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asciilifeform: 'All cannot play the king, and a host of leaders is no wise thing. Let us have but the one leader, the one true king...' - homer's iliad, part ii
decimation: also, modern china, singapore, dubai, etc show that "totalitarianism" (lack of collectivism?) is hardly a barrier to economic development
decimation: most of the west would be unable to pass the test of being willing to happily die for the wishes of a particular man or set of men
asciilifeform: there's a clip somewhere of a happy owner of siberian lynx in a little flat there.
asciilifeform: (phun phact. last i checked, you can legally own and keep any animal you wish in a moscow apartment.)
BingoBoingo: I know I've played chess here a few times. In the interim have batter cess players found their way here?
BingoBoingo: It is truly amazing what happens when you walk a disgraced judge's steps backwards a few steps.
mircea_popescu: now it will be bought for pennies in a court auction, and you will ALL have to be on my pissing on patents submarine, willy-nilly.
mircea_popescu: fucking bullshit, collectivists arguing with each other as to the proper way to the gallows, pretending like it's a world.
mircea_popescu: to auto-voice you need to a) identify with gribble. you don't need gpg for this, tho gpg works. you can also identify with your btc address ; b) be in assbot's l2 trust.
asciilifeform: wonder who will have '.us' a decade hence
mircea_popescu: davout: do i read this one correctly or is euronext valued somewhere around a fifth of whatsapp << if you believe the numbers, yes.
BingoBoingo: Now I'm connected to IRC through a pile of lies.
mircea_popescu: that's not likely a kernel errror
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Firefox crashed opening a cryptome link.
BingoBoingo: Makes me hope there is NEVER a new Rhodesia.
assbot: It's not everyday you get a letter from the NSA. :-) /hashtag/FOIA?src=hash http://t.co/nmXYFpF8CS
assbot: She's doing much better than a few days ago. http://t.co/0DRu2ae1qD
BingoBoingo: justusranvier: Name a single person other people would knwo who inheres the property of being innocent...
assbot: I'm a big Matt Carpenter fan. But, for Pete's sake, swing the bat! /hashtag/stlcards?src=hash
justusranvier: Suppose I should tweet a follow up
asciilifeform: 'i'm still alive, must be a tard'
BingoBoingo: Well, my father liked to see records of how much strontium 90 us younguns got growing up. A few weeks after a med adjustment his heart gave out, but he had great bones...
asciilifeform: they ended up having to call in the soviet equivalent of a 'pinkerton' to crack the puzzle
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: bunch of folks in ussr once died from vitamin d overdose. a tank of it was stolen and sold as 'cooking oil' (has roughly the correct appearance and consistency)
decimation: or fall out of a building
asciilifeform doesn't own airplane, will probably have to settle for slipping in his bath with a cocked nailgun
asciilifeform: or should they sue the bartender who mixed the a saxitoxin cocktail?
decimation: how the hell does she get the right to sue a real engine maker, yet no one can sue larry ellison (she died not far from his private hawaiian island)
BingoBoingo: Fuck, I've have never been measured having a "normal" heart beat.
decimation: her estate is suing pratt & whittney for not having fixed the "forseeable" problem of the metal fatigue destroying a prop
decimation: the burea-tard who signed Obama's birth certificate died in a plane crash (survived the crash but "had irregular heart beat" after 60 minutes in the water)
asciilifeform: don't make the mistake of thinking of this as a 'prime mover' though
BingoBoingo: And I have yet to verify a nigger with black skin. I've only met white niggers.
decimation: bar code readers are a trival add-on character device
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
BingoBoingo: Cwm makes me want a real keyboard.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Really. Clitoral mouse pushes me into a left side xfce panel.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: on the contrary, using portables as a student is what got me using 'ratpoison'
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.
asciilifeform: the way this usually works is that old vendor (say, ibm) either 'end of lifes' or decides to charge a fortune for support
decimation: using a mouse on a cash register is going to be demonstrably slower for data entry for one thing
decimation: how could any thinking person consider a winblows interface an 'upgrade'?
asciilifeform: (the lisp machines ran a fraud detector heuristic gizmo, afaik the first of its kind.)
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: BingoBoingo: unlike the airplane folks, this is a case where the rubber actually hits the road. there's a couple dozen ancient boxes, that cannot be replaced.
asciilifeform: it's worth about what a decent restaurant in a small town is.
asciilifeform: re: symbolics: if anyone has a $mil or two in their sofa cushions, can probably buy it. but then you'll be conscripted into supporting the ancient contracts.
decimation: Interesting. Fort Belvoir. Someone in DoD is a fan of these things
asciilifeform: it brings in a few $10k/yr in maintenance contracts, dated into eternity
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I envy you that Sympolics ended on a high note and Apple outlived its masterpiece the SE/30.
asciilifeform: what the present-day symbolics corp. is for is not a secret:
asciilifeform: mallery is a 'man of wealth and taste', possibly consults for nsa & friends.
asciilifeform: a source that didn't want to be named told me that one dr john mallery (mit) bought it for fire sale price
BingoBoingo: rabite is a different monster...
asciilifeform: didn't know a thing about computers
asciilifeform: even had artificial heart, bought on a kited cheque
asciilifeform: for some years, it was a new york (?) serial con man, who bought and sold corpses of old companies
asciilifeform: the only other 'playing characters' in the outfit are, afaik, a fellow named kalman reti (software support; wrote the x86-64 emu)
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: david lives in a little house, generously stocked with parts, and fixes the remaining machines for a modest fee. ☟︎
decimation: apparently there is a massive demoer scene for super mario brothers X
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asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: afaik he's a sworn vassal of the estate. and some bozo bought it.
BingoBoingo: I have a feeling many famous last words begin with "I'm switching to CERN linux, no way the NSA fucks with science..."
decimation: ascii that is a good insight (lack of engineers caring about their own lives), the irony is that those who are designing hardware generally care an aweful lot about the efficiency of their design target
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BingoBoingo: "Smoking rock candy is a great way to gain all the social benefits of meth use with none of the open sores.
asciilifeform: cad app is one of those cases where a 'proper' solution involves essentially re-creating a smbx box
decimation: about a third of my us ee undergrad class was chinese (like off the boat, not second generation). Most of them couldn't design anything, but they generally aced the math tests
asciilifeform: the set of folks who design hardware and actually give a shit about workflow (or their lives) is approximately null.
asciilifeform: educate whom? the chinese folks graduating from american schools, who will design with a crayon if ordered to?
asciilifeform: ask why there is a desert, not why the oasis is a puddle of piss
decimation: it amazes me that crapware can buy a such real estate
decimation: yeah that's a good point, that's why the software companies get away with charging $$$ for crapware
asciilifeform: due for a really good ai << np-complete. good luck.
decimation: seems like that problem is due for a really good ai based solver
decimation: and costs a fortune
asciilifeform: took me a week to get it to build, too
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...
BingoBoingo: A fool me once sort of deal...
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...
asciilifeform: for a masochist - minix...
BingoBoingo: Hmmm... OpenSolaris has a Linux compatibility layer and I like CDE... Never tried it on the Portable yet...
BingoBoingo: Nah, hanging, because blocking itself in a controlled way. One core is at 100% the other lazing like usual.
BingoBoingo: It isn't just that it crashed, it is that it can't copy /var into a .tar.gz in a timely manner.
BingoBoingo: ANd instead drive a plastic car.
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: gentoo is arguably a 'bad life decision' - like the folks who insist on bicycle for commuting
asciilifeform: i personally like gentoo because i'm a *bsd exile.
BingoBoingo: That's a good point.
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?
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BingoBoingo: But... How do I cook porksteaks on a Jar...
BingoBoingo: A bit of anthracite and oak should get NAND up to adequate temperatures.
BingoBoingo: Or... this SSD is getting up there in years... Might be time to get a barrel...
asciilifeform: or put a bounty.
asciilifeform: but it's a good educational exercise.
asciilifeform experienced drowned computers one and only time - on 2nd floor of a gigantic office park. no prizes for guessing how