asciilifeform: anyone here knows de raadt in person?
asciilifeform: 'ubuntu: turns out is actually windows vista with a few custom themes.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/big-numbers-random-numbers-and-whos-got-your-number/ << 'random-looking number' is reminiscent of the 'miasma theory' of disease causation. in fact, much of what presently passes for 'seekoority' is quite like miasma epidemiology. crock of shit, resulting not only from inability, but from unwillingness to to even contemplate cause-effect.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: '...died from an infection in 2010... << the rate at which these people die of preventable causes is ridiculous' << quite likely, that fellow really died of - sleep deprivation. compromised immune system. and yes, one wouldn't expect an actual 'master of the universe' to succumb to sleep deprivation. senior bureaucrats, on the other hand - sure.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: actually i never had any problems with one-off noise (e.g. keys). because when i'm thinking i scarcely touch the keys.
asciilifeform: i don't really see all of this as adding up to a solvable engineering problem, but catch myself thinking about it now and then anyway.
asciilifeform: the hot air one exhales still has to go somewhere.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i've thought about building something like the 'cockpits' flight simulator players are fond of. chair with display in a 'canopy.' but it would need its own cooling setup...
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i would, in principle, care, if it were possible to eliminate all other fan noise
asciilifeform: (the very shoddiest dwellings still have window air conditioners)
asciilifeform: nubbins`: this is SOP here. air conditioner for whole house. compressor and its hot coil are outdoors, heat exchanger and gigantic fan inside.
asciilifeform: so one would also need to come up with a silent air conditioner.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: we also have climate here. without forced air cooling, machines will die (of humidity) even before the owner succumbs.
asciilifeform uses headphones mainly to 'turn off hearing' to improve concentration.
asciilifeform: qc20i works slightly better, and ear gets less tired, but it did cost ~250x more.
asciilifeform: re: headphones << can't decide which i like more. 'qc20i' or firing range earplugs.
asciilifeform: the idiots want to 'matter.' the gulag will be forthcoming. no one needs to ask for it.
asciilifeform: 'I don’t have to write that I want millions of chickens to be brutally murdered. I can buy all the dead chickens I want at the grocery. When advocating a policy that requires violence for its implementation, it is rarely necessary to advocate the violence. Once people agree to implement the policy, the necessary violence will be forthcoming.'
asciilifeform: since mp seems to be on a bit of a dan mocsny kick, let's channel herr mocsny:
asciilifeform: i for one don't give even a basic fuck whether microshit employees can live in mansions - or in specially-constructed oubliettes with a terminal in the lid and a hole for shit in the bottom.
asciilifeform does not know the genuine figure, and doubts that anyone else does
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: it could travel in a crate, no ?
asciilifeform: even ancient china, apparently, had 'cram schools.' (see miyazaki, 'china's examination hell' - neat little monograph on the subject)☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: decimation: the marginal kids get herded by their family into a kind of boot camp where they get trained, like animals, to jump through the burning ring
asciilifeform: decimation: except when it doesn't. consider japanese 'cram schools'
asciilifeform: decimation: only goes so far. i really can't imagine this particular specimen thought it was skilled.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not sure how similar to your girl, but all i could think of in that lecture was 'why no one humanely shoots this broken horse?'
asciilifeform: 'but dr. x!! i just don't -get- euler's totient! pleeeease explain it again!'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i spoke to other people from that time, and they remember her. from other lectures.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if i didn't know any better, i'd imagine we went to uni together. we had 'the same' chick! she bedeviled our number theory prof with at least a hundred very boneheaded questions every lecture. he seethed, boiled, but couldn't throw her out. why? 'registered special needs.' (going for math degree!) she even got unlimited time on exams.☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: women also aren't food - but the proverbial airplane crash castaway might beg to differ.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unless i misunderstand, you're trying to say to a fellow in padded cell, 'stop banging head.' generally good advice - except that sex drive doesn't ship with an 'off' switch.
