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asciilifeform: i have the dead tree book, it's a 'best of' his blog
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i know of no setup where it is possible to set up even a very decent 486 in such a way that it can be used for serious work today. <<< sarge ?
asciilifeform: i own it
asciilifeform: i think ilkka kokkarinen had a colachobot
cazalla: i wanted to make snow camo but who has the time
asciilifeform: aha yes i recall.
cazalla: asciilifeform, you DO know i raise rabbits right? *here comes cazalla and his rabbits talk again*
cazalla: asciilifeform, i wish, just rabbits but i'm sure you know this
cazalla: mircea_popescu, this job actually coincides with the fraud i reported on weeks ago to which they never responded, i'm writing it up
undata: I can firmly attest they are not
decimation: I think you are thinking of dalit
asciilifeform: undata: a fellow i work with spent his childhood (india) in cow shit detail. fuel for the local cremation pyre.
undata: asciilifeform: hey man, I shoveled actual cow shit as a summer gig long ago
asciilifeform: folks who have not boiled in the cauldron cannot fathom the kind of hells that exist. i once worked in a salt mine where scores of people dredged 'reddit', illicitly, all day.
decimation: asciilifeform: for myself, I find working with an engage colleague to be much more motivating than a boss yelling
undata: I think plenty more subconsciously know the same, and are hiding in distractions
undata: decimation: having been convinced that the walls of my country are going to fall in, I've got all the motivation I need
asciilifeform: micromanagement << most folks around here used to it, but i always imagined they would profit from its removal
mircea_popescu: even today i have plenty of handcrankled tasks for the aspiring slavegirl. never a shortage of that. what's of shortage is teh ppl to disciplinedly work, erry day, hour after hour.
asciilifeform: ah hm ok. i don't think the other thing was public
asciilifeform: for some reason i thought it actually happened
mircea_popescu: i tried to onlinehire her but for some reason she lacked the drive or w/e.
mircea_popescu: and since you mentioned moiety, from what i understood that was exactly her position.
asciilifeform: i still can't fathom 1 being the magic number in there
gribble: sdffsd was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 6 hours, 19 minutes, and 32 seconds ago: <sdffsd> Mircea, I can't access mpex.co, what's going on?
mircea_popescu: well it's all i meant, rly.
asciilifeform: plenty of degrees. but, i can't help but notice phase transitions in the space.
mircea_popescu: put it another way : if i didn't think the .1 is the smaller half, i wouldn't be giving it out in the first place.
cazalla: this fkn conference i'm streaming.. "cold storage is out dated, it's about multisig now".. where do you see bitcoin in 20 years time? "something like email where you can instantly send value over the internet"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i do not exactly believe b-a is intended for the workaday people. << do elaborate. should all of us but you & kako pack up? or some other thing implied << well, i know you self-motivate by refusing to see some degrees, but there are some degrees.
decimation: ah I see
asciilifeform: i was unaware that gentoo was on 'hate radar' for folks who aren't using it
mircea_popescu: yes yes, i know whatcha mean.
decimation: I might try 'funtoo' if he is serious about no systemd
asciilifeform: i use gentoo exclusively.
undata: asciilifeform: I'm surprised you don't like gentoo, given you tend to advocate actually knowing what your computer's doing, and why
asciilifeform: i and probably everyone else here has owned plenty of boxes with no video output hardware at all.
decimation: no I mean no video card, serial tty only
asciilifeform: at any rate, no box i ever owned was rendered entirely unbootable by a braindamaged gentoo
mircea_popescu: i guess ubuntu 10.04 could be the alternative.
undata: I don't do any more work administrating mine than debian.
mircea_popescu: anyway, what i said was, to noobs looking at linux
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suppose the "so ssh then" only works for people who youi knw, actually own multiple computers
mircea_popescu: but i mean... rendered unusalbe as in you can't get a terminal on your monitor
decimation: asciilifeform: I think it depends if there was anything 'secret' on the drive - in that case it probably must be destroyed
decimation: I know that there are many scavengers who survive on reselling usg surplus
asciilifeform: this is perhaps the 3rd time i see one of these for sale, too
asciilifeform: i suspect the theatrical aspects demanded this.
asciilifeform: decimation: i was drummed out of scamademia many years ago.
assbot: Logged on 27-07-2014 17:35:40; asciilifeform: the one common anthropological thread i see here is that most governments insist on some 'national' symbolic meaning in their chosen means of execution. e.g., the french guillotine across all five 'republics'
decimation: "WHEN I WAS ACTIVELY DISCOURAGING HER FROM TAKING ANOTHER EXAMPLE QUOTE FRANKLY I WAS AFRAID THAT SHE WOULD PASS IT AGAIN. THAT WOULD NOT HELP ME OUT OF IT. "
decimation: "ONE THING YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED THROUGHOUT THIS WHOLE THING I MENTIONED AT LEAST TWICE, THAT ANA PASSED OUR POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION 1994 THAT DID NOT DETER ME OR FBI FROM PURSUING THIS. WE KNEW SHE PASSED THAT EXAM, SO WHAT?"
asciilifeform: aha that was in here earlier i think
decimation: asciilifeform: I found some amusing info: https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2014/11/15/doug-williams-indicted-for-teaching-how-to-pass-a-polygraph-test/
asciilifeform: did i miss something? how did we get to gangrene ?
asciilifeform: although how could i possibly know.
decimation: at any rate, I get you point, but you realize that the number of folks who are 'free' by your definition are probably less than a few thousand in the us
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I consider it the privledge of being neurologically deviant
decimation: 68hc12 as I recall
BingoBoingo: It was on the Ti-89 I had and the computer I acquired in the same window of time. My affinity is probably mostly through familiarity
decimation: I remember having to program a 68k variant microcontroller in school, wasn't too bad
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: While 8 could be forced onto Pre-RISC macs, the result is, and I emphasize IS, never pretty.
decimation: at least with the shitware I was running, they would regularly crash
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i know of no serious difference between 7.5 and 8
decimation: asciilifeform: I use elinks occasionally
decimation: I recall using netscape 1.0 and the user experience was pretty much the same as firefox 30
decimation: I bet you could still run 'lynx' on a 486
decimation: back in my youth I actually ran a tcp/ip node on an 8086
asciilifeform: i still have 'doom' on a stack of aol floppies somewhere.
decimation: BingoBoingo: I had a friend who would call aol every day for a new 'demo floppy'
asciilifeform: i liked the aol floppy disks.
devthedev: I wasn't even alive during the days of CompuServe
decimation: yeah there were free forums as I recal
undata: I vaguely remember gopher sites as a young kid
undata: decimation: ah I had that
asciilifeform: a recent openbsd (what i eventually settled on for that machine) consumes virtually the whole 64m.
decimation: yeah. I was able to get plenty to run back in in the mid 90's
asciilifeform: i know of no setup where it is possible to set up even a very decent 486 in such a way that it can be used for serious work today.
decimation: yeah. I remember using slackware 3 on my old 486, and barely getting X to run - and also wondering what its point would be
decimation: I remember running with KDE 10 years ago and dreading the 24 hour compiles
undata: "ah, this is precisely what I wanted"
asciilifeform: undata: i still haven't forgiven the xorg thing
undata: I can attest to gentoo granting you the right to blow your hand off at every step
decimation: asciilifeform: I thought mr. robbins quit and started his own gentoo fork?
undata: ah, that I agree with, but that's part of the beauty
BingoBoingo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome << most interesting event I've had with regularity. Not interested in Clomipramine at all though because I like getting boners.
BingoBoingo: undata: Well, I tend towards generics. Recently though ETOH has been the anticonvulsant of choice.
asciilifeform: decimation: the example i usually offer is n. taleb
BingoBoingo: I'm not a big fan of antipsychotics, make me feel like Micheal J Fox. Anticonvulsants though, particularly lamotrigine... do my brain well
undata: a second doctor bothered with blood work and I was merely low on a few vitamins
undata: when I was younger a doctor put me on an antipsychotic for a bit due to "depression"
BingoBoingo: I got my school bezzel so probably actually netted more value in the end.
undata: BingoBoingo: not an insult; I've heard horror stories of kids tripping, getting hauled into the psych ward
asciilifeform: can he take a few months off like ascii dreams << when did i ever say 'few months'
BingoBoingo: decimation: I don't remember that one specifically, but... pretty sure bring a folder of medical records is a part of what did in my chances for interesting stuff. Amazing what a trip to the wrong part of the hospital can do for your prospects
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I probably would have signed for those. But... shift in tenor came when time to draft actual contract.
decimation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-52_Stratofortress << ' removal of the tail gun in 1991' wow later than I thought
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Post asvab pre-medical write up offers involved language school or medical/technical fields, after when "trust us" I began suspecting "cooks assistant" and latrine crew
decimation: I think the last of those were phased out in the 60's
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: when working as an r&d contractor grunt, i met plenty of folks in uniform happily 'flying the mahogany bomber'