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Duffer1: deepness in the sky was a bit better imo
asciilifeform: in vernor vinge's 'fire upon the deep' sf universe, there is a profession of 'software archaeologist'
asciilifeform: wonder if everybody who grew up in '90s thought, as i did, 'i didn't sign up to be a classicist damnit'
dub: links just adds porn to lynx
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: I dunno what you are running. Just install it and behold the glory.
fluffypony: I meant Links the browser
BingoBoingo: I consider it target #1 for web design
pankkake: I always test my websites under lynx
benkay: what's the browser, BingoBoingo ?
BingoBoingo: Ah, when I was living in Missouri I learned that scorpions apparently love settling in cardboard.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: reminds me of a time when i stowed some stuff in plastic garbage bags, then discovered they were... biodegradable. turned to astonishing quantity of dust. when vacuuming old flat, found fragments - years after the fact. ☟︎
fluffypony: but back-in-the-days it was *the* promiscuous wifi dongle to have
fluffypony: I have two, but yeah, not very battery friendly
pankkake: http://www.alfa.com.tw/products_show.php?pc=34&ps=92 that thing. it's hungry in every way
BingoBoingo: Everything's hell on the CPU
pankkake: it's what I did with my thinkpad… got a realtek usb that worked much better than the realtek pci-e on linux
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: usb lan is hell on the cpu
BingoBoingo: I think I might get a usb dongle.
asciilifeform: not that you can easily obtain a laptop without it
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Yeah. In 2011 I was ignorant and didn't know to look.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: realtek is an infamous turdmeister
Mats_cd03: even the clit, which is aggravating even when the stars are aligned
BingoBoingo: Mats_cd03: One of my favorite parts when lugging it around campus was it's theft deterrent design.
Mats_cd03: BingoBoingo: theres just something about the design thats timeless
BingoBoingo: This is the first portable where when the battery life became unbearably short I actually ponied up for a new OEM battery.
mircea_popescu: and im out for the partying now. bbs.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile on twitter, https://twitter.com/Mircea_Popescu/status/471034471358414848
mircea_popescu: durable it is yea. not great for compatibility issues, tho.
mircea_popescu: lenovo is the sux
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell decimation it was by advance party. like i do these things/
BingoBoingo: Apparently the USB version of this chipset works spectacularly. Just not the mini-pcie card.
BingoBoingo: The fucking AMD GPU works, but not the onboard realtek RTL8188CE
BingoBoingo: Even the GPU works
BingoBoingo: Well I've done test installs of OpenBSD on my machines. Only unsupported hardware is the wifi card in the laptop I'm on now.
turbo_ac100: jurov: are you upping the lazy?#
jurov: !up turbo_ac100
assbot: Where the World's Unsold Cars Go To Die | Zero Hedge
decimation: I thought you had scouted Christchurch before settling in Romania, or perhaps it was only by spreadsheet
fluffypony: "MP to move to South Africa before May 26th, 2024"
fluffypony: yeah, and once you move to South Africa you won't want to leave
mircea_popescu: yeah. nz was an option i didn't take
fluffypony: maybe he misunderstood the Christchurch, NZ comment
mircea_popescu: i never was in nz tho ?
fluffypony: which I think is reason enough not to move there
fluffypony: decimation: it also has the All Blacks
decimation: true there's horrible earthquakes, but the people rebuild pretty quickly apparently
decimation: Mircea you should move back to new zealand, healthy food, relatively unpopulated
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: walked 18 of the past 48 hours << lol, same!
pankkake: at that point in my life, pain is just some random information :/ I'm bene gesserit level
BingoBoingo: Much derp: Facebook, social, moving the decimal point http://www.coindesk.com/facebook-integrated-wallet-makes-sending-bitcoin-easy-messaging/
mircea_popescu: everything hurts. do you know what i do ? i fucking ignore them.
mircea_popescu: i walked 18 of the past 48 hours.
pankkake: I now walk 1 hour a day, used to be 0, spent half my day in bed for months
decimation: I suspect that Argentinian beef is more likely to be raised free-range than on a feedlot, but I could be wrong
pankkake: I eat paleo, I just wondered why the link from 2006 apparently
decimation: Hey I'm not saying that you have to eat paleo. But all things being equal, it's probably better to eat a cow who ate grass instead of one who was fed grain in a cage
mircea_popescu: punkman: tourist idiots like to rent them around here, then they end up in a ditch with broken legs << word.
pankkake: decimation: why the sudden paleo propaganda? :)
phtest: Hi. Thanks MP for giving me voice. Just lurking for now :)
assbot: Can Bitcoin Help Predict the Future?
BingoBoingo: It's like these derps never heard of BitBet http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoins-predict-future/
mircea_popescu: anyway, im definitely staying, everyone start saving for next year's conference. i got the hotel, it's a pleasure. you're all getting apartments even! and superb restaurants and everything.
asciilifeform: world's smallest cat (oncifelis guigna) is said to live in argentina.
decimation: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16500874 "The proportions of trans 18:1 and n-6 FA were higher (P<0.001) for both grain-fed beef groups than grass-fed beef. Data from the present study show that grain feeding decreases functional lipid components (long chain n-3 FA and CLA) in Australian beef regardless of meat cuts, while increasing total trans 18:1 and saturated FA levels."
benkay: myeah that old thing
mircea_popescu: benkay, there are no challenges other than being poor.
benkay: <BingoBoingo> mircea_popescu: My impression of Argentina is that it in reality is what people imagine the better aspects of Texas to be. // it's true!
benkay: mircea_popescu: i'm interested to hear about what the challenges are down there
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: My impression of Argentina is that it in reality is what people imagine the better aspects of Texas to be.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, you should see these steaks. new york never had such steak in the past decade.
mircea_popescu: benkay, yep. hiring a lawyer tomorrow.
benkay: mircea_popescu: do you plan to incorporate anything in b.a.?
mircea_popescu: 100kb/day of rich text!
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: plain or rich text? << ahaha a new standard is born
kakobrekla: depends, yes on this one <mircea_popescu> http://i.imgur.com/0TRfa2l.png
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: just saying that "go to the url and login and see if it works" is shitty argument << well ok, but would the pron site allow you to withdraw your bc balances too ?!
mircea_popescu: and i nthe bc.net case, isn't davout actually invested on the no side ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake: :( specifiying bets is hard << you telling me.
mircea_popescu: did you get banned off the power rangers lists yet ?
assbot: [ANN]open business economics (taking crypto to a new level)IPO
mircea_popescu: anyway, i invited her over, curious what comes of this.
mircea_popescu: "The fact that Bitcoin’s followers deeply oppose this sort of aggressive government action explains why their aspirations to building a universal currency aren’t working."
decimation: well, the latter is a direct consequence of the former as well
decimation: mircea_popescu: re: residence location: The quality of humanity surrounding your residence is far more important than the quality of the streets and infrastructure
mircea_popescu: meanwhile among the retarded, https://twitter.com/Mircea_Popescu/status/471014639275626496
fluffypony: it's this guy
fluffypony: straight out of the proverbial horse's mouth
fluffypony: "I run the 8th largest magazine in the world"
fluffypony: when we tried to reach out to him to resolve the PP dispute
mircea_popescu: so you found the next trendon.
fluffypony: he's ALSO the guy that told us he was in charge of the 8th largest magazine in the world
fluffypony: but coupled with the PayPal thing it was just laughable
fluffypony: if he was just innocent and everything was all hunkery-dorkery I would chuckle at the Sekrit Ajint thing and move on
benkay: <mircea_popescu> fluffypony: Electrum server isn't SPV. it's SPV-like <<< ahahaha this has just summarized the mental capacity of bitcoin coder ppls. yes, exactly. the code isn't working, it's working-like. // i wept
fluffypony: only because of his stupidity and unfamiliarity with the PayPal process did it lapse and close
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: he tried to chargeback after it shipped
decimation: homes in the Levittown are small with big lots. New homes are huge with small lots
decimation: you can learn much about American "progress" by touring the old suburbs of Washington
fluffypony: punkman: if it was a scammer, I'd put his info up on the interwebs without hesitation. This guy is borderline, so he gets borderline dox.
asciilifeform: decimation: exactly this