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a111: Logged on 2017-08-06 17:45 mats: hmm,
TIL 'chromeOS' is a gentoo since 2010
a111: Logged on 2017-08-06 17:38 mircea_popescu:
there's an absolute limit
turkey dollars put on "tower
to
the moon" efforts : if you have at most 100
turkeys you can commit, printing further pictures of a
turkey on paper will not help you in your effort
to build
the "cart driven by 101
turkeys". because
the 101th physically does not exist.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-06 17:33 mircea_popescu: (there's been a long
time
train running boston
to wash dc, reasonably fast, reasonably popular in
the 80s. meanwhile gradually disused)
a111: Logged on 2017-08-06 16:35 mircea_popescu: mats and if you live
to be 60 doing
this, you'll look back on a life of
tedium.
mod6: 'One broker said a mortgage-free homeowner with a house valued at £10m had
taken out a fixed-rate loan of just under £2m
to buy bitcoin, ...' ^
☟︎ mod6: Anyway, I'm guessing
that you did. As long as you have all of
the 0.5.4-RELEASE patches/seals/keys you should be fine. you could be correct about some of
the alterations for locks not
taking on
the bsd-side.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-06 15:30 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo et al :
to be very specific,
the wedged box is running a press of mod6's 0.5.4-release, with
the only change being phf's bsd patch linked yesterday.
mod6: <+trinque> in
theory,
the "profile" mechanism would allow for a
tmsr ebuild
tree
that could build on multiple chosen platforms. <<
this in fact, would be pretty neat.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-06 04:40 mod6: Second, I'm not sure how you want
to make a Cuntoo out of BSD... we should revisit
that later.
mod6: Don't
think we ever pinpointed something
though.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-06 04:39 mod6: I'd like
to get
to
the bottom of
this!
mats: looking forward
to autopilot-induced crashes because some jokester
taped malicious input
to rear windshield
mats: better
than ubuntu.
mircea_popescu: but, usg corp "producing" item in
the vein of linux with serials filed off is no surprise by now. no
turkeys, no alternative.
☟︎ mats: hmm,
TIL 'chromeOS' is a gentoo since 2010
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (we're not going
to even go in discussions of low pressure airflow, which is a horror
the wide-eyed proponents are not intellectually equipped
to consider ; let's just simply
talk in
terms of "i can't get a plumber
to fuck my wife
the same week but i'll somehow get
together workers willing
to dig a ditch so and so long".)
mircea_popescu: there's an absolute limit
turkey dollars put on "tower
to
the moon" efforts : if you have at most 100
turkeys you can commit, printing further pictures of a
turkey on paper will not help you in your effort
to build
the "cart driven by 101
turkeys". because
the 101th physically does not exist.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the us does not have, even if it sold itself out,
the cash
to half-complete
this.
mats: usg has generously provided musk with
truckloads of cash, so, i find it probable he's not full of shit
mircea_popescu: the "buying russia" item was lulzy enough, but still, explainable in
terms of ra ra ra. but
this nonsense is simply demented.
mircea_popescu: musk doesn't have 1% of 1% of
the money he needs
to build such a
thing. wtf already.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what
these folk are sniffing, but it must be some sort of heavily psychotropic mold infected
their conference centers.
mircea_popescu: (there's been a long
time
train running boston
to wash dc, reasonably fast, reasonably popular in
the 80s. meanwhile gradually disused)
☟︎ mats: so
that boston real estate looks more like...
tokyo real estate
mircea_popescu: so i wouldn't worry --
the only way
this happens is if
the chinese do a us-equivalent of
their plan
to colonize europe, and front
the coupla
trillion needed.
mats: putting it in production will
test
the massively inflated suburban and urban property values
mircea_popescu: in any case
they're not making
the la
to sf item for
the quoted 5
to 15bn. boston's big dig, a project a degree of mangnitude smaller, ended up costing well over a
trillion, and
this is 1999 dollars. also
taking five x
the
time, but we leave
that ot
the side.
mats: yes,
top claimed speed for hyperloop is about
twice
top french
tgv speed
mats: i look forward
to seeing 'hyperloop' in production,
this should accelerate
the death of vast road networks in usa
mircea_popescu: and
this is just you know, high level executives aka waitresses. if you look at 1920s rank and file,
they lived in dorms within
the
textile mill complex. kinda like universities
today, except you know, 30
to
the room and with hall monitors
turning off
the lights at 8:30.
mircea_popescu: 1920s waitress would live in whatever accomodations she could find within walking distance of her bar ; and go
to downtown like every other weekend and
think
this a major, awesome accomplishment. but 2020s waitress (aka "software engineer") exepcts
to be able
to
travel all over
the city each day. what, he's from brooklyn ?
that shouldn't mean he can't work in
the lower east side, what's he, some kind of slave ?!?!
mircea_popescu: at home, yes every single last one dork out of
the 20mn can
think himself overpoweringly important. at least until
the broadband craps out.
mircea_popescu: their problem is
that
they all
think
they're important. such people can not
transport ;
they must stay put.
mircea_popescu: there's 0 way
to have functional
transportation in a city of aspies.
mats: theres not really any kinda grid layout in sj, and bus routes are so awful
that many employees
take shuttles staged in
the morning at local grocery store parking lot
mircea_popescu: "if all people were perfectly attentive, perfectly intelligent and perfectly dedicated
to
the
task of making our plan work ; and if
they were perfectly equal and perfectly convinced we should be
telling
them what
to do in detail ;
THEN here's a solution
to a problem!"
mircea_popescu: ask
the author, or generally any "city planner" what are
the wrong assumptions
they hid in
the nonsense ?
they'll look at you like you're from mars. yet... 1. all people = all other people.
there's exactly 0 concept of social hierarch. 2. all people == spherical cpus in a vacuum. really bitch, i'll keep
track of your stupid grids, and CONNECT ? i'm not fucking connecting lol, wtf do i care where
the bus is at.
mats: during
thanksgiving
though. haven't decided yet
mats: found a $500, one stop, round-trip
ticket
to beijing from boston
mats: in other news,
there are killer intl air fare deals
this year
mircea_popescu: but
that was
the glamor : "honey, you don't suck cock because you can't, not because you don't want
to ; but even if you sucked cock, and even if you were extremely good at it, it'd still
take you months
to manage what i can do overnight if i fucking feel like it".
mircea_popescu: (this point, in either "intern can progress" or "sit in forum and access meaning" presentation, is
the fundamental mechanism of both "rounders" and
that "poolhall junkies" cheapo rehack of it :
that
the dude playing can decide
the girl's future, a degree of magnitude above her own capacity.
take
that away -- it's not worth doing. and you sure as fuck ain't meeting
the head of ny law firm socially, and play $X with him so he g
☟︎ mircea_popescu: mats yes, but intern can
then progress
to independent contractor / work for self and cut
the costs
to 0.
this is what say 5 years' experience buys you. 5 years' experience in
the casino buys you jack.
mircea_popescu: lmao i was
thinking, since when
the fuck do indians care about stench.
mats: public
transportation is GRIDS in sv, at least
the san jose area, so...
tack on car ownership costs
too
mats: thats not very good after COLA. 1k/mo for
two people
to share 1bed apt in e.g. santa clara
mircea_popescu: (official numbers -- 81.6k is
the average salary for sv intern, apparently ; 2087
the yearly work hours).
turns out
they make 40 bux.
mircea_popescu: strikes me as
too close
to "social worker" for comfort.
mircea_popescu: at some past glory age poker was, at least mythically,
the way
to actually sit at
the same
table with people who matter, and
thereby actually have some sort of access
to
the meaning of
the world.
these days...
mircea_popescu: actually,
the real money is in doing something else.
the real sluts,
the real errythings
too.
mats: i believe even
top-tier pros struggle
to do 50/hr consistently just grinding games -
the real money is in
tournaments
mircea_popescu: mats and if you live
to be 60 doing
this, you'll look back on a life of
tedium.
☟︎ mats: its a fantasy ofc, everybody catches a bad beat sooner or later - but on a good day over
ten hours i might hit 25-30/hr
mircea_popescu: if you rob
them worth a coupla hundred an hour, which is probably an overstatement, you'd make about
the same as a silicon valley "engineer".
mats: yeah,
that sucks. i go
to casinos because i enjoy
the idea of robbing
tourists, retirees, and chumps
mircea_popescu: they're mediocre, neither amazing nor
terrible. but
they're old, and stupid, and lazy. and not
the sort of person i want
to be around at all.
mats: costa rican poker is played by... retirees? and
they're no good?
mircea_popescu: reason #5498509865409
to despise herdemocracy, "peace and human rights" bullshit : it makes poker games indistinguishable from mahjong.
mircea_popescu: mats i
tried
to go play at local casino. dumped my chips half hour in because i got
this unbearable feeling im at a florida retirement home playing canasta with
the inmates.
mats: can't beat
that on-site experience, secondhand smoke and all
mats: notbad, went out on a boat yesterday n
thinking about whether
to go
to a casino
to play holdem
mircea_popescu: amusingly,
that'd prolly how comps would work if women made
them originally.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that'll be
the day, free
traffic on
the supermation inforhighway...
mircea_popescu: anyway, i quoted
the blocks by hash so you can check if
those are
the ones you're struggling with, as opposed
to magicalorphans.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is just poorly written allocates a potentially infinite number of locks as part of handling
the last block.
mircea_popescu: you understand
the lock
thing refers mostly
to handling reorgs, it isn't historical count or anything.
mircea_popescu: lol yeah, well, i would put it past "people
themselves"
to keep archives.
mircea_popescu: historically
the problem is "o noes, orphan chain", but i have nfi who would be owning or propagating orphan chains at
that height.