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BingoBoingo: Oh Nagum address es the SGML/XML issue http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3283054407117609KL2065E@naggum.no.html
mircea_popescu: no. it affected the openssh implementation.
mircea_popescu: this is like saying that heartbleed affected the better ssh implementation.
mircea_popescu: nothing "better" about it, it's a bug like any other.
mircea_popescu: "Just because someone says he suffers, does not mean he does, and even if he does, that does not mean it is anyone's business. Quite the contrary, a lot of really bad people successfully manipulate others by lying about how they suffer and exploit the natural tendency of better humans to feel compassion for sufferers."
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mircea_popescu: what the hell else.
mircea_popescu: herpy-derp. as if it's avoidable. in a totalitarian regime the state takes control, of everything. until it all goes to shit in a monolithic piece.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is like its sister, "how the hedge fund masquerading as a 'research' university can take control of the professor/researcher"
BingoBoingo: Of course they can't
mircea_popescu: apparently doctors can't write, either.
mircea_popescu: the framing is kinda lulzy awkward.
BingoBoingo: "For example, make physicians increasingly dependent on complex systems outside their domain of expertise, such as information technology and coding and billing software. Ensure that such systems are very costly, so that solo practitioners and small groups, who naturally cannot afford them, must turn to the hospital. And augment their sense of incompetence by making such systems user-unfriendly and unreliable. Where possible, chan
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mircea_popescu: decimation: why lock yourself in a tiny box when you have the tools to build a mansion? << because you're a vampire and the casket with your home dirt feels cosiest ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: honest in the sense that water, shit need to run. << the spanish right would disagree.
BingoBoingo: You know I have my whole life ahead of me, said 22-year-old Jasper. Just in other peoples bodies.
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform derps atoms in unheated wooden hovel with 0-phase (extension cord from house...) << mp lives in land of currently spring. forgets the rest of the world has autumns and shit
mircea_popescu: the best example being, of course, your own dna.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> mircea_popescu: i'm always confused by your "copyright and IP lolol" attitude contrasted with the "these contracts are copyright MPEx 20**" lines in the MPEx contracts << there are some places ip makes sense.
moldysnizz: About to get a solar panal set up on the roof. The charge controler came in the other day.
BingoBoingo: How's the homestead?
decimation: to the point, though - it's clear that only a crazy person or a fanatic would wear the 'hair shirt' of emacs defaults. why lock yourself in a tiny box when you have the tools to build a mansion?
decimation: asciilifeform: re: "emacs aptitude test" << yeah I'm realizing I need to remap everything to become more productive, like a young apprentice ought. It is good to learn the default keybindings in case one needs to use some strange terminal without your own .emacs though -- not a situation where one should expect to be productive
nubbins`: art is the same
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nubbins`: guy is literally just browsing through items, clicking on them, lamely reading description
nubbins`: oh and also ben_vulpes they just emailed me and said it doesn't work in ie7
ben_vulpes: bitcoin-assets is my refuge from the shitty horrible suicide-inducing world of web programming
ben_vulpes: i'm noping right the fuck out of this conversation.
nubbins`: and the best part is that X and Y and Z were extremely common words like "Web" and "Site" but with new, very specific, obtuse definitions
thestringpuller: and how these ideas are incepted and nutured
nubbins`: but all the class names remained the same, so to create an instance of Y you'd call createX()
thestringpuller: i wonder who thinks these are good ideas
nubbins`: between two major versions of sharepoint server, microsoft rewrote all the APIs and shuffled around all the names, so that what once was called an X is now called a Y, and what was once called a Y is now called a Z
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ben_vulpes: it's an abstraction for the sake of discussion, xmj.
xmj: asciilifeform: with the difference that modern computing "just works"
asciilifeform: stole german spigots, installing them << idiotic libel
ben_vulpes: nubbins`: who knows what "they" call anything.
asciilifeform: xmj: this is roughly the situation of modern computing.
xmj: ..needless to say that failed, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY PLUMBING.
nubbins`: ben_vulpes is this what they call "consulting"?
xmj: after WW-II was over russia stole german spigots, installing them in russia thinking water would come out of the wall...
ben_vulpes: operate in the boonies, can't afford and don't want to hire programmers, and so bring me on to do...forms. for enquification of work. in exchange for which i get dollars, and the opportunity to suggest other ways in which to make their businesses run less awkwardly.
xmj: please accept that computer systems in this century have as much legitimacy as water systems in the last.
xmj fastforwards asciilifeform to the 21st century.
ben_vulpes: so i've started bringing in the kind of work i started out seeking. internal applications for companies converting passenger 747s into cargo 747s.
xmj: it's the old debate
nubbins`: but we need to do the thing faster
asciilifeform: honest in the sense that water, shit need to run.
asciilifeform: with the exception that plumbing of pipes to carry water, shit, - is honest work.
ben_vulpes: i imagine that i feel about running cables and laying literal pipe the way you feel about returning responses to http requests.
ben_vulpes: options: derp on shitty, non-lethal web stack solving problems for people with "real" businesses in exchange for some nominal amount of cash and the "freedom" to write my own schedule, or drive hours to get to the place with the interesting multiphysics problems and...flourescent-lit workspacen.
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> 'never hire man with fewer than seven or greater than nine fingers' shop ? << they were proud to offer the opportunity to sacrifice my parts on the shrine of their stock price
ben_vulpes: "oh hey if you want to work on the hot parts, you could also go live in the desert - miles from anything interesting! - how about it? we pay 65K pre-tax."
ben_vulpes: "hey kid, want to maintain this family of bolts' load certifications through stack reengineering after stack reengineering? live in LA, sacrifice meaningful human contact, operate in remote proximity to large piles of cash and famous people working on other, cooler things?"
ben_vulpes shudders at the memory
ben_vulpes: then the rocket folks gave me a tour of the life i could expect derping on the sexiest atom stacks around
ben_vulpes: can't weld or work metal properly without the grinder.
asciilifeform also hovels, packs the hovel anyway
ben_vulpes: for lo, the paupery. we must maintain our own equipment.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: these are perfectly fine things every adult man i know, owns.
ben_vulpes: the actual tools i now own are hacksaws, japanese wood saws, various jigs, shitty quick-grip clamps, a stick welder (in the business-partner's garage), a cutoff saw (ibid), and a circular saw (...).
ben_vulpes: once upon a time i built furnaces, tables, cabinetry, play-vehicles for the e-peen at burning man...
ben_vulpes: in re-packing the toolbox today i had a moment of gloom over all the tools i've abandoned over the years.
ben_vulpes: natural gas as well, for the localized heating of crank-turners.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the machine shop ?
ben_vulpes: oh lord if the slumlord were even so competent
ben_vulpes: there's a nice symmetry
nubbins`: 575 buys you a room on the second floor of my house for one month
asciilifeform has 'mac air' circa '09, when absolutely must work in the jungles
nubbins`: should be a bit zippier than the current 2
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: do we really need to rehash the best mobile compute hardware discussion?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i'm always confused by your "copyright and IP lolol" attitude contrasted with the "these contracts are copyright MPEx 20**" lines in the MPEx contracts
asciilifeform: switching caps lock and ctrl << 'Emacs actually comes with a builting Emacs Aptitude Test. Do you remap your keyboard or the Emacs keybindings before the chords and sequences it comes with by default have wreaked havoc with your hands? If you do not do anything to make Emacs more convenient for yourself, you may not have the prerequisite aptitude to use it productive.' (naggum, who else. http://www.xach.com/na
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: some sort of consistent treatment of focus << 'ratpoison' has 'polite mode' and 'rude mode' (window can open, on current display, or cannot.) i've them set to single key toggle.
thestringpuller: the actual fuck
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BlueMeanie4: no not suggesting these two groups of sociopaths are related
mircea_popescu: what's next, the ridiculously impotent attempt of teh usg best and brightest on freenode too ?
BlueMeanie4: these guys are real class act
BlueMeanie4: and then started getting hacked + threats a few days later
BlueMeanie4: recently Jeff Garzik pointed out that their distributed object code doesnt match their source code
mircea_popescu: anyway, what's the story here, derp couldn't get a secure cpanel environment in 3 tries ?
mats_cd03: there are many young people in america that 'follow twitter'
mircea_popescu: since when do you care what they do ?
mircea_popescu: for all you know, you could be the son of a closeted gay man.
BlueMeanie4: all these ppl hiding behind anonymity- you really no idea who youre talking to
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is one going to "quit" anonymous. not like you can join it.
BlueMeanie4: just goes to show how pathetic some of these anonymous voices actually are in real life
BlueMeanie4: you should !up me after I see what the subject matter is
dub: holding a whole countries shit down while motherfuckers slipped
dub: the usual rolling, controlling, hating and operating
dub: saved the world again
dub: not just my cock the actual doing of it
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mircea_popescu: "These are the Functional Kingdoms, including Haskellia, Ocamlica, Schemeria" ok that's not bad.
ben_vulpes`: mircea_popescu: regarding the north american indians - is their land theirs? is it not granted to them by the arms which surround, and worthless even at that?
BingoBoingo: jurov: that would be advice for BingoBoingo, jurov: hire doppelganger, walk out << I'll decline to comment on whether this option has been considered already...
mircea_popescu: there's just no fucking way.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: but only those who committed the crime can be held liable for it - there's no sense in holding "a people" or "a community" liable for actions of their ancestors, is there? << in that case what makes the indians' land the indians' ? they can't be held liable for their ancestors appropriations.
mircea_popescu: decimation: Note that even in the 'dark ages', the employer accepted her skills and hired her. << that was exactly my note.
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bounce: (which is of course the embodiment of the white man's evil nature that needs urgent atonement, and nevermind that the scary brown people down in africa practiced it just as much if not more... and to an extent still do)
bounce: happens all the time. like "compensation" for slavery that happened hundreds of years ago.
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ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski but only those who committed the crime can be held liable for it - there's no sense in holding "a people" or "a community" liable for actions of their ancestors, is there?
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: yessir?
ben_vulpes: are you using the matsuhiro port?
decimation: yeah I've been eyeing the useless 'super' binding
decimation: I often switch between "C-p,C-n" and the arrow keys
decimation: Today usg requires that employers hire 'qualified' employees: http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html << which means that if the black guy barely meets the 'criteria' for a job, then you must hire
TheNewDeal: I found it mildly convenient that you could drag and smash the windows to the edge and get it to cover half
ben_vulpes: just enough to uncover their wholesale inadequacy and go back to the miserable rodential dragging and resizing of windows around monitors
ben_vulpes: "have you tried them?"
ben_vulpes: "and do you use them?"
ben_vulpes: "but there are tools for manipulating your workspace!"
ben_vulpes: i started playing with tiling window managers recently, to the horror of the golden cage people surrounding me
ben_vulpes: i'm coming to the conclusion that i'm an alien
TheNewDeal: At my old job, got to see a manufacturing process for high strength power lines (for longer spans than normal, like a wide river). They had to extrude these extremely fine threads, over hundreds of meters in length, and if a few broke, it was all scrap
TheNewDeal: well vodka shots up the ass
TheNewDeal: what in the fack
TheNewDeal: Can't remember where I heard of it first, but thats the tldr I guess
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TheNewDeal: kind of reminds me of the monkeys that died from smoking cannabis
mircea_popescu: keep a diet for a month, then eat all the food you didn't eat in one sitting. course you'll burst your stomach. etc
nubbins`: probably need an ambulance around the third pack
mircea_popescu: no, but the damage in smoking 700 ciggs in one go has more to do with the one go than with the ciggs
nubbins`: i recall approaching the one-month mark, and a friend suggested i celebrate by smoking all the cigarettes that i hadn't in the past month
TheNewDeal: people try to give you quarters in the us
TheNewDeal: Anyways, guy bums a smoke from him outside the hotel, gives him a looney
TheNewDeal: Anyways, I wasn't the one smuggling in the smokes. Co-worker was the one, except he legitimately smoked them. Type of brainset that thinks he is saving $X whilst smoking through 9 packs in 10 days
bounce: "I hate the local healthcare system, let's smuggle some smokes!"
TheNewDeal: I'm not going to get into the arguement, but smokers are less of a health care burden. They die early and quick
mircea_popescu: well on the neutral industrial basis of it, a pack is like 20 cents or something.
bounce: makes'em better. double the sin!
TheNewDeal: still worth the money
TheNewDeal: said approx 3/10 shipments would get confiscated at the border
TheNewDeal: had a friend that would import smokes from china, sell them to his frat memebers
mircea_popescu: the serbs been doing this for a while in timisoara. (serbia not b eing part of the eu)
TheNewDeal: They only allow you to bring in one carton of smokes
mircea_popescu: lol mexico-canada via the us lightbulb ring
mircea_popescu: from where, the north pole ?
mircea_popescu: you couldn't buy them in the foreign supermarkets. which romanians don't buy from anyway.
nubbins`: now i have to buy a bulb that contains mercury, and the power plant has to burn more coal to keep me warm
mircea_popescu: they kept derping about this in the eu. as i left romanian, proper lightbulbs were still on sale.
nubbins`: consider the logic
nubbins`: i live in fucking canada, i have my heat on for maybe 7-8 months of the year, and soon it will be illegal for me to buy a lightbulb that produces heat
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal masturbation.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> fwiw, the US (and canada, and every other country) still allows mercury "around", you just need to put it in a light bulb <<<
TheNewDeal: "Currently, only Minnesota has a use-restriction law providing that mercury sold in the state will be used only for medical, dental, instructional, research, or manufacturing purposes." Well, what teh fuck else is it going to be used for?
nubbins`: fwiw, the US (and canada, and every other country) still allows mercury "around", you just need to put it in a light bulb
nubbins`: TheNewDeal: pollution drift from asia is well-understood at this point
TheNewDeal: didn't the us allow mercury around for many decades?
mircea_popescu: theymos jailed in china'd sound better tbh.
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mircea_popescu: maybe it has to build the fruiting body
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal there's this group that believes the earth is hollow inside, and stuff lives there.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, am i the only one to find it shocking that the hollow earth crowd hasn't squeezed in on btc mining yet ?
nubbins`: altho she can pick me up, so there's that
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform honestly, i don't see the problem. let them read everything i write and make sense to me.
nubbins`: so the algos just default to "xx year old woman" and show her ads for weight loss and wedding planning
TheNewDeal: google's pretty good. they just query my searches, repeat in ad form
mircea_popescu: somehow the same people that know how to game google into the dirt "don't know how to target".
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal it is always the ready excuse of the manufacturer of a bad car that "people just don't know how to drive"
TheNewDeal: they don't know how to target
mircea_popescu: to the degree even the people trying to sell them are trying on the basis of "humor", ie, complete marketing failure.
mircea_popescu: "EDIT: Ive told this story at conferences and in bars for months and absolutely love teaching through humor, but Ive always been extremely self-conscious about my writing. I want to thank the absolutely amazing people on the /r/marketing subreddit and those in commenting below for giving me such profound feedback and encouragement on this article. I guarantee you that there will be MANY more like it in the very n
mats_cd03: 'Army officials are also looking into how to grade the new tests, with a simple "excellent," "good" or "poor" potentially replacing a pass-fail or a point score.'
asciilifeform: e.g. guillotine, the stake, etc
asciilifeform: in hilarious novel 'stand on zanzibar', there was a service that would, for a fee, execute the client in any one of a variety of 'historic' methods
asciilifeform: one, if i recall, also had a chloroform rag in the loop somehow
asciilifeform: another had a water clock timer
mircea_popescu: seems the best would be, immerse penis, use displaced volume to actuate, watch porn
nubbins`: lit candle placed diagonally under the rope
asciilifeform: with a timer, or otherwise
mircea_popescu: guy was well disturbed tho, and the puzzlement of teh authorities threw him over the edge
asciilifeform: ah usually the builder puts it to use personally.
asciilifeform: and used them personally.
asciilifeform: then again, history tells us of at least four who built... own guillotines.
asciilifeform: laugh, laugh, but i once visited the home of a man who built own cube.
mircea_popescu: "He and I became fast friends and life was rather wonderful. We were both self-employed and often worked from home together in our own little co-working space. We occasionally would hang out with friends together and one day he decided to have some fun with me." <<< WE BUILT OUR OWN CUBICAL!!1 out of materials found in every home! read the secret that has all middle managers jealous!
mircea_popescu: "for every breathtakingly hot woman you ever see, there's a cock somewhere flacid at her mere memory"
asciilifeform: except for the puritanical variety, which, in al schwartz's words, 'has the unique damnation of being both perverse and boring.'
asciilifeform floored by the sheer perversity
mircea_popescu: he's the coffeejava guy
mircea_popescu: if i went to work for google/apple/pepsi/w/e and in the first month a hundred employees killed themselves, i'd just welcome the news, and definitely blog about it.
mircea_popescu: because if it hired disruptive, fearless folks... well... who knows what rocking the boat could do.
mircea_popescu: that's why the fucking bigco hires what he describes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's a whole swath of other nonsense built on nonsense.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform his life is dedicated to their inexistence.
mircea_popescu: if i step on a snail, strictly for the purpose of stepping on the snail, he'll prolly go berserk on me just out of the need to somehow resolve the anxiety he feels
mircea_popescu: http://braythwayt.com/homoiconic/2009/10/10/high-anxiety.html <<< actually that is the missing stone i was looking for.
asciilifeform: another old-time favourite - custom router firmware.
mats_cd03: http://mysocialsherpa.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-my-roommate-with-targeted-facebook-ads/
mircea_popescu: well the easy way out involves expert cheating.
asciilifeform: there are firms like this, somewhere. can't say i ever saw one alive in person, but then again how would i.
mircea_popescu: there's no prizes for doing things the obvious, hard way, outside of a heartfelt obituary by an age worn woman with beautiful blue eyes
asciilifeform: gauss actually is interesting to mention here, given as he made many 'leaps of intuition' - most of them, into neverneverland. he knew this, even, and so refrained from publishing most of his work
mircea_popescu: ie, one that is actually homologous with the solution, not merely easy.,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's a lot of value in looking for the easy way out, a point easily missed by naggum and im sure gauss, and many other very smart people.
mircea_popescu: (yes, yes, i know, bitcoins aren't inflationary etc. but the hundreds to peanuts comparison is not there)
mircea_popescu: the result being, that everyone involved with the attempt earned peanuts. just like your average gi joe today earns whatever hundred bitcoins and thinks it a big deal.
mircea_popescu: and it WAS impressive, for the time and place. because hey, the russians tried to build an utopia of empathy and equality, and failed.
mircea_popescu: at the time i was a 16yo with his own driver, my father earned an impressing $680 a year.
mircea_popescu: i don't care how deeply anchored in the core of the world it may be. it's a square inch and it's getting flattened.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: know the 'which screw' joke ?
mircea_popescu: errors will be communicated on the next pass.
asciilifeform: then where would i come in asking for pay, after that.
mircea_popescu: they'll get used to it.
asciilifeform: make a sport out of rubbing its hopes, aspirations and legitimate expectations into the dirt >> try being a pauper in the Big Zone some time...
mircea_popescu: not that he's that much of a genius, or that much of an imbecile. but then again, to display dynamic equilibrium you aren't particularly better served by a VERY LONG lever.
mircea_popescu: rarely has the imbecile/genius duality been more pointedly on display.
mircea_popescu: it's mindblowing just how clever, on the point and far seeing reginald braithwaite is, while at the same time how idiotically fixated on "equality" and "empathy" and all the rest of that pointless drivel.
mircea_popescu: since we're talking security, as in, false subjective sense of, here's an excellent read on the topic :L http://braythwayt.com/homoiconic/2013/12/28/why-you-need-a-degree-to-work-for-bigco.html