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asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this type of chumpatron has a name, though i'm blanking on what it was
asciilifeform: evidently they ran short of chumps dumb enough to install the thing voluntarily
asciilifeform: PeterL: when i went to mircea_popescu's conference-2, had an attache of rng samples, which nobody at any of the borders was interested in so much as opening much less demanding to know how to plug them in
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i drove the hog to the forest & turned it loose there. found it interesting how the beast had to be shaken out of the trap, wouldn't simply leave on its own
asciilifeform: for trivial example, the shortest program which does nothing at all is ''.
asciilifeform: possibly because only fact i knew about him was him being involved in the dotcom bubble and being responsible for the steaming crock of shit that is netscape, and, by implication, the entire shit soup of www standards
asciilifeform: decimation: i did not test on any closed-source compiler because they don't exist on the planet i choose to live on
asciilifeform: decimation: i tested on both available compilers, the foundation's and the gnu
asciilifeform: pragma Import (C, Puts, "puts");
asciilifeform: the total intellectual load placed on chumps was considerably lighter
asciilifeform: there are also impotent, and also dead ones
asciilifeform: as adlai pointed out, there is ample info bounding the possible plaintexts available in the ciphertext
asciilifeform: it tells you (or would, if could be written, but the most you can hope for is an approximation, as the problem - even with all the necessary data - is np-complete) the theoretical maximum that could have been achieved
asciilifeform: it's simply an elementary fact that you can't +ev your way 'from rags to riches' unless you know something other folks don't
asciilifeform: but trying to compare to the well-known thermodynamic optimum for an engine
asciilifeform: jurov: would you say that the 'thousands of chumps' are using your gizmo instead ?
asciilifeform: didn't mean to imply that it was.
asciilifeform: (unlike 'redditicus' the impossibility doesn't irritate me in the slightest, i have other things in life to play with)
asciilifeform: i merely suspect that no one, not even a god, could 'get rich' at 'investing' pocket change at mpex
asciilifeform: you would have done better than 'perfect info' bot << impossible by definition
asciilifeform: (this is actually np-complete, but one can find approximations)
asciilifeform: for folks who can reliably turn x into 2x - they already have mpex accounts, aren't reading this
asciilifeform: i kinda wonder why poor folks are even interested in mpex (or, for that matter, schwab)
asciilifeform: (n00bs can read my original article reviewing mpex, containing summary of mircea_popescu's material on above subject - http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1108 )
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: if homo redditicus were only a problem because 'spamming the orderbook', that would be another thing. a bot could theoretically 'vacuum up the chump money' and that's that. But - they, as i understand, spam support lines, public fora, and overall poison the atmosphere in ways not outweighed by the pennies they bring in
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: that would be essentially reselling mpex account at cost, no ?
asciilifeform: jurov: they sure are for me, for example
asciilifeform: felipelalli: Is it possible to remove an account and keep the assets << if you bought an mpex account...
asciilifeform: f someone like Emwazi, whom MI5 had been chasing for years, can simply disappear, only to reappear as the man beheading western journalists (though technically, the videos never show him doing so), then it suggests the entire dragnet is least effective when it is most needed. The Express’ ill-defined sources appear to want to tell a story about SIGINT succeeded rather then explain how it is that SIGINT failed (at least accor
asciilifeform: because otherwise you're comparing bulldog and rhinoceros
asciilifeform: (my hypothesis, simple: because eth. isn't alive and cannot be killed by shooting in the head. like 'redphone' and 'silent circle')
asciilifeform: see, for instance, the story regarding the composition of their not-quite-national-anthem 'ey iran' - sorta their equiv. of 'america the beautiful'
asciilifeform refrains from going into deep tangent re: how iran may well have joined euro camp rather than descending into strange if it hadn't been spat upon as 'eastern monkeys' when tried
asciilifeform: a case like these is simply historians misidentifying who is actually the fella wearing the crown
asciilifeform: iirc they're limited to public servants or folks willing to license themselves as 'museums' (complete with fingerprinting, letters of recommendation from mayor, surprise inspections, ... etc)
asciilifeform: decimation: this might have to do with the fact that much of what u.s. folks take to the shooting galleries seems to exist for little purpose but to make an impressive 'bang'
asciilifeform: no need for computer, even.
asciilifeform: because much simpler even than what they do
asciilifeform: what kind of 'sin' is he meant to tempt 'sinners' into?
asciilifeform: i.e., it no longer means 'where you go to trade money for $goodies' but just 'place you go to dump excess money'
asciilifeform: 'According to neighbors and a man who hired the teen to write for his Web site, the Osbourn Park student was quiet in person but exceptionally intelligent — authoring articles on complicated science and technology topics.' (wa. p.) << mega-l0l
asciilifeform: (simple weapons, but highly skilled professionals)
asciilifeform: all depends on range, angle of impact
asciilifeform: complete with trihedral bayonet
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: folks are used to their sawed-off shotguns, balk at slightly heavier, longer 'thompson'
asciilifeform: there are non-chumpatronic mortgages?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mpex, as i understand, consists of ultra-long-haul folks
asciilifeform: that's just about everybody's first impression
asciilifeform: tried to take photo, but 2 in the morning and damn near impossible to get a good shot through glass and mosquito net
asciilifeform: normally implies spade handle or the like
asciilifeform: but the computer - we don't have.
asciilifeform: so far, every alternative i've tried vs qwerty keyboard - simply stinks
asciilifeform: just an actual computer that can be used other than on a desk
asciilifeform: i've ran across folks who claim to have done it - but on close examination, it always turns out that they're living with some 'small' imperfection that i find utterly intolerable
asciilifeform: decimation: hence total lack of interest in attempting to put a civilized unixlike on these
asciilifeform: i see them as fellating usg actively, plain and simple
asciilifeform: for instance, the console was really a powerful computer in its own right (contained video rendered and sound card) and could be separated from the (very loud!) machine by, iirc, 200 metres!
asciilifeform: lispm gives an interesting feeling straight away - of computer that cost what a business airplane cost, and intended to maximize the thinking power of an economically-important thinking person
asciilifeform: there was another, later white kbd, which i have, with entirely different internals - but protocol-compatible with the old scanned-matrix one pictured here
asciilifeform: i suppose that was only on real computer
asciilifeform: in much the same way that mpex is the only game in town in its field
asciilifeform: that is, a hard-standardized (iso preferred) prog. lang. with safe types and deterministic memory usage, that has extant compiler back-ends for all major cpu architectures
asciilifeform: decimation: how many usg employees that were once dealing in official secrets would come up entirely clean if their belongings were searched ? as in, not even a 'post-it note'
asciilifeform: it is interesting to compare, in this respect, the semiconductor industry to... nuclear one
ascii_field: (see today's log for example)
ascii_field: and everybody else just chumps along using the binary pkg
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: complicated. phytoestrogens in rice, soy are part of the story
asciilifeform: (much unexplored design space in dildonics. for instance, a cylindrical/topologically-toroidal 'conveyor' with belt that recirculates through inner hollow, could product impression of infinite length)
asciilifeform: establishment, and that pressure to succeed might sporadically give rise to improved performance, leading to at least a few instances of success. But if in fact failure is no problem at all, and if instead there was some sort of pressure to fail, then we would see exactly what we do see.'
asciilifeform: 'Looking at this broad landscape of failure, there are two ways to interpret it. One is that the US officialdom is the most incompetent one imaginable, and can't ever get anything right. But another is that they do not succeed for a distinctly different reason: they don't succeed because results don't matter. You see, if failure were a problem, then there would be some sort of pressure coming from somewhere or other within the
asciilifeform: as for the compiler, it's been part of vanilla gcc for years.
ascii_field: i'll spoil a little of it: manufacturing samples arriving sometime late this wk. or early next
ascii_field: the somewhat lower-tech 'phuctor', for example, has been running continuously since nov. 2013.
asciilifeform: chumpatronics with physical props.
asciilifeform: simple bait, works.
asciilifeform: idea being, 'me: if gravity has chiral component, consider two propellers glued back to back as 'barbell'. ought to rotate in a particular direction depending on orientation. align using electromagnetic means, infer angular momenta' al: 'here's how'
asciilifeform: i did emphatically did -not- invent or design the calorimetric test
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: thread was re: whether and how one could build a reasonable computer without access to ic fab or the output of one
asciilifeform: compared to american ic of the modern type, of that period
asciilifeform: for some reason the theft of several examples of these curios by usg from sunken submarine is still considered a deep secret in usa
asciilifeform: did i ever tell the tale of how i was once about to do a little consulting for an engineering prof, and discovered that the code that implemented 'his' algo was plagiarized wholesale by his students?
asciilifeform: almost invariably 'high powered' kids in usa are simply cribbing mindlessly
asciilifeform: because it's a temporary parole, for one thing
asciilifeform: 3d 'shooter' where you had to 'pass bootcamp', dig pits, die in ten minutes of firefight dropping like potato, etc
asciilifeform: complete with wall carpets?
asciilifeform: plenty of folks do - simply that most of them don't write oddball os
asciilifeform: starvation pension, but enough to keep his computer lit
asciilifeform: almost impenetrable by the idly curious
asciilifeform: what do you suppose would happen if herr thiel decided to pump every penny he had into buying btc ?
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: he's selective re: which trendisms to employ
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel, mircea_popescu: simply pointing out that most fiat 'barons' are more like herr buffett than mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i can only speak re: the costs of the component which i was to wangle time on
asciilifeform: essentially, according to 'neutral' folks in physics, al simply doesn't -get to- make the instrument
asciilifeform: al actually spent years battling idiots who 'forked physics' and 'forked chemistry' on usenet, in much the same style as mpoe-pr battled btc sc4mz0rz
asciilifeform: that is, if one day we simply exterminate them, he still hasn't really won, just sat down in lysenko's throne
asciilifeform: which takes a few $b in imperial money
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: the interesting thing, and important to explain mircea_popescu's puzzlement, is that the enemy has been studiously arranging experiments to avoid actually testing the effect in question and declaring it 'settled'
asciilifeform: and, incidentally, there are other chiralanes possible (you can generate them as computer model, that is. there is, afaik, no known synthesis for any of them)
asciilifeform: but is optically non-superimposable on its mirror image
asciilifeform: fact is, we haven't actually built computers yet
asciilifeform: 1) ocr doesn't work because 99.99% is still ludicrously low - human reader -who fully understands the text- still required 2) no ocr exists or is reasonably likely to ever exist for anything rich in notation 3) the machine-readability of most mathematical work is a fully ai-complete problem
asciilifeform: 'For example, Newton's apple contains vitamin C (L-ascorbic acid) which is parity-asymmetric, and it would accelerate differently if the laws of gravity cared about the mirror images.' << lying scum, yes. implying that effect cannot exist because not observable with naked eye on naturally-occurring objects
asciilifeform: decimation: it is quite possibly impractical to make bga (ball grid array) ic packages without pb
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you will notice the imperial mooks got utterly owned in that play << afaik usg accomplished their one non-negotiable thing in iraq - break the orcs into eternally-warring bantustans, 'vaccinate' against any possible emergence of a real sovereign
asciilifeform: (i did work through a good chunk of the maths behind al's eötvös adventures, for own edification and to attempt to come up with a way to rescue him - to learn how that went, see old thread)
asciilifeform: or employs a monkey to write 'his' communique
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ar has ru-style 'meetings' ? i.e. crowds of folks with prefab picket signs, paid chump change to wave around ?
asciilifeform: "what is the plan b of yonder artificial lake, once dykes fail ?" << 'what should one do when a shell lands in the trench ?' -- 'jump up twenty metres and scatter yourself around.' (brit., circa ww1)
asciilifeform: e.g., turkish eunuch having (decorative, naturally!) harems of their own, complete with... eunuch guards
asciilifeform: believe or not, this actually happened in past empires
asciilifeform: but if that venture relates to computing in any way, you will probably render your brain unfit for the original mission.
asciilifeform: i specifically assign the failure of each and every attempt to date with the notion that you can get to the moon by piling chairs.
asciilifeform: it wouldn't buy a (new) pick'n'place robot, for example, unless you go ultra-chinese
asciilifeform: or my own 'professional computing' article
asciilifeform: (the on-campus housing is packed to the gunnels)
asciilifeform: these will be inhabited, incidentally, by chumps feeding the 'college' chumpatron
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: translators... armenian << actually usg translator racket is - traditionally - ultra-lucrative. complete with own boom'n'bust cycles
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: basic observation (by no means mine! or even solely orlov's) is that collapse comes 'in fits.' for example, at the moment it did not occur to you to think that obtaining drywall or labourers to knock together a 'shitboard' house, could ever be problematic
asciilifeform: just example.
asciilifeform: some politically important ethnic minority, for instance, might enjoy living in ben_vulpes's house
asciilifeform: not simply a matter of balance sheet, either.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: say later if were able to digest it. otherwise i might have to attempt a transl.
asciilifeform: what'd count as a -real, indisputable- usg leak? example: info leading to perma-pwn of a whole constellation (hell, why not all of them) of usg orbiting junk
asciilifeform: get the budget high enough without making secrecy impossible << this is right back to the 64-quadrillion-bzollar question. the dept-of-breaking-pgp gets $maxint and remains totally secret - not to say that they've succeeded or even tried, but we have no idea how much cocaine they were able to buy with the $maxint, nor the carat purity of the gold of which their toilets were made
asciilifeform: but basic point is that machine doesn't just cost what machine costs, but some actuarial numbers based on what the corpses' legal reps are likely to attempt/achieve
asciilifeform only opened it because had an ssd from visually identical machine of the same make, which turned out to be incompatible.
asciilifeform: in any given instance of meritwash, somebody's being chumped (various folks who swallow the snake oil)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-02-2014#506836 << example of me vomiting at proof-of-anything. but it seems to me now that there were not one but two usg 'monasteries' where the concept was developed
asciilifeform: everyone with access to the goods who hasn't dumped them to public unredacted and whole is ipso facto part of that set.
asciilifeform finds himself writing a netbsd kernel mod, has approximately same thoughts as fella who wakes up in 'dumpster' in a back alley, 'how i came to this sort of life' ?
asciilifeform: not even impossible to think that it still happens.
asciilifeform: it is an immediate mindfuck to be confronted with a computing-related document written this way.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: don't expect a repl, ada is a classical compiled thing like c or fortran
asciilifeform: uirements of Class 1 flight critical software (the most critical) are to be attained, every attempt must be made to detect errors induced by a compiler. This is expensive, but unavoidable given current technology. The pragma Reviewable applies to a partition so that the compiler can generate code to match special documentation thus permitting independent review of the object code. The following specific requirements apply...'
asciilifeform: 'Due to the well-known fact that all compilers have bugs, it is the conventional wisdom of the safety critical community to avoid assuming that the generated object code is automatically correct. For instance, the approach taken in the avionics standard DO-178B is one of Design, Review and Test [DO-178B]. As far as practical, the review and test activities are undertaken at the object code level. Indeed, if the reliability req
asciilifeform: if i had to guess, i'd imagine Cr cold-welds on impact with self, or something like that
asciilifeform: a 'terrorist' for the purpose of this line of thought is anyone who is on track to being imprisoned by usg under charge of 'terrorism.'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://cryptome.org/2015/02/juraboev-complaint.pdf << mega-lol re: terrorist-creation
asciilifeform: elf and reality, able to keep up an attitude of the completest indifference, no matter what happens. A storm that would sink all the battleships in the world would hardly reach you as an echo. Even the whale's own movements would probably be imperceptible to you. He might be wallowing among the surface waves or shooting down into the blackness of the middle seas (a mile deep, according to Herman Melville), but you would never
asciilifeform: 'For the fact is that being inside a whale is a very comfortable, cosy, homelike thought. The historical Jonah, if he can be so called, was glad enough to escape, but in imagination, in day-dream, countless people have envied him. It is, of course, quite obvious why. The whale's belly is simply a womb big enough for an adult. There you are, in the dark, cushioned space that exactly fits you, with yards of blubber between yours
asciilifeform: nubbins`: mircea_popescu takes a 'sapper errs once' attitude to bitcoin compatibility, for reasons which should need no explanation
asciilifeform: but count me 100% in favour of mircea_popescu's proposal to get these idiots off computers and preferably - eventually - off the electric grid likewise.
asciilifeform: mike_c: the actual type of small arm used is unimportant
asciilifeform: incidentally, is somebody here interested in attempting a surgical replacement of 'openssl' in bitcoind 0.5.3 with 'micro-ecc' ?
asciilifeform: 'you need to go fuck yourself in the arsehole with a nice red hot iron dildo. I think that ought to improve your minuscule intellect.' -- from today's fan mail
asciilifeform: i simply don't happen to know what it is
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for some odd reason, the plumping shop 'guns' popular since '50s - didn't
asciilifeform: t with herbicides to get their money. Unlike soil erosion, compaction and pollution, breaches of this rule are easy to detect and enforce: if the inspectors see trees returning to the land, the subsidy can be cut off altogether.'
asciilifeform: 'There is just one set of rules that are effective and widely deployed: those that enforce the destruction of the natural world. Buried in the cross-compliance regulations is a measure called GAEC 12. This insists that, to receive their money, farmers must prevent "unwanted vegetation" from growing on their land. (The rest of us call it wildlife habitat.) Even if their land is producing nothing, they must cut, graze or spray i
asciilifeform: 'Because we have got to be willing as a nation to have a dialogue. This simplistic characterization of one-side-is-good and one-side-is-bad is a terrible place for us to be as a nation. We have got to come to grips with some really hard, fundamental questions. I’m watching risk and threat do this, while trust has done that. No matter what your view on the issue is [... snipped crapolade]'
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: see log for one example
asciilifeform: it isn't unimportant in the least bit
asciilifeform: emacs is unbeatable on account of the customizations - not only of appearance (i've a different highlighting mode for every type of animal, and most are not the stock included ones) but mechanics - how do folks get along on other editors without 'hungry arrow keys', for example ?
ascii_field: their own young. Procreation slumped, infant abandonment and mortality soared. Lone females retreated to isolated nesting boxes on penthouse levels. Other males, a group Calhoun termed “the beautiful ones,” never sought sex and never fought—they just ate, slept, and groomed, wrapped in narcissistic introspection.'
ascii_field: don't forget streaming audio from microphones chump voluntarily keeps in the house, car, etc
ascii_field: decimation: how can any kind of signal magically compromise a stu? << no magic necessary, just ordinary heterodyne
asciilifeform: (and attempt plenty of things that can't)
asciilifeform: ^ example
asciilifeform: china imports own workers sop.
asciilifeform: idk if these folks run the phillipino content farms, but they are almost certainly the shepherds of the usg db with palmprints linked to blockchain tx from idiots
asciilifeform: the way usg contracting works, folks eager-to-please get preemptively down on their knees
asciilifeform: take with grain of salt, but folks fairly deep in the belly of the beast have suggested that 'noblis' is where the handprints from 'bitcoin atm' crap, pseudonyms from 'changetip' chumpatron, 'aml/kyc' idiocy, etc. all ends up.
asciilifeform: ot about Convergence. Years later, I had to abandon DoNotTrackMe (by a Moxie-run company, Abine) nee 'Blur' for Ghostery instead when the former got an update that kept hogging the CPU. An email to Abine just yielded a response to keep updating Blur, but the problem never went away.'
asciilifeform: 'I simply asked him -- in a private email -- if there was a signature for Convergence someplace because I didn't see any online. He accused me of being "inflammatory" and stated it was necessary to "take a leap of faith" (i.e. download and run it without verification). This was back in 2012, mind you. He appeared to be oddly anti-PGP back then, too. Frankly, after that I had no appetite for any more of his, erm, style and forg
asciilifeform: instead of derping like headless chicken for decades, publicly dump out guts - if can make a statement with it, so much the better
asciilifeform: ' If you have a powered up NEXTEL on your belt and you walk within 12 feet of a STU-III in secure mode you have just compromised the classified key.'
asciilifeform: ada, like common lisp, is interesting for the mostly-complete absence of any obviously braindamaged decisions forced upon the user
asciilifeform: this is simply what usg... is. at least since it was grown enough to even -have- a foreign policy.
asciilifeform: jurov: my impression is, eveythign around lisp is considerably fragmented << algol's mighty fragmented too
ascii_field: one (often overhyped but afaik factual) example of a total loss that is later 'un-lost' is archimedes having had fluxions
ascii_field: the actual field of comp sci was annihilated more thoroughly than anything the lysenkoists did to soviet biology
ascii_field: and yes, he was completely spot-on
ascii_field: al schwartz, for example,. wasn't in it
ascii_field: i did a good bit of supercomp heavy lifting for his eotvos thing, pro bono
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: folks aren't signing up for uni because of employment, but as a temporary reprieve from... what comes next
ascii_field has the complete set
ascii_field: who: folks who know they have a 1 in 10 shot at employment if they play, but 1 in 100 if not
ascii_field: you get 1 of 1000 at 'standard temperature and pressure' in some places
asciilifeform: the kind with the clamps
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when done (rarely!) by sane folks, is generally 'part of a balanced diet' involving various vibration/temp/radiation/etc. sensors and rapid key zeroization
asciilifeform: also does dmca really have the provision for 'complainant must sue before date x'? (ianal!)
asciilifeform: on its menu would attempt to have content removed from a personal blog where
asciilifeform: the guy who wrote templeos is living on that racket << terry davis. and schizophrenia is still one of the more reliable ways a white man can get usg payola. though it's still an 'achievement', on part with getting a $1M research grant on your lonesome
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ...but a leech ? a leech is a revolutionary. << usg welfare folks aren't leeches, they're employees. (what're they paid for? ask tlp.)
asciilifeform: the 'living wage' thing is much closer to things that actually happen, because pumping staight from treasury to rentiers (who jack prices immediately on anything subsidized) is apparently a-ok
asciilifeform: meta-nsa can also take out of sample, no ?
asciilifeform: so mircea_popescu is not the only one who wasn't impressed
ascii_field: The "critical" employees would be working without the expectation of receiving a pay check. << not really
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my impression is that it isn't. just a very marginal synthesis with the byproducts left in, with various grotesque 'zombie' aesthetic of decaying user. makes up in sensationalism for what lacks in actual 'epidemiology.'
asciilifeform: i've always wondered why american dope aficionados don't follow the 1980s soviet example and all switch to making (or at least refining) what they use personally
asciilifeform read up on the cocaine vaccine thing. will note that even if it works as claimed (no blood-brain barrier penetration) - the net effect, if everybody were injected, is simply to multiply the standard dose of coke for man by 1.5x or so
asciilifeform: complete with hat
asciilifeform: the schizoid apathy, insensitivity and lack of empathy that could hardly be more extreme in a frank psychotic' << could be a description of virtually any
asciilifeform: 'In all of the discussions, Höss is quite matter-of-fact and apathetic, shows some belated interest in the enormity of his crime, but gives the impression that it never would have occurred to him if somebody hadn’t asked him. There is too much apathy to leave any suggestion of remorse and even the prospect of hanging does not unduly stress him. One gets the general impression of a man who is intellectually normal, but with
asciilifeform: 'If Shkreli acquires Biltricide from Bayer, he plans to raise the price of the drug to $100,000 for a single-day course of treatment, according to people briefed on Turing's business plans. No other changes or improvements to the drug will be made by Turing. The extra revenue generated by Biltricide is expected to earn Turing a fast profit for its investors and help defray the cost of developing other, experimental drugs, sour
asciilifeform: what other applications I could improve for my own use by deleting << kernels
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the pathology arises in cases where victim - usually for reason of taking stimulator nonstop - feels no compulsion to sleep.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if you can afford a computer, you can afford to visit pub
asciilifeform: well yes but how does it improve chances vs. visiting a specially-designated heathen pit where these presently congregate
asciilifeform: indiancandy1: do you drive a car? when you go to a petrol pump, do you pay them to fill your tank? or to wind your gauge to 'full' by hand ?
asciilifeform: neh, his reptilian majesty is too pumped on meth and playing 'space invaders' with live gurlz to be tlp
asciilifeform: orwell more or less spot on - nothing happened in the 20th c. except as nominally decreed in some mega-empire or other
asciilifeform observes that it is not necessary to drink the punch to enjoy the company
asciilifeform: also wtf with calling a vps fakecomputer 'full node'
asciilifeform: 'fail' seems to come with peculiarly much physical security and ample hookers&amp;blow supply in that case
asciilifeform: the engineering spec, not written anywhere, is 'drug must make patient less apt to complain but oughtn't be detectably pleasurable'
asciilifeform: a closed-source compiler is even more of a circus-grade laugh than closed os
asciilifeform: mats: for folks with crippled compilers ?
asciilifeform: chetty: complicated. at [censored] we got a shipment of zip ties in recently, and they break with one hand.
asciilifeform: feet optional (why did 'dancing the hempen jig' go out of fashion ?)
asciilifeform: complete 3-piece kit
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.aif.ru/dontknows/eternal/1084962 << turns out it was proclaimed, but not quite implemented
asciilifeform: iirc he compared it to certain genetically engineered bacteria that end up shedding the payload - 'why should i piss out $protein when i can be making more copies of self faster'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only were the colonies (and then usa) the world's premier nuthouse for sectarian nutters, but the era of 'we have empty space now' promoted the 'tell'em tall tales and who's to say it didn't happen out there in the woods' mentality
asciilifeform: indiancandy1: yes. if you have a rare viral sample (e.g. Marburg) various folks will offer to buy.
asciilifeform has read the complete tlp
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: care to show counter-example ?
asciilifeform: Mengel was speaking of Rudolf Franz Hoess, the commandant of the extermination camp
asciilifeform: somehow this is simply not done...
asciilifeform: find if part is compatible with circa 2010
asciilifeform: for real life implementations of 'spaghetti sort', see adi shamir's 'twinkle' and 'twirl' machines.
asciilifeform: where you can determine precisely what objects are live simply by... forming electric circuit (yes) from the root node
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: beg to differ. there are very good algos for garbage collection with hard real-time guarantees. they are complicated and i know of no system other than common lisp where they are implemented with any quality.
asciilifeform: i suspect that a sizable majority of apple users, if offered the choice between using winblows and being buggered with a thermos, complete with handle, every night,
asciilifeform: for the record, it is very important to understand why folks put up with this.
asciilifeform: 'My wife got through her Master's on a G3 iBook, and we paid to have its motherboard replaced twice for the same graphics issue, a little over a year apart. Having to pay for the first repair sucked, but sometimes those are the odds. Having to pay to repair it a second time due to identical symptoms a couple of months after the initial repair warranty was up was a kick in the teeth, and was a good indicator that there was some
asciilifeform: MPEx may one day -prohibit- redditards from buying coffee!
asciilifeform: anyway, whoever wants to prepare conductive glue can follow simple recipe, epoxy resin and aluminum powder. heavy on the latter. but don't say i didn't warn...
asciilifeform: (and if not today then tomorrow when room temp changes)
asciilifeform: litigation of Plaintiffs claims would present an unjustifiable risk of disclosure of classified information regarding (a) the identities of CIA officers and employees, (b) the job titles, duties, work assignments of Plaintiff and other covert employees, and the criteria and reasons for making the work assignments and employment decisions regarding them, (c) sources and methods used by covert employees, including operational t
asciilifeform: 0x800000 - if it wasn't obvious - is where uboot parks the kernel prior to jumping in
asciilifeform: incidentally it is possible to write the eeprom from uboot (you gotta pump in the new payloads via tftp in that case, but you save time by not needing to wait for an os - such as the terrifying bloat of systemdized-archlinux - to load)
asciilifeform: (the value is simply the sum of the lengths of mtd0..3, naturally, and these numbers are available in the uboot console if that's all you've got)
asciilifeform: the only conceivable use of the above sample is to demonstrate that netbsd will function correctly on 'pogo'.
asciilifeform: the 0xc00000 is a round number here, you want it to encompass your binary's size
asciilifeform: (why do i need a conventional install? because want to test my attempt at driver for the nand as a kernel mod)
asciilifeform: why is it possible to borrow $maxint in mr. chump's name without his pgp key
asciilifeform: any single usg employee's security, in all respects, continues at the MERCY of unidentified party. in no sense and in no manner does it flow from usg-anything << to be fair, the very reason why 'identity theft' is a real problem for anybody is usg
asciilifeform: the 'centrally imposed' i was speaking of was the 'apple says -shit-, devs answer -what colour-' one
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