asciilifeform: staying ?

asciilifeform: thing was written for winblowz, in its heart, by a winblowz programmer, this is beyond dispute.

asciilifeform: where a log autorotator can be had

asciilifeform: if you recall, the original wasn't even assured of running on a unix

asciilifeform: i must confess that i disagree. the thing runs, as it might, self-contained, to the extent practical.

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: can't have it both ways

asciilifeform: trinque: would you prefer that it depend on a unix log rotator ?

asciilifeform: trinque: iirc it doesn't shrink, in the classical 0.5.3, if debug flag is on.

asciilifeform: trinque: how so ?

asciilifeform: 'fortunately' it can't be done at all on unix.

asciilifeform: this kind of thing can only be implemented as a global thing.

asciilifeform: and at the end of the day, 'v' is a unix proggy and isn't even a compiled thing, and utterly depends on 1,000,001 things that no one has examined since 1991.

asciilifeform: sure.

asciilifeform: create in such a way that creation fails if dir existed. problem solved.

asciilifeform: it would, if there were secretz

asciilifeform: (literally)

asciilifeform: -- a unique thing that never was and never will be again. ☟︎

asciilifeform: in lisp parlance, it has to be a 'gensym'

asciilifeform: and not one that was previously lying around, that is now about to have its contents zapped

asciilifeform: homedir oughta work, but the trick is that you gotta know that it's one you made, every time

asciilifeform: 'v' doesn't deal in secrets, ergo the actual location is unimportant.

asciilifeform: mod6: see if perl doesn't have a built-in notion of temp dirs

asciilifeform: mod6: home dir is prolly the correct approach

asciilifeform: see also http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-05-2014#654839 ☝︎

asciilifeform: he learned on the 1.5k 100ohm resistors.

asciilifeform: which is how my brother still doesn't fully believe, in his gut heart, that physics works

asciilifeform: phun phakt, the reject parts went to... schools

asciilifeform: (chix with bucketz sorting transistors)

asciilifeform: was ~the only~ way to get functioning circuits, for instance.

asciilifeform: it is soviet sop.

asciilifeform: still can't parse

asciilifeform: --

asciilifeform: killing -- the real estate

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'Of course the political assassination theory neglects motive for killing the real estate' -- missing a dash

asciilifeform: white thread.

asciilifeform: hence the application to spurious criminal cases.

asciilifeform: (this comes from old notebooks having held together with thread, that turned dark with dirt and age. when pages were inserted or removed surreptitiously, new thread was often used to stitch the thing back)

asciilifeform: or 'stitched with white thread'

asciilifeform: in ru we say the case was 'stitched together'

asciilifeform: this, in short, is why i found the case interesting to begin with...

asciilifeform: the whole thing smells as strongly as anyone might wish, of usg pushing the bounds of the possible.

asciilifeform: 'his.'

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: and stitched it into something for the jury.

asciilifeform: where they found some schizo notebook of his

asciilifeform: by all indications, they jailed the crippled man and ransacked his home.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: spiffy article. but fails to mention that the writings of s. have not (afaik - has anyone tried hard?) been seen by the public; nor is it publicly known how and where usg obtained them (it is known, iirc, that they were NOT public)

asciilifeform: how come nobody says 'parallel killer'

asciilifeform: was, wasn't it.

asciilifeform: trinque: there was a patch. iirc it didn't make it in for some trivial reason

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: doing wurk to make rentz.

asciilifeform: you know that's how i waste most of it, right ?

asciilifeform: at any rate, i (and $maxint others) will port $whateverthefuckyouwant to, e.g., cray II. for a fee. ☟︎

asciilifeform: all kolhoz follow the same dynamic, afaik.

asciilifeform: it's a kolhoz

asciilifeform: tomorrow it'll be another, similar.

asciilifeform: today 'steam' appears to be doing the temporary 'having' of that thing

asciilifeform: had, aha.

asciilifeform: where everything is an imitation of a cheap imitation.

asciilifeform: today - yes. it transitioned to the spamatronic cargo cult phase

asciilifeform: s.mg does not live in the leprosorium.

asciilifeform: i wasn't speaking of success, but of a living wage in the leprosorium.

asciilifeform: because it doesn't actually need anything from anyone.

asciilifeform: like in the mid '90s 'shareware scene'

asciilifeform: when i wrote that piece, there was a very temporary phenomenon where the small-time independent programmer appeared to be a thing again

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, very apparently, does not need the kolhoz, no.

asciilifeform: as a non-player, am i mistaken that one can move btc using eulora .. ?

asciilifeform: aha but the first time anyone thinks of using it to move coin, it gets pulled.

asciilifeform: ergo no bitcoinatronic apps period.

asciilifeform: with their vig taken.

asciilifeform: apple demands that any transfer of value of whatever kind inside an ipnohe proggy happen using their system

asciilifeform: run solely on cracked machines

asciilifeform: it'd have to be sideloaded

asciilifeform: shoot

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in english they say 'may as well hang for a sheep as for a lamb'

asciilifeform: eh that last one's not so hard

asciilifeform: i thought mircea_popescu considered most of said flesh far too contaminated for any practical use

asciilifeform: or what, you think a prof can afford to defend himself ?

asciilifeform: hey the chicken just wants to live

asciilifeform: ^ prison version

asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHQDpGv19kM

asciilifeform leaves it in the logz for the idlerz

asciilifeform: specifically 'образ "цыпленка пареного" как символ обывателя, который "просто хочет жить"' >> the image of a steamed chicken as a symbol of a jwz who 'only wants to live'

asciilifeform: http://a-pesni.org/dvor/cyplenok.php << moar history

asciilifeform: 'Цыпленок тоже хочет жить.'

asciilifeform: quite possibly.

asciilifeform: ^ canonical.

asciilifeform: http://www.ruthenia.ru/folklore/neckludov19.htm

asciilifeform: !s chicken also wants

asciilifeform: because - elementarily - not room for many mircea_popescu on one planet.

asciilifeform: better model often asks one to die

asciilifeform: *serviced

asciilifeform: whole thing services by ancient 10mb link

asciilifeform: in a run-down part of town. office, not datacentre.

asciilifeform: usa.

asciilifeform: b. has 4G of addressable ram. it is approx. the size of a hardcover book, and lives in a locked cage.

asciilifeform: but it is very close.

asciilifeform mildly surprised that bucephalus has not exhausted memory quite yet