asciilifeform showed to pet, who noted 'the comp in every bit of science fiction written by thinking folk of old, the research console, starship bridge, etc'
asciilifeform: the comp-for-thinking-folk aaaalmost happened.
asciilifeform: in definitely not newz, 'Counterfeit batteries are a HUGE problem on eBay. I firmly believe that probably over 85% of the Lithium Ion batteries on eBay are counterfeit or of inferior/dangerous quality. Most of them are extremely overrated as well. For instance, a 18650 cell simply cannot hold 4000MaH. It’s not physically possible for on of these cells output that much energy without draining it to an unusable state. Whatever th
asciilifeform: it's there on the chopping block, waiting for the optimization.
asciilifeform: seems like the last bit remaining, neh ?
asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://www.madewithcode.com , linked from google front pg, 'Learn about the women using code to change the world. Their inspiring stories demonstrate just some of the ways code can shape our lives.' 'In 2015 the United Nations came together to make a list of Global Goals for our planet. Now they need us to help spread the word. Begin your coding journey by choosing the issue that matters the most to you and become par
asciilifeform has a very lengthy treatise in the works, but it needs a) trimming b) refinement, took mircea_popescu's 'stop sending gibblets' criticism to heart
asciilifeform: 'Oh that will not do, said Milder to Moulder / Oh what will you do then said Festel to Fose / Great guns and great cannon said John the Red Nose ... ' (tm) (r) (english folk song)
asciilifeform: 'opmsg requires the crypto primitives from OpenSSL. Just relax, its not using the SSL/TLS proto, just the ciphering and hash algorithms. '
asciilifeform: he local community is concerned, the news story was undeniably of public interest. They just argued that, two and half years from the events reported in the story, the right to inform the public could no longer be invoked to justify the permanence online of a story that was damaging their reputation and the image of their restaurant.'
asciilifeform: 'The case originated when the owners of a restaurant decided that they no longer would accept that a news piece reporting on an legal case in which they were involved was accessible online from the archives of Primadanoi.it, a local news website of the Abruzzo region ... The plaintiffs did not dispute the veracity of the facts reported in the article, which is incidentally a case still at bar, nor the circumstance that, at least as t
asciilifeform: never mind that the ~libraries~, which are the ~only reason anyone even writes proggy in python, more or less invariably croak on uniturds.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: microshit's traditional (and to this day favoured, as in default in their toolchain) incarnation of uniturd has fixed 16-bit characters
