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nubbins`: ($12 hit-air popcorn popper is
a very capable roaster)
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.
nubbins`: and just because
a farm had
a great crop one year
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
nubbins`: nowadays, the animals are force-fed so you might as well feed the beans to
a cow.
ben_vulpes: my buddy goes through
a TEU of raw cacao beans every year or so.
mats: asciilifeform: we'll see in
a decade or two. this is my life's work.
nubbins`: it's
a regular occurrence these past few years for Timmy's drive-thrus to have to be rebuilt to accomodate more traffic
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"
nubbins`: BingoBoingo: even the impression that powdered cheese belongs is
a bad one
nubbins`: mats it was
a bit light on the actual tech stuff for my liking
nubbins`: i'll do x, i'll do y, i won't do z, here's
a tote bag
nubbins`: second one spent
a fuckin hour selling us on the experience of selling our house through her
☟︎ nubbins`: we were thinking about selling P's house
a few months ago. talked to
a couple of realtors
nubbins`: why would
a rapper buy
a ferrari instead of some GICs?
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
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.
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.
shinohai: It's like buying
a Ferrari with the hood welded shut.
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.
shinohai: I had
a musician friend in Berlin that loved Macbooks for music. Specialized use tho.
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: 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`: Bleyle admits that repairs can be pricey, especially hand-rewinding
a DC motor, which can run between US $30 000 and $40 000. But he says even
a refurbished motor looks cheap compared with the $500 000 cost of replacing the elevator, not to mention the months of involuntary stair climbing during the upgrade.
nubbins`: having
a bad tech day and reminiscing about nightmares past isn't helping
nubbins`: Web mySite = new Web(); would create
a Site object
nubbins`: and then literally reversed
a bunch of the terms in the next version, so
a site was now
a web and
a web was now
a site
☟︎ nubbins`: no kidding, every now and then some internal piece of code would return an array of strings as
a single, very large string, with entries separated by the escape string "#;"
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`: dogecoin belongs in
a "classic hype machines of the information age" textbook
nubbins`: mircea_popescu asciilifeform "physical doge" was totally
a thing. iirc copper rounds?
nubbins`: muscle memory is
a weird thing
assbot: Logged on 28-07-2015 20:43:47; pete_dushenski: physical dogecoin is printed on
a piece of cut-out cardboard from an empty cereal box
mircea_popescu: They need to make the next version use
a better database system that is not linearly.
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
☟︎ trinque: mats: there's
a "section" sign in the footnotes
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.
shinohai: I'm not giving up. Just need
a breather then perhaps it will clarify itself for me.
assbot: Logged on 28-07-2015 18:45:34; 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: 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: trinque she'd be ok, except she has this by now very pointedly obvious sex fright issue which kind-of ruins her entire shtick by enveloping it in
a very strong stale loser odor.
assbot: Logged on 28-07-2015 17:23:05; trinque: just means whatever they're doing now, they've got
a bullshit legal argument for why it isn't "bulk"
mircea_popescu: o wait - they didn't! clearly. which is why holocaust was
a lie tututuuu!
trinque: "
A chaste, responsible White mother with her children. Scenes like this deeply offend the Jews???"
assbot: Logged on 22-07-2015 15:32:26; mircea_popescu:
a commodity is
a commodity. why's property enter into this ?
mircea_popescu: if you recal my out of hand rejection of property as an analytical tool in
a previous discussion about what htings ARE, you won't be surprised it applies here.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field iirc there is
a deisgn for the practical use of this, awaiting its completers on trilema. so what of it ?
mircea_popescu: BTW: Homeland Security was storing all the seized Bitcoins on
a Trezor that they either purchased or seized from someone else!
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: when tuned (vs sparkgap!) radio first appeared, the extension of traditional land rules to the spectrum seemed like
a logical thing. because 'trespassers' in radio were loud and stationary, and easily detected. but this does not have to be so!
shinohai: One day maybe I'll commission
a #b-
a silver bitcoin.
shinohai: @ pete_dushenski Bought some goxxed coins and
a couple of Unobtanium bars
pete_dushenski: physical dogecoin is printed on
a piece of cut-out cardboard from an empty cereal box
☟︎ ascii_field: (inquiring minds want to know: is there
a physical 'dogecoin' ? and, importantly, is it made from pressed dogue shit?!)
trinque: guy thinks he understands bitcoin because he can use the UI of
a qt program
mats: searching logs is
a pain in the ass nao
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.
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.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 28-07-2015 19:04:57; ben_vulpes: how stan goes mad for the lispm and then refuses to treat the shell as
a repl boggles my mind.
shinohai: well trinque I love
a challenge, sometimes
a step back and moar research is required for me though.
ben_vulpes: how stan goes mad for the lispm and then refuses to treat the shell as
a repl boggles my mind.
☟︎