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thestringpuller: ;;google thunderbolt
thestringpuller: what's that new port they are putting in laptops...
mats: i tried to find docs on Thunderbolt on the internets but after comparing notes with other people, they're still under NDA
mats: mindshare has other cool things about AGP, PCI, PCIe, USB, SATA, ...
BingoBoingo: Ah, firewire. Another example of a toy standard accidentaly'ing its way to "professional" standard.
asciilifeform: we've neither on this campus
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Even in the medical and law libraries?
asciilifeform: i'm told that scarcely anyone read them in dead tree.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: they had paper journals as recently as two years ago. but now zapped.
asciilifeform: interestingly, spy cameras are no longer necessary there. they've installed public 'face-up' scanners that go straight from dead tree to jpeg on usb drive, gratis
BingoBoingo: And not for the general library
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The probably do get some. Just not for the subjects that interest.
mats: aren't there handheld scanners that'd resolve this for you?
asciilifeform: when i look for a specific archival piece, i have contacts who can get it. just takes time. the point of full access is: idle browsing.
BingoBoingo: Ah, they don't pro-rate for part time?
BingoBoingo: There's got to be single credit hour courses somewhere to audit.
asciilifeform: at any rate, the game is not worth the candles at roughly 8k usd/yr. for buying access to e-journals in this way.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: they'll cover basic welding, yes. art school here even has own scrapyard.
BingoBoingo: Focus on 18th century state of the art casting and blacksmithing
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo probably knows that a full-scale university in usa does not normally have useful courses like metalwork.
BingoBoingo was suspecting more along the lines of metalworking.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform the painter
BingoBoingo: It might be time to audit the art classes.
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2014 22:32:17; asciilifeform: speaking of my rotten old uni, i'm no longer permitted to read the electronic journals for any amount of money
asciilifeform pays very, very dearly for access to proper library
BingoBoingo: Handle Turd studio X15, Chapter 9, Turdthenware
BingoBoingo: It's hard to think much of a library that would have as part of its collection and the like ISBN-13: 978-0672313004
asciilifeform: me and want the criminals stopped and punished.' (mr. o)
asciilifeform: 'While most regular Russians go to Sberbank to pay their utility bills and municipal fees, a few highly irregular Russians (and a few foreigners among them) go to Sberbank to sit in posh offices in front of trading terminals and gamble away the regular Russians' savings. The regular Russians are rather upset about this state of affairs, and 70% of them state in opinion polls that they consider currency manipulation to be a cri
BingoBoingo: Xerox copies of worn actual books would have been fine. Many "special collections" departments do that for actual papers of interest.
BingoBoingo: Not Xerox copies, but bad faith imitators of the book form.
BingoBoingo: They have, but even before then were decaying as books were replaced by crappy fascimiles of books.
asciilifeform: i'm told they threw out the books in many places, in favour of rows upon rows of winblows terminals, public 3d printer stalls, etc.
BingoBoingo: Well many small towns maintain libraries gifted in another act of monopolist largesse, but similarly the handling of those gifts has decayed in a cargo-cult manner.
asciilifeform: quite arguably, both were largesse of monopolists, and died with the monopolies.
asciilifeform: went to the same hell as bell labs.
BingoBoingo: If only Xerox had enough crazy to venture beyond the paper business with any conviction.
asciilifeform: interestingly, there is a xerox lisp machine emulator for msdos, of all things, 'medley.' i have never located a copy.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there were other interesting lisps of the period - xerox's 'interlisp' (and its environment) being perhaps the most noteworthy
BingoBoingo: Sure. Baudot predated ansi text standards too.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: pre-dated the ansi standard effort
jurov amusingly notices the hate on python and waits for google to eventually, but inevitably release incompatible go update
assbot: ClubOrlov: Can anybody find me... a central banker to love? ... ( http://bit.ly/1IXEJgQ )
thestringpuller: do you really trust Chrome or Firefox to store your MPEx GPG key?
davout: thestringpuller: there's nothing wrong in itself with js, its using it in a browser that sounds a bit weird
mats: are you in the bay now thestringpuller? i read something about vmware earlier
thestringpuller: the other power rangers I do not know. But jgarzik definitely publicly stated he'd like to see a GPG-like implementation in pure JS, which is mind boggling for a supposed intelligent person to say.
thestringpuller: Perhaps this can be said of Gavin, hence tell tale signs of his comromisation.
mats: i am of course talking about #b-a's opposition to him, not wutever redditards
mats: perhaps i'm giving him too much credit but i get the impression he's an intelligent guy and knows hes doing dumb shit
mats: maybe its more insidious than we know, what if he was caught selling methamphetamine on the side when he was broke and is now enslaved by an agent?
thestringpuller: no one wants to abdicate their imaginary throne.
mats: bend the knee already. you know you're wrong.
mats: anarchist types are rare enough, and this overlap with people that understand the technical aspects of bitcoin are even fewer
mats: i wonder what its like for Luke-Jr to be opposed so strongly by people that share similar political beliefs
thestringpuller: cazalla: Luke-Jr strikes again! The power rangers have to burn cash to survive it seems.
mircea_popescu: o that kind of riding
cazalla: any woman wearing a hajib who is scared for her life can find someone tweeting that to ride on the train safely with, that's the idea anyway
cazalla: big thing here atm is for leftists to tweet #illridewithyou to show support for muslims in australia on public transport
mats: why the islamophobia
cazalla: they have all converted to infrared ovens yet persist with advertising themselves as charcoal chicken
cazalla: as for chicken shops.. you cannot find a single legitimate charchoal chicken shop anywhere here these days
assbot: MagicalBux comments on Exposed: Luke-Jr plans on forcing blacklists on all Gentoo bitcoin users by default, for the second time ... ( http://bit.ly/1zlM1qs )
mats: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2pfgjg/exposed_lukejr_plans_on_forcing_blacklists_on_all/cmwg5an >> 'i can't be bothered to read the notes'
cazalla: nah, died on the vine
mircea_popescu: but then you got high ?
davout: slaughtered on order? i'd hit that
cazalla: bbq chicken, burgers, salads.. no-one will pay for quality, or not enough people to warrant it and the long hours
cazalla: of course, i am getting stuck into tmw's booze, tonight
cazalla: hosting an early xmas luncheon tmw, my contribution is the best potato salad in ze world, beetroot relish to go with cheeses and rocket dip, the rocket i grow myself
assbot: Exposed: Luke-Jr plans on forcing blacklists on all Gentoo bitcoin users by default, for the second time : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1zlqr5s )
jurov: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2pfgjg/exposed_lukejr_plans_on_forcing_blacklists_on_all/ prolly this
cazalla: looks like Luke-Jr upset the redditors
fluffypony: he changed his nick to peter_abraham_ezekial_dushenkovski
Vexual: i forgot to tell him where to trade coin
Vexual: whats the dollar rate on the street now?
Vexual: and cake to poo
mircea_popescu: romanian is so vulgar it turns a prick into a sister's wife.
Vexual: alll my favourite bakers pretend to be italian
fluffypony: can't type
Vexual: i can't read italian: ill just have the spaghetti
Vexual: is it careful about how fast the ssd dies?
BingoBoingo: Drink more, let the groundhog lead you to the truth
BingoBoingo: That benchmark was done by the phoronix guy who has pretty much been full Pettering since the pulse audio suck
Vexual: yeah im no ttoo sure what that means... theres another level to the disk operations?
BingoBoingo: Well Note that Debian/kFreeBSD's one truly poor area of performance is Disk operations and their disk ran off of an external enclosure while the Debian/linux SSD ran off of... Sata
Vexual: well storage is different, but i don't know the descriptors, so i cant say how
BingoBoingo: Well, are the processors and storage devices the same?
BingoBoingo: Vexual: Well, jsut compare the hardware specs on the test rigs. Notice anything that doesn't match?
Vexual: nope, if the debian snu comp is an ascii style quiz, then i fail
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BingoBoingo: So, can anyone else spot what is wrong in this comparison? http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1412060-LI-KFREEBSD879
BingoBoingo: Nah, a prick just turns your sister into a stranger's wife. This sounds worse than a prick.
Naphex: only takes a prick to burst a bubble
BingoBoingo: Well, these things happen
fluffypony: what threats?
Naphex: BingoBoingo: maybe after, at the moment i'm still taking in the threats, black mails
Naphex: he is going full circle.. getting to -10
gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user BingoBoingo to user HoreaV: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=BingoBoingo&dest=HoreaV | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=HoreaV | Rated since: Mon Apr 28 05:59:47 2014