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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I never had
the original diff learned so it should be interesting
assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 00:41:43; asciilifeform: ;;later
tell BingoBoingo if you write a patch for
the verson string
thing, i'll read it!
mircea_popescu still can't wait
to see how
the bitfinex settlement's gonna work
mircea_popescu: absent another ww
they can sit neutral around,
they're so fucked zimbabwe looks promising.
mircea_popescu: except, of course, for
the obvious :
TAKE FACEBOOK PICTUREWS NEXT
TO IT!
mircea_popescu: i would be much surprised if
there's an argentinian who even knows what
to do wit hone.
mircea_popescu: the precious little
they do right,
they do by
thoughtlessly following
tradition.
mircea_popescu: incidentally asciilifeform often
times i look around at
this retarded place and i feel i live in
the future us.
mircea_popescu: yet magically no one's
trying
to do anything. somehow.
Adlai: someday all
the designers will be dead, and all
the instruments rusted
Adlai thinks asciilifeform's attitude is only correct in
the pre-scarcity world
mircea_popescu: one "really needs" an open instrument like one really needs a
trustworthy wife.
Adlai: get some sleep
trinque, your antecedents are out of contrel
Bingo_VACAY: Someday I won't irc on 3g because
Thor decided
to be a USG bitch
Adlai: which
this being which what?
Adlai: all
this requires is
that a sufficient percentage of
the wot settle in harm-reducing jurisdictia
trinque also enjoys
the latest deed
trinque: Adlai:
twas just an idle joke sir
trinque: yar, in
the subsequent logs
there's mention
that it needs
to be changed
to
the latest stage3
Adlai: trinque: if "erdos method" means hopped up on speed couchsurfing
through
the wot, i'd be honored but a little overplaying my character
danielpbarron: trinque, your script references a .tar.bz2 file
that no longer exists, and it assumes I already have
the gpg public key
that signed
the digest file
trinque: mircea_popescu: haha
that was
the one
mircea_popescu: <trinque> Adlai seems
to be using
the Erdos method re: mathematics < ?
assbot: Successfully updated
the rating for mircea_popescu from 1
to 2 with note: speare shaker
mircea_popescu: yes
the world should work correctly. but whether it does or does not is not your fucking problem.
mircea_popescu: you don't do
the right
things
TO be paid. you do
them BECAUSE
they're
the right
things.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i can appreciate
the part where usg is
there
to give money
to "compensate"
the retarded kids
that didn't reverse
their spectrometer and so ended up with X loss
tjhrough any of
thbe multiple avenues. and i can appreciate how
this makes lazy people manifest
thjeir lazy.
mircea_popescu: until
they could convince
the infant
that indeed he is "needed" outside.
mircea_popescu: africa is not something
that can be fixed. it's what
the word "africa" means.
mircea_popescu: i do nopt care about
the problems of
tribes in africa.
mircea_popescu: a "sane-indistinct" computer can be had for
the
task as defined, out of shelf parts.
mircea_popescu: useful life of
the
tool is 30 years +, so. you get
to "break it in" for a few months first.
mircea_popescu: only if
the "profession" is saomethiong like "pop star",
mircea_popescu: anyway. yes usg can be rejected just by rejecting it. no,
there aren't places where
this actually hurts one. yes if one perceives
to be hurt it's because one did something stupid in
the past he'll have
to undo. no
this isn't anyone else's problem and no
this calls for no sympathy.
trinque: can't speak
to
that, but
the guy got himself booted,
through X and a DE, so I can dig
that.
BingoBoingo: <trinque> relatedly, I have a 1 for relaxedman when he comes back. I yelled at him
to *read* his way
through snags with gentoo, and he did! << Promised
the same for OpenBSD, but...
mircea_popescu: i don'trecall, but maybe cvut a digit. anyway, hgow is
this related ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, you're missing
the something where gimp is pretty much
the only foss success in
the actual marketplace.
mircea_popescu: in
the ps-gimp case,
the only reason is strictly user being an imbecile.
trinque: did not bitch "oh but it didn't work out of
the box"
mircea_popescu: which is why i said it's
the worst example you could have come up with
trinque: relatedly, I have a 1 for relaxedman when he comes back. I yelled at him
to *read* his way
through snags with gentoo, and he did!
mircea_popescu: claiming otherwise because you got your sexual advances
turned down by a mass spectrometer is nuts.