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assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 23:20:40; ascii
_field: to me 'web dev' means 'work 17y.o. does' and is exactly equivalent to 'you are worth your weight in pork'
punkman: ben
_vulpes: "--multifile --verify may not be used with detached signatures. "
punkman: ben
_vulpes: what you want to batch them up?
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 00:32:40; mircea
_popescu: <mod6> had to find a new mine, place in tower of fascism was bought, outsourced all jobs to bangladesh or some place. <<< seems alf's going through exactly the same.
jurov: ascii
_field: electrum-server depends on bitcoin having "txindex" which 0.5.4 not sure if has, 0.7 had and the el. patch was not heavy
mod6: mircea
_popescu: haha
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 21:35:29; ascii
_field: from this point on i will have to ignore everything else, until rollout.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 00:31:57; hanbot: ascii
_field should you ever actually find yourself on the brink of starvation put whoever is doing your cooking in touch with me. i am well acquainted with forced frugality. it happens, and while your merits might not prevent it from grabbing at your feet, they can keep you from succumbing.
trinque: deedbot-'s blockchain has caught up thanks to mircea
_popescu's node
mod6: mircea
_popescu: yeah, they annouced the news of the acquisition on the 2nd of october, had a new deal closed by the 17th. was glad to find something new anyway, was really tired of working at the old place.
hanbot: ascii
_field should you ever actually find yourself on the brink of starvation put whoever is doing your cooking in touch with me. i am well acquainted with forced frugality. it happens, and while your merits might not prevent it from grabbing at your feet, they can keep you from succumbing.
☟︎ mod6: <+mircea
_popescu> iirc he also judges new stripper in a six county area. << my speciality
mod6: <+ascii
_field> what does mod6 do for living anyway << professional shit shoveler
shinohai: mircea
_popescu: met her trollin about ... found out about camwork, decided to ask her to look into your offer.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu is, i think, accustomed to smashing idiots' skulls and instinctively reaches for the designated hammer. but i'm not an idiot and don't expect things.
ascii_field: this might be asking the mega-s33krit, but what kind of people ~does~ mircea
_popescu use to, e.g., maintain mircea
_popescucoin ?
ascii_field: but i thought mircea
_popescu didn't care for those
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2015 21:01:03; mircea
_popescu: ok this is the most insane thing i ever saw. so plumber, looks like he escaped comicon or something, dorkiest dude ever. but THEN he proceeds to CUT THROUGH METAL PLATE FREEHAND
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: wasn't speaking of 'salary types'
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: i don't think it is 'emo' to question my priorities when, after giving away my work to apparent applause for a year, i mention starving and audience suggests 'web dev'
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes whty is the painter with ebola chick wearing high heeled platforms ?
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 20:20:06; *: ben
_vulpes fails to find the logline wherein asciilifeform claims that common lisp packages "tend to work unlike in other languages"
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 20:08:35; ascii
_field: microshit's very existence has deformed thought processes of a great many people.
assbot: Logged on 13-06-2015 17:27:26; mircea
_popescu: if you need anything that has to be made on something in the middle, make it now.
mircea_popescu: and no, i wont bother the bitfury guy, or anyone actually involved in doing things with this inept nonsense. for the same reason i shouldn't have queried ben
_vulpes yest.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: in all srsnes i'd like to know how.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field we can make 100 cpus TODAY, and on tech that didn't even exist in 1960.
ascii_field: still is, until mircea
_popescu or i figure out how to make 100 cpus.
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 20:08:16; ascii
_field: 'when mass markets develop, pluralism suffers the most -- there is no longer a concept of healthy participants: people become concerned with the individual "winner", and instead of people being good at whatever they are doing and proud of that, they will want to flock around the winner to share some of the glory.'
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 20:06:20; ascii
_field: PeterL: the notion of 'takes over' is broken
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: supposing for a moment that the notion was a serious one, who should we be hiring ?
mircea_popescu: basically far from ascii
_field getting paid, i think the thing here is, s.nsa should be hiring.
phf: mircea
_popescu: i was referring to those instances where it's ascii fielding objections from assorted people, not necessarily debates between you two
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 19:21:12; phf: ascii
_field: that's the problem with a lot of lisp conversations here, your interlocutors have some vague idea about how things are done right now and in unix world. even unixisms are used not in their "pure form", but in their final gnu/linux state. there's complete lack of semantic match between that and historical lisp. ultimately debates are reduced to "macros are bad because cpp is bad"
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 19:03:04; PeterL: mircea
_popescu: there is no reason under the sun to process, manage, consider or in any way interact with subdollar transactions. << you are going to link min bet amounts to the USD/BTC price now? are you going to have the website show the "estimated $ amount" like the VC circus sites do?
ascii_field: they're only in my head in the sense that i'm not clever enough to be 'stand on own' economically as described in mircea
_popescu's article re: same.
phf: ascii
_field: you're producing the most output by a margin of anyone here
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: i posted all of this to add another 'can' to the list: services for pay. if anyone is interested in such.
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 20:19:33; ascii
_field: what is 'v' worth ?
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: that's really the lot of it
ascii_field: anyway i know very well that mircea
_popescu runs a roman army, where you gotta bringe the horse, and the armour, and not a soviet army.
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 19:02:01; mircea
_popescu: this goalpost moving is giving me spots on the spleen.
ascii_field: wanted to see if anyone, incl. mircea
_popescu, might find an error in my reasoning.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu seems to think that i was looking for an answer other than the one i already derived.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field about the same that the us court system is worth.
trinque: ben
_vulpes: at his next cartridge change, slip him one with something that knocks him out, and make sure that he wakes up at your hq
ascii_field: ben
_vulpes: or take the example of my trb patches.
trinque: ascii
_field: so you should go cause problems for people meantime!
trinque: ascii
_field: it's simply this, that other than via magical thinking and zealotry, your thing will only happen when it costs less than someone is willing to pay to solve a problem he has
ascii_field: ben
_vulpes: but of the system consisting of the invention plus the demonstration of its feasibility.
ben_vulpes: ascii
_field: what's more valuable: a honed and tidied 'v' implementation or several different implementations from wotmembers?
ascii_field: ben
_vulpes: we are speaking of cases where there isn't even an 'it' prior.
trinque: ascii
_field: gotta invent the path which leads to the thing desired, not just the thing itself
phf: ben
_vulpes: libgpg-error, and share/common-lisp is installed with brew version, but
punkman: ascii
_field: summary of what punkman thought of the other works ? << not at all
trinque: ascii
_field: this is why I spoke of military hardware; it's only valuable if it's a) used and b) the user wins something of value
ben_vulpes: ascii
_field: chicken cannot learn from its mistakes.
ascii_field: ben
_vulpes: specifically discussing other works.
ben_vulpes: ascii
_field is the proud owner of some equitytoiletpaper?
ascii_field: ben
_vulpes: do you understand why chicken in particular ?
ben_vulpes: ascii
_field: I don't follow. again, as though I were five?
ascii_field: funkenstein
_: to his patrons, his ability to produce'em was valuable
ascii_field: ben
_vulpes: the thing i'm trying to figure out is whether i'm smarter than a chicken.
ascii_field: it is very valuable to, e.g., mircea
_popescu
assbot: Logged on 05-08-2015 13:54:55; mircea
_popescu: the stator saving of the continuity feeling was too narrow for my liking.
ben_vulpes: ascii
_field: any "v", your "v" or "v" in the abstract?
ben_vulpes: ascii
_field: don't mind me, i'm just trying to learn the violin.
ascii_field: ben
_vulpes: when they ~are~ common lisp packages
ascii_field: i have a puzzle for ben
_vulpes, who is awake, and mircea
_popescu, who might soon awaken, and the rest:
ascii_field: ben
_vulpes: the thing is shaky beyond belief
phf: ascii
_field: that's the problem with a lot of lisp conversations here, your interlocutors have some vague idea about how things are done right now and in unix world. even unixisms are used not in their "pure form", but in their final gnu/linux state. there's complete lack of semantic match between that and historical lisp. ultimately debates are reduced to "macros are bad because cpp is bad"
☟︎ phf: ascii
_field: my undergrad "thesis" was putting a malloc on a one of those teaching os's, it was interesting in that "wrestling with bare metal" sort of way, but then i learned how lispm does it, and realized that i was lied to