phf: once they figured "grabbing pussy" doesn't work, they reluctantly switched to this whole "journalistic work" thing. what the hell yo gotta try everything once you know?
mircea_popescu: check it out, the fucktards suddenly discovered htis exists.
mircea_popescu: "Examples of existing business arrangements that constitute violations of the foreign-emoluments clause include: Chinas state-owned Industrial and Commercial Bank of China is the largest tenant in Trump Tower, and the state-owned Bank of China is a major lender to Trump."
mircea_popescu: course who the fuck would pay money for that spamsite...
mircea_popescu: o speaking of which, " Somebody with aptitude and conviction should buy the FAKE NEWS and failing @nytimes and either run it correctly or let it fold with dignity! Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 29, 2017"
mircea_popescu: back in the days when nyt still mattered in any sense, long long ago in a land far far away.
BingoBoingo: Part of the grease that used to let two party system work
BingoBoingo: * mircea_popescu also likes how the "black lives matter" court clerk is "a federal judge appointed by g w bush" depending where one looks. << Tradition is for the lower bowels of the court Pres takes Senator's suggestion in return for favors later
mircea_popescu: https://archive.is/5z4YU << in other news, apparently navy seals as shitty as us army generally.
mircea_popescu: o wait wait, forgot - the holocaust in trump's reading is sort-of merged with katyn to become this indistinct polack-jew-gypsy-czech-etcetera bonfire.
mircea_popescu: it's hard out there for a pimp.
shinohai: I have received 8 DM's on twitter this week containing dick pics, thinking I wish to forward them to models.
mircea_popescu also likes how the "black lives matter" court clerk is "a federal judge appointed by g w bush" depending where one looks.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-02 17:05 mircea_popescu: http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20170201&t=2&i=1171009855 << in other news, it'd seem the party's over for darkies, brownies, trannies, furries, latinos etceteras.
mircea_popescu: aha. that's what makes this so good, that for all the libertard indignation there's plenty of supporting factlets.
asciilifeform: iirc somali machete hero did not even appear in the beobachter
mircea_popescu: in better comedy gold, trump now on the record re fake media covering up terrorist attacks.
asciilifeform quite liked the (now -- largely forgotten) : gorbama
mircea_popescu: i suppose indian style he could be "the incompetent fuckwad who got ahead through affirmative action and ruined being black for everyone else"
mircea_popescu: but anyway -- the 44th us president will be known as hussein bahamas long after he's forgotten in any other sense. everything else will go, that much stays. he's called whatever the fuck we say he's called, and in his case this is a lot better than any alternative.
mircea_popescu: not my fault ustards voted the derp into office. stick to people with christian names, avoid the problem.
mats: i recommend vigilant use of the active tense and to keep things simple
mats: >Today revelations by a whistle blower within the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration demonstrated that a key paper produced by the agency under the Hussein Bahamas administration which served as "motivation" during recent negotiations in Paris was plagued by fraudulent manipulation of facts (archived). The bogeyman of "climate change"
mircea_popescu: i literally can't remember how long since new york times' guy won the race.
ben_vulpes: heh in other miserable names someone put "winkers" in my face last week
BingoBoingo: for mp's purposes most useful part is the metal end pipe
shinohai imagines mircea_popescu trying this out in the harem sometime soon
mircea_popescu: air escapes through turbulet flow under the rubber
asciilifeform: though a more typical scenario is the small private swimming pool common in usa.
asciilifeform: good for 4km in clear weather !
asciilifeform: and they had, remember, no laser. 5w light bulb!
pete_dushenski: in non-republican lisp news : http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8060.txt (yes, i know it's not the language)
asciilifeform: 'Windows users running the Tor browser can be tricked into uncloaking themselves, with a pretty straightforward trick based on Microsoft's DRM system.'
a111: Logged on 2017-02-06 18:56 mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski it was the pre- and even post-soviet rank of what the us army calls "specialist"
mircea_popescu: and in other lulzy spanish idioms, "estar de rodriquez" is ~to be up shit creek
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> was also used in star trek << That was more the naval rank of Ensign, intial officer ascension rank, below Lou Tenant
thestringpuller: This is the exact reason Japanese birthrates are down.
pete_dushenski: the model and user reviews. On the customer-side of things, the user will have an internet connected "sleeve" (essentially a high-tech Fleshlight) which takes the sensory data from the cam girl's dildo and replicates it in the sleeve. When paired with a video feed, it simulates the experience of receiving a blow job from that particular model."
pete_dushenski: "BlowCast allows a user to buy a simulated blow job from dozens of amateur and professional cam girls. The way it works is a cam model interested in offering a simulated blowjob is given a Kiiroo Pearl, a vibrating dildo that has been hacked by CamSoda to collect sensory data while the model fellates the device. This data is then uploaded to a repository on BlowCast and a user can select a blowjob based on
pete_dushenski: obv they only take cc and pp because they're retarded, but possibly also because they're dealing with $1 amounts and btc != coffeecoin
pete_dushenski: in other blows, this was apparently just launched today : https://www.camsoda.com/blowcast/ 'the itunes of [vr] blowjobs'
pete_dushenski: so it's -27C today and one of the 7yo boilers decided to bite the dust at the office today. thankfully there's 4 others but one corner of the building is friggin chilly. large aluminum framed single-glazed dual-slider windows aren't the best insulators.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski it was the pre- and even post-soviet rank of what the us army calls "specialist"
pete_dushenski: soon they'll be able to grovel at pharoah's feet in two languages!
pete_dushenski: but hey, at least canada's suckling asswipes are bilingual. working french is sine qua non for federal employment. if there's any edge over their other 'angloworld' counterparts, it's that and that alone.
mircea_popescu: in the immortal words of the chairman of the board, "get the hands off the suit, creep."
pete_dushenski: the world's his classroom, or to paraphrase dogbert, trudeau's only regret is that his arms are too short to hug the entire world.
mircea_popescu: yeah. also wouldn't create a lot of little holes in the public treasury for otherwise worthless asswipes to suckle at.
pete_dushenski: because having elected officials with business acumen wouldn't give them the necessary tools to talk to the people and ~feel~ their problems donchaknow
pete_dushenski: speaking of politics back home, what's the latest from your contacts back in romania re: protests against 'legalised corruption'
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: incidentally, trudeau looks like a total fucking shit. how can people tolerate his continued presence ? << trudeau's ratings at home are falling off the map. the carbon tricycle is backpedaling at full speed. in response, and as i suggested on contravex, leb-irishman kevin o'leary officially announced candidacy for conversative party of canada a week or so ago. he's looking strong but federal
ben_vulpes: snoop dog and martha stewart, in mashups from the fourth planet
BingoBoingo: Nah, the problem is Marijuana and stoner culture make all those cousins uniformly bland
mircea_popescu: i guess most people lacking such cousin especially in the us are stuck with the tv version.
mircea_popescu: you know i have a cousin, he's a great fellow, has two daugthers long married and with chitlin of their own, and you know, keeps bees, which he harvests from forest by himself, pickles mushrooms, makes excellent moonshine...
mircea_popescu: this almost sounds like it's evolved under pressure, as part of a classification. are there also... greens ? reds ?
trinque: the 80s aliens with big black eyes
mircea_popescu: what's the grays ?
trinque: they're stealing from #t !!!
trinque: also there's a second space program that made contact with the grays, and the pedo democrats are part of a "breakaway society" that is going to neuter everyone of inferior class
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes with the pedo transcending
ben_vulpes: what is the "actually said this" line?
mircea_popescu: trinque holy shit, meanwhile the "actually said this" line sunk in.
BingoBoingo: <trinque> yes but the pretense that this isn't just garden variety pedo party << The quality cranks are spinning this as Jewish worship of Baal
trinque: hey I'm not saying the moloch statue doesn't look cool or w/e
a111: Logged on 2015-09-07 19:58 ascii_field: mats: the way it works is, there are precisely two kinds of permitted mass media in usa: 1) usg 2) usg crank bait
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: well yeah.
mircea_popescu: but THEY WERE ALL LIKE THAT
mircea_popescu: i dunno how many wonk parties with nudity and public fucking you went to in the 70s
trinque: yes but the pretense that this isn't just garden variety pedo party
mircea_popescu: wait so the pedo democrats aren't ?!
ben_vulpes: "an american flag and a confederate flag on the same truck? that's like 'this tattoo is for steve, and this tattoo is to commemorate the time i tried to run away from steve. we're making the best of a bad situation now.'"
trinque: asciilifeform: aha, says whatever semi-reasonable thing right next to "the pedo democrats are using the souls of children to transcend to the next spiritual dimension" and so on
ben_vulpes: trinque: watched the "standup special" of chappelle's writing partner a few nights ago. more of a "babby's first monologue with jokes", some funny, but most remarkable for the restrained wokeness plumage on display and surprising grasp of war of northern aggression dynamics.
asciilifeform: (jones is kept around with the expectation that he will apply 'martian spray' to items that are to be Kept Out Of Respectable Press, e.g., https://archive.is/TpAUO )
trinque: ben_vulpes: nah he's looking like a sad alcoholic these days
Reuel: well he might actually be elevated in status on the strength of being the only pro Trump "media"
asciilifeform: jones is the one official (yes) 'news head' who has the redeeming virtue of being funny
mircea_popescu: then keep
Reuel: he is rather entertaining tho
trinque: bohemian grove rather, not bilderberg
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> oh fuck me i thought this face was in the saturday night live crew. << Easy to confuse, that's Senator Al Franken
mircea_popescu: oh fuck me i thought this face was in the saturday night live crew.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the foremost 'martians did 9/11' d00d.
trinque: yells about "THE GLOBAL ELITES"
trinque: mircea_popescu: snuck into bilderberg's picnic with the wood owl
trinque: or maybe he's more like the "state sanctioned opposition" guy, what was it
asciilifeform: in other lulzies, 'Former regional president Artur Mas and two of his cabinet members will go on trial on Monday in Barcelona accused of disobeying Spain’s Constitutional Court by staging a non-binding vote on independence in 2014. They face being banned from public office for up to 10 years.'
asciilifeform: iirc they stopped letting'em out of pentagon
mircea_popescu: im not entirely sure this is a bad thing. imagine, life of a pirate : boarding a us carrier with a dingy, geting the shadmiral to show you her deepthroat skills.
mircea_popescu: dumb old bitty has no problem taking half hour of doctor's time to whine about her dog's feelings ; dumb bahamas from kenya has no problem droning at the navy about "climate change" and other being-a-superhero idiocies.
mircea_popescu: basically the thing with the female brain is that it doesn't so much care WHERE the auscultation happens, just as long as her verbal outpour is being listened to.
asciilifeform: Diversity, as well as another noncombat issue — climate change — became imbued in Defense Department doctrine as essential to winning wars.'
asciilifeform: 'The Navy has issued its last major directive of the Barack Obama era with a “diversity road map” that paves the way for a multiethnic force of sailors and civilians who are protected against discrimination based on “gender identity” or “sex stereotyping.”'
mircea_popescu: the fact that the republic creates the tools it uses, entirely and exactly, with no quarter given to this otherwise universal "i found it, i'm calling it a tool and allowing it to shape me in the process" idiocy simply is not conceivable naturally, to the poor souls captive in some sort of children's tolkien fairytale.
mircea_popescu: "being a faggot is ok" through the simple avenue of the web admin deleting any occurence of the string "being a faggot is not ok".
mircea_popescu: i suppose the one republican element least likely to be readily digested (or for that matter even perceived on the first few passes) by the general public is that the republic most pointedly isn't an "online community" of the web ilk, namely a group of people who "since the space is here we'll squat" and "since we're squatting here we'll x", to then be governed by "codes of conduct" and to then be shephered into thinking that
asciilifeform: starting from, possibly at the earliest, mircea_popescu's article http://trilema.com/2012/probably-the-hottest-business-idea-of-the-moment-in-btc
asciilifeform: Reuel: V did not come out of nowhere, out of my arse randomly one night, but is the sum of several years of conversation here.
shinohai: V is the genesis of *everything*
mircea_popescu: Reuel the notion that "the world" somehow "exists" and it is incumbent for reality to "convince it" thus getting that supposed world which somehow exists to empower actual reality is rank nonsense.
mircea_popescu: not like there's userspace separation in linux or anything
mircea_popescu: rather.
mircea_popescu: there's no equality of mass in this sense, "a bullet and a peach pit, same thing"
mircea_popescu: a raindrop in the wrong direction is not "just another raindrop" like the raindrop in the right direction is.
mircea_popescu: climategate had obama incumbent ; different global situation with an europe not yet drained by its uppity wymyn and a russia yet perceiving itself inferior to the westards, etc.
asciilifeform: and i suppose there is a usg honeypot in its place, that folx are now using as if it were the old mega
asciilifeform: anyone got the originals..?
asciilifeform: iirc there was already 'climategate', ~0 effect
asciilifeform: in other lulz, http://archive.is/ZezeU >> 'The Mail on Sunday today reveals astonishing evidence that the organisation that is the world’s leading source of climate data rushed to publish a landmark paper that exaggerated global warming and was timed to influence the historic Paris Agreement on climate change.'
a111: Logged on 2017-02-06 04:50 BingoBoingo: Well, duh. Uniform grey mass is the goal.
thestringpuller: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-06#1611690 << "There can't be a 1% if everyone is poor"
asciilifeform: bsence of a round in the chamber shall be performed strictly while placing his pistol to his own temple. the verification of the fulfillment of this order is entrusted to the unit commander. Chief of staff of .... '
asciilifeform: '-- soldiers, at attention! now hear the order of the day for our unit: Secret. Order No. 136, via the chain of command, field post N 97..., city of kabul. recently this unit has seen an uptick in the careless handling of weapons. in order to reduce these incidents and to prevent further unsanctioned discharges, i order: during the receipt and handoff by sgnt. Bankin A. N. of his sidearm, the test-decock for the verification of the a
mircea_popescu: links are a sign of the white man's privilege.
shinohai: wow, it's the same in Russian as in English! Thanks Google!
mircea_popescu: guy made famous by reliance on theatricalness of gun.
asciilifeform: lse in, and they’re not going to do that.” (In Aristocrat’s statement to WIRED, the company stressed that it has been unable “to identify defects in the targeted games” and that its machines “are built to and approved against rigid regulatory technical standards.”) '
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/g4T2U << first-class lultron. 'evil criminals!!11' crack prng, jackpot casino. 'The economic realities of the gaming industry seem to guarantee that the St. Petersburg organization will continue to flourish. The machines have no easy technical fix. As Hoke notes, Aristocrat, Novomatic, and any other manufacturers whose PRNGs have been cracked “would have to pull all the machines out of service and put something e
asciilifeform: it, apparently, is a theatrical gun, dun work.
asciilifeform: this gun didn't fire back when the ranchers were derping; or when obummercare; or when 9/11, dhs; when waco, rubyridge; when income tax imposed; etc.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-06 05:17 mircea_popescu: impeachment proceedures followed by trump going "omfg the crooks are trying to coup" followed by every guy with a gun marching on washington / mass beatings of faggots in hats on campuses is i suppose the 10/10 outcome here ?
mircea_popescu: well yeah but your vantage is you know, the gremlin stuck inside a glue bottle.
asciilifeform: the deck, in so far as i can see it with naked eye, is not merely stacked, but glued solid.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i have courtesy tickets to the show, kinda curious how it goes on.
mircea_popescu: clearly there's some lizzard strategising going on, no cali, really ?
asciilifeform: 'Four states sue Trump administration over 'un-American' travel ban -- New York, Massachusetts and Virginia joined Washington state in launching legal challenges against executive order that wreaked havoc at airports at the weekend'
asciilifeform: (canceled by judge previously known for shouting 'black lives matter' from the bench after reading a verdict)
mircea_popescu: aha. surprisingly enough review court decided to side with the law clerk, started showdown.
asciilifeform: in other noose, mr.t allahsnackbar ban officially canceled, rapefugees pour in.
mircea_popescu: (altogether a fine example of ~genuine~ fag aesthetic ; visually as well as eg http://www.buttmagazine.com/magazine/sexreviews/artist-is-compelled-to-suck-jawbreaking-dick-during-random-grindr-hookup-with-cocktease/ )
mircea_popescu: and in other aptly named websites mistaking themselves for "communities", http://www.buttmagazine.com/buttheads/
mircea_popescu: not to mention they'd escape all these pesky reality tests. they could be as good and useful as wsod allows!
asciilifeform: aha! then could make up in QUANTITY!!
asciilifeform: in other noose, http://www.defensenews.com/articles/grounded-nearly-two-thirds-of-us-navys-strike-fighters-cant-fly
shinohai: nicknaem: You might wish to register a nick and key in the wot
nicknaem: on another machine now just wanted to get the keys as described in http://thebitcoin.foundation/trb-howto.html
shinohai: ben_vulpes has a nice guide to `V` as well: http://cascadianhacker.com/07_v-tronics-101-a-gentle-introduction-to-the-most-serene-republic-of-bitcoins-cryptographically-backed-version-control-system
nicknaem: uh I found this through the Trilema blog
a111: Logged on 2016-02-02 09:36 Nicknaem: i actually have nothing to say atm, was just checking out the channel :)
shinohai: Heya nicknaem .... good way to start is to build a therealbitcoin node
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz you couldn't begin to believe : Mon Feb 6 05:34:19 2017, <src/client/entitylabels.cpp:310 SetObjectText SEVERE> Lost entity label of object Mircea Mircescu!
mircea_popescu: anyway, to go back to the faggots vs faggots point BingoBoingo , i somehow expect the hatwearing hipsters would fold exactly as described above. they don't strike me as the kind to get their nose broken, pick themselves up the floor and get back into the fight by any stretch.
BingoBoingo: "Our opposition simply folded in front of Brexit like shit-smeared toilet tissue and posted itself politely into the municipal recreation ground bin full of dog muck that is the future of the parliamentary Labour party." << lolBrits
BingoBoingo: Gotta harvest the popcorn first!
mircea_popescu: impeachment proceedures followed by trump going "omfg the crooks are trying to coup" followed by every guy with a gun marching on washington / mass beatings of faggots in hats on campuses is i suppose the 10/10 outcome here ?
mircea_popescu: dude the comedy gold dividends are something else.
mircea_popescu: o hey, check it out, he actually told mexico's president noriega-something-or-the-other that he's gonna send the cavalry to sort out teh bad hombres.
mircea_popescu: if anyplace needs the iraq treatment it's certainly fucking australia.
BingoBoingo: Well, duh. Uniform grey mass is the goal.
mircea_popescu: We all get disappointed from time to time, he said on CNNs State of the Union. I think it is best to avoid criticizing judges individually.
mircea_popescu: anyway, now that they've engaged seems doubtless a showdown between us's own "noblesse du robe" and the "most powerful man on earth" will last the decade.
BingoBoingo: It's great. Now when I disagree with someone in meatspace they show tremendous concern and caution, because they KNOW I mean what I said.
BingoBoingo: It is so much more the troll now than it would have been when I was drinking, because I say this as now notoriously self aware and even tempered person.
mircea_popescu: by now he's threatening to defund california. apparently he picked that over the mp wash dc pick.
BingoBoingo has done some trolling irl, pointing out I'd rather have Putin as president. Wish the Russians would have meddled more
mircea_popescu: srsly, they're like, not real people, not rly ? this is now fixed in a palpable form ?
mircea_popescu: so now i'm like "it's outside the wall. bitch."
mircea_popescu: for 20 years these idiots were all "omfg, this is country too, with people, why shouldn't rent be same as in florida ? (florida being === the us as far as the latino orcs are concerned)
mircea_popescu: you should see the butthurt around here re trump btw.
BingoBoingo: In other news: Make Football Great Again!!! Very good game.
mircea_popescu: do they mean like, websites ?
mircea_popescu: you will be the mpex sex symbol
shinohai should tweet that log line to their main "news account"
mircea_popescu: they'll change.
mircea_popescu: but this is formal notice to all wanna-be "hackers for bitcoin" out there : you want to ask for bitcoin ransoms, make a wot account. there shan't be further exceptions from this rule going forward.
mircea_popescu: speaking of qntras, the tor hacker etc never showed up huh
BingoBoingo: Other lol http://qntra.net/2017/02/death-cult-propagates-among-some-chinese-miners/#comment-86217 brb
mircea_popescu: kids about the same mental age but aged more appropriately in orclands do things like calling up the girl they daren't ask out then hanging up.
asciilifeform: i have nfi what'd be the point, even from 'psychiatric' pov, in the head on on the other end.
asciilifeform: either that or packet loop silently through mordor before reaching dest.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: seems like you merited 'budget' model of line bug, then, with mechanical hdd!
mircea_popescu: point being, there's lag and then there's "lag" and i have nfi what sort of mactard / cloudhead / rubyonkubinetes "developer" one'd have to be to not know the difference.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform 200ms doesn't bother me (and it's mostly freenode being its usual bs, otherwise the tracepath to their peer reports 7-8ms etc)
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-05#1611596 << post-2010 or so 'mini-itx' mobos, and associated ps, etc., make this quite practical without anything like the horror depicted in link ('skinned' ps)
a111: Logged on 2017-02-05 17:07 ben_vulpes: nono there is no reason you should be seeing cloudflare in between you and bvulpes.com
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-05#1611543 >> the gory details >> http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/s6dpg/?raw=true
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-05#1611495 << betting in btc on the death of bitcoin was and is lulzy
ben_vulpes: heh, that'd be the paralytic's truck from /snow crash/
phf: meanwhile, using my laptop is like playing battleship. where would the cursor jump&click next? i will have to make a trip to the city tomorrow
mircea_popescu: runs you to the tune of quarter mil or somesuch. at least used to.
mircea_popescu: i have seen the set-up, it's basically a truck with generator mod for engine + spare generator in bed + satellite dish.
phf: right, i think i used to think that grownups had everything that they need to perform whatever function inside their briefcases
mircea_popescu: old dr levy shows up with his black suitcase, sorts out the woman's nerves, the baby's colic and the master of the house's tooth ?
a111: Logged on 2017-02-05 14:39 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-04#1611379 << cuz he's inhabituated from all his heretic days spent with the laptop and goatee like a good 20yo programmer ?
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-05#1611523 << actually goes further back, to neuromancer and such. i always thought that proper equipment for a "cyberjockey" is a portable, self-contained "deck"
mircea_popescu: 1970s chick with hair on perm things, whining from the bathroom "honey, is it great again yet ?"
ben_vulpes: i was working to minimize dns dependency there.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes im behind on reports and such, but if you can't replicate it ima add it to the list then
ben_vulpes: nono there is no reason you should be seeing cloudflare in between you and bvulpes.com
mircea_popescu: mkay. but more generally - we specifically don't want shitflarew for the logotrons. that's why we have multiple.
ben_vulpes: if i could back slowly away from the entire internet in horror i would
mircea_popescu: and relatedly, imagine the small misfortune of being born with fingers and nostril mismatch.
mircea_popescu: and in the latest news, i just discovered i can't fit even my pinky finger inside girl's nostril. WHY DO THEY MAKE THEM SO TINY!!11!!1
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: i have nfi what code you're working with, but all of those commands have an 'if fhelp' check that renders the help text instead of doing whatever the command asks for
pete_dushenski: anyways, still early days on the yearlong road. don't mind my flailing.
pete_dushenski: ya, for reasons still poorly understood by yours truly, adding items to bitcoinrpc.cpp on the call table (http://btc.yt/lxr/satoshi/source/src/bitcoinrpc.cpp?v=makefiles#1846) and (http://btc.yt/lxr/satoshi/source/src/bitcoinrpc.cpp?v=makefiles#1893) doesn't result in those items appearing with the 'help' command.
mircea_popescu: for instance here, wtf do you mean "to show the option"
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski mentally you should budget about a year in between the first "hey ima program something" and shit you do finally starting to make sense to others.
pete_dushenski: though i did have the pleasure of using vdiff for the first time. very neat tool, that. 10/10 would use again.
pete_dushenski: my own recent efforts at coding are going less productively. trying to implement polarbeard's 'getpeerinfo' patch and can't even get trb to show the option on the help menu nevermind implement the functionality
jhvh1: pete_dushenski: The operation succeeded.
pete_dushenski: in other direct misses, http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2477960/hacker-gets-doom-running-on-the-apple-macbook-pro-touch-bar
mircea_popescu: yeah they keep getting top 50 ratings by some shanghai thingee.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: iirc pete_dushenski went there? << close-ish. or at least as close as guessing that johnny went to temple when in fact he went to u maryland. fwiw ubc has been the primary north american home of chinese merit washing and mainland offshoring for the better part of two decades now, much to the chagrin of the locals, eg. http://www.contravex.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Ed-Kim-Instatool1.jpg
mircea_popescu: http://logs.bvulpes.com/chainstate?d=2017-2-4#449b44ba-038a-4615-aa58-408f46c356b3 << tbh i was waiting for the moment when the graph people are going to show up trying their craft at eulora, to meet a very http://trilema.com/2016/multivariate-calculus-for-experts/ fate.
mircea_popescu is thankful for people summoning the curiosity where his fails ; plox take pity on old man bring tidbits.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-05#1611489 << dudes... i sorta half read the linked ocmment, didn't interest...
a111: Logged on 2017-02-05 05:31 ben_vulpes: even 'operator' is short for 'respected gentleman who understands how to work all of the machines in our shop, produce all of our parts, be trusted with plans and some degree of autonomy in problem-solving on the fly"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-05#1611486 << in italian it's the name for the lowest of the low, opperaio. then again the italians had factories the longest, so it had time to find its proper level.
mircea_popescu: either that or legacy hairball maintenance. but since this isn't some telco "hiring"...
mircea_popescu: ok the professional ship suppliers oglaf is great.
BingoBoingo: Wouldn't be the first time that got forked
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo dude these idiots, sitting on a mailing list discussing what "naming should be seen to stand for" ? wtf, are they going to fork the dictionary ?
mircea_popescu: i think by now the rootless youth (tm), well advanced post-irony as well as well disenfranchised by "putin's electoral college" don't necessarily mean anything in any particular direction.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Apparently, was found in the wild
a111: Logged on 2017-02-05 00:20 BingoBoingo: lel "A rabbit on a rebel flag? Horrible english? What the hell is this shit? oh god an MPex listing... this blog reads like the bitcoin equivalent of zerohedge"
mircea_popescu: that's more for the toe cut thing (which at the time was new, and people discovered toe is fabulous!)
shinohai: I'd certainly drink champagne out of them.
mircea_popescu: but no, the turk has less swing to his swing. that travolta dood IS BENT
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-04#1611379 << cuz he's inhabituated from all his heretic days spent with the laptop and goatee like a good 20yo programmer ?