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mod6: Evenin' all, the Bitcoin Foundation report will be delayed by
a few more days than normal (typically I have it out by the 1st); it'll be done before April 5th though. Just
a heads up.
phf: ffs, sorry about that, i fucked up
a paste..
mircea_popescu: b2. the utility columns must include
a recent posts,
a recent comments, and convenient access to archives.
mircea_popescu: trilema's
a little under 640, because trilema was made 10+ years ago. you can take advantage of wider screens, make the read column say 640. or 720, if single utility column.
mircea_popescu: b1. your text column will have to have
a fixed size. this is the 2nd, and i suspect last decision you make. too wide, you get horizontal scrolling, and that sucks. too wide, you're reading an electromagnetic beam, which also sucks.
billymg: this _may_ be
a result of the patch, in which case
a regression. will dig in
☟︎ mircea_popescu: b) you will need
a main column for text on the left, and either one or two service columns on the right. this is the first major decision in theme making : one ? or two ?
mircea_popescu: as far as experience illuminates,
a theme goes like this :
a) you must have
a header, and
a.1 you don't want it animated ; thus i know of nothing better than tcurrent state of the art as shown by trilema : mask-png which goes with the theme, invite user to take some pictures, apply the mask, upload them and have the theme rotate through them by some criteria.
billymg: do you know if this was
a regression in this patch?
billymg: definitely, i had planned to write
a custom theme at some point, with inputs from the lords, to try and arrive at an "ideal" default theme
mircea_popescu: billymg, : "Size Thumbnail Medium Large Full size (560 × 420)" only permits me the 560x420 upload. ideally should have also
a thumbnail or two, you know ? sometimes that works better. i suspect this comes from settings
☟︎ diana_coman: multiple authors is one thing aka multiple users; multiple roles though is
a different thing
billymg: i wonder if this is
a limitation of "contributor" role
a111: Logged on 2019-03-31 16:56 diana_coman: re fg inside, I suppose that's the "those guys don't know how to sell" - gotta make it
a collectable, there's no use and no purpose other than it's cool; but mircea_popescu's explanation of self-valuation seems to me to explain it all much better really.
diana_coman would get the kid
a toy car since ~= "college" anyway.
mircea_popescu: this is, you must agree,
a significant discount from his usual 10`000% of the return for 0.01% of the work.
diana_coman: re fg inside, I suppose that's the "those guys don't know how to sell" - gotta make it
a collectable, there's no use and no purpose other than it's cool; but mircea_popescu's explanation of self-valuation seems to me to explain it all much better really.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2019-01-18 17:38 asciilifeform: the bureaucracy 'codes' are sumthingelse... there was
a time when asciilifeform slaved in
a usg army research thing, and their 'job codes' were written in 1960s, there was no 'programmer'. so ended up 'chemist'.
mircea_popescu: that's the leverage involved : for 1% or so of being
a salesman, fellow would like 10`000% or so of being the corporation's president.
mircea_popescu: the dood's self-valuation is there very much transparent : he wants to do
a quarter hour of unskilled work ; and he wants to be paid 5k for it, ie about
a week and
a half's worth of skilled work.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-03 20:04 mircea_popescu: dude, just call. nevermind the "questions" and rest of the crap. spend 1/10 of the time you frittered away already "on" this to call, write up your report, "i, pete d, aspiring to one day lordship, spent 8 hours today cold calling. i managed
a total of 76 calls, which would get me fired from the average call center but hey, i'm new. these 76 calls went to so and so, here's the script, here's why i ammended it and when, here's
BingoBoingo: In other discoveries:
http://www.contravex.com/2019/03/30/the-21st-century-emergency-kit-fg-inside/ "But that’s not all! In addition to being super sensible and oh so au courant, FG INSIDE doubles (triples?) as an icon of industrial design. Like the Eames Lounge or the iPod before it, its pared-down simplicity and resolute transparency make it
a work of artistic expression reflective of, and integral to, our present day and age. USD
billymg: but i know i'll have to pause on that to put together
a test suite (which should actually be
a great way of identifying what needs to *remain*)
deedbot: hanbot rated hanbot-abroad 1 <<
A true, certified hanbot-lite.
BingoBoingo: I never had to get
a car inspected in my corner of old country. All registered just outside the mandatory inspection zone.
Mocky:
a couple years ago they bumped the penalty for fake sticker up from violation to misdemeanor. and also added it to the auto-plate-scanning-database system in most cop cars so alarm goes off for cop every time
a car with expired inspection in the morning database goes past.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-28 17:14 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, they have this testing office here, they give you
a stamp that the car is up to spect technically, good for 1 year. (good measure too, the tubs these people drove before it... jesus f. even now you see trucks dead in middle of onramp cuz unmaintained engine finally croaked etc)
Mocky: billymg: ok I'll have
a look, thx
mircea_popescu:
a mistake powered by the fact that up until they came about tradition consisted of naggum's library. so of copurse thinking man wouldn't part with it.
mircea_popescu:
a spam trap with 0 spams in it is not much of
a trap hm ?
mircea_popescu: it's how traditional marriage works, neh ? "can divorce the stupid cunt through the process of finding her
a hubstitute. can also divorce prison or military service the same way"
BingoBoingo: "CAN YOU BELIEVE THEY HAVE THAT SHIT IN THEIR CONTRACT? IF I HAD KNOWN THAT WAS EVEN
A POSSIBILITY I WOULD HAVE TRIED TO GET THAT IN MY OWN DAMN CONTRACT. YOU CAN’T LAY ME OFF, EVER? YOU MUST FIND ME
A NEW JOB IN PERPETUITY? I HAVE BECOME KING OF THE WORKPLACE AND ALL I SURVEY. THE MIGHTY UNION HAS GRANTED US ALL
A JOB FOR LIFE. BOW DOWN."
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-14#1896552 : smoked sprats served with penne al'olio, with vinegar pickles on the side and
a sprinkling of capers is easily the most representatively venetian dish i ever had -- notwithstanding as far as i know i just invented it in my own kitchen
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2019-03-29 00:22 BingoBoingo has trinque's bootstrap.sh running. Going for
a walk myself.
diana_coman: it is in its own dir and project because that's what it is -
a project that tests the code of interest.
mircea_popescu: billymg, no, the idea is that you maintain
a test suite.
billymg: diana_coman: related to the test branch idea, if you have anything of yours you could point me to, for figuring out
a v-centric testing flow, would be appreciated
billymg: in terms of test suite, i didn't actually write any automated tests for mp-wp, i only meant the manual testing i did, plus reading my own patch
a few times
BingoBoingo has trinque's bootstrap.sh running. Going for
a walk myself.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so you know i has this very great capacity for passivization, you can in fact start
a fire again from
a coal fire 6 hours old
mircea_popescu: now how do you propose to burn three tons of coal in
a year ?
mircea_popescu: silver is 15 dollars an ounce, by consequence 240 dollars per pound ; coal is ~80 dollars
a short ton
mircea_popescu: this, quite exactly ~this~ is the substance of hitler's lament, " It is similar in the world. It just does not work, to have 46 million British people block 40 million km² of earth and simply declare: God gave it to us, and 20 years ago we got some from you too; this is ours now, and will not give it back. And France, And France with its not very fertile earth, almost 80 people on
a square kilometer, yet they have over 9
mircea_popescu: these latter were sometimes used as venereal-undiseased fuckrelief for the older son ; but generally, it's
a harem with very little fucking going around.
mircea_popescu: the male staff was generally butler, gardener, chauffeur, one or two handymen [plus, of course, all the military folk, in older times]. the female staff was
a maid for the wife,
a maid or nanny for each child,
a main cook, possibly
a help, and
a pair to n indistinct maids, brushing the silverware, abrading the tables one layer each week, scrubbing the floors etc.
mircea_popescu: back before roosevelt and his successors permanently fixed the quality of life,
a man's household (in which he kept
a single woman and her issue, plus some servants) had
a front door for peers and
a back door for servants and suppliers
mircea_popescu: it's like the fucktards are trying to build an empire on knives, but bereft of
a blade and missing
a handle.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-05 02:51 asciilifeform recently reread 'tigerfibel', really
a megaclassic of technical writing for all time
BingoBoingo: Lincoln winning the war of Northern Aggression in this respect was
a European failure.
mircea_popescu: i suppose one can't fairly discuss the matter without pointing out that the ogilvy-derivative concept of "pr agency" is precisely this, witness to the usg's self-aware failure to develop
a diplomatic service and
a woprking embassy network, leaving the english as the last practitioner of the florentine art.
BingoBoingo: Where no one is particularly welcome and everything uses EMAIL as
a gatekeeper.
mircea_popescu: the old woman wanted to know if she maybe has
a lot of castles-in-spain style "unknwon inheritance", typical argentine thought process.
mircea_popescu: when i visited the one in argentina, they were just entertaining
a local older woman with
a pile of 1910s era letters from her romanian-immigrated ancestors.
mircea_popescu: generally there's
a girly around ready to hand some fliers or w/e to whatever adventurous locals.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, romania does
a lot of things right though i suspect by accident. ie, none of the idiotic glass walsl, either, you visit you sit down in front of old style desk, like sane people.
BingoBoingo: I mean it has mega fence, but... the place is just about
a country club minus the land for golfing.
mircea_popescu: ah yeah, the uk embassies. that was
a lulz of all time during the "union" while it lasted -- the brits had the first useful, and perhaps the last functioning, embassy network.
BingoBoingo: UK embassy here is roughly equal to
a small clubhouse with pool and Satellite tv.
mircea_popescu: the euros are the saddest of them all -- they dun have the state entreprises, notrly, and they dun have the other half either, not really, it's
a wonder they persevere.
mircea_popescu: anyway, one aspect of this is fo sho : traditional (with
a view of only) function of embassy is as "den of corruption", ie, they acquire over time intimate knowledge of detail, can help you do things.