BingoBoingo: Thank the one who cuckolds clitler for that
BingoBoingo: I actually have far more problems with the exterior of the car not wanting to stay together than anything mechanically wrong
trinque: I've taken to calling my check-engine light the "Is it a Volkswagen?" light
BingoBoingo says as the guy who stops his Saturn at gas stations to make sure the plastic is still attached
BingoBoingo: Museum pieces make the best daily drivers, and Probe was engineered by 80's Japs so prolly durable
BingoBoingo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Probe#Remaining_registered_1993.E2.80.931997_Probes_on_the_road_as_of_July_2011 << Oh, there's prolly more Probes left than Pogos
BingoBoingo though the Matt guy was showing up quite a bit
BingoBoingo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Probe#Remaining_registered_1993.E2.80.931997_Probes_on_the_road_as_of_July_2011
asciilifeform: in other news,
BingoBoingo remembers his first car, The Grand Am of Justice which in his last year of ownership he discovered was Hurricane Katrina salvage
BingoBoingo: Every uncool yet drivable used car tends to find its way to the Middle West for Hospice care
asciilifeform: http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/156563/original/p1010008.jpg << ahahaha there it is.
asciilifeform: odd, 'google images' does not find the bizarre digital led (1980s!) dashboard the specimen he was shown as a boy had
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: How much do you want to drive one. There's a few around this region.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: these remind me of an ancient car i've always wanted to drive, 'ford probe'
BingoBoingo: The 60's one prolly still has nylon belted tyres
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: the linked ones seem too cheap to be true << Not really probably just accumulated defered maintenance to take it up to market value is much
asciilifeform: betcha the inside is rusted solid
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the linked ones seem too cheap to be true
BingoBoingo: All it takes is one intern to fuck up you lights and they will never go back
BingoBoingo: Also less wear items in the auto tranny
ben_vulpes: i have all the light sequences in this town timed by memory
BingoBoingo: Especially if you ever encounter the dreaded gauntlet of red lights in it
mircea_popescu: seeing how no hothead wouldever buy it
BingoBoingo: But... That might cost more than the car's $6000 unless you wait for one to miracle onto criagslist
ben_vulpes: but what about the tranny?
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: suggesting i hold out, then?
mircea_popescu: funny how the libertards were all over nucular but don't seem to hardly notice at all their special needs law professor has no fucking idea which side the sun comes out.
mircea_popescu: from the country of africa ?
ben_vulpes: no they're /thooper/ tholdierth
ben_vulpes: clean title, correct vintage, but automatic VS rebuilt title, not really the perfect vintage, and manual
mike_c: this eulorum wiki is slow as shit. who the hell is running this thing.
BingoBoingo: I mean, what's the point of smoking cigarettes if not to transform into an unstopable ragemonster when derprived of nicotine and the beautiful monoamine oxidase inhibitors in tobacco?
asciilifeform: 'the precious last bullet, it's not my invention; the ancestors teach us, with centuries of war...' (from ru song re: afghan. translation mine.)
asciilifeform: (or the precious last bullet (tm) )
BingoBoingo: Nah, cyanide means that if you make it through you can't see them burn
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: But what about for things you would rather not be able to remember under duress?
asciilifeform: (read about famous 'mnemonists.' they all used some variation on this algo.)
asciilifeform: but good method for stretching your limits, wherever they happen to be
assbot: Logged on 11-06-2015 22:52:09; jurov: wonder why no one is using phone camera as source of randomness. you can't recreate the shot no matter how you try
BingoBoingo: I dunno, if hitler couldn't unite all of Isaac's brothers I doubt Obola can unite all of Esau's
trinque: BingoBoingo: we'll unite the middle east (against us) yet
BingoBoingo: trinque: Because the first and second times were not enough
trinque: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/6/11/military-leaders-debate-US-escalation-in-Iraq.html << empire's headed back to die there, I guess
BingoBoingo: The last thing a memory palace should resemble is literature of language
mircea_popescu: because totally, nobody else read the same pulp he did.
BingoBoingo: Of course this could just be yesterday's vodka I was too sleep to drink them talking
kakobrekla: even i dont get that and i have been here the longest
trinque: >channel their inner dank and vexual
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The current twatter CEO
BingoBoingo: jurov: Simple geometries are easy to read, this is why the weak and vulnerable make headgear out of tinfoil. To truly build a quality memory palace which resists attack one must channel their inner dank and vexual
jurov: wonder why no one is using phone camera as source of randomness. you can't recreate the shot no matter how you try
trinque: can't think of a http lib that doesn't give you the http request already parsed and parceled
trinque: I find it hard to believe that these guys were doing http by opening a socket if they're lazy and stupid enough to use random.org
trinque: who knows, criminal either way
kakobrekla: the famous AA.
mircea_popescu: yet blockchain.org is different from daybitrade.com because... oh right, because meni rosenfeld doesn't own the wsj. that's all.
mircea_popescu: gottra love all these "A second programming error"
mircea_popescu: you don't understand how the world works trinque m'boy.
trinque: what the fuck, blockchain was/is using somebody else's API for "random" data?
ascii_field: ^ not to be confused with the -last- time this happened
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ascii_field: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/01/blockchain_app_shows_how_not_to_code << did we do this lul ?
mircea_popescu: btw, anyone has noticed yet the girls have no underwear and if you fiddle the camera there's an anus shot ?
ascii_field was expecting a '#26: if you can answer all of these, your life is a waste. eat your Luger.'
ascii_field: yes, engineers say 'we hate clock domain transitions.' well, motherfuckers can dig for uranium in butugychag until they learn to ~like~
ascii_field: i fail to see any reason why it isn't instead a series of registers clocked asynchronously by the inputs, causing a single time-stamp reg to be shifted out the arse end upon any transition
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ascii_field: looked at how logic analyzer is typically built, and was immediately struck by the idiocy of it using synchronous logic
ascii_field: and that the instruments sold under this label are apparently a cheap fraud
ascii_field: the reason i even tell this story is that i sorta realized that logic analyzers don't actually exist
mircea_popescu: just write a driver for it as if it were i dunno, an ethernet
ascii_field: then you have idiocies like interrupts, dram wait states...
mircea_popescu: ascii_field how about connecting it straight to the cpu ?
mircea_popescu: the phases will never line up for stuff to do with planck's constant
ascii_field: cannot equal the ox.
ascii_field: trick is that the phases -never- line up.
ascii_field: jurov: that is PRECISELY why the chinese unit sucks
ascii_field: jurov: i'd be satisfied if the boxes which claimed 100, actually did anything near.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: we considered salae thing. vastly underpowered, and (last checked) requires use of their app
ascii_field: otherwise you only get fraction of a second 'blast'
ascii_field: and a very fast connection (pci, or usb3 at the minimal) to pc
ascii_field: jurov: needs not only an input buffer that lets you define the 'high' and 'low' voltage, but a gigantic sram buffer for the bits
mircea_popescu: nevertheless it is 5msamples and iirc os ?
ascii_field: everything they make is an electronic equivalent of 'gutter oil.' EVERYTHING.
ascii_field pronounces curse on the lying pieces of shit who built the chinese instrument he is presently attempting to use
ascii_field: (#2 is not negotiable, the thing feeds into an automated system)
ascii_field: thus far i can't even find a supplier who will guarantee two out of these three
jurov: thestringpuller: very ethically
ascii_field: 1) 500MHz+ 2) no winblows, on the analyzer OR pc end 3) pisses out capture to pc at channel rate
ascii_field: mats, anybody remotely else: does anybody on the planet sell a logic analyzer that isn't an utter piece of shit?
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Sure
TheNewDeal: qualitay is the game
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Nah, gotta work on that speed
mircea_popescu: lest they end up believing "professional" is something other than "toilet clogged with nail polish on"
mircea_popescu: would kinda hit the spot.
mircea_popescu: a large piece about what a piece of human refuse pao is, and what a huge turd everything ycombinator touches turns out, and specifically about what a failed human being altgman is and what a morally repugnant schmoe graham is for allowing the charade to continue
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pete_dushenski: 1 is the onliest number
mircea_popescu: "using the only and only cryptocurrency" ?
mircea_popescu: he has a point there.
jurov: but i meant that as illustration for TheNewDeal that if you get involved, things happen. soe are ordinary, like this, some are newsworthy, like eulora
jurov: heh i had to explain them twice why the sign language may be different here and there, their manner convinced me they are genuine cops
kakobrekla: did you tell em they are just pretending
mircea_popescu: take random "event" as reported by the noisemakers, ask the people involved intelligent questions, write down their answers.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal actually, you could go ask people things.
TheNewDeal: the blagosphere?
TheNewDeal: Although I think I'm slightly braindamaged and forget how to find real news. Where exists real breaking news these days, outside of the propaganda machine?
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Instead of big sweeping pieces it is easier to start with smaller ones that lead to a big sweeping piece later. It is alwas possible to cite oneself later
TheNewDeal: I had an idea for one titled the U.S. War on Crptography, but it started looking like garbage to me. Might have to go back for a rewrite
BingoBoingo: If I remember right 5-ish was the record
mircea_popescu: so why not write one an' help the records along?
TheNewDeal: whats the 1 day record?
TheNewDeal: speaking of fresh. Yesterday was quite the day in fresh news
nubbins`: i guess i won't be the first.
nubbins`: i'll be the first to say weed messes kids up
mircea_popescu: the jury's still out on weed. but fucking ministers are HORRIBLE for youth
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: add an item to the 'civilization no longer knows how to make these not be garbage' list: logic analyzers...
mircea_popescu: which IS bad for them
mircea_popescu: either that or he's one of those people who've been targetted by ministers
nubbins`: so i now have "concierge service" with the royal canadian mint
mircea_popescu: ftr i'd rather not see more from this derp this year.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Excels in the wind which is a constant bane of the smoker << this. butane sucks.
pete_dushenski: arguably the one and only (tm)
pete_dushenski: in other news, rupert murdoch stepped down as ceo of 21st century fox today
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: 0.5 btc too much for lighter, then 50 btc is right out eh. http://www.zippo.com/product.aspx?id=1023765
BingoBoingo: allahisgreat2000: Well, the thing is since they already get betting volume 1% keeps away erstwhile competitors
allahisgreat2000: and that's 5x the profit
allahisgreat2000: if not they could probably raise to 5%, I don't think it would seriously set people back from betting
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allahisgreat2000: the 1 %
allahisgreat2000: I just wanted to ask why the provision is so low
BingoBoingo: allahisgreat2000: Further BitBet questions?
BingoBoingo may be wrong about bimetallic theory, 0.5 BTC is too much to test at the moment http://www.zippo.com/product.aspx?id=1023714
nubbins`: "We will continue to combat it. We will continue our anti-drug strategy, we will target youth with the message that marijuana pot is bad for them," the minister said.
nubbins`: 10yo kid has severe epilepsy, weed reduces their frequency by 99%, kid is not permitted to eat hash brownie
BingoBoingo: fine, the outer case is a plated flexible Brass, the inner insert is rigid steel. There is a taper and ring combination between the case and inset that is tight to non-polar fluids. Aluminum on aluminum and Zamac on Zamac don't accomplish this. <<< ATTN CHINESE COUNTERFEITERS PLS ACK
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Well think about the metals in terms on conparatice hardness and their willingness to flex
BingoBoingo: combination of plated brass case and steel fuel holding insert is the trick (beyond measurements)
BingoBoingo pretty sure he has figured out the part of leak resistance most zippo clones neglect.
ascii_field: in other news,
BingoBoingo: <nubbins`> about as sensible as lighting a cig on an electric stove element while in the home << have done this numberous times. Works splendidly
nubbins`: i dropped the car lighter once while driving, had to pull over
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Yeah in previous car I disliked it. Cig sticks the thing stays hot so potential disaster if dropped. No point in it if it can only be safely used while parked or staopped
nubbins`: about as sensible as lighting a cig on an electric stove element while in the home
nubbins`: plus they get dirty w/ ash etc
nubbins`: just as likely for the cig to stick to the coil and you end up with a hot cherry in your lap
nubbins`: contact the dealership
BingoBoingo: Just refuses to heat them
nubbins`: that said, the ubiquitous Bic lighter is a marvel in its own right
nubbins`: i can hold one 6" from my face and empty my lungs at it without extinguishing the flame
nubbins`: "real zippos" come with lifetime warranties, and if you mail them a broken zippo from 1930 they'll fix it for free
nubbins`: ascii_field "fake zippos" are plentiful and outnumber the real ones thousands to one
BingoBoingo: I've had previous lighters of the zippo form before , but they almost always leaked within weeks of purchase
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: i often find these on the pavement. when turned over, they invariably read 'made in china'
BingoBoingo has used butane lighters for the longest time, almost always disposable. The refilable ones don't tend to last.
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: of the thorne guy
mircea_popescu: well, it baloons because the state doesn't have to pay for it.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: so it's in the state's interest to maximise welfare distribution
pete_dushenski: just found a curious bug in search.b-a : if the search contains the '%' symbol, clicking 'next page' sends you back to the blank search homepage
mircea_popescu: (the two incidentally are not at all that distinct, welfare and ownership of people as things)
mircea_popescu: welfare, like ownership of women and children, should be strictly in the hands of the citizenry.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: it's a source of power for it that it should never even dream of, and it's a source of moral hazard for society the likes of which can not even be described.
mircea_popescu: in any case, i'll make the point that i am not at all against welfare, but i am dead-stone-cold against the state having anything to do with it.
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BingoBoingo: Can't find anything online about the great zippo layoff though
BingoBoingo: Well the thing is stamped pennsylvania so likely union
pete_dushenski: also, smokers are a traditional bunch, not looking for bluetooth connectivity on their zippo
BingoBoingo: My though is maybe the manufactering setup is too expensive to move?
mircea_popescu: except nobody asks them :)
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: bureaucrats probably assumed they could throw manufacturing under the bus next
pete_dushenski: "first they came for... etc"
mircea_popescu: as they say, if you don't know who's next.... you're next.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski the funny thing is, they watched the internet completely destroy the journalism business model, 1990-2010
pete_dushenski: the world must conform to the bureaucrat's 'ideas', namely, the words scrawled on the 'regulation' piece of paper
BingoBoingo: This seems to be the reddit's last inflection point on the digg curve https://archive.is/p72br
mircea_popescu: which is exactly what we'll be doing to them.
mircea_popescu: ie, to the bureaucrat's mind, HE is the only one entitled to be in the world (on account of his job)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo and i expect reddit admins don't now self ban for the whale watching incident because while they don't ban ideas but actiosn, nevertheless their own actions are extempt, because
BingoBoingo: Oh, reddit banned an subreddit dedicated to actual whale watching thinking it was a part of the fat hate movement https://archive.is/nsZKC
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pete_dushenski: "I know someone who contracted Ross River Virus several years ago and he needs to be pushed around in a wheel-chair, moaning the whole time about his joints and inadequate ramp access. I visited him in his ground-floor apartment once but it was a miserable and forced conversation so I told him I had a present for him in the car and went to get it. Then drove home."
BingoBoingo: Have an actual zippo now apparently there is something 'Murica still manufacters well http://imgur.com/y8raHin
pete_dushenski: "I have also heard that music soothes the savage beast but the last time I sang Whitney Houston's 'The Greatest Love of All' to my offspring, it had the opposite effect despite what I considered to be an excellent reproduction of her tonal range." << combined with dog/bear in jeep and... i died !
mircea_popescu: there shall be no toleration of improper authority.
mircea_popescu: Regardless of whether you waive the fine or not, and despite conditional terms added to reassert authority, I will continue to secure trash correctly.
mircea_popescu: anyway, copypaste has it. "adjusting to circumvent the rules" is more empowering of the idiots than actually following the rules. NO. let them go hang with their rules.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: also "as the most popular Bitcoin gambling sites of the time." << mixing singular and plural
gribble: The operation succeeded.
pete_dushenski: "the fledgling accountless Bitcoin gaming site Satoshi Dice lead it to a long reign" << BingoBoingo wordiness aside, it's missing "and"
mircea_popescu: http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc87lbpH7r1rsl8k7o1_500.gif << woman's shadow, greatly exceeds the size of the woman
BingoBoingo: Ok they keep rolling in http://qntra.net/2015/06/popescus-response-to-bhararas-ulbrict-sentencing-commentary-inquisition/#comment-26810
pete_dushenski: in other news, inflation strikes mozilla : "Mozilla has more than doubled the cash rewards under its dusty bug bounty to beyond $10,000."
mircea_popescu: "at this sacred time of the year we go back home to be by ourselves)
mircea_popescu: and the spartans took breaks from their wars to go back and celebrate... hyacinthsmas.
mircea_popescu: so they had a festival (hyacinthia) which took three days, and the first was mourning, and the 2nd celebration over the alleged rebirth and so on.
mircea_popescu: but then he was... reborn.
mircea_popescu: specifically, this was a very accomplished youth that was disputed by the sun god and the wind god, and favoured the sun god. so the wind god arranged for something to fall on his head.
mircea_popescu: and in unrelated stuff : it is perhaps known by the esteemed audience that the (mostly) lacedemonian cult of hyacinth most likely provided the backing for most of christianity's christ-centric mythology (as opposed to its mary fixations).
nubbins`: theatre organs, who knew
mircea_popescu: (the yak, although long haired, is still a sort of cow, rather than a sort of bison)
mircea_popescu: unlike the case with eq. africanus / eq, caballus, the offspring's not usually infertile.
mircea_popescu: there is no "bison" outside of this.
mircea_popescu: bison bison is one thing, the us buffalo. bison bonasus is the european guy, like the one discussed above.
BingoBoingo: Wild Bison release still largely verboten for the same reason they were eradicated. Transportation issues and can't let the Sioux get a foothold.
assbot: Logged on 11-06-2015 13:33:12; asciilifeform: unless 'bisons' refers to another species altogether
decimation back to the mines...
nubbins`: this is like the analog equivalent of a room-sized Moog
decimation: obviously the point was to save on labor - 'one man band'
nubbins`: nice click. i think they bounce like crazy tho
nubbins`: i've got a box full of them somewhere
decimation: asciilifeform: they are now associated with 'black church music'
asciilifeform: decimation: http://www.adrianworks.com/pod/source/image/berkeley-theatre-organ.jpg << these