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ben_vulpes: or if its rwd
ben_vulpes is intimately familiar
ben_vulpes as well
ben_vulpes: what is 'steer-locking'?
ben_vulpes: i think so
ben_vulpes: aka 'donuts'
ben_vulpes: replacing that bumper is going to cost me 450 in plastic and another 175 in shipping oil
ben_vulpes: arcs of like 30 degrees
ben_vulpes: trinque: not circles, arcs
ben_vulpes: schedule is a matter of personal taste
ben_vulpes: eh corvette is for depreciating
ben_vulpes: more like a suspension of solution
ben_vulpes: source of and solution to the world's woes
ben_vulpes: pushing
ben_vulpes: i think it's a mechanical jam, possibly the glass is now out of true
ben_vulpes: fuckin toys
ben_vulpes: relatedly, hijinks on the corvette hood jammed the right side release
ben_vulpes: interesting take
ben_vulpes: i ain't even take remedial kink and that shit's retarded
ben_vulpes: "we even picked them out together online" wahaha
ben_vulpes: that's pretty rich
ben_vulpes: trinque: i have no words
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: just thrilled
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: pics
ben_vulpes: no prime pantry is this delightfully fucked thing where you have to fill a fifty pound box with shit before they'll give you any of it
ben_vulpes: fuckin same exact product. amazon prime: 14.29. amazon /pantry/: 6.04
ben_vulpes: wahaha
ben_vulpes: even i know about the tingler
ben_vulpes: jurov: omg for srs
ben_vulpes: "gamer gate" iirc
ben_vulpes: note also zoe quinn's wrapped up in it. lulz are sure to flow.
ben_vulpes: right?!
ben_vulpes: very egalitarian, these coalition forces
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: nono /bombing/ the women's section
ben_vulpes: how progressive
ben_vulpes: the womens section?
ben_vulpes: truer words.
ben_vulpes: > software laden
ben_vulpes: aaah i see the rodgers fanfic competition is heating up
ben_vulpes: reputation also of interest
ben_vulpes: that's what the cranial steel wool is for
ben_vulpes: for at least some data...
ben_vulpes: interestingly 'dbmail' also uses parens-delimited expressions
ben_vulpes: ahaha
ben_vulpes: solid lulz tho
ben_vulpes: on my desk today: "ACCOMPLICES NOT ALLIES: abolishing the ally industrial complex (an indigenous perspective)"
ben_vulpes: then there are the priestesses of ishtar, with whom we're forbidden congress for all but the solstice days
ben_vulpes: pretty sure i have the markers
ben_vulpes: led by the secret Priets of the Cooze
ben_vulpes: oh yes, the Coups
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: interesting claim
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: shops at stores with gift cards?
ben_vulpes: "just how bad does coffee go in a week?" and other mysteries
ben_vulpes: great thing about keeping a decent fidelity scale in the office is impromptu coffee tasting experiments
ben_vulpes: no devices are allowed in the war room.
ben_vulpes: this is not a concern.
ben_vulpes: but the internet terminal living in the backpack and not my pocket is an improvement.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: not claiming escape!
ben_vulpes: i suppose what i'm most pleased about is prying one sucker of one tentacle off my forearm.
ben_vulpes: not really a dirigible device.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: buys cheapest possible shoes as well?
ben_vulpes has crate as well
ben_vulpes: whimsical collection of bird noises
ben_vulpes: no games
ben_vulpes: but: no way to install apps, no 'apps', even, max of 1000 text messages and some 200 address book entries.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: c'est possible. likely runs android under the hood even.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: the unboxing experience is strongly reminiscent of early apple
ben_vulpes: nothing says "you are useless and your career wasted" than a conversation with a man who spent three hundred dollars on a device that precludes your 'lifes work'.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: to wind 'user experience' experts up.
ben_vulpes: in other news, my mp01 arrived and it is perfect.
ben_vulpes: Framedragger: ^^ didn't you fix that?
ben_vulpes: locks don't even work anymore, cool
ben_vulpes: "Postfix uses file locking to avoid access conflicts while updating Berkeley DB or other local database files. This used to be safe, but as Berkeley DB has evolved to use more aggressive caching, file locking may no longer be sufficient." << oh ffs
ben_vulpes: couldn't tell ya, only remotely familiar with it from cultural bushwhacking
ben_vulpes: or haus!
ben_vulpes: if i can accustom myself to thirteen diagonal inches, i might never return to the office
ben_vulpes: in other nyooz, i have discovered the neighborhood bar with: fast wifi, wine that is not ripple, and a playpen
ben_vulpes: my trb node just breached 4950 megs in virt and 3470 megs in res
ben_vulpes: wait hang on i don't actually care
ben_vulpes: plz no bully
ben_vulpes: https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/NETRF/tnsnames.htm#NETRF260 << in which oracle is found to use sexprs of a sort for config files o.O
ben_vulpes: thanks phf!
ben_vulpes: no time for fanfic
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: i am currently taking a break from trying to beat portage into recompiling postfix with postgresql support
ben_vulpes: https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain oh hey checkout this block chain technology with a twee fukkin name
ben_vulpes: i simply hadn't the yreka moment i soupose
ben_vulpes: until tonight
ben_vulpes: you know honestly i'd not considered writing an ode to the plinths marvelous utility as a bludgeon
ben_vulpes: i love a good plinthing.
ben_vulpes: solid extend, bb
ben_vulpes: can any other gentoo users confirm/deny that the libzdb-2.12 ebuild is hosed?
ben_vulpes: huzzah
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-21#1557866 << wouldn't strictly need to be coupled to the paster though right?
ben_vulpes: neon signs, redone as gif
ben_vulpes: teh broken linx though
ben_vulpes: artificial scarcity horseshit
ben_vulpes: wacky .tlds are "eighty eight cents (plus fee) (for the first year and then hundreds per year after that)"
ben_vulpes: great scam
ben_vulpes: fuckin dns
ben_vulpes: oh good
ben_vulpes: stealth boat? really?
ben_vulpes: the kind where they take a thing but can't use it
ben_vulpes: clever little design
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: mnope.
ben_vulpes: i was never averse to joking about it before...
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: hurtful
ben_vulpes: fucking gross node.js and mongo and redis
ben_vulpes: so i dunno, you'll get it in another month?
ben_vulpes: my gentoo shitball has only cooked up 1.1M so far
ben_vulpes: living in mongnominy
ben_vulpes: mongomanous
ben_vulpes: mongoman to you
ben_vulpes: fuck!
ben_vulpes: inb4 'poorly'
ben_vulpes: guess i'm learning how email works this weekend
ben_vulpes: trinque: smtp i think
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: hyu
ben_vulpes: trinque: what do you do for emailz?
ben_vulpes: "dis heifer"
ben_vulpes: no it's pretty funny, take a break from inseminating cows and mircea_popescu goes all "oh hey if you have a minute"
ben_vulpes: i actually prefer humans
ben_vulpes: listen just because people pay me to root around in cow pussy all day doesn't mean i do it in my free time
ben_vulpes: i have been trying to avoid importing the whole internet
ben_vulpes: really don't want to install mongo.
ben_vulpes: it's a very small contingent.
ben_vulpes: we're all moving to bali
ben_vulpes: MORE WHIMSICAL NAMES? YES LETS
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: aye, i could do something like that.
ben_vulpes: who knew things were this bad
ben_vulpes: you install mamp on one macbook and the whole internet goes down
ben_vulpes: there was a screensaver that did this as well
ben_vulpes: haha aha
ben_vulpes: best lolz i found on the web all day.
ben_vulpes: crackpot alt orbit may not even be stable!
ben_vulpes: the infinite to bitcoin's finite, if you will.
ben_vulpes: totally different thing.
ben_vulpes: (since we're talking crackpot alts)
ben_vulpes: because not tied to a finite amount.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: mine is 'difficulty is nonsensical'
ben_vulpes: wait, misunderstood. hasher, not pill.
ben_vulpes: but for how long?
ben_vulpes: i'm going to have to start collecting statistics.
ben_vulpes: back up to 84 pete_dushenski
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: advertise where?
ben_vulpes: https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/MilagroProposal << i cannot make heads nor tails of this but it smells like bullshit
ben_vulpes: tangentially tangentially, i dunno about these headlights, baby. i think i need to take 'em out and rattle them around for a few hours before i trust the connectors and re-seating job fully.
ben_vulpes: heh topic of i'm trying to sell a third of my civic to my business partner in exchange for a very large turbo and his time installing it
ben_vulpes: vapid little interview.
ben_vulpes: aok, /enter/ not /esc/
ben_vulpes stabs buttons at random
ben_vulpes: collapsing it did not undo the expansion
ben_vulpes: expanding details on the cert in chrome expanded the pane off the bottom of my screen
ben_vulpes: oh that's nice
ben_vulpes: whoa howdy mthreat
ben_vulpes: just a classic 'how to make a peanut butter sandwich' instructional piece
ben_vulpes: wutno
ben_vulpes: mega promisetronics in urbit docs: informal conventions designed to motivate a healthy ownership structure "
ben_vulpes: aw man i pooped in the logs
ben_vulpes: "the “large majority” of the rise was driven by births to foreign-born women."
ben_vulpes: the root of "build one to throw away"
ben_vulpes: ohai BingoBoingo
ben_vulpes: fucking deep space you
ben_vulpes: i resent being used to make this point.
ben_vulpes: "if freed from mortal constraints"
ben_vulpes: whatEVER
ben_vulpes: omg cheater
ben_vulpes: cheater!
ben_vulpes: that makes no sense.
ben_vulpes: no, your bird is moving at 9km/s by virtue of being in what, geosync?
ben_vulpes: you're providing all the angular speed by virtue of being in orbit!
ben_vulpes: no way it spins fast enough to track and pop something coming straight up.
ben_vulpes: i throw it up. straight up. just in time for your railgun to go sailing through a relatively stationary cloud of shrapnel.
ben_vulpes: no, ballistically. not at orbital speeds.
ben_vulpes: what materials strengths issues do i suffer in heaving them up there?
ben_vulpes: i'm seeing buckshot in orbit where a target will pass in the next 2 seconds.
ben_vulpes: if one's to consider the orbital-kinetic weapon, why bother accelerating the pellets when one could simply ballistically heave them into the path of the enemy sats?
ben_vulpes is more than happy to slowly melt panels and controllers
ben_vulpes: power dropoff between emitter and absorber?
ben_vulpes: yes, carry on
ben_vulpes: ho ho ho okay i see where this is going
ben_vulpes: i am more interested in the "never get close enough"
ben_vulpes: aha, you may
ben_vulpes: you're far better at the fudgestimations, so plz to lead
ben_vulpes: sure!
ben_vulpes: that is a claim,
ben_vulpes: either microwaves or a uv laser.
ben_vulpes: 15 identical sats beat the crap out of a single sat with one finnicky fucking railgun on it.
ben_vulpes: have another bird in that hemisphere at that time!
ben_vulpes: no moving costs, no stationkeeping costs incurred from firing.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: em is going to be a far simpler engineering challenge.
ben_vulpes: no contest but that stationkeeping cost grows steeply, quickly.
ben_vulpes: the stationkeeping fuel budget will be...expensive.
ben_vulpes: getting the bb into the right spot with the right delta v either means shooting it from the orbital platform or letting it accelerate itself, no?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: newtons 1st, see quadcopter/shotgun thread
ben_vulpes: y'actually are going to want lasers or microwaves in orbit
ben_vulpes: wake me up when they coat benches along feral ave with it
ben_vulpes: eh, it's a mass-produced plastic thing at this point
ben_vulpes: THEY WILL BE AWESOME
ben_vulpes: BUT WE HAVE RAILGUNS
ben_vulpes: self steering, y'see
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: but imagine a really really large KE mortar
ben_vulpes: mats: nominalluy
ben_vulpes: howso?
ben_vulpes: errors be damned
ben_vulpes: they'll just go for the ballistic approach
ben_vulpes: didn't we have this thread?
ben_vulpes: and i dun see how one can place slugs accurately
ben_vulpes: mats: cool /how/?
ben_vulpes: so i know that salver is a dish and that salivate is to drool, and was dead convinced that "slaver" was "to drool" but congugated
ben_vulpes: have used the wrong word.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: cascadia slavers for the clinton dirt
ben_vulpes: look my ex employees bike trip from vancouver to mexico is more impressive than usg defence contractor turds
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: omg own goals don't count
ben_vulpes: in like my lifetime or yours?
ben_vulpes: mats: has the usg defense industry made a thing that was ready for use against anything-thats-not-goatfuckers-with-twenty-year-old-mortars?
ben_vulpes: less than twelve months later, americans are wondering what we did to deserve the plane-bombing
ben_vulpes: coincidentally, also the year of the Aguilera/Durst MTV awards collab
ben_vulpes: color me 2000-ragtop-mustang-purple
ben_vulpes: raytheon sells upgradeable systems?
ben_vulpes: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/fashion/modern-love-pregnancy-miscarriage-app-technology.html << Seven months after my miscarriage, mere weeks before my due date, I came home from work to find a package on my welcome mat. It was a box of baby formula bearing the note: "We may all do it differently, but the joy of parenthood is something we all share"
ben_vulpes: mats: those are pure kinetic countermeasures?
ben_vulpes: baww, targets shrink two orders of magnitude and billions of dollars get flushed down the drain.
ben_vulpes: mats: what all is actually going on in that video?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: several times
ben_vulpes: these two threads ducktail so nicely!
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