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mircea_popescu: also, check it out : usagi teh hero. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=228327.msg4830292#msg4830292
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asciilifeform: no room in 'garconierre' for argon tanks.
mircea_popescu: glow in the dark!
mircea_popescu: well then machine them from rhenium
asciilifeform: if i ever do make a keyboard, i'll probably machine the mechanicals from aluminum.
asciilifeform: re: secretary: why would you do that to your springs.
mircea_popescu: weird fucking plastic, the white shit too. bachelite or something
mircea_popescu: o those
asciilifeform: the black is the inner plastic.
mircea_popescu: cheap chinese caps, the paint wears off
asciilifeform: sure ya do. when one's in the wash.
mircea_popescu: so hire a secretary, make her type random strings for half a year
asciilifeform: if you scavenge, you're stuck with the original key labels
kakobrekla: cant you scavage them?
asciilifeform: likewise the shafts in which they move
asciilifeform: but key caps, afaik, must be injection-molded to be of any usable quality.
asciilifeform: i would have built my own keyboard long ago, if i had any way to produce the key caps.
asciilifeform: perhaps true masters ought to make their own i/o devices.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: if i recall, he machined those
Duffer1: the forums are on fire tonight https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=439399.0
asciilifeform: full turd here:
asciilifeform: and a kbd in the middle, for times when it couldn't be avoided.
mircea_popescu: a nm then
asciilifeform: you can try it right there
pankkake: I've been wanting to try similar things
asciilifeform: pankkake: you can carry the happyhacking thing to its logical conclusion:
pankkake: page up/down is a bit frustrating, though for vim and firefox I use other keys
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he's french. they evolved past clothing, they just wear their hair.
kakobrekla: so fury got the money on the end.
Duffer1: looks like he did what labcoin did, spent ipo money on retail gear to fake progress on their own proprietary stuff, then lied about it, a lot
pankkake: it made billions of posts speculating on sample chips and the guy said nothing for months
kakobrekla: a, that little part.
pankkake: he's supposed to make miners
pankkake: the guy isn't supposed to trade company funds on that kind of stuff
kakobrekla: where is the wow
Duffer1: oh i'm sure inaba is still making the rounds at bitcoin conferences
kakobrekla: its too complicated
kakobrekla: wait im not following all this
pankkake: Duffer1: wow at the cex.io stuff. that's… wow
mircea_popescu: well since scammers never die / "investors" are fucktarded, is inaba still a thing too ?
Duffer1: i like this bit: Ken mentioned additional hashrate came online in November, what machines were those?
pankkake: asciilifeform: I don't like to move my hands, I'd rather use Fn+something. and vim hotkeys make arrow keys redundant
mircea_popescu: how did that go, "can't spell = scammer" ?
mircea_popescu: " In September with bitcoins @ 140, with competition with 400 GH/s and 500 GH/s chips our machines would not ROI, so a decision was made that we would have to refund all of our pre-orders, so we did not commit a lot of our funds to building boards, we was also trying to get enough pre-orders to make our minimum lot with eASIC."
mircea_popescu: pankkake you need to re-read the log earlier.
pankkake: the fact that it's still a thing, and that the shareholder let it happen is sad :(
Duffer1: it's lulzier than ever MP
herbijudlestoids: "Importantly, McNab and Klingberg found that the jump in activity levels in these areas was largest for high capacity individuals and smallest for low capacity individuals. That is, when told that they needed to filter, the high-capacity individuals ramped up activity in these brain regions to keep out irrelevant items. By contrast, the low-capacity individuals showed little additional activity in these areas when
mircea_popescu: lmao the slaughter lol is still a thing ?!
asciilifeform: why anyone voluntarily uses those is beyond me
ozbot: [ActiveMining] The Official Active Mining Discussion Thread [Self-Moderated]
asciilifeform: a laptop remains 'satanic' regardless of what one might do to it
mircea_popescu: a laptop is another good example, all sorts of shit to excise in there.
kakobrekla: for example, i still have stickers on my lappy, yes they are ugly and yes couldnt care less
pankkake: keyboard has no logo but I want to replace the win keys by penguins or something. the mouse has a discreet logo… but I've seen the new version, the brand is illuminated :/ https://secure-b.vimeocdn.com/ts/132/730/132730099_640.jpg
kakobrekla: they are there, i just dont see them
mircea_popescu: my kbd came w/o a logo. so did the mouse.
kakobrekla: im talking labels
kakobrekla: eh who cares for that shit
Duffer1: Kslaughter: We shipped some accessories products to India.
Duffer1: "In your progress report of November 30th 2013 you stated "We have this last week shipped our first products to customers." - What product was shipped?"
mircea_popescu: i don't recall buying silkscreened shit any time recently.
asciilifeform: what's your answer to silkscreened print? 'dremel' ? or belt sander
asciilifeform: assuming you meant those
asciilifeform: 'intel inside' and 'designed for winblows' stickers look great on toilet tanks
asciilifeform: why would they be labeled?
mircea_popescu: of all the various items around me right now, none carry labels, for instance.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm curious about the hardware
ozbot: Swift kicks to the face at the Grammys - Imgur
mircea_popescu: not doing so is immoral in my view, so there.
mircea_popescu: i regularly throw out bits of software or hardware whose function i don't understand.
kakobrekla: and yes, i am reading the fidonet email gateway faq
kakobrekla: there is a lesson somewhere in there
herbijudlestoids: most people are shit at betting and will lose their money anyway regardless of scams
mircea_popescu: he lost 7 cents to the low weight. i guess tis legitimate.
herbijudlestoids: doesnt it say the bet was 0.011BTC? i.e. 0.011 * ~1000 ~= 11USD? or was this when the price was lower, he says it was when th eprice was higher lol
mircea_popescu: the entire fucking forum is worth like fiddy bitcoin at these rates. all 500k threads of it.
mircea_popescu: s got like > 100 words in there.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if the shills/socks are actually paid less than this to start threads/make posts.
mircea_popescu: and lost about 0.7 cents to the low weight.
mircea_popescu: i just did the math. the bitbet scammed me dude actually bet... about a dollar,
mircea_popescu: sucks this can't really be a/b'd
mircea_popescu: i guess the original one was, but i doubt further roflcopter does anything really.
mike_c: yeah. i was kidding. except about the good for business part.
mircea_popescu: i guess by now this is improbable, perhaps i'm the last one, but anyway, mpoe-pr is actually my only forum thing
mike_c: i figured that was one of your sock puppets. those scam threads are good for business :)
mircea_popescu: "bitbet scammed me by sending my winnings to the address i paid from as i told it to"
Apocalyptic: again some "bitbet scammed me" thread ?
mircea_popescu: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=431273.msg4827362#msg4827362 who is this guy anyway, is he here ?
herbijudlestoids: i refined some stuff this morning on examining the data and will write some scriptage tonight probly, all thanks to access to free data ;)
mircea_popescu: yeah kinda... not much there yet
herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: i made a quick graph from the data i logged last night, distribution of tick returns
KRS1: Wonder where they just came home from.
mircea_popescu: "thanks for the gf, cya"
KRS1: does a great job by helping the scum float to the top.
mircea_popescu: thank you bitcoin community, you are really helping to make the world a better place.
mircea_popescu: so some dude just made more in half an hour than his room mate makes in a year.
asciilifeform: it takes two to 'scamgo.'
Apocalyptic: by the almighty serbian scammer