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mircea_popescu: micro-mp used
to spend so much
time staring down early displays o brother.
mircea_popescu: in retrospect, i can't believe my eyes lived
through it.
mircea_popescu: also
trinitron more like 2000s.
the 90s were atrocious, all
that green.
mircea_popescu: "but mp,
they were built
to last.
think, you could still have it!!" yeah. i could. and it'd be worth 25k in
today's dollars, and it'd still be a 15 inch mcga or w/e
the fuck it was
mod6: oh yeah, back in
those days computer-anything was $$$. Especially CRTs.
mircea_popescu still remembers making
the very HARD fucking decision of not dropping 2k of 1990 dollars on a 15 inch monitor.
mircea_popescu: yeah, since bolix went
the fuck away computing's not expensive at all
mod6: ya, kinda neat. looking forward
to getting
this fired up.
mircea_popescu: enjoy
teh
tv fiction, i say,
tis as close as you're fucking getting.
mircea_popescu: oh incidentally, for
the socialists in attendance : watch "quiz show". it's an utter piece of crap i couldn't comprehend why anyone bothered making until we got
to
the scene where
the white priviledge guy apologizes for existing.
mircea_popescu: "roses are sweet, bruises are blue, i had a great
time but not as great as your asshole is now."
mircea_popescu: vs "usg agency, why did you eavesdrop on
trump and
then lie about it and
then lie about other
things ?" "oh, WE ALWAYS DO
THAT"
mircea_popescu: gotta love
the "routine" device of
the SOPS also. "john smith, why did you wait in a black van behind
the highschool for
the cheerleaders
to come out,
then chased one down, stripped her naked,
tied her and
took her
to your van ?" "oh, i ALWAYS DO
THIS!"
mircea_popescu: "oh no,
that's just not poissible, who wouldn't want an obnoxious old woman." guess.
mircea_popescu: bitch... grow up. nobody fucking wants you.
there's no space left for you.
mircea_popescu: dude is fucking frying
them, and
they're going
through
the predictable motions. "oh,
trump will fry us. lol" "oh,
trump is just saying so" "oh, he accidentally beat us up but he loves us"
mircea_popescu: i have no fucking idea what sort of frogbrains havwe
to be in
these brainboxes.
pete_dushenski: not unlike yours
truly at similar age. 'look mom ima a republican lord!' lol
pete_dushenski: paper
to unload. kid's overpaid salesman, not 'relationship manager' like some walmart customer service desktard. wtf.
pete_dushenski:
http://archive.is/fmGhw << i don't even know where
to begin with
this 'day in
the life of 28yo credit suisse banker'. is bi
that fucking cocksure
that
they
think
their readers will swallow pictostory about nice kid who plays squash and eats in cafeteria all day ? as if
this kid isn't pushing dodgy shit onto worthless clients he and his bank don't give a shit about all because his higher-ups have some bad
mircea_popescu: i would expect any host
trying
to make money with vm
to have kicked him off
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: 'Every service is in a dedicated VM container' << i'm not clear on difference between vm and vps, but i have at least one
trb box on vm it seems.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-23 04:46 pete_dushenski:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-22#1631221 << define 'possible'. >x connections ? doesn't crash ? because i've been running
trb on vps since it came out and have no particular complaints other
than semi-regular st9 errors.
mircea_popescu: i never got much more from gates
than from any other zigglar.
a111: Logged on 2014-06-02 18:05 asciilifeform: (e.g. power station on every street corner, wall wiring as
thick as your arm, etc)
mircea_popescu: what, edison
tried
to blackball it and failed. counterfactuals make for poor support.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
then what
the fuck are we
talking about ? airbrake made bank.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski
that dun sound like a vps. sounds like a proc spec ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: also 4gb ram and 1tb raid
that processes
tx way
the hell faster
than dulap on mech hdd
mircea_popescu: i've determined no such
thing. i jus' said, i dunsee it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your proposed cut of
the gordian knot was "let mp feel what i feel!!11"
a111: Logged on 2017-03-22 23:34 mircea_popescu:
tbh i have nfi how you could run
trb in a vps. i don't
think it's possible, not really. would be certainly quite
the medal of merit on any software
that can handle such.
mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu is in
the position where he spent many years applying serious, scientific methods
to
the problem of knowledge classification.
mircea_popescu: some guy came up with
the bright idea of ading a fine copper mesh
to miner lamps so
they dont' start fires anymore, about
the same
time. it didn't fucking change mining from milk
to ambrosia.
mircea_popescu: it's just a different category of special pleading. even if you get me
to fuck liz
taylor
tonight, and even if i personally fucking love it and propose marriage, i still won't agree she's structurally different from womanhood.
mircea_popescu: so,
the concept of moving signalling from rigid
to fluid medium. great idea. minor point.
mircea_popescu: look,
the label game only works if you can enforce it. and you can't.
mircea_popescu: yes, catalytic convertors could go away.
they don't work with carburetors. so ?
mircea_popescu: this does not improve
the validity of your horse
theory.
mircea_popescu: heck, it';s not even legal
to
try and sell or drive one.
mircea_popescu: there isn't a single engine on
the market,
the kind with shaft driven aspiration and carbureted intake. so what.
mircea_popescu: what am i going
to learn blowing a million dollars worth of highly energetic photons on
the 55 chevy engine block ? how
to cut metal with analog calipers ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: girl (rather cute, i might add) said she just wants
to lurk
to start. read logs etc. i've pointed her
towards registering her key with deedbot and said she can ask q's via pm or pgpgram. we'll see what comes of
the endeavour i guess.
mircea_popescu: there's just about nothing interesting you could find by opening hood of ancient car, as an engine designer
today. not one
trhing. most of
them are collected, and are revered by a so-minded public, and aren't documented worth didly squat. i dun
think
this sunday hobby item is different from
that.
mircea_popescu: do you wish
to know how did some old farts manage
to stick it into
the missus, because "the concept" of getting it up is interesting in
the sense of well, not actually, you have
the concept, it just, what exactly ? yours dun work ?
mircea_popescu: so
then it's not
the concepts
that were interesting but
the implementation ?
mircea_popescu: shinohai who
the fuck esteems a
two bit instructor in an obscure university
that's been circling bitcoin for years and has as of yet produced nothing besides
tweets and dandruff ?
pete_dushenski: make
that phd student, not phd. electrical engineering at stanford.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
this
theory of "interesting concepts" of a
tribe dead on its own power is
the height of unpersuasiveness.
jhvh1: shinohai:
The operation succeeded.