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BingoBoingo: I just like the idea of
a car that is acceptable to move from one garage to another by one's hands and feet
bitcoinpete: trabant is you're
a wrencher, miata if you're
a driver
BingoBoingo is not yet sure if Miata or Trabant would be more of
a fun car.
bitcoinpete: moiety i feel like i'd need
a sunroof to pop my fro out out of ;)
moiety: well the thing is, you can fit
a six foot person in np, because there is nothing inside. ther foot wells are bare. so seat right back and you can fold
a large person in. their head sort of skiffs the roof though
BingoBoingo: I could see having
a "fun" car, but probably as
a third car. First car is blending in car. Second is moving shit car. Third car can be fun car.
BingoBoingo: moiety: I have
a suspicion the redneck's intention for the turtle was soup, but... Would not be surprised if the turtle won.
BingoBoingo: bitcoinpete: I imagine part of that is
a side effect of Canada.
moiety: you encounter
a lot of wtf shit whilst driving BingoBoingo, like the pizza-sized man-grappling turtles and floods from nowhere
bitcoinpete: but some cars have
a way of worming their way into your heart
moiety: i would like
a figaro at some point even moar nao!
moiety: bitcoinpete: that's immense! thanks for the link, so nice to read an actual experience of it :D i also didn't know: "
A 5-speed manual was available from the factory, but of the 20,000 Figaros produced, only
a small fraction had the do-it-yourselfer installed."
BingoBoingo: Mats_cd03: Do you remember last year when
a Buttcoin was worth
a whole 10 BTC
Mats_cd03: give it
a few years and that bitcent could convince klye to enact the scene for you
BingoBoingo: I got drunk too early today to write
a blog post myself. Kind of hoping some starving Indian or Kansasian bastard would be thrilled to have
a bitcent.
BingoBoingo: Mats_cd03: I kind of want to read
a short story about Just-Dice destroying Klye's anus with
a strapon. Just-Dice also needs tits.
BingoBoingo: I also can't be arsed to make
a Fiverr account.
BingoBoingo: I kind of want some Klye JustDice porn fic, but I don't want it enought to throw away more than
a Bitcent on it.
pankkake: and the all bitcoin wallets… is an outright lie. there is at least
a clear line between web wallet where you don't have the key, web wallet where you have the key but malicious js can be served, and local software
BingoBoingo: Nice. I've always liked the idea of something simple like
a Lotus 7, but... In practice I prefer
a more disposable conveyance.
Mats_cd03: is this 51% thing even
a threat? color me unconvinced
moiety: saw
a black one roll through my new town other day!
BingoBoingo: moiety: Just
a boring Saturn Family sedan. Mostly plastic. Draws no unwanted attention and burns little gas.
moiety: you need
a landrover for that rain
moiety: eeep, i don't think you should drive anywhere for
a while BingoBoingo
fluffypony: pankkake: best one I've seen in
a long time, and I love SMBC
ThickAsThieves: "Weak Bitcoin-related demand is said to be taking
a toll, and AMD and Nvidia (NVDA) have reportedly been pressured to cut GPU prices to boost demand. But both firms are instead opting to focus on cutting GPU shipments."
nubbins`: this is just
a ploy to train kids not to run when
a cop shouts HEY, YOU! STOP!
BingoBoingo: Mats_cd03: Nah, ATC has better than
a foundation, it has perfectly benevolent neglect.
atcbot: [X-BT] Bid: 180 Ask: 235 Last Price: 235 24h-Vol: 0k High: N/
A Low: N/
A VWAP: N/
A BingoBoingo: Mats_cd03: Well, Perhaps in the quad there will be
a block of slate for the caned to bend over. Because slate is the correct writing surface in
a classroom...
BingoBoingo: Also at Bingo University, anyone who commits the crime of introducing
a whiteboard to the campus will be caned in the Quad.
assbot: If US gets involved in /hashtag/Iraq?src=hash it would join
a /hashtag/Shiite?src=hash alliance w/ Assad, /hashtag/Iran?src=hash & /hashtag/Maliki?src=hash against
a /hashtag/Sunni?src=hash movement
http://t.co/TQHSloTN8c BingoBoingo: The Pre-Freshman year reading will be Spinoza's ethics. There will be
a matriculation exam.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: When I start
a university the prospective students are going to have to interview under the influence.
BingoBoingo: trinque: Did you know that there is
a device for accessing any secrets stored in
a living human's memory.
BingoBoingo: trinque: SO you're
a 'Murican afraid of the gasenwagen as well
trinque: and I've already got
a fancy plus sign
benkay: hey guys trinque is
a friend of mine
BingoBoingo: In
a few centuries assbot error messages will be studied in the Classics department.
benkay: now i need
a pile of deals that this insurance will qualify me for to justify the expense
benkay: okay i just bought
a pile of insurance
BingoBoingo: is is done multiple times until the tech either dies of boredom or it gets busy again. Usually this means about 50 zaps. THEN the computer compares what was scanned to the inventory on hand, and if it is off by
a certain percentage, it updates the inventory on hand..."
BingoBoingo: "
A special DOS program (we only utilize the latest in computer programming technology at our pharmacy) is executed which prints
a listing of barcodes representing 10%, 20%, 30%, etc. all the way to 100%. Then the tech or pharmacist scans
a bottle of inventory, THEN shakes, quakes, and does
a little magic dance to estimate how much is left in the bottle, be it 10%, 20%, etc., and then scans that barcode, hence the QUAKE-n-ZAP! Th
bitcoinpete: sitting in
a lovely old bank building at the bar
BingoBoingo: It would kick ass if
a tornado hit BFL's trailer.
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: CoinTerra, the People Garr pinned his "totes legit" badge on have
a datacenter in the middle of the utah desert.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete maybe send him
a "Nomination for posts that might not suck : shut up, read assets logs for the next year"
BingoBoingo: The Iraq situation would have been less of
a mess if HW Bush and the Saudis would have been cool with Bin Laden's plan for liberating Kuwait.
jborkl: I added
a very simple block explorer, I will add more later
mircea_popescu: i dunno who the fuck is in charge across the pond, but he couldn't be less able if he tried.
a regular bismarck in reverse, that guy
mircea_popescu: fda thinks it's
a good idea to annoy the european elite in the gullet, which is prolly the one thing they care about
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo meant the agricultural/synthetic thing
a reference to an earlier discussion about how industry and agriculture compete for financing. you prolly recall it
mircea_popescu: (their only limiting factor is that human cells don't have
a defense either, and rarely do you get
a bonanza like tpi that's 5k as afine to bacteria folic process as to human for unknown reasons)
BingoBoingo: Most routes to drug resistance encountered so far have been
a round
a long time, because some population of bacteria in
a species need the genes to survive. Bacteria don't just spread genes through reproduction though... Microbiology is like Bioshock. Staph can pick up
a plasid and get superpowers.
mircea_popescu: in principle bacteria would have as good
a chance to develop immunity to tpi as it would to penicillin. they're both antibiotics (granted, one static, the other cidal, whatever)
ThickAsThieves: i dont think there's
a right or wrong, all the variation in question is needed
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, in
a human body's environment
a bacterium doesn't have long before it needs to fuck itself and reproduce or die.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The distinction is -cidal actually kills the bacteria. -static keeps them from reproducing long enough to have enough die of old age or allow your immune system to catch up. When it comes to adpatation and resistance it matters quite
a bit.
mircea_popescu: i recall
a few years ago designers getting all butthurt against design contests
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, the reason we've found any substanital antibiotic this far is because some other microbe produced it as
a defense and before we produce the chemical on an industrial scale, there are minority bacterial populations carrying genes for resistance.
ThickAsThieves: "HSBC is one of the leading international banks. Technology plays
a big part of the banking world nowadays. The advent of mobile devices, bitcoin, crypto currency, access to internet, are change everyday banking. Create
a position paper on the benefits of Bitcoin being adopted and being
a part of HSBC consumer products. Pick
a position in favour or against and please add your sources."
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, their deployment in practice does not (
a state of affairs asciilifeform periodically protests with
a parachute example)
mircea_popescu: think in the following terms : the tools mpex will use any to defeat any attempt at enacting
a sovereignity claim superior to its own certainly predate any such claims
BingoBoingo: I'm trying to think what would even be
a close second...
BingoBoingo: Aspergillius is probably my favorite pathogen because it is
a huge fuck you to stoners thinking they are all high and mighty because their weed is "safer" than my booze.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo for all you know,
a world without listeria is the prerequisite for
a better strain of herpes
mircea_popescu: if he had
a few slaves around the house whose lives and physical integrity depended on his good humour, he wouldn't find himself ossified in this form of compensatory idiocy.
mircea_popescu: these are the hidden costs of " welfarism" : that in order for its pretense to be maintained, the actuality of
a caustic environment for the natural needs of the superior has to be enacted.
BingoBoingo: There's more painful exercises in attempting to learn
a programming language. In 6th grade I tried to learn Perl with pencils and paper...
mircea_popescu: Those issues may be avoidable, but only at the cost of additional atomic instructions on both the read and write ends, which would significantly impair the performance." << this guy is
a prime example of what i said of finance types being tech clueless.
mircea_popescu: 2) You can’t tell when
a reader is currently processing that tick, which means you could potentially write over the prior record when he has only read part of it, making the tick inconsistent (which is also bad).
mircea_popescu: 1) You can’t tell when
a reader has already progressed past that tick, and would thus miss your update (which is bad)
mircea_popescu: "You will probably find that approach unworkable in
a Disruptor style queue for market data because:
punkman: asciilifeform: just
a regular machine, what kind of machine should I have?
punkman: asciilifeform: could you recommend
a lisp for this lisp-deficient noob? (and maybe an IDE that's not emacs)
mircea_popescu: if you run into
a wall street dude hitting on
a cocktail waitress, it's probable she groks more of grep than him.
mircea_popescu: "Speaking as an insider, I can tell you that most HFT firms playing around with FPGAs are doing so because of slick-talking FPGA marketing hucksters. The more that perverse incentives change, the more they stay the same" << flanagan has
a point.
mircea_popescu: yes, at which point i prolly observed that it's
a technologee current bitcoin miners don't got.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I played with Singularity
a bit when it was fresh. The "respectability farm" is the impression I got.
mircea_popescu: "Go with
a straight-dataflow paradigm, where all operations are part of
a dependency graph (and if your chip is large enough, exist at all times as physical objects which wait for their inputs to become available, and signal their successors within picoseconds of their output becoming ready.)" << tbh, this is not only grand in theory
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