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asciilifeform: i've always thought laser spotweld would make a beautiful replacement for solder.
asciilifeform: decimation: will reflow in the equipment i have with very rough time curves and minimal damage to components.
asciilifeform: lead free >> i'm using Sn/Bi
decimation: with copper too I guess. it's prone to weird 'whisker' formation
decimation: I think it is still used today to construct some satellites
mircea_popescu: course bakc when i was a kid we had this breadboard with springed clamps
Vexual: prolly why i like perl
Vexual: i don't know much about electronics, but fuck i go thruogh some hookup wire
decimation: ben_vulpes: I'm running a patched version of 0.5.3 with your fix, see if I can replicate results
decimation: I guess that costs - need pins, wire, etc
assbot: I Had Sex With Your Mama (The Jerry Springer Show) - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1vSE4Xg )
Vexual: "I certainly don't want anyone mining technology ... away from my control" <<this would sound more intelligent if he was stuttering
ben_vulpes: i refuse to claim knowledge of anything anymore. downright dangerous.
Vexual: i think i may have met that mastercard derp
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i actually met him once.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: not i.
mod6: well, aside from that, i think the goal is still to rip out BDB eventually anyway.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i'll let you know if it exhausts memory.
ben_vulpes: i stopped it at 251442 to snapshot the db, and again at 260*** (something) to provide resources to transfer the blockchain bzip elsewhere
ben_vulpes: i've not rebooted it.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i've an 0.5.3 that's happily chugging along with the new db config vals.
asciilifeform: last i recall, it was only kako's experiment with 0.7
assbot: Logged on 05-12-2014 05:21:20; BingoBoingo: mats_cd03: $175/hr, 30 hour minimum. $5000 retainer. $300 per diem any day I travel.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Ah, lawyer backed off from needing an expert in Bitcoin after I posted rates. << how much did you post ?
decimation: at any rate, I was distinguishing jet fuel from '100LL' commonly used in small piston engines
mircea_popescu: anyway. i thought it was phased out.
decimation: interesting I didn't know that
BingoBoingo: I'll still have to insist on minimum hours/retainer/compensation from suffering the cold north of Chicago
decimation: asciilifeform: the soviets had a line of 'ground effect' aircraft if I recall
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Comming from Transylvania I'm sure mircea_popescu has experience slaughtering vampires with sunlight << actually vampires are your friends.
decimation: but then again, it's not like flying wings are unknown to aircraft designers. I wonder why they aren't more popular
BingoBoingo: And per diem is essential too, because if I'm going to chicago I'm not staying in a fucking Motel 8. I'm staying in the Sheraton, as a professional.
BingoBoingo: If I'm an expert I ought to be making more than the lawyers when I read and talk.
BingoBoingo: I think that's cheap
BingoBoingo: mats_cd03: $175/hr, 30 hour minimum. $5000 retainer. $300 per diem any day I travel. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Ah, lawyer backed off from needing an expert in Bitcoin after I posted rates.
decimation: yeah I kinda see what you are getting at
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: answer then (i haven't any idea) - why is 'vtol' uncommon today ?
ben_vulpes: decimation: that's why i've always advocated going straight up with jets and then drifting sideways for as long as possible
ben_vulpes: decimation: still gotta get from point a to b - i'd like to see a thing that eschewed flaps for ducted turbine exhaust.
ben_vulpes: i was noodling on a fully-actuated flying wing last night.
decimation: I think if I were to buy an aircraft I would get a turboprop or small jet
asciilifeform: actually what i saw (forgot precisely what brand!) was a tiny thing with a jet engine. big enough for two men and a bulbous camera, and two hours of jp-4.
decimation: plus I thought they were getting busted down old war birds
asciilifeform: as the police choppermeister where i live cheerfully admitted during a public show&tell.
BingoBoingo: I'm fine quoting a price in bezzel dollars
BingoBoingo: Big firm in Chicago so I want to ad a Chicago sucks surcharge
decimation: the only feature on the list of improvements that I find remotely appealing is the fdisk tool
BingoBoingo: Comming from Transylvania I'm sure mircea_popescu has experience slaughtering vampires with sunlight
BingoBoingo: I dunno that there's a better reason at all.
BingoBoingo: I think the entire point of the OpenBSD financial crisis was an allergy to strings
asciilifeform: i doubt that the openbsd devs were so direly impoverished that they agreed to serve enemy, knowing what he was
BingoBoingo: Right, and they want to kill big kernel lock, upon which I dunno you can build security.
asciilifeform: cisions, they are now gone from OpenBSD. And now they miss it. So now, all these guys who work for the same company have started a fork. And it is directed by the guy who hired them in the first place. From where I stand, that is the truth. Yet none of that is in that article, because the truth hurts, doesn't it guys?"
asciilifeform: lopers in a sneaky and underhanded way. They were told, oh i forget they were "asked", to not tell anyone else in OpenBSD that this was happening, probably because people "including Theo" would be upset. Funny thing is, I've never been upset about the 20+ OpenBSD and ex-OpenBSD developers who now work for google. Previously, many of those developers were in critical positions in the development team. As they were suddenly hire
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I mean the fork they want already exists in Google's "android", a linux built with the OpenBSD libc
BingoBoingo remembers being a Junior in college and contemplating buying a giant pile of Liberty Dollars. Then I go BTC to silver around $100/BTC, Should have got those liberty dollars and went the other direction.
BingoBoingo: I always tried to keep my territory under my flag small, clean, and well developed while oppressing the rest of the world
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i only played civ 1, but nukes were a splendid tool to destory ships << This, in civ2 I loaded aircraft carriers with nuclear missiles
mircea_popescu: i only played civ 1, but nukes were a splendid tool to destory ships
mircea_popescu: this is so uniquely peculiar to you i swear...
decimation: but I can be easily owned by aggressive barbarians
decimation: I never bother to invest in military units until I have good tech
mircea_popescu: actually i think it's related to forcing whiny nerds to defend their fucking civ1 cities,
undata: I should learn latin just so I have something to think in when they're done turning english into shit
decimation: I guess usg is tacitly admitting it had no case and is frightened of an appeal
BingoBoingo: Ah, yeah I meant seal. SEAL ALL THE CLUBS!!!
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> i dunno that there's something chilling me on bitcoin as much as all these idiots "driving adoption" in their idiotarian ways. << OMG SELL
mircea_popescu: i dunno that there's something chilling me on bitcoin as much as all these idiots "driving adoption" in their idiotarian ways.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: I wonder if Buterin has an assistant who just helps him spout derpage. "Paid Derpage Roller", much like Snoop Dogg (Lion?)'s "Blunt Roller".
decimation: re: mechanical fetish << one thing I don't get are mechanical watches, they have poor accuracy
undata: I can name delusional thinking much more easily than I can say to what coherent thinking might be anchored
undata: and having said that, I can already see the problem with that framing
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the difference between us here is that you seem to include the margin. i say there's no margin included.
undata: ah I was just ranting earlier about how all american communication has been reduced to marketing
undata: ah when I hear meta I think metaprogramming
mircea_popescu: what's all teh "ironic" trend if not, you know, "i'm meta-er than you ha!"
mircea_popescu: meta i tell you.
mircea_popescu: that's not even what i mean.
undata: well sure, I pay my landlord to rent this apt, he pays the bank for the building and the state for the dirt
asciilifeform: all this 'meta' business - is for the birds. i prefer the concrete.
asciilifeform: undata: let's put another way. if we're subsistence farmers, neighbours, i borrow your horse - then you ask for it back plus p% of harvest, and it makes a kind of hind brain sense because you were deprived of a horse for a spell, after all
mike_c: thanks. that what google translate said but i didn't know if that was just robot talk.
asciilifeform: this bizarre fiction - i never understood.
undata: yes I'm sure it feels great when you're running up your credit cards with abandon
undata: "notice, I've created this graph."
pete_dushenski: though i tend to spend >1 month per winter somewhere warm so it's easy for me to say :D
pete_dushenski: eh i don't mind the crispness in the slightest
mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/3S4LVAm.jpg << :D
pete_dushenski: i ordered a model m and a unicomp to see how they stack up
pete_dushenski: so i've decided to join the mechanical keyboard ranks
cazalla: mircea_popescu, ya, i know of eve but who wants to fuck about with fiat to isk to bitcoin, y u nao use bitcoin itself already
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> pete_dushenski, i can see paying $2,500 for a ship in a game, not as a pre-order mind you. i hope for a game where bitcoin is the ingame currency and players set pricing for resources independent of publisher << it;'s called eve
undata: cazalla: if you pay me $2.5k, I will imagine an incredible ship for you.
cazalla: pete_dushenski, i can see paying $2,500 for a ship in a game, not as a pre-order mind you. i hope for a game where bitcoin is the ingame currency and players set pricing for resources independent of publisher
mircea_popescu: a ? well i guess that's something i learned today then
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i dun think killer whales ever beach
mircea_popescu: hopefully i'll get a price per head, so i won't have to pay per pound.
undata: I watched a documentary recently on the prevalence of suicide in some dreary UK town. I'm not surprised.
undata: same chick threatened me with airborne ebola once; I didn't bother to find out whether she was serious