asciilifeform: ( or consider e.g. quaternions and the entire surrounding field, only a little of which ended up resurrected by the 3d graphics folx )
asciilifeform was on 'quaternions kick' for a spell, there's a massive body of 'dead end lit'
asciilifeform: ... or grassmann's algebra.
asciilifeform: signpost, phf : a++ thrd, deserves moar comment than asciilifeform has time, presently, to give
asciilifeform must bbl
mats: circle has raised an incredible 840mn in less than a year
asciilifeform: mats: a, 1 of these. btw how wouldja describe the diff b/w 'usd coin' and 'tether' ?
asciilifeform: ( or simply a coke & pepsi pair ? )
asciilifeform: $ticker btc usd
busybot: Current BTC price in USD: $40455.3
asciilifeform: !w poll
watchglass: Polling 15 nodes...
watchglass: 205.134.172.6:8333 : (172-6.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.081s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=732274
watchglass: 205.134.172.27:8333 : Alive: (0.090s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=732274 (Operator: asciilifeform)
watchglass: 205.134.172.4:8333 : (172-4.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.082s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=732274
watchglass: 205.134.172.26:8333 : Alive: (0.081s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=732274
watchglass: 54.39.156.171:8333 : (ns562940.ip-54-39-156.net) Alive: (0.171s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=732274
watchglass: 71.191.220.241:8333 : (pool-71-191-220-241.washdc.fios.verizon.net) Alive: (0.154s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=732274 (Operator: asciilifeform)
watchglass: 205.134.172.28:8333 : Alive: (0.083s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=732274 (Operator: whaack)
watchglass: 208.94.240.42:8333 : Alive: (0.143s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=732274
watchglass: 54.38.94.63:8333 : (ns3140226.ip-54-38-94.eu) Alive: (0.314s) V=88888 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.8.88.88/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=732274
watchglass: 82.79.58.192:8333 : (static-82-79-58-192.rdsnet.ro) Alive: (0.329s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=732274
watchglass: 75.106.222.93:8333 : Could not connect!
watchglass: 103.36.92.112:8333 : (terebe.ns01.net) Alive: (0.613s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=732274
watchglass: 103.6.212.28:8333 : Alive: (0.960s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=459982 (Operator: whaack)
watchglass: 94.176.238.102:8333 : Violated BTC Protocol: Bad header length!
watchglass: 143.202.160.10:8333 : Busy? (No answer in 100 sec.)
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in 'when physics was alive'.
asciilifeform: 'One of them was Wilbur Perry, an engineer trained at WPI. Before he went to school he made a bunch of telescopes, and was a proud member of the Springfield Vermont telescope makers society, which still maintains a clubhouse. Let me emphasize the implications of this: a tiny town of a few thousand people had a telescope makers society at the turn of the century, when telescopes were still high technology, and they endo
asciilifeform: wed it well enough it is still physically there. That’s sort of like a small town of a few thousand people having its own privately owned MEMS fab in the 1990s when this became a more common technology.'
asciilifeform: '...To remove stress in the screw blanks, he had two garbage cans with inner cells, one for heat the other for dry ice, so he could stress relieve the screws before the finish cuts. He dipped them in what he called “tincture of skunk cabbage” (overheated Mazola corn oil at 400F, 100F) and “hobo cocktails” (dry ice and alcohol at 10, -60 and -100F). He did this stress relief cycle 50 times per screw.'
shinohai: $ticker btc usd
busybot: Current BTC price in USD: $40405.72
shinohai: No one sent me corn for my birthday, at this price I am disappoint.
mats: asciilifeform: usdc is onshore, https://www.centre.io/usdc-transparency
phf: another "scheme cpu" for sale https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/345627206349590-space-shuttle-flown-general-purpose-computer-cpu-and-iop-20-missions-/
asciilifeform: phf: iirc ibm360 clone, rather than anyffin scheme-related
asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-04-17#1096619 << 'works within US money transmission laws, uses established banks and auditors and runs on blockchain technology via smart contracts' lol
dulapbot: Logged on 2022-04-17 12:47:11 mats: asciilifeform: usdc is onshore, https://www.centre.io/usdc-transparency
asciilifeform: all the clunkiness of ethertardium, plus all the permissionedness of regular old usd, 'what's not to luvv!!1'
dulapbot: Logged on 2021-05-24 13:00:39 asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-05-23#1037440 << reminds me of the czech tale where the princess asks about a suitor : 'is he young?' 'nope, he's old' 'is he at least kind?' 'no, he's the meanest old man alive' 'old and mean! ain't he the ideal groom!'
crtdaydreams: !!seen punkman
deedbot: 2022/01/27 14:39:41 <punkman> I mean "bug"
crtdaydreams: !!seen whaack
deedbot: 2022/04/04 18:34:51 <whaack> billymg: no i never restarted the node, may do so soon.
signpost had a hilarious workbench failure today.
signpost: forgot to put -e in a shell script for cleaning up pentacle's last bootstrap attempt.
signpost: during the bootstrap process I bind-mount the target for the build into another build which contains the binary bootstrap environment.
signpost: cleanup unmounts dev/proc/sys and the bind-mount, then destroys the bootstrap folder.
signpost: ran cleanup while a bootstrap was running, so unmount failed, then the thing proceeded to rm -rf much more than it would've otherwise.
signpost: had backups, just haven't had such a hilarious rapid unscheduled disassembly in a while.
signpost: that -e is not the default says a lot about the spirit of unix shell scripting.
verisimilitude: The basic principles behind UNIX are like those behind the WWW.
verisimilitude: Be backwards compatible in all cases, regardless of reason or usage, except in those cases where the implementor doesn't want to be so.
signpost renames pentacle pigsaddle.
asciilifeform: signpost: a++
asciilifeform had once an (unpublished) item w/ working title 'sow's purse'
asciilifeform: ( aand a 'silk ear', lol )
signpost: haha, believe I recall this