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mircea_popescu: chet self-diagnosed her rare eyesight condition over gopher at a time medical science was done off paper
mircea_popescu: well in fairness - it did flush, which is how it ended up on reddit. you're the one gone plumbing.
mircea_popescu: the one thing a true blue american really abhors is any form of responsibility.
mircea_popescu: ahaha are these the slock.it imbeciles still trying to dodge the obvious "we suck, and we lied about it, and it blew up in our face, and we destroyed your trust and we will now go die quietly" ?
mircea_popescu: so then your ram can do 200 iops and a quad ssd raid can do about 300k. ie, 10^3 moar :D
mircea_popescu: Framedragger for the sake of argument : ddr3 does say 2k cycles and latency is about 10 ; proper ssd does what, 100k iops on a 4k block ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, if you make a proper profiling sometime we can go through it and see. but, you're right wrt squeezing the software first if it can be squeezed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in principle i could get a bank of 4 ssd's in a raid which should make it faster-than-ram
mircea_popescu: time to take that shit back, just because "it has images" is no excuse for the existence of say firefox.
mircea_popescu: going back to history for a minute here - at first there was the text internet ; and then as bw and hdds grew up and people could have gifs of samatha fox's snatch rather than ascii art of same, they all rushed to... basically, this shitfest of netscape, internet exploder etc.
mircea_popescu: and a goat is closer to a young woman than any old whore - it's tighter down there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform once there exist as many as five proper pages, you can have a proper browser.
mircea_popescu: the big problem is that lazy thinkers and "hopefuls" of all stripes have made it into their comfortable home. this can't fucking stand.
mircea_popescu: in short : the web is very, very broken - but most of the breakage isn't even in the software. yes apache sucks and wtf is js even.
mircea_popescu: a tiny example, but indicative of the conceptual difference.
mircea_popescu: but the "media properties", from "one side" to "the other same side" of "the spectrum" ... do not.
mircea_popescu: which is why trilema, or qntra, have, say, a FUCKING ARCHIVE PAGE
mircea_popescu: trinque basically, it should be conceptualized not as a "this is a sheet i printed this and that on" but more like "what'd you like in your plate here ?"
mircea_popescu: whreas the fucking internet is not made to be a cable tv substitute omfg. website should mean that the user can do a bunch of shit, according to what he may need, some of which not necessarily foreseen by author.
mircea_popescu: trinque incidentally, i suspect the entire website model is dumb as presented. currently, under pressure from ustards/business majors/other unwelcome masses, a website is a collection of webpages that is very similar to how a tv show is a collection of tv frames. MAYBE they'll let the user have a tivo, but that's at the most.
mircea_popescu: shit, among all this actual productive work i nearly missed the lulz explosion on qntra.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform honestly i was thinking just pick one, clean it and repackage it.
mircea_popescu: if you build alf a web tool that looks and feels like whatever apple doohickey he fell in love with as a kid, he'll love you long time.
mircea_popescu: trinque the largest conundrum is the tex and sql end ; but that can also wait.
mircea_popescu: certainly less wrong with openbsd than... fucking red hat or w/e.
mircea_popescu: myeah. but it's modular anyway, so. until such a time, we just need a hm. either php or lisp i guess. or maybe hammer the extant python-whatcha call it into shape.
mircea_popescu: anyway. in practice there's also nginx, which i doubt is any better ; and i don't foresee our writing of a web server right nao.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ya well. anyway, this is kind-of the direction i was dreaming for the wp thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "we". some idiots went , weren't us and it shows.
mircea_popescu: this only partially solves the www problem though. servers have to be lovingly helped to stay up over ddos etc crapolade ; why the fuck does apache not work properly etc etc. but these we can abstract for now i hope.
mircea_popescu: for instance, it'd evident we want : a) csv, for to grep ; b) tmsr-html, which is NOT html, and not just because it does not allow js ; c) tmsr-svg, which i'm going to pretend is svg, because gnarly. somewhere inbetween b and c a latex fits in as previously discussed in logs.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't automatically have to be "send your data to X guy who runs the official data-dump server"
mircea_popescu: anyway ; the borders are fluid, the "data dissemination" part can just live as a "this is the official tmsr web package ; install it like so ; it's maintained by these people ; it does these things we want exactly right and no more"
mircea_popescu: at some point you will have to like something ; lest something decides to like you.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm sorry, were you saying "i am a flaming retard right now, so what i'm proposing is moving gb of crud around for no other purpose than to communicate a kb of information" ? i interpreted it to mean "what if i actually have 1 gb of information, can i pass that ?"
mircea_popescu: trilema serves many many terrabites each month. what's a gigabyte.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so ? you push out csv's ; someone displays them.
mircea_popescu: well the alternative is me flying over to washington with a rubber hose and pounding you into loving www.
mircea_popescu: i guess some work poured into a semblance of unified dissemination interface is unavoidable, hence the shinohai wp project.
mircea_popescu: sort-of what's been happening with the wot, for instance, anyway.
mircea_popescu: i'm thinking the way this will end up is to separate the data processing ; data acquisition ; and data dissemination. evidently people good at any of these aren't good at the others, and have incredibly elaborate excuses for maintaining the situation that likely aren't worth cutting through.
mircea_popescu: possibly found something like a nsa something or the other, a botnet / spamnet etc.
mircea_popescu: at the very least you could make another page, "ips by factors found"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the one important thing you should add is "search by ip"
mircea_popescu: well, at least it offers a hierarchy of "in which order to factor keys"
mircea_popescu: alternatively, nobody could foresee the terrorists will use ssh keys as rsa unifying underlying, so they're entirely unprepared for any of this
mircea_popescu: this "middle of the road" thing is bad for both usecases : when you grep it you waste bw on html crud ; meanwhile browsing luser is stuck.
mircea_popescu: if you want a csv version, why not make that. if you're making a html version, should have pages.
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