Forum logs for 29 May 2016
| BingoBoingo: | $up jsgrant | [00:28] |
| deedbot: | jsgrant voiced for 30 minutes. | [00:28] |
| jsgrant: | BingoBoingo: Ty. o/ | [00:29] |
| jsgrant: | Probably going to bed soon in the meantime anyways, but will lurk regardless. | [00:35] |
| mod6: | BingoBoingo: yw | [00:47] |
| shinohai: | ticker --market all | [08:31] |
| gribble: | Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 518.0, vol: 9104.44678633 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 513.8, vol: 13515.98761 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 526.48, vol: 61314.52630928 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 455.0, vol: 5.06387992 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 575.058909, vol: 96175.56950000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 520.003, vol: 4318.84428095 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 500.15277, vol: 119.36286986 | Volume-weighted last average: (1 more message) | [08:32] |
| shinohai: | more | [08:32] |
| gribble: | 550.278145383 | [08:32] |
| BingoBoingo: | This Split between Chinese exchanges and not Chinese is rather persistent. Far more than that $20 premium people bitched about for months. | [08:45] |
| shinohai: | ^ holy shit look at BTCC | [08:54] |
| BingoBoingo: | Other Chicom exchanges similar | [08:56] |
| * shinohai | almost wishes he had a @nigge.rs hostmask | [09:08] |
| mircea_popescu: | asciilifeform thinking about it, it occurs to me that locklin's maudlin piece about reals is exactly typical of him and his "i am not intelligent, nor creative, but here's a bunch of hood ornaments i stole from other people's cars so you may think me intelligent and creative if you've never seen a car before" stance. | [10:19] |
| mircea_popescu: | what an actually intelligent, creative person would have said would have been that the sad, sad excursion in reals on mid-early machines was an utter disaster, the scars of which we may only hope one day to outlive that the move away from that stupidity and to purely int machines and appliations is the heart of sensibility, | [10:20] |
| mircea_popescu: | and that finally there is absolutely no reason to implement arbitrary division in the machine, nor does such idiocy exist in nature that the correct machine representation of numbers is FRACTIONS not fucking "decimals", and that computers that natively support bignum up to the size of memory and execute gcd in hardware aren't either particularly hard to make nor their absence to date excusable. | [10:21] |
| mircea_popescu: | but pi is not motherfucking "3.141592...". pi is 355/113, or whatever the fuck polygon you decide to use. | [10:22] |
| mircea_popescu: | because that's what pi IS. you understand this, IS! IS! | [10:22] |
| mircea_popescu: | this shit fucking matters. | [10:22] |
| mircea_popescu: | http://trilema.com/forum-logs-for-28-may-2016#2099737 << as the dwarf aptly observed in baldur's gate, "DEATH COMES FOR YOU ALL!" | [10:33] |
| a111: | Logged on 2016-05-28 17:12 phf: pre-split btcbase log's purpose was analytical, where's now i spend my time on ux and ops issues. juxtaposition of kakobrekla doing low key malicious shit and asciilifeform trying to search cyrillic prompted that line | [10:33] |
| mircea_popescu: | http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-28#1473195 << oh i'm so fucking surprised.... you mean the nigger lied ? like... every nigger EVER ? hurr. | [10:34] |
| a111: | Logged on 2016-05-28 19:51 deedbot: [Qntra] Finnish Prime Minister Breaks Promise To Personally House Refugees - http://qntra.net/2016/05/finnish-prime-minister-breaks-promise-to-personally-house-refugees/ | [10:34] |
| mircea_popescu: | http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-28#1473193 << she looks remarkably fuckable to be that. you have any idea how few millenial females actually have a waistline irl ? | [10:38] |
| a111: | Logged on 2016-05-28 17:18 ben_vulpes: https://www.instagram.com/p/BF9VlB2oVeh/?taken-by=natgeo << millenials, we are very poor and work shitty jobs, but we don't care so long as we can hula hoop by a lake and smoke pot | [10:38] |
| mircea_popescu: | http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-28#1473188 <<< first discussed in this very forum!!1 | [10:40] |
| a111: | Logged on 2016-05-28 16:51 shinohai: http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/27/cuckold-your-husband-the-raw-marriage-deal-for-men/ | [10:40] |
| shinohai: | ikr :) | [10:41] |
| mircea_popescu: | gotta love the logic, "can't get dudes to marry, so the solution is to make the few that do even more burdened." isn't this exactly opposite oif the usual socialist "share everything into the ground" mantra ? | [10:41] |
| mircea_popescu: | how is this stance different from "the nazi military police can't find as many gypos as they used to, so therefore flaying alive of gypsies for fun should be regarded as aperfectly normal passtime, and in no sense wrong, even if it was rare before" | [10:42] |
| mircea_popescu: | sure dudes, whatever the machine gun says! | [10:42] |
| mircea_popescu: | hurr. | [10:42] |
| mircea_popescu: | how about being consistent and arguing for "remove laws from the books until the number of male prison inmates === the number of female prison inmates" and "if you can't get married, beg your girlfriends to join you! if one of you cooks, one washes, one sees after the kids and one learns to pole dance, 4 millenian shitheads may just about cover the traditional role of womanhood" | [10:43] |
| mircea_popescu: | http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-29#1473206 << heh, kill bitbet, get 25% price hike. | [10:47] |
| a111: | Logged on 2016-05-29 01:09 deedbot: [Qntra] US dollar Falls Against Bitcoin In Move By Chinese Trading - http://qntra.net/2016/05/us-dollar-falls-against-bitcoin-in-move-by-chinese-trading/ | [10:47] |
| mircea_popescu: | let this be a lesson to all kids watching at home : don't follow your fucking dreams. your dreams are shit. follow your principles. just as long as they're correct, you can't lose. | [10:47] |
| mircea_popescu: | dawg is bb on a roll or what. | [10:49] |
| mircea_popescu: | hey ben_vulpes can has links to home and to raw right under the wotpaste header ? like dpaste does it ? | [11:03] |
| danielpbarron: | calc -i*log(-1) | [11:35] |
| gribble: | 3.14159265359 | [11:35] |
| mircea_popescu: | heh. | [12:12] |
| asciilifeform: | http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-29#1473246 << from other end it makes sense though - the chix willing to even occasionally fuck the defective bloke are scarce resource and shared | [12:14] |
| a111: | Logged on 2016-05-29 14:42 mircea_popescu: how is this stance different from "the nazi military police can't find as many gypos as they used to, so therefore flaying alive of gypsies for fun should be regarded as aperfectly normal passtime, and in no sense wrong, even if it was rare before" | [12:14] |
| asciilifeform: | http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-29#1473249 << likewise here - 'one bloke learns to fix household appliances other - cunning linguist third - makes decent wage fourth - ???' share! | [12:15] |
| a111: | Logged on 2016-05-29 14:43 mircea_popescu: how about being consistent and arguing for "remove laws from the books until the number of male prison inmates === the number of female prison inmates" and "if you can't get married, beg your girlfriends to join you! if one of you cooks, one washes, one sees after the kids and one learns to pole dance, 4 millenian shitheads may just about cover the traditional role of womanhood" | [12:15] |
| asciilifeform: | http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-29#1473240 << whatcha smoking, every chick outside of BingoBoingo's kunstkammer has waistline | [12:16] |
| a111: | Logged on 2016-05-29 14:38 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-28#1473193 << she looks remarkably fuckable to be that. you have any idea how few millenial females actually have a waistline irl ? | [12:16] |
| asciilifeform: | http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-29#1473232 << lispm. | [12:17] |
| a111: | Logged on 2016-05-29 14:21 mircea_popescu: and that finally there is absolutely no reason to implement arbitrary division in the machine, nor does such idiocy exist in nature that the correct machine representation of numbers is FRACTIONS not fucking "decimals", and that computers that natively support bignum up to the size of memory and execute gcd in hardware aren't either particularly hard to make nor their absence to date excusable. | [12:17] |
| asciilifeform: | unfortunately this was not practical for 1950s hbomb model and hence we have floatingpoint crapola. | [12:18] |
| asciilifeform: | but yes, exposing native machine fixints to operator is lunacy. | [12:18] |
| asciilifeform: | their only purpose ought to have been setting address bus for mem access. | [12:18] |
| mircea_popescu: | asciilifeform orly ? do this experiment. "has wasitline" is defined as " waistline < (tits + hips) / 3". pick up a tape and measure! | [12:52] |
| mircea_popescu: | i suppose alternatively it could be "waistline in human females goes from 22 to 24 inches", if you want an absolute value. the problem is it'll admit all sorts of nags + most children. this is a debatable stance. | [12:53] |
| mircea_popescu: | o btw alf you ever saw http://trilema.com/2011/biroul/ ? | [13:02] |
| mircea_popescu: | BingoBoingo i can't quite make sense of that lafond piece. do you get what the man's trying to say ? | [13:08] |
| mircea_popescu: | anyway, "the legion estranger" would be pretty lulzy if only it were intentional. | [13:11] |
| shinohai: | Anyone with a twitter care to reach out to Victoria Van Eck for me? SHe still has me blocked lol. | [13:11] |
| * shinohai | wants to find out if she is still affiliated with ChangeTip | [13:11] |
| mircea_popescu: | (in the rest of the world, it's legion etrangere, because legion is feminine in french and because s tends to drop, it's a complicated dicussion.) | [13:11] |
| ben_vulpes: | mircea_popescu: yeah, haven't forgotten | [13:45] |
| mircea_popescu: | ah i said already ? i forgot lol | [13:45] |
| ben_vulpes: | http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-30#1459609 | [13:46] |
| a111: | Logged on 2016-04-30 01:55 ben_vulpes: i'll probably be even less communicative than i've been for the next month or two | [13:46] |
| ben_vulpes: | but yeah it's a trivial change i shoulda had it out | [13:47] |
| ben_vulpes: | unrelatedly https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/428 | [13:47] |
| mircea_popescu: | "Because I don't want to change how processes daemonize in general, just a few specific processes: tmux, screen, x2go was also mentioned." | [13:50] |
| mircea_popescu: | and we hit paydirt. who the fuck is keszybz and who is the irresponsible asshole that lied to him to the degree of making him think he has any business touching computers! | [13:51] |
| mircea_popescu: | go back to fucking third grade, dumbass. | [13:51] |
| ben_vulpes: | http://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcxa9qn9C81qew7pjo1_540.jpg | [14:56] |
| mircea_popescu: | whossat ? | [15:06] |
| deedbot: | [Trilema] The Disease - http://trilema.com/2016/the-disease/ | [15:13] |
| mircea_popescu: | $google halothane pig farms | [15:23] |
| deedbot: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malignant_hyperthermia << Malignant hyperthermia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22061008 << A comparison of halothane homozygous negative and positive ... | http://www.thepigsite.com/diseaseinfo/89/porcine-stress-syndrome-pss << Porcine Stress Syndrome (PSS) - The Pig Site | [15:23] |
| mircea_popescu: | it's ever fascinating what the internet knows or doesn't know. | [15:23] |
| asciilifeform: | 'Pig farmers use halothane cones in swine yards to expose piglets to halothane. Those that die were MH-susceptible, thus saving the farmer the expense of raising a pig whose meat he would not be able to market. This also reduced the use of breeding stock carrying the genes for PSS.' -- pediwikia | [15:30] |
| asciilifeform: | mircea_popescu: here you go ^^^ | [15:30] |
| mircea_popescu: | yeah. in the process doing what agriculture is all about - improvement by selection. | [15:30] |
| asciilifeform: | aha, big whoop | [15:30] |
| asciilifeform: | what is the surprise here ? | [15:31] |
| mircea_popescu: | anyway, it seemed to me the sort of obscure-but-very-interesting item that i've by now grown accustomed to the web NOT knowing. | [15:31] |
| asciilifeform: | academics beat the hyperthermia thing to death though | [15:31] |
| asciilifeform: | it is excruciatingly well documented | [15:31] |
| mircea_popescu: | i guess it is yeah. | [15:32] |
| asciilifeform: | hang out with moar ex-labmonkeyz | [15:32] |
| mircea_popescu: | anyway, i've yet to hear one of the "animal rights" derps mention it on its own power. | [15:32] |
| asciilifeform: | btw, pet asks first thing when i come back from chicago : 'didja see the stockyards!? where they use the squeal.' | [15:33] |
| mircea_popescu: | lol. | [15:33] |
| shinohai: | http://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/students-seeking-sugar-daddies-for-tuition-rent-1.2922096 <<< An American tale of whoring my way through Uni | [15:35] |
| jurov: | https://imgur.com/JqchodR #atruechurch | [15:36] |
| asciilifeform: | from same rag: http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/gunman-at-least-one-other-person-dead-in-houston-shooting-police-1.2922152 | [15:38] |
| mircea_popescu: | shinohai the only weird part being that they'd take a guy's money TO GIVE IT TO THE SCAM! | [15:40] |
| mircea_popescu: | fucking crazy. | [15:40] |
| mircea_popescu: | imagine, usg.mit actually has derpy 20something chicks so fucking insane, they run out to whore for it. FOR IT! | [15:41] |
| mircea_popescu: | (noteworthy that the schmucks have the audacity to "such sites" "a site" etc. fucking link, bitches.) | [15:42] |
| asciilifeform: | and here i thought the whole fucking point of the college to office butugychag pipeline was to avoid streetwalking | [15:42] |
| shinohai: | I couldn't agree more. What's a degree gonna get you? You'll be a straight-up prostitute anyway in a few years or less so go ahead and embrace it. | [15:43] |
| mircea_popescu: | check out all the cute black wagons teh police has now. i wonder if there's a minuature collection anywhere for kids to play with. | [15:43] |
| asciilifeform: | mircea_popescu: every, even the piss-poorest us police precinct has them | [15:43] |
| asciilifeform: | usg handed out for phree | [15:44] |
| mircea_popescu: | jurov lol that dude, "a house about to be launched" ? | [15:44] |
| asciilifeform: | $s police show | [15:44] |
| a111: | 15 results for "police show", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=police%20show | [15:44] |
| shinohai: | https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTIJK_mjHhPHzGg7xTcVBm9V_qO30rbHe9xJJROpijs2w9u57cg1Q | [15:44] |
| asciilifeform: | http://btcbase.org/log/2014-10-05#859183 <<<< | [15:44] |
| a111: | Logged on 2014-10-05 03:25 asciilifeform: http://imgur.com/R4EbgZN | [15:44] |
| asciilifeform: | 'swat' originally referred to 'special weapons' but is also a very pointed double entendre , 'swat, like fly' - which is all that the lone unorganized malcontent with pea shooter is. insect, effortlessly crushed by gestapo. | [15:53] |
| shinohai: | I remember having a chuckle this Halloween past, a few stores had child size swat outfits to dress kids in. | [15:55] |
| asciilifeform: | hitlerjugend. | [15:56] |
| asciilifeform: | on the other end of thing, police firing ranges now have child-shaped targets. someone found that most n00bs hesitate when shooting children and this obviously will not do! | [15:58] |
| mircea_popescu: | asciilifeform needs be reminded of http://trilema.com/2015/strategy-for-the-antisocial-struggle/ | [16:00] |
| asciilifeform: | aha. | [16:00] |
| asciilifeform: | swat was the usg answer to ^ | [16:00] |
| mircea_popescu: | well no, swat was mostly the source of bodyes for bags there. | [16:01] |
| mircea_popescu: | iirc it was 2/3 of the coupla dozen dead. | [16:01] |
| asciilifeform: | why would usg care how many bystanders are bagged? | [16:01] |
| mircea_popescu: | we're not discussing bystanders. | [16:01] |
| asciilifeform: | modern cops have proper armour. | [16:02] |
| mircea_popescu: | "proper armour" is like "battleworthy aircraft carrier". | [16:02] |
| asciilifeform: | mircea_popescu himself linked to perfectly usable coats hat stand up to 7.62 fmj. | [16:03] |
| mircea_popescu: | so you don't fire 7.62 fmj. you fire he/incendiary. | [16:03] |
| asciilifeform: | what to shoot them with? crew-served aa gun ? | [16:03] |
| mircea_popescu: | yes. | [16:03] |
| asciilifeform: | ahahahahaha sure. | [16:03] |
| mircea_popescu: | it omes in .5 caliber you know. | [16:04] |
| asciilifeform: | why not with hbomb while yer at it. | [16:04] |
| mircea_popescu: | there's a reason we like the de. get a decent tungsten/zirconium powder mix, glwa. | [16:05] |
| asciilifeform: | wake me up when mircea_popescu is airdropping these goodies to supply partizans in usa. | [16:06] |
| mircea_popescu: | will even fire out of a fucking m2 browning, possibly the world's most abundant machine gun. | [16:06] |
| mircea_popescu: | 5mn made or what | [16:07] |
| asciilifeform: | yeah but most left at vedun or near | [16:07] |
| asciilifeform: | verdun | [16:07] |
| asciilifeform: | and midway, etc | [16:07] |
| mircea_popescu: | right, you can have it lighter today. | [16:07] |
| asciilifeform: | not so many appeared even in vietnam | [16:07] |
| mircea_popescu: | iirc gd still makes them. | [16:08] |
| asciilifeform: | you can have, in principle, many things. | [16:08] |
| asciilifeform: | fact remains, usa malcontents are armed largely with 'trayvonators' and similar toys. | [16:09] |
| asciilifeform: | shit you wouldn't shoot a cow with. | [16:09] |
| mircea_popescu: | still, stuff like the raufoss mk211 is the exact pill for "oh, we're armored". orly ? well done, so the round won't blow clear through you! enjoy zirconium fire in your spleen! | [16:10] |
| mircea_popescu: | or more generally : there is no stable solution in war. | [16:10] |
| asciilifeform: | there is stable solution in pig-farmin' tho. | [16:12] |
| mircea_popescu: | not even. pretty much all "stable solution" talk reduces to george costanza's "do you realise toilet paper has never changed" talk. | [16:12] |
| mircea_popescu: | (notably, all civilised countries consider said he/incendiary round not suitable for anti-personnel applications. except the us, of course, here as everywhere else the epitome of the rogue state.) | [16:13] |
| asciilifeform: | so where is mr. postal supposed to get his he autokanone rounds ? | [16:13] |
| mircea_popescu: | same place he gets his super duper special grass pills or w/e ? | [16:14] |
| asciilifeform: | it isn't as if they are to be found even on dead cop | [16:14] |
| asciilifeform: | grass grows in his cellar | [16:14] |
| mircea_popescu: | isis have tons, taken in "battle" from cowardly us mercs. | [16:14] |
| mircea_popescu: | most of it available for sale. | [16:14] |
| asciilifeform: | mircea_popescu: it is not smuggled into north america at scale. | [16:15] |
| asciilifeform: | unlike dope. | [16:15] |
| mircea_popescu: | for lack of demand, only. opium, the other thing isis has tons of, is. | [16:15] |
| asciilifeform: | for lack of with what to pay. | [16:16] |
| asciilifeform: | recall thread? | [16:16] |
| mircea_popescu: | im sure they'd take bitcoin. | [16:16] |
| asciilifeform: | lolk. | [16:16] |
| asciilifeform: | wake me up. | [16:16] |
| asciilifeform: | when 'they' even exist! | [16:16] |
| asciilifeform: | that is, have pgp key. | [16:17] |
| asciilifeform: | until then, == idiot monkeys | [16:17] |
| mircea_popescu: | myeah. but in other lulz, anyone ever saw the RARDEN (ie, Royal Armament Research and Development blabla) ? | [16:17] |
| mircea_popescu: | these people came up with the brilliant idea of mounting an autocannon in lieu of a proper cannon on a tank chassis. which is dumb enough but... instead of a belt feed, they came with the even briliant-er idea of having it manually loaded, with 3 round clips. | [16:18] |
| mircea_popescu: | this is a tracked autocannon with a 6 round burst! | [16:18] |
| asciilifeform: | brrrp. | [16:18] |
| mircea_popescu: | now THAT = idiot monkeys. | [16:19] |
| mircea_popescu: | "all we really wanna do is bring matilda back hurr durr" | [16:19] |
| mircea_popescu: | (that thing always made me think of a briton's penis size, incidentally. just about right. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/IWM-KID-68-Matilda.jpg/300px-IWM-KID-68-Matilda.jpg ) | [16:20] |
| asciilifeform: | lol wtf is that | [16:21] |
| asciilifeform: | mortar ? | [16:22] |
| mircea_popescu: | the brit's idea of a tank. | [16:22] |
| mircea_popescu: | honestly, it looks more like a water hose. | [16:22] |
| asciilifeform: | ~why??~ | [16:22] |
| mircea_popescu: | because idiot monkeys. | [16:22] |
| asciilifeform: | iirc they had normal tankz | [16:22] |
| mircea_popescu: | nope never did. | [16:25] |
| mircea_popescu: | as late as 1944 anglos were not producing usable tanks. the us versions were midly miserable, the british versions were at best laughable. | [16:26] |
| asciilifeform: | 'crocodile' was interesting machine | [16:26] |
| mircea_popescu: | as crude as they were, the russian couple were much better | [16:26] |
| mircea_popescu: | even the kv | [16:26] |
| asciilifeform: | 'прощай кв братишка наш!' (tm) (r) | [16:27] |
| mircea_popescu: | actually history of british "engineering" of tanks in ww2 is good subject matter for its own chapter in "history of human idiocy". | [16:27] |
| * asciilifeform | sings... | [16:27] |
| mircea_popescu: | "they came up with the idea of having the access hatch block the gun turret!" | [16:27] |
| mircea_popescu: | asciilifeform ze germanz hated the russian tanks and despised the anglo tanks (sherman included). there IS a difference. | [16:28] |
| asciilifeform: | sure. | [16:29] |
| mircea_popescu: | (though honestly it - esp the m4 - looked to me more like a hastily copied t-34 than anything) | [16:30] |
| asciilifeform: | the real magic of 34 was in the ~production~ | [16:31] |
| mircea_popescu: | of m4 also. not to the degree. | [16:31] |
| asciilifeform: | which ~nobody had any chance of copying. | [16:31] |
| mircea_popescu: | asciilifeform btw, you ever read von mellenthin's study in russian soldierly psychology (and other things) ? | [16:43] |
| ben_vulpes: | https://prestonbyrne.com/2016/05/29/thedao-as-it-unfolds/ | [16:49] |
| mircea_popescu: | which one was this again ? | [16:50] |
| mircea_popescu: | oh oh, right, right, the vc wunderwaffen. | [16:51] |
| mircea_popescu: | gotta love this inept shit, "stupid idea is broken in many ways, most of them unfixable for good reasons - we'll consider here an irrelevant subset, that could be fixed." | [16:52] |
| mircea_popescu: | somehow the realisation that "proposing a subset could exist IS ALREADY PREDICATING you can fix things you can't actually fix, so you're begging the question something massive". | [16:53] |
| shinohai: | Polished turd is still a turd. | [17:02] |
| asciilifeform: | http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-29#1473407 << nope | [17:08] |
| a111: | Logged on 2016-05-29 20:43 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, you ever read von mellenthin's study in russian soldierly psychology (and other things) ? | [17:08] |
| BingoBoingo: | <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo i can't quite make sense of that lafond piece. do you get what the man's trying to say ? << Don't know that it somes to anything beyond him almost getting to somewhere | [17:17] |
| asciilifeform: | aaaaaaaah finally got rid of the last spinning rust thing | [17:25] |
| asciilifeform: | in my house. | [17:25] |
| ben_vulpes: | where's the noise coming from now? | [17:29] |
| asciilifeform: | fans | [17:29] |
| asciilifeform: | (yes, the magic cost-weight-in-plutinium kakobreklan fans) | [17:30] |
| asciilifeform: | *plutonium | [17:30] |
| asciilifeform: | and yes, them. moving air is audible. nyooz at 11. | [17:30] |
| asciilifeform: | $2.5k of less-noise-tronics and subjective result == 0. | [17:31] |
| asciilifeform: | i even put a kakobreklan fan in the giant ups. | [17:32] |
| asciilifeform: | (which has terrible acoustics and is answerable for perhaps half the noise in the room) | [17:32] |
| asciilifeform: | i dun think i will ever be rid of the eternal hiss. | [17:33] |
| shinohai: | White noise is useful for the masking of sensitive conversations! | [17:39] |
| jurov: | or masking of farts | [17:40] |
| shinohai: | ^ | [17:41] |
| mircea_popescu: | someone needs to take alf to heavy metal concerts back when he's 16 | [17:41] |
| mircea_popescu: | many problems in adult life come from bad childhood. | [17:41] |
| BingoBoingo: | <asciilifeform> so where is mr. postal supposed to get his he autokanone rounds ? << cheaperthandirt.com | [17:42] |
| asciilifeform: | BingoBoingo: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-29#1473433 << link ?? | [17:48] |
| a111: | Logged on 2016-05-29 21:42 BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> so where is mr. postal supposed to get his he autokanone rounds ? << cheaperthandirt.com | [17:48] |
| asciilifeform: | they sell the usual usa street-legal pea shooter crud | [17:48] |
| asciilifeform: | ~everybody here shops there. | [17:48] |
| BingoBoingo: | asciilifeform: literally that is the url. May or may not have, but gets interesting USG surplus from time to time. Gott get it when they have it before it sells out. | [17:49] |
| asciilifeform: | HE - nope | [17:49] |
| asciilifeform: | i'll eat my hat if you show me HE rounds in there. | [17:49] |
| BingoBoingo: | Oh you wanted HE, I thought you wanted incendiary | [17:50] |
| asciilifeform: | proper ones, not dummies | [17:50] |
| asciilifeform: | HE. | [17:50] |
| asciilifeform: | http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-29#1473431 << my 'commodore-64' was 100% hiss-free. as was mircea_popescu's spectrum clone, or my brother's bk-0010 | [17:52] |
| a111: | Logged on 2016-05-29 21:41 mircea_popescu: someone needs to take alf to heavy metal concerts back when he's 16 | [17:52] |
| asciilifeform: | what 'progress' since !1111 | [17:53] |
| BingoBoingo: | Would usually be here if they had it https://www.cheaperthandirt.com/category/ammunition/rifle/30-06-springfield.do?c=117336.117388.201430&sku_instock_b=true&sortby=priceAscend&page=all | [17:53] |
| asciilifeform: | BingoBoingo: banned in usa other than to gestapo and army | [17:55] |
| asciilifeform: | and nobody's making a 30-06 HE, wtf | [17:56] |
| BingoBoingo: | They used to occasionally have surplus .30-06 AP, incendiary, tracer, etc. Prolly Obama's fault. | [17:56] |
| asciilifeform: | you want at least a thumb-sized bullet | [17:56] |
| BingoBoingo: | And where did you say HE until a link to maybe was posted? | [17:57] |
| asciilifeform: | BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu linked to spiffy 0.5in he round in earlier thread. | [17:57] |
| BingoBoingo: | ah | [18:03] |
| BingoBoingo: | In other news, what was mircea_popescu doing last night https://stlouis.craigslist.org/mis/5610041338.html | [18:07] |
| shinohai: | "I just really need your ass with me" <<< LOLOL | [18:08] |
| mircea_popescu: | asciilifeform actually no, power unit hissed alright. | [18:52] |
| mircea_popescu: | metal unit, about 3lbs | [18:53] |
| BingoBoingo: | ticker --market all | [18:55] |
| gribble: | Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 512.79, vol: 8517.91331151 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 510.001, vol: 12632.06302 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 525.25, vol: 84575.71076513 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 455.0, vol: 4.58595769 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 563.907503, vol: 105964.86080000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 519.22, vol: 2722.5313145 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 500.175, vol: 147.16041267 | Volume-weighted last average: (1 more message) | [18:56] |
| BingoBoingo: | more | [18:56] |
| gribble: | 542.853762921 | [18:56] |
| BingoBoingo: | Dat spread! | [18:56] |
| mircea_popescu: | dat imaginary "finance" that could buy russia. | [18:57] |
| BingoBoingo: | Or convince alf to leave the swamp | [18:59] |
| mircea_popescu: | in other news, the dictator is a shitty pile of forced memes, unfunny as all hell. its only distinction being that the progress is show to benefit some derpy woman whose only qualification is that she's not shavign her armpits (but she's willing to drop that), whereas the only loser is the actual competent engineer and that peter norton is cast as yet-another-celebrity whose only utility, value and stock in trade is being u | [19:10] |
| mircea_popescu: | rinated upon. | [19:10] |
| asciilifeform: | $s "such spread" | [19:39] |
| a111: | 4 results for "\"such spread\"", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22such%20spread%22 | [19:39] |
| asciilifeform: | http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-29#1473457 << stabilizer buzz dun count!11111 | [19:40] |
| a111: | Logged on 2016-05-29 22:52 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually no, power unit hissed alright. | [19:40] |
| asciilifeform: | it isn't a malignant ear-rotting sound like fan. | [19:40] |
| jurov: | inb4 tmsr sets out on researching fully laminar flow cooling system | [19:41] |
| asciilifeform: | jurov: fuck flow. 100kg of copper hedgehog is the ticket. | [19:42] |
| asciilifeform: | http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-29#1473465 << dunno if you missed it BingoBoingo, but theoretically i could leave the swamp now. | [19:43] |
| a111: | Logged on 2016-05-29 22:59 BingoBoingo: Or convince alf to leave the swamp | [19:43] |
| jurov: | what about.. i don't know what is called - these accordion things ancient blacksmiths were usign to blow air? | [19:43] |
| asciilifeform: | jurov: bellows, in engl. | [19:44] |
| asciilifeform: | they aren't esp. quiet. | [19:44] |
| jurov: | idk, maybe the flapping noise would be more palatable :D | [19:45] |
| asciilifeform: | look at the design of 19th c. and prior pipe organs | [19:45] |
| asciilifeform: | the bellows room would be a long ways from the audience | [19:45] |
| asciilifeform: | whenever possible | [19:45] |
| asciilifeform: | http://c8.alamy.com/comp/DDRKNP/music-instruments-keyboard-instruments-organ-bellows-treader-woodcut-DDRKNP.jpg | [19:46] |
| jurov: | i'm sure they can be done silent with modern materials as they have no fast moving parts | [19:47] |
| asciilifeform: | slow moving parts make plenty of noise. | [19:47] |
| asciilifeform: | as does air. | [19:47] |
| jurov: | um.. and what about combining them with keyboard? | [19:48] |
| asciilifeform: | ugh | [19:48] |
| jurov: | keep typing or else!!! | [19:48] |
| asciilifeform: | http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/POWER/waterengine/waterengine6.htm << somewhat interesting re historic organ blowers | [19:48] |
| jurov: | dunno maybe it's even patentable? 1. computer cooling with leg-powered bellows 2. compuer sooling with keyboard microbellows :D :D | [19:52] |
| deedbot: | [Trilema] PTM, ie parent-teacher meeting - http://trilema.com/2016/ptm-ie-parent-teacher-meeting/ | [19:53] |
| jurov: | and actually, if every key had its own air tube, that would solve RF emanations, too :D | [19:54] |
| asciilifeform: | jurov: that last bit is in the logz. | [19:55] |
| asciilifeform: | specifically. | [19:55] |
| mircea_popescu: | asciilifeform> jurov: fuck flow. 100kg of copper hedgehog is the ticket. << with dildo attachments! | [20:18] |
| mircea_popescu: | actually keyboard microbellows not so bad an idea! put those heavy duty springs to good use! | [20:19] |
| asciilifeform: | lel | [20:27] |
| mircea_popescu: | alternatively, you could sell bean stu and converted enema kits. | [20:28] |
| asciilifeform: | ugh | [20:30] |
| asciilifeform: | later tell mircea_popescu http://imgur.com/a/VcBuo << highlights from my journey to the Lands That Suck Slightly Less | [20:57] |
| gribble: | The operation succeeded. | [20:57] |
| asciilifeform: | ^ and anyone else who was awake for thread. | [20:57] |
| mircea_popescu: | you totally need to start running a blog and stop ugc-ing your productions away to the usg. | [20:58] |
| asciilifeform: | i give my garbage to garbage man. | [20:58] |
| asciilifeform: | blog is about things worth preserving. | [20:58] |
| mircea_popescu: | and, apparently, me ? | [20:58] |
| asciilifeform: | well it is ephemeral. | [20:58] |
| asciilifeform: | eat candy, throw away wrapper. | [20:58] |
| mircea_popescu: | so it's more like orgasms than garbage ? | [20:58] |
| asciilifeform: | aha! | [20:58] |
| mircea_popescu: | i'll check em out on your blog howaboutthat. | [20:59] |
| asciilifeform: | i dun wanna retype. | [20:59] |
| mircea_popescu: | next ones. | [20:59] |
| asciilifeform: | sure. | [20:59] |
| asciilifeform: | i'ma have to make another blog for the candy. | [20:59] |
| asciilifeform: | it dun belong on my proper one. | [20:59] |
| mircea_popescu: | doesn't seem to have hurt trilema any, but each his own. | [20:59] |
| asciilifeform: | i wonder if mircea_popescu knows what the piano was for. | [21:00] |
| asciilifeform: | nobody i've asked, seems to. | [21:00] |
| asciilifeform: | (did they use it for sound effects when stock was falling or ...?) | [21:00] |
| BingoBoingo: | bc,stats | [22:04] |
| gribble: | Current Blocks: 413990 | Current Difficulty: 1.99312067531243E11 | Next Difficulty At Block: 415295 | Next Difficulty In: 1305 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 2 days, 12 hours, 36 minutes, and 47 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None | [22:04] |
| mircea_popescu: | it occurs to the harem assembled in congress that there should be such a thing as "whore's dew", and it should be an after shave. | [22:47] |
| mircea_popescu: | i duly enter teh matter into the permanent record. | [22:47] |
| BingoBoingo: | This entry into the record is noted | [22:52] |
| shinohai: | "Whore's dew" sounds like an item in Eulora. | [22:56] |
| deedbot: | [Qntra] Cooling Pacific Has Potential To Further Injure Corn Belt's Fortunes This Season - http://qntra.net/2016/05/cooling-pacific-has-potential-to-further-injure-corn-belts-fortunes-this-season/ | [23:35] |
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