asciilifeform: just mentioned.

asciilifeform: he was trotted out during a commentary broadcast re: the 2004 election ☟︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-09-2015#1275611 << along with many other u.s. folks, i ~watched~ this happen with obama ☝︎

asciilifeform: but they prolly ought to be blue/linkified

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-09-2015#1275630 << this is glorious. ☝︎

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up anton_osika

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up anton_osika

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: sorta like 'derive' but elephantine.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is a proggy, that actually does most mathematical manipulations formally described in any book.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ~mathematica~. not the wiki maintained by wolfram's sex toy interns.

asciilifeform: (data sheet will often tell you far more than you would ever wish to know)

asciilifeform: it isn't even secret in the usual sense

asciilifeform: look at it under microscope some time

asciilifeform: ram is deadly simple.

asciilifeform: because 95%+ of the firmware consists of 'pokes' to set magic registers.

asciilifeform: re on something like a raid or gpu is a very frustrating experience

asciilifeform: partially

asciilifeform: the likely objective was 'keep the other louts from getting rich and cancelling mine'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the day one of these ~mentions where he got the idea~ i will probably have to fly to the office on my pig.

asciilifeform: (to no very constructive end)

asciilifeform: http://ledgerjournal.org/ojs/index.php/ledger << s0mebody reads the logz, rips off deedbot

asciilifeform: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/sep/15/half-uk-banknotes-used-to-fund-shadow-economy << mega-l0l ☟︎

asciilifeform: it was a 'poor man's gentoo' yes

asciilifeform: how else.

asciilifeform: dev ml is always this

asciilifeform: sorta like us.

asciilifeform: gentoo built on ~generic~ tar.gz plus patches.

asciilifeform: yeah but 1) not exclusively or even very preferentially and 2) weird pre-debianized packages of src

asciilifeform: i'm talking about source being THE supported package installation mechanism.

asciilifeform: everything is 'available' in source

asciilifeform: if i wanted to eat pre-chewed food i know where to do.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mno. FUCK running other people's binaries.

asciilifeform: even if no clients?

asciilifeform: much as a 70 y.o. whore is still a whore even in retirement

asciilifeform: but she was not born 'mommy blogger', no?

asciilifeform: hm.

asciilifeform: nope

asciilifeform puts on list to ask colleagues 'what is bimbo'

asciilifeform: before this, was a beauty contest contender, iirc

asciilifeform: in usa that is more or less what the word means

asciilifeform: ( http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/09/trump-for-prezz.html )

asciilifeform: ^ from the dept. of orl0lz

asciilifeform: buttocks to join in holy matrimony. But the Supreme Court seems game for such tweaks, and, as an added benefit, when time comes for Mr. Trump to divorce (as it invariably has), the Pope would be only too happy to annul such a union.'

asciilifeform: oesn't amount to much—but, more specifically, her amazing ass. She has a stunning derrière that I am sure will make America feel proud again. Further, I propose that Trump marry her ass, and make a sort of national royal ass-family. She'd be the Vice-Prezz and the First Lady-Ass—killing two birds with one ass, if you will! Yes, it would require another tweak to the marriage laws to make it possible for a man and a woman's

asciilifeform: ''So here are five perfectly good reasons why Trump would make one fine Prezz. But he needs a running mate. Now, wouldn't it be a fine thing to have a woman Vice-Prezz? It's been two election cycles since a spectacularly dumb bimbo—Sarah Palin—came within a few percentage points of the Vice-Prezzidency; maybe it's time to try again. And so I propose Kim Kardashian as Trump's running mate. Not Kim Kardashian herself—she d

asciilifeform: ahahahahahaha

asciilifeform wonders whether nigeria might have one

asciilifeform: in all seriousness, that would be spiffy

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this leaves who? tanzania ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: then again, wasn't mircea_popescu the sole remaining sponsor of 'bitpay' et al... ?

asciilifeform: this also.

asciilifeform: i could get a colo box here but at ruinous cost.

asciilifeform: aha lol

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-09-2015#1274383 << guessed as much. ☝︎

asciilifeform: l0lz

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i fucking wrote this

asciilifeform: (at somewhat astonishing expense)

asciilifeform: in a sense this was study, just not of a kind anyone would wish for. i.e. i could re-make the thing if it burned down.

asciilifeform: but yes, medieval, plowing field with half an ox and bare hands, etc.

asciilifeform: (a couplea days ago somebody just about asked for this)

asciilifeform: it isn't like you can spit it out in pill form for someone to swallow, after you learn it

asciilifeform: entirely medieval. but no different from, say, studying mathematics.

asciilifeform: just with years of non-replicable sweat behind it.

asciilifeform: well it runs

asciilifeform: use what

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-09-2015#1274402 << i rounded, of course. thing is, nobody makes this in ONE ips panel, if anyone did, i would own it. i have tiles. ☝︎

asciilifeform: aha, why do you think i wrote it

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-09-2015#1274437 << if 'it does not need to serve any practical function', then mircea_popescu is in luck! i already have this system! it is even a lisp machine! >>>>> http://www.loper-os.org/?p=405 ☝︎

asciilifeform: if 'someone' is all you need.

asciilifeform: i'm sure that some idiot kid will eventually take your money.

asciilifeform: barely buy a turd from the sidewalk.

asciilifeform: and that the things people turn out to be, in practice, actually willing to spend,

asciilifeform: is that software is a lemon market.

asciilifeform: the point i was trying to make,

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: if it is done intelligently, it is easily $2-3K PER PATCH

asciilifeform: if this is done blindly, it will be a disaster

asciilifeform: see above

asciilifeform: what does 'maintenance of the ebuild' entail ?

asciilifeform: m

asciilifeform: everyone wants the moon and the sun, but no one wants to pay for the,.

asciilifeform: because ~this~ is reasonably a $k or more ~per~, at quite threadbare american market rates

asciilifeform: this presumably includes somehow meaningfully vetting the published patches ?

asciilifeform: fixes as published where ?

asciilifeform: just the fact of it continuing to build ?

asciilifeform: for what, pertaining to nginx ?

asciilifeform: how much, in whatever currency, would trinque personally contribute to this scheme ?

asciilifeform: let's work a small example

asciilifeform: where does the money in this market come from ?

asciilifeform: whereby this would be something other than a charity

asciilifeform: trinque: what are the actual economics you have in mind ?

asciilifeform: you pay.

asciilifeform: meaning that certain things can only be done effectively by folks who spend all or most of their time on them.