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punkman: I have flooded it with water a few times
punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1260944 << I have one that tunnels, I plug the hole (last time with concrete), he tunnels out again. Nobody has ever seen this rat and it's been years. ☝︎
cazalla: i don't think good or bad for environment ever crossed my mind.. cannot buy cloth anywhere and tbh i don't fancy scraping the shit from them and couldn't sell the idea to missus
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 03:35:40; pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1260451 << i recently waded into the bizarro world of baby diapers where monthly service of 'cloth' units is 3x price of 'disposable' AND ~40% shittier. and i do mean shittier. but... environment !
punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1260537 I've bought unpasteurized a few times but I just boil it at home ☝︎
fluffypony: when I was there in November I got a prepaid SIM from T-Mobile for $80 for a month
fluffypony: I have wireless to a fibre base station on a highsite, so latency is pretty low, 10mbps down / 1.5mbps up
mircea_popescu: im not fucking offended. i just think she's stupid.
cazalla: i thought the man playing the fiddle was the most cringe worthy of them all fwiw
trinque: yup, that's how I look at it
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1261074 << the night is female i'll have you know. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 00:51:01; mod6: mircea_popescu can scarcely believe all the ustards have to talk about is whether men sit like this or like that << ikr! i heard some lawyer say to another lawyer on the train, "mind your man spread bro".
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1260443 <<< http://i.imgur.com/q9inT6v.jpg ☝︎
BingoBoingo: phf: Also I end up having to replace the fan annually, but probably because I take it out to smoke cigarettes with me.
phf: (and what i mean by fine is video card, wifi and suspend to ram)
mats: I have a hard time justifying dropping ~1450 on a 13in MBA with 8gb or I would be on the aapl train
phf: i got a refurbished x61, it arrived with a broken fan, literally boots into "fan error" message
BingoBoingo: <trinque> I'll never purchase another Lenovo product << try the X1?0e education series. Cheap AMD options available and honest tough plastic for those damned kids.
mats: its decently responsive and I like the action
ben_vulpes: i
mats: i had some play time with a 'surface pro 3' and it was p good
ben_vulpes: i have an mbp, 15", only took it out to play eulora once and a while because i got ubuntu on it waaay ways ago
phf: i think i have the last matte mbp screen, which is another thing
trinque: I am a barbarian, can't be trusted with delicate things
trinque: I don't get the sense that Tim Cook would beat someone with one if he didn't approve of it
phf: ben_vulpes: i'm having a hard time finding a better laptop including later mbp models, which have gone downhill even more
trinque: felt the same way about a pentium 3 thinkpad I had
trinque: I doused elderbook (as it came to be called) with beer, coffee, god knows what else
ben_vulpes: i dont know why anyone would treat an apple product as anything but a disposable terminal
trinque: I had a 2007 black macbook that lasted 7-8 years
phf: he doesn't understand. i recently switched keyboards on this laptop, now that is not an operation for people with shaky hands. requires complete removal of guts and then removing ~~200 screws that attach the keyboard to the frame.
trinque: I'll never purchase another Lenovo product
phf: i thought consensus here was that real computers only come in atx tower cases
ben_vulpes: i ripped a part of the nominal 'metal' out of a compressed air nailgun two weekends back
phf: i write way more python then lisp, there i said it
phf: ben_vulpes: i'm not sure why that would be a controversial point. how does something like trig functions work in python? they don't, they are a call out to system level math library
trinque: ah I see; we were talking completely at crossways then
trinque: not much I guess
phf: ben_vulpes: alright, that was an unfair comment, but i was trying to say that the focus is wrong.
ben_vulpes: phf: one day i'll find an interesting question, i swear
trinque: yeah, that's what I said
trinque: both missing the point. I am asking stylistically where something like an /etc/hosts would live
trinque: I'm feeling around in the dark, would love to know
phf: trinque: yeah, i'm also talking about owning the machine
trinque: I was addressing "own the machine" not CL
trinque: *lisp OS, I meant
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> http://qntra.net/2015/03/local-police-arming-robots/ << bb you're unsung comic gold i tell you << ty
asciilifeform: and ben_vulpes is quite likely to do a cleaner job of it than i
asciilifeform: anyway ben_vulpes is in luck, because i invented a marvellous pill for folks who had trouble fitting v in head
ben_vulpes: it's software that i must run that does not fit in my head!
ben_vulpes: well i've not parsed v in its entirety into my head yet, and after bitcoin i'm loath to run software that doesn't fit in my head.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i'm trying to get a sense of how much sense the thing made to folks
ben_vulpes: http://qntra.net/2015/03/local-police-arming-robots/ << bb you're unsung comic gold i tell you
pete_dushenski: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33978116 << and i thought i was hairy-(ish)
ben_vulpes: i know!
trinque: I buy the primo shit from Meat on Burnside
trinque: I feed animals meant to eat meat... MEAT!
asciilifeform: i remember seeing a guinea pig
asciilifeform: trinque: when i moved to usa, i was initially puzzled why various animals were mis-shapen
trinque: people ask me if I feed him enough. of fucking course I do; that's just a cat with muscle, not blubber
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1260451 << i recently waded into the bizarro world of baby diapers where monthly service of 'cloth' units is 3x price of 'disposable' AND ~40% shittier. and i do mean shittier. but... environment ! ☝︎☟︎
trinque: yeah, I let mine out; got him from somebody on craigslist in the woods in TX
asciilifeform: i tried once to keep a cat, in the old flat. he did not like it, escaped, tunneled through a grate and never seen again.
asciilifeform: i remember the last two mice very well
mircea_popescu: oh and acutally, the first time i EVER encountered a rodent as a domicile pest (of exactly three times total) is, iirc, on my blog somewhere.
asciilifeform: in my old flat i made use of a very spiffy kind of trap, true marvel of engineering,
mircea_popescu: i think maybe transylvania is not warm enough
asciilifeform: where i live now, rat is no less a thing than in any medieval town, i imagine.
mircea_popescu: i didn't know anyone who had seen one.
mircea_popescu: i had seen a rat, once.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i had never ever seen one.
mircea_popescu: had serious problems overcoming the mild curiosity. i don't see them as THAT much of a pest yet actually.
asciilifeform: (he would not do well in a ru flat. but allergy is really something you develop from hyper-hygienic conditions anyway. a man with roach allergy was an impossible thing where i come from)
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 03:14:19; assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 02:52:40; trinque: again, I wouldn't be surprised if it's some garbage that was in wheat production processes at some point
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1260904 << i recently met a fella who cannot drink american instant coffee. breaks out in hives. and not on account of the coffee, but from having allergy to... cockroaches. ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1260690 << i like how mircea_popescu comes back to this image. makes me often privately wonder if he did a tour of duty as an undertaker when young man ☝︎
mircea_popescu: well if you feel like writing about this polio sometime i'll read it.
trinque: I dunno; you don't have to subscribe to their newsletter to talk
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's more like 'i can't walk, had polio'
mircea_popescu: is this "not having the circuitry" anything akin to "i cnat spael, i'm an artistic type" ?
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 02:52:40; trinque: again, I wouldn't be surprised if it's some garbage that was in wheat production processes at some point ☟︎
asciilifeform: what i really suck at is socializing with generic humans without wanting to eat a bullet almost immediately
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: idk, why do i suck at ping-pong ?
asciilifeform: trinque: if i were any good at lying, i would already be working as a professional liar. considering that i live in the world's capital for these
asciilifeform: trinque: i even once applied for enslavement at nsa !
asciilifeform: trinque: btw i will mention that there was a time when i was out of work and starving, and tried to do all kinds of things. the normal corporate folks could tell what kind of animal i was from ten minutes' conversation and wouldn't touch me with a barge pole.
trinque: I dunno I have a sense of humor about it
asciilifeform: trinque: i bet he works a full shift
trinque: I bet Galois pays more
trinque: I know a guy that makes like 120k building terrible web-pages
mircea_popescu: i stuffed more of the finest sturgeon roe into random women than anyone you know.
mircea_popescu: and i still wouldn't mind.
trinque: this is kinda what I mean about something like "you're smart, take the shartups for all they're worth"
mircea_popescu: and if i were in prison, i'd still have roquefort flown in, and it'd still be shared with some monkeys.
asciilifeform: do i catastrophically fail to grasp this ...?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can not answer for taleb. i can tell you that as far as i'm concerned, a) my ass actually enjoys the company and b) my head actually doesn't much care about the industry.
mircea_popescu: but they hated with burning passion the girls involved. which, i'm sure, in their worst nightmares sounded just like mats' bus linked above
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has, i think, separated the two ?
asciilifeform: if i had 'the money', someone would simply whack me with a club & take it.
pete_dushenski: maybe i buy off-brand mac and cheese instead of 'kraft dinner', save $0.50, invest, be moar rich !