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mod6: Anyway, it's not done being shaved just yet. But I'm getting there. So that's what I've been doing last few days.
mod6: Which, to trinque's point, the tool that really helps (I had forgotton about this) is the `make menuconfig` search.
mod6: I've been working, in the recent few days since "irc-server!!1", on just shaving the yak of my cuntoo-kernel.
mod6: I think with some steering, maybe we can get this thing back on track.
mod6: Well, when I'm done, I'd like to discuss it more with you.
mod6: I'm gonna keep reading, I'm about 60% of the way through the trilogy.
mircea_popescu: (in fact, for the sake of transparency, the idea i quoted on dpb's blog, from 2016, came exactly as a "hmm, i wonder why foundation is stuck, could alternative path be explored maybe ?".)
mircea_popescu: i suppose the correct way to get one of those is to press into service a 60yo lawyer rather than a 30yo computer guy. but in the early stages of bitcoin there was an all-pervasive notion that "we can do anything just because we wanna, we got the range, and the machinery for change, we're uprooting banks and governments and everything in path!!!"
mod6: You've got a vision, sometimes for me to see it, takes some thinking, some reading. I'm kinda slow, but I tend to get there with time.
mod6: Not that it's all very related, but I can draw some similarities between The Foundation, and what The Bitcoin Foundation ~should~ be.
mod6: I'm starting to make some sense of what "a stanford" means (when you say it).
mod6: Yeah, I'm reading that book, finally.
mod6: So, if I'd have waited I may have said something different.
mod6: I posted my response to your Lordship article before you made me realize about my retardation of the irc-server/network thing.
mircea_popescu: i don't see why not.
mod6: Well, if you don't think it's any sort of problem to see if I can somehow get back on the right track with the republic, I'm willing to let it go at that, wait and see until next year.
mod6: But with a lack of serious time and focus, it's difficult to get there, right now anyway. I don't want to get neg-rated if think continue the same way for me this year.
mircea_popescu: to the concrete part : i don't expect your ratings are in any kind of danger, chiefly because i don't know that anyone expects anything specific of you as it is. the original "so take some time off" can still stand as such, and next april you can come off the lordship and all that.
mod6: it's not the old days of yore, and I've got to get better, I've got to improve.
mod6: But, I think you're right. The republic is getting harder to interface with.
mod6: heh, well, it could just be, as you said earlier, maybe I'm just braindamaged. lol, I probably am, I've been hit in the head enough.
mircea_popescu: some certainly do not. it's not THAT big of a deal ; but i also don't think time per se has anything whatever to do with it, or ever could.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to come the length of this circle : the point of the republic, as an intelectual construct, more generally than mere ideology, is that it'll slowly but surely ratchet into view any one participant's vulnerability. some people find this extremely interesting, perhaps as interesting as to fundamentally change the meaning of life, "i could never live without this".
mod6: yeah, the irc-server thing was a good example. With the foundation, I feel like I very well executed what was in the charter. As far as the outreach, I think I had a hard time with that part.
mod6: I just started "doing things", as opposed to thinking about it properly.
mod6: I mean, like duh, why would I have thought that making an irc-network was a good idea?
mircea_popescu: well, so what'd be the significant difference between "i ran a foundation doing no outreach by means of this publishing now and again on this obscure cvasi-blog" and "i aim to run an irc network doing no outreach by means of running this ircd here" ?
mod6: And for what it's worth, during that time, and since, I've done a lot of reflection, trying to adjust myself to the republic. Being in a hurry all the time, lack of time, seems to make me not think through what I'm doing, or the bigger picture.
mod6: I'm pretty hard on myself, I'd like to think anyway.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> did you take some time off to change, or did you give us some time off maybe we come to our senses ? << Very much the former, I'd like to think it's not my way to put my problems onto others or place blame onto others.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-03 15:05 mircea_popescu: shinohai your only available position here is "here is what i now understand to have been doing wrong, and shan't be fucking doing again, as exemplified by this excessively costly self sacrifice". not fucking "hey guise, buddy-buddy, are you gonna change to fit me in THIS time or do i come back whenever later try again".
mircea_popescu: the original point of the http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-19#1903453 inquiry was to force the following dilemma upon you : "i, mod6 , have been doing some things, that didn't work so well. i took some time off, then i came back. when i came back, was i trying taking a new tack, or was i merely tuning in again, to see http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-03#1869075 so to speak ?" ☝︎☝︎
mod6: And with all the other things that I've got going, I'm putting in like 10-20% per day, max.
mod6: I'd rather protect my rating, than be on the lordship list.
mod6: Well, I think my lack of overall time to consume all things TMSR leaves me at a disadvantage. And I care about it very much, and I seem to just keep getting it wrong. I don't want to be a barrier or a problem. And I'm not sure when I'll have all the time that it takes, or the time that I desire.
mod6: But everytime I try to climb, out I go right back in. I'm sort of, stuck in a nasty loop.
mod6: So anyway, I get ancy, trying to keep up, do helpful things, get out of the ditch, so to speak.
mod6: For whatever reason, I've been a bit off balance since February of '18 -- maybe just took some huge risks that didn't quite go my way. And since our discussion where I realized, as well as you wall, that I just don't have enough time to keep up in here; I think this is impacting my everything when it comes to TMSR.
mod6: This is hard, so I'm trying to put it all down here, so bear with me.
mod6: I've been doing a lot of thinking recently, going over our converstaion back from November 11th, other conversations as well. After taking that month or so off (was it 6 weeks?), I tried to ease myself back into TMSR~ related things, but I haven't been very successful.
mircea_popescu: i am!
mircea_popescu: diana_coman i actually edited latest trilema to http://trilema.com/2019/lets-look-at-the-mechanism-of-decay/#selection-145.46-149.11 ; but i confess it's unclear which is the cannonical name. should it be dianacoman.com or ossasepia.com ? ☟︎
diana_coman: ahaha, mircea_popescu starting from that look here what I've found, to answer http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-14#1902502 with 2012's text http://ossasepia.com/2012/03/02/cand-greselile-devin-idiotenii/#selection-35.0-39.624 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i have little faith in the separation, and especially seeing how widespread &2> inanities are.
diana_coman: I would very much like a no-unicode check patch for vdiff.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i reckon you're rtight, vdiff should check and report.
phf: mircea_popescu: trying to figure it out right now, i've realized that it might be useful
asciilifeform: interesting ! i gotta find which, and add to .gpr ( still dun cure utfism in manifest/docs tho )
phf: asciilifeform: some configuration of gnat refuses to compile utf source code, that's how i originally discovered it ☟︎
asciilifeform: nao that i think about it, this function prolly belongs in vdiff, i'ma bake a patch for it
asciilifeform: it is outrageous that i still got 8th bits in'ere
asciilifeform: i'ma do this prior to publishing 18
mircea_popescu: i dunno about esier, but more productive, you get indices too.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: verily. until then, i've sworn off to paste anyffin from anywhere other than inside emacs, into same
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the most recent case i found was a 'minus' sign pasted in from ~own article~ . prior to that -- doublequotes in 'manifest', ditto
phf: asciilifeform: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/auyin/?raw=true i investigated one of them before and it's stray unicode quotes
asciilifeform: i'd like to get the last uniturds out ( they creep in when paste in from www browser containing own pieces ! turns out. will also have to find out and kill whatever asciilifeform-wp piece is responsible. but not enuff free hands atm )
asciilifeform: ( at one pt i sat down to write a detector for unisadism, but never finished )
phf: asciilifeform: was about to paste, also i'm not sure if you know but you have a handful of utf-8 vpatches
diana_coman: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-19#1903347 -> fwiw I read with pen and paper up to and including ch10, at next round of reading will sign them too; the euloran swamps where one step ahead uncovers 3 layers to fix before coming back to same position ate a lot of my time, that's all I can say. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: heh. http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-27#1510255 came and went ; don't bother making a key for this handle, i'll negrate it. ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i realize it sounds like nuttery. but could have e.g. flat output rate irregardless of temperature ( theoretically achievable with radiodecay ) etc.
mircea_popescu: can much readily answer "am i a good lord or not really" now as compardd to 2014. and so it goes.
asciilifeform: 'this is m3 screw' 'does it fit m3 nut i dug up from ww2'
asciilifeform: ( but , recall, i gotta sew yet a new keccakator out of them, for fixed-time )
asciilifeform: tho i'ma have to do a magnifying glass walk of diana_coman's keccaks
a111: Logged on 2019-03-18 16:28 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ffa is 3 ch away from fieldable beta atm ; so in attempt to avoid ending up like mod6 , i'm currently 100% in it. afterwards will switch for a spell to 100% elbows in piz.
spyked: in work updates: feedparse is getting another patch today; and feedbot code has been heavily refactored and part one is on track to be published. it'll be a pretty heavy post, I'ma start working writing it tonight.
spyked: equipment is due for spring cleaning, plus I'm adding a new disk to one of the machines etc.
spyked: notice: feedbot, spykedbot and web facing items that I'm hosting (e.g. thetarpit) will be down tomorrow, the 20th of March, cca 8AM-12PM. apologies for any inconveniences this might cause. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: this particular schmuck kept a little corner kiosk sellign chewing gum & such. you've seen the manner in paraguay i imagine. then went bankrupt, and "rediscovered" himself as a public speaker.
asciilifeform: i'd imagine all moved on to arsebook / shitter / etc by nao
mircea_popescu: i dunno abgout that, i never felt like blogging on pico.
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2019/freddy-got-fingered/#selection-127.100-127.213 << i had 1 of these ( admittedly when/where it did not quite require being mircea_popescu to get hold of it ) -- and 1 interesting aspect was that they shat out analogue/plaintext
mircea_popescu: i can't imagine how that thing made only 14mn.
mircea_popescu: "I say GENEVA, and you hear HELSINKI?!? YOU'RE FIRED BOB!!!!"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suspect you had slightly moar audaciously lyin' 12yos in mircea_popescustan -- where asciilifeform was, more common pattern was 'my father is a general + admiral + auto racer'
a111: Logged on 2019-03-12 03:02 mircea_popescu: there's this pic of some indistinct slut i posted once i'm too lazy to retrieve. she happens to be white, sports all manner of celtic cross tattoos, stylisized "SS" etc, is taking a coupla brown dicks.
mircea_popescu: (in which same vein, i was lately looking for a picture im pretty sure i published, described in http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-12#1901441 ; also just as lost. the one thing with idiocy is that it's readily lost, and then just as readily found again.) ☝︎
mircea_popescu: im sorry i wasn't more documentary minded at the time, and so item was regrettably lost.
a111: Logged on 2019-02-12 15:39 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i associate shitoverflow with articles like 'how do i cast 'fireball' in real life?' ( actual find )
asciilifeform: lulzily, i ended up with 3 having consecutive (hand-written, in ancient ink) serial #s.
mircea_popescu: i suppose now this can take over, on the grounds that at least it's linkable. just as fucking iconic at any rate.
mircea_popescu: it's like dealing with [what i remember to be 12yo boys]. "oh, bitcoin, yeah, i remember, all i bought was a single pizza. biggest regret!!!".
asciilifeform: this is counting i/o glue and errything .
asciilifeform: and sure will be revisited if it had to be . but i try and presently fail to come up with a scenario where it oughta be, rather than answer of 'take braindamaged pubkey that needs 257 routines somewhere else, ty'
a111: Logged on 2019-03-15 15:10 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think 256 is perfectly defensible. should be obvious what knob to twiddle for less or more anyway, admitting either one's trying to make ffa fit into tiny embed or use it for who knows what unforeseen purpose on large machines.
BingoBoingo: But, that corner is/was Nordic US, I don't think it got to participate much in the America days of the colonies
asciilifeform: i recall
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo do i win the prize for lengthiest trilema comment ?
BingoBoingo: I've not seen many
asciilifeform: i suppose there is a 'no such thing as bad publicity' school of 'thought'...
BingoBoingo: And I'm not seeing any motive to revive the toxic MtGox brand other than psyop value "Look at those Buttcoiners forgiving the scamzor"
asciilifeform: ( tho if BingoBoingo writes the latter, i'ma read )
BingoBoingo: I'm trying to figure out a way to frame Fat Mark's walk as news.
asciilifeform: asmism , i consider a luxury -- ffa is designed to operate reasonably quickly on commonplace iron without it.
asciilifeform: ( ideally i could rule out the existence of such thing as a class, but alas cannot )
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Cool. Once the test subject gets here I'll start working on learning Cuntoo through practice.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ffa is 3 ch away from fieldable beta atm ; so in attempt to avoid ending up like mod6 , i'm currently 100% in it. afterwards will switch for a spell to 100% elbows in piz. ☟︎
asciilifeform: and it aint even necessary to saw open a bolix to see why this was. they didn't have to have a did_machine_do_what_i_said(...) after ~erry line.