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cazalla: BingoBoingo, ever been blind drunk only to find that old abandoned bottle of champas in the back of a cupboard and despite being blind drunk, half of it gets tipped down the sink?
BingoBoingo: ely half a cup of soda water gone rotten, say aaah, and limply burp. Hooray?"
BingoBoingo: "There’s a gathering ‘round, anticipations, the camaraderie of the pour-and-pass. Speeches are made and improvised from makeshift pulpits. In a chamber of strangers there comes a blossoming sense of true union, a warm realization of the beauty in us all, and the hope for a happier tomorrow. The energy of the room charges upward to its apex, tears flow freely, everyone screams… And then, in silent finale, we all tip back bar
BingoBoingo: I’m not going to go overboard here by claiming that there’s somehow nothing worse than the introduction of a bottle of champagne to a party setting, but I will call that shit out as being a significant speed bump at any given semiformal bacchanal—say, <, What is untrue about this. Champagne is a speed bump, and obstruction
assbot: The Last Psychiatrist: Hey! We Just Now Invented A Cocaine Vaccine 9 Years Ago ... ( http://bit.ly/1JBbZ0j )
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/01/hey_we_just_now_invented_a_coc.html#comment-26844 << tlp gets some outright great comments
BingoBoingo: decimation: Well, I linked a text authored by a person with more polished thoughts on the matter
BingoBoingo: gation to provide enough space to fleece as many as possible. Which is fine, but that doesn’t mean the fleece factory has to look and feel like a fleece factory." Everything wrong with craft beer scene
BingoBoingo: http://drunkard.com/issues/59/59-10-reasons-why-the-gabf-sucks.html << "Hall F of the Colorado Convention Center possesses all the charm of a Soviet tank factory with the Nazis closing in. All the ugly, hard surfaces distort and amplify the happy babble of the crowd into the soundtrack of the Spanish inquisition. I’m well-aware of the brewery association’s rationale: With so many people begging to be fleeced, they have an obli
cazalla: this is why true blue aussie battler slim dusty sang of a pub with no beer and not no cocktails https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E0aZ387M_I
ben_vulpes: a, the...
indiancandy1: unless ur like a poof
danielpbarron: i can't find a good cocktail anywhere
cazalla: pub is more cheap food and booze, bar is more.. cocktail.. you'd never get a cocktail at a pub.. unless ya like a poof or something
indiancandy1: if i had 2 compare it to hotels i would say a bar is more 5star and pub is like local bed and breakfast
asciilifeform bows out of this thread because realizes he has no personal experience with any of the things therein, at all, nor does he have a working theoretical model of them
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if you can afford a computer, you can afford to visit pub
mircea_popescu: iirc quoted here a while back too
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> well yes but how does it improve chances vs. visiting a specially-designated heathen pit where these presently congregate << Heathen pits have greater explicit costs
asciilifeform: well yes but how does it improve chances vs. visiting a specially-designated heathen pit where these presently congregate
danielpbarron: asciilifeform, the app helps in that it isn't aimed at establishing long-term relationships; you can already have a new one-night-stand ready for when you're done with the current one
cazalla: nothing worse than a woman enthral by her iphone, i'd bet the tinder girls are much worse
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Not a joke.
mircea_popescu: the problem is, you don't get the girl in a position to execute without the basement halfyear.
danielpbarron: wait is that not a joke.. is that what that hashtag meant?
mircea_popescu: do at least 3 a day, that's 20 a week. a month later you got mommentum plus enough dining out experience to start your own cooking blog
asciilifeform: indiancandy1: do you drive a car? when you go to a petrol pump, do you pay them to fill your tank? or to wind your gauge to 'full' by hand ?
indiancandy1: is not a loss
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 basically he's saying this is a full time job and you won't be seeing any roi as an amateur
indiancandy1: wat is spam like a pro
indiancandy1: spam like a pro
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo re the name, i definitely got that one pat. no romanian's ever going to be a contender. and that mircea chick really faded after a brief moment of fame
asciilifeform: indiancandy1: at least read 'Spam Like A Pro In 21 Days' first.
asciilifeform: but sure, the lizarditude of the observable universe is a bit much to fit in a man-sized bucket. sorta like the apparent limit to achievable magnetic field density..
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> guy admits to being a drunk... << Most drunks do. Drunks are braggarts.
mircea_popescu: guy admits to being a drunk...
mircea_popescu: it IS clear to a baby, but only because babies are retards.
asciilifeform: and this is supposed to be clear to a baby ?
indiancandy1: im watchin a movie
asciilifeform: (also can talk about att being every bit as 'usg' as any ministry, at the time of being a national telecom megamonopoly)
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Not so much earlier as to be alien or ancient. I mean they were propping up dementia guy from the TV ads as a figurehead
mircea_popescu: add a storage service to it, etc.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron srsly, mayhap make a business out of it ? btc clearance warehouse
danielpbarron: that's the idea / that most people probably have a harddrive they can rip out of an old laptop
nubbins`: it drank a beer
nubbins`: i feel like i have a sata drive from my last laptop somewhere
nubbins`: asciilifeform most electronic items simply do not offer a checkout button for canadians
mod6: sorry I didn't get a chance to clean that up before I left.
mod6: anyway, the foundation will publish a polished script sometime during the first few weeks of march.
nubbins`: sadly, the cheapest pogo a canadian can land is $25usd
mircea_popescu: man with young children. "how did i fall into such a life!"
asciilifeform: how did i fall into such a life.
asciilifeform: bad enough that i'm apparently chasing a low-level bit diddling bug in a sata driver for a godforsaken chip on a godforsaken os
mod6: the static build script seems to exit after line 53 for some reason, haven't had time to debug. if one should figure out a workaround/fix/patch for that, that'd be much appreciated. otherwise I can fix myself when I'm back.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo et al: the way i'm thinking now, the 'sync from one node at a time' thing will have to be killed with fire before 0.5.3/pogo (or otherwise) is given to civilians
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Nope, syncing "in the wild" to make sure it can. Looking like it will be a sub 2 week sync time so happy with that
mod6: I can post it if you wanna use it though. the hope was to have a fixed one here by sometime next week.
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mircea_popescu: nubbins`> no, actually useful enough around the house that i'll need to get a second one for tinkering << ahahaha
danielpbarron: and that's after i added a 'testing' repository to the sources list and upgraded libc
nubbins`: no, actually useful enough around the house that i'll need to get a second one for tinkering
mats: hm, i learned today you can prepend your prompt with a ':' and have a ';' at the end, it will ignore whats in between so you can just copy and paste lines right from your terminal
asciilifeform: nubbins`: yes, i think it was linked here a while ago
BingoBoingo: indiancandy1: Have you considered dating a rapper?
indiancandy1: i have a publicist
ben_vulpes: go fuck a television company executive, wrap him around your finger, leverage like that.
indiancandy1: she came from a middle class family
indiancandy1: i wanna do a twerk video
BingoBoingo: starzz_: Also you probably want to go to #freenode and request a cloak, some asshole intermittently runs a DoS bot here
cazalla: you'll also be needing a time machine to go back to 2008 for when youtube ranked videos solely on views alone
pete_dushenski: that they need any defense at all should be a red flag to society
assbot: In defense of wealthy politicians. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/17oH0mz )
cazalla: mebe ath is more a gamer thing, for example, muh dps hit an ath
pete_dushenski: it'd be a textbook
pete_dushenski: which reminds me that i've been meaning to do a variety speak guide for noobs...
cazalla: at least in the context of qntra and having used all time high and ath a few times before in qntra articles
pete_dushenski: though 'ath' parses quite a bit like defunct 'atc' but that's probably just me
assbot: Trust relationship from user assbot to user pankkake: Level 1: 1, Level 2: 6 via 6 connections. | http://w.b-a.link/trust/assbot/pankkake | http://w.b-a.link/user/pankkake
pete_dushenski: are there non-naive node counters ? or a way to count nodes non-naively ?
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: still not srsbsns tho! it's a joke!
assbot: Fullnode.co is a scam | pankkake ... ( http://bit.ly/1D9pFZU )
mats: while we're on the subject, pankkake on fullnode: http://pankkake.headfucking.net/2014/06/27/fullnode-co-is-a-scam
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: i think pseudonode is kinda like https://github.com/mattdiamond/fuckitjs and more of a comedy measure and not srsbsns
asciilifeform: and did anyone ever come up with a logical explanation for his rage ?
thestringpuller: i think fullnode is a little older than pseudonode
asciilifeform: also wtf with calling a vps fakecomputer 'full node'
assbot: Trust relationship from user kakobrekla to user thestringpuller: Level 1: -1, Level 2: 8 via 6 connections. | http://w.b-a.link/trust/kakobrekla/thestringpuller | http://w.b-a.link/user/thestringpuller
pete_dushenski: a whopping 66 nodes ! wowee!
pete_dushenski: a i see they're back
assbot: 'I Want To Wage Jihad But I Don't Have A Thing To Wear' -- Western IS Wannabes Ask Burning Questions ... ( http://bit.ly/1D9m6Dg )
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: re: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-06-2014#735984 << from front page of bitcoin-tardland: "This project is completely open-source and I take 0 profit from it. Please note that there are more cost-effective ways of deploying full nodes and I mention that in the FAQs. This website is an experiment and an excersize on automatically deploying nodes when a certain balance is reached" ☝︎
danielpbarron: and if anyone has a pogo already and doesn't want to wait, i'd say go with debian over arch; right off the bat it looks like there's no systemd with debian
danielpbarron: the memory card is required in combination with USB3 because the thing cannot have a root filesystem on drives attached to the ports on the rear, and the usb on the top (next to the sata port) is USB2
danielpbarron: and i'd like to now try using a USB3 flash drive as the datadir
danielpbarron: in the same process, I got it to boot from a memory card
mats: not so big a deal since Windows Defender is now taking care of it, but nonetheless
danielpbarron: in CT you run the risk of getting harassed by COPS for daring to take a walk somewhere
danielpbarron: it was actually a 10 to 20 minute walk on one of the ends
asciilifeform: http://lenta.ru/news/2014/12/26/barguzin << the new model is claimed to use a smaller rocket and be externally identical to a passenger car
asciilifeform: open for usg to roam freely << the rocket train was disguised (thinly) as a cargo train and went on ordinary rail