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asciilifeform: 'war on substances' - other
mircea_popescu: some people i'd shoot for crossing the street.
mircea_popescu: depends on the people.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> <BingoBoingo> thestringpuller: He was/is a white hamplanet with an enabling family. <<< what the fuck, hamplanet robbery ? (We joked before he ran away to Chicago that he robbed the bank with a sandwich, but no. Small town bank with limited highways)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wouldn't sell cocaine either, at any rate not differently freom how it's done now, at which point you'd saysomething liek "mp is nao usg" and i'd hit you in the head with a six kg single crystal metaphetamine hammer.
asciilifeform: phf: a rewrite of the whole thing is required. and was, from day 1. and this is where we get to the boojum - apparently nobody wants this.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: today. largely because dope (and the only dope that ever really caught on in su was meth & heroin) is seen as a popcontrol weapon of the west
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> what was his getaway car, the arianne ? << Chrysler PT Cruiser his girlfriend owned (yes owned, evidence)
phf: asciilifeform: so you're saying a rewrite of the whole chunk is required? also do you think a careful inventory of references with cleanup of corresponding tree a doable approach?
mircea_popescu: what was his getaway car, the arianne ?
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> thestringpuller: He was/is a white hamplanet with an enabling family. <<< what the fuck, hamplanet robbery ?
asciilifeform: i do not actually ~need the dope personally~
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nobody sane sells soda pop either
asciilifeform: you will end up substituting virtually everything. which is what the phoundation folks did.
asciilifeform: phf: i can force it just fine. this leads to immediate segfault because all kinds of structures continue to refer to the tx.
phf: asciilifeform: your original analysis was that std::array (or was it boost) failed to release memory when prompted. seems like can either figure out how to prompt it harder, or substitute a structure. my other guess is that refs to same transactions are kept elsewhere, so are not actually release on clear, i haven't investigated that option yet though.
BingoBoingo: The orphanage twins were great exercise
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 01:54:45; thestringpuller: 2 years for 5 grams? RO is lenient as fuck.
funkenstein_: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-10-2015#1293477 <-- i know of no better example of worldwide bowing to empire than adoption of dupont's great solution to the "hemp problem"
BingoBoingo: Honestly I like the work
BingoBoingo ignorant of machine. Only understands patches by forcing them on to wildly differing codebases like 0.7-ish
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there is a reason i gave up on backports. but i suppose you will discover it by yourself.
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 01:46:45; thestringpuller: asciilifeform: https://github.com/hmlb/phpunit-vw <<
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the particular moving part in question was replaced by something unlike.
asciilifeform: what remains is to build the vessel a bottom...
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 01:38:05; mircea_popescu: and in general, two types of problems. 1. "build me a bridge" ; 2. "find me the leak". 1 is blocking, but 2 isn't - if a baby goat finds the leak the leak's just as found as if jesus had found it.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-10-2015#1293449 << we actually have a 'type 1' problem here. i already found the leak. (it consists, roughly, of the vessel having no bottom to speak of!)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-10-2015#1293448 << here i must disappoint BingoBoingo. iirc the mechanism was changed, cardinally, in 0.7 and up. any work concerning leakage, involving these ancient abominations is inapplicable to therealbitcoin.
BingoBoingo: Moral of the story, On 'Murican campuses if at all possible you make friends with the foozball team.
BingoBoingo: Big Negro Savior though came out from the bushes an grabbed Jimmy when he popped me in the Jaw. Jimmy was missing the rest of the semester. Apparently he transfered.
BingoBoingo: Jimmy boy was pissed, but then I informed him the "weed" in his spliffs was literal shit.
BingoBoingo remembers this time back in undergrad at McKendree where in his freshman year this M named chick got busted for peddling weed to this Jim Chronister motherfucker (actual name because informants suck). Turn out Jim Chronister made a deal with the local 5-0. People assumed on campus I smoked weed so he tried to buy from me. Given his reputation I sold Jim the finest handrolled cigarettes filled with great Turkish rolling tobac
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: He was/is a white hamplanet with an enabling family.
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: I thought bank robbery was an instafelony too. How does one get probation fro that? Returned the money?
thestringpuller: ^- Or the sign of a d00d just trying to smoke for free.
BingoBoingo: Trying to force small trades was how people politely let everyone else know they were compelled to turn state's witness
thestringpuller: unless they are super rich kids and parents do drugs /w kids etc.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: the high schoolers usually buy per joint cause they don't know any better
BingoBoingo: Anyways aparently in the USistan no matter where you are, if your parents ahve affairs with the right other people's parents...
BingoBoingo: Sure his parole should be revoked for his latest incident of IDENTITY FUCKING THEFT, but
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that's the importance of massmarket for you. he did something that's mainstream
mircea_popescu: in fact, romania disbars das if shown they tried to taint the trial, which is what plea bargain would be in sane places.
BingoBoingo: <thestringpuller> 2 years for 5 grams? RO is lenient as fuck. << Illinois would plea that out
BingoBoingo: In other news I had a jury duty summons this week. Passed over every day. Today was told my service is complete.
mircea_popescu: if anyone's sickly curious, here's a rather typical ro court proceeding : http://infodosar.ro/d.php?dosar=4089/105/2015&submit=Cauta
BingoBoingo: <thestringpuller> asciilifeform: https://github.com/hmlb/phpunit-vw << NO thestringpuller. Better avanues for diddling exist
BingoBoingo: Also far more fun than real macs and the TI-89 because useful default software and full keyboard.
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: You can program in TI-BASIC shit or ASM. Sure, you can compile ASM from C, but might as well derpot in basic then.
BingoBoingo: TI-92 is the Corgi/Manul/PampasCat of the computing world. The more you play with it, the less you can stand other...
thestringpuller: the TI-92 uses C?
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 00:24:22; asciilifeform: (phun phakt: lucent corp. still brings in $20M/yr or so... renting out rotary phones. caveat is that this figure is a few yrs old, and a substantial number of the chumps are likely to have succumbed to old age since it was last published)
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-10-2015#1293321 <<< i use to work for main telco doing cust service.. not uncommon to find little old lady with 2 or 3 rotary phone rentals attached to account for years on end.. sometimes little old ladies had wireless, cable and dsl connections because some indian fuck sold her on the idea so he could get the commission
BingoBoingo hates C the more I play with TI-92
mircea_popescu: and in general, two types of problems. 1. "build me a bridge" ; 2. "find me the leak". 1 is blocking, but 2 isn't - if a baby goat finds the leak the leak's just as found as if jesus had found it.
phf: responsible for the issue.
phf: asciilifeform: now all i need is for somebody to take mapTransactions / CTransaction from me... << i started investigating the issue a while ago, but dropped it since wasn't sure if it was the highest priority. i've been traveling, but i'll get back to it. i don't see any reason it can't be resolved. i'm not claiming territory, but unless someone more compotent decides to take over you can consider me
mircea_popescu: Information publicly disclosed on the Scottrade breech << lulzy, but breach.
mircea_popescu: mike_c prolly just set the ttl on the pic
mike_c: and yes, i could put a cache buster on that.. i'll put it on the todo
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mike_c: ;;later tell pete_dushenski the graph is likely just cached in your browser. press f5.
mircea_popescu: heck, bitpay won the what was it, indy race ?
mircea_popescu: "While the press support and relationships established can benefit your game, a lot of companies have “won” E3 and vanished shortly thereafter."
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Appears to credibly be that man to the point it can be verified without strong signatures
asciilifeform: but is this 'shakespeare, or another man by that name' ?!
danielpbarron: warcraft3 had a neat variation, "island defence," in which there is one monster and he is controlled by a human player, and joined by defeated defenders
asciilifeform: the 'prison' thing is also a tower defense
danielpbarron: that steampunk thing doesn't look like what I have played. To me, "tower defence" means building a maze of turrets to control the flow of progressively beefier monsters, the goal being to kill them all before the get through
asciilifeform distinctly recalls 'sim-auschwitz' from 1990s, there were scandalous wanks in american media about it, but this is something new
asciilifeform: 'Two people died on the first day of my prison. The solitary was always full, most prisoners were shackled in their cells and a weeaboo legendary prisoner kept breaking out and killing my guards.. On the fourth day, said weeaboo broke through a double-layer solitary cell and stole a shotgun from an armoury. He lit the prison on fire and escaped. That's what I call a good prison.' << l0l
assbot: Prison Architect Alpha 36 - the FINAL ALPHA - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1L5nBUY )
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> anyway, i'm kinda trying to de-walrus self, by pawning chore onto other fellas << Qntra struggles with this if any lurkers want a chance to get work done in #b-a wotlandia
mircea_popescu: oh tons. iirc there's even an article
asciilifeform: no need for book learnin' - just read the src 'for six months'
mircea_popescu: i also want soul hunter thing as a minigame, and a genetics thing, and a few others. the minigame portion of eulora is gonna be pretty spiffy, really. huge gameplay thing, but i don't really see it happening before 2017..
assbot: Spelunx and the Caves of Mr. Seudo - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1L5ndG6 )
pete_dushenski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqNJCgnohWE << these sounds bring back memories.
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 00:35:19; mircea_popescu: nah, it's a minigame see. something like, you build the case for it, place it in the world, then people use it like a sort of arcade.
asciilifeform: anyway, i'm kinda trying to de-walrus self, by pawning chore onto other fellas
mircea_popescu: you know, when the best looking guy ends up with all the women.
mircea_popescu: yes, he's competent. there is however such a thing as competence choking.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-10-2015#1293310 << my point was that i no longer see a point in maintaining my original 'v' - mod6 has a considerably spiffier one, which ought to be the flagship
mircea_popescu: nah, it's a minigame see. something like, you build the case for it, place it in the world, then people use it like a sort of arcade.
BingoBoingo: But then who holds the towers?
BingoBoingo will try to bring better, actual camera next time. Smaller Dog's name is Beans. The larger dog is Frank. Both have short legs.
assbot: Logged on 06-10-2015 23:59:24; cazalla: pete_dushenski, that became an ios game at the tail end of its lifetime
assbot: Logged on 06-10-2015 23:57:38; asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i still think there are thinking folks hidden deep in b-a. ~somebody~ is buying that cnc machinery.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-10-2015#1293212 <<< yeah. somebody looking for a clothes hanger.
mircea_popescu: was the original point
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo dog's as fluffy as the rug. thankfully, not as green.
assbot: Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet ... ( http://bit.ly/1L5mGnm )
asciilifeform: (that was the original point of throwing in the pb)
asciilifeform: incidentally (and if ben_vulpes were awake he might explain) lead is often added to other substances, not only glass, to ease machining
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: imgur.com/sG5TJMb << New one is one the left, smaller dog 14 weeks of age
mircea_popescu: it's "colonies where the indigents weren't massacred". mexico, egypt, you name it.
asciilifeform knows these folks largely secondhand
mircea_popescu: only difference is the egyptian chicks fuck more intensively while the argentines look better. but...\
mircea_popescu: cairo, 50% of population, ba 50% of population. nonsensical govt, nonsensical govt ; very mentally stunted population that excels at menial, labour intensive tasks ; overblown palace bureaucracy, the entire works.
asciilifeform: (phun phakt: lucent corp. still brings in $20M/yr or so... renting out rotary phones. caveat is that this figure is a few yrs old, and a substantial number of the chumps are likely to have succumbed to old age since it was last published)
mircea_popescu: it's actually remarkably close to where egypt was, pre us/saudi split and the entire nonsense since 2000s.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do i need to link you to the article delineating fucking organizers bought on time ?
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo in usistan, home of the brave leasees, only
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i think this was in the log
mircea_popescu: they DO have various girl submission devices that are intended to be phone controlled.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: normally in usa the telco pays (in exchange for an indenture lock-in chumping)
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> asciilifeform plus extended warranty plus dock plus case plus plus plus. this is all sop. << No one I know with iPNohes paid for them, teh_ girlfriendz (or their dads did
asciilifeform: which can be, it turns out, 'commanded' remotely via strategically-shaped radio signal - which gets heterodyned in the headphones
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform must be they put something in my coffee. wut ?!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: then watch their faces
BingoBoingo: Not much longer, but long enough for Derpanies to latch onto Derp hosted wallet's engineering error to make excuses for themselves
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: current quote is ~1k usd for the fattest one from apple
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 05:59:13; assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 17:49:14; mircea_popescu: check out bizarro tx rewriting. i issued fca843c0b40a1755eee073a719c856baa7fbf5ac28db84804a44a91f52638632 which worked as expected, but apparently there's a 5269a0e862876040db21706a7849ffd1b7d63e72d6dd61b1d2431a51698bb007 restatement of it
assbot: Logged on 06-10-2015 20:52:06; BingoBoingo: So malleability thing going now, excepting retards that do the 0-conf depend on txid... pretty much a mempool bloater
pete_dushenski: the top end one.
asciilifeform: (for anyone unfamiliar with the subject - serious multicopter aficionados sneer at luserdom, and build strictly from parts)
asciilifeform: (the costly machines fly themselves, luser points and grunts on his ipNohe to give coordinates)
asciilifeform: most recently, went into one that had gps-guided gigantic quadrocopters for sale. at ~1300 usd a pop, even. funnily, they sell. and idiots fly them into various 'forbidden zones' like whitehouse, etc.
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> no one buys, many coo and gawk and maybe even walk in to buy some perfume << TrueFax, brother and his wife got their newest corgi AT A DISCOUNT because it had the "fluffy" mutation
pete_dushenski: like putting a bugatti veyron in the window of sachs fifth avenue
asciilifeform: and what, cuts them up for organs ?
pete_dushenski: and he draws in customers into his store with cnc machines in the front window
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: presumably the shop keeper pays rent
asciilifeform: unless the whole thing is a front, someone is buying
pete_dushenski: that they're still for sale.
asciilifeform does not follow the syllogism
pete_dushenski: perhaps the number of cnc machines for sale in buenos aires is indicative of the lack of thinking folks there ?
asciilifeform: both cnc and traditional mills, lathes, in a little shop.
assbot: Logged on 06-10-2015 19:36:34; mircea_popescu: <Naphex> https://xotika.tv/static/report06102015.html << speaking of which, plox to give the guy's numbers a good shakedown, because im considering listing xotika this month.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-10-2015#1292987 << makes sense. look at the size of those dividends. cripes.
cazalla: pete_dushenski, that became an ios game at the tail end of its lifetime
assbot: Logged on 06-10-2015 20:27:24; mircea_popescu: somehow. dunno how. but gamers and strippers is the winner combo.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i still think there are thinking folks hidden deep in b-a. ~somebody~ is buying that cnc machinery.
assbot: Logged on 06-10-2015 19:52:02; mircea_popescu: anyway. the advantage of anon & disappeared as opposed to "going to every conference that serves pasta" is that you don't have to face the "i fucking expected better of you" reproach.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-10-2015#1293010 << at least until pr pete shows up. then the lay-low-party's over.
pete_dushenski: mpoe up 25% overnight. snazzy. hope a few of you caught a piece of the sale ;)
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-10-2015#1292453 << and here i was imaging mp shmoozing with local intelligencia that he'd somehow attracted with a giant magnet from clear across the country, having his girls pour bubbly while the conversation drifted from how one tests for ~actual genuine bohemian glass~ to the best surgeon's stitch for a knife wound in the back to the best source for local huevos to
gribble: The operation succeeded.
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell mike_c the discrepancy is that of the +/- sign. Strangely, just since last night, the sign indicated in the 'direct' row changed from (-) to () (aka (+)), but the graph line is still red instead of green, as seen here : http://www.contravex.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/btcalpha-sign-silliness.png.
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell mike_c the discrepancy is that of the +/- sign. Strangely, just since last night, the sign indicated in the 'direct' row changed from (-) to () [aka (+)], but the graph line is still red instead of green, as seen here : http://www.contravex.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/btcalpha-sign-silliness.png.
cazalla: those little brown balls are dry and when broken up seem to spread in the air like a dandelion
cazalla: not on the trees or plants, just the soil
BingoBoingo: Any of them have shit looking vaguely like that growing on them?
cazalla: does anyone know what this is? finding many of them on the surface of the garden most mornings, thought i was going crazy at first as i removed a couple but they are popping up everywhere http://i.imgur.com/U5SSbtU.jpg
punkman: another possibility is that it'd let you choose multiple heads and then it'd lookup all ascendants of chosen heads and press with those
punkman: ascii_field: my only real quibble with the preview of this (or was it punkman's ??) 'v' shown a while back, is that it used interactive questions to user << yeah it can export the patch sequence and you can then press without interaction
mod6: ascii_field: so yah, now that the code is pretty much complete, I'll see if I can get rid of getopt::long and elegantly implement the options handling on my own.
mod6: Eh, who knows, maybe I can take another wack at that part before I'm finished here.
mod6: I actually started with this, but .. it got hairy to control some of the input.
ascii_field: why does it demand the - ?
ascii_field: then great.
ascii_field: as in, there ought to be no operations which result in prompts
ascii_field: my only real quibble with the preview of this (or was it punkman's ??) 'v' shown a while back, is that it used interactive questions to user
mod6: then will publish to th elist.
mod6: so that's the only thing left and then just user documentation. and then can start passing around the first version for people to try out to ensure of zero major defects.
mod6: yeah. i mean, "cucumber automated test that surrounds (gives coverage to) the press function"
mod6: almost there :]
mod6: sweet, V code is basically complete. one remaining test left to write surrouding 'press' (shouldn't take long), then just documentation to write about the thing.
trinque: many houses in Portland had that stairstepped portion as on the bridge
ascii_field: imho the only man to have ever gotten anywhere studying invention in the abstract.
assbot: Logged on 22-05-2014 17:16:09; asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: 'And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared.' by Genrich Altshuller.
trinque: Given that the main problem of the country - to cope with different types of DDoS on the infrastructure due to the large number of users, different solutions are born. For example, the train has a separate toilet and separate washrooms. Excellent TRIZ principle - separation. << thinking about human DDOS... awesome.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu et al: http://habrahabr.ru/company/mosigra/blog/268211 << user interfaces in china. interesting enough to be worth the work (googletranslate if you must)
BingoBoingo: Half a year in the life
ascii_field: and more people-other-than-me-hacking-on-therealbitcoin in general.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-10-2015#1293105 << i would like to see some of the folks here independently confirm this discovery.
BingoBoingo: Especially never freed if never mined, because malleable got the other conf'd first
BingoBoingo: So malleability thing going now, excepting retards that do the 0-conf depend on txid... pretty much a mempool bloater
assbot: Bitpay payments not being paid " invalid transaction associated to this invoice as a result of the stress test" : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1Gv4VvQ )
mircea_popescu: and under the overheard in my house heading, "would you like to taste my pee ?" "sure. but... didn't you just have asparagus ?" "aha" "that's supposed to be the #1 pee ruiner." "oh man, i can actually taste the asparagus wow!" "is it strong ?" "it's pretty strong yeah".
mircea_popescu: i thought they mostly fit it in 1u by now.
mike_c: really? you can fit a lot in 1u these days
Naphex: you can buy the hardware and ship it to the DC
mircea_popescu: yeah i can see buying the hw and getting 1u or 2u as needed.
Naphex: most of their offers are supermicro's but have all sorts
Naphex: performers have a goal system soon to be objective system they can set up
Naphex: mircea_popescu: percentage is right about perfect at the moment; performers adjust the price and tipping is completly voluntary
mircea_popescu: mike_c anyway, willprobably have to yield some of the % which is maybe high atm. but still, i think it has nice perspectives.
ascii_field needs very little other than the box
mircea_popescu: somehow. dunno how. but gamers and strippers is the winner combo.
Naphex: and servers and the way to monetizing everything is long
mircea_popescu: i'll pay the upfront for colo, you just have to do the minimal sysadmining ascii_field might require
mircea_popescu: seems he hit the ground running, at least sofar.
Naphex: after some feedback i have cleaned the xotika.tv report some. A revised version is available here: https://xotika.tv/static/report_06102015_v2.html
mircea_popescu has known plenty of gay dudes fetishistically aroused by slavegirls, in the slave aspect rather than in the girl aspect
mircea_popescu: i thought it was more along the "prefers to fuck guys"
jurov: if they aren't aroused by these chicks, then there is no doubt left :D
mircea_popescu: anyway. the advantage of anon & disappeared as opposed to "going to every conference that serves pasta" is that you don't have to face the "i fucking expected better of you" reproach.
mircea_popescu: i propose to you that there is exactly one reason satoshi kept quiet and buggered off.
mircea_popescu: rms poses as strong, is weak, on this word taken at its word fsf is born, then i have to contend with "fucking awards"
mircea_popescu: see, thisis the problem of weak men.
ascii_field: '"He is a recipient of the Free Software Award from the Free Software Foundation for his work on Secure Boot, UEFI, and the Linux kernel". Ah! All the bits that I *don't* want in the kernel. Did he work on systemd too?'
ascii_field: CLI or GUI, whether drivers or devices, whether signed or malware! There is no such thing as an "illegal" instruction!' << win
ascii_field: 'For far too long, Linux has discriminated against "differently abled" code, with all its segregationist notions of kernel-vs-userspace. And even within userspace, could the very word "permissions" get any closer to "privilege"??? At long last, viruses we have historically relegated to the slums of Windows will finally have the right to run in the ivory sandbox of Linux - We need "Runtime Justice" for all code, whether
ascii_field: soon to be the only workstation hardware.
ascii_field: in irl they make hardware.
mircea_popescu: they can support "free syrian militia" or w/e also for all the difference it makes irl.
Naphex: aye i'll have a special section for all this soon. at the moment first report delivered like this
mircea_popescu: <Naphex> https://xotika.tv/static/report06102015.html << speaking of which, plox to give the guy's numbers a good shakedown, because im considering listing xotika this month.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo debian can switch to dead squirrel for all the difference it makes to me.
mircea_popescu: heck, bitcoin got a lot better once it cut itself off from the usgavin & freiends
BingoBoingo: Just you wait, next this heretic kernel gets KDBUS then Debian will switch to it. Maybe Fedora first because of Poettering.
mircea_popescu: one sufficient reason ethereum will never ever amount to anything is exactly its failure to cut itself off from idiots.
mircea_popescu: dude get fucked, cutting b=a from the imbecillity has improved its ability to do work like 10x if not more.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck cares seriously.
mircea_popescu: oh. for a momenbt i thought it was the lord british garrett.
assbot: mjg59 | On joining the FSF board ... ( http://bit.ly/1Md97lY )
mike_c: maybe ethereum can do it
mike_c: there's enough broken things around to fix. the wot seems to be working :)
mike_c: trinque - you know the wot database is dumped nightly, right?
ascii_field: for fucks sake ~i~ forked the kernel
ascii_field: 10,001 people have forked the kernel...
assbot: Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel - Slashdot ... ( http://bit.ly/1Md8vg6 )
assbot: Logged on 07-01-2015 05:29:32; mircea_popescu: this harms because : it gives unknowns a weight they should not have ; it removes the incentive for users to police at their local level ; it allows third parties to construct undeniable chatlogs that they had no business in.
mircea_popescu: in the logs!!1 :D
mircea_popescu: but notwithstandingtheir hopes and aspirations to "build businesses", you can't make money renting out the space inside your nose.
mircea_popescu: obviously the ustardian approach to things ("let's steal someshit!") will try and pretend like it's not so, to "build a business" out of it.
mircea_popescu: i might care what i rated x, or what you rated x. but the meaning of these ratings to a third party we don't know is necessarily 0.
mircea_popescu: trinque the major point s that wot is not actually generally available. just like trust is not a scalar,
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the thing is practically begging to be c++11-ized
trinque: curious though how to make the WoT generally available data
mircea_popescu: re that article, i would direct the esteemed readership to footnote three in very particular.
punkman: I don't think there's enough to go around these days
punkman: maybe they can't import enough cork
mircea_popescu: why the fuck they use plastic corks is beyond me, but anyway.
punkman: there's both
mircea_popescu: or whether genuinely hysterical.
ascii_field: most of them know better than to venture into the 'real world', aha
mircea_popescu: they will continue to have exactly identicalones for as long as uppitty overfed western women get to interact with the real world.
ascii_field: they had at least one almost identical case during the tahrir square idiocy
mircea_popescu: im sure all the libertard activists are gonna be all over libtardsplainin' this one.
mircea_popescu: not that it's not readily believable, not that there aren't excellent reasons why it's not in the usg agitprop.
mircea_popescu: wouldn't you think, if you decide in your late 40s to switch gears and open a wanna-be wine shop, that you pick up the fucking book of how to pack, do exercises in your garage, something ?
mircea_popescu: the fucked up sorts of choices one has to face.
mircea_popescu: srsly. in usa it's the other half.
ascii_field: in usa it's the other half..
mircea_popescu: anyway. it is fucking impossible to make sense of these people. it's like selective down syndrome, only half the brain is affected.
mircea_popescu: since they decided to pretend like " swarovski crystals" yes.
mircea_popescu: then he packed them. he packed ONE in about a cubic foot of corrugated cardboard, sat the other bare next to it. just like that, in the bag.
mircea_popescu: i bought two champagne flutes of actual genuine bohemian glass (i tested, couldn't believe either)
mircea_popescu: moving on : he can't fucking pack for the life of him.
mircea_popescu: then, the guy can't work his fucking machine, takes him longer to input my economic activity into his fucking compuer than it took me to engage in it.
ascii_field: sounds more like an orc selling under the register
mircea_popescu: dude this country... so there's a nice wine shop, trying you know, to be upscale.
ascii_field: how's the wine mircea_popescu
jurov: or the badminton gayness thread

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