mircea_popescu: even the kv
mircea_popescu: as late as 1944 anglos were not producing usable tanks. the us versions were midly miserable, the british versions were at best laughable.
asciilifeform: iirc they had normal tankz
mircea_popescu: the brit's idea of a tank.
mircea_popescu: these people came up with the brilliant idea of mounting an autocannon in lieu of a proper cannon on a tank chassis. which is dumb enough ; but... instead of a belt feed, they came with the even briliant-er idea of having it manually loaded, with 3 round clips.
mircea_popescu: myeah. but in other lulz, anyone ever saw the RARDEN (ie, Royal Armament Research and Development blabla) ?
asciilifeform: until then, == idiot monkeys
asciilifeform: when 'they' even exist!
mircea_popescu: im sure they'd take bitcoin.
asciilifeform: it isn't as if they are to be found even on dead cop
mircea_popescu: (notably, all civilised countries consider said he/incendiary round not suitable for anti-personnel applications. except the us, of course, here as everywhere else the epitome of the rogue state.)
asciilifeform: there is stable solution in pig-farmin' tho.
mircea_popescu: or more generally : there is no stable solution in war.
mircea_popescu: still, stuff like the raufoss mk211 is the exact pill for "oh, we're armored". orly ? well done, so the round won't blow clear through you! enjoy zirconium fire in your spleen!
mircea_popescu: iirc gd still makes them.
mircea_popescu: will even fire out of a fucking m2 browning, possibly the world's most abundant machine gun.
asciilifeform: wake me up when mircea_popescu is airdropping these goodies to supply partizans in usa.
asciilifeform: what to shoot them with? crew-served aa gun ?
mircea_popescu: iirc it was 2/3 of the coupla dozen dead.
asciilifeform: swat was the usg answer to ^
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform needs be reminded of http://trilema.com/2015/strategy-for-the-antisocial-struggle/
asciilifeform: on the other end of thing, police firing ranges now have child-shaped targets. someone found that most n00bs hesitate when shooting children and this obviously will not do!
asciilifeform: 'swat' originally referred to 'special weapons' but is also a very pointed double entendre , 'swat, like fly' - which is all that the lone unorganized malcontent with pea shooter is. insect, effortlessly crushed by gestapo.
mircea_popescu: check out all the cute black wagons teh police has now. i wonder if there's a minuature collection anywhere for kids to play with.
asciilifeform: and here i thought the whole fucking point of the college to office butugychag pipeline was to avoid streetwalking
mircea_popescu: (noteworthy that the schmucks have the audacity to "such sites" "a site" etc. fucking link, bitches.)
mircea_popescu: imagine, usg.mit actually has derpy 20something chicks so fucking insane, they run out to whore for it. FOR IT!
mircea_popescu: shinohai the only weird part being that they'd take a guy's money TO GIVE IT TO THE SCAM!
asciilifeform: from same rag: http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/gunman-at-least-one-other-person-dead-in-houston-shooting-police-1.2922152
asciilifeform: btw, pet asks first thing when i come back from chicago : 'didja see the stockyards!? where they use the squeal.'
mircea_popescu: anyway, i've yet to hear one of the "animal rights" derps mention it on its own power.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it seemed to me the sort of obscure-but-very-interesting item that i've by now grown accustomed to the web NOT knowing.
asciilifeform: what is the surprise here ?
mircea_popescu: yeah. in the process doing what agriculture is all about - improvement by selection.
asciilifeform: 'Pig farmers use halothane cones in swine yards to expose piglets to halothane. Those that die were MH-susceptible, thus saving the farmer the expense of raising a pig whose meat he would not be able to market. This also reduced the use of breeding stock carrying the genes for PSS.' -- pediwikia
mircea_popescu: it's ever fascinating what the internet knows or doesn't know.
deedbot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malignant_hyperthermia << Malignant hyperthermia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22061008 << A comparison of halothane homozygous negative and positive ... | http://www.thepigsite.com/diseaseinfo/89/porcine-stress-syndrome-pss << Porcine Stress Syndrome (PSS) - The Pig Site
mircea_popescu: and we hit paydirt. who the fuck is keszybz and who is the irresponsible asshole that lied to him to the degree of making him think he has any business touching computers!
a111: Logged on 2016-04-30 01:55 ben_vulpes: i'll probably be even less communicative than i've been for the next month or two
mircea_popescu: (in the rest of the world, it's legion etrangere, because legion is feminine in french and because s tends to drop, it's a complicated dicussion.)
mircea_popescu: anyway, "the legion estranger" would be pretty lulzy if only it were intentional.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i can't quite make sense of that lafond piece. do you get what the man's trying to say ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose alternatively it could be "waistline in human females goes from 22 to 24 inches", if you want an absolute value. the problem is it'll admit all sorts of nags + most children. this is a debatable stance.
asciilifeform: their only purpose ought to have been setting address bus for mem access.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-29 14:21 mircea_popescu: and that finally there is absolutely no reason to implement arbitrary division in the machine, nor does such idiocy exist in nature ; that the correct machine representation of numbers is FRACTIONS not fucking "decimals", and that computers that natively support bignum up to the size of memory and execute gcd in hardware aren't either particularly hard to make nor their absence to date excusable.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-29 14:43 mircea_popescu: how about being consistent and arguing for "remove laws from the books until the number of male prison inmates === the number of female prison inmates" and "if you can't get married, beg your girlfriends to join you! if one of you cooks, one washes, one sees after the kids and one learns to pole dance, 4 millenian shitheads may just about cover the traditional role of womanhood"
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-29#1473249 << likewise here - 'one bloke learns to fix household appliances; other - cunning linguist; third - makes decent wage; fourth - ???' share!
a111: Logged on 2016-05-29 14:42 mircea_popescu: how is this stance different from "the nazi military police can't find as many gypos as they used to, so therefore flaying alive of gypsies for fun should be regarded as aperfectly normal passtime, and in no sense wrong, even if it was rare before"
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-29#1473246 << from other end it makes sense though - the chix willing to even occasionally fuck the defective bloke are scarce resource and shared
mircea_popescu: hey ben_vulpes can has links to home and to raw right under the wotpaste header ? like dpaste does it ?
mircea_popescu: let this be a lesson to all kids watching at home : don't follow your fucking dreams. your dreams are shit. follow your principles. just as long as they're correct, you can't lose.
mircea_popescu: how about being consistent and arguing for "remove laws from the books until the number of male prison inmates === the number of female prison inmates" and "if you can't get married, beg your girlfriends to join you! if one of you cooks, one washes, one sees after the kids and one learns to pole dance, 4 millenian shitheads may just about cover the traditional role of womanhood"
mircea_popescu: sure dudes, whatever the machine gun says!
mircea_popescu: how is this stance different from "the nazi military police can't find as many gypos as they used to, so therefore flaying alive of gypsies for fun should be regarded as aperfectly normal passtime, and in no sense wrong, even if it was rare before"
mircea_popescu: gotta love the logic, "can't get dudes to marry, so the solution is to make the few that do even more burdened." isn't this exactly opposite oif the usual socialist "share everything into the ground" mantra ?
a111: Logged on 2016-05-28 16:51 shinohai: http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/27/cuckold-your-husband-the-raw-marriage-deal-for-men/
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-28#1473195 << oh i'm so fucking surprised.... you mean the nigger lied ? like... every nigger EVER ? hurr.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-28#1473191 << as the dwarf aptly observed in baldur's gate, "DEATH COMES FOR YOU ALL!"
mircea_popescu: but pi is not motherfucking "3.141592...". pi is 355/113, or whatever the fuck polygon you decide to use.
mircea_popescu: and that finally there is absolutely no reason to implement arbitrary division in the machine, nor does such idiocy exist in nature ; that the correct machine representation of numbers is FRACTIONS not fucking "decimals", and that computers that natively support bignum up to the size of memory and execute gcd in hardware aren't either particularly hard to make nor their absence to date excusable.
mircea_popescu: what an actually intelligent, creative person would have said would have been that the sad, sad excursion in reals on mid-early machines was an utter disaster, the scars of which we may only hope one day to outlive ; that the move away from that stupidity and to purely int machines and appliations is the heart of sensibility,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform thinking about it, it occurs to me that locklin's maudlin piece about reals is exactly typical of him and his "i am not intelligent, nor creative, but here's a bunch of hood ornaments i stole from other people's cars so you may think me intelligent and creative if you've never seen a car before" stance.
BingoBoingo: Other Chicom exchanges similar
BingoBoingo: This Split between Chinese exchanges and not Chinese is rather persistent. Far more than that $20 premium people bitched about for months.
jsgrant: Probably going to bed soon in the meantime anyways, but will lurk regardless.
deedbot: [Qntra] T – A Ticket Management System For The Most Serene Republic - http://qntra.net/2016/05/t-a-ticket-management-system-for-the-most-serene-republic/
BingoBoingo: For aspiring qntra writers note that dollar is never "Dollar" and that price news is never strictly Bitcoin news as evidenced by the Bitcoin category being omitted from the latest piece about exchange noise. That is all.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: motherfuck
shinohai: Perhaps some samogon and honey would sooth the cough.
mircea_popescu: the drawback of hanging out with people is that motherfucker i caught some sort of doom bug, i'm like coughing and shit wtf.
shinohai: I simply make popcorn for the drama parts of logs and move on. Time is too precious a resource to waste dwelling on same butthurt over and over.
mircea_popescu: shinohai check out the wonders of fiatism and "modern science" though. the derp never fucking pm'd anyone, ANYONE, about bitbet back when say, i was doing the warren buffett thing. NOW he finds the time and the interest. not before.
mircea_popescu: the moral being that on teh internet you gotta figure out what to believe yourself.
shinohai: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-28#1473158 <<< lulzy vc. I'm sure someone will give you the tl;dr on Bitbet one day if you don't find it in logs first.
BingoBoingo: Says the person who was surprised by girls in Chicago having faces.
BingoBoingo: AHA, but in Stl you are a short drive from places Legit USG battle flag flies in the Ozarks. Where War of Northern Aggression is still active.
asciilifeform: hey last i heard usg flag was flying in these lands also.
BingoBoingo: As in Cats and bears zoo, not James Lafond zoo though there is that too.
asciilifeform: i met a gurl who used to live there. disrecommends it even to visit.
BingoBoingo: Makes East St Louis look like 1600's England. BUT one of the better functioning cities in the state. Even has massive floodwalls
BingoBoingo: Nah, they are more segregated than that.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It's like James Lafond presents baltimore in minitature with all the James Lafonds on strike.
BingoBoingo: Also riverboats for Gossipd on the water.
asciilifeform: what's in there?
BingoBoingo: Fine, apparently the pale zimbabwestans aren't for you. Maybe Cairo, Illinois is you town.
BingoBoingo: Mega railroad there
BingoBoingo: Trains are happening there!
a111: Logged on 2016-05-28 04:51 BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Nah, he'd enjoy the walk until he hit Ohio which would likely make him miss swamp
a111: Logged on 2016-05-28 04:54 BingoBoingo: Judging by the parts of Chicago alf enjoyed I believe his favorite place in Illinois would be either pinckneyville, Roodhouse, or Benton for their "frozen in time" natures.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-28#1473096 << all these zimbabwestans i never even heard of...
a111: Logged on 2016-05-28 02:07 mircea_popescu: heh they give him plane money ? i'd have expected he has to walk.
felipelalli: FYI: a acquainted owner of https://originalmy.com made it compatible with deedbot. So if you drag&drop a txt file sent to deedbot to his site, the site says the file is registered on Blockchain.
BingoBoingo: Judging by the parts of Chicago alf enjoyed I believe his favorite place in Illinois would be either pinckneyville, Roodhouse, or Benton for their "frozen in time" natures.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Nah, he'd enjoy the walk until he hit Ohio which would likely make him miss swamp
mod6: this is just little shit like the help menu.
mod6: i'll have to try again tomorrow. but the site updates are correct anyway.
mircea_popescu: heh they give him plane money ? i'd have expected he has to walk.
asciilifeform: they have a word for it.
mircea_popescu: i guess. not really the same item at all.
mircea_popescu: (samogon, for the innocent, is a "anything you got" sort of brandy that long predates vodka)
mircea_popescu: drinks another vodka, gets plastered, goes to same ditch falls alseep.
mircea_popescu: then when done stuffs a 30 cent bill in his pocket and departs.
mircea_popescu: a local faggot, seeing the man sleeping in a ditch, pulls down his pants, fucks him in the ass,
mircea_popescu: and he's kinda depressed, and haunts this lowest of the lowest dive,
mircea_popescu: but instead just sorta... sent out to bum the rest of his days
mircea_popescu: in this alternate universe, the comrade general secretary of the central committee of the romanian communist party, comrade nicolae ceausescu isn't shot
phf wants to hear the joke with assburning
mircea_popescu: or they sold same vodka
phf: but on the flip side every side street smells like a russian apartment complex back stairs
phf: they literally build cat houses in public parks with elaborate architecture, i've seen four or five of those
shinohai: Anywho, please don't think I'm evil because I suggest a varmit gun. I do love my cat because no other good reading companion.
asciilifeform: can't picture a rat lasting long there
mircea_popescu: on the upside, pigeons aren't much of a problem
asciilifeform: so feed'em the scraps.
asciilifeform: shinohai: if you feed'em something nice, they won't look for garbage.
shinohai: One cannot simply make pets of them
mod6: they are amazing hunters.
asciilifeform: i cultivate them wherever i live
mod6: *nod* would take care of the cat problem too.
mircea_popescu: yeah, it should be enough to get the seedlings up
mod6: that'd be rather awesome if that's what you mean, and it might come to that tbh.
mircea_popescu: basically put a wooden frame like an old screen door or w/e upright, and the plastic from it.
mod6: a good test either way tho
mod6: yeah, they certainly got a new home.
mircea_popescu: mod6 rain planting works for the plants :D
shinohai: I'm drunk so imma call her pimp and ask if they want a railroad job.
BingoBoingo: Send them to vacation with alf in chicago for a few months until the frost threat leaves?
mod6: anyway, thanks for the advice. will test that next year for sure.
mod6: they fuck up all plants.
mod6: that's the one problem. not a lot of window-sill real-estate for that shit. plus: cats.
mod6: not sure exactly how to do that on some of them. like tomatoes and cukes are obvious, but what about the cabbabe and dill, etc?
shinohai: Yeah soak those fuckers then trick seeds into thinking spring
mod6: i dunno, i guess i could. my understanding was that most of these greenhouses start the seeds in like march time-frame. but maybe i'm way off there.
BingoBoingo: Seeds start just fine in the dirt.
BingoBoingo: What about where you put the plants from big greenhouse?
shinohai: Just thing of how that will taste on the grille with some phesant mod6 :D
mod6: got all the tomatoes, basil, pumpkins, eggplants, squash, and r. lettuce planted in the pouring rain. tomorrow: strawberries, watermelon, broccoli, early/late cabbage, short/long cukes, brussel sprouts, and dill
mircea_popescu: and in other news, http://67.media.tumblr.com/39b2d41c6089caf17ac1159f7ef6d467/tumblr_o5idlqT9ub1svf4xjo1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the letters in a circle were very important to have as glyphs because some people can't think otherwise.
phf: there's actually "4 GB Memory 4 CPU cores 120GB SSD Space 4TB Bandwidth" option, he just ran out of allocation for the current box
mircea_popescu: btw vc you totally should look into eulora. beats eve out of the water.
mircea_popescu: and in other accomplished slut news, http://66.media.tumblr.com/2cec6f2b568dcb792aeb92e794d71194/tumblr_nvxvvcf67z1tlhlmmo1_400.gif
mircea_popescu: (ftr, most major device gamers burn more than 100gb/month in data ; a good game can well go over the gb just to install, and the churn is massive, i think the dedicated azn shrimp goes through 10k a month or some such shit)
mircea_popescu: ie, if i ran trilema from there i'd need 10 packages.
mircea_popescu: i bet you what they mean is, they allow "any" burst, (ie, they got some slack in the routers, so you can concievably get 100mbps or such), but they literally meter the bg to .1 tb/month
trinque: I'm gonna reach out to them for a quote
mircea_popescu: iceland infrastructure is kinda meh. they peer with britain-the-shithole and that's that.
mircea_popescu: a, there is that.
vc: the bandwidth, specifically
mircea_popescu: but they have no iceland servers ?!
vc: nah you might have seen the URL of an ars technica article that said iceland
trinque: point being they'd sell
vc: mircea_popescu: toss me another 1.7k eur and we'll talk ;)
mircea_popescu: i take it he got a single colo'd box imagining the market in terms of "shared server" derps ; and then ran into tmsr and everyone wants whole boxes and phuctor runs on a 256gb monster.
trinque: idgaf about the price
vc: it's SSD storage and only one physical server, hence the price
vc: if you're interested there's exactly one slot left
mircea_popescu: the power to gut teh web.
mircea_popescu: basically, imagine a future where everyone who wants to (or doesn't care/know enough to not want to) runs the tmsr-bot, which registers its prices with deedbot, and then i can go !bot <order> and deedbot parcels it out to the bots it knows, and reports the rersults when done.
mircea_popescu: the derpy "watch a video for bitcoin" thing is just what you'd expect out of usgistan. meanwhile, a irc-bot driven client that does ethernet and computation, and charges for these would be pretty sweet.
phf: for good measure it should say 2 results, counting the bot's answer
shinohai: afaik ben_vulpes ... I kinda stopped going after same 3 girls all the time
phf: yeah, i know the web side is borked, but i think 1 result is actually the search query itself, which is a bug
phf: btcbase server still fails at taking unicode in queries, but i suspect that irc works (or it will possibly bring the log down..)
mircea_popescu: shinohai prolly trying to get the "clips4sale" market.
phf: (this ensures that ascii can continue mashing keys without reading the docs!!! and get reasonable results, but one can still extract precise information out of the machine)
phf: grep is still there, and will basically remain as such by doing `"dog"`
mircea_popescu: eh alexa, whadda they know.
deedbot: [Trilema] The great "law enforcement" article - http://trilema.com/2016/the-great-law-enforcement-article/
a111: Logged on 2016-05-27 16:43 trinque: man do I love the model of bot services as compared to "web apps"
a111: Logged on 2016-05-27 16:24 trinque: but asciilifeform... they're all ears
trinque: man do I love the model of bot services as compared to "web apps"
mod6: we're pretty close to the first testing of it in here -- have some loose ends to tie up (the remaining ~20%). if history is any guide, there will be more to do as change requests, etc. but at least we'll have somethign that works.
mod6: so I think, hopefully sometime today, i'll send out t.pl to the ML as is - however i don't really expect anyone to use t.pl themselves. sending it to the ML for more of posterity purposes.
asciilifeform: i oughta ask adlai what pill to take so that the corn will ~listen~.
trinque: but asciilifeform... they're all ears
mod6: anyone wanna help me test the cmd line version of t.pl?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Smaller cities like St Louis, Kansas City, Milwauke, and yes the corn.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: what do visit there? corn ?
asciilifeform has most of a day before going back to the swamplandz
a111: Logged on 2016-05-27 16:01 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: where i live they will reply with grunts, like the soldiers in 'wolfenstein'.
BingoBoingo: That or abduct you to their blacksite. Chicago PD can be unpredictable.
BingoBoingo: Well don't live there. Maybe try asking Chicago cop which where you get the best hotdogs in town? Throw out how you think this just might be the Cubs year to win it all. Chances are he'll talk like a person and leak intel.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: where i live they will reply with grunts, like the soldiers in 'wolfenstein'.
BingoBoingo: How else do you find out why the closed the road you wanted to take other than by asking them.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: didja miss the 'don't talk to cops!111' memo.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: There's the action you are forgetting when you casually meet the on the street and bitch about Obama together over cigarettes.
mircea_popescu: point security measure left at the discretion of point sovereign.
mircea_popescu: like any other bandit.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the idea is that it is distinguished by the crashing sound as 50 heavily armed bandits break in
mircea_popescu: and the policy is to shoot masked people breaking down doors.
mircea_popescu: otherwise... a piece of pdf reading "supoena" is not distinguishable or to be distinguished from an email reading "you have won the google intel microsoft award"
asciilifeform: like any other bandit.
asciilifeform: isn't that an elementary part of mircea_popescu's observation re 'usg corporate shield that you must break and re-personalize the interaction'
mircea_popescu: note that it also misses pretty much everyting : the badge/id number of responsible agent is missing, there's no direct contact phone, etc.
asciilifeform: they are legion.
asciilifeform: why not cut out the dead weight.
mircea_popescu: it has TONS of life in it. notice how it works, intellectually, exactly on the same framework as spam email.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-27 14:03 mircea_popescu: odds are you'll get killed ; but the only certainty is the socialist state won't survive.
asciilifeform: it isn't as if the pretense the legalism was meant to uphold has any life remaining in it.
asciilifeform: sure but still, why the legalizms.
asciilifeform: it is rather like having bear break into a song and dance before eating tourist
mircea_popescu: that "supoena" thing is a true wonder. 1. issued by police dept ? 2. "this is authorized" ? by who the fuck is it authorized, have the adult in charge sign for you.
shinohai: https://theconversation.com/how-did-public-bathrooms-get-to-be-separated-by-sex-in-the-first-place-59575
asciilifeform: i had nfi what they did
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: i'd prefer the term re-slut.
asciilifeform: in another desert
mircea_popescu: you suspect he'd be perfectly fine if only hadn't the misfortune of his compatriots being around ?
trinque: man somebody needs to drop adlai in the desert with an airstream full of water and food until he's fully detoxed
mircea_popescu: 865159723 is a prime (the 44`318`624th) newly found nao.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> it is in fact right and proper for the juvenile to be anon and then graduate to wot. << AHA, College!
mircea_popescu: it is in fact right and proper for the juvenile to be anon and then graduate to wot.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger there's some minimal gains via anonimous systems (see the whole anon/loic/times man of the year/blabla stuff). it is juvenile.
mircea_popescu: much like when they want obama to win, they propose a contest between obama and another identical fucktard, rather than between obama and someone who isn't a system fucktard.
mircea_popescu: they aim to misrepresent the pseudonimity-anonimity debate as governmentidentity-anonimity, and thus change the result.