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asciilifeform: it's a programmable gizmo, not a miner's pick.
mircea_popescu: right. kinda why the coimputer is a computer.
asciilifeform: aside from a few (fortunately) uncommon industrial cases, i can't think of any reason why a computer user ought to perform genuinely repetitive motions of any kind.
asciilifeform: 'Emacs actually comes with a builting Emacs Aptitude Test. Do you remap your keyboard or the Emacs keybindings before the chords and sequences it comes with by default have wreaked havoc with your hands? If you do not do anything to make Emacs more convenient for yourself, you may not have the prerequisite aptitude to use it productive.'
mircea_popescu: but that's expensive as shit a process.
mircea_popescu: you could pay for a watcher, ie, a trained kinetotherapist that sits there with you for six hours and inventaries your movement patterns
mike_c: you can surely spend many hours a day writing lisp without solving all the world's problems
asciilifeform: re: carpal tunnel: generally, if a programmer (vs. data entry clerk or similar brute labourer) contracts this disease, it is suggestive of a poor choice of programming system
asciilifeform: Mats_cd03, mircea_popescu: found myself with classic carpal symptoms at... 14. cured myself by: going off computer for a month.
asciilifeform: urbit is the ultimate example of a tentacle of a problem masquerading as solution to said problem.
asciilifeform: re: urbit: people still putter about on the mailing list; occasional giblets get checked into the repo; can't bring myself to give a damn re: the details.
mircea_popescu: once a month or w/e
mircea_popescu: maybe a sort of fight club, except chick run.
princessnell: there's a few scattered bloggers, some conservative-type organizations
princessnell: like a reaction? think that's barking up the wrong tree
ThickAsThieves: i'm in a local Facebook group called "Free Thinkers". It's all women but me and a few of their husbands. Last week one woman posted how she was a offended that the new playground for disabled kids has a purple Sally's Music structure and a blue Billy's Hardware structure to play in.
asciilifeform: there's a 'mikegogulski' on wot...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i don't know much else about the fellow, except that he famously burned his u.s. passport in public. << what is the actual drawback of this ? i mean other than having to pay 100 bucks or w/e for a new one
asciilifeform: afaik he never opened a wot
princessnell: we've been told our whole lives to behave a certain way or we're stupid and vapid and backwards. so we fight against our nature to conform to the reprogramming.
ThickAsThieves: i thought the whole universe is a trap
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actual woman << those are sorta disappearing in the west. 'habitat destruction', a biologist might say.
mircea_popescu: this is a hinderance.
asciilifeform: let's tera-agression. (what'll that be? a nukefest?)
mircea_popescu: princessnell, i propose this is factual. my main objection with the "west" such as it is today is that there's just too many girls. of both genders. not nearly enojugh women, virtually n omen. it gets stale being in the junior high after a while.
asciilifeform: what'd be a femtoagression? an unkind thought?
princessnell: sure, that is becoming a popular loophole
mircea_popescu: o liek i tell a shill "stfu u shill" and he's all like "don' be microagressin all over my legit biz" ?
asciilifeform: to be fair, i can theoretically conceive of a point - say, a fellow who guesses three wrong keys in front of the bunker is fed to crocodiles.
asciilifeform: or is that a cruel question.
mircea_popescu: anyone want to relay a question ?
mike_c: i haven't seen mpex sponsor a muy thai night. havelock is king.
Apocalyptic: random derps opining on what has taken over bitcoin stocks, a space they probably don't fully grasp
mircea_popescu: i think this is going to be generating a lot of lulz as a going concern.
mod6: all it takes to be a pro is an HTML5 website!
Apocalyptic: NeobeeQ was such a professional move
Apocalyptic: " They seem to run things in a much more professional way." // I don't even...
mircea_popescu: "Fortunately, Havelock Investments (also behind Canadian Bitcoins) seems to have taken over Bitcoin stocks, essentially by not being idiots in public and not charging unreasonable fees. They seem to run things in a much more professional way."
mircea_popescu: dude srsly, someone drop him a line, show him the light
mircea_popescu: "For a developer, working for Coinzone is lots of fun. You get to work right away on the tasks you like most, and you have the opportunity to do things “right” from the beginning. Everything from coding standards to the framework and technologies used, was up for debate and I got the chance to have a say in it."
mircea_popescu: well it's got a team and a bunch of big red blocks
asciilifeform: yes. but snippets of ascii sent via coded transactions would map perfectly to the intended use case (want to 'twit' 'at' someone? gotta send them a little coin in the process)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, it's not a technological proble,
asciilifeform: incidentally, 'twitter' is a perfect candidate for demolition using blockchain-encoded text (as discussed in the past.)
mircea_popescu: it's actually a control strategy this.
benkay: is this thing where python3 kills python* a repeated pattern?
benkay: i am but a bairn
Naphex: "@Feminist-Software-Foundation you should also open a bug about GIT using "push" and "pull" commands. Since it is obviously discriminativ" / re: "@teresko Great idea! What else of he git commands could be problematic?"
benkay: ERC> starting to realize that os x kinda a sh
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kakobrekla: not that its making it a lot more clearer
mike_c: it gave him a lot of relief. he also used the foot pedals.
kakobrekla: you have a pic of 3620 insides ? i dont see much on google
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: faster, yes. but it is a misconception that the purpose of smbx boxes was to 'run lisp fast'
mike_c: a guy i knew who had bad symptoms swore by the sunken kinesis
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: by the time symbolics co. figured out how to manufacture such a machine at reasonable cost, it was too late. lisp systems on cheap crapboxes, despite being nothing comparable to the 'turtles all the way down' stack from smbx, were firmly entrenched.
kakobrekla: asciilifeform and the airplane thingy was a part of the problem, no?
mike_c: given that i have big hands, a sizable mouse is a must for me
asciilifeform: designed for 'cost is no object' people. sold for roughly the price of a small airplane.
mike_c: Mats_cd03: the ergonomics of my keyboard & mouse make a huge difference for me. also the angles from my elbows to wrists to hands while working.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: the 3620 is actually very atypical for the tech of those days. not a 'microcomputer' in any real sense. for instance, there's a motorola '68k' in there - just to direct the boot process and for nothing else!
Mats_cd03: yeah: i sleep on my back with my arms extended, I wear a brace at night, and i take breaks regularly. its gotten worse
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: when the 3620 came out, howard cannon (symbolics co.), a strong fellow, famously danced with it on a stage, claiming 'first man-portable lisp machine!'
pankkake: I'm quite uncomfortable with surgery on such a crucial part of my body
Mats_cd03: I guess management is a better descriptor
pankkake: is there a treatment? besides waiting it out
asciilifeform: posted the results, then some (german?) folks published a converter box.
kakobrekla: offtopic, im curious ascii, do you own a space cadet
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: a lot of the hospital data systems are ancient and require < IE 8 to work
asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: fellow named Curt Yarvin wrote an elaborate programming language / runtime env. / replacement for dns and http. and sold namespace for substantial money. but earlier he handed out parcels of address space to folks who participated in a contest - which is where i got mine.
ThickAsThieves: but how does chrome make a pc sickly?
fluffypony: in a hospital apparently
fluffypony: http://www.vice.com/read/a-bum-without-a-country-0000326-v21n5
Mats_cd03: I wonder if the bum without a country is in the Web of Trust
punkman: I wanted to make a bitbet about mp getting banned on twitter, but twitter does not indicate bans afaik
punkman: "A mentally ill narcissist is making death threats and you say there's no danger? Just a few days ago a mentally ill narcissist was making death threats on YouTube and ended up going on a killing spree."
Apocalyptic: "Andreas Antonopolous the bitcoin high priest participated in Neo&Bee, vouched for Mark Karpeles, vouched for Charlie Shrem, promoted a few altcoin scams and works for shady scumbag Roger Ver"
ThickAsThieves: vader was a raging alcoholic
davout: yes, if you're a drunk master yoda
mircea_popescu: princessnell, no because if i went to such a thing i'd get a set of bodyguards anyway
pankkake: "How can you trust a homophobe?"
ThickAsThieves: i was almost a Hero before i quit
mircea_popescu: saltyspitoon may also have a usable forum chain trust
ThickAsThieves: peterl it's a lost cause
ThickAsThieves: the face is a total equation
fluffypony: peterl: I have positive trust there, not much but enough to get a green number
mircea_popescu: if she's a scrawny AAA+ would not squeeze again, she's getgting shot
mircea_popescu: a woman with an uncomfortably compressed pair of doube ds' on a small frame can take a shit on your welcome mat and you'll offer her tp
ThickAsThieves: even i trust myself more with a beard
mircea_popescu: but the reason is, only wise trustworthy people can grow a good beard in the first place.
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> dont judge a man by his beard << a boy you can not judge by his beard. but a man, yo ushould.
mircea_popescu: and from the "let's email shit to mp" department : " Here is something silly to talk about while you flirt with Twitter and Reddit. I visited the address listed on http://bitcoinsinmiami.com/contact-us/ thinking I would see a little brick and mortar store where one could walk in and buy bitcoins for 40% premium. Instead, I found a Starbucks."
ThickAsThieves: dont judge a man by his beard
fluffypony: thankfully not a hairy back because gross.
mircea_popescu: im not fucking hirsute. i just grow a mean beard.
fluffypony: I use it regularly...I am, after all, a fluffy pony
ThickAsThieves: a great word
pankkake: so I can carry out a "job" without raging
fluffypony: come now pankkake, you're supposed to have a wide selection of troll accounts on hand
mircea_popescu: but he's such a dick"