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(trilema) nubbins`: incidentally, you could go on a meaty tangent about public employees right about here
(trilema) nubbins`: bahahahaha.
(trilema) nubbins`: when a large, once-profitable company suddenly goes belly-up or massively scales back, you can expect to find a high percentage of alexes on the payroll
(trilema) nubbins`: absolutely
(trilema) nubbins`: usually due to "external factors" or "changing requirements"
(trilema) nubbins`: but all of alex's projects are always fucked up and late
(trilema) nubbins`: "who, alex? he's been here longer than i have! knows the place inside out!"
(trilema) nubbins`: eventually they learn their way around enough that latecomers can easily be fooled into thinking that the variety speak is representative of skill, not imitation
(trilema) nubbins`: which, if it didn't accompany a pay raise, would engender the same line of questioning as a dismissal
(trilema) nubbins`: they just give 'em a different job in another department
(trilema) nubbins`: so rather than facing "yep, we've let this dead weight collect a cheque for 15 years"
(trilema) nubbins`: once an incompetent worker reaches a certain longevity, their dismissal is tacit admittance that they've been fooling everyone all along
(trilema) nubbins`: chetty plenty of amoebas floating around in the upper levels
(trilema) nubbins`: "right-click and copy that" "what?"
(trilema) nubbins`: it was at this job that i realized just because you work as a computer programmer, doesn't mean you know even the basics of what computers are and how they work
(trilema) nubbins`: turned on, as in i wanna hear the angry birds smash the pigs
(trilema) nubbins`: folks: "any regrets?" me: "not doing it sooner"
(trilema) nubbins`: incidentally, last monday was my 2-year anniversary of retirement
(trilema) nubbins` shudders at memory
(trilema) nubbins`: "how do i get my sound turned on?" head of IT
(trilema) nubbins`: mind you, this was the head of IT
(trilema) nubbins`: doing his due diligence on a go-forward basis
(trilema) nubbins`: this is what meetings are
(trilema) nubbins`: guy stole 120 hours on the company. a month's work. when an email woulda done
(trilema) nubbins`: mircea_popescu i recall at one office job, my boss' boss' boss was getting a promotion, and so called all 120 programmers into a boardroom, 30 at a time, to explain about his new responsibilities but nothing will change for the rest of us
(trilema) nubbins`: (incidentally, why does all the milk in the organic section loudly proclaim "I'M MILK!" in spanish?
(trilema) nubbins`: soy nubbins
(trilema) nubbins`: hola, pirate
(trilema) nubbins`: !up soypirate
(trilema) nubbins`: we have no landline, so i try not to leave mine dead for more than a few hours at a time
(trilema) nubbins`: "oh, dude, right"
(trilema) nubbins`: until they see em at the bar two weeks later
(trilema) nubbins`: and never do
(trilema) nubbins`: y'know, just in case the first 7 "ding!!!!"s were missed
(trilema) nubbins`: "didn't you see my texts?!?!?!?! i texted you 8 times!!!!!"
(trilema) nubbins`: !up PeterL
(trilema) nubbins`: !up pete_dushenski PeterL
(trilema) nubbins`: they adjust their expectations
(trilema) nubbins`: but after a few "yeah, i leave it on silent"s
(trilema) nubbins`: thestringpuller the "down side" is that for the first few weeks, people get snarky with you
(trilema) nubbins`: they're secretly pleased every time their phone dings in the presence of others
(trilema) nubbins`: chetty most people don't *want* to
(trilema) nubbins`: nothing says "i'm an annoying piece of shit" than an audible call/text noise
(trilema) nubbins`: suddenly, it doesn't run your life anymore
(trilema) nubbins`: turn off the ring and vibrate functions on your phone, and leave them off.
(trilema) nubbins`: there's a really, really easy solution to this
(trilema) nubbins`: re: phones and expectations
(trilema) nubbins`: for that matter, Brother laser machines are pretty sweet too
(trilema) nubbins`: hp may make a good printer, but epson makes a better one
(trilema) nubbins`: assbot otp down
(trilema) nubbins`: mildly amusing to see this phoundation push for full nodes after it started being worked on in here
(trilema) nubbins`: today i learned it is legal to sell and serve dog meat in canada
(trilema) nubbins`: PeterL no doubt. worth noting that "rivaling china for output" is not necessarily a positive
(trilema) nubbins`: <+PeterL> somebody just has to get the Africans organized and industrialized <<< surely external help running the show is the path to self sufficiency
(trilema) nubbins`: hey, remember "peak oil"?
(trilema) nubbins`: that's the q
(trilema) nubbins`: let it coast until now
(trilema) nubbins`: PeterL they knew about the intrusion a year or two ago
(trilema) nubbins`: PeterL ok!
(trilema) nubbins`: which sorta 100% agrees with everyone in #bitcoin-cad, including me, saying we started getting mysterious emails with .jar attachments around this time
(trilema) nubbins`: they say they're shutting because they realized their customer db was compromised at some point in the past
(trilema) nubbins`: incidentally, was there ever a qntra article about cavirtex shutting down?
(trilema) nubbins`: !up ascii_field
(trilema) nubbins`: pret-t-t-t-t-y sure i've got an FTDI adapter here somewhere
(trilema) nubbins`: so i don't need it unless i do, in other words
(trilema) nubbins`: is the serial mod necessary or can i just ssh to the silly thing?
(trilema) nubbins`: and yet they're still determining what the course materials are
(trilema) nubbins`: and the answer is actually a fair number of people, university professors included
(trilema) nubbins`: a better question, who would fuck everyone else in the world, in the ass, for a free book?
(trilema) nubbins`: in his right fucking mind is the key
(trilema) nubbins`: there *are* more fees now -- rec hall fee, xyz improvement fee... but still a shadow of non-frozen tuition
(trilema) nubbins` shrugs, gives up
(trilema) nubbins`: there's been a tuition freeze here since like ~2001
(trilema) nubbins`: actually now that i think about it
(trilema) nubbins`: wake me up when they can play rachmaninoff ;p
(trilema) nubbins`: the logical conclusion is 10 of them performing the imperial march
(trilema) nubbins`: and he can now teach you their secrets
(trilema) nubbins`: talking about how he found 5 mentors!
(trilema) nubbins`: i saw this ridiculous youtube ad about this asshole with an obv rented lambo
(trilema) nubbins`: none as cool as, say, you
(trilema) nubbins`: mircea_popescu i'll blithely respond by gesturing to all the people in my life who came here by chance and never left again 8)
(trilema) nubbins`: it is the other kind ;(
(trilema) nubbins`: it is cool, but it just can't pay manual laborers $70k/year
(trilema) nubbins`: the school system is a pretty big barrier to entry
(trilema) nubbins`: in other news, the whole "we have oil, let's spend money" thing has given way to "the price of oil is out of our hands, let's aww fuck it's too late"
(trilema) nubbins`: pete_dushenski out of twodogland, specifically
(trilema) nubbins`: like you said, if the $150/mo student loan payment is the thing keeping someone here...
(trilema) nubbins`: no kidding
(trilema) nubbins`: and the usual is to get a degree (cheapest in the country!) and then fuck off
(trilema) nubbins`: anyway outmigration is a big thing here
(trilema) nubbins`: speak not of my ideals!
(trilema) nubbins`: punkman AAH FINE FORGET IT
(trilema) nubbins`: why, indeed, would i want a bunch of fresh grads kicking around
(trilema) nubbins`: instead, it's the same cost it is *now*, except the government would pay the minimum monthlies on your student loans for as long as you remain in (the province, city, state, w/e)
(trilema) nubbins`: because if there wasn't a catch, it'd just be a boondoggle
(trilema) nubbins`: but it's not free
(trilema) nubbins`: so suppose we say "free university for anyone who wants to study STEM"
(trilema) nubbins`: available, perhaps, if there are enough of you to pull a couple classes together
(trilema) nubbins`: i.e. your ph.d. in medieval folklore would definitely not be free
(trilema) nubbins`: i feel like an educated populace isn't a terrible idea, as long as it's educated in things that aren't fucking out to lunch
(trilema) nubbins`: i mean like countries where post-secondary is free, for everyone
(trilema) nubbins`: anyone happen to have familiarity with zero-tuition universities, specifically euro ones, specifically how they came to ditch tuition?
(trilema) nubbins`: what was it, mad men? "who'd you have to fuck to get this office?" "myself"
(trilema) nubbins`: pete_dushenski yourself, paste imgur here
(trilema) nubbins`: rimshot.mp3, just kidding
(trilema) nubbins`: "hanging chad", 3/5
(trilema) nubbins`: the other day i watched a docu about a florida election worker who was lynched
(trilema) nubbins`: brb paper towels
(trilema) nubbins`: hm, accidentally opened windpipe while drinking
(trilema) nubbins`: actually what i've been humming since that "braaaaaaaih" earlier
(trilema) nubbins`: "hurmalurmalurm" -elvis
(trilema) nubbins`: "braaaaaaiiih!" -elvis
(trilema) nubbins`: then shimmying with the ladies on the beach!
(trilema) nubbins`: elvis smoking a cigarette while working under a car
(trilema) nubbins`: i recall seeing one of the flicks at some god-awful "grand ole" type place in the southern usa
(trilema) nubbins`: that's dutch, alright
(trilema) nubbins`: oh. andreas cornelis /van kuijk/.
(trilema) nubbins`: no kidding. ever see the dude's movies?
(trilema) nubbins`: now there's an american name
(trilema) nubbins`: born andreas cornelis
(trilema) nubbins`: guy was taking half by the end, wasn't he?
(trilema) nubbins`: well y'see boys we've got this here fancy recoahdin' studio
(trilema) nubbins`: they all were
(trilema) nubbins`: all those quotes are intentionally separate
(trilema) nubbins`: because there's no barrier to entering "the" "music" "biz"
(trilema) nubbins`: he'd be nobody
(trilema) nubbins`: you think elvis would be the fuckin king if he was born in 1996?
(trilema) nubbins`: things were more novel back then, too
(trilema) nubbins`: you pedants!
(trilema) nubbins`: i'm talking humans with penises
(trilema) nubbins`: which isn't the point, but a fact nonetheless
(trilema) nubbins`: there were less men back then
(trilema) nubbins`: mischievous tuesday
(trilema) nubbins`: not coincidentally, footnotes would be an adequate substitute ;p
(trilema) nubbins`: ^ it's actually cheaper for me to buy it from a henry's store, locally, than online
(trilema) nubbins`: such notes
(trilema) nubbins`: danielpbarron this stuff is great
(trilema) nubbins`: y'know, like nicotine
(trilema) nubbins`: but seriously though, i don't think we should have merged the foundation tax thing into the code
(trilema) nubbins`: if that doesn't encourage log readers to actually read and absorb the fuckin patches
(trilema) nubbins` dusts hands, wanders away
(trilema) nubbins`: hopefully they won't find the diddles in our 0.5.3.1
(trilema) nubbins`: you follow instructions somewhere for your pogo build?
(trilema) nubbins`: danielpbarron
(trilema) nubbins`: and it costs 20% of what store-bought devitaminized bread does!
(trilema) nubbins` adds wheat germ, crushed flax, hempseed, rolled oats to bread
(trilema) nubbins`: betcha they use white flour with a handful of other grains mixed in
(trilema) nubbins`: colombia 7/10 would not revisit
(trilema) nubbins`: made from leavings of the coca process
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform when i was in colombia, there was a byproduct called "bazouk" or similar
(trilema) nubbins`: BingoBoingo :0 i guess the chili powder will work about as well as the eyedrops, then
(trilema) nubbins`: except you don't inject meth into your bloodstream
(trilema) nubbins`: something along the lines of the "chili powder" meth in breaking bad
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform definitely was not an ingredient in the reaction they were trying to make occur.
(trilema) nubbins`: the krokodil doc is gross enough to distract from it
(trilema) nubbins`: anyway, as actually derpy as everything Vice produces is
(trilema) nubbins`: "now we collapse a major vein in our arms"
(trilema) nubbins`: "now we add the eye drops" "why?" "makes it stronger"
(trilema) nubbins`: thye show people cooking it!
(trilema) nubbins`: ;;google vice krokodil
(trilema) nubbins`: there's a short Vice documentary on it, if you can stand to watch
(trilema) nubbins`: mircea_popescu seems like meth in the usa -- cheap, so poor destitute people in poor destitute towns love it
(trilema) nubbins`: opiates are definitely not a production-enhancer
(trilema) nubbins`: OH WAIT THEY DIDN'T
(trilema) nubbins`: and all the addicts just vanished
(trilema) nubbins`: until they took oxycontin off the market
(trilema) nubbins`: no krokodil here, too many prescription opiates to abuse
(trilema) nubbins`: that's what they're cooking at home these days
(trilema) nubbins`: ;;google krokodil
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform:
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform lack of skill.
(trilema) nubbins`: well, shitty dope doesn't have that, but if you spritz it with saline...
(trilema) nubbins`: y'know how good dope has that covered-in-crystal look from all the resin-y trichomes?
(trilema) nubbins`: (not kidding)
(trilema) nubbins`: reminds me of the time SWIM bought some adulterated marijuana
(trilema) nubbins`: anyway, worth noting that most recording musicians who tried heroin produced some of their best work while in the depths
(trilema) nubbins`: lethal in elephant!
(trilema) nubbins` pulls out remaining stops
(trilema) nubbins`: to the point where a dose lethal in another man will maybe stop their headache.
(trilema) nubbins`: opiate users can reach terrifically high levels of tolerance
(trilema) nubbins`: bradley nowell, 1996, 7 days after marriage
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform some of my favourite musicians died this way
(trilema) nubbins`: this is why the purity of coke will not rise
(trilema) nubbins`: but it looks the same
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform: now imagine today's exercise/shit/dirt pile is at 100% (or even 80%) strength instead of 20%
(trilema) nubbins`: but for srs, people have heart attacks on coke all the time
(trilema) nubbins`: ("no! you only stab her once!")
(trilema) nubbins`: hence her heart stopping, 3 stabs to chest, etc
(trilema) nubbins`: that the girl snorted as coke
(trilema) nubbins`: mircea_popescu that was actually a bag of white heroin :D
(trilema) nubbins`: because i know for a fact that he didn't
(trilema) nubbins`: do you think that guy even googled "can you snort glucosamine" before cutting his stash?
(trilema) nubbins`: but dealers care less about safe and more about $$
(trilema) nubbins`: mircea_popescu pure being the only thing around is safest, sure.
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform you don't need schooling to make crack
(trilema) nubbins`: if pure cocaine was sold here, people would overdose
(trilema) nubbins`: someone who isn't me has witnessed dealers receive new shipment, open bag, set several spoonfuls aside for sef, then dump 8-10 tbsp of random white in there
(trilema) nubbins`: "so buy it clean" o.O
(trilema) nubbins`: besides, i definitely do not want to snort weightlifting supplements
(trilema) nubbins`: i like things way too much to justify trying it
(trilema) nubbins`: also have never tried coke
(trilema) nubbins`: (phun phact, gym rats like coke and weighlifting supplements are invariably white powders)
(trilema) nubbins`: that's gonna hit the glucosamine suppliers where it hurts.
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform so the cocaine sold in usa would now have to be 30-40% pure instead of 20%?
(trilema) nubbins`: it's almost expected now
(trilema) nubbins`: well, looking like a slob was a lot less acceptable in the 50s-60s too
(trilema) nubbins`: epaulettes too, i guess
(trilema) nubbins`: double-button jacket w/ gold trim on the cuffs
(trilema) nubbins`: ^ my dad was married in his (canadian) coast guard uniform
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