The collected works of VenomousPinecone - Page 4

Thats funny, I searched for "1956 Arnolt-MG" and literally got 1 web result and 1 pdf result.

As for social media, you get what you put in. I left facebook after a "friend" of an actual friend of mine decided that their uninformed and grammatically atrocious opinion on economics would add value to the conversation. They obviously had been drunk on the democratizing effects of facebook and figured that some of the head endpoints needed his outdegree bad enough to breach any constraint that society traditionally places on people who wear backward baseball caps and spell like the proverbial millionth chimp at the Shakespeare type writing convention - flung poo included.

There can be a social stigma attached to unfriending people you actually know because of the detritus they bring to your extended network. It became tedious after awhile though: blocking, purging, pruning. Not to mention the shattered egos of actual friends who would then complain at me in meatspace after a few drinks.

So I created a sockpuppet to be the admin for all the apps I managed. Never looked back, as it was clearly a waste of time to be there if you are not a paid shill of some sort.

hamei wrote: You have to laugh at the media peddling this shit as well

I seriously hope you are not talking about watching the evening news or something...

yetanother**ixuser wrote: might be the simplest...ordered an Edimax EW-7811Un dongle.

Those work great on my Macbook and RaspberryPi. Very pleased with those little guys.

hamei wrote: This looks interesting for a small operation :

http://www.xmailserver.org/

Can never tell until you get in there and start rooting around, tho ...

We used that here at the office for years until we jumped ship to Office365. Xmail actually works really well, takes a few minutes to setup and has a very little bloat. The support and community are shit and as far as I can tell development has stopped, but the documentation works just fine for 95% of the trouble you may have. You better like editing text files

Is your body^H^H^H^H mac ready?

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/09/nasty_vulnerabi.html
http://mac-how-to.wonderhowto.com/how-to/every-mac-is-vulnerable-shellshock-bash-exploit-heres-patch-os-x-0157606/

duck wrote: [...]since they first licked a beige box.

Whaddya' mean? that's not what the floppy drive is for? All these years of my life spent in confusion.

As a species, our science is advancing to a point where we can begin to actually see some progress in the field of AI. I would say that yes, this time it is for real but there will not be any fanfare or big press releases or manumission of mainframes. Unfortunately I don't think we will be able to recognize AI when we achieve it, since we have no idea how neural networks create self-consciousness.

Oskar45 wrote: AI is an illusion.

Self and what we perceive as consciousness is also an illusion, a construct being run on a neural network. We call AI - as it stands now - an illusion because we can see the strings, we can see the paint on the puppet and know that it is a pale imitation of us.

I think the reason most naive realists do not want to see Artificial General Intelligence, or think it is impossible, is that if AI (AGI) is created it would allow us to see OUR strings... our cheap little puppet tricks of evolutionary biology. The blind ignorance and groping menace of pink goo, like sentient silly putty eating on a sandwich. The horror!

tomvos wrote: First we learn about all the strings pulling us, then we simulate all these strings and call it AGI?

To learn about the strings pulling us, we would have to admit that we are not what we think we are and in a very real sense do not control our bodies. I think that may be beyond most humans, beside the fact that we would be diagnosing the organ with the same flawed organ. I honestly doubt we would be able to see all the strings and faithfully reconstruct them even if we could.

I would dare say instead that we would not need to build the strings or be lucky enough to have a very spontaneous great leap ahead in computing, just another regular step. This is the way we see it in nature, consciousness being a trait that is emergent in humans due to blind evolutionary groping with the strings merely a side effect of the illusion. What is to prevent that from happening with human endeavor as we thrust our minds out to solve problems that we know so little about? AGI need not be purpose built, but instead be an emergent property of something not intended to have AGI. In its innocence, its unintended self, it would be the very image of its creators.

Oskar45 wrote: Maybe a little washing once in a while might help them

Not enough soap in the world to wash off the scent of uncultured peasantry.

guardian452 wrote: [...] or am secretly genius after all

Multiple intelligence's is just post-modern hogwash from masturbatory ivory tower denizens. Part of your life need not be a shit show for you to have abundance in other areas, being is not some egalitarian zero sum game. Hawking is not exceptional because his body is a tomb for his mind.

hamei wrote: Everything will be poisoned, isn't that cool ?

While I see your point on the various failures of the private sector, those aren't really damning considering we are talking about cellphones and websites. Hardly the stuff nightmares are made of. It would be nightmarish on the other hand for individuals driving across the bridge to find out all of a sudden that the decrees of bureaucrats and the seal of approval from academia is hardly the stuff that constitutes material reality. Sure, we can name off a countless list of the failures of big business and their government cohorts, or we can even do better and start talking about the straight evil shit that comes out of the combination of the two. I.G. Farben being an excellent example.

Besides, not everything will be poisoned, the Carlyle Group and others have been buying up water rights. The ancient hydraulic despotism of yore shall ride again, with drones in tow. Water wars here we come!

hamei wrote: You're going to stand there and seriously claim that "artificial intelligence" is possible for a species as stupid as this ?

Actually, you are making it sound easier because it is obviously low hanging fruit.

hamei wrote: With the exception of dentistry, I can't think of a single thing that is as good today as it was in 1975. There must be something but ...

Objectively, marijuana is better now than it was in 75. That is, if you take quality control, continued selective breeding and the ever rising cannabinoid content percentages as signs of improvement. I could also list the global telecommunications network as something that has improved since 1975. The price of computers has dropped, unless you buy Apple products and the price has pretty much been flat. As a matter of fact, I could keep going on and on and maybe even mention the quality, quantity and availability of pornography and the decline in popularity of the Bee Gees. The proliferation of abortion and prophylactics since 1975 is also nice, it allows folks to selectively become genetic dead-ends. All good things.

We can dog the human race for a lot of things, and it is sure as shit easy to be a rampant pessimist when you have a head on your shoulders, but that is all ignoring the big picture. The real truth that arises from pessimism is that humanity is malignantly useless. We serve no greater purpose, we are accidents of chemistry and evolution. That doesn't mean we should stop enjoying being human or become hermits and await the Bureaucratic Eschaton at the end of time. I think it means we should just be and watch what becomes of us as humans, because we cannot predict the future even with all the pessimism in the world.

If I judged the 20th century by the first 2 or 3 decades alone I wouldn't be able to see the continuing mixture of: horror, wonder, grief and joy that played out and how the world became objectively better in that time. The 20th century sure had a lot of it: The end of colonialism, the holocaust, the rise and fall of communism, the space race, nuclear power, etc.

hamei wrote: [...]but then I had a flashback

Fine, you got me on price and availability!

As for the other stuff, I don't know. All I know is that it is easier to stay in your rut as long as the it is less painful than getting out of it. Maybe thats what we have, humanity in some giant rut where letting mobsters and con-men run the show is just easier than actually doing something about it. Mencken said something witty in regards to this, it was about cabbage and liberty.

Same thing for anthropogenic climate change; both sides are full of liars with ideological axes to grind, politicians and big business ne'er-do-wells. Sure we humans pollute the living hell out of this planet, but I don't see politicians fixing the problem no matter how good the science is or how well intentioned the bureaucrats are. Bureaucracy is the King Midas of shit, everything it touches turns to shit and all they and their private sector cohorts can do is manage the consumer/voter expectations of said shit-storm.

There is no fix that involves either the Jamie Dimon's or Harry Reid's of this world. You can't vote with your dollar if all you got is the company store.

Wait, how and the heck does this respect the books? Having read all of them I can tell you that nothing in that movie seems legit from a canon point of view.

Regardless I will see it, just for dinosaurs eating humans.

The web has changed so much. Pretty glad I don't do that shit no more, aside from random JS debugging...

How much do these typically go for?

Some users here had these when they came out, now I am wondering if anyone is wanting to liquidate.

ivelegacy wrote: are you a developer ?

Nope, just always trying to play with something new.

Well thats no fun! Ah well, guess it is another one for the daydream list.

Right below the Tezro

hamei wrote: I almost forgot ... SGI's drooling loser worthless design team (great spiky haircuts tho. And cool tattos. And don't forget the impeccable taste in artisanal beers).

Shit, those are the same assholes we had over at Caspian Networks. I bet they had the same superbikes too.

TeamBlackFox wrote: dat fat bastard

I laughed way harder than I should have.

I see even something as inane as this video cannot escape the rampant shitposting that comprise the vast bulk of all youtube comments.

My home office and favorite L desk disappeared with the arrival of children. I have a couch and a laptop now.

smj wrote: [...]since I couldn't have the company laptop speaking to the house networks while the VPN was up.

They didn't want to let you route your traffic so you could use both simultaneously? That shit would drive me up the wall.

In line with what SAQ recommended, harden up a bit if your going online:
http://web.archive.org/web/200410120222 ... php?id=326
http://www.giac.org/paper/gcux/56/harde ... tem/100969

Both are good reads.

I only know about this because I had lunch at the airport bar today and their displays had been running HLN, which is just a giant corporate media circle jerk. So no, I won't. With all the media options available today I can't imagine anyone getting anything out of cable, satellite or terrestrial broadcasts. Let alone missing anything.

I can honestly say I have never seen his show...

What about you? You started the thread, so will you miss him?

pentium wrote: The movie inspired me.

So you're alpha until the Octane shows up?

This is why I still work with InDesign, even though I really want to give Scribus a shot.

hamei wrote: Not for too much longer. When there's no food in another fifty years, artificial intelligence will be the least of the race's worries.

War and disease have a funny way of keeping those numbers in check. I predict limited thermonuclear war before rampant starvation becomes commonplace outside of the third-world, call me an optimist.

Bummer.

Goodnight sweet prince.

https://bits.debian.org/2015/12/mourning-ian-murdock.html

Did something happen with SFPD? Who knows. We may never know.

Hamei routinely violated the no politics rule and most of us looked the other way, eventually a tragic world event would happen where he could lampoon foreign policy and piss off someone real proper. Well, that day happened.

Happy 2016.

Stupid and crazy might as well be interchangeable:

There is a section of N. Rampart Blvd. in Las Vegas where I ran from Metro. I was speeding home after work and had just scored a quarter of some good stuff from my friend, real stinky and fun. Well, I am heading south on Rampart in rush hour traffic and this cop is heading north with some serious brush and dividers between us. He hits his lights and stares at me real hard. I punch it. I am driving a matte baby shit yellow 73 Suburban with a 454, partially lifted, welded roof rack and bumpers, a real monster. Nothing else looks like it, and at this point nothing else smells like it. He makes it to the first turn around real quick but traffic is such a bitch he cant get in for a few key seconds.

Up ahead is Vegas Dr. and there is this tiny gap where I can shoot through oncoming traffic and head east, I do. Once I get onto Vegas I punch it again, racing up to Durango and eating my stash. Hard breaking, enter the turn south, punch it and pray to god I make it over the hill at Summerlin Pkwy where I can disappear into the sprawl before the cop makes it out of the typical traffic clusterf*** at Vegas drive.

I zip through some residentials, make it home and collapse on the bed. It wasn't just the adrenaline at that point.

Crazy computer experience:

Not much, computers are the sane part of my life.

skywriter wrote: I learned my lesson for about a week[...]

It sure is hard to stop speeding after you start. Habits work that way I guess.

Well, I was hanging out on some other 'chan and got hooked on a Japanese cooking show. Living by the adage that the only real stumbling block in cooking is fear of failure, I gave it a go. Following the video below I was able to complete the dish with relative ease. Figured with the interest in Japanese culture around here, I should share it with you folks.

uunix wrote: Can't help think about the chicken scene in Poltergeist..

You're a bad man and you should feel bad!

surrealdeal wrote: all these asian-type recipes i come across want me to add a bunch of corn starch
what does it do, just make things crunchier?

Typically corn starch is just used to thicken things like glazes, or for building a slurry if you decide to make gravy the blasphemous (non-roux) way. I have also seen it in recipes for batter, for instance if you are frying chicken you might want to have a thicker batter that will stick to your chicken more easily then you would get just using egg and flour.

Personally, I don't use cornstarch much at all, especially for any of the things I mentioned above. For instance, if doing a fried chicken in an East Asian style I would use a batter of potato starch and egg. Southern style I would just heavily season a dredge of flour, no wet.

And if your going to make a gravy, for the love of all that is holy make a roux. It wont be shiny like you get when it is made with cornstarch, which is good because savory things look real sketch when they shine like the glaze in a cherry pie.

I have had a lot of experience moonlighting offsite and doing contract work throughout my entire strange journey. You meet all kinds of people, and when you get inside their home they always have some sort of thing they collect. It can be anything from western wall kitsch and model trains that fill their backyard in a lilliputian hellscape lined with tightly trimmed grass to expensive pre-1940 automobiles for which they have built a climate controlled barn. One thing I have never had to do is ask for an explanation, they always want to show it to me, show. Heaven forbid you let slip from your lips the slightest interest or foreknowledge because then you get offered wine and what not to go with the exposition. These hobbies consume people, their time, their money and everything else that passes through orbit. Painting, same thing, just look at the cost of a tube of titanium white.

I think everyone does this to one degree or another. Even people who claim they own nothing of value still collect things, even if it is just lots of friends or a handful of stickers you keep between the pages in your favorite paperback. Street kids got backpacks but you know it isn't clean clothes they keep in there, know what I'm sayin'?

It must be some trait of evolutionary biology, a component of our very consciousness.

uunix wrote: What do you say?

You don't need to explain a thing when you have nothing left but memories.

Y888099 wrote: Sure, her terrifying hobby.

The things you own end up owning you.

Cyber City Oedo 808
An unfortunately short lived series. Lots of foul language and violence. Perfect.

One-Punch Man
A fresh take on cape shit stuff, hilarious. It is now on Netflix, so you have no excuses.

Sword Art Online
An interesting technical premise that quickly abandons any sort of logic and continuity just to railroad you into the writers magical realm. Made me want to play Lineage 2 again.

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: December Sky
Great music, solid animation and a desperate story of war that is perfect for any mecha fan. Sieg Zeon.

Rewatched: GitS, Bebop, LOTGH (Man that is a lot of reading), Votoms and Fist of the North Star.

smj wrote: I recently picked up a copy of Serial Experiments Lain and watched the whole thing through - nice refresher.

Never seen it but have heard nothing but good things. Going to pick this up later in the week.

Shiunbird wrote: We will be continuously be paying rent to use anything proprietary.

After the frontier is settled, the usurious rent seekers always arrive to "invest" in the hot property. Color me cynical but the laziness of humanity cannot be underestimated. Even in my children's classes most do not have home computers, they have phones. Think about that for a second, the disconnected phone poster as new model consumer. No longer a part of any digital community, just a predatory shitposter extracting entertainment from the bosom of dying sub-culture while paying rents to those terminally uncreative types.

I have hope for a post-collapse world though.

After watching the first two episodes of Serial Experiments Lain... it is like I am missing the joke.

commodorejohn wrote: Lain is definitely worth a go. It's like David Lynch directed a cyberpunk anime.

In that it starts with a dead girl like Twin Peaks?

Here I was hoping for something more Rabbits and a little less Blue Velvet. Instead what I got was drugged up kids without any David Bowie. So like Dune. Maybe it is just one of those phenomenon, where you had to see it in the right frame of mind and at the right age. You just had to be there to get it.