asciilifeform: but we have a buildable static(glibc) ibmpc build.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: let me know if you were able to build my 'stator.' and if you think it makes sense to sweat over a uclibc build for ibmpc, where everything ~else~ is sitting on glibc...
asciilifeform: this build is intended for ibmpc
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: absolute best example of 'literate programming' i know of is 'jonesforth' >> https://github.com/AlexandreAbreu/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesforth.S and https://github.com/AlexandreAbreu/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesforth.f
asciilifeform: trinque: when you plug a lamp into mains socket, does it 'express desire to conduct' ?
asciilifeform: this is not the only way to build a computer.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel has it. but in that article i was speaking of 'proper computer', not lispm.
asciilifeform: trinque: for this one, symbolics lisp is not a bad example. the key being that ~nothing can happen~ short of the nic catching fire that would land you on any level of abstraction below lisp
asciilifeform: trinque: there are no examples.
asciilifeform: (well, the smp control gizmo)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: straight to sbcl, where this is already a thing. plain computation works fine. it's when you get to i/o that you die
asciilifeform: jurov: i spoke of this earlier. it isn't a gavinsignal in the usual sense, but is produced by the crud where version numbers in incoming messages are averaged and compared
asciilifeform: nah that one's bog-simple anatomically
asciilifeform: of an empty post
asciilifeform: just example!
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: here's an unassigned gun for some eager fella: crap out an ibmpc buildroot for therealbitcoin. as in, something one could throw in the iso slot at a datacentre
asciilifeform: see, i'm one of those weirdos who keeps, for instance, a computerized vacuum cleaner
asciilifeform: mats: many of the arguments against 'google dorm' don't hold water. e.g., the current 'collect 200k/y salary, give 180k/y to housing racket' system is just as impoverishing; 'lose your job, lose your housing' is just as true now for the fools paying those 180k to live in auto range of palo alto etc.; the squalor is just the same in the palo alto 'efficiency' flat as in any dorm; and so forth
asciilifeform shudders to think how much time he would blow on mpexing if he still had account
asciilifeform: they declined to fight in the 8bit comp wars, and... we still have a nintendo co. to kick around
asciilifeform: decimation: mega-emperor. to me he is ~the~ emperor of cn, very overworked subject in books on the place i had as a kid
ascii_field: the py one comes with example code iirc
ascii_field: wrong pgpdump
ascii_field: just a copy of 'pgpdump'
ascii_field: how is asciilifeform_ver_now_5_4_and_irc_is_gone_and_now_must_give_ip_ebed1af0253ef629bbef4bf2b2d1a94742a81f0e.patch an improvement over asciilifeform_ver_now_5_4_and_irc_is_gone_and_now_must_give_ip.patch ?
ascii_field: and at any rate, i barfed as soon as i discovered that you can't meaningfully compose qt widgets without diving back into the cpp shit pit
ascii_field: trinque: now imagine if no part of the machine were exempt.
ascii_field: trinque: lisp (and i specifically refer to the accumulated advancements which add up to commonlisp world, rather than the barf of that field's equivalent of 'glbse' - e.g., 'clojure', 'newlisp', other halfwit retardations) handily obsoletes most of what passes for 'problems in computer science' as taught
ascii_field: http://thebitcoin.foundation/doxygen/v0_5_3_1/classCAddress.html#ad062e258e0af8a46d0631078147211b1 << good example for folks who had no idea what this thread was about
ascii_field: re: wx: it is in fact out, but sits behind a bunch of empty #ifdefs
ascii_field: (into sov. pocket, not his own. important distinction)
ascii_field: if attempt capture - same
ascii_field: for simple questions like 'enter brainwallet pw' this requires no heroic tech
ascii_field: for starters, 3rd never managed (or even attempted) the feat of turning ~an entire planet~ into its toilet
ascii_field: 3rd reich 'nervously smokes in the corner' compared to the things 4th reich will be remembered for
ascii_field: http://cryptome.org/2015/06/tsarnaev-1481.pdf << lulzy. ianal, but still had no idea that usa officially had 'total' forfeiture in penal code (i.e., not simply 'items used in connection with the crimes,' but ~everything the schmuck ever touched~)
ascii_field: the two i omitted are small and simple to merge back in when wanted.
ascii_field: dnsseed_snipsnip, orphange-thermonuke, orphange-tx-amputation, dns-thermonyukyoolar
ascii_field: including own compiler
asciilifeform: esp. in comparison with the turdmeisters' copy, which is so bloated it makes my browser cry
asciilifeform: so that thing may well stay up for a while, and no one ought to be surprised that it features a now-defunct chumpatron
asciilifeform: yezhov's was a complicated matter. in the sense that he wasn't 100% 'pet', showed signs of being willing and able to bite stalin. so had to go.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the only reason the usg-tronic 'department of fucking with bitcoin' is even theoretically of interest is that the machine isn't perfect. has some rust, sand in gears (as discussed, e.g., yesterday, re: mempool etc.) in effect there is a $maxint bounty by hitler for anyone who can demonstrably amplify the hiccups.
asciilifeform: the figure of lizardhitler in this affair was never disguised in earnest. he simply wore the traditional kabuki mask, pro forma
asciilifeform: with shame i admit that i not only took degree there, but was employed for a spell under the same roof ('umiacs') with these mega-heroes.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: iirc my father competed with the 'mcm'
asciilifeform: https://dev.visucore.com/bitcoin/doxygen/walletmodel_8h_source.html << example, in use by enemy
asciilifeform: it will be interesting to set the 'misbehaviour' triggers for the orphans crud to max once we have a respectably-complete network of therealbitcoin nodes.
asciilifeform: no i meant the waiting-until-place-is-empty part
asciilifeform: mmmhhhmphhfm
asciilifeform: as i understand, we already have a 'bezzle' in the net - the unmetered resource, 'blank cheque,' of the mempools. as all 'meat in the sun without flies', it is a very ephemeral thing
asciilifeform: how does the operator determine anything whatsoever re: the validity of 'mempool fee' addressed to him ?
asciilifeform: unless i misunderstand, 'fee for mempool inclusion' is... an epicycle.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this has a bit of a recursion problem: how does mempool operator know that he is being paid ?
asciilifeform: but afaik turdmeisters are already experimenting with connecting sewage pipes directly to the mempool
asciilifeform: this sorta turns mempool into even more of a logical albatross than it already is
asciilifeform: l0l, before long folks start asking for mempool inclusion fee, for self !?
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: what i was trying to get across earlier is that the very concept of 'mempool spam' is presently undefined
asciilifeform grasps mircea_popescu's implication that 'the only winning move' in the decimal-point chase game with shitgnomes is 'not to play'
asciilifeform: it is important to remember that there is no 'important' tx from the point of view of the network
asciilifeform: as i understand, they'd more or less have to be attempted doublespends
asciilifeform: unrelated: anybody try capping mempool size ?
asciilifeform: i'll sign an identical patch sans the bump if anyone needs this.
asciilifeform: https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/MPEx.co << new l0ltron
asciilifeform: 2014 is the timestamp on the ~dir~
asciilifeform: (for preamp)
asciilifeform: iirc someone even sells a pc mobo with lamps
asciilifeform: 'warm lamp sound'
asciilifeform has a supply of vacuum valves, scavenged from ancient tv sets, has contemplated building amp. but this will happen - if happens - after the war.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: is that a vacuum valve amp ?
asciilifeform: without any weird amp box
asciilifeform: comparing with bog-standard 'bose qc15' which ~don't~ sound like russian telephone
asciilifeform: let me guess - they aren't standard impedance ?
asciilifeform discovered, during unrelated research, that xilinx's 'coolrunner' cpld series - a very simple programmable logic gizmo with very homogeneous/regular physical structure - can hold a simple risc cpu...
asciilifeform: herr stack ~did~ burn down an office hell (albeit empty)
asciilifeform: 'Colby asked if he could have a firing squad. No, Howard said, he could not. Howard said a firing squad would just be an ego trip for Colby, the blindfold and last-cigarette bit, and that Colby was in enough hot water already without trying to "upstage" everyone with unnecessary theatrics. Colby said he was sorry, he hadn't meant it that way, he'd take the tree. Tomas crumpled up the gibbet sketches he'd been making, in disgus
asciilifeform: that's like saying 'if going to stot, jump as little as you can'
asciilifeform: not physically impossible, just very gnarly.
asciilifeform: ;;google hochdruckpumpe
asciilifeform: not impossible to build hardware that eats 500g
asciilifeform: stamp collections ?
asciilifeform: i will confess that i've always found the whole 'mempool' thing to be a dodge
asciilifeform: because mempool is by nature ephemeral
asciilifeform: whose mempool
asciilifeform: decimation: mempool size ?
asciilifeform: important to remember that sat constellation is not a permanent animal in any sense
asciilifeform: decimation: the sat folks are attempting a kind of chumpatron where 'let's build tiny sats that last 6 months'
asciilifeform: yes, because they did not invent monetize-consumer-chumps as the mega-weapon
asciilifeform: and god help you if your thing has to interact with components that you can't simulate (because you didn't design them, and what, other vendor is going to share its logic? dream)
asciilifeform: wake me up when somebody bakes a turing-complete gadget with no winblows used ANYWHERE in the brain-to-silicon road
asciilifeform: what difference if usg, or chinese emperor
asciilifeform: a bit oversimplified description, but yes, we make this.
asciilifeform: as in arbitrary code exec as result of crafted sample
asciilifeform: decimation: understand, every 'legit' corp. on the planet which employs reverse-engineers, incl. the arms of usg, buys ida.
asciilifeform: possibly 'mpex'
asciilifeform: it speaks 100% compliant gdb wire protocol
asciilifeform: decimation: the folks who have 'must work' as hard requirement still prefer the whole 'spend ten years with magnifying glass' to 'rethink computing'
asciilifeform: yes, they exempted software 'industry' from ~all~ consumer liability laws in '80s.
asciilifeform: decimation: i actually work for a firm which builds computers solely for this purpose
asciilifeform: with 20% more empty loops
asciilifeform: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/12/local/la-me-jack-tramiel-20120412 << tramiel didn't give a rat's arse re: computing 'big picture.' he was running a manufacturing concern, in the old 19th. sense in his mind, complete with 'muntzing'
asciilifeform: the death of cbm is a pretty well-documented subject, and revolved around their one and only unforgivable sin - royally pissing off their c64 install base by breaking compatibility
asciilifeform: how this can be compared to 'playstation' i cannot fathom
asciilifeform: again, it was a computer, sold as a computer, with 'anyone can write for this' and proper docs
asciilifeform: quite comparable to mid-90s msdos, in terms of pure technical 'effect'
asciilifeform: afaik cbm did not ever attempt to extort tribute from peripheral makers, or software devs
asciilifeform: compare in the flower of their youth, rather than, say, '93 when cbm was a vegetable
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-06-2015#1175101 << there was! but it is a mistake to lump in amiga. cbm was still under delusion that it sold ~computers~ rather than 'system' (that is, complete slave planet like apple, where peripheral makers pay danegeld, etc)
asciilifeform: and the 'damage' was a tiny scratch on the bumper
asciilifeform: ditto for surgeons who specialize in the nearly-impossible, etc
asciilifeform: and yes, the 'software industry' is so utterly rotten that an individual act of deretardification has to be contemplated on own merits, rather than as 'market action', modellable with the usual rules. sorta like buying a russian nuke. sui generis.
asciilifeform distinguishes act of 'computing' from 'calculating'
asciilifeform: but computing in the modern, interactive-terminal sense came later.
asciilifeform: people ask why 'computing is different' and answer is that the field had the misfortune to appear at the same time as the great 'democratization' shit-lathering of the 20th c.
asciilifeform: which is what the 'computing industry' is largely about.
asciilifeform: if there were, e.g., a martian in orbit, known for his impeccable honesty, who offered to vaporize every last employee of microshit, present and past, for 10 btc - mircea_popescu would decline ?
asciilifeform: this is ~not~ like the scarcity of, e.g., 'real computer', where ~it doesn't matter if you're rich, it doesn't exist~
asciilifeform wonders if mircea_popescu's idea of 'competence' approximately equals 'willing to dig in chernoble reactor for 2 rubles / hour'
asciilifeform: 'embed engineer' sounds simple, but he has to be permitted near the jewels, know what's worth stealing, ~and~ continue working for ~you~ rather than the nice fella who now signs his bonuses
asciilifeform: (incidentally, the success history of ussr attempting this was spotty, to say the least.)
asciilifeform: sure. but why would the 'anyone' make the result available gratis to his competition ?
asciilifeform: they could make almost anything and folks will buy so long as it is vaguely computer-like and doesn't run winblows.
asciilifeform: (they are already shipping this chip in the pocket comps)
asciilifeform: but we presently lack a non-retarded implementation of such a cache
asciilifeform: it was in the interest of (3) that i amputated the 'orphan tx' cache as well.
asciilifeform: but 'bastard' from the perspective of a node is simply any block for which the immediate antecedent is not already on disk
ascii_field: (usg counts as 'employed' anyone of working age who isn't collecting state-funded 'unemployment pension')
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: other than the observation that shorter -> simpler -> everything is slightly less retarded and easier to make sense of
ascii_field: btw any reason not to amputate 'testnet' ?
ascii_field: incidentally, usg - like the regime portrayed by orwell - spends $maxint on attempts to 'read minds'. not always even laughably stupid - the mri 'has seen this object or not before' trick appears to actually work
ascii_field: it is important that nothing can be determined by looking at user!
asciilifeform tries to find example of similar hanging in the literature, but can only recall the 1890s electromechanical contraption built in new york prison by one fella, for his own (official!) hanging
asciilifeform wonders how mircea_popescubitcoind compares with therealbitcoin_asciilifeform
asciilifeform: mod6: thus far i'm stumped. will probably have to replicate your entire setup to get to the bottom of this (assuming you haven't yet)
asciilifeform: mod6: post the build log from 'doesn't compile' ?
asciilifeform: and it's uclibc that has to be recompiled with that flag
asciilifeform: didja try the 'recompile with -fPIC' thing ?
asciilifeform: but, for example, bernard von nothaus.
ascii_field: trinque: then it isn't a computer
ascii_field keeps coming back to the thought that if 'adult' computer were to exist, folks would snap it up even if it were something close to, e.g., pdp-11 in horsepower
ascii_field: also didn't i give example arguments in ml ?
asciilifeform: '(EXPERIMENTAL) Full IRC Demolition; Manual External IP Setting; Version Bump.'
asciilifeform still in the process of sawing out the irc sync mechanism. after this, will have to see whether the deterministic-build thing actually works (my last attempt using therealbitcoin's 'official' script died in agony on account of gcc strange)
ascii_field: but it is not a complete story
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: competing with 16yos is how you end up fucking 16yos << hence why i said 'home turf'
ascii_field: but, as i surmise, on account of 'rather die than compete with 16 year-olds on their home turf'
ascii_field: will build it there as soon as the last round of amputation, referenced earlier, is complete
ascii_field: (terminated through no fault of their own, simply because wanted to start from scratch when testing patches)
asciilifeform: (saw not a few pretty eligible dumpsters in buenos aires)
asciilifeform: or i'd be in that dumpster even now
asciilifeform: i can already picture mircea_popescu's 'recipe': 'naggum should've moved to argentina' 'me: with what' 'mircea: with shirt on his back' 'me: doing what' 'mircea: sharpening knives while living in dumpster' 'me: betcha he knew this, and didn't care for it'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it appears to be (now) empty.
asciilifeform: the original generation of 'computers are interesting and we know basic maths, etc' grew old, mostly did not die yet except in ben franklin's sense of 'most people die at 25 but buried at 75'
asciilifeform: colour me thick, but i still don't feel like i have a grasp of the implications.
asciilifeform: (are we simply mentally tallying unpaid specialist labour?)
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: that they were men is no surprise of any kind. but the detail i recall was that they were men who either had no wife, no sister, in the camp (or knew that these were safely dead)
asciilifeform: 'At Treblinka, an underground organization plotted an armed rebellion and mass escape. Learning about the Warsaw ghetto revolt from the last transports of Jews brought to Treblinka from Warsaw, the organizers decided the moment for revolt had arrived. On August 2, 1943, the underground fighters put their plan into action: to steal arms from the warehouse; eliminate the German and Ukrainian guards on duty; set the camp on fire;
asciilifeform: but at no point does it make sense to emplace anything of any value whatsoever in mr. randomschmuck's house.
asciilifeform: but still largely empty, because in bezzleworld 'cheap' is a relative thing.
asciilifeform: places which only even have telephones because usg imposed it
asciilifeform: if the past 40 years of computer retardation hadn't happened, and we used a stack with support for seamless process migration, 'voting circuit' computation, etc. it would be practical to use '1024 chickens' arrays of arbitrarily garbage hardware
asciilifeform: as result, the only folks who bought were 1) chumps 2) people who wanted to make own 'stingray'
asciilifeform: (it is possible to break up cement, but not without anyone noticing. this is the basic principle for the nuke test-ban compliance gadget used on both sides of the ocean)
asciilifeform: you will need to seal to keep out moisture, but if repair is not a concern (machine is disposable, replacement gets new burial plot) this is relatively simple matter
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: pre-emplaced in sand pits and fused mains wiring, for the inevitable halt&catchfire ?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-06-2015#1171397 << mno. if it's in the channel, it is a live pre-gavin node (OR crafted impostor...)
asciilifeform: it may be possible to amputate it with linker shenanigans
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu historical q. has anyone ever publicly attempted an honest implementation of 'provably destroy coin on bitcoin blockchain, re-materialize on $altcoin chain' mechanism? or was all known work on the subject perpetrated by idiot sc4mz0rz ?
asciilifeform: all else - small change, in comparison.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: compilator is ~the~ dependency
asciilifeform: mod6: i am trying to set a kind of example for how one ought to do the patches
asciilifeform: right now it is simply a very convenient spot to find pre-gavinization nodes
asciilifeform: (1st 3 are rather simple)
asciilifeform: not simply 'does it fetch blocks' (it does)
asciilifeform: phun phakt: when i worked in u.s. army, a guard on the campus did just that
asciilifeform: thing about mr mold is that the impotent thrashing is very much that of the prisoner 'turning inward', as pictured in 'chess novella'
asciilifeform: i for one, when first encountered mircea_popescu's articles, scarfed'em up on account of a feeling of 'like mr mold but without the latter's impotent thrashing and cultural illiteracy'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: next you'll complain of melted brain on account of ancient chinese having had, almost word for word, euclid's gcd algo
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu might say that it is because mr mold has no balls. i would say that i cannot comment on whether he has balls, but will point out that having a brain is a handicap if contemplating active resistance to usg, without support of foreign army, from inside its walls
asciilifeform: decimation: i was arguing even beyond 'unable to comprehend the parts about how this kind of action is hopeless' to 'clinically retarded'
asciilifeform: (and the impression i got was that the dunbaricity was the ~only~ thing that made the mechanics halfway plausible..?)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: also the implication in the story was that the 'gands' lived in dunbar-number villages
asciilifeform: to rephrase, elephant can be killed by hunter - with bullet, or spear even. but there are not enough chimps in all of africa to kill it by throwing own shit at it, even were all of the chimps to agree to this plan.
asciilifeform: english empire survives!
asciilifeform: at the very least, enemy cannot simply shrug and ignore burned train
asciilifeform: (why did he wait for the usg snakepit to empty?)
asciilifeform: 'killdozer' fella was better example, imho
asciilifeform: say he had beaten his brains out against the glass, while attempting escape. while in a sense this is 'honour', what has mouse accomplished ?
asciilifeform: perhaps best comparison is to the mouse in the jar
asciilifeform: 'the scum must die' is an example of an actionable doctrine
asciilifeform: they have concrete aims, however simplistic
asciilifeform: i'm balking at the idea that the 'how' is this mystical thing that one cannot even attempt to apprehend
asciilifeform: job of partizan, however, is not simply to 'die with honour', but take some of the scum with him to hell
asciilifeform: phun phakt: 'scheme' programming language has its 'call-with-current-continuation', perhaps the oddest and 'most generic' control structure known, which takes the current place in execution and turns it into an assignable (yes) closure (i.e. callable function!) -- typically it is implemented using setjmp().
asciilifeform: (for this, you need setjmp()...)
asciilifeform: compiler won't let you cross stack frames, though
asciilifeform: (it rubs the reader's face in the fact that all c control structures translate into jumps, which are quite the same as the much-maligned 'goto')
asciilifeform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.50_BMG#/media/File:Rifle_cartridge_comparison.jpg << far left of photo
asciilifeform: ^ the basic story of the whole 'camel hump' thing, long before pc
asciilifeform: sorta like the machine doesn't care if such-and-such is getting jumped to because a d00d munged the return address through buffer overflow, etc
asciilifeform: of course, folks who regularly deal with the output of c compiler cannot be surprised by duff's device
asciilifeform: the ultimate stage of this development is to realize that the tramp was already dead, cut up by a long series of maniacs previously, and one's job is to in fact stitch its parts together into a frankensteinian creature of one's own conception
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: many n00bs begin with 'wtf how does this even compile'
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-06-2015#1169198 << umpteenth 'usg vs. clinically retarded schmuck' match. wake me up when the 'usg vs. smart folks' match is being played.
ascii_field: as in, literally no place to emplace it
ascii_field: most 'old computer' catagory is worthless.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: iirc the author of 'camels' did investigate what the 'shooters in dark' had in common - and in all cases, it was an inability to comprehend that the machine is entirely blind to human intent, and to build meaningful mental models of purely mechanistic systems as a class
ascii_field: 'When JTRS started, software-defined radio (SDR) was still in its infancy. The project's SCA architecture allowed software to manipulate field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) in the radio hardware to reconfigure how its electronics functioned, exposing those FPGAs as CORBA objects. But when development began, hardware implementations of CORBA for FPGAs didn’t really exist in any standard form.' << giga-l0l!
ascii_field: hazirafel_: this is related to a very old article, entitled 'the camel has two humps'
ascii_field: !s camel has two humps
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-06-2015#1168695 << why not understand something simple first? like 'pkzip'
ascii_field: also how the fuck did anyone use bitcoin for serious battlefield operation prior to dump-/importprivkey ?
ascii_field tried last night to backport 'dumpprivkey' and 'importprivkey' from phoundation-0.7 and found that relevant data structures are entirely different
ascii_field: originally sold (by sandoz) in, iirc, ampules.
ascii_field: nubbins`: lsd is unstable in solution. and so it would stand to reason that it is parceled out to the 'stamps' where produced.
ascii_field: and no invitations from chinese emperor
ascii_field: trinque: there is apparently ample record of folks using very small (a few microgram) doses precisely this way
asciilifeform: my next experiment re: 0.5.3 is to be a complete amputation of dns (the sequence of 'amputator' patches starting with 'dns seeds' and continuing with yesterday's two is in place for this)
asciilifeform: mod6 has the resource consumption data on the apparatus in question (assuming mod6 and ben_vulpes decide to ratify the requisite patches which added up to that sample)
asciilifeform: a) isn't quite a complete description. in the folks having the particular immune quirk which lets the thing blow up into red skin etc., exposure can plant it down in new places (thing lives in nearest nerve)
asciilifeform: (re: the latter: once dns is out, and import/export-privkey are in, i will be moving my personal nodes to therealbitcoin...)
asciilifeform: probably don't even want to contemplate what 'online food' gets you here.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-06-2015#1167211 << not so simple. gotta get fingerprinted, filed in triplicate, and letter of permission from local sheriff (automatic in some states, a definite 'never' in others) plus subject to random inspections.
asciilifeform: can you simply whack the pin by hand ?
ascii_field: and all sorta of unsavory actors relish a mandated compile into a poorly-understood, sloppily-implemented instruction set for which there are no quality reversing tools
ascii_field: thing should come with a suggested config, yes. and it is the responsibility of the installer (gentoo 'emerge' or whatever) to emplace it.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: at present time the irc routine is, notice, still in. complete with idiot hardcoded hostname
ascii_field: 'Following a drawn-out and contentious bidding war, Colt lost its contract to provide the Pentagon with M4 rifles in 2013. The $77 million contract went instead to a Belgian company, F.N. Herstal.'
ascii_field: (assuming ~empty~ roads)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: know that 'uber' etc. is an attempt to 'proletarianize' cabs. as they normally are so costly here that they are beyond the regular use of all but the richest
ascii_field: it was the diffusion pump (esp. langmuir's improved one) which allowed the whole vacuum tube thing to happen in the first place.
ascii_field: speaking of vacuum 'diffusion pumps' - apparently there are firms selling them, from old uni chem kits, as 'bongs' to smoke weed from
ascii_field: important not only for residual gas in the tube after pumping, but also because the electrodes sputter
ascii_field: and did i just land in my grandfather's office in 1985 , fell through time warp? how did we come to wonder about authenticity of fucking soviet rubber stamps ?!
ascii_field: even a schmuck like me has a fat manila full of these stamps.
ascii_field: those are customs-inspector stamps
ascii_field: aha, drown like gentleman ! (Tm) (R) (brit empire)
ascii_field: ever contemplate what you'll do 1km below the sea?
ascii_field: because not idempotent
ascii_field: we ~all~ 'suck' compared to him ?
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1166431 << ftr the 'dollar a day' thing is nonsense if you compute even the most conservative monetary estimate for the 'systematic' things the beggar was born with.
ascii_field: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-magical-content-tree.html << where herr orlov contemplates cribbing mircea_popescu's 'pay per article' thing