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jurov: mircea_popescu: if they accepted me at ibm, maybe i won't be here, too
mircea_popescu: Neuropathy is unpredictable. One minute I am doing fine, the next my face aches, tinnitus (motor in my ear), then suddenly my abdomen, then feet, then can't swallow and have a "fear of imminent suffocation" anxiety attack, feeling that my stomach wants to exit my body, etc.."
mircea_popescu: s I get a good day).
mircea_popescu: pheral neuropathy auto-immune condition caused by an incurable STD which is also morphing into neuropathy every where not just peripheral and causes me chronic fatigue syndrome which causes frequent deliriousness+pain which makes it easier for me to write in a forum than to do the more intellectually sharp+focused work of actual programming... I only get opportunities to program depending on my body maybe every few day
mircea_popescu: "Yeah I am just messing with your minds and have no actual technical ability. But maybe someone does who is reading my points and maybe they will do something. I am hoping. You see I don't really care how we get the solution, as long as we get one. I am not the young productive programmer that I once was with two good eyes (not very productive since losing one eye and acquiring an apparently progressive, incurable peri
ThickAsThieves: i was wrong
ThickAsThieves: i started this writing thinking i wouldnt be a hipster and use footnotes
ThickAsThieves: I;m writing my first blog
ThickAsThieves: oh, I assume so
asciilifeform: as someone who personally had occasion to deal with problems that are not amenable to '1024 chickens,' i miss cray
bounce: I say. In the spirit of expensive lulz, wish I had the spare change to buy up cray and move their headquarters to 4 2nd inf loop
mircea_popescu: i wanted the obituary to read "at least he had his bodyguard with him" but people thought it's too soon.
asciilifeform: but i don't blame them for the decline
mircea_popescu: i had a friend. he was a touch paranoid, so he ended up carrying a bodyguard with him everywhere, in spite of living in a controlled town
asciilifeform: i visited recently, to hear a talk, and noticed more girls in one classroom than there ever were in the whole bldg.
asciilifeform: the uni where i studied 'comp sci' has abolished many of the hardest items in the syllabus (or made them optional)
mircea_popescu: im sure i don't.
benkay: mircea_popescu: you're not paying me to spend any time at that domain i don't think
benkay: "great!" i said to the desk operator responsible for scheduling things while I seethed internally.
benkay: bounce: that's what i'm working on. -assets has been an intellectual godsend.
mircea_popescu: i hate greenspun for having deleted his original discussion of his adventures with "expert vcs"
mircea_popescu: i recall that articxle.
mircea_popescu: i dun believe much in this masturbatory pain thing
mircea_popescu: i'm with the b's. both of em.
benkay: i wish i'd had an education in the classic sense.
asciilifeform: i'm certainly not the first to describe this, but u.s. education system 'bit-shifted'. i.e. 'college is the new high school', and thereby it follows that 'phd is the new college'
asciilifeform: but won't. because 'i can lift it off the net'
asciilifeform: some months ago, i spoke with an EE prof (consultation) at a major american uni
decimation: well, in this specific case, I think it will be impossible to create a ring of patents that will stop the mongol hordes
asciilifeform: i doubt that anyone at fluke likes to think about 'the end'
decimation: yeah I have noticed a trend here with a variety of electronic products
decimation: no I didn't, what happened?
mircea_popescu: bounce i suspect the statements are homologuous.
decimation: just not against problems of the "I don't know what I want" variety
asciilifeform: (ianal, but if i recall, it's not actually illegal, but was ruled 'probable cause' for police search)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the guys are retards of prime order, which is why i quoted it.
decimation: I was speaking to a greybeard EE last night. He lamented that most compE kids coming out of school want to put a high-end media CPU on embedded projects so they can run java or something stupid
asciilifeform: i experimented with this myself a few yrs ago, but life got in the way
asciilifeform: one was an 'arm' variant, the other, a big-endian mips with a couple of custom cores, if i recall
asciilifeform: i dumped 'intel' and 'samsung's ssd fw. ida eats it up like a champ.
decimation: no, I mean the firmware
decimation: I wish there were an ssd available that let you examine its innards
asciilifeform: back in the day, i found that not one of three different pata<->cf cards would fit.
asciilifeform: libretto has the least slack space in the bay of any machine of that period that i've owned.
decimation: I guess capacity isn't an issue here really
asciilifeform: decimation: i used a 'Transcend' TS64GPSD330. <$100 at the time.
decimation: I like your idea of underprovisioning the drive to leave room for bad flash cells
decimation: for a premium, as I recall :)
asciilifeform: decimation: as a matter of fact, i did.
asciilifeform: but when using a turd downloaded from ? (was it lavarand? or john walker's geiger? wish i remembered) it took minutes.
ThickAsThieves: http://i.imgur.com/AQTiDmB.jpg
asciilifeform: i thought everyone knew this.
benkay: re chetty's zerohedge sanction link "Carney...said. 'I wouldn't, if I were you, invest in Russian equities right now, unless you're going short.'". << is this the great mechanisms of war ratcheting one step further? is the US seriously biting off an economic war with Russia?
mircea_popescu: i wonder if she takes it well.
mircea_popescu: Mircea Popescu @Mircea_Popescu RT @ArdenEliz The Future of Self-Satisfaction, Part I: Girth Is More Important Than ta Length (link)
mircea_popescu: Arden Elizabeth @ArdenEliz The Future of Self-Improvement, Part I: Grit Is More Important Than Talent (link)
Ghaleon: i have a feeling that carl jung's archetypal mode.. a consdesnded version will give the right person a keen edge going forward
mircea_popescu: and by that penis i have represented a proper equality.
mircea_popescu: i suppose "leet jerk" 8======D "elitist asshole"
kakobrekla: what did i do nao
kakobrekla: but 'did it compile' check is equal to 'did i make any typos' not 'is the code fucking shit'
asciilifeform: 'Did it compile?' << i should hope that you are joking re: this being a standard of success in your work
mircea_popescu: and i can't even say it in c++
mircea_popescu: i never heard of a programmer that judged the languages on the basis of the machines involved.
asciilifeform: i still think it possible that there are competent people, but 'dark matter' because why should they talk.
nubbins`: well, i've gotta get to printing
nubbins`: unfortunately i can't even sneak em into the trash
mircea_popescu: what did i do now
nubbins`: nothing i guess
artifexd: I only expect you to be you.
mircea_popescu: i misspelled ?!
artifexd: I did discover him in my googling. I didn't expect you to misspell his name though so I though you were talking about someone else
artifexd: I recoded my test for that change and the results are an even distribution regardless of flip bias. Cool.
artifexd: I'm having trouble with http://trilema.com/2014/so-heres-a-problem-for-you/ If there was any bias in the coin, wouldn't that bias show up as a favoring towards heads in the end results?
kakobrekla: but i would need to register a sock, thats the issue
kakobrekla: i dont think its even ip restricted
kakobrekla: <mircea_popescu> i don't recall why the chan log only starts from april 2013, but prolly cause lazy < like a year of bullshit isnt enough
MisterE: So I guess if you'e in a fund that invests in a Russian company you could get screwed f that the Russian holdings are sanctioned...
FabianB: i don't think tencent would ever sell
VanCleef: i would rather buy wechat for alot cheaper
VanCleef: more i think aboutit my god that whatssapp deal was such a bad buy
wao-ender: yeah, I read it, would be nice.
dnivi3: Interesting. Thanks for the insight. I gotta go!
dnivi3: I am not quite sure how the arrow in flight paradox relates to this.
mircea_popescu: i have a bottle of coca cola. 35% of what i drink goes into buying more coca cola
mircea_popescu: Morgan: Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it … a man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom.
VanCleef: i wish there was something decent to invest in
dnivi3: Sure, but their business does not seem to thrive anyways so I'd rather pull out. What do you consider the chief consideration?
dnivi3: Seems like I jumped on the train a bit too early thinking that the price would rise (which it did for a little while). I am dumping my shares, can't justify the investment with regards to their shitty dividen.
mircea_popescu: i don't recall why the chan log only starts from april 2013, but prolly cause lazy
jurov: (i do have some such too)
cryptoflood: Hey guys, Never really have chat here before just lurked, but I've been learning the ropes for a while now. Lost my last identity due to learning ignorance. Trying to build my WOT rating back up.
Neil: Hmm, higher than that I think. The 16% is looking a little close.
KRS-One: dignork: not debating that..more or less a contrast to using military force..dont look too much into what i'm saying.
Namworld: I'm just referring to US-Russia bitching each other once again, which is actually happening.
KRS-One: i think the singer is ice cube's cousin or something
KRS-One: I love that song Mistadoblina lol its good
ThickAsThieves: I suspect she will
cazalla: i wonder if she will return
benkay: where can I see hashrate stats etc for atc?