asciilifeform: well yes, like every other attempt to revive wholly dead cultures
mircea_popescu: afaik the only modern attempt didn't work out well.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-11 20:09 asciilifeform: if asciilifeform signs and sends this, he will probably have to design the mips box on toilet paper inside bastille, like de sade
asciilifeform: re bushido, asciilifeform just read a marvelous treatise on seppuku, the only one afaik of its kind in english
asciilifeform: ^ another set of folx who were late-comers to mechanical civilization
mircea_popescu: note incidentally that even though delayed because slavs retarded, the soviet item served exactly same function -- how to be non-non-soviet.
mircea_popescu: to be noted that l'encyclopedie (the 1700s item) was a LITERARY WORK. with d'alembert almost a sort of tolkien of his time. it mattered not so much whether the items contained were right or wrong (obviously most were wrong, 1700s) but the fact that you could rely on every respectable gent knowing at least of them.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 17:23 mircea_popescu: no skin off my back. so i'll be the last person alive to know anything, and every girl i ever meet who's not a retard feels an irrepressible urge to kneel and beg.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not to being a thinking man ; to not being a savage. it's fundamentally negative. know this so you don't end up in the tribe.
mircea_popescu: yes, but the underscore of it all was "these are the things zulus do not know : machine gun, etc. know these so you do not grow up into a zulu."
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aside from 'which savages there exist for you to enslave when you grow up', encyclopaedia had, e.g., which engines exist, what burns in them, how newton tried to make piston work on gunpowder, etc,etc
mircea_popescu: the tmsr log serves a very similar function to diderot's offering, in practice.
mircea_popescu: ~exactly identical item to the female photographer/solider war/training exercise heroine.
mircea_popescu: that the socialist substitute does not work is evident to the proponents, but their interest is of course not in it working. on the contrary.
mircea_popescu: "these are the inferior people to be repressed, for these reasons" is ~the whole point of the original item
mircea_popescu: imo golden age was 1800s, and their principal utility was to provide ideological allignment for patriarchy.
asciilifeform has often wondered if encyclopaedias, even in the golden age of same (1950s, perhaps) , were useful other than for letting a bright kid know 'approximately what exists' . to adult they served largely same purpose as pediwikia today - 'pulling feeling-knowledgeable cock'
mircea_popescu: no skin off my back. so i'll be the last person alive to know anything, and every girl i ever meet who's not a retard feels an irrepressible urge to kneel and beg.
asciilifeform: the moar interesting attribute of pediwikia is its ability to prevent actual encyclopaedias.
mircea_popescu: i could produce more value than what wikipedia's worth by simply boiling the collection of wikipedia "editors" and selling the broth.
mircea_popescu: they however do not appear willing to compare the 500 hours a dozen men put in to produce an encyclopedia with the 5000 hours a dozen million imbeciles put in to compile the steaming pile of shit aka "online encyclopedia".
mircea_popescu: wikipedia loves to compare itself with the various actual encyclopedias it stole most of the material worth reading from, but on a "per line" basis, as if THAT is the fucking point of an encyclopedia, never mind the COMPLETENESS or RELIABILITY parts.
mircea_popescu: today's street urchin is entirely useless -- he's more than happy to spend 30, 50, 150 years if possible siphoning your salary (which he regards as his living wage / god given right) to pay for the britny spears "music" and entirely similar "start-ups", ie, let a lot of you idiots give us your valuable stuff for free maybe we get enough of it to survive our inept whittling it down and still be somehow worth money.
mircea_popescu: average street urchin in 1917 could be hired on the expectation that after 30 years of either being bored stiff or else payingattention at his job he'd finally make a useul worker.
mircea_popescu: but to come back to it : the plague of "handheld devices" did a lot of damage to the marginal socioeconomic utility of a large class of people. they spend all their brainpower correcting quopedoa/wikira/whatever the fuck instead of spending the same undersupplied resorce to keep track of their customers / car direction vector / etcetera.
mircea_popescu: shinohai yeah it is possible the azn community is spearheading the reculturation process.
trinque: they really have you pay by weight?
trinque: at least the guy didn't open a fucking potatoslurry franchise.
shinohai: implying they actually perform a service.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the next logical step is to you know, "who ordered the this???". make the customer keenly aware you couldn't give less of a shit about 'em and then whine about how you work in the "service industry" ie he HAS TO TIP YOU!!111
mircea_popescu: us vaguely heard of this, has inept girly not yet qualified to bus tables in the front office, asking you who you are.
mircea_popescu: it's funny how the shit evolves, though. historically, the maitre d'hotel would be this knowledgeable, older male, exactly equivalent of the village godfather for his little village onto itself. so HE'd greet you and take you to your table, KNOWING FULL WELL who you were.
trinque had the benefit of new england lineage, will harm teh oyster gladly
mircea_popescu: of course, even getting oysters fit for the table in the first place was already a dubious matter then.
mircea_popescu: fifteen years ago it was good sport to order oyster entree with local fellows present. average american will make faces at the half shell and do it no further harm.
mircea_popescu: the us tv has brought about this chef-restaurant manager combo. dunno how sustainable it is in practice.
mircea_popescu: generally it's the job of the maitre d', which in more euro-style restaurants is the you know, favoured louis de funes role, not really rhe chef. but custoims vary.
deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2017/05/14/the-real-bat-lives-on/ << » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - The real BaT lives on.
trinque: and wtf, he's supposed to interject himself between the men and women without introductions? this while trying to be a good host?
trinque: my own grandfather was chef and owner of a great steak place for decades, did this nightly.
mircea_popescu: the (very indian) chef of great local place actually came out of kitchen to see these two people who were eating all the stuff i rodered ; but couldn't summon the courage to more than bow from a distance and scurry off.
trinque: then two women at table wail "oh he didn't shake our hands"
trinque: by the time I shook his hand and started chatting with him, guy was uncomfortable and I let him depart
trinque: my back was to the poor guy or I'd have handled it from the beginning, only noticed because idiots were getting uncomfortable across from me
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 16:21 mircea_popescu: in other shocking developments, /me learned yesterday that some people actually believe serving a l'anglaise (ie, in their bastardized notion, pre-plated items) is an acceptable manner for waitstaff!
trinque: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655846 << /me had a serious dining wtf last night; folks had no idea how to handle the (romanian, actually) chef coming to greet our table
trinque: "uh I don't know, people started cutting their dicks as part of a mass mental breakdown. I think they had quite fair skin."
mircea_popescu: if you got that particular fetish/brainhole, stroking it is pleasurable, but once the spunk comes out that's it.
mircea_popescu: i dunno that anyone reads the guardian for purposes other than superman magazine or hustler.
trinque: ultimate lulz being that this will be the lasting memory of this page of history, if anybody takes the paragraph point five to write it
Framedragger: > opens the guardian piece
mircea_popescu: uk had three referendums in its entire history, now they want one a year ?
asciilifeform: while(!result){vote();} is the established classic algo of eu
mircea_popescu: and i swear if i see another one of these ustard precious cuntlet ledes with "o nso and so date so and so insignificant schmuck just like the author was being part of an imaginary sequel of seinfeld" ima kidnap some "innocents" and sell them in gabon.
ben_vulpes: "our demoooocracy!": https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy , also, further hijinks in the era of epsilon snr
shinohai: I kinda liked the wankel, would rev to ~10k without batting an eye, perfect marriage for bigger turbos
mircea_popescu: in other shocking developments, /me learned yesterday that some people actually believe serving a l'anglaise (ie, in their bastardized notion, pre-plated items) is an acceptable manner for waitstaff!
ben_vulpes: that reminds me, i have a rear differential to weld together.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: hey, some men just want to see the catalytic converter burn
mircea_popescu: "why not rotate the whole fucking assembly!!!"
ben_vulpes: the wankel!
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Rotary engine - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_engine>; Rotary Engine - YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D6BCgl2uumlI>; How It Works: the Mazda Rotary Engine (With Video!): <http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a7103/how-it-works-the-mazda-rotary-engine-with-video/>
mircea_popescu recalls used to laugh with friends at "racing experts" with the tell-tale flame out the tailpipe.
ben_vulpes: "it does wear the soap, doesn't it?"
ben_vulpes: also turbochargers are approximately standard these days. new civics come with them stock. efficiency and emissions, baby!
ben_vulpes: in other things asciilifeform doesn't know about turbines, some nutjobs will run super-rich mixtures such that gases are still burning through the exhaust manifold and into the turbocharger. this obviously torches the poor turbo in short order, but the temporary power boost is astonishing.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-11 21:15 Framedragger: @all thanks to this chat i'll now make some urgent recommendations to startup i'm involved with. maybe it's not even gonna be fucked in the ass if moves decisively away. a bit ashamed i had $opinion on $thing-not-researched in the first place.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2011/de-fapt-de-ce-nu-folositi-voi-linux/#comment-122036 <<< the sad corrolary of existing in public. you get people thanking you in 2017 for your 2011 article recommending ubuntu as a simple "hey, why not linux again ?" stop gap.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall the electrolytic machining thread ?
mircea_popescu: when one metalworking gets it within 3 A and the other metalworking gets it to the 3 micrometers, you know there's room for some "nobody could have predicted" qualitative jumps.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha! and it doesn't seem, from casual survey of the field, that they actually put to work ~everything available. the silicone people are cutting metal masks to the three atom widths ffs.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 14:09 phf`: that article was inoffensive, but sloppy. some offhand points i think required elaboration (i.e. missing republican footnotes!), others were superfluous
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655633 << if you mean the locklin piece, guess what! was my first impression of the dood five years ago as well.
asciilifeform: and yes - turbine is probably the most well-known example of recent qualitative jumps in what can be made, from advance in metalworking
mircea_popescu: i mean... asciilifeform i guess I was asleep at the time.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i guess was asleep at the time.
mircea_popescu: ah they did ?
mircea_popescu: and evidently the metalworking tech to make the 100 gram turbine is here. wasn't here say 1980.
mircea_popescu: ie, they asymptotically tend towards... o2 reductor / h2 donor.
asciilifeform: but do ask the rocketeers how great pure o2 is to have around. corrosive, explosive.
mircea_popescu: gotta to something with aqll the wolfram they're not using for proper lightbulbs anymore.
asciilifeform: and out of what would you make the combustor.
mircea_popescu: but it seems, very from-the-satellite view, that it should work somehow. at least to my eye
mircea_popescu: the other item i'm vaguely surprised they're not deplyoing is the actual oxygen purifier engine. srsly, put atmospheric air into your chamber ? because you hate yourself or why.
mircea_popescu: contrary to what "the people" of "our democracy" have in mind, nobody made cars "so that" little miss humpernickle can take her groceries home easierlier.
mircea_popescu: you got a turbine, which'll burn ~anything but does not spool, you've got a gasoline engine, which will this but not that, there's electric which is most efficient but uses the most volatile of fuels, make something of this!
mircea_popescu: it's not hard to observe, as a theoretical physicist at least, that ~all engines to date are stumbling at a general problem with naive assumptions.
asciilifeform: aha, the lappy battery
mircea_popescu: anyway. to be perfectly fair and generally speaking sane : the actual technological need driving the modern hybrid craze has ~nothing to do with the declared reasoning (envirobs) and everything to do with the desperate attempts of engineers who noticed they have a pile of ~useful items to arrange them in an optimal configuration.
mircea_popescu: when fishing through the (rather consistent) history of engines, one's always to be careful. lotta curly items in there.
mircea_popescu: somehow the "conspiracy to supress" ~never mentions this. always impresses me re the culture and literacy of the little john smiths us soil keeps popping like mushrooms everywhere
mircea_popescu: item dun really need so much power i don't think, but certainly used in the higher power tractors iirc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the ideal functioning of, eg, semi, is that engine turns at 4800 for 8 hours straight.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to revisit upstack : putting "quantum computing" in the same pile of failed technologies as stem cell research is beyond idiotic. holy hell, every woman that ever was pregnant got the embryonic boost, measurable and measured, wtf.
asciilifeform: i always wondered if this is intrinsic to the tech, or just american stupidity
mircea_popescu: yes, but in a proper arrangement (electric, gasoline, gas) hybrid, the gas turbine needn't cover all power curves.
asciilifeform finally sees at least where mircea_popescu got the idea.
asciilifeform: theoretically. but if you go to auto dealer and ask for turbine engine, a very confused d00d may or may not sell you an abrams..
mircea_popescu: point being that in the modern diesel, a turbine is attached to the carnot engine, much in the manner in which in a modern hybrid, a carnot engine is attached to the electric motor.
mircea_popescu: whether you attach the items to the drive train via electric exchange ; or whether you attach them via the historical arrangement known as turbocharger, in point of fact you've put some items to work for your transmission.
asciilifeform: at least on the planet i'm posting from
asciilifeform: the part which is moved by expanding gas, in a combustion engine, is the one of interest re 'which type of engine'
mircea_popescu: in this sense jet engine does not power the jet because... gases moving about do.
mircea_popescu: which was the original fucking contention dear lord.
asciilifeform: but in your supercharged bugati, pistons provide the motive force, not hot gas turning turbine
asciilifeform: but if mircea_popescu direly wants to drive a land vehicle with actual turbine engine - there is at least one ! : abrams tank.
mircea_popescu: you ever saw the fucking item ? how is it not a turbine ?
mircea_popescu: no, we are having the thread where "turbine is not nao turbine because it's different"
asciilifeform: srsly are we having the '2-cycle diesels' thread again ?
asciilifeform: because they are wholly different items ??
mircea_popescu: but on what grounds do you disqualify it from "turbine", other than "it successfuly masquerades as something else, fooling me"
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: LM6000 -PF/PF+ Gas Turbine | Combined Cycle | GE Power: <https://powergen.gepower.com/products/aeroderivative-gas-turbines/lm6000-gas-turbine-family.html>; LM6000 - The LM6000 Engine | GE Aviation: <https://www.geaviation.com/marine/engines/military/lm6000-engine>; General Electric LM6000 - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_LM6000>
mircea_popescu: not that there aren't eg
mircea_popescu: the statement was "some kind of turbine under the hood, even if masquerading as a more traditional something or other".
asciilifeform: ( betcha it was in aston martin or the like... )
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: AST - OPC1 - Asterias Biotherapeutics - A Global Leader In ...: <http://asteriasbiotherapeutics.com/AST-OPC1.php>; AST - OPC1 - BioTime, Inc.: <http://www.biotimeinc.com/products-pipeline/ast-opc1/>; California Institute of Regenerative Medicine - BioTime, Inc.: <http://www.biotimeinc.com/california-institute-of-regenerative-medicine/>
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: gonna link to a commercial turbine hybrid ? or somehing other than video with some chick re embryo cell ?
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Stories of Hope: Spinal Cord Injury | California's Stem Cell Agency: <https://www.cirm.ca.gov/our-progress/stories-hope-spinal-cord-injury>; World's 1st Human Embryonic Stem Cell Trial for Spinal Cord Injury ...: <https://www.cirm.ca.gov/our-progress/video/worlds-1st-human-embryonic-stem-cell-trial-spinal-cord-injury-katie-sharify>; Meet Katie Sharify : A Participant in the World's First Human ...: (1 more message)
asciilifeform: ( though , unlike locklin, i will not rule out wreckers as the explanation )
phf`: right, well the originals are presumably TeX formatted ps files, so it's impossible to butcher that part. somehow they can't seem to get it pressed properly. maybe it's just my luck
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: link to useful result from the famous embryonic ones
asciilifeform: at least all the ones i have here.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 14:13 phf`: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-11#1654941 << so i got a replacement copy, in it's in even worse state than the first one! this one the entire lower edge is butchered during cutting. automated self-publishing ftw
asciilifeform: if somebody physically ignited every box on the planet having amt, that would be great.
Framedragger: asciilifeform: i linked to illustrate the diff between enabled vs provisioned. let's not do another confused is/ought debate
Framedragger: so in theory, a wordpress hax0r could provision AMT if AMT was enabled, thus opening up the remote diddling thing
a111: Logged on 2017-05-11 21:24 phf`: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-10#1653984 << so i got a copy, mine had a mechanical looking gash in the spine, had to send it for replacement. otherwise it's not horrible. it's a cheap thermal binding, but the paper is crisp, and the source is TeX so it looks reasonable.
phf`: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-11#1654941 << so i got a replacement copy, in it's in even worse state than the first one! this one the entire lower edge is butchered during cutting. automated self-publishing ftw
Framedragger: and computers are not computers in the first place; does not negate the point about "if enabled, still bad, and good to know/check."
Framedragger: but it seems that it's then possible to run *local* exploit (privilege escalation)
phf`: that article was inoffensive, but sloppy. some offhand points i think required elaboration (i.e. missing republican footnotes!), others were superfluous
asciilifeform: why not do same test by attempting the original ( now - public ) remote diddle ?
asciilifeform: ^ was the most expensive, gram for gram, substance asciilifeform ever worked with, incidentally
asciilifeform: now why would the module be loaded on a box without it
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 12:19 Framedragger: HN spit out https://github.com/mjg59/mei-amt-check , dunno if any good, maybe need to check later. to be clear, AMT won't be provisioned "by default", and it being provisioned is the worser thang.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655609 << 'Requires that the mei_me driver (part of the upstream kernel) be loaded.'
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 09:18 mircea_popescu: ro train engines were that way for a long time too, owing to the peculiar terrain.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 09:10 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655460 << most hybrids have some kind of turbine under the hood, even if masquerading as a more traditional something or other.
Framedragger: HN spit out https://github.com/mjg59/mei-amt-check , dunno if any good, maybe need to check later. to be clear, AMT won't be provisioned "by default", and it being provisioned is the worser thang.
mircea_popescu: ro train engines were that way for a long time too, owing to the peculiar terrain.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 04:57 ben_vulpes: dual-input or electric to the shaft?
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 04:46 ben_vulpes: my point is don't use the battery as anything other than a temporal load leveler, and bam you have yourself effectively a clutch.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655475 << he has a point though, every redesign cycle the momentum-based store (like they use in eg F1 cars) comes back to the drawing board. turns out having a small heavy well spinning real fast is not really much worse than trying to store energy in batteries.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 04:40 ben_vulpes: just had to wait for people to realize y'hook 'em up to batteries and not the tranny directly of course.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655460 << most hybrids have some kind of turbine under the hood, even if masquerading as a more traditional something or other.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 04:36 asciilifeform: in yet-other noose, guess who appears to read the l0gz: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2017/05/14/technologies-which-did-not-live-up-to-the-hype
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 03:54 ben_vulpes: any objections to a vpatch doing away with the truncation of hashes in the trb log?
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/05/cost-of-running-shitware-continues-bull-run-to-the-moon/ << Qntra - Cost Of Running Shitware Continues Bull Run To The Moon
ben_vulpes: and in "today's nobel, tomorrow's homework", eventually bitcoin clients will be the republic's software engineering masterwork project.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-14 15:11 asciilifeform: and 'dead bitcoin', esp. if it dies on enemy's terms, would imho be a technogenic catastrophe, quite comparable to, e.g., chernobyl. ( not for mircea_popescu 'i'm rich anyway, fuck everyone' , and not for other folx, who might not even have any; but for the concept of 'gold sans the guard labour')
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: yours, and others', works, are quite worthwhile !
ben_vulpes: it may take some time, especially at my glacial pace, but i think slicing the wallet from the reference implementation (which i don't think is going anywhere?) a worthwhile endeavour.
asciilifeform: hence why all of asciilifeform's trb work from month or so ago and forever more, is about losing the cpp hairball.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: kill , then when db syncs ( grep tail of log ) kill -9
ben_vulpes: the time it takes a fully-synced node to shutdown and reboot is painful, though.
ben_vulpes: i am considering testing this in conjunction with a solipsistic miner, but may test it against the extant blockchain instead. input on this also welcome
ben_vulpes: the patch adds a struct to use during the indexing, and a new overload of IsMine that uses the script solver to find outputs relevant to the given address.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: what use has anyone for the wallet?
ben_vulpes: at the end of the walk, it writes the unspent outputs to a file in a format amenable to normal unix tool examination.
ben_vulpes: this patch adds an rpc command that eats as input one address, and walks the blockchain for outputs that spend to the address.
ben_vulpes: now i have to decide how to test it, for the odds are that it does not work as-written. but i do invite commentary on the design!
asciilifeform: one time i went to an exhibit of electric vehicles, there were not only modern machines but lovingly handcrafted (from ordinary chassis) items, from as early as '80s, still working
ben_vulpes: on an eeeentiiiiirely different topic, it took months but i recently got the part of my output indexer that excises spent outputs from the index map to compile, which i believe brings the indexer part of this foray to completion. i invite any who'd like to read and comment to download the (unsigned!) vpatch from here cascadianhacker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/export_outputs.vpatch
ben_vulpes fumbles for the spare canister
ben_vulpes: but the chemistry is of kindergarten grade. go, buy railcars of ni, fe, assemble.
asciilifeform: sub then
ben_vulpes: prius is not electric to the shaft, as we just discussed. it has electrical supplement to the shaft.
ben_vulpes: dual-input or electric to the shaft?
ben_vulpes: and i await the drivetrain's arrival in trucks eagerly.
ben_vulpes: dude that you are engaging on the topic and are recently surprised at the state of the art is pretty funny.
ben_vulpes: also the prius does not have a fully-electric transmission.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's father designed, iirc a city bus on old home planet, with flywheel accumulator
ben_vulpes: no, you don't get to avoid the fe-ni battery proposal.
asciilifeform: and for 2x the cost of petrol, even.
asciilifeform: i suffer these in lappy, and it is infuriating, 20-40% capacity loss/yr. why the everliving fuck would i volunteer to suffer this in an auto.
asciilifeform: 'prius' , let's take, then
ben_vulpes: to be clear, 5 figs for the 500 mi battery, correct?
ben_vulpes: why on earth would you need the 500-miler.
ben_vulpes: the gasoline is your store, you burn it and use the battery to supply temporary current while the turbine goes from off to optimal regime.
ben_vulpes: yes, you replace the clutch plate it is a wear part.
asciilifeform: there are no acceptable batteries !!
ben_vulpes: my point is don't use the battery as anything other than a temporal load leveler, and bam you have yourself effectively a clutch.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: keep a ups with lead acids? ever try not changing them for 3+y ?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655439 << i have a bunch of these here, they're mighty spiffy
asciilifeform: the lipo thing you gotta buy again every 3y or so ?
ben_vulpes: just had to wait for people to realize y'hook 'em up to batteries and not the tranny directly of course.
asciilifeform: 'QC deserves the right to a fair and speedy trial. It’s been 32 years.'
asciilifeform: in yet-other noose, guess who appears to read the l0gz: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2017/05/14/technologies-which-did-not-live-up-to-the-hype
asciilifeform: >> 'On May 13, 1985, at approximately 5:28 p.m., two, one-pound bombs were dropped onto a house at 6221 Osage Avenue. The bombs were dropped from about 60 feet above the house by a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter. It was recorded, that the 500+ police officers at the scene, fired approximately 10,000 rounds of ammunition in the direction of the house in 90 minutes...'
ben_vulpes: i have the block hash untruncated in the one place i wanted it recently, have not yet ploughed through the rest of them.
shinohai: Bonus points if she shines your shoes AND your knob at the same time.
mircea_popescu: sounds about right for the first 100k
asciilifeform: where's the sport in that.
mircea_popescu: it's called frottage asciilifeform , there's no dildo.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, at the well behaved girls' finishing school, http://68.media.tumblr.com/0d3fec61b46aa3d62e5faf29f40c7974/tumblr_nlhjcoy4ay1tptpcdo1_500.gif
a111: Logged on 2017-05-13 22:35 mircea_popescu: then again, the notion anyone is actually talking about anything outside the republic is a little luzy, in the vein of talking sheep.
asciilifeform: incidentally asciilifeform's last ask, just like the N-1 asks before, resulted in 0
asciilifeform: speaking of which, i wonder if they'd like a FUCKGOATS.
mircea_popescu: then again, the notion anyone is actually talking about anything outside the republic is a little luzy, in the vein of talking sheep.
mircea_popescu: obama pretty much nationalized the economy.
asciilifeform: i dunno that there are private-companies in usa above cafe size
mircea_popescu: plenty of "oh, everyone ELSE affected". now tell me fedex is a ... private company, not a usg agency. because that's totally how private companies communicate, and absolutely not how the soviet agencies speak.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform definitely NOT you know, "we're thropwinfg windows in the dumpster"
asciilifeform: in other not-quite-news, http://btcbase.org/log/2014-01-20#450012 >>>> https://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=5750 << not even mega-expensive
asciilifeform: i suspect it is because lamp -- was weak ( i used PROM zeroizer with the tray ripped out )
asciilifeform: and holyfuq, the norland thing took almost hour of uv to cure, vs the advertised 10sec
asciilifeform: 'WASHINGTON FedEx said on Friday it was experiencing issues with some of its Microsoft Corp Windows systems in relation to a global cyber attack that had disrupted hospitals in England and infected computers in dozens of other countries around the world. "Like many other companies, FedEx is experiencing interference with some of our Windows-based systems caused by malware," a spokeswoman said in a statement. "We are implementing reme
asciilifeform: in other lulz, 'FedEx experienced interference with some of our systems which caused disruptions to the FedEx Express Memphis Hub sort operations. We immediately implemented contingency plans to minimize the impact to our customers. We regret any inconvenience this has caused.'
asciilifeform: in other accidentally-found-bits-of-90s-style-not-wholly-liquishit-www , http://jimshomeplanet.com/lensglue.html
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what's the damage ?
mircea_popescu: once the soviets.
asciilifeform: elsewhere, http://trilema.com/2017/the-gypo-singer-the-whorish-language-and-the-remains-of-their-encounter/#comment-122027 .
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/the-gypo-singer-the-whorish-language-and-the-remains-of-their-encounter/ << Trilema - The gypo singer, the whorish language, and the remains of their encounter.
asciilifeform: the simon and speck thing was egregiously funny because they were published 'for lulz', 'maybe someone will pick up this toy', rather than mandated somewhere
mircea_popescu: usg.nsa business is not the sane.
asciilifeform: in even other lulz, recall when nsa published ( no one knew why, nobody sane would use ) two stream ciphers, couplea yrs ago. well : https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/382
asciilifeform slowly ironing the ugly out of 'P' stack machine
asciilifeform: 'The Japanese government is considering providing state-backed aid to Toshiba’s memory business, amounting to near partial nationalisation, to prevent it falling into Chinese or South Korean hands...'
asciilifeform: though so far even this obvious pill is ,in typical usg style, being done in reverse -- srsly, they banned smoking in prison!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i won't be surprised if the prisoners become 'pioneering volunteers' for 'assisted suicide'
mircea_popescu: meanwhile at the baths, https://68.media.tumblr.com/4a437b867b57301a545f83f9bba377fc/tumblr_n5ewhvgrop1qbszyeo1_500.gif
mircea_popescu: maintaining "our democracy" compatible prisons is too expensive ; not maitaining them produces the sops problem, which is a surer "democracy" solvent than austrian painters named adolf.