_popescu: my house in timisoara, the heating system held about a ton of water in the pipes and radiative elements. took about an hour to cool a coupla degrees.
mircea_popescu: decimation you sort-of need it for the pump, but it's not so much.
asciilifeform: about ~100W
decimation: this is very uncommon in the us, except for old homes
asciilifeform used to live in an early-1900s house with this type of furnace
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and since it runs maybe five times a day for a quarter of an hour, battery's quite feasible.
decimation: yeah if i had to provide backup power for something like that, would use UPS
bitcoinquestinos: mircea_propescu: What makes you say when Mt gox dies it's decided here?
asciilifeform: you actually had it on batteries?!
mircea_popescu: bitcoinquestinos history.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, but then again i never had a power outage. if they happened, ups would work fine.
mircea_popescu: more expensive units come with their own batteries
mircea_popescu: (mostly for the co detector tho)
bitcoinquestinos: mircea_propescu: Can you be more specific?
mircea_popescu: bitcoinquestinos i could, but so far i'm not particulrly inclined. the logs are in the topic, peruse at your leisure.
decimation: part of the other reason 'forced air' heat is common in the us is because air conditioning is considered to be a requirement
mircea_popescu: six months or a year down the road, we can continue this conversation in a better position.
mircea_popescu: decimation i kinda wonder why water circulating systems aren't used for cooling much.
mircea_popescu: it'd prolly work better than air systems.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: condensation.
asciilifeform: among other reasons
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform condensation happens in acs too, what.
asciilifeform: there, it happens in an enclosed space, above a drain.
decimation: yeah, but it's controlled in one spot
mircea_popescu: it doesn't have to be MUCH colder to extract heat.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu clearly does not live in swampland
asciilifeform: ac is only half about heat
asciilifeform: humidity is the real hell.
mircea_popescu: i guess that'd have to be it.
asciilifeform: humidity is what keeps your natural 'ac' - sweat - from doing much good
decimation: also considered purely in energy efficiency terms, a 'heat pump' is most efficient for heating, and can be 'run backwards' for cooling
asciilifeform: whether a heat pump is good economics or lunacy depends on the region
decimation: the problem is that air source heat pumps can only heat down to a certain ambient temperature
decimation: I have a friend who swears by the new mitsubishi air source heat pumps
asciilifeform had heat pump in old flat, about 1/3 the size of new house (gas furnace there), actually cost more to run the heat pump
asciilifeform: for roughly similar type of wooden hovel
decimation: they claim to heat (without resistive elements) down to 5 F
asciilifeform: natural gas is considerably cheaper, in this part of the world, than equiv. via heatpump.
decimation: asciilifeform: the heat pump was probably turning on bigass resistor for 'emergency heat'
asciilifeform: decimation: i had it configured to show precisely which mechanism was running at a given time
asciilifeform: (aftermarket controller. i take it from flat to flat)
asciilifeform: it wasn't the resistive heater
asciilifeform: but the fact that heat pump can only extract so much at a given external temp
decimation: the newer japanese units can achieve amazing coefficients of performance
assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
asciilifeform: and they are to be found where in usa? warren buffett's house ?
kakobrekla has one
decimation: said mitsubishi unit
decimation: typically the most efficient ones are 'mini-split' systems
decimation: which would be somewhat useless in a house already fitted with ducts, granted
asciilifeform takes a very limited interest in exotic hvac tech, as he does not own his buildings, and never will
decimation: hvac is a particular kind of chumpatron in the usa
bitcoinquestinos: mircea_popescu: what is http://mpex.co/
decimation: only a few factories manufacturer the equipment, and they usually only sell to 'licensed installers'
asciilifeform: and the junk is typically built to last about one decade.
kakobrekla: mitsubishi is the shit as far as these heatpumps go
decimation: kakobrekla: do you have a mini-split system?
decimation: for the interested reader, some theory on heat pumps is here: http://www.withouthotair.com/cE/page_301.shtml
assbot: Ch E Page 301: Sustainable Energy - without the hot air | David MacKay ... ( http://bit.ly/1xMBmAj )
mircea_popescu: decimation yeah heat pumps seem a lot better deal than any alternative, yet the least commonly used.
mircea_popescu: and in principle can heat/cool to any arbitrary temperature, as long as your compressor's up to it.
decimation: well, in the case of the us (as asciilifeform mentioned) natural gas is much cheaper to install and pretty cheap to run
mircea_popescu: but gas + ac ?
decimation: yes, that's very common
decimation: which is kinda retarded
mircea_popescu: but is it still cheaper, i mean.
TheNewDeal: ;;market sell 666
gribble: Bitstamp | A market order to sell 666 bitcoins right now would net 148999.9978 USD and would take the last price down to 223.2300 USD, resulting in an average price of 223.7237 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 0.0119 seconds
kakobrekla: decimation we have a heat pump for radiators and hot water for the house and for air i have a separate inverter unit with one external and two internal units.
mircea_popescu: kako lives in the house of teh future.
decimation: kakobrekla: yeah I bet that's pretty cheap to run
decimation: but not so cheap to install
kakobrekla not leaving house
mircea_popescu: decimation but if one's principal equity is the house, a la us, then it makes sense.
decimation: mircea_popescu: the irony is that for many us citizens, their house is their biggest 'savings account', yet very few consider any other option than what the builder 'decided'
mircea_popescu: rather strange, n'est pas.
mircea_popescu: leaving alone the weirdness of keeping most of your capital in a nonproductive asset (hey, that's made to be through purely government interventionist means), not even pretend like you're managing it ?
decimation: well, one of the reasons that things are this way is because the 'trades' have a pretty strong chokehold on what gets done
mircea_popescu: that's another thing. hire a plumber so he tells you what to do ?!
bitcoinquestinos: What do you guys think is the best capital to acquire?
asciilifeform: yes, gas plus ac
asciilifeform: it is typically built as a system of wall ducts/grilles and massive blower in the cellar (in my case, attic)
mircea_popescu: bitcoinquestinos http://trilema.com/2013/bitcoin-assets-rules-and-regulations/ (2.a. of particular interest to you).
assbot: #bitcoin-assets rules and regulations pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/13Yy3yb )
decimation: w.r.t. home builders, any home that's younger than 30-40 years has been built in a carefully-managed chumpatronic environment
asciilifeform: the blower has a steel heat exchanger inside, which is either heated with gas fires or chilled with freon loop, as the season goes
mircea_popescu: or for that matter, older than about 60.
mircea_popescu: or i guess in between
decimation: yeah, that's fair
decimation: although it's been getting worse
asciilifeform: if one's principal equity is the house << depends which flavour of chumpitude one prefers
asciilifeform: the house i live in is a massive roaring bonfire for money
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that should be some pretty cool steel, that happily takes 100 degree differentials over decades.
asciilifeform: (rented)
assbot: Logged on 08-02-2015 05:30:55; asciilifeform: and the junk is typically built to last about one decade.
decimation: mircea_popescu: it's considered normal for the entire system to break every year or two, typically requiring a specially licensed repairman to come out and replace the freon lines
mircea_popescu: heh there's that.
mircea_popescu: decimation you know, i had an old zil fridge at some point in romania, and the thing had been running for ~25 years, and it never ever leaked.
asciilifeform: and yes, it's every bit the toilet+kitchen combo it soulds like
asciilifeform: *sounds
asciilifeform: i have a remote fitted to mine, and occasionally press the wrong button in half-awake trance
asciilifeform: firing up heat in summer or chillers in winter.
asciilifeform: zil fridge << indestructible. see old soviet fridge thread.
assbot: 6 results for 'zil' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=zil
decimation: mircea_popescu: in the us, I'm pretty sure that the manufacturers (who have an oligopoly) cheapen shit up so that it 'breaks' and requires replacement at a rate they select
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://article.yeeyan.org/view/214657/182505 << check out all the soviet porn
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's a recent zil
asciilifeform: ('80s?)
mircea_popescu: yeah the handle's not right
asciilifeform: we had a curvy, bulbous 1950s unit, that still worked when we left it - '92
mircea_popescu: ok, well, very similar 70s model.
mircea_popescu: capatob ?
asciilifeform: and a '70s 'minsk' (ditto)
decimation: similar refrigerators were made in the us, and were similarly reliable, made before the 60's
mircea_popescu: decimation i know, fallout's full of them :D
decimation: this is all a chumpatron on the 'let's break everyone's window so we can stimulate the window-repair economy' model
mircea_popescu: ah, that's an older model.
asciilifeform: interestingly, this type of fridge chassis was formally banned in usa, despite giving a much tighter seal than the magnetic rubber used today
asciilifeform: and the ban was an organized scam
asciilifeform: one of the first 'think of the ch1ldr3nz' idiocies
decimation: in the us, the chumpatron is often kick-started by a government regulation that is sold as 'efficient' or 'safe'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform funny enough, it was heard of in 80s romania. parents insistently warning kids not to do it!
asciilifeform: probably the crap was translated into even eskimo
asciilifeform: catchy meme.
mircea_popescu: it is. i wonder why.
asciilifeform: http://forums.drom.ru/house/t1151932955.html << fella wanted to buy, insisted on this same zil, promised $maxint
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asciilifeform: plenty of posts like this
mircea_popescu: perhaps because parents are so acutely aware of the type of divorcement between meaning and action that trips up children.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the same that results in c++ bugs.
asciilifeform: just as there are, afaik, no confirmed reports of 'glue sniffing' prior to the media chumpamatics re: same in usa
asciilifeform: circa 1970s
mircea_popescu: like, most of 'em. "are you sure you wish to forever lock yourself in ? well...that's what you're doing"
mircea_popescu: "your exit pointer is now dangling"
mircea_popescu: that's what it is. parents suspect children are about on the level of c programmers, and try to avoid any situations where reality emulates the c compiler.
mircea_popescu: hm i had some pics of them too im sure.
asciilifeform: parents... c compiler << obligatory: 'shall be delivered'
asciilifeform: ^ the thing is iconic in ru
asciilifeform: to a lesser extent also famous are other vintage home appliances, like 'buran' vacuum cleaner - http://kartmen.ru/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/20131126_162658.jpg
asciilifeform: still sits in many a summer 'dacha', used to - would you believe - gather up mosquitoes.
asciilifeform: yes, that thing is entirely steel.
asciilifeform: drop from a 8th story window? no problem.
mircea_popescu: grandparents had a buran.
decimation: asciilifeform: actually that's not a bad idea, it doesn't take much breeze to keep mosquitos away
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: same, lol
mircea_popescu: only thing that ever scared me. but i'd quit the room in a hurry
mircea_popescu: and yes it had a half bowl top and a fat cylinder butt
mircea_popescu: and sounded like a jet taking off
asciilifeform: that thing was -loud-
asciilifeform: only when i finally moved to current digs and got a 'shop vac' (industrial thing, picks up swarf in machine shop) finally can match 'buran'.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://trilema.com/2010/ce-bea-blogerul/ << my claim to ru citizenship
assbot: Ce bea blogerul ? pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1xMJW25 )
asciilifeform: for sheer deafening
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: Daca as bea bere la foc continuu, pe o teava cat gatul direct in stomac, fara sa inghit, tot n-as ajunge nicaieri << this is a national sport in usa, didja know ?
asciilifeform: the corner shop near my old flat even sold the kit
mircea_popescu: the head mounted thing ?
mircea_popescu: by the way, let's help the haters out a little. http://trilema.com/2009/cocktail-flu/
assbot: Cocktail flu pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1xMKXqT )
decimation: yes this is common in 'fraternities' on us university campuses
decimation: !up smidge
decimation: guten morgen
TheNewDeal: it's not morgen for me
TheNewDeal: unless that means night
decimation: me neither but it would be for folks in germany
mircea_popescu: heil fruhstuck ?
decimation: with that I bid good evening
decimation: !down decimation
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cazalla: ah damn, they got their account back already lol
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jurov: that generator discussion..incredible. like, imma here running a server off only a little ups with 99.9% uptime
jurov: when putin arrives everyone will be caught with pants down
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mircea_popescu: jurov: when putin arrives everyone will be caught with pants down << everyone still there, at any rate.
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mircea_popescu: btw, anyone read "[Date: 1601.] Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors." ?
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mircea_popescu: !up gabriel_laddel
mircea_popescu: !gettrust assbot gabriel_laddel
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mircea_popescu: dude, that thing's lengthy, and not directly obvious why i'd care ?
gabriel_laddel: then don't bother reading I suppose.
mircea_popescu: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/4952 << skimmed a little. from a purely trolling perspective, it's not bad.
assbot: An experience with NixOS. · Issue #4952 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1yXi10P )
mircea_popescu: "the human's inability to fully comprehend the parsing and syntactical schemes they're able to create" << this is actually a generally valid point, and about half of all problems of humanity come from this impedance mismatch.
mircea_popescu: it's also necessarily going to remain there, and for great benefit.
gabriel_laddel: The last message from me in that thread contains a brief discussion of the "why" of lisp, that is, what separates it from being 'just another language'. Figured I'd post it in here because your previous trilema post discussing reverse polish notation and Erik Naggum + many #b-a messages didn't communicate to me that lisp has 'clicked' yet for many people.
mircea_popescu: well yes, fortunately i've cut to it by now. but listen, you gotta be much better at packaging stuff.
mircea_popescu: the best chemistry lab, were it to be maintained as a collection of bottles going "stuff" "Good stuff!" "REagenT" etc
mircea_popescu: would not really work.
gabriel_laddel: Thanks for the feedback. I'll keep that in mind.
mircea_popescu: and since this is here, allow me to rant, not in your direction particularly but in general,
mircea_popescu: that the idiocy of puritanism imposing "modesty" upon the coder (on top of chastity - which by the way, there's nothing great about not "raping" women, being a nice guy, great sense of humor etc. that's a drone.) limit people's ability to do crucial things for their success and the world's hygiene.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing wrong with saying "i am great", in principle. competent people do not in the slightest mind the nude affirmation of your naked competency. the error on the topic is amusing, but not the end of the world
mircea_popescu: (much like people falling imagine everyone's looking when in fact nobod ycares, so the guy caught overstating his competency imagines the world ended when really - people just had a laugh).
fluffypony: I feel like replying to that thread with "Yakshemash! Lisp best prostitute in all of Github. You like?"
mircea_popescu: it is i suspect off this festered, metastasized modesty that people can't make good summaries, introduce anything properly or generally package well
gabriel_laddel: fluffypony: lol
mircea_popescu: fuck (not heck. fuck!) it's probably even why people don't enjoy writing comments and specs. because they require "this is great" and "im so fucking proud of this" ands "i bet you wouldn't have come up with this in five lifetimes" to be either worth reading or worth writing
mircea_popescu: and somehow these natural and necessary modes of speech are "forbidden". /rant.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: they're part of the "pat-on-the-back" crowd that constantly need to be told what a good job they're doing else their paltry raison d'être will crumble
mircea_popescu: i imagine you know, if you can't say it for yourself, you're stuck trying to find people to support you
mircea_popescu: doubleplusungood group creation recipe, this.
assbot: An experience with NixOS. · Issue #4952 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1yXjSTl )
mircea_popescu: and wtf is nixos even/
gabriel_laddel: some idiots decided to redo all of unix's packaging
gabriel_laddel: using shell scripts and regexes, because types and haskell
mircea_popescu: well *nix packaging sucks quite universally.
mircea_popescu: ahahaha okay.
gabriel_laddel: yeah. also, they don't document anything, or so much as tell you that they're going to move the whole C toolchain.
mircea_popescu: brb changing the font of the tax code
gabriel_laddel: which breaks about everything.
mircea_popescu: the problem starts in 5th grade. there should be a class called Abstraction.
mircea_popescu: kids are expecting to do it and do it well but it's never taught. it's not like expecting virgins to fuck like pros on their first date. it's more like expecting tramps to ballet. spontaneously.
asciilifeform: ;;bc,stats
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asciilifeform: 314555.
asciilifeform: anyone read "[Date: 1601.] Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside... << aye.
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asciilifeform: NixOS << if idiots want to keep trying to 'fly' to the moon by stacking chairs, let them.
asciilifeform: but there is no reason for any thinking person to become involved in any capacity.
gabriel_laddel: ^ Correct. I ended up using it because I needed to quickly build a linux distro and someone told me it could do some things it couldn't really do.
gabriel_laddel: mistakenly posted that issue, not fully grokking how bad of an idea it was
gabriel_laddel: (nixos, that is )
gabriel_laddel: eventually learned the hard way.
mircea_popescu: "Examples: at what point is appropriate to leave package management up to a language's ecosystem? Is there ever a reason to? " << one hell of a problem.
gabriel_laddel: Politics is harder than writing code. Who would have thought.
mircea_popescu: in MPWorld this is implemented as a sort of api, and languages either talk to it or are stuck doing 100% of the work themselves.
asciilifeform: possibly the best package management system for commonlisp users is 'quicklisp'. essentially bulletproof.
mircea_popescu: only correct solution to political problems, b-a ness.
asciilifeform: downloads dependencies, grinds gpg sigs, etc. automatically.
chetty: it's more like expecting tramps to ballet. spontaneously.//you mean they don't? I see in the movies all the time
mircea_popescu: "For instance, for ELF executables, we set the RPATH in the executable such that it will find a statically determined set of library dependencies at runtime, rather than using a dynamic mechanism such as the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to look up libraries" holy shit.
mircea_popescu: this is essentially mitm for the userspace.
mircea_popescu: chetty well the movies kinda exist for this purpose.
asciilifeform: thing is, braindamaged languages (they know who they are) have no way of specifying -individual routines- as having dependencies
mircea_popescu: !up gabriel_laddel
asciilifeform: likewise, another common form of braindamage is a lack of any fine-grained namespace control
mircea_popescu: no but this is out and out "everythingwillbefineism" imported back into the software stack.
mircea_popescu: like you know, plaintext emails and unauthed telnet. because "who would ever hijack an account!"
mircea_popescu: let's just assume that it's ok to override the user imperatives. because.
asciilifeform: trying to explain that it is quit impossible to have a package management system above the language level that is not dumbed down by support for braindamaged languages.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i didn;'t mean you, i'm stikk in shock over the quote above
asciilifeform: wai which
asciilifeform: the elf thing?
mircea_popescu: yes that.
asciilifeform: mitm for the userspace << funnily, one common purely-userland trick to play on pwned folks is to adjust LD_PRELOAD in their personal shell env
asciilifeform: e.g., substitute a 'readline' that logs keys, etc.
mircea_popescu: well yes.
mod6: no need to worry about r00tkit, r00tkit pre-installed!
mircea_popescu: "it's not the rootkit, it's the os"
mircea_popescu: "There are very few classics in the field of computing. We are at the very beginning of this journey and it hasn't even begun to get interesting yet. IMHO, the Cathedral vs. Bazaar isn't in anyway a dilemma or a classic. Linux was a failure 20 years ago, it is a failure today and any posturing otherwise is just that. "
mircea_popescu: the sad reality is that the earlier "linux is a failure but doesn't have to stay that way" is slowly coming to the sobering reality that "it is a failure and systemfuck it."
gabriel_laddel: Seriously. Where is the tree of all hardware as nodes with drivers as sub nodes? Oh, it doesn't exist? right.
mircea_popescu: it's not that it doesn't exist.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't exist 30 years later, which 30 years have been spent doing what exactly ?
mircea_popescu: fighting hardware.
gabriel_laddel: 'fighting'
gabriel_laddel: what I would like to see is an actual fight.
mircea_popescu: you need actual men for actual fights.
mircea_popescu: ever seen teenagers brawl in the schoolyard ?
mircea_popescu: "eyes closed and arms flailing"
gabriel_laddel: as for the fight in our realm, I'd like to buy 10ks of AMD opterons K8 chips and reverse engineer them. Give designs to China.
mircea_popescu still vividly remembers this event when he was maybe 13 or so. this kid "got really psised off" and was going to hit me. every time he launched his fist, he also closed his eyes. every time i'd dodge and he'd mash his fist into the nearby wall. his hits got softer an softer, but he never figured out why exactly he's not making contact.
mircea_popescu: !up gabriel_laddel
mircea_popescu: wouldja id already.
mircea_popescu: motherfucker!
mircea_popescu: "Suppose you're trying to find the best way to structure your description of something. (Examples: choosing the structure for a computer program to perform some task; or choosing the structure for a theory of physics.)
mircea_popescu: What you hope to find is the natural structure of what you're describing — a structure that affords a really beautiful, simple description. When you strike the natural structure, a sort of resonance occurs, in which various subsidiary problems you may have had with your description just melt away, and the description practically writes itself."
mircea_popescu: these kids are so fucking stupid i can't believe i've just read "when you meet the right someone it'll feel special" in code-words.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck already, if the planet crossed through a bogon ray one evening in 1988 and made everyone's brain essentially batrachian in nature i could never know.
gabriel_laddel: I've had that exact experience with programming.
mircea_popescu: so what if you did ?
mircea_popescu: so did i. what's that do ?
gabriel_laddel: well, when someone is tweaking the design of something and it produces extremely complex and counter-intuitive behavior I point them to that quote.
gabriel_laddel: the /feeling/ didn't do anything. It is merely a signal.
mircea_popescu: listen here : the fact that it feels right is no indication of it being the best way.
mircea_popescu: the fact of it being a pile a kludge is an excellent indication of it not being the best way, but rather heuristic in nature.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ...fighting hardware << aha. linux kernel in one sentence.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: so how'd you learn to fuck?
gabriel_laddel: feelings, and trial and error were not involved at all?
mircea_popescu: the entire basis for that quote is the reverbalisation of the concept that "when true love comes around you'll know". empirically, most people do not.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i actually was kinda disinterested in fucking as a young adolescent, was taught by older girls.
mircea_popescu: you figure that's relevant ?
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: yes. you've written about the game of 'balance' wrt fucking. when playing this game you /know/ somehow that you're doing it correctly, via various signals.
mircea_popescu: but in any case : what do you figure is the difference bewteen "When you strike the natural structure, a sort of resonance occurs" and "perl is a fine way to do nixos" ?
mircea_popescu: after all... when you hit the language with regexp just right you know.
mircea_popescu: total lack of exploding computers.
mircea_popescu: apparently you no longer need trees here ?
mircea_popescu: just you know, pattern match and all will be well (when it's truely well)
gabriel_laddel: using regexes for that is something like... trying to impregnate a woman through her arse.
gabriel_laddel: at some point you've just got to try something different.
mircea_popescu: but you, in your own description (well, in their description which you seem to underscore) of "how to meta-structure" in fact revert to what is the equivalent of pattern matching.
mircea_popescu: this is exactly what perl outputs : "it feels right"
gabriel_laddel: as for my id, I'm currently fixing <irritant to livelihood>. First chance I get I'm sitting down and sorting out the whole GPG thing. As it stands I was not particularly happy with the documentation it supplied and wasn't sure which parts I'd have to rewrite. My previous key got destroyed in a failed backup becuase I didn't spend enough time on it the first time around. Also, I don't think gossipd is happening via w
gabriel_laddel: hoever it was, and I'm fairly sure I grok ASCII's plan and will be handling some intro documentation for it + figuring out how the PGP code needs to interface with it exactly.
gabriel_laddel: Perhaps that quote was misplaced.
mircea_popescu: re game of balance : fucking is an extremely poor metaphora for what we're doing here, because computers are actually turing machines, whereas cunts are not.
mircea_popescu: so yes, you can do just fine as a human interacting with humans on broken structure. just as long as it's broken in tolerable places.
mircea_popescu: dna is exactly this : worst code ever, wouldn't even parse, let alone compile.
mircea_popescu: which is why a flimsy repackaging of "popular advice" that doesn't even work on the fucking plane is horribru. not only it doesn't work in practice, but the mind that tends to make such confusions is probably in a very poor state to think about anything.
mircea_popescu: (ps. the lisp notation of basic arithmetic would win "least likely to succeed" "ass-ugliest award" from a vast majority of all the people who understand basic arithmetic. it "doesn't feel right" for almost anyone. 3+4 does.
mircea_popescu: so what does this matter ?)
gabriel_laddel: becuase of the "various subsidiary problems that fall away"
mircea_popescu: which most idiots aren't aware of in the first place.
mircea_popescu: mebbe i should dig that article where i murder some guy over leaving out the outside paran or something.
gabriel_laddel: the only reasonable basis for discussing such things is how much power they afford you
mircea_popescu: whether "they're right" ? what are you, hitler ?
mircea_popescu: the right structure is that structure which expresses the sum total of all the concepts in can express in the smallest total count of expression units. note that both fields being infinite, this is a difficult comparison to evaluate.
mircea_popescu: it's even difficult to establish what kids of infinite are involved.
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mircea_popescu: aye, i suspect notation and structure are actually closer married than we generally realise.
asciilifeform: lisp notation of basic arithmetic << one of the most common n00b failures-to-grok. (+ 1 2 3 4 5) not only puts less mileage on keyboard than 1+2+3+4+5, but nukes the abomination of having arbitrary orders of evaluation
asciilifeform: programmer enters the syntax tree directly.
gabriel_laddel: Hmm.. This is what I was attempting to communicate.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but feelings were the criteria.
asciilifeform: pheelingz
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: eh, that was a footnote.
gabriel_laddel: That said, I've had the experience several times of reading trilema or the logs, not immediately grokking it, returning a day later to have it all 'click'. I'm thinking that might happen here.
mircea_popescu: you know it's not your trial for being a badman, this.
gabriel_laddel: (I don't parse that)
mircea_popescu: all the various foregoing rants are not directed at you personally as if you were somehow in ther wrong on some score.
gabriel_laddel: wtf is this, we're discussing a footnote in something I posted.
gabriel_laddel: as for puritanism, sure, not directed at me entirely.
mircea_popescu: neither, no.
mircea_popescu: anyway : the quote you took carries a certain meaning in its original context (physics - esp "natural" is a term of art in physics) and is an entirely different thing in the new context (coding). i fully agree with the quote as it is on the source blog
mircea_popescu: when put together with the nix discussion on github it gives me spots on the spline.
mircea_popescu: odd how this works.
mircea_popescu: same exact fucking quote, as in, string.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: random: but I recall you said you don't like driving so you don't. You're driven. Do you ever "want" to drive in some ideal scenario? A racetrack or something?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller notrly.
asciilifeform: the 'nixos' thing is about the same kind, and degree, of contribution to culture as the soviet dogs with extra heads sewn on. with the difference that the latter still have the former beat in the purpose they're really fit for - chimeras to scare small children with
thestringpuller: guess it's an american phenomenon. I find I hate driving in traffic. But lemme open up a sports car at 120-130 MPH somewhere "Top Gear" style and I have a blast.
thestringpuller: too many action movies as a child I 'spose
mircea_popescu: so take up bobsleigh. better for your health.
gabriel_laddel: " As far as I can tell, were one to extrapolate from the given information to a set of concrete requirements we see that NixOS plans to rewrite the build scripts for every version of every project on unix. Again, this is insane. The correct thing to do in this situation is to realize the utter impossibility of the task that has been set forth and re-evaluate one's approach.[1]" << [1] links to the quote previously d
gabriel_laddel: iscussed.
asciilifeform: !up gabriel_laddel
mircea_popescu: !up gabriel_laddel
mircea_popescu: yep, which is why i said tis not about you.
mircea_popescu: in any case : the space of things physics has to represent is in point of fact narrower than the space of things computer programs have to represent.
mircea_popescu: we know this to be true, because you can have mmorpgs.
asciilifeform: now the next phase of moon-chair-stacking, that nix may or may not have yet entered, is to decide that the turd they have created and are doomed to dine on is in fact a sausage, and to lash out angrily at folks pointing out the actual facts
mircea_popescu: first stage is next stage.
asciilifeform: 'yes we reached the moon, who said we weren't talking about that one [points to moon painted on ceiling of mental institution]'
mircea_popescu: i think we're in the mental institution. they're outside. cheaper this way, more of them.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel you seriously thinking of implementing a sane pgp ?
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: eventually, yes.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: as for now, I just want to have a clear idea of what the interface is, what the problems are etc.
mircea_popescu: i wanna read the design documents for this.
asciilifeform wishes to point out that a 'sane pgp' will not be pgp-compatible. because much of the insanity lies in the standard itself.
mircea_popescu: this is granted.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: I'v M-x rembered (or something) the previous thread on the matter for when I return to it.
cazalla: ;;later tell bingoboingo hey, remember that fish i told you about? hooked and landed it after a few days :)
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gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: you had a alternate name for gossipd based on russian theater that had some relation to the nazis. I couldn't find the wiki article again, care to point me to it?
mircea_popescu: !up bitstein
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i take this is going to be lisp, as in not scheme, not clojure, cl ?
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: CL + C when necessary.
mircea_popescu: do they mix ?
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asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: not a theatre. the 'red orchestra'
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: which wasn't any kind of orchestra but a spy network
mircea_popescu: ie, the illegal residents of ww2 ?
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: thank you, this is what I wanted.
mircea_popescu: so total noob here, but. the way cffi works is you compile your c stuff as dynamic objects and then put the headers in your lisp program ? or what ?
asciilifeform has no idea why any of the discussed projects would require cffi
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because the guy says so lol. why else ?
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: gossipd requires C. PGP, CL (at least, this is where I'd start).
gabriel_laddel: cffi to bridge the two if needed, but only then.
mircea_popescu: you mean to bridge ro and gossipd ?
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: when i declared that it ought to be writte in c, i meant -entirely-
asciilifeform: so as to fit on ludicrously small embedded machinery
asciilifeform: and have wholly deterministic heapless memory behaviour
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cl can't do these ? :D
asciilifeform: but nowhere is it written that anyone must listen to this
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you can write cl without 'cons' but this is like english without letter 'e'
mircea_popescu: four vowels should be enough for vryon.
asciilifeform: and when i say 'c', i'm not talking about gnarly turdalicious gpg-style c
asciilifeform: but clean c
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gabriel_laddel: My current plan for dealing with these projects: The haskell package Language.C.AST parses C99 entirely, taking into account all GCC extensions. I'm going to pay someone to add a sexpr backend to it so I can work it into my CL toolchain.
gabriel_laddel: As for what language I'll be using on any given project, it will be determined entirely by what is correct for the project. If I hack something out in CL, but switch it over to C, I'll do that. If it makes sense to release a protopye that is hacked together C+CL+CFFI I'll do that. In any case, both of these come after getting the #b-a distro finished.
asciilifeform: 'clean' as in, i whip out a stick and point to a line, and you can tell my why it's there.
asciilifeform: haskell package <<< pay someone to add a sexpr backend to it so I can work it into my CL toolchain ...
asciilifeform head-desks
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: ?
asciilifeform: what part of 'minimal' is so hard to understand?
asciilifeform: what part of 'fits in head'?
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: Sorry, I was being less than clear - this is only for development.
mircea_popescu: sometimes i fantasize about buying an old english castle, turning it into a computing school for nude 18 to 22 yo ladies, and putting alf in charge of it, with a flexible bamboo cane.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel, et al: try to remember why all of these things need redoing in the first place
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: signmeup.
mircea_popescu: then after a decade i come by and go... "why did she write this!"
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: You've never desired to query over a bunch of gnarly C code?
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: query?
asciilifeform: for the purpose of taking a flamethrower to it and replacing with something sane - grep + eyes has always sufficed
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel his idea being i suspect that c code you wish to query over should just be quarried over yonder hill
mircea_popescu: let the wolves have it.
asciilifeform: any other purpose i'm not the least bit interested in
asciilifeform: what mircea_popescu ^ said.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: Yes. Show me all structures that look like this. Pattern match against structures, rewrite them as so.
asciilifeform: automated rewrite is equivalent to original turd
mircea_popescu: an automated deturdifier ?
asciilifeform: in that all the turdaliciousness remains in place
asciilifeform: it is like suggesting an automated converter of reddit spew to interesting literature
asciilifeform off to meatspace for a spell, unfortunately not for any reasons pertaining to ancient castles
mircea_popescu: meh, it' never work, no character growth.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: I'm assuming, at least for now, that I'm going to have to /look/ at the current PGP sources (thus the C sexprast ). This has no bearing on what will be released other than - I will do what makes sense given the situation.
mircea_popescu: so automated code reader. hey, might work.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I have some code now that converts javascript to parenscript
gabriel_laddel: it, and nothing else will ever be a substitute for thought.
gabriel_laddel: merely an aid.
mircea_popescu: right, i see what you're doing there.
thestringpuller: !up gabriel_laddel
gabriel_laddel: "As for what language I'll be using on any given project, it will be determined entirely by what is correct for the project."
trinque: gabriel_laddel: how do you find using parenscript?
trinque: I've tried the clojure/clojurescript combo and was thrilled to be using the same language on both ends
gabriel_laddel: trinque: Modifying clojurescript is god-awful.
gabriel_laddel: modifying parenscript isn't terrible.
trinque: gabriel_laddel: the outputted JS is more comprehensible?
gabriel_laddel: trinque: well, there is that too.
gabriel_laddel: trinque: in any case, I hate everything about the browser.
trinque: that goes without saying
mircea_popescu: the browser is not unlikely what'd have happened if the beduins had discovered dna alteration and there was no interstellar void.
mircea_popescu: camels floating in space on half butterfly/half bat wings
gabriel_laddel: As for PGP, I'm assuming that I'm going to have to spend a decent amount of time with the codebase and reading the spec. Perhaps not.
gabriel_laddel: Why might one want to see the C ast? Let's say that we've got a codebase like the linux kernel, or opengl drivers. You know that somewhere you've got some stuff that talks to the hardware, but grep returns false positives. You instead pull the ast into memory, query across it for the bits your looking for. False positives now indicate something about the language (i.e., that I don't understand it as well as I though
gabriel_laddel: t) rather than just a false positive. Again, I've never written C, and perhaps the ast is so complicated that it's actually impossible to get any useful information out of it, but my current experience suggests that having this ability is a good idea. Building something like `slime-who-calls' suddenly becomes simple.
mircea_popescu: im not even sure pgp has a spec.
mircea_popescu: if you recall it was a hurried samizdat
gabriel_laddel: kk. I should be discussing this in design documents anyways.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> so take up bobsleigh. better for your health. << or bicycles, more actual physical connection of your meat with the dynamic systems in question. airplanes and helicopters worth looking into as well
mircea_popescu: actual planes, how do you call them
ben_vulpes: oh yeah gliders are also awesome
ben_vulpes: i like things without much by way of engine.
mircea_popescu: hang gliders esp
ben_vulpes: hang glider stability dynamics are interesting, but kinda neutered.
mircea_popescu: no i meant for your muscle contact thing
ben_vulpes: sorta like the "chair with prop hanging from parasail" design.
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mircea_popescu: well, you gotta move to pilot it
ben_vulpes: don't get me wrong, they're fly as hell.
ben_vulpes: just...limited subset of the control space.
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decimation: re: parasail < I've heard of incidents where pilots of parasails fly too close to moving trains. They get caught in the vortex and then crash
decimation: I mean paraglider, not parasail I guess
bitcoinquestions: If I generate a key on a MAC OS that I use for other purposes is it at all secure? Or should I not even bother generating keys if I'm not on a linux distro?
danielpbarron: is the machine connected to a network?
ben_vulpes: decimation: aeronautics is full of exciting! new! innovative! ways to die.
ben_vulpes: i saw a gents quadrotor get sucked into its own downdraft near a wall one time, and slam itself repeatedly into said wall while its pilot tried to rescue it
decimation: bitcoinquestions: it is my understanding that macOs uses freebsd's rng (Yarrow), but you are implictly trusting apple...
decimation: ben_vulpes: yeah we ground-bound folk don't appreciate the air movements around objects
decimation: in particular with paragliding, I think that it attracts a certain set of folk who might not consider safety as a top priority
ben_vulpes: there's also the squirrelsuit insanity
decimation: folks who volunteer to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft?
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BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: fwiw there aren't many orcs in the rural bits of ussa, and one can shoot trespassers on sign in those provinces too << Different kind, even tolkien had different kinds of orcs
decimation: ben_vulpes: lol that's nuts
decimation: it's an interesting use of ground effect though
ben_vulpes: that's not ground effect if i understand the mechanism in question correctly.
ben_vulpes: GE entails actually riding on a compressed cushion between the foil and the ground, not the lift off the foil alone.
ben_vulpes: (again, i am not an expert in this area)
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform not so foolish as to think about 'homogeneous enforcement environments', knows that there are, e.g., vast deserts in usa where folks set off trucks full of dynamite for amusement, etc. << Sometimes law enforcement attention comes to these folks too.
decimation: ben_vulpes: yeah I guess that's what I thought was happening when he gets close to the ground, but there's probably not enough of a 'cushion' to do the turns they are doing
decimation: it strikes me that if the wind suddenly shifts they could easily bash their heads into a rock
ben_vulpes: it's not really clear to me how close they actually are to terra.
ben_vulpes: in some places, very close. those places also look very steep.
ben_vulpes: sink rate being a thing; angle of attack being a thing...
BingoBoingo: decimation: in the us gas heat is common, but typical large us house has a 'forced air' system that moves heated air around the house << Natural gas backup generators for homes are not unheard of here, occasionally going up to home's normal electricity consumption.
BingoBoingo: The things live burried in yard
decimation: BingoBoingo: yeah for whatever reason natural gas distribution seems much more reliable than electric distribution
mircea_popescu: bitcoinquestions in general a machine is secure if its secure. linux is not a magic pill. as danielpbarron suggests, not connecting it to the internet helps a lot, but also makes it more difficult.
BingoBoingo: decimation: Well failures of the natural gas system tend to be more... catastrophic... I remember as a child the day half of my hometown was evacuated because ditch diggers broke an incoming pipe at the edge of town.
decimation: BingoBoingo: yeah that's true. occasionally a house explodes too
BingoBoingo: Or city block
mircea_popescu: a total of nine exploded in a decade in timisoara (tiny town, 300k)
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BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: the best chemistry lab, were it to be maintained as a collection of bottles going "stuff" "Good stuff!" "REagenT" etc 18:23:12 mircea_popescu: would not really work. << This is why other big cause of home explosion is meth "labs"
mircea_popescu: decimation> in particular with paragliding, I think that it attracts a certain set of folk who might not consider safety as a top priority << i think paragliding is much like hunting, a sport intended for empty land.
mircea_popescu: you wouldn't go blasting quailshot all over the mall either, would you.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yup. people trusting shit to memory that are also actively attackin it chemically.
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: that Breaking Bad tho
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Illustrates an important difference. "Anyone can do" and "Few can do well"
thestringpuller: At somepoint I thunk you better call saul
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu still vividly remembers this event when he was maybe 13 or so. this kid "got really psised off" and was going to hit me. every time he launched his fist, he also closed his eyes. every time i'd dodge and he'd mash his fist into the nearby wall. his hits got softer an softer, but he never figured out why exactly he's not making contact. << Silimar event in middle school. Bigger kid pesters me for days about how he's
BingoBoingo: going to fight me. When he finally starts throwing punches can't keep his eyes open long enough to hit anything or avoid going to the ground and getting stomped
mircea_popescu: i didn't beat him up, it was kinda incongruous. he had no real quarrel, posed no real threat and besides, as far as teh adults were concerned i was a silver spoony gentleman.
BingoBoingo: Well, I'd been annoyed by his build up to this event for a few day, twas enough of a greivance.
mircea_popescu: makes sense
BingoBoingo: School administrator was puzzled by the combatants being "A" students without long disciplinary records didn't see fit to issue discipline to either party as the aggressor learned he wasn't fit to aggress.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu still vividly remembers this event when he was maybe 13 or so. this kid "got really psised off" and was going to hit me. every time he launched his fist, he also closed his eyes. every time i'd dodge and he'd mash his fist into the nearby wall. his hits got softer an softer, but he never figured out why exactly he's not making contact. << Airstrip One must first be cast into the ocean
BingoBoingo: ^mircea_popescu: sometimes i fantasize about buying an old english castle, turning it into a computing school for nude 18 to 22 yo ladies, and putting alf in charge of it, with a flexible bamboo cane. << wrong pasta buffer
mircea_popescu: lol you think ?
assbot: Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/190fPzt )
decimation: "The ritual traces its origins to professor H. E. T. Haultain of the University of Toronto, who believed and persuaded other members of the Engineering Institute of Canada that there needed to be a ceremony and standard of ethics developed for graduating engineers. The need was patently obvious in the light of the Quebec Bridge disasters."
decimation: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1299 < "One clever soul suggested applying this doctrine to yet a fourth profession, creating a kind of “programmer priest.” Perhaps one day there will indeed be someone you can trust to pronounce – truthfully and competently – that a crypto-system is strong, that a protocol has not been diddled, that your computer serves only a single master."
assbot: Loper OS » Don’t Blame the Mice. ... ( http://bit.ly/190fXPr )
mircea_popescu: slowly inching towards that. but more like conclave.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "In the United States polite letters was a cult of the Brahmins of Boston, with William Dean Howells at the helm of the Atlantic." << Release Date: August 20, 2006 [EBook #3190]
mircea_popescu: apparently "brahmin" has a lengthy usage to describe the cult of the dead cow of massachussetts ?
mircea_popescu: (produced by one David Widger)
decimation: moldbug repurposed (re-re-repurposed?) the word "brahmin" to mean something like 'modern liberal elite'
mircea_popescu: signed Franklin J. Meine
mircea_popescu: dead about the time shockley was splitting up.
mircea_popescu: decimation this is exactly the usage.
decimation: but before that it was used to describe Massachusetts men who spoke with a particular accent and had a particular affinity with the anglo colonizers
mircea_popescu: as in "Boston Brahmin" ?
mircea_popescu: The term was coined by the physician and writer Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., in an 1860 article in the Atlantic Monthly.
assbot: A dying race- two Boston Brahmins converse (from AMERICAN TO - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1DU01aK )
mircea_popescu: they sound australian to me.
decimation: I guess that's what you get from fifth-generation englishmen removed from england
decimation: perhaps farther removed actually
mircea_popescu: thye also sound quite idiotic, in retrospect.
mircea_popescu: dickens vs austen ? "o look, my toy car is faster than your toy car!"
decimation: yeah the conversation topic is quite inane.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i love your quotes on the US being broke
thestringpuller: I say that to cops a lot when they pull me over for being black
mircea_popescu: does it work out ?
thestringpuller: "You're broke nigga, you gonna really persecute the nigga payin your salary"
mircea_popescu: !up Quantinium
mircea_popescu: yeah, that's a true old courthouse favourite, "i pay your salary"
thestringpuller: Usually cop is like "You got anything valuable in the vehicle?"
thestringpuller: "Or on your person?"
mircea_popescu: !up bitcoinquestions
decimation: thestringpuller: they are fishing for some property to indict. maybe the local cops want to have some new toys
bitcoinquestions: yo i dug through your posts on trilema about how you think Gavin is sabotaging bitcoin or whatever for wanting to increase the block size. Are you afraid of DDOS attacks because there are not enough full nodes?
thestringpuller: bitcoinquestions: could you elaborate on your question?
mircea_popescu: !up mandarin
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 52062 @ 0.00039986 = 20.8175 BTC [-] {3}
mircea_popescu: i am not afraid.
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danielpbarron: funny he mentions ddos
decimation: it is, isn't it?
decimation: in 1790 mr. ddos would have been on one of the sans-culotte's murder gangs
decimation: well, there's a certain lefty predilection toward paranoia/violence that seems stable over the centuries
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 48450 @ 0.00039723 = 19.2458 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: i suspect it's just narcissistic rage.
mircea_popescu: "what do you mean i am stupid ?!?!?!?!"
decimation: 'no ur stupid, imma ddos you loic!'
mircea_popescu: !up bitcoinquestions
mircea_popescu: get a cloak will you.
bitcoinquestions: You mean hide my IP address?
bitcoinquestions: Were you flooding my IP address?
assbot: 485 results for 'ddos' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=ddos
bitcoinquestions: mircea_popescu: ? I need to know whether or not to call the cable company :D
mircea_popescu: this is a recurring topic here.
mircea_popescu: there's, intermittently, some unidentified derp that floods noobs
mircea_popescu: !up bitcoinquestions
bitcoinquestions: as I was trying to ask early - why do you not like the change to increase the block size?
mircea_popescu: you said that you read my articles, which is nice, but it'd be a lot better if instead of saying you did you showed me you did, by asking meaningful rather than meaninglessly general questions.
assbot: Third pass addressing the more common pseudo-arguments raised by the very stupid people that like the Gavin scamcoin proposal pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1vzm5Zm )
mircea_popescu: "XII. The current 1Mb limit is arbitrary. We want to change it. Please ignore the fact that the discussion is about whether to change or not to change, and please ignore that the onus is on whoever proposes change to justify it. Instead, buy into our pretense that the discussion is about "which arbitrary value". Because we're idiots, and so should be you!"
bitcoinquestions: mircea_popescu: Okay of course the proponents of the change are the ones who must justify it. But the justification is pretty simple, with a larger block size the network can support more transactions per second. This allows more transactions to be onchain instead of through trusted identities.
mircea_popescu: looky here : growing larger implies growing costs. this is a given. a larger bitcoin will somehow be paid for.
mircea_popescu: there are two avenues to pay for it. one is, to pay for it in bitcoin. via paying for txn.
mircea_popescu: another one is, to pay for it in fiat, via paying for disk space.
mircea_popescu: these are, obviously, both going to be employed, in some combination, because the thing is going to grow too huge to allow exclusivity
mircea_popescu: unrelated to all of this, a usg mole is proposing to change bitcoin into something unsustainable.
mircea_popescu: this is completely differet a matter, and it is not proper to mix it together in the consideration of an actual problem. it is not an actual problem.
mircea_popescu: to understand exactly the situation, you have camles and donkeys, and have to carry a billion tons of rubble.
mircea_popescu: it is one idea to discuss how to load the donkeyus and the camels respectively, to best do this.
mircea_popescu: it is ANOTHER discussion to propose that you pile all the donkeys on top of the camels and then throw the lot in the river.
mircea_popescu: both discuss camels and donkeys. both ARE NOT discussions of how to carry your rubble.
mircea_popescu: so : a) gavin is in no way involved in bitcoin development ; b) gavin's insanities have nothing to do with bitcoin's problems, and in no case are they solutions. as you'd expect of someone who has nothing to do with it in the first place.
bitcoinquestions: mircea_popescu: Do you have proof that Gavin and some USG mole is trying to implement some attack on bitcoin? What has made you come to this conclusion?
mircea_popescu: not gavin AND.
mircea_popescu: gavin's it.
bitcoinquestions: ah gavin is
mircea_popescu: what has made me come to this conclusion is neither here nor there. i am not proposing anything to you. i have made my own determinations, and if you inquire i tell you the reasons. that's how far that goes.
bitcoinquestions: Well I am inquiring what your reasons are
mircea_popescu: as above.
bitcoinquestions: mircea_popescu: Ah okay I reread and understand a little better I believe. But why do you assume you need to pay for more disk space in fiat?
mircea_popescu: yes, well... are you one of those who imagines bitpay "paid in bitcoin" for whatever sponsorship ?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 49824 @ 0.00040615 = 20.236 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: point remains : if the expansion is paid in bitcoin, whosoever wants to participate has to SELL fiast assets and buy bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: if on the other hand expansion is paid in "hard drives" chances are whosoevere wants to participate has to SELL bitcoin to buy fiat assets.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13426 @ 0.00041313 = 5.5467 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: !up bitcoinquestions
bitcoinquestions: mircea_popescu: Ah I see. Interesting. That is definitely the case as of today. That being said, let's say I create a company that is able to provide hard drive space for cheaper, but I only accepted payment in BTC. If this company existed would your opinion change?
mircea_popescu: how would this work ? you mean you manufacture the hard drives in house ?
mircea_popescu: exactly schmexactly. there's a difference between the idle imagination of youth and the knowledge of men. for instance : i know but you don't know that the vast majority of hard drives are produced in the same few acres of asian shore.
mircea_popescu: and that at one point, when they had a flood, hard drive prices exploded on the market by a factor of 3
mircea_popescu: which lasted for a summer.
mircea_popescu: and that if i or anyone else decides to bomb that place that's that for new hard drives for a decade or more.
bitcoinquestions: mircea_popescu: alright fair enough, I was just proposing a hypothetical to make sure I understood your position.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.QNTR] 5000 @ 0.00025459 = 1.273 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: how are you to make them ? where do you buy your raw materials for bitcoin ? where do you hire workers and pay them in bitcoin ?
mircea_popescu: on it goes.
mircea_popescu: forget that part and think of bandwidth. romania does not have this problem, but the us does. bandwidth accessibility is actually going down, not up, and it looks like it may go away entirely.
bitcoinquestions: mircea_popescu: yeah man everyday I feel more and more that I need to get out of the US
mircea_popescu: so then do.
assbot: 343 results for 'jews' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=jews
bitcoinquestions: mircea_popescu: It isn't that simple, I have loved ones etc.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla not bad.
bitcoinquestions: mircea_popescu: Another question I have for you. Are you happier when the BTC price goes up or when it goes down?
BingoBoingo: !up GoMaD
bitcoinquestions: I would do anything to be able to drive the price down because I'm collecting coins, but I was wondering whether or not there's a point where you are happy with your assets in terms of BTC and then just want to increase the value of the coins
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 63950 @ 0.00039723 = 25.4029 BTC [-]
trinque: bitcoinquestions: having loved ones is a good reason to get out of the US.
trinque: !up bitcoinquestions
bitcoinquestions: trinque: good point haha. Is this channel all in Romania? How is it there?
trinque: no, I live in the US; can't speak for the others
BingoBoingo: bitcoinquestions: This channel has rather good global coverage. Even Africa is included in regular participants. Asian participation is a bit lacking though.
trinque: I will say that listening to those familiar with the soviet collapse has been enlightening
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 41050 @ 0.00039714 = 16.3026 BTC [-] {2}
cazalla: anyone reading the hong kong 400m bitcoin loss and wondering why it's not on qntra, difficult to ascertain the facts on this one but it would appear hong kong media are clueless.. speaks to qntra's need for a chinese correspondent
assbot: Improve robustness of DER recoding code · f19dded · bitcoin/bitcoin · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1Dv287g )
trinque: cazalla: interesting, I expected another coin theft but this looks like typical madoff
bitcoinquestions: Does everyone in this channel code?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 17 @ 0.101 = 1.717 BTC [-] {3}
BingoBoingo: trinque: Questions go so far as to whether the thing even existed/happened
BingoBoingo: !up bitcoinquestions Depends on your definitions of everyone and code
bitcoinquestions: by code I mean knows a little bit of python and by everyone I mean 75%+
bitcoinquestions: (not python specifically but you get the point)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 92574 @ 0.00041313 = 38.2451 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25789 @ 0.00041503 = 10.7032 BTC [+]
BingoBoingo: Well, It's still hard to say
BingoBoingo: Not everyone advertises everything
jurov: yeah, i guess 75% of me codes
BingoBoingo: Question for the foundation: When futzing with bitcoin sources to build more recent phoundation version, changing the constant in alert.cpp to garbage will keep a node so built from recognizing and/or passing a Gavin alert. Yes or no?
BingoBoingo: !up agorecki
jurov: BingoBoingo: depends on the patch
jurov: and i don't see any alert.cpp on 0.5.3
bitcoinquestions: you guys run bitcoin 0.5.3?
danielpbarron: !s thebitcoin.foundation
assbot: 21 results for 'thebitcoin.foundation' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=thebitcoin.foundation
jurov: !s pogostick
assbot: 3 results for 'pogostick' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=pogostick
jurov: !s pogoplug
assbot: 34 results for 'pogoplug' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=pogoplug
jurov: ^that.
BingoBoingo: jurov: I'm fucking around on 0.8.6 two lines in alert.cpp in that version possess public keys for verifying "Upgrade Alerts". My gut is telling me that changing the public keys to garbage is going to be the quick dirty way to effectively neuter the alert system in the build. Figure each time I build change the garbage subbing for pubkeys.
jurov: http://btc.yt/lxr/satoshi/source/src/main.cpp?v=0.8.6#3692 after short exploration i found out this
assbot: Satoshi 0.8.6/src/main.cpp ... ( http://bit.ly/16Da1tX )
jurov: i.e. your node would think others misbehave by sending invalid alerts
jurov: better remove whole branch completely
BingoBoingo: Thanks
mod6: BingoBoingo: alerts were snipped via this patch: http://thebitcoin.foundation/turdmeister-alert-snip.tar.gz -- It's not posted to the btc-dev mailing list yet. This might have been because of issues with messages getting snarffed back in Oct./Nov.
BingoBoingo: mod6: Saw that. I'm building a different phoundation version for personal use.
mod6: it seems that alerts were probably moved out to their own file in later versions.
mod6: re: alerts.cpp etc.
mod6: asciilifeform: when you get a chance, you should do a new submission to the list for the alert & win32 patches. thx in advance.
mod6: BingoBoingo: fwiw it looks like alerts.[h/cpp] appear in v0.7.0
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: My gut is telling me that changing the public keys to garbage is going to be the quick << not that dirty, either.
mircea_popescu: !up bitcoinquestions
mircea_popescu: everyone can "do a little coding' just like any man could ride a horse in 1800.
mircea_popescu: people who can't are simply subhuman.
BingoBoingo: !up Newar
thestringpuller: i keep getting into arguments about non-people (the ones who would put arm in wood chipper)
thestringpuller: flailing my arms yelling "they aren't people!!!"
thestringpuller: "OMG the blocksize limit is too small" last 6 blocks: 108k 26k 112k 97k 553k and 602k
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mircea_popescu: !up bitcoinquestions
bitcoinquestions: mircea_popescu: I did a lot more critical thinking about the blocksize limit and holy shit I feel so dumb for ever thinking Gavin's proposal was a good idea.
bitcoinquestions: And there's no way Gavin doesn't know exactly what he's doing, right? Like is it possible he convinced himself that it was a good idea?
bitcoinquestions: It's perfectly tricky though - it does at first seem like a good idea.
bitcoinquestions: It seems like something he could convince the masses to upgrade to, but I'm assuming the miners know better than to let that happen, correct?
bitcoinquestions: Like is this a real threat?
mircea_popescu: it's always possible one convinces himself anything's a good idea.
mircea_popescu: see discussion re orwell past few days.
thestringpuller: ;;google site:trilema.com woodchipper
gribble: The story of Pointless and Witless pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea ...: <http://trilema.com/2013/the-story-of-pointless-and-witless/>; MPOE, January 2014 Statement pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea ...: <http://trilema.com/mpoe-january-2014-statement>; Notorious M.P. layin down that subliminal shit, na mean ? pe Trilema ...: <http://trilema.com/notorious-mp-layin-down-that- (1 more message)
bitcoinquestions: anyone here wanna play bitcoin bounce? It's a simple game I made up to build up trust. Person A sends person B .5 BTC then person B ends the game by either running with the money or returning .5 BTC. Person B can continue the game by sending Person A 1 BTC back. Rinse and repeat.
bitcoinquestions: The higher you get the higher trust you've established
thestringpuller: so you wanna play musical chairs?
thestringpuller: or is it hot potato...
mircea_popescu: The tale is told, too, of a certain woman who performed an aeolian crepitation at a dinner attended by the witty Monsignieur Dupanloup, Bishop of Orleans, and that when, to cover up her lapse, she began to scrape her feet upon the floor, and to make similar noises, the Bishop said, "Do not trouble to find a rhyme, Madam!"
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