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mircea_popescu:
<mircea_popescu> now, your addon, if deployed would, for the average usecase, provide an improvement of what ? 10% ? 50% ? 300% ?
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> iirc i spammed reddit, fwiw
<< FWIW, after sporatic success it has taken about "3 ani experienta" before I got rather reliable results infultrating the various web traffic concentrators to gather eyes.
mircea_popescu: "how to fly!" "don't be poor"
< works. "how to cold fusion" "Don't be poor"
< fails. what'd money do ?
PeterL:
<mircea_popescu> PeterL and if you tell the head manager that this is a miserable abdication from his job - which is to assure you the stuff will work no matter what, he says ?
<< If the equipment does not work the way it is supposed to, we speak to our contact and he fixes it, I don't see any abdication of job by manager here?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> because how do you budget for that.
<< i have no idea wqhat the because would be, other than idiots. if i ran the lab i would, simply on grounds of independence.
PeterL:
<asciilifeform> i saw a win98 box once, uninfected, i shit thee not. it was connected to an alarm system, in a closet, no net connection, for decade.
<< my previous job we had a windows 98 box dedicated to a piece of equipment
PeterL:
<thestringpuller> I haven't had to reinstall windows on my gaming rig in 3 years
<< I havn't had to reinstall the OS on my mac in 9 years, it mostly sorta still works
PeterL:
<asciilifeform> the kitchen, regardless of what ants may think, was NOT built as an ant restaurant.
<< I dun get it, how does miners not including your txn equate to raiding the kitchen?
funkenstein_: asciilifeform: health is still ~1k/mo.
<-- I LOLed
funkenstein_:
<trinque> hey, regrind your vpatch and I'll sign it
<-- thanks trinque :) trouble is I'm not sure what base to regrind from
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: ever seen black book movie ?
<< Brittany Murphy is hot? ~_~
danielpbarron: asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i hauled it 3km in 2014 with own hands and spent more on ~petrol~.
<< gas was twice as expensive then as it is now
PeterL:
<asciilifeform> health is still ~1k/mo.
<< you just added another thing to the list, now we are up to 32k, still nowhere near 500k
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: "Pederasty is an ancient Greek form of interaction in which members of the same sex would partake in the pleasures of an intellectual and/or sexual relationship as part of a socially acceptable ancient custom "
<< uh ok...
danielpbarron: asciilifeform> the 'reddit appeal' of what we do
<< i didn't mean reaching out any further than in this very channel
mircea_popescu: assbot> RIP Google PageRank score: A retrospective on how it ruined the web
<< this is not an idle comment. google, like every other usg item, like usg collectively, was entrusted with great responsibility in many fields after the war.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> for the 5 people or so worldwide
<< oif which apparently two here ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> or did i read that backwards ?
<<< seems so ?
gribble: RagnarDanneskjol was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 50 weeks, 4 days, 12 hours, 35 minutes, and 12 seconds ago:
<RagnarDanneskjol> trinque - i am occasionally using the nick for continued development on punks ver. if anyone here's partial to the name I can pass it over. Wow that xm42
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform : "> This last post from you indicates clearly that your horizon is limited and you are allergic to new ideas and cannot bring facts and rationale to your statements. Pray tell, just what are the new ideas in Clojure? The idea of setting up an ersatz Lisp on top of the JVM is not the least bit new. Neither is immutable data."
<< readily the best bit in there. and it is pretty good as it is.
trinque: +asciilifeform | but the 'brain learns' thing is pure nonexplanatory obscuratronium.
<< what, you thought I was satisfied with "learns" as a complete description?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron> to whomever was running a brute force on my wordpress login
<< there's thousands of boxes working this 24/7. "seo industry".
mircea_popescu: 18* adlai wonders whether the low price tag of responsible disclosure stems from the glass cannon nature
<< doesn't seem glass cannon-y at all, with any patience you could have hijacked some "notable" accounts made them do some funky shit.