267400+ entries in 0.171s
phf: asciilifeform:
there's a massive hobbyist market. well
to do corporate programmers spending monthly paychecks on retrohardware. when i was buying my xl1201, i was bidding against a guy, who's been doing a
tech lead
thing since
the 90s (an unbearably aspy fellow). he said
that he was so pissed he didn't get it, he put a 12k starting bid on
the next one and still got it for around 6k
phf: and you have a pocketful of
those 60s amphetamines, so you can hit every diner from chicago
to springfield in 3 days, and
then come back knowing exactly which one has
the best milkshake
ben_vulpes: my popesculator says "no no,
the blond comes *in*
the cadillac"
☟︎ ben_vulpes: kinda want one of
those hilariously garish 2-door caddies in a matte pink
pete_dushenski: "We’ll underwrite up
to 75% of projected energy savings" << need moar projections!!1
phf: i
think mary kay ping cadillacs are awesome. so
trashy
shinohai: Complete with luxury heated leather seats for
those rough weekends in
the mountains.
pete_dushenski: so
there was. usual 'paint+badge edition' for american vehicles. see also 'daytona 500 edition' camaros, 'mary kay' pink cadillacs, 'hertz' mustangs
shinohai: phf
There was Eddie Bauer edition Ford Explorer iirc, speaking of SUV's
pete_dushenski: you apparently haven't seen
the cayenne
turbo s / grand cherokee srt8 / x6m class of sporty suvs.
pete_dushenski: less likely
to spear eagles, more likely
to spear pigeons
pete_dushenski: they're
travelling more horizontally
than vertically
though
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: eddie bauer is very 'outdoorsy'.
they specialise in
the climbing / hiking demo. mathmaticians may or may not overlap with
this set.
pete_dushenski: "The channel is mostly filled with videos like
the one described above: clips of Reams and friends riding in elevators.
They ride elevators in hotels.
They ride elevators in hospitals.
They ride elevators in office blocks and public buildings.
They film
their rides in elevators.
They film each other filming
their rides in elevators."
pete_dushenski: “I myself am autistic,” says Reams. “Not everybody
that does
these elevator [videos] is autistic but I would say at least 80
to 90 percent of
them are.”
pete_dushenski: i dunno but bet i could fit
that hash on my dong lengthwise.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: btw what was
that dating
thing all about ?
phf: well,
that's what you get for..! oh, nevermind
a111: Logged on 2016-08-22 18:19 mircea_popescu: seems ~more or less, "cloudflare
turned off
the chunk of bitcoin '''infrastructure''' ran by imbeciles imbecilisyh eno0ugh
to rely on cloudflare"
ben_vulpes: cloudfront is somehow involved in
the relay network?
mircea_popescu: seems ~more or less, "cloudflare
turned off
the chunk of bitcoin '''infrastructure''' ran by imbeciles imbecilisyh eno0ugh
to rely on cloudflare"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: also, it's not just blockchain.
the relay network lost about half of its edges since an hour ago
phf: ben_vulpes:
that's what you get for installing >10.9. i
tried it one a company machine,
took ~~2 hours. fresh install, ssd. insanity.
BingoBoingo: Imma have some cumpany soon, so someone get
to
the bottom of
this other
thing and submit.
mircea_popescu: the half
that can is all natoreich, and sees 104.16.54/3
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: not redditola,
there was a bikeportland.org link
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Mebbe verify and submit
to qntra?
ben_vulpes: or "can't piss off uae sponsors of us
terrorism on global stage" angle
ben_vulpes: decent "us has no sovereignty, can't effect
their own honor killings" angle
ben_vulpes: oh just in
that some saudi is going
to get spirited out of
the country before getting lynched
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: ANyways where again were
the lulz in "Heroic Jap Stationwagon Swats
Traffic Disrupting Pedelarast" I still haven't found it.
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron:
The hacked email and
the
targeted use of it.
ben_vulpes: so i'm flattening and rebuilding
this barely-used macbook pro, and frames of animated language names scrolling sideways on
the "what language" screen are
tearing
BingoBoingo: What you submitted at
this
time however was not
that. You presented
the signed block as basically "take
this as what it is" and "here are other people doubting it" leaving unrepublican b00bs
to wonder wtf?
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron:
There's prolly a way
to rewrite what you submitted
to news it up, but as you presented it it wasn't news. Maybe a "look how unlucky
this guy is" angle would help? All
those misfortunes may very well involve malice on
the part of persons other
than him. Such an angle could be very newsy.
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Qntra pointedly
tells republic news
to
the outside, BUT znort does not at
this
time have a relation
to anyone I know such
that his signature carries more weight
than rando unsigned pastebins
danielpbarron: BingoBoingo, what is
the point of qntra? is it soley
to bring non-republic news ~in~ or can it also be
to
tell republic news
to
the outside? I
think it is certainly news
that
the new owner of bitbet is
taking
the
time
to speak in public (this channel)
a111: Logged on 2016-08-22 16:40 phf: asciilifeform:
that attention from fundraiser and marketing
that gabriel_laddel was so excited about ~obviously~ attracted not
talent, but
the usual modernizer suspects. i'm reading
their channel logs and marvel.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Based on
the way
the guy interesctionalittitties with my WoT maybe your blog is
the best place
to make
the point you want
to make about it?
phf: you're gonna like
this guy. he's all right. he's a good fella. he's one of us.
BingoBoingo: <danielpbarron> BingoBoingo, what gossip? <<
The signed recollection by minimally collected guy.
phf: class living" etc. anyway, guy arrives goes
to
toilet, comes out, grabs a broom and a bucket and cleans it.
the moral is
tediously obvious (it's a fucking liverjournal story), but it stuck with me. living in orcland is kind of like
that
phf: i like
that story i read on livejournal long
time ago.
this soviet guy was
telling, so he's sent
to forced farming на посевы, bunch of guys digging for potatoes, middle of fucking nowhere. and
then
there's news, some deposed aristocrat is sent
to join, so naturally jokes all around, since
the
toilet is a mess (it's a bunch of guys!) "how's his excellency going
to use
the facilities справлять нужду" "probably unaccustomed
to working
phf: i'm just hoping nobody's going
to do a fundraiser for it.
thank god gabriel_laddel hasn't discovered it yet
phf: asciilifeform: nobody's asking you,
this is for people who want a fixer-upper. you don't want
to use cmucl either, because it's half baked. it does feel just a
tad "i just want
to", but i can't necessarily fault you for it
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron:
Thing is more gossip
than news. What happened?
There may be a way
to rewrite it into news, but it is still early
this morning.
phf: it's modernization
time
phf: asciilifeform: it needs work, but it's literally one of
the few gui frameworks untouched by lizard hitler, unless you want
to write raw xlib or
tty outputs
phf: bordeaux-threads stopped building with my asdf1, i checked, someone hardcoded >3.11 check, with ~no purpose for it~. next
thing i know i read "<jackdaniel> [04:44:30] but don't use clim's mp, I've reimplemented it on
top of bordeaux-thread just for backward compatibility" on #clim
phf: everyone agrees "we need windows backend" obviously, stodgy and dated decisions are being gradually replaced with "modern" equivalents. someone literally used
the phrase "people come
to expect from modern ui"
phf: in
the immortal words of ivan chesnokov, YOU HAVE DISEASE OF AMERICAN CAPITALIST, CHANGE
THING
THAT IS FINE FOR NO REASON EXCEPT
TO LOOK DIFFERENT FROM COMRADE.
phf: asciilifeform:
that attention from fundraiser and marketing
that gabriel_laddel was so excited about ~obviously~ attracted not
talent, but
the usual modernizer suspects. i'm reading
their channel logs and marvel.
☟︎