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ben_vulpes: nonsense i say
ben_vulpes: ;;isup wiki.bitcoin-assets.com
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-09-2015#1287111 << how about a wooden tmsr~ "stake" for sitting his enemies down upon?
ben_vulpes: early exponential exercises
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: it all falls out of tvom
ben_vulpes: getting my fingers into 20-year infrastructure investment optimizations
ben_vulpes: any more *ms-integrating*
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)
ben_vulpes: gabriel_laddel: but i need to render this webview in a microsoft word plugin
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski ashley madison ran bots to "drive engagement".
ben_vulpes: i wonder what AM's bots raked in on an hourly basis.
ben_vulpes: i pooped u guise
ben_vulpes: i pooped
ben_vulpes: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
ben_vulpes: i learned of the ethereum "yellow paper" the other day
ben_vulpes: !s why is it crashing
ben_vulpes: why is it crashing?
ben_vulpes: funkenstein_: can't really hold the streetwalker responsible for the condition of the streets now can you?
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell asciilifeform that'd truly make it a little shop of horrors!
ben_vulpes: lobbes: usg tentacle is the catholic church's only future existence
ben_vulpes off to taunt feds
ben_vulpes shrugs
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: came in on the local homeschooling wotwire
ben_vulpes: Birdman: i'm taking the girl on a cross-state line run, but please tell me later how tournaments make collusion unprofitable
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: familiar with 'caribou mathematics contest'?
ben_vulpes: i dun even b'leev u
ben_vulpes: i need ecc meatram
ben_vulpes: Birdman: has swc solved collusion?
ben_vulpes: bucephalus, zoolag, ignatius
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: your naming conventions are lovely
ben_vulpes: a no, pure derpitude on my part.
ben_vulpes: log is showing lines that my irc client is not
ben_vulpes: ;;ticker
ben_vulpes: wai u all gotta be so dramatique
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
ben_vulpes doesn't understand anything about how the world works
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.
ben_vulpes: assets*
ben_vulpes: good morning, assett
ben_vulpes pours out a drink for the memory of trinque in town
ben_vulpes: from the lulzmine: "Do specialized systems include enhanced security measures consistent with risk analysis?"
ben_vulpes: whether it's the hepcat "rfp" or the mvc/mvvm patterns
ben_vulpes: ui programming is fucking complicated
ben_vulpes: myeah because coffeescript on node.js with mongodb and a half-baked orm wasn't considered a risk
ben_vulpes: client security wants to know if we do risk analysis on "emerging mobile code"
ben_vulpes: ("Hey, We've Got Awesome And Hip Web Graphix, Here")
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.
ben_vulpes: “lit” buildings, mapping it, helping clients put together customized private networks.
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
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.
ben_vulpes is reading the 2013 pynchon—pretty lulzy lambasting of the dotcom shitshow + the idiocy of nyc immediately before the jetfuelcantmeltsteelbeams incident
ben_vulpes: lol what is that from
ben_vulpes: wait ive got one too
ben_vulpes: bawwwww
ben_vulpes 's bullshit producer needs more booze
ben_vulpes: "is remoted access to networks protected?"
ben_vulpes: clearly pussyday at casa popescu
ben_vulpes: omgtehkittens
ben_vulpes: grunt savvy
ben_vulpes: grunge savvy
ben_vulpes: no because no foxes are savvy yo
ben_vulpes: ever fill out a security assesment?
ben_vulpes: hey guys
ben_vulpes goes back to producing horseshit
ben_vulpes squints at the tree of horseshit
ben_vulpes: not stewart?
ben_vulpes: don't put it past fox, ofc, but...that guy's a 'comedian'.
ben_vulpes: stephen colbert, boss.
ben_vulpes: was that fox or colbert's satire routine?
ben_vulpes: why fork when you can automate the UI?
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.
ben_vulpes: just sharing some lulz, phf
ben_vulpes disappears again
ben_vulpes: rather nice, mod6
ben_vulpes: it's great - a whole new world of indignities and hilarities to enjoy the spectacle of
ben_vulpes: things women do that i don't!
ben_vulpes: no man, like sucking cocks and bearing children.
ben_vulpes: the things women generally enthuse about doing to cocks doesn't appeal to me either.
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: "the whole point of the last month of pregnancy is to make the idea of childbearing very appealing"
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski !לשׁנה טובה
ben_vulpes: "the programmer's portable os"
ben_vulpes: if it boots emacs, i'm in.
ben_vulpes: well, "ancient".
ben_vulpes: heh--pull a foundation and start with an ancient kernel?
ben_vulpes: what hysteresis
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?
ben_vulpes is enjoying the anton_osika thread
ben_vulpes: might be 2010, now that i think of it.
ben_vulpes: c'est possible
ben_vulpes: myriad other office devices in various stages of decrepitude.
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski remarkably few, actually. i have one 15" mbp from ~08 i think that's holding up remarkably well.
ben_vulpes: explicating // to new macbooks left as exercise for logreaders
ben_vulpes: i also suspect that they won't hold up to the kind of thrashing i put my machines through
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: i am suspicious of these internally geared thingers
ben_vulpes: at which point the paddlers may attempt to paddle or they may beat a hasty retreat.
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."
ben_vulpes to apply another coat of finish to the molding
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2015#1271672 << but what about the spire of /dankness/?
ben_vulpes: (...) (...)
ben_vulpes: "it works if you work it, so keep working it until it works!"
ben_vulpes: as the twelve-steppers say
ben_vulpes: crossfit 'tis one thing whose success is incontrovertible.
ben_vulpes: the actual workouts seem to have won out finally
ben_vulpes: it has to target the same grade of moron at all times, after all
ben_vulpes: now mebbe there's an inflation indicator: the pheromone vial
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
ben_vulpes: back there with the cock-lengtheners
ben_vulpes sees no primary sources
ben_vulpes: what, ten dollars a hundred years ago?
ben_vulpes: cost the same? what, inflation-adjusted?
ben_vulpes: i have a hydroformed aluminum frame because i like to taunt death.
ben_vulpes: freewheel ~350.
ben_vulpes: a robust fixed-gear with durable parts will set one back 300.
ben_vulpes: has it, but it's an oddity and not fit for grown-male-use.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: !
ben_vulpes: what is a computer worth today?
ben_vulpes: what, something that creaks around or something that someone who enjoys the sport would ride?
ben_vulpes: so then stick to your chipsets.
ben_vulpes: one can in fact have a bicycle just for the asking there. no purchase or transport needed!
ben_vulpes: a hundred dollar bicycle is barely worth trucking to the playa.
ben_vulpes: go, buy.
ben_vulpes: fucking trite at this point.
ben_vulpes: srsly enough with this 'woe is everyone upon us soil' routine.
ben_vulpes: just because *you* don't believe in the cascadian paradise by no means you get to ignore it.
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
ben_vulpes: ^^ impossible.
ben_vulpes: of which there remain a few, your outrageous claims to the contrary aside.
ben_vulpes: ESPECIALLY IN SANE JURISDICTIONS
ben_vulpes: in the year of 'nobody paying mortgate', sherriff has better things to do with his time.
ben_vulpes: sherrif is only sent for troublemakers.
ben_vulpes: nono how many unevicted?
ben_vulpes cannot wait for the reprise
ben_vulpes: 'twas grand
ben_vulpes: was it going to go on his PERMANENT RECORD!?
ben_vulpes: omg not letters
ben_vulpes: in writing?!
ben_vulpes: you're too wrapped up in this su/germanic "omg the inquistor is right around the corner" routine
ben_vulpes: you got bought, ergo there was value.
ben_vulpes: that just speaks to the incompetence of your own managerial staff.
ben_vulpes: doors are costly because 'entrepreneurs' cannot afford the space burn on walls.
ben_vulpes: dominance game schmominance game.
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
ben_vulpes: wait, is it /their/ MIT or the USG MIT?
ben_vulpes: just webshiting in france.
ben_vulpes: just located in france.
ben_vulpes: over my head, asciilifeform. as though i were five, please?
ben_vulpes: http://www.inria.fr/ << usgcoin is...french?
ben_vulpes: well, 'tis a book about licklider iiuc
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: do you have a ware of "the dream machine"?
ben_vulpes: i have a whole company that does this.
ben_vulpes: all i have to do is make one misstep with the SJW mob.
ben_vulpes: trivially.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: oh i could be fired.
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."
ben_vulpes: "Throughout this whole thing, I keep thinking "perl does that, perl does that, perl does that."
ben_vulpes: paugh independent
ben_vulpes: paugh skilled
ben_vulpes: paugh rich
ben_vulpes: along with not carrying a mobile phone.
ben_vulpes: i do dream of having a workstation though, and the lifestyle to support it.
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.
ben_vulpes: mobility is important to me, basically, and these are the only usable even remotely nixy portables being made.
ben_vulpes: regarding the macintoshes
ben_vulpes: rather nifty books
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell gabriel_laddel plz for to record some interactions with this magical realtime 3d system you've banged together
ben_vulpes: love the fertilizer, worship the peasantry
ben_vulpes: "There were around 1,500 people in the audience — but at least 1,000 were Apple employees... At WWDC (and in years past, Macworld Expo) Moscone is filled with paid ticket holders. Having that many employees in the room changes the tenor of the audience considerably — the cheering and applause were raucous."
ben_vulpes: good morning!
ben_vulpes resigns self to logs
ben_vulpes tenterhooks
ben_vulpes: (a 2.4 mile drive, i must point out)
ben_vulpes: argh and google maps has nuked the "type anything and get directions function"
ben_vulpes: what about those roads isn't open
ben_vulpes: i drove from my office to the heart of downtown in ten minutes today in the middle of rush hour
ben_vulpes: right geography.
ben_vulpes: right parents.
ben_vulpes: what rich?!
ben_vulpes: you and alf with the gawdawful quality-of-life, i swear...
ben_vulpes: beam, cost
ben_vulpes: expansive or expensive?
ben_vulpes: well that's nuts.
ben_vulpes: jesus shit
ben_vulpes: ("it's only like 2 vintage sports cars!")
ben_vulpes: not much i can explain to a man sinking into quicksand about the joys of hard land.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: well that's your problem for living in congestion hell.
ben_vulpes: "think of how many babies we can put in it!"
ben_vulpes: "baby we need a military hum-v"
ben_vulpes: whence the fork, pete_dushenski?
ben_vulpes: did your stats as well?
ben_vulpes: where did you top out in maths, pete_dushenski?
ben_vulpes: and probably worked...just fine!
ben_vulpes: quite adequate, rather nifty
ben_vulpes: oh no i had one in middle school
ben_vulpes: which 'featured' perceptible delays between keypress and screen render.
ben_vulpes: and the misfortune of replacing it with the 89 'titanium'
ben_vulpes: i too had an 89
ben_vulpes: despite having nominally progressed through the *exact same curriculum*, my 'peers' never mastered this 'one simple trick'.
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-09-2015#1269052 << i routinely aced ME tests simply by virtue of knowing basic linear algebra transformations and how to solve sets of equations with the calculator.
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: that recent piece isn't half bad
ben_vulpes: the numbers-fudging piece
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: btw that piece was invictus, not br
ben_vulpes: ;;ticker
ben_vulpes expects slurptxn at some indefinite point
ben_vulpes: 'can also have problems'
ben_vulpes: !up ascii_field
ben_vulpes: dijkstraized?
ben_vulpes: mike_c: and that's after i burned out like 70% of them!
ben_vulpes: you're not wrong, i just hate the straightjacket of argparse's function call behavior.
ben_vulpes: shaddup trinque
ben_vulpes: because the way that argparse suggests you set up function calls is stupid as hell!
ben_vulpes: (as in to #b-a)
ben_vulpes: mike_c: asciilifeform objected to the "which method, which args" approach to routing around argparse's braindamage, so if you have good ideas down there throw 'em out
ben_vulpes: mike_c: i posted a tarball, as i did some messy surgery and expected brutal diffs. if you can get cleaner diffs, that'd be great.
ben_vulpes: okay, i get it now stan.
ben_vulpes is struck by a lightningbolt of understanding
ben_vulpes: mike_c: that is the test i left off at. feel free to replace the "gotcha" assertion with an actual test, or just eliminate the assertion completely.
ben_vulpes: "always leave a failing test"
ben_vulpes: ya, one out of 16?
ben_vulpes: and then on top of that, every project i pick up has some arcane setup for running its tests, because...legacy.
ben_vulpes: this is a thing i do once per project and always forget how it's supposed to go.
ben_vulpes: it should run with python -m unittest from the same directory as v, but...
ben_vulpes: mike_c: nominally unittest does test discovery, i focused on making tests though.
ben_vulpes: mike_c: python -m unittest test_v
ben_vulpes: but when i want to build builtins in my rental, i use compressed air and nails.
ben_vulpes: "joinery"
ben_vulpes: <BingoBoingo> Interlocking cuts, glue, and clamps are the way, the truth, and the light in furniture << aye aye
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