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asciilifeform: ''So here are five perfectly good reasons why Trump would make one fine Prezz. But he needs a running mate. Now, wouldn't it be a fine thing to have a woman Vice-Prezz? It's been two election cycles since a spectacularly dumb bimbo—Sarah Palin—came within a few percentage points of the Vice-Prezzidency; maybe it's time to try again. And so I propose Kim Kardashian as Trump's running mate. Not Kim Kardashian herself—she d
mircea_popescu: i'd love one in tanzania, sure.
mircea_popescu: why would i contribute to us gdp ?!
asciilifeform: i could get a colo box here but at ruinous cost.
mircea_popescu: what am i to do.
mircea_popescu: which leaves phuctor in dire need of a new home. unless anyone comes forward with something (hey jurov what's the word there ?) i guess ima get another box at another dubious provider ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 13:10:44; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well yes, i ended it.
mircea_popescu: yeah i know you wrote it, i read it!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i fucking wrote this
asciilifeform: in a sense this was study, just not of a kind anyone would wish for. i.e. i could re-make the thing if it burned down.
mircea_popescu: "unless it runs 10k x 5k i won't use it, except i do".
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-09-2015#1274402 << i rounded, of course. thing is, nobody makes this in ONE ips panel, if anyone did, i would own it. i have tiles. ☝︎
asciilifeform: aha, why do you think i wrote it
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-09-2015#1274437 << if 'it does not need to serve any practical function', then mircea_popescu is in luck! i already have this system! it is even a lisp machine! >>>>> http://www.loper-os.org/?p=405 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i dunno that anyone but anthropologists even conceptualize interspecies commensalism.
pete_dushenski: i knew that public health training was going to come in handy, but i didn't expect that it be on computers !
pete_dushenski: i was toiling under the impression that it was the 's' was the british spelling and 'c' the american
pete_dushenski: i obviously care neither for moyle nor two sets of dishes, but plenty of people believe in childish fractals
mircea_popescu: i dunno
pete_dushenski: i dunno where the el apostrophe comes from, to be honest
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-09-2015#1273865 << at what point did i say easy ? i deal in musts. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 16:32:52; shinohai: I wish I had known about this place during the TradeFortress brouhaha. I called that one 6 months prior.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-09-2015#1273852 << i wish you would have known, and called it here six months early. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-09-2015#1273847 << cuz at the time it wasn't exactly clear how this'd work (as the contract is a future on a yet nonexistent pair) and cuz i wanted it to be a negotiable instrument rather than a specified thing, specifically because that sort of vague future deal requires some room to wiggle. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: So the people in #bitcoin-xt have <<< i'm like wtf, srsly ? /join #bitcoin-xt turns out there's one other guy there and williamdunne made the chan. lol. mkay.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well yes, i ended it. ☟︎
punkman: Reporter: I feel like I ruin the IT guy's day every time I have to ask for something. Editor: No, all his days are like that.
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 03:41:50; trinque: anyhow, perhaps someone will offer to sell his time maintaining something through the deedbot- buy/sell board I'm hacking on at the moment
cazalla: ya gonna have to get in the wot Vexual, no longer am i doing this pm and !up business
phf: pkgsrc is another option, besides ebuild. they have some equivalent of use flags. i used it to run a unix stack on mac os x (fvwm, firefox, x11 emacs, etc.)
trinque: one thing that clearly would not work is this sort of decentralized micro-payments bullshit I've heard proposed before
trinque: I kid
trinque: and I don't pay kids up front
trinque: haha! well I know how to write a contract
asciilifeform: i'm sure that some idiot kid will eventually take your money.
trinque: anyhow, perhaps someone will offer to sell his time maintaining something through the deedbot- buy/sell board I'm hacking on at the moment ☟︎
trinque: yes, though I do continue to wonder how it'd do with an actual *market*
asciilifeform: the point i was trying to make,
trinque: and I don't see this working for a vast number of packages
trinque: lets say for nginx; I would pay 1k/yr
trinque: I would agree it makes little sense to "maintain" a package for only a short duration contract
trinque: I guess he still does, actually.
trinque: I'd pay a guy like the gentleman that used to package Slackware a reasonable fee per release
asciilifeform: it is not hard to make a musl-based linux; i have this working with rotor
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-09-2015#1273358 << because that's where they fill your rice bowl??? think, why did i go back to usa after conf3 ? ☝︎
thestringpuller: trinque: cause he's elusive as fuck. I'd have to track him down between his meth binges in New York.
trinque: I'd have said I wanna smoke a blunt with him even if he didn't call his site "dankwiki"
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: i take it back, the linked item is new to me and potentially interesting.
asciilifeform: and i think i may have used some of his exam prep material!
thestringpuller: https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Omphalos << really wish I had a machine with that installed
trinque: given they left the spare drives, I doubt they even knew what it was
BingoBoingo: lol trinque I've never tried to find the source for msot of these screencaps
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 21:28:22; phf: hardware we build from scratch, i'm assembling some reference material http://orig15.deviantart.net/58c6/f/2012/243/f/2/raudan_valmistus_by_jarkko1-d5d2l2v.jpg
danielpbarron: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-09-2015#1274149 << tinkering up some shaped slag, I see! ☝︎
ascii_field: but i'm told it doesn't work on adults.
gernika: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-09-2015#1272365 << Incidentally I attempted to look up Mr. Blair in the 1958 ed. of Encyclopedia Brittanica and could find nothing on him. Apparently he was not yet notable by then. Would love to know what the editorial verdict would have been. ☝︎☟︎
phf: hardware we build from scratch, i'm assembling some reference material http://orig15.deviantart.net/58c6/f/2012/243/f/2/raudan_valmistus_by_jarkko1-d5d2l2v.jpg ☟︎
phf: i suppose one half of b-a should start on a linux distro and the other work on cl-emacs naggum always wanted *ducks* ☟︎
phf: trinque: re lisp rps, you might want to look at cmucl's WIRE and REMOTE packages, https://common-lisp.net/project/cmucl/doc/cmu-user/ipc.html. while you can send sexps over the wire and slime/swank do it by sending readable forms in netstring format, you start running into issues when you need to ipc opaque blobs, like lambdas, hashtables or clos instances. cmucl's ipc solves all those issues, unfortunately married to cmucl. i think it woul
ascii_field: i'd fix the url
phf: i'm not sure if this is special pleading, or a case of a stranger using the technology he doesn't understand to shoot own foot. in the future perhaps expect more "but i'm me i have a passport from obama" people
phf: sing position very clear. i'm perplexed by osika's stuborn and persistent refusal to understand that what he's proposing goes contrary to core tenants, rather then some minor aside that needs further clarification.
thestringpuller: well people i used to go to school with
thestringpuller: i have...sort of...
trinque: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOhlb_t0QbQ << interesting interview with Putin; as an American I found it an interesting peek into the mind of the man
chetty: perhaps this will backlash into getting more people off windows ...nah, I dream
ascii_field: 'He continued: “I know of two instances where people on metered connections went over their data cap for August because of this unwanted download. My own internet (slow DSL) was crawling for a week or so until I discovered this problem. In fact, that’s what led me to it. Not only does it download, it tries to install every time the computer is booted.”'
trinque: here's where I found the convo http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/7042/how-much-does-it-cost-to-have-a-custom-asic-made
ascii_field: last i saw, it gets you NO MOUNTING (you need a cleanroom of your own to mount the dies), NO TESTING, and 1970-level transistor counts.
trinque: mosis.com was the one I found somebody talking about getting a run done for a few k ☟︎
trinque: ascii_field: I found two fabs that will do small production runs, probably ones of which you're already aware
trinque: I'd build a dedicated box solely for using gossipd, browsing the WoTnet, running bitcoind, and very little else
assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 00:18:24; asciilifeform: cabbie: 'this ford is a piece of shit. stalled again.' mircea_popescu: 'i have a solution!' cabbie: 'oh???111' mircea_popescu: 'here, have this broomstick.' cabbie: 'how do i drive customers on that, feed my family' mircea_popescu: 'you misunderstand, my good man. you stuff it in your arse.' cabbie: 'and... how does this feed by family?' mircea_popescu: 'no, you sit there with it in.'
ascii_field: trinque: for the 50,000 or so packages which i use ?!?!! ☟︎
ascii_field: trinque: if i wanted to build things by hand, and resolve dependency hells by hand, i'd be using buildroot linux. ☟︎
trinque: *that* someone (maybe I) would be willing to maintain, but not a whole OS somebody else built
trinque: I built my own emacs by hand on the openbsd box I put together
ascii_field: i couldn't even get pcmcia to work reliably on it.
kakobrekla: why i mentioned standard hw.
ascii_field: and i personally am NOT interested in a lowest-common-denominator PIECE OF SHIT
ascii_field: trinque: i played with openbsd for a while and then got fed up with the dependency resolver retardation.
anton_osika: ascii_field: I just needed some clarification while the gentleman MP is gone.
trinque: I'm sure a day will come when my particular recipe stops working
shinohai: Agreed trinque, which is why I never tried Gentoo until you came along.
ascii_field: anton_osika: i cannot help you even ~if~ i wanted to.
trinque: I haven't looked at it in years
thestringpuller: well I did that recently, slackware was neat back int he 90's
trinque: the funny business is all in simple things like partitioning and installing the bootloader, pieces I bet could be lifted from debian's installer
trinque: that script I wrote approaches a gentoo installer
ascii_field: ~i~ can. trinque apparently can. mircea_popescu iirc was not able to. and hanbot also did not. ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 04:57:23; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-09-2015#1273642 << this is true. i would estimate a ~passible~ clump of v-math to be in between 20 and 50mn nodes, each of which requiring the reasonable student an hour to an evenings' study.
ascii_field: because else WHY THE FUCK DO I NEED IT
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 04:54:44; ben_vulpes: if it boots emacs, i'm in.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-09-2015#1273667 << if it addresses 128GB of ECC RAM, and drives my wall of 'eizo's, then i'm in. ☝︎
thestringpuller: interesting side note: it makes it easy to erase technology from the face of the earth if constructed this way...i.e. sr-71
thestringpuller: wish i could find that thread you spoke on about how modern jet production is inaccessible to non USG-tied entities.
ascii_field: i say - you can't.
thestringpuller: devuan i think it was called
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-09-2015#1273661 << i personally won't work on anything which i can't use. and if it can't drive a 10,000 x 5,000 pixel array at reasonable frame rate, AND simultaneously process blocks, etc. then I WON'T USE IT ☝︎
shinohai: I wish I had known about this place during the TradeFortress brouhaha. I called that one 6 months prior. ☟︎