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mircea_popescu: http://adelaparvu.com/2014/08/22/superbe-sobele-si-semineurile-cu-cahle-pictate-de-la-targu-secuiesc-aici-se-pot-reconstitui-si-sobe-vechi/ <<< much better examples of the austrian item with variations.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: ours had statues of cherubs on top, as early 1900s bling fluorish. 1 cherub was missing his head. legend was, ro soldiers shot it for target practice, with luger.
ben_vulpes: i have a hole in the wall into which i pour bezzlars and light them on fire for fun
ben_vulpes: holy shit what even is that
mircea_popescu: aaanyway -- is ben_vulpes going to make himself smoker next, grow rich out of feeding quality breakfast meats to the greater cascadia ?
asciilifeform: it's an item that spans multiple rooms, and the stones ( the walls are stone, not shitwall, necessarily ) retain heat
ben_vulpes: can i get a link to this "dutch stove" marvel fo engineering?
mircea_popescu: remarkab ly small. i dunno whether it's a work-of-art omfg i can't believe master stovier managed to get the smokes crushed into that space or rather "we dunno what we did". i could guess, but why guess.
mircea_popescu: standard item about 2-3 m3, though it can be made larger (there's a twinning method)
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i'm rhapsodizing about my tiny fireplace
ben_vulpes: oh and it hasta be large enough to fit benches *inside*
mircea_popescu: (and i am deeply unsurprised the anglotards know not what they talk of. country of whiskey drinkers and so on)
ben_vulpes: fireplace just ain't a worthwhile thing unless you've got the woodpile to keep ti at least smouldering all day, roaring at night, and pretty lasses to keep it stoked. nevertheless, i'll enjoy this one while i have it.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-14 00:41 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-13#1751176 << nah, too complex and therefore frail system like that. simply : host ALL sigs for ALL things yourself ; let the urls be known publicly and don't change them.
mod6: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-14#1751375 << Wern't people also deeding these a while back? ☝︎
mircea_popescu: "there was no technology before fly-eyes" because it... wasn't for the fucking fly eyes, that's why!
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 19:34 mircea_popescu: so : the faberge egg, the original, was made in 1885 ; but it was the continuation and in a sense the crowing of a current of thought (ie, culture) and proper civilisation that reached back over a centry.
mircea_popescu: yes. it is, when one understands the problem, a properly speaking breathtaking accomplishment.
asciilifeform: massively glorious thing
asciilifeform: ( despite total lack of habsburgs... )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the flat i grew up in, had one
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes romania still has in the rural areas the habsburg empire's premier invention in this world, the vienese smokes terracotta
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 16:40 asciilifeform finds that he cannot think of grouse without recalling mayakovsky's 'Ешь ананасы, рябчиков жуй, / день твой последний приходит, буржуй.'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: phunphakt, franklin's stove is even today in ru known as a буржуйка ( why? dunno, because from usa ? hard to say ) ☟︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-12-17 02:43 ben_vulpes: all congrats to you sir, p vastly more enjoyable and engrossing than any other 'content' any imperial attentionfarm has produced in my lifetime
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752370 << this is quite on point ; there's just about ~nothing of any interest or to any degree interesting happening anywhere else fwis. ☝︎
ben_vulpes: remarked the other night that i understood in short order the fireplace -> 'franklin' stove motivations
mircea_popescu: gets tedious after, which is why god made winter not last.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes wood fired stoves are pretty cool, for the first few months.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 01:38 asciilifeform yet again, for 3rd time in 2 yrs, attempted and failed to build a 'zero foot print runtime' for gnat -- to abolish the 3MB of liquishit it shits into every executable.
asciilifeform: ( what ~does~ go in the elf ? see thread http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1743984 ) ☝︎
asciilifeform: nominally libc doesn't go in a gnat-baked elf, so it isn't quite the same urgency as musltronic gcc-for-trb was
trinque: since I last ran the recipe, as yet anonymous shitgnomes broke the downgrade to gcc 4.9.4
trinque: whole turd gettin published when done
asciilifeform: trinque: i'd much like to see a working musltronic gnat
trinque: I'm over here dusting off the musl gentoo recipe to produce same.
ben_vulpes: not strictly cramps, that.
ben_vulpes did first 6-mile haul this afternoon, pushing > 15 kilos of stroller
a111: Logged on 2017-12-09 01:10 mircea_popescu: ran in the rain, got terrible shin cramps from it, got massage from nude interloper while playing with her tits... my life is so unfair.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: shame about the pressed shitboard, yeah.
trinque was pleased to get two nights of fireplace usage (and one of snow!) before it went back to 60-70F
ben_vulpes: genius brother-in-law-in-waiting decided to bless the family mountain retreat with a whole cord of what turned out to be entirely unseasoned softwood from godknowswhere. literally worst choice, literally unprepared for civilized use.
asciilifeform: ( in ameri-cardboard-house of recent decades' vintage, it is uncommon to find fireplace )
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: here's a lul : where i live there is almost unlimited firewood (someone is always cutting down old wood, giving away) but i've no fireplace.
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: !~later tell phf plox to intern http://www.loper-os.org/pub/mpi/ffa_ch1_genesis.vpatch.benvulpes.sig
ben_vulpes: all congrats to you sir, p vastly more enjoyable and engrossing than any other 'content' any imperial attentionfarm has produced in my lifetime ☟︎
asciilifeform: in other noose, congrats to ben_vulpes , http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1913&cpage=1#comment-18420 << 2nd ffa ch1 graduate
ben_vulpes: entirely unrelatedly, i had a half-cord of firewood dropped off and racked tidily in my basement a week or so ago and holy smokes the luxury of having effectively unlimited firewood during the wintertime is almost as good as i imagine not having to suffer through pacific northwest winters must be
mircea_popescu: wasn't there an extended format ?
asciilifeform: iirc they gotta fit in 512b udpgrams tho
asciilifeform: dun tell me 'infinite', lel
asciilifeform: what's the charcount cap for dnsolade anyway
mircea_popescu: moreover i'm curious how they'll "fix" this. evidently correct solution (throw out amazonaws from hitler list of "acceptable websites") ain't happening so.. what ? introduce limit of max 8 chars for subdomain ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, quoted because it's a great example of the ~principle~ of the thing, whereby you don't want fucking fleas, because "government" anointed fleas are no better and no cleanner than random from the street.
asciilifeform: but the 'dog' this particular flea rides on, theoretically shouldn't even exist
mircea_popescu: so amazonaws.com is on the hitler list, and consequently smaller fleas wish to ride atop the back of the great whale flea.
mircea_popescu: some dude managed to rank ~5trillion pages in teh google cache BECAUSE the "artificial intelligence" of bayesian-cum-minimum-wage-tractor works exactly like this "hand populate a list with wikipeida and whatever, and then "rank" items"
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752340 << eh that's from the land where there exist 'building engineer' (i.e. janitor) ☝︎
mircea_popescu: whichever, they're all the same.
mircea_popescu: worst construction... well... have you seen that tv show ?
mircea_popescu: best construction i can put on it is, "closest pantsuit can come to saying chumpatron operator wanted".
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i have never understood wtf that was or how it was supposed to work
ben_vulpes: mod6: aha thanks
asciilifeform: at the very least it was why asciilifeform took as long as he did, to unearth it
mod6: <+asciilifeform> ty mod6 . loox liek he found it in the end << thanks for helping him!
asciilifeform: re 'unknown', i suspect that the stink of the landfill of usgism it lay buried in, is not entirely irrelevant
mircea_popescu: but it's THIS kind of woman, not THAt kind of "women"
a111: Logged on 2017-12-16 21:37 asciilifeform: !~later tell mod6 plox to consider http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-16#1752260 case , vtron really oughta barf informatively if a req'd unix util is notfound, imho
asciilifeform: ty mod6 . loox liek he found it in the end
mod6: Notification of updates to v are posted in the comments there.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: esp. comedic considering the name of the item
a111: Logged on 2017-12-17 01:40 asciilifeform stuck presently in an infuriating gnat labyrinth : turns out, a proggy that set pragma Restrictions(No_Secondary_Stack) , cannot use Ada.Command_Line ( equiv of argc/argc in c-planet ). so then asciilifeform went to make own replacement. and turns out , guesswat, no can haz, because pragma Restrictions(No_Unchecked_Conversion) -- and argv, where commandline lives, is a pointer to nonadatronic (i.e. c-style) string .
asciilifeform: incidentally http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752302 is worth expanding on : it is impossible to implement Ada.Command_Line sanely (i.e. without using secondary stack.) the reason is that argv is a potential 'infinity' -- it contains an uncapped number of c-strings of uncapped ( as are all c-strings ) length. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-12-01 21:17 mod6: ben_vulpes: you may want to update the link to my V in this blog post (http://cascadianhacker.com/07_v-tronics-101-a-gentle-introduction-to-the-most-serene-republic-of-bitcoins-cryptographically-backed-version-control-system) as it's old. This is the latest: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2017-March/000260.html
a111: Logged on 2017-12-16 20:39 asciilifeform: i could've sworn there was a mod6 thread about this not long ago
asciilifeform: quite tough if yer writing proggy for unixbox.
mircea_popescu: yes, but a bad habit tough to break
asciilifeform: until nao i never thought of doing it
asciilifeform: not hard tho, just dun use argc/argv
mircea_popescu: also gives a "no c main" ada proggy a serious gold trophy.
asciilifeform: so from this 4hr tour of wtf, asciilifeform learns that the only way to give his ada proggies access to argc/argv, is apparently to give'em a c main() (gnat makes this trivial) where all of the c-ism happens, which then invokes the proggy proper.
mircea_popescu: so ada binaries actually better than plain elf.
asciilifeform: (i.e. chunks of the language)
asciilifeform: they hold at build time, and disable chunks of the runtimelib
mircea_popescu: do these hold at runtime ?
asciilifeform: BUT this is apparently broken in gnat.
asciilifeform: so then the obvious answer is from the standard, which proclaims that Restrictions(....) can be made to act per-partition (i.e. on libffa , but not the calling prog)
asciilifeform stuck presently in an infuriating gnat labyrinth : turns out, a proggy that set pragma Restrictions(No_Secondary_Stack) , cannot use Ada.Command_Line ( equiv of argc/argc in c-planet ). so then asciilifeform went to make own replacement. and turns out , guesswat, no can haz, because pragma Restrictions(No_Unchecked_Conversion) -- and argv, where commandline lives, is a pointer to nonadatronic (i.e. c-style) string . ☟︎
mircea_popescu: whatever love anyone had for them back for their 1990s typographic utility is long lost.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Error: The "Later" plugin is loaded, but there is no command named "peterl" in it. Try "list Later" to see the commands in the "Later" plugin.
mircea_popescu: !~later peterl i dunno, i think the ideal is no future for macs.
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: !~later tell phf plox to intern http://www.loper-os.org/pub/ffa/ffa_ch1_genesis.vpatch.peterl.sig
asciilifeform: in other noose, http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1913&cpage=1#comment-18418 << congrats to PeterL, the first (self-proclaimed, but there ain't gonna be any other kind, i dun run a usg-style school, 'diploma' is a matter of yer own conscience) ffa ch1 graduate .
asciilifeform sat down and tried to think of something good to say about it, 'at least it ships with compiler' then remembered that.. it doesn't, not after jobs died
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: that's possibly circa-2004, at latest, thinking. today it dun look so hot even from outside, to naked eye. 'update and MUST REBOOT NAO' popups, a la microshit, crashes, even shitware beginning to bloom, whole orchestra, 'regression to mean'
a111: Logged on 2014-10-26 03:33 decimation: osx looks good from the outside, but when you walk into the engine room you find chairs glued to the ceiling and rotating clown cars
PeterL: they are so close but have the wierdest quirky differences
PeterL: I guess it is good I built in on a mac, exposes some bugs that would not have been seen if everybody used linux