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nubbins`: and i've got a two-minute walk.
nubbins`: i'm not sure why i'm trying to help you find a solution
phf: oh i was wondering why i never see kenyan beans from roasters. ethiopia, rwanda
asciilifeform: i get it, it is possible to 'gentooize' just about anything
nubbins`: compare with most of central america, ethiopia, and others, where you can go to an actual farm and say "i want THESE beans" and receive said beans
phf: nubbins`: i always thought blends are like multigrain breads, a way to have a brand separate from the product, so you can easily substitute your sources
nubbins`: later, i re-wired a breadmaking machine and heatgun combo into a roaster
ben_vulpes: i have enough hobbies tyvm
asciilifeform: see, i want something much more realistic - drink which is not ~deliberately~ shit-flavoured
nubbins`: i used to buy beans from sweetmarias.com
asciilifeform: phf: neat. unfortunately i'm not in that town often
ben_vulpes: <nubbins`> it's actual swill << every time that i'm up north i can't shake the feeling that's where they ship the tired american brands to finally croak ☟︎
nubbins`: asciilifeform this is the guy w/ the ramblings i occasionally post
nubbins`: (was at friend's house one hung-over morning. his wife places chocolate chip pancakes on table in front of him. he starts chewing, massive crunching sounds. i raise eyebrow; "coffee beans", he says)
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> the secret is, i LIKED MAC OS << noises were gorgeous
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i bet pigs would work just as well << May need an obligate carnivore for musk from the anal glands. Perhaps physical Doge may have a use.
asciilifeform: i bet pigs would work just as well
nubbins`: but i've never seen a serious coffee cupper give kopi luwak more than a 7/10
BingoBoingo: <nubbins`> nowadays, the animals are force-fed so you might as well feed the beans to a cow. << I have the feeling a ruminant's multiple stomachs could defeat even a bean.
nubbins`: i guess the intestinal juices / fermenting impart a flavour
shinohai: I always feel like reddit started that trend or something
asciilifeform: nubbins`: when i learned about this coffee, as a boy, i immediately wondered why they use this animal and no other
asciilifeform: which i've never been to
ben_vulpes: i have 2 top-notch joints within 5 minutes stroll.
asciilifeform: point being, the only coffee i or anyone i know can readily access in <10 min., is office pot or shitbux
phf: i'm surprised there isn't some hip coffee shop with brooklyn roasted beans in silver spring..
asciilifeform: if i feel like coffee, i get to choose between shitbux and the office pot.
asciilifeform: but i dare say that at this point, it's a microshit:
asciilifeform: mats: i have never personally known anyone who achieved great power or access to astonishing s33kr1tz through re. but i am willing to concede that somewhere, they exist.
phf: starbucks is kind of like mcdonalds, and the same reason microsoft won, guiranteed same mediocre experience, so if you're driving through north carolina and you need your caffeine fix, you don't have to engage any mental faculties, because there be dragons outside your comfort bubble. i've noticed that with a lot of my starbucks loving friends, for them it's kind of like "i know this, this is starbucks"
asciilifeform: mats: i ask, because i've never (afaik) met anyone who ~decided consciously~ to study it
mats: yeah I've heard that, I only just finished the pilot
nubbins`: mats i enjoyed it
nubbins`: i'll do x, i'll do y, i won't do z, here's a tote bag
asciilifeform: the only reason i can picture is if they are convinced that the real thing cannot be had
asciilifeform: i don't grasp this, and won't, regardless of how well mircea_popescu explains it. why the fuck would anyone want ritual over the real thing ? ☟︎
asciilifeform: because there are virtually no other coffee shops, as such, where i live
asciilifeform: the secret is, i LIKED MAC OS
assbot: Logged on 09-12-2014 02:39:31; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: as a boy, i often thought that i would grow up, 'have money', and buy an apple computer - at least to try it (the crippled machines at schools, etc. were an interesting diversion, and i imagined that mac is 'rich man's computer' somehow)
nubbins`: i had a colleague who used to carry around his macbook air in a manila envelope
phf: i like to show mcl to people who rave to me about some new feature in visual studio
nubbins`: i thought you couldn't even turn those back on again once they powered down.
BingoBoingo: phf: I still kinda want a G3 or G4 iMac
phf: BingoBoingo: i use that ibook for mac os 9 now, with kaleidoscope, hypercard, mcl (macintosh common lisp). i boot it up from time to time and it feels like the cyberpunk future that never was
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i like my 'hypercard' on at least 800x600 pixels << I usually do the presentation with a "clean desk" to heighten to realization that this machine was small enought to allow civilized other work at desk, as happened in age when computer was office accessory.
asciilifeform: i like my 'hypercard' on at least 800x600 pixels
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> but generally i don't recommend an archaeologist's machine to a civilian << I recommend this one because hypercard. As a dare, for the ones that get it realize not all "advances" are such.
BingoBoingo: <phf> ppc macs were nice. i spent years with a handmedown g3 ibook, running linux on it, and i still love that machine, probably for sentimental reasons << Bought one used with defunct vertical line on screen. Played with then closeted, then recycled. Prolly should have kept it.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i can even see how this was sorta justified by crapple (has 1 core, no gpu!)
shinohai: I had a musician friend in Berlin that loved Macbooks for music. Specialized use tho.
asciilifeform: but generally i don't recommend an archaeologist's machine to a civilian
nubbins`: for a time, i developed "app store" apps as a hobby
phf: ppc macs were nice. i spent years with a handmedown g3 ibook, running linux on it, and i still love that machine, probably for sentimental reasons
shinohai: Laptop I have now came with Win 8, which I never even booted in to.
shinohai: Heh. I have only "owned" 1 apple product ever, an ipad and that lasted a week before I gave it away in disgust.
shinohai: I have never owned a RasPI ... I can usually scrounge up a shitty laptop or something and load Debian on it xD
nubbins`: jobs is marginally interesting for having fessed up to LSD usage, but as i understand it was generally a piece of shit otherwise
nubbins`: at some point in my life, i'd like to require the rewinding of a motor
nubbins`: i like this guy
nubbins`: i vaguely recall this
nubbins`: i find people don't want X so much as they want the experience of choosing/buying/being sold X
asciilifeform: nubbins`: this is probably a good time to mention a historical thesis i've chewed on in my head, on and off, for a decade or so
nubbins`: anyway i gotta fuck off talking about that
nubbins`: for a while i was paid to develop bespoke widgets for "microsoft sharepoint", a CMS/DMS that is the biggest piece of shit you'll never see
nubbins`: i coulda SWORN i just typed in my pgp passphrase completely and utterly wrong
assbot: Logged on 28-07-2015 21:58:15; trinque: I mean, the fucking thing should work on arbitrary bits wrapped in a signature
trinque: I mean, the fucking thing should work on arbitrary bits wrapped in a signature ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 28-07-2015 19:46:35; ascii_field: so far we've been trying to weasel out of maintaining a whole #b-a linux distro, but i'm not certain that it is avoidable.
trinque: I continue to discover new character sets which cause some or another component to barf
shinohai: I'm not giving up. Just need a breather then perhaps it will clarify itself for me.
assbot: Logged on 28-07-2015 18:54:32; shinohai: Yes. I have followed those instructions from the ml and still have no idea what I'm doing. I'm shoving this to the back burner.
assbot: Logged on 28-07-2015 18:45:34; ben_vulpes: in particular, "“[I’m looking for] 5:1 (risk /reward). Five to one means I’m risking one dollar to make five. What five to one does is allow you to have a hit ratio of 20%. I can actually be a complete imbecile. I can be wrong 80% of the time, and I’m still not going to lose.”"
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-07-2015#1215229 << this is about at the level of "i am looking for a HB8.5 for my wife." ☝︎
mircea_popescu: it's cute the first 300 times. after which it starts to occur that "why am i hanging in a room where a 40 yo woman that STILL has dumb virgin perisexual issues derps on ?"
mircea_popescu: i had nfi idea bad postcards from the 1920s "deeply offend jews". how did they make it through the early 1900s if this is the case is anyone's guess.
mircea_popescu: dude every wp link seems dumber than the previous. can't discern if it's because i'm getting smarter or they're "hiring" worse and worse congenital retards, but anyway. ima stop clicking
mircea_popescu: ah, i thought you were saying you're confused somethiong
mircea_popescu: It did not cause any issues, I was just wondering if anyone else has seen this weird delay.
pete_dushenski: and with that, i'm off again. toodaloo !
shinohai: One day maybe I'll commission a #b-a silver bitcoin.
pete_dushenski: i dub thee shinohai : 'the torturing pragmatist'
shinohai: If nothing else, it is like all my USG silver. I can melt it into skulls one day.
shinohai: http://anarcoins.com I think was his site. Been over a year ago.
shinohai: Even tho I despise altcoins now.
shinohai: I love silver, dunno why. I bought some stuff from bigtimespaghetti on there.
pete_dushenski: i'm no nubbins`
pete_dushenski: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1134322.0 << for log readers into physical crypto coins, i (still!) have a few lealana silver ltc pieces for sale. i'm accepting offers. dun be shy.
shinohai: I'd rather learn how thins actually work instead of getting bloated versions with useless "features"
shinohai: I haven't used QT in like 2 years
pete_dushenski: https://twitter.com/Amazing_Maps/status/625755498583838720/photo/1 << i told you guys borders were a flexible notion. see ? even the googs agreeth.
assbot: I think I was robbed for 48 bitcoin! Blockchain log HACKED? ... ( http://bit.ly/1DMRWV4 )
pete_dushenski: "Yer face divorced buttgold long ago." << i loled
pete_dushenski: i guess if there's going to be a female coach in any pro sport, it'll be the one with the most coaches per team.
pete_dushenski: http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25251782/cardinals-add-jen-welter-to-coaching-staff-first-female-coach-in-nfl << can't say i saw this coming.
pete_dushenski: will durant's wife, ariel, is also on the list. so i guess esther isn't alone after all.
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes right ! perel's probably the most interesting author i've come across this year.
ascii_field: so far we've been trying to weasel out of maintaining a whole #b-a linux distro, but i'm not certain that it is avoidable. ☟︎
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-07-2015#1215242 << thing is, as i currently understand, buildroot is the ~only~ way to build musl bitcoin ☝︎
shinohai: well trinque I love a challenge, sometimes a step back and moar research is required for me though.
ben_vulpes: what i am going to do is type `compile_boost' at the cli, and it is going to behave the way i want it to.