deedbot: izabera voiced for 30 minutes.
izabera: all good, i don't actually need help or anything
izabera: how many did you actually sell?
izabera: i mean you must be aware of btc's recent jump to >15k usd
mircea_popescu: izabera you can prolly pick up some in teh aftermarket ; either amazon or w/e.
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
deedbot: BingoBoingo voiced for 30 minutes.
jhvh1: danielpbarron: The operation succeeded.
danielpbarron: yeah it's pretty nice. i can't really lose money selling these things
danielpbarron: even when i paid almost 100 USD to ship to that UK guy i still profited quite well for the effort
danielpbarron: i replaced the coin used to by mine at the time i bought them, so that works for me
☟︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-12-10 01:32 danielpbarron: i replaced the coin used to by mine at the time i bought them, so that works for me
deedbot: clambodile voiced for 30 minutes.
deedbot: clambodile voiced for 30 minutes.
scriba: Logged on 2017-12-10: [01:29:30] <danielpbarron> even when i paid almost 100 USD to ship to that UK guy i still profited quite well for the effort
deedbot: esthlos voiced for 30 minutes.
danielpbarron: cruciform, if you don't mind, i'm curious what they charged you
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: reproducing ben_vulpes' travails ahaha?
ben_vulpes: likely with the 'wrist' to make it work
ben_vulpes: buddy i've been beaten back on entirely conventional archs even of late
ben_vulpes: it is sitting happily on a desk, refusing to ada for reasons of package gcc 4.9 blocks gnat-gpl, which is the point at which i threw up my hands and declared a temporary retrograde advance
a111: Logged on 2017-11-18 18:10 ben_vulpes: but the very very funny event was the script from the adacore binstaller simply fails, and instructed me to check an empty log file
ben_vulpes: cruciform: webirc is going to piss everyone off with join/part spam
ben_vulpes: either get a real bouncer or read the wwwlogz
a111: Logged on 2017-12-09 22:55 asciilifeform: does it ? i dun recall last time e.g. trilema was '#1 on tardcombinator'
mircea_popescu: so we could say the ycombined parameciums are moving, knocking about the walls of the petri dish. nevertheless, they don't feel at liberty to derp in comments there like they do on your site -- notwithstanding the bar to comment on loper-os is actually too high what with the google captcha thing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so you might actually be right, i'm scary (or at least, scary-er).
mircea_popescu: the ~other~ explanation, however, might well be that i don't write on topics about which they're trained to think they have an oppinion. it's easy to forget the parameciums are not actually people, and to imagine human process impels them ; this isn't however the case, they just go where they were trained to go and do what they were trained to do, no more.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> err << Tis airport handle made for device that can't be trusted with bouncer credential, nothing important may come out of there, merely fresh annecdotes from safari
mircea_popescu: and consequently one continuously runs the risk of having produced an inadvertent bike shed, because according to inscrutable alien logics the aliens will land and disrupt rock concerts but not country music concerts ; or vice-versa. cuz the aliens think they can rock or whatever.
BingoBoingo: <danielpbarron> even when i paid almost 100 USD to ship to that UK guy i still profited quite well for the effort << If you want to drop some off personally in montevideo, you will likely avoid customs charges.
mircea_popescu: "oh, are you writing about $item ? this is in my bayesian list, here's five things i selected from the database of things to be selected when this $item is mentioned! #metoo".
mircea_popescu: meanwhile for all values of $item not in empire_db... silence.
BingoBoingo: Customs when I arrived worked out as so: 1. See declarations paper work outside duty free shop exit in front of baggage claim 2. Fill out for for networking gear. 3. Wheel bags to customs gate around corner, holding paper in hand 4. Get waved through into Uruguay in name of speed
BingoBoingo: This process may not hold when tourism season ends
mircea_popescu: it'll hold, dude. i went illegalyl from mexico into guatemala for literal lack of anyone to give a shit.
BingoBoingo has also secured Spanish lessons beginning next week from cute Venezualan girl who teaches English for some school in the WTC
BingoBoingo: Naturally she will be coming to my oficina
BingoBoingo: And the Brazilians here for Expo Cannabis are still smoking hella weed
BingoBoingo kinda surprised danielpbarron isn't already here, prolly ought to save the date for next year's
BingoBoingo: The Brazilian manner of smoking Cannabis is to roll it into joins ~120-150 mm long and chain smoke them in the manner estadounidenses chainsmoke cigarettes
BingoBoingo: <phf> i think this is the happiest i've seen BingoBoingo ever << This would not be inaccurate
a111: Logged on 2017-12-10 02:43 asciilifeform: the sad fact re gnat is that there is no known way to build a gnat without an existing (built) gnat.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-10 13:08 mircea_popescu: so we could say the ycombined parameciums are moving, knocking about the walls of the petri dish. nevertheless, they don't feel at liberty to derp in comments there like they do on your site -- notwithstanding the bar to comment on loper-os is actually too high what with the google captcha thing.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-10 13:10 mircea_popescu: the ~other~ explanation, however, might well be that i don't write on topics about which they're trained to think they have an oppinion. it's easy to forget the parameciums are not actually people, and to imagine human process impels them ; this isn't however the case, they just go where they were trained to go and do what they were trained to do, no more.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-10 14:56 phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-10#1749235 << nobody has solved the bootstrapping problem. every time you touch a system that's in any way attempts to not be a c-machine you run into that issue
a111: Logged on 2017-11-12 23:12 asciilifeform: i'm not fully convinced that a scripting lang ~needs~ a gc
deedbot: fromloper voiced for 30 minutes.
deedbot: nocko voiced for 30 minutes.
nocko: I was linked to FFA guide, started looking around and am now here. I cannot say that I yet have half an idea what's going on... but hello.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-11-18 22:22 ben_vulpes: republic really doesn't have repeatable steps for building a gentoo with gcc 4.9, does it
danielpbarron: oh, i think i already linked this to you.. did it not work?
trinque: there will be a brief wallet outage while I swap a hard drive.
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