asciilifeform: in other noose, nobody on planet3 seems to know how to disable serialport flowcontrol on openbsd.
shinohai: BingoBoingo was right, it's a snore. On to other things. >.>
mod6: how goes the popcorn?
shinohai: (Cheers to the fellow that thought storing 3 BTC and 55 LTC on Conbase was great idea)
shinohai: That's what I want to see, his bumbling over the whole thing and butthurt.
BingoBoingo: And testimony so centered on internal monologue is worthless, because how the fuck is the other person supposd to know?
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu | ooo and in other news, turkish parliament approves turkish army depoloyment in qatar. << at least someone in fiat isn't afraid to get their hands dirty.
pete_dushenski: speaking of dakar, the red bull team uses kamaz 4326 trucks! (with a mental 1000hp diesel engine). seen here in action : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FcEuuakWPg
BingoBoingo: Oh there seems to be class for everything at dakar. Unimogs, bikes, rail trains, deckless lawnmowers
mircea_popescu: though im pretty sure they race. dakar and whatnot.
BingoBoingo: Ah, I would have expected a Unimog given the terrain description
mircea_popescu: aspiring to be england over there.
mircea_popescu: "Strict and firm action will be taken against anyone who shows sympathy or any form of bias towards Qatar, or against anyone who objects to the position of the United Arab Emirates, whether it be through the means of social media, or any type of written, visual or verbal form," Gulf News quoted UAE Attorney-General Hamad Saif al-Shamsi as saying. << bwahahaha check out the us lap dogs.
mircea_popescu: ooo and in other news, turkish parliament approves turkish army depoloyment in qatar.
mircea_popescu: esp if there's any glaring holes / errors that i dun wanna discover you know, once the submissions get processed.
mircea_popescu: btw @all, lemme know if you have complaints/comments re the whole b itcoin learning thing before it gets drywalled.
trinque: make sure ya snag your key then, before departing for good?
mircea_popescu: ok this is the lulz of all time. so /me checks out the bavarian motors local website. it's https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bavarian-Motors-Costa-Rica-BMW/249753901736814
trinque: nah wasn't ceviche, but honestly the whole concoction done that way would be even better.
ben_vulpes: oh the acid reaction thing?
mircea_popescu: "ya dude, you'll totally miss syria/libya/egypt/whateverthefuck"
mircea_popescu: you know ? dumbass soviets were like this, and then once the 80s were over and shitholistan moved to arab world, they were like that in the 90s.
mircea_popescu: what the hell happened to "dude, if i can't get back it just means IT FUCKING SUCKED!"
a111: Logged on 2017-06-08 03:42 ben_vulpes: heh, friends have been whining, "what if you can't come back!!!1" without ever once considering the corrolary "what if you can't get out?"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-08#1667051 << word. it's always the rats in shitholes that are really dedicated to this nonsense.
ben_vulpes: "resource center for the resistance"!
ben_vulpes: in entirely other socialismos, burritogate lynch mob turns out to have been incited by white operator of feminist coworking space or some such: http://www.wweek.com/restaurants/news-restaurants/2017/06/06/the-battle-over-kooks-burritos-led-to-death-threats-and-international-outrage-we-invited-portland-chefs-to-weigh-in/
pete_dushenski: then like looking at guitar in magazine and saying 'looks too twangy sounding for me personally'. anyways
ben_vulpes: i bleed ke off with the clutch, sue me
ben_vulpes: i suppose if you're only shifting when you're clear out of the power band it might not be so whiplash-inducing
pete_dushenski: lol neither did i. until i stopped playing classified carey and drove the bloody things like i stole 'em
ben_vulpes: derivatives are a thing, matching them a skill.
ben_vulpes: upstack, while an interesting experience i do not think i will enjoy the experience of HAHA IN ANOTHER GEAR NOW
ben_vulpes: heh, friends have been whining, "what if you can't come back!!!1" without ever once considering the corrolary "what if you can't get out?"
pete_dushenski: weirdly, dct can feel ~more~ raw and ~more~ mechanical than manual if properly engineered. low speed smoothness isn't usually part of that equation though, thus the still enormous market for slushboxen with evermore speeds. 8 ? why not 9 ? let's make it 10!
ben_vulpes: 'tis one thing to press bae back in her seat with a downshift, another altogether to rattle the whole crew around as the vehicle rattles around its hysteresis envelope as the geartrain and suspension return to steady-state
ben_vulpes: lag sucked though, also had no notion of matching engine speed to the new gear for slick ride experience
a111: Logged on 2017-06-08 03:16 pete_dushenski: the subsequent generation of 'semi-automated' have paddles on steering wheel or column. 'like f1 car'(tm). gen1 just had clicker sub-gate on centre console shifter
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-08#1667012 << i beat the shit out of this girl's vw buttrocket when i discovered it had this, aeons ago
a111: Logged on 2017-06-07 22:14 whaack: I've taken a few Spanish classes throughout school, I'm using duolingo, reading Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish http://b-ok.org/book/1160411/3c0465, moving to CR (went there for 10 days, loved it), reading a textbook (Nexos)
pete_dushenski: in other shadowy existences, icbc lives! (it dominates us repo market) http://archive.is/KyKZ0
mircea_popescu: this one has the clicker im pretty sure.
pete_dushenski: the subsequent generation of 'semi-automated' have paddles on steering wheel or column. 'like f1 car'(tm). gen1 just had clicker sub-gate on centre console shifter
mircea_popescu: maybe the new heavily electronic things. though... "your java applet has crashed"
asciilifeform: i thouht the roads were donkey grade
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't want a purely automatic gearbox in this country mostly because of the grades they got.
asciilifeform: where is there to drive in cr..
pete_dushenski: they're defo better around town.
mod6: i should note, that if you end up setting a default run-level with wpa_supplicant to debug some stuff, ensure that you disable this. you want to remove that with `rc-update delete wpa_supplicant`. then add `rc-update add net.wlan0 default` in its place. this, at least for me, fires up the adapter and negotiates with the AP at boot time.
shinohai: whaack: seeing as how there is little Qntra market these days I offer (wot based) Spanish tutoring as well.
trinque: whaack: as it happens mircea_popescu lives there now.
whaack: I've taken a few Spanish classes throughout school, I'm using duolingo, reading Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish http://b-ok.org/book/1160411/3c0465, moving to CR (went there for 10 days, loved it), reading a textbook (Nexos)
whaack: I'm leaving the US and going to Costa Rica in about a month. In the off chance anyone wants to make some btc by renting out a place there send a msg to my key. Any advice is appreciated as well
asciilifeform: they configured a box some time back when alive, and now -- this.
asciilifeform: twist : all of the zombie lurkers are long-dead
shinohai: !~weather
trinque: who goes there?
mod6: only thing left i gotta fix is the wireless driver
asciilifeform: didja diff the biosen ?
asciilifeform: newer biosen spew forth rubbish when asked for the classical sectors/cylinders/heads info
a111: Logged on 2017-06-07 20:18 mod6: trinque, danielpbarron, et al. thx. got X built, gcc 4.9.2, etc. on the new laptop.
mircea_popescu: ie ttp://trilema.com/2016/a-complete-theory-of-politics/#selection-27.1-31.28
trinque: diana_coman: girl's also part cherokee; apparently they'd solve the cognitive dissonance by saying "ah, her? she's got a man's spirit!" and leave it at that
mircea_popescu: trinque i suppose the whole amazon loped tit thing was commentary re "stop being so damned nurturing" and the whole lacedemonian cultural shock.
mircea_popescu: ro commies did exactly that sort of thing also, back in the early days.
mircea_popescu: obama i understand. basically, tiganu' satului elected mayor. he's gonna be fucking thrilled, look ma, i'm on top of the world.
diana_coman: tbh I am not sure I see much to really distinguish this sort of "it makes me happy" from the "mud makes me happy"
trinque: my lady friend put it to me thus, that woman can behave like a man in certain realms, but often means cutting off a tit, like the (possibly apocryphal) amazon woman archer thing.
mircea_popescu: i dunno why the pantsuits were so aggro re trump's twitter account. whole fucking JOB is little more than a pretext for putting "trump official" on your twitter.
mircea_popescu: whole "position of power" bs is so much statal crap. but on the positive side, it's definitely wringing itself out of existence, as finely exemplified by teh "tangerine in chief" etc. what exact power is it ?
mircea_popescu: hey, im not much in favour of putting "men" of the sort in positions of power either.
shinohai: Perhaps because diana_coman is equal to any 10 other women I know.
mircea_popescu: yeah, but it's only funny until someone loses an eye. to wit, suppose your job was to find some woman qualified to speak -- other than you. preferably, 21 something, pr pisi.
diana_coman: I find funny all the talk of no-speak, what
mod6: trinque, danielpbarron, et al. thx. got X built, gcc 4.9.2, etc. on the new laptop.
a111: Logged on 2015-09-14 00:35 mircea_popescu: * trinque [...] a very angry man about why what I did was below what was expected of me << for the record, i don't think very much of this entire "expectations" verbiage/bs. if you think a little about it, so would you. a) what sort of fucking powerless vulnerable schmuck lets himself get into the position of DEPENDING on a kid ? that's what you're saying. don't say that, not only is it not true it's also very stupid.
trinque: http://btcbase.org/log/2015-09-14#1273331 << see here for the same passive aggressive thinking being thunked out of a slightly younger trinque
jhvh1: danielpbarron: [KJV] 1 Corinthians 14:34 :: Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
trinque: for all I know that happened in the translation to turdlang.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-09 21:45 danielpbarron: >> The Lord did not design men to have women rule over them. He designed men to rule over women. "The head of woman is man" (1 Corinthians 11:3), and "Adam was formed first, then Eve" (1 Timothy 2:13). This is why women are to be submissive (1 Corinthians 14:34). God has placed men as the authority (head) over women, and therefore they need to submit to this authority. Moreover, this authority was established from the very beginnin
trinque: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-09#1554228 << it's this "are to be" which throws the whole thing off, rather than, "you are commanded to make them"
a111: Logged on 2016-10-09 21:44 jhvh1: danielpbarron: [KJV] Isaiah 3:12 :: As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
mircea_popescu: it's an idea that sounds great in theory, and works ok while it's new, because only golda meirs and margaret thatchers make it in. but on the long term, the fundamental whorish substrate of the female, biologically conditioned to trade cocksucking for "safety", surfaces and fucks everything up.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-07 19:09 asciilifeform: meanwhile, in the circus, http://archive.is/K1Ur0 >> 'I'm clear: if human rights laws get in the way of tackling extremism and terrorism, we will change those laws to keep British people safe.' ( Theresa May )
a111: Logged on 2017-04-13 01:06 asciilifeform: the sheer idiocy of 'voice command' -- in particular, when device offers no other ui, there are cars now that can only be configured with voice ( are these only sold in anglotardistan? i can only with difficulty picture them elsewhere )
asciilifeform: 'your lizard majesty, we are low on moneys with which to pay for improved NN for wiretap-to-text coverters.' 'make the victims pay' 'how?' 'sell them 'convenient' voicecontrolled toys, they'll buy voluntarily'
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/the-bitcoin-learning-tournament/ << Trilema - The Bitcoin learning tournament.
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in the circus, http://archive.is/K1Ur0 >> 'I'm clear: if human rights laws get in the way of tackling extremism and terrorism, we will change those laws to keep British people safe.' ( Theresa May )
mircea_popescu: i expect the indirection layer between "reality as is" and "reality as perceptible", rudimentary as it is, should be entirely suffcicient to go from hurr durr as displayed by academics to actual science.
asciilifeform: kinda like ye olde corewars in 'king of the hill' mode
mircea_popescu: though something tells me you'll say exactly the same re this as re the other model : http://trilema.com/2017/the-failure-mode-of-abundance/#comment-122198 ie "there's no time to consider ACTUAL meaningful models, all we have time for is nonsense. where's that happy meal ?!?!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://trilema.com/2017/the-bitcoin-learning-tournament/ << there you go, a much more proper model of reality in terms of learning.
BingoBoingo: and yet, we live in the future and it is awesome
asciilifeform: even the hdd is optional
asciilifeform: ( theoretically -- a comp needs only fpga, a few nics, some memory, and a means of hooking up hdd )
asciilifeform: a board entirely like this, but minus all of the superfluous peripherals, and with sram in place of dram, would be quite spiffy ( i've a half-drawn one here, but it sits and waits for its hour )
mircea_popescu: goes right back to the tmsr principle of security through modularization.
asciilifeform: and handy demo of the principle 'sanely hooked up nic is harmless regardless of how boobytrapped, use port not bus'
mircea_popescu: no no the sky is falling!!1
asciilifeform: dun get quite so hot an' bothered, it's still made of traditional xilinx (which needs the massive toolchain) and still contains sdram ( for which no controller other than xilinx's , works ) but this board is actually useful -- in comparison with my existing aging 'ml501' ( as pictured in http://www.loper-os.org/?p=702 , http://www.loper-os.org/?p=797 )
mircea_popescu: and you were "they're dumb as rocks". which is true, they are, there's no dumber beast than the asian. nevertheless -- to break it inadvertently they don't need deliberate, directed effort. they just need to be numerous and take themselves seriously. which they are.
mircea_popescu: the whole dispute re theory of future of computing, years ago, was you making the (otherwise very solid) case for nsa/tivo-ization, and me saying "i betcher the chinese will break it, inadvertently".
asciilifeform: they didn't break anything, it's still a stock xilinx chip
asciilifeform: they sell a 1GB and 2GB dram version
asciilifeform: in this configuration it does not in fact matter what is inside the nic (if you think about it)
asciilifeform: this might sound like a snore, but isn't : thing is wires as 'port', rather than as bus
asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform learned that a very recent chinese fpga board : AX516 ( http://esys.ir/images/img_Item/1158/Files/AX516_usermanual.pdf ) includes RTL8211EG , GB nic !! and cheapo.
mircea_popescu: hey. if security were an objective state, trompi wouldn't have centered the software of females around it.
asciilifeform: still a bit of a puzzler, who ~voluntarily~ uses the thing. 'why do you have an incense burner in your house?' 'they're required at church' 'yes but...'
asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://archive.is/pbE6V >> 'The user can choose a device number that corresponds to a terminal currently in use by another user. This allows an attacker to run any command allowed by sudo with read and write access to an arbitrary terminal device. ... As before, the bug is specific to Linux systems that have SELinux enabled ...'
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/the-failure-mode-of-abundance/ << Trilema - The failure mode of abundance
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2017/the-failure-mode-of-abundance/#comment-122188
mircea_popescu: tgat;s the more shocking part.
asciilifeform: what'd be the point.
mircea_popescu: but cows ain't trying to buy it either!
mircea_popescu: apparently apple could buy russia ; but icbc, which not only "could" but ACRTUALLY BUYS america (not the fucking us shithole, THE WHOLE CONTINENT), that dun exist, never happened, etc.
mircea_popescu: remember when the icbc had no listing in reich paper mills, except for something tiny in the pink sheets ?
asciilifeform: interestingly there's ~0 material in english on subj ( other than 3rd hand re-chewed crud ) -- period
asciilifeform: in other noose, https://hi-tech.mail.ru/news/elbruce-prices << supposedly, retail, ~2300 usd
mircea_popescu: lol @qatar dorks, "our commitment to the us is a solid commitment".
mod6: hey asciilifeform, never thought i'd say this but: thanks for the horsecocks!
mircea_popescu: maybe dumb cunt hangs self in prison, optimal outcome as far as the pantsuit are concerned.
asciilifeform: well yes, 'first you pillage, ~then~ you burn'
mircea_popescu: if nobody gives a shit, yes. if "social media storm", then not right off.
mircea_popescu: depends how much "heroine of the ourdemocracy" mileage can be had from it.
trinque: exactly right, and "we'd show you the proof, but classified!"
mircea_popescu: i did not. also am not going to. for very precisely the trinque reason, i can't be arsed to read $nobody provenance items.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-06 18:23 trinque: leaked means true these days.
trinque: still missing the disinfo value of this "leak" imo.
asciilifeform: they hire on a very late-sovok 'too dim to know what to steal and where to take it' principle
mircea_popescu: sure. still, this looks like a home office clerk rather than an actual contractor. woman had all the intellectual power of a pet goat.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: most 'intelligence komyooniti' folx slave for a nominally 'private' org, rather than for usg in the proper sense
asciilifeform: the various hazing rituals, and onerous bureaucracy associated with said cult, are well-documented elsewhere, i will not bother to recount.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-06 18:17 BingoBoingo: "There are many Americans protesting US govt aggression towards Iran. If our Tangerine in Chief declares war, we stand with you!" << Pro-Iran and gets a seekoority clearance
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-06#1666594 << ~anyone, supposing he has a u.s. passport, and 0 official record of judgements against him, can get 'top secret clearance' with corporate sponsorship. the filtration (i.e. who is permitted into any interesting 'compartment') comes ~after~
asciilifeform: i won't even bother to link to it. who wants -- can find.
asciilifeform: 'Existing implementations of mmap() return the value -1 when unsuccessful. Since the casting of this value to type void * cannot be guaranteed by the ISO C standard to be distinct from a successful value, this volume of POSIX.1-2008 defines the symbol MAP_FAILED, which a conforming implementation does not return as the result of a successful call.'
asciilifeform: sooo let's visit the posix folx, while we're at it,
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it ever were to change, ~100% of the contents of your box would barf
asciilifeform: ( now that i think about it, we could also obtain the eggog code by invoking a mmap that will be certain to fail, and recording the result. but ugghh... )
asciilifeform: but it ain't a -1 to us, because we are using a sane language and it is treated ONLY as the addr of the beginning of the allocated mmap. but first gotta check for the failure. so this requires a comparison to FFFFF....[buswidthsize]
asciilifeform: ( they are, per standard, equivalent forms, but possibly stock gcc is broken in this particular spot )
asciilifeform: throw it out and get the proper one.
asciilifeform: your gnat is certifiably broken, then
asciilifeform: ( 'image' -- for the uninitiated -- is the operation sometimes called 'to-string' in other languages )
asciilifeform: standard, iirc, permits the variant.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: in this particular example, can debate which is the useful-stricter
asciilifeform: mod6 recently ran into exact same issue, but for some reason i can't turn it up in the log
asciilifeform: diana_coman: the example was written on a box with adacore's gnat; the stock gnu one is stricter, doesn't permit Foo'Image -- instead you gotta FooTypeName'Image(Foo)
diana_coman: asciilifeform, furthermore: adding -gnat12 got rid of the default discriminant barfs (as promised by ada docs) but I still have the complaints on prefix of "image" attribute
mircea_popescu: i dunno. somewhat of a game of chicken, lots of "valuable" real estate piled up there. saudi arabia is particularly frail, if rockets start falling in capital the whole saudi nonsense will prolly end.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: 'mosul' in the sense of "we're totally about to win! it's going to happen! any day!"
mircea_popescu: apparently the perils of being allied with the usg is still not apparent. fucking served libya ah so well.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu is suggesting this could be another 'mosul'?
diana_coman: sorry, I was deep into other stuff and got directly onto the ping, w.o. getting to catch up with the log
asciilifeform: diana_coman: mmaps offer yet another method of glue -- theoretically 2+ processes can simply share it
diana_coman: I mean: I could call from C code the methods provided in Ada code
diana_coman: asciilifeform, thanks for the ping! re ada/c - my small tests some while ago went surprisingly well actually, maybe the code was way too simple to get into trouble
asciilifeform: incidentally diana_coman et al might find the paste interesting -- it demonstrates, also, ada/c glue.
asciilifeform: ( makes a 1G mmap, and twiddles a byte therein )
BingoBoingo: Anyways, seeing what happens to Qatar as the weeks roll on should be lulzy
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you have more in common with your stone age great^n-parent, than the current hela has with original
BingoBoingo: Conservative estimates suggest Henrietta Lacks's weight has moved beyond the 40,000 pound mark
a111: Logged on 2017-04-02 15:46 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-02#1635918 << i suspect alf has a very strong bias pro algae and anti bacteria. i'm not altogether convinced the view has any merit.
asciilifeform: ( in continuation of the eternal http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-02#1635945 thread!111 )
mircea_popescu: in the end it's just a very incompetent bacterium
mircea_popescu: but yes, the other problem is that "better" in the sense of hardy isn't exactly better in the sense of useful. hence the hela example, beats ~any eukariotic cells out of the water, and so what of it.
asciilifeform: ( see the old dragonfly thread... )
asciilifeform: i.e. the only kind of system that could even in principle contain room for massive-improvements
mircea_popescu: the happenstance that improvements dun werk isn't of the nature of discouraging anyone.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the idea of "better cell" is inescapable for even cursory qualified microbiologist, chiefly because cell really is a pile of accidentally functioning complexity.
BingoBoingo: Nah, it's a rather identifiable enging stopping sound
asciilifeform: i.e. the thing was jumpered out 'for a reason'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: fashionable, in those days, idea, was to 'make unaging tissue' by reenabling telomerase (normally jumpered out, in most tissue). but -- somewhat unsurprisingly -- it turned out to be a 'glue the gas gauge needle to 'full'' sort of thing
asciilifeform: this, now that i think of it, is a universal annoyance, in other walks of life also
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: hard part is 'divides infinitely'+'still useful, rather than tumorous liquishit with 500 chromosomes'
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The hard part is patience and sorting?
BingoBoingo: In other lies and lying liars, Obamacare exchange hits designed End of Life in Ohio, WaPo blames Trumpreich https://archive.is/bb3WF
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: as you can probably guess if you think about it for 5min -- this isn't the hard part
BingoBoingo: Have you tried giving the bone marrow moar smokes?
asciilifeform: apparently a tru winner : asciilifeform couldn't even make a methuselah bone marrow stem cell, had to leave the entire business !111
asciilifeform: 'I can't imagine having kids, i worry enough about the impact of #climatechange on my cats' << loller
trinque: leaked means true these days.
trinque: mmm, who can bring himself to believe that these people had some report of "omg russian hax" and it was a matter of normal procedure, and not disinfo, to hand them to Miss Reality.
BingoBoingo: Anyways it seems the leaked political attack was supposed to be released tomorrow, so Winrar committed crime of spoiling NSA director's testimony
trinque: don't even have to have them in on the plan, just put a bunch of "super srs" looking docs in her hand.
BingoBoingo: "There are many Americans protesting US govt aggression towards Iran. If our Tangerine in Chief declares war, we stand with you!" << Pro-Iran and gets a seekoority clearance
trinque: of course they hired one of those.
BingoBoingo: ^ I rarely consult that source, but they do read social media
BingoBoingo: So the politics of "Reality Winner" is a bottomless lulz spiral.
asciilifeform: iirc there is an english version also
asciilifeform: the strychnine whippings didn't go on offer till later
mircea_popescu: see ? it's a quid pro quo like that, "yes $badthing, but then $goodthing". whereas here ... it's 100% "hey, want to cut your arm off so you could have an eye gouged out???" "no bitch."
mircea_popescu: but it ALSO meant you injected strychnine into the unterwhores and whipped them till they stiffened, if you felt like it.
mircea_popescu: dude, joining the nazi purebloods did mean you gotta eat nothing but leeks for a whole saturday to hang out with the nuts at their all-mineral-water parties. ok.
mircea_popescu: "here's the stupid reich. it... does stupid shit, and it doesn't pay. wanna join ???" "um... "
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu knows very well that puritan reich does not 'supply whores in paris', or even in bmore. instead it sacks inconvenient presidents, generals, etc. under the guise of 'immoral conduct unbefitting officer' for simply having been seen to fuck something
mircea_popescu: no, i understand how the in-story narrative goes. i'm talking about reality for a moment.
asciilifeform: if you were born & raised in the supermarket, stocking the shelves is an honour. or somethinglikethat
mircea_popescu: what the fuck else is even the point. going to harvard like that is like going to the supermarket to pay to stock their shelves. ain't what a fucking supermarket is.
mircea_popescu: sure. i'm just shaking my head in disbelief at the notion someone they'd consider would actually consider going.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: last i heard, ideological purity was the #1 thing there. and something like 10-20% of admissions were reserved for the Officially Sad, and similar number -- for heirs of previous generation of mandarins
asciilifeform: ~guaranteed employment in the apparatus
mircea_popescu: lmao who the fuck in his right mind wants to go to harvard.
asciilifeform: 'A few examples of posts that the Harvard Crimson cites are posts referring to hanging a Mexican child as “piñata time,” and posts mocking sexual assault or the Holocaust. These are all things that are part of common discourse on some terrible parts of the internet. Yet they are not part of common discourse at Harvard, or the administration doesn’t want them to be.'
asciilifeform: 'At least 10 students who had been accepted as members of Harvard’s Class of 2021 have already learned an important lesson about real-life consequences for online behavior. They had their offers of admission rescinded after the college learned that they had been posting wildly inappropriate memes on a private Facebook group. Here, “wildly inappropriate” means any combination of racist, bigoted, sexually explicit, or violent.'
trinque: thing bowed to "do what I mean" right there.
trinque: seems the cautious move, right? show me what you're going to do, shithead. but no, means HOLD MY BEER; I'M GOING TO CHANGE /etc/portage/*
trinque: sadly, the -a flag will also happily ask you if you want it to unmask, add use flags, etc
asciilifeform: and cries, 'hey won'tcha add the use flags back in pretty pleez'
trinque: I'm aware of how they work.
asciilifeform: trinque: the way portage masks work,
a111: Logged on 2017-06-06 16:48 trinque: better to say >app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.21 then
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-06#1666474 << the original recipe came from asciilifeform's x60 lappy : same one as featured in http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-11#1601534 and http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-11#1601544 thread
asciilifeform: the cure, so far, that i've found, for 'it optimizes', is... gnat
mircea_popescu: depends how strict you take the view that "optimizing out my checks === werner"
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-06#1666480 << did anybody ever determine what the last 'clean' gcc were ?
a111: Logged on 2017-06-06 16:18 mircea_popescu: lobbes what's thjat mean, they match up to 1% of your income ?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-06#1666470 << traditionally there is a chumpatronic component, even in the immediate term : the thing has to 'vest' (if you don't work at $firm for X years, it matches 0 )
trinque: better to say >app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.21 then
trinque: alsa has dmix; there's no reason to use pulseaudio for mixing
mod6: ok, that'll ensure that no gcc 5 is used then 'eh?