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(trilema) ben_vulpes: my mother roots around in middens
(trilema) ben_vulpes: punkman: so pgp'd be the one i'm looking for?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i was hoping to find that which was printed out and airplaned around during the "crypto wars"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: re previous deed: i briefly went hunting for prehistoric gnupg or pgp source recently. does anyone have copies?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: did you ever do a piece on the mailing list/prediction scam where the operator keeps splitting the list on predictions until he's down to a tenth of the original list who've only seen him make winning predictions?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it's usually the latter for me
(trilema) ben_vulpes: or demonstrating your ignorance of important things
(trilema) ben_vulpes: PeterL: airgapped master key and subkey for hauling around
(trilema) ben_vulpes: also wtf is this rss wp equivalence
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;later tell mitch_callahan look harder
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski i knocked it over, hasn't misbehaved since
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mod6: interdasting, mine crapped out last night too
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ohai deedbot-
(trilema) ben_vulpes: jordan pearson: you have no business writing about bitcoin
(trilema) ben_vulpes: > airgapped@ip
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i'd dearly lurve to see hitler diddle freenode like that
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ascii_field: if i'm responding to a message that was encrypted to my key, and demonstrate knowledge of the cleartext, does that not support unhitlerdom?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: !up ascii_field
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: ever seen "Forbidden Zone"?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: shesek: your ip is leaking
(trilema) ben_vulpes: imho (and i'm always wrong, it's cool bru) it should be possible to reconstruct the current state of the wot from a log of !rate's and !v's
(trilema) ben_vulpes: worst case scenario, unless the standard is verifiability, #bitcoin-jesters could cause all sortsa problems trying to federate their wot into this one.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: which raises a problem i spotted a while back and didn't raise, which is that ratings are not independently verifiable.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: my money's on btcalpha sucking in ratings from #b-a feed
(trilema) ben_vulpes: !gettrust adlai pete_dushenski
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ooh i love this thread
(trilema) ben_vulpes: wahahahahaha
(trilema) ben_vulpes: this leads to a stush that quickly dies down every 3-5 years
(trilema) ben_vulpes: same club is gently discouraged from letting foreign students near the code and plans
(trilema) ben_vulpes: $rokkitclub collectively blinked in confusion and carried on with tricks
(trilema) ben_vulpes: person in question made an appearance at $rokkitclub as well on the same topic.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: search'll need redoing on top of the wot as well.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: !up ascii_field
(trilema) ben_vulpes: !s britney spears
(trilema) ben_vulpes supposes much, knows little
(trilema) ben_vulpes: programming being the lathework, i suppose.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: 'computing', i suppose.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: programming is still in "right or left handed screws" regime, if that isn't an egregious compliment.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "ease of access"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: tilted pelvises and resulting "swayback" indicates well trained?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: he's not even out yet, but i do plan to teach driving rather early
(trilema) ben_vulpes: well made old stuff rules.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and it was fixable with hardware store parts!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the fix took less than an hour of time for disassembly, diagnosis, hardware store trip, fix and reassembly.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: subject of traditional b-a threads, the corvette started honking uncontrollably last night.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: average bagel topping is a poisson schmear
(trilema) ben_vulpes: inb4 'average knowledge is retardation'
(trilema) ben_vulpes: crystal ball lies sometimes man
(trilema) ben_vulpes: 2023: #bitcoin-assets has migrated to xotika, queue to perform is longer than a human lifespan
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ascii_field: "router"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: but have not dug in detail either.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ascii_field: i am, btw, at a loss as to why that box isn't responding.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: regarding the carveout, did we do the 1970 clean air carveout from criminal charges for car manufacturers?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: s'il vous plait
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;later tell kakobrekla "coracle": 54.187.227.228
(trilema) ben_vulpes: nonsense i say
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;isup wiki.bitcoin-assets.com
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-09-2015#1287111 << how about a wooden tmsr~ "stake" for sitting his enemies down upon?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: early exponential exercises
(trilema) ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: it all falls out of tvom
(trilema) ben_vulpes: getting my fingers into 20-year infrastructure investment optimizations
(trilema) ben_vulpes: any more *ms-integrating*
(trilema) ben_vulpes: 'cause i suuuure as shit ain't writing any more code than is necessary than to pry mword open to execute my "portable code" (as $newclient's IT dept refers to...everything)
(trilema) ben_vulpes: gabriel_laddel: but i need to render this webview in a microsoft word plugin
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski ashley madison ran bots to "drive engagement".
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i wonder what AM's bots raked in on an hourly basis.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i pooped u guise
(trilema) ben_vulpes: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i learned of the ethereum "yellow paper" the other day
(trilema) ben_vulpes: !s why is it crashing
(trilema) ben_vulpes: why is it crashing?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: funkenstein_: can't really hold the streetwalker responsible for the condition of the streets now can you?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;later tell asciilifeform that'd truly make it a little shop of horrors!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: lobbes: usg tentacle is the catholic church's only future existence
(trilema) ben_vulpes off to taunt feds
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: came in on the local homeschooling wotwire
(trilema) ben_vulpes: Birdman: i'm taking the girl on a cross-state line run, but please tell me later how tournaments make collusion unprofitable
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: familiar with 'caribou mathematics contest'?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i dun even b'leev u
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i need ecc meatram
(trilema) ben_vulpes: Birdman: has swc solved collusion?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: bucephalus, zoolag, ignatius
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: your naming conventions are lovely
(trilema) ben_vulpes: a no, pure derpitude on my part.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: log is showing lines that my irc client is not
(trilema) ben_vulpes: wai u all gotta be so dramatique
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;later tell adlai open source in tmsr~ means a person can ask another person for a copy of the source, and might actually get it
(trilema) ben_vulpes doesn't understand anything about how the world works
(trilema) ben_vulpes: this is relevant to a question i've been mulling of late. say a new client shows up at my door, and i like their shit so much i want to buy a chunk of it. how would i navigate both owning a chunk of the new company and also my consulting company that would be building large swathes of the product? seems a bit ethically and incentive-alignmently fraught.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: good morning, assett
(trilema) ben_vulpes pours out a drink for the memory of trinque in town
(trilema) ben_vulpes: from the lulzmine: "Do specialized systems include enhanced security measures consistent with risk analysis?"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: whether it's the hepcat "rfp" or the mvc/mvvm patterns
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ui programming is fucking complicated
(trilema) ben_vulpes: myeah because coffeescript on node.js with mongodb and a half-baked orm wasn't considered a risk
(trilema) ben_vulpes: client security wants to know if we do risk analysis on "emerging mobile code"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ("Hey, We've Got Awesome And Hip Web Graphix, Here")
(trilema) ben_vulpes: What’s puzzling Maxine is why hashslingrz’s payments to Darklinear are being kept hidden when they don’t have to be. Fiber’s a legitimate company expense, bandwidth needs at hashslingrz more than justify it, even the IRS seems to be happy. And yet, just as with hwgaahwgh.com, the dollar amounts are way too big, and somebody’s putting up password protection out of all proportion.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: “lit” buildings, mapping it, helping clients put together customized private networks.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: Who in their right mind, you wonder, would go into fiber these days, given the huge decline in new installation since last year? Well, back during the tech bubble, it seems so much cabling was put in that now miles of existing fiber are just sitting there what they call “dark,” and the result is that outfits like Darklinear have come swooping down on the carcass of the business, scouting out overinstalled, unused fiber in otherwise
(trilema) ben_vulpes: Among the mystery vendors discovered by the resourceful Eric Outfield down in the encrypted files of hashslingrz is a fiber brokerage called Darklinear Solutions.
(trilema) ben_vulpes is reading the 2013 pynchon—pretty lulzy lambasting of the dotcom shitshow + the idiocy of nyc immediately before the jetfuelcantmeltsteelbeams incident
(trilema) ben_vulpes: lol what is that from
(trilema) ben_vulpes: wait ive got one too
(trilema) ben_vulpes 's bullshit producer needs more booze
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "is remoted access to networks protected?"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: clearly pussyday at casa popescu
(trilema) ben_vulpes: omgtehkittens
(trilema) ben_vulpes: grunge savvy
(trilema) ben_vulpes: no because no foxes are savvy yo
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ever fill out a security assesment?
(trilema) ben_vulpes goes back to producing horseshit
(trilema) ben_vulpes squints at the tree of horseshit
(trilema) ben_vulpes: not stewart?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: don't put it past fox, ofc, but...that guy's a 'comedian'.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: stephen colbert, boss.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: was that fox or colbert's satire routine?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: why fork when you can automate the UI?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: > we had a ruby script that would use the rb-appscript gem to interface with Apple Terminal and run all of the dependencies in different terminal tabs.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: just sharing some lulz, phf
(trilema) ben_vulpes disappears again
(trilema) ben_vulpes: rather nice, mod6
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it's great - a whole new world of indignities and hilarities to enjoy the spectacle of
(trilema) ben_vulpes: things women do that i don't!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: no man, like sucking cocks and bearing children.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the things women generally enthuse about doing to cocks doesn't appeal to me either.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: "the whole point of the last month of pregnancy is to make the idea of childbearing very appealing"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski !לשׁנה טובה
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "the programmer's portable os"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: if it boots emacs, i'm in.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: well, "ancient".
(trilema) ben_vulpes: heh--pull a foundation and start with an ancient kernel?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what hysteresis
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-09-2015#1272924 << i have always wondered! why do mircea_popescu's contracts /always have names/ in addition to the fingerprints?
(trilema) ben_vulpes is enjoying the anton_osika thread
(trilema) ben_vulpes: might be 2010, now that i think of it.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: c'est possible
(trilema) ben_vulpes: myriad other office devices in various stages of decrepitude.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski remarkably few, actually. i have one 15" mbp from ~08 i think that's holding up remarkably well.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: explicating // to new macbooks left as exercise for logreaders
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i also suspect that they won't hold up to the kind of thrashing i put my machines through
(trilema) ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: i am suspicious of these internally geared thingers
(trilema) ben_vulpes: at which point the paddlers may attempt to paddle or they may beat a hasty retreat.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2015#1271883 << unless of course you say "no, and also fuck you, and the revenue numbers are none of your goddamn concern."
(trilema) ben_vulpes to apply another coat of finish to the molding
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "it works if you work it, so keep working it until it works!"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: as the twelve-steppers say
(trilema) ben_vulpes: crossfit 'tis one thing whose success is incontrovertible.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the actual workouts seem to have won out finally
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it has to target the same grade of moron at all times, after all
(trilema) ben_vulpes: now mebbe there's an inflation indicator: the pheromone vial
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i'm sure those prices had a great deal to do with the market value of the things, advertising to chumps alongside the cock lengtheners and pheromone emitters
(trilema) ben_vulpes: back there with the cock-lengtheners
(trilema) ben_vulpes sees no primary sources
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what, ten dollars a hundred years ago?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: cost the same? what, inflation-adjusted?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i have a hydroformed aluminum frame because i like to taunt death.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: freewheel ~350.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: a robust fixed-gear with durable parts will set one back 300.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: has it, but it's an oddity and not fit for grown-male-use.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: !
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what is a computer worth today?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what, something that creaks around or something that someone who enjoys the sport would ride?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: so then stick to your chipsets.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: one can in fact have a bicycle just for the asking there. no purchase or transport needed!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: a hundred dollar bicycle is barely worth trucking to the playa.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: fucking trite at this point.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: srsly enough with this 'woe is everyone upon us soil' routine.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: just because *you* don't believe in the cascadian paradise by no means you get to ignore it.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://bikeportland.org/2015/09/08/police-shut-notorious-slabtown-stolen-bike-chop-shop-158221 << asciilifeform note that the place had to get busted with an active theft ring to get kicked out
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ^^ impossible.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: of which there remain a few, your outrageous claims to the contrary aside.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ESPECIALLY IN SANE JURISDICTIONS
(trilema) ben_vulpes: in the year of 'nobody paying mortgate', sherriff has better things to do with his time.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: sherrif is only sent for troublemakers.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: nono how many unevicted?
(trilema) ben_vulpes cannot wait for the reprise
(trilema) ben_vulpes: was it going to go on his PERMANENT RECORD!?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: omg not letters
(trilema) ben_vulpes: in writing?!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: you're too wrapped up in this su/germanic "omg the inquistor is right around the corner" routine
(trilema) ben_vulpes: you got bought, ergo there was value.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: that just speaks to the incompetence of your own managerial staff.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: doors are costly because 'entrepreneurs' cannot afford the space burn on walls.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: dominance game schmominance game.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2015#1271589 << no, you just don't understand how actually impoverished even your nominal 'masters of the universe' actually are
(trilema) ben_vulpes: wait, is it /their/ MIT or the USG MIT?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: just webshiting in france.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: just located in france.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: over my head, asciilifeform. as though i were five, please?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: well, 'tis a book about licklider iiuc
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: do you have a ware of "the dream machine"?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i have a whole company that does this.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: all i have to do is make one misstep with the SJW mob.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: oh i could be fired.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: Using 'if' or the ternary operator as a function is quite common in perl. Using data structures to control flow is common in perl. Trying to learn C# after learning perl was like running head first into a brick wall. I'm really glad this guy is trying to make programming a bit more perl-like."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "Throughout this whole thing, I keep thinking "perl does that, perl does that, perl does that."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: paugh independent
(trilema) ben_vulpes: paugh skilled
(trilema) ben_vulpes: along with not carrying a mobile phone.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i do dream of having a workstation though, and the lifestyle to support it.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: but in the same way that java (wrapped in the fucked up functional language clojure) and javascript (wrapped in the fucked up functional language clojurescript) are acceptable tools with which to cut wwwtronic code, the mac is an acceptable tool to drag around an office.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mobility is important to me, basically, and these are the only usable even remotely nixy portables being made.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: regarding the macintoshes

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