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danielpbarron: i can sell you
a stack of the item that gives you it :D
mike_c: mircea_popescu: that one isn't ringing
a bell, but it looks fun :)
mircea_popescu: the hc had
a very retarded arrangement, where the straight rather than /-\ shaped keys caught, and so on.
mircea_popescu: they briefly used
a "sealed flexible plastic sensor" bs, but got out of it within
a year or so
mircea_popescu: the tim-s had
a decent, steel spring actioned keyboard
mircea_popescu: in any shape or form the deal would have been
a tech transfer, not an item sale.
mircea_popescu: dude, i had to be the first one to show the concept of
a map to random cairo cab driver.
mircea_popescu: if he were not desperate ~of the world~ he would be pursuing
a career.
mircea_popescu: it is meaningless to speak of
a revolutionary's desperation.
mircea_popescu: and yes hearn is
a better political animal than gavin, but not more intelligent
trinque: asciilifeform: your and other material has long since disabused me of the idea that I'll own
a computer any time soon
trinque: the reddit post referencing hearn said "we could increase blocksize on xt in
a week" 3 days gago
assbot: Logged on 12-06-2015 22:28:57; trinque: ascii_field: thanks for the link to pcengines; very interesting to me for
a variety of uses
mircea_popescu: minigame will always release
a "reference client", but i'd frankly love for people to make their own.
cazalla: oh boy this article is gonna be
a good one
mike_c: jurov: have you been able to write
a python script that'll do something in the game?
mircea_popescu: "anyone" is
a particularly inept model. it presumes the world composed of imbecile 20somethings like one finds on reddit.
danielpbarron: the learning curv is very steep with eulora, to the point where it's
a chore to get going with it. But once I had
a few things figured out it is now becoming addictive
trinque: ascii_field: thanks for the link to pcengines; very interesting to me for
a variety of uses
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it is, after all,
a consensus mechanism, not
a fucking science journal.
mircea_popescu: seeing how what version you run is
a political choice more than
a technological one, accepting dissent is -ev for your own affairs.
mircea_popescu: i see no problem with simply nullrouting all "xt nodes", and for that matter the general practice is to block any node that advertises
a version different from your own.
mircea_popescu: shinohai nothing prevents you from ignoring any node. this is how people deal with hooligans, it's been
a thing since forever.
shinohai: there are only
a few hundred ip's if that
trinque: shinohai: sounds like
a patch to bitcoind
shinohai: is there anyone here that is
a btc .conf wiz ?
ascii_field: which camel? the one who walks through the eye of
a needle ?
ascii_field: burn nvidia. (amd at least shows remorse, published gpu specs for
a megatonne of cards, and ~no one has done anything with them~)
mircea_popescu: stirctly, strictly that. i don't aim to run
a university, i aim to run
a decimation service.
assbot: Logged on 12-06-2015 21:49:40; mircea_popescu: anyway, i was looking for
a why more in the form of IdiotCamelCaseFunctionOfDoomNotImplementedRevertsToSoftwareEmulation
mircea_popescu: anyway, i was looking for
a why more in the form of IdiotCamelCaseFunctionOfDoomNotImplementedRevertsToSoftwareEmulation
☟︎ mats: fun fact (unapproved by the FCC): the VGA is
a decent TX-only SDR.
mircea_popescu: all these social media derps saying "privilege" like it's
a bad thing ?!
ascii_field: ('corebios' aka linuxbios ships with
a simple dos-compat. layer that will boot winblows if you must)
trinque: I see this as
a box with which to connect to the wotnet, things like that
ascii_field: (this is another reason why the shitgnomatic 'replacements' for x11 are nonsensical. if i can't get EXACT same experience through
a net connection to the machine without idiocies like 'sharing desktop', the gui is WORHTLESS)
trinque: if you want
a machine that does exactly and only and none other than what's in some specification, lol
trinque: trinque | yeah, well... it's not going to be
a lisp machine either
assbot: Logged on 12-06-2015 21:26:36; trinque: mod6: this is why I think
a standard set of relatively cheap hardware is called in the default build
trinque: yeah, well... it's not going to be
a lisp machine either
mircea_popescu: Do you hate slimfat people? I'm not visible fat if you see my with
a shirt, but I'm out of shape when you see me without it, I have the hips of
a woman.
mircea_popescu: decimation honestly, that particular mob reads
a lot to me like the people claiming the "auto industry" is "supressing the water engine" trying to jump ship
trinque: mod6: this is why I think
a standard set of relatively cheap hardware is called in the default build
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "doc, i dunno what to do... i feel like
a chicken trapped in
a turkey's body"
mircea_popescu: in other news,
a turducken walks into the counsellor's office
ascii_field: e.g., just about everyone at this point went to first grade and would spit on
a claimed perpetuum mobile, but if you ask'em to invest in 'miraculous' protein fold solver - different matter
mod6: trinque and I tried to get my thing to work from grub> for hours one night, perhaps
a few different times. if it was simple, we'd have resolved it. it's probably my dumb POS box.
trinque: jurov: yeah and you had it earlier; you can easily load
a kernel from that
danielpbarron: "harassing
a doxxing" should be *and ? << BingoBoingo
decimation: "What
a system like Atomwise actually does can be pretty opaque to
a general audience."
trinque never throws away
a "known good" anything once had
trinque: I refuse to accept that that's even
a thing.
ascii_field: i'd love to teach
a platoon of #b-
a folks to do what i do, either/or to become less killworthy or (more practically) to be replaced more quickly when finally killed.
mircea_popescu: mod6 well, he created it SOMEHOW. im not sure how far that preferred way goes, people get to drive
a car their preferred way to ~some degree~.
decimation: but ascii has
a point, this wouldn't work if everyone does not have the same hardware
mod6: are we talking about two different things here? let's leave the R.I. out of it for
a minute. my assumption there is someone can indeed create
a "buildroot" or w/e to then cross compile to whatever they want for the R.I.
decimation: it's true you would need
a highly restricted hardware list
mod6: <+decimation> why not make
a 'buildroot' that targets 32-bit x86? << for the R.I. itself or gentoo?
decimation: why not make
a 'buildroot' that targets 32-bit x86?
trinque: livecd boots, starts bash script whose only purpose is to be told which drive to obliterate with
a standard base image
trinque: that thing's only purpose could be to dump you into
a booted gentoo which you then follow instructions to configure
trinque: thing is partitioning's
a very personal decision
mod6: ok. cool. I'll give it
a try.
trinque: mod6: sounds like livecd plus
a finished version of my script there
mod6: <+trinque> mod6: what's the desired result, you pop
a livecd in and it installs as well as openbsd or debian does? << well, something like that. you pop-in LiveCD, follow The Foundation's ``Guide'' through the chroot process, using hardened uclibc, whatever packages we think are required to build the R.I.
trinque: mod6: what's the desired result, you pop
a livecd in and it installs as well as openbsd or debian does?
trinque: it wont reproduce my local set-up, but it sounds like the bar is merely "get
a uclibc build env for bitcoind"
ascii_field: what this means, in practice, is that
a reasonable ( i won't say 'sane' because these do not exist presently ) computer system is not
a machine, but
a ~place~ - like
a church organ
ascii_field: mod6: ...working set of instructions that allow
a person to construct gentoo in our preferred way << i suspect that this is
a nonstarter on account of the unavailability of sane hardware. see the thread where mircea_popescu installed gentoo and then threw it off
a cliff
mod6: <+trinque> mircea_popescu: built him
a bootable image of gentoo in about an hour last weekend << yup, this is true. and I haven't been able to try it out yet. i'm planning on trying out the steps that he deed'd tomorrow. the image is great, but the goal is to get to
a working set of instructions that allow
a person to construct gentoo in our preferred way. so even if the image works, im not sure this is something to be used for anything else. he
mircea_popescu: do half, one and
a half, three, whatever's normally done.
ascii_field: but, fortunately, it is
a low-speed device
ascii_field: most likely don't even own
a thesaurus, but simply read neal stephenson's novel 'diamond age.'
mircea_popescu: i like it when people doing digital bullshit speak of "bespoke". yeah, totally, it means something OTHER than "we want to be paid 10x what our shit's worth on the open market for no other reason than we feel so special and we got
a bookmarked link to
a thesaurus website"
mircea_popescu: looky, there's no argument here, i can follow what you're saying. this thing is not hard to make, is
a requisite, should exist but does not. definitely it's
a niche.
ascii_field: it was from
a lack of precisely this simple tool.
mircea_popescu hands ascii_field
a roll of duct tape and taped old tv shows
decimation: then all they have to sell is some analog electronics attached to
a digitizer