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mircea_popescu: i imagine it must suck to have a job working for idiots.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform speaking of which, everyone at earlier mentioned brunch was floored. "but that is your real name ?!" "yeah" "but... but... but everyone uses a pseudonym" "i don't give a shit" *silence*
decimation: I think they market to military deployed overseas in countries that have firewalls
decimation: ascii, you don't even cloak - I assume it's because you want to examine that which buzzes into your pot?
decimation: I guess I don't like the idea of my actual IP being spammed everywhere
asciilifeform: i still don't get the point of connecting to freenode using a spam proxy
decimation: I use these guys https://www.witopia.net/
mircea_popescu: i vote decimation "worst internet connection of #b-a"
mircea_popescu: maybe if i had a really small pet person, like 6 inches tall or so.
mircea_popescu: i rapidly lost interest after motorola somethng or the other
mircea_popescu: i dunno they were ever that interesting
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, and i recall the tests : morse is faster than texting.
mircea_popescu: i bet you most people could whistle more wpm than they natively type
decimation: I agree, but if you are going to eat turds they might as well have a good keyboard
mircea_popescu: decimation i'd rather have to whislte 8 baud into it than have to type on tha small shit
decimation: or hell, I would even enter morse code
decimation: yeah I agree, why no chording interface
mircea_popescu: benkay no i know
benkay: hey i'm not saying mud's great
decimation: but I take your point about it sucks
mircea_popescu: "what do you mean drinking mud is bad for me. i grew up drinking mud"
decimation: well, I would argue that physical phone keyboards are a better match for the occasional typing needed, compared to a touchscreen input
benkay: with T9 i could hammer out punctuation-perfect anything without even looking.
benkay: i grew up typing on them
decimation: yeah every computer I get has a thinner case
mircea_popescu: decimation> the amount of steel that went into producing the cabinet was impressive << i bought new desktop cases here. i could punch a hole threough the things
decimation: I've discovered from my own experience that newere Xeon chips are much more laggy than older single core pentiums
decimation: I had an old IBM AT once. thing was built like a tank
asciilifeform: i know quite a few people who use hardware built before or shortly after they were born, for which no 'modern' adequate replacement exists
decimation: right I remember your post about sussman trying to dodge the "why did you give up" question
asciilifeform: (i've invented not one of these things)
hanbot: i barely managed myself, thing's built for the vertically challenged
mircea_popescu: i mean you're basically asking, "suppose you could be killed by trying to fuck scorpions in the tail. do you suppose fucking habits would change ?"
mircea_popescu: i'd say that more likely.
benkay: i guess tho that's an artifact of operating in an environment where they're not held liable for their work?
benkay: i always figured that was the insane war chest they have and the mountain of paper under which they'd bury anyone.
decimation: benkay: re: liability << yeah, but I assume you aren't shipping code for anonymous users, I assume you are writing some kind of support contract
benkay: ;;later tell xmj i am now
benkay: i thought hearn was handing out potions in this example.
benkay: i'm way out of my domain on this, but who gets the spike? devs on openssl and bitcoind > 0.6?
mircea_popescu: anyway, i wish i recall who wrote the example with the locks, in favour of software tort immunity
benkay: oh i do do i
benkay: i have no idea what rat fuck of code i'm taking on, and i'm sure as hell not taking responsibility for your untested ball of hair falling over because this private method is getting called by your SUPER IMPORTANT WEEKLY REPORTs.
benkay: and what is this "not liable for errors" crap y'all are spouting? i have to fight for that clause in every contract I take on.
benkay: so while best practices are a thing and brokers do get put to the coals, as with all regulated things only the dumb and most obviously rule-breaky are going to get their feet torched. i can't imagine it being any other way with programmering - the smart ones will shift the blame to the dumb ones, who will take the fall. age old story.
benkay: the people doing the sale failed to do it on their own at 900k, so this vulture swooped in, started ratcheting the price down and as all the buyers trickled in said something along the lines of "I know that this isn't really what you're looking for, but how about I give you a call sometime next week and I'll show you some houses that might fit your budget and expectations a little bit better".
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves no i meant i actually heard someone else complain
ThickAsThieves: it's not my first time using bitpay either, i think the address used to be bigger
ThickAsThieves: yep, you read it how i felt it
mircea_popescu: The BitPay prompt for payment seems awkwardly designed to me, particularly in that the text version of the payment address is very tiny. << I heard this in the form of "wow, they're really trying to stop you from copying pasting it huh". no idea wtf they;'d be thinking
mircea_popescu: On and off, I’ve had the urge to acquire physical Bitcoin coins to give to family and invest/collect them for myself. I have never purchased any sort of collectible coin before, nor have I ever purchased precious metals. << weird what btc does to people.
mircea_popescu: something i had hoped to avoid
mircea_popescu: by now i'm drastically past the threshold of doorman telling me apart "you know i've never seen so much computer equipment since i work here"
moiety: not sure i share your optimism mircea_popescu
moiety: i see the loss of BB was too much for cosmos
Cosmos: I brought entertainment & then I faded down to a speck of nothing
mircea_popescu: (not even kidding, i got the top package of everyone, loadbalancing it)
mircea_popescu: mthreat i have it
mircea_popescu: i can tell
mircea_popescu: their scoring is byzantine, but! i think they getrematches and whatnot
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I guess you'll get to find out what the swat vans are for soon
moiety: i need to run out for prarcetamol, back in 5
mircea_popescu: actually nm that. i think ties are allowed in this game.
mircea_popescu: Cosmos i am aware.
Cosmos: @mircea No, that was after bingo muted me randomly, so I copied the stuff I'd pasted afterwards, that didnt appear here, this whole statement of mine was in reference to YOU mircea not me obviously lol
mircea_popescu: i don't have a shop here
BingoBoingo: Cosmos: Who said I do things for reasons
moiety: Cosmos: like i said, it's all about presentation
Cosmos: I know it's not reciprocal
Cosmos: I wonder if mod6 is omega6 (i know him(
Cosmos: Maybe I won't register after all, my great hopes for this chan getting non-negligibly crushed the minute I saw traditional sports talk
mircea_popescu: i think these are countermeasures in case they lose ?
Cosmos: that's a mathematical impossibility, i'm afraid
Cosmos: So I should like, make an acct on btc-assets to be perma-voiced here or just seduce mircea or what
mircea_popescu: moiety i think they just do phone number footsole tattoos now
mircea_popescu: i've never loved baba gnoush as much as i do here. i'm up for it brakfast lunch and dinner, it's crazy. these folkjs eat nothing but meat.
moiety: ahh, never apparently. At the end, I was told there wasn't the initial "falling in love"... i was a convenient wallet/housekeeper/etc mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: i live in fear of this, btw, one of these days one of you assholes is going to script the noob and then i'll have to close down the whole operation ;/
Cosmos: I find it amazing now that I think about it
Cosmos: surprise myself sometimes (remember I am humble)
Cosmos: I have a billion 'flatfile' notes as you say, recorded in HDD, but this I just pulled out of my brain
asciilifeform: ^ i'm but a footnote.
moiety: sorry, i don't follow mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: moiety should i ask you how oft were you the unwitting girlfriend of such greatness or better hold my peace ?
Cosmos: yea nubbins, I've lost 13k in last 8 years learning the hard way, how to trade
nubbins`: SO I WENT INTO TRADING
Cosmos: so I went into trading
Cosmos: I'm supposed to be the boss
nubbins`: i think he failed at applying to post-secondary
Cosmos: I found out, I can't stand all this tedious experimenting & reporting & lab work man
mircea_popescu: like, "and then they asked me to describe the atp cycle and fuck i had no idea"
Cosmos: And so, I mistakenly believed that my passion, which was, 'on paper' kinda
mircea_popescu: it's only fair, as i can afford it.
Cosmos: I had a fundamental passion for biotech, anatomy, biophysics, human enhancement
Cosmos: I quit school after failing biology
Cosmos: I'm a finance & philosophy type
Cosmos: I have no clue about technical things
mircea_popescu: and yeah, lol, i couldn't be GIVEN tons of power.
mircea_popescu: i am the master of the ego.
mircea_popescu: bitch please. i made that shit work.