mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-09#1749146 << here's something perhaps of interest re all that : loper-os beat btcbase for referrals for the first time in history (and harshly, 2:1 sorta thing) this month.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-09 22:55 asciilifeform: does it ? i dun recall last time e.g. trilema was '#1 on tardcombinator'
mircea_popescu: so we could say the ycombined parameciums are moving, knocking about the walls of the petri dish. nevertheless, they don't feel at liberty to derp in comments there like they do on your site -- notwithstanding the bar to comment on loper-os is actually too high what with the google captcha thing.
mircea_popescu: so you might actually be right, i'm scary (or at least, scary-er).
mircea_popescu: the ~other~ explanation, however, might well be that i don't write on topics about which they're trained to think they have an oppinion. it's easy to forget the parameciums are not actually people, and to imagine human process impels them ; this isn't however the case, they just go where they were trained to go and do what they were trained to do, no more.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> err << Tis airport handle made for device that can't be trusted with bouncer credential, nothing important may come out of there, merely fresh annecdotes from safari
mircea_popescu: and consequently one continuously runs the risk of having produced an inadvertent bike shed, because according to inscrutable alien logics the aliens will land and disrupt rock concerts but not country music concerts ; or vice-versa. cuz the aliens think they can rock or whatever.
BingoBoingo: <danielpbarron> even when i paid almost 100 USD to ship to that UK guy i still profited quite well for the effort << If you want to drop some off personally in montevideo, you will likely avoid customs charges.
mircea_popescu: "oh, are you writing about $item ? this is in my bayesian list, here's five things i selected from the database of things to be selected when this $item is mentioned! #metoo".
mircea_popescu: meanwhile for all values of $item not in empire_db... silence.
BingoBoingo: Customs when I arrived worked out as so: 1. See declarations paper work outside duty free shop exit in front of baggage claim 2. Fill out for for networking gear. 3. Wheel bags to customs gate around corner, holding paper in hand 4. Get waved through into Uruguay in name of speed
BingoBoingo: This process may not hold when tourism season ends
mircea_popescu: it'll hold, dude. i went illegalyl from mexico into guatemala for literal lack of anyone to give a shit.
BingoBoingo has also secured Spanish lessons beginning next week from cute Venezualan girl who teaches English for some school in the WTC
BingoBoingo: Naturally she will be coming to my oficina
BingoBoingo: And the Brazilians here for Expo Cannabis are still smoking hella weed
BingoBoingo kinda surprised danielpbarron isn't already here, prolly ought to save the date for next year's
BingoBoingo: The Brazilian manner of smoking Cannabis is to roll it into joins ~120-150 mm long and chain smoke them in the manner estadounidenses chainsmoke cigarettes
BingoBoingo: <phf> i think this is the happiest i've seen BingoBoingo ever << This would not be inaccurate
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-10#1749235 << nobody has solved the bootstrapping problem. every time you touch a system that's in any way attempts to not be a c-machine you run into that issue
a111: Logged on 2017-12-10 02:43 asciilifeform: the sad fact re gnat is that there is no known way to build a gnat without an existing (built) gnat.
deedbot: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2017/12/10/fui-al-cine/ << Bingo Blog - Fui al cine
BingoBoingo: Brb, outside time
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-10#1749249 << 0 paramecium dropping in the ffaseries comments thus far
a111: Logged on 2017-12-10 13:08 mircea_popescu: so we could say the ycombined parameciums are moving, knocking about the walls of the petri dish. nevertheless, they don't feel at liberty to derp in comments there like they do on your site -- notwithstanding the bar to comment on loper-os is actually too high what with the google captcha thing.
asciilifeform: they mostly stick to their own heathen-pits.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-10#1749251 << this is probably it.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-10 13:10 mircea_popescu: the ~other~ explanation, however, might well be that i don't write on topics about which they're trained to think they have an oppinion. it's easy to forget the parameciums are not actually people, and to imagine human process impels them ; this isn't however the case, they just go where they were trained to go and do what they were trained to do, no more.
asciilifeform: 'oh here's something that looks like a proggy. let's all stand next to it and opine.'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-10#1749266 << asciilifeform has been chewing on this conundrum for a while. the inevitable pill is a minimal ( see also e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-12#1736844 ) but reasonable microscopic interpreter ( likely schemelike ) in asm; and from it, to climb back up.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-10 14:56 phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-10#1749235 << nobody has solved the bootstrapping problem. every time you touch a system that's in any way attempts to not be a c-machine you run into that issue
a111: Logged on 2017-11-12 23:12 asciilifeform: i'm not fully convinced that a scripting lang ~needs~ a gc
mod6: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-08#1748564 << >> http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2017-December/000280.html
a111: Logged on 2017-12-08 02:18 mod6: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-07#1747850 << no prob! will have the 'Creating, Naming, and Submitting a Vpatch Guide' (http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-September/000168.html) updated by the end of the weekend.
asciilifeform: !!up fromloper
deedbot: fromloper voiced for 30 minutes.
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in other oddities, http://www.rdos.net/rdos
asciilifeform: in other oldies, elsewhere, in bloatology : https://archive.is/Yt92E << '20 years of NetBSD code bloat' . with chart.
asciilifeform: 'I have built a NetBSD release from trunk 1 January each year 2002–2016 ... I built i386 (which is the NetBSD name for x86, even though it does not support i386 CPUs any longer) and sun3. The reason I choose them is that they represent two extremes of architectures — sun3 is a hardware platform that was obsolete already in the mid-nineties, so software size "should not" increase for it unless new functionality is added, while the
asciilifeform: i386 hardware is still used, and it has got more features, bigger caches etc., during this time, which may increase code size.'
asciilifeform: !!up nocko
deedbot: nocko voiced for 30 minutes.
nocko: I was linked to FFA guide, started looking around and am now here. I cannot say that I yet have half an idea what's going on... but hello.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-18 22:22 ben_vulpes: republic really doesn't have repeatable steps for building a gentoo with gcc 4.9, does it
trinque: there will be a brief wallet outage while I swap a hard drive.
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/of-ducks-and-lameness/ << Trilema - Of ducks and lameness
trinque: looks like the migration went fine; wallet's back up.
mircea_popescu waves
trinque: evening!
a111: Logged on 2017-11-20 17:03 mircea_popescu: in other news, ended up in local church after walk this morning. had to leave once priest showed up and the womenz starting "singing" an hymn
mircea_popescu: catholics have female choirs, but much more musical than this.
mircea_popescu: weirdo neoprotestant garbage, "find teh jaysus within" and "participate" negrochurch nonsense.
mircea_popescu: sure. tho of interest to me is the cultural tradition. like skateboarding or w/e.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-10#1749293 << isn't it fucking interesting how these keep happenhing ?!
a111: Logged on 2017-12-10 22:35 trinque: there will be a brief wallet outage while I swap a hard drive.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron maybe they're sub-praying.
trinque: in this case it was a box going from an IDE platter to IDE to mSATA adapter + ssd.
mircea_popescu: ah