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mircea_popescu: "isn't it enough that i'm getting real returns on THIS ONE THING ? it should be. all the rest... imaginary!"
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. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: diana_coman, i'd rather suspect it's "ate his motivation", as in "i already gave at the office".
asciilifeform: i oughta get pete to buy my bucket of aluminum swarf from machine shop bucket, coupla wks ago i filled it up again. maybe he can sell also for 5k..
diana_coman: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-31#1906236 -> I'd say the "kids ate my time" is the convenient excuse as it's not like he has 100, nor like he is even main carer or anything; just sayin'. ☝︎
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
asciilifeform: there was some fella who in 2000s 'fuck , i'm not paying 100k to hitachi, i'ma build own atomic force microscope' but admittedly was long time ago.
asciilifeform: the mindboggling thing is that afaik no one yet 'fuck you all, i'ma make own.' asciilifeform made this deliberately as simple as could be .
asciilifeform: i wouldn't even be surprised if he finally sells 1
mircea_popescu: i expect it's an aesthetic consideration.
mircea_popescu: (the above quite was re "identify what needs to remain" comment. i guess i gotta get more disciplined with the linerefs.
BingoBoingo: I wouldn't be surprised if he picked up more when the decision to hold off on more productions runs came down
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: to add extra lulz, without any 'kiss and tell' , i.e. per d00d's own www -- http://www.contravex.com/2017/08/10/unboxing-and-set-up-of-nosuchlabs-fuckgoats-on-macos-openbsd-linux/ -- seems like we sold him only 2... so he went and picked up 3 moar, so that he could this
billymg: yeah, i knew as much from the logs
billymg: BingoBoingo: i do kind of like the aesthetic, but would like it more if the board was mounted and the case had port cutouts, etc., so that it could be used in that form
Mocky: I've been building my wp import file out of my feed template. It's basically rss with additional wp tags. I just discovered the reason why only the last post in the file has been getting imported: wp import can't handle </item><item> without whitespace between.
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*)
a111: Logged on 2017-07-08 03:49 asciilifeform: i just counted gpg 1.4.10 : 156,436 loc -- and that ain't counting the autoconf liquishit, or the libs it pulls in
BingoBoingo: I do believe so
BingoBoingo: I never had to get a car inspected in my corner of old country. All registered just outside the mandatory inspection zone.
Mocky: billymg: ok I'll have a look, thx
billymg: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-30#1906118 << a situation billymg is familiar with firsthand. thankfully, i'll soon be seeking asylum in the Lone Star state ☝︎
mircea_popescu: you don't mean "One time I want to draw your attention to #selection-387.154-389.22 while some other time #selection-43.21-43.46 is the point of interest." ? that's deliberate!
asciilifeform: i.e. 'dun matter that you took the sweat to write it in king's english, we're gonna throw hieroglyphs in' ?
mircea_popescu: "what do you mean, you will burn ALL the books ?!?!" "of course i will, keks."
asciilifeform: for lack of any other hypothesis, i'ma buy
asciilifeform: i cant fathom presently why that is even in there. but possibly this q dun have a logical answr
asciilifeform: presently i have nfi where it is
asciilifeform: when i get a chance to fiddle with my wp again, tho, would 1st like to find & kill the uniturdation thing
asciilifeform: i gotta bake a 'recent comments' thing like mircea_popescu has , tho ( possibly will crib from his )
mircea_popescu: "my concubine -- just when i figured she's about to deliver, she turned out to be fulla shit."
mircea_popescu: "since stuffing buttplugs in all the slavegirls buttholes, there's 0 HS in the toilet gastrap. and their assholes still work, i checked -- though they never saw much use before either."
BingoBoingo: What can I say, the future is autocorrupt
mircea_popescu: i mean BingoBoingo
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."
BingoBoingo: Anyways, last I checked the corpse, Hamilton Nolan still not fired because he's the op's Political Officer.
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 ☝︎
BingoBoingo: Seriously. Lately I've been enjoying the private satisfaction of Colita de Cuadril passing "Suprema de Ave" as the premium protein per peso cut of critter
BingoBoingo: Some folks mine hashes, I mine blogdeaths
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i hate to create headache, but plox to cut it into a 3 and a 1 , i'ma fill the 3 nao and the 1 when my hot noad actually syncs ( loox like ~wk left )
asciilifeform: grr loox like i haven't filled it up to 4 either , nm
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ty. plox to ping me week or so prior so i can start the gears moving
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: plox to reinvoice me with '4', and i'ma owe 1 worth of orcbux movement
asciilifeform: spyked: ty for the ping , item got literally buried under pile of papers. dug it up nao , and i'ma post it tomorrow morning. ☟︎
billymg: mircea_popescu, diana_coman: sorry, i misunderstood. makes sense now, will add it to my list
spyked: speaking of which: asciilifeform, any updates re http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-06#1900589 / http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-06#1900675 ? I'm not in a rush; I have a temporary setup running, but thought I'd ping you re this ☝︎☝︎
spyked: in spyked updates: aside from polishing feedbot part 2, I've also been playing with http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-29#1906050 in the last coupla days. I'll post on blog with the results soon ☝︎
diana_coman: billymg the tests I have are simply automated ada and/or c/cpp tests for the code, nothing v-specific really; from V's pov it's just code like the rest.
mircea_popescu: not an emergency item or anything, but i thought you already had it, and that's what you meant by testing.
asciilifeform: phf: i found & removed the last uniturd ( was in the manifest.txt , from the day i made it ) . this however means that there in fact lies a uniturd in the 18 patch ( the removal line , naturally . ) after this i expect no moar .
a111: Logged on 2019-03-27 21:23 Mocky: billymg: if your tinymce patch is ready this weekend I'll test it with my setup.
billymg: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-27#1905200 < sounds good, i think it's in a good state. will try to have it patched on top of hanbot's on saturday ☝︎
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
billymg: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-27#1905107 < i like the idea of a dev branch alongside a production branch. is the idea that after after a patch (or set of patches) is deemed mature enough it will then be added to the main branch? ☝︎
asciilifeform: if anyone's impatient, i'll link to the vpatch/seal, otherwise it'll wait for the text
asciilifeform recently read a pretty spiffy , and i dare say mircea_popescu-flavoured ( good % was re how, where, whom, the folx fucked ) memoir of sovok 'akula' sub officer in '90s. d00d was moar or less 'meat computer'
asciilifeform: i imagine that if that jp micro reactor thing had existed in '30s -- london would be fulla'em
asciilifeform: as it is, i dun fully grasp the appeal
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
asciilifeform: we had thread where i looked for photo of in what
asciilifeform: as i understand thing doubled as furnace for room heat
asciilifeform: while it lasts, i suppose
asciilifeform: i suspect largely evaporated by '30s tho ; so not sure what the author was thinking
asciilifeform: and ubiquitous terminology there to this day, survived revolution and eltsins alike, парадный вход / черный вход ( 'parade entrance' , i.e. for people, 'black entrance' , i.e. for servants + garbage )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i know, lived in just such back in orcistan
asciilifeform: as i understand 'aga' is ~the~ prototype for the current-day ubiquitous kitchen stove
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: As opposed to the stories I have heard from US embassy.
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: 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: but that "best-by" date's sometime before rhodesia's end, i guess.
asciilifeform: embassy as i understand it, as concept , pre-dates not only pubkey but even telegraph , and was never fully upgraded , rly expects to operate on meat-to-meat ( and witness usg delightfully exploiting this, creats all kinds fake embassies , i went coupla yrs ago to , believe, tour of 'iraq embassy' , 100% usg.blue creation )
asciilifeform: then i got nuffin
asciilifeform: i.e. decade wait for process
asciilifeform: i suspect that if all-comers could actually submit the paper , place would looke like sovok 'avir'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, nevermind what i preferred, specifically. it is literally the extent of their job, to be found, this particular set. that's all they're for, like a mcdonalds.
asciilifeform: i.e. it's their answer to living in http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-27#1905147 world ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i'm just amused at attempt to look at it from other side.
asciilifeform: ( and if 'but i'm mircea_popescu , why would i have to stand in queue' --guesswat , already didn't have to , eh. so where is the problem with the mechanism of why didn't have to ? )
asciilifeform: at least far as the sheep are concerned , 'i aint been eaten yet, so wats the problem' etc
mircea_popescu: earthly paradise, i don't imagine any cheetah ever complained of good hunting.
asciilifeform: i.e. how many are of these chix, vs how many did mircea_popescu eat
asciilifeform: i.e. it's part of the http://btcbase.org/log/2014-03-19#568248 structure ☝︎
mircea_popescu: and at no fucking point does this drastic disparity bother the morons at all. i can tell you where any random leah lives, and what she last ate, or when she ate last, but then http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-28#1905769 as fucking if. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: her answer to "wtf ios wrong with you" was "well, i never heard of the others, so they don't exist" ; but the REASON that was the answer was that ~i~ knew who the fuck she was within two hours, because guess what, my mother of all people actually knew her.
asciilifeform: i suspect that if zimbabwe were offered to 'join europe' in the sense of 'get payola like greece' , would immediately join, noshit
mircea_popescu: but to put the lulz of the original http://trilema.com/2009/doua-curve/ in context : so i come back to romania cca 2007, and some chick is making a "top of romanians in online" which is fulla names i never saw before and contains nobody of the people atthe time i knew made and turrned the net.
a111: Logged on 2015-12-22 14:54 mircea_popescu: the fundamental argentinian-ness of the human mind, "oh, ok, this is what i get paid, now how could i move down what i gottaq do for it ?" really needs the british imperial "fuck you, you don't eat" as typified by lord newton.
asciilifeform: 'grandfather rode camel, i ride merc 600, but my grandson will also ride camel' -- i fughet who , in petrostan , but well-known
mircea_popescu: i suppose qatar doesn'rt either -- white devils come to extract. in any case this is how it went back in ceausescu days. whole http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-13#1902161 reduces to "man attempted to turn romanians into the white devil" ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i suppose in retrospect http://trilema.com/2016/petty-private-satisfactions/#footnote_0_67595 goes exceedinglky well with http://mocky.org/inshAllah/ ; being exactly the same thing and self-evidently BEFORE the "success". ie, the quatari aren't thus ruined by their windfall -- their pre-existing mental cockroaches are merely evinced by the windfall, but absent that they'd have the same "mental processes", as argentines in
mircea_popescu: great leaps forward, what can i say.
mircea_popescu: i actually had to fall back on my own secret service background to extract through THAT AVENUE the information that she needed in such a packaging and under such wot signaturs as i could trust, because god fucking help me if she was gonna send shit to random endpoints "culled from the www"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2014-07-16#758238 << speaking of, here's some lulz. so i had recently occasion to employ the services of the consul of teh koninkrijk der nederlanden in san jose to interface some diplomatic business with the romanian mission not present here for my convenience. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2019-02-15 00:00 asciilifeform was given 'mk61' at same age i think diana_coman's kid is nao
asciilifeform: i had nfi these also existed
asciilifeform: even my sovok alarm clock keeps to <1s/day (yes sovok made alarm clocks with rubies, thermocompensated spring, etc. i could not say exactly why, prolly same factory made for submarine as for desktop ... )
mircea_popescu: oh oh, set them every day. i read "sold them every day". i c lol.
mircea_popescu: i dunno what all this "canonical" bs ever does. eg, they invented some alt- mircea_popescu a few years ago, to auto-return, great expert bla bla. did ~nothing, sunk back into the gavinvat.