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Mocky: reminds me of 29 palms california.
I guess desert pretty much the same everywhere
☟︎ ben_vulpes: in boring meatnyooz
i liquidated the corvette (at a 16 2/3% loss from purchase, notbad given the damage
i did to it experimenting with exciting nonstandard control regimes), hired cleaners, scheduled pianoanchor for transfer to a good friend remaining in libtardistan, basement is packed; girl has mucked augean stables of corporeal art school baggage, booked temporary housing at $dest and has been working the
ben_vulpes: apologies for the degredation in service,
i have personal irc logs and will stitch them back into history
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: tyvm for bringing that to my attention.
i dropped the ball on service cutover. as mp astutely observed, the temporary host for these services is not a cuntoo, but some heathen convenience, conveniently different enough from my normal remote home that the logger for the ircbot refused to start, which (somehow!!!!!) fouled the bot's self reboot capabilities.
BingoBoingo:
I'm not turning up anything in heathen pits but someone who maybe contributed more bugs to drupal
BingoBoingo: trinque:
I submitted a comment clarifying that line concerned where the crap drugs are located
diana_coman:
I'll have to sit down and sketch for myself some clear options so that
I know what
I want from this; then
I can serve it to them "take it or leave it" and that is that
diana_coman: before talking of "blockchain technologies"
I'd much rather talk of the whole non-technology part that is anyway more important
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform whole orchestra too ;
i dunno what state of improved patching it finds itself, but if it thereby "increased reliability" in an uniform manner...
mircea_popescu:
i guarantee you 9 in 10 MATH PROFESSORS can't explain rsa.
BingoBoingo:
I see nothing but upsides from diana_coman doing the lecture
diana_coman: from my pov the whole gain if
I'm doing this is precisely in giving at least students the *chance* to hear something other than the regurgitated bullshit
diana_coman: ftr the above comes after
I pretty much demolished (at a kids' party of all places) the "content" the poor new lecturer had inherited
diana_coman: in other possible interesting things:
I got invited to give a talk to students at local uni (Reading, UK) on "bitcoin and blockchain"; personally
I'm not all that keen on it but given the recent ideas regarding reach out and all that,
I am at least considering this; any input on this is welcome
☟︎ mircea_popescu: as
i say -- the young hussies already are looking for slavery and abjection, in contrast to their stupid mulas and stramulas. from rotherham to anytown, usa, the 15 yo is saying "please, beat, rape and light me on fire -- anything whatsoever but having to talk with my kinmorons."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they got time. so do
i. it'll make more, eventually.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-03 12:41 asciilifeform:
i still dun fully grasp the middle kingdom's 'feed the enemy until he dies of old age' philosophy, so cannot comment
BingoBoingo:
I just suggested the next time he's smoking out in his hovel that he watch that Citizen4 Snowden documentary
BingoBoingo: One of the fellows ranted and raved about Masonic conspiracies yet advanced the position "
I don't see why anyone would be advantaged by not using GoogleSpyDevice as their 'conputer'"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> all code that ever runs anywhere is getting loaded in head. there's no way out of this. << Relatedly in my times here
I have met a number of "digital nomads" who use chromebooks as issued by Google and evangelize for them. Rather than "loaded chromeOS into head" they strike me as "leased head to google"
mircea_popescu: in the immortal words of mr oover, "
i say they is not white man."
mircea_popescu: well,
i can say : the town is london, so
i can understand why he'd rather sit in airport.
diana_coman: yes,
I would honestly simply stay a few days in that town then at least, but what can
I say
diana_coman: on my way back to costa rica
I had this connecting flight in Madrid, a few hours gap, had something to eat, no problem
mircea_popescu:
i used to connect through frankfurt with a 6ish hour gap for lunch and merriment, back in the days.
diana_coman: honestly, this is how it sounded! kind of reason why
I asked him what airline was that because it's the first time
I hear such a thing
diana_coman: back from wherever they got but surely not from london, lol!
I understood it was the type of "took off, flew a bit, something wrong, going back because can't risk attempting to cross the atlantic"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
i never heard of this lol. maybe they only got as close as halfway-1.
mircea_popescu: and the "
i have nfi what excel is doing" observation does not reduce to "
i have not fully read and thoroughly understood" ; but instead it reduces to "
i have read and fully understood -- and
i fill overquickly". ie, "
i am dumb, easily satisfied and easily amused".
mircea_popescu: because no, the "
i know ~exactly~ what the computer is doing" declaration is not optional. exactly like socrates' observation, "the man claiming no political system has political system", exactly so, whatever the claim, to run code on machine equals the declaration of having fully read and thoroughly understood. there's no wiggle room.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
i can't detect ambitiously indolent stupidity has changed in any way since the days we fed them to the lions.
mircea_popescu: (which is ~literally~ what fucking happened, "
i was made by people too stupiud to make sense, BELIEVE in me" is the cry the guerre of the stupidgod.)
mircea_popescu: and
i have done a moderately shitty job of having loaded in head the entire linux backports project.
trinque: nope, which is why
I was curious where he got that number. guess if he wants to keep bidding to reach it, by all means!
a111: Logged on 2018-10-08 13:22 asciilifeform: and yes
i'd rather have 2 half-sized batts than 1 large, this is elementary, esp. given that the 'large' are made of N smalls
a111: Logged on 2018-10-08 00:05 phf:
i have this terminal at 16px :>
a111: Logged on 2018-10-07 23:59 phf: what's kind of silly and
i think mp made that point a while ago, that none of the manufacturers of that vintage attempted to do a swapable battery. a dual battery slot, or a smaller internal battery that would keep the thing powered for ~60 seconds it takes to switch the battery
BingoBoingo:
I dunno,
I think my hands have the stockholm syndrome pretty good on this issue
phf:
i could read 9pix, but fuck that
phf:
i have this terminal at 16px :>
☟︎ phf:
i forgot do you wear glasses?
phf:
i'm weird in that respect,
i don't mind seeing pixels, reminds me of better times as far as computing.
i make it extra ugly too, e.g.
i run windowmaker, aliased fonts, the works
phf: what's kind of silly and
i think mp made that point a while ago, that none of the manufacturers of that vintage attempted to do a swapable battery. a dual battery slot, or a smaller internal battery that would keep the thing powered for ~60 seconds it takes to switch the battery
☟︎ phf:
i've traveled with it before, but yeah,
i'd turn it off, plug it in somewhere, turn it on. c101pa on the other hand has an insane battery life:
i've been running it in pure console mode, and it will last a day or two
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
I might have seen it at the feria recently on a table that also had a Macbook Air...
phf: right,
i basically treat the battery as a ups,
i.e. hold it long enough for me to move it from place to place
phf: differ is also c code,
i wanted to figure out how to make the rename tracking algo pure ada, and then have it drive the differ, rather than writing more c code, but
i'll see if
i can manage it
a111: Logged on 2018-10-06 23:58 phf:
i have couple of hours tomorrow, so
i'll pick up the deletions and renames code either way, and either release it, or give an estimate for how long it will take me to bake it
mircea_popescu: in other news
i fucking hate the manner in which windows tards create directories.
BingoBoingo:
I mean 25 to 35 percent unemployment and the Banco Central is stuck with a klepto because "public employee"
mircea_popescu: piece of shit does not know what ffmpeg -
i *.x *.y could POSSIBLY mean
mircea_popescu: just in case anyone else's making audio cd's for the car, for
i in *.mp3; do ffmpeg -
i "$
i" -f wav "${
i%}.wav"; done