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moiety: mircea_popescu: well maybe
thats why i was given a chance at being a good pa, but it doesnt mean you can deliver
moiety: you just have
to hang around decimation
decimation: wow it was easier
to get a cloak
than I figured it would be
moiety: well
that was maybe a wrong
thing
to say.... managing people irl is maybe easier if youre used
to it
moiety: this past year has been my first steps into managing
those online, irl its a lot easier and a very different
moiety: in
terms of learning stuff here, i guess so mircea_popescu, but i have found in across board.
there's some people i would hire
that are half
the age of
those i wouldn't
moiety: am i
teling myself
that as a delusional spinster?!
moiety: you can put number on
things like age but its really a dedication
thing
moiety: spending
time reading logs keeps ankle biters away
decimation: re: public vpn: yeah but it keeps
the ankelbiters away, kinda
benkay wriggles frantically in
the sticky ropes
benkay: it's not like
the underwriters office is anywhere near
the customers.
benkay: gotta say i ain't got no clue as
to how nudity'd sell insurance.
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mircea_popescu: hire a dozen or so models/webcam girls, all
the other womenz'd fall right in line
mircea_popescu: "we're not stealing from you - we wouldn't have where
to hide it"
benkay: homeboy is brokering insurance deals for
the queer community left right and sideways. yet..."my clients".
mircea_popescu: decimation keyboard with
tickler on side would be pretty rad.
decimation: I've always been confused why "device" makers don't integrate morse code into
the phone/pad/whatever
benkay: my insurance guy won't even ride his bike naked in
the naked bike ride
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that dataegg
thing looks like
the earlier nutso kbd
mircea_popescu: i imagine it must suck
to have a job working for idiots.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform speaking of which, everyone at earlier mentioned brunch was floored. "but
that is your real name ?!" "yeah" "but... but... but everyone uses a pseudonym" "i don't give a shit" *silence*
decimation: I
think
they market
to military deployed overseas in countries
that have firewalls
decimation: ascii, you don't even cloak - I assume it's because you want
to examine
that which buzzes into your pot?
decimation: I guess I don't like
the idea of my actual IP being spammed everywhere
decimation: for some reason
the openvpn client on linux lags
to shit constantly
mircea_popescu: maybe if i had a really small pet person, like 6 inches
tall or so.
mircea_popescu: you only
think
that becaus
they looked like a cona
to you.
benkay: star
tac's were amazing
mircea_popescu: the last one you could grab by antenna and hit peopleover
the head with
mircea_popescu: i rapidly lost interest after motorola somethng or
the other
decimation: 'phones' were varied and interesting and converge
to iphone shitbox
decimation: just like 'computers' were varied and interesting, and
then all converged
to wintel shitbox
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, and i recall
the
tests : morse is faster
than
texting.
decimation: right,
that's my point about phones (ascii has pointed
this out before) -
they are all converging on iphone clones
mircea_popescu: i bet you most people could whistle more wpm
than
they natively
type
mircea_popescu: fucking "innovation" consisting of everyone making
the same 3 games and 2 apps over and over AND OVER again
decimation: I agree, but if you are going
to eat
turds
they might as well have a good keyboard
mircea_popescu: decimation i'd rather have
to whislte 8 baud into it
than have
to
type on
tha small shit
mircea_popescu: anyone has a pic ready of
the kids
that bathed in warm water post chernobyl ?
decimation: well, I would argue
that physical phone keyboards are a better match for
the occasional
typing needed, compared
to a
touchscreen input
benkay: with
T9 i could hammer out punctuation-perfect anything without even looking.
benkay: i grew up
typing on
them
decimation: mircea, are you saying
the
touchscreen is a better interface for
typing?
benkay: phone keyboards are still infinitely better
than
touchscreens.
decimation: yeah every computer I get has a
thinner case
decimation: even in more modern stuff
there is
this effect. Look at features
that are dying off in cell phones
mircea_popescu: decimation>
the amount of steel
that went into producing
the cabinet was impressive << i bought new desktop cases here. i could punch a hole
threough
the
things
decimation: I've discovered from my own experience
that newere Xeon chips are much more laggy
than older single core pentiums
decimation: the amount of steel
that went into producing
the cabinet was impressive
decimation: I had an old IBM AT once.
thing was built like a
tank
decimation: even more modern, agilent lab gear
that runs windows xp or 2000
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decimation: right I remember your post about sussman
trying
to dodge
the "why did you give up" question
decimation: it is
true
that it seems like computing is coallescing. For instance, ascii's garbage-collector-on-a-chip sounds pretty feasible now, but would have been laughed at 10 years ago
hanbot: i barely managed myself,
thing's built for
the vertically challenged
hanbot: mircea_popescu how did you fit
through
the doorways?!
mircea_popescu: (been
there btw. imo not all
that it's cracked up
to be)
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