2008-10-07.log

--- Day changed Tue Oct 07 2008
splicerquiet day in #hplusroadmap06:25
bkeroBoo06:25
bkeroI'm always here, might not always talk.06:26
splicerdidn't see you there06:26
splicerchannelghost06:26
splicerdiybio seems to have has some activity for once06:28
kanzureHuh. Mr. Craigslist is speaking at the uni.13:04
ybithttp://superstructgame.org/14:21
ybithttp://www.maplight.org/14:21
ybithttp://claimid.com/14:22
ybithttp://transitionculture.org/14:22
ybithttp://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftransitionculture.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2FKinsaleEnergyDescentActionPlan.pdf&ei=6W_rSJ-lO5CSggTErp3WDA&usg=AFQjCNEn8kSEsxEtTFOlRwSmcpqKb58Hew&sig2=x_FZeprFTimZPOp75sWtEw14:22
ybitlinks found due to superstruct video on the 'ultimate threat'14:23
ybitprobably not the greatest links14:24
ybitsucks using a virtual keyboard14:24
nshhrmm14:26
nshsomeone should work a common scientific game framework14:26
nshfor making constructive games such as the protein folding one14:26
nshharness the recreasphere14:27
ybitgoogle could do this w/ lively, bkero, hint hint :)14:32
bkeroWhat what?14:33
nshwait14:34
nshisn't lively a joke?14:34
nshlike a puritan-kid's version of second life14:34
nshoh that's it14:35
ybit..just as soon as the data is opened and and i can run it on me linux box.14:35
nshit's ms-chat in 3d14:35
* nsh smiles14:35
ybitdamn it sucks to type by clicking14:35
nshplease explain why you have no keyboard, using the medium of ms-paint (or equivalent)14:36
ybitif i type, there's a good chance my screen will go blank and i will have to restart this mammoth14:37
ybitbut i'm typng now because my hands are starting to cramp :P14:37
nshsuperstruct looks interesting14:38
nshhmm14:38
ybithand*14:38
nshwhat kind of errors is the keyboard causing?14:38
ybiti suspect there's a shortage somewhere and so any vibration from say using they keyboard or especally moving the screen will cause it to go blank14:40
nshlaptop?14:45
* nsh having wiring problems too :-/14:45
bkeroBuy a better keyboard ;)14:45
ybithehe14:48
ybitanyone ever tried rearranging their keyboard keys to dvorak layout?14:49
ybitsilly me for doing that once14:49
nshi rearranged the keys but they still typed querty :-(((14:50
nsh(jk)14:50
ybit:P14:50
bkeroI wouldn't want to change anything on my keyboard. :314:50
kanzureybit: /me is already on claimid. But it's just another openid site.16:38
kanzurensh: scientific framework game? I'm sure you could do this in general for certain classes of computing problems, and then project this over biological domains.16:39
kanzureGah. 'gene' is now telling me about the latest tests for MWI16:44
kanzureI asked him to list as many interpretations of quantum mechanics as he knew, as quickly as he could16:45
kanzure'one world interpretation'16:45
kanzure'multiple world interpretation'16:45
kanzureand he stopped. :(16:45
kanzurekids these days.16:45
kanzurensh: scientific framework game? I'm sure you could do this in general for certain classes of computing problems, and then project this over biological domains.18:23
* nsh nods18:24
kanzurehrm18:27
kanzureso the professor has two 150 gallon tanks to unload and lug up 10 flights of stairs18:27
kanzurewants me there in 30 minutes18:27
kanzurenow, I was under the presumption that I was still doing shape optimization18:27
kanzurein fact, I'm sure of it18:27
* kanzure listens to his boxen crunch18:27
kanzureguess we're just going to be doing tubs apparently18:27
kanzureO.o18:27
UtopiahGHMLanybody using some social feed rinsing tool? as in you and your friends rate item within your feedclient then you choose to read only well rated feeds (or they would just appear bigger)18:30
kanzureno18:30
kanzurebecause everyone except me sucks18:30
kanzurehttp://strangeandhappy.com/2008/09/27/stranger-and-happier-a-positive-science-fiction-manifesto/18:31
UtopiahGHMLwhat about people who have friends they trust?18:31
fennneat video demoing many basic machining operations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCL7S4eGELM&feature=related18:32
fennrepeats halfway through for some reason18:32
UtopiahGHMLok Im starting a SocialReading idea that would make a mashup with bloglines+greasemonkey+website18:32
UtopiahGHMLany suggesiton on this?18:32
fennbloglines?18:33
UtopiahGHMLonline feed reader18:33
kanzurewhatever you do, do not make it a website18:33
kanzuregood god man. you mustn't.18:34
UtopiahGHML?18:34
bkeroStarting an idea?18:34
kanzurea good client would be nice18:34
kanzurewith a server daemon like a tracker 18:34
UtopiahGHMLa standalone client on online client, same mechanism in the end18:35
UtopiahGHMLbkero: adding an iteam in my idea box18:35
kanzureah, just an ideabox entrant .. mostly when I start an idea that just means implementation as well since otherwise it just fizzles out and dies18:36
* kanzure has yet to submit his fixes to akregator for streamlined news reading + sharing18:36
kanzureit was basically just an extra shortcut and some backend code to format the silly html/rss stuff into a better format18:36
kanzureand then uploaded it to my blog18:36
UtopiahGHMLwell before writting it and using resources on an idea I need to know if it already exist and what is valuable in it else I would never have any focus...18:37
UtopiahGHMLyou refine and select before investing18:37
kanzurea few days ago I was mentioning doing this with PDFs for SCIENCE (yes, you must shout it) and then using Autozen/AutoScholar for reading the papers automatically on an idle monitor, but whatever18:37
kanzureoh, there's probably a few sites doing that IIRC18:37
fennkanzure: re positive science fiction, "the world is not, and never will be, a monolithic entity seeking to destroy the ecosystem and enslave the population"; this realization came to me when i was a week into a 100% raw diet.. i think most people are under constant chemical assault from inside their bodies, and it manifests as a feeling that everything is trying to attack you18:37
bkeroWhat's a PDF?18:37
kanzurebkero: Pure evil.18:37
bkeroHum18:38
bkeroIs there a better alternative?18:38
kanzureplain text18:38
bkeroWhy doesn't anybody use it?18:38
fennbecause it's not pretty enough18:38
bkeroIsn't there something as pretty as PDF but not evil?18:39
* fenn shrugs18:39
kanzurefenn: You think food 'poisoning' (at the scale that is non-toxic) is finding a route from physiology to psychology and there's some manifestation / idle realization of this bombardment to them? Is it possible that, instead, they're just clueless?18:39
fennbkero: i dont think pdf is evil, just annoying18:39
kanzurewhy does it take my machine so much power to render pdf ?18:39
kanzureI can hardly open 10 or 20 at a time.18:39
bkeroIsn't there something less annoying than PDF?18:39
kanzurePS, sort of18:40
bkeroWhat's hte problem with PS?18:40
kanzurebut it's nearly like PDF IMO18:40
fennif there were a pdf->html converter that preserved formatting and images, i wouldnt mind at all18:40
nshohai18:40
UtopiahGHMLkanzure: didn't understand you in the end does it exist or not?18:40
kanzurefenn: ah, but consider the problems with writing HTML rendering engines18:40
bkeroYea, except PS is open source and plaintext.18:40
fennPS is just as slow as pdf (but at least it's greppable)18:40
kanzureUtopiahGHML: I vaguely recall something like that maybe existing. Delicious comes to mind.18:40
kanzurefenn: can't they just as easily put an image as the page for ps files? :/18:40
fennso i have 6 gigs of pdf's i want to grep occasionally.. not sure how to deal with that18:41
bkeroOS X can index them18:41
bkeroBeagle MIGHT be able to.18:41
kanzurefenn: there's a nice perl pdf cpan thingy that I've used before18:41
kanzurebut I didn't bother with indexing or doing any type of search with it18:41
kanzurethere's a method for extracting/reading text in a pdf18:42
fennkanzure: "put an image as the page"?18:42
kanzure"scan a page" without OCRing18:42
fennwhy would you do that?18:42
kanzurefuck if I know18:42
kanzuremany have done it with PDF18:42
fennthat's just stupidity, not a problem with pdf18:42
fennthey might as well post TIFF files and charge fees (oh hai USPTO)18:43
kanzurethe real alternative to every-science-paper-as-PDF is publishing actual, runnable, code18:43
kanzureso instead of a bajillion papers about models about X, you have the actual models about X>18:44
fennah that would be nice18:44
kanzuresince there's a bottleneck at the journals and the publishers anyway, they might as well enforce at that point18:44
kanzureyeah18:44
kanzurethen we don't have to read crappy graphy files18:44
fenninstead of that pseudo-math notation algorithm stuff18:44
kanzure(although gnuplot files would be nice)18:44
bkeroAll scientific papers should be written in latex and rendered when a display is needed!18:45
kanzurewhen I investigated it, latex wasn't too friendly in the syntax department18:45
kanzurefor mathematics, mathml might be doing better, or something like it18:46
UtopiahGHMLhttp://www.aiderss.com/ Use PostRank. to score, filter and track performance of any RSS feed.18:46
kanzurefor chemistry, chemml, etc.18:46
bkeroWhat?  Latex is perfectly fine.18:46
kanzurehave you seen some of the syntax?18:46
kanzureit's more of a markup than a semantic thing for the content18:46
bkeroMy RESUME is written in LaTeX.18:46
kanzureI mean, it's nice to be able to make it all fancy, but18:46
kanzureyes, yes, I'm sure it is18:46
bkeroI write all papers for school in latex above 1 page.18:46
fennlatex is a typesetting language18:47
kanzureheh, so at one point I was proposing to the neurocommons guys that we just use a reverse latex generator18:47
fennthe point is to go beyond typesetting18:47
kanzurefeed in the PDFs, get out the original possibilities for latex18:47
kanzuregiven an understanding of the BNF/DTD for latex18:47
kanzure;-)18:47
fenni though SGML was supposed to fix all this18:47
kanzureand how the conversion from the typeset to the graphics works18:47
UtopiahGHML(duh I was actually already using AideRSS...)18:47
kanzurehrm18:47
kanzureUtopiahGHML: :)18:47
kanzurefenn: SGML was supposed to fix a lot of things apparently18:47
bkero$\frac{2x_{2}-1}{2*10^{x}}$18:47
kanzurethe latest email I sent to the openmanufacturing list18:47
kanzurewith all of the crappy links to egXML and stuff18:48
fenngah it's worse than perl18:48
kanzureapparently those were initiatives after SGML but kind of from the same W3C people18:48
fennkanzure: why did you send that email anyway? it looks like an ai dump18:48
kanzure(except moving over to the business sector a bit. B2B, EDI, ebxml, etc.)18:48
kanzurefenn: did you see the bottom18:48
bkeroNo it's not.  I could have also written the same thing as $ \frac{2 x_2 - 1}{2 * 10^x} $18:48
kanzurethere was actual content18:48
kanzure:(18:48
UtopiahGHML(maybe AideRSS only allow to use 1 total ranking and not build your community or select a subpart of it)18:49
kanzureI wish my RSS aggregator / reader client wasn't so stupid18:50
kanzureit just loads everything all at once when I go into the main folder18:50
bkeroGet a smarter rss reader18:50
kanzurenobody writes programs correctly .. just always assume there's enough RAM18:50
kanzureno, I'm pretty sure this doesn't exist yet18:50
kanzureeven though it should18:50
* UtopiahGHML uses Bloglines beta18:50
kanzurea dynamic memory allocation library of sorts18:50
kanzureso that when there's more items, you *cut off* the loading gasp18:50
kanzureuntil the user is within scrolling range18:50
kanzuregasp18:50
fennkanzure: but that's so not elegant!!118:51
kanzureelegant as loading it all at once?18:52
kanzureheh'18:52
kanzurehuh. giant liquid nitrogen tank. yay.18:54
kanzureget to lug /that/ up 3 floors.18:54
bkeroI saw four of those on the streets of new york walking around yesterday.18:54
bkeroWhy would those be out in the open like that?18:54
kanzurewell, sometimes on farm land I also see giant tanks18:55
kanzureprobably not liquid nitrogen18:55
kanzurebut the same general structure: GIANT CYLINDER18:55
UtopiahGHMLanybody using RSS intensively, can you imagine loosing your list of feeds (and the OPML)?18:55
bkeroNo, they said 'LIQUID NITROGEN' on the side.18:55
kanzureUtopiahGHML: I am very RSS intense.18:55
kanzureI have 150,000 unread feed items and about 1000 subscriptions.18:55
UtopiahGHMLso can you imagine loosing this?18:55
kanzurehttp://heybryan.org/bookmarks/ is my old OPML18:55
bkeroDon't subscribe to the general Digg list. :P18:55
kanzurenope, because I have it extensively backed up18:55
UtopiahGHML...18:56
UtopiahGHMLthe point of imaging is to go beyond what is expected, imagine!18:56
kanzureokay, all of my hard drives fail18:56
UtopiahGHMLimagining18:56
kanzureeveryone's hard drives fail18:56
fennbkero: possibly to keep the nitrogen from asphyxiating everyone in a closed room?18:56
bkeroMine don't.18:56
kanzurefenn: nahh18:56
kanzurebkero: bah, you and your stupid flash :)18:56
fenndoes it not evaporate that fast?18:56
bkeroIndeed. 8)18:56
kanzurefenn: I'm actually not sure. That's something worth checking.18:57
kanzureAll of the labs here keep their gas tanks inside, including liquid nitrogen.18:57
bkeroYea18:57
fenniirc the evaporation rate was surprisingly slow, but also the mass of air in a room is surprisingly small18:57
bkeroAt the University of Montana we kept it in a facility.18:57
bkeroTHese were on STREET CORNERS18:57
UtopiahGHMLso what do you do now that your RSS are lost?18:57
kanzureUtopiahGHML: I rerun my RSS crawler.18:58
UtopiahGHMLbased on keywords?18:58
fennbkero: maybe they were cleverly disguised government surveilance robots18:58
kanzureUtopiahGHML: No, I've just been keeping track of blogs that are referenced in the feeds that I already read.18:59
kanzurelike multiple references18:59
kanzureblog X, blog Y, both mention blog Z, so maybe I should start to take a hint, etc.18:59
UtopiahGHMLnice, made a visual map out of it?18:59
kanzurenot yet. 18:59
kanzureand the code isn't even fully function really19:00
kanzure*functional19:00
kanzurefenn: so I'm happy about links2 -g19:00
UtopiahGHMLas long as you have the data, RDF?19:00
kanzureUtopiahGHML: what?19:00
fennwhat does links2 -g do?19:00
kanzureframebuffer graphical browser in cli19:00
fennoh19:00
kanzureno css19:00
kanzurebut other than that :)19:00
kanzuredoes have some javascript support apparently19:01
kanzurefenn: so I was thinking I'd finally try to transfer over from konqueror/opera soon .. maybe while still in KDE, though preferably not .. 19:01
UtopiahGHMLif your multiple references are in a structured way, eventually with an explicit XML schema or RDF then it should be no problem to build the graphics19:01
kanzureI just need a way to manage 'tabs' or my browsing through tabs19:01
kanzureso either the vertical KDE taskbar or something else19:01
kanzureUtopiahGHML: yes, I agree19:01
* fenn patiently waits for dillo+css to get finished19:01
* kanzure thinks dillo might be going down the path of duke nukem19:01
fennincreasing number of websites are not working with konqueror anymore19:02
UtopiahGHML(Vimperator + FF for effective browsing)19:02
kanzureUtopiahGHML: firefox crashes with more than 10 tabs :/19:02
fennpaypal didnt work today in konq19:02
kanzurewith Opera I can do 300 to 400, but with system slowdowns19:02
kanzurefenn: isn't it in paypal's favor to work with konqueror?19:03
UtopiahGHML400 tabs...19:03
kanzureor does it not have the SSL/HTPS or other certificate standards?19:03
UtopiahGHMLhow many screens do you have? 20? :P19:03
fennkanzure: nobody uses konqueror in a statistically significant sense19:03
kanzureUtopiahGHML: 8 monitors19:03
UtopiahGHMLlol19:03
UtopiahGHMLpicture19:03
kanzureUtopiahGHML: hold19:03
* UtopiahGHML holds19:03
kanzurehttp://heybryan.org/shots/2008-07-22_bryandorm.png19:03
kanzurefriend => http://heybryan.org/shots/inspiration/Superkuh_Jan22_06_desk_112956055_53fe3cf020.jpg19:03
kanzuresame friend => http://heybryan.org/shots/inspiration/physicaldesktop.jpg19:04
UtopiahGHMLIm sure accross all your browsing you never cam accross the concept of information overload ;)19:04
kanzureother friend => http://heybryan.org/shots/inspiration/notstevebutjoe/IMG_0853.JPG19:04
kanzure"information overload" 19:04
fennUtopiahGHML: problem with FF isn't the key bindings, it's the fact that it's a RAM hog19:04
kanzureinsert typical rant here19:04
kanzurehave I done an 'information overload' rant yet?19:04
kanzurefenn: and the single threadedness.19:05
kanzureor I don't know if that's what's really going on19:05
fennthey're related19:05
kanzurehow does opera do it? is it doing multiple threads?19:05
fennsingle process leads to memory fragmentation19:05
UtopiahGHMLman you have only CRT are you trying to build a sauna?19:05
fennis that a stack of graphics cards?19:05
kanzureyeah :(19:05
kanzure(to fenn)19:05
kanzureUtopiahGHML: I probably have cancer. :/19:06
UtopiahGHMLlike everybody else...19:06
fennhey i have that same chair19:06
kanzuremine? I used to have kuh's chair19:06
kanzureit was a good chair too19:06
ybit"Improved Dissemination of Scientific Literature and Data with Userscripts"19:07
UtopiahGHMLIMG_0853.JPG is the best one :)19:07
ybithttp://blueobelisk.sourceforge.net/wiki/Userscripts19:07
UtopiahGHMLthe guy is in the basement to keep it cold19:07
UtopiahGHMLlove it :P19:07
kanzurethat's Steve's brother :)19:07
kanzureybit: are they scraping PDF links?19:07
kanzurewith greasemonkey?19:07
kanzureguess not19:08
kanzurejust scraping various syntaxes or links for other things. pdb visualization. jmol. etc.19:08
bkeroToo many CRTs19:08
bkeroThat's a BUNCH of cancer19:08
bkeroWHOA lots of cancer19:08
kanzureanyway19:10
kanzurevertical taskbar or something else.19:10
bkeroNo taskbar :P19:10
kanzureby 'something else' I mean back to CLI19:10
kanzurebkero: I'm talking about ways to manage 400 tabs at once19:10
kanzureor really not 'tabs' but rather just stuff that you've been thinking about recently19:10
bkerovimperator19:10
kanzuregod, are you even listening to us?19:10
UtopiahGHMLany idea of the price per hour of 8 CRTs like that?19:10
kanzureuh, free19:11
kanzureI picked up a few of them for no cost19:11
UtopiahGHMLenergy wise I mean19:11
fenn15:10 < God> dammit kanzure how many times do i have to tell you19:11
bkeroI think he meant in kw/h19:11
kanzureoh19:11
kanzurefenn: eh?19:11
UtopiahGHMLI hope you don't pay for CRTs ;)19:11
kanzureheh19:11
kanzureI paid full price! yep19:11
fenna pound of flesh nearest your heart19:12
kanzure?19:12
UtopiahGHMLI meant in $ not in cancer :P19:12
UtopiahGHMLhttp://www.eatliver.com/i.php?n=355519:12
ybit"[18:55] <UtopiahGHML> anybody using RSS intensively, can you imagine loosing your list of feeds (and the OPML)?" -- no imagination needed this past weekend19:12
UtopiahGHMLOil addict19:12
UtopiahGHMLIt's time to confront the addiction and get some much needed help.19:12
kanzureso in the CLI situation, 'tabs' would just be in files? directories? and then just use ls to search your current dir of things you're browsing about on the web? (this is obviously easier with plan9 I bet)19:12
UtopiahGHMLybit: owned?19:13
ybitpw3nd iow?19:13
bkeroHave you looked into tab navigation through vimperator?19:13
kanzureI don't like the idea of having to mv, ls, cp, rm, for each of the tabs. there'd be that finite limit of, what, four columns of file names, and then 80 lines of text since it's cli?19:13
kanzurebkero: no, how does it work? is it like tab navigation in elinks?19:14
kanzureor tab navigation in opera for that matter? CTRL+TAB and such.19:14
bkeroNeither19:14
UtopiahGHMLit's VIMperator =]19:14
bkeroIt's a firefox plugin19:14
kanzureso what, ESC + colon + shift + x + colon + percent + z + address pointer to the tab that you want + colon + shift + tty7 + ..19:15
fennkanzure: how do you sort tabs? alphabetically? chronologically? some sort of adaptive algorithm?19:15
UtopiahGHMLdo you auto-colorize them?19:15
* ybit has mentioned it two too many times (vimperator)19:15
kanzurefenn: in opera I'm a wimp and I just sort them based off of the mental process that I was having at that moment .. so there's a subset of the list of tabs that represents things that I was thinking about at that moment; sometimes, as you can imagine, this is in the middle of another list. heh'19:15
fenni mean how do they appear on the screen so you can select which tab to display19:16
kanzurehold19:16
kanzurehttp://heybryan.org/shots/2008-01-02-shareyouropml.png19:16
bkeroTabs Menu or Find In Tabs don't work well for you?19:17
fenni'm thinking something like a binary search tree19:17
bkeroThere are a ton of tabs extensions on addons.19:17
fenner, not binary19:17
kanzuredo you see my vertical tab list?19:17
kanzurebkero: oh, I'm aware of it19:17
* UtopiahGHML wonders if Vimperator could actually auto-manage tap positionning like Irssi does it with window and eventually on better algo (should work with extension on just autocommand)19:17
kanzurebut first of all, firefox is already out of the question19:17
fenna search tree where you press keys to get to each subtree19:17
kanzurefirefox has excellent support for tab plugins19:17
kanzurefenn: eh? so, each of the alphanumerics is tied to a tree?19:18
kanzurefor a maximum of 256 different root nodes? (or whatever)19:18
bkeroWhy is firefox out of the question?19:18
fennwell, probably 8 for asdf hjkl19:18
kanzurecan't handle more than 10 or 20 tabs19:18
kanzurebkero: are you even listening to us?19:18
kanzureseriously, we just talked about this19:18
kanzure10 minutes ago19:18
kanzurefenn: so, what, click key, expand tree, see children nodes?19:18
kanzureso just typical tree navigation?19:18
bkeroFirefox crashes for you with 10 tabs open?19:19
kanzurewell, 40 19:19
kanzurehttp://heybryan.org/shots/June8th02007_browsers_SonyVAIO_PCVRS510.PNG19:19
kanzure^ lots of browsers :p19:19
bkeroI consistently have over 50, and I even get GOOD battery life.19:19
bkero(using shiretoko)19:19
kanzurebkero: One of my most favorite firefox extensions: http://heybryan.org/shots/June11th02007_Andrewbox.PNG19:19
bkeroBut it was fine with vanilla 3.0.x too, even the betas(mostly)19:19
fennkanzure: or you could display a 4x4 grid and press two at a time to select column/row19:20
fennmore than that and it's probably too much to grok instantly19:21
bkeroVertical tabs19:21
kanzurebkero: Vertical hierarchical tabs :) there's a vertical tab extension for firefox and it sucks (I'm currently using it, I don't know why, but I'm also not currently using iceweasel either, so it's probably just lethargy)19:21
fennspeaking of lethargy, i'm taking this herbal supplement called "maca" and it seems to help with my lack of motivation19:22
fenner, but i ran out yesterday so that's probably why i'm on IRC right now instead of doing something productive19:23
UtopiahGHMLwhat's the point of having > 10 tabs? (or anything higher than what your screen can show the title on)19:23
kanzure (1R,3S)-1-methyltetrahydro--carboline-3-carboxylic acid ?19:23
ybitfenn, are you still mostly a raw foodist?19:24
kanzureUtopiahGHML: Did you see my screenshots? Opera easily shows me more than 50 or 60 tab titles at once.19:24
fennybit: it's difficult to maintain the necessary foresight to ensure that you have raw food, especially in midwest america19:24
UtopiahGHMLkanzure: did you see the second part of my question?19:24
fennybit: so no, unfortunately19:24
kanzureUtopiahGHML: Keeping stuff in active memory, then.19:24
ybitfenn, i'm about 40% raw19:25
kanzureIt's much more easily to scroll for a quick second than go through five bajillion folders in a bookmarking folder19:25
kanzurefolder menu thingy19:25
fennybit: one of my wild ideas is to move to thailand19:25
ybitrandom :P19:25
ybitfor raw food? :)19:25
fennnot random, there's lots of good food just growing on trees there19:25
ybitthought so19:25
kanzurehm => UTCS Colloquium/Architecture:  Kunle Olukotun/Stanford University: "Toward Pervasive Parallelism: Parallel Applications without Parallel Programming" ACES 2.402, Monday, October 13, 2008  3:30 p.m.19:25
ybitmy random idea is to live on the beaches near sao paulo19:25
UtopiahGHMLkanzure: Vimperator does completion on keyword based on history (like the "awesome bar") so that's pretty fast too (even if you ahve to remember at least a keyword, I agree)19:26
kanzureanyway19:26
fennyes brazil is good too19:26
kanzureUtopiahGHML: so you have to remember the names of the pages?19:26
kanzurethat kind of sucks19:26
* UtopiahGHML spend 6 months in Curitiba, Parana (Brazil)19:26
kanzureI just do visual remembering .. "I sort of opened up this awesome page three pages back and to the left"19:26
kanzure"so that would be about .. *here* in my list"19:26
ybitUtopiahGHML: how was it?  i want to stay that long before deciding for sure19:26
UtopiahGHMLybit: excellent but it doesn't mean you would like it, why do you want to go there in the first place?19:27
ybitman i'm so afraid to type on this keyboard :P19:27
fennybit: can't you plug in a usb kb?19:27
ybityes, but i dont have one. realized that this morning. it's in my aunt's apartment in nashville19:28
* fenn looks around at the piles of usb keyboards19:29
fennyou dont have _any_?19:29
bkerooh shit19:29
kanzurebkero: ?19:29
bkeroin vimperator all tabs are buffers19:29
kanzurehm?19:29
bkeroSo you just hit :buffers19:29
kanzureand what?19:30
bkeroand it pops up a new section on the bottom of the window that allows you to choose through tabs19:30
kanzurevertical list?19:30
bkeroYea19:30
ybitUtopiahGHML: geographically, it has ideal weather. less earthquakes and supposedly anything south of 10 degrees latitude has about a 1% chance of a hurricane19:30
kanzurewith 400 tabs you'll be scrolling forever19:30
bkeroYou can search19:30
ybitand cheap property*19:30
kanzurewhat fields does it search.19:31
* kanzure sighs.19:31
UtopiahGHMLybit: yes it's cheap especially if you are a westerner ... obviously. Anyway if those are you only requirement then what would be something you would avoid?19:31
bkerourl and title19:31
kanzuremeh. easily changed.19:31
kanzureblah, I don't think that's a good method either19:31
ybitcrime19:31
ybitUtopiahGHML: ^19:32
kanzure"use a list or search" sounds like it's missing the big picture19:32
fennoppressive political regimes19:32
ybitthat too19:32
UtopiahGHMLybit: that's a business in Brazil you have gatted communities, it's very developped19:32
ybitbut you can only for so long as a friend, *cough* phreedom *cough* pointed out this morning19:32
ybitrun*19:32
UtopiahGHMLsecurity has a price, especially in a country with high income disparity19:32
fenni think the real problem is overpopulation19:33
fennapparently thailand had great success with their birth control program because of the buddhist culture19:33
UtopiahGHMLoverpopulation in Brazil?19:33
UtopiahGHMLwhat does overpopulation even mean?19:34
fenntoo many people in a given area19:34
fennpictures like this make me want to run away: http://www.travel-earth.com/brazil/sao-paulo.jpg19:34
ybitoverpopulation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sn5bjHAIFY19:34
kanzurefenn: holy crap19:35
ybitignore the crappy commercial19:35
kanzurethat's a nightmare19:35
UtopiahGHMLhehe19:35
* kanzure doubts that such a city could be effectively managed19:35
UtopiahGHMLSao Paolo19:35
UtopiahGHMLI had some coktails in the highest tower there, so... quiet city :)19:36
ybitif not sao paulo, then 5 hours away is rio de janeiro19:36
UtopiahGHMLSP is the economical center19:36
UtopiahGHMLRio de Janeiro is the touristic center19:36
ybithttp://toursonline.org/wp-includes/images/rio_de%20janeiro.jpg19:36
UtopiahGHMLSP-Curitiba-Florianopolis in the industrial/economical core19:37
UtopiahGHMLso what will be your activity there ybit ? that would change the location I guess19:37
ybitgood question UtopiahGHML, it would be sweet to implement fablabs :)19:38
UtopiahGHMLthen I would recommand Florianopolis19:38
UtopiahGHMLit's not far away from SP/Curitiba and also the little country south ;)19:38
UtopiahGHMLand few hours away by car of gorgeous island and playa19:38
UtopiahGHMLgood party spots and surf spots19:38
ybitor work in bioeng|neuroeng|compneuro field19:38
UtopiahGHMLtop schools/uni are in SP especially regarding business19:39
ybitwhy florianopolis?19:41
UtopiahGHML21:38 < UtopiahGHML> it's not far away from SP/Curitiba and also the little country south ;)19:42
UtopiahGHML21:38 < UtopiahGHML> and few hours away by car of gorgeous island and playa19:42
UtopiahGHML21:38 < UtopiahGHML> good party spots and surf spots19:42
ybiti was expecting you to say they would be more open the idea of fablabs throughout the area or that there are more engineering jobs there :)19:44
* ybit figured such jobs would be closer to the larger cities19:45
UtopiahGHMLI said before that "SP-Curitiba-Florianopolis in the industrial/economical core"19:46
ybitah19:46
ybitmy apologies19:46
ybitflorianopolis certainly is appealing to the eyes, and as a bonus, doesn't have a large statue of jesus hovering over the city, constantly taunting and tempting me to shoot a rocket toward it19:48
UtopiahGHMLIn Brazil, the most widespread form of gated community is called "condomínio fechado" (closed housing estate) and is the object of desire of the upper classes. Such a place is a small town with its own infrastructure (backup power supply, sanitation, and security guards). The purpose of such a community is to protect its residents from outside violence. The same philosophy is seen on closed buildings and most s19:49
ybitstrange how the conversaton goes from raw food to blowing up jesus statues ;P19:50
UtopiahGHMLcondomínio fechado were pretty weird really19:52
UtopiahGHMLone time I participate to some special voodoo ceremony19:52
UtopiahGHMLand we did it in the poor country side after picking up some people in gatted community19:52
UtopiahGHMLmix of very poor and very rich few miles away19:52
UtopiahGHMLgathered together to have some weird religious custom originated in Africa19:53
UtopiahGHMLand... a little white guy or 2 there...19:53
UtopiahGHMLfuck, I hope they don't control me since with sacred voodoo dolls!19:53
fenni believe the term is 'unholy'19:54
UtopiahGHMLsorry19:54
UtopiahGHMLunholy fuck, I hope they don't control me since with sacred voodoo dolls!19:54
kanzure"I believe Dr. Bowyers is making vast strides in engineering!" why'd I join the stupid cosmic engineers mailing list19:58
kanzure"we believe in warm glow fuzzy koodles outwards expansion help people waaah"19:58
bkeroSo I just decided that I want to use vimperator full-time.  It'll even make me to learn vim better. :)19:58
kanzurealfjdalkfjadolfjka19:58
kanzurefirefox .. tabs. it fails. :(19:59
bkeroWorking fine for me.19:59
kanzureat 4019:59
bkeroAt 5319:59
kanzureLeave it running for a few days, do your normal routine, don't close things, see what it's like at 100, 200, and so on19:59
kanzureyou'll see.19:59
bkeroIt's been running for over a month19:59
kanzureat 5319:59
bkeroYes19:59
kanzureI just said 100, 200, 30020:00
kanzurewhy doesn't anybody listen to me20:00
bkeroI've been up to about 80 with no discernable difference.20:00
bkeroMaybe it's due to the good seek times on my SSD though.20:00
kanzureI just said 100, 200, 30020:01
kanzurenot 8020:01
fennhey i thought emacs was the text editor with a web browser in it20:01
kanzurewhy doesn't anybody listen to me20:01
UtopiahGHML(communication problem detected)20:02
fennhold still for transcranial implant20:02
bkeroemacs is a text editor with a EVERYTHING in it20:03
UtopiahGHMLVim rules20:04
nshQuiet.20:04
bkeroUtopiahGHML: try vimperator <320:04
nshit's like arguing over which is the better kind of column, ionic or doric20:05
UtopiahGHMLbkero: thanks but Ive been in #vimperator for a while now20:05
bkero:)20:06
UtopiahGHMLhave you done any small script or command for it?20:07
kanzurewhy doesn't bkero listen to anything that's going on20:08
kanzureUtopiahGHML and ybit have been talking about vimperator for the past hour20:08
kanzureI'm seriously questioning bkero's ability to read20:08
UtopiahGHMLhey kanzure , you should try Firefox20:08
kanzurehttp://www.mirekw.com/ca/mjcell/mjcell.html '   Mirek's Java Cellebration (MJCell) is a Java applet that allows playing 300+ Cellular Automata rules and 1400+ patterns. It can play rules from 13 CA rules families: Generations, Life, Vote, Weighted Life, Rule tables, Cyclic CA, 1D totalistic, 1D binary, Neumann binary, General binary, Margolus neighborhood, Larger than Life, and some of the User DLLs. It allows also to experiment with own rules. '20:09
kanzuregod20:09
kanzureI feel like I'm talking to brick walls20:09
bkeroI think I mentioned it first20:09
UtopiahGHML=]20:09
ybitawesome wm, xmonad, and the rest of minimalist setups are nice, but what about consistency and integration offered by kde, not to mention nepomuk 20:09
UtopiahGHMLlol20:09
bkero01:29 < ybit> before long you will be using awesome wm with firefox and vimperator :)20:10
bkero22:49 < ybit> for the browser, you really might want to try vimperator+firefox if you are using a tiled wm [kanzure]20:10
bkero19:10 < bkero> vimperator20:10
bkero19:13 < bkero> Have you looked into tab navigation through vimperator?20:10
bkero19:15  * ybit has mentioned it two too many times (vimperator)20:10
bkero(sorry I don't date-stamp)20:10
UtopiahGHMLcase sensitive?20:10
ybitit's addicting indeed, but i have switched switch back and forth several times20:11
ybitmostly, when i am fed up with remember what keyboard commands do what20:12
bkeroUtopiahGHML: Guess you mentioned it 8 minutes before me :)20:12
ybitremembering* ...and just want to get things done quicker20:12
ybitdepends on my mood too :)20:13
bkeroOk, I'm up to 190 tabs.  Let's see how long firefox 3.0.1 will last.20:13
kanzurebkero: of content pages or just blank tabks?20:14
kanzure*tabks20:14
kanzure**tabs20:14
UtopiahGHMLhow many tabs with Flash content?20:14
kanzureFirefox 2 was doing 10,000 blank tabs easily20:14
ybitUtopiahGHML: interesting info on brazil you presented, though i'm not sure where voodoo ties in with it :)20:14
kanzureheh20:14
bkerokanzure: I did a google search and loaded every link on 18 pages plus what I had open in another window20:14
kanzurewait, aren't you on some ridiculously suped up system?20:15
bkerouh20:15
UtopiahGHMLybit: slave trade, africa, culture, voodoo, getting in?20:15
bkeroI'm on a Pentium 4 3.4GHz with 3GB RAM20:15
kanzure3.4 GHz with 3 GB RAM20:15
kanzureyeah20:15
ybitah, the history, i see20:15
bkeroIt's running at 2.4GHz now20:15
kanzureI'd say you're cheating :)20:15
bkeroDUDE ITS A PENTIUM 420:15
ybitUtopiahGHML ^20:15
kanzureehh20:15
kanzureokay, handicap points20:15
UtopiahGHMLybit: history is a useful tool if you want to bet in a country ;)20:16
bkeroFirefox is eating ~23-35% cpu, 350MB20:16
ybitokay, let's take it to the extreme, bkero: 15k tabs for 40 days!20:16
kanzurebkero: Tell me when it starts to eat into other stuff you're doing. That's when I get interested.20:16
kanzureI've noticed sometimes browsers taking up large percentages of CPU processing time but otherwise not screwing up everything else20:17
kanzurebut other times, not so much20:17
bkeroI've got gkrellm running on top, so we'll see when it does something20:17
UtopiahGHMLwith 10% java applets, 40% ajax, 10% flash, ... (not being exclusive too, etc...)20:17
bkero21% cpu, 243 processes, 4 users, says gkrellm20:17
ybitnice screenshot kanzure, anyone know of something similar to share.opml.org ?20:20
kanzureyes, a directory on a server ...20:21
kanzurejust collect people's OPML files :)20:21
kanzureexport w/ FOAF XML20:22
ybitTOUCHE!20:22
kanzureheh20:23
kanzure(also, "touchy" is just as appropriate)20:23
ybitfigured i'd get in on the caps lock since everyone uses them these days20:23
ybithaha20:23
ybitbut, wtf: http://heybryan.org/shots/2008-01-02-shareyouropml.png20:23
ybitwindows!? srsly?20:23
kanzurealso, the solution to dealing with tabbing might be to consider graph compartmentalization, each browser session is a traversal of a graph, through the path and the overall connectivity into a pot, or a python egg, and just stash that away somewhere in your tree full o' nuts20:23
kanzureybit: computers were down :(20:23
kanzurehad to steal usage time on my brother's.20:24
* kanzure goes off to sniff liquid nitrogen or something20:24
ybit:P20:24
kanzureybit: wait, that wasn't windows in share-your-opml methinks20:24
bkerokanzure: why not load firefox profiles depending on tree?20:24
bkeroThat would cut down on the sqllite slowness20:25
ybityeah yeah, wrong link20:25
ybiti was thinking of http://heybryan.org/shots/June8th02007_browsers_SonyVAIO_PCVRS510.PNG20:26
willPow3rmy ip has been banned from freenode for over a week now because i ran tor as an exit node for less than 2 hours20:59
fennyou should talk to a staff member21:01
willPow3rwhere can i find one of those?21:04
fenni guess there arent any logged in and wearing their staff hat right now (/stats p should show them i think)21:06
bkeroask christel, she loves that ;)21:07
bkeroActually email kline@freenode.net21:07
bkeroI set up that mail alias for RT for them :)21:07
willPow3rhmm. kline?21:11
bkeroThat's the message it should have given you when it banned you.21:11
fennA k-line is a line in an ircd.conf file that can be used to prevent certain people, or people from certain computers or networks, from connecting to that server.21:13
willPow3roh.21:13
willPow3rso i actually have to send an email?21:14
willPow3rthats so... 90's21:14
bkeroIt goes into RT, and you get assigned a ticket.21:14
bkeroThen they see your tor gateway is down, and take you out of the lists.21:15
willPow3refnet has a website that you can go to and input your ip addy to have it removed automatically21:15
willPow3rbut i guess that network is more trusting/advanced than freenode21:16
bkeroFreenode is pretty 90s21:16
willPow3ryeah, very pre-133721:17
bkeroThe people who run it are cool though21:17
bkeroI mean they name the nodes after science fiction authors...and21:17
bkerohttp://www.openverse.com/~dtinker/agalmics.html21:18
bkeroThe guy who started freenode wrote that.21:18
willPow3rk, sent it off, we'll see what happens21:22
willPow3rLet's briefly compare photosynthesis with cellular respiration.21:34
willPow3rBoth processes involve redox reactions. During cellular respiration,21:34
willPow3renergy is released from sugar when electrons asso,nated21:34
willPow3rwith hydrogen are transported by carriers to oxygen,21:34
willPow3rforming water as a by-product.21:34
willPow3rbiology is either amazingly fascinating or infinitely boring. can't tell.21:35
willPow3rbkero, thanks for the help re: kline21:40
willPow3rthey took me off kline21:40
bkerowillPow3r: no problem21:40
fennwillPow3r: you just need more pictures:  http://youtube.com/watch?v=E8NHcQesYl821:41
willPow3rfenn, interesting, i never thought to look on utube21:42
willPow3rutoob rather21:42
fenni particularly like part 221:44
fennsure beats those stupid diagrams with circles and arrows21:45
fennmore of the same series: http://youtube.com/watch?v=nl8pSlonmA021:46
kanzureGuy who started freenode is dead. :( Niven I mean.21:56
kanzurewillPow3r: You can also try http://heybryan.org/school/Biology/ and either the one that has 'metabolism' or 'respiration' in it, or http://heybryan.org/school/Biology/notes/output.html21:59
* kanzure wonders where all of the youthful energy from /school/Biology/ went.22:00
kanzureit was something about /having/ to do all of the work22:01
kanzurealmost a fear.22:01
willPow3rmaybe you're delusional about your past exuberance22:01
kanzurebut look! the files! :)22:01
kanzurethey're right there22:01
willPow3rfiles don't lie, as they say22:03
kanzurewhat?22:03
willPow3roh, thats photos. n/m22:05
willPow3rpictures*22:05
kanzurewhat?22:06
kanzurehrm22:06
willPow3ryou've never heard the saying "pictures never lie?"22:06
kanzurebkero: the problem with multiple sessions is this: http://heybryan.org/projects/social/sessdb/files/ ... you're back to the tab problem again. Soon the directory will be too large to support much. (And uh, for the record, that hasn't been updated since mid 2007. Obviously I've had more than a year to accumulate more session files.)22:07
bkeroEr, are sessions = profiles?22:08
kanzuresort of.22:09
kanzuresaved sets of tabs22:09
kanzureplus profile information22:09
fennhttp://www.molecularmovies.com/showcase/index.html22:15
kanzuretime for a link dump22:17
kanzureI knew I collected thousands of bookmarks on this for a reason :)22:17
fennnoooo22:18
kanzurehttp://www.laporte.isd.esc4.net/campuses/lphs/science/kicklighterr/preap/cell/respiration.htm http://home.comcast.net/~john.kimball1/BiologyPages/C/CellularRespiration.html http://biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio104/cellresp.htm http://biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio104/atp.htm http://www.utm.edu/departments/cens/biology/faculty_pages/respirat.htm http://homepages.ius.edu/GKIRCHNE/Glycolysis.htm http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/miramesa/Organelles/chemce22:21
kanzurealso, http://dnatube.com/22:22
kanzurethe atp.htm is the 'cell respiration song' :)22:23
kanzuregrumble grumble22:35
kanzureI should get around to fixing the python scripts that were exporting my ADR file into flat file directories22:35
willPow3rkanzure, did that chinese materials list downloader thing to work?22:57
kanzureyes :)22:57
kanzureI wonder if you could fit a foundry on the back of Iron Man. 22:59
willPow3rare you going to publish the information?23:06
kanzurehttp://heybryan.org/~bbishop/docs/23:07
kanzurematweb.zip23:07
kanzureI suggest you yell at me to convert it into MatML first23:07
kanzurebefore downloading the 480 MB zip file23:07
willPow3rwhat does it open with?23:30
kanzurepresently it's a hunk of HTML23:30
willPow3rall their data was in html format?23:41
kanzurewillPow3r: yeah :(23:43
willPow3rwell, they *are* an industrializing nation23:44
willPow3rso they have an excuse23:44

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