BingoBoingo: Ah, just have to worry about the local utility grunts knocking out your power now. Keep the camp stove and baked beans on standby
lobbes: Mocky: yeah, I'm waiting for the power grid to start faffing about over here too. So far though, ~0 effects felt from the old 'cane
Mocky: I'm working on a laptop hooked up to a 4k tv, so every time the power cycles I end up sitting listening to the neighborhood AC units powering down until my tv comes back.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-14 15:49 phf: lobbes: added
mircea_popescu: in other local lulz, costa rica's independence day celebration postponed for cause of heavy rain.
mircea_popescu: apparently the heavens above don't think so very much of this miami-led cvasi-"independence" they got.
mircea_popescu: esthlos "Though I wouldn't try the thing on files larger than a megabyte at the moment." whynot ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in any case, looks like he's getting 40kb/s more or less.
mircea_popescu: irony of ironies : there exists such a place as "grand Island", nebraska.
BingoBoingo: Yeah, but Middle Western naming Irony only tends to give chuckles when its a surprise
BingoBoingo: If you already know its there the size of Metropilis, Illinois isn't going to pack much of a punch
esthlos: mircea_popescu: just because it will take a while. should work just fine.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-15 01:48 mircea_popescu: esthlos "Though I wouldn't try the thing on files larger than a megabyte at the moment." whynot ?
mircea_popescu: and don't put dire mysterious warnings like that in your work, it turns off people for no real reason.
esthlos: okay, thanks. I'll be more clear
mircea_popescu: "Though I wouldn't try the thing on files larger than a megabyte at the moment." <<->> "As you can imagine, large files may give you ample time to draw a bath" or something.
mircea_popescu: though in fairness esthlos impl is more didactic than optimized.
Mocky: ^ such blatant display of power
Mocky: but i like on that page how even the sidebar headlines have tldr;
diana_coman: BingoBoingo, "The habit of producing the "OK" symbol also happens to be many Anglophones" -> ????
trinque: "trinque is upgrading to 486DX2 for alf" << ahahahaha
☟︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-09-15 18:06 trinque: "trinque is upgrading to 486DX2 for alf" << ahahahaha
BingoBoingo: There's some other things to get to first, but a second edition should be doable sometime this year
mircea_popescu: or the next ... this is the sort of thing that benefits from quiet contemplation.
BingoBoingo: Right now I am working on a lessons learned for the next Republican pioneers, most of which based on contemplation of the now concerns the humble backpack
a111: Logged on 2018-09-15 18:06 trinque: "trinque is upgrading to 486DX2 for alf" << ahahahaha