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trinque: asciilifeform: I have crossdev and built
a simple main.c which ran on the pogo
jurov: have
a blood of stillborn ready?
funkenstein_: i was asking
a database guy about log structured databases like the blockchain
mircea_popescu: anyone know
a fast and painless way to make subtitles for
a youtube ?
mircea_popescu: in any case about 1/4 of the total capacity of
a ssd is not actually shown the os.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how tiny ? afaik the controlling factor limitng memory atm is that they can't make it thinner than it is because single layer silicone and tunelling becoems
a thing.
mircea_popescu: Chillum that was more of
a "we want this hardware to last 25 months exactly" marketin thing i thought
Chillum: blocks are rewritten on
a schedule in most firmware I think
mircea_popescu: so this difference between us is enforced in
a way you can't ignore.
mircea_popescu: he has
a boss in rh who has
a boss who has an orlov who has an etc. six strings long, the flea circus.
mircea_popescu: i doubt poettering for isntance as much as saw
a whiff of
a whiff of that.
mircea_popescu: it's just that moot subcultures at the end of their rope spew singlemindedness as
a natural fermentation product.
mircea_popescu: here's this monstruous pile of serious problems in dire need of
a solution, and here's the transgenderqueer crowd fixing pronouns and breaking the scant few things that almost work.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> this is how i learned the tar ecosystem is actually
a fucking nightmare << it's reallty very very bad.
nubbins`: this is how i learned the tar ecosystem is actually
a fucking nightmare
nubbins`: anyways $100usd buys you
a very large amount of nice hotel room in .co
trinque: I worked in
a hotel once; this would not be the worst thing to encounter
mircea_popescu: "hello concierge ? yes i need
a new room please, this one is full of shit."
trinque: just
a bigger tragedy then
nubbins`: my shame prevented me from asking for
a new room
nubbins`: notfun.jpg tried cutting in half, wasn't enough, had to slice it like
a fuckin pepperoni
nubbins` recalls staying in Crowne Plaza Bogota and cutting up
a particularly dense turd with
a sterling silver butter knife so it would flush
chetty: thats
a point, you guys might get chem withdrawl
mircea_popescu: it's
a halfway world, right ? i hope you survive the indignity :)
mircea_popescu: because, poor ex-billionaire mp doesn't know how to be
a ex-billionaire correctly, like whatever frail us schmuck.
Chillum: They want
a custom built auto, but they want it already made and waiting for them
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, most people that survived
a halon dump also heard the pov that "the machine just does that when it's displeased"
nubbins`: asciilifeform mircea_popescu why not just invent yourselves
a friedcat and scoop up some investor fundz, sell
a line of USB BITCOIN ERUPTORZ for 2btc each
Chillum: you can induce random failures in RAM for testing purposes with
a hair dryer
Chillum: valid point, no amount of checking will solve
a race condition
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> actual luxury doesn't take out ad space in GQ << this is really just
a more benign and socially acceptable restatement of alf's meta-nsa thesis.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu
a good example of this is when the nintendo wii came out, and researchers the world over started buying wiimotes for their labs
nubbins`: if this cpu flips
a bit, burial at space
Chillum: store crucial info in
a 5 way parity strip
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the key of the article being, that if there's
a genuinely "Better" anything, it will be in the mass market item, because the savings there are major. nobody is foregoing putting
a GOOD something in an item that gets baked > 100mn units.
chetty: mircea_popescu, to be fair it doesnt kill
a running server, just keeps it from starting :P
mircea_popescu: <chetty> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. << this is me trying to alter eulora database. because you really want
a mmorpg server that segfaults when game designers futz with game data.
Chillum: I guess it would be
a box at that size
Chillum:
a bottle that big would be hard to carry
mircea_popescu: "and if i find
a ten foot tall transparent (not translucent!!!) woman, i might stick my penis into her
mats: there's
a checksum at the end of an address no?
mircea_popescu: and that's
a hole that's there for thermodynamic reasons too. nobody made it.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu students were protesting funding cuts. in
a couple of the photos, you can see police wearing stickers protesting... pension cuts.
assbot: Logged on 28-03-2015 15:10:24; thestringpuller: I'm thinking of making
a bot to determine uptime of other bots ;)
mircea_popescu: have been pondering if this pisses me off enough to do something about for
a coupla months now.
assbot: Logged on 28-03-2015 14:58:02; PeterL: assbot is
a gribble replacement
mircea_popescu: but the freedom to make mistakes is
a luxury not
a freedom.