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trinque: I'm about
to epoxy
the
thing
phf: i meant
to say
there are
two
thinkpads
trinque: asciilifeform: I've got
the x1 carbon and
the fucking hinge broke
phf: there are
two lenovos, which are entirely different products
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 10:18:46; phf: ascii_field: mircea_popescu: go give ben_vulpes a unix and laptop co-designed with it,
then he can
throw away
the crapple <<
there's
three apples in my mind, 90s one,
the early 2000s one when programmers migrated from linux
to a unix
that Just Works, and
the post iphone explosion apple.
the first
two are dead (10.10 is
the final reason i froze my setup and migrating my entire stack away). but my point is
that
trinque: ;;later
tell pete_dushenski bitbet added
to rss feeds
assbot: Healthy male refugees in Hungary refusing food and water for women and children on
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williamdunne: Can someone please give me a signed message
to
test something with? It can be filled with any old garbage, but has
to be a key not on my machine, and saves me
the hassle of creating, deleting, importing pubkey
to
test one message
assbot: The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and
the Revolution
That Made Computing Personal: M. Mitchell Waldrop: 9780142001356: Amazon.com: Books ... (
http://bit.ly/1XWXNDn )
ben_vulpes: i have a whole company
that does
this.
ben_vulpes: all i have
to do is make one misstep with
the SJW mob.
ben_vulpes: Using 'if' or
the
ternary operator as a function is quite common in perl. Using data structures
to control flow is common in perl.
Trying
to learn C# after learning perl was like running head first into a brick wall. I'm really glad
this guy is
trying
to make programming a bit more perl-like."
☟︎ ben_vulpes: "Throughout
this whole
thing, I keep
thinking "perl does
that, perl does
that, perl does
that."
ben_vulpes: i do dream of having a workstation
though, and
the lifestyle
to support it.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: but in
the same way
that java (wrapped in
the fucked up functional language clojure) and javascript (wrapped in
the fucked up functional language clojurescript) are acceptable
tools with which
to cut wwwtronic code,
the mac is an acceptable
tool
to drag around an office.
assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 00:18:24; asciilifeform: cabbie: 'this ford is a piece of shit. stalled again.' mircea_popescu: 'i have a solution!' cabbie: 'oh???111' mircea_popescu: 'here, have
this broomstick.' cabbie: 'how do i drive customers on
that, feed my family' mircea_popescu: 'you misunderstand, my good man. you stuff it in your arse.' cabbie: 'and... how does
this feed by family?' mircea_popescu: 'no, you sit
there with it in.'
ben_vulpes: mobility is important
to me, basically, and
these are
the only usable even remotely nixy portables being made.
funkenstein_: numbers like sqrt2, pi, e, are members of
the set of computable numbers.. which is countable
funkenstein_: "a number like 2 is a rank zero
tensor, now you know
tensors"
☟︎ funkenstein_: but
the
trouble is it is also
taught wrong in a similar way
funkenstein_: i
too had cantor's diagonal proof "taught" in jr. high
funkenstein_: nice
to see you nubbins, coffee is better
today :)
shinohai: I still love playing Mario Kart for 64. Had it on an emulator but my current lappy doesn't support
the graphics
shinohai: I kind liked
the wii, used
to play drunken golf and bowling with an ex gf.
nubbins`: there's a Lemmings-esque game out for Wii U and 3DS; purchase one version and get a free download code for
the other version
☟︎ gribble: diametric was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 4 weeks, 4 days, 20 hours, 39 minutes, and 20 seconds ago: <diametric> punkman:
the people paying his employer for
their ad services were not getting return on
those ads.
shinohai: I feel better knowing
the Federal Bumbling Idiots kept me safe from a college professor.
shinohai: Think of
the
terror
they possibly averted asciilifeform
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 06:14:17; mircea_popescu: so : some chemical reactions are strongly exothermic (they give out heat). aluminum salts chief among
them.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 07:10:15;
trinque: weechat seems
to do better about knowing when
to reconnect
mircea_popescu: (also,
the proposed device does not actually work.
the female ass is exactly antithetical
to
the steel ball. negative ricochet factor. fortunately.)
punkman: not
too hard
to find a proper stone oven around here,
though I don't have one at home
mircea_popescu: in spite of pretense
to
the contrary, nobody can
tell
teh difference.
mircea_popescu: (if you sautee
the eggplant first,
then you use
the butter
to sauce...)
mircea_popescu: cut
the chicken in very long
thin strips and butter fry
them lightly, can also add sautee'd eggplant
punkman: I have some kilos of artichoke hearts in
the freezer
punkman: never seen
that in a shop indeed, sounds like a good idea
punkman: white pizza, cream instead of
tomato sauce?
mircea_popescu: the former home made because srsly i have never seen a restaurant
that made edible white pizza
mircea_popescu: <phf> you mean like a bell pepper pizza? << absurdly
the us figure spicy salami can be propperly called "pepperoni", which is normally a veggie.
cazalla: tbh was more
trying
to bait you into a maddox is
the best/worst discussion
mircea_popescu: phf
they can go discover
the moscow school of psychology for all i fucking care. idiots.
mircea_popescu: but no, you're not supposed
to eat american processed meats, if
that's actually what you had in mind. if what you had in mind was actual salami, say with peppercorns or something... sure.
phf: mircea_popescu: "Fractal -- from Wolfram MathWorld mathworld.wolfram.com/Fractal.html A fractal is an object or quantity
that displays " << wolfram's "new kind of science" is all about "this one
thing i generated kind of looks like
this complicated process, maybe
they are related? i feel like
they are!"
punkman: I'd rather have bacon
than pepperoni
mircea_popescu: there's >10k dubious establishments
that pretend all sorts of
things, up
to and including HAVING INVENTED
THE DAMNED
THING, but otherwise never saw one.
mircea_popescu: well on
the other front, i just got
taken
to
the only actual pizzeria in buenos aires
phf: ascii_field: mircea_popescu: go give ben_vulpes a unix and laptop co-designed with it,
then he can
throw away
the crapple <<
there's
three apples in my mind, 90s one,
the early 2000s one when programmers migrated from linux
to a unix
that Just Works, and
the post iphone explosion apple.
the first
two are dead (10.10 is
the final reason i froze my setup and migrating my entire stack away). but my point is
that maybe you guys are just arguin
☟︎ phf: but splurging on
the latest iphone is definitely
the last
thing on
their minds
phf: last
time i was
there, friends lamented
that you can't get real parmesan for real pasta and have
to make do with inferior russian knockoffs. if i make it
to moscow in
the next few weeks, will be curious
to see where
the whole party is at now.
phf: mircea_popescu: iirc
that was before ukraine. <<
that was indeed before ukraine. i saw a few of my well
trained, but otherwise bummy friends with "business" go oh well party is over and switch
to sberbank financial analyst positions or somesuch.