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decimation: kinda like how the arabs realized they could ask for 50% of the oil revenue instead of
a few pennies
mircea_popescu: decimation mebbe so. why would
a us company care about china "antitrust probe" ? they can probe themselves up the ass.
decimation: basically their whole 'let's revolutionize the market with
a standard' kinda worked for
a few years, but gave enough time for everyone else to figure how how to kneecap qualcomm
decimation: I suspect that the managers are desperately trying to pretend that they know how to run
a business
decimation: my information about qualcomm is that it is
a pyramid: the white managers are all family/friends of the original founding class, and all the actual engineering staff are indians and chinese on indentured servitude visas
mircea_popescu: here's something i don't understad. so, qualcomm side : in q4 2014 it announced
a 2.4 bn deal with csr plc, to deliver chips. then in q1 2015 it announced massive share buyback. from apple side : they moved the modem chip order from qualcomm to intel. from csr site : 50mn operating profit on 1bn gross revenue.
decimation: possibly, and it's also probably the case that intel gave them
a sweet deal
decimation: qualcomm is
a chumpatron fueled fully by indian 'engineers' on h1b visas, who are tricked into coming to live in san deigo with the hopes of being somebody
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller hardware css is usually done with
a broom, or
a mop.
mircea_popescu: i am absolutely convinced that 99% of the soi dissant software engineers are in fact "web experts" of the "i dont no biari (i know
a littel java.)" ilk
mircea_popescu: while i expect your 90% figure of ee's working for govt is only met if you actually count every us public company as an agency of the usg (
a position not exactly undefensible, people still do the same to stuff like gazprom etc, notwithstanding the ru oligarchs actually have
a lot more independence than the us "ceo"s of public corps),
mircea_popescu: or moreover : hardware has lengthy history, hard to undo by
a bunch of libertards. the person doing hardware css is known as "the cleaning lady" and doesn't get much pay.
decimation: " The number of people working as electrical engineers declined by 29,000 last year, continuing
a long-standing trend, according to government data. "
assbot: Logged on 22-03-2014 18:01:39; decimation: Even in electrical and electronic engineering?an occupation that is right at the heart of high-tech innovation but that also has been heavily outsourced abroad?U.S. employment in 2013 declined to about 300,000, down 35,000 and over 10 percent, from 2012, and down from about 385,000 in 2002. Unemployment rates for electrical engineers rose to
a surprisingly high 4.8 percent in 2013.
BingoBoingo: "ndeed, not long after the project started, complaints started rolling in about Theo. The final straw was that he told
a developer (who was working on the pmax port) to stop "shoving [his; the developer's] cock down [his; theo's] throat."
mircea_popescu: "if she weighs the same as her tits she's made of logs, and therefore....
A WITCH!"
Adlai:
a log server could trade logs for logs
BingoBoingo: Propaganda fanfic finally ended hpmor.com/chapter/122 with
a Sparkling Unicorn princess who never needs to paint her nails
mircea_popescu:
a rabit hole the likes of this has not yet existed i dun think.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Seriously. It is
a publicly readable resource of unparalleled quality which only became possible because Bitcoin
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know what just occured to me ? it's damned incredible just how *captivating* b-
a has become, coupla years later.
BingoBoingo: funkenstein_: Edit your GPG conf file to switch from SHA1 to
a better message digest
mircea_popescu: not mine. theirs. there's
a type of esl castrato that exhibits this strange insanity of behaviour, that
a problem is either solved within the first three passes or never.
BingoBoingo: Past
a point inflection any email pile with
a dispute becomes unreadable
BingoBoingo: When it comes to adopting pieces of various BSD's though enumeration gets really messy. OSuX brings in
a lot of FreeBSD stuff. Google Android uses OpenBSD's libc with
a special compile flag google requested.
mircea_popescu: mostly
a function of the methodology, considering how tiny the sample is.
BingoBoingo: I'm honestly surprised with the Azure and cloud thing MicroShaft hasn't forked
a BSD to revive the Xenix brand
BingoBoingo: I've got it to run
a couple times. Once on ancient hardware.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's something I've come to recently. Surprised it isn't the offical Social Justice OS. When I first played with Open Source at
a summer job in 2004 I grew an immediate dislike because it didn't work as expected on maximally vanilla hardware at the summer job.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the NetBSD team sounds like
a bunch of fucktards i would never wish to have anything to do with.
mircea_popescu: you could make
a deed for deedbot- if you wish to record
a signed message ?
BingoBoingo: cazalla: This was still If I recall correctly some time before I bought
a wagon full of B&W Macs at $10
a pop
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> "politics is
a waste of time" is the sister idiocy to "i don't feel math is useful for real life". << Seriously, shares most of the same stakes as war, but minus bloodshed
mircea_popescu: "politics is
a waste of time" is the sister idiocy to "i don't feel math is useful for real life".
BingoBoingo: And yet Open Source is the most political thing this millenium: That's good. Frankly, neither do we, nor have we ever. Politics is
a waste of time, for the most part.
mircea_popescu: why would anyone
a) wish to do any work for these folks or b) hold title issued by them in any regard ? it's nil.
mircea_popescu: so... you own
a team, which you paid for, but we will revoke the title because you said nigger.
mircea_popescu: "We regret having to do this, because you have done
a significant amount of very good work for the project. In spite of that, we can no longer condone your behaviour."
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ kay, so : post
a btc address, i'll send you
a btc, buy logs at 333 per. should get you 300k or so. you can hold on to them for me.
BingoBoingo: 1990's NetBSD seems almost the canonical example of
a poor heirarchy hindering an Open Source effort
mircea_popescu: "Finally, it is clear that for the project to be
a success, we must promote
a positive environment for both users and developers. If we continue to allow you, an official representative of the NetBSD project, to behave in this manner, we create the perception that we approve of your behaviour. That perception is damaging to the project and cannot be allowed to persist."
BingoBoingo: funkenstein_: This was from back when Theo was
a serf attached to
a project some derps forked off of 4.4BSD lite, and the only alternative was the still less functional FreeBSD fork.
mircea_popescu: so
a bitcoin buys me you say 100k or so out of the 28mn total, 6mn current ?
funkenstein_: cap is 28 million but it will take
a very long time to get there ;)
mircea_popescu positively loves how much reading teh b-
a cultists are doing.
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ and what's the cap again ? or was there
a cap ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: At the time I just had
a gut discomfort with the idea of computing machines being distinuishable in that way. Felt processors of type and rating should be fungible.
funkenstein_: 02:24:04 mircea_popescu: speaking of which, yo funkenstein_ how much woodcoins does
a btc buy me ? <--
a couple percent of them all
BingoBoingo: For the record this is the meat of the last message on
a mailing list to theo before other people started resigning around him with nowhere to go: What i am concerned about: (1) if you're going to be working on
a large portion ofthe source tree, e.g. the sparc port or large amounts of code outside of it, you need to be in "reasonable touch" with us. Do you think that will be difficult for you or us to do? (2) I want to be _sure_
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo in retrospect i suppose that's not so easily distinguished. it was just about at that time trhat i moved to amd, and never bought intel again. the number thing played
a part.
BingoBoingo: I had
a dislike of intel since reading about the pentium III serial number in
a magazine well before I had any computer.
mircea_popescu: in fairness, i suppose the burning hatred of usg and its many agencies (such as apple) that informs us is really
a very novel thing.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell danielpbarron Remember if you read that archive that Until Theo forked OpenBSD into being that public CVS read access wasn't
a thing anywhere yet. 1994 was
a helluva year
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's
a good example of practicing the long troll
cazalla: mircea_popescu, the neighbour of cousins i use to play with often as
a kid owned 2 of them.. inevitably when playing cricket,
a ball would go over the fence and we'd have
a discussion of who was going over the fence to get it
mircea_popescu: (We can only be glad there is no daylight loan time, or we would face decades of too much daylight, only to be faced with
a few years of total darkness to make up for it.)
assbot: Logged on 15-03-2015 04:00:47; thestringpuller: something like that. got them in 2013 when I recovered
a Eulora post I had cached
assbot: Logged on 15-03-2015 03:58:03; Bagels7: yeah I figure I'll be totally brainwashed by the time i have 9k credits left, it already triggers me in
a state of mind where I think I deserve to be abused and started to have relationship issues
assbot: Logged on 15-03-2015 03:16:26; danielpbarron: "I would do but I don't really have time for IRC tbh. . and as
a communication vehicle find it too inefficient."
mats: also TIL how to debug
a debugger ...
Bagels7: is that for people with real jobs, I need
a crown and root canals which will be over 2000 dollars (1500 USD) but im in the xenophobic quebec part. This province is some sort of dictatorship board that drains the country
Bagels7: i have
a client who says working for ubisoft is boring but it pays well
thestringpuller: kid at my last job was into Dogecoin for the lulz but the second he purchased
a scrypt ASIC I was like "well...uh, this is
a lost cause..."
danielpbarron: i actually paid for someone else's credits one time --
a total stranger. the guy at the local juice bar who expressed interest in bitcoin and started talking about mining dogecoin
thestringpuller: something like that. got them in 2013 when I recovered
a Eulora post I had cached
☟︎ Bagels7: yeah I figure I'll be totally brainwashed by the time i have 9k credits left, it already triggers me in
a state of mind where I think I deserve to be abused and started to have relationship issues
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> sounds more like
a gay spat than anything, two people who figured "they" were the embassy or something. << If this was their opening it wouldn't make the cut. But the part where it is closing isn't. Everything else is hedged appropriately.
assbot: What if /hashtag/bitcoin?src=hash price goes up during
a down moon cycle? /BitcoinBravo /hashtag/moon?src=hash /hashtag/parabolic?src=hash
danielpbarron: "I would do but I don't really have time for IRC tbh. . and as
a communication vehicle find it too inefficient."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: speaking of which, yo funkenstein_ how much woodcoins does
a btc buy me ?
cazalla: i mean, there are other shops around but they charge an arm and
a leg for half as much
cazalla: mircea_popescu, hey, i learned
a new word
cazalla: i guess i could've done
a better job of illustrating that these variants are mostly copy/pasta jobs
mircea_popescu: sounds more like
a gay spat than anything, two people who figured "they" were the embassy or something.
mircea_popescu: dude polish looks like
a fucking dragon wrote it down.
Adlai: callsigns aren't
a good example, being assigned for uniqueness (and sometimes other properties such as perceived cleverness or snake-oil information hiding
Adlai suspects it may involve
a lack of dividends
assbot: Logged on 17-02-2015 03:18:52; Adlai: let's take
a step back. the wot should be about who trusts whom, and trust is verified on the basis of signatures. i see no reason why node identity should be based on anything other than signing keys.