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BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> people didn'
t use to upgrade worth a shit not even a decade ago, when all the incentives were alligned for them to. << What happened was Microsoft's "Let's mimic the Auto Industries idea of the Model Year" won even if MS could not execute on it
mircea_popescu: people didn'
t use to upgrade worth a shit not even a decade ago, when all the incentives were alligned for them to.
BingoBoingo: If I sound grumpy, it is only because I have come across too many idiots of the "it can'
t be done" persuasion lately, the kind of managers who have an aquarium in their office because fifteen brains think better than one.
mircea_popescu: i mean it's a fine theory an' all, but i don'
t see it.
mircea_popescu: if he doesn'
t do worse than you, that's a prime signal that you're insane.
mircea_popescu: you don'
t HAVE TO update anything, and if it sucks you don'
t update.
undata: asciilifeform: oh I don'
t know, the others don'
t look particularly hospitable
mircea_popescu: so... if what you do is a good idea, this sort of problem can'
t possibly exists.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so basically you're running your own metal which you don'
t want to colo because you figure it's actually cheaper in your own house sort of thing ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as i said afore, " you'd have to be insane to use rented hardware oyu manage yourself. either colo your own metal or else have the fucking dc handle it if you don'
t give a shit"
mircea_popescu: now suppose the major cost of the icecream truck wasn'
t icecream, but... windshield wiper.
mircea_popescu: poettering should be good news for you then - soon enough you won'
t need an emulator at all.)
mircea_popescu: you can'
t just boot up say a vm for it on a remote server ?
mircea_popescu: im not sure why you want to run 2014 hw at all. but whatever, maybe i don'
t do enough hi res porn conversion on a laptop to care ?
mircea_popescu: it's not like simply ignoring pottering forces one to any sort of anything. so you run 2005 linux on 2010 hardware. you probably don'
t want the modern crapolade for any serious purpose anyway,
mircea_popescu: maybe i'm missing something here, but, why do you think you can'
t run "max" whatever they are on older debians ?
mircea_popescu: i can'
t even be bothered to count all the ways that's stupid. wtf.
mircea_popescu: and who the fuck takes any electronics from their job is so stupid shouldn'
t get to live anyway.
mircea_popescu: uh. if you have servers you'd have to be insane to use rented hardware oyu manage yourself. either colo your own metal or else have the fucking dc handle it if you don'
t give a shit.
mircea_popescu: but i suppose putting more steam behind openbsd can'
t hurt.
mircea_popescu: dude don'
t tell me the forum muppetry actually fucks itself to memorialize being fucked.
mircea_popescu: yeah, this i true in the reverse. bloggers that write for someone else aren'
t much more than buskers.
BingoBoingo: jurov: what's with the submissions to qntra containing lengthy documents verbatim? << lengthy documents go into blockquotes, don'
t get counted
nubbins`: but the thing is, they don'
t give a fuck that there's grant money being given away; they care that it's being given to a band called holy fuck
nubbins`: jurov this is a problem, people get all hissy when someone gets a grant for something they personally don'
t like
nubbins`: well ya know. it doesn'
t make a good xmas gift with one either.
mike_c: doesn'
t make a good xmas gift without a denomination
mircea_popescu: it had its political importance at the time, these aren;'
t really remembered today, but at some point i had to go into fucking something awful forums and argue with the idiots as to why bitcoin actualy is valuable.
adlai: "For an extra .25BTC ..." < what's the point of getting the damn thing if you don'
t get the extras
mircea_popescu: wait, the original wankers don'
t like wanking anymore ?
artifexd: At least it hasn'
t lost 90% of its value
mircea_popescu: kinda impossible for that clause to affect you at all if price doesn'
t go under 250.
mircea_popescu: well i don'
t know the future for sure, as it happens. just kinda close.
mircea_popescu: listen, make complete sentences, i can'
t follow what you're saying.
mike_c: don'
t tap on the fish tank.
ben_vulpes: +nubbins`:i've got some neat physical bitcoins, some strange bullion pieces, etc << don'
t forget newspapers lol
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> oh, nevermind. those are minimums. you can'
t be closer than that, but have no responsibility to be particularly close? << well not stated as obligations, but generally it's his job to get close.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> dang did you guys really crap out over 1000 lines while i was sleeping? << we didn'
t crap them bish. now eat up!
mircea_popescu: <jurov> you don'
t like the 15th 12:00 GMT, you want to change it, no? << nah he just wants a shorter break. than ONE WEEK. which he gets.
BingoBoingo: Well, they aren'
t getting "theirs" anyway so might as well for the charity of it.
mike_c: oh, nevermind. those are minimums. you can'
t be closer than that, but have no responsibility to be particularly close?
mike_c: or am i confused and you don'
t offer liquidity for sellers?
xanthyos: if i connected from my home ip i'd cloak. i don'
t notice a lag at all from the ssh session
jurov: xanthyos if ssh doen'
t have noticeable lag it should not be ddos
xanthyos: you can think of all numbers as having +bi but if b = 0 it doesn'
t matter
jurov: you don'
t like the 15th 12:00 GMT, you want to change it, no?
adlai: the impression I get from lurking around here is that there aren'
t concrete plans for another profit center, but if one arose, it would be welcomed
artifexd: And there hasn'
t been much talk of MPIF lately. I'm in an information vacuum, so to speak.
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2014 03:31:14; asciilifeform: and that a circus weight-lifter isn'
t the least bit strong, because perhaps my arse muscle is stronger yet than his biceps
adlai: bricklisp simply doesn'
t detract from the intelligence of whoever is using it, like "rubber duck debugging"
mircea_popescu: problem is i can build a machine with zero crosstalk and i won'
t have built an ai.
mircea_popescu: adlai ah, this isn'
t an argument against such stuff. sure, reaction time is even a good proxy for things you may care about,
mircea_popescu: a pseudoscience isn'
t that endeavour lcking principles,
mircea_popescu: don'
t tell me it's giving different numbers to diff people.
badon: That's why I wasn'
t getting anything.
badon: They don'
t call it a dark age for nothing.
nubbins`: for fear it won'
t fetch going rates
badon: nubbins`: Collectors need something interesting. Mass-production commercialization isn'
t very interesting.
badon: The started out by "colorizing" with really crapping printing techniques. People thought they were ugly, and didn'
t buy them. Today, the ugly ones are more valuable than the pretty ones because they're rarer.
nubbins`: tbh the cmyk-printed coins don'
t look great up-close
mircea_popescu: i can'
t believe half the fucking log is keyboards. you people are nuts you know that ?
Naphex: mircea_popescu: well you can'
t use fiat
mircea_popescu: i won'
t buy something high tech today that has no use, because guess what ? time flows against it.
nubbins`: what, you don'
t have to hold time?
badon: nubbins`: Yeah, but they aren'
t all there is. The lunars are the original flagship series of the China mint. The pandas were minted for foreigners.
mircea_popescu: i still don'
t see why some coins nobody gives a shit about would be intrinsically valuable.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t pay for krugerands, and those at least are historically relevant.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn'
t pay above the metal for any of them either.
nubbins`: badon i can'
t promise anything (very busy month) but if it's there, i'm more likely to poke at it
badon: I know next to nothing about physical Bitcoins, and honestly, I don'
t have the time to become an expert in them.
nubbins`: badon i don'
t have much time to lead projects, but like i said, spotcoins is pretty much the definitive resource
mircea_popescu: gernika: What aggravates me more and more recently is the claim that mac products are well designed, when in fact they will destroy your hands. << mactardism is a very visual field. it doesn'
t account much for function.
nubbins`: get set up with gribble, why don'
t ya
badon: The CC isn'
t really a search engine. I guess you could call it something like a correlation engine.
badon: People come up with new stuff I hadn'
t thought of.
badon: The CC does things that I don'
t even know it's doing.