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asciilifeform wonders if he's the only fella here who has never rage-smashed a keyboard, pNohe, pNablet, ..., etc
asciilifeform: iirc, mircea_popescu is also a 'smasher'
cazalla: an utter absolute shit morning, sometimes it would be nice to be a shut in hermit with nobody with 10km
cazalla: smashed my iphone in a burst of anger so.. no more apple products here (ipad already went out the window)
asciilifeform: sanity is a losing battle on x86.
punkman: I grabbed a couple of T60s to give it a go
asciilifeform: punkman: as a matter of fact, i do
asciilifeform: (and before anyone asks, no, it is not a simple matter to build it from source like any other thing. needs an existing gcc configured to play ball in order to bootstrap itself)
asciilifeform: where the practical distinction between a satisfied user and a spammer who wrote a review in exchange for a bowl of rice and a day's pass from the sex slave farm, is purely academic
asciilifeform: and something like this is quite inevitable when a product degenerates to that level of necessary attention span
asciilifeform: that, if it isn't obvious, is a 'review farm.'
asciilifeform: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9EKh_lIEAE1O8u.jpg << punkman found this a while ago
thestringpuller: game developers are kind of like rappers, after a certain age their "hip-ness" runs out.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: background for that article: herr baggett came to my town once, and gave a public talk where he pitched a militantly idiotic 'startup' (nothing whatsoever to do with games, a weird proprietary, closed-source email client with 'new, exciting, unprecedented' spam filter that is a poor clone of 1990s state of the art)
thestringpuller: like a dyslexic spider weaving a web.
asciilifeform: (how? let's start with those iterations, every single one of which will suddenly need a nonsense variable; all the things that will have to be declared for the occasion, that presently are genericized; etc)
asciilifeform: 1) the idea of tearing out 'boost' while retaining the 'satoshi cleanup' concept of therealbitcoin project - is a total impossibility
asciilifeform: more valuable than any particular microscope, even the rarest, is the -idea- of a microscope
asciilifeform: junkyard dogs, the lot of them, who found something valuable and stole a piece
asciilifeform: which is entirely not the same thing as a product developed and shipped in a standardized, adult common lisp system (what naggum earned his bread with)
asciilifeform: also note that that outfit, like many others (yes, it isn't in 'nyt', but still existed) wrote a miniature 'college' lisp-flavoured scripting language inside their normal runtime
asciilifeform: talk to a game dev who was active in the '90s
asciilifeform: for so long as that abortion of a language existed.
mircea_popescu: "make bitcoin accessible to everyone by saying it's really a bottle of tide, and letting procter and gamble manufacture it"
asciilifeform: by popular demand (everybody who's ragging on 'boost') a musical interlude:
asciilifeform: it's a 'frankensteinian' project by nature, whatcanido.
asciilifeform: especially ones i fished out of the sewers in a hurry, for purposes of experiment.
midnightmagic: it's a trap, get an ax
mircea_popescu: "I'm an 18 year old currently in my first semester of college at UNM (Studying medicine). All my life I've been a very good girl, pro-feminist all my life, I was in the girl scouts growing up, I got straight As, I don't drink or go out to parties. I found your tumblr the other week and at first I was offended, I don't see how any woman would subject herself to such treatment. I've visited your page multiple times since
asciilifeform: as in, there is not a 'free world' si fab.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: see the problem from the perspective in which it actually -is- a problem: not that a billion people own computer that is not a computer (nowhere is it written that we have to care about this) but in the elementary lack of a practical alternative.
asciilifeform: interestingly, intel and microshit have been salivating for a decaee+ over the concept of a cpu that runs not merely mandatorily-signed but encrypted code (to internal key)
mircea_popescu: why would a key have to leak ?
asciilifeform: wake me up when a serious usg key leaks.
mircea_popescu: in a sense, so far they're really cutting out our rouad for us.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so far problem only exists in winblows/apple world, but it creeps onward - microshit in particular requires it as a condition of doing business with manufacturer
asciilifeform: 'but Richard is seemingly frightened about the compiler competition from LLVM that is out under a permissive free software license.' << fud artist lies through his teeth. rms is not 'frightened of competition under permissive licenses', but is pointing out that organized attack by shitgnomes flying (as always) flags of convenience, is under way. ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Other Emacs stakeholders responded with confusion how this could be "a systematic effort to attack GNU packages" and also raised points on how Emacs has support for Microsoft Windows and OS X but wouldn't consider a basic patch for enabling the LLDB debugger to be used. Stallman followed up to say, "These are not similar cases. Neither Windows nor MacOS was intended to push major GNU packages out of use. What I see here appea
assbot: RMS Feels There's "A Systematic Effort To Attack GNU Packages" - Phoronix ... ( http://bit.ly/1L1JIxb )
assbot: Removing Libsystemd0 From a Live-running Debian System - Slashdot ... ( http://bit.ly/1L1IySr )
BingoBoingo: http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/02/15/1959209/removing-libsystemd0-from-a-live-running-debian-system
assbot: Logged on 23-08-2014 17:21:36; asciilifeform: (what style? gigantic plate-glass window walls that never let through office light - they're painted black on the inside; the seemingly-mandatory wrought-iron fence, with steel cable trusses - nominally against terrorist trucks (TM); archaically-massive satellite antennae; a few other features broadly known to anyone who looks with any regularity.)
asciilifeform: chetty: there is a specific, highly-ritualized architectural style:
chetty: nothing all that creepy about it, except maybe a certain lack of windows :P
asciilifeform had a colleague once who -did- go, by making wrong turn in traffic, and -did- end up 'a big delay to others' as he was frog-marched into a guardpost and searched
asciilifeform: 'If you're invited to the NSA, pay careful attention to the instructions given. If you do not, you will be a big delay to others. If you're not invited to the NSA, please do not go, unless you want to see the Cryptology museum, which is a fascinating place.'
asciilifeform: 'The parking lots are very large and crowded. It is hard to find a spot, even working the night shift. I think Obama should invest in a parking garage. It is a bit creepy inside the buildings, too.'
asciilifeform: knew about it for a decade, but somehow can't bring myself to set foot there
asciilifeform: it's not about the fucktard museum that's the nsa << reminds me, one of these days i gotta pay a visit to... their museum
mircea_popescu: it's about plainest morals : please consider if your duty to yourself, as a free man worth two shits doesn't require you to publish all the shit you know.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin will be fine. there will be carnage in its wake, but that in itself is a positive outcome.
mircea_popescu: if you don't hurt the things you don't like, you're not really a man.
hegemoOn: but in a more general level i can explain why it sucks
asciilifeform: hegemoOn: 'Seven dollars an hour, that's what Philip Johnson made / Driving a Wells Fargo truck, he handled millions every day / But you can't be much of a player on 56 bucks a day / Seven dollars an hour, that's what Philip Johnson made.'
hegemoOn: while hiring better profile would cost a little more on human ressource budget
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i actually have a post scheduled (for like 6 months now) for day after tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: come to think about it, not a bad analogy.
hegemoOn: and even getting money back as far as they were paying for a service to a company they owns
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah, it goes to the thread a few weeks ago about why does usg even bother to tax at all
asciilifeform: re: programmers, the inescapable conclusion is that in usa, their $xxx k-usd salary is merely a 'money laundry' vehicle for real estate racket
mircea_popescu: is it supposed to be like a threat or something ?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> replacement by an indian, either on or off shore << this is like saying your trophy wife that if she quits you, you'll replace her with a masturbation aid.
asciilifeform: would they each pick a village and duel to the death with any other who decides to come to town ?
asciilifeform: to follow mircea_popescu's 'ducks and hunters' analogy, the ducks cluster in a flock and get shot together
decimation: if by 'detroit' you mean anywhere where you could buy a house for less than 100k, you are probably correct
asciilifeform: re: tiny equities: as i understand, scarcely anyone even gets a fixed % of a company now
decimation: "If your gut (or someone you trust) tells you that ANY ONE of the Founders is a bozo, forget it and walk away. They will take you and the company down."
decimation: apparently in new york the situation is a little more harsh: "In New York, people have given up on equity. I hear this time and again in the NYC tech scene - building a company is hard in NYC because people don't believe equity is worth anything because of the bullshit that happened in the first bubble. In New York especially, there were a lot of shenanigans with equity in 99/00 bubble/crash era where companies got sold and employees
asciilifeform: decimation: they were 'working for nothing' long ago, by way of giving up most of their salary to the local real estate chumpatron as a mandatory matter
mircea_popescu: jurov this is quickly developing into my fatal flaw, so i can be like a villain in the movies.
jurov: 3.21579699 BTC minus 1.9624272 BTC substracted due to last month's credit, for a final total of 1.25336979 BTC to be paid as dividends for MPEx(sic!) shares this month.
decimation: asciilifeform: win from the thrashing - if it is a public one << "maim one, educate one thousand"
asciilifeform: even if there is nothing sentient in the muppet that would win from the thrashing - if it is a public one, it will do some good for those who yet might
assbot: 3 results for 'assbot dividend' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=assbot+dividend
asciilifeform: but they do deserve a good thrashing now & then
asciilifeform: 'nobody ever got fired' for being a meatpuppet who blindly imitates their immediate neighbour - yes
mircea_popescu: the ibm thing is just a subset of this.
asciilifeform: did this actually get a rise out of somebody ?
asciilifeform assumed it meant 'running a net of spam proxies'
mircea_popescu: they even have a 5 second delay "connecting" to the "correspondent". who is like, fifty feet away.
assbot: Cel mai cautat interlop din Alba a devenit vedeta pe internet - Extern - Observator Antena1 - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1ArCtx3 )
mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlfkutB-PcE << this is epic. so some derp from alba (roguhly romania's equivalent of Indiana) has been a fugitive sought for proxenetism and "creating an organised crime group" for over a year. he's put some derpy rap thing on youtube, and the tv chicks are creaming their pants because "over 1000 views". literally, "peste o mie de vizitatori" = over 1k views.
chetty: a general breakdown of civilized behavior ..seems to be getting worse
mircea_popescu: this is a legitimate question.
danielpbarron: to give some idea of how much faster solid state drive is vs a 5400 rpm drive, it caught up to a weeks worth of blocks in about a day
Vexual: We don't even know what a block is worth
Vexual: Thatd have cost a pretty penny
thestringpuller: The computer is a decade old Vexual
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: What about setting a process memory usage limit and scripting the restart process after it gets killed?
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo a machine with only 1gb of ram
Vexual: Did a shark eat it?
Vexual: Or sign to say you have a copy of some turgid dick in abs
Vexual: A well designed shelf bracket will be better and stronger than the hardware shop equivalent
BingoBoingo: What does a 3D printer actually fix that a roll of Duct tape doesn't fix faster and better?
Vexual: Hopefully ba has a thingiverse better by then
Vexual: I've always wanted a makerbot
Vexual: Like the builder who presents a nice archicad flythru then blames the concreter for everything that follows
Vexual: So does a 3d printer make you get better at cad?
punkman: oh what a wonderful world that is
Vexual: Sounds a lot like the police commissioners job