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asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: aha that was why.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: do we really need to rehash the best mobile compute hardware discussion?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i'm always confused by your "copyright and IP lolol" attitude contrasted with the "these contracts are copyright MPEx 20**" lines in the MPEx contracts
asciilifeform: switching caps lock and ctrl << 'Emacs actually comes with a builting Emacs Aptitude Test. Do you remap your keyboard or the Emacs keybindings before the chords and sequences it comes with by default have wreaked havoc with your hands? If you do not do anything to make Emacs more convenient for yourself, you may not have the prerequisite aptitude to use it productive.' (naggum, who else. http://www.xach.com/na ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: some sort of consistent treatment of focus << 'ratpoison' has 'polite mode' and 'rude mode' (window can open, on current display, or cannot.) i've them set to single key toggle.
thestringpuller: can we get some hp pointed to atc?
atcbot: >> No data returned from CoinMiner.net << [PityThePool Hashrate]: 124.61 GH/s [iSpace Pool Hashrate]: 1.05 TH/s
Duffer1: i'm online so much it's always surprising when i find two day old news
assbot: Texas man must pay $40.4M for running Bitcoin-based scam | Ars Technica
dub: mp linking teaparty blawgs
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empyex: mats_cd03: Next conference starts in 6 months and 26 days. Estimated cost today: 3.31175674 BTC (Details: http://trilema.com/2014/the-conference-third-edition/ )
BlueMeanie4: no not suggesting these two groups of sociopaths are related
mircea_popescu: what's next, the ridiculously impotent attempt of teh usg best and brightest on freenode too ?
mircea_popescu: BlueMeanie4 and you link this to doyon somehow ?
BlueMeanie4: and then started getting hacked + threats a few days later
BlueMeanie4: recently Jeff Garzik pointed out that their distributed object code doesnt match their source code
mircea_popescu: as far as that goss, they follow the nature channel and advertising for chrissakes.
mats_cd03: so they can see whatever 140 char blather their favorite personality has to say
mircea_popescu: anyway, what's the story here, derp couldn't get a secure cpanel environment in 3 tries ?
mats_cd03: there are many young people in america that 'follow twitter'
mircea_popescu: actually... im not so sure anyone follows twitter. it's mostly for speaking, that thing.
mircea_popescu: i don't follow any twitter.
BlueMeanie4: you obviously dont follow my twitter
mircea_popescu: since when do you care what they do ?
mircea_popescu: for all you know, you could be the son of a closeted gay man.
BlueMeanie4: all these ppl hiding behind anonymity- you really no idea who youre talking to
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is one going to "quit" anonymous. not like you can join it.
BlueMeanie4: just goes to show how pathetic some of these anonymous voices actually are in real life
assbot: “Homeless hacker” Commander X quits Anonymous, retreats to robot lab | Ars Technica
BlueMeanie4: you should !up me after I see what the subject matter is
dub: not that kind of all nighter
mats_cd03: was your dong involved in the saving of the world?
dub: saved the world again
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dub: not just my cock the actual doing of it
mats_cd03: ;;later tell kakobrekla can we get a multiline up? e.g. 18:30:48 <+nubbins`> !up gilgameshugga mius pactr mike_c
mircea_popescu: cazalla sorry to hear about your finger.
kakobrekla has something to report
cazalla: mircea_popescu, nothing to report, i am going to get back to it though
mircea_popescu: trickster is smecher in romanian too.
mircea_popescu: "These are the Functional Kingdoms, including Haskellia, Ocamlica, Schemeria" ok that's not bad.
ben_vulpes`: mircea_popescu: regarding the north american indians - is their land theirs? is it not granted to them by the arms which surround, and worthless even at that?
ben_vulpes`: but ty
BingoBoingo: jurov: that would be advice for BingoBoingo, jurov: hire doppelganger, walk out << I'll decline to comment on whether this option has been considered already...
mircea_popescu: sooo according to oglaf.com, this thing > http://www.spinnyverse.com/ is paying $200+ A DAY for advertising.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: but only those who committed the crime can be held liable for it - there's no sense in holding "a people" or "a community" liable for actions of their ancestors, is there? << in that case what makes the indians' land the indians' ? they can't be held liable for their ancestors appropriations.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: (also horrible is how os x handles new windows for application a when application a is full screen on a monitor somewhere: nondeterministically!) <<< i'd be happy if people just came to some sort of consistent treatment of focus
mircea_popescu: boo hoo racism, horribru how they hired the woman after all.
mircea_popescu: decimation: Note that even in the 'dark ages', the employer accepted her skills and hired her. << that was exactly my note.
assbot: Stevey's Blog Rants: Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns
jurov: okay, this is closed
nubbins`: i don't think so
jurov: ^or this :D
bounce: (which is of course the embodiment of the white man's evil nature that needs urgent atonement, and nevermind that the scary brown people down in africa practiced it just as much if not more... and to an extent still do)
bounce: happens all the time. like "compensation" for slavery that happened hundreds of years ago.
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski but only those who committed the crime can be held liable for it - there's no sense in holding "a people" or "a community" liable for actions of their ancestors, is there?
decimation: yeah I use two monitors and osx is crazy with window management
ben_vulpes: are you using the matsuhiro port?
decimation: yeah I've been eyeing the useless 'super' binding
decimation: I did take your suggestion of switching caps lock and ctrl, makes my 'emacs pinky' go away.
ben_vulpes: for extra hell, bind meta to cmd
decimation: I often switch between "C-p,C-n" and the arrow keys
decimation: ben_vulpes: using emacs on a mac - I find the most fustrating thing is the "C-up arrow"
nubbins`: why would i want to :(
ben_vulpes: try working with a text editot full-screened, nubbins`.
decimation: Today usg requires that employers hire 'qualified' employees: http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html << which means that if the black guy barely meets the 'criteria' for a job, then you must hire
decimation: Note that even in the 'dark ages', the employer accepted her skills and hired her.
nubbins`: hard to beat osx app expose for workflow
decimation: mircea_popescu: Your "a woman's story" link is a nice story, but it does not present a picture of usg employment law today.
ben_vulpes: not good for my tiny little brain
ben_vulpes: i read too much about lisp machines this weekend
TheNewDeal: windows usability is just going through teh roof
TheNewDeal: I found it mildly convenient that you could drag and smash the windows to the edge and get it to cover half
ben_vulpes: just enough to uncover their wholesale inadequacy and go back to the miserable rodential dragging and resizing of windows around monitors
ben_vulpes: "have you tried them?"
ben_vulpes: "and do you use them?"
ben_vulpes: "but there are tools for manipulating your workspace!"
ben_vulpes: i started playing with tiling window managers recently, to the horror of the golden cage people surrounding me
ben_vulpes: i'm coming to the conclusion that i'm an alien
xmj: GNU tools are pretty much invariant across all linux distributions, if that's what you mean
ben_vulpes: "human" sizes, for instance: multiples of 1000, instead of 1024.)" << this is what human means on unix?!
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: do you have background for naggum's "Free Software is a protest movement. Open Source is just a weapon." comment in that "business plan" thread?
TheNewDeal: At my old job, got to see a manufacturing process for high strength power lines (for longer spans than normal, like a wide river). They had to extrude these extremely fine threads, over hundreds of meters in length, and if a few broke, it was all scrap
mircea_popescu: http://beranger.org/ludditus/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/logo.png << i can't remember this guy's name
assbot: A 15 Centimeter Hagfish Nano-thread With Near Gigapascal Tensile Strength Is Wound Up In A Single Cell | Neomatica
TheNewDeal: well vodka shots up the ass
Klodet: nubbins is this you
TheNewDeal: what in the fack
TheNewDeal: Can't remember where I heard of it first, but thats the tldr I guess
nubbins`: TND is that one of those face-mask-pumping-pure-smoke deals?
nubbins`: technicality club: "can i take your coat sir?" "it's a blazer"
TheNewDeal: anyone hear of that experiment?
TheNewDeal: kind of reminds me of the monkeys that died from smoking cannabis
mircea_popescu: just, gotta keep up appearances at technicality club
mircea_popescu: none of this to propose smoking is healthy or anything
mircea_popescu: keep a diet for a month, then eat all the food you didn't eat in one sitting. course you'll burst your stomach. etc
nubbins`: probably need an ambulance around the third pack
mircea_popescu: no, but the damage in smoking 700 ciggs in one go has more to do with the one go than with the ciggs
mircea_popescu: then after a month have all the radiation you missed out on