mircea_popescu: braindamage on this level is why america needs to be made great again in the first place.
mircea_popescu: lulzy as fuck ; both vorhees and casares were there with me when i told them i'm taking mtgox down. in spite of everything teh usg could come up with, i took it down. yet they STILL believe the entity to suck the dick of is the usg.
mircea_popescu: that's reddit for you. agency washing for the ruminant masses.
mircea_popescu: anyway, since you seem to care, notice how it's perfectly fine for privateinternetaccess.com to fill EVERY AVAILABLE REDDIT every time they pen some new piece of braindamage ? it's not clear they average less than 6 per, and notice how the votes go ?
mircea_popescu: i don't have a middle finger long enough for these fuckers.
asciilifeform: the greatest american who ever lived, p. t. barnum, is not forgotten in his motherland. his work lives.
mircea_popescu: right ? much like "bitbet.us doesn't log anything" which then seamlessly turns into "of course it does" the moment i pull the chain.
asciilifeform: 'One of PIA’s biggest selling points (like other VPN providers) is that it does not log anything, and thus has little data to actually hand over to law enforcement.' << lel
mircea_popescu: (and yes the name is very likely a fake, or w/e, a "literary pseudonym". because historical andrew daulton lee, and aren't we fucking clever over at md journo school.)
mircea_popescu: win-win, it both creates the impression that "200 mn, you could be next!" for the herd of mouthbreathers shelling out 50 bux to see pg eat rubber chicken and stale macaroni out of a plastic plate ; and delivers "under the radar" implants.
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, the source on "andrew lee" being the ceo of privateinternetaccess.com is... an ancient ars technica article... about... oh you've guessed it; mtgox. http://archive.is/5OSIG
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2016/10/ethereum-come-at-me-bro-patch-attacked-as-invitation-is-taken/ << Qntra - Ethereum "Come At Me Bro" Patch Attacked As Invitation Is Taken
mircea_popescu: and in other fucking nonsense, freenode has decided to redirect ALL inbound links to its most recent web page, to advertise to the world privateinternetaccess.com, ie the nsa front ; and their derpitude in support of "resurrecting tor". this of course includes all old manual pages and everything else.
mircea_popescu: and i recall saying this before, but anyway - every lord should seriously consider registering a channel for himself. the way this is going is towards such a federation anyway.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in other news i registered #loper-os and #asciilifeform defensively ; whenever you feel like building them up say and i'll pass them along.
mircea_popescu: you know, exactly like broken computer. if it doesn't compute altogether it's a brick not a computer. if it computes all the time and you can never trust the ouput, then it's a broken computer.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he can't follow reliably ; otherwise most all he does is follow.
thestringpuller: Or at least that's how it's been playing out given the fact 50% of all women there are pregnant at any given time.
asciilifeform: to shuddup, and follow the next tracked coffin, to wherever.
asciilifeform: y'know, the thing army teaches folks to do.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's not so much "driving" involved. just follow.
mircea_popescu: then they go around and manufacture spoons that are a millimeter wider than standard jars. because soberania and industria argentina and head so far up the ass you can't even tell they have heads in the first place.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller there's a lot of worthless paper money floating around, "investing it" in "the future" is not even much of a leap. way the fuck better than the local idiots, who run around "investing" their worthless paper money in "real estate" and keep telling themselves that a thirld world square foot with 0 amenties could nevertheless sell for 200 dollars. ie, 10x the heart of san francisco.
asciilifeform: or idea is that lazy man ~will~ perform under the whip, or what.
asciilifeform: how's that work, the tank drives itself ?
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: these mostly go to 'private', vs state, schools, but i did meet some.
thestringpuller: it's a fucking epidemic d00d. Perhaps it was Disney or maybe the dad's who decided it was a good idea to give their daughter any and all things, including that 80k BMW for graduating college with a degree (in communications).
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and the dude, believe or not, went through bootcamp, drove a tank, you'd think he'd have learned something.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: cia foreign service recruits (or at least once did) from uni of md 'journalism' sub-dept.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: and know what they study? << i thought it was "Communications" now or whatever the fuck US girls (who think they are princess) go into to get into a marketing department
mircea_popescu: llowing. but in any case - until and unless, you're still the shitstain you always were, shut the fuck up foremost, and stop thinking anyone gives two shits for your whole 150lb sack of flesh or whatever it is.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-04#1552453 << for the record, "get a probe and do something useful with yourself" was not an invitation to enter the high phase of your bipolar. it was an invitation to get the actual probe, spend six weeks or whatever your skull actually needs learning how to use it, and then next year or w/e start shitting out useful things such as a pill for ddr or a pill for usb or a pill for nvidia or so fo
a111: Logged on 2016-10-04 03:56 adlai: mod6: the shit fails, i'm trying to figure out why, but meanwhile, it's deeded - whatever that's worth
mircea_popescu: if a marginally literate 17yo barefoot son of a farmer from goatfuckistan can manage to get kleopatra running on the 486 at the "luxor centre for businessmen" and then manage to register his key with deedbot over dial-up, so can the peonry.
mircea_popescu: the quarter or w/e i spent over the past month shows clearly that this CAN be done, even by the bottom of the barrel from that third world scammer forum known as tardstalk.
mircea_popescu: it seriously is not that impossibru, "if you would like to contact me, here's my pubkey, here's the wotpaste link, here's the irc channel. here are instructions how to do all this, step by step, for windows, even with "youtube tutorials".
asciilifeform: and on dirigible there are no roof leaks also.
mircea_popescu: let them wotpaste in plaintext, why not.
asciilifeform: it was 'undocumented' but everybody knew where the leprosorium was.
mircea_popescu: but still - they pay 50k or w/e ; which is significantly more than we charge.
asciilifeform: they typically go to the uni i went to, mircea_popescu . and know what they study? 'journalism'.
mircea_popescu: and i don't just mean the regulars. whole departments of teh usgistan got more education at work than in "college".
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, i wonder if anyone appreciates just how much their social skills, and generally speaking mental kernel improved as a result of interaction with #trilema.
mircea_popescu: explain this to the agent in question.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform am i getting a thing from you then ?
mircea_popescu: and in other "better industrial machineries and processes", http://66.media.tumblr.com/eebe12d3bf4392541e286d6260e3c5d9/tumblr_nia5igC37I1trwqu4o1_400.gif
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
adlai: no, i tried building the shit and it failed. but you asked a silly question, so i gave a silly answer
adlai will then specify in his resume that he only worked with CLR, not CPP proper
ben_vulpes: or so they tell me
ben_vulpes: yeah so there's a linux to compile as well
adlai: dude i'm http://thebitcoin.foundation/trb-howto.html - ing
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-04#1552529 << if i have a foggy notion of what you're undertaking you're probably compiling a linux kernel and a mountain of other things as well
adlai: GOD FUCKING DAMNIT https://github.com/FairCoinTeam/fair-coin/issues/14 DOESN'T ACTUALLY EXPLAIN HOW THE DUDE FIXED IT SHIT
adlai: t400 is the hardware. lenovo
adlai is stuck on the same error, trying to massage it with cppisms but... yuck
adlai: but i still can't build the silly offline trb doodad!
a111: Logged on 2016-10-04 04:10 pete_dushenski: in other holy cramolies i've never seen more than ~30 connections to laocoon but he's been maintaining 66-67 all day. werd.
adlai: /usr/bin/ranlib ../../libcrypto.a || echo Never mind. << these people
trinque: ftr I put that comment there. used to be that rotor lacked a -e and so would pass over the boost failing targets silently. while we don't use them, the `|| true` certainly has to go
adlai: asciilifeform: this is what happened to him: "The board of directors of Silvervault O?? has decided to close the operations. We expect the closure to be on effect June 2016, until which you may pick-up or sell your silver. Fixings will only be conducted on Thursdays. Thank you for the 5 years together, and sorry for the market turning against us!"
jhvh1: 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
jhvh1: 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
adlai: why, i think he'd rather take it as a compliment
pete_dushenski: adlai: primary side effect is richard serra wincing in paint at the shot across his 'participatory art' bow.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski doesn't know the 'elephant' ?
adlai: "For ???America??? Cattelan replaced the toilet in this restroom with a fully functional replica" ... functional? no side effects?
a111: Logged on 2016-09-16 16:45 asciilifeform: 'The long-planned participatory (shall we say) sculpture by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan — a fully functional, solid 18-karat-gold copy of a Kohler toilet, an over-the-top apotheosis of wealth — was installed in the humble restroom on the fifth-floor ramp of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum late last week and will be open for business to anyone with the urge on Friday...'
trinque: I'll look into it tomorrow in either case.
pete_dushenski: on either account i'm not entirely sure i have any quarrels
pete_dushenski: nfi why not the bitfinex lulz. mebbe deedbot decided it was neither funny enough nor important enough
pete_dushenski: trinque: ya, i recall mod6 going through the whole offline build deeding. took ages but it worked.
pete_dushenski: in other holy cramolies i've never seen more than ~30 connections to laocoon but he's been maintaining 66-67 all day. werd.
trinque still wondering when the acid superintelligence will kick in for adlai
trinque: oh man this guy with the jokes
adlai: pete_dushenski: say what you're trying to say in plain simple language, not chomsky-implicationshish-whateverthefuck
a111: Logged on 2016-10-04 02:02 adlai suddenly corrects himself -- pete_dushenski was not part of the highlight. whether he was a member of the can-encrypt set, is a matter too deep to reversee in /me's current state
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-04#1552304 << holy cramoly confoozed much ? deedbot is trinque's not ben_vulpes' and anyone in deedbot's l2 can !!deed (even though that pdf i tried to deed in http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-23#1547765 never fertilised the egg).
adlai: this is like the fi'th time tonite
mod6: bah, sorry for the redundancy.
mod6: here's the list, that corresponds to the trb-howto.html corresponds to: http://thebitcoin.foundation/v/patches/
adlai: maybe emacs is to blame, wouldn't be the first time
mod6: im not sure what you've got going on there adlai, but you're missing a bunch of vpatches
mod6: what seems to be the problem?
adlai: mod6: the shit fails, i'm trying to figure out why, but meanwhile, it's deeded - whatever that's worth
a111: Logged on 2016-10-03 19:18 mircea_popescu: we are discussing very unlikely situations here. back when i was a kid, codeine as a phosophorous salt was the child cough remedy ; i took plenty ; so did other kids. did ~nothing.
trinque: put another cork in whichever hole is leaking your internal monologue
adlai: b-b-but i just opened the second!
asciilifeform: get rid of the bottle, adlai .
adlai: and that's not a fucking typo, in case you don't know the joke -- "how did arafat die? suacide"
adlai: dude i've lived^H^H^Hread the trilema article on suacide
adlai: arguably - spamatron is the most important "bitcoin 2.0" app
mircea_popescu: the reference is to eric raymond
adlai: sorry for reappearing so soon after "bbl", but - what does 'esr rich' mean? i struggled not-too-longago with a friend telling me "oh yes, that's shit that 'people with money' have in their house" (over random crap my idiot dad had), so... pray, what is "esr rich"?
asciilifeform: he is currently employed, or last i knew, providing 'mathematical' flavouring to 'power rangers' of various stripes.
asciilifeform: he is omnipresent in the circle adlai linked to
asciilifeform: now the dough is running short
adlai has seen him on youtube, this is roughly the same?
asciilifeform: adlai: i have nfi why you might care, but the fella vanished long ago. and was never enwotted.
adlai: better yet, the entire key
a111: Logged on 2016-10-04 01:54 adlai really owes some meatwot guy the spamatron, could use an excuse to build it
adlai: because http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-04#1552277 -- and incidentally, i'm curious as fuck what exactly the WoT relationship between asciilifeform and kanzure is, since it sounds like maybe you know (irl!) somebody who knows him, or somesuch
asciilifeform: adlai: you could answer 'entomological', but i read the link, and it would seem like you see something in there as a worthwhile idea. and i would like to know what..
adlai is quite pissed that the man/child actually changed nicks to "prove a point"
adlai: AIUI (and that's capitalized for a reason -- he may disagree with me, as might any other educated reader of his papers and drafts) , there could be a system wherein clients publish blocks at some frequency, wherein some of the blocks are not valid "bitcoin-according-to-satoshi" blocks, but you still get a sense of how likely is the apparance of the next "bitcoin-as-in-satoshi" block
adlai: currently, the confirmation value has a resolution of ~minuties
mircea_popescu: as well as making a text-only client to obviate the obnoxious gfx thing
adlai suddenly corrects himself -- pete_dushenski was not part of the highlight. whether he was a member of the can-encrypt set, is a matter too deep to reversee in /me's current state
asciilifeform: other than himself
adlai: there's a worldova difference between L1 and L2
adlai: he's trying to fix the latency issue. i'm not sure it can be fixed, but he's trying.
adlai: well, the bsmprimeprimeprimeprimeprime guy has been publishing reasonably intelligent material for a while
adlai: (ftr - guy paid me to write it, i didn't, sent back coin, he sent back 1/3 coin for the "research" i did thus far, and wants it completed someday)
adlai really owes some meatwot guy the spamatron, could use an excuse to build it
adlai: the eagles saved sam and frodo (in that order -- who even even gave a shit about the ringbearer?)
asciilifeform: wallowing with the eagles, i see
asciilifeform: also does the thing really ~need~ gnu, or would mesa on a fast cpu suffice
a111: Logged on 2016-10-03 18:26 mircea_popescu: if anyone is inclined to maintain forks of any linux distro (much in the manner of trb - to clean, not to "support"/utf/systemd/etc) we can prolly work something out.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-03#1551840 << here's a thought - mircea_popescu , didja ever consider having the game come on ~bootable dvd~ ?! 1980s this-floppy-is-game-and-its-os style.
mircea_popescu: and in other highschool, http://67.media.tumblr.com/70eae367a99ceeb30555b43e865a227f/tumblr_n6e73uWk1q1r6lsuho1_400.gif
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2016/the-latest-lolz-from-the-department-of-state/ << Trilema - The latest lolz from the Department of State
mircea_popescu: for a moment there i thought kerry was diagnosed with cancer and is leaving his diamonds to orphans or somesuch
asciilifeform: mother africa cries!11111111
mircea_popescu: "I am Mr. John Forbes Kerry, United States Secretary of State by profession. This is to inform you officially that after our investigations with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other Security Agencies in the Country for the year ended 2015, we discovered that you have not receive your fund."
mircea_popescu: in other lulz,
mircea_popescu: the wonderment is how much of the crap to preserve on the way there and in which order
trinque: this handily solves the "I linked this motherfucking item in this state" not "well y'know, it used to be over here ..."
trinque: the browser and "cache" is replaced by a proper database which stacks these items and creates a www locally. whether items were retained would be a matter of implementation (perhaps some measure of proximity to one's own wot, or the operator having given the item his V-tronic seal)
trinque: atop gossipd I think the *entire* "this website" thing goes, replaced by "I would like the thing identified by hash ..., do my friends have it?"
trinque: it's a second place for namespacing aside the URL, which ~is simply wwwcruft
mircea_popescu: trinque yeah thinking about it i am not sure we actually wish to salvage that particular aspect altogether. do we ?
mircea_popescu: i have plenty spare ; i guess in my head it's a thing in the vein of the megawatt standard.
mircea_popescu: ie, the ip sharing aspect of dns you mean ?
trinque: how otherwise to abandon using DNS?
mircea_popescu: there's better ways to handle passwords than to ask people to alias things
ben_vulpes: if you hit the ip raw that's all you'll get
ben_vulpes: and in other recent lolz, a block just came through with 2 transactions in it including the coinbase
pete_dushenski: bbl. !!ratings removed from directory until further notice from trinque.
scriba: Something went wrong while attempting to read the log.
pete_dushenski: sorry, nelly got away from me there
ben_vulpes: i'm fair loathe to make more entries in an informal, non-republican dht
ben_vulpes: it's in the deedbot link on faq
trinque: isn't on there though, gimme sec ben_vulpes
a111: Logged on 2016-10-03 20:49 mircea_popescu: who the fuck meditates.
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: http://trilema.com/2016/the-lordship-list-third-year-on-trilema-this-time/ ?
mircea_popescu: and in other rap news, http://66.media.tumblr.com/56c2e25b663d2159e09edaadb9191b8e/tumblr_nb24e741rw1qc2yxpo1_1280.jpg
a111: Logged on 2016-10-03 22:22 asciilifeform: the second prong of this, as described in the leaked mit slides last year, is to declare unbelted coin 'terrorist' and simultaneously shitcoin it from use at coinbase, bitpay, etc.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-03 16:46 mircea_popescu: how is it that the republic can do just fine progressing at the clip of its own progress, no faster than that, nor slower ; and that while we don't specifically wnat to "do things" or set goals, nevertheless we do things and achieve (other people's) goals ?
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-03#1551791 << no quarterly forecasts. no 'double-digit growth estimated'. and yet... there's growth aplenty. in spades.
scriba: Something went wrong while attempting to read the log.
scriba: Something went wrong while attempting to read the log.
mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20161003/#618 << it's diana not dina ; it's coman not corman and its !~ not $$. but otherwise totally lol.
pete_dushenski: in other panics, https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/30/nasa-new-zodiac-sign-ophiuchus-astrology-space
scriba: Something went wrong while attempting to read the log.
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: diggin it. not even a huge wu-tang fan either.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: lol you're joking rite. no city ? anywhere ? try THE ENTIRETY of airstrip one. the whole thing. it's one big trap of 'time from a to b should be =<x or else ticket mailed to house'
ben_vulpes: "fuck i look like? i'm lookin for a bitch that can fuck right, cook right. and if not, then left foot, right, get to steppin, yeah bitch walk like."
asciilifeform: (incidentally, this principle is applicable - fundamental theorem of calculus!111 - to all speed traps - police could simply observe that your license plate appeared on street S1 too soon after it was seen on street S0 ! BUT observe, this is done in no city anywhere.)
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: in other "peak hip hop": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOzt_uPV-xA feat a young nikki and wayne sampling his own damn self
asciilifeform: the 'sporting' aspect.
asciilifeform: instead, there are 6 police cars working in shifts, with TRADITIONAL radar...
asciilifeform: BUT they do not do this.
asciilifeform: (there is no other way to pay the toll, and license plate cameras look for deadheads)
asciilifeform: several years ago, a massive toll road opened where i live. if you go on it from one end to the other, you go through a dozen or so rfid arches.
asciilifeform: so they are given 'sporting chance'
asciilifeform: there is an imho interesting dynamic in speedtraps though, where the enforcement is never permitted to become ideal, or folks will simply drive very slowly and commerce grinds to a halt
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: the linked item appears to feature a normal radar thing
asciilifeform: at the very least because mircea_popescu will only believe it if somebody other than asciilifeform says 'won't work'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: from my own experiments, and i hate to be the one to rain on the 'cheap blaster' parade - ir laser does not go far outdoors in the air. unless said air is peculiarly dry.
ben_vulpes: part of the 'catalogue of hardware for asymmetric statal combat'
asciilifeform: (i will point out, it is not necessary for camera 'a' and 'b' to be sprouting from the same cabinet, though afaik they usually do)
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: what do you need to get started on the commission ? time, money, both ?
pete_dushenski is quite enjoying "jay"'s 4.6l all-aluminum v8 atm now that he's commuting more. a radar detector is now near the top of the shopping list (yes, they're legal here)
ben_vulpes: good lines scattered about. otherwise, entirely meh.
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: aha. listened to 'no ceilings' maybe 6 months ago for the first time and was relatively unimpressed. on the other hand i just found an unlabeled cd in my car that turned out to be 'drought iii' and i'm currently quite enjoying the walk down memory lane.
asciilifeform: the second prong of this, as described in the leaked mit slides last year, is to declare unbelted coin 'terrorist' and simultaneously shitcoin it from use at coinbase, bitpay, etc.
asciilifeform: the enemy is dull, but not so dull that he does not grasp the most hospitable place on the tank's armour to stick the mine onto. i.e. lock up as much coin as possible behind chastity belts of whatever possible kind.
a111: Logged on 2014-11-13 19:06 asciilifeform: bip64, aside from complicating the protocol and giving relevance to the gavin shitgang, is also a jam-tomorrow chumpatronic engineering structural element
asciilifeform: and the release. Once the command is produced, it is fully authoritative and proxy custodians must obey.' << ahahahaha will this idiocy never die
asciilifeform: 'We define algorithmic proxy custody as the automatic custody of cryptocurrency by a set of parties, where the release of cryptocurrency in custody is at least partially controlled by approval signals generated by programs run by these parties, and where programs base their approvals on the observation of a consensus for the release in another secondary blockchain, and the secondary blockchain has authoritative responsibility to comm
gabriel_laddel: dina_corman: I don't have the disk space to download all of them, but if you could get all the funtoo stage3 tarballs too, would be great.
ben_vulpes saw, refilled the backup wtf tank
asciilifeform: (c programmer assumes that 'i am sitting on the metal' and ergo anything he is not seeing, is not in the picture)
mircea_popescu: hey, to revisit the previous discussion,
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: see also the 'c thread' from earlier today, for more of same.
ben_vulpes: fudgepacker, not in the sexual sense but in the sense of going overboard packing shit too tightly where it didn't matter and not thinking rigorously about ~anything that did
trinque: henceforth working on trb was known throughout the land as "doughfucking"
mircea_popescu: for all the respectable folk who like me do not even wish to entertain ben_vulpes ' crazy shit stick, here's http://66.media.tumblr.com/9d05f4cbccceb87877c4c1e8d693b456/tumblr_inline_n4vcjtU6Px1qjk6pl.gif
ben_vulpes: on a different topic am i crazy or are bitcoin /pubkeys/ serialized in the blockchain big-endianly and /ripmd160 pubkey hashes/ serialized little-endianly?
adlai: goodnight and shana tova to all the kikes reading along
a111: Logged on 2015-11-19 16:19 mircea_popescu: specifically, that there are two kids of people : the addicts, who aren't people, and the actual people.
trinque: am I supposed to buy homeopathic cures from you on the same grounds?
trinque: adlai: you still didn't define the fucking precise benefit
adlai has yet to find a chemical which truly makes him more productive, long term. so far they've all been 'addiction'
adlai: mekhashel. means roughly, "makes you stronger, short of the irreducible strength attained by having your obituary written"
mircea_popescu: and the word is something like "mis'r" ?
a111: Logged on 2016-09-17 06:15 trinque: ordeal is therapeutic; psychdelics maybe if they cause a beneficial ordeal
adlai: the gist of the paraphrase is that some chemicals have an effect on the human brain which is not reducible to "now you will be less inhibited"
mircea_popescu: who the fuck meditates.
trinque: I've done acid something like 10 times. Where was the something interesting?
adlai: does it count as evading if i explain my paraphrase rather than citing strunk and white?
a111: Logged on 2016-10-03 19:15 asciilifeform: most folks off the street, if given whatever dope you like, will not - apparently - take to it.
adlai: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-03#1551909 << in this case, i'm gonna "blame the mice", or in other words -- and i can't find the exact 'logs' here, but it's iirc Leary -- "you can meditate for ten years and achieve nothing, but take a decimated milligram of lysergic acid dimethylamide, and something interesting is guaranteed to happen"
adlai: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-03#1551821 << after reading preceding thread (and i must say: machine code logs > all other logs), i now wonder if i'm not a lisp programmer, nor a cl programmer, nor even an sbcl or ccl programmer, but a "ql:quickload programmer"
mircea_popescu: no point wasting effort with the current variety ; unless one's trying to learn.
asciilifeform: you either -- make your own cards, or reverse somebody else's, tertium non datur.
mircea_popescu: at which point making a proiper driver for the bn unit singleitem will make sense
mircea_popescu: myeah. that's the other thing - once the "r&d" pretense goes away, vidcards will definitely go the way of ram, as hdds went before it. ie, centralization, 1 place in asia where they're all made, all the same.
asciilifeform: card of the day.
asciilifeform: btw this is one of the potential uses for ice probe
mircea_popescu: and it seems the high water was cca 2010, not improving.
asciilifeform: one of the reasons i'm not playing eulora.
mircea_popescu: to be honest, i do not think the current "open source" has five years left in it.
mircea_popescu: anyway ; a large portion of these problems (there's also a threading fuckup or two, and other things) have to do with the miserable quality of the legacy codebase (like http://trilema.com/2016/minigame-smg-september-2016-statement/#selection-931.0-931.47 miserable).
asciilifeform: (lusers who get auto-updated 'new kernel' etc do not notice the new chip. which often is sold with the same laser markings, even, as the old, not even speaking of the actual model number)
jurov: Oh, windows is completely other can of nastiness. You can count on directx being kinda stable, but the incessant updates are prone to break anything else.
asciilifeform: point being that next year, their cards will eventually be whatever was common in usa in '07, roughly. and the next - '08. etc
a111: Logged on 2016-10-03 15:36 shinohai: So that's what that stick he is carrying in the new trilema banner is for.
asciilifeform: this is artifact of the turd world being ~decade behind the planned-obsolescence curve.
mircea_popescu: and my 2004 vintage card is not even the oldest ; not by a long shot.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what are your players playing on ? i personally have very little idea, except that i notice that you support winblows and ergo some substantial number of them are lusers. and may well be 'walking into shop, buy lappy'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it being dead has not discouraged chip vendors from shuffling the cards every year.
mircea_popescu: the moore is dead. it's just as dead here as it was when i killed gavin with it. dead is dead, and objective reality means universal properties.