ben_vulpes: (wctwm meets inane rulesets; i think the throttle-position tracker is because 'no gps')
ben_vulpes: computronium in the ice stack, why not
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
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/
ben_vulpes: old f1 much more my lane
ben_vulpes: sounds lovely
ben_vulpes: and in pipe dreams: https://phys.org/news/2017-08-electrons-liquid-graphene-physics.html
ben_vulpes: (in re mayweather fight)
ben_vulpes: i almost strolled to the bar, decided to tend to some node seedlings instead
ben_vulpes bringing up a few nodes, pointing 'em at other republican advertised ips
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: any reason why syncing from 46.166.160.36 would be painfully slow?
ben_vulpes: salon
ben_vulpes: oh oh scuse me
ben_vulpes: gotta be trolling
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: this is a gem
ben_vulpes: ahaha paraphrasing "should i go to a family-friendly counter rally elsewhere and DO A CHILDCARE SHIFT"
ben_vulpes: slate now publishing anonymous snuff fantasy
ben_vulpes: followed by "i have nfi if true or not BUT WHAT A GREAT STORY OMG MY FIGHTBONER IS SO HARD"
ben_vulpes: " Iâve been told that Antifa have physically fended off neo-Nazis who have attempted to enter peopleâs homes in raids in predominantly black neighborhoods."
ben_vulpes: also he's a deplorable, they don't know anything else about him
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: dunno what you mean with the obama comment
ben_vulpes: between the judiciary, the legislative, and the executive.
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
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.
ben_vulpes: http://archive.is/jYCWc : "Trump's pardon...threatens to become a stain on this president's legacy."
ben_vulpes: some dogs are just delightfully stupid and willing to please
ben_vulpes: lol
ben_vulpes: ohai danielpbarron
ben_vulpes: lol
ben_vulpes: his hands are so teeeeny
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: izzat ljr?
ben_vulpes: "nobody could have predicted that the auto companies cannibalizing sales through financing and aggressive lease practices would blow depreciation rates sky high"
ben_vulpes: ("in other altcoins...")
ben_vulpes: wowee, somehow uber racked up 9kusd in losses on each subprime vehicle lease
ben_vulpes: ty!
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: didja get http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-23#1702491 ?
ben_vulpes: in other tmsr news: http://www.thoriumenergyworld.com/news/finally-worlds-first-tmsr-experiment-in-over-40-years-started
ben_vulpes: you mean it wasn't all whining and pleases and you shoulds the first time through?
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: hey if everything can't be free, maybe we can guilt whitey into giving us their houses and inheritances
ben_vulpes: but the error i hit was 'pthread: command not found', which...wat
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: apparently
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: lol that leo piece. "left is hell-bent on discrediting itself", or how did it go
ben_vulpes: what delightful novelty
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
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."
ben_vulpes: yangwao: who is your daddy and what does he do
ben_vulpes: mike_c: it is, after all, windows technology
ben_vulpes: hue, even pax dickinson wants UCI now: https://twitter.com/CounterFund/status/898366181102555136
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/xwwuJ/?raw=true
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: gems in the linked piece in re bulldozer on tracks
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/VBlZA/?raw=true
ben_vulpes: and recommendation ssd; although spinning rust not impossibru to get by with it ain't long for this world.
ben_vulpes: whaack: suggestion is 'diversify'
ben_vulpes: and totally aren't saboteurs either!
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."
ben_vulpes: mine has 30 connections atm
ben_vulpes: greek thing, i guess.
ben_vulpes: wasn't that the premise of 'austerity'?
ben_vulpes: it is a very ordinary hell
ben_vulpes: wired for cat5 even
ben_vulpes: comes complete with ~5% tax cut
ben_vulpes: unrelatedly, quest to eradicate commute from my life appears to be drawing to a close!
ben_vulpes: and how
ben_vulpes: http://logs.bvulpes.com/trilema?d=2017-8-19#186295 << yup, sorry for the delay
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: approved, ty
ben_vulpes: aye aye
ben_vulpes: sounds right by my recollection
ben_vulpes: i struggle to imagine the poverty of system that behavior was intended to be useful on
ben_vulpes: if it were to be vpatched, it should abolish truncation everywhere in the codebase
ben_vulpes: anyways, trivial 2-liner
ben_vulpes: or hm where did it go
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: 'tis sitting in my workdir, did not imagine it to be useful to others
ben_vulpes: world is a fuck
ben_vulpes: republican outposts in the sea of shit
ben_vulpes: hanbot: .77 is mine
ben_vulpes: in other smart devices: https://twitter.com/nke_ise/status/897756900753891328
ben_vulpes: tru
ben_vulpes: i'll vacuum pack it!!1!
ben_vulpes: lol what, beefcondom?
ben_vulpes: mitigable i mean
ben_vulpes: freezerburn's mitigatable tho innit?
ben_vulpes: not particularly decided yet; still curious
ben_vulpes: i am also curious to see how poorly the freeze treats the meat
ben_vulpes: no es un pais pobre :(
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i think horizontal freezer will hold a quarter of an animal
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."
ben_vulpes: oh you know, boot of the car
ben_vulpes: i would like to get a half cow next year.
ben_vulpes: yes yes
ben_vulpes: hah as if
ben_vulpes: now let me tell you about how delicate the personal-injury lawyer's kid up the street is...
ben_vulpes: took a skull to the face the other day. black eye and barely a whimper.
ben_vulpes: monster dog has been excellent for toughening up the tyke
ben_vulpes: aya
ben_vulpes has obviously been watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IkPPlF-yaE too much
ben_vulpes: "just look it up on youtube if this happens again"
ben_vulpes: it's a pulling/twisting set of motions
ben_vulpes: i went to the doc, doc showed me the various manipulations to effect
ben_vulpes: myeah, that
ben_vulpes: romping around with kiddo, felt a *click* in his wrist, rapidly sad child who didn't want to use his left arm
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: hey on the other hand, i did learn the 'nursemaids elbow' fix the other day
ben_vulpes: Birdman: well you said it had something to do with the second quote, which didn't make any sense
ben_vulpes: what's the mustard mechanism?
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"
ben_vulpes: Birdman: i don't see the problem: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/kpaOM/?raw=true
ben_vulpes: i had no idea
ben_vulpes: wat
ben_vulpes: anything from not-city, i'd hazard
ben_vulpes: i don't know shit about horseflesh but they were nice too
ben_vulpes: cherries, eggs, steak
ben_vulpes: i was impressed with what little i saw of argentine food that the argentines didn't have the opportunity to screw up
ben_vulpes: i had no idea cherries travel well
ben_vulpes: the rainiers are to die for though
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: only maraschino cherries i know come bleached of nature and re-filled with corn syrup and dye
ben_vulpes: but hey, the strawberries and cherries are great
ben_vulpes rests case
ben_vulpes: pantsuit central
ben_vulpes: not here, buddy.
ben_vulpes: which reminds me, i was in $bezzlecorp's offices the other week and found these hysterical signs in the degendered bathrooms reminding folks to put the seats down.
ben_vulpes: that is what we have and that is what nobody wants.
ben_vulpes: and the "what" that "we" have is, well, you know the haircut that screams "everything offends my delicate intersectional sensibilities" from a block away?
ben_vulpes: all me to clarify that by we i mean "here", miserable socialist hellhole of the pnw
ben_vulpes: and in the morning i will still be a married man
ben_vulpes: "you sir, are drunk."
ben_vulpes: slander and libel
ben_vulpes: i've none such!
ben_vulpes: you don't want what we have.
ben_vulpes: lol nothing so so. one of the sheguests
ben_vulpes: was this like an entire days worth of prep that guestbae could not assist with?
ben_vulpes: my sins against the torah are myriad
ben_vulpes: lol hey i don't marinade cow much in anything
ben_vulpes: i swear by yogurt marinades for chickens
ben_vulpes: mike_c's horrified refusal to believe that shit could be so bad
ben_vulpes was just recalling the c3 memory fragging arguments
ben_vulpes: btw wb mike_c
ben_vulpes: lol probably that
ben_vulpes: i have previously declined to load this particular edifice of self referential horseshit into my head and think i'm going to do so again
ben_vulpes: what i mean or what they might mean
ben_vulpes: probably also means can't fuck
ben_vulpes: surface level supposed to convey "turned on by smart gurls" i think?
ben_vulpes: some signal i can't be arsed to parse
ben_vulpes: "no nazis"
ben_vulpes: "no sapiosexuals"
ben_vulpes: dude the contemporary inanities are even worse
ben_vulpes: last i checked the intersectional feminism was thick and masculinity toxic
ben_vulpes: hey, i ain't defending it!
ben_vulpes: heh specific diddleability
ben_vulpes: highly specifically diddleable
ben_vulpes: lolchoice
ben_vulpes: "As soon as you connect your Trezor to a power source such as a computer, without entering any PIN codes or opening any websites, the Trezor device firmware by itself fills the SRAM with all your sensitive secret information."
ben_vulpes: failed to notice bot hadn't come back with me
ben_vulpes: repant, repent, repatriate
ben_vulpes: great again
ben_vulpes: great again
ben_vulpes: everything must be free!
ben_vulpes: now i want fried chicken
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: hey does that one have a face?
ben_vulpes: looool
ben_vulpes: ty shinohai
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/eDUdv/?raw=true
ben_vulpes: allo asciilifeform
ben_vulpes: (http://logs.bvulpes.com/trilema?d=2017-8-12#181354 << was me, btw, forgot to say until now)
ben_vulpes: noice
ben_vulpes: oh subject of, i just had a grand time with rushdie's satanic verses.
ben_vulpes: heh
ben_vulpes: having forgotten how logarithms work
ben_vulpes: aaah. then it was a /personal/ failing, not a systemic one.
ben_vulpes: i...don't follow
ben_vulpes: what secrets of the universe did my inferior american education deprive me of?
ben_vulpes: why is ln(16)/ln(2) so tidily and precisely 4?
ben_vulpes: "the greatest website to ever fit in a single TCP packet"
ben_vulpes: in other web esoterica: http://packet.city/
ben_vulpes: gracious
ben_about off
ben_about: also copenhagen suborbitals lost their...sub: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/biggest-amateur-built-sub-sinks-owner-is-suspected-of-killing-passenger/
ben_about: quite excited to see how the left escalates from here
ben_about: car mowdown very much in the vein of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-12#1697197
ben_about: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-12#1697244 << make america gay again!
ben_about: ty mircea_popescu
ben_vulpes: isn't the practicality of reorg a function of segwitolade sum?
ben_vulpes: trinque: i wouldn't go so far as to say they pulled it off
ben_vulpes: we just...vote? and it happens?
ben_vulpes: that's how laws work right?
ben_vulpes: well if they say it enough and if enough people vote for it surely it will become the new law
ben_vulpes: har har har
ben_vulpes: gonna paraphrase here, "we're sure that when the supreme court hears about how our schools are so terribly underfunded they'll reconsider their ruling on the consitutionality of this tax"
ben_vulpes: another funny tidbit is that a) anything other than a flat tax is strictly constitutionally prohibited in washington and b) 33.65.030: "A county, city, or city-county shall not levy a tax on net income."
ben_vulpes: in reading some commentary on seattle's new tax on the rich, i learn that a sales tax is regressive because rich people pay a smaller fraction of their income in taxes than poors
ben_vulpes: and, and, and.
ben_vulpes: dns is good for you: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=150238802328673&w=2
ben_vulpes: hey erlehmann i have a grammar project for ya: https://www.wired.com/story/malware-dna-hack
ben_vulpes: and you know, "if i ain't fuckin you, i ain't fixin your head neither"
ben_vulpes: for all the inca-wreckage in my life, few of the wrecked are willing to realize the root of their distress.
ben_vulpes: i'm waiting for age and failure to mature me into a nice ball of hate
ben_vulpes: wimminz, puppiez, childrenz
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: gotta realize, i'm a sucker for cuddles
ben_vulpes: yes and
ben_vulpes: dun work for me, orifice gotta be childfree
ben_vulpes: step 1: home orifice. step 2: being useful member of society
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: i appreciate the exhortation
ben_vulpes: that level of shiv/word density is far beyond what i can accomplish, BingoBoingo has been practicing
ben_vulpes: nono, just found it very amusing
ben_vulpes tips hat
ben_vulpes: ho ho ho
ben_vulpes: while i'm on the topic, can confirm that 'modern' asdf is all sorts of royal pita as well, although that thread has been well hashed in the logs
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-13#1682481 << aaand i just bounced off of this
ben_vulpes: how's that?
ben_vulpes: in other fuddings, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fed-has-6-200-tons-of-gold-in-a-manhattan-basementor-does-it-1502382644
ben_vulpes: leading to such hilarious horrors as "fuck it in the pizza"
ben_vulpes: oh and in other tangential discoveries, both google and ms refuse to translate pizdet
ben_vulpes: hey professor calculus had a sweet rocket
ben_vulpes: well hey, put a few knickers in some degree of knot, so he's got my vote in the midterms
ben_vulpes: you figure he expected to survive the publication?
ben_vulpes: more like vp of diversity like 'naw'
ben_vulpes: tee so the thought police cracked down on the dood behind the (entirely wackily formatted) http://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1797564320 : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo
ben_vulpes: same same but bigger
ben_vulpes: i know, i'll make an ico
ben_vulpes: i want to issue junk bonds backed by battery powered dreams too!
ben_vulpes: to make a car the rumor mill suggests isn't particularly profitable
ben_vulpes: in other bezzles, musk raising 1.3b in 'high yield' bonds
ben_vulpes: cuban repression? waaat
ben_vulpes: mhm!
ben_vulpes: https://www.wsj.com/articles/missouri-police-officer-killed-during-traffic-stop-1502121625 << is it 'cops are easy to kill' oclock yet?
ben_vulpes: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/us/10-sickened-kansas-city-irs-suspicious-package.html
ben_vulpes: !!up edivad
ben_vulpes: trinque: hue
ben_vulpes: manslaughter, dontchaknow
ben_vulpes: in other old lady state news, girl who texted guy to kill himself got 15 months in the pen
ben_vulpes: lobbes: neato
ben_vulpes: yeah i been watching
ben_vulpes: edivad: what kind of system are you building trb on that shipped without `patch`?
ben_vulpes: !!up edivad
ben_vulpes: you'll want it to be .html too :P
ben_vulpes: WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT THE PHORKS, KEYBASE?
ben_vulpes: missed this gem: https://keybase.io/docs/server_security/merkle_root_in_bitcoin_blockchain
ben_vulpes: very fancy, 'user phriendly', pki
ben_vulpes: egregiously papers over the notion that signing should be a special, considered act.
ben_vulpes: eldritch reactor rod automation and complexity-layering: https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs
ben_vulpes: nah, hasta be a single-wide
ben_vulpes: trumpenguard now operating out of a double-wide: http://archive.is/1efqN
ben_vulpes: poor guy's nuts were inset into the rim
ben_vulpes: all i know is that hardware drm has arrived at the fucking wheels
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: might know more
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: holds tires to certain kinds of rims afaict
ben_vulpes: gotta adhere to these unexamined moral systems