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mircea_popescu: ooo and in other news,
turkish parliament approves
turkish army depoloyment in qatar.
mircea_popescu: esp if
there's any glaring holes / errors
that i dun wanna discover you know, once
the submissions get processed.
mircea_popescu: btw @all, lemme know if you have complaints/comments re
the whole b itcoin learning
thing before it gets drywalled.
☟︎ trinque: make sure ya snag your key
then, before departing for good?
mircea_popescu: this website-for-business craze is
totally paying off.
mod6: freshwater fish gotta be cooked
tho.
ben_vulpes: i'm going sour on applying heat
to fish
trinque: nah wasn't ceviche, but honestly
the whole concoction done
that way would be even better.
trinque: my lady made
this spicy cod
thing with mangos and other whatnot
the other day
mircea_popescu: trinque
that
thought makes me want
to go have some more smoked
trout on homemade bread.
mircea_popescu: "ya dude, you'll
totally miss syria/libya/egypt/whateverthefuck"
ben_vulpes: "i wouldn't be a member of any club
that wouldn't fall all over itself
to have me in it" or how did it go
mircea_popescu: you know ? dumbass soviets were like
this, and
then once
the 80s were over and shitholistan moved
to arab world,
they were like
that in
the 90s.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what
the hell happened
to "dude, if i can't get back it just means IT FUCKING SUCKED!"
a111: Logged on 2017-06-08 03:42 ben_vulpes: heh, friends have been whining, "what if you can't come back!!!1" without ever once considering
the corrolary "what if you can't get out?"
pete_dushenski: then like looking at guitar in magazine and saying 'looks
too
twangy sounding for me personally'. anyways
ben_vulpes: it's not "too prudish" it's "dafuq are you doing with
that fleshlight"
ben_vulpes: not
to mention gut distate for robots in my control loop
ben_vulpes: currently divesting of piles of atoms, not looking for more or more reasons
to have more
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: i'd rather pull
the guitar off
the wall,
ty
ben_vulpes: i bleed ke off with
the clutch, sue me
pete_dushenski: it's like 'i don't
think she'd be a good fuck because
too prudish'. well, go fuck and see if your armchair assessment is accurate ?
ben_vulpes: i suppose if you're only shifting when you're clear out of
the power band it might not be so whiplash-inducing
pete_dushenski: guy who spends all spare
time perusing classifieds - dreamer dan, if you will
pete_dushenski: lol neither did i. until i stopped playing classified carey and drove
the bloody
things like i stole 'em
ben_vulpes: derivatives are a
thing, matching
them a skill.
ben_vulpes: upstack, while an interesting experience i do not
think i will enjoy
the experience of HAHA IN ANOTHER GEAR NOW
ben_vulpes: heh, friends have been whining, "what if you can't come back!!!1" without ever once considering
the corrolary "what if you can't get out?"
☟︎☟︎ ben_vulpes: i'd love
to whip one around, actually.
pete_dushenski: weirdly, dct can feel ~more~ raw and ~more~ mechanical
than manual if properly engineered. low speed smoothness isn't usually part of
that equation
though,
thus
the still enormous market for slushboxen with evermore speeds. 8 ? why not 9 ? let's make it 10!
ben_vulpes: 'tis one
thing
to press bae back in her seat with a downshift, another altogether
to rattle
the whole crew around as
the vehicle rattles around its hysteresis envelope as
the geartrain and suspension return
to steady-state
ben_vulpes: lag sucked
though, also had no notion of matching engine speed
to
the new gear for slick ride experience
ben_vulpes: learned in
that day
that an auto did not have
to be an utter misery
to drive
a111: Logged on 2017-06-08 03:16 pete_dushenski:
the subsequent generation of 'semi-automated' have paddles on steering wheel or column. 'like f1 car'(tm). gen1 just had clicker sub-gate on centre console shifter
a111: Logged on 2017-06-07 22:14 whaack: I've
taken a few Spanish classes
throughout school, I'm using duolingo, reading Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish
http://b-ok.org/book/1160411/3c0465, moving
to CR (went
there for 10 days, loved it), reading a
textbook (Nexos)
pete_dushenski: next gen of 'auto' is argually dual-clutch
trans
that pre-selects next gear and can swap cogs in blink of an eye (<200ms)
pete_dushenski: gen2 became more common around '08-10 so
that'd make sense
mircea_popescu: maybe
the new heavily electronic
things.
though... "your java applet has crashed"
mircea_popescu: i don't
think anyone even makes an automatic gearbox
that handles 15-20% well. cuz why would it, sorta
thing.
pete_dushenski: ...
than manual. and better
than normal auto because, yes, as mp said, hills
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't want a purely automatic gearbox in
this country mostly because of
the grades
they got.
pete_dushenski: within limits, comps will still
take over if you're driving
too douchey
pete_dushenski: still uses
torque converter but allows for driver control of gear selection
mod6: now if i can just get
this
touch-pad
to work, i'll have "computrobox"
mod6: i should note,
that if you end up setting a default run-level with wpa_supplicant
to debug some stuff, ensure
that you disable
this. you want
to remove
that with `rc-update delete wpa_supplicant`.
then add `rc-update add net.wlan0 default` in its place.
this, at least for me, fires up
the adapter and negotiates with
the AP at boot
time.
mod6: <+danielpbarron> mod6, if you get wifi working can i get a recipe? << sure
thing
ben_vulpes: > While America may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country
that stands united in condemning Linux in all of its very ugly forms.
whaack: shinohai: I will
take you up on
that
shinohai: whaack: seeing as how
there is little Qntra market
these days I offer (wot based) Spanish
tutoring as well.
trinque: whaack: as it happens mircea_popescu lives
there now.
whaack: I've
taken a few Spanish classes
throughout school, I'm using duolingo, reading Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish
http://b-ok.org/book/1160411/3c0465, moving
to CR (went
there for 10 days, loved it), reading a
textbook (Nexos)
☟︎ whaack: I'm leaving
the US and going
to Costa Rica in about a month. In
the off chance anyone wants
to make some btc by renting out a place
there send a msg
to my key. Any advice is appreciated as well
☟︎ juantelez: trinque: I wanna know more about
this place.
trinque: what brings you
to
the forum of
the Republic?
mod6: only
thing left i gotta fix is
the wireless driver
danielpbarron: the one i got it working on reports a slightly newer version, but i suspect
this fix would work on
the other one with same version
danielpbarron: no, but
they are
the "same version" as reported by
themselves
danielpbarron: strange
thing is i can
take
the drive (that is,
that which shows up as /dev/sda) out and put it in an identical machine and it will boot with
the lba32
thing
danielpbarron: i also got something
to work
that i had been stuck on for a while: lilo stalling on
the bios data check. seems as
though
the solution is
to use 'linear' rather
than 'lba32' in etc/lilo.conf
a111: Logged on 2017-06-07 20:18 mod6:
trinque, danielpbarron, et al.
thx. got X built, gcc 4.9.2, etc. on
the new laptop.
mircea_popescu: ie
ttp://trilema.com/2016/a-complete-theory-of-politics/#selection-27.1-31.28
diana_coman: trinque, I saw
that approach in practice, yes
mircea_popescu: diana_coman yeah, and
that whole "because fuck your race"
thing.
trinque: diana_coman: girl's also part cherokee; apparently
they'd solve
the cognitive dissonance by saying "ah, her? she's got a man's spirit!" and leave it at
that
diana_coman: trinque, perhaps; I don't quite buy
this cutting off a
tit but I can't say I spent a lot of
time on it as such
mircea_popescu: trinque i suppose
the whole amazon loped
tit
thing was commentary re "stop being so damned nurturing" and
the whole lacedemonian cultural shock.
mircea_popescu: ro commies did exactly
that sort of
thing also, back in
the early days.