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asciilifeform: i have suspicion that it'd scale fine if the folx baking gpu irons had baked for it (e.g. picture properly-bouncing gouraud tits) . whereas i dun recall a single 'textured' game where critters did not from certain angles look 'wooden'.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 13:32 asciilifeform: incidentally, apropos of gamez thread, there was very interesting french msdos item, 'little big adventure', that blew asciilifeform's mind, had 2010s-style graphic on 40mhz 486. ( how ? clever gourad system, and pile of asm i suspect )
asciilifeform: makes sense, i suppose thing takes 'this vertex is a joint, with such-and-such polar coord range' etc
asciilifeform: (i'm not aware of microshit word having 'api'...)
a111: Logged on 2019-06-14 07:15 mircea_popescu: <mp3butcher> big work indeed (blender api keep changing all the time) << i don't intend to support that, really. for one it's not really TMSR tradition ; for the other there's that entire femfiasco.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-14#1918157 << i cannot resist to ask -- i thought 'blender' were a 3d shape editor tool ?? why does it need 'api' ☝︎
mircea_popescu: also in the news this morning, https://i.imgur.com/gcGbV2X.jpg
mircea_popescu: <mp3butcher> big work indeed (blender api keep changing all the time) << i don't intend to support that, really. for one it's not really TMSR tradition ; for the other there's that entire femfiasco. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: hanbot, ok baby, have i got the q for you!
lobbes: heh, I have a buddy here that did just that
lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-12#1918035 << definitely. I'll have an hour or so during the afternoon if you want to meet somewhere in Charlotte ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't even go as far and say india is in asia.
mircea_popescu: i expect what the fuck happened was -- this dude's mortgage being underwater, the bank clerks started making noises about selling his actual place. so he went "fuck you, ima do a tour, make like 100k or w/e i owe you schmucks, pay off the whole loan!!!"
mircea_popescu: you meant "i have to repay a coin" not "i have a coin to repay"
Mocky: mircea_popescu: I don't have 1btc worth now, I have enough left over income to start buying on regular basis. Will still take a few months to amass the total.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-06 11:32 Mocky: i have a coin to repay mircea_popescu and now that i have what with to trade, expect to be a continuous bidder on piz auctions
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-06#1917493 << apparently i missed this. anyways, so you wanna settle now mockster ? or are you trading or what. ☝︎
feedbot: http://thetarpit.org/posts/y05/093-hunchentoot-i.html << The Tar Pit -- A review of Hunchentoot's code history
asciilifeform: e.g., last pc that i personally opened that had standalone sram for l2 cache, was a 486 dx2.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i actually went through coupla hundred datashits in late '17, for various srams. after rejecting various 'pseudo' (i.e. internally dram, with built-in refresher) , left with buncha items, typically <=64MB, where in small print, if you actually use it as random access (i.e. not in long burst) it runs at 1995 speeds (7-15ns typically access)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i dug into this last yr, it is worse than uninitiated can picture, nobody's even making reasonably-sized sram (deliberately not counting here various 'pseudo-s' etc abominations)
mircea_popescu: and here i thought that's just what it's for. severe case of who could've predicted!
mircea_popescu: in other news, pillars of eternity is a fucking great "good old Infinity engine days". up there with planescape : torment i'd say (not as deliberately-artsy-quirky-???).
spyked: I'd made a small toy proggy to draw a mandelbrot set, zoom in etc. when the time came to show it, no one in the room even knew what a fractal was, although ~all~ the teachers there were math-informatics graduates
a111: Logged on 2019-06-11 21:38 diana_coman: well, the 18yo me at programming exam-to-get-qualification-diploma got told directly (out of prof's sheer exasperation I suppose): "next time, don't think that much!"
spyked: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-11#1917955 <-- lol, I had precisely the same experience! ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2019-05-13 18:27 lobbes: I may indeed take some time in the next months to make a trip down there at least. If anything to clear my head and sort some things out (plus, I've never met another Republican in the meat, so there is also that plus)
mircea_popescu: worked i mean
mircea_popescu: i got ~all the pre-2005 or so games. i got gothic, i got everything, 100s of titles. diablo 2.
mircea_popescu: so... yeah. whatever, i forget what the point was.
mircea_popescu: ("culture!!" "Science!!!") bla bla.
asciilifeform: i never saw it other than as fragmented fossils.
asciilifeform: ftr i associate mit et al with (not only the infamous lightbulb) but the freak show described upstack, rather than with 'great researchers'
mircea_popescu: i suppose lisp stands as a leftover of the time you speak of, so it must've existed.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suspect no later than '80s, and ~errybody involved prolly dead by nao of cirrhosis / joe stack / despair.
mircea_popescu: i honestly don't recall a time anyone took cs for not-tradeschool.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-11 21:50 asciilifeform: all the ones i recall from early 2000s, gone nao
asciilifeform: asciilifeform out of school was dumb, from chumpatronic pov, as a sack of rocks, got conned into designing for these people a certain iron part, ~in off hours~ from cleaning ducts. it was, as i understand, put into production, with a mit grad's name attached.
asciilifeform: or what was it instead of chromism, i dun recall
diana_coman: what can I say; fwiw on one hand entrance exam at my uni was already getting seriously watered down and onth in 500 students/ year (minimum), I have former colleagues that are happily microshitting now as they were then
asciilifeform did, however, go to a 'by exam, 2 dozen bodies to 1 spot' high school, but it was in usa, and full of... i guess modern-day ameri-equiv. of komosomol. disgusting 'climber' types. 'young republicans'(tm) etc
asciilifeform: all the ones i recall from early 2000s, gone nao ☟︎
asciilifeform: we had ~same type of profs here, with very few (~100% emigre) exceptions, i imagine much fewer exceptions than at diana_coman's uni. y'know the type, that reacts to 'made to think' same way as mcd clerk to being asked to make exact change
diana_coman: I don't even recall exactly but basically took their spec too seriously
diana_coman: well, the 18yo me at programming exam-to-get-qualification-diploma got told directly (out of prof's sheer exasperation I suppose): "next time, don't think that much!" ☟︎
asciilifeform: inca fears p2p radio like the proverbial vampire -- crucifix. i'm actually surprised somewhat, that 'ricochet' was even permitted to be built as it were
asciilifeform: i dun know specifically why 'musted die', but in general usg favours the old telecom monopolies; plus prolly didn't help that 'ricochet' did not build gps into the modems and made it possible to pass packets directly over the mesh, i.e. 'potentially terrorist' net
a111: Logged on 2014-02-19 04:25 asciilifeform: they still respond to signals! i once bought a ricochet modem just to determine this.
mircea_popescu: i suppose epoxy is, technucally, recuclable.
mircea_popescu: "are you the americans ?" "BY JOE I IS!"
mircea_popescu: by "the retards" i meant whatever's currently left holding the power ranger flag
mircea_popescu: i betcha the retards wil lactually do it.
BingoBoingo: I forgot to put that in the body, added.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'dve included the lulzy detail, 'victim -- jailed', in the title, but i suppose already lengthy
phf: (which might also be the reason why i forgot the password, it's lots of travel and heavy drinking sessions one after another..)
phf: no, i'm also in US right now, for a brief visit
a111: Logged on 2019-06-10 19:50 asciilifeform: achtung, whoever it was who was voice-calling asciilifeform's torture room from ru : i do not pick these up, plox to use civilized means of contact.
asciilifeform: phf: i take it http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-10#1917868 wasn't you then ? ☝︎
phf: i've typed it every day for the past couple of years, multiple times a day, woke up last tuesday with no idea what it might be
phf: craziest thing, i forgot my gpg password for about 5 days. was walking around trying to remember parts of it, obviously couldn't get access to anything meanwhile ☟︎
asciilifeform: achtung, whoever it was who was voice-calling asciilifeform's torture room from ru : i do not pick these up, plox to use civilized means of contact. ☟︎
lobbes: BingoBoingo: ^^ plox to gpggram me wu deets. I can have it sent out by eod tomorrow latest
billymg: well it either works or i get shot while escaping ☝︎
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, pillars of eternity is a great baldur-like i never knew about.
billymg: in my current situation, there is not enough leftover energy for the tasks i'd like to be doing. this could be helped by transferring to a less demanding galley but my current thinking is to do my time, save resources, and then make it a clean break
a111: Logged on 2019-05-13 17:54 lobbes: I've been doing some hard thinking lately, about what I want in life, and about how I'm way too content with my current living situation in the reich. The problem is that man can indeed be content ~anywhere. Nevertheless, I find myself being sucked closer and closer to the intake of the mass chumpatron. My time, my money, my sanity, slowly but surely slipping away with each day
billymg: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-13#1913031 << something i'm thinking a lot about as well ☝︎☟︎
billymg: i slapped some parts together for my fx build, and was able to confirm that this particular asrock board does not support ecc ram https://archive.is/CFyzn (for any readers using lulazon and looking for an am3+ mobo)
a111: Logged on 2019-05-27 21:35 diana_coman: in other stepping-in-all-the-holes : it seems I found a fail-mode of mp-wp browser interface namely if one pastes the content of a post first and only then (possibly after it rushes to quick save it or whatevers) the title, it fails miserably as it apparently tries to save it with title "" (notwithstanding that no, it should not, there is actually a title to it)
billymg: hi all, i've been quite busy but was still keeping up with the logs
hanbot: sure. i'm used to seeing freedom used on slavemaker apparati like stickers proclaiming some homeopathic garbage is detoxifying or whatever, though. FREEDOM!!1 Eat it and live forever, pleb! rare to see it approached like the foreign, dead carcass i suppose it actually has become, like this, poked with a stick from a distance, "freedom of expression".
asciilifeform: i suspect it was a 'techie' 'wouldn't it be 13337 if we...' featurism
mircea_popescu: i imagine it was a major loss leader
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it did, i even got 'portal' to run at one pt
asciilifeform: i dun expect the latter have any bidirectional connection to the former, any moar than the rats which eat mircea_popescu's leftovers in dumpster, have any effect on mircea_popescu's kitchen per se
asciilifeform: for all i know, the actual elites still play poker just like in 19th c, in closed room. while in vegas the 'aspirational' morons 'us, too'
mircea_popescu: they've gotten cheeky btw, i recall the furore when blizzard dared break the tacit "no game shall cost over 19.95". by now ? 80 euros (ie, aboyut a benjie).
mircea_popescu: it's just... look, i guess a preoccupation with gravestones and old musty writs and whatall else is to some degree a professional deformation / professionalized mental issue. but nevertheless, consider : slashdot. fucking slashdot, yes, the people who named the site so that lamers couldn't tell it each other over the phone, calling each other from the video store (which, face it, early ,com internet was 100% videostore cle
diana_coman: funnily enough (though quite usual in my xp) precisely after I complained re the left/right confusion, I had now the pleasant surprise to find out that meanwhile my brain sorted it really; I suspect it was more that initially I did not realise that there was a mismatch rather than the actual changing of convention; getting back to it was fine.
asciilifeform: ( re eulora, as i currently understand diana_coman's main work atm is an excavation, similar to trb circa '15, of heathen coad )
diana_coman: it's much more sanely structured so one CAN actually understand it, you know; that's the main thing; not to mention it's ...worth getting it into one's head to start with; anyway, unless I end up writing a blogpost on "why size is really not all re code", it's probably enough to say it's saner really.
asciilifeform: ( i test mine when plugged in from shelf , can't speak for other folx )
asciilifeform: lyso-fg is about 20bux moar unit cost than classical. but i dun have the free hands atm.
asciilifeform: ( btw mircea_popescu in old thread correctly intuited that you Do Not Want to buffer an fg, but i dun think either of us ever wrote explicitly why )
asciilifeform: no one ever said 'i wish i did not have this spare iron' lol
mircea_popescu: honestly i don't mind owning the hardware.
asciilifeform: 'why the fuck did i just burn 2k dubloon to build box on which nao playing 'amiga' emulator gamez'
mircea_popescu: i can't help remembering the 90s.
asciilifeform: fwiw asciilifeform's 'i'ma build gamez box!11' adventure from 2y ago, ended very similarly to mircea_popescu's : that box is cold nao an' waiting for when asciilifeform next time needs to route a pcb
mircea_popescu: i don't like shooter sims.
asciilifeform: both decade+ vintage , i think, by nao.
mircea_popescu: ok, i guess...
a111: Logged on 2019-06-06 06:39 mircea_popescu: hmm, did i even recount the sad story of that typically moronic clerk ?
mircea_popescu: we're stuck pooling -- neither do i.
asciilifeform: grr i was quite certain it was in next-to-last chapter, lol
BingoBoingo: Fuck, my gut says the year is 2014. I remember, can dig. My gut is also suggesting the Vessenes Bitcoin Foundation with a low probability.
BingoBoingo: The white stuff appears to mostly be "pasta base" i.e. solvent waste from cocaine processing that happens to have just enough cocaine to be marketable to the abjectly poor but not enough cocaine to economically recover for powdering.
asciilifeform: wtf is with 'peso notes' , incidentally, i thought the One Troo Unit of underground currency were the benjie
BingoBoingo: Possible. I'm inclined to suspect there weren't any big bills.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-06 11:29 Mocky: this is theoretical, i'm not trying to build out my east coast trading volume. I think i'll be mostly buying here from auction