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asciilifeform: Dec 25 2000 TI92.ROM
asciilifeform: (if you need the rom, ask me)
asciilifeform: who really desperately wants this, can download emulator
asciilifeform: i'll leave it there.
BingoBoingo: Everything has a price. Even the bad ideas. Someone has to present the possibility to them.
asciilifeform: it's like cutting somebody open to count their tree rings or sumthing.
BingoBoingo: Perhaps to compare stored forklets
BingoBoingo: Or person paying premium to see what someone else's blockchain looks like
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> <asciilifeform> at the risk of repeating myself, shipping blockchains is sad. << so guy wants to meet a guy with girls and pencils. << mircea_popescu gets it
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: if you're mystified as to wtf all of this was, these old gadgets are (literally) 'derive.exe'-in-a-can. << Seriously on the AP Calculus test machine and knowing how to use it was THE trump card.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> at the risk of repeating myself, shipping blockchains is sad. << so guy wants to meet a guy with girls and pencils.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> perhaps even sold openly: 'buy this bottomless drive!' <<< "unmetered badwitdh!!1"
asciilifeform: complete with the 3d grapher thing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you're mystified as to wtf all of this was, these old gadgets are (literally) 'derive.exe'-in-a-can. ☟︎
asciilifeform: it never made sense to me.
asciilifeform: somehow, automagically doing most of symbolic manipulations through sophomore uni maths or so, is a-ok, but oh noez, keyboard could be used to... what?
asciilifeform: believe or not, they let u.s. schoolchildren use '89' on exams.
asciilifeform: it is ~identical~ to the 92 but has no qwerty
asciilifeform: shinohai: if you're not a schoolboy, avoid the 89.
assbot: Programing with the TI-92 ... ( http://bit.ly/1UI4ULw )
asciilifeform: http://web.alfredstate.edu/quagliato/ti92/tiprog/tiprog.htm << even the asinine 'basic' of these things beats just about anything given to pc novices now
shinohai: Found a decent ti-89 for ~$200.
asciilifeform: shinohai: some folks even today do crypto on these
assbot: Radio Shack TRS-80 Pocket Computer ... ( http://bit.ly/1UI4LYC )
asciilifeform: who the fuck wants to type the word 'lambda' ?!
asciilifeform: i regard it as the mark of a thinking man's computer
asciilifeform: greek appeared on the early lisp machine keyboards, as well
asciilifeform: btw these humble machines were superior to pc in a certain respect - greek symbols on kbd !
BingoBoingo: Equation solver was why I got TI-89 in HS
asciilifeform: shinohai: didja have one of these as a boy ?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> at the risk of repeating myself, shipping blockchains is sad. << Other reason for oppresive minimum cost
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the 'equation solver' is actually half of why people bought the thing ☟︎
asciilifeform: every full node is rightfully a walk through all of history
asciilifeform: the thing is supposed to sync itself, that is part and parcel of how bitcoin is meant to work.
asciilifeform: at the risk of repeating myself, shipping blockchains is sad.
BingoBoingo: Price is kinda to filter out people who wouldn't use girls with pencils
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: l0l! what would this fella use for a node ? gurlz with pencils ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Purpose is anyone who doesn't want to mess with wires at all.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: what is the purpose of this? i mean, you can transmit a pgp sig and post the disk
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: 4 BTC to 400 for shipping ?! what do you intend to use, ballistic rocket ? << Self + vehicles
shinohai: Should I stumble upon an example I will gladly hip it to you.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 4 BTC to 400 for shipping ?! what do you intend to use, ballistic rocket ?
asciilifeform: ditto the famous teapot
asciilifeform: but somehow they only ever get sold to folks who aren't me
asciilifeform: shinohai: i keep looking for this, because it'd make a glorious esp8266 substitute
shinohai: Remember cn already has the usb chargers that call home
asciilifeform: perhaps even sold openly: 'buy this bottomless drive!'
asciilifeform: it will be quite the ideal nsatron
asciilifeform: as i understand this presently exists as a deliberately-crafted commercial product, used in cameras. but picture if it were picked up by cn artisans of flimflam
asciilifeform: shinohai et al: i keep waiting for that magical day when these fakes become something like the real thing in the sense of having an embedded wireless nic, silently storing blocks in 'cloud' somewhere
BingoBoingo wonder what interest there would be for physical media containing a WoT attested Blockchain shipped. Rates roughly 0.3 BTC for the media and shipping prices 4 BTC to 400 BTC depending on where the media needs shipped
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 00:05:33; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1269003 << even here we have the fake cn drives, in all form factors even, from doctored thumb drive to hollow laptop ssd containing lead weights and sd reader, etc
shinohai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-09-2015#1269012 <<< I actually got one of these abt a year ago, a thumb drive with a couple of cheap bolts hot-glued to the case. ☝︎
asciilifeform: iirc the shop boss claimed that 'someone returned the package with this fake re-shrinkwrapped into it'
asciilifeform: and no, you will not read about it in the birdcage liner or the fishwrap, because It Never Happened
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 23:59:51; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1268184 <<< this because you never looked at it seriously ?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1269003 << even here we have the fake cn drives, in all form factors even, from doctored thumb drive to hollow laptop ssd containing lead weights and sd reader, etc ☝︎☟︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: Look who returns, the whale clubber http://qntra.net/2015/09/consumers-begin-revolting-bitcoin-is-not-visa/#comment-54127
mircea_popescu: talk to danielpbarron or diana or something
Birdman: Ah, i'd been inactive as there wasnt anything i could do until i get my bank roll up
mircea_popescu: yo Birdman everyone's looking for you like the 2nd coming in eulora on account of those recipes.
mircea_popescu: oh shit, 2.2k linmes today . no wonder the log seemed endless.
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 17:44:48; punkman: ascii_field, I wouldn't think fake capacity numbers are a problem, but yeah I guess you gotta write $x GB of data to it that can't be compressed away
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1268184 <<< this because you never looked at it seriously ? ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: tho maybe on the more 500 side of 600.
mircea_popescu: doesn't seem to be much pattern to it tho.
asciilifeform: no route to host ?
assbot: HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the distributed, permanent web ... ( http://bit.ly/1L30w9d )
mircea_popescu: derp. you don't control the narrative. i control the narrative. get fucked.
mircea_popescu: "we are lying through our teeth and if yo usay this you gotta explain our crankbait"
mircea_popescu: Let’s get serious here – if you think the government is cooking all manner of economic releases, you need to explain the LFPR."
mircea_popescu: thing we can’t do with a little moxie and an Excel spreadsheet or two. (Jeb! – that 4% growth rate you’re pining for? Call me.)
mircea_popescu: "My commitment to the American people is both simple and straightforward: I will cook any and every number that needs to be cooked. We’ll see continued job growth, probably an unemployment rate under 2 percent. You also have my word that I’ll keep the LFPR above 66 percent. With a little help from my friends, we can probably run a surplus within a year or so, and pay down all our debt over the next decade or so. No
BingoBoingo: Yeah. One of the few tolerable US reads. One of the very few east coast ones.
mircea_popescu: but anyways. he does get the point about how there's no thieves and police, but unsanctioned criminals and sanctioned criminals.
mircea_popescu: guy's a boxer. what do you want from him. either he gets a master or flails around helplessly, not like he's going to you know, concentrate really hard and attain enlightment.
BingoBoingo: How quickly He turned from potential interesting read to anthropological case study.
mircea_popescu: no locals engaging ? of course no locals. don't worry abut it, usg will ship foreign armed thugs across the border for as long as it takes you to kill it.
mircea_popescu: lol poor lafond, he could be in rhodesia and not know the difference.
mircea_popescu: What I do not see are locals ready to engage in such activity."
mircea_popescu: "On the eve of what may likely be another effort by the white liberal media to fan the flames of race war in Baltimore, I’m not seeing as much flammable human material as the media priesthood would have us believe. Surely there will be enough entitled racist foot soldiers to set another 154 fires at least, to empty another four dozen pharmacies and liquor stores, terrorizing more of their fellow blacks than anyone.
shinohai: Probably the only show I ever bothered to actually purchase.
mircea_popescu: it's about 90% of all us tv i watched, by volume.
mircea_popescu: GEORGE: Seemingly. Seemingly, to the untrained eye, I can fully understand how you got that impression. What looked like pushing...what looked like knocking down...was a safety precaution! In a fire, you stay close to the ground, am I right? And when I ran out that door, I was not leaving anyone behind! Oh, quite the contrary! I risked my life making sure that exit was clear. Any other questions?
mircea_popescu: ROBIN: But I saw you push the women and children out of the way in a mad panic! I saw you knock them down! And when you ran out, you left everyone behind!
mircea_popescu: GEORGE: Because! Because, as the leader...if I die...then all hope is lost! Who would lead? The clown? Instead of castigating me, you should all be thanking me. What kind of a topsy-turvy world do we live in, where heroes are cast as villains? Brave men as cowards?
mircea_popescu: GEORGE (voice is hoarse from screaming): I...was trying to lead the way. We needed a leader! Someone to lead the way to safety.
assbot: The Best of George Costanza - The Fire - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1JV1m3A )
mircea_popescu: "We are all now well aware that the authorities will do absolutely nothing to protect citizens or businesses and will dedicated %100 of their resources to protecting the police and government personnel and facilities."
shinohai: looks like jizz escaping a fleshlight to me
BingoBoingo: Wait, is that a tampon or a pipe bomb
BingoBoingo: I thought for true butthurt you needed [=========]~~~~~~ tampons instead to apply pressure to the bleeding. WTF is a bandaid going to do?
mircea_popescu: if you liked the above bandaid please like and subscribe to the thread!
shinohai: Ah yes. And naturally they must prove their superiority by some means.
mircea_popescu: "i'm 30 and my life is over now because i can't be arsed to learn any skills"
mircea_popescu: "Always Unique, Totally Interesting, Sometimes Mysterious" << about 1/4 of all retarded housewife profiles.
cazalla: Always Unique, Totally Interesting, Sometimes Mysterious
mircea_popescu: "we're very butthurt at how bitcoin excluded us. it should not do that. we're important. and the place we left to failed."
cazalla: because, you know, earning the label requires taking your kid to the gp, to a specialist, to an expert, a support group, filling out paperwork for gov autism assistance bezzlars.. wow look at all this attention my kid is getting, must be special and therefore, so am i as a parent, please Like and subscribe
cazalla: an anecdote, but parents want to label their kids autistic as adhd has been done to death