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undata: regardless I'm not the guy
asciilifeform: i (and quite a few other folks) have a collection of own 'lilienfeld's transistors'
assbot: Logged on 16-02-2014 00:31:00; asciilifeform: 2 yrs. ago i figured out how to flex a fairly ordinary multi-conductor cable in an arbitrary spot, at an arbitrary angle, purely electrically.
undata: mircea_popescu: "someday the right master will pour the right answers into my head. then I'll be great, you'll see"
undata: that's what I'm aiming for
chetty: well it is sad, I don't have an answer, just recognize the problem, ...what will turn the herd?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well no banker wakes up and thinks "today i will lose some money"
asciilifeform: no one wakes up and thinks 'today i will finance some pseudoscience.'
asciilifeform: i've spent most of a decade trying to extract some nugget of living matter from 'computer science'
adlai: mircea_popescu: wovon << alongside silence, i'd say questions are also a valid response to ignorance
adlai: i'm not even sure how you'd go about doing such research in a real scientific manner... lots of noise in the signals
jurov: <kakobrekla> what , computhas dont leak energy? thats new.<< no i meant we want to devise machines that simulate non-leaking evironment
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (not the literal qwerty, but the 'platonic' qwerty seen as the overall human failing where folks agree on buggy shit and then cement it in place through 'sunk cost') << fwiw i disagree with this assesment. english is broken because it's a commercial pigdin, language without a country. the old languages of yurp are actually fine, and to this day more powerful than any synthetic syntax.
adlai: ("the code is shit" is valid feedback atm, i'm more interested in the ideas behind it)
adlai: kakobrekla: i also remember why you brought me, but still haven't heard any feedback from you
mircea_popescu: if i'm quirky, it's because all those chemicals in the filters.
asciilifeform: pet sayeth: 'best one i ever read!'
kakobrekla: or so i have been told.
adlai: but i want my ten dollars!
adlai: oh well i guess i gotta pre-enroll to find out
adlai: from https://pocket.digitalx.com/ which appears to be trying to position itself as an entry point for a new wave of... some demographic that I can't quite pinpoint
TomServo: Well I have no crucifixion plans so, you're good.
mircea_popescu: TomServo you know, i'm too old for the cross bullshit.
chetty: well I dun see much point in all the goldbugs, but I guess to each their own poison
thickasthieves: of course i had a following out with the jeweler so maybe not
thickasthieves: i can probably buy $10k worth by driving 10m down the road
kakobrekla: as much as i want
kakobrekla: i can get it at spot here
chetty: thickasthieves, I bet thats just paper tho, try and buy the actual stuff at those prices :P
thickasthieves: glad i never got back in
TomServo: thickasthieves: ahah, wow that's awful. Way to fight the good fight though - more patience than I.
thickasthieves: i dunno....
chetty: <cazalla> so i take a piss and it's all red and i'm thinking i knew it, i knew it, it's fucking cancer// or ebola
cazalla: then i remember i made beetroot relish for tmw and ate a bunch of beets while cooking
cazalla: so i take a piss and it's all red and i'm thinking i knew it, i knew it, it's fucking cancer
cazalla: no drink november, it's 10:15pm on 31st october and i'm having some beers so this ensures i fail no drink november as of 12:01am november 1st
cazalla: prob cause she has been stuck at home all day with bubs and she realised i'd been at the beach once i got home
cazalla: missus gave me a filthy look when i got back though
cazalla: gotta get some beer so i can yell at the kids who dare come to my doorstep and ask trick or treat in australia
cazalla: up myself when i'm already up, amazing
cazalla: looks like it was quiet on the news front, i pissed off and spent half the day at the beach
ben_vulpes: i've only ever seen the programmable stuff.
mircea_popescu: trust me, i know what i'm doing :D
ben_vulpes: <mats_cd03> mircea_popescu: i retched << wuss
mircea_popescu: well, the town is larger, fucking all the girls takes longer i guess.
mircea_popescu: i'm writing you down in my little black book OF INSULTS
BingoBoingo: I think the biggest MP endorsment of hardware b-a so far is how much less time spent at the keyboard happens now compared to timisoara
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: mod6: I prefer the term Stanix << as in "the dyslexic coder sold his soul to stanix" ?
ben_vulpes: <Luke-Jr> mircea_popescu: well, that's part of why the comment states upfront you'll just get banned first time if you screw with the order - I just noticed kakobrekla's name so decided it'd be better to talk to him here first instead :p << dig the power of the wot
ben_vulpes: dev anarchy over there, i tell you.
ben_vulpes: i did get a sane guy on the phone today.
ben_vulpes: i actually want these guys to do well. they've apparently fallen into an infinite buy wall for what they do.
ben_vulpes: i mean i'm a novice for sure
mircea_popescu: i'd can you just for that.
ben_vulpes: i swear half what i do is herd cats and the other half is tell clients what the fuck to do.
mircea_popescu: dear client, here is our contract and here is our previous agreement. if you would like to modify either, please forward me the required modifications and i will send you the corresponding quote.
ben_vulpes: i understand that you've made commitments that your contract with us does not support.
ben_vulpes: i appreciate your flair for the dramatic but lol chilllllll frere.
asciilifeform: but i digress.
asciilifeform: i should also point out that 'fits in head' does not mean yours and mine, necessarily. there are many different heads.
asciilifeform: i can't guarantee that anyone will especially like the answer, if an answer were ever to appear.
BingoBoingo: I'm just thinking about the first, operates "correctly"
asciilifeform: i don't much care about 'shoulds'
asciilifeform: i'd like to aim for type no. 2 here.
mod6: i don't think the question is why, it's how.
mod6: what I mean is, if your worried about everyone running the same code, 'safety critical code' wouldn't it be good to have some diversity of systems, and decentralized
BingoBoingo: Now that people are finally reading GNU utils I imagine split will be from OpenBSD 5.X -current
BingoBoingo: mod6: I prefer the term Stanix
mod6: asciilifeform: perhaps. i worry that we're all of the sudden going to fork *bsd and make mpexos
BingoBoingo: mats_cd03: From what I understand ECC is still a luxury sold to the discerning which the "cloud" is trying to handwave over
mats_cd03: i was under the impression most motherboards support ECC and non-ECC
BingoBoingo: mats_cd03: I have wanted ECC ram for about a decade now, but never pulled the trigger on it
BingoBoingo: Right after I buy/conquer a university
BingoBoingo: I could start a university computer lab with that shit
BingoBoingo: I know!
BingoBoingo: So I'm pricing used workstations. All of the opteron based stuff in the past 6 years is pretty equivalent, yes?
dignork: nubbins`: I cowrdly take this back: current testnet is a 3rd chain - I think genesis block was switched, but not sure when exactly, so 0.5.3 might have an old genesis block :(
mats_cd03: mircea_popescu: i retched
nubbins`: i've got a paltry gb allocated now
nubbins`: i'll bet
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I do indeed
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Last I checked. They opened the Toronto lab entirely for recruiting russian speakers
BingoBoingo will now drop that http://datarecovery.com/about/ has been seeking russian speakers to operate "PC 9000" hard drive firmaware tool since I part timed there in 2004.
asciilifeform: ('pio' - programmed i/o, mode of using standard 'ata' without dma. used by simple schoolboy operating systems for x86)
asciilifeform: works on every machine i own.
asciilifeform: if we're talking about a metal port, i'd use my pio hdd driver (about 1k asm)
mircea_popescu: maybe i don't iunderstand what you mean by "make own fs" and "bare metal" in that order.
asciilifeform: when i said fs,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i missed a zero baby.
asciilifeform: http://lh3.ggpht.com/-8kIGkSd5HlY/UFdBJkTZo-I/AAAAAAAAdLQ/oGTBToZyGR8/karni-mata-temple-6%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/for-capitalism/ << i forgot to link this
Luke-Jr: mircea_popescu: well, that's part of why the comment states upfront you'll just get banned first time if you screw with the order - I just noticed kakobrekla's name so decided it'd be better to talk to him here first instead :p
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: If it were only a management dispute why would I link it?
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr i'd think randomising entries less effort than policing "main domain name" rules, but anyway, no idea wtf this even is so.
mircea_popescu: i guess.
mircea_popescu: maybe much sexier, i dunno.
mircea_popescu: tho honestly i am not convinced a fs is less work than a byodb hook
kakobrekla: Luke-Jr maybe its just common sense, that i lack of.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually i just had my finger in the right cunt.
mircea_popescu: undata i wouldn't loathe anything