asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: strap finder came for you again!
asciilifeform: mp_sails: just here in this channel, you'll turn up at least two, perhaps three people who, as boys, understood virtually the entire 'ms-dos' say.
asciilifeform: mp_sails: museum - collect apparatus from a generation ago. not because 'clean', but because can be studied with considerably lighter effort.
asciilifeform: mp_sails: precompiled << for what. (e.g., which libc? and who volunteers to grok and sign that? etc)
asciilifeform: mp_sails: new meaning for 'drumhead court-martial'...
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: 'Only plain text files (.txt) can be encrypted.' << ???
asciilifeform: see also the 'housing in siliconvalley' thread.
asciilifeform: looking at cost of medicinal whatever in usaschwitz without considering the automatic, inevitable effect of the giant moneybag - is like studying corpse with magnifying glass to search for cause of death, ignoring twenty bullet holes
asciilifeform: mp_sails: The20YearIRCloud: 3 other people << try 33.
asciilifeform: mp_sails: i'm gonna guess you hadn't paid for dedicated 'horns' on multiple sats...
asciilifeform: when i ask people, 'what would happen to the price of cars if usg gave you 10k usd every time you bought one?' - they grasp it.
asciilifeform: prior relationship - sure. other things?
asciilifeform: i dare say mp_sails probably seemed quite a bit more insurable than a usaschwitz inmate - from appraiser's point of view
asciilifeform: mp_sails: a story about buying insurance, to be truly educational, has to involve... actually invoking the policy.
asciilifeform: mp_sails: demand-side subsidies are a ratchet - who wants to be the first to have a repeal apply to him, and starve...
asciilifeform: mp_sails: actually, prior to herr obama, they could afford insurance (actual insurance against, e.g., sudden injury) but not the 'insurance' that most usaschwitz inmates speak of (not an insurance at all, but a scheme where someone - usually employer - pays so that a plebe can actually get medical care of any sort, which, as result, is not affordable in any other way)
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: 'write leveling' is a method of delaying this inevitable death - and there are several ways of doing it. if interested, read up on the subject, it isn't a military secret.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: ssd works great until ion migration destroys ability to write to sufficiently many cells.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: some of it is done by the internal micro of the device, but given as the latter is not filesystem-aware (at least one should hope not) - it isn't as effective as os-driven massage.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: differently << needs massaging for 'write-leveling.'
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: reads, writes block N when asked.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i always found it maddening that 'ssd' can't be used optimally as a normal block device.
asciilifeform has 'mac air' circa '09, when absolutely must work in the jungles
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i recently ended up in a similar situation (some work in a godforsaken bare walls site) and looked at laptops, finding nothing even vaguely worth owning
asciilifeform: switching caps lock and ctrl << '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.' (naggum, who else. http://www.xach.com/na☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: some sort of consistent treatment of focus << 'ratpoison' has 'polite mode' and 'rude mode' (window can open, on current display, or cannot.) i've them set to single key toggle.
asciilifeform: i want 'targeted' ads every bit as much as roaches want 'targeted' roach spray.
asciilifeform: in hilarious novel 'stand on zanzibar', there was a service that would, for a fee, execute the client in any one of a variety of 'historic' methods
asciilifeform: one, if i recall, also had a chloroform rag in the loop somehow
