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mircea_popescu: and while i agree with you re the distinction, i believe it's without a difference.
mircea_popescu: no, im comparing the amiga i knew (early 90s) to the apple i saw (late 90s onwards)
mircea_popescu: they stand in my mind because when i first heard of apple i thought "hey... this is like... amiga ?"
trinque: BingoBoingo | It's something of a pity that Mac survived and Amiga died << heard "microkernel wank" a couple times round here, but I was a huge BeOS fan back in the day
decimation: no, I don't
mircea_popescu: <waylow> I do - but it's been a while since I've run linux. no windows for me
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> oh macs. yeah that's been a pain. a binary for it is still being worked on, but it's slow going. if you have an ubuntu anywhere, from what i hear it's pretty smooth. also windows binaries work.
mircea_popescu: <waylow> I'm on mac so I couldn't figure out how to install the game
mircea_popescu: i dunno that primary sources escape the suetonius objhection.
mircea_popescu: in any case i'll score s above a, if you don't mind ?
asciilifeform: if this means 'fiction' i should like to know where is reality.
asciilifeform: naturally i wasn't there, saying hello to k. in person
asciilifeform: what if he has asked 'i want to live in manhattan as a free man' as 'terms' ?
mircea_popescu: do i need to quote verse and chapter to you ? because if i do you're eating crow.
asciilifeform: just like sharashka where i live.
asciilifeform: in sharashka, the very best rocket designer's terms are 'i get to eat'
BingoBoingo: Seriously people were like "It's a misdemeanor don't fight it." I'm like "It's a misdemeanor and I'm white. They prolly don't anticipate having to prosecute it"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> the goal here is to do maximal damage to the system. << This. On my misdemeanor charge which it was suggest I settle organizational incompetence on the part of the police and prosecution seems to be scuttling whatever case they may or may not have had. Because people normally plea evidence was never collected or lost according to intel. Alleged "victim" is reportedly now a joke subject to taunts from coworkers wit
mircea_popescu: turning back on one';s choices later is not another's problem. i am not held to explain why the guy that changed his mind failed both ways.
mircea_popescu: i don't think the connections will ever be certain.
mircea_popescu: i beg to differ, i see it quite plainly.
asciilifeform: i see dratel as a pretty obvious case of usg mole
mircea_popescu: and i wouldn't give 50k to random unknown schmuck without a wot for the obvious reasons, regardless what they can or could do.
mircea_popescu: i suffer from such a problem, yes.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Dratel from what I understands works until open ended fundraiser is exhausted.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-06-2015#1174921 << i don't single out lawyers from naive 'but mine has mercedes!' observation, but because the lawyers who ~actually reliably magic away problems~ are not dying in debt. or worrying about rent. ☝︎
asciilifeform: but to bring it back to the 'dirty house, cleaners want wheelbarrow of gold, so must stay dirty' - i doubt mircea_popescu is suffering from any software problem that, say, terry davis (deliberately not nominating any of the folks here for this gedankenexperiment) couldn't or wouldn't fix for, say, 50000btc
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, i'll listen sympathetically to any programmer that can't feed himself ; and i'll be amused at any programmer that "but oprah!". the field's over there, and it takes all comers. don't mind the manure.
williamdunne: The best off lawyer I know, made very little of his money directly from being a lawyer
mircea_popescu: "my grandfather was a senator, and my father made a billion, and i'd better do another line of cock^H^Hke before i think about this too muc"
mircea_popescu: i am not sure this simplification works as you intend it to.
mircea_popescu: this is what i mean by equity.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-06-2015#1174884 << i can't pretend to any divine revelation re: the numbers, but what i do see is folks who pay lawyer $xxxxx to solve their problem, and offer programmer $xxx. and then wonder why their programmatic problems remain unsolved. they answer 'lawyer is a man and programmer is a monkey. and the latter gets monkey wage.' answer: you paid for monkey. so that's what you get. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: yes, i would trade 10 btc for 100bn "worth" of engineering work.
mircea_popescu is too old to fall for "progress" and "future" tricks. i'm not paying for that.
mircea_popescu: and i mean that literally. a + bi
asciilifeform: i.e. with negative sign bit
asciilifeform: i was speaking of problems that are at least theoretically worth solving
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> oris it just the thing chicklets derping on facebook and calling themselves designers favour ? << Largely this. I know a person who "Does Video" for a and I am not making this up: "Storytelling Consultancy" or at least he did. Not sure atm what that douche is doing.
williamdunne: I'm pretty sure it is dpb
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-06-2015#1174799 << i live there! ☝︎
mircea_popescu: there's an endless mountaineous heap of work, and the last time i talked to someone even halfway competent was last week.
mircea_popescu: i had no idea.
mircea_popescu: "The crappy 3D support on Mac OS is in direct conflict with that goal. Furthermore, as a non-Mac OS user, I would kindly request that no disproportionate developer effort be spent on such an inadequate and developer-hostile platform.
mircea_popescu: "And that article Richard posted just seems to exist to stroke Apple's ego. I don't think I know a single artist who would choose to buy one of the new Mac Pros for their work, especially considering the premium you pay and their reliance on AMD hardware in a field dominated by nV and CUDA."
mircea_popescu: and no, i don't believe cook has the guts to even try.
mircea_popescu: at least that's what i got out of it.
asciilifeform: what was the thread about, i'm having trouble telling
mircea_popescu: apparently it's not going to. i dunno whence this idea comes that something can run magically-like.
mircea_popescu: if you want to process say a shader and it takes you half hour on mac and five minutes on gentoo then by this standard one would i guess say it doesn't work.
ben_vulpes: i work with the 'agencies'. design happens on macs.
ben_vulpes: i went to parsons. i know.
asciilifeform: (why mac survives, i mean. rather than apple corp.)
mircea_popescu: the things one finds on the internet. i thought mac survived principally because graphics shitheads.
phf: mircea_popescu: yes, will post here, once i have closer to complete blockchain
phf: mircea_popescu: i guess thermonuked is less efficient network utilization, but per asciilifeform better then less efficient memory utilization which was the case pre thermonuke
asciilifeform: it was in the interest of (3) that i amputated the 'orphan tx' cache as well.
phf: asciilifeform: a hunch, but also poor understanding of how blocks are requested. i thought that maybe bastards will compete for bandwidth with legitimate blocks
phf: ben_vulpes: heya! yeah, i quit my previous job, so i have a lot more time for avocation
phf: asciilifeform: right, no surprises there so far. i thought that maybe as blockchain grows the cumulative delay will increase, but i don't see that happening yet
mircea_popescu: phf am i reading what you're saying correctly , "thermonuked more efficient network utilization" ?
phf: asciilifeform: that's how i understand it, just poor wording on my part
phf: bitcoind keeps rerequesting same bastard blocks before there's enough blockchain to accept it, on average i got 3-4 rejections for the same block, with a few worst cases of ~100 rerequests
phf: so i'm running thermonuked version: at 180k blockcount, i got 44526 bastards, 44007 of which have been eventually accepted with an average 3 minute delay.
asciilifeform: ^ i posted it to 'reddit' when the latter was still readable, in '07, and for a while it held, i think, the 'vote' #1 record on that site
assbot: Logged on 24-06-2015 22:17:37; pete_dushenski: i can see the epidemiology headline now : "sids linked to living in suburbia"
pete_dushenski: cool beans. i'm outie. laters!
assbot: Logged on 24-06-2015 22:00:51; trinque: pete_dushenski: so I hear, yet primate infanticide is most certainly a thing.
pete_dushenski: i can see the epidemiology headline now : "sids linked to living in suburbia" ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i suppose on the surface "sudden infant death" seems insanity, as adults don't do anything like that.
trinque: yeah, I can see how the thing resembles other media-fueled panics
mircea_popescu: eh from what i've heard, they convicted a buncha women for what actually was bona fide kids dying
trinque: I've seen more than a few things published on whether "sudden infant death syndrome" (obviously a questionable concept on its own) is a more palatable "diagnosis" for infanticide
trinque: pete_dushenski: so I hear, yet primate infanticide is most certainly a thing. ☟︎
pete_dushenski: not unlike williamdunne telling them they belong in the kitchen, i suppose
nubbins`: i think that's included in the next omnibus bill
mircea_popescu: i thought unemployed is "hasn't made 1mn clicks on fb stuff this month"
williamdunne: I always thought the stat was meant to reflect those looking for work who can't find it
trinque: thestringpuller: I'm a firm believer in post-natal abortion rights.
williamdunne: ascii_field: nah, but USG stats are what, 4%? I reckon 10% is about right
thestringpuller: my mom woulda put me in the ground had I spoken like that to her as a kid
nubbins`: "My boss wouldn't accept Bitcoin. I have since quit my job, set up a competitor"
nubbins`: "My boss wouldn't accept Bitcoin. I have since quit my job"
nubbins`: cool, where'd i put my money
mircea_popescu: im pretty sure i saw rendering prices etc.
nubbins`: http://i.imgur.com/bmMPEbw.png
mircea_popescu: yeah. makes a lot of sense, from what i've seen.
mircea_popescu: punkman because a) when i first asked, their idea was "buy a mug" ; b) the link i finally fished out did not include any reference either i or fluffypony found (see it in logs) - they have A DIFFERENT unlinked page for this purpose ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i've been a girl before.
thestringpuller: i wonder if they'll call you a tyrant
mircea_popescu: i think that's gonna be the bitcoin thing - we're here to surprise you.
ascii_field: (i.e. invalid on account of a field that can be corrected today without changing validity of signature)
ascii_field: at the very least i want to know ~why~ invalid block made it into the chain
punkman: http://btc.yt/lxr/satoshi/source/src/main.cpp#0936 << when I removed the IFs there it blew up before block 150k, wonder if it works for anyone else
ascii_field: i'm all for having them in there minus the 'skip checks prior to checkpoints' thing
ascii_field: i'd much like to hear a persuasive argument re: why all of the above won't happen.
ascii_field: i don't have a prayer of doing half as good a job as hanbot on this one.
mircea_popescu: the reason there's nothing left there but crooks is precisely that the onl;y deal available is "i try to steal as much as i can, if you catch me you get it and i take a vacation"
mircea_popescu: i don't buy from paypal, you expect me to trade with your vending machine ? wtf is this, "free market the way we like it" ?
BingoBoingo: Ah, I was refering to the need to get the keys or the coins, as in you can't take a laptop "full of Bitcoin" and have seized the coins: "Bitcoin on the other hand demands not only mere physical possession, but actual control of a set of keys necessary to transfer value. While gold is vulnerable to a simple change of possession, Bitcoin requires a more difficult but possible intellectual change of possession."