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ben_vulpes: someone took pity on me in the warehouse as i worked my way through quarter inch plate with a hand cutter and provided me with an acetylene torch.

ben_vulpes: for at least a whole year.

ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i did.

ben_vulpes: *foomp*

ben_vulpes: hey at least you're not trying to cut steel with diamond bits.

ben_vulpes: mhm.

ben_vulpes: hahahahahahaha

ben_vulpes: al's fucking butter

ben_vulpes: yes well that does make life easier haw

ben_vulpes: oh.

ben_vulpes: carbides?

ben_vulpes: the hack was finding the sweet spot in race/bearing hardnesses.

ben_vulpes: there are a few different hardnesses one can achieve.

ben_vulpes: 'twasn't *that* expensive.

ben_vulpes: meh.

ben_vulpes: we just cut slowly.

ben_vulpes: that we hardened ourselves

ben_vulpes: out of hardened steel no less

ben_vulpes: we made our own spinning fin cans at one point! garage bearing races of... 0.2m diameter!

ben_vulpes: 'twas a fine introduction to what could be done in a garage without the military overhead.

ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: minuteman << did you ever read into the 'amateur' rocketry group with whom i dorked around for a while in undergrad?

ben_vulpes: wd

ben_vulpes: whoa, all statically linked?

ben_vulpes: perhaps of that scale.

ben_vulpes: 10x.

ben_vulpes: imagining -> expecting

ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: re 4004: i'm imagining devices at least 10x that scale.

ben_vulpes: mod6: what are you running tonight?

ben_vulpes: if the goal is "compute by the yard", make more yards, not smaller compute.

ben_vulpes: customary densities are a product of red queen dynamics.

ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> [] but to somehow lay out electrical logic elements at the customary densities without resort to a $1B factory. << for the record, this is a hobble.

ben_vulpes: safe and secure in the ca government's hands.

ben_vulpes: fuck joseph david.

ben_vulpes: re: cavirtex hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

ben_vulpes: ty nevertheless

ben_vulpes: just 'cause this one has css doesn't change the selection process.

ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i did learn how to read a datasheet in the mines.

ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: in what interesting and special ways *does* it suck?

ben_vulpes: <3

ben_vulpes: waaaaa

ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> i'm renting a physical (yes) box for ~25 usd / mo << wherewherewhere

ben_vulpes: myes, i've been brutalized by it.

ben_vulpes: now, i beg pardon for my ignorance, but could not this model be adapted to the cd rw?

ben_vulpes: as the chains moved through the boxes, the boxes flipped bits on each link

ben_vulpes: i recall a story from a stephenson book, about a machine that computed with chains run through computing boxes

ben_vulpes: also, depends on the degree of cleanliness required.

ben_vulpes: 500 - whole buildings

ben_vulpes: "garbage fab"

ben_vulpes: ^

ben_vulpes: ;;ud hooby

ben_vulpes: BE USEFUL

ben_vulpes: yeah learn you a common lisp or something

ben_vulpes: such a cheery morning to you all!

ben_vulpes: ratings season!

ben_vulpes: they do anyways

ben_vulpes: let 'em squirm

ben_vulpes: perhaps next time i take a whack at my bush i'll sculpt it into a cockbrow

ben_vulpes: i was hoping for a /mircea_popescu eyes a cockbrow

ben_vulpes: that one was for you

ben_vulpes: people copying content have no taste

ben_vulpes: nah man this goes back to why a btc torrent thinger isn't worthwhile

ben_vulpes cocks an eyebrow

ben_vulpes: yet trivially available on UToob

ben_vulpes: i have no context or anything to judge music against.

ben_vulpes: no, i said i have no idea if it's any good.

ben_vulpes: well and how would you know?

ben_vulpes: 'tisn't as though i ever had good taste in music beat into me.

ben_vulpes: how would I know...

ben_vulpes: from the piracy lulzmine: Patton's /Peeping Tom/ is nowhere to be found on the public trackers, yet trivially available on UToob

ben_vulpes: stahp it hurts

ben_vulpes: unsurprisingly.

ben_vulpes: this is ridiculous on the face of it, but young american men are more interested in solving simple nonexistent problems with tech than solving big complex hairy ones.

ben_vulpes: just the USian bias - herr presidente sez no guns, ergo it's impossible to get guns

ben_vulpes: sorry for wacky posts, arms are jelly from pushups

ben_vulpes: by april"

ben_vulpes: hm there's the "any exit

ben_vulpes: nm nm

ben_vulpes: rejected grexit bets

ben_vulpes: punkman: links plz?

ben_vulpes: grexit nao?

ben_vulpes: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-16/euro-area-finance-ministers-talks-with-greece-break-up-on-rift << grexit when

ben_vulpes: fukkin fukkin fukkin

ben_vulpes: fukkin clients

ben_vulpes: fukkin cashflow

ben_vulpes: fukkin pay as you go taxes

ben_vulpes: fukkin payroll

ben_vulpes: split?

ben_vulpes: 'fyiad' << worst part about living here is the misery endured to scrape food credits together

ben_vulpes: qa for the foundation - what a gig

ben_vulpes: and my poor aws instance is laaaaaboring

ben_vulpes: and a more-or-less patched-up-to-date-with-mailing-list dynamically linked build

ben_vulpes: i'm endeavoring to sync a portatronic build

ben_vulpes: 0.7.2.W

ben_vulpes: do you even have your keys handy?

ben_vulpes: !up pete_dushenski

ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: i'll let you know when i get there

ben_vulpes: good job, boys.

ben_vulpes: so the towelheads humilated kaspersky, sending him to twitter for help?

ben_vulpes: dictionary* attacks i mean to say.

ben_vulpes: man security world must be even more esl than i was given to understand

ben_vulpes: password attacks don't cross languages?

ben_vulpes: ;;later tell the_scourge hey ninjashogun managed to crap more lines into the log over a longer time than you. howzat feel?

ben_vulpes: there was this hilarious embedded ram arms race

ben_vulpes: also had all the sony cd players that did mp3s before portable hdds were a thing

ben_vulpes: also had a creative jukebox

ben_vulpes: cazalla: i had a rio riot

ben_vulpes: twice!

ben_vulpes: i'm in the top 12 for the past twelve months

ben_vulpes: HAH

ben_vulpes: which reminds me: http://stats.bitcoin-assets.com/

ben_vulpes: gotta leave something between the lines.

ben_vulpes: now ives is steering things and they're trumpeting their solar deals, working on 'watches' and spreading rumors about tesla acquisitions.

ben_vulpes: apple only worked because there was one guy at the helm.

ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: what, you think i don't get this?

ben_vulpes: had a great internal db.

ben_vulpes: and it was *fast*

ben_vulpes: glowed this beautiful neon orange.

ben_vulpes: the buttons were physically separated from the scroll wheel

ben_vulpes: this was actually the best design they ever produced.

ben_vulpes: ah, no it's there

ben_vulpes: http://www.atpm.com/9.08/ipod.shtml << here we go

ben_vulpes: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT1353 << this page is actually omitting the best ipod that was ever released

ben_vulpes: http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-COLLECTORS-Apple-iPod-classic-2ND-Generation-MAC-10-GB-ORIGINAL-BOX-/181536114101?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a446545b5

ben_vulpes: i gave one away recently

ben_vulpes: aw, really?

ben_vulpes: i used nearly every mpwhater whatever object during that time

ben_vulpes: those early ipods were phenomenally well designed.

ben_vulpes: http://www.goethe.de/ges/umw/prj/kuk/fot/roj/enindex.htm << apropos of nothing, really

ben_vulpes: whatever the fuck that means

ben_vulpes: 12.0.1.26

ben_vulpes: baffling.

ben_vulpes: this is topologically identical to the "Surface" shitshow, where when the retarded windows touch ui gets in your way you can get rid of it and go back to classic windows, with which one interacts with a stylus.

ben_vulpes: and the old ui returns, nearly unmolested

ben_vulpes: if you switch to "songs" view then the right arrow does the expected thing

ben_vulpes: oh wait

ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: highlights the next album, displaying its tracklist.

ben_vulpes: another amusing tidbit from apple's wholesale collapse in quality on the desktop: no longer does the right arrow in iToonz skip to the next track.

ben_vulpes: now there's a great conspiraci(!) theory

ben_vulpes: these unqualified pronouns don't work too well

ben_vulpes: mmeyer: "it" << what, though?

ben_vulpes: !up Vexual

ben_vulpes: <mmeyer> quite in here << you did make it, yes :P

ben_vulpes: mmeyer, eh?

ben_vulpes: 'tis another knob to turn. if instead of rewriting the bastard storage mechanism, one could leverage the network protocol to reduce the number of bastards per wad sent over the wire, it might alleviate some pain.

ben_vulpes: re: bastards, has anyone experimented with the number of blocks requested?

ben_vulpes: i'd no idea, actually.

ben_vulpes: ah ha

ben_vulpes: what does it buy one?

ben_vulpes: Adlai: what's the goal of running multiple bots in the same lisp image?

ben_vulpes: oh the life of a webdev monkey

ben_vulpes: comment blocks left unchanged

ben_vulpes: variable names changed

ben_vulpes: found thirty lines copied 3 times each

ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> shoul;dn't that really be a function/object/we ? << being a bit sarcastic here boss

ben_vulpes: reusable code means code you can copy and paste elsewhere in your codebase

ben_vulpes: i dismiss the upgrade notification each and ev-er-y day.

ben_vulpes: PeterL: kudos to you

ben_vulpes: .1 btc sez it's because i refuse to upgrade to 10.10

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