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ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: hope springs eternal
ben_vulpes: you there, boss?
ben_vulpes: !!up mike_c
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: just trying to cheer you up, buddy!
ben_vulpes: wouldn't really know! just crackin wize
ben_vulpes: hey, wiping one's own ass is for poorfags
ben_vulpes: make my butthole great again, baby
ben_vulpes: i think i found some great again in my butthairs last night
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: yellen still planning to raise rates
ben_vulpes: wao, trinque thanks
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: by the way which was the article in which you related telling your father that if you ever saw him again you'd kill him?
ben_vulpes: euphemism, BingoBoingo
ben_vulpes: in other news, the wsj is approximately the only place not using a javascript paywall
ben_vulpes: and that's coming from a guy who grew up in portland
ben_vulpes: now that'd take a dyke system
ben_vulpes: "surely come global warming all that land will be so farmable!"
ben_vulpes: the room in which i grew up is larger than the house i rent today.
ben_vulpes: you know what rankles?
ben_vulpes: ancestral home
ben_vulpes: appeals, but "or you could just move in upstairs" also appeals
ben_vulpes: you don't have to convince me
ben_vulpes: i'd not mind teh ukr, provided i could figure out where the shoosting is happening where it's likely to spread to etc etc
ben_vulpes: then i think slovenia was the next "what if"
ben_vulpes: mostly project explore-family-tree-and-meet-long-lost-branches
ben_vulpes: and to think, $girl wanted to move to .lt
ben_vulpes: in other things i don't hate, this yamhill valley rose of pinots is not foul!
ben_vulpes: gabriel_laddel_p: don't set it in stone, things move very slowly in the republic.
ben_vulpes: sure beats reading the source on over-modal'ed websharts
ben_vulpes: gabriel_laddel_p: i don't hate this!
ben_vulpes: oh god the microcontrollers
ben_vulpes: please not project mirror again
ben_vulpes: depends on when mine come in relative to how strong the sun is at that time of year.
ben_vulpes: highly dependent on when the crop comes in
ben_vulpes: someone call the old witches and tell them the things they did all day were pointless
ben_vulpes: better throw out the family canning tools i guess
ben_vulpes: "why have healthcare costs quintupled over the past three decades?" "did you roll your children in dirt today?" "no?" "well there you have it"
ben_vulpes: better dirt under your fingernails and a cupboard full of tomatoes than rubber food and children with no immune system
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: 'we' are mitigating against the star topology in all sorts of stupid and entertaining ways
ben_vulpes: more icefrastructure
ben_vulpes: oh no
ben_vulpes: of course to effectively transport the dirt i'm going to need to buy a trailer
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: funny you should mention raised beds, $girl finished the second yesterday.
ben_vulpes: not particularly interested in large scale soil amendment projects largely benefitting others
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: i will keep that in mind for that oft-dreamt-of-day when i'm unlikely to relocate in five years
ben_vulpes: "are open to anyone who want to create a bright future that's rich with opportunity and freedom for all" << what if my bright future doesn't include towelheads, but it's still bright for everyone else, am i still welcome?
ben_vulpes: thanks BingoBoingo
ben_vulpes: stockpile peat moss. k.
ben_vulpes: or does it come from some bog somewhere, extracted at rates far greater than the bog can replenish
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: do i hafta buy it from a factory?
ben_vulpes: in with these other words whose meanings have drained from them at the hands of leftists bloodletters
ben_vulpes: "on behalf of democracy, equality, human rights, social justice and sustainability" << sustainability!
ben_vulpes: "feel" hyu still cracks me up
ben_vulpes: "when core democratic ideals feel under attack" << core democratic ideals! feel! a+ "assuming the sale" right there
ben_vulpes: "a line was crossed" nobody can use active voice anymore, saying your enemy's name doesn't give him power over you witchcraft isn't a thing
ben_vulpes: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/yCTHc/?raw=true << ho ho ho god the pathologies on display
ben_vulpes: "fuck, buddy. it's just a coordinate transform, you can handle those right?"
ben_vulpes: hey i had a blast with quaternions once upon a time
ben_vulpes: heh yeah
ben_vulpes: "hi i have a rudimentary understanding that some words related to mathematics exist and have spent too much time glomming strings together. please kill me!"
ben_vulpes: what the FUCK
ben_vulpes: ruby has an eigenclass
ben_vulpes: you guys
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-13#1613506 << in none of the experimentation and blather through which i dug did anyone posit 'coal' as a carbon source. my limited understanding is that its role is threefold: surface area for bacterial colonization; surface area to ameliorate fertilizer runoff and leaching into the ground; and to improve porosity.
ben_vulpes: progress!
ben_vulpes: stand back everyone i'm just going to deform the crust to perform a bit of geoatmospheric arbitrage
ben_vulpes: that's what makes it so tempting!
ben_vulpes: dams are my favorite human folly
ben_vulpes: pretty serious risk of losing the emergency spillway apparently
ben_vulpes: obvious conclusion that ms is also wholly owned subsidiary of ministry of wtf has apparently not yet occured.
ben_vulpes: in *entirely* unrelated lols, it turns out that various tribal security directives are to "use ms products and keep all data on local disk because we don't trust cloud because obvious tool of ministry of wtf." meanwhile, it dept struggling to wrap heads around how all of their files ended up on the ms cloud.
ben_vulpes: is he really selling that so hard? looks more like the organized organs of the left are pushing that angle and he's not fighting it terrifically hard, because why bother
ben_vulpes: "useless dorks" aka social media mgrs?
ben_vulpes: verily, we are impressed
ben_vulpes: plus that master stroke of "anti human trafficking" + instantiation of the gendarmerie-as-municipal-officer-coordination-office recently
ben_vulpes: duty/responsibilities
ben_vulpes: these days, everyone watches twitter to see how donny's going to respond to something happening on the teevee, while he waves the red cloak of nordstrom or even just "make america great again" (which i fucking die laughing every time he tweets that phrase naked), while the white house press bureau releases some very well-written copy on "failure(s) to enforce sovereign duty"
ben_vulpes: last eight years everything was this tightly dialed drumbeat of unified talking points
ben_vulpes: the trifurcation of media, white house proclaimations and social media drivel compared to the last administration is very interesting
ben_vulpes: quite impossible to play out literally, lol
ben_vulpes: i am spectacularly unqualified to opine as to how it might happen this time, so i wonder.
ben_vulpes: nevertheless, wind blows, bridge rips itself apart.
ben_vulpes: i wonder what the 'tacoma narrows' moment looks like for intel and friends.
ben_vulpes: i can imagine; seems miserable.
ben_vulpes: magical
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: b-but free energy from the soil timecube
ben_vulpes: (also baby steps towards federal gendarmerie in form of "better coordination of law enforcement")
ben_vulpes: "illegal smuggling and trafficking of humans" is all over that thing. would otherwise be a huge victory for the nonprofits pushing that line, except for how it's donny t doing it
ben_vulpes: besides, paraplane is a+ garage flugenice
ben_vulpes: lifting bodies are neat!
ben_vulpes: g soon? color me excited
ben_vulpes: i am reluctant to consign material from which i may yet extract $use to the public pit
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: you know how photosynthesis reduces electron energy by lowering its potential down gradually through a series of steps?
ben_vulpes: as i said, uninterested in full breakdown.
ben_vulpes: would rather not bifurcate waste handling streams if unnecessary.
ben_vulpes: i'd be satisfied if the bones were rendered unattractive to pests.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: concern is more along lines of splintering and intestine perforation
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i have been thoroughly terrorized by the fud around passing bones to dogs
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: even i can only scour so much off the bones
ben_vulpes: i suppose the smart thing to do is make a highly reduced stock?
ben_vulpes: complexity reduction in waste pipeline, ~
ben_vulpes: i have nfi re latrine design
ben_vulpes: what might handicap the meat/dairy handling?
ben_vulpes: smells, turning, meat/dairy as feedstock to boot
ben_vulpes: also hokum?
ben_vulpes: aight, next pile of nuttery to riddle: anaerobic composting of food waste
ben_vulpes: coal is not the hydrogen-rich rock dug from ground now?
ben_vulpes: wood out of which one burns the various tars.
ben_vulpes: specifically not coal.
ben_vulpes: you gotta burn the gas off, so i have nfi where the "good for co2 metrics" comes from
ben_vulpes: 'tis not 'coal', but i'd appreciate a primer on why not
ben_vulpes: nah what
ben_vulpes: ~charcoal
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i can buy many industrial products, but am not particularly interested in more dependencies on plant-produced amendments
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: oddly enough comes from the "permaculture" wackjobs
ben_vulpes: gasified wood, notionally provides surface area for bacterial colonization and drastically reduces fertilizer/nutrient depletion
ben_vulpes: unrelatedly, BingoBoingo have you ever messed with "biochar" as soil amendment?
ben_vulpes: shit must work, first, because it was designed to work. touchy-feelie boob grabs come after.
ben_vulpes: correctness is not a thing to bolt on after the fact.
ben_vulpes: "it'll work, eventually"
ben_vulpes: neat bike
ben_vulpes: part and parcel of the "damn the correctness, all attention to developer uptake"
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: not according to the DSMIX
ben_vulpes: *drumroll*
ben_vulpes: where "decisions" ===== "the code i produced that appeared to work a few weeks ago"
ben_vulpes: sane and halfway intelligent folks refuse to touch it, so you're stuck with the dregs and their decisions.
ben_vulpes: got a case of mongo. everything else follows.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i think that's indices of just the acl 'tables'
ben_vulpes: get excited about things, support people.
ben_vulpes: coders support tool diversity, of course
ben_vulpes: you have to identify as "a coder" to even consider the stuff
ben_vulpes: " if important customers lost data due to human error, Facebook engineers would manually recover it from periodic backups"
ben_vulpes: and my favorite
ben_vulpes: persistence is slow and competence expensive, what is a sv fingertrap author to do but eschew writes to disk and hire the lowest common denominator?
ben_vulpes: =====
ben_vulpes: anyone remember the "no seriously flush to disk" flag?
ben_vulpes: "i.e. writes were confirmed before they were replicated"
ben_vulpes: "looks pretty, doesn't work"
ben_vulpes: "the web ui"
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: wait 'till you get to "what it got right"
ben_vulpes: buddy if you get crypto involved in your drug production it can only be to hose the state, but w/e
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: you want random words in a string, you shoulda seen the guy pitching "a cryptocurrency blockchain signature solution to the marijuana regulatory burden" the other night
ben_vulpes: because omfg the hilarity
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: ^^ is why you're reading this
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-10#1612725 << "It also takes miners -- despite their state of the art equipment, access to electricity, and cooling -- increasingly longer to verify bitcoin transactions" oh get right the fuck out tell that to the myriad instablocks
ben_vulpes: and to quote myself in another channel, "soz for cynicism but if it looks like madness and a tower of abstractions written by frontend devs who don't in2 systems...it probably is."
ben_vulpes: anyways, it never worked despite facebook buying and trying to make it do so
ben_vulpes: which to quasiquote mircea_popescu "what is even a native mobile developer"
ben_vulpes: near as i can tell, and it tripped my retard alerts fast so i didn't invest much in determining how it works, someone used that to make a "database as a service" for mobiledevz
ben_vulpes: bezos does this thing with the timeshare where he'll keep a virtual instance image warmish and boot it when the rest of the system says "hey we got a request for that instance"
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: to revel in others suffering ofc
ben_vulpes: oh god
ben_vulpes: it was
ben_vulpes: you know how mobile devs can't in2 servers?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: eldritch horror
ben_vulpes: http://archive.is/idhye << to quote $wot, "try our reboot, new look, same great mongo, even more dick-holding"
ben_vulpes: drews: mod6 operates thebitcoin.foundation, if you made that typo
ben_vulpes: !!up drews
ben_vulpes: quite regular with the disconnects
ben_vulpes: this is getting annoying.
ben_vulpes: lol, dedication
ben_vulpes: trinque: no, i settled for hooking into ctcp-action-message
ben_vulpes: stormy with a chance of popescurage
ben_vulpes: whole sentence is kinda iffy
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: "this coups"
ben_vulpes: i did some amount of reading, sought confirmation
ben_vulpes: strikes me as nutty
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: can ssl or gpg be beaten into eating a specific file of entropy without patching them?
ben_vulpes: no, i goofed. left a link to someone else's css.
ben_vulpes: willfix
ben_vulpes: heh in other miserable names someone put "winkers" in my face last week
ben_vulpes: snoop dog and martha stewart, in mashups from the fourth planet
ben_vulpes: that cooking show lol
ben_vulpes: ah foundit
ben_vulpes: what is the "actually said this" line?
ben_vulpes: central theme of piece, too. 'woe is me, i wasted all this time writing for others'.
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: well yeah.
ben_vulpes: "an american flag and a confederate flag on the same truck? that's like 'this tattoo is for steve, and this tattoo is to commemorate the time i tried to run away from steve. we're making the best of a bad situation now.'"
ben_vulpes: trinque: watched the "standup special" of chappelle's writing partner a few nights ago. more of a "babby's first monologue with jokes", some funny, but most remarkable for the restrained wokeness plumage on display and surprising grasp of war of northern aggression dynamics.
ben_vulpes: trinque: sad.
ben_vulpes: "you're paaaartisan haaaaacks. stop huuurrrrrting amerrrrica."
ben_vulpes: is stewart funny again yet?
ben_vulpes: such game, wow
ben_vulpes: featuring a radar and iirc a teeny helicopter for neutralizing firearm threats
ben_vulpes: heh, that'd be the paralytic's truck from /snow crash/
ben_vulpes: in other minor lols of the great again: http://archive.is/nvFMo
ben_vulpes: i was working to minimize dns dependency there.
ben_vulpes: there is an a record that points at the ip for that box
ben_vulpes: nono there is no reason you should be seeing cloudflare in between you and bvulpes.com
ben_vulpes: can you paste a traceroute or some such demonstrating?
ben_vulpes: if i could back slowly away from the entire internet in horror i would
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: what do you mean "call"?
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: i have nfi what code you're working with, but all of those commands have an 'if fhelp' check that renders the help text instead of doing whatever the command asks for
ben_vulpes: i am *still* working through it lol
ben_vulpes: even 'operator' is short for 'respected gentleman who understands how to work all of the machines in our shop, produce all of our parts, be trusted with plans and some degree of autonomy in problem-solving on the fly"
ben_vulpes: i've never seen eg shop staff who were so narrow minded as some software folks.
ben_vulpes: hm, i suppose
ben_vulpes: i cannot fathom what is going on in the mind of somoene who is a <lang>"dev"
ben_vulpes: phf, asciilifeform: pretty standard recruiting tactic, appeal to identity. "i am a python/rails dev".
ben_vulpes: trinque: i don't think that anyone's using the sexp
ben_vulpes: trinque: consider reputation returns link to wot entry?
ben_vulpes: herpadoo
ben_vulpes: rg: /query
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: that's what 'boldmug' calls the 'hilarious lie that there is a nice left and a nasty left'
ben_vulpes: rg: payscale?
ben_vulpes: ohai danielpbarron
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: "commands" as well?
ben_vulpes: i don't really want to know any more about the irc protocol than i already do
ben_vulpes: message displayed in chan is "ping timeout: 260 seconds"
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: kicked by nick? ip? other fingerprinting?
ben_vulpes: the subterfuge grows ever more obvious
ben_vulpes: TIGHT
ben_vulpes: "It's obvious that this put hundreds of thousands of people into a state of great discomfort," << discomfort lol
ben_vulpes: huh turns out the individuals are on the hook for damages, i missed that on the first pass.
ben_vulpes: or did i miss out on yc making bank from all of the devs the rights to whose work they now own a fractional slice of
ben_vulpes: 'like' how? isn't the yc racket a straightforward "give us a large fraction of your eyeballcorp for a pittance and some quite likely useless advice"?
ben_vulpes: what is anal virginity, rights to code produced by a carmack?
ben_vulpes: even if carmack is still extracting the remainder of his golden handcuffs at facebook, does the penalty impact him terrifically, beyond the decline in asset value of fb stock?
ben_vulpes: (bought moar btc obviously)
ben_vulpes: it's not "fuck you money" if you can't actually say "fuck you".
ben_vulpes: i'm not the kind of guy who "just wants to keep making video games", so i'd never have stuck around in the first place.
ben_vulpes: always a shame to see people trading unhedged.
ben_vulpes: by virtue of it being fiatola, the possessor is a tentacle?
ben_vulpes: at this point the obvious rejoinder is "if not in wot -- tentacle"
ben_vulpes: id software, a tentacle?
ben_vulpes: obviously not a possible route for zuckerberg.
ben_vulpes: nonparticipation is "all our assets are in btc, get fucked"
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: carmack had to show up, new employer was on trial.
ben_vulpes: trial is marvelous expansion of moloch's reach
ben_vulpes: would be neat to dispense with linux' entropy estimates, etc
ben_vulpes: and /dev/random at that
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: $bzprtnr wants to know how to wholly replace /dev/urandom with $entropyfile to make gpg key with all speshul bits
ben_vulpes: in point of fact there is! just not for people engaging in fiatola show trials
ben_vulpes: "there should be a danger to your reputation if you are imprudent" << obvious republican rejoinder is obvious
ben_vulpes: poor john carmack, thought juries could be reasoned with and that "expert witnesses" wouldn't lie through their teeth for a check: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/3jI4f/?raw=true
ben_vulpes: ohai shin
ben_vulpes: mmmk.
ben_vulpes: turdmuffin: and who are ye?
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