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asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: so which obscure german academic is going to have 'known about this for a year' ? same fella as they trotted out for phuctor ?
asciilifeform: or different one.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: They'll pull out another. They can invent new ones when they run out.
asciilifeform: poor overworked philippinos
asciilifeform: thought they were signing up for a quiet life of sending viagra spam
BingoBoingo: Indeed, all they wanted was to spam boner pills and invent people for FakeBook profiles
asciilifeform: 197380+, counting
asciilifeform: eater - still eating
danielpbarron: 30 link clicks and counting..
midnightmagic: well. be sure to post your 'wow' signal somewhere prominent when you find it.
asciilifeform: it'll be right here.
decimation: lolz http://blog.samaltman.com/energy < sam altman has a great new startup idea (YC certified): nuclear fusion
assbot: Energy - Sam Altman ... ( http://bit.ly/1KpwzyI )
asciilifeform: wake me up for the philosopher's stone startup
decimation: asciilifeform: I shit you not: UPower: http://www.upowertech.com/
assbot: UPower Technologies, Inc. ... ( http://bit.ly/1KpwL0V )
asciilifeform wonders how many modern charlatans would carry on business if the consequence of failure to deliver were molten lead down their throat, as it often was for alchemists
decimation: and http://www.helionenergy.com/ < "By combining our years of experience in fusion, newly available electronics technologies, and a revolutionary design using cutting-edge physics, Helion is making a fusion engine 1,000 times smaller, over 500 times cheaper, and realizable 10 time faster than other projects."
assbot: Helion Energy ... ( http://bit.ly/1KpwMC4 )
decimation: "this time it's even more realizable!!"
asciilifeform: gotta love 'than other projects' part
decimation: they are going the magnetic bottles route
decimation: according to their infographic
asciilifeform: 'our perpetuum mobile is far more perpetual than that of other projects'
trinque: ah man, I'll be able to bolt one of these to my emdrive and colonize mars
decimation: and 10 times more realizable too!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu correctly observed that perpetuum mobile is pretty much the only thing that could save the shitempire
asciilifeform: and so expect it to become an obsession
asciilifeform: qin shi huangdi's immortality pills.
trinque: I will be so sad if a fusion breakthrough happens in the USA for that reason...
assbot: FBI investigating 11 attacks on San Francisco-area Internet lines ... ( http://bit.ly/1IM47Tq )
asciilifeform: and they didn't even need a fusion-powered death ray, it seems
trinque: ctrl-f "china"
trinque: haven't blamed 'em yet
assbot: The Immortality Financiers: The Billionaires Who Want to Live Forever - The Daily Beast ... ( http://bit.ly/1IM4cXi )
asciilifeform: there once was a time when usg cables were armoured in concrete tubes
asciilifeform: and switch boxes - guarded
asciilifeform: today they are in plastic pipes, and - unless belonging to cia/nsa in particular - marked with a bright orange public stake
trinque: << According to his biographer, Ellison sees death as “just another kind of corporate opponent he can outfox.” >>
trinque: bahahahah
asciilifeform: often the egress point, between the underground conduit and the switch box - is naked entirely
trinque: culture of narcissists indeed
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah, because nobody gives a fuck
asciilifeform: evidently ~somebody~ gave a fuck
asciilifeform: a few hacks of axe's worth of fuck
decimation: 'they' have 'gotten away' with shit infrastructure for decades, why start now
decimation: "Mark Peterson, a spokesman for Wave Broadband, said an unspecified number of Sacramento-area customers were knocked offline by the latest attack. He characterized the Tuesday attack as "coordinated" and said the company was working with Level 3 and Zayo to restore service."
trinque: sci fi story idea: they claim to have invented the immortality treatment, is actually a procedure for implanting your mind control chip
trinque: probably already done 100 times
asciilifeform: trinque: ancient
asciilifeform: !s dulap
assbot: 40 results for 'dulap' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=dulap
asciilifeform: ^ my personal favourite
decimation: asciilifeform: let this be a wake up call, if you don't have your parachute ready...
trinque: asciilifeform: cool
assbot: Romanian bloggers, part 2 on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1IM4Kwt )
asciilifeform: And the Prince inquired, like all boys his age, upon finding out what The Ritual actually was :
asciilifeform: - But do I actually have to cut off my cock and balls ?! Couldn't I just promise not to have kids and like, squirt outside ?
asciilifeform: - It's a symbol, in the shitvi, explained his father, the King. You have to experience real loss to understand the importance of respecting the subterranean world and its rules. It's not easy to do. That's why when someone does it, he's considered truly an adult and counted with people. Until then his notions don't matter. I know what I say may seem absurd to you, but then again one day you'll be prepared, and willing to cut o
asciilifeform: ff your cock and balls. That day you'll become a man. vii
cazalla: wru deedbot
phf: asciilifeform: blk format is magic 4 byte sequence (http://btc.yt/lxr/satoshi/source/src/main.cpp#1779), then int32 size, then cblock
asciilifeform: pretty much what i said earlier
phf: yeap
asciilifeform: btw, eater is still eating at 200158+
trinque: wat
asciilifeform: not long now
trinque goes to beat deedbot with a wrench
trinque: it thinks its connected on its end
trinque: might be a fun common lisp weekend project to redo it in that
trinque: I'm starting to dislike this golang bot
trinque: cazalla: there he is if ya need it ^
deedbot-: accepted: 1
decimation: trinque: does he become 'netsplit'?
trinque: decimation: I've seen that not handled well too, but this time he was just sitting there as if connected
cazalla: tfw buying a deciduous tree in the winter and feel like i bought a stick for $20 lol (Hovenia dulcis if anyone cares as much)
decimation: cazalla: I recently bought a new house, and I'm trying to figure out what trees I have
decimation: I'm not sure if I have a walnut or mountain ash, for instance
decimation: as Jesus says, you will know a tree by its fruit
asciilifeform: 201187+
cazalla: i've been buying em online, was a suss about that but all of em have turned up fine so far
cazalla: a bit* even
asciilifeform: i'm off to bed. will wake up to the boojum, if it appears.
decimation: asciilifeform: 'night
cazalla: decimation, walnut would be a bonus.. i want to get a few pine nut trees but can be up to 10 years before you get anything from it
decimation: yeah, I agree, would be nice. Apparently the former owners let a weedy russian olive tree grow too
trinque: speaking of which, the other weedy trees are legal here at midnight.
BingoBoingo: Just avoid the black walnuts, Their culture kills everything around them
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ben_vulpes: trinque: waiwut?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: heck of a find, brownie!
ben_vulpes is unlikely to get dedicated testing time over the weekend
ben_vulpes: escaping america day in canada
mats: that's a confusing construction
mats: i wondered if you had moved north
ben_vulpes: eventually will
ben_vulpes: population flows aren't hard to predict in this neck of the woods
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: What about south or east?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: this whole eatblock/dumpblock/compare hashes thing really is stellar
trinque: ben_vulpes: yeh our renegade pot law goes into effect
ben_vulpes: aha trinque well goodness me
trinque: wont use the 10th amendment to piss in the NSA's cheerios, but we'll certainly use it for that!
ben_vulpes: PISSS
BingoBoingo just back from pissing on the runt rosebush, could use the nitrogen
BingoBoingo: !up HeySteve
HeySteve: hey, thanks
ben_vulpes: hey, seve
ben_vulpes: how's it hangin?
mats: heh, today's xkcd
HeySteve: all good and your side, ben_vulpes?
ben_vulpes: alf sez he has a boojum in the blockchain
HeySteve: not that I've used their service but I've been reading about all the pushback Uber is getting around the world
assbot: When Disruption Gets Too Disruptive | Zero Hedge ... ( http://bit.ly/1GLDpt1 )
HeySteve: SA can be added to the list, lots of protests against Uber here. was wondering if there's a way to decentralise it...
HeySteve: BitUber or something
mats: lol
HeySteve: Christine Walters, Johburg’s mayoral committee member for transport: "The city would like a South African flavour of black economic empowerment with Uber." - this sort of brain damage has taken over pretty much everything here
mats: not everything can or should be decentralized
mats: that's brain damage all on its own
BingoBoingo kinda likes the parallel car systems
mats: lyft was weird
mats: driver insisted i sit in front, fist bump him, and talk the whole trip
mats: deleted the app after i finished my free ride
HeySteve: mats, I hear you
HeySteve: but this is a case where it makes sense
BingoBoingo owns plastic car for this reason.
ben_vulpes: robot cars when
HeySteve: so app that handles escrow of fare, oracle uses GPS to verify destination was reached within a certain time, that's it... right?
ben_vulpes: i want to be able to put 5 million down on a fleet of robot cars and wreck an industry or 5
ben_vulpes: trucks, whatever
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Fuck robot cars. I like pointing my deadly road machine where I like.
ben_vulpes: starting with cabs
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ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: i dream of a world where the insurance to drive your own ass around is prohibitive for all but the ultra-rich
ben_vulpes: stop burning all the fucking oil to get your dumb asses around!
ben_vulpes: i'm speshul tho. i'm cool and i get to drive my car as much as i want :P
BingoBoingo: Nah, insurance should be cheap. Getting insurance though should be hard through other means.
mats: you gonna decentralize vehicle inspections, background checks, accounting, driver recruitment, commercial insurance, too?
HeySteve: eh, sounds like a lot of unecessary paperwork to me
ben_vulpes: no, i'm just going to put everyone involved with the piloting of vehicles out of work
HeySteve: rep system ftw
mats: ...
HeySteve: you worry too much, mats
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ben_vulpes: it's a hazard of the dude's occupation.
HeySteve: ok but the big picture here is it'll give all the regulatory types a fit
mats: and nobody will care after a dozen women disappear after their last known position was inside one of your cars
ben_vulpes: dude video cameras
ben_vulpes: embrace the surveillance state
ben_vulpes: bezzle up!
HeySteve: driver will get bad rep after first abduction, so doubt he'll make it to a dozen unless he changes nick and car
ben_vulpes: WHAT DRIVER
mats: oh right, we can decentralize the video feed too
HeySteve: sorry, I mean the driverbot
ben_vulpes: decentralize nothing
ben_vulpes: own vehicles, record video
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> it's a hazard of the dude's occupation. << No, it is a Hazzard, for a certain sort of Duke
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: ba-dump-psh
mats: excellent troll
mats: i concede
ben_vulpes: what troll
ben_vulpes: i'm going to buy a bunch of goddamn trucks.
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> embrace the surveillance state << I may or may not have around 2009 driven a VIP across county and or state lines because they did not want their travel recorded.
mats: am still amused by folks saying 'well it would be weird if uber wasn't spending tons to expand' after seeing term sheet
mats: like its normal to run a half billion dollar net loss in a low margin low moat industry
mats: would sure like to meet these folks at a poker table
BingoBoingo: <mats> would sure like to meet these folks at a poker table << Honestly I'd just like to meet them at a bar or the pony track jsut to cycle the games they bleed through, because these colors don't run http://qntra.net/qntra.jpg
funkenstein_ prefers decentralized hitchhiking
HeySteve: el confedejito
BingoBoingo: <HeySteve> el confedejito << Indeed. Should have taken Mexico First
funkenstein_: BingoBoingo, something about that rabbit makes me think it is about to dunk on a regulation basket
BingoBoingo: funkenstein_: Not my rabbit, inquire with Chief edditoriador cazalla
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assbot: ClojureScript React Native Quick Start · omcljs/ambly Wiki · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1GLHmOk )
cazalla: BingoBoingo, perhaps Chef would be the appropriate word? :P
ben_vulpes: <mats> like its normal to run a half billion dollar net loss in a low margin low moat industry << normal american stock ponzi in action
ben_vulpes: should be legal! let the chumps get chumped.
ben_vulpes: trinque: you probly want reagent if it isn't rotting in place
funkenstein_: blockchain getting hammered today, what is going on?
ben_vulpes: trinque: i haven't done clj->js in 5-10 months, so everything i know is probably stale
ben_vulpes: funkenstein_: "hammered"?
trinque: ben_vulpes: yeah you can use reagent in this manner
funkenstein_: like, ddosed
trinque: wanted to know if the native thing would eat clojurescript, in case I end up having to use it
BingoBoingo: <funkenstein_> like, ddosed << No, "Stress Tested" which means showing how great present anti-spam limit is because spammers
ben_vulpes goes to read trinque's thing
ben_vulpes: oh naaaaitve
ben_vulpes: trinque: long day
ben_vulpes: good god man there are so many layers in that thing
trinque: I know right? such complexity mountain
ben_vulpes: i'm starting to wonder of 'clojure all the things' isn't a poettering-smell
trinque: of course it is
trinque: and in this case there's a browser underneath
trinque: so I'm not about to start preferring a particular flavor of shit
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ben_vulpes: it just takes the "duct tape the jet fighter to the submarine" mindset to a revolting degree
ben_vulpes: and i say that as a guy who duct tapes jet fighters to submarines
trinque: big time
ben_vulpes: (to deliver a pair of socks that nobody asked for)
trinque: hopefully this webassembly thing takes some pain out, but I'm sure it'll be a while on that
ben_vulpes: (that arrive wet)
trinque: haha
ben_vulpes: (because "'we'll iterate on it, instead of asking the engineers")
ben_vulpes: webasm huh?
ben_vulpes: can that be a common lisp runtime?
funkenstein_: well if TX channels do break, it is eventually the resonsibility of the spender to get the TX to a pool - using external channel
ben_vulpes: sharp lisper might be able to sell software in that space.
trinque: ben_vulpes: that's what I would like
trinque: I've looked around for a common lisp on llvm, as that's what farts into webasm
trinque: haven't found anything that looked like a good decision
trinque: but maybe one's called for now
ben_vulpes: di i still have to fuck with the dom in webasm?
trinque: ben_vulpes: as I understand it, this is like... emscripten bytecode
trinque: emscripten has an API to poke the DOM I think
trinque: dunno whether you also get a lower level graphics api
ben_vulpes: i'm uninterested in anything new that touches the dom
ben_vulpes: but i'm a reluctant frontend guy to begin with.
BingoBoingo: Seriously we need to storm an intel fab/fap and start pumping out Z80++/MIPS/and Scheme79 chips
ben_vulpes: we'll be writing swift and javascript's successors until linus goes insane while still at the helm
ben_vulpes: and the whole thing implodes
BingoBoingo: I dunno swift and javascript need successors
ben_vulpes: objc/dom tech, BingoBoingo
ben_vulpes: java too likely
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Do you really need those things? Or do you merely want them?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform would love to sleep forever, i would like to program in lisp all day
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: what is the casing of an oil well made of?
BingoBoingo: Steel. Because the well runs dry before it corrodes
ben_vulpes: 'tis a messy business. men lose hands, minds and lives.
ben_vulpes: hands to the keyboard, minds to VN, lives to the altar of technology.
BingoBoingo: Kill it with fire. We're already stuck with Boost
ben_vulpes to bed, and tomorrow's blocknews
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assbot: Computer museum seeks BBC Micro fixers - BBC News ... ( http://bit.ly/1GLNjLa )
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shinohai: ;;later tell mod6 Plox pm me when you have a spare 3 minutes, gracias.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: shinohai jurov: Either of you find the set of electrum-server bitcoind patches? I'm running into some serious memory hole here.
shinohai: I haven't yet BingoBoingo but have the same issue :/
shinohai: I need to hop over to their chan and try to catch someone online I guess.
BingoBoingo: Fucking electrum-server github doesn't have any releases or milestones tagged
BingoBoingo hates both Github and "rolling release"
BingoBoingo: Even wikipedos save all historical states on those pages
shinohai: Lol I probably would have gave up on that project for a while if you hadn't mentioned it.
shinohai: So it piqued my interest.
BingoBoingo this fall wants to be able to run a Foundation bitcoin release powering an electrum server with 200-500 connections.
BingoBoingo: The electrum server being private and serving IRL known persons
shinohai: That is what I was thinking, since you can connect only to a specific server
BingoBoingo: Would also be nice if I could derp some authentication onto the electrum service.
BingoBoingo: Also... "Ted 2" not so bad
HeySteve: goddamn retards, did they factor in the energy cost of all the VISA execs driving to and from work, just for starters?
BingoBoingo: HeySteve: Or Visa employing all those call center HamPlanets
HeySteve: I wonder how much energy it takes to produce a credit card
HeySteve: Krugman moaned about the energy costs too, not sure who came up with this nonsense originally but that was at least a year ago
mats: zzz
BingoBoingo: HeySteve: It takes a fuckton of calories of oil to stamp a plastic card indeed
BingoBoingo: Not to mention the dyes
funkenstein_: ;;later tell copypaste please test coin-vote.com again, improved
gribble: The operation succeeded.
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assbot: Relax About Bitcoin Electricity Use — Medium ... ( http://bit.ly/1Hu402x )
BingoBoingo: "Bring it On" (2000) >> Best movie on USA racial relations in the 21st century
cazalla: ya really got a thing for those black chicks eh :P
BingoBoingo: Nah, narrative arc goes Whitey steals from Blackie, blackie gets angry but restrained by their better angels, blackie wins
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cazalla: i remember the trailer but never saw the movie, tbh i would assume the white girls win
BingoBoingo: Watching atm following asciilifeform's earlier "Mean Girls" reccomendation
cazalla: and if memory serves, i think this is the 2nd or 3rd time you've mentioned the movie so is it a personal fav?
BingoBoingo just following reccomendations of his betters
BingoBoingo: Also, the rare black chicks that aren't HamPlanets
BingoBoingo: Also total shitlord movie: "Everyone eat half"
BingoBoingo: "Fat people are harder to throw"
assbot: China's top legislature ratifies BRICS bank agreement - Xinhua | English.news.cn ... ( http://bit.ly/1eiuVTf )
cazalla: BingoBoingo, ya got a veg garden going with tomatoes or anything this summer?
BingoBoingo: Mostly zucchini so far
mats: http://s3.eurecom.fr/docs/dimva15_clementine.pdf << ' Cross-Cores Cache Covert Channel'
cazalla: hmm, got a new warning http://i.imgur.com/66dgj00.png
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assbot: Obama's ‘Amazing Grace’ - The Atlantic ... ( http://bit.ly/1eiyqcp )
mats: what an amazing piece of spin wrapped in love and grace
assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
mats: A+
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shinohai: @ cazalla what version did u get that warning with? http://i.imgur.com/66dgj00.png
cazalla: shinohai, 0.8.3
shinohai: Oh ok, so the war drums are beating xD
cazalla: i usually get the "warning: display tx may not be current, u need to update your shit or other nodes need to" one
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punkman: ;;ticker
gribble: Bitfinex BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 256.66, Best ask: 256.67, Bid-ask spread: 0.01000, Last trade: 256.66, 24 hour volume: 31835.3990557, 24 hour low: 252.77, 24 hour high: 269.0, 24 hour vwap: None
assbot: Log In - The New York Times ... ( http://bit.ly/1GYUqmH )
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shinohai: lol @ dat pic
assbot: Greeks abroad have credit cards rejected amid confusion over capital controls | Money | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1GYYnYw )
jurov: BingoBoingo: I suffered some hdd crashes and such patches were not backed up.. try looking into old revisions of readme
jurov: on github
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu, et al: anomaly from last night ~wasn't~ replicated. eater successfully ate blocks through 217336 (shat the day before using 'dumpblock' from earlier sync with mircea_popescu's node)
asciilifeform: not sure what to blame other than ram fault (experiment was taking place on a portable with non-ecc ram)
mod6: thx for the update asciilifeform
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assbot: Chinese farmer jailed for making a rubber alien - Telegraph ... ( http://bit.ly/1BY6Agv )
assbot: Teenage girl with toilet phobia dies from heart attack after going eight weeks without using loo - Telegraph ... ( http://bit.ly/1dxgiea )
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shinohai: "would frequently withhold her stools"
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assbot: timeX.google.com provide non standard time · Issue #437 · systemd/systemd · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1dxolrp )
jurov: "No. We don't add configuration options for a thousand different things. This is really not something I want to see in systemd upstream."
jurov: (poettering)
jurov: gavin should ask him to add bitcoin-nxt to systemd. i'm sure reddit would be euphoric beyond measure on that
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4596 @ 0.00048476 = 2.228 BTC [+]
jurov: incredible, these lennards contortions "but we are not vendor, systemd is not a product"
asciilifeform: achtung, panzers!
asciilifeform: 'Results of First 'Deterministic Sync' Experiment, With Memory Consumption Plots.'
asciilifeform: note that the entire shebang is includes
asciilifeform: (e.g., the pmap output processor, the gnuplot script)
asciilifeform: also note that plots of figures which remained constant throughout the run were omitted.
jurov: asciilifeform: iirc you wanted me to remove attachment size limit, what do you plan to send?
asciilifeform: jurov: the other day, i tried to send these: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-06-2015#1180989
mod6: asciilifeform: nice charts. wd.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6: feel free to use the figures on your blog. they are rather painful to view from ml
asciilifeform: also i think i have included everything needed to replicate this experiment.
jurov: such "multimedia" stuff is better to publish on blog
asciilifeform: jurov: would it be painful to modify turdatron such that it displays images, in the same way as .txt ?
jurov: not much, but i'm behind on more important stuff, like less painful sigs tracking
mircea_popescu: good morning assets!
mircea_popescu: did i actually miss teh ragnarok ?
asciilifeform: i have omitted any discussion of yesterday's anomaly from this article, because i was unable to replicate it
asciilifeform: hence by the ancient 'pics or it didn't happen' theorem, it didn't happen...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as far as i can tell, it was an ~actual~ cosmic ray
mircea_popescu: ima go through two days of logs over here, pray for me.
asciilifeform: (well, technically single-bit errors in dram are normally from alpha decay of the materials of which the damn thing itself is made)
mircea_popescu: !up SirJacket_
asciilifeform bbl, spending some time in wheeled coffin
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re teh seed : ima hopefully have it either working or a better idea of wtf is the problem in ~3-4 hoursd.
mircea_popescu: but so far : i put the chain on new server, moved over binary to work it (hey, should work right ?). it sort-of worked but with weird errors. had to have the thing recompiled, which lead to indicating the chain being broken. except the chain checked out, up to the last block. turns out human error on the splicing of the chain copy, so the ul had to be redone (not all , but the index is large)
mircea_popescu: and that brings us to the present.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-06-2015#1181240 << the one thing left loose is that AFTER such, rms is not saying, to me or to anyone, "hey, drepper moved to the dark side, glibc was forked". the last thing you'd expect rms to be indicted for would be an inclination to "make things work" and fold for convenience rather than stand for principle. nevertheless...
assbot: Logged on 29-06-2015 20:38:44; ascii_field: 'Stallman recently tried what I would call a hostile takeover of the glibc development. He tried to conspire behind my back and persuade the other main developers to take control so that in the end he is in control and can dictate whatever pleases him. This attempt failed but he kept on pressuring people everywhere and it got really ugly. In the end I agreed to the creation of a so-called "steering c
mircea_popescu: weird how the world works.
jurov: asciilifeform: limit raised to 64M (allows for ~ 50M attachments)
mircea_popescu: "*BUT*: updating the C library is no trivial task and it is very easy to damage one's system. Therefore, persons who do not exactly know what to do, should consider using a binary distribution instead, when it becomes available."
assbot: Bitstamp Incident Report 2-20-15 ... ( http://bit.ly/1dxy9lp )
mats: can drop /mobile/ from the url without issue
mircea_popescu: can drop scribd too ?
decimation: mats, asciilifeform, others: http://gcc.godbolt.org/#{%22version%22%3A3%2C%22filterAsm%22%3A{%22labels%22%3Atrue%2C%22directives%22%3Atrue%2C%22commentOnly%22%3Atrue}%2C%22compilers%22%3A[{%22sourcez%22%3A%22PTAEBUE8AcFNUgewK4CdQGNEBN4AtZVYAaURdAG0QENtRqA7UWAD2oFtoLYA6AKACWDAC6hsiAO54B3ABQBKPgG8%2BoUENHUA3KrGIl1UAF56oANQBGLQF9QuqTNiyADPJ3W%2BgkaAaTpcxRV1b21dQxNqS3cgAA%3D%3D%22%2C%22compiler%22%3A%22icc1301%22%2C%22options%22%3A%22%22}
assbot: Compiler Explorer ... ( http://bit.ly/1dxyuEp )
decimation: ^ to continue our 'useless do before while' thread
mats: dear god that url
mircea_popescu: that url scares me
mircea_popescu: is it turing complete ?
decimation: yeah, well except would you rather a 'link shortner' to the same?
mircea_popescu: assbot provides
decimation: exactly
mircea_popescu: i just never saw a kernel url before is all.
mircea_popescu: decimation maybe im slow, but what about it ? a push a pop two moves an imul
decimation: no I'm trying to figure it out too
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-06-2015#1181359 << to expound on that : a trader is not a commodity enthusiast. in general enthusiasts make very poor traders, which is why all the gold bugs are poor.
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 00:10:56; mircea_popescu: i have my doubts.
decimation: I mean, it's legal C, but why both
decimation: mircea_popescu: that was Taleb's point too
decimation: I think it got cut off but the guy who thought 'green lumber' was literally boards painted green was an excellent trader
mircea_popescu: yeah it's in there.
decimation: and it is what Fat Tony was talking about: oil traders 'all thought' that they knew about oil and the iraq war, whereas he saw that 'geopolitical analysis' and 'oil trade' isn't the 'same ting'
mircea_popescu: !up PFate
mircea_popescu: same principle yields "great politicians" who have no particular interest in what the flag looks like.
decimation: no I bring up the do{stuff} while(0) because it's in amazon's new openssl 'replacement'
assbot: s2n/s2n_safety.h at master · awslabs/s2n · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1dxAcpj )
decimation: the library is well written C99
assbot: 270137312-Bitstamp-Incident-Report-2-20-15.pdf - DocDroid ... ( http://bit.ly/1dxAgWn )
mats: BingoBoingo: ^ may be good for a scoop? not sure how new this information is
decimation: #define memcpy_check( d, s, n ) do { notnull_check( (d) ); if ( memcpy( (d), (s), (n)) != (d) ) { S2N_ERROR(S2N_ERR_MEMCPY); } } while(0)
decimation: asciilifeform: ^ can you explain why the do{} while(0) structure?
mats: decimation: your link loads 'hello world' in the editor -- toss it into pastein?
decimation: here's a working shortener http://goo.gl/w7e54H
assbot: Compiler Explorer ... ( http://bit.ly/1dxAGfb )
decimation: note that gcc creates exactly the same code for that structure
mircea_popescu: !up stoon
decimation: (compared to the non-do{}while(0) version)
decimation: intel's icc just puts in a useless extra check
decimation back to the mines
mircea_popescu: i have nfi.
mats: not sure either. am inquiring now.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-06-2015#1181393 << spurious note left in accidentally. i was going to do some reverse tracking of the connecting ips, but in the end decided to just publish them, you can do yourself same thing.
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 00:30:42; mike_c: mircea_popescu: You left us hanging there! Since it's missing, I must know what those points of interest are :)
mike_c: ah, thanks.
mats: decimation: man in #asm sez, normally one uses that in #define's due to limitations on preprocessor macro syntax
mircea_popescu: mike_c sorry to have caused your genes distress :D
assbot: c - What's the use of do while(0) when we define a macro? - Stack Overflow ... ( http://bit.ly/1dxDtVD )
decimation: mats: ah, ty. another link (from the above stackoverflow link) http://c-faq.com/cpp/multistmt.html
assbot: Question 10.4 ... ( http://bit.ly/1f19S8W )
decimation really back to mines :)
mats: "One of these, UPE_application_form.doc, contained obfuscated malicious VBA script. When opened, this script ran automatically and pulled down a malicious file from IP address 185.31.209.145, thereby compromising [Kodric's] machine."
mats: hue
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-06-2015#1181418 << it's very funny to me, this. idiots are carefully averting other idiots' eyes from important shit. which is altogether a good thing, last fucking thing anyone wants is a deluge of "well meaning" idiots and other "enthusiasts". at least if the anyone in question stops and thinks about it for five minutes.
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 00:55:29; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-06-2015#1181377 << my current understanding is that the blackout in 'reddit' et al. re: therealbitcoin is more or less total.
mircea_popescu: this sort of service one couldn't pay for, but i doubt they providing it are aware. somehow it seems ot me it'd be pretty painful if they found out.
mircea_popescu: mats what is that ?
mats: mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1182807 << Bitstamp Incident Report February 20, 2015
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 15:07:40; mats: http://www.docdroid.net/159hk/270137312-bitstamp-incident-report-2-20-15.pdf.html reupload to a 'free online document hosting tool'
mircea_popescu: bwhaahah.
mircea_popescu: mind publishing the plaintext somewhere, say on your blog ? the turd is uselessly opaque, and for instance google doesn'ty know it
mircea_popescu: google should know it.
mats: gonna wait for BingoBoingo to wake up and get to it if you don't mind, i don't have a blog
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-06-2015#1181432 << so it doesn't pay NOT to shoot at police.
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 01:55:29; decimation: "Authorities have warned from the start that the pair of fugitives might get their hands on guns. Matt did. And it may have been his undoing at that moment. Matt didn't shoot, but he also didn't comply with officers' order, so they opened fire."
mircea_popescu: just like it doesn't pay to NOT murder the chick you just raped.
mircea_popescu: just like on and on. the stupidity of us law enforcement is ever more fantastic.
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 02:32:10; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu, et al: in case this was not clear, it is now possible for the first time to carry out FULLY DETERMINISTIC tests of therealbitcoin (memory consumption, etc) by denying a node a net connection and syncing from disk using 'eatblock'.
jurov: !mpif
assbot: BtcAlpha.com F.MPIF Tracker estimated NAV per share: 0.00021438 B (Total: 425.93 B). Delta: -0.03 B. Last trade for F.MPIF on MPEX was at 0.000207 BTC [+]
jurov: !t m f.mpif
assbot: Some are born to endless night.
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 02:52:19; asciilifeform: it is now also possible to elementarily ferret out certain kinds of leaks - e.g., does importing the same bastard block ten thousand times result in an increase in ram footprint ? if so, we have leak
mircea_popescu: jurov did not trade o.O
jurov: in fact it did, but outside the book
jurov: ofc, report upcoming
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-06-2015#1181511 << there's a fascination with precarity i suspect the culprit here. to illustrate hwat i mean, suppose we take the island of hawaii cca 1815. at this point, the indigent savages are going about naked doing their indigent savagery, which does not much include murdering each other, and pointedly no writing or so on.
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 03:33:43; asciilifeform: you can't even win 'underhanded c contest' with them. they're ~screamingly~ bad ideas.
mircea_popescu: we introduce to these people the practice and contest of yachting. this is hard work, in that you have to make a yacht, and then sail it.
mircea_popescu: some of the healty, sane boys will put a lot of work into it, and get good enough to compete with us.
mircea_popescu: some of the anal children will instead make a "different" version of yachthing, which will consist of, for instance, birling.
mircea_popescu: why ? because intelligence and ambition are unrelated, and the ambitiously ungifted have absolutely no incentive in recognizing their shortcoming. it's not that it's cheaper to pretend. it's that literally no other alternative is present.
mircea_popescu: and so... they "are crypto entusiasts" and "You can go much stronger than that" and so on.
mircea_popescu: all the avatars of orphaned boyhood, kids who grow up without a father have no idea what games to play are there.
mircea_popescu: but they also don't have a retroactive abortion mechanism (not that they aren't trying, look at any ghetto ever).
mod6: lol birling
mircea_popescu: it's a thing.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the broadly fraudulent proposition that "you can make yourself better through X Y Z" be they hard work or prayer or anything else fundamentally exists as a direly needed social control mechanism. because the social cost of the ambitiously ungifted is plainly immense, societies have universally and often independently constructed this method to deal with the afflicted.
mircea_popescu: now, it existed as a cleaner, more useful thing before being coopted for this purpose, of course. much like anything else that's now being used to make large population densities possible was a lot nicer before being shat on
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 04:05:21; asciilifeform: if kim jong un had balls, perhaps he'd buy it.
mircea_popescu: who buys old whores and for what purpose ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-06-2015#1181585 << there is something in the entire "cutting off nose to spite your own face" thing. absent this, the pissant has no incentive to uinderstand it is a tiny spec, and may even pretend itself equal to every other asshole out there.
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 04:41:25; asciilifeform: hard to picture a sorrier bunch of bitter schmucks, eagerly taking it up the arse from history's biggest and most obscene communist mega-empire (usg) to spite their little piss-ant one
assbot: Pressure in the United States Mounts to Ban Symbols of Rebellion Against Federal Government | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/1LV0ePi )
mircea_popescu: "The legislative act exempted pensions from all measures, with initial plans to open some bank branches on Wednesday and full pensions being paid out. " << dude, fuck this shit. since when can there be exceptions ?
mircea_popescu: "The temporary prohibition is imposed in accordance with Article 20 of the Regulation (EU) No 236/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2012 on short selling and certain aspects of credit default swaps (OJ L 86/1, 2012)." << riiight.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-06-2015#1181605 << more than twitter! IT COULD BUY RUSSIA!!1
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-06-2015#1181635 << pretty good dilemma. too bad it is purely logical which means it has nothing to do with the electoral process.
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 05:34:04; decimation: which defeats the point of asking individuals to make a decision for the group
mircea_popescu: He admitted that it would be difficult to collect the money from the Kentucky man.
mircea_popescu: “Just because I get a judgement, it’s a piece of paper—I can try to put a lien on his house, take his car, but he has various homestead exemptions,” he added, citing a law in Kentucky and elsewhere that exists to protect homeowners with deceased spouses who owe money to creditors.
mircea_popescu: creditor owed can not bother the debtor. meanwhile usg can go burn down his house for no reason.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15850 @ 0.00051312 = 8.133 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: "These aren't words that an American or a European politician can utter in public, and perhaps not even whisper to their significant other while lying in bed, because the American eavesdroppers might overhear them, and then the politician in question would get the Dominique Strauss-Kahn treatment"
mircea_popescu: anyway, as usual for orlov : the intro is right : yes, the average expenditure average us citizen can expect to make reasonably is ~1 dollar a day. yes things are going the way of http://trilema.com/2014/the-battlefield-of-the-future/#selection-137.333-137.381
assbot: The battlefield of the future on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1LV2nud )
mircea_popescu: aka, "Pork bellies go for ~$1 per pound, and so do you".
mircea_popescu: and so no, there's no serious question that the future of the us is anything else or anything different from the africa which it has for so long aimed to join.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the proposition that greece is a democracy is beyond laughable, and in general he takes a completely nonsequitur turn straight into nonsense midway.
punkman: more like derpocracy
mircea_popescu: sorta like italians but the chicks have bigger asses.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, same tv-driven rank nonsense & feelings.
mircea_popescu: !gettrust Jautenim
assbot: Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user Jautenim: Level 1: 1, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. |http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/trust/?from=mircea_popescu&to=Jautenim | http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/user/Jautenim/
mircea_popescu: aok than
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 15:45:52; assbot: Logged on 28-06-2015 07:53:07; cazalla: ben_vulpes, ay yo charts don't be earning no s.qntr shares CC: pete_dushenski
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-06-2015#1181774 << where the fuck doies cisco have money from ? they've made losses about on par with uber
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 15:57:34; pete_dushenski: "Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) said on Tuesday it would buy OpenDNS, a privately held cloud-based security company, for $635 million in cash and equity awards to beef up its security business." << might as well consolidate the crown corps, save on letterhead.
mircea_popescu: o wait... same place uber gets it right ?
mircea_popescu: "we want a db of everyone's travels, what is this bs where people can get a cab in peace"
mircea_popescu: fucktards already. i'll use uber just after i go to work for a transvestite brothel in bang gook.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 37470 @ 0.00051412 = 19.2641 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: !up joshbuddy
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-06-2015#1181835 << that's really not the best idea. make it a hammoc, something.
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 16:23:50; ben_vulpes: yeah some cosleeping to begin with
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 17:59:00; mod6: ah, i don't think you're in assbot's L2. Sorry if I wasted your time. Just send the patch to me: modsix@gmail.com
mircea_popescu: jurov needs to stop keyboard-fu-ing eulora and fix the list!11eleventy.
jurov: !gettrust assbot jautenim
assbot: Trust relationship from user assbot to user jautenim: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 1 via 1 connections. |http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/trust/?from=assbot&to=jautenim | http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/user/jautenim/
pete_dushenski: !up ascii_field
pete_dushenski: howdy howdy
mircea_popescu: Jautenim voice yourself plox.
Jautenim: worth noting that I used a subkey
Jautenim: not the primary one
mircea_popescu: that'd be it.
jurov: Jautenim: try resending it
Jautenim: damn
Jautenim: it is locked away in the fuhrerbunker
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 14:52:26; jurov: asciilifeform: limit raised to 64M (allows for ~ 50M attachments)
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1182882 << based on 2nd comment, i'm going to say he's a troll
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1182780 << my broadcast will be out tonight, wanted to include the last experiment in it
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 14:58:12; scoopbot_revived: Eulora mini update, July 1st http://trilema.com/2015/eulora-mini-update-july-1st/
pete_dushenski: the 'Keep the symbol in government forever.' bit it too rich to be real.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1182771 << actually rms was 'for convenience' from day 1, when he abandoned the lispmachine
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 14:49:54; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-06-2015#1181240 << the one thing left loose is that AFTER such, rms is not saying, to me or to anyone, "hey, drepper moved to the dark side, glibc was forked". the last thing you'd expect rms to be indicted for would be an inclination to "make things work" and fold for convenience rather than stand for principle. nevertheless...
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1182803 << NO! for fuxxsake, read it. it DOES NOT IMPLEMENT CRYPTO ROUTINES, rides on top of existing lib (e.g., openssl)
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 15:06:32; decimation: no I bring up the do{stuff} while(0) because it's in amazon's new openssl 'replacement'
mircea_popescu: i'll tell you im getting plenty sick of this entire "everything around is a bug's nest"
ascii_field: media lied, as is sop
mircea_popescu: i wasn't born a bug and how the fuck did i end up here ?!
ascii_field: bzzzzpsshss
mircea_popescu: wait, amazon is replacing shit by vacu-packing it in convenient, easy sized, value packs ?
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 15:28:43; mats: "One of these, UPE_application_form.doc, contained obfuscated malicious VBA script. When opened, this script ran automatically and pulled down a malicious file from IP address 185.31.209.145, thereby compromising [Kodric's] machine."
mircea_popescu: how does this shit even work ? can their word editor open net connections !?
mircea_popescu: what is it, emacs ?
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1182852 << did this. posted as of this morning to ml.
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 15:35:54; assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 02:32:10; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu, et al: in case this was not clear, it is now possible for the first time to carry out FULLY DETERMINISTIC tests of therealbitcoin (memory consumption, etc) by denying a node a net connection and syncing from disk using 'eatblock'.
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 21:48:04; shinohai: There is a slight spelling error in this document: http://thebitcoin.foundation/declaration.txt
kakobrekla: that was Nejces brother computer: "IT security, enterprise servers/storage. IT wizard @ Bitstamp" source: https://twitter.com/ilukeberry
assbot: Luka Kodrič (@ilukeberry) | Twitter ... ( http://bit.ly/1f1B47o )
mircea_popescu: !s "i can't spell"
assbot: 4 results for '"i can't spell"' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=%22i+can%27t+spell%22
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla loller
mats: and he still has responsibilities after losing bidness 18,000 BTC and 650k+ USD
mats: what an organization
mircea_popescu: that's ok, they'll make it back OUT OF BEING LEGAL AND COMPLIANT!!11
mats: smells of inside job if i ever sniffed one
jurov: And God spake unto them: "Go forth and regulate".
chetty: careful what you sniff
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 16:59:51; mircea_popescu: how does this shit even work ? can their word editor open net connections !?
mircea_popescu: who wants to run an editor that can open the net ?
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1182970 << misread, with last line, as 'go forth and sniff glue'
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 17:02:55; jurov: And God spake unto them: "Go forth and regulate".
mircea_popescu: i really don't get this "put all the things in all the things" nonsense.
mircea_popescu: do these people's heads come with feet in them ?
mircea_popescu: "oh you know, if your head needs to take a walk - now it can!"
pete_dushenski: "why have a symphony when you can have a one-man-band !"
jurov: and keep talking to google time servers
pete_dushenski: "it's moar efficient!"
mircea_popescu: "i got a new girlfriend - she came with a built in boyfriend!"
mats: another goxxing is just a matter of time at this point
mats: everybody in the org using windows, wtf
mircea_popescu: mats so they're practically like the US DoD.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 38650 @ 0.00051466 = 19.8916 BTC [+]
mats: it shocks the mind that such people are trusted with anything
mircea_popescu: ascii_field : LoadBlockIndex(): hashBestChain=00000000000000001160 height=362808 << confirmed. my chain is fine, delay and difficulties to date due to operator error.
mircea_popescu: the seeder is coming back online momentarily. for my own curiosity, re-start the syncing and compare the two sets you get.
ascii_field: ahahahaha
mats: and on the subject of shock... i still can't get over the fact that Stuxnet happened
ascii_field: say when
jurov: mats actually show me one person that is trusted with $$$ or lives and does *not* use windows
jurov: we need some role models here
mats: chinese, afaik
jurov: that's not one person
mircea_popescu: i've last used windows xp a decade ago to play might and magic.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile they figured out how to make the old games run in emulator.
jurov: my own fkn brother simlates megawatts of energy and kilotons of overheated steam using... excel.
jurov: tried ooo, rejected in disgust
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: connected, stalled
mircea_popescu: ascii_field o.O
jurov: and programming? why?
mircea_popescu: you have got to be kidding me.
ascii_field: same pattern as before
mircea_popescu: this is ridiculous.
ascii_field: short burst, followed by long period of wtf
mircea_popescu: ok so last time there was a bona fide index/db problem, which made it be slow and painful.
mats: ooo hasn't been patched in years
mircea_popescu: but atm it's zipping around doing 2mbps
mats: afaik
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: all i can say is that i'm seeing ~exactly~ same pattern as before
ascii_field: socket open, nothing moves
mircea_popescu: so... it wasn't that then ?!
ascii_field: evidently not.
jurov: tried to break in gdb?
mircea_popescu: i mean, there were occasional spikes in load in the previous incarnation, and i figured those may be it. but now it's smooth as butter.
ascii_field: jurov: try to make sense of any of it in gdb
mircea_popescu: jurov you ever tried that nm lol.
kakobrekla: anyone saved that buttstamp doc, scribd removed it
assbot: 270137312-Bitstamp-Incident-Report-2-20-15.pdf - DocDroid ... ( http://bit.ly/1f1E6bX )
mircea_popescu: fucking hate scribd bs
kakobrekla: thanks jurov
mircea_popescu: which hate has apparently saved a bit of internet comedy from extinction.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: about 5 sec burst of data, followed by 40-infinity sec. of silence.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i can at this point guarantee to you it is not due to this machine.
mircea_popescu: which just finished syncing, btw.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: pretty sure we are being fucked with downstream.
mircea_popescu: is it possible your isp is being fucktarded ?
mircea_popescu: like doesn't want you gaming or whatever the nutty fuck ?
ascii_field: i'm sitting on a different, industrial isp, 100km away from home
ascii_field: and i've never had the slightest problem of the kind suggested above, with either
ascii_field pays serious coin for bandwidth
assbot: 270137312-Bitstamp-Incident-Report-2-20-15.pdf - PdfSR.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1f1EN4O )
ascii_field: kakobrekla: 'required adobe flash player'
kakobrekla: i guess i can just put it on ba files server
mircea_popescu: maybe bb or someone de-pdfs it already
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-06-2015#1182121 << aahhahaha check this out alfie! dept of propaganda thinks it's lost.
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 22:40:30; shinohai: hue, motherboard: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/bitcoin-is-unsustainable?trk_source=homepage-lede
mircea_popescu: go sustain yourselves on cocks, nameless "journalists".
assbot: David Cameron says he wants back doors in encyption products - Business Insider ... ( http://bit.ly/1f1FEm3 )
punkman: "We have always been able, on the authority of the home secretary, to sign a warrant and intercept a phone call, a mobile phone call or other media communications, but the question we must ask ourselves is whether, as technology develops, we are content to leave a safe space"
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
punkman: "for terrorists to communicate with each other."
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: what is peculiar about this piece? reads like the same old crap
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20300 @ 0.00051466 = 10.4476 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: nah, they had the "unsustainable" crapola on the back burner for a coupla years, as they were hoping they may actually elbow themselves into relevancy all through 2013-14
mircea_popescu: we're moving back to 2011-2012 it would seem.
ascii_field: and as someone pointed out in last night's thread, let's compute the energy lost by failing to boil visa, mastercard execs into biodiesel
mircea_popescu: the meta point is of interest here.
mircea_popescu: they've realligned.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: your node continues to emit bursts
mircea_popescu: as it is i have nfi what to do about it.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: put copy of same in another country, i'll compare.
mircea_popescu: alrighty.
mircea_popescu: it'll be a few days to get everything settled out.
ascii_field: ...and now it's rolling
ascii_field wonders if it was transmitting into a philippino buffer
ascii_field: which had to fill
ascii_field: 39000+
ascii_field: 45000+
ascii_field: ...and counting
mircea_popescu: that sounds morel ike it.
decimation: ascii_field: shit, you are right, the amazon s2d is just a pretty TLS wrapper around the openssl crypto turd
decimation: s2n even
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1182162 << all clients that sync after a certain blkxxxx file was filled will get the exact same file (different from any of the ones of the peers they sync from). all clients that sync durin will get different ones
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 00:25:18; mod6: i have 3 full-sync'd chains from between January and March, all have the same blk0001.dat hash: sha256sum blk0001.dat \ 7aac5826b91b4f87a2e9534e0e38e8d64ed21aff8a4eb8ff8dde4e726e67fe1a blk0001.dat
decimation: wtf is the point
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: iirc i explained this last night
ascii_field: (thing stows blocks in real time, never erases. see src)
mircea_popescu: i was doing like 5 things at once past coupla days and so ended up leaving all sorts of things unexplained fully.
decimation: mircea_popescu: bottom line, satoshi stores a binary blob of the blockchain AND also the bdb database
decimation: in theory, if orphans are removed, we should yeild the same blockchain turds
mircea_popescu: decimation well, it's so to speak "unstrained" if you're there, and "strained" if you hear about it later.
mircea_popescu: nah cause also ordering issues
decimation: blocks are stored in order
ascii_field: not in the blkxxxx
ascii_field: aha in order
decimation: although it seems there might be disagreement between nodes in later blkxxxx.dat files
mircea_popescu: i think some implementations end up with different gaps between them or something.
mircea_popescu: something like that
Jautenim: jurov nope
Jautenim: i'm sending a blank email with these three attachments: http://dpaste.com/1YPE04M http://dpaste.com/2XV9P7V http://dpaste.com/2DDHFF4
assbot: dpaste: 1YPE04M: something.txt ... ( http://bit.ly/1f1Ifwh )
assbot: dpaste: 2XV9P7V: jautenim_openssl_docs_snip.patch ... ( http://bit.ly/1f1IebW )
assbot: dpaste: 2DDHFF4: jautenim_openssl_docs_snip.patch.sig ... ( http://bit.ly/1f1Ifwl )
decimation: ascii_field: one wonders why bezos didn't order the creation of his own rsa code
mircea_popescu: i am willing to take any odds on "he doesn't know this exists"
ascii_field: Jautenim: we already have the install_sw thing - see http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-June/000102.html
mircea_popescu: from experience, most people's understanding of cryptography is comensurate with your average 1700s peasants' understanding of contraception.
Jautenim: gah, I didn't check the new stator.sh
Jautenim: allrighto
decimation: yeah that seems about right
decimation: mircea_popescu: but seemingly everyone is a "crypto enthusiast" today.
mircea_popescu: only here.
jurov: Jautenim: problem was here, all three came through
mircea_popescu: anyway, it is interesting to point out that the first 2 gb blockindes fit a whopping 188k blocks
mircea_popescu: these days they're still fitting 3-5k blocks.
mircea_popescu: soon it will be a new 2gb file each two weeks.
ascii_field: aha, that's about right for 10min, 1MB blocks
ascii_field: (upper limit)
decimation: you know with these 'blockchain bitrates' I would be concerned about bitrot on disks
decimation: not like pogos have ecc
ascii_field: decimation: i'm pretty certain that i experienced a bitflip last night
decimation: actually, this is an excellent case for putting ecc in bitcoin
ascii_field: decimation: ecc cannot be implemented in software
decimation: or at least, in the disk-storage gismo
decimation: why not
ascii_field: (to an extent, sure, but ~any bit~ can flip)
ascii_field: including arbitrary code bit
decimation: yeah, but I don't give a shit if a pogo's code bit flips, probably will crash
ascii_field: this is very much a mistake
decimation: I do give a shit if none of the pogos have a coherent record of the blocks
mircea_popescu: decimation very much so.
mircea_popescu: there are many considerations here. for instance, as an exercise to the trainee : calculate the minimum storage space required to GUARANTEE bit=wise identity over X bytes of information.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: that one's easy - infinity
decimation: in noisy channels there are no guarantees
mircea_popescu: obviously, for t = infinity the size -> infinity.
mircea_popescu: wait, wut ?!
ascii_field: best one can hope for is to get it an order of magnitude below 'asteroid hits your computer' probability
decimation: ascii_field: the problem: try finding reliable statistics on your consumer grade hard drives
mircea_popescu: because we live in the best possible world built on top of !!!science!!! so nothing is ever sold by any sort of spec.
ascii_field: blockchain really belongs on combo of mask and antifuse rom
ascii_field: afaik neither is manufactured today
ascii_field: i tried to buy some
ascii_field: (mask rom for known blocks from the past, antifuse for future ones)
ascii_field: both are immune to anything short of room-melting level of radiation
ascii_field: (on the former, no way to flip a bit - physically - at all; on the latter - need high current and moderately high voltage)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36489 @ 0.00051236 = 18.6955 BTC [-]
decimation: as for mechanical drives the best info I can find is here https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/
assbot: The Ultimate Hard Drive Test: What Hard Drive is Best? ... ( http://bit.ly/1f1MQ1M )
mircea_popescu: ascii_field still normal ?
ascii_field: bursts
mircea_popescu: it reverted to bursts ?!
ascii_field: 130799
Jautenim: sorry
mircea_popescu: Jautenim lol wut is that.
assbot: The BTC-dev July 2015 Archive by thread ... ( http://bit.ly/1f1NbBn )
mircea_popescu: ascii_field nuts. i tell you ... the load is < .2 and has not peaked above 1 (this is on 8 cpu machine). there is nothing deferred or anthing suspicious in the logs. the eth card is doing fine. two dozen connections, routinely hitting 1mbps. etc.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: downstream.
ascii_field: must be.
mircea_popescu: it must.
ascii_field: this is gonna be a problem
mircea_popescu: it might.
ascii_field: i suspect we have come to a 'chinese' point
mircea_popescu: !up ascii_field
jurov: try to run it in ssh tunnel?
mircea_popescu: howssat ?
ascii_field: where the buggers use what they have - control over backbones - to annoy people
ascii_field: ssh tunnel is what i suggested earlier aha
ascii_field: but not a long-term solution to anything
ascii_field observes 5 sec. or so burst
mircea_popescu: a) that, b) what would it do ?
decimation: ascii_field: it could also be just misconfigured routers
decimation: "buffer bloat"
mircea_popescu: we know we can actually pass data between each other. what we wish to find out is what causes this behaviour and who to kill.
mircea_popescu: decimation yes, but this server would not stand if that were the case.
jurov: if ssh works fine, you'd confirm that someone is doing packet inspection
mircea_popescu: i guess.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field whadda ya need ?
decimation: if you are using a standard linux distro, it's well known that older kernels had buffer bloat/tcp tuning issues
ascii_field: except, who exactly needed to inspect
ascii_field: mircea_popescu announced the box ip publicly
mircea_popescu: decimation recent centos tho.
ascii_field: after that, red phone in derpistan dept. of derp rang
decimation: has ancient kernel
decimation: I have experienced buffer bloat issues using a centos router
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28300 @ 0.00051466 = 14.5649 BTC [+]
ascii_field: i'm gonna guess the entire link between anywhere i can go without taking a plane, and mircea_popescu's box, is burpy on account of packets hitting tape before they get to me
jurov: well, that would show in netstat output?
jurov: in SendQ column
decimation: good point, probably work
decimation: probably would show I mean
ascii_field: 'In addition, we have paid out approximately $250,000 to programmers hired to rebuild and improve our platform; paid approximately $250,000 (and counting) to the Stroz Friedberg team; and at least $150,000 more for various security reviews, and legal and financial advice. These out of pocket costs are continuing to accrue.'
ascii_field: ^ l0l!!!
ascii_field: 'In addition, to prevent future capital losses of this kind, we have contracted with a vendor to provide “multi-sig” technology to better protect our hot wallet (this particular transfer could not have happened today) and hired a skilled technology company, Xapo, to assist in managing our cold wallet.'
ascii_field: ^ ahahahahahaha
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 114900 @ 0.00051525 = 59.2022 BTC [+] {3}
jurov: ya. no word about executives' filthy laptops.
ascii_field: 'The gambit for this phishing attack was to offer Mr Merlak free
ascii_field: tickets to Punk Rock Holiday 2015. (Merlak is keen on punk rock and has played in a band.)'
decimation: or why those filthy laptops can come anywhere near their 'hot wallet key'
decimation: ascii_field: note the statistics from backblaze don't show the probability of single bit errors (undetected by the drive)
ascii_field: decimation: dram bitflips are far more interesting
ascii_field: because you can't get 'raid' for dram
ascii_field: whereas nobody serious gives a fuck re: disks
decimation: yeah, but we have jungle hardware, can't get ecc dram
ascii_field: because P(bit-n-disk0 + bit-n-disk1) flip ~= 0
decimation: right, but pogo class machine only has one drive
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: connects, disconnects, without transfer of anything
ascii_field: for ~10min now
mircea_popescu: "the stroz friedberg team" ? wtfd is that.
ascii_field: decimation: pogo is to have strength in numbers
decimation: yeah, but if each pawn is too week to carry weapon, have nothing
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: some 'cyber sek000r1ty!11!! firm'
mircea_popescu: ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: so they spent 250k (abnd counting) so as to lose 4mn off a schmuck's home connection ?
mircea_popescu: whatever, owners' / investors' problem.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> or why those filthy laptops can come anywhere near their 'hot wallet key' << this is easy enough to answer, if you think about it. and if you don't... if you let history be your guide.
mircea_popescu: i'd withdraw anything i had in that shithole by now, had i not withdrawn it long before, had i had anything in there in the first place.
decimation: what's amusing is that nobody gets it right, or apparently even tries
decimation: imagine how bad fiat systems are
mircea_popescu: or at least, "no one you'd hear about on reddit"
mircea_popescu: because yes, the point of life is to preserve that most valuable delusion - that "nobody could have foreseen..."
decimation: well, as far as bitcoin exchanges are concerned
mircea_popescu: essentially the adult version of "but daddy, all the kids in class got this question wrong too!"
mircea_popescu: but to get back to jurov's more interesting thread
mircea_popescu: netstat wut ?
jurov: netstat -tnp
mircea_popescu is trying to bootstrap the public interest in the matter into getting a networking education for himself.
mircea_popescu: sudo ? or just plain ?
jurov: and it shows all open connections, with kernel buffers
jurov: usually sudo
decimation: yeah, find ascii's connection and see what the sendQ value is
jurov: with general conclusion that if SendQ buffer is empty then it's application fault
decimation: assuming that this is the last machine that touches it before it goes to your isp
jurov: otherwise either kernel stalls or pipe is congested(dropped packets, whatever)
mircea_popescu: stuff like 422816 k in the sendq
decimation: the stereotypical 'buffer bloat' problem is that you find packets become extremely lagged when there is heavy bandwidth use
mircea_popescu: but atm i don't even see stan's client connected.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> otherwise either kernel stalls or pipe is congested(dropped packets, whatever) << i thought this may well be it previously, as load was uncharacteristically high for this application. but solved that problem and apparently no improvement.
mircea_popescu: decimation i know, but this is a major server doing all sorts of other things. it could not stand for five minutes if that were the problem.
ascii_field: ... and rolling again
ascii_field: ... and then not
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell BingoBoingo qntsideration for ya! http://dpaste.com/0PSVYP8.txt
gribble: The operation succeeded.
ascii_field: and nobody even read the mega-experiment from this morning yet, afaik
ascii_field: (result of the last 4 days)
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 02:51:53; asciilifeform: if his blk** are ~original~ - as in, they were formed ~as the blocks happened~ - they can contain orphaned (in the traditional sense) blocks
mircea_popescu: i think they're called "stale"
mircea_popescu: ie, were but are no longer longest chain
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell cazalla and for uuuu! http://dpaste.com/3HH0TQE.txt
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: different from the orphan, which is "block with no known connection to the hcain"
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the latter we now call 'bastard'
mircea_popescu: alright. but the former's still stale rather than orphan
mircea_popescu: as it does have a daddy, just, daddy got married with a wanton slut
ascii_field: l0l aha
mircea_popescu: romaian would be "dezmostenit"
mircea_popescu: not sure english comprehends.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the terminology 'orphan' is used in the source, hence why i referred to it
ascii_field: ('stale' is a better term, but does not appear in src)
mircea_popescu: aha. but anyway : yes all my blks are original in that sense, this bneing the whole point of the exercise.
mircea_popescu: (i also have strained variants, obviously - but of what interest are they)
ascii_field: another short burst
mircea_popescu: !up Eulorian
mircea_popescu: hey there.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field are the bursts mechanically the same ? like, all 500kb or w/e ?
ascii_field: varies
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1182356 << i could have sworn there's some weird padding in there
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 03:32:56; asciilifeform: iirc, it is [mainortestchainflag][length][blockdata] repeated again and again
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
assbot: File formats -- blkindex.dat and blk0001.dat ... ( http://bit.ly/1f1Vm0F )
mircea_popescu: ascii_field eh. proceeding from the other direction : not only is the need for a bdb datastore directly indicative of allignment problems, but moreover its presence virtually guarantees them. so no, i don't think you can actually rely on "block after block" thing, but then again i can't be arsed to emacs a .dat
mircea_popescu: honestly the only sane arrangement would be either a) store each block as a file, or else b) store blocks in arbitrary sized files, each starting at offsed 1Mb * block_count
ascii_field: the bdb thing is for tx (and block-by-header) indexing
ascii_field: as so the thing doesn't end up running in O(N) time
ascii_field: 'each block as a file' strains filesystem
mircea_popescu: no fucking idea why it hasn't implemented a from the get go incidentally.
ascii_field: (and kills winblowz dead of course)
mircea_popescu: yeah but filesystem is who is supposed to deal with this.
mircea_popescu: NOT MY JOB OMFG
mircea_popescu: let the problem be solved once and solved well.
ascii_field: filesystems (other than reiser) don't like dir full of millions of turdz
mircea_popescu: so make it a dir tree.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 49923 @ 0.00051175 = 25.5481 BTC [-] {2}
ascii_field: it is easy to solve. just define custom fs for blockchain
ascii_field: we spoke of this ages ago
ascii_field: let it have own block device.
mircea_popescu: yet another place where bitcoind and kernel merge.
mircea_popescu: because if you run bitcoin on that system, ALL the tradeoffs the kernel makes MUST be organised around its needs.
ascii_field: it is what i wanted to do in the mythical msdos port
mircea_popescu: maybe not msdos, but i think cp/m would actually suffice for everything involved.
ascii_field: (msdos, as we know, won't eat a +2G fs - but doesn't give a damn what you say to the disk controller. so roll your own.)
ascii_field: the only thing that even needs an os in the usual sense is the threading
ascii_field: and not, as naive might suppose, the tcp/ip !
decimation: you could make a dirtree
ascii_field: there are ~working~ tcp stacks for 'bare bios'
ascii_field: i have one here
mircea_popescu: in any case i regard the blkxxx scheme as a hare brained, buggy slow and stupid reimplementation of a filesystem in a kernel that's trying to be an app.
decimation: I used one for 80806
decimation: called 'ka9q nos'
decimation: ran in dos
jurov: iirc there's vfat driver for ms-dos.. some 200k
ascii_field: fuck fat32
ascii_field: it's how we got the blkxxxx turd in the 1st place
ascii_field: with its 2g blobs
mircea_popescu: ahaha wait
mircea_popescu: THAT is how 2gb got picked ?
ascii_field: how did you think
decimation: I do agree that converting blkxxx to dirtree would be an improvement
mircea_popescu reels at the realisation it never occured to him before
mircea_popescu: i dunno dude, how the fuck should i know how people who use magic numbers pick the magic numbers to use./
ascii_field: because shitblowz
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is such a fucking insult.
ascii_field: sure is
ascii_field: i barf from it daily
ascii_field: every time i look at that thing.
ascii_field: my brain pulsates like it wants to blow chunks
decimation: oh, here's a c preprocessor macro to implement templates!!
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 03:51:18; midnightmagic: asciilifeform: Congratulations on making simple interaction so expensive.
ascii_field amused re: how that fella appears always at certain... occasions
ascii_field: to express a very particular pov
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1182379 << different in what exact sense ? how is one wotless pleb different from another ?
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 04:03:57; asciilifeform: or different one.
ascii_field: muppet theatre has a box of masks, occasionally they rotate
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1182385 << i lolled, but "6/10 decent trolling but article is obviously rambling and unconvincing," ??
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 04:08:54; danielpbarron: https://twitter.com/fuckeveryword/status/616093901401686017
mircea_popescu: what is this, defense by epithet ?
mircea_popescu: "i'm fat and should work out but the science involved in mean so 6/10" ?
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 04:12:37; decimation: lolz http://blog.samaltman.com/energy < sam altman has a great new startup idea (YC certified): nuclear fusion
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i was promised rotation! WHAT IS THIS SCAM
mircea_popescu: will i live to be 90 and read all about "the very exciting technical development of 3d cinema", which apparently didn't fail convincingly enough the fiurst time jack warner trieds to beat television out of the amrket
ascii_field: muppeteer's hand sticky with spoodge, frog got glued on
mircea_popescu: and then "uber" and then "cold fusion
mircea_popescu: and then etc ?
mircea_popescu: it gets old.
ascii_field: in yr 2500 there will be folks selling 'forever live' pills
ascii_field: just as in year 500
ascii_field: and -500
mircea_popescu: fucking curse of an active intelligence : you don't, personalyl, get old. you just get to watch the entire world get very old very fast/
mircea_popescu: eventually you feel old just for being involved.
ascii_field felt pretty old decade ago already
mircea_popescu: i'm sitting here in the 80s romania laughing at 3d glasses. for fucks sake - FROSI, the communist german's youth magazine, sent me some very sturdy cardboard 3d glasses in one edition. was like 86 iirc.
ascii_field: my father laughed at 3d glasses in 1960
ascii_field: and his father in ww2
ascii_field: (issued to artillerists, reading oddball experimental maps)
trinque: yeah, but now they're called hololens, and you'll have to take out a credit card to purchase
ascii_field: and i have it on good authority that folks in the age where 'sherlock holmes' is set also laughed
mircea_popescu: wtf srsly, teh internets doesn't know about frosi ?
ascii_field: 'google' now sells a cardboard frame one can stuff a pNohe into, as 3d glasses.
ascii_field: cheap tricks don't really change
assbot: FRÖSI – Wikipedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1f1ZHkl )
mircea_popescu: http://www.ddr-comics.de/froesi/index/8507a.jpg << actually this might have been the exact edition.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1182397 << what the motherfucking shit is this. "our years of experience in something we've not done at all are to be combined in the following manner - if we jump one inch each day we'll have an olympic record before the year is out"
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 04:14:20; decimation: and http://www.helionenergy.com/ < "By combining our years of experience in fusion, newly available electronics technologies, and a revolutionary design using cutting-edge physics, Helion is making a fusion engine 1,000 times smaller, over 500 times cheaper, and realizable 10 time faster than other projects."
mircea_popescu: what in the actual shit.
mircea_popescu: i could be back in school, listening to retarded 11yos describing their sexual experience in flamboyantly wrong detail.
trinque: they've lived on a planet orbiting a massive fusion reaction; what more do you want?
trinque: mircea_popescu: "peed in her butt"
mircea_popescu: i think my dinner had comparable fusion experience.
mircea_popescu: trinque no this was specifically that after summer vacation, guy told class agape this tall tale about the orgy he had going at his grandparent's rural house.
mircea_popescu: so then i asked him where's the little worm thing on the girl's snatch, upside or downside ?
trinque: lol
mircea_popescu: and the dude went like wtf am i on about, there's no such thing.
trinque: reminds me of a chick I remember in high school telling me that she had no idea her pussy had a hole in it until *way* later than a healthy human being should
trinque: like... early teens
ascii_field: 'on which end is the soldering iron hot'
mircea_popescu: "wut do you mean, i heard there's a little nubbin thing like a tip of a finger" "omfg get out of here 6/10 trolling"
mircea_popescu: then the recess was over an' i told the gals all about it. was a very lulzy week.
trinque: I guess this girl thought babies were shat... or something
mircea_popescu: it has happened...
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 04:15:12; trinque: ah man, I'll be able to bolt one of these to my emdrive and colonize mars
mircea_popescu: !up ascii_field
trinque: ofc
trinque: and turn the trip to mars into a reality tv show
mircea_popescu: where you put a bunch of dumb teens in a room and nobody fucks anyone.
mircea_popescu: muy reality.
ascii_field: financed with kyc/aml compliant kickstartgogo
mircea_popescu: to quote sammy l, "that's no reality i ever heard of. they speak english in reality ?"
ag3nt_zer0: trinque: hi there. were you able to read through that book? if so, what'd you think?
trinque: ag3nt_zer0: nah not finished yet; got distracted
trinque: but I'm sure I'll get to it
mod6: <+ascii_field> i barf from it daily << lol
mircea_popescu: poor mod6 lol.
mircea_popescu: he knows.
ag3nt_zer0: any hikers in here? just did 5 days backpacking in yosemite... unbelievable! - highly recommended
trinque: ag3nt_zer0: yeah, I do a bit of that around oregon
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 some p[eople in portland were gazing at the nude biker chiks
trinque: heh!
trinque: lets just make the tits-out thing year-round
mircea_popescu: it frosts there neh ?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 129350 @ 0.00051728 = 66.9102 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: ANI is generally dependent on a warm climate and good central heating.
mircea_popescu: but outdoors...
trinque: sure, I'll accept inside-only
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 04:31:56; cazalla: tfw buying a deciduous tree in the winter and feel like i bought a stick for $20 lol (Hovenia dulcis if anyone cares as much)
trinque: notable how happy everyone seems in town when everyone's ass-naked in the streets
trinque: portland wants to break from the repressed sexuality of america so bad
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 05:52:58; mats: driver insisted i sit in front, fist bump him, and talk the whole trip
mats: 'community ridesharing'
mats: we're supposed to be buds
mircea_popescu: what happened to pointing out to the driver he's to speak when spoken to.
ascii_field: i like 'uber' more
ascii_field: it simply took the money and ran
mircea_popescu: quoth the runner : ubermore!
funkenstein_: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1183410 <-- good work! Yosemite is amazing, I did some lines there years ago
assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 19:03:09; ag3nt_zer0: any hikers in here? just did 5 days backpacking in yosemite... unbelievable! - highly recommended
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 15:01:15; asciilifeform: whereby a bunch of folks pretend to be an uber 'cabbie' and 'pick up' customers
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ you did cocaine off the mountain's asscrack ?!
danielpbarron: !v assbot:danielpbarron.rate.juliatourianski_.3:70bc5de51fb224a5e85a3b7da3bba658b99a22fdacd4c178f51c1206c73b308d
assbot: Successfully updated the rating for juliatourianski_ from -2 to 3 with note: met at porcfest; a fantastic escort
ag3nt_zer0: mircea_popescu: you had asked what the hell is the sophia perennis anyway... well, a core and concise exposition of it can be found in more than a few works - here is one that stands at 134 pages and I would really love to hear some thoughts on it if you get a chance to sit down with it... if for no other reason than I struggle to find "holes" in it... http://tohno-chan.com/ddl/src/Rene_Guenon_-_The_Crisis_of_the_Modern_W
assbot: 404 - page not found ... ( http://bit.ly/1f234I3 )
mircea_popescu: just how much was it
funkenstein_: lol, definitely enough crack there to last a lifetime
mircea_popescu: !s sophia perennis
assbot: 0 results for 'sophia perennis' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=sophia+perennis
mircea_popescu: i don't think so ?
ag3nt_zer0: maybe we were using the "perennial tradition" terms
ag3nt_zer0: same thing
funkenstein_: incidentally, one of the lines I did was called "the nose"
mircea_popescu: !s perennial tradition
assbot: 0 results for 'perennial tradition' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=perennial+tradition
mircea_popescu: suppose you actually link me ag3nt_zer0 ?
ag3nt_zer0: I don't know how
ag3nt_zer0: hold up
mircea_popescu: you ever read the log ?
funkenstein_: was linked here a couple days ago, with full url :)
mircea_popescu: coupla monthgs ago i bought a couple of thin wooden sticks from an art store. impulse buy, i just happened to be next to them.
mircea_popescu: i've since used them as switches, and broke them on ass. the parts i collected and since just about right thickenss, sharpened them
mircea_popescu: and the shavings ? why, the shavings burn, creating this most pleasant wooden smoke atmosphere.
assbot: 2 results for 'perennialism' - #bitcoin-assets search
mircea_popescu: best impulse buy ever.
ascii_field: right thickness ?
assbot: Logged on 23-06-2015 03:05:44; mircea_popescu: and wtf is "perennialism" even supposed to be, pico de la mirandolla and friends ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field bout like a pencil
ag3nt_zer0: mircea_popescu: yes I read the log
ascii_field: like pencil, but cannot write ?
ascii_field: or what, mircea_popescu took up cuneiform ?
ag3nt_zer0: mircea_popescu: yes, specifically that
ascii_field used to own such a stick, for putting maths graffiti in wet cement
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 and your offering is a 404 ?
funkenstein_ thinks ascii_field might know a thing or two about using switches
mircea_popescu: he always struckl me like more of a semaphore kind of guy
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 05:58:05; ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: i dream of a world where the insurance to drive your own ass around is prohibitive for all but the ultra-rich
mircea_popescu: and what does mp say about pdfs with innerving regularity and peppered throughout teh logs ?
ag3nt_zer0: sorry
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes, Rene Guenon, pico de la mirandola & friends.
midnightmagic: mircea_popescu: yeah, I know. I refuse to the signal the in-tribe, and that seems to be giving him a reason to think I'm some kind of plant with an agenda. If he accepted the truth I think he'd calm down quite a bit, although at this point he'd probably never believe it.
mircea_popescu: in the end what difference does it make.
midnightmagic: I just read more than I comment is all.
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2015 03:25:08; mircea_popescu: this is like asking wyatt earp "how do you distinguish between the f brothers and stray dog"
assbot: Logged on 31-01-2015 02:02:19; midnightmagic: dude. seriously plotting or fomenting the physical murder of the USG is sedition, insurrection, and various related crimes and there's no fucking way I'm interested in being associated with it just because I'm lurking in here.
mircea_popescu: seems coherent enough.
midnightmagic: So? Opinion doesn't mean action; and it doesn't follow that I'd waste my time reporting, or even communicating with an inverted totalitarianist state, given the literal costs of doing so in terms of freedom and money.
ag3nt_zer0: interesting - have never heard of Mirandola referred to as a core "traditionalist" writer - Guenon, Schuon, Evola, Burkhardt and others - but not Mirandola. From a nothing read I can see a similarity in their attempt to legitimize these modalities of thought but I read that his ideas were influential in renaissance humanism which guenon appears to be highly critical of... ?
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic you know not everyone you ever run into will like you.
midnightmagic: Yes, I know.
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 he's the original neoplatonician "ezoterist" or however you call this silly sort of romanticism that passes for "traditionalism" in postmodernism.
mircea_popescu: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: 153000+
mircea_popescu: evola, recently mentioned here, very much in the same vein
ascii_field went once on an evola kick
mircea_popescu: he's certainly above the usual productions of his peninsula.
ascii_field: but it hardly gets deader than the thing that made him
ascii_field: there is none of it to be had now.
ag3nt_zer0: mircea_popescu: but you would consider evola "silly romanticism?
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 quite. you wouldn't ?
ag3nt_zer0: no i guess not
mircea_popescu: i suppose the problem here is that to the children of today the women are grandmothers, but to they that rolled them on all their sides in the hay they'll stay about 20.
mircea_popescu: in which line, i was recently shocked to realise my mother's retiring. when i met the woman she was young!
deedbot-: accepted: 1
deedbot-: accepted: 1
mircea_popescu: this entire construction is pretty fuckin spiffy if i do so myself.
mircea_popescu looks around rather pleased
williamdunne: Our robot slaves treat us well
funkenstein_: speaking of the vein of paranoia mentioned by midnightmagic, I would love some help to evaluate this comment: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1105109.msg11765764#msg11765764
assbot: Coin-Vote testers wanted ... ( http://bit.ly/1f27C13 )
ascii_field: ^ translation: 'we wanna get rich off our crackpot altcoin plz'
ascii_field: ('cryptovote' is a vastly overworked and tiresome subject in maths academia, for 20+yrs now)
williamdunne: Pro democracy anarchist? Wut.
mircea_popescu: is this some sort of ploy to drum up interest for tardstalk forum ?
funkenstein_: lol, sorry.. guy kinda scared with his "you are dumber than DPR"
ag3nt_zer0: mircea_popescu: but just becasue I do not consider it silly romanticism does not mean I could not be convinced if one were inclined to point out any inconsistencies in their thought... which is why I ask in this room... I suppose that if there were people able to help me peel back the layers a bit further, or demonstrate to me my own silly romantic tendencies that lead me to think most of this thought is "true", they migh
ag3nt_zer0: again, I understand not having the time or patience as well...
mircea_popescu: !gettrust ag3nt_zer0
assbot: Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user ag3nt_zer0: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 2 via 2 connections. |http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/trust/?from=mircea_popescu&to=ag3nt_zer0 | http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/user/ag3nt_zer0/
mircea_popescu: why would it matter to me what you could or couldn't be ?
ag3nt_zer0: it doesn't have to... it was out of respect that I asked
mircea_popescu: not the point, tho. the point is, you're approaching it backwards.
ascii_field: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/attachments/20150701/pss_2f32fc9570f505a65c46b118c415cae70d57d757.png << in other news, one can infer that bitcoin permanently sits down on ~300 byte per block ingested
mircea_popescu: padding!
ascii_field: indices
ascii_field: ought to move to a cached disk turd
ascii_field: then we're left with the 30MB footprint of the bugger itself + mempools
ascii_field: (+ said cache)
ascii_field: incidentally, blkxxxx oughta be an mmap
ascii_field: because we no longer are encumbered with winblowz
ag3nt_zer0: mircea_popescu: might you offer a suggestion as to how to approach it in a more forward manner?
ascii_field: and, for anyone who has not yet read the article: precisely same footprint ~whether blocks are eaten one by one, or bitcoind merely started with the results thereof~
mircea_popescu: alright. be specific, ask specific questions, construct syllogisms so that you can work tnd and the rest of the devices thought rests on...
mircea_popescu: ascii_field padding!
mircea_popescu: the unverified suspicion is that this exists as overflow protection.
ascii_field: well we already knew that headers are stored forever in ram
ascii_field: but this accounts for what, 81 bt ?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42150 @ 0.00051733 = 21.8055 BTC [+]
ag3nt_zer0: mircea_popescu: thanks. what's tnd?
mircea_popescu: tertium non datur.
mircea_popescu: along with reductio ad absurdum and friends, the infrastructure of all thought.
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
ag3nt_zer0: appreciate it
jurov: vagina non olet
ascii_field mentally blows dust off his unwritten magnum opus re: ternary computing, 'tertium datur'
mircea_popescu: vagina olet, pecunia non clam interfecisset.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field mere moving the gulp posts. "septimum non datur" or w/e
mircea_popescu: the point is that unbounded lists are impermissible.
ascii_field: tell it to hilbert & co
mircea_popescu: (they're not impermissible in nature - merely in thinking. you gotta know what you're talking about)
mircea_popescu: otherwise, feel free to tell your compiler something like "so this program i wanna work on, right ? it has like a number of functions in it and stuff like that"
ascii_field: it remains possible to deal with infinities of certain kinds whilst knowing what one is talking about
mircea_popescu: i suppose this passes for "higher level language" in some circles.
ascii_field: it is called 'human compiler'
mircea_popescu: and it does what you mean!
mircea_popescu: or else... it's mean!
ascii_field: sorta like mold in bathtub does 'what you mean'
ascii_field: yes, you kinda put it there
ascii_field: but go and try signing your name with it
mircea_popescu: dude im sitting here cackling at my stupid latin wordplay wtf is wrong with me
assbot: Logged on 27-06-2015 21:50:42; jurov: https://lurkmore.to/Lingua_latina_non_penis_canina lmao
mircea_popescu: anyway. vagina smells and money never hurt clams.
mircea_popescu: cuz money IS clams
mircea_popescu: and so are vaginas
danielpbarron: !v assbot:danielpbarron.rate.jwzguy.1:f446dc815dbbca084f820ec4495027452f793977737fde722e5409c9a99631e8
assbot: Successfully added a rating of 1 for jwzguy with note: met at porcfest
williamdunne: Not all vaginas smell, so at least there's that
mircea_popescu: yeah they do.
danielpbarron: noses smell; vaginas stink
williamdunne: Not all vaginas stink
mircea_popescu: that's for sure
williamdunne: Ok, well there's the confusion. By smell I thought you meant carries an odour
mircea_popescu: that's what i meant.
williamdunne: Oh, well I'll have to disagree. More often than not, at least with my (limited) experience they smell no different to the rest of whomever it belongs to
williamdunne: Well, at least initially
mircea_popescu: it's a wonder then that dogs don't stick the truffle straight into the girl's elbow.
mircea_popescu: see ag3nt_zer0 ? syllogism!
williamdunne: I'll give you that one, then again they have a slight advantage over myself when it comes to detection of it
ag3nt_zer0: yes, fucking brilliant!
williamdunne: b-a really helps with my vocabulary
mircea_popescu: you didn't know it was called a truffle ?
williamdunne: No, syllogism
williamdunne: And a perfect example was provided with it
assbot: [MPEX] [S.QNTR] 46850 @ 0.0003432 = 16.0789 BTC [+]
mats: that was unexpected
deedbot-: accepted: 1
assbot: Qntra (S.QNTR) June 2015 Statement | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ktvibw )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16800 @ 0.00051278 = 8.6147 BTC [-]
lobbes: lol, qntra rabbit ain't giving in to federal pressure: http://qntra.net/qntra.jpg
williamdunne: Is there some back story to the Qntra rabbit?
danielpbarron: just like qntra, the rabbit is now a part of cazalla
cazalla: williamdunne, not really, if the rabbit mascot was still alive i'd have named him dixie
mircea_popescu: terrorabbit
cazalla: perhaps i'm still at that juvenile stage in my life where if someone tells me i can't have something (flag in this instance) i want it all the more
mircea_popescu: they need to confront their impotence
mircea_popescu: they need to confront it insistently and constantly.
cazalla: lol i put it up no less than 5 minutes ago BingoBoingo
BingoBoingo: Ah, dammit
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 152000 @ 0.00050558 = 76.8482 BTC [-] {3}
pete_dushenski: cazalla: just noticed a typo there ... "cybercrimial" instead of "cybercriminal" in the opening sentence. fix plox :)
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: ^
cazalla: pete_dushenski, fixed (i do read em before publishing but it's early :P )
pete_dushenski: cazalla: lol cheers mate
pete_dushenski: o hey liking the new bunny header
pete_dushenski: that's some handy dandy photoshwappin'
cazalla: pete_dushenski, gimp and trademarks are not verbs dude http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressmaterials/pdfs/photoshop_guidelines_pr.pdf "For example: "The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software." not . . . "The image was photoshopped."
pete_dushenski: eh fuck that. i make my own words.
danielpbarron gimped a confed flag into his twitter pic
pete_dushenski checks dpb twitter
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: achtung, panzers!
ascii_field: ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu, et al:
ascii_field: 'Here is a 'blkcut' utility. Cuts or counts.'
mircea_popescu: made your own dulap have you
ascii_field: schlllp.
mircea_popescu: cazalla you knbow why they're pushing that right ?
pete_dushenski: danielpbarron: re: https://twitter.com/danielpbarron/status/614855224864448513 << is this the same rassah from the ol' 'mycelium knows how to make rng for their entropy dongle now but won't because it's hard and other reasons' ?
ascii_field: exercise for reader:
ascii_field: make it hash'em
ascii_field: instead of dumping
shinohai: So this is a separate utility?
ascii_field: 1pager
shinohai: ^____________^
assbot: Proof That Mycelium Knows How To Make A Better RNG For Its Entropy Dongle. And Isn’t. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1GOHQEr )
ascii_field: nothing earth-shaking here
ascii_field: but afaik there was no simple, fast cutter
cazalla: mircea_popescu, i can't imagine why tbh, the word is as synonymous to search as is google
ascii_field: so here's one
shinohai: I hate webchat, my shell got klined
ascii_field: at any rate, you can call sha256sum on the resulting dir tree
ascii_field: and get hashes
ascii_field: mircea_popescu ^
mod6: ascii_field: re: blkcut, neat!
ascii_field: or anybody who gives a fuc
mircea_popescu: cazalla if it's ruled a genericized term they lose the trademark.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 40658 @ 0.00049896 = 20.2867 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: hence "The image was enhanced using A®d®o®be® P®ho®tos®hop®"
mircea_popescu: they'd put a ® in the ® if somehow it were feasible.
cazalla: ah so really nothing more than token measure by legal derpartment to ensure they maintain the trademark?
danielpbarron: pete_dushenski, it's the same rassah that's in the WoT, so... probably the same guy?
danielpbarron: reminds me i should give him a +1 or something
mircea_popescu: more like pissing in the wind
danielpbarron: he was one of the less annoying people I met last week
pete_dushenski: !gettrust rassah
assbot: Trust relationship from user pete_dushenski to user rassah: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 2 connections. |http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/trust/?from=pete_dushenski&to=rassah | http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/user/rassah/
mircea_popescu: it doesn't matter what they say, if people use it as a generic term that's that.
ascii_field: so, it is now possible to sync directly from a sliced-up blkxxxxx dir
ascii_field: and theoretically end up with SAME blkxxxxx dir that you ate
ascii_field: e.g., mircea_popescu's 'as it happened' bins
ascii_field: (if he decides to post'em)
mircea_popescu: http://qntra.net/2015/07/europol-eurojust-take-down-cybercriminal-group/ << i don't get it, is this the same zeus that's been around for 10+ years ?
assbot: Europol & Eurojust Take Down Cybercriminal Group | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/1GOIguc )
mircea_popescu: ascii_field kinda too lazy to figure out how you start a torrent, and how the fuck am i going to serve 50gb dishes to the public ?
ascii_field: the point, if anyone doesn't get it, is to hunt for nondeterminism ~anywhere~ in bitcoin
ascii_field: where it oughtn't to be
shinohai: You need a blockchain torrent?
danielpbarron: > While I was away from the computer when Rassah finally stopped derping about "escrowless" escrow and his 1,000 BTC Prius and got down to business, here's what transpired when he did. << lol I got to see that thing in person and hear the "story" behind it
ascii_field: yeah it'd have to be a torrent
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron yeah, guy's been around forever, i recall his story about selling out at the top cca $13
danielpbarron: basically was "at least I didn't lose the 1k in mt gox"
shinohai: making torrents is easy. Huge file, but doable
danielpbarron: there's a t-shirt: "Mt. Gox went bankrupt and all I got was this lousy Prius."
ascii_field: could also slice'em up with blkcut and serve as http!
ascii_field: whoever wants, can download with script as he needs them
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: same zues, yes.
shinohai: how small can u make the files with blkcut ascii_field
shinohai: and do i have to reassemble ?
ascii_field: shinohai: eat one is entirely the size of the respective block
ascii_field: however large it was
ascii_field: this is elementary
trinque: it's really called europol and eurojust?
mircea_popescu: lol ok, good that they caught that zeus villain then
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: at one point observed that 9 out of 10 malware samples i got to reverse were zeus variants
mircea_popescu: euros have the most idiotic name shcemes.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 78644 @ 0.00051322 = 40.3617 BTC [+] {2}
trinque: grexit!
trinque: fucking moronic political neologisms
ascii_field: incidentally the src of zeus was leaked long ago
ascii_field: hence the variants
trinque: at least our turd politicians aren't even clever enough to make those
ascii_field: nothing earth-shaking, just a complete trojan system for idiots
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: hades is in chains.
pete_dushenski: ascii_field: that's... a lot.
danielpbarron: !v assbot:danielpbarron.rate.rassah.1:7d0963bfd9127d46031ea0f8bac168d9f8bb3a63d299918d83ce747fb96eb2f7
assbot: Successfully added a rating of 1 for rassah with note: met at porcfest
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 21:31:35; shinohai: and do i have to reassemble ?
ascii_field: that's sorta the whole point
ascii_field: load, feed into your eater
ascii_field: at the end of the day, your ~/.bitcoin and other fella's should be identical.
ascii_field: (save for debug.log)
ascii_field: the only reason to do this, other than pgp-hardened out of band syncs, is to make your bitcoind walk the same logic path as other fella's
ascii_field: (or your own from past)
ascii_field: to test.
ascii_field washes chopping block, picks up gavin feathers
pete_dushenski: lol time to make a headdress, chief.
ascii_field: when i've the whole set!
pete_dushenski: to be donned at the annual ceremony where we'll burn more of mp's woodchips,
mircea_popescu: stick shavings.
pete_dushenski: stick shavings then.
danielpbarron: the link to the file on my site is missing the 'h' from 'http' but i'm not sure i want to know what happens to my connection if that's corrected :/
pete_dushenski: and chant the cultiest chant there ever was while nubile princesses dance around our circle
mircea_popescu: lol then i guess i leave it ?
mircea_popescu: nothing'll happen, you're hosting a text file.
mircea_popescu: problems mostly occur to idiots with a ton of js wrapped in who knows what
trinque: another .de
ascii_field: apple corp.
trinque: and I think he was already in the list with another key
trinque: several!
trinque: cool
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 67857 @ 0.00049872 = 33.8416 BTC [-] {3}
ascii_field: 'xkeyscore' manual set, apparently
ascii_field: ~650MB !
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 68700 @ 0.00051695 = 35.5145 BTC [+] {3}
mircea_popescu: does this qualify as valuable secret in your grille ?
ascii_field: so far dying of boredom
ascii_field: wake me up when the real nsa leaks
ascii_field: the one with hot chix
mircea_popescu: you gotta jiggle her g spot for leaks.
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: '(TS//SI//NF) BLARNEY Team assists S2C52 analysts in implementing Xkeyscore fingerprints that yield access to U.N. Secretary General talking points prior to meeting with POTUS.'
ascii_field: pathetic.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1183764 << when do we get to hear from the saudi pr0n commission?
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 21:54:56; scoopbot_revived: UK Gambling Commission Strongarms Some Bitcoin Based Gambling Websites http://qntra.net/2015/07/uk-gambling-commission-strongarms-some-bitcoin-based-gambling-websites/
pete_dushenski: cazalla: 'believed to have acquiesced' based on what ? and 'shut down' link is swapped with its archive
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36250 @ 0.00049456 = 17.9278 BTC [-] {3}
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: 194000+
cazalla: pete_dushenski, fixed and added source
pete_dushenski: aha nice.
pete_dushenski: kakobrekla: did you ever receive a notification from the uk gambling commision ? or did they snub you like those chartmakerz
kakobrekla checks mail
kakobrekla: nothing here
pete_dushenski: snubbed again.
mats: if you've been meaning to get a pogo for a node, haven't for whatever reason, are L1/L2, ill send you some btc with honorable condition you purchase and set one up
pete_dushenski: bitbet and therealbitcoin : blocked out from the land or swarming, smarming idiocy, much to everyone's benefit, since forever
mats: append a btc addr in channel to my nick to redeem
pete_dushenski: mats: orly ?
mats: ya rly
pete_dushenski: what's 'some btc' ?
pete_dushenski: !up gares_
pete_dushenski: you can talk now, gares_
mats: 0.1
pete_dushenski: damn ! that's titty money !
mats: should cover cost of purchase and s&h
pete_dushenski: ...not quite.
pete_dushenski: but a nice incentive nonetheless
danielpbarron: mats, what can I do to make my currently running pogo useful to you?
mats: keep on doing whatever you're doing
shinohai: my original node is stable
mircea_popescu: i like mats' attitude.
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 06:10:14; mats: like its normal to run a half billion dollar net loss in a low margin low moat industry
mircea_popescu: !up ValentinJesse
mircea_popescu: but common sense won't apply because... they'll revolutionize!
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1182647 << i can see what you're saying, but im starting to suspect rolling release is the only way to do mmorpgs.
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 08:21:20; *: BingoBoingo hates both Github and "rolling release"
mircea_popescu: now, why adult software shouldn't be run on a kiddy paradigm is a different story
mircea_popescu: but for games it's great.
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1183595 <<< lucky man then.. my first still to this day is the worst (although might be on account it was my first and as such has become an acquired taste/smell, who knows)
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 20:14:14; williamdunne: Oh, well I'll have to disagree. More often than not, at least with my (limited) experience they smell no different to the rest of whomever it belongs to
jurov: ;;ticker
gribble: Bitfinex BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 258.46, Best ask: 258.54, Bid-ask spread: 0.08000, Last trade: 258.5, 24 hour volume: 22920.54081272, 24 hour low: 252.77, 24 hour high: 265.37, 24 hour vwap: None
williamdunne: cazalla: yeah, last night if you'd stuck it in my face with a blindfold on I wouldn't have been able to tell you I had a vagina before me
jurov: ^ thx bitstamp :D
mircea_popescu: babyface can't tell ?
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 10:31:57; cazalla: hmm, got a new warning http://i.imgur.com/66dgj00.png
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 12:07:42; asciilifeform: not sure what to blame other than ram fault (experiment was taking place on a portable with non-ecc ram)
mircea_popescu pictures alf car with pathe system.
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: It was immaculate
mircea_popescu: hopefully she doesn't conceive on you now.
williamdunne: That'd be pretty impressive, to be honest
assbot: TazeTSchnitzel (Andrea Faulds) · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1R5MVSO )
assbot: timeX.google.com provide non standard time · Issue #437 · systemd/systemd · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1R5MUyh )
mircea_popescu: "I don't think that CoreOS registering systemd.pool.ntp.org is the best move. as to me it sounds like @poettering simply doesn't want any end-users to view systemd as some sort of a product providing its own services and, (at least in the minds of some users), being assigned the responsibility for those services or start treating systemd as a separate product, instead of it being an integral part of the distribution
mircea_popescu: you're using."
mircea_popescu: "our goal all along was to avoid responsibility for all the stupid shit we're doing. there's not much fun in stealing if one doesn't steal the having been stolen from at the same time!"
trinque: this internet thing is a trip; cultures can go to complete shit faster than ever before
mircea_popescu: in fairness systemd was born sort-of like reddit was born : collecting all the scum frothing at the periphery of a culture.
trinque: yeah, bunch of outcasts finally having their day
trinque: heh it occurs to me that the USA is sort of that
mircea_popescu: started off as the exact inverse of that.
trinque: yeah, the better folks taking their fun elsewhere
trinque: but not recently
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 14:40:44; jurov: such "multimedia" stuff is better to publish on blog
shinohai: 37 GB bootstrap.dat xD
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform note how smoothly the man switched from "we've always said bitcoin has to have larger blocks" to "we;ve always said bitcoin is using up too much electricity" in midsentence!
mircea_popescu: i wish fighting the commies ever were as much fun as fighting these congenital retards is.
jurov: do you plan to kep it compatible with phoundation bootstrap.dat?
jurov: *keep
shinohai: i dunno, i just made one from 0.5.3 for the hell of it
jurov: did you compare it with their one?
mircea_popescu: shinohai what's in it ?
mircea_popescu: jurov you know i don't think i ever played uo...
jurov: if not compatible, i'd suggest to xz-compress it (xz is easily appendable, i have tried it in practice)
mircea_popescu: does that make me a bad rpg person ?
jurov: heh i did neither. only wanted to
shinohai: I always just cat the blkxxxx.dat's > bootstrap.dat
jurov: when later i got my hands on perma connection, UO's star faded or whatever
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1183832 << pretty basic. figured - ~somebody~ has to do that chore
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 22:55:38; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-July/000107.html << this is lovely shit.
asciilifeform: but now other folks are invited to repeat the experiment
asciilifeform: next one (after i finish my broadcast..) will involve igprof per-function (yes) snapshots / block
mircea_popescu: cool beans/
asciilifeform: the 30M baseline is jaw-dropping imho
asciilifeform: i mean, wtf
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1183841 << eh, the 'too many joules' crowd has been going for ~2y+ now
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 23:01:44; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform note how smoothly the man switched from "we've always said bitcoin has to have larger blocks" to "we;ve always said bitcoin is using up too much electricity" in midsentence!
asciilifeform: just on the envirowhiner-left side
asciilifeform: (somehow al gore's jet is not counted as waste of joules, no)
asciilifeform: student exercise: calculate joules/sec of herr gore's jet, and translate into gigahash
mircea_popescu: "1. be as bland as possible ; 2. find an insecure fuckwit to leech off ; 3. get lucky"
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 23:03:08; jurov: do you plan to kep it compatible with phoundation bootstrap.dat?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: bah, ya cynic.
jurov: they say it's just <4-byte pchMessageStart><32-bit length><CBlock, serialized in network wire format>
asciilifeform: same as blkxxxx then ?
asciilifeform: if cuts, then same format !
pete_dushenski: lol well, with two articles published today, ima sign off for the eve. a river cruise and fireworks await. cheers !
mircea_popescu: whereas i am going to go play my game
mircea_popescu: except i mean that literally.
asciilifeform off to eat caek
trinque: http://www.ft.com/fastft/353721/worker-killed-volkswagen-robot-accident << "VW said the robot had not suffered a technical defect." << LOL!
assbot: Worker killed in Volkswagen robot accident - fastFT: Market-moving news and views, 24 hours a day - FT.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1LVLaRo )
trinque: gonna need security cam footage of this
williamdunne: trinque: The guy walked into the security enclosure while the machine was operating
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1183815 << mno. that thing has an almost-new 1tb 'samsung' ssd, half-full
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 22:49:39; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1182720 << disk prolly skipped.
trinque: williamdunne: yeah, I'm just amused as shit at the thought of some german guy shouting "EVERYSING IS VURKING ACCORDINK TO SPECIFICATION!"
trinque: ZEE NORDIK SYSTEM IS VURKINK!
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1183884 << how many fall into woodchipper every day of the week
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 23:46:56; williamdunne: trinque: The guy walked into the security enclosure while the machine was operating
asciilifeform: but when 'robot!111!!!1!11' suddenly - news.
williamdunne: Exactly
williamdunne: trinque: Das ist gut, ya?
asciilifeform fwiw, when worked with robot, had all the 'safety' interlocks disabled. they make it damn-near impossible to get real work done
asciilifeform: (it was a stationary laboratory robot, ~2x1x1 metres. so all that was at stake was an odd hand or two)
williamdunne: I could put up with losing my legs, but I would be fucked if I lost my hands
asciilifeform: so don't lose'em
asciilifeform: at any rate, more folks lose hands from ordinary qwerty than from any robot
asciilifeform: pc keyboard, esp. the piece of shit most folks use, is a veritable 'dulap' for hands, yes
mats: type with your feet!
asciilifeform: with cock if you like
asciilifeform: (or physicist s. hawking's rumoured arse joystick!)
mats: how would that work? morse code?
williamdunne: I think its up-down
williamdunne: So top half of alphabet
williamdunne: Bottom half
williamdunne: And keeps refining
williamdunne: But could be wrong
asciilifeform: or plain old morse
asciilifeform: lesson: design your arsestick ~before~ you need it!
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 241450 @ 0.00048227 = 116.4441 BTC [-] {5}
williamdunne: Oh, its actually more simplistic than that
assbot: The Computer - Stephen Hawking ... ( http://bit.ly/1LVNzeX )
asciilifeform: l0l, 'eudora' still exists!?
asciilifeform remembers it from his first commercial isp account
asciilifeform: win 3.1
phf: asciilifeform: i did blockdump on 0..217336 and all the checksums come out to what's in sums.txt.gz. i'm going to eatblock them with a fresh datadir
asciilifeform: phf: what kind of node was it ?
asciilifeform: and when/where synced
phf: all patches except reward overflow, cuminer snip and igprof, up to eatblock. mac os 10.8, built dynamically with llvm's c and cmake. synced about 5 days ago
asciilifeform: bonus points for testing on heathen compilers
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 11 @ 0.15160515 = 1.6677 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: Twitter employs only 49 African Americans despite diversity pledges | Technology | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1KtMXQB )
williamdunne: Why on earth anyone thinks hiring people for the sake of diversity is a good idea, I will never know
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 77775 @ 0.00049062 = 38.158 BTC [+] {2}
funkenstein_: williamdunne, how do you pick girlfriends then?
williamdunne: I haven't had many, so I can't give a good answer.
williamdunne: But I don't have a quota of minorities to fill
funkenstein_: not defending twitter mind you, your point still stands
punkman: does funkenstein_'s sex life have diversity quotas?
funkenstein_: variety is the spice of life
punkman: you ever try slodging?
williamdunne: ;;ud slodging
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=slodging | Slodging. Lodging yourself between inanimate objects and waiting for others to dislodge you. Usually done for sexual pleasure. "Wow, Slodging ourselves into ...
williamdunne: What the fuck
assbot: Slodging ... ( http://bit.ly/1H1pDpj )
punkman: (has next page)
funkenstein_: like that 127 hours guy?
williamdunne: Yeah, but you get to fuck the rock
funkenstein_: i'm just going to pretend it's supersymmetric lodging and move on
williamdunne: Yesterday was the most entertaining time I've had in a while
williamdunne: Had a couple of boxing matches
punkman: did ya kick anyone's ass?
williamdunne: Yeah, two peoples
williamdunne: They forfeited
williamdunne: One split their nose, the other got a nosebleed and a semi-bad black eye
assbot: 18 Years Later, Why Are People Still Playing Ultima Online? | Rock, Paper, Shotgun ... ( http://bit.ly/1C0jLNS )
punkman: "Netflix, Spotify and other streaming services just got more expensive in Chicago as an update to the city’s amusement tax went into effect Wednesday. The change adds a 9 percent tax to Chicago residents’ subscriptions."
williamdunne: "Amusement Tax", mmmmK
punkman: it does amuse
williamdunne: I'm quite curious about how on earth that works as far as jurisdiction goes
williamdunne: How can Chicago enforce a tax law on a company not based in Chicago?
punkman: or EU wanting non-EU companies paying VAT
williamdunne: That one too
williamdunne: Or the more recent ruling on EU VAT where its billed at the customer country
williamdunne: Rather than the operator
williamdunne: So you've got to pay VAT to 20+ agencies IIRC
punkman: nah supposedly you'll be paying at one and they'll split it up
williamdunne: Oh, thats a little better but still retarded
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 211814+
asciilifeform: punkman: considerably more interesting, imho, from same site: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/26/the-flare-path-computer-ambush
assbot: The Flare Path: Is Computer Ambushed | Rock, Paper, Shotgun ... ( http://bit.ly/1HyoOru )
asciilifeform: reminds me of an only slightly later-in-the-'80s game i enjoyed as a boy on ru pc xt clone - 'ranger'
asciilifeform: i bet mircea_popescu played 'ranger'.
assbot: Full text of "Apple Manual: computer ambush" ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ny6IUW )
assbot: Apple Manual: computer ambush ... ( http://bit.ly/1HypSvo )
punkman: never played that one, but kinda reminds me of Cannon Fodder
assbot: How World War III became possible: A nuclear conflict with Russia is likelier than you think - Vox ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ny7xNo )
mats: passably decent analysis overall, although the journalist is quite wrong about ru military inferiority and nato military superiority
asciilifeform: mats: as nato reich continues its path down the drainpipe to join the earlier reichs, various folks' temptation to find out 'if the nukes still work
asciilifeform: will only increase
mats: i think its inevitable for tactical nukes to be fielded
funkenstein_: some light reading for you mats: http://www.codshit.com/bali.htm
decimation: asciilifeform: I used "pegasus mail" client
decimation: was vastly superior to eudora & alternatives
ben_vulpes: madison dillon needs some practice
mats: i dunno how to do the calculations for homemade explosive like that
mats: but that is of dubious authenticity
mats: and you'd not be able to hide rad signatures from anybody bothering to look, i would think
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-06-2015#1181766 << not worth a thousand words eh ? << only maybe if well curated, but that breaks the whole algorithmic share allocation routine
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 15:45:52; assbot: Logged on 28-06-2015 07:53:07; cazalla: ben_vulpes, ay yo charts don't be earning no s.qntr shares CC: pete_dushenski
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1182919 << why? and how can i possibly evaluate any advice in this context?
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 16:46:00; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-06-2015#1181835 << that's really not the best idea. make it a hammoc, something.
ben_vulpes: people raise such idiots
assbot: New Page 1 ... ( http://bit.ly/1ekNzKi )
funkenstein_: it's all public, old, and fiction. great writer though.
mats: i miss blowing things up
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 80000 @ 0.00050398 = 40.3184 BTC [+]
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> who wants to run an editor that can open the net ? << why wouldn't your editor connect to the net at your command?
assbot: MICRO NUKES IN LONDON ... ( http://bit.ly/1f3umOp )
asciilifeform: 'The April 1993 bomb was supposedly detonated in a parked garbage truck, but managed to create a huge crater in the road that was subsequently filmed by the media: another crucial error confirmed by independent explosives experts in Australia. The blast from most bombs takes the easiest path, in this case outwards then upwards to atmosphere. The crater could only have appeared if the bomb was dropped from an aircraft, or was b
asciilifeform: uried in advance. Forget the "garbage truck", which was merely a decoy device. The crater is very impressive, measuring roughly forty feet deep by sixty feet in diameter.'
asciilifeform: '... On the available evidence it seems the aspirations of a small arrogant bunch of men who decided to impose a "New World Order'" on a host of very unwilling small sovereign nations, did not think the exercise through to its perhaps inevitable conclusion. Those same arrogant men have placed tens of millions of citizens at risk because of their own gross incompetence and thirst for absolute power. The "New World Order" now se
asciilifeform: ems set to face the unbridled wrath of large numbers of citizens for many years to come.'
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-07-2015#1183998 << author argues (in piece linked above) that the 'dirty bomb' meme was a fiction crafted as a pill against just this.
assbot: Logged on 02-07-2015 03:19:44; mats: and you'd not be able to hide rad signatures from anybody bothering to look, i would think
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