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mircea_popescu: many people actually believed
the "intelligent, educated guy
that happens
to be black"
mircea_popescu: don't say he's a grown-up
trayvon. anything but pointing out
teh obvious.
mircea_popescu: if you live in
the us, don't make stuff
that mocks obama
mircea_popescu: sophomores don't belong dorking about acting as if
they were men and
thinking about
their bankroll.
BingoBoingo: Well,
this is
the sort of stuff
the magical
thinking
that leads people
to dice and slots does.
mircea_popescu: "About
two weeks later I started my sophomore year at college." is
the controlling part.
herbijudlestoids: basically what i saw was
that ukraine picked gazprom over eu gas and
the next day riots erupted
mircea_popescu: but i recall 20 0's hash as record
tho i couldn't name
the block
KRS1: just
trying
to help not
to
try
to be disrespectful or anything but if mbr is working right, pbr isn't set right
mircea_popescu: not
that such a
thing should ever be said
to anyone in any context, let alone in response
to "hi lol, we hardcoded random shit because magic strings are cool"
herbijudlestoids: hehe
tim cook aapl ceo says
there is no backdoor in aapl products but since
they are under a gag order he cant prove it
nubbins`: the first
time a machine made me feel fear was when
the snow monster popped out at me for
the first
time
nubbins`: sir graham,
the earl of sandwich
mircea_popescu: ok.
that is
the most retarded fucking
thing i ever heard
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i always liked
the part where it's "sir graham
the hero". esp for a romanian speaker it was like Sir Breadloaf
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you mean
they fail
to represent
the disk arrangement ?
mircea_popescu: wotn probably can't even be done, you won't get past
that spider.
nubbins`: i mean, i got
through
them fine as a kid, maybe i had more patience back
then
mircea_popescu: actually
talking of hard games,
try king's bounty on
top diffictuly.
the modern versions
BingoBoingo: It
took several
trips walking
to et
them all carried home.
BingoBoingo: It was
the summer before I started High School. I had gone
that long without a computer and decided fuck it, I'm getting several.
nubbins`: i remember upgrading
the ram
to 512kb
to play king's quest iv
BingoBoingo: My first computers were
this flock of old macs I got from
the school back in 1999 or 2000. Maybe it was 2001?
nubbins`: "but if it doesn't have any keys, how does it mark
the paper?"
nubbins`: had
this golf game where you had
the option
to print your scores at
the end. we didn't have a printer; my dad
tried
to explain it
to me, and i couldn't wrap my head around it
nubbins`: my first pc was a
tandy 1000sx
the20year2: A local school
threw out a bunch of older 386 PCs with 20mb drives,
they were huge
BingoBoingo: The Classics had 40 MB hard drives,
the SE/30 came
to me with a 20 MB hard drive.
BingoBoingo: I also have a few Mac Classics and Classic II's which had 1 MB of Ram. Cannabalized 4 of
them
to give one classic 4 MB of RAM (cheaper
to get whole machines
than sticks) Had
to order RAM
to beef up
the SE/30
though
BingoBoingo: I still miss 128 MB of Ram in a compact desktop sold in a
time such
things were rather unimaginable.
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: Actual for obscure and old hardware OpenBSD seems
to have better hardware and human support
than NetBSD. At least
that seems
the experience on 68k machines
herbijudlestoids: asciilifeform: which OS have you
tried so far? i feel like
they should work
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
These are
the great problems of our
times. Getting hardware worth using
to work again is a challenge.
BingoBoingo: I imagine speed element plays in
too.
That may play into why so few in US casino industry are
trying
to fight
to expand regulated sports and event gambling
to new jurisdictions.
The few hours it
takes a sporting contest
to resolve is something I don't know if
they can comprehend compared
to
the seconds a slot
takes. May as well be an eternity.
mike_c: jackpot is usually like 100k
though
mike_c: carribean stud
tries
to do
that with a
table game
mike_c: plus
there is a world of blue-haired ladies with nothing better
to do.
BingoBoingo: mike_c: Well other factors being equal a slot machine allow for placing bets faster
than a dealer does
mike_c: er, i meant
to send
that
to BingoBoingo :) re: floorspace for slots vs
table games
mike_c: asciilifeform: last
time i looked at a casino profit chart it read like: 11b profit on slots, 1b on
table games.
herbijudlestoids: thats good, whats happening
today? i just came on
to complain as usual
mircea_popescu: that's okay. 9x% of all noobs reinvent
the wheel earnestly convinced
they are contributing.
herbijudlestoids: remember i was in here
the other day complaining how postmodern
the inernet is?
mircea_popescu: it's impossible
to efficiently get 100 blackjack deals
to share pennies into a multi-million pot.
benkay: also lower labor overhead on
the machines, i imagine
BingoBoingo: Well, yes. Similar
to BTC and how many people do
the dice stuff
trying
to magic
their way into a jackpot.
BingoBoingo: Most casinos here don't have much in
the way of
table games.
The slots and video poker seem
to cover most of
the floor.
mircea_popescu: it's funny, for 2-3 decades
they kept
trying
to get hot female and even mal;e dealers
BingoBoingo: The only people with longevity dealing
tables seem
to be
the people doing it
to keep busy after
they retire.
BingoBoingo: one of
them is going on seven and can't say what he got promoted
to. Just he doesn't work
the floor anymore. Most of
them have burned out in under a year
though.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I've know a couple who do poker
tournaments and have done
the
thing where you sit at
the blackjack
table and
try not
to lose more
than you would have spent on
the drinks.