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decimation: kde used
to not be a steaming
turdpile
decimation: I remember running with KDE 10 years ago and dreading
the 24 hour compiles
decimation: running gentoo certainly gives you a motvation
to scale down
the lines of code in your system
decimation: asciilifeform: you mean
the move from x11
to xorg?
undata: "ah,
this is precisely what I wanted"
undata: but also
to a well-tuned gentoo install feeling a lot like a well-tuned emacs
undata: I can attest
to gentoo granting you
the right
to blow your hand off at every step
decimation:
http://www.funtoo.org/Funtoo_Linux_FAQ << "Part of
the distinctiveness of Funtoo Linux is its dependency-based OpenRC init system, so changing
this would make it something other
than Funtoo Linux. So we do not support systemd as part of Funtoo Linux. "
BingoBoingo: Ah, funtoo,
the bring your own kernel adventure
decimation: asciilifeform: I
thought mr. robbins quit and started his own gentoo fork?
undata: maybe not for everyone for
the same reason
undata: ah,
that I agree with, but
that's part of
the beauty
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BingoBoingo: undata: Well, I
tend
towards generics. Recently
though ETOH has been
the anticonvulsant of choice.
undata: hard
to
trust diagnoses with a pfizer clock on
the wall
decimation: yeah. actually
the first one
that came
to my mind was Don Colacho
undata: BingoBoingo: yeah, if
things like diet and exercise don't help,
there are always actual neurological issues
to consider
BingoBoingo: I'm not a big fan of antipsychotics, make me feel like Micheal J Fox. Anticonvulsants
though, particularly lamotrigine... do my brain well
decimation: asciilifeform: you would like
to be more like maxwell?
undata: when I was younger a doctor put me on an antipsychotic for a bit due
to "depression"
BingoBoingo: I got my school bezzel so probably actually netted more value in
the end.
undata: BingoBoingo: not an insult; I've heard horror stories of kids
tripping, getting hauled into
the psych ward
undata: BingoBoingo: do
the wrong drugs as a kid?
BingoBoingo: decimation: I don't remember
that one specifically, but... pretty sure bring a folder of medical records is a part of what did in my chances for interesting stuff. Amazing what a
trip
to
the wrong part of
the hospital can do for your prospects
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decimation: BingoBoingo: did
they make you
take
the mmpi?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I probably would have signed for
those. But... shift in
tenor came when
time
to draft actual contract.
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decimation: I
think
the last of
those were phased out in
the 60's
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: My brain caught fire a bit
too early. When medical records came up post ASVAB offers of pick your field
turned into, "trust us, we'll find a nice place for you"
decimation: also military benefits are incredibly generous considering
the level of education of most enlisted
decimation: asciilifeform: me
too. if cards are played right, most mil can write
their own
tickets in contract jobs
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i do not exactly believe b-a is intended for
the workaday people. << do elaborate. should all of us but you & kako pack up? or some other
thing implied << I believe for
the rest #b-a is Frankenstein's attic laboratory
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
Too neurologically interesting
to enlist.
decimation: right, and in a related point - if $209k per year makes one a pauper, how much is
the real bitcoin foundation going
to pay?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i'd love
to confirm
that for you
BingoBoingo: I
think I've mentioned here before
that after grad school I worked at McDonalds for ~6 weeks
to break local kids spirits.
decimation: I had a lawyer friend who used
to be a prosecutor near asciilifeform. He was
told not
to frequent
the local fast food joints because of
the poulation of ex-convicts
undata: better
than folding shirts
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> decimation: i don't
think anyone here has
trouble getting money by working. << I was not able
to secure seasonal retail work again
this year. I suspect I'm already on a list
to "have problems"
ben_vulpes: decimation: i'm inching up on 252450, will post more as i gin
them up
decimation: if you watch 'the wire' one would believe
that a possible option would be
to sit in your car on
the highway and get drunk
decimation: asciilifeform: maybe you can get a job at
the 'bitcoin foundation' for $209k
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decimation: can he
take a few months off like ascii dreams?
decimation: I wonder how many commits he has
to make per week
to keep his salary
BingoBoingo: decimation: No,
they feed, clothe, and work you at
the poor house. Also curfews and such.
decimation: if gavin is a pauper
than I'm in
the poor house
undata: RagnarDanneskjol: I'm sure he'll enjoy hearing
that.
undata: mircea_popescu: yeah,
the core is written in go,
then services in whathaveyou
undata: that
thing's pretty good, used in another channel
undata: what are
the irc bots around
these parts based upon?
mircea_popescu: speaking of which : another
thing systemv does badly : it
tries
to restart stuff based on pidfiles.
PeterL: but I have never done anything quite like
this, so I am learning as I go
PeterL: I have been working on adding
threading
to monitor
the connection
PeterL: well, it was not set up
to reconnect if it lost
the connection
mircea_popescu: PeterL so what about scoopbot uptime ? what keeps
taking it down ?
PeterL: mircea_popescu: fixed
the blog site
BingoBoingo: At
that income level Gavin's basically in
the
trap doctors find
themsevles when
they realize
they hate draining abcesses, but
their only other prospect is long haul
trucking.
mircea_popescu: he could probably make more begging where he lives, and being a professional beggar would actually be much more respectable and honorable
than being bitcoin's 5th column.
mircea_popescu: if
there ever was proof positive
that crime doesn't pay, gavin's income is it.