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decimation: I recently decided to force myself to use emacs for sole text editor, took me about a week to get the movement stuff down. THere's no excuse for a cash register not to be purely keyboard basd
decimation: I wonder if whoever decided to "upgrade" the target POS system to winblows was fired or promoted?
decimation: well portable ipad based bodegas or whatever are a corner case. I'm talking about Target
BingoBoingo: decimation: THe use case I find for fancier DE's over wimple wm's is portables. Smaller the machine the more pointy clicky is a benefit.
decimation: this reminds me of the "point of sale" system upgrades I've witnessed at various US bodegas
BingoBoingo: Airplanes hit the road as well. I hope I can find a kind Brazillian tribe to adopt a pastie like me when America surrenders the world's only successful CAS plane.
asciilifeform: i doubt the contract will be honoured when dks finally succumbs to old age
asciilifeform: can't say that i can
asciilifeform: decimation: if i recall, they do cartography there
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I envy you that Sympolics ended on a high note and Apple outlived its masterpiece the SE/30.
decimation: I wonder if you can run modern emacs on one of those things
BingoBoingo: A drive sounds tempting atm, furthest east I;ve been is 'New Harmony" Indiana. I still need to drink on this matter some more.
asciilifeform: the man is in his 80s i think
asciilifeform: (that's where i got mine)
decimation: goes to show how forgotten symbolics is I guess
BingoBoingo: I have a feeling many famous last words begin with "I'm switching to CERN linux, no way the NSA fucks with science..."
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BingoBoingo: Or Maybe just I burn, because I need to rotate this pizza box that has been running for months.
BingoBoingo: I have to say I constantly under rate the Sun 5
asciilifeform: at one point, some years ago, i tried to build the turd intel was passing off as their version of 'open source bios'
BingoBoingo: I'm pretty sure one of these layers have grep....
decimation: Today I went snorkeling in the shadow of Larry Ellison's private island
asciilifeform: i.e. 100% of users are paying out of someone else's pocket
decimation: I remember orcad's autorouter was crap back in the day. I would be deeply disappointed to shell out $$$ and have crapware
decimation: wrt the autorouter, I think it is well known in the pcb industry that they all suck
decimation: it's just that no one wants to come up with new ideas for the most part. this qucs thing is the only new idea I've heard about in awhile http://qucs.sourceforge.net/
decimation: back in my undergrad days we used to use orcad on solaris - I'm sure support for that was dropped long ago
asciilifeform: i suspect they only test under winblows
BingoBoingo: I'd confess I'm tempted to run A/UX on this machine in a hypervisor, but... I don't want this channel to assume stockholm syndrome...
decimation: asciilifeform: so I see you tried kicad - that seems to be the latest open source fad cad
BingoBoingo: The problem with Minix is when I read a FAQ and they assume a hypervisor... It's like a girl taking off her panties to release the smell of Candida...
BingoBoingo: Hmmm... OpenSolaris has a Linux compatibility layer and I like CDE... Never tried it on the Portable yet...
Namworld: At last. Each time I tried to reconnect I was disconnected after like 1 second.
BingoBoingo: I embrace bad life decisions like that. I detest Bicycles though because they endager nerves that are too valuable...
BingoBoingo: I'm also wondering did firefox crash because of tabs or because of Cryptome. Cryptome crashing Firefox seems like a sloppy thing, but then aain they passed Snowden on the background check
asciilifeform: i personally like gentoo because i'm a *bsd exile.
BingoBoingo: So for purposes where linux is not readily replaced by a BSD I might need a new flavor. Is gentoo the consensus sane choice?
BingoBoingo: It makes me stronger in death... I shall not decompose...
BingoBoingo: But... How do I cook porksteaks on a Jar...
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Can I trust you if I send you this machine's Var partition all GPG'd up somehow?
BingoBoingo: NIGbuntu is trying to tell me I don't have any system logger
diametric: asciilifeform: you're still online, so i take it you didn't drown today
BingoBoingo: Explain this to me like I'm Usagi
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: How do I get a stack trace?
benkay: <BingoBoingo> Fuck... If Farc catches me... I might get an actual IT job. // worse things could happen
jborkl: Well I guess that is what I am trying to figure out
BingoBoingo: Fuck... If Farc catches me... I might get an actual IT job.
jborkl: So I am guessing I am getting ddos ? My CDN also says it served 200mb today. I will have to use tcpdump tomorrow
BingoBoingo: Another thing I loved about the early civ games was "customizing" the sprites and rules.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Never had access to the civilopedia... Civ II was the only Civ at walmart and I was running a 486 at the time
BingoBoingo: Well, I eventually started playing Civ with the aim of maintaining an Iberian City state and nothing else...
asciilifeform: 'i built Woman's Suffrage, can now research Atomic Power !'
mircea_popescu: and i'll be it'll never be reached again in the lifetime of that republic.
mike_c: but i think it is now
mike_c: i think it wasn't that lopsided in operation saddam
mike_c: asciilifeform: i am thinking. but i believe this problem has been worked on over the years. like with stronger gps sats, no?
mircea_popescu: or yeah i guess asciilifeform's version is even better.
mike_c: i did not.
BingoBoingo: mike_c: I'm guessing you never got the Radio merit badge in the Boyu Scouts?
mike_c: what does ring pattern have to do with it? HARM busts up jammers regardless I thought
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> a tale was once told to me by one fellow 'in the know': russia sold gps jammers (serious ones, not the chinese pocket gizmos off ebay) to iraq, shortly prior to '03 american invasion. but iraq didn't pay the full invoice. so, the vendor neglected to remind the buyer that they must be arranged in a ring pattern and operated in unison << i heard the same story passed off as successful intel mission, stole
mircea_popescu: <benkay> <mircea_popescu> benkay 300 dollar shirt, no underwear works better. // by the time i feel okay about buying 300 dollar shirts, i hopefully can delegate the harrasment of neighbors. << and peeing ?
BingoBoingo: So... I could be fucked both ways... Loud radio caucophany is my anti-tempest strategy...
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I was kind of hoping the Russianmilitary reforms from Georgia to Crimea would have also been evidenced in the missile fleet...
benkay: <mircea_popescu> benkay 300 dollar shirt, no underwear works better. // by the time i feel okay about buying 300 dollar shirts, i hopefully can delegate the harrasment of neighbors.
BingoBoingo: I mean unless Russian and Chinese missile guidance is that shitty... Then... I'm fucked...
BingoBoingo: Bunkers and chemsuits would be a bit much here. It's not that close and the wind tend to be favorable... I'm more concerned about the windstorms, but if I'm protecting against that unlike the neighbors buying new windows might as well find a solution that offers utility in a few more situations.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, wind storms are a thing here and... should a hot war start with a nuclear power... I live all to close to Air Mobility command atm to count on these plastic window blinds to save me from radiation poisoning while I wait out the initial fallout's decay.
BingoBoingo: I've heard... cycling my Mossberg tends to quiet the neighborhood from third hand reports...
BingoBoingo: I like my current level of OL vs. IRL identity taint which is nearly complete, but maintained because I like it and it keep sthe lowest nags away.
benkay: oh yeah. when neighbors act up, i go over in my underoos and say "hi. please stop."
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> that's when i realized that talking about anything worthwhile under a 'tight' alias is arduous to the degree that it's probably not worth it <<
asciilifeform: 'Which, in fact, I had. Because I'd essentially told him his research was fraudulent. The fact that my research was also fraudulent, and that neither of ours was particularly noteworthy in that regard, did not matter. And why should it? Others' crimes cannot excuse your own.' ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'My Navrozov moment, of course, was when I approached one of the two - Sacco, I think - and attempted to have an intellectual discussion of this realization. The story is basically the same as Navrozov's, so it would be boring to repeat, but basically I came away with the feeling that I'd told someone his Sicilian grandmother liked to get drunk and fuck her own goats.' ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'At some point during this period, however, I realized that the entire problem was a complete and utter pseudo-problem. ... So I am very confident that neither of these techniques, neither mine nor Sacco and Vanzetti's, has ever been used in practice. There is no need for them, there has never been any need for them, and there will never be any need for them. And this was quite obvious in 1993.' ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Sacco and Vanzetti came up with an entirely different solution to the slow-MMU problem, one which if I do say so myself was less imaginative than mine, but both more general and more practical. They published theirs in a real conference, received much acclaim for it, and I believe patented it, started a so-called company and eventually sold it to Microsoft.' ☟︎
asciilifeform: that's when i realized that talking about anything worthwhile under a 'tight' alias is arduous to the degree that it's probably not worth it
asciilifeform: at least that's when i (not acquainted with the man personally) learned the truth
assbot: am i really a good person?
asciilifeform: (to be fair, if i didn't build it from src, it's not here)
mircea_popescu: god i love this chan
mircea_popescu: ok so i ended up picking a link from someone in here and writing a fucking important and grandiose piece.
BingoBoingo: I thank the Busch dynasty for that (Beer Busches, not politics Bushes)
BingoBoingo: One of the things I miss about Missouri was its general lack of laws
mircea_popescu: i don't think anyone's aware of what the laws are, in texas :D
mthreat: i've seen them in texas, but i'm not aware of any law there
BingoBoingo: Ah, Texas has some weird laws... I don't think it is legal for a Texan to make eye contact with a Steer and not offer it a handjob.
mircea_popescu: i think i even have pics published on trilema somewhere of this in san antonio tx
mthreat: mircea_popescu: I've heard (unverified) that there is some law about requiring sale of condoms in bathrooms here
BingoBoingo: mircea_inglesa: I have a feeling the Argentines are going to start refering to Bitcoin as Money Inglesa before too long...
assbot: Lunea intunericoasa ca sa nu zicem de-a dreptu’ neagra ca-i urit si ne citesc inclusiv copii de tita. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2012/lunea-intunericoasa-ca-sa-nu-zicem-de-a-dreptu-neagra-ca-i-urit-si-ne-citesc-inclusiv-copii-de-tita/
mike_c: except me of course, i'm just naturally quiet.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: hashfast ceo one month ago: "I joined this company a month ago because the team is amazing and we are not scammers" | today: "we're bankrupt. I'm outta here" << fucking exactly.
fluffypony: "And yes, as I mentioned quite a number of times, not only do we have off-site backups I am mirroring daily backups to a Synology DS-4 I keep in my office."
mircea_popescu: hm, come to think of it, perhaps it could be argued im not even THAT mildly short. i'm like 600k in against brk publicly
mike_c: :) plus, i actually hold some PG and i ain't selling that either.
mircea_popescu: goog i can see. novartis maybe. royal dutch no.
mike_c: look, idk wtf goes on in china. i'm just saying, dump GOOG, PG, novartis and royal dutch.