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(trilema) ben_vulpes: oregon very definitely does not try to kill denizens on a regular basis; might explain the weenie factor in these parts
(trilema) ben_vulpes: but this is an old thread.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: because race-to-the-bottom in highly regulated markets.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: now if these remote outposts were made of stone perhaps this would be less of a concern, but they gotta be made cheaply, and out of the same vinyl as the rest of the shitboard housing stock
(trilema) ben_vulpes: folks gotta have their cabins in the middleoffuckingnowhere and mother government gotta keep their 'investments' from burning down.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "okay well i guess a little of column a and a little of column b..."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: nevermind that if one just let the dead wood burn out every five years as god intended the beetles would be vastly less numerous and their impact negligible
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "nono, it's the two degrees warmer winters that let the beetles chew through more forest than usual!"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: no asciilifeform it's thanks to al gore and global warming dontcha know
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the firefighting project in place since the fifties or so?
(trilema) ben_vulpes considering buying a few air filters for the haus
(trilema) ben_vulpes: aaand the pacific northwest is on fire
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i keep getting cloudflare 502s
(trilema) ben_vulpes: archive.is dead?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: as an aside, it is obnoxious that anchors are not passed in the request
(trilema) ben_vulpes: oh no, danielpbarron is mining with customer hardware!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: for my illumination, what do you figure Barbarossa_ is buying from you that he is not from danielpbarron ?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: fg from ft meade!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: Barbarossa_: market clearing price is danielpbarron's lower-than-snsa offer
(trilema) ben_vulpes: but also cool
(trilema) ben_vulpes: guy wants to buy at above market clearing price; it's funny!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: old assets lolz, "rentalstarter" froze asset trading and then sold a pile of shares at above market price to "mystery investor who wanted to pay more than market price"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: omfg it's rentalstarter all over again
(trilema) ben_vulpes: how is s.nsa earning the btc back with the price cuts? were materials not paid for in btc many moons past?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: hey it could be worse, you could be cryojewnic
(trilema) ben_vulpes: Barbarossa_: jewdom is a state of mind
(trilema) ben_vulpes: Barbarossa_: there was just a price cut
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what as if there are zero with spellable names gtfo
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ("imagine, if they only paid software coolies for software that works" [tm] [r] [asciilifeform])
(trilema) ben_vulpes: tooling i told you to write three months ago."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "oh dear, i really need some help here. this javascript app is so completely asynchronous that i can't hold it all in my head at the same time." "didja design it to fit in your head?" "no, i didn't really have time for that." "didja...write tests for it?" "no, definitely didn't have time for that" "well, it looks like you're going to have to find the time to painfully debug it by hand without any of the
(trilema) ben_vulpes: even he almost gets it, "oh yeah, they just poured the whole sugar bag of syntax in. javascript has python, c#, you name it."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i tell you, listening to the young feller who shares the toxic trainstation orifice with me prattle on about the majesty of es6 takes what wind is left in the sails of trying to fix a young man's mind clean to /dev/null
(trilema) ben_vulpes: a headline that won't make the cut this evening: "<something> Javascript: It can work"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: you can tell it's artisinal asymmetric warfare gear by the vintage yellow dots on the manual
(trilema) ben_vulpes: girl wanted to show me things, but was reading circuit diagrams, "woman, i am reading schematics for a communist killing machine. whatever you have can wait"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: package was robust enough to survive this operation!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: mhm
(trilema) ben_vulpes: aah, the waters finally got 'im
(trilema) ben_vulpes: lady is quite clearly engaged in a serious fabrication project
(trilema) ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: actually now that you mention it, i hopped on a scale for lulz recently and realized that i should really stop calibrating my intake against hers
(trilema) ben_vulpes: shant, shant.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i'll probably put up a page on cuntstarter or something
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "2 and 3" means 2nd and third, "for this much suffering we should fucking get twins"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: package arrived, ty
(trilema) ben_vulpes: pff i go to take my girl for gelato and romp my child with his grandparents and y'all create epic logs
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what is this bitmitigate thing
(trilema) ben_vulpes: phf: would be highly neat
(trilema) ben_vulpes: oh cool there's a bug
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "honey look total outlay on this is the integral of income fn for time under our roof, so let's have em fast and early while not making a whole lot of money"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: well yes, and actually joking aside my original point as well.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "how many babies do you want?" "ZERO" "how many does she want?" "INFINITY"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: I HAVE HAD ENOUGH ALREADY
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and hey, a mere three degree increase could kill enough folks to bring the population back to a reasonable level.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: epic cartoon btw
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "frisky dingo:
(trilema) ben_vulpes: lol changing orbit parameters; this is a classic
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://logs.bvulpes.com/trilema?d=2017-8-30#193441 << how does this even begin to work without putting a shade between earth and sol?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: more of the classic progressive "we'll fix the world for the poor brown people, because they can't want it for themselves"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: lord only knows what unintended consequences it'll have, neh?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: running joke is that girl is so miserable it better be 2nd and 3rd for all the damn trouble
(trilema) ben_vulpes: in other unsustainability news, ben_vulpes has another mouth to feed on the way
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "how about stop confusing ought for is in your tiny little head?"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "but what should we dooooo?"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: moreover, as if cleaner diesel's going to do anything about the haze in cn, etc etc.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: also the ahistoricity of "omfg stop burning things, slow the warming". dog, the damage was done when the first nuggets of coal came out and went up.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: also gimme a break, the root cause here is the chain reaction of burning all of the stored hydrocarbons, and it ain't going to stop until all of the fuel is gone.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: as if the blip of geological time sapiens observed is representative, and not a transient of a transient
(trilema) ben_vulpes: hubris of ameliorating "global warming" is pretty cute, right up there with terraforming mars.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i have not started those experiments yet; moving entire personal workshop
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ohai asciilifeform
(trilema) ben_vulpes: !~later tell p0nziph0ne stop join/parting, wouldja?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: ack
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "this woman is a treasure"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: $girl in further stitches over panel seven of haft
(trilema) ben_vulpes: we're dying over here
(trilema) ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: dude scrollwork
(trilema) ben_vulpes: also quite obviously missing the years of keeping his defense up
(trilema) ben_vulpes: no kicking, no grappling, that leaves you with 1/3rd of your training and a whole mess of rules to remember in the fight
(trilema) ben_vulpes: not a good comparison, it's a boxing match not an mma brawl
(trilema) ben_vulpes: like pitting some country yokel who's been menacing milkmaids with a rusty rod all five of his post-pubescent years against a gentleman trained to fight with you know anything at hand from birth
(trilema) ben_vulpes: kinda hard to imagine any prep working to stand an mma guy up against a dood like mayweather
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "being of sound mind and body/i'm spending my money as fast as i can"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: !!up tardigrade
(trilema) ben_vulpes: irishman looks downright confused at getting the breakup call
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: mayweather turning around is pretty amusing
(trilema) ben_vulpes: gonna route your inheritance around the estate taxes in your local regime?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: well then it's all the more precious!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: nowai and on irc and everything
(trilema) ben_vulpes: eh we have a few codgers, dads and mums even, dunno what age has to do with anything
(trilema) ben_vulpes: bitcoin exists, it is what it is, it ain't going anywhere or changing significantly, best to spend your cycles skating towards where the puck will be which are the death throes of the fiat socialist megastate
(trilema) ben_vulpes: all sorts of other cool shit like hardware rngs and magnetically accelerated particle decay and low-cost high kinetic energy weaponry
(trilema) ben_vulpes: seriously, we have the hookers and blow over here.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: stop hanging out with retards?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: expand on fungibility?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: if a power system can beat you for your btc, it'll do it regardless of "but i mamblewampled my buttcorns"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: proving a case that someone holds btc is a construction that only serves to perpetuate the faith that proving things in usgistanti or any other fiat "legal" system matters
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it's just nonsense on the face of it; thermo-rectal cryptanalysis dun give a shit re mumblewhateverthefuck
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: also had a piece on the costs of privacy that i'm failing to dig up atm, but basically bitcoin is not a protocol that has privacy baked into it at any level, and moreover privacy is very expensive and impractical in most cases anyways
(trilema) ben_vulpes: care to elaborate on privacy?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i think 'taintedness' of coins with segshit is still open topic
(trilema) ben_vulpes: well there's the canonical "if you go on a fork you will lose your bitcoin" to start from
(trilema) ben_vulpes: lol don't blow your thirty minutes drafting an answer to that now
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mhm, and who're you?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: !!up tardigrade
(trilema) ben_vulpes: inspire jealousy in lesser females carries its own +1 to hoovering them up, typically
(trilema) ben_vulpes: aah, hoovered in accidentally?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: upstack, aspirate?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: in the girl's defense, that's probably as much selling as she has to do with most gringos
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ah is that what i was seeing
(trilema) ben_vulpes: some day, one of these guys is going to figure out that women actually like to *get fucked* and *what they mean by that* and his head will explode
(trilema) ben_vulpes: null patch is best patch/steal from the best
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://logs.bvulpes.com/trilema?d=2017-8-27#190041 << works in lynx/links, i am kinda loath to add js
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it is a very dense bit of variety speak though.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "we can therefore we must" itself
(trilema) ben_vulpes: er, suggestion
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: 'twas a recommendation for your glossarus
(trilema) ben_vulpes: make sports probably lethal again
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i say fuck it, i want a no-rules rally league and a no-rules f1 league and a highly doped gladiation i mean football league and fuck it let's outfit the brutes with weapons
(trilema) ben_vulpes: (wctwm meets inane rulesets; i think the throttle-position tracker is because 'no gps')
(trilema) ben_vulpes: computronium in the ice stack, why not
(trilema) ben_vulpes: honda was using throttle position to track course position, driver took a turn flat out, course tracker got confused and stopped delivering the electric aux power
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and in new, improved, really terrible intelligence augmentation in the same spoarts category: https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/alonso-qualifying-spa-honda-mclaren-945396/
(trilema) ben_vulpes: old f1 much more my lane
(trilema) ben_vulpes: sounds lovely
(trilema) ben_vulpes: (in re mayweather fight)
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i almost strolled to the bar, decided to tend to some node seedlings instead
(trilema) ben_vulpes bringing up a few nodes, pointing 'em at other republican advertised ips
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: any reason why syncing from 46.166.160.36 would be painfully slow?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: oh oh scuse me
(trilema) ben_vulpes: gotta be trolling
(trilema) ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: this is a gem
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ahaha paraphrasing "should i go to a family-friendly counter rally elsewhere and DO A CHILDCARE SHIFT"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: slate now publishing anonymous snuff fantasy
(trilema) ben_vulpes: followed by "i have nfi if true or not BUT WHAT A GREAT STORY OMG MY FIGHTBONER IS SO HARD"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: " I’ve been told that Antifa have physically fended off neo-Nazis who have attempted to enter people’s homes in raids in predominantly black neighborhoods."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: also he's a deplorable, they don't know anything else about him
(trilema) ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: dunno what you mean with the obama comment
(trilema) ben_vulpes: between the judiciary, the legislative, and the executive.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: etceteras etceteras, "Bain said he believes Trump "has a sense that the chief executive controls everything in the executive branch, including the exercise of criminal power. And that is just not the way the system is set up." lol omfg excuse me (and excuse me again for disregarding the 'button not connected' thread), but that is /precisely/ how the system is set up. the formal and enshrined separations are
(trilema) ben_vulpes: pantsuits have no idea how detached from reality they're becoming. excuse me, legacy? according to you in the first case, he doesn't have a legacy, and in the second case his legacy can only exist in the minds of the kinds of people who /elected arpaio like three times in a row/, and for whom his actions are glorious greatagain material.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://archive.is/jYCWc : "Trump's pardon...threatens to become a stain on this president's legacy."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: some dogs are just delightfully stupid and willing to please
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ohai danielpbarron
(trilema) ben_vulpes: his hands are so teeeeny
(trilema) ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: izzat ljr?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "nobody could have predicted that the auto companies cannibalizing sales through financing and aggressive lease practices would blow depreciation rates sky high"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ("in other altcoins...")
(trilema) ben_vulpes: wowee, somehow uber racked up 9kusd in losses on each subprime vehicle lease
(trilema) ben_vulpes: you mean it wasn't all whining and pleases and you shoulds the first time through?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: hey if everything can't be free, maybe we can guilt whitey into giving us their houses and inheritances
(trilema) ben_vulpes: but the error i hit was 'pthread: command not found', which...wat
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: apparently
(trilema) ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: lol that leo piece. "left is hell-bent on discrediting itself", or how did it go
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what delightful novelty
(trilema) ben_vulpes: bringing a trb node up on whatever gentoo image scaleway has; 'pthread: command not found', log notes indicate patch necessary to cmake CheckIncludeFiles.cmake, investigation of which shows...no cmake on this box
(trilema) ben_vulpes: today's american political wtf: "John Brown, of an anti-Trump group calling itself the Redneck Revolt, wore military fatigues and had an AK-47 rifle strapped to his chest as he and a half dozen others from the group stood about 30 feet behind the barricade for protesters. He said they were there to protect Trump opponents and stand up to fascism."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: yangwao: who is your daddy and what does he do
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mike_c: it is, after all, windows technology
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: gems in the linked piece in re bulldozer on tracks
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and recommendation ssd; although spinning rust not impossibru to get by with it ain't long for this world.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: whaack: suggestion is 'diversify'
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and totally aren't saboteurs either!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://archive.is/oxRxc << ...unions refuse "to accept responsibility for service disruptions that negatively affect the customers when we have no input on operational changes."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mine has 30 connections atm
(trilema) ben_vulpes: greek thing, i guess.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: wasn't that the premise of 'austerity'?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it is a very ordinary hell
(trilema) ben_vulpes: wired for cat5 even
(trilema) ben_vulpes: comes complete with ~5% tax cut
(trilema) ben_vulpes: unrelatedly, quest to eradicate commute from my life appears to be drawing to a close!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: approved, ty
(trilema) ben_vulpes: sounds right by my recollection
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i struggle to imagine the poverty of system that behavior was intended to be useful on
(trilema) ben_vulpes: if it were to be vpatched, it should abolish truncation everywhere in the codebase
(trilema) ben_vulpes: anyways, trivial 2-liner
(trilema) ben_vulpes: or hm where did it go
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: 'tis sitting in my workdir, did not imagine it to be useful to others
(trilema) ben_vulpes: world is a fuck
(trilema) ben_vulpes: republican outposts in the sea of shit
(trilema) ben_vulpes: hanbot: .77 is mine
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i'll vacuum pack it!!1!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: lol what, beefcondom?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mitigable i mean
(trilema) ben_vulpes: freezerburn's mitigatable tho innit?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: not particularly decided yet; still curious
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i am also curious to see how poorly the freeze treats the meat
(trilema) ben_vulpes: no es un pais pobre :(
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i think horizontal freezer will hold a quarter of an animal
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the smallholders who raise them in the area inevitably surround the purchase with all sorts of hijinks. "you will come to the farm and we will introduce you to the herd; you and the rest of the half and quarter-purchasers will have a rollicking good time with your and our children dancing and drinking around the fire until the wee hours. room in the barn for all, plus tents outside if that appeals."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: oh you know, boot of the car
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i would like to get a half cow next year.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: now let me tell you about how delicate the personal-injury lawyer's kid up the street is...
(trilema) ben_vulpes: took a skull to the face the other day. black eye and barely a whimper.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: monster dog has been excellent for toughening up the tyke
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "just look it up on youtube if this happens again"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it's a pulling/twisting set of motions
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i went to the doc, doc showed me the various manipulations to effect
(trilema) ben_vulpes: romping around with kiddo, felt a *click* in his wrist, rapidly sad child who didn't want to use his left arm
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: hey on the other hand, i did learn the 'nursemaids elbow' fix the other day
(trilema) ben_vulpes: Birdman: well you said it had something to do with the second quote, which didn't make any sense
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what's the mustard mechanism?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i recall some quality lolz around "poor american blax are violent because their pipes are lead and this inhibits impulse control and intelligence generally"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i had no idea
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