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mircea_popescu: i like these "as an X" aspirationals.
thestringpuller: i'm getting solicited to go to a CIA job fair...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: at home, half written. i'm still at [censored], fighting with crapware.
mircea_popescu: i thought so too, kinda wy i asked. he seems in the prime market to care about em
mats_cd03: not that i know anything at all about how this stuff really works.
mircea_popescu: i recall a bruhaha a few years ago
mircea_popescu: whereas the point i was making was kinda you know, in general.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it does, i can't see why you wouldn't have your own, terrahertz bus << because ice cream truck does not bring in the income to convert it to galactic ice cream empire.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if it does, i can't see why you wouldn't have your own, terrahertz bus.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: anyway, bad analogy. i'm speaking of actual problems where higher clock on system bus equals more cash.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't a broom to me, but the 'rifle' i carry every day.
mircea_popescu: not that i'm against oxen or anything. but seriously, trying to sell me on braindamaged chickens with three beaks as a sort of unavoidable oxen ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, i know what you're saying, but i think it's much rarer than you make it look, a problem that doesn't take well to chickens.
mircea_popescu: but i recall that even before the first cray, kiler micros did better than the mainframe.
mircea_popescu: i have no argument with that.
mircea_popescu: they came up with "smart phones" ? fuck them, i never upgraded, i still use actual phones. samsung is jumping over backwards to supply the market. they cost nothing. etc.
mircea_popescu: wake me up sometime when i care. i've been using sulfmetoxazole forever, and i intend to continue.
BingoBoingo: If I sound grumpy, it is only because I have come across too many idiots of the "it can't be done" persuasion lately, the kind of managers who have an aquarium in their office because fifteen brains think better than one.
mircea_popescu: so you get twice the clock, and i get two of them. sure, there are SOME problems that are provably unsplittable.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 2008 processor << can get ~2x the clock now. i fully grasp that for your application - there is no reason whatsoever to do this.
mircea_popescu: i mean it's a fine theory an' all, but i don't see it.
mircea_popescu: i dun see it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am at this very moment running a 64 GB amd-a8 quad.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's always been cheaper to buy last year's tech and buy a lot of it and network it << to some extent, the problem i spoke of is a 'two strong oxen' problem. need shared memory.
mircea_popescu: i don't see you got too far.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was trying to disagree, logically, with 'we can simply preserve in amber hardware from golden age and use that for everything'
undata: asciilifeform: oh I don't know, the others don't look particularly hospitable
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm more or less wasting life just by having the misfortune to be parked on planet 3 in 2014. this is quite clear.
mircea_popescu: i somehow doubt they actually use poettering stuff either, but what do i know
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if i were to rent hardware, would have to do most of the management work personally on account of massive existing toolchain crud.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as i said afore, " you'd have to be insane to use rented hardware oyu manage yourself. either colo your own metal or else have the fucking dc handle it if you don't give a shit"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: last i checked, rented gpu was not worth the cost. but say i did. then i get: the very same modern hardware... just - rented.
mircea_popescu: i'd be just as puzzled.
nubbins`: i once spent a summer running fluid dynamics sims on a 24-node beowulf cluster
mircea_popescu: there is a lot terribly wrong with the picture you paint. i've yet to see this wonder where support costs more than the hardware.
mircea_popescu: somehow i imagine what the us agency of redhat is trying to solve is exactly your problem,
mircea_popescu: (kinda weird how the "stuck with windowsy linux" discussion denegerated into a "because i need to run windows".
mircea_popescu: i just never ran into this sort of edge myself. i guess count it as a blessing an' move on.
asciilifeform: did try to explain. winblows in emulator, for instance. i'm a 'reverse-engineer.'
mircea_popescu: something's amiss with this picture tho. i find it hard to believe that you need a lot of computing that is a) physically in your lap and b) exactly fits within the seeming arbitrary constriction of "what 2014 laptops allow"
mircea_popescu: im not sure why you want to run 2014 hw at all. but whatever, maybe i don't do enough hi res porn conversion on a laptop to care ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> on account of my profession, i occasionally do things like booting up winblows in an emulator. << actually last i did that it was on... ubuntu!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i tried to explain, recent hardware means, inevitably, either recent kernel, or laborious pick-and-choose driver vivisection.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cannot, much as i'd love to, use 486, or bk-0011, or handmade pdp-11 in fpga.
mircea_popescu: maybe i'm missing something here, but, why do you think you can't run "max" whatever they are on older debians ?
asciilifeform: on account of my profession, i occasionally do things like booting up winblows in an emulator. on what would mircea do this? 486?
asciilifeform: jurov: i even know what mircea will say now - that poor choice of profession, should instead drill for oil in the north atlantic, or fight in syria.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on account of my profession, i need max disk, cpu, ram, attainable. in portable box. still say 486?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: remember, this is a box i have to actually live with.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: stupid << answer then. i requisitioned portable comp, could have asked for anything. should have asked for 486? with 640x480 lcd ?
mircea_popescu: i can't even be bothered to count all the ways that's stupid. wtf.
mircea_popescu: but i suppose putting more steam behind openbsd can't hurt.
mircea_popescu: i dunno who cares about recent distros anyway.
mats_cd03: i get the distinct impression there's no good distro left besides gentoo
jurov: grr it linked other image as i meant
jurov: i guess mircea meant pople working for general public as opposed to their master
mircea_popescu: yeah, this i true in the reverse. bloggers that write for someone else aren't much more than buskers.
mircea_popescu: I WONT SELL OUT!
nubbins`: we even had our own chat about it, i drew you a thing.
nubbins`: i've read that like three times and i'm out of credits
nubbins`: i fear the grant system discourages artists from putting their careers on economically viable paths
jurov: i myself was recipient of taxpayer money for nonsense, too. so what.
nubbins`: i know! just taking a tangent
jurov: i intended tat just for laugh, but okay.
mircea_popescu: jurov i used to know this chick that wore a bracelet she made out of her pubic hair.
mike_c: nubbins`: can you vouch at all for kialara? i'm going to get one.
nubbins`: i kid
nubbins`: jurov "his" hair. i'm a man.
mircea_popescu: i imagine it makes little sense to have anymore at all, tbh.
mircea_popescu: it had its political importance at the time, these aren;'t really remembered today, but at some point i had to go into fucking something awful forums and argue with the idiots as to why bitcoin actualy is valuable.
mike_c: yes yes, i am saying it no longer makes sense to have a 10 btc that is actually funded
mike_c: these are all novelty items, so i think cas coins with 10 btc or whatever are dumb.
mike_c: they look pretty sweet and i like that they are "designed" to only have 0.1 btc in them.
assbot: I'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby. ❤ - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1wmcqV7 )
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i want prison-made physical btc. toothpaste. << Oh, if I go in I'll have an arts and crafts project.
mircea_popescu: i want prison-made physical btc. toothpaste.
nubbins`: i want a hellraiser-style puzzlebox physical btc
mircea_popescu: jesus fuck i want a buttcoin.org account. the stupidity bitcoin brings out from i dunno where...
artifexd: I believe it is right around where it started. No up. No down. Or at least not much.
mircea_popescu: what is it under i don't even recall, like a % ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suppose in all fairness the byzantino-rabinical approach to the written text as deployed for the needs of bitbet is a special kind of hell for all esl speakers.
leen_: if i place a bet on no now and pric doesnt go under 250 i win the amount stated at th calculator if noobne else bets?
leen_: and if i win the bet
mircea_popescu: well i don't know the future for sure, as it happens. just kinda close.
leen_: i guess so or you know it for sure?
mircea_popescu: i guess so.
leen_: i know that will not happen but just as an example
leen_: and if nobody else bets i get the money stated in the calculator?
leen_: then on a no bet i dont get their earnings
leen_: so i made a bet placing a winning BTC bet on: Yes pays: 4.39046755 BTC No pays: 1.14220213 BTC after fees, at current weight and assuming no one else bets
mircea_popescu: listen, make complete sentences, i can't follow what you're saying.
leen_: i needed to contact you here someone said to me in mail
ben_vulpes: +nubbins`:i've got some neat physical bitcoins, some strange bullion pieces, etc << don't forget newspapers lol
mircea_popescu: i have nfi.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> dang did you guys really crap out over 1000 lines while i was sleeping? << we didn't crap them bish. now eat up!
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> dear ddoser, please add more bots as it is not clear if you are still ddosing or not <<< yeah this srsly. i was half considering replacing the voice model with a ddos model, but srsly, you gotta provide better servcice for free if you wanna be part of infrastructure here!
mircea_popescu: <davout> yes, continuous trading seems so much simpler, not sure if there's a blocker i'm missing tho << it's nonsense, what exactly is a future that has no future date ?
mircea_popescu: <adlai> https://twitter.com/mpex1 also seems a little dead. tsk tsk, need to clean up the dead links! <<< yeah i guess so.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i'd just donate it to germany
mike_c: my estimate seems a bit high at the moment. i gotta do some digging into why. I would use the october statement as a closer NAV right now.