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decimation: maybe they were angry that some bum shot some cops in ferguson
mircea_popescu: dead mouffat chick looks so very french.
decimation: to die for reality tv...
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asciilifeform: fuckkuppy.jpg << mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes, whoever else cares - R6, R16
asciilifeform: under enough magnification to show that marking is correct
asciilifeform: also sent to vendor
asciilifeform: left hand, right hand - one board each
mircea_popescu: is placing usually that approximative ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: placing is usually fairly exact, but they tend to float during reflow a bit
mircea_popescu: these look artisan handcarved
asciilifeform: so long as they don't float off the pads - no problem
asciilifeform: mine look quite like this
asciilifeform: except that my R is light-blue and japanese
asciilifeform: and theirs... from mars ?
asciilifeform: and this is one part. 'won't eat whole egg to see how rotten'
asciilifeform: the other Rs that can be measured without removal are correct
asciilifeform: the Cs cannot be measured accurately in-circuit
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asciilifeform: 'Two Secret Service agents suspected of being under the influence while striking a White House security barricade drove through an active bomb investigation and directly beside the suspicious package, according to current and former government officials familiar with the incident.'
mircea_popescu: you gotta know how to partaaay
assbot: Secret Service agents disrupted bomb investigation at White House - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1DdiaEj )
trinque: +mircea_popescu | ben_vulpes im not informed enough to guess, but maybe a "best of both words" hybrid could thrive. << BeFS comes to mind; filesystem with relational features
ben_vulpes: fuckuppy.jpg << asciilifeform ah i've found your problem they put the resistors on backwards on one of the boards
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: l0l
asciilifeform: 'danger, 1,000,000 ohms!'
trinque: I think (but am less familiar with) reiserfs has the same sort of metadata querying
trinque: this fs/db hybrid has been talked about for a damn long time
trinque: ben_vulpes: familiar with postgresql's large objects?
ben_vulpes: trinque: terrorist teknologees!
ben_vulpes: trinque: 'large objects' << no, tell me more
trinque: heh, and wife-killer tainted tech too!
assbot: PostgreSQL: Documentation: 9.4: Large Objects ... ( http://bit.ly/1Gy6fyz )
trinque: say you want to put your big-ass mkv movies in postgres along with their metadata
trinque: you totally can
asciilifeform runs reiserfs
trinque: and it doesn't slow down your queries, as the big shit is stored elsewhere of course and made reference to
asciilifeform has no plans to stop
ben_vulpes: this postgres as fs idea may actually have legs
decimation: ben_vulpes: postgres will make a decent fs
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: your objections to things suffer from the "boy who cried wolf" problem
assbot: PostgreSQL: Documentation: 9.4: Client Interfaces ... ( http://bit.ly/1Gy6EB2 )
decimation: it'll be slow and cumbersome, but would work
trinque: pretty much like using fopen and whatnot
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: lol i didn't even say why
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: but as it happens - it's another mega-c-turd
asciilifeform: with eons of crud to wade through
decimation: it's probably better than oracle my sql
ben_vulpes: eventually boy who cries wolf is ignored, even when wolf is coming
ben_vulpes: particularly then.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: feel free to ignore.
ben_vulpes: particularly when woods are full of wolves.
decimation: ben_vulpes: the new hotness these days is some kind of nosql running on a cluster
trinque: decimation: fuck that shit
trinque: nosql is the same hipsterism that gets us nodejs
ben_vulpes: i'll have no truck with unstructured languages that don't support querying
decimation: like mongodb
trinque: decimation: as those monstrosities "improve" they tend towards what rdbms has done forever
trinque: and invariably worse than what came before
asciilifeform: in principle any existing db gizmo that can be coaxed into using a single file for the store, is quite ready to be planted down on raw disk
asciilifeform: except that if said disk is mechanical, you will get impedance mismatches
decimation: they are perfectly fine if you really just want to store gobs of unstructured shit
decimation: but in reality you want structure
trinque: decimation: I don't believe that unstr... yeah that
asciilifeform: and if ssd, will get impedance mismatches during write if your db isn't tuned to match the cache
trinque: hahaha
ben_vulpes: <decimation> but in reality you want structure << this
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: should i be concerned with these pure performance issues?
ben_vulpes: i want data i can query with a 'sane' language
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: possibly. what's your application ?
decimation: ben_vulpes: it strikes me that a relational db is a bit 'heavy' for storing the blockchain tree
trinque: decimation: depends on what questions interest you
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: applying software to business problems.
ben_vulpes: not pure "fast as fuck" compute problems.
trinque: or more importantly, whether you know those questions exhaustively in advance
trinque: (you don't)
asciilifeform: in all seriousness, 'associative computing : a programming paradigm for massively parallel computers' (j., potter, 1992)
asciilifeform: for folks who liked the 'twirl/twinkle' thread
ben_vulpes: <decimation> ben_vulpes: it strikes me that a relational db is a bit 'heavy' for storing the blockchain tree << i want to say "select * from outputs where output.spent_transaction is null;"
asciilifeform: and eldrich db-like processors
asciilifeform: where you can 'ask each word' about something
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: for some reason i thought you were still speaking re: the blockchain!
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: blockchain queries are a business logic concern!
asciilifeform: (rather than db as used in your traditional $business)
ben_vulpes: i really have no interest in optimized for min storage or max whatever the fuck
ben_vulpes: optimal for me is always going to be somewhere around "gives me leverage on data"
trinque: how else do you ask a computer an actual question?
ben_vulpes: if slow, i guess fine.
ben_vulpes: if bulky, idem.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i see where i went wrong vis-a-vis ibid/idem now.
ben_vulpes: trinque: smokes?
trinque: ben_vulpes: I'm about to pass out mang
ben_vulpes: one last smoke
ben_vulpes: then i will as well
trinque: where you at? I wont smoke but I could walk
ben_vulpes: righto, let's stroll through the cemetary
trinque: it is decided
ben_vulpes: 's no recoleta, but it serves my needs adequately
ben_vulpes: see you shortly
ben_vulpes: sweet dreams unicodecoporeality
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mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'danger, 1,000,000 ohms!' << i forget, what's the resistence of 1mm of air ? like 1mn was it ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: very low once ionized
assbot: Table of Electrical Resistivity and Conductivity ... ( http://bit.ly/1CbKsPs )
mircea_popescu: 4 x 10^13 ohm meters ios what im seeing
mircea_popescu: so actually more like 40bn per mm.
asciilifeform: ~3kV/mm
mircea_popescu: aha. yeah
mircea_popescu: course that's slightly different a measure
asciilifeform: good illustration for student is the toy 'jacob's ladder'
mircea_popescu: that's "piercing plate condenser" etc
asciilifeform: as seen in movie 'frankenstein'
decimation: aye, breakdown voltage greatly reduced once there is plasma
decimation: ^ same reason you can bounce radio waves off of metor trails through the upper atmosphere
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-03-2015#1051328 << i entertain no illusion of having invented it, that's fo sho.
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 04:31:31; trinque: this fs/db hybrid has been talked about for a damn long time
asciilifeform: i (and $maxint other people) did it on 'commodore 64' floppy disks
asciilifeform: normally when storage is scarce (or data set is huge) one cannot afford the waste of 'file system' that is not the same as the organization for the set
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what i had in mind tho, was more specficially "for blockchain only".
mircea_popescu: as in, trivially : make the sectors the size of a block
asciilifeform: well yes, that was the ancient thread
decimation: http://www.spaceweatherradio.com/ < listen to live meteor 'pings' (distant transmitter made audible via meteor trails)
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mircea_popescu: make, perhaps, the storage plan a tree
assbot: Logged on 10-10-2014 17:08:55; asciilifeform: (easiest solution: forget file system in the 1st place, just use raw block device. and then you don't even need msdos for anything.)
mircea_popescu: right. in which line : since all hdds come reflashable anyway, how hard would it be to rape a ssd like we're raping the pogo, i wonder ?
mircea_popescu: throw out its own blob, put in ours, make blockchain hdd.
decimation: eh? why bother?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: trivial given that fr meade did all the heavy lifting and helpfully 'published' result
mircea_popescu: control of hw.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ikr?
mircea_popescu: all this anti-tero stuff helping the real teros.
assbot: Logged on 12-03-2015 16:56:15; asciilifeform: https://securelist.com/files/2015/02/Equation_group_questions_and_answers.pdf << pp. 32,33 have hashes.
decimation: so you want to talk to the db over the sata bus?
decimation: it would be hilarious to do so
mircea_popescu: decimation why ?
decimation: not saying it's a bad idea, just amusing
asciilifeform: gnarly though
asciilifeform: running various pieces on various chips
decimation: I guess I don't see much point, considering that even having a sata bus implies you have a computer
decimation: so why bother
mircea_popescu: i want, in this order a) a fully b-a computing stack for bitcoin ; b) utter disrespect for antecessors made manifest.
decimation: I can see why you would want to ensure the security of your drive, but that's a seperate matter
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so we mount raw 'nand' from different vendors
mircea_popescu: as far as i'm concerned, breaking any ansi standard is a net gain.
asciilifeform: pref. from mutually-hostile nations
asciilifeform: tandemed with 74xxx
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah, might as well produce a pci-e card under s.nsa label
asciilifeform: i have all of this planned out.
decimation: with a pile of nand chips
mircea_popescu: then this discussion will suffice :D
asciilifeform: except that meanwhile i'm relying on, apparently, the profoundly retarded, to assemble b04rdz
mircea_popescu: lol. don't we all.
decimation: actually you could just use plain serial rs-232 bus
asciilifeform: there is no avoiding the final solution to it
decimation: not like you need high bandwidth anyway
asciilifeform: decimation: so long as it keeps up with blocks, theoretically
mircea_popescu: anyway, just to add : the people who have come before us have embedded into the very history of computing such burning, enraged contempt for us, that really damnatio is too good a fate.
asciilifeform: but in practice, gadget that takes years to synch, is not very useful
mircea_popescu: i don't think there's many fields outside of perhaps psychology where "practitioners" have for so long acted with such intense disregard for posterity.
mircea_popescu: the casual perusal of openssl that earlier article triggered has crystallized this point in my head.
decimation: mircea_popescu: just like (nearly?) everyone who opens a bitcoin exchange succumbs to the temptation to run 'fractional'
decimation: every hardware vendor succumbs to the temptation to pwn its audience
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mircea_popescu: i dunno about that.
asciilifeform: ^ oblig. naggum
asciilifeform: try to appreciate the difficulty, historically, of getting the bloody things to work at all.
asciilifeform: from this boojum came the other sorrows.
mircea_popescu: i will appreciate nothing.
asciilifeform: it is important to understand why apparently-intelligent folks ate up the crap
asciilifeform: because originally the thing working at all - was impressive.
mircea_popescu: this is like "originbally, the bridge standing at all was impressive"
mircea_popescu: srsly ? when, this.
asciilifeform: dark age.
asciilifeform: like now.
mircea_popescu: the idea that you ~must~ code, whether it works or not, no matter what, is scandalous.
mircea_popescu: i don't code. principally because i can't be arsed to do a good job of it.
asciilifeform: sorta like 'must build bridge, even if out of corpses'
mircea_popescu: there were no bridges in "dark age"
mircea_popescu: the bridge and engineering are co-generated
decimation: re: ~must code~ : historically there has been great profit in it, working or no
mircea_popescu: this is no argument in this discussion, tho. historically there has been great profit in all sorts of dumb shit.
mircea_popescu: really, find me a piece of code written with a clear contrite consideration of "people will read this tomorrow"
mircea_popescu: in the manner people write fucking books. or at least did, before the great usian likbez pogrom
asciilifeform: knuth tried to convince folks to 'literate programming'
asciilifeform: (look it up, it was a try.)
mircea_popescu: so he did. i recall reading it and not understanding what he meant at the time
asciilifeform: this is approximately what he meant.
mircea_popescu: no, i actually read knuth like i read buffett.
mircea_popescu: i generally manage to identify the actual experts in fields.
asciilifeform: there we go
mircea_popescu: feynman, etc.
asciilifeform: mccarthy also understood the unfolding disaster
mircea_popescu: they're, contrary to what the "consumers have come to expect" like to pretend, very easy to find
asciilifeform: and likewise dijkstra
asciilifeform: very easy.
asciilifeform: to find.
mircea_popescu: "the thick book nobody ever borrows", generally.
asciilifeform: the very same. can go to uni library, and they're stuck together. like the volumes of lenin (true story. i unstuck'em)
asciilifeform: compulsively pulled on one, they all came out
mircea_popescu: hegel was the same way, in the cluj universitarian library. supposedly the european expert in hegel resided there.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: notice how all of the surviving sage works are by theorists.
asciilifeform: it is interesting to consider why.
asciilifeform: aside from 'the spartan speaks with his sword'
mircea_popescu: now /that/ is very dark ages. not that many practical moralists in 1200
mircea_popescu: for that matter, not that many economists in soviet russia.
mircea_popescu: the *actual* kind, i mean
asciilifeform: more humble observation here, that making anything physical+original whatsoever on modern industrial base is titanically expensive, demoralizing, or both
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asciilifeform: or is it that smart folks avoid experimental work because, well, smarter?
asciilifeform: feynman diddled radio as a young man - but quit, note.
mircea_popescu: he broke safes his entire life tho.
asciilifeform: aha, but did not rely on result.
asciilifeform: did - for pleasure.
mircea_popescu: he was actually, in comparative terms, more of a noted expert in the field of safe cracking than in the field of physics
mircea_popescu: mostly because much fewer people did the former
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform writing a book of actual economy in moscow 1960 was equally titanical and demoralizing. or to get back to earth : a book on actual psychopathology in leningrad, bout same time.
mircea_popescu: folks even tried!
gabriel_laddel: Does anyone take issue with me describing the lordship as "the peerage" and #-assets as "earth's premiere commercial forum"?
mircea_popescu: i don't imagine so. and if they did, what of it.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: describe it as world's premier atomic dirigible, if you take pleasure in this
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, is the article of faith that jesus is coming on a great atomic dirigible from the sky to take us to the other planet and smite the unbelievers ?
mircea_popescu: or was that the other cult.
asciilifeform: arse rocket
asciilifeform: was j. smith's version, iirc
asciilifeform: there is actually a children's book with illustrations, yes
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform, mircea_popescu: If people were to take issue with this perhaps I'm missing information (and thus need to learn xyz). I'm going to do as I please either way, but prefer to be accurate.
mircea_popescu: Fartse - The World's Premiere Gravity Well Degravitizer.
asciilifeform: (al schwartz linked to it at one point, long ago)
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel makes sense.
asciilifeform: degravitizer << sign me up, lol
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's sorta like a howitzer.
asciilifeform wonders if there is a single p&p robot or reflow line in all of .ar
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't understand. argentina is trying to support a romania-level living standard on the basis of... soy exports.
mircea_popescu: they used to export carne vacuna, but then failed to meet their quotas and lost the contracts.
asciilifeform: hey that's not so different from what i'm doing here on small scale
mircea_popescu: meanwhile romania is exporting nuclear technology, weaponry, high tech mechanics etc.
gabriel_laddel: ben_vulpes: regarding "code as data" common lisp has the var *read-eval* you can bind to nil if you're processing code as data.
mircea_popescu: they don't have a drydock. or a car factory. or a truck factory. or a plane factory.
mircea_popescu: they don't even make bullets.
asciilifeform: i thought bullets were the one thing
asciilifeform: that .ar still remembered how to make
gabriel_laddel: also, pretty trivial to flatten some sexprs and check that only kosher symbols in it.
mircea_popescu: mnope. brazil took that over too.
asciilifeform: !s chicken also wants to live
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mircea_popescu: if china (and to some degree russia an' italy) stop propping them, argentina goes to meet cuba on its way to chad.
gabriel_laddel: *are contained within it.
mircea_popescu: on the positive side however : this is the closest you can get to china commercially without getting close to them in a political sense.
asciilifeform: i promise that i'd find this very interesting if had actual capital base...
asciilifeform tallies up value of organs
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asciilifeform: meanwhile fiat world put 120megabux to organize liquishit pumped from one cistern to another 10,000 times.
mircea_popescu: ceramic tile factory.
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mats: hm, won't be long til USD is worth more than EUR
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mats: " Strategists at Deutsche Bank expect the euro to fall to the $0.90 mark against the dollar by the end of 2016 and keep falling over the next 12 months to end 2017 at $0.85."
mircea_popescu: clearly the "sanctions against russia" are working.
mircea_popescu: lol is that srs ?
davout: fluffypony: lol
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: no it's a joke
fluffypony: about as serious as the NO GO ZONES in Paris
mircea_popescu: wait those aren't srs either ?!
fluffypony: sadface emoticon
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kakobrekla: seems helpful.
cazalla: so i goes on the whaleclub teamspeak on account i'm drunk..
cazalla: a) can't get their version of !up to speak
cazalla: b) some random cunt is talking about launching an altcoin whereby he "destroys an oz of gold on webcam" as proof of burn for creation of his altcoin
cazalla: c) such whales talking about the joys of flipping bitcents for gift cards
cazalla: worse, TaT masquerades as bitcoinassets on it and is a mod to boot
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nubbins`: dem whitelists
cazalla: saw that earlier
cazalla: bitnodes pop up with similar shit pinging the network
cazalla: nubbins`, u evar gonna make posters again? i saw the last edition was fetching a decent price on bitcointalk
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cazalla: i did not mention this due to criticism of mancave.. but as i sat in my recently acquired mancave, i thought it would be a suitable spot (have relocated back to shared computer/craft room on account autumn is here and mancave is too fucking cold)
nubbins`: cazalla i thought about a "how to spot scams" poster or similar
nubbins`: if you want one of the last edition, TECSHARE probably is dying to get rid of his
kakobrekla: i think i still have 4 of them posters
cazalla: you guys criticise the mancave but seriously, when the missus and the kid push you out of the masterbedroom due to lack of sleep and then push you out the kids room which was turned into makeshift computer room but needs it back because apparently a pig pen isn't big enough for him now, you might appreciate the man cave aka cold ass garage
kakobrekla: if anyone is interested i guess i could part em.
cazalla: kakobrekla, i'm drunk, i talk shit when drunk, sorta how i make bitbet's and forget to bet on my own bets
cazalla: so even if i was intersted, sober cazalla might not be as willing to pay a premium
cazalla: felt a little bad about that as i was trying to talk BingoBoingo into a bet over the bali nine executions to come on account i think they'll go free
cazalla: so settled on using bitbet for it but.. alcohol and fucked it all up
nubbins`: cazalla you are not sleeping in the garage
cazalla: and i am stuck using fucking electrum since then because for some reason, since bitcoin-qt 0.10.0 came out, my old 0.8.3, 0.8.6 throws errors and i can't fully sync and even lame attempt to try 0.10.0 falls flat.. i think maybe memory is fucked though unrelated, memtest86 throws a bunch of errors
cazalla: nubbins`, i was, but i took the bed back into the kids room
nubbins`: atta boy
nubbins`: closest thing i have to a mancave is a FULLY FUNCTIONING AND FULLY APPOINTED SILKSCREEN PRINTING STUDIO IN MY BASEMENT
cazalla: garage is not that bad tbh, reminds me of when i had my own place by the beach, no woman, no kids
nubbins`: THAT I CAN SMOKE DOPE IN BECAUSE IT HAS EXHAUST FANS
nubbins`: shoulda snipped your tubes hey
cazalla: not reary
cazalla: she's a good woman, he's a good kid
gabriel_laddel: cazalla: "you guys criticise the mancave but seriously, when the missus" << !s beat her
cazalla: i just prefer the autism sanctuary of living by onesself
nubbins`: heh.
nubbins`: i understand
nubbins`: have done it both ways
cazalla: gabriel_laddel you can't do that in this country
nubbins`: when living alone, i ended up spending most of my time at other's houses
cazalla: the big mistake i made was getting a woman pregnant prior to living with her.. things were all fine and dandy while i had my own place and could fuck her and send her home after the fact
gabriel_laddel: ;; google site: www.trilema.com "pack your bags women we're going to"
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cazalla: i could leave her in a heart beat, but not my son
gabriel_laddel: ;; google site: trilema.com "you're taking the kids"
gribble: Because most people are idiots, in spite of never manning ... - Trilema: <http://trilema.com/2013/because-most-people-are-idiots-in-spite-of-never-manning-up-and-admitting-to-it/>; Let's pretend... pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/lets-pretend>; Money, fucking and lying pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2014/money-fucking- (1 more message)
cazalla: hey, i long ago admitted i am an idiot
gabriel_laddel: Note that I dont necessarily endorse MP's viewpoint but it is rather well developed.
cazalla: coming here day in, day out, reduces that
cazalla: at least, i think
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cazalla: and i can't take the kid.. needs a mum as much as he does a father.. i don't go for that single parent shit
cazalla: anyway, i'm drunk, so emotions are amplified, my life is not as bad as i might claim when drunk
gabriel_laddel: regarding this chainalysis.com thing (from the bitcoin talk link above)
gabriel_laddel: "I have a new favorite douchebag profile pic: Enthralling My Fucking Audience. This one is phenomenal; you’ve probably seen it somewhere amongst your fucking friends. It’s where a Very Important Dbag (VIDb) is captivating above-mentioned audience solely through the power of his personal presence. Jesus Christ, the fucking hubris. The fucking insane, idiotic hubris. Examples culled from an eleven-second scrub of
gabriel_laddel: Facebook:"
assbot: Jesus Christ, Silicon Valley | What Your Profile Picture Says About You (Hint:... ... ( http://bit.ly/1DeJeTC )
gabriel_laddel: God, what hateable profile photos and job descriptions.
gabriel_laddel: "devops engineer"
cazalla: but i will say.. these red pill dickheads on reddit that mourn for a lack of virginal wife to have a family with aka http://i.imgur.com/zEEL7S4.jpg i've had the frigid virginal wife and the whore girlfriend who sucked any dick within arms reach and i will swear black and blue that the whore is far more satisfying despite the 24/7 drama
gabriel_laddel: Seriously, the jew thing...
gabriel_laddel: I'm surprised that methheads have bugs crawl out of their arms rather than jews.
gabriel_laddel: FUCK THEY'RE EVERYWHERE
cazalla: haha yeah, /pol/ got me mixed up with that shit until 23andme suggested i was a traitor to the cuase (if 23andme is to be believed)
cazalla: ./pol/ blames jews for everything
gabriel_laddel: yeeeeessss?
cazalla: and at the time (this is prior to #b-a) i thought i could see such things too
cazalla: omg the jews! it's the joos as bitcoinpete would say
gabriel_laddel: "until 23andme suggested i was a traitor to the cause"
cazalla: but then 23andme suggests i have some jew in me
gabriel_laddel: See I told you.
gabriel_laddel: Everywhere.
cazalla: so i was like fuck, better not tell /pol/ that
cazalla: but 23andme also said i have west african negro in me, so sorta cancels the jew out anyway
gabriel_laddel: What I find so lulzy about the whole situation is that if you take the supposed Zionist lit and the /pol/ people 100% seriously it basically reduces to "jews think that others are cattle"
cazalla: anyway, one might argue, and i did try, that /pol/ is a short stop otw to #b-a
gabriel_laddel: others: "mooooo"
cazalla: and i promoted it to /pol/ but i was shut down and accused of being jidf so
gabriel_laddel: ;; ud jidf
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jidf | Jidf is an acronym for Jewish Internet Defense Force, an organization, whose job is to spread positive propaganda about Israel. Supporting Isreal on news ...
cazalla: at that point, ya sorta realise ok they really are fucking crazy cause i sure as fuck am not shilling for jidf from the mancave
gabriel_laddel: ;; google messiah's donkey
gribble: The Messiah's Donkey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Messiah's_Donkey>; Rav Kook on Bo: Donkey-Holiness: <http://ravkooktorah.org/BO_67.htm>; Columnist: Israel Would Steal the Messiah's Donkey - The Wire: <http://www.thewire.com/global/2011/01/columnist-israel-would-steal-the-messiah-s-donkey/18064/>
cazalla: still, i can't help but feel affection for a homogeneous society like japan.. fucking mudslimes and other ethnics have destroyed australia within a generation
cazalla: lefty whitey australian so quick to demand rights for the new australia muslims for some reason
gabriel_laddel: and the "right" (or whatever) was weak enough to allow them to
gabriel_laddel: In other news, some interesting sounds
nubbins`: worth arguing that whitey destroyed ethnic australia
assbot: Furries in a Blender - Reach Out [HD] - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1Gzozah )
cazalla: nubbins`, fucking baby boomers eh? (this is who i blame nowadays)
nubbins`: there sure are a lot of them
nubbins`: anyway it's sort of silly to pretend that immigration to australia is the problem
nubbins`: since, cough, every white person in australia is either an immigrant or a recent descendent thereof
gabriel_laddel: Eh, nothing wrong with imperialism
nubbins` shrugs
nubbins`: not making the call on that
nubbins`: just "this door should be closed!" right after you walk through it sounds a bit silly
cazalla: yeah my missus constantly reminds me that i am the most racist first generation australian she has met
gabriel_laddel: nubbins`: Nonsense.
nubbins`: continue
gabriel_laddel: nubbins`: what, you're a "attractive-ist" for only fucking hot gurlz?
nubbins`: no, you're a hedonist
gabriel_laddel: the political position of "they're cattle, we're not" is totally A OK.
cazalla: i don't mind imperialism but it fucked up by not wiping out the abos
nubbins`: and we all know that a society of hedonists is a good society indeed
nubbins`: gabriel_laddel sure, but when COWS start saying it?
nubbins`: i like where i live 8)
gabriel_laddel: let reality branch cut and backtrack.
cazalla: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_61OnKVEAAtV_v.jpg:large "blockchain university" damn look at that hambeast front and centre
gabriel_laddel: all these "right wing" "conservitive" organizations or whatever are pathetic. I was looking into e.g., the golden dawn earlier tonight...
gabriel_laddel: or VDARE.
nubbins`: the racist is generally an intellectual dullard
gabriel_laddel: which had a problem with bisexuality
cazalla: gabriel_laddel, ya know why it is attractive to idiot country bumpkins like me though right?
nubbins`: because it lets you ignore yourself as the cause of all your problems?
gabriel_laddel: cazalla: not really
cazalla: nubbins`, clearly part of it
nubbins`: continue
cazalla: i'm out of wine so not sure if i should lol
gabriel_laddel: heh, for future readers
assbot: Hai sictir, Timisoaro! pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1DeOEOl )
nubbins`: incidentally, the original white inhabitants of this land mass on which i currently am living totally wiped out an entire race of people who had lived here prior
assbot: Beothuk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1DeOKp8 )
cazalla: nubbins`, so what?
gabriel_laddel: "The one thing which Timisoara does consistently and well is failure. In 2007 I attempted to organise an art exhibit, on the terms that I was going to pay, in cash, for everything involved. They didn't manage to do it. Last year, I attempted to support a nascent local party, by paying for a quarter's rent and other expenses (a quarter ton of alcohol, mostly) for a bunch of self-styled neonazi local kids. I pulled th
gabriel_laddel: e plug on that thing three months later, at the end of which they.had.not done.anything. I'm not sure you exactly grok me, it's not that they hadn't round up the town's minorities and set them on fire. It's that they couldn't get together to make some stencils which someone (hopefully, someone else) was perhaps sometime (2015 ?) going to use for some purpose. Somewhere. Whatever."
nubbins`: just makin convo
nubbins`: ("incidentally"!)
nubbins`: gabriel_laddel did you see the picture of the kids he rounded up for the "political party"?
gabriel_laddel: nubbins`: lolyeah
nubbins`: my sides.
nubbins`: "oddly, nothing came of it"
gabriel_laddel: cazalla: I'm still not sure why you want quiet hobbit land fyi
gabriel_laddel: "nothing changes"
gabriel_laddel: fucking shoot me
cazalla: in the world where nothing changes, i don't grow old and die i guess
cazalla: the familiarity of my youth is long gone, this country is run amok full of chinks and muslims
gabriel_laddel: cazalla: do you mind if I ask what books you're reading your son btw?
nubbins`: ahaha
nubbins`: "reading? my son? i ain't no wimminz"
gabriel_laddel: aw come on
nubbins` shrugs, gestures
cazalla: gabriel_laddel, beatrix potter, mr men, other assorted books we got as gifts
cazalla: nubbins`, i read to him every day and have done so pretty much since he was born (few days missed here and there)
gabriel_laddel: hey, good for you!
cazalla: nubbins`, pfft, i do all the cooking and cleaning fwiw
nubbins`: BUT THAT'S WOMEN'S WORK CAZALLA
cazalla: not simply because missus is useless for such tasks, but i enjoy cooking and the cleaning provides me with an illusion of control
nubbins`: or something
cazalla: nah, best chefs are men
nubbins`: that was farcical
nubbins`: i love cooking food :/
nubbins`: recently been making lots of korean dishes that i haven't been able to eat since i left there in 2007
nubbins`: or whenever it was
cazalla: anyway, it's difficult to raise a kid right these days
nubbins`: why i don't have any
nubbins`: that and i'm not ready to press my generational reset button
cazalla: you're up against an immense wave of shit made in china, ipads, tv, public education the constant reinforce that should you buck the status quo, you're a bad parent
cazalla: me either nubbins` but "nature finds a way"
nubbins`: teach your kid chinese, no joke
gabriel_laddel: nubbins`: uh
gabriel_laddel: nubbins`: their language doesn't map to computers all that well
cazalla: nubbins`, i teach him auslan
gabriel_laddel: == fucked
nubbins`: does it map to mouth sounds well? 8)
jurov: teach him latin :D
gabriel_laddel: nubbins`: doesn't matter. Let's say that you are a super good people person but can't verify any of what your computer is doing in the future.
gabriel_laddel: you're fucked.
nubbins`: that's the situation i'm in right now
cazalla: by rights i should know another language but zomg the shame of speaking german
nubbins`: the shame!
nubbins`: ersetzen aufladen!
cazalla: fucking idiot father didn't bother
jurov: einpfropfen verboten!
cazalla: and fucking idiot father's father couldn't speak a word of english yet 2 generations after can't speak a word of german
gabriel_laddel: nubbins`: the english (or korean!) language maps to computers becuase the characters compose. you'll only have to learn how to talk to a computer instead of a whole new system of language + computers.
cazalla: doesn't matter anyway, my father is/was weak, feminine, useless
nubbins`: gabriel_laddel while you *can* type chinese using simplified chars, i wasn't implying that he learn chinese for computer use
nubbins`: he has english for that.
cazalla: but what else do you get from the youngest in the family
gabriel_laddel: my point is that chinese as is must go away if they want to work with computers
gabriel_laddel: the chinese I know who learn "english for programming" have all sorts of massive misconceptions about computers, language, mathematics etc.
nubbins`: they have misconceptions about mathematics, and it's because their mother tongue is chinese?
nubbins`: also korean alphabet +1 top kek
nubbins`: learned it on the descent into seoul
nubbins`: 13 fucking vowels!!
gabriel_laddel: nubbins`: the language doesn't help. For example, a chinese mathematics undergrad from Peking U. I know thought that using a computer algebra system to do mathematics was "cheating". Person in question had no notion of "playing with mathematics". This is more of a cultural thing, but much of human thought is captured in language.
cazalla: so what is the opinion of the erudites here regaring what polgar did with his daughters? that has sorta been my goal with my son, find one thing for him and push him hard in that direction
gabriel_laddel: By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race. -- A.N. Whitehead
gabriel_laddel: See also China's Examination Hell: The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China
gabriel_laddel: originally recommended by Stanislav
gabriel_laddel: Interesting book.
gabriel_laddel: cazalla: see also John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death
gabriel_laddel: it has some stuff about polgar's daughters
cazalla: will take a look tmw when of sober mind
nubbins`: cazalla sounds like a great idea unless your kid turns out to be not particularly cut out for that particular thing
cazalla: nubbins`, well if he's not, he can do what i do, but only one way to find out
gabriel_laddel I'll note that I hate the perspective of the author in that book but liked the information he had to present.
nubbins`: so what's the one thing you're gonna push him towards
cazalla: nubbins`, no idea yet, he likes to mash on the electric keyboard i have here but then what kid wouldn't?
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gabriel_laddel: the machines in the shop roar so wildly / that i often forget in the roar that I am ; / i am lost in the terrible tumult, / my ego disappears, i am a machine. / i work, and work and word without end; / i am busy, and busy and busy all the time. / for what? and for whom? I know not, I ask not! / how should a machine ever come to think?
cazalla: end up fighting over it while i attempt to play california games while he does his own thing :)
gabriel_laddel: ^ from the above book
nubbins`: but it was too late for all that, the buggers held full control, so all rooms are now hospital. the candy cart of medication wheels behind me, manacled by psychotic chains. lines of divison have been dissolved. this letter is also spoken live in the minds of all others. medication is food. Rx is smoked. food is smoked. all useless as light dripped from bulbs into splashing puddles of light on the floor. vast communities of bulky orderlies.
nubbins`: rowhouses of nurses. all rooms are hospitals now. /// flies spit antipsychotic froth on their tongues & wheel about cheap paint walls. all hospitals are life now.
nubbins`: ^ from a book we published in 2013 ;0
gabriel_laddel: nubbins`: !
gabriel_laddel: Fun in the USA
nubbins`: tl;dr schizophrenia isn't as romantic as you think
nubbins`: in fact, "fun" in eastern canada
cazalla: i bet the scam poetry.com ran back in the late 90s, early 2000's would work far better today amongst the narcissistic facebook generation of today
cazalla: going to bed anyway, zzz
nubbins`: nite
gabriel_laddel: "Only a man from Budapest can enter a revolving door behind you and exit ahead of you" -- jvn
nubbins`: i've thought about release above-quoted tome as an ebook, but it's such a pain
nubbins`: and nobody'd buy it anyway
gabriel_laddel: nubbins`: I'd pirate it.
nubbins`: you probably wouldn't
nubbins`: at least one person would have to find and purchase it for that to happen :P
nubbins`: hm, i have some posters from the release here somewhere
gabriel_laddel: nubbins`: is the guy an actual lunatic or just a deviant his "family & friends" decided to reformat (in your estimation).
nubbins`: close friend of mine. has been in the bughouse at least a half dozen times
nubbins`: but y'know. sensible, intelligent guy, great writer
nubbins`: generally writes about his own life experiences, occasionally embellished
nubbins`: that book in particular is confusing, depressing, and ultimately without resolution or catharsis
nubbins`: which actually precisely parallels living with schizophrenia
nubbins`: so...
nubbins`: it's a lesson disguised as a novel 8)
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thestringpuller: ;;ticker
gribble: Bitfinex BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 292.8, Best ask: 292.83, Bid-ask spread: 0.03000, Last trade: 292.88, 24 hour volume: 44039.14305288, 24 hour low: 286.0, 24 hour high: 298.8, 24 hour vwap: None
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11061 @ 0.00032086 = 3.549 BTC [-]
assbot: Exclusive: IBM looking at adopting bitcoin technology for major currencies| Reuters ... ( http://bit.ly/1L6JNDi )
jurov: "We are at a tipping point right now. It's making a lot more sense for some type of digital cash in the system, that not only saves our government money, but also is a lot more convenient and secure for individuals to use," the source said.
jurov: they failed to make _anything_ secure. butbut "blockchain technology!!!1"
jurov: !up CheckDavid
jurov: !up felipelalli
jurov: !up mike_c
assbot: invented by openbsd ... ( http://bit.ly/1FYj7Ou )
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7380 @ 0.000327 = 2.4133 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20300 @ 0.00032913 = 6.6813 BTC [+]
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thestringpuller: chainalysis.com
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31150 @ 0.00032913 = 10.2524 BTC [+]
nubbins`: 'merkuh
danielpbarron: height=273710 vs height=207965
BingoBoingo: !up bearmarket
BingoBoingo: Hello bearmarket
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'm nearly cured of wanting anything whatsoever to do with netbsd now.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: When they people forked out OpenBSD, seems they kept the wrong people
Burrmarket: ohh thanks for the verify
ben_vulpes: cazalla, gabriel_laddel: it's totarry the jooz.
ben_vulpes: <gabriel_laddel> [13:15] the political position of "they're cattle, we're not" is totally A OK. << and furthermore, the #b-a creed
ben_vulpes: <cazalla> [13:29] you're up against an immense wave of shit made in china, ipads, tv, public education the constant reinforce that should you buck the status quo, you're a bad parent << jesus shit if you go *with* the status quo you're a bad parent
ben_vulpes: "yes it's entirely a good idea to lock everyone from ages 8-18 up with each other and nobody else, that won't promptly lead to all sorts of pathologies."
ben_vulpes: !s secret service agents
assbot: 11 results for 'secret service agents' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=secret+service+agents
ben_vulpes: tres lulz
danielpbarron: nearly cured of wanting anything whatsoever to do with netbsd << what does this mean for pogo?
assbot: Logged on 31-01-2015 01:43:22; asciilifeform: danielpbarron: iirc, openbsd will not see the nand flash on the 'pogo.'
danielpbarron: because I agree, I do not like netbsd
danielpbarron dreams of pine trees
ben_vulpes: i had my first relational algebra dream two nights ago
trinque: ^LOL
trinque: also good morning, all
trinque: ben_vulpes: did the perfect schema float down from the heavens?
ben_vulpes: trinque: i'm no mircea_popescu, i have to tweak and derp and derp and tweak
ben_vulpes: until the jews start crawling out of my skin
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mod6: ;;later tell jurov The mailing list is still snarffing messages. The dns fix didn't seem to help.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: it wasn't just the nand
asciilifeform: (netbsd doesn't support the nand either)
asciilifeform: i started work on a driver but there's no time.
asciilifeform: what does this mean for pogo? << it means that one of you will have to come up with an os
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nubbins`: even using the sd card for os isn't an unbearable extra burden
asciilifeform: nubbins`: mmno.
vhost-: >+ben_vulpes | i had my first relational algebra dream two nights ago
vhost-: haha
nubbins`: n/m catching up on logs
mod6: <+asciilifeform> i started work on a driver but there's no time. << I'm pretty much in the same boat but it kinda sounds fun to write. I hate pdf's but I found this that sort of defines what I think the issue is here. Can you confirm ascii? http://chewiefs.sed.hu/sites/chewiefs.sed.hu/files/NetBSD_Flash_subsystem_final_nopagenum.pdf
danielpbarron: even using the sd card for os << not necessary; the whole thing can go on the same hard drive as the blockchain
danielpbarron: when that static build of bitcoind is ready, i'll try to compile it for pogo and see if it runs on debian
danielpbarron: at least debian doesn't have all that systemd crap
nubbins`: gabriel_laddel:Does anyone take issue with me describing the lordship as "the peerage" and #-assets as "earth's premiere commercial forum"? <<< ...
nubbins`: cazalla:worse, TaT masquerades as bitcoinassets on it and is a mod to boot <<< ...
danielpbarron: i am chatting from debian-on-a-pogo -- it's very nice, and if anyone wants such a machine I highly recommend it
danielpbarron: the blue model is perfect for this purpose, just add SD card of any size
thestringpuller: cazalla: ah so that's where TaT went to.
thestringpuller: any qntra editors awake?
davout: danielpbarron: "at least debian doesn't have all that systemd crap" <<< i was under the impression it was coming to debian too
danielpbarron: from what i can tell, it isn't there yet
davout: yea, what i understood too, coming nonetheless
trinque: !up stunna
nubbins`: danielpbarron mine's serving files
danielpbarron: You are blocked from following @0xabad1dea and viewing @0xabad1dea's Tweets. Learn more << the list grows :D
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danielpbarron: !up Bagels7
danielpbarron: !up Transisto
danielpbarron: (NOTE: OpenBSD can not be re-exported from the US once it has entered the US. Because of this, take care NOT to get the distribution from an FTP server in the US if you are outside of Canada and the US.)
ben_vulpes: this is the most unbelievably gorgeous spring i've ever seen here
ben_vulpes: no rain
ben_vulpes: lots of sun
ben_vulpes: but the planet's not choking under human smog or anything
danielpbarron: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/signify.1 << apparently openbsd has its own tool for creating and verifying signatures
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: They use that for code/binaries, because GPG is GPL and in their distribution it is license unacceptable by their standards
danielpbarron: everything i learn about openbsd makes me like it more than before
thestringpuller: coinbase blog runs on node.js
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: The signify thing depends on libsodium for however good it is along with probably other things
kakobrekla: <danielpbarron> (NOTE: OpenBSD can not be re-exported from the US once it has entered the US. < im sure you are familiar with 'pgpi scanning project'
mircea_popescu: lmao @weirdus
asciilifeform: the whole thing can go on the same hard drive as the blockchain << NO. must be able to insert brand new drive in brand new unit and have it format. or replacement drive.
asciilifeform: at least debian doesn't have all that systemd crap << do you have a fully-source-based cross-compilator build of debian? if not, it's worthless.
asciilifeform: and yes, systemd is coming to debian
asciilifeform: thing's dead.
danielpbarron: i am trying to come up with solutions that I myself might be capable of achieving; I'm not aware of anyone else who is working on this thing
danielpbarron: looks like gentoo might work on it
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asciilifeform: danielpbarron: i spent quite a bit of time simply trying to get a vanilla linux kernel made with 'buildroot' (built for this very purpose - routers) to boot on pogo.
asciilifeform: to no avail
asciilifeform: someone else might have better luck
asciilifeform: but that was originally how i ended up trying netbsd
asciilifeform: ('buildroot' builds cross compiler in the process of building, like netbsd does. it also builds minimal userlands with known contents suitable for read-only media. this is the part that is very tricky to achieve by hand)
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so what's the situation here, can't get an os for pogo ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can, with effort
asciilifeform: two leads: 1) port whatever's in netbsd to openbsd to get it going on pogo
mircea_popescu: so the breakdown is that you know how and he doesn't an' you're not telling him ?
asciilifeform: 2) find out why buildroot's kernel doesn't run on pogo
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lol, i think i made the handful of useful things i've discovered on the subject public on the listserv
asciilifeform: if i mentioned something here that wasn't included - please wake me up
davout: mats: nice!
mircea_popescu: so then it's more like, "can't get an os for pogo, we like to believe it can be done nevertheless" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im jus' trying to get where we're at.
asciilifeform: i have a very impoverished (no nand yet) netbsd on mine
asciilifeform: but BingoBoingo's discovery has somewhat ruined my appetite for netbsd..
davout: asciilifeform: what was that?
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 14:35:56; BingoBoingo: various gnomings http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/invented-by-openbsd
davout: ty
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if that's where it's at, danielpbarron has a point. gotta get it running, somehow.
danielpbarron: technically i have two of them "running" -- albeit with very nasty "through the mud" shortcuts
asciilifeform: if going to eat the meat regardless of from what animal - may as well run bitcoin on the stock linux that comes with that thing
asciilifeform: it'll run...
danielpbarron: one is half-way to being synced with the network
mircea_popescu: well, not regardless of what animal, but unless someone shoots a unicorn it will not be unicorn meat.
asciilifeform: in other news, i shipped the junk back to macrofab
asciilifeform: they promised to measure their stock of R's, but so far heard nothing
asciilifeform: i'm beginning to suspect that most of what's in the electronics stores now has these 'magical' components of essentially random values
asciilifeform: for digital circuit, the consequences are not immediately apparent
mircea_popescu: you may be on to something there.
asciilifeform: i very much hope that i'm not
mircea_popescu: may account for all those cases of the zombie device.
asciilifeform: or that i'm on to something that isn't this
mircea_popescu: (mystically breaks, sent for repairs, returns fixed, breaks again, etc)
asciilifeform: because this is just Sad
asciilifeform: and how on earth would it stay undiscovered until this
mircea_popescu: jobsworth.
asciilifeform: telling me that no one anywhere built an analogue whateverthefuck?
asciilifeform: what of all the ham radio folks
mircea_popescu: out of the millions of redditards generously employed to do tech support, millions are in "tech support stories" talking about how idiot customers are
mircea_popescu: 0 actually engage in hunting for bugs like this.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the ham radio folks use older gear maybe ?
asciilifeform: they build new stuff
mircea_popescu: maybe out of old stuff they have in garage ?
asciilifeform: the software-defined-radio thing going for past few yrs, for example
mircea_popescu: there's a definite age gap. kids born pre 1990 are more different from kids born after than slave owners from slaves in the deep south cca 1790
assbot: KD7LMO - GNU Radio ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ebz6WY )
asciilifeform: incidentally, one more piece of data - i traced the empty board (included with the two populated units) - there were no mask defects
asciilifeform: (these would turn up in all 3)
mircea_popescu: well, one way to find out, of course, would be to get some new laptops/handhelds and measure their resistors.
mircea_popescu: can be done easy enough and undestructively, just turn the machine off and pop its cover
asciilifeform: if anyone owns a pair of 'hot tweezer' (soldering iron for removing smd parts) - go ahead
asciilifeform: not everything is meaningfully measurable in-circuit
mircea_popescu: do they even have to be removed ?
mircea_popescu: resistors tho ?
asciilifeform: because you cannot force the current of measurement to flow -only- through the resistor
asciilifeform: i was able to do it for r6 and r16 in own box because knew how it was arranged
mircea_popescu: yes hon, but you didn't get 207.5 parts for a 210 part
mircea_popescu: you got 400k or some shit
asciilifeform: i got ~200 for 470
mircea_popescu: now that'd be measured in circuit
asciilifeform: and hell knows what else for the parts that could not be measured
asciilifeform: that one was measurable in-circuit due to the way it was connected.
mircea_popescu: is there some way to connect a resistor in an unpowered, unshorted circuit so that i can't measure it without unmounting it ?
asciilifeform: for example of a trivial case where they cannot:
asciilifeform: wheatstone bridge
mircea_popescu takes advantage of b-a to refresh his electronics knowledge :D
asciilifeform: or i suppose not a plain wheatstone bridge, but one connected to something yet else
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wait, isn't that HOW you measure resistence in the first place ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in 1940s and prior - yes
ben_vulpes: 's how i did it in 'skool'.
mircea_popescu doesn't think this objection holds much water.
ben_vulpes: what is the /context/ for that, man?
mircea_popescu: you don't need context, it's an image.
mircea_popescu: i recall reading here.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42300 @ 0.00032653 = 13.8122 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: !up ColinT
mircea_popescu: hahaha it was just pointed out to me that if you google for pretty much anything to do with btc b-a is probably in the results, and if you click over to images there's definitely some b-a ladies in there.
mircea_popescu: it's like boring boring b-a boring b-a b-a boring etc.
mircea_popescu: it's kinda incredible to me that the entire intellectual production of the usg crowd is limited to merely rehashing points debunked within a week or two of the "controversy".
mircea_popescu: incidentally, "bbs where every user runs his own nntp server" is a) a better implementation of irc, which is a better implementation of bbs, which is dead tech and b) exactly where gossipd is going.
mircea_popescu: this is obviously a plain requisite for any government-proof system of anything.
mircea_popescu: if you allow "server farms" you also allow the government the power toi know which necks to squeeze, which in practice readily devolves to shrem begging for ten bucks because http://trilema.com/2015/heres-what-they-dont-tell-you-when-they-bring-you-those-papers-to-sign/
assbot: Here's what they don't tell you when they bring you those papers to sign pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1GNwO6k )
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, danielpbarron or someone, mind tweeeting that link in response to say https://twitter.com/CharlieShrem/status/576158948950171648
assbot: So, I’m going to prison. http://t.co/yFWlxcj4JP /hashtag/Bitcoin?src=hash
mircea_popescu: pour encourager les autres.
thestringpuller: from: http://blog.cryptoconsortium.org/contributing-to-the-ccss/ "There are many ways in which you can help contribute to the CryptoCurrency Security Standard. While security experts have an obvious avenue for contributing, the standard also needs help from graphic designers, language translators, and proofreaders too, just to name a few." this is what permissionless innovation looks like in da infancy
thestringpuller: it looks like begging
mircea_popescu: !up shesek
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller this isn't "permissionless innovation", this is "standardization without permission".
mircea_popescu: when they're done doing that they can probably get back to riding their wooden horses or w/e nine year olds do when not monkeying the adults.
thestringpuller: "The CCSS is an open standard, born out of the belief that security should not be the defining feature of your service." << Why?!?!?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's come to the point where i 'google xxxx' and get... own self having spoken of xxxx five minutes prior
mircea_popescu: clearly, google thinks you're narcissistic :D
asciilifeform: l0ltr0n
danielpbarron: mind tweeeting that link << done
asciilifeform had interesting email exchange with macrofab, where they showed photograph of their bobbin - labeled 'panasonic' - said they tested 50 random units;
asciilifeform: described to them simple test of board. and they promised to try..
asciilifeform: one day these might come back sorta-working
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: re "standardization without permission" << it looks like bastardization. who the fuck says, "Security should not be the defining feature of a service". Does this roughly translate to: "CSS everywhere."
asciilifeform: probably looking rather scorched, as they'll have to desolder the shield frame
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: no broken kneecaps yet? gotta bring them to an "understanding"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they tested random units came out the right value ?
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: for the budget, i can't even afford to break self
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so claimed, yes
mircea_popescu: very odd neh ?
kakobrekla: whats the problem, the inconsistency of resistors ?
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: see log
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla apparently his thing got 400 instead of 200 ohm resistors, but funnily they carried the 200 markings
asciilifeform: opposite
asciilifeform: but yes
asciilifeform: and unknown other problemos
asciilifeform: they also confessed that 8.2k were mounted instead of 10k
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wow, 5% tolerances ?
asciilifeform: (which was not readily measurable in-circuit)
asciilifeform: 5% is adequate for this device
mircea_popescu: sure, but is it adequate for tianjin co ?
asciilifeform: probably not.
mircea_popescu: weird. "for your convenience, we have packed five half-resistence resistors separately, to bring the average to a 5% tolerance as you required"
mircea_popescu: then they put those in your thing.
mircea_popescu: problem solved.
asciilifeform: and funnily enough, they weren't random all-over-the-place
asciilifeform: they were about half.
mircea_popescu: there's like 1k 470 ohm bits exactly, and then 10 items at 230, which make it be +-5% over the batch
kakobrekla: so the 1% ones should be +- 10%
asciilifeform: the 'cleanliness' of the wrong value suggests traditional chinese gnomery
asciilifeform: where they go 'we have two tonnes of Y and only half a tonne of X, let's relabel some Y as X'
mircea_popescu: they still do this ? i thought it was mostly a great leap forward into a brick wall phenoimenon
asciilifeform: !s melamine
assbot: 1 results for 'melamine' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=melamine
ben_vulpes: mod6: aha i see patches!
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 68100 @ 0.00032628 = 22.2197 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19950 @ 0.00032698 = 6.5233 BTC [+]
davout: thestringpuller: wai
thestringpuller: cuz there literally is no examples of how to implement the standard for binary
davout: thestringpuller: i'd use firefox to upload some small binary to http://requestb.in
assbot: RequestBin — Collect, inspect and debug HTTP requests and webhooks ... ( http://bit.ly/1GNIXbt )
davout: so you can make your own example
davout: make form, use requestbin as action, *poof*
thestringpuller: davout: this is pretty useful
thestringpuller: looks like I need to set headers to base64 and i should be good
davout: requestbin is neat
davout: "aux bons ouvriers les bons outils"
thestringpuller: That's a good phrase.
davout: yup
thestringpuller: Je travaille dur!
davout: :D
thestringpuller: I was trying to get wireshark to work, but it wants x11 and doesn't seem to work with quartz without poking at it.
thestringpuller: but don't think I need it
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mod6: awe fsck
mod6: jurov: are you here?
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 12:33:18; cazalla: b) some random cunt is talking about launching an altcoin whereby he "destroys an oz of gold on webcam" as proof of burn for creation of his altcoin
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 12:34:36; cazalla: worse, TaT masquerades as bitcoinassets on it and is a mod to boot
cazalla: i guess he forked #b-a or osmething
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 20:57:35; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-03-2015#1051612 << how the fuck does one destroy gold ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla can you be specific tho ?
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard nom!
mircea_popescu: "The Bitcoin protocol, when implemented correctly, has a degree of sybil resistance when it comes to partitioning and double-spend risk as an attacker must get _all_ your connections for those attacks, but this kind of activity can really violate user privacy since privacy attacks don't need to get all your connections; especially for SPV nodes which liberally broadcast their wallet addresses to nodes that they're usin
mircea_popescu: g as servers."
cazalla: mircea_popescu, it's just his username i am referring to
mircea_popescu: heh. gmaxwell actually says this much.
mircea_popescu: "spv wallets - horribru for your privacy."
cazalla: but still, that'd be like me coming here under the name whaleclub
mircea_popescu: cazalla well whatever, he prolly got the username way back.
asciilifeform: wtf is 'whaleclub'
asciilifeform: sybiltron << not only that one. there are others, that've been running for a good long time.
asciilifeform: !s noblis
assbot: 5 results for 'noblis' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=noblis
davout: mircea_popescu: "how the fuck does one destroy gold ?" <<< aqua regia down the toilet
mircea_popescu: davout except now you'll have to add a proof of toilet.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ayup.
asciilifeform: there was an ancient thread concerning sinking things in the sea, etc
mircea_popescu: just nothing the power rangers ever felt like discussing, prior.
davout: mircea_popescu: you actually need proof it was gold in the first place anyway
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: read, if you have the stomach, the tardsthread. overall angle seems to be 'use tor now111!!!11!!'
mircea_popescu: "Chainalysis achieves this by doing sophisticated in-depth real-time transaction analysis to determine unique entities within the blockchain. Michael Grønager Chief Executive Officer Jan Møller Chief Technology Officer Jens Hilligsøe DevOps Engineer Kresten Krab Throup Consulting Architect Jørn Larsen Business Advisor"
mircea_popescu: for later.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform obviously.
davout: they think they're better than everyone with their fancy "o"s
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 12:49:43; cazalla: you guys criticise the mancave but seriously, when the missus and the kid push you out of the masterbedroom due to lack of sleep and then push you out the kids room which was turned into makeshift computer room but needs it back because apparently a pig pen isn't big enough for him now, you might appreciate the man cave aka cold ass garage
mircea_popescu: what's wrong is the idea that dependents can push one around in one's own castle.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, cmon, i was drunk and rambling, lets please ignore all that shit from last night lol
mircea_popescu: but obviously this doesn't automatically apply to everyone's living arrangements
scoopbot: New post on Trilema by Mircea Popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/the-huge-language-issue/
mod6: ben_vulpes: ok good deal! i'm about to post the lastest version of the perl build script too -- which should pull v0.0.2 of the static-makefile patch.
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 12:53:40; cazalla: and i am stuck using fucking electrum since then because for some reason, since bitcoin-qt 0.10.0 came out, my old 0.8.3, 0.8.6 throws errors and i can't fully sync and even lame attempt to try 0.10.0 falls flat.. i think maybe memory is fucked though unrelated, memtest86 throws a bunch of errors
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 12:56:57; cazalla: the big mistake i made was getting a woman pregnant prior to living with her.. things were all fine and dandy while i had my own place and could fuck her and send her home after the fact
mircea_popescu: said.... everyone ever ?
cazalla: mircea_popescu, they don't sell them locally, i am hopeful i can buy a plug it in and away it goes pogo from here once that is sorted
asciilifeform: where i live, many folks actually use their day jobs as 'man cave'
davout: asciilifeform: that's kind of the point of a day job
davout: :D
asciilifeform: davout: i though the point was to starve more slowly
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 12:59:12; gabriel_laddel: Note that I dont necessarily endorse MP's viewpoint but it is rather well developed.
mircea_popescu: cazalla if you ask danielpbarron nicely he might ship you one.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nobody works for money in the west.
asciilifeform: wai wat
asciilifeform works for [what passes for] money
asciilifeform: at least it spends a brief moment, like decaying subatomic particle, as 'money'
asciilifeform: producing 'decay daughters' food, rent...
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asciilifeform: perhaps this ^ is what mircea_popescu meant
mircea_popescu: some profile pics, let it go. not everyone's as socially awkward / sexually repressed as you, to use their feet in etsy shoes / anon ducklings as an avatar.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and if tomorrow they swtiched to company scrip, you'd work for that.
mircea_popescu: !up saifedean
asciilifeform: how different would it look from usd
mircea_popescu: get in the wot, you.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform triangular.
asciilifeform: other than that - quite similar!
asciilifeform: scrip >> obligatory >> 'You load sixteen tons, what do you get? / Another day older and deeper in debt / Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go / I owe my soul to the company store.'
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:06:41; gabriel_laddel: Everywhere.
saifedean: hey mp, to get back to your question about lebanon, here's what's interesting about it, beyond the hard money and best food in the world and great wine and beautiful people... less than an hour drive between beautiful sandy Mediterranean beaches and gorgeous ski resorts... it's the Alps on the Riviera
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know enrico caruso, right ?
asciilifeform: the opera guy ?
asciilifeform: or some other
mircea_popescu: saifedean cool!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the one.
saifedean: this weekend, for instance, people have to decide whether they want to ski, swim, or do both... i tell you lebanon is stressful
mircea_popescu: now obviously our usian friends wouldn
mircea_popescu: t know, as aptly butch has observed : their names don't mean anything.
mircea_popescu: however, enrico was italian. any idea what caruso means ?
mircea_popescu: carusu is the sicilian word for boy. it derives off latin carens (missing) as in, inexperienced.
mircea_popescu: the word is infamous because it denotes the boys working the sulphur mines pre ww1
mircea_popescu: now THAT is a story of "sixteen tons and what do you get". you get to be four foot tall and with adaptive modifications of the spine.
asciilifeform: they had these in britain also, aha
mircea_popescu: "Il Fumo" (pirandello), pretty good.
mircea_popescu: and re latest trilema article : someone check the html of a page, whadda ya think ?
mod6: ben_vulpes: here's v0091 of the patching script: http://thebitcoin.foundation/ml/btc-dev/2015-March/000066.html
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:08:35; gabriel_laddel: What I find so lulzy about the whole situation is that if you take the supposed Zionist lit and the /pol/ people 100% seriously it basically reduces to "jews think that others are cattle"
mircea_popescu: what really burns them is the football team issue. they don't wish to not be cattle per se. they're just pissed that they were "come to expect" that THEY were the chosen people on account of, why the fuck not eh. and whenever it doesn't work as they "came to expect", it is clearly the case that really it works, but for someone else, so... whoddunit ?!?! (not them!)
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-03-2015#1051690 << i have my doubts about that. you gotta do shit here.
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:08:37; cazalla: anyway, one might argue, and i did try, that /pol/ is a short stop otw to #b-a
asciilifeform: wtf is /pol/
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-03-2015#1051692 << o noes, look what letting Adlai in has wrought!
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:09:09; cazalla: and i promoted it to /pol/ but i was shut down and accused of being jidf so
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform either reddit or 4chan or some other social media thing, politicas.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-03-2015#1051698 << romania is very ethnically homogenous, and they think the same about the gypsyes. it's patently untrue, but then again they're not thinking it because it'd be true.
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:10:52; cazalla: still, i can't help but feel affection for a homogeneous society like japan.. fucking mudslimes and other ethnics have destroyed australia within a generation
cazalla: c'mon i was rambling after a bottle of wine, i don't want to be reminded of last night!
trinque: ahaha, logs, the curse of the evening drinker
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-03-2015#1051719 << that it may be, but you don't seriously intend to tell me the criteria actually is "because we got here yesterday rather than today, and the internationall cattle demarcation line happened this morning"
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:15:53; gabriel_laddel: the political position of "they're cattle, we're not" is totally A OK.
mircea_popescu: poor cazalla lol
davout: cazalla: nobody'll judge you for being a racist alcoholic
davout: :D
asciilifeform read mircea_popescu's newest article, with quoted thread; recalls earlier 'counter-economic spacetime anomaly' discussion also
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-03-2015#1051721 << any planet of hats is doomed to failure. whatever the hat may be, hedonism no exception.
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:16:03; nubbins`: and we all know that a society of hedonists is a good society indeed
cazalla: davout, hah i know that, but anything i say here while drunk is really just recurring garbage from the last time i was drinking and chatting
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform check out the html declaration :D
mircea_popescu: davout i don't think he's even racist per se, not enough development of some sort of pseudogeneticist crackpottery. he's just angry in a diffuse sense.
davout: you're such an html rebel
mircea_popescu: lol "bitcoin university". best thing that ever happened to any diploma mill : when the webmaster stumbled on tardstalk/redditards den and added "bitcoin" to the name
mircea_popescu: davout i'm also five.
NewLiberty: asciilifeform: Whaleclub is a bunch of non-whales trying to be mini whales by 24hour chatting their trades.
mircea_popescu: NewLiberty you know i'm half tempted to send some girls to talk at them in that breathy voice .
asciilifeform: header << mega-l0l!
asciilifeform: mini-whales!
asciilifeform: where are the mini-elephants ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-03-2015#1051731 << i thought that was some sort of "awareness raising" anti rape / anti hiv / pro africa or somesuch.
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:17:31; gabriel_laddel: or VDARE.
mircea_popescu: can't remember which
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think i ate one.
assbot: D.A.R.E. America - Empowering Children to Lead Safe and Healthy Lives ... ( http://bit.ly/1AloXFM )
asciilifeform: ^ a true mega-l0l. this was a required 'course' in the school i went to
asciilifeform: in '90s
asciilifeform: there was actually a policeman guest lecturer, with briefcase of dope
asciilifeform: to make sure everyone can recognize the correct dope when his time comes, i suppose
mircea_popescu: i bet you he had ground sugar.
NewLiberty: The misinformation from d.a.r.e. probably led to more usage overall
trinque: NewLiberty: great way to make sure kids are aware that there are drugs
NewLiberty: yes, though they tended to call everything "narcotics"
davout: inadvertenly teaching them how to tell good from bad product apart
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-03-2015#1051735 << no. because it offers a clear avenue of action. this is important. sane people realise shit's broken and want to do something to fix it. RIGHTNOW. any solution that provides them something to do will beat out of the field any solution that does not.
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:18:07; nubbins`: because it lets you ignore yourself as the cause of all your problems?
mircea_popescu: obviously a solution that encourages them to do shit on their own is even better, but generally "solutioners" are do-ocracists in the modlbug sense : they're chiefly tryting to build themselves a "4chan is not your army" army.
mircea_popescu: or i guess that harry potter fanfic writer guy w/e his name was is a better example of the principle, alf dictis.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-03-2015#1051752 << importantly, i did not round them up. that was the extand "party"
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:21:17; nubbins`: gabriel_laddel did you see the picture of the kids he rounded up for the "political party"?
mircea_popescu: they had selected themselves over many years of revolutionary struggle.
mircea_popescu: !up kuzetsa
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:28:08; nubbins`: BUT THAT'S WOMEN'S WORK CAZALLA
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:32:53; jurov: teach him latin :D
mircea_popescu: works better if you know latin in the first place, and i don't really know that many english speakers that do.
trinque: mircea_popescu: same shit in the US among the liber/paultards
trinque: doing is now making noise and nothing ever actually comes of any political gorup
mircea_popescu: which part trinque ?
trinque: *group
mircea_popescu: ah. myeah.
trinque: when I was about 17-21 I was deep in paultardation
mircea_popescu: well, it was instructive for me, and considering how little shit costs these days, i call it cheap enough.
trinque: only things that ever happened were talks, conferences, bullshit sign holding, etc
NewLiberty: What the whaleclub do not realize is that whales are not daytraders, not even mini-whales.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-03-2015#1051794 << no you're not. find a key to trust, trust that, you're just what "good people persons" always were : someone's cleric.
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:33:13; gabriel_laddel: you're fucked.
mircea_popescu: NewLiberty you know that ballas bit on the daytrader ?
NewLiberty: I don't think so, no.
assbot: The psychology of the bagholder pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1Alrgsw )
mircea_popescu: original linked from there.
NewLiberty: ...reading
trinque: mircea_popescu: hm that is precisely the American idea of "made it"
mircea_popescu: !up mrting
trinque: it's not working for a decade and building an empire; no no, it's "got it all, like it was nothing"
trinque: 21 year old CEO, company valuation of 30 bil
trinque: heh we're fucking children
mircea_popescu: the italian (which is, by the way, the paradigm of the failed state, and whose history the us is quite bound to repeat) term is sprezzatura
mircea_popescu: known since before isabella expelled the jews from spain in 1492, causing them to invent america.
mircea_popescu: (retroactively, the spring of same year)
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-03-2015#1051809 << monolinguism is a purely ridiculous intellectual strategy. there's nothing wrong with speaking italian to women and german to horses, charles did it.
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:35:44; gabriel_laddel: my point is that chinese as is must go away if they want to work with computers
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-03-2015#1051816 << while much of human thought is in fact captured in language (and i'm too lazy to hunt for the "language is really a shared preprocessor to crutch the supid" threads), nevertheless that is strictly bad schooling. it has nothing to do with the kid, or his language, it'll wash out of him within a coupla years.
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:39:12; gabriel_laddel: nubbins`: the language doesn't help. For example, a chinese mathematics undergrad from Peking U. I know thought that using a computer algebra system to do mathematics was "cheating". Person in question had no notion of "playing with mathematics". This is more of a cultural thing, but much of human thought is captured in language.
mircea_popescu: i saw romanian idiots stuck on the same thing.
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:39:35; cazalla: so what is the opinion of the erudites here regaring what polgar did with his daughters? that has sorta been my goal with my son, find one thing for him and push him hard in that direction
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:51:02; nubbins`: tl;dr schizophrenia isn't as romantic as you think
cazalla: mircea_popescu, by observing what he gravitates towards and encouraging it
mircea_popescu: this is substantially different from the original quote tho.
mircea_popescu: yes, good idea to encourage kids.
cazalla: or at least providing an opportunity for him to intereact with things that my own parents couldn't afford or bother with in regards to me
mircea_popescu: more important to humiliate them, in the limited sense of "here's what i am, and what i do, which you are not and do not because you currently suck. here's how you de-suck"
cazalla: yeah well, i was drunk so :)
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-03-2015#1051872 << well... maybe it solves the problem for them so that they have to do no work and can just cash the checks for it magically working.
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 14:26:18; jurov: they failed to make _anything_ secure. butbut "blockchain technology!!!1"
mircea_popescu: that's how bitcoin works, right ?
mircea_popescu: https://i.imgflip.com/is9v9.jpg << ahahaha so very much this.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28584 @ 0.0003272 = 9.3527 BTC [+] {3}
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-03-2015#1051899 << nothing wrong with them spending a good chunk of the day like that, tho.
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 16:27:54; ben_vulpes: "yes it's entirely a good idea to lock everyone from ages 8-18 up with each other and nobody else, that won't promptly lead to all sorts of pathologies."
mircea_popescu: 8 to 10 hours maybe.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24500 @ 0.0003286 = 8.0507 BTC [+] {2}
danielpbarron: You are blocked from following @Radomysisky and viewing @Radomysisky's Tweets. Learn more << lolol 2 in one day
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 17:04:39; danielpbarron: i am chatting from debian-on-a-pogo -- it's very nice, and if anyone wants such a machine I highly recommend it
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron what did you do to this one.
assbot: Qui's techNOLOGY Blog: Hacking the Pogoplug v4 (Series 4 and Mobile) with Linux (Debian or Arch) ... ( http://bit.ly/1Alx70K )
danielpbarron: using SD card
danielpbarron: i duplicated the results on the cheaper model as well
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 17:39:08; danielpbarron: (NOTE: OpenBSD can not be re-exported from the US once it has entered the US. Because of this, take care NOT to get the distribution from an FTP server in the US if you are outside of Canada and the US.)
mircea_popescu: who the fuck cares what the usg says, even.
danielpbarron: yeah and it's also against the law for me to take my OpenBSD cd set out of the country; the crypto is too strong or something
danielpbarron: and come to think of it, bingo's laptop might also now be illegal to export
davout: danielpbarron: the ban on crypto export is still a thing?
danielpbarron: i don't see how it could possibly be enforced in a meaningful way, except to hassle people who are on the badlist
davout: i thought is was dropped altogether a while ago
assbot: A little bio lab humor - GIF on Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1AlzYXx )
danielpbarron: oh idk, i copy pasted that from an OpenBSD README file
davout: wikipedia sez most regulations were dropped, but not all
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42800 @ 0.00032939 = 14.0979 BTC [+] {2}
BingoBoingo: <danielpbarron> and come to think of it, bingo's laptop might also now be illegal to export << So long as Open Source perfectly reasonable to export.
BingoBoingo: In my limited understanding of these matters.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 37800 @ 0.00032973 = 12.4638 BTC [+]
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: i am chatting from debian-on-a-pogo... << if danielpbarron (or anyone else) has -built- a linux kernel of whatever description, in such a way that it runs on pogo - please wake me up & show.
asciilifeform: all of the work i'm aware of so far uses the same 2 or 3 binary turds
asciilifeform: presently the only package of -source- i've succeeded in building into a kernel that can be used on pogo - was netbsd.
asciilifeform: (my original vision for the 'pogo' experiment wasn't simply to have a cheapo linux box that runs bitcoind, but to have a box where there are only a few MB of weight -total- -- thus making audit into something like a realistic possibility)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20200 @ 0.0003261 = 6.5872 BTC [-]
asciilifeform: and at the risk of repeating myself, i'll say why it must boot and run from eeprom
asciilifeform: 1) initialize a new disk without having to use a computer and involving the rotten pc ecosystem in any way
asciilifeform: 2) -and this is the important one- -- imho these need to eventually run from rom. actual rom. or at least eeprom with the write-enable leg snipped & grounded.
asciilifeform: sd card, incidentally, offers no proper means of write protection
asciilifeform: (the lever found on many such cards is not electrically connected to the internal flash!)
asciilifeform: it is a 'polite suggestion' for the system, only.
asciilifeform: why it is built like this, ask hitler not me
davout: asciilifeform: wasn't that the exact same for floppies?
BingoBoingo: davout: Floppies though are purely passive. You need to bring a drive to the disk. SD incorporates the drive.
asciilifeform: davout: yes
asciilifeform: davout: though iirc pc drives would normally respect in hardware
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42189 @ 0.00032556 = 13.7351 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sure, but "eventually".
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 80 @ 0.01449999 = 1.16 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: !up Asenath
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 103000 @ 0.00032215 = 33.1815 BTC [-]
trinque: how the fuck is anything to do with drugs "life in prison"
asciilifeform: trinque: it was never about the dope per se
trinque: asciilifeform: rather, the successful bitcoin business?
asciilifeform: even prior to bitcoin
asciilifeform: it's about 'imperio in imperium'
cazalla: trinque, i changed it to could face, my bad
trinque: cazalla: well even so
cazalla: i'm sure they'll want to make an example though
trinque: killers routinely get what, 15-20?
trinque: we must be 10 years off from televising torture for public entertainment, if that
trinque: maybe it's a calculated targeting of such and so, but I think the mindless bloodlust of american culture also plays a part
trinque: *especially* when the target is involved in some kind of techno-nerd shit. take him down! he thinks he's better than us!
asciilifeform: trinque: 'full spectrum dominance'
trinque: spot on
trinque: asciilifeform: heh, always makes me laugh to consider what the mouth is resting on
trinque: arse too if I recall octopus anatomy
cazalla: once he's locked up, perhaps i'll write him a letter asking why he didn't fight extradition
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 71910 @ 0.00033024 = 23.7476 BTC [+] {2}
cazalla: if i had to guess, he was likely told they'd take it easy on him and public defender told him to go with it
asciilifeform: cazalla: also not proven fact that he didn't
trinque: asciilifeform: lol @ anubis' missile-cock
asciilifeform: usg must be assumed to lie unless there is actual reason to suspect it may have told the truth
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16990 @ 0.00033073 = 5.6191 BTC [+]
cazalla: of course, but he was arrested december 2013, waived rights march 2014 and shipped off in november 2014, didn't take long
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 76900 @ 0.00032296 = 24.8356 BTC [-]
trinque: cazalla: could just be one of those self-defeating types that gets into such things due to psychological issues
trinque: then one day the govt shows up at his door and he pisses himself
cazalla: even the aussie guy from drink or die fought off his extradition for 4-5 years
mircea_popescu: !up ohhahh
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> it's about 'imperio in imperium' << quite.
mircea_popescu: lol at that octopus thing
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 92200 @ 0.00033222 = 30.6307 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: trinque actually likely has it.
PeterL: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=13-03-2015#1051552 << J. Smith vision is 'Earth will be transformed into a sea of glass populated by those who deserve the glory of god', no rocket needed
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 06:37:11; asciilifeform: was j. smith's version, iirc
asciilifeform: https://youtu.be/xeb3ZLb-wJ4 << linguistic/historical interest only. didn't know there was an engl. transl. of this. even a pretty bad one.
assbot: На поле танки грохотали (English Version) - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1DhXcUB )
danielpbarron: !up AlexWkz
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 91700 @ 0.00033054 = 30.3105 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: PeterL what, like goldfish ?
PeterL: sure, I guess that works
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35900 @ 0.00033342 = 11.9698 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 58788 @ 0.00033452 = 19.6658 BTC [+]
asciilifeform: 'PS [nsa police] is the only police and security organization in Maryland equipped with vehicle-mounted thermal imaging devices.' -- nsa newsletter circa 1999, pp. 10. ( http://cryptome.org/2015/03/nsa-newsletters-1999.pdf )
asciilifeform: mega-lol re: 'whaleclub', which apparently requires proprietary turdware to connect to!
asciilifeform: 'teamspeak' - something kinda like 'skype'
asciilifeform: will the lulz never end?
mike_c: they aren't pretending to be bigshots, it's just a bunch of TA's derping around
mike_c: (technical analysts)
asciilifeform: regardless of who or why
asciilifeform: the proprietary chat client thing is hilarious
asciilifeform: i mean, wtf ?!
mike_c: how else to do it?
mike_c: it's voice chat
asciilifeform: why is voice chat even a thing
mike_c: gaming. for them, idk.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 77500 @ 0.00033823 = 26.2128 BTC [+] {2}
cazalla: surprised they're using it tbh, mumble is far more popular in recent years
decimation: mumble is open source
decimation: asciilifeform: for online gamers voice chat is popular for obvious reasons
asciilifeform: but that isn't what they're doing
cazalla: asciilifeform, even if Ts wasn't proprietary, it'd be pointless to download as you can't just connect and chat with them
cazalla: which is what i was gonna do last night ya know, bit of a chit chat, bit of a yarn but nope, gotta wait in some other room to be screened
decimation: lol they have some kind of moderator in the 'screen room'?
cazalla: didn't hang around to find out
cazalla: on one hand i get it, ya don't want random drunks coming in carrying on while you're having a conversation, but they are easily muted
decimation: asciilifeform: supposedly panasonic has a good reputation in the passives market
asciilifeform: decimation: betcha it wasn't always a 'made in china' affair
asciilifeform: (clearly printed on the bobbin, note, are these words)
cazalla: ;;later tell xanthyos if you ever manage to break your cock again, i read you can now get a replacement in south africa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31876219
assbot: BBC News - South Africans perform first 'successful' penis transplant ... ( http://bit.ly/1GOoJOL )
gribble: The operation succeeded.
decimation: the japanese are famous for highly specialized component manufacturing
asciilifeform: not only
asciilifeform: to this day the only genuinely reliable electrolytic capacitors are, afaik, from jp
asciilifeform: and folks have a devil of a time chasing down specifically these, and not identically-marked cn turds
decimation: yeah, and companies like murata that have a corner on ceramic filters, etc
mircea_popescu: !up tooty|atk
mircea_popescu: !up nomen
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i mean, wtf ?! << it's widely used by gamers.
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah but 'traders'?
mircea_popescu: decimation actually traders use a very similar thing to replace phones
mircea_popescu: equally proprietary, at least.
mircea_popescu: re: electronic bits. funny what's left once a major empire collapses. japan used to own the electronics trade. and they still do, except... it's mostly moved away from the stuff they make.
decimation: yeah much japanese manufacturing has moved to china
assbot: Kim Stanley Robinson Says Colonizing Mars Won't Be As Easy As He Thought ... ( http://bit.ly/1Mzlhb0 )
decimation: 'imaginary mars was totally easy to colonize'
mircea_popescu: best make a kickstarter
assbot: Toxic Mars: Astronauts Must Deal with Perchlorate on the Red Planet ... ( http://bit.ly/1MzllaL )
mircea_popescu: wait till they discover the CARBON
mircea_popescu: it's worse than global warmed earth!
decimation: apparently mars is 1% perchlorate which fucks with your thyroid
decimation: your jug of bleach is sodium perchlorate, this is calcium perchlorate, but the idea is similar - concentrated bleach
mircea_popescu: so apparently there's exactly one producer of niobium oxide capacitors, and you can't put an order in.
mircea_popescu: but anyway : it'd seem on cursory inspiection that the components market is actually not very healthy.
mircea_popescu: "Perchlorate is not a common word in the English language; all of us had to go and look it up," << pls resign now.
decimation: heh yeah
mircea_popescu: " said Peter Smith, the Phoenix principal investigator at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
decimation: correction: your jug of bleach has sodium hypochlorite, not sodium perchlorite
mircea_popescu: it can have either
mircea_popescu: (perchlorate tho)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 95350 @ 0.00033847 = 32.2731 BTC [+] {2}
decimation: at any rate, it's nasty shit
mircea_popescu: well you're not supposed to drink it.
decimation: no, but it will probably get everywhere in your 'mars habitat'
decimation: as if such a thing will exist
assbot: Logged on 20-08-2014 05:33:36; mircea_popescu: now grant one more thing : there's going to be no space until long after the ocean floor is alma mater.
asciilifeform once used ammonium perchlorate as pcb etchant
decimation: could be used as rocket fuel too
mircea_popescu: i dun think mars is habitable.
mircea_popescu: people have trouble making rent down on earth, what mars.
asciilifeform: ^ that's actually the main appeal i think
mircea_popescu: what, "that" ?
asciilifeform: herd thinner.
mircea_popescu: stupidity is not a function of the size of the herd.
mircea_popescu: !up bagehot
bagehot: Thanks for the !up, mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: not size, no. size is effect of taking the higher cut.
asciilifeform: where was the stupidity on the net circa '88, etc.
decimation: bagehot: here to tell us of the bank of england?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: NbO caps >> 'They also do not exhibit any piezo effect and have no voltage dependence, thus making them a good fit in coupling circuits.' << guess what.
asciilifeform: !s microphonics
assbot: 4 results for 'microphonics' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=microphonics
assbot: AVX Niobium Oxide Capacitors | Mouser ... ( http://bit.ly/1L9fHyT )
asciilifeform: but yes, cost like diamond
asciilifeform: and hm, nm, gone.
bagehot: decimation: What is there to say about the BoE? I'm here to learn checkout scarcity-through-obscurity currencies.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15450 @ 0.00033054 = 5.1068 BTC [-]
decimation: is bitcoin obscure?
assbot: AVX Niobium Oxide Capacitors | Mouser ... ( http://bit.ly/1L9fZWo )
bagehot: the keys used to keep bitcoins a store of value are.
asciilifeform: $1-2 -each-
bagehot: at least from what I understand of the technical implementation.
bagehot: On a related note, can anyone suggest a site collecting major papers on the technical and analytical details of bitcoins?
danielpbarron: !up Birdman
decimation: bagehot: if you wanna know how bitcoin works, unfortunately the only comprehensive reference is the code itself
bagehot: fair enough, i'll check it out
cazalla: bagehot, i can't speak to whether it's any use or not, but i have seen this floating around before http://suitpossum.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/academic-bitcoin-research.html
assbot: The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money: Peer-to-Peer Review: The State of Academic Bitcoin Research 2014 ... ( http://bit.ly/1G15duW )
decimation: !up bagehot
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 201250 @ 0.00034092 = 68.6102 BTC [+] {4}
bagehot: Cool, yeah, that'll save me a day of googling, thanks
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hehehe
mircea_popescu: bagehot you're here to learn what ?
mircea_popescu: !up bagehot
bagehot: Where I can go to get the gory details on how the interesting parts of the bitcoin source code are implemented and why those interesting bits actually work cryptographically and in a game-theory sense. I think its pretty incredible that a bunch of people can credibly store tokens of considerable value on a decentralized, digital network.
bagehot: Eh, the delay was to make sure I communicated accurately what I am here to learn.
mircea_popescu: actually, this is exactly backards from reality. bitcoin is an utter mess, it works mostly by accident, most of the bits are horribly broken and dysfunctional.
mircea_popescu: but, the discussion is in the logs, you can traverse it by searching. prolly a good start as any :
mircea_popescu: !s opendns
assbot: 2 results for 'opendns' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=opendns
mircea_popescu: uh i mean
mircea_popescu: !s openssl
assbot: 286 results for 'openssl' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=openssl
mircea_popescu: that one.
bagehot: Well all the better then. In the longer run I want to try inventing some units of account with different transactional properties and expansionary mechanisms.
mircea_popescu: where's that spaceghost thing.
mircea_popescu: that one.
bagehot: Heh, nah, I've got no interest in patching bitcoin for the sake of itself beyond tinkering with the code to learn about.
bagehot: *itself = bitcoin
bagehot: I think it'd be more fun to see what people do, if anything, with units of account that aren't like digital gold.
decimation: bagehot: what does it mean to 'not be like digital gold'?
bagehot: Well, so to give a concrete example, but not to make a normative statement about the relative merits for some purpose of one kind of unit of account over another, I think it'd be fun to try switching the party that initiates the asset-liability relationship.
bagehot: I also think it'd be fun to try to build a decentralized currency with a built-in mechanism for lender-of-last-resort purposes
mircea_popescu: bagehot this has been done.
mircea_popescu: it also never went anywhere, but w/e.
bagehot: Cool, link?
assbot: Why I nixed p2p, colored coins and all that jazz pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1FkyIJR )
decimation: bagehot: do you think the supply of money must expand as an economy 'grows'?
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