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mircea_popescu: couldn't be bothered to
asciilifeform: trinque: there are several versions floating around, including v6 for winblowz
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> pete_dushenski: the '83' was actually mandatory at the school i went to. << i never had a calculator in school. of any kind.
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: didn't have the grades to stay in canada, decided to make most of opportunities closer to home. not entirely 'for girl' but in no small part was this the consideration.
BingoBoingo spent two weeks of dishwashing checks on ti-89 senior year for the AP calc test
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: 3rd year. after i didn't get in off waiting list for med school in ireland that year, i never reapplied.
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> and the misfortune of replacing it with the 89 'titanium' << I made this mistake in college. Sold my 'titanium' at a loss
ben_vulpes: whence the fork, pete_dushenski?
pete_dushenski: thought ben_vulpes was referring to uni course
asciilifeform: i think all the ti widgets had stats
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: the '83' was actually mandatory at the school i went to. but normally the warde^H^H^H^teacher wouldn't notice if you had something vaguely shaped like '83'
ben_vulpes: where did you top out in maths, pete_dushenski?
pete_dushenski: we used 83 up to grade 12
pete_dushenski: 83 not an american thing ?
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: i seem to be to only one here who used ti-83
assbot: Bitcoinica Theft with unusual transaction to Theymos - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1LljvHO )
ben_vulpes: and the misfortune of replacing it with the 89 'titanium' ☟︎
ben_vulpes: i too had an 89
ben_vulpes: despite having nominally progressed through the *exact same curriculum*, my 'peers' never mastered this 'one simple trick'.
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 00:25:20; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the 'equation solver' is actually half of why people bought the thing
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-09-2015#1269052 << i routinely aced ME tests simply by virtue of knowing basic linear algebra transformations and how to solve sets of equations with the calculator. ☝︎
pete_dushenski: i loled at this one
pete_dushenski: oncepts. I was shocked that within 30 minutes of sending, he was already linking bank acounts to Circle and signing up for multiple sites such as purse.io"
assbot: Youth are the 'killer app' of Bitcoin. : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1KFCLp4 )
pete_dushenski: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3k8uez/youth_are_the_killer_app_of_bitcoin/ << "After many failed attempts at convincing friends/family/co-workers that Bitcoin is beneficial, one of my Minecraft server players asked me about it. I decided to send over $10 worth on Circle just so he could experience it first-hand. I didn't expect much, since he's young he might not understand even some basic financial c
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: that recent piece isn't half bad
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 04:09:34; mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ka7ic/bitcoin_is_not_visa/cuwcz3y << why the fuck is reddit so racist ?
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-09-2015#1269269 << Because, they see you rolling, they hating ☝︎
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: btw that piece was invictus, not br
mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ka7ic/bitcoin_is_not_visa/cuwcz3y << why the fuck is reddit so racist ? ☟︎
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BingoBoingo: And fret the expense of every scratch versus having expendable machines plural at the ready?
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: you'd love the f-150 raptor
BingoBoingo: It is an enginering balance though. Attack angle versus rollover potential
BingoBoingo: Hard to beat the Ford exploder for rollover champion, but the early 70's GTO pony car is a serious competitor
pete_dushenski: aha, the rollover kings those things
BingoBoingo: Take out the back bench and there's a solid looking living area
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Since I missed my last fiat window I've been looking also at the basic Chevy Blazer ZR-2, cheap 2 door beasts
pete_dushenski: big time.
pete_dushenski: now BingoBoingo has me looking as muscly old off-roaders. and this is too, too sharp in red http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mercedes-Benz-G-Class-5-Doors-/262036024935?forcerrptr=true&hash=item3d02906e67&item=262036024935
mircea_popescu: guys still do that ?
pete_dushenski: gotta capture the moment
mircea_popescu: it's for in case they get raped.
pete_dushenski: so yes, hanging out with girls and their iphone 6s' is a liability. welcome to the future.
pete_dushenski: apple's equivalent of 'hello google' or whatever that motorola had last year
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 19:28:28; trinque: but we made a new iPhone
BingoBoingo: some years, usually if I go for the big tractors
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Every year I've got a combine (as in the farm equipment) and car demolition derby on back to back days hundreds of feet aways
BingoBoingo: Nah, They've got cultural standards to conform to.
pete_dushenski: "The Wembley Demolition Derby is Proud to announce our 10th Anual Demolition Derby which is taking place on September 12th, 2015 at 11:00 a.m until 6:00 p.m."
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Well, the best band for buck autocontacts I know are the demolition derby crowd. They know the parts and cars that fail.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1268238 << would be far more interesting if their website could be navigated. like at all. ☝︎
pete_dushenski: but expensive to maintain any contacts if you don't need them
pete_dushenski: i have what i need and more isn't hard to find
pete_dushenski: while in general this is most certainly true that i could use more lowerly placed contacts, i'm in no need of classic mercedes help
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: which could be thousands.
BingoBoingo: Parts roughly would cost one or two unlicensable or untitleable examples at most
BingoBoingo: It's just an extension of the engine's cooling system
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: How does the heater not work in a way that wouldn't be cheap to fix?
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 01:20:40; BingoBoingo: And the military hummer has a certain stotting value the Ford "King Ranch" doesn't
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-09-2015#1269147 << it's really quite bad ass, the hummer. assuming the heater worked, i'd pick one up for $15k ☝︎
pete_dushenski: "The Yamaguchi-gumi still boasts some 23,000 core and associate members, around 44% of all yakuza in Japan, according to police estimates. But membership has been shrinking along with an overall decline in yakuza groups, and Mr. Shinoda’s control has grown shakier. “The prolonged economic stagnation steadily chipped away at the yakuza’s financial clout,” "
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Predator II is actually one of the classics of its time
BingoBoingo: Only in the sense that the predator in Predator II was a landmine for Danny GLover and the drug gangs
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Nah, hazard of fighting where the big danger isn't the explicit enemy
pete_dushenski: didn't dragons fight men noticably more heroic than the power ranger derp brigade ?
BingoBoingo though after last night believes FYIAD may become a standard #b-a retorn to hearnianites
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mircea_popescu will sort this out later.
mircea_popescu: it functions somehow. mebbe in in the wrong box
asciilifeform: unless you went and put that in by hand.
asciilifeform: it won't even function. lacks the db locks correction
mircea_popescu: hm you know i think you're right, this is an older thing ☟︎
asciilifeform: in fact that would leave dns invocation in
asciilifeform: iirc that's not even rel1 !
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha it takes a destionation dir name and a patch name (called in this case 'head'). applies sequence up through and including head.
mike_c: ah, thanks
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: ^ which head did you press to ? << wait theres multiple ?!
BingoBoingo: Took out both other ISPs for the better part of a day, killed the laser too.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: My hometown made a FTTH project a few years ago, obliterated themselves and the other ISPs by installing the big laser backwards ☟︎
assbot: peoplma comments on Fun project: make a smart contract that pays out if # of BIP101 blocks stays under a threshold. Possible on BTC if we had OP_CAT & OP_CLTV! ... ( http://bit.ly/1L3cHmu )
BingoBoingo: $12,000-$15,000 also fits the sweet spot for "toy" vehicles. Less than people pay for a boat and more than they can sell it for. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: And the military hummer has a certain stotting value the Ford "King Ranch" doesn't ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Even when they run
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Not really. It is hard to get a road worthy title on the things
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: lulzy. i'm slightly surprised the thing sold at all other than to a junkyard
BingoBoingo: Gawker Media being dicks to legit working men https://archive.is/4ulHC
mod6: <+asciilifeform> mod6: hence why i asked. << it's been on my mind lately. thanks for prodding me.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ^ which head did you press to ?
asciilifeform: mod6: i was recently in a slightly awkward situation of explaining therealbitcoin to an intelligent n00b, but not able to recommend anything hosted at therealbitcoin.org for actual use
BingoBoingo: shinohai: You could do far worse than picking up a TI-92 and some dice
shinohai: I should make a new key, since I discovered keybase was a waste of time.
asciilifeform: shinohai: please consider using a civilized pgp key in the future
asciilifeform: shinohai: i guess hitler can decrypt it also, and use the rom.
asciilifeform: shinohai: i sent it to your email addr
mod6: <asciilifeform> please consider updating therealbitcoin www to include the actually usable version thereof ? << The only reason I'm holdin' back here is we don't have a certified release as of yet. Will consider putting up v0.5.4-TEST2
asciilifeform: gpg: 73708B0E: There is no assurance this key belongs to the named user
asciilifeform: interestingly, ti is (or at least was) one of the most tightfistedly-drm-besotten hardware makers; to the point that PEOPLE GANGED UP AND FACTORED THEIR RSA KEY - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/145/145273.html
shinohai: May I obtain this rom asciilifeform ?
asciilifeform: impressive, what they fit in there, no ?