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hanbot: <thestringpuller> I want to see the look on bfl_josh's face. << ever see
a face buried in sand?
BingoBoingo: Sun was neat too, if only they had kneepads and made
a consumer machine
BingoBoingo: There's
a Theo interview with
a lot of that history
decimation: yeah that's
a good point, I guess the bsd lawsuit didn't end until '94
decimation: my objection to macos 9 and earlier wasn't that it was
a terrible user experience, it was mainly its inability to gracefully handle errors
BingoBoingo: decimation: True Macs have only 1 upgrade, OS??? to
A/UX
decimation: the fact that our identification mechanism depends very little on freenode security shows
a strong point
decimation: the most annoying part to me is getting rid of
a text syslog
BingoBoingo: decimation> I would consider migrating to openbsd, but I'm not sure it would have
a friendly user interface << Can be done, just worry about drivers first.
decimation: heh. it's
a replacement actually, and not everyone is
a fan
decimation: they have
a variant of 'ports', they seem to actively manage dependencies pretty well
decimation: I would consider migrating to openbsd, but I'm not sure it would have
a friendly user interface
decimation: asciilifeform: apparently 'soldered batteries' were
a favorite of HP to force you to send back your expensive test gear for service.
BingoBoingo: JuliaTourianski: So in what context did you learn of this new girl? I'm
a trained libraian
BingoBoingo: Sure, replacement of batteries is possible without soldering and heating batteries, but... I worry about the social engineering threat where nifty microcomputer gets defamed as
a bomb by homo retardus
BingoBoingo: On
a related note, wasn't the Palm V
a nifty piece of harware?
BingoBoingo: Makes centuries ROM disk seem like
a trivial task by comparison though.
BingoBoingo: I might settle for atom netbook of particular vintage as
a candidate for burining.
BingoBoingo: Yeah, turning into
a concern at the moment
BingoBoingo: You'd have to choose between the coarse mechanism that produces melanin in skin and
a scanning tunneling microscope otherwise
BingoBoingo: JuliaTourianski_: Of course. It is
a practical reason to have focus.
BingoBoingo: JuliaTourianski_: danielpbarron is
a rare bird here in that he is an orthodoxy attracted thinker that can stick around.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> nobody seems to ask 'who're the new girls in high-temperature metallurgy' << Already filed under things I look for in
a potential wife.
assbot: Stephen Wolfram,
A New Kind of Science
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: That is
a favorite tlc, I use it to tell when my car interior need cleaning.
nanotube: kakobrekla: google translate is now
a pay-api... so gotta move to another api provider. and well... it just doesn't seem too urgent :)
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Not for biodiesel, for flipping upside down and using as
a residence. The hexayurt thing is making me imagine.
BingoBoingo is curious if anyone here casts iron themselves, may be interested in
a two hundred thousand quart pot.
BingoBoingo: You know I have no idea why the spicy food fanatics stayed confined to capcaisin when Urushiol containing plants tend to offer
a different yet interesting punch.
RagnarDanneskjol: its on my server - I would give it
a shit but will prolly fuk it up
mod6: so, if they ever get
a JSON feed, let me know, will add right away.
mod6: so, this interface looks just like CoinMiner.net, and I recall, before they had
a JSON feed to parse, I had
a lot of trouble scraping the HTML because the pool hashrate is buried in
a span
BingoBoingo: mod6: What does it take to add
a pool to the bot?
BingoBoingo: <decimation> asciilifeform: re:existing infrastructure << I think openbsd refuses to support multiple cpus << Come on they have
a kernel that plays nice with multiprocessors
ben_vulpes: JuliaTourianski_: talk to nanotube if you want it changed. say "please" - he's
a nice guy.
mp_sails: nothing and make
a pr thing about it.
mp_sails: (flail is imblaciu in ro, the process
a imblaci. it's such an obscure word pretty much only medieval tool specialists evne know it)
mp_sails: i collect those. once broke the will to live of
a young girl teaching english at uni
mp_sails: i now have
a mindbreaking question for spanish speaking english ppl! yay.
mthreat: ("
a tool for removing caulking or caulk")
mthreat: mp_sails: decaulker? what is that?
a tool that removes caulking?
mp_sails: "just like
a real program!!11"
BingoBoingo had
a laptop arrive with manufacterer branded DOS 3.3 once
bounce: needed quite the fsckton of tools to compile. TASM, MASM, BCC, whatever else. various versions even, they apparently weren't great at keeping
a lid on the requirements mess.
mp_sails: in retrospect, hard to believe it's been 20 years and ms is sgtill
a thing.
bounce: this was drdos (5? with 4dos of course), so probably something slightly different again. did look at, but IIRC didn't keep
a copy of the drdos 7 source when it got released.
mp_sails: that was
a lol. back in 1993 or w/e it was
bounce: oh the days of walking through (live) memory with
a self-written memory dumper, or trawling the disk with whatwasit, norton or undelete, to see what old crap I'd deleted months ago
mp_sails: ben_vulpes: "these hypothetical children are guests of our children, obviously. Our progeny will have refined palettes before they can hold
a crayon." << o boy are you in for
a crude soulraep.
mp_sails: practically speaking, practice will be
a practical exercise.
mp_sails: bounce, agreed. which is why it's introduced as
a chair for
a chair for later on.
bounce: unless you'd go for the obvious but inconvenient route of signing everything in
a specific commit
mp_sails: still, fact remains people grab
a copy of gpg or w/e.
mp_sails: asciilifeform, i know, huge workload. but once btc is 800k i think ima hire
a small office dedicatdd to it
bounce: as long as the signing key isn't there, how is that proximity
a problem?
mp_sails: incidentally, this is
a key service b-
a should provide i think. maintain
a repository of key software infrastructure, precompiled, signed.
mp_sails: tis
a silly proposition, wtf has format to d owith anything ? this is unix not windows.
mp_sails: ben_vulpes: just want to bang on
a drum all day? <<< i've never banged on
a drum before...
mp_sails: unless you actually read code, the compile business is
a little silly.
The20YearIRCloud: The promise to pay for all the Ohio plants is pretty simple, if you can obtain credit they'll extend payment over summer months, but quite
a few can't qualify for it
The20YearIRCloud: Ohio has
a freeze deal where if it's below freezing they won't shut it off till it thaws out, then they shut it off
mp_sails: can't cu tpower if it's cold. or hot. or if the deadbeat has
a doctor's note. or makes
a promise to pay
assbot: Please To PGP (Guide for Linux, OS X, Windows) | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski
mp_sails: if you think you just cut power to the deadbeats and that's it you're living
a dream.
mp_sails: they have to spend $1k to install fancy stuff so nonpayers can be "limited", it's
a whole shitshow
The20YearIRCloud: $2,500. The independent clinics that did MRIs and
a few other small things ranged from $149 to the very highest at $279
The20YearIRCloud: In Columbus,
a group got together and called every single hospital, and every single MRI clinic and got the price for their MRI scans. The average hospital (Which is highly regulated, takes government money, is required by law to provide everyone with medical care regardless of whether they can pay and so on) ran from
a minimum of $1600 to
a maximum of
The20YearIRCloud: But, you don't have to go to
a hospital to get one, you can go to
a healthcare clinic that isn't attached to any government program, isn't required to pay any government fees and the like, and they magically cost $149, using newer machines
The20YearIRCloud: But, when you go to
a 'hospital' and get
a MRI, they're $1k-$2.5k
The20YearIRCloud: There's
a MRI comparison. What's interesting though is that MRIs are one of the few healthcare things that aren't strictly regulated in the US
mp_sails: insanely expensive when compared to the e80
a cab would take, but not the $18k or whatever insanity
The20YearIRCloud: From 1930-1963 median healthcare costs were lock-step with average inflation (1-3%
a year), after 1964 suddenly you have increases of 4%-25% per year, every single year
The20YearIRCloud: IT was
a part of Johnson's plan of buying all the poor people votes in the US by pushing through medicare/medicaid
mp_sails: the people you can't under any circumstance sacrifice are the 20somethings with
a career.
The20YearIRCloud: Insurance is
a complicated mess in the US, it all started back when the govt first decided they should control healthcare
jborkl: I moved everything to ssl and it should all be green. You guys mind giving it
a test and tell me if it all seems good
bounce: being
a gourmet instead of
a hcfs addict?
pete_dushenski: JuliaTourianski_:
a cool. how are you enjoying b-
a thus far?