asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unfair stat, it is disingenuous to count suppressive fire in the total 'to kill'
mircea_popescu: fucking training sargents don't pass. then people wonder why it takes 3mn rounds/kill. 99% it's not the fucking hardware
mircea_popescu: anyway, go watch people use their sighted item, score them for corectness, be amazed.
mircea_popescu: "my rifle doesn't work in the fog" "oh you're one of those, are you"
asciilifeform: i could even see an argument for, e.g., laser, if there were any place to put it
mircea_popescu: they even make 2.5x scopes. "soo... what's this do ?" "IT SCOPES!!!1"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a lot of the guy's complaints are in the direction of "this is too heavy too hard too etc" reminiscent of "beautiful one tries to go to war"
mircea_popescu: well part of derp's problem is that to her stupid head there exists no enemies
ben_vulpes: are you seriously going to drag a player piano out the airplane when jumping behind enemy lines
mircea_popescu: "your job is called being a whore, forget the journacrap"
ben_vulpes: "but i can't let go of the ipnohe, it's got my email and facebookz!"
mircea_popescu: there is NOTHING WRONG with tool killing SOME OF the lusers. wrong is when the tool hurts the lusers it didn't kill.
mircea_popescu: all this focus on the wrong sort of ergonomics.
mircea_popescu: first, i will crack all your fingers in the piano. THEN you MAY be allowed to buy ancient laptop and learn to gpg, MAYBE.
ben_vulpes: bitch you will buy a three hundred dollar ancient craptop from the bazaar and learn2gpg
mircea_popescu: rifle of Middle Eastern goat herders, guys named Abdullah, and backwoods militia types who like the fact that it shoots cheap ammo and has ballistics like their familiar .30-30." <<< amusingly, these are actually quite good points.
mircea_popescu: "AK-47: Crude and inaccurate bullet thrower designed by and for illiterate peasants. Chambered in a caliber that manages to cut the ballistics of a proper .30-caliber battle rifle in half without passing on any weight savings to the grunt. Ergonomics only suitable for Russian midgets. Archaic cable trigger spring, crummy sights, no sight radius to speak of, no bolt hold-open device, and a clumsy safety. Favorite infantry
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 16:42 mats: https://theintercept.com/2016/07/21/edward-snowdens-new-research-aims-to-keep-smartphones-from-betraying-their-owners bunnie and snowden collaborate
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1507975 << "when management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."
mats: i dun understand how this'd prevent exfil when the user eventually turns on the radio to use it
asciilifeform: let's encrypt the space inside our nostrils with free ssl certs!111
asciilifeform: gotta love the tunnel-visioned elaborate crapolade these folks offer instead of very basic sanities
asciilifeform: it isn't a wholly idiotic idea when applied to something you actually think you have a grasp of (e.g., the packets going into and out of your battlestation)
mats: i don't see how this could be workable either
asciilifeform: 'the goal of Snowden and Huang’s research, according to their post, is to “provide field-ready tools that enable a reporter to observe and investigate the status of the phone’s radios directly and independently of the phone’s native hardware.” In other words, they want to build an entirely separate tiny computer that users can attach to a smartphone to alert them if it’s being dishonest about its radio emissions.' << and
mats: https://theintercept.com/2016/07/21/edward-snowdens-new-research-aims-to-keep-smartphones-from-betraying-their-owners bunnie and snowden collaborate
asciilifeform: 'At approximately 3:14 p.m., Deutsche Bank transmitted to RBS Coutts a SWIFT payment order requesting that $700 million be credited to an account at RBS Coutts. The SWIFT message did not identify the owner of the RBS Coutts account, but the account number listed on the SWIFT as the recipient of the $700 million wire transfer was the number of the Good Star Account.'
asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://cryptome.org/2016/07/steal-billion.pdf ( http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/65d50596-716e-4090-a86b-86785a92aaa4 )
asciilifeform: there! it is.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1507898 << this was a thing of beauty but i lost the link...
asciilifeform: phf: aha, i killed an 'm' for many of them
asciilifeform: quite unlike the more common 'm'
asciilifeform: the ~sound~ of this thing is difficult to describe, every key is quite satisfing 'schpling', like dry-firing kalash
phf: yeah, i see you replaced ctrl and alt keys from elsewhere (and a bunch of others obviously)
asciilifeform: the weird 'lock' key is a ctrl. (i was unable to source a correctly-shaped cntrl to go there, and did not feel like sweating over it at any rate)
mircea_popescu: sure, and every other palleative conceivable, outside of the correct "if it doesn't fit in 27 it needn't be said."
mircea_popescu: "but the symbols!"
mircea_popescu: "meta-alt-fuckyourmother" ? really ? i am not pushing that!
mircea_popescu: aha. because you're copying me rather than copying the idiots with their "programmer's claw" in doing it. if you wrote 50k lines of code a year you'd have it too.
asciilifeform: set up yer box to actually count the strokes, it is not so hard
mircea_popescu: that's more than a writer writes, were it the good sort that actually does write.
asciilifeform: 0 to do with how the keys are arranged.
asciilifeform: but to this day i have no weird nerve or carpal or whateverthefucks, because, perhaps, i am not a monkey, and do not bang the keyboard all day long
mircea_popescu: there is also that yeah.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1507911 << fwiw i destroyed my eyes with b00kz, the old-fashioned way, before i got to spend any serious time with machinery
mircea_popescu: and they also became literate through a means, also specific and also apparently "unknown" today, in the "nfi" sense of "unknown" above.
mircea_popescu: because.they.were.literate.
asciilifeform: what i do know is that actual people who lived in the actual-people-age did no such thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but not because you don't know. you're intelligent enough to know, and by rights should know. it's just that the stupid overrider in your brain overrides the brain. it's like so : "we need the speechwriters and ghostwriters to translate our symbols into the plaintext of they without proper huffman tables"
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 15:34 phf: asciilifeform: there seems to be a significant lack of modifier keys
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1507904 << understand, ALL of the original driver electronics were removed, controller is mine, any key can be whatever i like. i have the middle of the arrows as a meta.
mircea_popescu: but in fairness, i would say i rely on a very specific sort of literacy. i have people do things for me! you lot, all of you, are the modern equivalent of a barony that is neverthelss being run by the ox-baron personally, by hand. because in the future we have this strange species of ox-man that "can". of sorts, really, only 80% of the can, but hey, who cares about broken fingers and other appednages as a result. HEAR THE OXM
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 15:56 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1507799 << you know what THEIR explanation for the speechwriter is, yes ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1507799 << you know what THEIR explanation for the speechwriter is, yes ?
phf: the prerequisite aptitude to use it productive.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 15:16 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1507789 << possibly because you never design computer in whole life. you look at fine desktop, think it need crazy shit stick on all sides of unit. you have disease of american capitalist, change thing that is fine for no reason except to look different from comrade. you put cheap rubber of chinese slave factory in keyboard, you put bad crt of mexican drug empire on other si
phf: the extra row of function keys looks nice though
phf: asciilifeform: there seems to be a significant lack of modifier keys
mircea_popescu: there's worse things i could be doing with my time than handcopying teh masters.
mircea_popescu: i did this gladly, and i consider myself well gained from the exercise.
mircea_popescu: btw asciilifeform : above, I TYPED!!11, by hand, the whole fucking lengthy thing.
asciilifeform: the original has 122.
asciilifeform: if anyone wants one of these things, you can wait a decade for it to show up on 'ebay' or the like, as i did, or you can get the modern reproduction, that someone actually makes, but be aware that it is a castrato (66 key) thing.
asciilifeform: afaik there is no known case of even 1 wearing out.
asciilifeform: they were originally rated for 20 million cycles each at minimum.
asciilifeform: all of the parts (piston, which is a standard 'model m' key), spring (standard model m spring, still made), cylinder (removable individually) and flapper (ditto) are standalone
asciilifeform: when piss leaks out the bottom, it will equilibrate and continue working.
asciilifeform: for good measure i coated the plastic (only the top surface is plastic, the rest - 3mm steel, 3 layers thereof) in thick nickel paint
asciilifeform: (there are no electrical switches in the thing. you can actually take a piss in it and it'll work.)
asciilifeform just enthroned the 'model f', 0-rubber gigantic keyboard, 4kg or so of mainly steel, that he's been restoring slowly since april
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 05:17 ben_vulpes: and all on a 6-axis arm with other 6-axis arms mounted on a ball that follows me around positioning the monitor and kb just perfectly ergonomically.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1507789 << possibly because you never design computer in whole life. you look at fine desktop, think it need crazy shit stick on all sides of unit. you have disease of american capitalist, change thing that is fine for no reason except to look different from comrade. you put cheap rubber of chinese slave factory in keyboard, you put bad crt of mexican drug empire on other side, you put propel
mircea_popescu: "clicked traffic" as the thing is called in the [porn] biz being about 500k to the bitcoin last i looked, sometime last year. meaning the entire yearly value of the global "online advertising" market is equivalent to a few bitcoin blocks, meaning in turn that a choice to occupy yourself with that thing is equivalent to a deliberate choice not to matter. nttawwt.
mircea_popescu: and if he weren't and instead did http://trilema.com/2014/askfm-laid-bare-or-whats-half-a-million-uniques-to-you/ he'd be pulling more. which isn't to say 16mn either, but the problem with "advertising" is that it being all fraud, the logical move is to buy the cheaper fortune teller, which is NEVER going to be "publisher".
phf: irs claims that he was selling direct, so i don't know how that translates into money at all, it's probably all fixed bid. if he was doing google now and they didn't immediately kick him off the network, etc. he'd probably be pulling more than 5k but of course not "16mil", which is not enough to pay entire gawker staff, but enough to cover his server costs, etc.
mircea_popescu: qntra made more than gawker at any point of their respective existence.
mircea_popescu: but no need to reference my materia obscura. take gigaom. on the basis of "internet knowledge" would you have said he certainly makes "more from ads than ukr polish guy" ? yes. did he ? no. turns out he made less from advertising than freelaqncer makes from fixing python code.
mircea_popescu: there's actually a lot of valuable data re eeuropean "advertising market" there as a result of me running a large intel project on the topic at the time.
phf: or to quote The Guard "street value. you boys always go on about street value. i don't know which street you buying your coke at, because it's not the same street i'm buying my coke at"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile irl, silk road can't dispose of a kg of coke for 3 weeks over xmas ; and the "ad revenue guy" can't pay for his coffee.
mircea_popescu: this is no actual proof, of course, "somewhere in the sky there may be". but from 100s of actually checked cases, every one turned to be an outright lie.
mircea_popescu: i have personally chased the "Estimated ad revenue" of such people, for years. it never came through.
phf: you understimate the amount of fun those little devices provide :> ukranian guy in poland raking estimated 16 mil in ad revenue, i'm sure he had bitches and bling, rather than you know live in a safe bunker and infosec all day
phf: well, more specifically "Records provided by Apple showed that tirm@me.com conducted an iTunes transaction using IP Address 109.86.226.203 on or about July 31, 2015. The same IP Address was used on the same day to login into the KAT Facebook."
phf: "The key piece of evidence that led authorities to Vaulin appeared to come when Apple handed over his personal details after investigators matched an IP address used to log in to the KAT Facebook page with one linked to an iTunes purchase."
thestringpuller: So the kickass torrent raid was partially made possible by Coinbase?
shinohai: Yes I meant to start the sentence with "Polish" to clarify that.
Framedragger: "On Wednesday, law enforcement in Poland arrested the alleged owner of the site, 30 year-old Artem Vaulin of Ukraine."
thestringpuller: they are willing to ride or die. that's actually kind of refreshing
thestringpuller: wow buterin underestimated the ethclassic community
gribble: The operation succeeded.
pete_dushenski: http://theindependent.sg/minister-shanmugam-shames-his-resident-online/ << more from same rag. singapore win, or why small states cap effectively cap out ~7mn denizens.
ben_vulpes: http://theindependent.sg/smrt-secretly-shipping-35-prc-made-trains-back-to-china-for-repairs/ << i don't even
ben_vulpes: i have *sat* on the thing to *zero* effect.
ben_vulpes: i have one of the v2s, iirc. fits in back pocket of ~all jeans.
asciilifeform: well trick is to use 'dx' or other machine with reasonably a4-like screen
ben_vulpes: they fit legibly?
ben_vulpes: the pdf or hand-wgot set?
ben_vulpes: do not underestimate the laziness of americans.
ben_vulpes: or any other e-ink thinger
ben_vulpes: subject of fdr, yarvin is peddling epubs of moldbuggery on the 'kindle store'
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 03:12 pete_dushenski: https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/MeredithStatement.pdf << you can't resign from usg.trump just because you're illiterate and didn't do your job (resignation letter from speechwriterlady who not-so-lightly lifted bits from usg.michelle and gave them to usg.melania)
ben_vulpes: naught but the economic pressures that drive laptop producers to make their wares with the fewest number of atoms possible to satisfy the cowsies.
asciilifeform: what's to keep lappy from being rectangular in other way?
ben_vulpes: and all on a 6-axis arm with other 6-axis arms mounted on a ball that follows me around positioning the monitor and kb just perfectly ergonomically.
ben_vulpes: because how are you going to cram a tall display into the portable formfactor?
ben_vulpes: which, if you'll let me finish omfg!, would suck in myriad other ways i can't wait to hear you bitch about
ben_vulpes: it is rather nice.
asciilifeform: the depressing thing about the crapple lappy (and i think i have the one ben_vulpes has, the maxint one) is that it makes me pine for a few square metres of its lcd
ben_vulpes: i am at the very least lucky that emacs will eat CMD-<anything but tab>
ben_vulpes: and it is heinous apple box, and so there is no unified way to split, shuffle, collapse.
ben_vulpes: 1 usefully allocated to emacs, another to term, laptop screen shows kandinksy, rockets, turbines, etc on shuffle.
mircea_popescu: so yes, "gui" is for lamerz. there's no point in having a fucking button to click on like im serving mcfucksticks. there's no need to "shade" the "part of the window that shows you how to move it"
mircea_popescu: even the fucktardation of "resizable windows". you know i never used that stupid shit ?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: did you nuke the 'read only pg user' notion?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 00:45 mircea_popescu: alternatively, phpmyadmin is also just a script you can get standalone. tho in generall it's a case of "people haven't actually ever tried to cli mysql because nobody ever told them they could"
mircea_popescu: and in other news, http://66.media.tumblr.com/392c689f0615d3929368a267e63a6652/tumblr_miotjkNWhp1s0hrh7o2_1280.jpg
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i was barfing at the idea that phuctor is cleanly sliceable into a piece that lives on my box and sends csv to somebody else. very much own thing, from own thread..
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1507577 << how didja think i got the, e.g., 'list of e==1 winnerz' etc out.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you understand that there's no difference between an "utf-8 character" and a number of ascii characters yes
phf: ben_vulpes: you might benefit from sticking byte array into CHAR[] unless i'm misremembering psql constraints on what kind of chars can go there. because bytea is going to have a 4 byte overhead, numeric an 8 byte overhead
mircea_popescu: and ftr, the c notion of "char" is exactly equal to the notion of byte. the thing uses words and chars.
ben_vulpes: but it lends the benefit of "oh, derps asked about 1b1tc01n34t3r"
ben_vulpes: phf: i know, i meant 'integer' in the abstract, with numeric as the concrete implementation that i'd use.
ben_vulpes: "why the everloving fuck would i install 500 mb of webkit for shit that should have been packaged with the source?"
ben_vulpes: "mno. not worth the cost."
ben_vulpes: "oh. have you tried readthedocs?"
ben_vulpes: "documentation. you know. as what readthedocs is generated from."
ben_vulpes: "where are the docs installed with ancient djangos in virtualenvs?"
ben_vulpes: unrelatedly hoooooly shit the retardation on display in #django
Joshua-I: they must have some advantage
pete_dushenski: i thought august was supposed to be the 'hot month'
Joshua-I: Maybe someone will shoot him in the face
Joshua-I: Pretty much the same intensity it has been this whole time
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: the mastermind behind 14 seasons of 'the apprentice' always provideth the lulz
mircea_popescu: the us election drama intensifies ?
pete_dushenski: https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/MeredithStatement.pdf << you can't resign from usg.trump just because you're illiterate and didn't do your job (resignation letter from speechwriterlady who not-so-lightly lifted bits from usg.michelle and gave them to usg.melania)
a111: Logged on 2016-07-20 14:28 asciilifeform: the only proggy i've ever encountered which did.
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-20#1506980 << emacs has (standard-display-cyrillic-translit "Russian"), which i remember being enabled on the dos build of emacs
phf: ben_vulpes: well, fwiw that question doesn't quite make sense from postgresql perspective either :) since your actual choice is to store decoded byte array in a BYTEA, decoded number in NUMERIC or original hash in CHAR. integer won't fit an entire hash, since it's 4 bytes.
gribble: Error: We broke The Google!
pete_dushenski: celica is the toyota sporty car...
gribble: Error: We broke The Google!
pete_dushenski: "culture ? what culture ? imma wear my cowboy boots to the opera goshdarnit!"
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: semi-relatedly, the delicas are migrating south
pete_dushenski: "redneck bikes!" << rich rednecks too. og 'fat bikes' were >$5k until the last year or two when clunkier steel $2k models starting hitting stores.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-20 22:44 pete_dushenski: http://monroenews.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2014/02/16/Outdoors_Fat_Bikes_Gorc_t670.jpg?b3f6a5d7692ccc373d56e40cf708e3fa67d9af9d << this is what winter riding looks like 'round these parts.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: 'could' doesn't explain why whole cities stood still on the plain for slaughter and rape by the mongols
mircea_popescu: hanbot it's an anthopological fact. if woman could outran man the species would not be here.
ben_vulpes: hence the question of 'integer vs. byte array'
ben_vulpes: phf: i'd like to stick these values into postgres, not hold them in memory in a lisp process.
ben_vulpes: said the ostrich
mircea_popescu: phf his question is not really formulated. "best" what, "least likely to be fucked up by the c compiler" ?
phf: ben_vulpes: well, binary types are unrelated to the issue though. binary types you declare your struct, you still want to decide yourself what goes in the struct. treating hashes as numbers makes sense if you're going full lisp, i.e. you're actually going to do math with those numbers (which is at the end of the day their whole purpose), unless it's not actually a hash but a bit mask or a xor'd something or other
phf: ben_vulpes: if you're talking lisp, there's no reason not to store those values as numbers
ben_vulpes: that's not nearly southern women as it is "women who live in suburbia in the south of usgistan"
mircea_popescu: they can't.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-20#1507470 << the only good one of this was the one with the southern womenz. i have nfi why everyone thought they could do a version of their own.
ben_vulpes: my question is about data in the blockchain. eg merkle roots, block/txn hashes.
ben_vulpes: the tree, though...
ben_vulpes: well the mr is a hash of hashes, no? doesn't have much structure to it.
ben_vulpes: tooootally tangentially and not at all related to anything else, would there be any reason to store merkleroots, block/txn hashes as integers vs byte arrays?
mircea_popescu: I DONT ACTUALLY NEED THE WEB ?!?!?!
mircea_popescu still recalls the utter "holy shit" face of chick when shown this magic
ben_vulpes: and put that motherfuckin browser down, kid
mircea_popescu: alternatively, phpmyadmin is also just a script you can get standalone. tho in generall it's a case of "people haven't actually ever tried to cli mysql because nobody ever told them they could"
ben_vulpes: the entire point i apparently failed to make.
pete_dushenski: kudos to B. Zorina Khan for the enlightened perspective. hey, maybe (s)he's even a log reader.
mircea_popescu: they have a point. when i cant get a bottle of nitric acid to carelessly spill on table, there's not going to be any inventions.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-20 22:20 pete_dushenski: less important than incentives for creativity, flexibility, and the ability to make incremental adjustments that can transform existing technologies into inventions that are appropriate for prevailing domestic conditions." << basically get the govn't out of the way and que sera sera, the meat will be what it'll be.
pete_dushenski: "specifically the one who though Mark Karpelès did it." << thought.
thestringpuller: drop the spike!
phf: pretty sure most 90s script kiddies at some point cracked latin dictionary and went "waitaminute" followed immediately by "well, what the hell, that's kind of cool on its own"
a111: Logged on 2016-07-20 16:24 shinohai: Kind of imagined you meant plural of viruses there.
phf: zhttp://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-20#1507246 << it's a term of art from the 90s, back when malware carried exclusively destructive payload, but since then particular broken latin form morphed into oldfag leet speak for "malware"
thestringpuller: yea. ix.is is good for qntra writers. just make script to dump gpg turd into ix.is and then i can just dump that to irc
BingoBoingo: But yeah you're the only person to use it and then thestringpuller gets an invite before I do?
BingoBoingo: Oh, no thestringpuller's sig
BingoBoingo: pastebin is the suck
BingoBoingo: also thestringpuller when did shinohai let you on his dpastey thing?
thestringpuller: the 90's are alive in portlant
ben_vulpes: idly considering acquiring several old trailers, rehabing them with ladybird and renting them out
ben_vulpes has enough cars, salivating over pickups and haustrucks these days
pete_dushenski: in other news no one here can use, i'm brokering a rather minty 1991 porsche 964/911 carrera 4 coupe manual if anyone's in the air-cooled market.
ben_vulpes: happens pretty reliably once every other winter or so
pete_dushenski: http://monroenews.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2014/02/16/Outdoors_Fat_Bikes_Gorc_t670.jpg?b3f6a5d7692ccc373d56e40cf708e3fa67d9af9d << this is what winter riding looks like 'round these parts.
ben_vulpes: *even* in the summer.
ben_vulpes: kinda obligatory in the summer for commuters due to the wacky climate dynamics in the area.
ben_vulpes: 8.3 ish miles from the office
pete_dushenski: it just... isn't the culture here. pickings are slim as shit.
ben_vulpes: that's the best part
ben_vulpes: i moved out of the city!
ben_vulpes: fence was the actually onerous thing.
pete_dushenski: btw mazel tov on the new pad, ben_vulpes
pete_dushenski: i'm content with a few hot meals a week, the rest, i scavenge. makes the hot meals all the better.
pete_dushenski is fond of the micro onde
ben_vulpes: i mean yeah, it's a microwave, to continue the cooking metaphor.
pete_dushenski: i've had no issues with cpanel in the past, nor is 'cpanel doesn't unglue without reformatting' a cause to abandon it in my book
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: i'm still not sure i see the angle but it's probably fair to blame my own ignorance on the subject
a111: Logged on 2016-07-20 10:47 Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1506544 << i've a $10 vps, no complaints, i did the initial ipv4 probing off of that. didn't run any i/o etc benchmarks tho. any particular questions (i can run some benchmark if you want)
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-20#1506866 << i guess i don't subscribe to the theory of server scarcity. at least not any more than the theory of global food scarcity. if server only does one thing for one man, so be it.
pete_dushenski: less important than incentives for creativity, flexibility, and the ability to make incremental adjustments that can transform existing technologies into inventions that are appropriate for prevailing domestic conditions." << basically get the govn't out of the way and que sera sera, the meat will be what it'll be.
pete_dushenski: http://www.lse.ac.uk/economicHistory/workingPapers/2016/WP249.pdf << "The results indicate that scientists, engineers or technicians were not well-represented among the British great inventors, and their contributions remained unspecialized until very late in the nineteenth century. For developing countries today, the implications are that costly investments in specialized human capital resources might be
gribble: The operation succeeded.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: and in other coindesk & "mainstream" media matters news, http://65.media.tumblr.com/ea9bfe6523f04b7fa3660d3bd034b83c/tumblr_njzygprU981tme9oio1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: shit dun work, but it's all they know how to do, so it's all they're doing. "should be good enough".
mircea_popescu: and no, it's not autism, they're hatching the cornel derp as "expert" for teh future.
mircea_popescu: in any case, we're way the fuck better off with you putting in the medium-skilled 100s of hours to get this working ; and then gradually improving on that basis - than to wait for someone to put in the 10`000s of hours of very highly qualified work to replace lamp&all.
mircea_popescu: shinohai in theory. in practice, no.
shinohai: mircea_popescu: re: wordpress so is there a better way to do all this than the lamp behemoth ?
mircea_popescu: one of the very best offerings in comparative cinematography, btw, is imo http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1422122/ ; a collection of 5 or so shorts - coupla of which made by exceptional directors, which shows ; the rest made by inept derps (hanno hofer worst of the lot), and they look exactly like "someone filmed 80 30second ad clips and spliced them together)
mircea_popescu: fetishism, you understand me ? "i like this book because of the way capital letters are drawn at beginning of paragraph"
asciilifeform: i liked the stakes.
mircea_popescu: anyways. ima just mark down that you really liked the hats an' move on.
mircea_popescu: i suppose "rzeczpospolita" may substitute for the perverse ?
mircea_popescu: like porn, exactly. except without the redeeming value of cunt.
mircea_popescu: i mean it's vignettes of no internal sense, designed to appeal to the emotional brain of middle aged women, strewn together by no glue other than the happenstance of having been so presented.
mircea_popescu: it's a tv show. like the price is right and jeopardy.
asciilifeform: the older chunks are better.
mircea_popescu: i managed to crawl up to the part where the weird woman reads auspices in water wheel.
asciilifeform: so which of these did mircea_popescu see 1.5 of ?
mircea_popescu: ie, they made it into 4 parts.
mircea_popescu: wtf was with that guy, there's a montage worth a good 10 minutes of him gurning meaninglessly at the [mostly burning] scenery
mircea_popescu: 4th starts wqith scene of ilsa in shot with the bizarro "witch" woman (typical televisa shot, both face the camera, because totally this is how people interact) ; ends with balcony scene of the obnoxious derp + ilsa wedding.
mircea_popescu: what did you like anyway, the costumes ?
mircea_popescu: fucking bond extras thinking themselves actresses wtf is this.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 23:51 mircea_popescu: at this point, project either delivers and is done or takes on life of own. if takes on life, then 3. more wizards are added, they slowly asm-ify the loops, inside out.
trinque: teh parallel with "look at the data!!" from earlier vs "UI" as styled high-level API
mircea_popescu: put wireshark on, see what the difference is.