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asciilifeform: 'No,' he said, 'I was like almost everybody who came through that war.'
asciilifeform: 'Did that give you a lot of satisfaction?' I said.
asciilifeform: was hanged,' he told me, 'the strap around his ankles — I put that on and made it tight'
asciilifeform: i've always wondered if vonnegut wrote the leather suitcase strap scene in his 'mother night' after reading that orwell piece
thestringpuller: lol. i've noticed a slight pattern.
pete_dushenski: http://dpaste.com/32BQMT1.txt << lulzy btc-e phish i just received
pete_dushenski: WHEN i tell you.
asciilifeform: but more clever than i - he has virtually no net presence at all.
pete_dushenski: heh i somehow imagined that you had all this time as a youf to diddle computers because you were an only child!
pete_dushenski: i should say, one of the only that i'd live in and not have need for car
pete_dushenski: sure, i just thought they mostly lived in montreal
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: i bought a car lol.
asciilifeform: bottom is molten slag because i tried the traditional hot air reflow machine repair method
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform ok, so here's the air display situation: if you have the 1280x800 screen, i'm out of luck, if you have the 1440x900 then we're good!
pete_dushenski: i have an old apple box or two that is blue mooning
asciilifeform: i'm actually the only person i know who keeps an apple box 'for testing xxxx on apple once in a blue moon' without sitting on it all the time
jurov: http://english.pravda.ru/world/europe/20-02-2015/129881-minsk_munich-0/ lol. i can't even..
asciilifeform: if yes, gpggram a post box addr and i'll mail you.
asciilifeform: i've a dead one with intact lcd.
pete_dushenski: mostly because i'm annoyed
pete_dushenski: i think a new screen will run about 200 for this air
asciilifeform: i'm friends with several folks like that in meatspace
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform:it's about the get-the-microshit-out-of-my-fucking-face-i-dont-care-what << now, as ever
mircea_popescu: "As a friend of the US I am deeply worried that if you continue to delay visas in such a way, the only thing you will achieve is to alienate many world-famous foreign scientists, forcing them to increase their cooperation with European or Chinese scientists whose countries roll the red carpet for such visits. "
pete_dushenski: aw i missed adam_obrien's cherry popping
mircea_popescu: In my humble opinion, we are heading toward a disaster, and I have heard many people, among them our top scientists, saying that they are not willing anymore to visit the US, and collaborate with American scientists, because of the difficulties.
asciilifeform: 'In July 2013 I told the NSA-affiliated conference organizers that I was having some problems in getting my visa, and gently asked whether they could do something about it. Always eager to help, the NSA people leaped into action, and immediately sent me a short email written with a lot of tact: “The trouble you are having is regrettable…Sorry you won’t be able to come to our conference. We have submitted our program and
asciilifeform: (i'm nearly certain we did these here)
asciilifeform: back to thread, momentarily, before i nod off to sleep; certain problems (i dare say most of the 'big ones') in algorithms magically dissipate when you burn the retarded von neumann thing
asciilifeform: i'll add that neither 'mark and sweep' (stop-the-world in its basic form) nor 'reference counting' are necessary on a dataflow machine
asciilifeform: in fact, i dare say it is the only good work on the subject in dead tree.
mircea_popescu: i think you see my point. well "my". porobably the oldest point in computing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: beg to differ. there are very good algos for garbage collection with hard real-time guarantees. they are complicated and i know of no system other than common lisp where they are implemented with any quality.
mircea_popescu: i can follow that logic there. "for ten cents we can't be bothered, write your own damned card"
chatquack: Oh I bet! Sounds tasty though
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so i fail to see how "reference counting" is any sort of anything resembling a solution nor c etc demented for not having it.
mircea_popescu: chatquack i just went through home made cherry brandy, im full up on sweet liquor
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: I wouln'dt be surprised cause shits always going down.
asciilifeform: it's about the get-the-microshit-out-of-my-fucking-face-i-dont-care-what
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: looks like I provided 4 bucks.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i have no idea what that is. what's a reddit gold ? a dollar ? 2 ? 10 ?
asciilifeform: i imagine it's an archetypical 'good cop/bad cop' duo
asciilifeform: i suspect that a sizable majority of apple users, if offered the choice between using winblows and being buggered with a thermos, complete with handle, every night,
jurov: i once won a free ipod mini from ibm...that thing recharged longer than played
asciilifeform: i buy hardware, it is expected to last for 15-20 yrs.
jurov: ;;later tell mike_c most qntra shares in coinbr custody was claimed and afaik sold already. And I promised 14 day delivery of the rest on request, so prolly not what you want
asciilifeform: jurov: last i checked, they are already able to buy coffee, lol
asciilifeform: i had half a dozen die in precisely this way on my watch.
asciilifeform: anyway, whoever wants to prepare conductive glue can follow simple recipe, epoxy resin and aluminum powder. heavy on the latter. but don't say i didn't warn...
decimation: re: qntra > I guess my thinking is that he is using pretty speculative thinking about the rate of dilution, who knows how management is going to act in the future
decimation: I bought my ttl-level serial/usb converter on ebay
danielpbarron: i should have something tuesday
danielpbarron: i don't need jtag though, right?
mike_c: anyway, i'm a qntra fanboy for the record. g'nite all!
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: so I was getting beer with Pierre_Rochard the other night, and got on the topic of off "blockchain solutions" in relation to derps wanting to buy coffee on blockchain. so eventually came to realization MPEx can do what Coinbase does but better. PUSH is free of charge, so in theory persons with MPEX accounts could make payment processing network with various bank thingies. they take derps money, put in mpex, and
decimation: well, I would assume that the policy of share dilution would end at some point, and would not approach infinity
mircea_popescu: i think you at least theoreitcally could make a buyout offer.
danielpbarron: i thought it seemed high too, but i'm not in a rush to sell my 204 shares, so...
mircea_popescu: dun mind me then, i was merely conversin'.
mircea_popescu: i dun think 8k buys one anything like a qntra, tbh.
mike_c: nevermind, i don't even want to get into it.
mike_c: i see the stock price right now as one of two things.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suspek jurov is perhaps in the best position to write you a short of some kind.
mike_c: i'm saying the stock price is too high, not the market cap.
mike_c: ah, yeah. i'm not saying qntra is currently worth more than 45 btc.
mircea_popescu: mike_c 158k includes whole shebang, 50% are issued, i'd guess 20-30k more likely for either cazalla or bingo
mike_c: a lot can change in a year. but i don't think there are enough shares in existence to make it worth it anyway. i mean, what, bingo maybe has 50k shares?
mike_c: yeah, i know
mike_c: I don't think we'd have the same quantity or timeframe in mind.
thestringpuller: if you can return my shares to me I'd loan some :P
mike_c: but i was more thinking i should borrow shares from a founder and short it.
mike_c: yeah, i have.
mike_c: what, write another article saying what the price should be? I already did that.
mike_c: i'm a fan, but that stock price! idk.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> danielpbarron: in other news, i got netbsd ramdisk to build. << great work! & thanks for posting a tarball.
adam_obrien: I have to run here, if any of you need Bitcoin give me a ping adam@btcsolutions.ca
adam_obrien: I don't. I have never liked cavirtex and haven't used them since there was other options
adam_obrien: Hmmm. I haven't heard that. I think they are having issues in Russia. But in Canada everything is all good :)
danielpbarron: i can get it soldered, i just thought that unit might have been a good fit for people without access to one
adam_obrien: I own bitcoin solutions (www.btcsolutions.ca) we operate some Bitcoin ATMs as well as a margin trading platform
mike_c: i made it unlisted, but it will get the link from b-a log..
adam_obrien: Hhaha, I wish. Unfortunately I wasn't around then so it couldn't have been me
adam_obrien: Glad everything is set up and verified! I had a whale of a time doing so
adam_obrien: Haha ding ding indeed! I have to run.
danielpbarron: oh, i bet it's pete
adam_obrien: I am registered with assbot and gribble
danielpbarron: ordering a few of these things now; i needed to get some other stuff anyway / added to order
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: you will end up with something roughly like http://i.imgur.com/d2ivsPk.jpg?1
danielpbarron: what would you advise that i purchase?
danielpbarron: can i ssh into this thing?
asciilifeform: i possibly ought to discuss the constants
cazalla: mike_c, k thanks, i tossed it into the article in blockquotes
asciilifeform: will post patch set once i can be bothered to crap one out
asciilifeform: i have demonstrated that netbsd kernel (of my custom trimmed build) will correctly init the periphs on pogo
mike_c: cazalla: yeah. i hate watching videos. figured i'd spare others the pain.
asciilifeform: i will not sign this. if it annihilates your home planet, i am not responsible.
danielpbarron: is halting uboot something i'd need the serial thing for?
asciilifeform: (i just eyeballed it)
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: i will post a patch to the netbsd src tree
danielpbarron: how can i repeat this? i'm stuck on your last tip about something in a TOOLS directory