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cazalla: australians really hate boat people which is amusing given so many of us actually came by boat, my parents included, 50-60 years back, it's like they don'
t want to be reminded
BingoBoingo: That is why stan doesn'
t atm have a ranch and to bitches trained in rifle-fu
gernika: The goal doesn'
t have to be meaningful. It just has to be achieved.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t happen to care that usians believe sucking cock is not something to be good at
decimation: asciilifeform: I didn'
t realize that the soviet army was a 'volunteer' organization
ben_vulpes: i mean i don'
t even understand how CRITICAL_BLOCKs are implemented yet
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i'm not averse to it at all but i can'
t even tell what's bdb and what's other things.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: so in your opinion bounties for biggies like "wedged 0.5.3" aren'
t going to produce much?
BingoBoingo: <decimation> supposedly most opera singers 'sight-read' IPA so they don'
t have to learn the target language << Actually this is indeed a thing.
decimation: supposedly most opera singers 'sight-read' IPA so they don'
t have to learn the target language
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> what difference does it make anyway. if ruby were more like perl would you use it then ? << If by like perl you mean the runtime doesn'
t suck, then maybe?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wonders why the setup wasn'
t under permanent inert gas to begin with << margins.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's possible you don'
t hear them. some people don'
t distinguish some colors, red/green, yellow/blue, whatever. it does not follow paintings are bad or w/e.
mircea_popescu: o holy shit don'
t tell me he's of the "spoken as written" school of pararetardism
punkman: "trust but verify" doesn'
t translate very well though
mircea_popescu: the key to a functioning computer isn'
t that "everything is on your screen at the same time"
mircea_popescu: mod6 srsly, i wouldn'
t worry about it. it's there, it's signed.
mod6: (since we didn'
t submit them on the same bundle)
mod6: the problem is here, that "[R.1] doesn'
t tie back to the specific Charter document
bounce: and the block problem is a DB handling problem, wasn'
t it? making swapping DB thingies a bit of a priority.
nubbins`: not like this isn'
t a fool's errand anyway, if it's gonna clam up at block 250k
bounce: I have no idea what is or isn'
t available in ohio
mircea_popescu: it's one thing to have shitty internet because you can'
t afford to lay cable.
bounce: but it's all the more poignant for the excellent backbone infrastructure that really doesn'
t exist in africa
nubbins`: didn'
t have time for a donair ;/
nubbins`: something tells me this book ain'
t getting done by nov 15 ;D
ben_vulpes: jurov: i just pinged the turdolator and didn'
t get a bounce and don'
t see it in the archives.
chetty: haha, yeah it doesn'
t really mean that much, but it does put me off trying to explain things
bounce ran into an open tab with the purported cex/ghash sec letter. can'
t help but wonder what happened next.
mats_cd03: asciilifeform: know where i can find K&R 1st ed warez? ive only read 2nd ed, and i can'
t find the first through hefty googling.
CheckDavid: Doesn'
t show up in closed either, but not impotant
CheckDavid: jurov: some gold bets come up, but i don'
t think its the one that i saw in the notification
jurov: when you put gold into the searchox, it won'
t come up?
CheckDavid: A while ago i saw a notification here about a gold bet placed on bitbet.us, but now i can'
t find it.
mircea_popescu: the ultimate face splat experience. you don;
t even know whom it's gonna end up on!
jurov: pity he lives it that part of world where you can'
t get 10 miles without encountering town or road
jurov: i don[
t believe it would be so much more when it's free
qntranet: I can afford to write an article. I don'
t have the 30 btc for Mpex (or I'd buy bitbet shares)
mircea_popescu: seriously, you couldn'
t have dug up boston for a decade if there wasn'
t government to make it cost 10 trillion.
starzz_: in there. Don'
t know why it's not showing up here (otc it did)
mircea_popescu: and on the other hand into the business side of "your ideas are worthless, and what your head produced can'
t even be called an idea in any sense" i used to rant about back in 2013ish.
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin isn'
t a security, if they say it's a security, they would be the first government in the world to give Bitcoin that sort of value or endorsement." << reading between the lines, "leadership coach" that doesn'
t understand either bitcoin or his jurisdiction is shitting his pants.
nubbins`: i still can'
t believe she wasn'
t a donair
nubbins`: mircea_popescu you don'
t dry-rub your briskets?!
nubbins`: "yeah, o'dea said he was gonna buy a bunch of pizza and leave it out front, but he didn'
t...
mircea_popescu: right. 6 grunts for 2 hours + driver counted as 2 = 160 bux. 80 for the truck, provided you don'
t actually have a deal and get it for 6k or so a month.
mircea_popescu: i'm giving even odds the guy doesn'
t end up paying for it.
nubbins`: doc o'keefe don'
t give a fuck about no pgp
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know, the mayor response would be a better paste. we don'
t care what YOU said :D
assbot: Dave Please arrange to have this removed immediately and billed directly to
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, wouldn'
t a continuous furnace be the best approach ?
bounce: that reads like the guy is a bit confused. then again, he certainly isn'
t the only one.
jurov: no, i don'
t know the term... hollowed down to the root and filled
cazalla: home again, not much news around by looks of it anyway so didn'
t miss much
BingoBoingo: Wait, who seriously can'
t pirate Poor Man's James Bond vol. 1-4?
mircea_popescu: lesson for stan : next time girl breaks her ring, don'
t try to weld it back on her.
decimation: I haven'
t wire-wrapped myself, no - only soldered. but I have considered getting into it
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> in .net vb << In library school I was forced into this bullshit for a semester, final project I couldn'
t take it. Went FU here's a mono runtime in a jail and Visual C++ 6.0 that compiles to it because fuku
mircea_popescu: arth will be programming these idiotic boxes pretty soon if managers don'
t wise up to the fact that the equivalent of automatic switches already exist and have done so for at least 20 years. yet if Y2K doesn'
t light up most manager's view of the world of programming, there isn'
t hope for mankind at all."
decimation: I didn'
t realize - apparently Commodore made their own silicon chips, and even made their own LCD screens
mircea_popescu: " I remember someone saying that if it hadn'
t been for automatic switches in the telephone network, the entire population of planet earth would have had to be telephone operators to handle the load of telephone usage in 1993 or thereabout. I get the eerie feeling that because modern computer systems are so incredibly braindamaged in their design and in the tools used to program them, the entire population of planet e
mircea_popescu: so the other barbarian couldn'
t jack off to the marbles.
decimation: asciilifeform: it's certain that there was some government meeting where the cl-
http server was regarded as 'obsolete' because it wasn'
t compatible with frontpage or whatever
mircea_popescu: It says that it's from Sky Dayton (founder of Earthlink) although it is actually from Earthlink's direct marketing department. I can just see the thought going through the copy writer's head. "People won'
t open it unless it's from someone they know, and everyone knows Sky Dayton!"
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ^ not turd. why? didn'
t have to run on toy computer in paupers' bedrooms. << What, some people actually operate this way...