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ben_vulpes: heeeee natesilver's website still shows 70+% likelihood that clinton would take nh
ben_vulpes: and what kinda odds did you get out of the progres?
ben_vulpes: what's your total election exposure, pete_dushenski ?
ben_vulpes: ah, alas not actually available.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: holy doodle i'd no idea
ben_vulpes: same ip as before, for those hand-tending the /etc/hosts bonsai
ben_vulpes: semi relatedly, if anyone wants shorter urls for pastes, try p.bvulpes.com
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-08#1564255 << funny feeling here, similar to that of when the $ecomm cluster went down because one of the 'frontend engineers' self-ddossed the site with javascripts
ben_vulpes: we throw parties, drink, argue over every single seat and pencil the boxes in on our mail-in ballots
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-08#1564028 << ah, the once-every-four-years reminder that the rest of the country has to actually work to vote
ben_vulpes: oh good grief and in which i discover https://www.planetoftheapps.com/
ben_vulpes: k.peg
ben_vulpes waits for adlai to ask "what the heck kind of chain has a single link, anyways"
ben_vulpes: hydrocarbons refine well into high-grade fun and a fine fog of single-link carbon chains.
ben_vulpes: rip joke
ben_vulpes: not unless you're trying to ruin the joke, no
ben_vulpes: burning them is a further reduction in chain length.
ben_vulpes: yeah, i'm aware that it's a term of art in the refining biz.
ben_vulpes: odds are that The Vacuum System actuating the blend door is leaking. upside is that this may take my idle from 1050 down to 800 (and possibly even reclaim some HP) if i do plug some leaks.
ben_vulpes: i have 2 smallish repairs on the docket: replacing the seatbelt and fixing the blend door in the HVAC system. coming up with a plan for the first was trivial, once i had assembly plans for the seats and restraints in hand. i have a bead on how to diagnose the hvac blend as well, similarly derived from the heat control actuator harness assembly diagrams.
ben_vulpes: the car is ~intact. the AIM is a reference tome on how it went together in the first place.
ben_vulpes: repro, but a very fine one.
ben_vulpes: adlai: no, this is an actual assembly manual.
ben_vulpes also went for a ride in a friend's lotus elise, a car that basically does not change from year to year
ben_vulpes: also holy heck computers ruined cars, not in their automation but in the inane horseshit the engineers crapped out once they could re-diddle every part every year
ben_vulpes received his assembly instruction manual for the corvette today, has been a solid remedial american cars course so far
ben_vulpes: remedial physics or what
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: when is latvia going to dump the eu for putin's sweet embrace?
ben_vulpes: gotta kill a bunch of dreams first
ben_vulpes: "baby, we're well beyond 'middle class'. d'you remember how 'middle class' for our parents went? the 2 cars outside would be new, and we'd not be pent up in 800ft^2. parts of the country can't drink well water because 'fraking'. when is bad bad enough?"
ben_vulpes: my dumb ass apparently
ben_vulpes: trinque: do business here, pay taxes on it here iirc.
ben_vulpes: someone actually advanced the argument that "there's no evidence that corporations will pass the cost on"
ben_vulpes: a) "do you really think that will last?" b) "that's pretty amusingly accidentally regressive, as ~all companies 'serving' the poor satisfy that"
ben_vulpes: "but only for corps with revenue of over 25MM!"
ben_vulpes: oh and in other glorious socialist republics of oregon, a 2% tax on corporate sales made it to the ballot this year.
ben_vulpes: "because you react like that, duh"
ben_vulpes: "but why ben_vulpes but whyyyyyy?"
ben_vulpes: i retain hope for the glorious trumpenreich
ben_vulpes: cnn: "comey's letter may be too little, too late"
ben_vulpes: snore
ben_vulpes: what are these 'real americans'?
ben_vulpes sheds a tear for the abandoned creosote factory and the bike jousting of his youth
ben_vulpes: MagnusFox: you can up yourself now, /msg deedbot !!up
ben_vulpes: !!v 5C9E6345FC6068C1E99C1276D1CDB75A342E12ED7B7EA0EB881175DF546A4C68
ben_vulpes: !!rate MagnusFox 1 new blood
ben_vulpes: "zack and miri make a porno"
ben_vulpes: "x and y <something> z"
ben_vulpes: on a scale of 1atm to diamond-producing pressures how puckered is your sphincter?
ben_vulpes: MagnusFox: all bitcoin terrorism all day
ben_vulpes: semi tempted to spin up a portland/oregon city water taxi just to crack more hydrocarbons apart.
ben_vulpes looks for more ways to push more gasoline through the engines in his stewardship
ben_vulpes continues to merrily combust
ben_vulpes: the benefit rollbacks keep on stacking up
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-07#1563268 << the integral term is rather large at this point
ben_vulpes: somewhere in the back of my head i'm balancing the tradeoffs of continuing to use apple machines as ssh terminals into actually-usable machines vs cutting over to linux or a bsd wholesale
ben_vulpes: xquartz needs some lovin too.
ben_vulpes: but that box on the table is the thing that produces and signs builds, and when apple says upgrade, it gets upgraded because it's a day to unfuck the toolchain after they break it and some completely unknowable amount of time to reverse engineer whatever the fuck xcode is doing.
ben_vulpes: no argument there
ben_vulpes: lurking assumption is that it is possible to bring sanity to the compilation and signing process.
ben_vulpes: am i to reverse engineer which endpoint they want it at every time they upgrade "app uploader" or swizzle the delivery pipeline?
ben_vulpes: go, build, sign, get accepted
ben_vulpes: and if you think you can do that with not-the-latest-xcode-and-os i have a build here that needs sucking through apple's garden hose
ben_vulpes: for the reprehensibly obstinate and misc log readers the only reason one could possibly *need* an apple box were if one came from such a bad life that producing builds for apple's walled garden was a regular requirement
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: has entire gentoo cockpit iirc
ben_vulpes: we've disposed of this "laptop" "need" right?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: but /why/ would you use an apple product?
ben_vulpes is enjoying imagining mircea_popescu 's face
ben_vulpes: well let's backpedal: why on earth would anyone ever use a macintosh product?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: you know that's not how things work
ben_vulpes: over eg laptop sleeps
ben_vulpes: aaand, for no discernable reason, since the 10.?? -> 10.999 os x upgrade, bringing emacs to the front ROUTINELY results in multi-second beachballs, and emacs is now losing locks to itself
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i am grossly familiar with wokeness theatrics
ben_vulpes: gotcha
ben_vulpes is miserably naive about all forms of spycraft
ben_vulpes: as* in
ben_vulpes: in actual defense of the man?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: what is a 'dry run' in this context?
ben_vulpes: would you go so far as to say that he has done you a violence?
ben_vulpes: long black hair in front of the eyes and all i imagine
ben_vulpes: doubtful, they're all a part of the 'tech scene'
ben_vulpes: !~later tell pete_dushenski can't recall when you asked about my shitball, but 3.7 M so far
ben_vulpes: he's *sniff* like almost all growed up
ben_vulpes tears up
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: gets a bouncer, starts copying lines out of personal logs
ben_vulpes: i have half a semi going just at the thought of locking up any fraction of the demcratic party
ben_vulpes: girlol
ben_vulpes: perhaps he takes pity on the bundies and disbands the BLM
ben_vulpes: i don't think trump 1 has the imagination for anything interesting
ben_vulpes: that's like trump 3
ben_vulpes: naw, the girl is to be commended for her tolerance of and adaptation to all sorts of baby-genic father-driven torture
ben_vulpes: trinque: miniature ice-mobiles, bicycles, skateboards and other mother-terrorizing devices may be delivered to <ADDRESS>
ben_vulpes: one day later...
ben_vulpes: "eh, i'll believe it when i see it ten times."
ben_vulpes: unrelatedly, el pequeno took his first steps at his one-year birthday/halloween party while i was on the back porch smoking cigarettes
ben_vulpes: well, using anything other than illustrator for vector work is very stupid for precisely this reason.
ben_vulpes: "..."
ben_vulpes: "our boxes?"
ben_vulpes: "NO THERE IS NO REASON. IT IS PURE ARROGANCE AND DISREGARD FOR OUR BOXES."
ben_vulpes: from other parts of the room: "i'm sure there's some highfalutin' CS reason why -- "
ben_vulpes: NEGLECTING COMPLETELY THE OTHER PROJECT TARGETS
ben_vulpes: "o i see you have a target, i'll just swizzle these files around and source-to-source transform all these other files"
ben_vulpes: FUCKING POORLY
ben_vulpes: but let me tell you about how well xcode <latest> upgraded this swift 2 project to swift 3
ben_vulpes: since never!
ben_vulpes: "The feature was so great that we started to overload the npmjs.org service."
ben_vulpes: came back and tarred the thing down level with the rest of the driveway
ben_vulpes: left a gravel patch for ~3 days
ben_vulpes: water company showed up the other day to relocate our meter
ben_vulpes still having trouble with the gravel driveway thing
ben_vulpes: no but i also don't call that which isn't a plinth a plinth
ben_vulpes: shame.
ben_vulpes: only tangentially relatedly, cheech and chong scrubbed the rape jokes from their classic albums.
ben_vulpes: "baliff? whack his architect."
ben_vulpes: > plinth shop
ben_vulpes: i'd crucify the architect who tried to tell me that an ionian column could sit aesthetically o 2 inches of plinth.
ben_vulpes: that is most definitely not a plinth.
ben_vulpes: plinths are ~2ft tall
ben_vulpes: hold on a goddamn second
ben_vulpes: you don't even have a steel work table outside?!
ben_vulpes: in any event, the controllable kiln/oven should be achievable.
ben_vulpes: such imperium!
ben_vulpes: and you nignogs don't have cement /driveways/?
ben_vulpes: seat of government from which eisenhower edicted that roads will be laid to all stoops
ben_vulpes: the place to which all roads lead
ben_vulpes: heart of the empire
ben_vulpes: it's called a fucking driveway!
ben_vulpes: 's how we did the bearing races on the fin can.
ben_vulpes: if yer really strapped for cash, get a propane "poofer" and a laser thermometer.
ben_vulpes: get a temperature controllable oven, start with soft steel and harden it per the kindergarten heat treatment tables
ben_vulpes: who is to know
ben_vulpes: perhaps giant wooden cog with mega reduction will serve asciilifeform's purposes!
ben_vulpes: what application, asciilifeform
ben_vulpes: no you stop with that
ben_vulpes: well, no, and "depends"
ben_vulpes: what kind of application?
ben_vulpes: what /are/ you cutting with the laser?
ben_vulpes: ok ok
ben_vulpes: and you're doing this with a laser why?
ben_vulpes: is that from the warping?
ben_vulpes: some of those teeth are very odd looking.
ben_vulpes: no taste to be had at any price?
ben_vulpes: old story mass produced blablabla
ben_vulpes: /very/ pretty card, asciilifeform
ben_vulpes: thin looking stuff
ben_vulpes: i was a few centuries off on stills.
ben_vulpes: and not even the high proof stuff at that.
ben_vulpes: yeah.
ben_vulpes: hence my question!
ben_vulpes: no, i'd say that "historic drugs" fits quite nicely into the same time window as "gay = only fucks men"
ben_vulpes points at the fifth line up
ben_vulpes: and you'll say that my cursory research finding that he slept with a few ladies to be entirely wrong?
ben_vulpes: qua "men who only have sex with other men"?
ben_vulpes: i guess the argument kinda falls apart on 'historic' grounds, 'gayness' not being much of a thing pre late 1800s
ben_vulpes: opium?
ben_vulpes: what historic drugs are we talking about?
ben_vulpes: nobody shows up at any doors, sheesh
ben_vulpes: numbers, the rest.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: as systems engineer, charges are complex, and 'simple' 'v' that 'doesn't get me that far' gets me pretty far.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: what application for thermite, armor?
ben_vulpes: 'g' of rpg
ben_vulpes: the 'g' of grenade is a shameful waste of mass budget imho.
ben_vulpes: trade the explosive for a bit of mass and a bit more propellant.
ben_vulpes: PeterL: what, kinetics not enough?
ben_vulpes rather fond of simple barrages over gyrojet projectiles
ben_vulpes: as evidenced by the usg-blessed rocketry associations insistent whine that rockets may only go up.
ben_vulpes: no this is an excellent idea
ben_vulpes: my personal preference, if you can't spot the foreshadowing in my work, is to index the entire set of outputs on "to whom was this sent"
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-01#1561232 << merely that wallet might reasonably be muntzed out of bitcoind proper into block-muncher-and-tx-indexer. topologically very similar to "reindex" and friends, but could eschew "wallet" idiocies involving change addresses and sensible address reuse.
ben_vulpes: yes but i wish to know the proverb of "proverbial" proverbialismo
ben_vulpes: most recently, the montgomery bumped a lock wall got herself an 18" long crack
ben_vulpes: man the littoral combat ships JUST KEEP BREAKING
ben_vulpes: davout: "but..."
ben_vulpes: it definitely accretes faster than i can tear items off
ben_vulpes: davout: how are the isles?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: this assperiment has been on my todo list since the last time you brought it up
ben_vulpes: hi davout!
ben_vulpes: "when you kiss another human being, you make a long meat tube with a butthole at each end"
ben_vulpes: ho ouch
ben_vulpes: what do they even
ben_vulpes: words
ben_vulpes: haw haw haw
ben_vulpes: > Connecting two air-gapped networks together, over the Internet, without compromising their security.
ben_vulpes: "computronium: not to be handled by children or idiots!"
ben_vulpes: or maybe kalki
ben_vulpes: perses!
ben_vulpes: the distro looms
ben_vulpes: lol thx shinohai
ben_vulpes: didja bring trinque a vpatch, gabriel_laddel ?
ben_vulpes: !up gabriel_laddel
ben_vulpes: i'm less up in arms about the vpatch than i am about continuing to lend credence to imperial operations like github et al. "dear mcclim donor".
ben_vulpes: trinque: me too.
ben_vulpes: fuck it. do it for tmsr~ the same way anyone else in the republic does it: because it's worth doing.
ben_vulpes: if the upside in the empire is 2k with diversity statements and safe spaces and codes of conduct...
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-31#1560409 << guy looks like he's still trying to scrape credits out of the empire
ben_vulpes: send air
ben_vulpes: the lols are too thick
ben_vulpes: fucking dying over here
ben_vulpes: Everyone of Voldemort's
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: "every one"
ben_vulpes: that /you/ know
ben_vulpes: thinking, code-reading folks recoil in horror at bitcoin already
ben_vulpes: who expects this shit to carry water?
ben_vulpes: s/that last singlequote/a double quote
ben_vulpes: "guy we swear is this other guy who nominally but not provably does a thing also came up with a 'cryptocurrency' that doesn't have hard guarantees on monetary base numbers'
ben_vulpes: only compounds the lols
ben_vulpes: oh that is actually 'the zooko' then?
ben_vulpes: yeah good grief
ben_vulpes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6RLjcGVUnw&feature=youtu.be&t=17m30s << from the linked piece, in which 'zooko' (this is a name? wothandle? what even jesus shit) 'reveals he doesn't even grok zero-knowledge proofs'
ben_vulpes: "Zooko proposed recently to periodically force everyone to reveal their balance as a solution for the hidden inflation problem." << ahaha i mean fuck what's the point
ben_vulpes: it's "trailer park boys" grade poor mocking.
ben_vulpes: "i mean fuck buddy, it's /your/ body politic but fuck, buddy. it's your /body politic/."
ben_vulpes: not my fault nobody gets the letterkenny jokes
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-29#1560134 << fuck buddy that looks like a great truck
ben_vulpes: squash bits...
ben_vulpes: man the texture of sq
ben_vulpes: is there anything to this "nightshade allergy"?
ben_vulpes: and the plants themselves disappoint.
ben_vulpes: hey i just said "PROCURE ME A DIVERSITY OF TUBER"
ben_vulpes: knew he'd have it
ben_vulpes: fuckin BingoBoingo
ben_vulpes: awkward fit
ben_vulpes: it was a tight squeeze
ben_vulpes: i was trying to work a cucking in
ben_vulpes: WHY do yams and sweet potatoes fry so differently from ordinary american idaho potatoes?
ben_vulpes: today's cooking mystery:
ben_vulpes: cuck cars
ben_vulpes: missed the front of the pile of parked club cars by ~10 feet
ben_vulpes: local club has a great story about a noob slamming a brand new focus into a rock wall playing with this
ben_vulpes: when yaw rate exceeds some envelope parameters it dumps power back to the front and yanks the car back under control (in theory)
ben_vulpes: featuring computer controlled front/rear differential
ben_vulpes: so in other related plastics, ford is shipping a focus with "drift mode"
ben_vulpes: right
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