phf: possibly only as a side effect of general mobilization. as it stands the divide between texan boys who got to help their buddies keep their guts inside ied torn bellies and the coastal "intelligentsia" has only grown and has only made this country weaker
lobbes: ^^ e.g. took a bit longer than an hour for those to appear in the searchable db but they show now
phf: i mentioned to one of these men that i have good ear for accents, at which point he proceeded to immitate, without any comedic manerisms, roughly 10-20 accents along the dc<->baltimore line.
trinque: and got "shit, I joined the airforce to be in that gay-ass top gun movie, got instead desk, and military downsizing"
trinque: ah, "save the world for democracy" or something
asciilifeform: i was curious specifically re what they instead had, trinque .
trinque: I say the place had no culture, and he starts arguing with me that it had no culture
asciilifeform: in chicago , in the handful of 19th c building that hadn't yet been torn down to make glass idiocies, there are murals. of what the 1890s folx thought were greek muses, mythical heroes, etc.
trinque: but that sweaty guy in the "am tech nerd too" jacket looks familiar
trinque: from the murican side, of the cold warriors I've known, seems like the evil empire served as a surrogate culture for a while.
asciilifeform: for n00bz in the audience : poetry recital was good % of total mass of early schooling.
asciilifeform: glanced at me to make sure I was getting it down.' (tm)(r)('anathem')
asciilifeform: oblig: '“Are people starving to death? Or are they sick because they are too fat?” Artisan Quin scratched his beard and thought about that one. “You’re talking of slines, I assume?” Fraa Orolo shrugged. Quin thought that was funny. Unlike Artisan Flec, he was not afraid to laugh out loud. “Sort of both at the same time,” he finally admitted. “Very good,” said Fraa Orolo, in a now we’re getting somewhere tone, and
asciilifeform: i was thinking of current-day ru as the arab-egyptian. but yes.
phf: nah, they "fought for freedom" such a long time, it'll literally kill them to admit mistake. what's left of that culture plays charades at roman toga theme new years parties in potomac and praises large kitchen, which is a step up from kitchens of 30 years ago
asciilifeform: the 'free choice of freely-choosing free konsoomerz' idiocy baccilus was brought in, and will do its work.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-13 02:20 mircea_popescu: it was utterly the case of eg ro revolution. none of the people there wanted "freedom". they were literally pissed off they can't drive over to austrian border and load up the car at the w/e discount shop.
asciilifeform: what's left , has ~same relation to the original, as current-day egypt to the pharaonic egypt.
asciilifeform: problem is that there is nowhere to go back, the entire culture that made the '10 bytes of telemetry' is afaik gone.
asciilifeform: and on top of this, the folx 'put to pasture at nih' -- or at least the ones not yet senile -- i suspect at this point are ready to come back
asciilifeform: well there ~was~ that altera clone
phf: yes, but what do you expect? a v-ified FORTH environment? all these people who "wrote tetris into last 10 bytes of telemetry system" have long been put to pasture at naval research center or NIH or ...
trinque: god he's even imitating the valleytard tshirt and jacket.
asciilifeform: ^ gotta love the chinese 'multimedia' shit kbd ~included~ in that crate
asciilifeform: stickers are for lamerz, they'll laser-engrave Whatever You Like (tm)
phf: the amount of can't even created electric disruption in san jose downtown
trinque: poor man tore his ethernet cable from teh wall, you bastards!1!!
phf: it'll be complete with those goofy looking avatars, that every single ipad/html game seems to like these days
mircea_popescu: in other gems of the web browser : peltast's why am i dead ; toge production's infectonator ; tactisoft's supermechs ; hoplitegames battle sails
asciilifeform: i did wonder where they went !
asciilifeform: 'VLSI, by the way, in amongst their many other products, made chipsets for quite some time. Their last chipset would be one of the very few 75MHz capable Socket 7 designs. Like all the independent chipset makers, their market share would suffer greatly because of Intel's push to extend their CPU near-monopoly into chipsets as well and, unable to compete with Intel on even terms, they stopped trying. VLSI merged with the giant Phillip
asciilifeform happened across the site when researching vintage components for a dos box that he was building.
asciilifeform: but not errywhere and not all the time.
mircea_popescu: i was fucking there, what.
asciilifeform: from yesterday's 486 lulz item, others : http://redhill.net.au/b/b-92.html >> '...you could buy almost anything in XT days; this was long before the dead hand of monopoly crushed the innovation and the creativity out of the PC industry. If you can find an old copy of Byte or APC or even Popular Computing, from 1984 say, or even 1989, spend a half-hour reading through the small ads in the back—you will not believe how much choice th
mircea_popescu: and the piece is from 2016, wut can you do.
BingoBoingo: To track spending I just figure 30 pesos to the dollar. But it anycase 100 Argentine pesos is not at all worth 5 USD
BingoBoingo: Not really anymore. Only if you hit the exact middle of the buy/sell spread. Compra 1.2 Venta 1.8
asciilifeform: ( when i was last there, was ~8 )
BingoBoingo: If you have illusions there's a difference between the two try taking Argentine pesos to a cambio
shinohai: PesoCash is the real Peso. (tm)
asciilifeform: there's , what, 15 'pesos' , neh
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: !~later tell ben_vulpes your 'the court' link is malformed
a111: Logged on 2018-01-16 15:56 ave1: trinque, I understand, I will sign the tarball (after removing the diffs that are unused anyway)
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-16#1771053 << use the declarative signature styles, there's all sorts of "here's so and so item preserved, signer makes no promise besides identity with item in wild at this time", for orig gnupg, for wordpress, for all sorta crap.
mircea_popescu: (also, let it be pointed out for the benefit of the future noob : the use of xargs with shit from curl is dancing with the wolves. finest way to lose a box.)
mircea_popescu: echo $(seq -f "%02g" 0 13) << old style then
mircea_popescu: iirc they finally fixed this where bash is now a lot more perl-esque -- if you give hint of format in the for declaration it obeys it.
ave1: no you'll need to remove a 0 from the prefix url
ave1: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-16#1771145 <-- to download the html and pdfs see --> http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/VxfkJ/?raw=true
mircea_popescu: people scared by the tax code should review maritime law sometime.
asciilifeform: prolly it then.
asciilifeform has nfi whether this is routine, or even +ev, for an item like fully loaded lng tank
mircea_popescu: basically being the pirate's parrot.
mircea_popescu: ie, you tell the people who want to go from x to y what to do to pay least.
mircea_popescu: back in the day (80s, but from the practitioners that day never changes, just moves), one of the best livings was "maritime juristidction expert".
mircea_popescu: a gram for a fanciulla is already two standard deviations from the average of 0.05
mircea_popescu: (consider : 4bn females in the world, ~200 tonnes of gold all told. NOT THAT MUCH GOLD AVAILABLE.)
asciilifeform: ( the baikonur memoir linked earlier is good picture of how, but so is 9000 other works from the period )
mircea_popescu: so jena's "gauntie sara" sells her to your girl rather than sending her to maryland college for pretentious cunts.
mircea_popescu: if you had daugthers, or if your girl did the god ordained http://trilema.com/2016/just-call-me-annah/ you'd know in short ordre why it's needed
a111: Logged on 2018-01-16 15:28 asciilifeform: though this reminds me, this episode is a good illustration of one point where i disagree with mircea_popescu re the gutter -- i do not want the gutter or its inhabitants who cannot come out of it on their own power, for anything whatsoever. they bring with them the stench, and it never really washes off.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-16#1771026 << you don't understand why you want it because you ran into a sane woman, monogamize around and don't procreate. the inescapable gutter, foul as it is, is an absolute requirement for the education of children and young slavegirl.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform chiefly ~found~. i dun look in male heads. prior to the republic, i only looked with power tools.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, the whole statement was correlation, causation left to the owner to discern.
asciilifeform: ( i dun see how specifically female , they are a universal plague )
asciilifeform: i dun see the causative arrow's direction as obvious
mircea_popescu: apparently the gargauni are a major predictor of poverty. who coulda guessed &c.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm moar closely familiar with the male variant, the spammers, misc scammers, halfwit malwarists, etc. who make somewhere below half of what renting a doghouse in ohio costs, but persist
mircea_popescu: and speaking of them "nude concrete walls", you know it's evident from the pics of dumb-whore-on-meatmarket-thinking-itself-"domme" (as opposed to the dumb-whore-on-meatmarket-thinking-itself-slave) that they're THE POOREST of the meatmarket set ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-16#1771020 << yes, that "emotional bang" being exactly the idiocy of "i r independent woman hear me roar" idiocy-of-poverty in http://trilema.com/2014/the-death-of-taxes/#selection-185.608-185.781 (or for that matter http://trilema.com/2017/the-day-of-failure-trilemma/#selection-133.0-133.837 , or everywherew else.)
asciilifeform: afaik it does not rearchive the already-archived ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: also loox like the bot did archive ?
asciilifeform: i have a buncha dead tree, but i dunthink they contain all of dijkstra.
mircea_popescu: it could sit there undisturbed for half a decade, then got fucked in the past half year.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-16 06:15 apeloyee: ...test their programs." (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html ))
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-16#1770914 << classic or not classic, the wreckers set it so the bot no longer archives it. orig : https://archive.is/https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html
asciilifeform for some reason recalls the 'etaoin shrdlu' kbd
asciilifeform: depends on whether we wanna be irish or scots, lol
mircea_popescu: course, as per tmsr this is not limited to computers, either. "women are bitter and unhappy because you threw away the leash and government is shiot because they're stuck doing without you. now come off it."
asciilifeform: i suspect that this disease goes right back to the 'omfg, Troo Thinker can't work with HANDS, like SLAVES! do' greeks.
mircea_popescu: "computer became the domain of the half-educated, the hucksters, and the miscellaneous scum, because what passed for thinking people, ~surrendered~ it to them"
mircea_popescu: "i went into math so as not to have to do this damn it, if i wanted lab equipment in the house i'd have gone into physics" was very much heard by me with own ears 2-3 decades ago.
asciilifeform: dijkstra's -- imho well-founded -- pov was that computer became the domain of the half-educated, the hucksters, and the miscellaneous scum, because what passed for thinking people, ~surrendered~ it to them
mircea_popescu: this is a major problem ; i'm sure most of them are invested in this stability above all else.
asciilifeform: 'the vast majority of the mathematical community has never challenged its tacit assumption that doing mathematics will remain very much the same type of mental activity it has always been: new topics will come, flourish, and go as they have done in the past, but, the human brain being what it is, our ways of teaching, learning, and understanding mathematics, of problem solving, and of mathematical discovery will remain pretty much th
asciilifeform: the dijkstra piece linked earlier, btw, is interesting in re subj of 'mathstards'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this may be true ; not much my experience, but then again i never spent much time in either hospital.
asciilifeform: bitcoin, gpg, show every symptom of authorship by programmertards, rather than academitards -- quite different types of 'shambling walker', as far apart as typhoids and lepers
shinohai: http://cascadianhacker.com/the-thot-plickens-or-i-r-a-cryptocurrency-scamzor <<< http://btcinfo.sdf.org/uploads/erliek.jpg
asciilifeform: ( there is naught else , aside from teaching duty, for slave, no bottles to wash in maths dept )
mircea_popescu: i'm like... holy fuck. the computer does nothing else, ye ninny.
asciilifeform: 'excel' also. is king, among these.
mircea_popescu: so yes, there's a group, of size unknown, composed of poor and stupid mathematicians, who do idiotic things like write bitcoin for windows, write gnupg in python, etcetera.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform poor & stupid. i can't shake the http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-09#1767798 ; consider that you've not met either satoshi nor the other dood there discussed ; and not for lack of specifically trying.
mircea_popescu: nah they had a "you don't need tex" thing
a111: Logged on 2018-01-16 16:01 shinohai: http://archive.is/pU5zY <<< "Microsoft was faced with 8 (eight!)* new vulnerabilities in Equation Editor reported after their manual patch, they gave up on the idea of continuing manual support for it."
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they did !
mircea_popescu: so go, what's in a going. or send the pet.
mircea_popescu: anyway, iirc they even had a "camp for whores that picked the wrong dickheads" there.
mircea_popescu: also, usg not nearly on as short a leash as you imagine. you judge by lack of antibodies, which is how most viral infections are measured, but think -- another reason why no antibodies is available...\
mircea_popescu: which... afaik dun exist. only way i'd go there is if the russians invaded a decade ago and place was run by vory now.
mircea_popescu: eh, this is very naive. "pretty gurlz" only in the sense of trading with the mongol horde after it combed the rural shithole for the cream.
mircea_popescu: eh, i don't like the steppes. too... much space.
asciilifeform has not been there.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform has wondered whether astana were ever on mircea_popescu's 'cities list'
mircea_popescu: "It is a well-known fact that Illuminati consist of Multi Millionaires, Billionaires who have major influence regarding most global affairs, including the planning of a New World Order." << poor nigerians got left outta da loop. it's all billionaires nowadays yo.
mircea_popescu: consumer always gets the sharpest stick up its ass.
shinohai: http://archive.is/pU5zY <<< "Microsoft was faced with 8 (eight!)* new vulnerabilities in Equation Editor reported after their manual patch, they gave up on the idea of continuing manual support for it."
mircea_popescu: but yes, the browser was a terrible fucking idea. no wonder everyone ended up with "Browsers" in their "computer for dumbasses", the alternative was what, irc client ? that was not nearly as dumb.
asciilifeform: hey, recall how asciilifeform tried to resurrect gpg, cut out the 'good part'...
mircea_popescu: terrible. of course, the more flattering converse way to put it is "omfg i can't believe how much the republic grew in a coupla years".
asciilifeform: i'll confess that it made no sense to me then, and same now. browser ought to be buried, not nursed along.
mircea_popescu: the thing i linked him to, yes.
asciilifeform: the pgp bbs item ?
asciilifeform: trinque: first step is to genesis a gnat. ~then~ patches... a la trb
a111: Logged on 2018-01-13 03:56 mircea_popescu: if your iq is over 90, going to work for google is the morally and economically wrong thing to do.
mircea_popescu: in the first place, what fucking browser, they're multiple, and closed turd vendor crap pushed by utter pantsuit like mozilla, a sort of http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-13#1770138 samovar. in the second place, the interface is TERRIBLE, and i don't just mean "what javascript" but also "what ssl, what pki, what dns, what the fuck". and then "what html soup, why did it crash, holy hell why does it leak secret data" and on and ON
mircea_popescu: the perceived alternative, where you code against "the browser" may appear "easier" and "normal" in the sense of http://trilema.com/2013/soft-consensus-aka-fecal-matter/ ie "what everyone does", but if you sit down and make the comparison chart it becomes evident what a horrid solution it is.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-16#1770890 << to be clear, the idea here is that you pick up the extant eulora client, gut it of the current eulora functionality, put eucrypt in there and proceed to implement your idea. this way you have a proved-to-cross-compile platform to start from.
ave1: trinque, I understand, I will sign the tarball (after removing the diffs that are unused anyway)
trinque: oh, so you're taking the "unsigned is fine" today?
asciilifeform: any and all versions thereof.
trinque: if you neither sign what you're offering nor offer hashes and links to where you got things, how am I supposed to evaluate whether I want to run this?
ave1: the adacore diff also includes previous 4.9.4 patches for musl
ave1: I fixed the link, the "gcc-4.9.adacore2016-musl.diff" and "gprbuild-gpl-2017-src-musl.diff" are mine, the others came from musl-cross
asciilifeform: if i had to guess, would guess that they were plucked out of some gentoo ebuilds
asciilifeform: their cumulative mass dwarfs , e.g., trb.
asciilifeform: wai all of these binutils patches ? really necessary for mere fact of building gnat ??
trinque: oh, I see how the link is broken
trinque: ave1: pls to remedy the above and I'll test this
a111: Logged on 2018-01-16 13:20 ave1: I finally had some time to update the musl gnat build-script, write-up and download here: http://ave1.org/2018/building-gnat-on-musl/
a111: 9 results for "salvation of the drowning", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=salvation%20of%20the%20drowning
asciilifeform: !#s salvation of the drowning
asciilifeform: imho, the reddit-outreaches or whatever process resulted in the recent influx of these -- is misguided. let the functional djbs come -- or not come.
asciilifeform: i do not, i will confess, grasp, for what anybody needs the indiancandies, the 'pirate radio' imbeciles, the trannies, any of the various scum. none of the functional people here were ever any of these things. they are not the larval form of anything worthwhile.
asciilifeform: though this reminds me, this episode is a good illustration of one point where i disagree with mircea_popescu re the gutter -- i do not want the gutter or its inhabitants who cannot come out of it on their own power, for anything whatsoever. they bring with them the stench, and it never really washes off.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-16#1770950 << what i dunget is why ben_vulpes was the lucky one
asciilifeform: let's say, items iv + v from mircea_popescu's http://trilema.com/2014/that-aint-the-maslow-pyramid-yo article.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-16 06:26 mircea_popescu: somewhere there was a fucktard painting stickers for biosen in order to make 75 bux. who ?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-16#1770934 << there was that proverb, re how 'stolen meat tastes better'
a111: Logged on 2018-01-16 06:21 ben_vulpes: in other lolz, my mom just got a voicemail from someone claiming that i "seem to be committing fraud online", and that "there are a lot of people on his tail and to not take it lightly"
a111: Logged on 2018-01-16 06:15 apeloyee: ...test their programs." (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html ))
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-16#1770914 << this is a classic piece and i recommend for all of the folx here, to read it, if they had not already read it.
asciilifeform: if anyone finds so much as the smell of one -- i would like to hear about it, asap.
asciilifeform: the whole point of ffa is that it is to contain NO such possibility of NO such thing.
asciilifeform: and yes his example snippet ~will~ barf. and no i won't spoil the puzzle by saying where and how. and no it is not hard to make 9000 similar examples.
asciilifeform: it'd be one thing if the suggested item were 'and here is how to lose the sad always-zero stack cell, AND have SP only ever point to valid cells.'
asciilifeform: and willing to do so at the expense of obvious correctness ?
asciilifeform: what i don't understand is why apeloyee has a problem with 'SP ALWAYS POINTS TO A VALID CELL, MOTHERFUCKERS' rule.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-16 06:15 apeloyee: FFA homework is fun! I'd like to present a homework problem of my own, the following Perfectly Innocent (tm) patch: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/tcvvO/?raw=true . The task is to find a bug WITHOUT running the code (that's cheating, per Dijkstra: " we see to it that the programming language in question has not been implemented on campus so that students are protected from the temptation to...
a111: Logged on 2018-01-16 05:50 ben_vulpes: okay i get the FZ_IDiv implementation now, that's pretty cool asciilifeform
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-16#1770911 << i gotta ask, what's there to 'get' -- it's the same algo as in school book, e.g., hennessey, 'restoring division'; as also seen in knuth vol 2, and goes back to egyptian papyrii
ave1: I finally had some time to update the musl gnat build-script, write-up and download here: http://ave1.org/2018/building-gnat-on-musl/
shinohai: oh wait, shift that a decimal to the right.
shinohai: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-16#1770950 <<< bwahahaha this is comedy gold, ben_vulpes. Perhaps was hoping you Mother would what, apply a beating?
deedbot: http://cascadianhacker.com/the-thot-plickens-or-i-r-a-cryptocurrency-scamzor << CH - The thot plickens (or: I r a cryptocurrency scamzor!)
mircea_popescu: dissolution of fambly totally worked for all these independent career journawhores.
trinque: that's about it; only "plots" written today are exactly the anal child as seen on trilema
mircea_popescu: is this the one where future people are so personally invested in the comings and goings of dumbest generation narcissists they build time machine just to go bitchslap them retrospectively ?
trinque: then right, invites you to be pissed on because "we all use twitter" or something.
mircea_popescu: the rest...
mircea_popescu: there was a mediocre one, something with riding bikes for social media gold.
trinque: in other opaque kids today, I watched some of the black mirror, that iirc mircea_popescu hated. what garbage.
mircea_popescu: hey, remember the days back when if you wanted to chuckle at this sort of inept bullshit you had to like... figure out what domain is encyclopedia dramatica at this week, and dive in ?
mircea_popescu: a there it is.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: the whole transcript is a link
mircea_popescu: holy shit we're back to "mirceau" ? what the everloving ?
ben_vulpes: ah hey and there are the attempts to suborn what husks of social media profiles i have kicking around
mircea_popescu: i'm vaguely curious how this'll get spun once it's the basis for "you know, trannies are the worst offenders on a per capita basis when it comes to online harassment"
ben_vulpes: unfortunately, only trolling of the concerned and bearing the lords' children are meaningful contributions.
mircea_popescu: hey, pay your taxes so tranny can go around doing heroin / attention whore / nubbins in approximately equal cycles all over the place!
ben_vulpes: dag if that is actually the trap in q i r astonish
ben_vulpes: ohey here's the audio
trinque: bahaha, fucktard in ben_vulpes' case actually thought to itself "I AM CALLING YOUR MOTHER!"
mircea_popescu: cuz apparently fucktard getting to pretend he's on top of things is worth ~infinity to the fucktard in question.
mircea_popescu: the same sort of fucktard who goes around being a "woman in tech [journalism]" and so forth.
mircea_popescu: somewhere there was a fucktard painting stickers for biosen in order to make 75 bux. who ?
mircea_popescu: so now... you sell 500 boards for 76 bux each, that's $3800! if the margin on that shit is 2% you're doing fucking great, so the whole charade was organised for a whopping $75! which is half what a fucking steak costs.
ben_vulpes: whoever it was managed to get some identifying bits right and others insultingly wrong
mircea_popescu: No kidding. That is exactly what went on we never bought any, but we know people who did, and you could have any chipset you wanted. Well, you could have any chipset label you wanted. We only remember seeing these boards with UMC or PC Chips labels, but apparently you could ask for anything at all: UMC, SiS, Intel, you name it. After all, from the importer's point of view, if it helped close a sale for 500 motherboards, h
mircea_popescu: "Want to buy some 486 boards?" "What price?" "If you take 100 pieces, $76." "OK. What chipset are they?" "What chipset would you like?"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes on the topic of "isn't it incredible how much work imbecile is willing to put into imbecillity", let's consider this thing from asciilifeform 's earlier link :
mircea_popescu: trinque i recommend the 800g porterhouse! point bleu, with maybe the artichoke or the eggplant thingee.
ben_vulpes: 'tis the obvious one, innit?
mircea_popescu: did they sound like butthurt trannies ?
ben_vulpes: in other lolz, my mom just got a voicemail from someone claiming that i "seem to be committing fraud online", and that "there are a lot of people on his tail and to not take it lightly"
ben_vulpes: apeloyee: thank you sir may i have another
a111: Logged on 2018-01-15 03:02 mircea_popescu: in other news, it was discovered that the restaurant here i lauded a coupla places, doris metropolitan, is actually an ofshoot of a houston steakhouse! dja ever go trinque ?
apeloyee: ...test their programs." (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html ))
apeloyee: FFA homework is fun! I'd like to present a homework problem of my own, the following Perfectly Innocent (tm) patch: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/tcvvO/?raw=true . The task is to find a bug WITHOUT running the code (that's cheating, per Dijkstra: " we see to it that the programming language in question has not been implemented on campus so that students are protected from the temptation to...
ben_vulpes: okay i get the FZ_IDiv implementation now, that's pretty cool asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: but what fucking "ingenuity", the last immigrant irishman long retired from the police force, what are we talking about ? "oh but mp, i went to a walmart called MIT, it says it's the premiere technical institution in the world right there in its brochure! surely i can come up with something technological!" "you mean like... a website ?" "yeah!" "totally, move to silicon valley and revolutionize the technowhatever" "SHIT YEAH!"
mircea_popescu: buffettism through and through, "Could anyone really believe the earth was going to swallow up the incredible productive assets and unlimited human ingenuity existing in America?"
mircea_popescu: THIS is why expensive boards are just the same middle road shit overpriced, and THIS is why everything else : because the hallucination of self-importance is actually destructiv3e.
mircea_popescu: e criteria. so they pick price when shopping just as they pick cliffnotes and "is the A easy ??" classes when "educating" and "i just want to" when acting and so on ad infinitum.
mircea_popescu: the problem is not SIMPLY a bunch of fucktards who shop for price only. the cause they shop for price only is that a) http://trilema.com/2016/please-stop-using-dns-already-and-other-considerations/#selection-711.0-711.610 ie they hallucinate themselves in a position of authority from whence they can make choices in the first place and THEN b) because the position is fictive rather than actual, they need some sort of substitut
mircea_popescu: half a moral. from the same place(not that it's not true to the point of triteness) " Quite often the most expensive boards are no better than the honest middle of the road ones, just priced higher."
asciilifeform: 'But there is a deeper moral: in a way, the real culprits were the hordes of greedy retail buyers who made it all possible. By relentlessly shopping on price, price and price, a great many Australian PC buyers left themselves wide open to this fraud. In the end, the one essential thing that makes con tricks possible and practical is the greed of the victim.'
asciilifeform: 'And this is why the BIOS chip was soldered directly into the board, instead of being socketed: not just to save using a 10c part, but so that you couldn't easily remove it and detect the fraud...'
asciilifeform: 'How could the board run with cache enabled in BIOS but without any cache? Simple: the manufacturer had reprogrammed the BIOS to permanently disable external cache no matter which way you set it, and to report "256k cache enabled" during the boot sequence no matter what.'
asciilifeform: 'Here is our friend the anonymous 486 board again. See those black plastic things with metal legs on in the picture below? They look rather like cache RAM chips, don't they?'
mircea_popescu: the merger into gossipd and eulora later on -- obviously open avenue.
mircea_popescu: (note that there's no absolute reason above item has to import browser & js. could also be stand-alone proggy)
mircea_popescu: look into diana_coman 's work re all the "Safe and good enough (tm) rsa"
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/a-proper-social-site-for-the-bdsm-community/ << got specced after the 2015 destruction / public humiliation of fetlife
mircea_popescu: consider maybe taking a bite out of the (afaik still unaproached) superproblem ?
asciilifeform: esthlos: how many instances of 'i wish i had a gui for gpg' did you count in the logs ?
mircea_popescu: i imagine this is somethiong he perceives he needs for himself which is the driver
a111: Logged on 2018-01-04 14:53 asciilifeform: 'hardware isn't easy to build therefore couldn't possibly be necessary, the gods would not have made this level so hard, for me, the hero' or similar.
asciilifeform: rather than a 'i dun fee like working on actual problems, so i'm make a microshit outlook for gpg' ??
asciilifeform: bad enuff that they have to touch a x86
asciilifeform: why, in what universe do we need ~more~ liquishit touching gpggram plaintexts, rather than less..??
esthlos: would be simple enough to cook up if there's interest: sexp storage of paths for structure, calls to gpg to decrypt
esthlos: a question for all: is there a good way to store/track collections of encrypted messages? (perhaps with threads, etc.)
esthlos: the url works for me
jhvh1: danielpbarron: The operation succeeded.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-12 18:22 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno now why i thought the limit is a degree of magnitude higher on both energy and size.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-15 22:52 asciilifeform: incidentally, re elbrus sparc, asciilifeform is reminded of a historic megamystery : why is it that sovblok incandescent bulbs, lasted for approx same time as western ones ? despite the latter's ( documented to my satisfaction ) philips cartel , and the absence of any such thing on su side ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-15#1770815 << for a reason very much like my original (if misstated) http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-12#1769871 ; material science as it exists in a decade places some limits on pantsuit posturing, howsoever the pantsuit in question are decorated.