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jurov:
i'd suggest mircea to hire someone reliable to do the dividend payouts
jurov: also,
i can't relate the bitbet dividend (3.21579681) to S.BBET monthly statement that says:
mircea_popescu:
i dunno... kids breaking into the movies seems pretty civilised.
kakobrekla:
i wonder what goes longer way towards 'inclusiveness', the big blocks or cheap nodes
☟︎ Vexual:
I would have if you hadn't mentioned itt
Vexual: Anyway
I'm off to sleep in the dirt
Vexual:
I thought massive penetrating trauma happensvwhen cupid is in full effect
thestringpuller:
I've never used the built in raid controller.
I dunno if
I could find the software needed to run it that way since
I'm pretty sure the mainboard company is now defunct ~_~
thestringpuller: yea, but
i guess problem is if this computer is slow at getting current block this raising blocksize thing ain't gonna fly
Vexual:
I guess x11 is the sameish
Vexual:
I stopped buying macs when they went intel
punkman: BingoBoingo: not sure,
I was looking at some recent patches for big-endian support though
Vexual:
I just read 3 days on x and project ed
punkman:
I don't want it to fix things, that's nonsense
BingoBoingo:
I thought the hole was supposed to adapt to the screw
punkman:
I'm gonna try again in 2016
Vexual:
I mean easier to use at the expense of actually working well
Vexual:
I just wanna run any material and stuff is adjustable
Vexual:
I've always wanted a makerbot
ben_vulpes: Whenever it came time for his daily bowl of soup he would look around for the nearest "girl" and ask if she would fetch it to him. It did not matter if she was the cook, an engineer, or the president of the company.
I once asked a female engineer who had just been a victim of this if it bothered her. "Yes, it really annoys me," she said. "On the other hand, he is the only one who ever explained quantum mechanics to me as if
I could
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: the only pills
i'm aware of are pouring capital into refining the interface and training the intended customers.
ben_vulpes:
i'd no idea that compiling a static bitcoind would take quite so much memory. then again, it's loading all of boost and dbb and openssl - does all of the above need to reside in memory at the same time?
ben_vulpes: and
i mean for hours, weeks at a stretch?
decimation: yeah that's exactly what
I thought when
I opened it
decimation:
I think
I used it a little while, it mostly works
ben_vulpes:
i can't recall if
i ever bumped into freecad.
decimation: asciilifeform: actually
I think the best explanation for 'why hypercard had to die' is that apple discovered that you could sell software to chumps at huge profit, whereas actually competing on hardware is a low-margin miserable business
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: 'trololol' <
i suppose that part sheets, dimensional tolerancing and what have you are part of my base assumptions for part fab.
decimation: yeah that makes sense. as
I recall as a youth in school, it was used as kind of a proto-powerpoint
decimation: Because there's very little
I can imagine labview can do that couldn't be replaced with a few hundred lines of "c" and the labview driver library
decimation:
I find his idea that someone actually uses labview for something other than to waste the taxpayers' time & money amusing
decimation: asciilifeform: actually in that scott locklin comment thread he brings up labview, which
I'm sure you are familiar with
decimation:
I certainly can describe a bolt as 'Hex bolts, Stainless steel 18-8, 1/4"-20'' and have a pretty good idea of what
I mean
decimation:
I mean that the brain's language 'co-processor' (as ascii desribed it) can be used
ben_vulpes: it's one of those few interfacing problems that
i don't really think is suited to a textual abstraction.
ben_vulpes:
i wasn't programming when
i was a hot modeler.
ben_vulpes: last time
i checked the answer to "assemblies?" was "lolwut" and
i stopped paying attention.
ben_vulpes: it has been a few years since
i looked at the "open" cadcam "solutions".
decimation: lol "An owner of a 3D printer recently told me that "having one really exposes the impotence of… not having one. For instance,
I needed this little thingie to hold a shelf. Took 30 minutes to design and print. And where would
I get it otherwise?!" The answer, of course, is "at a nearby store" where they have a box full of these thingies at about 20 cents apiece. Of course, in a couple thousand years, his investment in the 3D printer
BingoBoingo: decimation: Are you volunteering? If not
I can write something up
trinque: anyone have a high bandwidth node
I can give to deedbot to speed his ass up?
ben_vulpes:
i've more or less given up at this point.
ben_vulpes: decimation:
i've wasted 3 days over the past two weeks trying to get a modern browser to boot into x11 for os x.
decimation: re: apple compilers <
i wasted a few hours last week trying to get macports to build 'octave'
trinque:
I switced the deedbot blockchain to an ssd ebs volume
ben_vulpes: they're not real keys, as far as
i care.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: other people in the shop use the apple toolchain and the android toolchain. all
i ever do with those is "turn the right nut" when it comes to "signing" binaries for apple/google and cutting builds.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: CFLAGS should read something like -
I/usr/include ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, in vaguely related news,
i'm preparing a pretty lulzy "outrage the feminists" thing for later.
decimation: "“Going to Africa. Hope
I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding.
I’m white!”
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
I might give that a go next time
BingoBoingo:
I was at late Feb 2013 though when
I killed my stuff to sync again
BingoBoingo: Well
I'll report what happens when
I get to March 2013 again
mod6: *nod*
i wanna say that mine usually blows up around like 200-230k or w/e
BingoBoingo:
I also killed the block files and block index with my build today to test syncing again. Almost to 16801 again.
mod6: yeah, im sure
i did.
mircea_popescu: not that
i've actually met a woman seriously into bdsm that was all derpy with this atomic consent bs anyway.
BingoBoingo: And seriously spz safewords are a thing red is a horribru one. Now Balloon or "
I'm not just sure,
I'm HIV positive" might have some potential.
decimation: yeah
I like the surprisingly reactionary 'election'
hanbot:
i guess "unactivated" is the socially acceptable term for nonhuman. and here
i thought it was the concept itself that bothered folks.
mircea_popescu: well,
i would imagine if they actually aim to be female they'd miss having a cunt more than having a dick.
Bagels7:
I never asked but
I might assume they miss having a dick
Bagels7: okay so
i heard that there are some who lose their sex drive and become some sort of bitter bitch but they must have been the ones that were confused or coherced
mircea_popescu: well,
i guess maybe you're better connected in the group than me.
i mostly know clinicians.
Bagels7: yes, mainly them
i had in mind
Bagels7: so
i was reading trilema.com, just gets me wound up sometimes
TheNewDeal: ;;later tell TomServo
I'm in town this evening, out tomorrow morn. Will be back thursday
thestringpuller: eventually
i plan to run cron job that pulls data from kako's w.b-a.link api
thestringpuller: Nah its a static graph. And
I need to redo one of the algorithms to only list those with L2 trust, a few pop up that shouldn't be there.
cazalla:
i figured it for friday but look.. sunday morning
mod6: We'll figure it out at somepoint.
I think, for now the important thing is that we have a workaround.