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punkman: jurov: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A10/A10-OLinuXino-LIME/open-source-hardware guess we'll end up with this << I had one of these. It doesn't have wifi or built-in NAND, has SATA, can run off battery. Doesn't need binary blobs if you don't care about GPU.
trinque: that said fuck that shit; I'm sure there's an easier machine to deal with
trinque: I still have the kernel config somewheres
trinque: asciilifeform: I once finished gentoo quest on a two-generations-back macbook pro
punkman: ben_vulpes: I had one of BingoBoingo's nodes plus dnsseed
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [] a) what chicks and b) what pay. << i can speak to the chicks
phillipsjk: I don't think 0.5.3 supports bootstrap.dat, but I could be wrong.
punkman: I setup a 0.5.3.1 node yesterday, stuck on 168000 today
mod6: looks like 'i've only got 1: blk0001.dat, 985Mb
mod6: during debugging, i did see something that mentioned "blk%04d.dat" when looking at the txout.scriptPubKey vector: http://dpaste.com/1E4QQ9A
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if you were trying to get $proggy built for apple's gui to draw on an x11 instance, i regret to inform you that this won't work...
mod6: how can i do that?
ben_vulpes: while it must surprise everyone here, the fact that i am a process man who's only barely grasped the basics of *nix operation bears trotting out on a *regular* basis apparently
ben_vulpes: mno, i am a nixy pleb
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i assume you built them for x11
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i'll have to compile it meself, apparently.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i did burn in excess of two days attempting to get either a firefox or chrome to connect to x under os x
mircea_popescu: here asciilifeform : "I never read the proclamations of generals before battle, the speeches of Führers and prime ministers, the solidarity songs of public schools and left-wing political parties, national anthems, Temperance tracts, papal encyclicals and sermons against gambling and contraception, without seeming to hear in the background a chorus of raspberries from all the millions of common men to whom these high
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i can't help but wonder how many folks carry around 'mac' as just a unix box with a very peculiar set of window decorations
mod6: i'll carry on tomorrow. im like X_X at this point.
mod6: i've basically run and break when nBestHeight=167999 and then go from there, but not turning anything meaningful up yet. however, i'm sure i'm not sure how to dig into these vectors properly yet.
ben_vulpes: i'm using sbcl for stump, now that we mention it
asciilifeform: describing the gotchas from the last time i personally tried this.
ben_vulpes: myeah, but i think i missed a leap in your reasoning.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i somehow got the impression that you were considering gentoo-on-applehw
asciilifeform: it was long ago that i last tried.
asciilifeform: actually for all i know, they might
ben_vulpes: i'm entirely naive to quirks of the underlying chips.
ben_vulpes: gabriel_laddel: for a gentoo like what you describe, i'd go through the headaches of dual booting.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: laugh, but that's actually what i used mine for
ben_vulpes: i know, i know.
gabriel_laddel: ben_vulpes: I'm currently counting lines of algol and fixing up the dashboard
ben_vulpes: gabriel_laddel: i yet yearn for the day i dual boot os x and a lispy gentoo
decimation: I am retiring gentlemen, have a good evening
asciilifeform: i won't say this is the world's best illustration, but it took no more than half a minute to generate.
mircea_popescu: i never said otherwise!
mircea_popescu: the sorts of tediums i have machines do is generally seen as closest to c
mircea_popescu: still, this is like the first thing i've seen in nigh on 20 years making me almost feel like trying to code in it.
mircea_popescu: i think it's ripe for a revolution then
decimation: I donno, they are probably selling each other software as a service as a service
mircea_popescu: i think node.js was like 2011
BingoBoingo: I guess even the scientific stuff though is just acaderps prefering python to perl
mircea_popescu: i actually use it on occasion, when bash is gnarly.
mircea_popescu: pure us capitalims i tell ya
assbot: Logged on 26-07-2014 18:48:15; asciilifeform: this is why i simply don't get people who continue to think of their relationship with the u.s. court system in legal, rather than military, terms.
assbot: GvR fading away would help but not cure the problem he started, i.e Python desig... | Hacker News ... ( http://bit.ly/1I5FmHh )
decimation: re: python < so I was comparing guido von rossum and linus torvalds today, found a good quote on hacker news https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8772325
trinque: almost done rsyncing my wad o blocks to the server; when I come back in a bit imma publish the first bundle
mircea_popescu: can't say i dislike his approach.
mircea_popescu: i'd make him ambassador to the us.
mircea_popescu: lol i got nuttin
asciilifeform: they like to cross roads, slowly, single file, and - given their lengthy 'runway' - one might imagine that they would occasionally get flattened. but i have yet to see this.
decimation: I saw a goose trying to cross an interstate once; it caused a feather explosion
mircea_popescu: but it would seem to me that even should i decide to take turns with the woman as to who's on top, this does not automatically preclude us from enjoying a D/s relationship.
phillipsjk: What is rare/non-existent is altruism, which is what I assume you meant here: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-02-2015#1006655 ☝︎
Vexual: i guess it's gonna try explain the battle for control of nassau
PeterL: I thought it was great
PeterL: EG game of thrones, I still don't know if the character's name is Jojen or joien, since it shows up with about equal amounts of each spelling?
asciilifeform: i'm speaking of the reverse, something which no engl. speaker has likely ever seen
PeterL: I have a couple of ebooks with typos like that
asciilifeform: while we're at it, i'd like there to be a maximum of six mosquitoes.
coderwill: hence why i stopped reading the news
mircea_popescu: i've not even met one million people yet i'd ever wish to meet again, wtf billions.
mircea_popescu: and b) wtf 2bn. i don't want to consider a 2bn end scenario. what's wrong with 10 million ?
mircea_popescu: i have my doubts about that theory.
coderwill: A few years ago I read a white paper about this thing called the Olduvai Theory.
decimation: going to start ignoring is I have to do whatever they say."
decimation: for your impertinence is because you exercise power via the Constitution. If the Constitution doesn't count, you don't have any legitimate power. You are a thief, a brigand, an officiant busybody, somebody who should be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail for trying to exercise power you don't possess. So, if you are going to--if we are going to start ignoring the Constitution, I'm fine with that; the first part I'm
mircea_popescu: lobbes well i can agree wiht that, but apparently he doesn't, so when talking to him i'll pretend like perhaps it hasn't.
mircea_popescu: "While I have been writing this essay another European war has broken out. It will either last several years and tear Western civilization to pieces, or it will end inconclusively and prepare the way for yet another war which will do the job once and for all."
coderwill: mircea_popescu: interesting - i'm not sure if it will be similar to orwell, but i just bought a book this afternoon called "the third policeman"
coderwill: i used to worry a lot about what was going to happen in the world, but the things that are happening make no sense
coderwill: asciilifeform: i stopped reading the news because it is so negative
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do not convey a feeling of falsity << ahahaha. i'm nearing the end of what must be my 5th rereading of mr o's complete output.
asciilifeform: i.e. 'it's a job'
mircea_popescu: i'll be sure to tweet criticisms of her accessories as she does it.
mircea_popescu: i do not care where.
mircea_popescu: that's what i mean.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather email a goat.
assbot: Logged on 02-08-2014 20:55:13; decimation: "(I actually have great sympathy for the professional. In a bureaucratic oligarchy like ours, the professional both rules and is ruled. At the top, there is no one on top of him. Yet he cannot change his mind. He would simply be replaced. There are always younger, more eager professionals. Sovereignty is conserved; it is always humans who rule; and yet, it seems that no one rules. Who gets to put
decimation: I think moldbug captured the picture well: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-08-2014#782110 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-08-2014#782111 ☝︎☝︎
thestringpuller: i guess for "noscript users" it can precompile to SVG's and they can just stare at it and imagine it being interactive
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can't even assume that 'medcom' is really representative of the rest of the american army.
thestringpuller: http://cookiechief.com/wotviz/ << well even with heavy force the lords are overlap each other. maybe l2 may not be as bad. gimme on sec and I'll update with postive ratings from L2
asciilifeform: if physiognomy - not that different from a certain boss's boss i remember
coderwill: also, sorry, didn't mean to just come across like i was looking for work (although this page looks great, thanks). also was just asking for conversational purposes if any new stuff is happening.
mircea_popescu: once we're in the camp, i wish to be in the room with alf.
coderwill: i was reading about qntra, btw, that sounds really cool - i like the idea behind it. definitely would love to submit some material, it's going to take me a while to read 6 months of the logs though. :)
thestringpuller: i imagine 9 yo you had a giant robot and a laboratory
decimation: I suppose mircea has already described why a 'global namespace' is a poor fit for chat
asciilifeform: (this is an elementary method and i did not in any way invent it)
thestringpuller: all the fluids! I hope you feel better hanbot !
decimation: also, today I was thinking about your rsa-signed-udp-packets thingy
decimation: I wouldn't mind having a device that interfaces to arbitrary serial ports at reasonable rates
asciilifeform: i don't remember the exact rate, no
asciilifeform: but this is described elsewhere and i will not waste space on it here.
decimation: yeah I can imagine
mircea_popescu: <decimation> why would some four star usg general spend time to send 300 emails to some lebanese groupie chick? << i wrote like a billion lines in here. why not ?
decimation: then I heard this podcast: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/02/glenn_reynolds.html << "Guest: It's funny--one of my friends, who has been a long-term, upper level bureaucrat in Washington said to me his favorite phenomenon to see is these people coming through these usually politically-appointed jobs and, he says: They think everybody loves them. And then they leave the job and they realize that everybody just loved the job. And ☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: i don't keep accounts on teh scamchanges.