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mircea_popescu: does this resonate with any familiarity in ye olde phracking and telco or nothing there to resonate with ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: a direct line is a bus, see. if you switch it's a switched line, if you don't switch it's a bus line. if you packet it's "a data pathway".
mircea_popescu: there's a bus in the basement of the building you're now, for electricity.
mircea_popescu: do you understand what the item in question is, given as example ? would like likbez ?
mircea_popescu: what, the filipino/indonesians/etc are better in the brain or what ?
mircea_popescu: why don't they fab chips anyway ? got plenty of sand yes ?
mircea_popescu: i still think you should
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-03#1869171 as a parting shot ; not because i expect anything besides the "meet mr al-schmukwari at 8am", but because why not let the remnant of usg.blue congratulate itself on "succeeding" ? let some schmuck "earn" a bonus, what's it to you or me.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: ajahjaha check it out, "haymasfuturo" qatar version! jesus these people.
mircea_popescu: "I guess you could say they identify as bikers." bwajuaja ok, this is entertaining lol
mircea_popescu: "I’ve never before had coffee that good. It actually hurts now to drink the instant coffee I have back at my room." << non-us coffee apparently is great generally.
mircea_popescu: odds are we'll find out in the shape of error reports.
mircea_popescu: (5th column, the virtual memory allocated, is the point of interest)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i'm willing to bet there's something grossly misconfigured ; item doesn't have memory issues normally.
mircea_popescu: that can read "80 cols plox what is this" all it wants, it runs into "this is a key, what are you going to do about it, use 80 cols keys" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what flipped is that i'm not about to build magic numbers into the s.mg code process.
mircea_popescu: it just gets rid of "80 col" or otherwise "preformatted" text in favour of line=paragraph sanity.
mircea_popescu: im sure i mentioned my script to s'\n\n%\r'g | s'\n% 'g | s'\r%\n'g many times before
mircea_popescu: but the only way to ever get there is if we run out of town this "let's mix data and markup" approach.
mircea_popescu: basically, any time you go "this string should contain control characters for my convenience" you are living in a state of sin, and should remedy.
mircea_popescu: reflow you like ; or else wider lines ; or anything that works for you.
mircea_popescu: it is not possible to fix the wrong end of this funnel.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the fact all your terminals suck isn't an argument in this convo.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there can be such a thing as a standard length, yes. but apparently it'll be 512 bytes+
mircea_popescu: standard line length may not be shorter than common lines. which among other things will be rsa keys. so it'll be, willy nily, over 80.
mircea_popescu: but yes, i ask your terminal be aware of the syntax. it must be. because the alternative is having me be aware of your terminal -- and that ain't occurring.
mircea_popescu: sounds like you're in the market for a printer driver that doesn't suck.
mircea_popescu: my fucking 24 dot matrix tractor unit could flow. what.
mircea_popescu: and if emacs can't do this, emacs is plain and unadulterated garbage is all.
mircea_popescu: srsly now, move on to an adult terminal that can flow the semantic unit for your needs.
mircea_popescu: "stop" means to take "text" and turn it into "te<controlchars>xt" and that's so fucking stupid...
mircea_popescu: so not only we agree to disagree -- but there's gonna be long lines in there cuz that's how long a line is.
mircea_popescu: hey. i won't mandate her she write long lines, if she manages in 80 cols all the better. but i will mandate she dun do " & " bullshit.
mircea_popescu: "first section is 1 byte long, encodes length of 2nd section ; 2nd section encodes length of payload".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's a legacy definition of "text" type in eulora comms protocol specifically for this conversation.
mircea_popescu: in any case i don't want control bits spuriously pissed into the stream. what next, <em> ?
mircea_popescu: and i know no reason vtron must have "max line length picked in advance" either.
mircea_popescu: the line as a semantic unit is as long as it fucking is, and the terminal deals with it.
mircea_popescu: IF you can't configure your termina, either get a better one or understand you're at fault for your own pain.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i feel about "this string has spurious /n inserted in random places" about the same way you feel about FG getting random control bits pissed into the stream by "helpful" wrappers.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform srsly now, 80cols is a terminal setting. text may not have line breaks for any reason other than new paragraph.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman imo such items belong in a config file then. though he prolly wants the ~config~ file to also be "human readable" by which he means hard-paged at 80 cols like for idiots. because there's no such thing as a terminal, nor user settings, and i gotta format my text in a way that's aware of his dumb terminal. and he thinks this acceptable, somehow, that at the time i write i must bear in mind how he'll later read.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: naramnzi water and shisha, laze about post brunch... very levantine i guess.
mircea_popescu: "they sit around during the late morning and early afternoons having coffee and sweets." << you know i do this shit too ? must be the middle easterner in us.
mircea_popescu: (do you have a knob so i don't have to be moderated every single time ? cuz that's a major chill factor)
mircea_popescu: lmao, that's rich, work slowdown the factory bosses don't even fucking notice.
mircea_popescu: truth be told it'd work equally well either way, but i dunno, they really really wanna be bidding fror some reason.
mircea_popescu: it's certainly true my hope lo so many years ago was that the foundation will provide the basic material (people, expertise, history, and so on) upon which to construct these days a republican diplomatic service ; rather than a library.
mircea_popescu: Mocky so i guess next step is make an appointment with their minister of technology, industry, or whatever the fuck, explain to the secretarial overseer you end up seeing that the republic is in principle willing to do some tech transfer help them become a real country, exchange confused nods and handshakes and set the bozo bit on the ball of faux carpeting yarn pretending to be a country ?
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently the pig-riding faery is "complicated", but there is a button labeled RECHARGE in the bottom center, which should take you to the right place if you feel like trying again.
mircea_popescu: i wonder what galazies have to allign for the next mp to come along, "suyre, here's a twenny"
mircea_popescu: as perhaps evidenced by the fact you... can't custom, even if for inexplicable reasons you'd want to.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well if teh link dun work i dunno it can be helped.
mircea_popescu: 20 bux worth of paypal and 5 grand worth of web 2.0 debug