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(trilema) nubbins`: yeah, sure
(trilema) nubbins`: am i incorrect in that AM etc early models essentially just baked an FPGA design?
(trilema) nubbins`: ^ you buy a butchered pig, the farmer's keeping your tenderloin tips.
(trilema) nubbins`: everyone who just saw $$$ stopped thinking
(trilema) nubbins`: why would you? everyone who bothered to think knew
(trilema) nubbins`: recall Avalons showing up w/ mining pool info left in config files etc
(trilema) nubbins` wanders off in search of thread
(trilema) nubbins`: hm, asicminer fraudulently produced ASIC production?
(trilema) nubbins`: i designed some posters this week: http://imgur.com/a/QhwUN
(trilema) nubbins`: no kidding, hey.
(trilema) nubbins`: what's new?
(trilema) nubbins`: ok, actually have to throw printer out window. seeya
(trilema) nubbins`: had hoped to get the other 2 colours down today, but..
(trilema) nubbins`: printed some cool SHARKS today, tho
(trilema) nubbins`: good thing i've gotten 0 accomplished since 2pm
(trilema) nubbins`: why in the fuck is the yellow print head printing black ink?
(trilema) nubbins`: hey, if you're in the other washington, china is to the west
(trilema) nubbins`: where specialty coffee is not delivered to your door twice monthly, but within walking distance
(trilema) nubbins`: maybe you need to move to a new city ;p
(trilema) nubbins`: and i've got a two-minute walk.
(trilema) nubbins`: i'm not sure why i'm trying to help you find a solution
(trilema) nubbins`: if your complaint is that the thing you want is not literally within 10 minutes of your home
(trilema) nubbins`: or do you only eat bread from sandwich shops?
(trilema) nubbins`: you'd actually have to -- gasp -- go buy the beans
(trilema) nubbins`: right in DC
(trilema) nubbins`: "coffee subscriptions" are a thing, even.
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform there are plenty of small-batch gourmet roasters that sell online
(trilema) nubbins`: and nobody in bogota can ;)
(trilema) nubbins`: phun phact, you have to pay TransFair $0.10 for each coffee bag you print the "fair trade" logo on
(trilema) nubbins`: (sweet maria's often makes deals direct with farmers, bypassing "fair trade" and the requisite fee structure while also giving farmers more of the money for themselves)
(trilema) nubbins`: compare with most of central america, ethiopia, and others, where you can go to an actual farm and say "i want THESE beans" and receive said beans
(trilema) nubbins`: colombia: all coffee sold through government ("juan valdez"), always blended to produce well-rounded, nice, but uninteresting cups
(trilema) nubbins`: kenya, for example: all coffee is sold through government auction, where the beans are sorted not by quality, original, processing method, etc but by SIZE.
(trilema) nubbins`: this is done different ways in different places.
(trilema) nubbins`: precisely so
(trilema) nubbins`: Yirga Cheffe is hands-down my favourite coffee origin
(trilema) nubbins`: ^ a great place to start if you're curious
(trilema) nubbins`: if you like your beans dark
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform a roast takes ~6 minutes in a popper
(trilema) nubbins`: later, i re-wired a breadmaking machine and heatgun combo into a roaster
(trilema) nubbins`: low volume tho. 1/4cup at a time.
(trilema) nubbins`: ($12 hit-air popcorn popper is a very capable roaster)
(trilema) nubbins`: roast 'em at home.
(trilema) nubbins`: green ones.
(trilema) nubbins`: top quality
(trilema) nubbins`: i used to buy beans from sweetmarias.com
(trilema) nubbins`: turns out coffee has incredibly complex flavours
(trilema) nubbins`: it's all about single-origin these days
(trilema) nubbins`: blends are lame
(trilema) nubbins`: !s the buggers held full control
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform this is the guy w/ the ramblings i occasionally post
(trilema) nubbins`: would not eat
(trilema) nubbins`: (was at friend's house one hung-over morning. his wife places chocolate chip pancakes on table in front of him. he starts chewing, massive crunching sounds. i raise eyebrow; "coffee beans", he says)
(trilema) nubbins`: hell, most humans won't eat coffee
(trilema) nubbins`: most won't eat it
(trilema) nubbins`: or even that next year's batch will be fit to drink
(trilema) nubbins`: doesn't mean all coffee from that region is great
(trilema) nubbins`: and just because a farm had a great crop one year
(trilema) nubbins`: too stupid to realize that coffee is produce
(trilema) nubbins`: people buying a name
(trilema) nubbins`: jamaican blue mountain, same shit
(trilema) nubbins`: but i've never seen a serious coffee cupper give kopi luwak more than a 7/10
(trilema) nubbins`: i guess the intestinal juices / fermenting impart a flavour
(trilema) nubbins`: nowadays, the animals are force-fed so you might as well feed the beans to a cow.
(trilema) nubbins`: picks the choicest ones
(trilema) nubbins`: the animal naturally likes coffee cherries
(trilema) nubbins`: and sell the beans for $150/lb
(trilema) nubbins`: pick the intestinal worms out of the diarrhoea
(trilema) nubbins`: kopi luwak = let's take some weasels, cage them, force feed them shit-quality coffee
(trilema) nubbins`: 0/10, would not buy
(trilema) nubbins`: shinohai Kopi Luwak is 100% for rubes
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform actually not!
(trilema) nubbins`: phun phact, beans are shipped green from source and roasted at destination
(trilema) nubbins`: real coffee shops filter their water
(trilema) nubbins`: people in brooklyn
(trilema) nubbins`: maybe you could open one
(trilema) nubbins`: phf maybe there is!
(trilema) nubbins`: because of drive-thru bozos spilling out of the parking lot and into the road
(trilema) nubbins`: it's a regular occurrence these past few years for Timmy's drive-thrus to have to be rebuilt to accomodate more traffic
(trilema) nubbins`: people love it
(trilema) nubbins`: it's actual swill
(trilema) nubbins`: phf same thing with Tim Horton's in canada
(trilema) nubbins`: BingoBoingo: even the impression that powdered cheese belongs is a bad one
(trilema) nubbins`: mats it was a bit light on the actual tech stuff for my liking
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform ^
(trilema) nubbins`: mats i enjoyed it
(trilema) nubbins`: the experience-seller waited until the end of the convo to tell us that she'd be listing the house $30k below market value and if we didn't like that, find someone else
(trilema) nubbins`: i'll do x, i'll do y, i won't do z, here's a tote bag
(trilema) nubbins`: second one spent a fuckin hour selling us on the experience of selling our house through her
(trilema) nubbins`: first one was very businesslike: what's the house like, how big, how much you wanna sell it for
(trilema) nubbins`: we were thinking about selling P's house a few months ago. talked to a couple of realtors
(trilema) nubbins`: ;;google trappings of power site:thelastpsychiatrist.com
(trilema) nubbins`: they think they're drinking it.
(trilema) nubbins`: starbucks drinkers do not realize that the real thing exists
(trilema) nubbins`: why would a rapper buy a ferrari instead of some GICs?
(trilema) nubbins`: why would anyone want the trappings of power instead of the real thing?
(trilema) nubbins`: starbucks is dominant because people want the experience of buying coffee more than they want coffee.
(trilema) nubbins`: but really it's so they can swap out bean X for bean Y in Holiday Blend and nobody notices.
(trilema) nubbins`: they claim this is so they're not selling you pesky water-containing beans but fully-dried coffee goodness
(trilema) nubbins`: starbucks roasts all beans to "second crack", which is the entry point to "dark roasts"
(trilema) nubbins`: that's because they roast all their fucking beans too dark.
(trilema) nubbins`: as someone who knows far too much about the science of coffee, starbucks is actual shit
(trilema) nubbins`: "it's good" fuck you, no it's not.
(trilema) nubbins`: people like starbucks for no good rational reason either
(trilema) nubbins`: in the sense that starbucks is rich man's coffee.
(trilema) nubbins`: srsly, NSInteger, NSString, etc
(trilema) nubbins`: cocoa API is more nextstep than anything else
(trilema) nubbins`: like an asshole
(trilema) nubbins`: i had a colleague who used to carry around his macbook air in a manila envelope
(trilema) nubbins`: we can only hope!
(trilema) nubbins`: single-use, no?
(trilema) nubbins`: i thought you couldn't even turn those back on again once they powered down.
(trilema) nubbins`: ah, a1237 = "air"?
(trilema) nubbins` has late-2008, is running second-latest OS
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform they froze support for 2009 macbooks?!
(trilema) nubbins`: macbook, still going strong. typing on it now while InDesign pumps out dead tree sheets
(trilema) nubbins`: so it's essentially frozen in time
(trilema) nubbins`: ipad sorta sucks now because it can't run the latest iOS and essentially zero new apps target the old versions
(trilema) nubbins`: ended up with an iphone, ipad, macbook...
(trilema) nubbins`: for a time, i developed "app store" apps as a hobby
(trilema) nubbins`: jobs is marginally interesting for having fessed up to LSD usage, but as i understand it was generally a piece of shit otherwise
(trilema) nubbins`: fairly unlikely at this point tho.
(trilema) nubbins`: at some point in my life, i'd like to require the rewinding of a motor
(trilema) nubbins`: i like this guy
(trilema) nubbins`: “Usually people just go for the motor,” says Bleyle.
(trilema) nubbins`: Bleyle admits that repairs can be pricey, especially hand-rewinding a DC motor, which can run between US $30 000 and $40 000. But he says even a refurbished motor looks cheap compared with the $500 000 cost of replacing the elevator, not to mention the months of involuntary stair climbing during the upgrade.
(trilema) nubbins`: memory fails me.
(trilema) nubbins`: or was it the pneumatic water-based lift thing
(trilema) nubbins`: i vaguely recall this
(trilema) nubbins` can't keep track
(trilema) nubbins`: and windows uh, what is it now? 10?
(trilema) nubbins`: and we're all using AC
(trilema) nubbins`: nowadays they're riding the wave
(trilema) nubbins`: once the foot's in the door, sure, act changes
(trilema) nubbins`: nobody wanted windows, they wanted the experience of being dazzled by shiny things
(trilema) nubbins`: i find people don't want X so much as they want the experience of choosing/buying/being sold X
(trilema) nubbins`: smooth talkers win more often than not
(trilema) nubbins`: having a bad tech day and reminiscing about nightmares past isn't helping
(trilema) nubbins`: anyway i gotta fuck off talking about that
(trilema) nubbins` facepalms thrice, runs out of hands, uses desk
(trilema) nubbins`: Site myWeb = new Site(); would create....
(trilema) nubbins`: Web mySite = new Web(); would create a Site object
(trilema) nubbins`: but of course they didn't update the API
(trilema) nubbins`: and then literally reversed a bunch of the terms in the next version, so a site was now a web and a web was now a site
(trilema) nubbins`: they also reappropriated all these general words like "Site" and "Web" and gave them specific definitions
(trilema) nubbins`: move over CSV, P/SCSV is the new kid in town
(trilema) nubbins`: no kidding, every now and then some internal piece of code would return an array of strings as a single, very large string, with entries separated by the escape string "#;"
(trilema) nubbins`: for a while i was paid to develop bespoke widgets for "microsoft sharepoint", a CMS/DMS that is the biggest piece of shit you'll never see
(trilema) nubbins`: dogecoin belongs in a "classic hype machines of the information age" textbook
(trilema) nubbins`: mircea_popescu asciilifeform "physical doge" was totally a thing. iirc copper rounds?
(trilema) nubbins`: somehow: 100+ chars, no mistakes
(trilema) nubbins`: fingers mashing everywhere
(trilema) nubbins`: i coulda SWORN i just typed in my pgp passphrase completely and utterly wrong
(trilema) nubbins`: muscle memory is a weird thing
(trilema) nubbins`: dem brush tips
(trilema) nubbins`: not my thing but from what i hear, yeah
(trilema) nubbins`: look at that fucking press go
(trilema) nubbins`: nah, can't pantone match em ;)
(trilema) nubbins`: each one smelling of old leather, rustic tobacco, strawberry, green mould, etc
(trilema) nubbins`: cazalla, having a pantone book is like having a suitcase full of vials with "essence of ____" written on the labels
(trilema) nubbins`: the black dots are the ~1,200 colours in the pantone matching system
(trilema) nubbins`: the area inside the pink blob can be reproduced via CMYK (i.e. printed products)
(trilema) nubbins`: the area inside the yellow triangle can be reproduced via sRGB (i.e. on your computer screen)
(trilema) nubbins`: the large coloured shape is the colour space of a standard human eye
(trilema) nubbins`: here's a diagram some may find interesting
(trilema) nubbins`: with which all others (incl. yellow 123) can be mixed
(trilema) nubbins`: blue 072 is one of the 14 pantone base colours
(trilema) nubbins`: yellow 123 is like the blue 072 of yellows.
(trilema) nubbins`: #fdc82f for you hex colour types
(trilema) nubbins`: some of them are burned into my brain
(trilema) nubbins`: sorry, i'm just using pantone numbers
(trilema) nubbins`: yellow 123 is getting pretty popular these days
(trilema) nubbins`: now it's just a thing people do. i have a friend who painted his house neon green
(trilema) nubbins`: and the city was drab as fuck
(trilema) nubbins`: ^ before this happened, most houses were painted with leftover marine paint from boats
(trilema) nubbins`: Shane O’Dea, an expert on architectural heritage and historic preservation, said the idea of fancy window and door trim, and brightly-painted houses was born in 1977. In fact, the idea can be traced to one man, David Webber, the foundation’s executive director. In that year, the foundation took on a demonstration project by painting a sample block in bright colours, from Willicott’s Lane to Victoria Street, on both sides of the street.
(trilema) nubbins`: in 1982 the pope came here and the gov gave everybody $$ to paint their houses
(trilema) nubbins`: my house is just past the green spire in top left of frame
(trilema) nubbins`: cazalla people tend to bump up the saturation in photos but it really does look like that
(trilema) nubbins`: back on track
(trilema) nubbins`: i came up here 40 minutes ago to roll a jazz cig
(trilema) nubbins`: wow, says here installing a woodstove would double my premium
(trilema) nubbins`: translation: too many slums and boarding houses
(trilema) nubbins`: "IBAN confirmed that homeowners in the St. John’s downtown area have experienced difficulty in finding insurance coverage in the past. The reasons for this difficulty are the high concentrations of wood frame structures with varying type of occupancy and differing physical conditions."
(trilema) nubbins`: at ANY COST
(trilema) nubbins`: not able to purchase fire insurance
(trilema) nubbins`: "Another couple from St. John’s advised the Consumer Advocate that, despite numerous attempts, they had not been able to obtain insurance at any cost for the past four and a half years on their attached King’s Bridge Road property."
(trilema) nubbins`: Upon responding I was promptly told that the company would not even entertain my request due to location. I therefore was forced to accept the $763 increase.”
(trilema) nubbins`: residence.
(trilema) nubbins`: “In November 2004 the house insurance dramatically escalated from $552.00 to $1,315.60. The municipal appraisal was constant. The insurance brokers advised me that it was almost impossible to obtain insurance for a downtown, partially attached house. They advised that the new rate was the best they could obtain. I personally telephoned two other insurance companies in St. John’s. In each call I was immediately asked the location of the
(trilema) nubbins`: One gentleman from downtown St. John’s wrote to the Consumer Advocate:
(trilema) nubbins`: here's a government report from 2006
(trilema) nubbins`: not that a firewall would prevent the flames from setting your roof on fire.
(trilema) nubbins`: generally no firewalls between houses either
(trilema) nubbins`: pulling 2x4s in half with bare hands, etc
(trilema) nubbins`: i had my shingles redone 3 years ago and they found FOUR LAYERS of shingles underneath the top one. The supporting wood was dust
(trilema) nubbins`: not at all unusual to chop a roof hole in a structure fire and find another completely rotting roof underneath
(trilema) nubbins`: plenty of hidden roofs, double walls, etc
(trilema) nubbins`: most of the houses are 80-100 years old too
(trilema) nubbins`: that close proximity? :P
(trilema) nubbins`: <+gernika> ah ok - close proximity + wood got it
(trilema) nubbins`: none of the majors would even give me a quote
(trilema) nubbins`: got one 8)
(trilema) nubbins`: mine, just over 0.6
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