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mircea_popescu: sgornick, you know how to self-voice ?
gribble: You rated user sgornick on Fri Sep 28 05:44:50 2012, with a rating of 3, and supplied these additional notes: Solid guy..
asciilifeform: where did the 'mpoe-pr is a sham' fixation come from?
assbot: About the dome - History of dome
asciilifeform: 'doctor, it hurts when i do that. -- so don't do that.'
BingoBoingo: Mats_cd03: For carpal tunnel there are some eldrich pharacotherapeutic solutions like Voltaren and Amitriptyline compounded for topical use.
asciilifeform: you'll be changing the oil daily.
asciilifeform: humidity << serious problem. esp. for the pictured gizmo, where high vacuum pumps are involved.
fluffypony: asciilifeform: yeah, I've gotten to the point where I can't be bothered to understand how to be part of the circlejerk
HeySteve: <+benkay> BingoBoingo jurov http://rigsomelight.com/2013/09/09/frameless-geodesic-dome.html <- very cool. I was looking at building a hexayurt for raising trout
BingoBoingo: benkay: At one point I had a chance to see the actual Buckminster fuller house (as a pile in storage)
fluffypony: stupid redditards want me to do their homework in proving that mpoe-pr is a real person, wtf.
fluffypony: why did that get downvoted?
assbot: fluffyponyza comments on Please report this person to twitter. They are threatening Andreas saying they will kill him.
fluffypony: some of my comments on Reddit re: the MP death threat got downvoted
jurov: it won't help with temperature/humidity changes itself
asciilifeform: before long, you're talking about real money.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: microscope alone isn't of terribly much use for reversing. also would need ion beam machine, for stripping layers, etc.
jurov: in the middle of argentinan pampa
BingoBoingo: Space is always the prolem
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: one just like this was sold 1km from where i live.
mircea_popescu: bloody ft loading > 200 elements per page what in the loving fuck
pankkake: punkman: it doesn't have to be only mouse; but just the swithing, removing, opening of tabs helps me cope a lot
jurov: it's mentioned in the article
mircea_popescu: didnt know the guy is in slovakia
jurov: mircea_popescu: he'll certainly be at bitcoin market tomorrow, i'll tell him
pankkake: jurov: yeah, it can happen, but I haven't had that happen to me yet (and I have snapshoted backups anyway)
punkman: pankkake: I could never get into keyboard-only mode. I rarely have any stiffness/pain anyway, just thinking I should get a better mouse already
jurov: pankkake: and how does it prevent muscles learning to type enter twice?
mircea_popescu: <punkman> pankkake: probably a good idea for a franchise, small showroom with keyboards, mice and chairs <<< this IS a good idea. san diego or thereaboutds.
pankkake: because they have to be aligned
mircea_popescu: jurov, what'd that agenda be then ?
pankkake: I'm the kind of person who will align random stuff on a table
pankkake: I don't either, they become muscle memory or I forget them
jurov: i can't ever remember keybindings if my life depended on them :(
pankkake: punkman: another tip: don't use the mouse. if you use vim, try pentadactyl for firefox, try window managers with good keyboard control, etc.
jurov: so my hands are supported by the table all the time
pankkake: jurov: being able to change your position helps tremendously
jurov: replaced the worn out desk
jurov: i've inherited proper 1 meter deep office table from my grandpa
pankkake: apparently the aeron are quite overpriced compared to their competitors
punkman: last quote I got for the basic aeron was 2500 eur
pankkake: they're selling them at a high price, but given how the import taxes shafted me, it's not that high!
benkay: !up tokyopotato
pankkake: the issue with those peripherals, is that they're expensive and you really can't try them out :(
jurov: i kinda know mike g personally... i think he knows about us, just does not see any connection with his agenda
pankkake: as for mouse design, I belive radical change is what helps. when I changed from a heavy wireless mouse to a small, light mouse, it was also better
pankkake: I have a hard time being without it now
pankkake: I have two, the one at work is in a better shape though
pankkake: unfortunately, yes. mine has the soft whatever thing that has been slowly removed
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punkman: pankkake: saw some other ones browsing, I think I might try one that doesn't have such a steep angle. Does the Evoluent have any rubbery things that are gonna decompose in 6 months (like in the thumb rest)?
pankkake: mircea_popescu> pankkake: I like to watch things cleaning << you know why that is right ? << no
pankkake: punkman: I've seen other ones but I don't think their designs are better. I have the evoluent v3, tested a v4 and not overly convinced (but the changes are minor)
gribble: bitcoinpete was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 18 hours, 53 minutes, and 4 seconds ago: <bitcoinpete> off to go bury some foundations at the meet-up, will report back!
ThickAsThieves: they IPO'd the internet
mircea_popescu: that aside, considering their burn rate and revenue stream... it'd be a miracle if twitter survives any of us here present. but then again, i don't imagine it was seriously made to last.
mircea_popescu: they get whatever they figure they're getting. so it's a win- win.
mircea_popescu: i don't have to keep adding rel="nofollow" on links and process their dumbass format into something quotable.
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ThickAsThieves: will you have their head?
ThickAsThieves: so is twitter on your shitlist now mp?
asciilifeform: preferably not the consumer junk
asciilifeform: uncomfortable << naturally isn't meant to be done for hours. only to get a peek at a 3d structure from a paper article
asciilifeform: anyone who wants to try:
asciilifeform: and once you learn to do it once, it is never forgotten.
asciilifeform: incidentally, you can view 3d images from stereo-pairs without /any/ equipment but your eyes. 'cross-eye stereo.' used to be that every chemist knew how.
asciilifeform: i did paying work once that actually required a 3d visor. it was physically demanding.
mircea_popescu: that thing is a zombie, been reinvented as "high tech" each coupla decades since 1950
mircea_popescu: same thing happened recently with "3d"
asciilifeform: witness the reintroduction of the vertical touch screen heresy in consumer pc. like the '80s and their 'gorilla arm syndrome' never happened.
mircea_popescu: and so you see how the problem appears.
mircea_popescu: but then people who use ipads think they're computer users
mircea_popescu: right. kinda why the coimputer is a computer.
asciilifeform: aside from a few (fortunately) uncommon industrial cases, i can't think of any reason why a computer user ought to perform genuinely repetitive motions of any kind.
asciilifeform: '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.'
mircea_popescu: so if you're one of those people that goes leftarrowleftarrowleftarrowleftarrowleftarrowleftarrowleftarrowleftarrowleftarrow instead of ctrl-left arrow say.
mircea_popescu: but that's expensive as shit a process.
mircea_popescu: you could pay for a watcher, ie, a trained kinetotherapist that sits there with you for six hours and inventaries your movement patterns
mircea_popescu: the idea being that carpal is repetitive small movements, not just small movements\
mike_c: you can surely spend many hours a day writing lisp without solving all the world's problems
asciilifeform: re: carpal tunnel: generally, if a programmer (vs. data entry clerk or similar brute labourer) contracts this disease, it is suggestive of a poor choice of programming system
midnightmagic: Mats_cd03: strength training and flexibility helped for me: exercise basically fixed the symptoms for me
Naphex: on twitter
mircea_popescu: scaring and inflamatory reactions from surgical approach are worse than the injury in general
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03: Anyone dealing with carpal tunnel that has recommendations on treatment? << remove the stressors. you're young enough and will be fine. just, don't do any of the things that cause it. any. at all.
asciilifeform: urbit is the ultimate example of a tentacle of a problem masquerading as solution to said problem.
asciilifeform: re: urbit: people still putter about on the mailing list; occasional giblets get checked into the repo; can't bring myself to give a damn re: the details.
assbot: Father faces child cruelty charges for teen's punishment
princessnell: oh yeah, there's the honey badgers: http://www.honeybadgerbrigade.com/about-1.html
mircea_popescu: buncha girls get together, do some light stretching in light leotards for half an hour, then al lthe dudes beat each other to shit, then the girls fuck the living daylights out of the one dude left standing.
mircea_popescu: princessnell, i don't know like what. obviously men's rights isn't the adequate outlet.
princessnell: like a reaction? think that's barking up the wrong tree
ThickAsThieves: i'm in a local Facebook group called "Free Thinkers". It's all women but me and a few of their husbands. Last week one woman posted how she was a offended that the new playground for disabled kids has a purple Sally's Music structure and a blue Billy's Hardware structure to play in.
mircea_popescu: princessnell, so anyone trying to organise anything yet ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he did manage to get officially drummed out of u.s. in addition to simply burning passport.
mircea_popescu: out of 10k you could do this till your walls change colors no ?
asciilifeform: no idea if it's the one.
assbot: Is Feminism Making Women Less Happy? | The mlaut
princessnell: mircea_popescu even the economists can see it for crissake http://theumlaut.com/2013/11/05/is-feminism-making-women-less-happy/