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[00:42:26] login hello

[00:42:53] login morning to you too

[00:43:02] login must be past midnight there though

[00:44:25] login can a beard be sexy? not universally

[00:47:59] login what made you tired, phonekait?

[00:48:51] login MatCat: if one closes their eyes, one can't tell the difference

[00:49:16] login working saturdays too? that's painful

[00:49:46] login Ryu: does she know your irc habits?

[00:51:52] login !bang is like a war in real life

[00:52:18] login totally derails things

[00:52:56] login from or to?

[00:53:31] login well, that would be too exploitative

[00:54:11] login irish666: is it a real piece or just an image of one?

[00:54:52] login they can get a visa otherwise too though

[00:55:12] login ^ is he selling the same pieces multiple times without delivering?

[00:55:55] login so it's not lost?

[00:57:18] login couldn't get through customs probably

[00:57:25] login they can't return to sender either

[00:57:41] login how would you get it released? is there a way to meet up with US customs?

[00:57:43] login *UK customs

[00:58:38] login i guess the sender didn't notify UK customs of the nature of the shipment in advance

[00:59:17] login or lied on there

[00:59:26] login Anything coming out of ukraine would be scrutinised

[01:00:09] login how do they take delivery?

[01:02:30] login if interbank gold transfers can get lost, then a piece of jet is

[01:04:30] login how do you get it released?

[01:05:39] login maybe they have sent a letter

[01:06:08] login or doing a gchq search on you

[01:07:07] login i mean, you are an arms dealer now

[01:07:18] login or at least arms collector

[01:07:35] login need licence

[01:08:37] login the uk gov is still thinking about whether the collector will or has ever dealt

[01:08:48] login that, in the us, is different

[01:09:38] login They have given up the role of defence to the government

[01:09:50] login and of policing too

[01:10:05] login maybe the jet had a special coating

[01:10:28] login beautiful, MatCat

[02:14:33] login not a clean woman?

[02:15:48] login how does one get pegged by a woman?

[02:15:59] login by her wearing a strap-on?

[02:16:25] login I did not consider those

[02:16:40] login But it's the wrong end of a kiss

[02:17:56] login is there such a thing as tongue surgery

[02:32:42] login happens if you smoke a lot i guess

[02:39:55] login talking to an llm girlfriend is just mind numbing

[02:40:32] login even talking to men on irc channels is more stimulating than talking to an llm trying to give you a girlfriend experience

[02:41:38] login i don't think computertech can feel lonely, with all his friends here

[02:42:00] login do they meet you everyday irl?

[02:42:18] login are they paid salaries ;)

[02:42:43] login oh, that's good then

[02:42:52] login and animated?

[02:44:38] login so how will you animate them? by incrementing a pointer?

[02:44:56] login or incrementing an index into a big array?

[02:48:51] login subs = subroutines?

[02:49:00] login it did not make sense to me

[02:57:52] login you're writing this in BASIC?

[02:58:37] login did you leave your phone number in the delivery address?

[02:59:35] login how does one render pixels to screen in it?

[03:02:13] login are you using version control for the code?

[03:32:09] login all the trading systems and bank software in excel

[04:05:03] login what is a baneling?

[04:05:15] login MatCat: how much did the mikes harder cost?

[04:06:35] login miami has no sales tax, right?

[04:07:04] login if you use visa debit, insert your card and put your pin in, it should be cheaper for him

[04:07:22] login after fednow is released, you'll be able to transfer it directly to his bank account instantly

[04:07:34] login or you could have used zelle or cashapp

[04:07:42] login you can't opt out

[04:07:48] login if your bank participates, you do

[04:08:13] login you will find it as ubiquitous as social security

[04:08:21] login it will be transparent to you though

[04:08:42] login do you ever transfer money to other people from your account?

[04:08:47] login or do you only use your card

[04:09:14] login in order to not use fednow, you will have to stop making small transfers from your account altogether

[04:09:34] login but the bank will still be making the facility available to you, even if you don't use it

[04:10:03] login it's just a backend system for banks to enable real-time payments to each other

[04:10:27] login MatCat: did you tell him you'll make it up to him on your next trip?

[04:10:31] login that would have smoothed things over

[04:11:21] login there is no loss of privacy - it's just a system to transfer fed reserves from one fed account (of one bank) to another in real-time (including associated metadata)

[04:11:38] login the same metadata would otherwise just be processed in 'batches' (usually 5 times a day or so)

[04:11:51] login that is still many ways away

[04:12:11] login no, it's not

[04:12:35] login that fednow is the coin is sadly common misinformation

[04:13:00] login you won't be having a direct account with the federal reserve

[04:13:58] login you know all commercial banks are effectively federal because of the parity of their banknotes?

[04:14:31] login perhaps if your state starts a gold account, you will make a state gold account?

[04:14:57] login the state will have full view of your transactions though

[04:15:18] login you won't use the USD CBDC, but fednow is not that

[04:15:51] login i guess you could keep all your cash in a safety deposit box at the bank

[04:16:01] login and use a credit card for payments

[04:16:08] login and pay the balance off with your cash

[04:16:34] login well, i guess cash is as federal as it gets - federal reserve note after all

[04:16:46] login is there even anything that holds value without downside risk?

[04:16:52] login money market fund probably

[04:17:23] login property is illiquid though

[04:17:39] login and while gold is liquid, you lose 5% transaction fee on conversion

[04:17:47] login and gold can also go down

[04:18:02] login you'd have to pay interest to make property semi-liquid via HELOC

[04:18:18] login do merchants accept gold coins?

[04:18:30] login even today, present a silver or gold coin as payment, and most people won't accept it

[04:18:40] login even though the diversication is good for them

[04:18:52] login venezuela, turkey, argentina are different

[04:19:24] login their schelling point is different

[04:19:43] login if the US dollar failed the way you say, the US military will be in trouble

[04:20:07] login and many american importers don't exactly keep gold on their balance sheets

[04:20:40] login americans might, but why doesn't it show up in the balance sheet of walmart etc.

[04:21:04] login why not? they have factories in other countries making goods etc.

[04:21:18] login the US would save the dollar by pegging it to gold again

[04:21:27] login at a different ratio

[04:21:47] login you'd be surprised at how antifragile they are

[04:22:22] login they can redenominate what they sell, and obtain vendor finance in a different currency

[04:24:11] login doesn't silver tarnish?

[04:24:36] login just use a gold alloy

[04:26:51] login if you try to take delivery of your physical gold from a canadian bank, you don't know - it may get robbed in transit

[04:27:17] login https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-gold-theft-investigation-toronto-pearson-airport/

[04:29:05] login do you mix alcohol and weed?

[04:29:29] login including ee?

[04:29:39] login while working for the US gov?

[04:30:11] login i thought it was hard to do ee work in the US outside of defence

[04:30:50] login bespoke stuff?

[04:31:04] login the chinese can do design too

[04:31:19] login there are more of them (absolute numbers) than in the US

[04:31:51] login perhaps chinese capital isn't deployed to explore ideas

[04:31:59] login because it's seen as 'wasteful'

[04:32:13] login they do seem to do well after coming to the US thoug

[04:32:30] login but the chinese are not that humble anymore

[04:32:42] login only improve it if it's worth the economic effort

[04:33:01] login that was many generations ago though

[04:33:46] login is it because of poor company culture?

[04:34:09] login his second-in-hand li qiang seems to be more pro-business though

[04:34:37] login yeah, and not in a good way either

[04:34:44] login too overbearing

[04:35:19] login they are already 2 generations in

[04:35:29] login many don't believe in socialism at all

[04:35:57] login they are putting a lot of money into doing EUV and semiconductor stuff

[04:36:53] login since the fertility rate is low, the next 2 generations will be smaller

[04:36:56] login (in absolute numbers)

[04:37:28] login yeah, my guess is they will start gender-based oppression

[04:37:35] login or having a single tax/family rebate

[04:37:56] login It all depends on the next Taiwanese election

[04:38:18] login if KMT wins, they won't invade. if tsai ing-wen wins, it's 50-50

[04:38:30] login tsmc will get blown up

[04:38:48] login my guess is, it also depends on how fast that arizona plant gets built and operational

[04:38:52] login the US will blow it up

[04:39:05] login yes, at least 5-6 years

[04:39:17] login maybe Samsung will get EUV working well

[04:39:24] login yeah, computers will rise in price

[04:39:33] login computers, gpus etc.

[04:39:47] login a smart hedge fund or pension fund will be stacking computers and GPUs now

[04:40:19] login it will destabilise taiwan, but not china

[04:40:53] login but there is no other place for those supply chains to re-connect

[04:41:14] login does China rely on the US, or does the US rely on China?

[04:41:40] login short-term, China will suffer, but an easy solution will be to use their reserves to buy RMB

[04:41:50] login they can go lower than the US

[04:41:58] login they know how to face hardship better than the US

[04:42:21] login The US will need its allies to stand

[04:42:26] login Korea etc.

[04:42:35] login Other countries will buy its stuff

[04:43:05] login I think the other countries will be pressured by the US not to buy Chinese stuff

[04:43:12] login but that's even harder than not buying Russian stuff

[04:43:18] login no iPhones for example

[04:43:21] login or Teslas

[04:43:25] login or fans

[04:43:30] login or furniture

[04:43:57] login I guess everybody will use Samsung then

[04:44:17] login But can samsung double their volume?

[04:44:45] login well, it was until the US interfered in the 'free market'

[04:44:59] login huawei was making lots of phones

[04:45:09] login and many people buy chinese phones with different brand names

[04:45:18] login xiaomi etc.

[04:45:24] login And the US one is full of US spyware too

[04:45:40] login they'd trade it for money

[04:45:51] login yeah i guess, that's true

[04:46:16] login huawei's network equipment would have been the 'chinese spy network'

[04:46:43] login China is the largest trading partner of many more countries than the US

[04:46:51] login so asking them to forego them is contentious

[04:47:02] login likely, China will export to country X, and country X will re-export to get around sanctions

[04:47:26] login people buy saudi arabian oil, while saudi arabia buys russian oil

[04:47:47] login Since the US has a deficit with China every year

[04:47:59] login the removal of that = China gains, doesn't it?

[04:48:29] login the loss of 300m consumers will definitely have a big impact

[04:49:17] login ^ i think they will use that as their reasoning for getting even in another way

[04:49:31] login they are slowly developing their ability to collect

[04:49:40] login I guess nuclear weapons put other things into question

[04:49:48] login they are developing it, slowly

[04:49:59] login yeah ^

[04:50:38] login How does a superpower cede power to a rival without triggering nuclear war?

[04:50:47] login It has never been tested before: no precedent

[04:51:14] login If the US wants to become a big nation again, it will have to rollback many laws

[04:51:27] login simplify immigration

[04:51:45] login make manufacturing competitive by lowering standards to the next big manufacturer

[04:52:20] login and bring vocational education to the US again

[04:53:24] login the standard of the degree is not good enough

[04:53:32] login the university itself tests and teaches - which is incest

[04:53:45] login evaluation and teaching need ot be different institutions

[04:54:03] login not that many degree-holders are needed in the economy

[04:54:17] login and being a good engineer is very difficult - there is talent involved

[04:54:40] login otherwise they'd have to compete like singapore

[04:55:19] login if the degree-holders work on robots that can fix HVAC, install fiber optics etc., then that would be worth the investment

[04:55:26] login but that is not what they work on

[04:55:37] login you can get licenced based on experience

[04:56:24] login it only seems to be needed where legacy systems are too difficult to replace

[04:56:40] login or where the robot cannot do the job (but an animal other than a human potentially could)

[04:57:34] login is it just the placebo effect?

[04:57:37] login it's only 5%

[04:57:53] login well, then it would give you a buzz

[04:58:01] login maybe you're drinking too much of it

[04:58:03] login too quickly

[04:58:10] login chugged it, basically

[05:02:14] login slow and steady, doesn't win the race over fast and furious

[05:14:50] login Harzilein: it's a bridge to TechNet

[05:15:09] login why .help then?

[06:06:06] login your new bowl will be tried tomorrow

[06:06:43] login you should try it 3 days from now

[06:06:49] login and do nothing tomorrow and the day after

[06:07:04] login why?

[06:07:08] login for enjoyment?

[06:07:18] login yes

[06:07:31] login addicted to semi-retirement

[06:08:09] login but if you have kids, then something should go to them too

[06:08:40] login then YOLO

[17:38:36] login MatCat: if you send your DNA to an ancestry database, maybe you'd find some of your mexican children in the US

[17:38:55] login that might give them a fast path to US citizenship

[17:39:17] login key word: *were*

[17:39:30] login if they know an american made them pregnant, they might do it

[17:56:46] login how come the distance from the sun to the earth is not 1 au?

[18:58:10] login How do you feed your snakes?

[18:58:44] login Don't you already have pet snakes?

[18:59:09] login What do they get fed?

[18:59:33] login How do you source these

[18:59:52] login Do they ship live rodents

[19:00:28] login I did not know rodent farming was a business that could be viable

[19:00:49] login At a certain size, it would be

[19:01:12] login Is there a licence to breed rats, given their biosecurity risks?

[19:01:27] login If they escape, they could become a nuisance and grow out of control over farmland

[19:01:38] login Do you have to take out rat liability insurance?

[19:02:26] login There is regulation on owning lobsters, so I'm surprised there isn't regulation on breeding what are typically seen as vermin

[19:03:18] login Yeah, I wonder too, but there would be some information online on why there is such a statute

[19:03:54] login So is humane caging something Petco does voluntarily?

[19:04:21] login It's good that they use their monopoly power for something so noble

[19:04:45] login That was a Mikoolo question

[19:05:22] login MatCat: yeah, it must have been on catching them from the wild

[19:05:34] login but how do they know your pet lobster hasn't been caught in the wild

[19:05:57] login So, if a live lobster is seen in your possession, can't the police confiscate it?

[19:06:16] login If such a pet store exists

[19:06:35] login How does one grow a lobster without catching a live lobster?

[19:07:12] login And where did the originals come from?

[19:08:08] login Isn't the whole genetic line illegal then? Otherwise, lobster rearing is a fixed market

[19:09:06] login How does one get lobster in their food?

[19:09:20] login From bred lobsters killed for food?

[19:10:25] login Did you know the answers to these questions, Mikoolo? Or you did not care for them?

[19:10:29] login Which one shows more stupidity?

[19:11:11] login That was a rhetorical question

[19:11:47] login How would you phrase that?

[19:12:12] login phonekait: Why pick on ComputerTech?

[19:12:35] login To protect his feelings

[19:13:16] login His mother must have taught him to be good natured about it, then it will go away

[19:13:29] login But apparently that makes it fun?

[19:13:45] login The opposite reaction also doesn't make it go away

[19:14:20] login And reacting by doing the same in turn, is also a loss of face

[19:14:53] login Why do they ban cobras?

[19:15:19] login Having thick skin while also being receptive is an art to learn

[19:15:55] login I mean, shouldn't it be celebrated?

[19:16:13] login His parents should be glad he's still best friends with them

[19:16:20] login Even if it is true that he is a bit too sheltered

[19:23:24] login What do you watch? Documentaries?

[19:23:47] login That's good, MatCat

[19:24:29] login Full Property Tour != snake, technical science

[19:24:52] login How much does it cost to get an ASE, PapaFrog?

[19:25:08] login MatCat: didn't know YouTube had such search capabilities

[19:25:31] login So it's a snake-properties channel?

[19:25:45] login DickCheney: a good problem to have

[19:26:03] login Oh, didn't know YouTube was so diverse in its content

[19:26:31] login I don't think Google knows how much diversity YouTube has

[19:27:03] login That means you had good food

[19:27:43] login Perhaps your gut biome is different

[19:28:21] login MatCat: how diluted does it need to be

[19:28:47] login Mikoolo: you should have a content warning on that photo

[19:28:54] login MatCat: that can 'cure' everything

[19:29:12] login Man, the ability of the web to bring the fringe to the forefront is immense

[19:29:53] login Cobra venom is hazardous though

[19:31:51] login Mikoolo: Why is cobra venom hazardous?

[19:32:11] login I guess it's just common knowledge

[19:33:07] login Mikoolo: why you should have a content warning on the photo?

[19:33:26] login That photo is disturbing

[19:33:55] login There are children involved in it

[19:34:17] login It is CAM

[19:34:39] login child A material

[19:35:30] login i guess I see it now

[19:35:41] login A bald head can do wonders

[19:36:11] login optical illusions i guess

[19:36:42] login Hello, MentOr25 - i was going to say

[19:37:07] login 21 seconds was their time limit for interaction

[19:58:16] login !bang

[20:11:49] login Spain, Italy, France and Germany are the EU members everybody talks about

[20:13:30] login Wasn't Nikola Tesla Austrian?

[20:13:43] login Yeah, slavic

[20:15:44] login Well, was it even Austria back then

[20:16:17] login there are a few famous ones though

[20:16:26] login Mozart?

[20:16:31] login Freud

[20:16:35] login phish: google?

[20:17:22] login On Google if i search for famous austrian past, it still shows me Arnold Schwarzenegger

[20:22:28] login is that a german faux pas?

[20:23:56] login what does the busch stand for?

[20:24:22] login What does the Chinese word stand for?

[20:24:36] login so Kapp means quarter?

[20:25:15] login Mikoolo: Well, German is not even my second language

[20:25:24] login do people not say 'stand for'?

[20:26:05] login Then what is Käpp*****?

[20:27:42] login or other staffs (sic.) not staff as in personel (sic.)

[20:28:14] login Staff meaning stick?

[20:29:13] login Oh, it makes fun of their height

[20:29:27] login It might be due to malnutrition. There are many tall Chinese now

[20:30:07] login ComputerTech: wow?

[20:32:36] login Why did it happen?

[20:33:33] login It's alright

[20:45:10] login !bang

[20:45:15] login !reload

[20:45:44] login !shop 2

[20:47:11] login h4: the current generation might not have that luxury

[20:47:19] login WW2 wasn't called a world war until it ended

[20:48:20] login least germany being the east?

[20:49:02] login Mikoolo: i cannot seem to get you off my back

[20:49:18] login That would crush Mikoolo

[20:49:30] login And I do care

[20:49:58] login ComputerTech just makes emoticons

[20:50:21] login He's dog-whispering the channel

[20:52:32] login !bang

[20:53:10] login mukbang

[20:53:56] login There is a very strong beauty pressure in 'best' korea too

[20:56:34] login Isn't it Afrikaans

[20:57:17] login Many do migrate to South Africa if they can

[20:58:47] login When typing in german, why not always prefix with .t de en

[20:59:05] login Or should we always prefix english with .t en de

[20:59:43] login English is the language I know best

[21:06:08] login Can he get a refund or repair?

[21:06:59] login it's the price for second-hand cars now

[21:07:21] login You'd be surprised at how scarce they are

[21:07:43] login Knowledge is money, they say

[21:08:12] login It was peak frenzy in 2022

[21:09:48] login You're lending your car, irish666?

[21:17:27] login how's his kid doing now?

[21:25:39] login So in German, mother is Oma?

[21:25:52] login I see

[21:26:11] login Is that the formal term?

[21:27:04] login !bang

[21:27:13] login You're telling her she's a mutterer

[21:27:23] login i.e., an allusion to mental decline

[21:27:51] login Why?

[21:27:57] login Is that Merkel's nickname?

[21:28:21] login Was she too accomodating?

[21:28:30] login *accommodating

[21:29:02] login Demographically?

[21:29:04] login !bang

[21:29:16] login Mikoolo: she was only topless

[21:29:37] login Was she a master at backchannels?

[21:29:59] login oh, i did not see this one

[21:30:02] login or any one

[21:30:08] login might have been the mandela effect

[21:31:17] login i guess one has to have a certain disposition to be a naturist

[21:31:28] login similar to being a politician

[21:31:46] login Freikörperkultur is still there though, right?

[21:31:48] login free body culture?

[21:32:08] login is it a more divisive thing now?

[21:32:11] login or fringe?

[21:32:23] login something that is just tolerated, not celebrated or normalised?

[21:32:53] login not even in the past?

[21:33:07] login I guess the demographic shift in germany has changed its prudishness

[21:33:45] login I mean, Angela Merkel got captured

[21:33:51] login and it's high resolution

[21:33:56] login or was that AI-superresolved?

[21:34:21] login I guess camera regulation didn't catch up

[21:34:28] login Otherwise it would be much more restricted

[21:35:03] login I suppose the internet did make it superfast

[21:35:23] login But they still do get married and have children

[21:35:57] login Well, other than the genetic component, how are people supposed to make do?

[21:36:18] login It's just culture

[21:36:34] login Imagine having to wash it off

[21:36:53] login On the beach or the swimming pool?

[21:37:09] login That could work to an extent

[21:37:12] login lakes might be dangeros

[21:37:15] login *dangerous

[21:37:26] login Are the lakes clear of any growth?

[21:37:42] login Missing kelpie, wildting2?

[21:38:01] login oh, alright

[21:41:34] login hello foxy

[21:41:37] login tired today?

[22:11:43] login foxy: im okay

[22:13:19] login but Luhansk was Ukrainian

[23:46:29] login hello ct

[23:46:58] login .o|

[23:47:22] login it's criminal conversion

[23:47:59] login So, what have you been up to this weekend?

[23:51:05] login i've been doing nothing in particular

[23:51:15] login just watching the all in podcast episode for now

[23:51:41] login what are you coding?

[23:52:05] login i don't buy any alcohol drinks, and don't drink on my own at all

[23:52:23] login any framework?

[23:52:27] login UI framework, i mean?

[23:52:50] login what is a ninjawall?

[23:53:01] login so will you be writing your own framework first?

[23:53:05] login making components etc.?

[23:53:26] login so ninjawall is a cli for iptables

[23:53:40] login and the web panel will be a gui for ninjawall?

[23:54:14] login will the web panel work without javascript?

[23:54:20] login (like old gmail used to)

[23:55:01] login and forms

[23:55:26] login will you be making an html template?

[23:55:33] login i.e., some source file from which the html is generated?

[23:55:55] login maybe it could read from ninjawall and auto-make html from it

[23:56:04] login ninjawall source code, that is

[23:56:38] login why capitalise the url that way?

[23:56:55] login so you let gboard read your words?

[23:57:48] login you can use it, as long as you know what it's doing

[23:58:46] login so, will there be some configuration file for all the various rules one could make and apply with ninjawall?

[23:59:26] login So the HTML page would also require a web server, right?

[23:59:40] login have you decided what the web server will be? or writing from scratch?

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