a111: Logged on 2017-04-19 15:46 mircea_popescu: it's unfortunate that a schmuck who actually had the unmitigated audacity to tell people he is a "chair of blabla" was also so fucking clueless as to not know the foregoing, and truly expected he'll be playing with his dickie in the sand unfettered cca 2004. but then again -- this is the just desserts for sinking one's time and productive life in the idiotic line of chasing nonsense.,
mircea_popescu: right. which is exactly a restatement of the above comment re bailey.
asciilifeform: this did not help v & co's life expectancies when ~they~ decided to politically battle.
mircea_popescu: i'm aware. hence the strawberry joke etc.
asciilifeform: writing denunciations on the opponents etc.
asciilifeform: afaik, v & co were ~the first instigators~ of invoking nkvd apparatus in 'battle of grantola'
asciilifeform: they also had nfi re gene expression, regulation mechanism, etc.
asciilifeform: but the lie by omission, in this analysis, is : so did vavilov & co.
asciilifeform: in 1990s-era 'expose' crapolade, the former is painted as 'devil', 'evil genius pseudoscientist', etc.
mircea_popescu: but, let the record reflect that i've myself done all that ; and will. i find it in no sense contradictory or mutually exclusive with understanding or the thought process generally.
mircea_popescu: now : it is not directly evident to me how one engineer riding chariots in battle and raping the women of a different tribe of chariot-riding idiots is in any sense disqualifying.
asciilifeform: ( has about as much to do with the original psychology as modern chinese 'communism', with lenin . )
mircea_popescu: it's unfortunate that a schmuck who actually had the unmitigated audacity to tell people he is a "chair of blabla" was also so fucking clueless as to not know the foregoing, and truly expected he'll be playing with his dickie in the sand unfettered cca 2004. but then again -- this is the just desserts for sinking one's time and productive life in the idiotic line of chasing nonsense.,
mircea_popescu: 6. the reabsorbtion of this unseemly polyp in the general discourse of lower-upper class was a necessary evolution, and hadn't it punctured through the whole "how dare you say man-women are whores!" it'd have punctured somewhere else. lightning strikles on the basis of charge not on the basis of dielectric failure. heck, it'll create the latter to serve the former.
mircea_popescu: 5. this resulted in a very strongly ~prescriptive~ pseudoscience, the fantasy of all "therapists" etc being that you go to them to acquire permission to be who you are. a sort of, if you will, slavery for infantile inept "masters", cheaply made and mass distributed.
mircea_popescu: 4. freud, jung and the rest of the "men going their own way" of the 1800s are exactly this - exponents of the minority bourgeois party trying to fashion a crystal ball "just as good" as the prevailing female construct (religion-blabla-etc) out of you know. this.
mircea_popescu: 3. abandoned in its only possible role (all pseudoscience can do is supply crystal balls for court magicians) by the dominating class (female culture is the larger part of lower-upper middle class culture for very fundamental reasons - they're genetically insufficient) it found a 2nd life among the smaller half.
asciilifeform: psychology was simply fashionable in '50s. today -- same role filled by other stillborn disciplines.
mircea_popescu: it did not actually have the wings to fly, which is why the social group in question eventually settled on "charity" as briefly mentioned yest. the whys and wherefores are worthy of a volume, and quite well fleshed out, but we won't bother here.
mircea_popescu: 2. 1 notwithstanding, in the early phase of the post-industrialization lower-upper class (a faux construction consisting of lower class material enjoying upper class easements, pretensions and expectations) struggling with the question of what the fuck to do with themselves, "studying" "psychology" became a thing.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, alf is correct on one point : there is a painful spot in the history of psychology (the pseudoscience). let us delve :
Framedragger: i did feel dirty writing the above lol
mircea_popescu: seems silly on the face of it.
mircea_popescu: you know, they don't actually require fishermen to cut off their legs because boat anyway.
mircea_popescu: the problem with this is that it won't allow you to see engineer-politicians, which is ALSO not compartimentalizable : it will force you to beedog, ie, not become as good as expression and telling women's original haircolor as you could, on the basis of your genetics say, actually be.
Framedragger: yeah, i can see that. compartments of the kind are always leaky. and it's natural to then distrust in general, etc. however, if you wanted to use this as an example why no tech career happened after, you'd be begging the question.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: other point is that involvement in a 'movement' characterized by organized intellectual dishonesty -- is not compartmentalizable. it makes me question the 'activist''s entire career.
Framedragger: (the latter may signify that genderstuff is poison, sure.)
mircea_popescu: but yes, Framedragger has it, the topic was whether engineer, not whether "good" or "bad" or whatever.
asciilifeform: but as it is, they have 'movement' which consistently and insistently lies about various aspects. for not especially inscrutable political reasons.
Framedragger: asciilifeform: that's true, it's "rough around the edges" is an understatement for now. and in general, a ~very~ problematic position to be in. there is that...
Framedragger: anyway, the point is, she did lots of technical work after gender change.
mircea_popescu: ftr, prostitution is in point of fact the single most common occupation of transsexuals of any description, as well as of "sex activists" of whatever flavour.
Framedragger: asciilifeform: i disagree. in their mind, it is completely consistent to do activism as they are 'suppressed', etc.; so i don't see how that would necessarily follow
asciilifeform: Framedragger: the more general observation is that if 'trans'-creation worked worth a tinker's damn, there would be no 'activist category' for it, there'd be just a set of, e.g., chix, with peculiar biographies that nobody but their mothers even have to know about, theoretically
mircea_popescu: lol this shit. "The book especially defames trans women who are attracted to men, calling them "homosexual transsexuals" as if they were men themselves." ... which... they aren't, because... reasons ?
Framedragger: asciilifeform: from skimming her bio, she went into activism after tech career retirement, which followed ~quite a bit after~ the change. inferring cause-effect there is imho stretching it ~very~ much. but then, i haven't met her, etc.
mircea_popescu: now im gonna have to read that crap. why do i get involved in these things!
asciilifeform: quite analogous to what the familiar compiler does .
asciilifeform: Framedragger: vlsi today simply refers to the practice of auto-generating (rather than drawing by hand) an ic layout, using 'basic blocks'
asciilifeform: and yes, i have the vlsi textbook. ( i also have paul graham's lisps, and schneier's 1993 encyclopaedia, even!111 )
asciilifeform: set about organizing witchhunts of psychologists who wouldn't repeat the 'party line'.
asciilifeform: ^ so no, conway was not 'the good trans', went full bore tard not so long after 'switch'.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger you know who was the original transgender engineer (and of course the smegma stains don't mention her, because why would they!) ?
Framedragger: used to shy away from generalising based this, i have to admit. but it's such an accurate signal (what are the chances that trans-crypto-engineer-sjw will be posting stuff related to the crpyto-engineer part?), it's mindboggling
Framedragger: happens all the damn time. :/
Framedragger: > hm, this other person rants about something-politics, can't even be arsed to read. no content
Framedragger: > find interesting post; follow to interesting person's twitter; get suggestion whom to follow, on the surface it looks good (e.g. "also a hardware engineer", etc.)
mircea_popescu: looks like a fine substitute for doing any work yet another workday
asciilifeform: 'The group is asking Buytaert to reexamine Garfield's case and, if he was not found to be violating Drupal's code of conduct, issue a public apology. They also want Buytaert to update Drupal's code to ban discrimination based on "peaceful, consensual, law-abiding beliefs" and craft clear rules on code of conduct that will be applied openly.' << this, apparently.
mircea_popescu: group of dorks complains about the rest of the dorks doing the guy a fucking favour.
mircea_popescu: dude, not going to their shitty "conferences" is the best way to a) get some work done and b) eat well.
mircea_popescu: i guess latest trilema should be right up their... alley.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck does "exiling" work, supposedly ?
asciilifeform: 'Scores of Drupal developers have formed a protest against the exiling of a project veteran who dabbled in kinky sci-fi hanky-panky.'
asciilifeform: Framedragger: then i dun even grasp how it was supposed to work at all
Framedragger: 1. it's why i asked, re. convenience, 2. yeah it's a terrible idea, hm, and 3. there was no intention to do any encrypting/signing on the server - god forbid
asciilifeform: nor is it purely a matter of 'oh, i'll automate sending, asciilifeform can choose whether to automate decoding'
asciilifeform: how? and have you thought about how possibly other people do not ~want~ this 'convenience' ? i for instance have no intention of ever automating any part of my pgp process. whatsoever.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-19 12:39 Framedragger: is there a more convenient way of organising and/or sending pgpgrams to irc folx? i have http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/iCXI2/?raw=true which is ~fine. (it'll complain about unsigned key if target is such, and gpg will ask y/n there. add `--trust-model always` to gpg command if you don't like this and like to live dangerously)
asciilifeform: and how the hell would you 'messages would need to be signed' ?!
a111: Logged on 2017-04-19 12:43 Framedragger: i could add www endpoint to scriba which would take in encrypt pgpgrams, and scriba would PM them to target. to avoid abuse etc., messages would need to be signed, tho. not sure how useful. (i'd maybe use this. could pgpgram while not connected to irc. maybe overthinking this before impending gossipd)
Framedragger: i could add www endpoint to scriba which would take in encrypt pgpgrams, and scriba would PM them to target. to avoid abuse etc., messages would need to be signed, tho. not sure how useful. (i'd maybe use this. could pgpgram while not connected to irc. maybe overthinking this before impending gossipd)
Framedragger: (then, just do `ep frame` to encrypt to my key e.g., type msg as per gpg, get paste url)
Framedragger: is there a more convenient way of organising and/or sending pgpgrams to irc folx? i have http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/iCXI2/?raw=true which is ~fine. (it'll complain about unsigned key if target is such, and gpg will ask y/n there. add `--trust-model always` to gpg command if you don't like this and like to live dangerously)
ben_vulpes: odd because in what world is that a "proof of concept", unless there's some bass ackwards msft-trained IT snotrag 'ethics' line that somehow justifies the pretense to proof of a video a twelve-year old could have faked
ben_vulpes: where if i read correctly, chrome udp's passwords to such services as gmail in such a way as to 'encrypt' them but still reveal their length
ben_vulpes: fun temporal proximity coincidence to http://www.ringroadbug.com/ showing up in #b-a, where i found the hilarious nsf-grantee's website
ben_vulpes: "The Bindmans LLP law firm, acting on behalf of (green party, house of lords rep) Jones, contacted six of those listed to verify their passwords...In response, five of the six gave passwords that matched those given in the letter and the sixth was nearly a match."
mod6: grab this quick, because I probably won't leave it up there long.
mircea_popescu: nono, some beauty contest reject that then failed to find her cocksucker career, went into congressional aide pretense.
asciilifeform: (unless you want to dispute whether it is correct to say 'hashpower' if someone somewhere is mining using a non-bruteforce algo, 'cheating', or with whatever witchcraft that doesn't require walking the hash)
asciilifeform: ergo the hashpower
asciilifeform: right. but if you notice that a block is happening every 3min, you can also estimate the next change in diff
asciilifeform: 'clients stop using federated checkpoints when if RSK hashing power is over 66% of the maximum BTC hashing difficulty observed in the best chain and the fees paid in a block are higher or equal to the average reward of a Bitcoin block.' << first, afaik, instance of altshitcoin audacious enough to have hardcoded embrace&extinguish automated detector.
asciilifeform: 'RSK WILL NEVER PROPOSE A FORK TO INTERVENE IN A SITUATION BETWEEN PARTIES OR USERS SUCH AS THE DAO SITUATION' << allcaps, mustbetrue!
asciilifeform: 'RSK miners cannot double-spend, as the Federation provides the checkpointing service, and every Federation member node is highly connected to the RSK network to prevent Sybil attacks. The Federation will use the checkpointing power to prevent reorganizations of high depth which are not related to a protocol fault. The Federation cannot double-spend, as a Federation member is not allowed to checkpoint two blocks having conflicting t
asciilifeform: until then, plain promisetronics.
asciilifeform: sooooooo apparently mutilation of bitcoin is part of the plan.
asciilifeform: 'At least 51% percent of the Federation members signatures are required to transfer bitcoins out of the peg wallet. However, once Bitcoin soft-forks to support the drivechain BIP RSK proposed, unlocking funds from the peg will require 51% percent acknowledgement by the merge-mining hashing power as well. '
asciilifeform: and we find, further in,
asciilifeform: 'Bitcoin cannot verify the authenticity of balances on another blockchain. When a user intends to convert BTC to SBTC, some BTC are locked in Bitcoin and the same amount of SBTC is unlocked in RSK. '
ben_vulpes: how do these "two way pegs" work?
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mircea_popescu: better than the tanning bed.
mod6: then tried `yes | dd iflag=fullblock of=out bs=1024k count=10` and says 10485760 bytes out
doppler: oops, I actually do get that warning. totally didn't see it the first time. coreutils-8.27 here
jurov: on the yes test, i got warning:
asciilifeform: if the iron wants it.
asciilifeform: let the WRITER pad.
asciilifeform: read 77 bytes ? write 77, motherfucker
mircea_popescu: not on their iron.
asciilifeform: except that the idiocy in question doesn't preserve any data.
mircea_popescu: was a time when data was a lot more valuable, basically on account of the world not yet consisting of the www pressed shitboard. in that world of little valuable data, having any chunk "lost in the pipes" would have appeared typically soviet wasteful bureaucratism.
jurov: short reads prolly started as unix worse-is-better philosophy "api has these huge warts but as it can be easily fixed by retrying in userspace, it's okay"..posix only snowballed on
trinque: folks that want a charitable interpretation of these might ponder a while re: who has the most time / resources to shitgnominate
doppler: I agree that -h should be the default in userland utilities
asciilifeform: if you omit the 'h', you get output in martian units
shinohai: See the du -h retardation from previous thread
asciilifeform: doppler: once you figure out this puzzler, you will grasp what the thread was about
doppler: weird.. what's going on there?
asciilifeform: then ls -l out
asciilifeform: the 'standard' in question is actually quasi-mythological work, and (yes) SCO's.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i betcha it's been in the old dog eared yellowed looseleaf notes the posix copied.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ' i only implemented the standard ' has roughly same cachet as ' i was only following orders!11'
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-18#1645740 << i can't iamgine how. the skeleton we found is just about 50 years old.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sadly, it IS the posix standard.
Framedragger: yes well, granted it doesn't support additional command line args, so has to handle fewer things. but then, maybe that, too, is *also* correct...
asciilifeform: ( spoiler : plan9's is the 'correct' one )
ben_vulpes: while we're doing these, i'd be much obliged if folks with a copy of drakma on hand would run `(drakma:http-request "https://untrusted-root.badssl.com")` and let me know what you get
asciilifeform: Framedragger: picture if 'this util will format your hdd unless you supply the iflag=dontformatmyhdd option' buried somewhere deep in docs.
Framedragger: "Note if the input may return short reads as could be the case when reading from a pipe for example, ‘iflag=fullblock’ will ensure that ‘count=’ corresponds to complete input blocks rather than the traditional POSIX specified behavior of counting input read operations." OK
Framedragger: it's like the modern website. "i expect good bandwidth. you have low bandwidth? fuck yourself"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: e.g., dd, worx 100% of the time when copying multi-TB ssd, say.
mircea_popescu: except for any time you try to use them, i find they are fine too! like one of those comedic toolboxes with a hammer that's seemingly attached except if you pick it up the metal falls off etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: apparently everything is 'fine' until you find the magic corner case.
Framedragger: why in the fuck would that be useful
asciilifeform: holy FUCK the sheer gangrene.
asciilifeform: MOTHERFUCKERS
asciilifeform: the cure, apparently, is option ' iflag=fullblock ' which for some reason is NOT DEFAULT
asciilifeform: apparently, when reading slow or variable-speed source ( such as FUCKGOATS ) dd will sometimes fail to fill an entire block (default block size is 512 on most boxes) and PAD WITH MOTHERFUCKING ZEROS
mircea_popescu: as a general policy, when doing things of this nature (publishing intertesting stuff in forum) keep the whole echafaudage for day+ while people comment.
asciilifeform: in other noose!
asciilifeform: i quite often refer to the raw blox.
asciilifeform: they are quite handy.
mod6: i just deleted them this am
mod6: i gotta recut all the blocks anyway.
asciilifeform: and dbTotal += res ; say, after the print.
asciilifeform: so we find out total % of the node's bringup time spent waiting for bdb
mircea_popescu: would be useful to have the whole saga, and you're all set up for it, so should be easier than reconstructing the setup later.
mod6: so just add in this patch: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2017-February/000256.html ?
asciilifeform: also fwiw his total block delays (red) match the ones on my ssd node (zoolag)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's what mod6 was doing. except that he forgot the 'read' patch ^ and only had total and write.
asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/attachments/20170226/asciilifeform_blackhole_reads.vpatch
asciilifeform: i posted a bunch of these.
mircea_popescu: no, i know. but look at the graph. so what ~exactly~ is this 'db write wait time' that is ~= the total ?
asciilifeform: thread is in the logs.
asciilifeform: there's exactly 1 segment that accounted for ~99% of time.
mircea_popescu: it's not that far off as it is. bout halfway there.
asciilifeform: eventually (given the extant turdball) it'll be >10min, and party's over.
asciilifeform: you can trivially derive the fact of it being not at all linear.
asciilifeform: gotta wonder, what happened in the spikes
asciilifeform: mod6: see ye olde http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-July/000107.html << there is a pythong and gp script in there
mircea_popescu: mod6 yeah, because it autoprocessed the bot log anyway. you dun gotta do nuttin.
diana_coman: there is that
mircea_popescu: thanks god you took the hour to write it out so two years later i can link it.
mircea_popescu: says gnuplot right there
mod6: haha, yeah, it did grind it down for like 10 seconds, but then it was fine
mircea_popescu: http://www.dianacoman.com/2015/10/13/hic-sunt-flotsams-on-eulora-or-the-brand-new-foxymaps/ <
mod6: i actually had no idea how you guys were doing the charting.
mircea_popescu: spotting this sort of thing is why graphs exist in the first place.
mod6: oh yah! guess there are. :]
mod6: looking through the raw data now...
mod6: well, maybe it is? i see some spikes in the 30000ms range... didn't think it was ever that high.
mircea_popescu is sitting pretty on a large ball of synergy, pulling on the threads.
mircea_popescu: quoth her : "fuck me, i bet i know what happened. power went out for like 10 minutes yest, musta been the water duct froze in the interval then power being back on it maintains the ice cork and it can't make more ice."
ben_vulpes: second gross of the day
mircea_popescu: in other hardpower lulz, chick's icemaker in the fridge stopped working, just this very sad sound and no ice forthcoming. she called the very helpful super (young guy, i suppose he likes her). quoth he : "sometimes when the power goes out you have to reset these. you know, like computers ? power it down overnight and see in the morning."
mod6: had to hardpower off the fucking cocksucker
mircea_popescu: recall, all the mining maps
mircea_popescu: mod6 use the tool we use in eulora!
mod6: any other graph tool suggestions?
mod6: drawing of the graph is crashing LibreOffice Calc.
mats: i've little exposure to game theory beyond iterated tit-for-tat so i found this interesting
mats: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2460568 a comparison of game theory strategies: always-defect, always-cooperate, tit-for-tat and win-stay, lose-shift
asciilifeform: 'The man accused of fatally shooting five people in a Washington state mall last year has been found dead in his jail cell, authorities said Monday. ... When police confronted the suspect, he froze and complied ... was unarmed and silent, "kind of zombie-like," ... emigrated from Turkey and was a legal permanent resident'
asciilifeform: in other noose, 'Steve Stephens was spotted this morning by PSP members in Erie County. After a brief pursuit, Stephens shot and killed himself.' -- re: recent desperado
a111: Logged on 2017-04-18 17:16 ben_vulpes: "Kings are fine for storytime./ Knights are fun to play./ But when we make decisions/ we will choose the people's way!"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-18#1645485 << yeah well, when the people actually get a way, or for that matter a clue, maybe we revisit this.
trinque: if you wanted to start from stage1, there'd be additional steps involving selecting the right portage profile
trinque: mostly, it's 1) start from a musltronic stage3 (they're present on the mirrors in iirc "experimental") and 2) install layman, add musl overlay
asciilifeform: in mod6's buildtron, the kernel isn't even used.
asciilifeform: otherwise no dice.
ben_vulpes: trb builds with buildroot though, does that with which the kernel is compiled affect that pipeline?
lobbes: Perhaps musl is better option? Fwiw, I posted over on gentoo forumz with my specifics, but am not versed enough to know if the suggestions they gave (e.g. using glibc) will fuck me over building trb or not: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1062324.html?sid=c3ea68da31445ec3e870e5344a443dd3
lobbes: So, I'm midway through my first gentoo adventure. Currently on the compile kernel step (genkernel), but running into funkiness with uClibc errors. My question is: if I abandon uClibc for, say, glibc, will I have issues building trb? (I remember reading in logz that trb doesn't use glibc)
mircea_popescu: aaand in other adventures, http://68.media.tumblr.com/04eca2b5bfb1718f4d4fb491cf67fd37/tumblr_ooizvk3dbH1ust2lpo1_1280.jpg
ben_vulpes: "Kings are fine for storytime./ Knights are fun to play./ But when we make decisions/ we will choose the people's way!"
ben_vulpes: zero rhyme, and let us not speak of the reason.
ben_vulpes: t i shit thee not is for trans
asciilifeform: neato, ty for the sweat mod6
mod6: ok, i'll see what I can do about getting those two curves put together today.
asciilifeform: so the two curves would be:
asciilifeform: ( the avg is not very useful, it includes megatonne of 0/handful-tx blocks from early years)
asciilifeform: plot the write times plox ?
asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/attachments/20170226/asciilifeform_blackhole_reads.vpatch <<
mod6: that was in the odometer?
asciilifeform: that was in the last patch
asciilifeform: where's the db read wait ?
asciilifeform: mod6: the read/write times
mircea_popescu: and yes, what alf says. the per block thing
a111: Logged on 2017-04-18 05:39 mod6: <+mircea_popescu> o look at that slim checkblock << thought it might be cool to do some perl, parse out the stats, do some calcs & provide.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-18#1645420 << might be good to link definitions of "checkblock" etc on the page.
asciilifeform: mod6: where's the per-block db stall time ? or still perling it out from debug.log?
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> o look at that slim checkblock << thought it might be cool to do some perl, parse out the stats, do some calcs & provide.
pete_dushenski: new bbet policy #2 : don't communicate with users but do negotiate with them
pete_dushenski: new bbet policy #1 : communicate with terrorists but don't negotiate with them
pete_dushenski: custody remain - as usual - safe, and as our standard policy dictates, not a single satoshi was paid our to the attackers." (from comment on bitbet page)
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: 0 word re where it was for ~2wks << "BitBet Mod 17-04-17 at 14:49 Dear BitBet users, Our apologies for the extended downtime. We underwent a ddos attack, motivated by a rather base extortion attempt (the 4th or 5th this year, but this one was unusually large). We have taken steps with our ISP to buy additional ddos protection capacity and are back to normal operations. All funds under our
BingoBoingo: In other derp: "The researchers dubbed the reorganization an act of "rapid river piracy," saying that such events had often occurred in the Earth's geologic past, but never before, to their knowledge, as a sudden present-day event. They also called it "geologically instantaneous."" << Ignoring... The Mississippi River's frequent rerouting since the days the French found it. 'Member when the Illinois state capital was in Kaskaski, 2010 ce
BingoBoingo: Ex's in the Butt Fun!
mircea_popescu: i spent what, 0.3% or so of this year in airplane. had thinkpad with multiple batteries loaded up with films etc by diligent travel assistant / cocksucker. in the overhead tray it stayed.
asciilifeform: me -- ~none. but i also didn't use the stinkpad that year.
mircea_popescu: what % of your time last year did you spend in an airplane and what exactly would have happened had you taken a nap / chatted up random chicks / thought about your nails for the interval.
asciilifeform: the big one was decent (w540)
mircea_popescu: getting rid of the whole "laptop" paradigm is great for both wrists and productivity anyways.
trinque: but no, that was the last purchase of that kind of item.
trinque: got suckered in by the display resolution, 2560 by something.
mircea_popescu: no idea why i didn't before, but anyway. doesn't seem to have gone down from it either, so all good.
trinque: I put one of those new AMD chip boxes together today; no moar thinputers.
mircea_popescu: pretty much been trying to ride the news since day 0. sorta like the divorcee in rhodes island pretending she can't sleep because she's heard all the new york chicks got insomnia.
mircea_popescu: mod6 killing it with the quality blog posts
mod6: save your lulz for the charts
asciilifeform: ^ all but the last is mostly wasted on trb
asciilifeform: lessee the numberz!
mod6: I think I just reached the end of my eatblock test...