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mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> mircea_popescu: i'm always confused by your "copyright and IP lolol" attitude contrasted with the "these contracts are copyright MPEx 20**" lines in the MPEx contracts << there are some places ip makes sense.
moldysnizz: Fix'n up an RV I bought a couple of months ago.
moldysnizz: Someday I'll dig out my computer with my chatquack credintals on it. For now, it's moldy.
decimation: asciilifeform: re: "emacs aptitude test" << yeah I'm realizing I need to remap everything to become more productive, like a young apprentice ought. It is good to learn the default keybindings in case one needs to use some strange terminal without your own .emacs though -- not a situation where one should expect to be productive
nubbins`: that's what i meant
thestringpuller: i hope to be art connessieur one day
nubbins`: don't get too offended, i'm pretty skimpy with my ratings
nubbins`: "so i guess you could buy a pen if you wanted to..."
nubbins`: LEL I KID
nubbins`: don't feel too bad for me, i got out
ben_vulpes: i apologize sincerely for bringing this weep fest in here
nubbins`: i need a drink
ben_vulpes: i'm noping right the fuck out of this conversation.
thestringpuller: i wonder who thinks these are good ideas
ben_vulpes: i guess i'm into really elaborate masochism
nubbins`: oh god i forgot i used to do shit with forms
ben_vulpes: operate in the boonies, can't afford and don't want to hire programmers, and so bring me on to do...forms. for enquification of work. in exchange for which i get dollars, and the opportunity to suggest other ways in which to make their businesses run less awkwardly.
ben_vulpes: so i've started bringing in the kind of work i started out seeking. internal applications for companies converting passenger 747s into cargo 747s.
ben_vulpes: i imagine that i feel about running cables and laying literal pipe the way you feel about returning responses to http requests.
asciilifeform: i also once earned bread by running wires in ceilings, walls.
ben_vulpes: then the rocket folks gave me a tour of the life i could expect derping on the sexiest atom stacks around
ben_vulpes: * asciilifeform derps atoms in unheated wooden hovel with 0-phase (extension cord from house...) << i came too close to sacrificing too many valuable human-parts derping on atoms on salary to go back to it.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i'm reduced to that with which i cannot bear to part.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: these are perfectly fine things every adult man i know, owns.
ben_vulpes: the actual tools i now own are hacksaws, japanese wood saws, various jigs, shitty quick-grip clamps, a stick welder (in the business-partner's garage), a cutoff saw (ibid), and a circular saw (...).
ben_vulpes: once upon a time i built furnaces, tables, cabinetry, play-vehicles for the e-peen at burning man...
ben_vulpes: in re-packing the toolbox today i had a moment of gloom over all the tools i've abandoned over the years.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i don't derp on atoms any more.
nubbins`: in fact, i *just* ordered 8gb of ram for it
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i recently ended up in a similar situation (some work in a godforsaken bare walls site) and looked at laptops, finding nothing even vaguely worth owning
ben_vulpes: i'm apparently even more of a pauper than yourself, and must maintain mobile work stations.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i'm always confused by your "copyright and IP lolol" attitude contrasted with the "these contracts are copyright MPEx 20**" lines in the MPEx contracts
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: some sort of consistent treatment of focus << 'ratpoison' has 'polite mode' and 'rude mode' (window can open, on current display, or cannot.) i've them set to single key toggle.
Duffer1: i'm online so much it's always surprising when i find two day old news
mircea_popescu: here's a lol : i've still not changed my nickserv pw. har har.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 yeah well, i meant actual people, not anon mass.
mircea_popescu: i don't follow any twitter.
mircea_popescu: i dun get it.
BlueMeanie4: you should !up me after I see what the subject matter is
BingoBoingo: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--52962qVq--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/cveapjpqekxtywto4xpf.gif
BingoBoingo: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--nxZ3jTvh--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/cukoflrofvfssefec65t.gif
cazalla: mircea_popescu, nothing to report, i am going to get back to it though
mircea_popescu: i dunno dood, your model.
BingoBoingo: jurov: that would be advice for BingoBoingo, jurov: hire doppelganger, walk out << I'll decline to comment on whether this option has been considered already...
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: (also horrible is how os x handles new windows for application a when application a is full screen on a monitor somewhere: nondeterministically!) <<< i'd be happy if people just came to some sort of consistent treatment of focus
nubbins`: i don't think so
decimation: yeah I use two monitors and osx is crazy with window management
decimation: no I'm using emacs from macports
decimation: yeah I've been eyeing the useless 'super' binding
decimation: I did take your suggestion of switching caps lock and ctrl, makes my 'emacs pinky' go away.
decimation: I often switch between "C-p,C-n" and the arrow keys
decimation: ben_vulpes: using emacs on a mac - I find the most fustrating thing is the "C-up arrow"
nubbins`: why would i want to :(
ben_vulpes: i read too much about lisp machines this weekend
TheNewDeal: I found it mildly convenient that you could drag and smash the windows to the edge and get it to cover half
ben_vulpes: i started playing with tiling window managers recently, to the horror of the golden cage people surrounding me
ben_vulpes: i'm coming to the conclusion that i'm an alien
mircea_popescu: http://beranger.org/ludditus/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/logo.png << i can't remember this guy's name
mircea_popescu: i wonder if smoking will ever be replaced by something equally insane
nubbins`: http://i.imgur.com/5rl2uyR.jpg
TheNewDeal: Can't remember where I heard of it first, but thats the tldr I guess
nubbins`: technicality club: "can i take your coat sir?" "it's a blazer"
nubbins`: anyway, obv all in one go is worse, point is i smoked 700 cigs a month
nubbins`: realized what i'd been doing to my body :0
nubbins`: i recall approaching the one-month mark, and a friend suggested i celebrate by smoking all the cigarettes that i hadn't in the past month
mircea_popescu: wait i've been bloggibng for longer than you've been not smoking ?
mircea_popescu: i still have a pack someone gave me when i moved here
nubbins`: i used to do 9 packs in a week
TheNewDeal: Anyways, I wasn't the one smuggling in the smokes. Co-worker was the one, except he legitimately smoked them. Type of brainset that thinks he is saving $X whilst smoking through 9 packs in 10 days
bounce: "I hate the local healthcare system, let's smuggle some smokes!"
TheNewDeal: I'm not going to get into the arguement, but smokers are less of a health care burden. They die early and quick
nubbins`: ehh i think people who bring in contraband smokes are fucking dickheads
nubbins`: cheapest i've seen is japan, $14 for a carton of marl
TheNewDeal: they're gonna kick me out if I try and bring a bulb across the border?
nubbins`: now i have to buy a bulb that contains mercury, and the power plant has to burn more coal to keep me warm
mircea_popescu: they kept derping about this in the eu. as i left romanian, proper lightbulbs were still on sale.
nubbins`: i live in fucking canada, i have my heat on for maybe 7-8 months of the year, and soon it will be illegal for me to buy a lightbulb that produces heat
TheNewDeal: thats a head I wouldn't mind swallowing
TheNewDeal: so I'm trying to test out this mycelium trader bullshit
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, am i the only one to find it shocking that the hollow earth crowd hasn't squeezed in on btc mining yet ?
mircea_popescu: how, is what i want to know.
mircea_popescu: i expect no less of a human, why would i deter this of a computer ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform honestly, i don't see the problem. let them read everything i write and make sense to me.
nubbins`: i'm eating potato chips right now to help defend myself
xmj: as i said
nubbins`: heh. more than i can press
asciilifeform: i want 'targeted' ads every bit as much as roaches want 'targeted' roach spray.
TheNewDeal: I search "gold," all of next week I see gold rubbish
mircea_popescu: if i ever need a way to counterweight a guillotine i'll think of you!
mircea_popescu: "EDIT: I’ve told this story at conferences and in bars for months and absolutely love teaching through humor, but I’ve always been extremely self-conscious about my writing. I want to thank the absolutely amazing people on the /r/marketing subreddit and those in commenting below for giving me such profound feedback and encouragement on this article. I guarantee you that there will be MANY more like it in the very n
mats_cd03: reminds me of some charter schools i had interacted with as a little one. no more grades, nobody can fail, everyone's a winner.
mats_cd03: i loled irl.
asciilifeform: one, if i recall, also had a chloroform rag in the loop somehow
mircea_popescu: he didn't use it, but it was illegal. somehow, i still don't know how this worked, tbh.
mircea_popescu: well i used to be friends with this nutso who built his own.... guillotine.
asciilifeform: laugh, laugh, but i once visited the home of a man who built own cube.
mircea_popescu: "He and I became fast friends and life was rather wonderful. We were both self-employed and often worked from home together in our own little co-working space. We occasionally would hang out with friends together and one day he decided to have some fun with me." <<< WE BUILT OUR OWN CUBICAL!!1 out of materials found in every home! read the secret that has all middle managers jealous!
mircea_popescu: if i went to work for google/apple/pepsi/w/e and in the first month a hundred employees killed themselves, i'd just welcome the news, and definitely blog about it.
asciilifeform: i bet he at least polishes it every day, and plays with it, and considers.
mircea_popescu: if i step on a snail, strictly for the purpose of stepping on the snail, he'll prolly go berserk on me just out of the need to somehow resolve the anxiety he feels