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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i haven't been to his house, lol, so cannot attest to the troof/disinfo.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't believe a single thing pr claims about buffett, seeing how that's the customary treatment for proven liars.
shinohai: I bought specifically because was brick and has actual hardwood floors, none of that composite/laminate shit.
asciilifeform: i suppose it's still possible, even in usa, to buy lands far away from city, getting out of 'zoning law', and import white marble from italy and build castle. if yer rockefeller. i dun know rockefeller tho, so i've never set foot in 1 of these and have nfi re what specifically is involved.
asciilifeform: shinohai: i fully expect that they ~will~ find how to make the hovels even moar starvation-cheap, whether cement or inkjetted styrofoam or whatnot. and the same folx who pocket 800k nao, will pocket the 1mil they'll mandatorily sell for.
shinohai: I live in comfy brick home built in 1950's or so. Feels many times more solid than average McMansion
a111: Logged on 2019-01-16 16:43 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: last i knew , most of said graduates nowadays , get to take their arse, and its 250k of debt, to work in bureaucracy.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-16 02:36 asciilifeform: it's hilarious, the hovel i'm in, at least has steel frames. nearby they recently built whole street of 100% cardboard/plastic , 'ONLY low 800s!' reads the billboard. 800k orcbux, that is.
asciilifeform: shinohai: i see empty pg
asciilifeform: i expect it'll work in the 'self driving car'(tm) direction instead. 'drm' door locks itself, house now == jail
asciilifeform: shinohai: iirc they already build this : for 'supermax' prison. but i expect the tech will 'spread to konsoomer', yes ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2019-01-16 15:53 asciilifeform: i'm surprised they dun build from ~that~ yet.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-14 18:36 asciilifeform: ( readers should also prepare themselves for following proof of why m-r worx, i'ma not simply cite the lit )
asciilifeform: hanbot: supposedly they can. i wouldn't undertake tho
asciilifeform: recently i found that 1 of the trapped ones chewed most of the way through wooden '2x4' plank.
asciilifeform: panda, i presume
hanbot: oh hey i missed that one. yet another reason for pet koala.
asciilifeform: i hope -- succeeds.
hanbot: <asciilifeform> i'm surprised they dun build from ~that~ yet. << i met a chick from the architecture dept at the nat'l uni here whose professed goal was to see all places with native bamboo build with it exclusively. possibly the spiders get her first, but otherwise, "coming soon"... ☟︎
BingoBoingo: I know few lawschool graduates working for firm. A bunch working for local prosecutor or public defender, occasional ventures into private practice. THe one who got a "firm" job left it to do a stint managing East Saint Louis City government.
asciilifeform: typical, as i understand, path, for these people.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i have a distant relative, who 'ivy league'(tm)(r) 'perfect grade' etc etc and ended up as n-th lieutenant prosecutor in some arsehole, prosecuting 'dindus'
BingoBoingo: From what I've seen Law schools produce a lot of substitute teachers nowadays
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: last i knew , most of said graduates nowadays , get to take their arse, and its 250k of debt, to work in bureaucracy. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Still, first LAW alt I've seen
mircea_popescu: specific example of why i say war is fun -- not only losses don't count, but their replenishment consists of fucking a buncha women, whether they want to or not.
asciilifeform: to this i'll say, germany -- lost war; but i still like my 'zeiss' binocular etc.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-19 19:31 mircea_popescu: phf i expect the accumulated value of the whole pile of "secrets" is about 0. and i further expect the entire value of the whole bolix stack neatly approximates the value of my stock of pogos.
mircea_popescu: this then illustrates a principal line that constructs my http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-19#1881924 ; to go with other main http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-20#1882318 and i think there;s maybe 2 or 3 more and that's it. ☝︎☝︎
mircea_popescu: i said "overengineered" specifically.
mircea_popescu: they made it too big, overengineered, "what if i was the last man and this was the last tank" otherwordly consideration.
mircea_popescu: i have an alternate theory, but im not sure you wanna hear it.
asciilifeform: funnily enuff i still think of tank (in 'platonic' sense) as a vaguely germanic item, despite being brit invention and sov 'killer app'
asciilifeform: i did just this earlier in thread , neh
mircea_popescu: it wasn't ~just~ leadership that gave up, let gorby in. i suspect it was just about everyone capitulating by 1985
a111: Logged on 2019-01-08 18:06 asciilifeform: ( and for all i know, ro actually involved moar 'turkeydollar', as by mircea_popescu's and other accts was 'tighter ship' )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha. tech transferred for i don't recall what economic deal in the 70s
mircea_popescu: you know ? maybe the girls recount sometime that night i nearly drove through a washed out road.
mircea_popescu: http://www.armyrecognition.com/images/stories/east_europe/romania/wheeled_vehicle/tab-77_pcoma/Tab-77_pcoma_wheeled_armoured_vehicle_artillery_observation_post_Romania_Romanian_army_640.jpg << one of these i should get
asciilifeform: i used to assume mircea_popescu had a gelandewagen
mircea_popescu: i was really contemplating getting the car jacked on those APC tyres they had back in soviet days.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have the converse problem. alternator dies on road, /me takes car back to (otherwise very competent, and very able) independent mechanic who charged 75 an hour for tools and labour to find what needs changing and then install mp's parts (75 CENTS!!!). "why the fuck was not this on the bill ?" "ah, it wasn't really broken yet, still hung on a thread". ☟︎
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo but yes, i guess if you put it out there i have no choice but to spell it out : of ~fucking course~ the carpenter "sticks his file in there". it's a sales gimmick, like the new york electrician pointing out to people they gotta pay him a billion to "bring the buildingto spec" because "otherwise he has to report them" because "otherwise he loses his own license". because we're supposed to not notice the whole mob-e
asciilifeform: i'm surprised they dun build from ~that~ yet. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-16#1887550 << You want the kind of expanding anchor that mushrooms into a giant claw on the other side. I don't know what they are called here yet, but in old country "Molly bolt" was the term. ☝︎
billymg: trinque: i made a deposit on sunday in order to cover my pizarro invoice but it's not showing up in my balance yet. i'm not in a hurry but curious about the status of it
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'ma include 2 spare raid controllers in the cargo, iirc our spare pile of these was depleted
a111: Logged on 2019-01-13 17:54 billymg: !Q later tell hanbot mp-wp patches have been updated: http://billymg.com/2019/01/minor-mp-wp-patch-updates/ -- the only "\ No newline at end of file" strings you should find in .svg refs patch are from before part of the diff (i.e. file diffed had no newline at the end)
hanbot: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-13#1886473 << wd! i signed it, sitting in yer mod queue. ☝︎
asciilifeform: it's hilarious, the hovel i'm in, at least has steel frames. nearby they recently built whole street of 100% cardboard/plastic , 'ONLY low 800s!' reads the billboard. 800k orcbux, that is. ☟︎
mod6: I'll stop back in tomorrow when I have the chance. :] Have a good evening.
mod6: Anyway Gentlemen, thanks for listening. Wanted to stop in and let you know I was reading logs while I could today -- I'm running on nil sleep and today was like an 18 hour day. So I'm gonna drop out and get some rest.
mircea_popescu: took chet there personally ; she got to touch everything ; at the end hands so full of splinters i spent an hour digging them out.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i went to 'banat' mus. but i think it was a shoemaker-era eszats
mod6: But I put that all aside back in November. And then the whole door/joist thing started. But I'll look into when I might be able to get it together, but may be even after alf's time frame. However, will advise as soon as I know.
mod6: Some of the log cabins that I've seen in the US are pretty nice tbh, but they need maint! Need to be scraped & stained every few years, etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is what i mean. i saw 300 yo wooden construction, made by ro mountain folk. but that wood...
mod6: So I had him stop work right then and there, and then had to get the other carps in to assess. So once the rim joist is fixed, then I can finally get a new door.
mod6: This all started because we need a new door, it's old as shit, and all the weather stripping is bad, etc. So of course, this isn't std door size. So I paid some good money to have a custom one made to size. When the carp came out to install it, the first thing he did was pull off one piece of molding, and stuck his file down in the bottom area where that joist is located, and it pushed right through. ☟︎
mod6: :] I was just about to say...
mod6: asciilifeform: Actually, it'll be better if I do, I'm sure. Since all three guys suggest fixing this from the outside (thankfully, from the inside would be 1000s of more $), if we wait until it's warm there's a way less chance of breaking the siding on the house when removing it.
asciilifeform: this sorta thing is wai i lease'em
mod6: Needless to say, and I'll spare you all the deets, but it's gonna put a dent in mod6's budget for a few months at a minimum.
mod6: Even the house may need to be put on jacks to complete the repair. I've been discussing with three different carpenters on how they would do the job and approximately how much it would cost.
mod6: One thing that's been plaguing me irl for about three weeks here is the finding that I have a rotten rim joist.
mod6: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-15#1887248 << Yeah, I kinda missed my window here. I'm not sure when I'll be able to get a chance to come down there. Perhaps sometime this year yet, but will look into it and discuss it again at a later time. ☝︎
mod6: And then when it came back up, I again restarted the services, and then a while later, it crashed again. And perhaps another time as well.
mod6: Then I manually started up apache and mysql so the blogs would be back working again. But then it went down again, perhaps 20 minutes or so later.
mod6: When I noticed that my blog, and hanbot's, etc were down... I logged into UY1 and found that it had been up for only 50 minutes at the time.
asciilifeform: i suppose he could be redoing pdp 'its' for gorby..
asciilifeform: most of the material, i suspect, postdates the transition to mushroobm
asciilifeform: or, alternatively, not forgot, but explicitly rejected, i've nfi.
asciilifeform: point was re rms. trouble with the man is, i dun think he is stupid, in the usual sense, he appears to quite deliberately think that cultivated fungus on ~coad~ is a valid defense against 'microshit will steal'. hence gcc, autoconf, other marvels.
asciilifeform: i cant speak for other folx, but asciilifeform's 'third eye' re rms opened on the day that he spat on that letter re glibc
mircea_popescu: i wanted to put it on trilema, dun recall if i ever did or not, but anyway, quite the item
mircea_popescu: i don't understand how these misfortunate kids are supposed to respect the human failures using them for props.
asciilifeform: ftr i have nfi re his marriage, iirc it wasn't to heiress or princess or etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform none of them "has" to work, dood, wtf, they live in america, the gutter of all laze. that dorky moron who was "going to take over holywood", aka http://trilema.com/2014/i-hope-they-serve-beer-in-hell/ ended up shipwrecked in the arms of some jewish princess, raising her kids.
asciilifeform: 'bahaha, idjits, i dun have to work'
mircea_popescu: somehow these morons went from 1980s alec baldwin's "go home and play with your kids" alt-fuck you you're a total waste of space to curtis yarvin's 2020s "i'll go home and play with my kids", direct restatement of "fuck you guise, i'm going home"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suspect it was a veiled laugh-to-the-bank
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".
asciilifeform: i.e. as authentic as the Shards of the Troo Cross lol
asciilifeform: ( come to think of it , i dun think i ever even saw a pgp sig of his coad turds.. )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to the extent anons can even speak... i dun recall shitoshit ~signing~ anyffing post-'09
mircea_popescu: but rimbaud, keks. prostu' daca nu-i fudul...
asciilifeform: err, i can't resist a few monumental laffs :
asciilifeform: i'ma leave the rest uncommented, there aint much to add i
asciilifeform: 'What will I do personally? I'll spend more time with my kids. I'll finish reading my 1911 Britannica – I am only on the B's. I have no other long-term plans. ... I am leaving not just the project but the field – no less than Satoshi, or Everett, or Rimbaud ... Will Satoshi weigh in on the next Bitcoin Cash fork? Did Rimbaud fly back from Ethiopia ...' << evidently d00d at least 'took the money and ran'. seems to have worked appr
asciilifeform: 'No one else ever built a purely functional operating system' incidentally also false, the haskell people tried ('house') , with the expected result ( i won't detail, literate reader can guess )
asciilifeform: i take a kind of perverse entomological interest in sad rsatrons. ( e.g.: bolix, interestingly, had a -- nonconstant time, of course -- bignum stack, but at least it was reasonably compact.. )
asciilifeform: ( recall the 'i explicitly dun want it to resemble bitcoin!' item, which then seamlessly morphed into 'we have merged with ethertardium' with somehow straight face )
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-15#1887345 << this is how i dug it up, actually ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-15#1887347 << not only this, but to date no rng has actually sufficed (i.e. sufficiently independent bits) to make the thing go in reasonable time ☝︎
asciilifeform: that being said, i'd quite like a rk-like box with expandable rams. but it aint happening on the current budget.
asciilifeform: ^ this is addressed to all uy1 people, i will not list'em explicitly, they know who they are ^
BingoBoingo: In other news I am satisfied the vacant rk is very clean. Our airflow sensor has also been blown out, tested and rehung on the front door.
asciilifeform: fwiw i did notice, when peeked into other racks, that some folx had independent ups .
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'ma dig re price & where to get.