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BingoBoingo:
<decimation> although the rumor I heard back then was that most of the 'smart guys' working on solaris were spending their working days trying to unravel the gordian knot of kernel locks
<< But as an Oracle turd they can now break whatever they want in the name of handling one database faster.
decimation: "asciilifeform doesn't see the appeal of closed source unixen"
<< I see the appeal of actual people maintaining a unix, closed or open
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: connect a ttl-to-serial voltage converter to the convenient debug pins, and have at it
<< PC9000 largely valued because drive plugs in to IDE or SATA ports in this ISA/(hopefully there's a PCI version by now) card. Boot to card. Diddle at leisure with curses interface. Most operations automated already.
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> asciilifeform: it's impossible to analyze the rom contents of a simple microcontroller
<< Once again PC9000. Russian product that basically lets anyone who can understand the interface su all over the hdd firmware.
decimation: re: diddling firmware via data bus
<< in band signaling strikes again
BingoBoingo: Adlai: is it that hard to imagine that nsa doesn't need the manufacturers' text source to backdoor their drives!?
<< PC9000
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> shoul;dn't that really be a function/object/we ?
<< being a bit sarcastic here boss
Adlai: Which reminds me of congregations of days of old.
<< except our doormen are robots
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> so war on drugs that are powders ? gases are ok ?
<< don't forget plants
Adlai: +nubbins` |
<--has been high on medical-grade n2o
nubbins`:
<--has also held breath til unconsciousness (!)
nubbins`:
<--has been high on medical-grade n2o
ben_vulpes: "Why, he will be castigated by the authority, cast out by the other doctors, and no longer be able to call himself a doctor."
<< rarely happens in the ussa, but this place is a hellhole.
nubbins`:
<+nubbins`> it's just as moronic for someone to move a kilo of cocaine on a dark market as it is for someone to buy a personal amount of pot from a stranger, in person.
nubbins`: BingoBoingo:DPR, literally the guy who wasn't good enough to sling dope as a profession
<<< if he'd stuck to website admin, his actual job, he'd prolly still be out there
nubbins`: *:asciilifeform wonders if he's the only fella here who has never rage-smashed a keyboard, pNohe, pNablet, ..., etc
<<< i rage-smashed a set of folding binoculars at around age 8, broke the little compass on top. wept bitterly at the loss, resolved to only smash things i didn't value from then on
cazalla: mircea_popescu: But legal driving limit is usually .08%
<<< here, 0.05, learner or provisional driver? 0! bad luck if your medication put you over the limit!
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> a few hrs ago.
<< yes. we dominate google mostly because we say interesting things.
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> I would prefer 'torture' to be 'hard labor, gulag style'
<< Quality punitive torture can leave souveniers
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> those can be retrofit into us showers but are definitely 'out of fashion'
<< Plenty of them in Nursing homes and higher end hotels (i.e. the ones foreigners can afford)
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes
<< it's not, provided it specifically ISNT an usian shower
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: post your x86 auto.sh on the listserv ?
<< any reason to not run with -xeu?
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> and yet you savages still don't have cunt basins as a regular fixture, amirite ?
<< why's the shower so inadequate?
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> holy shit why, because stray pubic hairs ?
<< That and lingering urine smells, because "Clean when I moved in" is good enough to not justify cleaning ever again for the more degenerate Pindos
ben_vulpes:
<thestringpuller> asciilifeform: random question. If someone paid for you to take Buterin's C4 (Certified Bitcoin Professional) exam, would you do it?
<< wait, CBP is a Buterin project?
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> how do you suppose they line up the pliant judges
<< good point this.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> iirc, mircea_popescu is also a 'smasher'
<< keyboards tho.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: THEN ruin them utterly, so that everyone involved still, to this day, can't get work like Strateman.
<< MagicalTux falls in this category. I don't think any of the DERP lists have management with WoT identities.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller> my biggest hesitation is the
<< your hesitation is correct. at this stage qntra wouldn't report on that shit even if *they* paid.
mircea_popescu: jurov: doubt even satoshi himself would pass
<< why do you think he pulled a runner.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: so qntra can report on the derpage?
<< reporting on the idiocy is doing it more service than it deserves in any perspective.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: and something like this is quite inevitable when a product degenerates to that level of necessary attention span
<< has nothing to do with the product, everything to do with the society.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: the indie developers killed it
<< no, they didn't. what killed it was the complete inability of the new generation to do any sort of useful work WHATSOEVER
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: like the barbarians who carved up roman mosaics for sword hilt 'bling'
<< once upon a time, thinking this is particularly romanian, wrote a romanian article about it
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> ^ message to all shitgnomes: somewhere, in a forest, a pine tree is growing
<< Why pine?
mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes>
<mircea_popescu> i carried it.
<< btcauditor when
<< i guess once Pierre_Rochard gets bored of new york ?
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> i carried it.
<< btcauditor when
jurov: linux-unwind.h:138: error: field 'info' has incomplete type
<< asciilifeform haven't you missed this? (from gnat.txt)
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> thestringpuller: also remember that the 'magic' of gavincoin was that it will work on existing hw, so long as 'everybody agrees' to throw away blockchain history and surrender
<< this, especially.
thestringpuller: I wonder what discoveries you've made we don't know about
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