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mircea_popescu: at this rate the us army capital utilization efficiency can't be far behind.
mircea_popescu: including five straight months of 1/4 gb ram box at close to a btc/month pulling our dicks.
mircea_popescu: mats yeah. a fucking year with this, if you can believe it.
mircea_popescu: half of these guys look like they really shoulda been in surgery.
mircea_popescu: but this thing you really need 2-3 people and ideally you know, an hour or so undisturbed
mircea_popescu: well a pheasant you're done with in what, 15 minutes solo
mircea_popescu: and you know, boar weighs about the same as a large number of sacks of potatoes
mircea_popescu: fucking nigthmare the damned shits, like they were everywhere
mircea_popescu: spent hour and half dragging it around trying to find place with no anthills within five feet
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo btw, know what is difference between gynecologist and bee-dog ?
mircea_popescu: you ever took a live animal and turned it into steaks ?
mircea_popescu: incidentaly, what do those people do when they need to pee ?
mircea_popescu: the real work crane hosts 3 and they sit on the same chair.
mircea_popescu: is tomorro workable ? i'm mostly around all teh time so no biggy for me. or better later in week ? fri ? sun ?
mircea_popescu: prolly should have a sit down and get goals together tomorrow or somesuch ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c yes, it';s necessarily generalizable ; i linked a generalisation for convenience.
mircea_popescu: mike_c the idea is you know what i mean by degaussing ?
mircea_popescu: if bias is the concern, you just degauss them. if not bias is the concern, wtf can he do to improve ?
mircea_popescu: sorta like bbs-with-sql, if you will, from another perspective
mircea_popescu: db can even be maintained in a shared, hashed, headless, distributed manner a la torrents
mircea_popescu: im starting to think actually shared sql may be a very sane and deeply correct way t ogo about things.
mircea_popescu: mike_c this seem like a sane interface to you, what he's proposing ?
mircea_popescu: comparing the workrate differential, i'm starting to think the sane thing to do is spin it off to someone who actually wants to do it and move on.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi, something obscure that's been taking him 6 fucking months. it's beyond scandalous.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> there is a stupendous amount of work to be done, but unfortunately i personally do not have the free arms and legs to do it, currently << i'd be happy if i saw the damned phuctor already.
mircea_popescu: and in other news, btcbase.org larger referrer for trilema than log.bitcoin-assets by now.
mircea_popescu: punkman> who drinks absinthe anyway << preppy, "worldly" 16yos ?
mircea_popescu: but back to more prosaic concerns, hey mod6 ben_vulpes what's gonna be in this month's foundation report ?
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: it seems rather obvious that a bunch of undergrads would prefer to hack on a game over any and all other possible tasks they could get. not sure this point needs further argument, but if it does, prolly the blockhead in question not fit for white collar work anyway.
mircea_popescu: in this sense no one could ever do anything. heck, i can't explain why roses are fun and enlightening either.
mircea_popescu: jurov more or less bolted scheme on the thing from what i hear. some other guy whose programming experience consists of flash reskinned the client in a coupla days.
mircea_popescu: they can make a perl bot to bid in irc auctions ffs. anything they want, they can make.
mircea_popescu: they can make a smaller part ; or a method to do x. for that matter hooks are exposed and more or less documented.
mircea_popescu: they can make their own node.js client, who cares what tech they use.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you gotta give kids soemthign to do, right ?
mircea_popescu: can just meld it off eulora, get more class participation while watching more dr who or w/e tyhe fuck it is they do./
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform none of that. teacher has to make up a fucking teaching plan, and establish curricula and scoring criteria and whatnot. THIS IS WORK
mircea_popescu: which is, as far as history informs, what all bureaucrats ever really wanted.
mircea_popescu: at the core it is - you get the chance to offload most of your actual work on a private company.
mircea_popescu: thinking of text in "ai" terms, the more complex the graph / strlen, the tenser.
mircea_popescu: seems a serious loss, as the convo is very tense in the original, and i doubt anyone but they involved even has the priors to grok wtf is being said.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, i have nfi how to make it shorter. i guess the irc transcript could be made to go away ?
mircea_popescu: well on one hand shoving it under door seems a miserable plan to me. if you can't say to some guy "hey, look into this!" prolly best not molest 'em
mircea_popescu: it is currently 11667 characters, which means like 20 pages
mircea_popescu: to get under the "hey this is too long for me to read - i'm in academia damnit"