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mircea_popescu: definitely got it. and im sure some idiot "woman in tech" a la carly fiorina is going to bring a shittier
apple itunes store on it
trinque: rather than competing with microsoft or
apple in the OS space, they just snuck their way in with their own OS
mod6: I, with trinque's help, need to patch gcc 4.8.4 with gentoo using /etc/portage/patches via ebuild flag(?). If that works, then I can test that the R.I. will link properly. If that works, maybe we finally have static
apple pie.
mircea_popescu: generally, most infrastructure in all times and places operates at a loss, which is why commodification is not particularly welcomed by business people, which is how you get
apple.
trinque: speaks volumes on
apple's present state
trinque: ascii_field: right, did you also see (I think I put it in the logs)
Apple's move to compile to apps to an intermediate bytecode, which is then transformed to whichever back-end machine code?
trinque: leaving
apple free to modify the thing at will from that point forward?
mircea_popescu: Essentially, “Megablock Bitcoin” will be exactly like the
Apple App Store. <<< mmmm yeah.
nubbins`:
apple "magic mouse" resting on floor.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> <mod6> mod6: Sir Grayhawk, I would like to use this recipe to craft a static
apple pie. Sir Grayhawk: Let me traide you for this here Universe Schematic. << WUT ?! << 'twas a joke. the old one about how a programmer wanted to bake an
apple pie but first has to invent a universe. 'cept in this one static bitcoind is the pie, and the universe is gentoo/uclibc/gcc/etc. :]
mircea_popescu: <mod6> mod6: Sir Grayhawk, I would like to use this recipe to craft a static
apple pie. Sir Grayhawk: Let me traide you for this here Universe Schematic. << WUT ?!
mod6: mod6: Sir Grayhawk, I would like to use this recipe to craft a static
apple pie. Sir Grayhawk: Let me traide you for this here Universe Schematic.
ascii_field: he tried to return it, 2 wks old,
apple told him to piss off
ascii_field got tired of the gymnastics of maintaining an
apple box to be somewhat usably posixy/x11y - and is now on an 'unusable' laptop
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the closest approximation to a usable laptop is (or was) sold by
apple trinque: but who knows,
apple looked dead once
pete_dushenski: mats universities as businesses, which is what they've certainly become with their 20th century 'mass adoption' approach to education, couldn't possibly lead their students to be anything other than broke dicks anymore than
apple can with the kids who buy their iphonez
Vexual: i assumed vault was just a word that presumed they were better than
apple at storing nudes, so i didnt look
decimation: c64 had a version of 6502 like
apple II
decimation: but when you consier that
apple bought renasas for $0.48 bn, you gotta wonder if they are overpaying
assbot: Logged on 27-05-2015 01:46:08; decimation: yeah interestingly
apple outta be an exception, given the weight they can throw around
decimation: yeah interestingly
apple outta be an exception, given the weight they can throw around
☟︎ gabriel_laddel:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=22-05-2015#1143981 << It seems to me that the question is, "why have people selling computers preloaded with their software failed (
Apple does this, but their computers are braindamaged, a failure by 'design')?" Interpretation: all companies in this space occupy a position in "uncanny valley". If you look at e.g
☝︎ davout: "
Apple Product Security"
justJanne: trinque: that is very much true @ the
apple-strategy argument
davout: i use an
apple computer
ascii_field: (and there is claimed x86 dynamic translation, a la
apple ppc. so it may yet turn out that most 'elbrus' will end up running winblowsxp...)
pete_dushenski: but yes, is this elbrus isn't sufficiently magical, then it makes as much sense as buying 10,000
apple watches
mircea_popescu: does it mean they could ? no, it does not. the proposition is of the kind of "
apple shares could buy all of russia". no, they COULD NOT.
assbot: Logged on 10-05-2015 10:11:00; davout: oh and ben_vulpes, by 'real computer' I mean any non-
Apple machine, that'll always be a good improvememnt :D
ben_vulpes: reminds me of
apple maintaining os x for the intel arch
davout: oh and ben_vulpes, by 'real computer' I mean any non-
Apple machine, that'll always be a good improvememnt :D
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you don't get to even hear about them otherwise. by the time you hear about amazon, or
apple, or /we it's no longer on the table whether bezos is or is not competent.
mircea_popescu: imgine, leave your toddler in its thing out by the
apple tree, come back with some pie, ants dragging it away
mircea_popescu: suppose chinese monarch had refused... windows.
apple. whatever.
assbot: Even more evidence that
Apple was full of shit."/osxreverser: "Fixing rootpipe in Mavericks to call
Apple’s bluff"
https://t.co/HK5EWLACap"
ascii_bolivia: specially saved for such occasions,
apple box, with contempt
mats debating whether to buy the
Apple Watch to exploit it
trinque: decimation: I doubt US intelligence has zero assets inside
apple decimation: in the case of
apple, I think it's quite likely they are honestly trying to make things secure, but are about as successful as all other 'tech' firms have been
assbot: How to fix rootpipe in Mavericks and call
Apple's bullshit bluff about rootpipe fixes | Reverse Engineering Mac OS X ... (
http://bit.ly/1GErL8o )
decimation: asciilifeform: what fascinates me is the fact that even the higher management who is nominally 'free' find themselves enslaves to
apple's paradigm (for example, making iphone clones)
mircea_popescu: unlike pretty much anyone, including google and facebook/ godaddy is like
apple.
mats: i have a pile of powerpc
apple laptops
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: anything made by
Apple should be on that list.
mircea_popescu: so here's an idle thought : one could import
apple into the pogo, create an autovote application for 20 dollars a device
mircea_popescu: what, you think i don't like
apple because of its hairdo ?
ascii_modem: canary << mega-lol,
apple killed their canary. who noticed, who remembers now ?
Chillum: I remember when my
apple IIgs was pretty neato
mircea_popescu: "before turning off the obsd firewall,
apple used to turn off the fbsd firewall"
decimation: pfsense, yes, another
apple thing shamelessly ripped by
apple nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> he's from
apple. wut firewall ? <<< o.O the same firewall that obsd uses, smarty
mircea_popescu: strikes me as exactly the sort of
apple-esque innovationitivity.
jurov: "for example
apple juice can have 0.2-0.3% methanol, or if derived from pulp by enzymatic degradation, the levels can be 2 to 3 times higher."
nubbins`: so of my eight bucks, $2.40 went to
apple.
ascii_field: danielpbarron: this is an ancient plague in the
apple world. vendor releases an unusable os, and then various 'entrepreneurs' show up to expensively offer to paper over the turd, and users - oblige
ascii_field: article mentions gruber. who i recall very distinctly as an especially smarmy 'volunteer'
apple propagandizer. he once sent fifty or so thousand morons to my site
BingoBoingo: decimation: I'm not sure I can trust
Apple to not use words in a way wildly different from word's actual meanings
decimation: BingoBoingo: according to that page they are not using that patented ceramic procedure, but are instead using an alloy with 'work hardening' "For the Watch Edition however,
Apple appears to have eschewed any revolutionary alchemy and instead, applied an innovative work hardening process to create gold that is (claimed to be) significantly harder than the typical 18kt used by other watchmakers. "