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assbot: Logged on 16-02-2015 17:43:06; mircea_popescu: i guess this drama's dried up, need to move on to something else to keep the btc price up.
BingoBoingo: I don't understand either. XFCE straddles the line of minimum/maximum desktop I can tolerate given my small screen size and clumsy fingers keeping me off of leaner solution.
decimation: I don't get the general preference for gnome over kde
decimation: I'm surprised dbus comes with openbsd at all
BingoBoingo: <decimation> although the rumor I heard back then was that most of the 'smart guys' working on solaris were spending their working days trying to unravel the gordian knot of kernel locks << But as an Oracle turd they can now break whatever they want in the name of handling one database faster.
decimation: although the rumor I heard back then was that most of the 'smart guys' working on solaris were spending their working days trying to unravel the gordian knot of kernel locks
Adlai: somehow git gets by without an in-memory index, i wonder how!
decimation: "asciilifeform doesn't see the appeal of closed source unixen" << I see the appeal of actual people maintaining a unix, closed or open
asciilifeform: http://i.4cdn.org/g/1424118770173.png << m0ar
asciilifeform: http://i.4cdn.org/g/1424118682210.png << l0lz
asciilifeform: ^ vms, for instance, is an interesting os - conceptually, and i have it one one of my 'alpha'
asciilifeform: or, i suppose, archaeologists
BingoBoingo: Connects on campus have yet to send the flag and since on every visit lab still intact I assume they aren't slacking
BingoBoingo: I'm waiting for them to hit the dumpster
asciilifeform: e.g., when i did
BingoBoingo: That lab "engineering building Floor one at SIU Carbondale, forget which wing" still solaris lab. I like the hardware though for "lives forever" and other unixen run fine
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: One Uni I attended at last visit earlier this year still has lab full of its wimpier contemporary
asciilifeform: 'QUESTION: Are you insane? Are you stupid? No one would ever pay this much for a laptop! You should sell it to me for $10 because it is so old and worthless. / ANSWER: Contrary to your opinion, I sell several of these machines per week. These machines are used for many reasons including: / Government & Military projects ...'
ben_vulpes: i'd no idea, actually.
decimation: yeah that's what I figured
decimation: I wonder if there's like a little mini-clamp that you can affix to a pin
decimation: asciilifeform: what do you think the best method would be to semi-permanently attach a lead to an smt chip pin? I tend to ruin the pad by soldering
decimation: I would like to get a collection of 'chip clips'
asciilifeform: http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTI4OVgxNjAw/z/lDUAAOxyRhBSs3Px/$_35.JPG
decimation: yeah I was being sarcastic
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: unless you know something i don't, they're $maxint years out
decimation: hell I bet some of them have a flash chip sitting there
decimation: gee I wonder why
asciilifeform: i can see no legit reason to ship a drive with buggy firmware.
asciilifeform: of the handful of vendors whose drives i have studied personally, not one used a signature scheme of any kind, for example
mircea_popescu: i still don't see the wisdom of allowing diddling of firmware via data bus.
mircea_popescu: i actually walked by there, in the middle of teh night maybe a month or two ago ?
decimation: well, at any rate I give the netagio people credit - they unwound in an orderly way when the business wasn't working out
decimation: I thought that most germans and french spoke english at least
decimation: if those numbers are correct, I wonder why europe is so low?
decimation: that netagio closing is amusing. I wonder what the real story behind it is
Adlai: last time i tried this, with a financier watching over my shoulder, his bot trod on mine, and after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, both irrevocably crashed... that was nearly 5 months ago. now it's working flawlessly :D
mircea_popescu: it could work as a wiki or as a category on qntra i ugess.
mike_c: it is specific to bitcoin assets, yes :) History of bitcoin companies seems appropriate. But I think it mostly depends on how much help you want.
cazalla: mike_c, that is specific to #b-a moreso than Bitcoin in general isn't it? and anyway, if i pursue this by myself in the short-mid term, it'll reflect on me instead of b-a website
mike_c: unless it's meant as seo fodder for qntra i guess.
pete_dushenski: so i suppose child soldiers would make decent kids
pete_dushenski: i'll take your word for it ;)
cazalla: i actually like the idea, i might brainstorm some ideas and see what i come up with, start by cherring picking the easier topcis such as exchanges
lobbes: So getting ZNC configured to use SSL ended up being a great 'introduction project' for learning some of the basics of linux. I would recommend to all the other n00bs out there
BingoBoingo: mike_c: Pretty sure I threw in the towel because sources that needed consulted were threatening brain damage
mike_c: but seriously, if there were an L2 editable repository (like the b-a wiki), I'm sure multiple people would contribute
mike_c: hehe. it's a strategy i suppose.
cazalla: what do i know though, only went to naughty boys school for 6 months :P
cazalla: as i see it, the problems begin when parents/teachers get involved and start teaching the kids it is better to seek out an adult to deal with the bully than hit back and sort it out yourself
pete_dushenski: cazalla: i could see that
pete_dushenski: i'm not advocating for helicoptering
cazalla: i am inclined to let kids sort out their own drama anyway, turns out they usually end up friends by the next day anyway
mike_c: i have 1.5
PeterL: well, only as in I might have more later, and two of my siblings have more than me
cazalla: i only have the 1
PeterL: I only have 3 so far
PeterL: well, "train" as in she does not do that one thing which I liked least
PeterL: I sprayed my cat a couple times to keep her from walking on the dining room table, never tried it with my kids
PeterL: no pete_dushenski, I still don't know why yours are failing
mircea_popescu: i can not begin to conceive how this is an improvement.
PeterL: thestringpuller: I figured out why your blog was killing scoopbot: there is no author field included
Adlai: i'm not this kind of 'hacker', but i gather that if you have root access to the computer, you can send arbitrary bits down the bus connected to the hdd
pete_dushenski: i'm sure that using someone else's platform is "just as good"
pete_dushenski: "Nobody’s really talking about it, but I suspect this is a wider trend: blogs aren’t dying, but they are significantly declining. 2015 might be a rough year."
mircea_popescu: from what i gather dr dre invented the modern, commercial burning man
thestringpuller: I'm totally signing emails to my girl that way for now on.
thestringpuller: "Wish I was up in that ass."
thestringpuller: ben_vulpes: wish I had bashed that.
mircea_popescu: While this discovery is familiar to readers of my blog, what might be a surprise is what this heralds for our society politically and economically. It isn't socialism, or even communism, as I had feared. It's feudalism. It's not 2007. It's 1066."
PeterL: not like I did it on purpose, now I can't get any new software
ben_vulpes: i dismiss the upgrade notification each and ev-er-y day.
PeterL: I am still on 10.5, I don't know anything about the new versions
ben_vulpes: .1 btc sez it's because i refuse to upgrade to 10.10
ben_vulpes: PeterL: i'm pretty savvy with the os x shit.
ben_vulpes: i can see the guy's laptop, can't even open the "dropbox".
ben_vulpes: i just tried to share a folder from one mac to another
thestringpuller: "I want toys. Lets build toys."
thestringpuller: lol. I can't wait til a large crypto company is left to a precocious 3yo.
thestringpuller: So I guess I visualize the IRC channel as a bunch of people huddled in some large beautiful room. A new person enters and one of the lords is like "you have permission to speak, what have you?" Which reminds me of congregations of days of old.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: this is how I feel when I listen to your stories MP.
mircea_popescu: erryday i's learn things i used to know.
mircea_popescu: i guess esther n link
mircea_popescu: PeterL for some reason i had thought N is trivalent and somehow this made n2o possible but no2 impossible
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: speaking of which, gnat built and functions on another box (presently i lack the time to investigate why, but will eventually say)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suspect that 'grandfather time' has already clobbered most of'em
mircea_popescu: sometimes i wonder if the internet itself shouldn't have a bus factor.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform unrelatedly, can you imagine that fetlife rebelled, and banned my... acount. but not the ip. i'm still in shock over the fact.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i learned of it from ilkka kokkarinen. despite the format, worth the evening or two to read.
gribble: The Last Psychiatrist: University Shootings: I'm Sure It's All Just A ...: <http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/05/university_shootings_im_sure_i.html>
thestringpuller: so you don't like plants? I knew you were a 100% carnivore.
thestringpuller: I guess no beers.
thestringpuller: I was gonna visit you up in the great NW when I was out in SF in March since its a train ride away.
thestringpuller: :( i thought we were bff ben_vulpes
thestringpuller: i kno i do
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for all i know, this is precisely how it is used.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if i lived there i'd prep my girls with a literful of it in the rectum before going to a student party in one opf those cramped apts like they do.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: laughers can get all the laughing gas they could wish for, yes. i often see these bottles - emptied - lying on the kerb, fallen out of upturned student house dumpsters.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can only speak for my case, but yes, the culinary shops sell NO2. where i live - in small cylinders approx. the size of a shotgun shell. i know full well which gas it is, because my sole use of it is in a miniature cutting torch.
mircea_popescu: i merely report. to inform and entertain! im thye fucking gray lady over here.