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mircea_popescu: to everything i've seen since
the 80s, i by a very fat large margin prefer msdos.
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 19:42:15; ascii_field: ms-dos was not asked
to do very much. at least, at first. but i still remember screwing with qemm, xms, etc.
towards
the last years.
nubbins`: that's ellen pao explaining why coontown wasn't one of
the subreddits
that got banned
mircea_popescu: a) it doesn't compile, so
they prefer interpreted languages instead and b) it doesn't debug, so
they prefer
to write more instead.
nubbins`: ;;google
talking heads i zimbra
nubbins`: is
the singular of zimbrii "zimbra"?
mircea_popescu: (they were
throught extinct after ww2. much like anything larger
than a cat)
mircea_popescu: nubbins` and
the best part is, someone rolled
their eyes and muttered "obviously" over
this.
mircea_popescu: im so going
to go on bison safari
through
the most powerful country in
the world before long...
mircea_popescu: o god almighty, a whole generation of ignorant, poor
twerps. running
their own country.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> <mod6> mod6: Sir Grayhawk, I would like
to use
this recipe
to craft a static apple pie. Sir Grayhawk: Let me
traide you for
this here Universe Schematic. << WUT ?! << 'twas a joke.
the old one about how a programmer wanted
to bake an apple pie but first has
to invent a universe. 'cept in
this one static bitcoind is
the pie, and
the universe is gentoo/uclibc/gcc/etc. :]
nubbins`: i bet
those
things cost like $500ea
mircea_popescu: the 99% is, basically, random apartments all over
town
mircea_popescu: except
they're no longer centralized and so less obvious
mircea_popescu: yeah,
there are. over 10mn people live in
them, half of which "veterans"
mircea_popescu: other
things "everyone in usa" is convinced of include
the fact
that
their feelings matter.
mircea_popescu: sounds like you got yourselves
the best sort of friends after "she likes
to fuck" :
the clueless.
nubbins`: sell
the old, working flash
to me :D
nubbins`: nevermind
that
they've got
two shirt presses and one of
them can only do single-color prints because it has no flash.
nubbins`: new owners love
their new flash dryer so much
that
they DON'T WANT
their old one.
nubbins`: in other shop news, i've got a lead on a new (to me) flash dryer from
the shop i used
to work part-time at
mircea_popescu: mostly off
the sort of schmucks who either depend on or aim
to depend on a "social worker" career
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the fact
that he let
the loonies out is a fact.
the proposition
that
this had any measurable effect is loonytalk
mircea_popescu: well, some whore also got office in italy about some
time
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform /me is deeply unconcinved by
the
theory.
nubbins`: asciilifeform i
think
the usa is still dealing w/
that
nubbins`: sources say i just gotta swap
the red and black
nubbins`: anyway,
this is a roundabout way of saying
that i'm gonna be rewiring a DC motor for
the first
time
today
nubbins`: so
the heat/speed controls are on
the fucking output side of it
nubbins`: they also wired
the fucking motor backwards
nubbins`: anyway. no big deal,
tap some new holes, screw
the
thing in
the right way.
nubbins`: he built me a
t-shirt oven
that blasts cool air onto
the sides of
the shirts it's
trying
to cure.
nubbins`: seriously. exhaust fan pointed down into
the oven.
nubbins`: i ws connecting some ducting
to
the exhaust fan last fall and realized
that
the mfg installed
the fucking fan upside-down
nubbins`: so i've got
this conveyor oven for curing ink on shirts, yes?
nubbins`: and you
thought a hair shirt was bad
nubbins`: only when
they wear
the copper brush undies
mircea_popescu: "your honor, i only fuck preteens because
the floor space is so expensive"
nubbins`: it was bananas and i was almost
too high
to deal with it
nubbins`: and Dory actually launched herself at him, busting
the screen out of
the window, and chased him down
the block
nubbins`: then her hated enemy, Gandalf, approaches
the window
nubbins`: the first
time, she was just sitting in
the window checking
things out
nubbins`: that was actually dory's second
time out front
nubbins`: that was directed
towards alf, heh
nubbins`: so if you wanna lie sideways, your legs hang off
the edge?
nubbins`: we have a king size mattress.
they're not
THAT expensive :P
mircea_popescu: i imagine
The Outside must look
to a modern pet cat much like
the same looks
to a modern
teenager.
nubbins`: i step
through
the front door
to fetch her, and she's worriedly
trotting around meowing at neighbouring windows,
trying
to figure out which house is hers