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mircea_popescu: i can play with some kids for the cost of
a car ride to the park, what's that do ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, am i the only one grated by just how much of
a cop-out this "kids" thing became ? "oh, im going to play with my kids, which is to say you're OBLIGATED to believe my life has some sort of meaning".
mircea_popescu: anyway. on
a long enough time horizon all socialism aka militant stupidity converges. of course yarvin merges with ethertards, what's there to distinguish them besides historical accident (ie, the exact converse of timeline, the thing time washes out)
a111: Logged on 2019-01-15 22:27 mircea_popescu: how ~the fuck~ is "nock" gonna identify-and-replace-with-jets when ginko417 is manifestly incapable of the very same task ? (or rather, for they psychologically inclined : WHY is it ginko417 imagines dealing with
a jet is "nock"'s job ?)
a111: Logged on 2019-01-15 22:09 mircea_popescu: but tbh, the "stochastic convergence test" seems to me worth
A LOT more than any bs "ent" ultimately meaningless "squares of pi" bs.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-15 22:10 mircea_popescu: (ie, you can construct an infinity of rng strings which'll make
a given sct "falsely" converge)
mircea_popescu: for exquisite bonus lulz, "jet" is what
a romanian speaking slut would say to
a romanian speaking drunk moron in
a romanian speaking bar, meaning "get the fuck lost".
mircea_popescu: how ~the fuck~ is "nock" gonna identify-and-replace-with-jets when ginko417 is manifestly incapable of the very same task ? (or rather, for they psychologically inclined : WHY is it ginko417 imagines dealing with
a jet is "nock"'s job ?)
☟︎ mircea_popescu re-read the comment section, from back in 2013, chuckled at random moron who perceived he can write himself the option to not engage mp saying things at him because (some variant of) "they do not display the right formalism" right smack drab in the middle of
a discussion about some magical means for ~machines~ to recognize equivalent-formalisms through... magic.
mircea_popescu: (ie, you can construct an infinity of rng strings which'll make
a given sct "falsely" converge)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but tbh, the "stochastic convergence test" seems to me worth
A LOT more than any bs "ent" ultimately meaningless "squares of pi" bs.
☟︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2019-01-15 15:37 mircea_popescu:
a) there's nothing wrong with specialisation (and especially if you figure out how to expand the ram -- which
a stock of these gives you incentive to do, ie, specialisation drives competence) ;
a111: Logged on 2019-01-15 00:30 asciilifeform: meanwhile, in darkest lulzafrica, 'Today we’re happy to announce that Urbit’s address space, now called Azimuth, is live on the Ethereum blockchain... We want Urbit to be
a reliable, durable, permanent computer that’s simple to use. Today Urbit is still
a prototype, not
a consumer product. But we’re making great progress'
mircea_popescu: "here, whole conclave of morons ~can do absolutely nothing~". even if you lose money, you lose money in
a way they're worth losing.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck is
a Cristian Rodriguez anyway ?! might as well be schmuck mcsmith.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the first fucking move is to establish yourself as
a domain expert.
BingoBoingo: It's
a relief to get the Pizarro conversation going again instead of having it stuck in just my head
mircea_popescu: and sell it like things are sold, atm it's "just
a rumour", mentioned here and there, drums up on the usual human-experience-exponential and so on. "anti-usg hosting", come up with some catchy.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: This time, don't saw your toothbrush. I can put together
a reception basket with human sized toothbrush.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo talk to the various webhosting forums etc (with whom you've build by now
a relationship, yes ?) how much they want for
a site takeover / w/e they do for the big deal advertising.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> iirc mod6 has expressed
a desire to fly the next crate. if he still wants, can haz; otherwise asciilifeform will fly it. << Given the ben_vulpes courier run I would like mod6's first trip here to be lower stakes. Couriering is
a skill.
mircea_popescu: have
a nice sale page, clearly communicate what's going on, drive to it. what do you have, like 6 weeks ?
mircea_popescu: needless to say,
a "we're flyting over 50 rks, gotta fill these THAT WEEK, giving everyone 50% off for 3 months" media event / webhosting forum takeover / etc is de rigueur.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu:
a rk + disk is about 100bux ea. << There's also
a 4GB RAM model which would push the unit price up to ~150 each
mircea_popescu: i meant, pizarro made more money as
a financial vehicle, exploiting fx rates, than as an operator.
mircea_popescu:
a) there's nothing wrong with specialisation (and especially if you figure out how to expand the ram -- which
a stock of these gives you incentive to do, ie, specialisation drives competence) ;
☟︎ BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'd like to hit the idle Rockchip with another round of contact cleaning first, but this sounds like
a plan.
mircea_popescu: this is not even
a bad idea, turn iffy situation itno "help drive rk adoption".
hanbot: <asciilifeform> hanbot: when was 'this' plox ? << was my whim to start znc back up then after leaving it off for
a ~day following
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-14#1886701 , no shenanigans implied. i suppose my wordchoice was unfortunate, sorry for alarms.
☝︎ BingoBoingo: Aite, before I tuck in asciilifeform I'll gpggram you all the trivia observations from the weekend trips to the rack to digest with
a rested brain.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: When you book your ticket expect more Spanish/Spanglish because I haven't had
a sustained spoken conversation in English since early December.
mircea_popescu: "we dunno wtf happened, i guess to
a certain mind events centered on jan 13th suspicious as fuck, we have
a new kernel and we redid the bios just in case, dunno what more can be possibly done" is, or atleast i guess will have to be, acceptable.
mircea_popescu: do you suppose bios could benefit from
a reflash ? if nothing else, to have thermal / crash logging as expected ?
mircea_popescu: quite well snapped to the peculiar idiocy of
a certain band of peculiar idiots.
mircea_popescu: there's
a discrete flow of air from each rack that they measure.
mircea_popescu: same fucking thing is the case in ~every dc i eve rsaw, there's
a line of sensors above the racks, and can tell whether box is working 30s, 40s or 70s
mircea_popescu: you ever been in one of those parking lots where they have devices telling you how many free spots per isle/level, and red/green light above the individual spots ? without, magically, having
a rod up your driver's ass.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i ~also~ find it peculiar your dc wouldn't have alerted you in case of thermal trip. because in general they have sensors. << There was
a ground fault alarm tripped in the datacenterś fire supression system over the weekend, but the time doesn's line up with the beginning of this reset crisis.
mircea_popescu: man. cpu doesn't overheat in
a vacuum, gimme
a break already.
mircea_popescu: i suppose this is an academic discussion. in any case, i've had warnings re hot boxes from dcs before, it's not
a wholly unheard of item. laser sensor costs ~nothing, and hvac management is 60% of what they do for
a living.
BingoBoingo: I took off
a light layer of particulate. When I opened the chassis I found it matched the photos from when the FG were installed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i did. let me tell you how it behaved : box went down. upon reboot it went down again, in the following manner : every time it was rebooted, within
a finite time interval (bout an hour). no exceptions.
mircea_popescu: indulge me. so the theory goes that an event with
a probability inferior to 1e-4 / day occured three times in two days ?