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BingoBoingo: Dude
thoug adopted
the Doger-aspie mentality of I want X, but only via route Y.
mircea_popescu: i've definitely spent more
than 500 hours whipping slaves over
the past decade
BingoBoingo: 500 hours is more
than enough
time
to make a perfect cheat on such a sumb platform
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'm moe dumfounded
that he didn't just fck
the rng
to favor him
mircea_popescu: am i
to be impressed
that somebody did something for 500 hours ?
mircea_popescu: "O'Connell went
through
this process whenever he could, be it while he was watching
TV or surfing
the internet. He estimates
that he's reset
the game maybe over 100,000
times, with over five hundred hours dedicated
to
this single consuming
task."
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell mike_c isn't
that "long life and prosperity" in chinese ?
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the Lord, and may His holy dominion guide you
through your dismal life.
decimation: true, in
the case of security hardware
decimation: but extremely valuable information is
to be gained by doing both
decimation: that comes down
to a
trade-off between development and production
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decimation: washington dc is one of
the least habitable zones on
the east coast
decimation: at least in new york
they get sea breezes
decimation: I suspect
that
they are more substantially graded
than us highways
mircea_popescu: ZTV Asphalt-tr 07/ZTV Beton-StB 07 being
the relevant standards, if anyone's curious.
decimation: Re: asphalt roads - in germany
they build only with concrete for highways afaik
decimation: if an alient landed in nebraska and said "take me
to your leader", would
the alien be disappointed with whomever appears?
mircea_popescu: the way a country of "laws not men" works is by definition
that unless it stumbles into sense, it will
thread stupidity.
mircea_popescu: decimation
this is an unfair observation. who in
the us has
the authority
to actually
take
these facts in hand and make a decision ?
decimation: go into debt building roads
they can't afford while failing
to provision for a future when no one can afford cars
decimation: after spending $3 billion
to build road,
the gov't managers said
that
the 4-foot
trail next
to
the road would be "too expensive"
to complete
decimation: most of
the land for md200 was donated by local DC land baron
to build Konterra
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I just guessing off of
the name
that Julia has a vagina API call, and vaginas are accomodating
to nearly anything given sufficient
time
to warm up
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, want
to generate pages locally
DreadKnight: could probably change some setting, but not many will do
that
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight you mean so apache will serve
the pages remotely ?
DreadKnight: on linux you need
to have stuff in
that /var/www or do some symlinking
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Julia's some clojure like re-LISPening
that is apparently getting played with in HPC and science computing circles
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight php is not
too popular here, following a
total bashing it got a few months ago over some bizarre design choices and (i suspect)
the fact
tux loved it.
DreadKnight: good
thing you made a disclaimer earlier :D
DreadKnight: when it comes
to linux and php, if you want
to work inside dropbox as well, you have
to deal with symlink, permission rights, logic and such
BingoBoingo: I'm just
trying
to get over PHP is your prefered language and Bending Wordpress
to your will seems intimidating.
DreadKnight: BingoBoingo, I could just share source code with someone and it would be easier for him
to run it; I could start working on a dynamically generated website on my computer in any folder
BingoBoingo: I'm just curious, also a little bit drunk and
trollish for full disclosure.
BingoBoingo: DreadKnight: I know you want
to
talk about ======== php, but... What use would you find about an HTML generation language
that would make it great for
the whole system?
BingoBoingo: DreadKnight: It can already be used like
the question
though is why?
DreadKnight: I still hope
that someday php will be usable system wide, like python, not just in a specific directory
BingoBoingo: decimation:
They already cut Apache from base in favor of nginx,
this is more it seems a still more basic alternative
to nginx for people
that desire it
decimation: is it going
to replace bloated apache?
BingoBoingo: Ah, around here one need not drive on a fancy road
to find spammed homes. Even
the barely paved have domicile spam.
decimation: monument
to spamming roads/homes pointlessly around landscape
decimation: the real issue is
that you need a non-drug-addicted human
to run
the machines
decimation: if you buy golden
toliet pick 'n' place and fancy solder
tools I guess it becomes extremely expensive
decimation: right, pcbs are a different matter I suppose. I'm not so sure
that assembly must be so expensive, given
that
the pcb is outsourced
decimation: I guess it depends on your requirements. if you really must build 8 layer pcbs with blind vias,
the equipment
to accomplish
that is going
to cost orders of magnitude more
than dual-layer stuff
decimation: heh
there's also
the original: Bowie's levittown
decimation: ascii, how much would you say you have spent building an electronics assembly house? in my neck of
the woods, it's common wisdom
that such assembly machines are so expensive
that
they cannot possibly repay
themselves
BingoBoingo: Concentration decides whether it is a nutrient or a preservative hostile
to invasive life.
decimation: destruction is so much easier
than construction:
therefore spending money constructively is more difficult
than spending money destructively
BingoBoingo: Well historically most candied
things were produced as a way
to preserve various foods.
DreadKnight: BingoBoingo, nvm
title already contains "billionaire"
decimation: meanwhile
the landscape is now permanently spammed with houses, which decay
BingoBoingo: decimation: It isn't just
the VC circus. Successful builder finds life better
than ever,
then buys expensive farmland
to build several suburbs for people like himself and goes broke.
DreadKnight: BingoBoingo,
that shows some proof of
the status, but not how it came
to be or maybe I'm missing something? Like OpenBSD being put
to good use after... :)
mircea_popescu: they have
the money
to wreck communities, and
they do.
mircea_popescu: suppose rich fools (in
the shape of oversexed, misguided older us women) show up in africa, with a cohort of young, undersexed male followers
decimation: yeah one observes
this daily in
the vc circus
mircea_popescu: decimation you familiar with
the "the best way
to sink a good start-up is a bad revenue source early on" quip ?
decimation: the us is rich in rich fools, and
this explains much of
the common us mentality
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, is your billionaire status related
to bitcoins?