thestringpuller ponders if mircea_popescu is the real life Raymond Reddington
deedbot: vinimore voiced for 30 minutes.
vinimore: wait... how do I go to the chat again?
vinimore: it says I'm the only user hahaha
vinimore: 1Bt6S6aP5BH618ZFp2e1LZEmDZW53Ur4mS
vinimore: is there anything else I can do?
mircea_popescu: not right now ; i'm about to go to bed. but prolly tomorrow ; and besides there's other people who want to hire noobs, so ask in chan
shinohai: Our beloved fleanode has been cranky I see
mircea_popescu: hard to properly word a "company not around" clause is the problem. according to usg, ibm and cisco are both "still around".
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: in other news, check out the redundancy on that chick, three different block As.
covertress: thank you, mircea_popescu. as you can see, i'm having connectivity problems today with my hurricane-damaged isp.
shinohai: o/ mod6 the African build went fine btw
mod6: jurov: will there be a monthly Treasury report coming through for The Bitcoin Foundation?
mod6: yea, my offline build worked great too.
shinohai: Will try offline build today when I get a bit more organized
phf: (hmm, a111 lost that message during reconciliation, going to fix that issue..)
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-10: [05:24:47] <vinimore> going to bed too
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-10: [15:51:09] <asciilifeform> iirc he's one of the mr.mold-style americanized faux-anarchy fellas.
mircea_popescu: "i have my liberty and i dun need your dumb head to give me no rights" as far as ancient trilemisms go
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Error: "bc,stats" is not a valid command.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: I have 1 registered users with 0 registered hostmasks; 1 owner and 0 admins.
jhvh1: shinohai: Current Blocks: 429146 | Current Difficulty: 2.2075590833037228E11 | Next Difficulty At Block: 429407 | Next Difficulty In: 261 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 day, 18 hours, 54 minutes, and 14 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
shinohai: I didn't like the extra comma, twas removed
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: molyneux cribs from trilema with regards to the 'rights' fiction but then takes that perfectly reasoned (and seasoned) protein and tries to cook it... non-violently
pete_dushenski: ends up with usual probiotic vegan fare obv., because killing anything more than a carrot is mean mkay
shinohai: How dare you pete_dushenski, Apiaceae lives matter too.
pete_dushenski: shinohai: i guess there's always eating sterilised dirt
shinohai: What about all those poor microorganisms that would suffer and die in the dirt during the sterilization process?
mircea_popescu: they'll go to the great kitty litter in heaven ; which nobody ever changes.
pete_dushenski: better they die in the ovens than being slowly and painfully digested by stomach enzymes. sterilisation is the humane kill, like kosher neck slitting
pete_dushenski returns to see that kitty litter is fine but that he's waaay behind on trilema
a111: Logged on 2015-03-10 11:48 adlai: what really amazed/disappointed me was that NONE of the initial press coverage of 'soylent cream' mentioned 'soylent green'
mircea_popescu: coupla comments turn into 6k words in the blink of an eye.
mircea_popescu: this is not the worst though. there's some 5-6-700 comment articles from back in the romanian days.
shinohai needs a Romanian camwhore to help fast=track his language development.
BingoBoingo: Nah, James wanted to introduce him to spinach
mircea_popescu: btw, have you ever notice how many girls call spinach spinagge ?
pete_dushenski: in other alpha greens, i can totally get behind the definition of 'alpha male' that doesn't involve maintaining palaces full of harem girls. a deep sigh of relief was breathed across the land.
pete_dushenski: mostly because that many harem girls required a shedload of eunichs to keep a lid on things, which in turn require a whole castration and selection mechanism and doctors and nurses and orphanages and on and on and on
mircea_popescu highfives himself for the most contortedly elaborate constructed joke in human history.
pete_dushenski: i guess the white ones woulda been euwhiggas or something
shinohai: mircea_popescu you mean euniggs. <<< top kek
pete_dushenski: shinohai: speaking of keksicles, did you get a bash page up yet ?
pete_dushenski: i'd be happy to help moderate it, or even host it if need be
shinohai: Imma try and have it up by first of week, I got sidetracked with this trb makefile thing
shinohai: But yeah, appreciate the offer of help. I miss perusing the bash-ism and really want that feature back.
ben_vulpes: phf: that's my fault, uploaded a genesis.vpatch.sig
shinohai: It's the most effective tool of the Republic!
phf: asciilifeform: shitty url "parser" :> i've been meaning to replace it, but i'm working on something else right now
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Twas a headline with too much "Wat" not to round up xtend
mircea_popescu: Framedragger tried that elena thing ; lots of lols were had.
mircea_popescu: WE CAUTION WE HOLD TH BOMB, IF ONE TRIES TO (TREACHERY) WILL DIE AND SAIDTHAT YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO PlAY DIE WE NEED SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS WITH OUT THE PIECE WE SEE YOU WELL AND YOUR FAMILY ARE WAITING FOR YOU AGINE NO (TREACHERY). (NB) READ 4 MINUTES SENT THE HOSTAGE BOMB WE NEED THE $75,000.00
<< check this out, spammers got omega rage from being ignored by the rich people.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, this is what happens when you don't build an Atlantic wall to keep spammers from becoming immigrants
mircea_popescu: by this point, im persuaded a half hour caning session for any would be mugger would do a lot more agains the phenomenon than anything the "legal system" has to offer.
mircea_popescu: also, calling ringo a "bank robber" is a little off ; by this token you can call every retard who broke his own pipes a plumber.
mircea_popescu: they're just petty thieves with the wrong address, walked in the bank because to them it looks just like the 7/11
jurov: mod6 huh i forgot?
mircea_popescu: "I have never had a need to believe. Though this mental state of apostasy has saved me the anger that accompanies the disillusioned man in his 30s who finally discovers that some important pillar of his life was built upon a lie, it is no sign of superior intellect." << lafond in peak form.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-10 23:11 mircea_popescu: they're just petty thieves with the wrong address, walked in the bank because to them it looks just like the 7/11
mircea_popescu: who the fuck in his right mind wants to go talk to a teller.
mircea_popescu: the poor got their ebt or w/e it is ; fuse banks with restaurants, they can have a waiter to take your order and a bank teller. who the fuck heard of this, seated servant before me standing ?!
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: and eat bills as well these days
mircea_popescu: esp in the 80s, they had those ridiculous complicated paths cordoned off...
mircea_popescu: "nigga, i wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire, who the fuck do you imagine is going through artistic queue movements."
ben_vulpes:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-10#1538902 << you'll probably find this as useful as any other rodent carcass left on your pillow, but over the last 2 months i've racked my own metal, migrated out of virtualization to the new box, ported my blog to mp-wp, and stood the obvious tmsr services up on the new box (blog, paster, node). it doesn't look like much from the outside, but paying down debt of necessity
a111: Logged on 2016-09-10 02:04 asciilifeform: i like ben_vulpes but he has not been catching mice.
phf: also ben_vulpes was redoing his patches for technical reasons
phf: asciilifeform: well, if you look at the seals folder you'll noticed that your sigs for the two patches are not there either, nor do i have them in my backup. since i remember meticulously going over mailing list and collecting vpatches and sigs, then correlating them to what mod6 had, then ... etc. etc. i suspect that there's some reason for why they are missing but i don't remember what it is. i suspect that it has something to do with regrinds t
phf: hat happened at some point?
mod6: phf: if you're talking about 'malleus_mikehearnificarum' and 'programmable-versionstring' then you'd be correct. they were reground, and never resigned by alf.
mod6: in fact, i think you said that you wouldn't sign them.
mod6: i dunno, it was back in the day.
mod6: im not gonna worry about it. i went through some pain to get them exactly reground correctly, you checked them (iirc) and said they were "correct." but that was pretty much the end of it.
mod6: i don't have time to dig it up. but.. i might be mis-remembering
BingoBoingo: I think I vaguely remember. Something, something, makework, may have been argument
mod6: anyway, please, check out the reground ones, make sure they look good, and if you feel good about 'em, send me a sig :]
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-11: [00:18:10] <asciilifeform> hm.
phf: asciilifeform: just wotpaste'em to channel
mircea_popescu: phf does a111 autoprocess patches from chan or do you just do by hand ?
phf: mircea_popescu: i just do it by hand
mircea_popescu: a very greedy patchatron might be a good idea eventually.
phf: true, but right now the number of patches is so low i go out of my way to grab anything i can find anyway
mod6: this is a good thing.
mod6: it takes time to read through these things and validate their correctness.
mircea_popescu: honestly, i think the people who abstract-and-code are idiots anyway. first, you do it by hand. then, you automate what you did. this way a) end up with something that actually works, and even without much design skill is well designed, by mother nature's help ; b) avoiud the trap of "i spent five engineer hours to save myself thirty three minutes of secretarial work over the course of ten years."
BingoBoingo: THe ability to do 30 continuous minutes of secretarial work ought to be up there with the ability to load a half ton of topsoil into a truck as a bare minimum requirement for employabilitit
mircea_popescu: and of course the "256 bytes that changed the world" thing referenced from one raddcliffe's "codesupository" blogspot blog is gone.
mircea_popescu: "It is important to note that it is possible that instead of finding the magic ID, you instead find a bunch of zero bytes. In my own copy of the blockchain I have encountered a case when parsing through a .dat file, where the header is missing. Instead there is a large block of zero bytes and then the blockchain picks up again later. I don't know why/how this occurs."
a111: Logged on 2016-09-11 00:40 phf: mircea_popescu: i just do it by hand
mircea_popescu: i vaguely recall this too, but maybe it was a temporary thing
a111: Logged on 2016-09-11 00:47 mircea_popescu: "It is important to note that it is possible that instead of finding the magic ID, you instead find a bunch of zero bytes. In my own copy of the blockchain I have encountered a case when parsing through a .dat file, where the header is missing. Instead there is a large block of zero bytes and then the blockchain picks up again later. I don't know why/how this occurs."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, the code he's using (bitcoin qt! dude's a total eth-dork) is really shitty.
mircea_popescu: "Another important note needs to be made here. The block-length is *not* equal to the amount of data in the block! Meaning, after you read the last entry in a block, that offset often can be, and will be, *less* than the total length of the block reported. Your parser must take this into account and seek the file pointer to wherever the next location in the file is indicated by the block length value." << another example
mircea_popescu: kinda why i'm reading through this spec ben_vulpes dug up.
mircea_popescu: anyway. all these variable length integers are a fucking eyesore.
mircea_popescu: make a pile of fixed output hashes, construct a variable length format to hold it all
mircea_popescu: and moreover, if you DO variable length, then do proper fucking variable length. everywhere.
mircea_popescu: because they were raised by a single woman married to a single man in a house with a single room, one chair and one teacup.
mircea_popescu: yes ; but the ones that didn't turn out functional didn't because of it ; the ones that did, they did in spite of it.
mircea_popescu: "plenty of smart people on ivy league campuses" "sure, and plenty of happy jews in auschwitz."
mircea_popescu: worst thing you can do for kids is make it easy for them
mircea_popescu: holy shit apparently this guy's cca 2014 windoze prb stores blockchain in 128mb files, 100+ of them by that point ?
mircea_popescu: iirc windows doesn't handle more than 64k files per directory ? neh ?
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 2*16 * 128 * 2*20 = 163840
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 2**16 * 128 * 2**20 = 8796093022208
mircea_popescu: "Binary-types is *not* helpful in reading files with variable bit-length code-words, such as most compressed file formats. It will basically only work with file-formats based on 8-bit bytes (octets). Also, at this time no floating-point types are supported out of the box. The ieee-floats library might be useful."
mircea_popescu: we were just wondering why, right ? well, here's a coincidental why : this way, it dun work natively with lisp
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ingress and egress, if you wish. though they refer to entrance and exit by willing agents under their own power.
pete_dushenski: shinohai, phf, ben_vulpes would one of you gents be do kind as to pass along a signed copy of the wp-mp pkg ?
pete_dushenski: "A U.S. government safety agency on Friday urged all consumers to stop using Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones, which are prone to catch fire, and top airlines globally banned their use during flights.
pete_dushenski: usg.aapl badly needs the negative press for its primary opponent as iphone 7 plus is set to launch with ~no useful upgrades other than double-lensed camera.
pete_dushenski: "Pence and his wife, Karen, reported adjusted gross income over the 10 years ranging from about $113,000 last year to over $187,000 in 2009, while the effective state and federal tax rate ranged from a low of just over 10 percent in 2013 to a high of 16.5 percent in 2014, the figures show." << in other news, this is not a bad tax rate for a us middle classman from indiana, really. vp pence is either a
pete_dushenski: for comparison, "Clinton's running mate, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, along with his wife, Anne Holton, released 10 years of tax returns at the same time in August. They paid a federal effective tax rate of 20.3 percent on income of about $313,000 in 2015."
pete_dushenski:
http://archive.is/J86hJ << speaking of problems chez one infinite loop drive, "Apple changed the focus of the project, shifting from an emphasis on designing and producing an automobile to building out the underlying technology for an autonomous vehicle."
pete_dushenski: if this isn't pure carcoin 2.0 except with "underlying autonomous technology" instead of altcoin 2.0 "underlying blockchain technology", i don't know what is. top kek.
pete_dushenski: "we realised that we have no business in bitcoin/auto industry so we've elected to take the easier road of pretending that our deep reserves of offshore cash can be used for anything other than mattress stuffing. if you don't mind, we're just going to plug our ears now LALALALALALA"
phf: there was some old obscure reason why we ditched openbsd. i think it was driver support on that backup gardget