mircea_popescu: and in other wtf, anglos write naTion and noTion but nevertheless say naSHion and noSHion. because NOT ONLY do they have the romanian t, and s, which they don't bother to write down, but they also do the t, -> s, conversion like a buncha southern idiot plainsdwellers. romanian also spells nation and notion, but reads it like orcs one removed, natzion, notzion. fucking welchers do it like orcs twice removed, sh directly.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: "There are fewer Pokemon Go locations in black neighborhoods, but why? "
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2011/indescriptibila-academie-catafailencu/#comment-53513 << ran "O sarma sa taiem ; foame-i lu bitu' Ion" ie, let's cut a sarmali (trad ro dish for various events), uncle Ion [iliescu, the ducks from trucks president] is hungry. it is entirely homophonous with "aux armes citoyens, formez vos bataillons". the thing was for 14th of july.
mircea_popescu: what is even the fucking point jesus
phf: only thing that comes to mind is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_eXile, i still have a couple of print editions on shelves somewhere
mircea_popescu: lemme fish out perhaps their glory moment
mircea_popescu: heh. this was an epic newspaper. perhaps the only actually good newspaper i ever personally witnessed. live, functional, the genuine article.
phf: in a sense that it's a catch phrase from media that everyone is familiar with, yes, but i'm blanking on print media, i was not sufficiently someone back then
mircea_popescu: (romanian version of canard enchaine, immensely popular in the 90s, so much so that everyone who was anyone read each and every edition, had a permanent column by that name, approx "these words which do hurt us" in broken romanian.)
phf: perhaps from their a6 agenda
mircea_popescu: Cepaliga@CkickNet.ro << that, for instance, is misspelled (clicknet.ro). leaving aside the FUCKING CAPITALIZATION - someone typed that shit by hand. off, no doubt, paper.
mircea_popescu: basically, old people being active on the internets.
mircea_popescu: http://www.sfatulbatranilor.ro/archive/index.php/t-5200.html << for the lulz-inclined.
asciilifeform: 'not shakespeare, but man of the same name!' (tm) (r)
asciilifeform: or is this some other mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: lel, who's the old fella in mircea_popescu's avatar pic
mircea_popescu: anyway. romania will probably swing. ~nobody that i heard from likes the westerners anymoar.
mircea_popescu: constanta is no match for ru ports ; and turkey holds the straits. strategically the position of nato in black sea is much worse than its generally tenuous standing on land in europe.
mircea_popescu: this is what hillary & friends at state perceived as their "nuclear option".
mircea_popescu: anglo derps keep pushing their usual "the embattled president" and "the military/{insert collective nouns}" etc.
asciilifeform: latest word is, they blew up tr parliament ?
mircea_popescu: hanno boeck ( http://trilema.com/2016/psa-hanno-bock-still-a-deceitful-shitbag/ ) definitely hoax. turkish "coup", not hoax - major usg.dos success. as far as those go these days.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 23:51 mircea_popescu: not that i'd ever or have ever typed on anything but a proper fucking desktop keyboard. even the laptop is annoying to me because off spacing.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 23:26 mircea_popescu: i can't imagine why the fuck anyone would use the toy shits. if your affairs CAN be organized by the machine, you don't have affairs complex enough to require outside help. stop wasting your time with the thing and work teh noggin.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503652 << i use, for the most part, my head. but my schedule is not very complicated.
asciilifeform: i still have nfi which, precisely, parrot, these are.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503681 << i went with ben_vulpes and chetty and fed these parrots.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 23:15 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503421 << they omitted publishing this. or, if memory serves, the actual factors ?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503640 << published factors, but not where the fuck he got the pubkeys
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform & other interested parties : turkish usg nonsense firmly quashed, screenshot "mainstream" news sites if you wanna lulz art them later.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-16 00:23 mircea_popescu: "The Solution To No Problems Back in 2011, when I ran AnonNews.org, I had to cope with frequent DDoS attacks - not all that surprising, given that it was a very popular news site and community for Anonymous, which was seeing the peak of its media coverage at the time. In 2011, however, it was pretty much impossible to get working DDoS mitigation for less than $100 a month, and that was simply not a budget I had to spend on it
mircea_popescu: "The Solution To No Problems Back in 2011, when I ran AnonNews.org, I had to cope with frequent DDoS attacks - not all that surprising, given that it was a very popular news site and community for Anonymous, which was seeing the peak of its media coverage at the time. In 2011, however, it was pretty much impossible to get working DDoS mitigation for less than $100 a month, and that was simply not a budget I had to spend on it
mircea_popescu: lobbes the hipsters are supposed to go "well she's trying so nobody should criticize zer"
mircea_popescu: just like colored coins, ripple, ethereum, etcetereum
mircea_popescu: don't tell me it "Changed the world" for a few seasons only to quietly and permanently go away
mircea_popescu: what happened to the previous incarnation of this scam - perpetuated by conde nast itself ?
shinohai: Steem is the "get paid to reddit" coin
lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503490 << indeed. the whole "pledge to de-schedule" thing is meaningless, as well. Even if happened, it would have ~0 effect on the legal status of the stuff.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503547 << o look, official mouthpiece now talking of "the dao's demise" ? aww, they seem to have forgotten some parts. again.
mircea_popescu: today it's more a sort of metastasized south tirol / bulgaria. whatever-her-name german chick fine representative of the eastern values and mentalities prevalent.
phf: sometimes i feel, or rather i know, that i "learned" all these time saving techniques before i had time to save, and now i must unlearn them, because they ended up wasting a lot of time
a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 21:57 pete_dushenski: long gone are the days of von moltke and the close ties between prussia and the ottomans eh
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503538 << long gone are the days of germany being any sort of Preußen.
mircea_popescu: not that i'd ever or have ever typed on anything but a proper fucking desktop keyboard. even the laptop is annoying to me because off spacing.
mircea_popescu: you may call both notes, but they're entirely unrelated items. i want excellent records of any experiment i ever run ; but not of any flirting.
mircea_popescu: phf there's a very substantial difference between THESE notes, ie, business planning and whatever they are, daily minutia ; and the notes there contemplated, which are subject of science, and entirely useless if not verbalized.
mircea_popescu: one should not try to wear another's insanity.
mircea_popescu: dude... wet, soft, fleshy things go in there. lego bricks are for something else.
mircea_popescu: it's a separation of jobs thing. i fail to mentally divorce the point of "organizer" from entirely unverbalized, doodlery. getting an "organizer" is not, to my mind, unlike getting a cock holder made out of lego bricks.
phf: this position is at odds with your "no notes unless i can grep through them" somewhere in the logs. i don't know if i would necessarily care to grep through an agenda, but i somehow have more useful notes on paper, than i have on machine, despite trying very hard to computerize
mircea_popescu has had to arbiter more disputes that entirely hinged on a quickly scrawled set of three lines with dots on them than he cares to remember.
mircea_popescu: a-page-a-day sort of items ; you can take all sorts of not-readily-verbalizable notes in there. it's essentially the year's doodle collection, i have no idea how you'd alphabetize that.
mircea_popescu: rings - optional. leather, mandatory.
mircea_popescu: you gotta, it was in ru in the 90s just as well as in ro and so on.
mircea_popescu: i'm not saying its a bad thing-that-it-is. just... you know the item i'm talking about ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503490 << we see no such thing. she's (by which we mean, the system people that manhandled her into running for them) entirely desperate, going to lose spectacularly in november, willing to try literally everything. if i could show her 1mn trump votes in half dozen states, she'd write numbers on her tits for us here.
mircea_popescu: about the only argument would be "well, that stuff is dangerous, and electronic version can have a proper unbreakable lock put on it". this'd weigh a lot more if YOU COULD ACTUALLY GET CRYPTO ONES!
mircea_popescu: if you're young / poor / just starting out, you need the paper thing. if you're large enough, the next step is, assistant(s). there's just no way little pocket beeper figures in this line that my mind groks.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i guess it's funny to the outside observer, but here's me doing a complete reversal re the book discussion. there really isn't any way to make the 2cm thick, a6 agenda fit in silicon.
mircea_popescu: i can't imagine why the fuck anyone would use the toy shits. if your affairs CAN be organized by the machine, you don't have affairs complex enough to require outside help. stop wasting your time with the thing and work teh noggin.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 20:47 phf: i use a psion as an organizer, and i still can't get used to the fact that it looks ~good~ in direct sunlight. like it's some amazing novel technology
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503461 << i use a number of persons. works way the fuck better than any electronic gizmo ever invented.
mircea_popescu: so moved on to phase 2 of the usg.asset cycle, where he's now dormant and periodically fed contribution vomit.
mircea_popescu: occam proposes "they were just made up". wanted to make his list look "complete" thus it had to be longer ; failed to realise phuctor is AN ACTUAL THING rather than the drawing of a thing, and so will find some more still.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503421 << they omitted publishing this. or, if memory serves, the actual factors ?
deedbot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consort_Qi << Consort Qi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-demonization-of-empress-wu-20743091/ << The Demonization of Empress Wu | History | Smithsonian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_L%C3%BC_Zhi << Empress Lü Zhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
mircea_popescu: i dunno, maybe compost, maybe the lu zhi treatment...
mircea_popescu: i wish to buy caged "modern feminist" by the pound. eventually, usg WILL sell this product to me.
mircea_popescu: yes, but the camps are a different thing.
mircea_popescu: and similarly re concentration camps. whenever you have socialism in power, you eventually DO get the camps. this isn't open to discussion.
mircea_popescu: and as its survival is actually its only paramount value (recall george costanza in the fire scene ? "without leaders we'd all be lost! i had to survive" - life as supreme value perversely translates to, perpetuation of socialism state at expense of all life), it WILL at some point spontaneously recrystalize from "modern democracy" socialism to national socialism.
asciilifeform: the whole statist orchestra depends on plugging whatever possible exits, at all cost
mircea_popescu: which is why in highschool interest tv dramas, the 2nd choice never gets laid. it's either the main or the dark horse.
mircea_popescu: everything is a possibility that wasn't visible as one. the only things that never happen are the perceived alternatives.
mircea_popescu: anyway - i wonder at what point of turning the vice around its ballsac, usg finally relents, admits that it is way the fuck cheaper and therefore better to be friends with the smart people, throws idiots to the dogs. so we get license to capture humanities majors from horseback on campus, and they get the default immunity they like to pretend they currently have.
mircea_popescu: "how much would you pay me for information that prevents destruction of $1mn worth of materiel ?" us army : "3% of total damage as evaluated by us" ru army, in general "150% of maximal damage" and on the day before invasion, up to 1mn% of same.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform his observation is well grounded though. the maximum that can be extracted from victim is necessarily below the total damage the bug inflicts. which is why it's always better to sell to enemy of victim. which is why market is complex.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-07 18:09 mircea_popescu: here's something for the historian in alf! there's ancient statement of the principle, recorded in 1970 milwaukee journal : "You make yourself ridiculous by thinking you can do anything. The word is divided in two. The Russians and the Americans, no one else. What are we? Americans. Behind me there is the government, behind the government is NATO, behind NATO is the US. You can't fight us, we are Americans."
mircea_popescu recalls the defective lock analogy.
mats: its really for folks looking to pad their resume
a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 21:21 pete_dushenski: https://bugcrowd.com/fca << megal0lotron. if anyone thought apocalyptic's work offers were insulting low, they haven't seen fiat chrysler's yet.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 19:09 asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: recall that usg sits on top of egyptian pyramid - sized heap of fpga. why not, then, hijack an old, familiar scrypt-based altcoin, and proclaim 'see, YES WE CAN!111' etc
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503331 << this is a nice theory, but afaik it was exactly never verified in practice. it's altogether improbable the excel secret agents are actually capable of managing the farm / applying it to any definite purpose.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 19:02 asciilifeform: even 'deluxe paint II' for amiga (!) beats the shit out of gimp.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503327 << just because you have wild, entirely unsuported in practice expectations of a gui, and just because you don't know how to / want to script it, doesn't mean the tool doesn't work.
mircea_popescu: anyway. /me vaguely considers leaving the derp a "stop posturing ; read the required material", but whatevs.
mircea_popescu: anyway. he started exactly like this other schmuck.
asciilifeform: but i'd be the last to know
mircea_popescu: ah, lotta lulz buried in there.
mircea_popescu: back when the circle of derps thought they not only have some power in bitcoin, but outright control it ? 2011ish or so ?
mircea_popescu: bitco.in ... Bitcoin Protocol Bitcoin Unlimited 11 ian. 2016 - BUIP011: Andrew Clifford for President Submitted 12/01/2016 I think that a lot of people will know my posts from bitcointalk, reddit, and now the
shinohai: Obviously he is someone that thinks "open letters" to the "komoooonuity" will work.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck is "andrew clifford" again ?
asciilifeform: phf: in the logz already
trinque: phf: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/jul/15/turkey-coup-attempt-military-gunfire-ankara
pete_dushenski: https://twitter.com/KentMGlobal/status/753996788638494720 << in other local news, you might not be interested in isis tactics, but isis tactics are interested in you.
pete_dushenski: apparently that little rain storm was worse than i thought... chunks of the city are w/o power... http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/roads-flooding-in-edmonton-after-epic-thunderstorm-1.3681796 << "epic!"
pete_dushenski: long gone are the days of von moltke and the close ties between prussia and the ottomans eh
shinohai: The lolz, "Germany has denied Erdogan permission to land his plane."
pete_dushenski: lol toyota camry is 'made in america' and isn't fit for the poubelle. NICE TRY.
pete_dushenski: https://bugcrowd.com/fca << megal0lotron. if anyone thought apocalyptic's work offers were insulting low, they haven't seen fiat chrysler's yet.
asciilifeform: nobody, afaik, has done anything of the kind.
asciilifeform: my point was that the thing will fit in no recent portable gadget.
trinque: asciilifeform: I've seen them wired up to controller boards that speak vga/hdmi around the net
asciilifeform: you could try to locate one of the laptops they worked with (qi was sold as an after-market add-on thing) but they weren't much to write home about.
asciilifeform: trinque: even if you could buy the panel (they do appear on, e.g., ebay, regularly) -- where do you intend to put it ?
trinque: I just called them actually, asking pricing and so on.
phf: or just crank up the backlight burning through battery until next recharge
trinque: I researched those this week; pixel qi sold to an outfit that seems to be sitting on the patents
asciilifeform: i guess modern konsooomer is expected to sit in a cave, like a mole, and not try to use machinery in the sun
asciilifeform: a decade or so ago, there was an outfit ('pixel qi') that purported to sell sunlight-viewable displays, they were, iirc, well-received, but also died.
asciilifeform: epaper is a disappointment, imho; there was some promising tech in 'static lcd' (which draws 0 current when holding image) while retaining the speed/crispness; but afaik it died.
phf: yeah, i have a dx too, i also have two or three small keyboard ones, but they break easily (i broke like 4 or 5) with they way i use them anyway, and since the kindle direction is clearly dodgy i just don't feel like doing anything with them
asciilifeform: and a more recent unit, with frontlight, which i gave to pet, i could not abide the lack of mechanical switches
phf: i was really happy with the old keyboard kindle, it had free internet, and was just generally a very promising oldfag device. hardware keyboard, promising screen, ~lighter than any versions since~, had a bunch of linux hacks including a terminal. i ported a zork interpreter to it. and of course amazon doesn't care about oldfag market, so kindles went downhill fast since
asciilifeform: i can even tell you what is in store for epaper aficionados: the thing will be colourized, and the original b&w version will be taken off the market; just as with lcd; the colour version will be blurrier and less suitable for text, but WATCH LOLCATS YOU TERRORIST
asciilifeform: and before anyone asks, yes i have the latest example made.
asciilifeform: it redraws, slowly, visibly to the naked eye
pete_dushenski: holy cromoly that's some lightning outside. this must be the rainiest summer in memory. every afternoon with the wet stuff!
pete_dushenski: phf: aha! missed the 'ce' bit
phf: i use a psion as an organizer, and i still can't get used to the fact that it looks ~good~ in direct sunlight. like it's some amazing novel technology
asciilifeform: was good for very little else, but the screen was amazing
asciilifeform: the thing was nearly perfect for reading plain text.
phf: newtons and palms rather
asciilifeform: and every so often toy with the idea of getting one and cleaning it up
phf: it's funny how back then was like "well, this is not quite there, but i'm sure they'll work out kinks in the future"
asciilifeform: i still miss the thing
asciilifeform: it was a reasonable simulacrum of handwriting, for short inputs, rather than a futile banging of your fingers against unresponsive surface
asciilifeform: without a mechanical dampener, it is same as banging against the wall.
asciilifeform: or the touch screen idiocy
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: snore, for same reason as the laser keyboard of 10 yrs ago
pete_dushenski: trinque: gotta love 'illegal attempt' to seize power. well ya, no shit. what fucking legal attempts to seize power could there possibly be ?
trinque: BingoBoingo: ^ maybe moar weather
asciilifeform: in all likelihood, the crock of shit was concocted with the aim of making us waste some cycles attempting to answer said q's.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 18:27 trinque: or BingoBoingo's "the debate was had"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503284 << yeah, also a large piece of the dumbsenal. "this shouldn't be discussed because it already was" "when and by whom ?" "don't ask so many questions"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it does - login is chiefly by-ip. even if the "cookies" nonsense has not been excised.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 18:26 pete_dushenski: this daylight theft wrapped up as 'transparencee' caters directly to teh aspie crowd, the kind who fancies himself genre savvy without really being so. the victim of 'taught controversy', if you will.
asciilifeform: from my reading of the src, mp-wp does not materially differ from stock wp in this respect
mircea_popescu: not the way it works on mp-wp, not really.
asciilifeform: it pulls in the whole shitstack
trinque: pete_dushenski: the world can not both be befouled by socialism and socialism be ineffective *at creating the products of socialism*
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503273 << in principle you don't want logging for browser ; just to identify the owner. this is not so unlike the concept of root. otherwise - logins are mostly a "forum" ie, www-bbs item
trinque: and yet it sits there, and you do not.
pete_dushenski: ie. not the high watermark so much as a tenuously related shadow of the thing itself
pete_dushenski: you can only say that usg is 'literally' effective if you degrade the definition of effective to the point where it's what petrocheese is to french brie
trinque: if wishes were.. or however the thing goes
trinque: so, while I loathe the creature, while it still sits there, it is *literally* still effective.
trinque: this is precisely mircea_popescu's and asciilifeform's conversation (yesterday?) about the definition of an army
pete_dushenski: which is why they want the internet to be 'safe' by using exactly that broken technology. sure. but this is like the hunter who only visits the zoo. can you still call him an effective hunter ?
trinque: these nazis certainly *can* break various forms of "SSL", to pick something at random
trinque: yes, because this is how the allies beat the nazis, by parroting "nazis can't do anything anyway"
pete_dushenski: but them not being the same and the possibility of one being effective are differing considerations
a111: Logged on 2016-07-12 20:35 mircea_popescu: "oh i know, we've created a sort of monarchy without a king, basically just the court and nobody there to behead us - we'll call it democracy. if anyone inquires into the matter we can always add modern in front and it'll be all good!"
trinque: one of the interesting parts of the coming disintegration of the federal govt is getting to see what gangs exist within
trinque: the part which breaks cryptography for insider trading and such isn't necessarily the same which ham-handedly lights the middle east on fire
pete_dushenski: ...if you're in the position to name things
pete_dushenski: danielpbarron: well, dan isn't a nickname for daniel.... except it is. that different people are better known by one or the other doesn't change the fact that 'king dick the lionheart' is perfectly valid
pete_dushenski: trinque: 'never' and 'ever' are long timeframes, granted. but where do you draw the line ?
trinque: that the thing is politically inept does not reduce to "never did anything ever"
pete_dushenski: looks like it's pretty obvious where their marketing efforts are going atm eh
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: the usg that promulgates diddled ciphers which are then breakable with array of fpga, and the usg that puts my mail into the box across the street, are not same entity.
pete_dushenski: i hesitate to ask what usg understands 'cryptoanalysis' to mean in practical terms because it's hard to fathom that it can either think or act on such terms, but...
pete_dushenski: so pardon my ignorance but what were crays used for back when they were used ?
asciilifeform: (we know that ??? eats plenty of mains current, and requires titanic coolers, just like the old crays; and likewise that it does not consist wholly of stock x86 boxes.)
asciilifeform: after the demise of cray, the old machines were decommissioned, and replaced with ???
pete_dushenski: what, mining ltc then ?
asciilifeform: i have nfi for what they are used, for all i know they glue them into a throne for hitler to sit in.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: xilinx and altera make $B+ of them / yr and they aren't going into tv sets etc.
pete_dushenski: shinohai: gotta love the '6-12 months' bit too. so vague, so comminuteee oriented, so 'when the feeling strikes'
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: recall that usg sits on top of egyptian pyramid - sized heap of fpga. why not, then, hijack an old, familiar scrypt-based altcoin, and proclaim 'see, YES WE CAN!111' etc
shinohai: Because if we don't do it to Bitcoin, we lost the war and our upboats meant NOTHING!!!!
pete_dushenski: " SW in particular has a number of strong benefits but also alters fundamental code that underpins billions of dollars in value. For this reason we have sympathy with the proposal that it be implemented in Litecoin first. After a period of 6 to 12 months SW could then be applied to Bitcoin, incorporating any lessons learned." << why not experiment with eth ? dao ? c-ripple even ? digging up ltc corpse is
asciilifeform: even 'deluxe paint II' for amiga (!) beats the shit out of gimp.
asciilifeform: likewise there is no open drawing proggy worth half a sparrow's fart
asciilifeform: diana_coman: it is a trivial technical problem, that will likely never be solved, because there is no open cad proggy worth a sparrow's fart.
diana_coman: hm, as far as I know it should be able to pin the part/shape based on position+pressure and then I don't see indeed why wouldn't it be able to react to turning the pen - maybe it's a precision thing?
asciilifeform: 'Adoption of Xtreme Thinblocks (Xthin) such that all implementations have interoperable fast block propagation. Results from recent testing involving nodes both inside and outside Mainland China indicates that blocks up to 20MB are manageable for the network.' << 'crock of shit will collapse overnight if clients actually try to validate mega-blox, so forget about it'
asciilifeform: 'Making non-mining full nodes “fork-tolerant” by decoupling them from the miners with respect to the prevailing block size limit. There is no need for ordinary node owners to upgrade as and when miners do, or accept a risky “flag day” event. Bitcoin Unlimited already has fork-tolerant nodes via BUIP001 where non-mining nodes always track the longest Proof-of-Work chain, and are agnostic to block version resizing flags.' << l0
asciilifeform: shinohai: contingent of fresh shills? i did say, they will never run out
asciilifeform: diana_coman: i do, e.g., cad, and would like to be able to, say, rotate a part by pinning it with a pen, and turning the pen. but this does not, afaik, exist.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: it is possible to read the raw numbers from the pen, in linux, yes - even tilt angles. but afaik there is no proggy that usefully eats them.
pete_dushenski has friends in france atm. figures that they haven't called from nth republican prison yet is a good sign.
diana_coman: it *can* be used if one needs to in the sense that yes, one can get some job done with it, but otherwise control is rather poor, have to scroll/move hand awkwardly to cover all the screen, pen is not even very comfortable to use/grip (at least not for my hand) etc
a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 17:36 asciilifeform: if anybody reading this has used one of them gadgets, plz write in.
pete_dushenski: https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/14/nintendos-classic-mini-is-a-tiny-nes-with-30-games/ << whattheshitthisiscoolgimmegimmegimmeonenownownowiwantitrightfuckingnow. ok i can wait until nov 11 but for $60 how not ?
pete_dushenski: http://fox13now.com/2016/07/14/car-bomb-explosion-kills-one-in-southeast-nevada/ << in which nevada looks increasingly like baghdad after the fall.
pete_dushenski: http://trilema.com/2013/how-to-live-to-be-rich/#comment-118078 << speaking of the fashion, don't be too harsh u guise!! jeez why can't everyone just take a chill pill
pete_dushenski: or 'no brainer' as is the fashion
a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 14:56 BingoBoingo: I'm not sure they *need* the Levant if they have France
trinque: or BingoBoingo's "the debate was had"
pete_dushenski: this daylight theft wrapped up as 'transparencee' caters directly to teh aspie crowd, the kind who fancies himself genre savvy without really being so. the victim of 'taught controversy', if you will.
asciilifeform: and re: last night's 'keep on truckin'!' >> 'An eyewitness to the attack described the driver as "a young guy, very focused on what he was doing." "He didn't looking angry," John Lambert told CBC News. "He wasn't screaming or shouting. He was just … focusing on the job."' ( http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nice-truck-bastille-day-1.3680294 )
asciilifeform: in other 'yesterday's nobel is tomorrow's homework' nyooz, http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/07/14/cloudflare-we-have-a-problem
asciilifeform: re: earlier thread: i'm a little surprised that nobody (afaik) has combined the sensing antennae of 'wacom'-like apparatus into the lcd pixel addressing lines themselves.
asciilifeform: and creaks at the seams, no matter what you do.
mircea_popescu: dubious if it's worth the hassle, which is ~why i never seriously pursued it.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 15:57 mircea_popescu: if anyone wants the project, can be (probably SHOULD be) implemented as pure html, just a form.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503184 << can STILL use the pure html form method discussed http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-14#1502869 re chat bot.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 10:31 Framedragger: regarding LAMP stacks and blog software: static site generators are there for a reason. significantly smaller codebases and attack surfaces cf. wordpress. just sayin'.
asciilifeform: if anybody reading this has used one of them gadgets, plz write in.
asciilifeform: apparently there is now 7 types of this thing, since i last saw (decade or so ago.)
asciilifeform: admittedly i want this for cad, rather than sierra gamez.
mircea_popescu: me either.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 10:16 Framedragger: lolwut, Apocalyptic was wrong by deciding to play in the wrong sandbox? Ok.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503180 << let it be said that if you wander into the courthouse one day and staple an invitation to your hipster fair / recruitment drive on the judge's face he'll whack you once and if that doesn't do it you'll spend the next month in county jail thinking things through. it's a thing, there's a hierarchy in realia, which obviously isn't obligatory to dreamers - up until the dog comes.
asciilifeform: probably even needs thermal compensation, if you want the pixels-to-pen-nib relation to stay just-so
asciilifeform: i have nfi if this was so when it was new, and hence why the thing can only be seen in junk shops, or otherwise.
asciilifeform: not the pressure pen idiocy
asciilifeform: the wacom radio pen
asciilifeform: they sorta vanished
asciilifeform: but where are the pen machines !
asciilifeform: the strange thing is, a ~pen~ would work quite well for lucas arts / sierra / etc. adventures
mircea_popescu: you are not in the demo even vaguely. ipad games are for millenials. kids of a very peculiar plato's cave upbringing. kids that never killed an animal with their own hands ; that never ran until they lost balance, that never fought with the boys or pulled the girl's hair an' skirts.
asciilifeform: i'm not exactly outside the demo, but still dun see..
mircea_popescu: yeah well you're not in the demo.
mircea_popescu: people have "fun" through sheer confusion. plus they're never done playing.
mircea_popescu: the ~only successful ipad mmorpgs consist of exactly this : make 500 minigames loosely bunched together in a "daily activity meter" list of rewards,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, it happens another place. ipad games!
mircea_popescu: it's already here : raise your shitcoin holdings to whatever power you feel like and then multiply the result by zero to find out how much value you're holding.
asciilifeform: it is an almost inevitable thing, per the familiar chumpatronic model (consider fiatola 'middle class' fella trying to evaluate his net worth, sitting in a pile of bezzles of 1,001 types)
mircea_popescu: yeah, but the main problem is that the african/pacific islander notion of "water" precludes hydraulics for a number of solidly good reasons a few derivations prior.
asciilifeform: or possibly this is rather like complaining that cargo cult straw airplane lacks real hydraulics
mircea_popescu: it's the case amoeba in an agar fell upon some grains of sugar and are now taking their approximate shape, as perceived by amoebic senses
asciilifeform: didn't they round up an entire circus of academics etc ?
mircea_popescu: you understand this ? it's not the case of a person making design decisions on some basis leading to some results.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally, when digging into eth etc in light of 'turing-complete!111 programmable!1111' scamatronics, i was somewhat surprised that they did not add the flourish of 'algebraic coin'