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decimation: greenspun: "(compare
to about $25,000 per flight hour
to charter (source)). If American Airlines spent
this much during
the 7-hour flight from London
to Boston it would cost $1.44 million for
the
trip in operating cost (i.e., not including
the capital cost of
the aircraft) or about $3500 per passenger (i.e., a round-trip coach
ticket couldn?t be sold for less
than about $7000 plus
taxes and fees)."
trinque: just autotune
the shit and put some buzzing synth in
there
mircea_popescu: so i guess
they decided
they could make more money by keeping fewer clone
tanks
trinque: decimation:
they don't even make 'em do
that r&b yodel anymore
decimation: sometimes it helps if she has singing
talent, but it's not
that important
trinque: they
take a skinny white chick and feed her into
the machine every other year
decimation: I
thought it was well known
that anything
to do with 'popular music' is essentially nothing more
than a marketing chumpatron
mircea_popescu: omfg! i
totally called it. ITS
THE SAME LIFTED PHOTOS GUYSE!
decimation: at any rate
the irs definitely
taxes your shit on it, even if unspendable
decimation: add a few ounces of metal
to
the cheapass plastic; charge $200
decimation: for instance
this dre fellow
thinks he knows how
to engineer headphones
mircea_popescu: more importantly, how do we know it's not "buncha anon hags are driving
the star-fluid movement, wherein everyone
thinks
they're a star"
ascii_field: a usual gambit is
to
try
to 'luxurify
the ordinary' by getting folks used
to a crippled item,
then re-introducing
the missing bits
mircea_popescu: How Stars Like Cara Delevingne, Kristen Stewart, & Miley Cyrus Are Leading
the Gender Fluid Movement for Millennials << who
the fuck are
these "stars" ?
mircea_popescu: "because
technocomputerology is not masses accessible sufficiently!111"
decimation: note
the divorce between marketing and
technologists
decimation: yeah
the sx was without
the floating point unit I
think
mircea_popescu: decimation no no,
there was a shitty series of 486 processors
decimation: mmx is a streaming extension
to x86 for processing floating point
mircea_popescu: there was a huge cost
to, basically, gavinize computers around
that
time. it's how "mmx" processors came about, and "streamlined" mobos with no batteries etc.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
this
thing started life as a winblows-ce (yes) graphical
terminal
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field>
turned out, it lacks a bios battery << oh i recall
those shitty boards.
decimation: plus, once you are paying $bil
to corba and java developers,
they are not gonna listen
to some rf engineer who knows about radios
decimation: ascii_field: yes, radios
that are designed
to work as radios rather
than platonic ideals of radios do
tend
to work well
trinque: I have no delusions about having a generally useful computer
this decade
trinque: I've avoided
the shit like
the plague otherwise
trinque: after which who knows, I might dare dabble in C++ for
the second
time in my career
decimation: it's almost dead predictable every
time a new
tech cycle comes around: usg spends $bil on 'new
tech
that will save lots of money', fails any gains, actual people working in
the field are displaced by carpetbaggers
trinque: ascii_field: my aim is
to have something upon which
to build buttcoind repeatably
ascii_field: decimation: afaik 100% of usg code
that actually ~works~ is 1995 and prior
ascii_field: in
the words of orlov, 'try asking a different question,
to which
there may be an answer'
ascii_field: there ~is not a good answer~
to
this question
trinque: mod6: pulled it from
teh logz for shinohai
ascii_field: back
to
the 'plz recommend standard hardware
that isn't retarded'
thing - i can't help but rub in
the point here,
that we are playing 'junkyard wars'
shinohai: @
trinque I am a dumb fuck
that knows nothing about gentoo. I wish I could so I could slap Luke Jr in da face.
trinque: has most of
the bullshit removed via USE
trinque: shinohai:
try mod6's gentoo build maybe
shinohai: I <3 Debian but
the bloated systemd kills me
ascii_field: thing is a
turd, from
the black-box cpu (all 'arm' are builds of opaque licensed blob from uk)
to
the 'systemd' shit ecosystem
that will run on
top
shinohai: I can do
the same
thing with any discarded android, with enuf
time
ascii_field: i would like 486 but not if i have
to set up
the disk
thing every
time it
turns on.
ascii_field: to finish
the story, i dug for data sheets for
the 'ali' chipset found
therein, in hopes of affixing something like a 'cmos battery' - and found, unsurprisingly, nothing
ascii_field: trinque: depends very much on whether you can distinguish genuinely valuable
things from
the kind of garbage i was describing just now
trinque: asking genuinely, perhaps
there's not
ascii_field: the only
thing more useless
than a modern opaque
turd is a 1990s opaque
turd
that no one is ~even working on~ reverse-engineering
today
shinohai: I just need
to find a way
to
think around it.
shinohai: There is no such
thing as an obsolete computer in my mind, unless it is hopelessly fragmented by usg
trinque: tends
to be
the format for papers posted here
trinque: while
they can be got, heh
trinque: of late I collect
two
things; old computers/parts and PDFs
ascii_field: on account of amd's poor health, i see x86 as being very soon dead
to me entirely
ascii_field: needless
to say it's built around amd g-series chip. so when amd kisses good-bye,
that's all for
this box
trinque: what's
the
tooling
to write
to
that run?
trinque: and was
thinking of snagging decimation's
terminal
ascii_field: trinque: so long as you're ok with operating over '80s-style
terminal
trinque: yeah, I'm
thinking
this would be a bitcoind dev/build box
trinque: ascii_field: yeah I chose "pointed out"
to keep from saying
that's your recommended box
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 20:55:44;
trinque: mod6: maybe; I'd like
to see a standard piece of hardware recommended at some point
ascii_field: nor does attaching one
through
the m-pcie slots appear
to work
shinohai: I must add I put Debian Jessie on
that laptop in place of 8
trinque: I might buy one of
the pcengines machines ascii_field pointed out soon
shinohai: I have a shitty laptop
that came with Win8, I wouldn't
trade it for a Mac even if you added a few btc
to
the mix
trinque: mod6: maybe; I'd like
to see a standard piece of hardware recommended at some point
☟︎ mod6: <+trinque> no,
that's precisely
the right response << i wonder if its easier
to just
tell mac people
to fire up a vm of linux/bsd and just use gpg inside of
that?
shinohai: I
tried
to help him but I m hoplessly out of my element with other OS's no matter how hard I
try
trinque: I'll happily lead a noob
through using
the proper
tools, but wont bother with someone who refuses
to use
the proper
tools
trinque: no,
that's precisely
the right response
shinohai: gpgtools was what he was using. I was drinking pernod and
told him
to fuck off and use linux basically
trinque: er no, "gpgtools" is
the one I had in mind
trinque: shinohai:
that macgpg
thing seems like a wad of unnecessary crap
shinohai: @
thestringpuller i had a pm from a guy using a mac last night using gpg on a mac (gui) I couldn't help because I know dick about macs.
thestringpuller: I suspekt
the second you put priv keys on a mac
they go straight ot
the secret iCloud.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: and by 'for mac'
they almost always mean 'using mac gui'
mircea_popescu: may be a bridge
too far,
too
thin,
too short and
too fallen in
the water
too long ago.
mircea_popescu: i suspect what
they mean is, "someone with experience with crapple software
that doesn't suck"
shinohai: @
trinque "marriage, not even once" <<< My motto
assbot: Logged on 18-06-2015 21:31:46; cazalla: ah i
think she's attractive, just has
that mousy look.. no cocks either! maybe mp could learn a
thing or
two from you :P