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BingoBoingo: I have a feeling many famous last words begin with "I'm switching
to CERN linux, no way
the NSA fucks with science..."
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decimation: ascii
that is a good insight (lack of engineers caring about
their own lives),
the irony is
that
those who are designing hardware generally care an aweful lot about
the efficiency of
their design
target
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BingoBoingo: "Smoking rock candy is a great way
to gain all
the social benefits of meth use with none of
the open sores.
decimation: about a
third of my us ee undergrad class was chinese (like off
the boat, not second generation). Most of
them couldn't design anything, but
they generally aced
the math
tests
decimation: something other
than market forces are operating here
BingoBoingo: Also amazing is how
there is no effort
to educate people into
the overlap
decimation: amazingly,
the overlap between
those who know how
to actually program and
those who demand design software is nearly
the null set
BingoBoingo: Or Maybe just I burn, because I need
to rotate
this pizza box
that has been running for months.
BingoBoingo: Their promotion of
TCL is what pushed
them into making and forcing Java
decimation: from surfing
the various VHDL crapware packages, it seems
the universal language for automation is...
tcl
BingoBoingo: I have
to say I constantly under rate
the Sun 5
BingoBoingo: I'm pretty sure one of
these layers have grep....
BingoBoingo wonder
this if
this nest of lies within lies can work on
the portable...
decimation: it amazes me
that crapware can buy a such real estate
BingoBoingo: Introduce religion and
then bugs become "canon"
decimation: Today I went snorkeling in
the shadow of Larry Ellison's private island
decimation: "we'll fix it in in
the next release, etc"
decimation: yeah
that's a good point,
that's why
the software companies get away with charging $$$ for crapware
BingoBoingo: My
this looks so much better (Plz noone
try
to send me N.vir over client
to client)...
decimation: I remember orcad's autorouter was crap back in
the day. I would be deeply disappointed
to shell out $$$ and have crapware
decimation: seems like
that problem is due for a really good ai based solver
decimation: wrt
the autorouter, I
think it is well known in
the pcb industry
that
they all suck
decimation: back in my undergrad days we used
to use orcad on solaris - I'm sure support for
that was dropped long ago
decimation: heh. wouldn't suprise me. For some weird reason
the only working ee design software runs on windows
BingoBoingo: I'd confess I'm
tempted
to run A/UX on
this machine in a hypervisor, but... I don't want
this channel
to assume stockholm syndrome...
decimation: asciilifeform: so I see you
tried kicad -
that seems
to be
the latest open source fad cad
BingoBoingo: The problem with Minix is when I read a FAQ and
they assume a hypervisor... It's like a girl
taking off her panties
to release
the smell of Candida...
BingoBoingo: Hmmm... OpenSolaris has a Linux compatibility layer and I like CDE... Never
tried it on
the Portable yet...
BingoBoingo: Nah, hanging, because blocking itself in a controlled way. One core is at 100%
the other lazing like usual.
Namworld: At last. Each
time I
tried
to reconnect I was disconnected after like 1 second.
BingoBoingo: Even if it isn't exploited it sucks around
the edges.
BingoBoingo: It isn't just
that it crashed, it is
that it can't copy /var into a .tar.gz in a
timely manner.
BingoBoingo: I embrace bad life decisions like
that. I detest Bicycles
though because
they endager nerves
that are
too valuable...
BingoBoingo: I'm also wondering did firefox crash because of
tabs or because of Cryptome. Cryptome crashing Firefox seems like a sloppy
thing, but
then aain
they passed Snowden on
the background check
BingoBoingo: ;;later
tell
ThickasTheives Altcoin is holding me back.
BingoBoingo: So for purposes where linux is not readily replaced by a BSD I might need a new flavor. Is gentoo
the consensus sane choice?
BingoBoingo: A bit of anthracite and oak should get NAND up
to adequate
temperatures.
BingoBoingo: Or...
this SSD is getting up
there in years... Might be
time
to get a barrel...
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Can I
trust you if I send you
this machine's Var partition all GPG'd up somehow?
BingoBoingo: NIGbuntu is
trying
to
tell me I don't have any system logger
diametric: asciilifeform: you're still online, so i
take it you didn't drown
today
benkay: downloading, but it's definitely going in below
the Hathaway letters.
BingoBoingo: You have
to remember, Librarian... HTML and
twitter were what we called
technology
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: How do I get a stack
trace?
BingoBoingo: Oh,
that was an interesting link
to cause Firefox
to crash...
benkay: agenture - huh, as in
the acts of agents?
benkay: no need
to apologize for my poor education
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform still with
the fucking pdfs. anything good in
that sandkey
thing ?