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mircea_popescu: diana_coman, there was
a story recorded once, of two women that were married on the same day. one of them was married to
a guy who the witness deemed too young, and the other one was sterile.
mircea_popescu: and meanwhile in
cesspool news, every larger turd splashing in there sends all the lesser turds into
a tizzy. who knows, maybe it's their time now ?!?!?! THE TURD'S TIME TO SHINE!!!!
hanbot: i think we had this convo before in
a pair of articles
there and
here lol.
mircea_popescu: and yes, it's very much
a will to relevancy in the irrelevant.
hanbot:
http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-11-15#1951420 << recall those several tv channels in .cz entirely dedicated to "women standing around arguing with occasional intervention from men in 'authority' uniform" (incidentally didn't you mention this somewhere? i've been trying to find it for 20mins, fucking hell)? i don't think it's so much that people even like playing the role, per se; the public has
a MAJOR fetish for it. i betcha most peop
hanbot echoes this verdict from beneath
a sea of beans. x_x
mircea_popescu: in other household news, coupla days ago hanbot made
a pot of fasole cu ciolan (ro take on franks and bean, with smoked meat instead of whatever the fuck "franks" are anymore)
mircea_popescu: i suppose the future holds
a whole boatload of jerry springer shows about border patrols.
mircea_popescu: "oh, lithuania". bitch, nobody asked you anything, move over. it's the great wasteland, you're
a country like second life's
a galaxy.
BingoBoingo: Uruguay nominally wants at least 90 days before the passport expires, but I imagine the airline will throw
a bigger fuss than Migracciones.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, I don't think there's anything else that'll turn the kid away from thinking marijuana could be cool than
a high season visit to Montevideo.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: This is
a point I should perhaps weigh
a bit more heavily.
mircea_popescu: playing this the other way... if you're trying to make your way out BingoBoingo , this'll take you to yurp. from london you can take thr fast train to czech republic, be there in ~
a night.
BingoBoingo: This is
a point. The effort that goes into covering for what isn't here instead of putting in the effort to have, also
a thing that has to be seen to be understood.
mircea_popescu: gives one
a good grasp of why latin america isn't
a place ; and how it's perfectly possible to have millions of people not amount to
a thick strand of spit.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman, montevideo arguably worth viewing, for
a week or two.
BingoBoingo: diana_coman: The time thing kinda hits hard for either of us. At least at the price it sold for, getting exit papers for the machine will be
a non-issue
mircea_popescu: i suppose this is
a good point, yes they sold for ten bux or w/e, but in small amounts inconveniently packaged
BingoBoingo: I see value in AMD, but with portability at
a premium... I'm only interested in lugging so many cores around.
mircea_popescu: neways, as it turns out on the autopsy table, management's plan to build perceived market value in the fuckgoats through running republican isp delivered, ~twenny bux of fuckgoats trades for about
a hundy in the exact environment
a nominal hundred dubaloos worth of generic hardware trades for like twenty. five this way and five that way, not half bad.
BingoBoingo: diana_coman: I'll try to grab some estimates this afternoon. I have
a tiny suspicion DHL might beat FedEX crossing the ocean in your direction.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-15 14:13:44 BingoBoingo: Fedex economy came in with an estimate
a bit under 300 USD given the dulap's dimensions and bathroom scale weight without packaging. Packaging at this moment is looking like it will end up being mover's foam rolls and improvised cardboard box/wrap held together with substantial tape.
BingoBoingo: Well "find
a member of this class of indirectly goverment employed stooges" is straightforwards, but what follows is
a bunch of ugly
diana_coman: more centralized might be
a better description I guess; I mean "more organised" in the sense that it's quite straightforward otherwise but possibly it's just as straightforward in Uruguay too.
diana_coman: if it weren't such
a horrible mess to get them all the way to here, ugh.
diana_coman: otherwise the production server could be up faster on
a centos 6
mircea_popescu: (item comes with
a 10GB line upgrade available ; though ima start it on
a 100MB interface because seriously now.)
diana_coman: the q there was whether it's at least allignable, essentially; the reason why I took
a closer look.
mircea_popescu: i don't see the merit. either it's alligned or else it's cheap, what the hell is this "pay us
a premium so we can derp". i ain't ever buying "quality" outside of republic, for the obvious reason
diana_coman: myeah, they do charge
a lot for very little for sure.
mircea_popescu: basically they're
a fine opportunity to pay 2x what your getting's worth for the priviledge of supporting someone else's BingoBoingo in iceland.
mircea_popescu: anyway, petty microbusiness isp, there's
a derpier BingoBoingo behind the "x tb bw for dedicated" sorta nonsense.
mircea_popescu: look through the research tree, currently eg using
a 2x2 shield, 500/100/500
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-15 05:46:30 mircea_popescu:
http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-11-15#1951261 << yeah, how much fuck-up can fit in
a 12 slot ship, given at least half is forced by module poverty. i'm currently running
a wanderer to great funs, look through the later ships they get huge, 100ish slots
mircea_popescu: unfortunately (for them!) i don't own them, nor are they in channel, meaning they haven't access to this font of "obvious, in retrospect" sense. which is the true drawback of "oh, we built our business around the convenience of
a website" : it all but enforces missing out on pretty much everything.
mircea_popescu: sadly they don't have
a way to record/replay battles, which is stupid, should just have
a hash url for any battle.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-15 04:26:28 spyked: also, from what I see, it's made by the same ppl who published infectonator. had
a blast with that one (I think I also found about that from mircea_popescu?)
diana_coman: ahahah; but I had to make myself
a new computer for working on the client!
spyked:
http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-11-13#1951108 <-- tried that
a while ago, it's quasi-impossible to connect computers not owned by the company to the network, due to all sorts of winbloze and/or spyware requirements on the machine. imo not worth wasting hardware on that; what I'll do instead is get some work-from-home hours, which would also give me almost
a full day to focus on the work. this do
spyked: also, from what I see, it's made by the same ppl who published infectonator. had
a blast with that one (I think I also found about that from mircea_popescu?)
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-13 19:10:45 mircea_popescu: meanwhile in glorious timewastes,
space arena! never was the true substance&tragedy of design as
a cvasi-rational process so well captured in so little trapping! rarely will one find such
a gem of
a game, either! it's purrrfect.
jfw: trinque, mircea_popescu: my status on settling the s.nsa auction invoice is that I haven't funded
a deedbot wallet before, and the above is encrypted to
a key unknown to me, so I would like confirmation from trinque that there isn't some wire crossed and when I deposit, the coin will in fact be assigned to my key.
BingoBoingo: Aite, I'll try to make contact, get him
a steak or choripan, and try to put him on the IRC.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman, remember dr
a's point, "pay idiots in lottery tickets" ?
mircea_popescu: in the end, the doom of self-expression as
a ~default~ activity, occuring ~in the absence of understanding~ ; and the power of understanding dervied thereby, to actually inhibit action very much stands as the exact definition of the tragedy of human condition.
a trite point, at that.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-14 06:05:06 mircea_popescu: dorion, you know, your article skips over the most interesting parts. i can sorta-kinda fill in
a sentence like "The bank prevented us from dealing directly with clients in our country of residence 2 as the brokers were never required to obtain any sort of securities license." thus curing it into standing ; but i suspect i might be the ~only one.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-14 06:05:06 mircea_popescu: dorion, you know, your article skips over the most interesting parts. i can sorta-kinda fill in
a sentence like "The bank prevented us from dealing directly with clients in our country of residence 2 as the brokers were never required to obtain any sort of securities license." thus curing it into standing ; but i suspect i might be the ~only one.
diana_coman: other than that the dc itself & tech side, it all looked quite good really;
a rather pleasant thing to see all things in their place and ordered and properly provisioned and all that; but myeah.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu: myeah but what can I say; fwiw I didn't hold much back eg directly told him that ahem, I can see how it's "convenient" for them but that sort of convenience has
a cost and moreover it's totally inconvenient for me.
diana_coman: I just came back from the dc visit too; on the plus side, they are still small enough to be able to get to know them and they seem reasonably interested/able to actually have
a conversation;
mircea_popescu: dorion, you know, your article skips over the most interesting parts. i can sorta-kinda fill in
a sentence like "The bank prevented us from dealing directly with clients in our country of residence 2 as the brokers were never required to obtain any sort of securities license." thus curing it into standing ; but i suspect i might be the ~only one.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in glorious timewastes,
space arena! never was the true substance&tragedy of design as
a cvasi-rational process so well captured in so little trapping! rarely will one find such
a gem of
a game, either! it's purrrfect.
BingoBoingo: In local news, the day of the last Presidential debate... The Argentina's president-elect came for
a big photo shoot with Uruguay's sitting president and the Fat Forehead nominee. I am having serious trouble conceiving
a situation where the commies aren't trying to throw the contest.
BingoBoingo: diana_coman: Right, I put in on the 'anyserver' but haven't done any tweaks to it other than making it clear the operation is closed/closing. I'll give it
a couple minutes and see if I can silence the spew.
diana_coman: BingoBoingo: pizarroisp.net shows
a lot of warrnings/errors spew.
BingoBoingo: Even down here the little shim for converting laptop optical disc bays into generic 2.5" SATA drive bays are common enough finding one wasn't
a headache
mircea_popescu: ayer to buy
a 256gb one or w/e. or alternatively... to only save the MOST USED 32 gb.
mircea_popescu:
http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-11-12#1951034 << the more i think about this, the less
a problem i perceive. i mean, nobody even uses cd boot anymore, they do the hybrid thing so you can use the image on sticks too. well... there's 32gb sticks for ~free, you just set it with
a data partition and that's that. in the very unlikely case someone actually has enough artwork to fill 32gb, um... you just tell the pl
diana_coman: at the end of the day, if I get
a rack or whatevers next to me, I can just as well plonk
a server in there
mircea_popescu: it's pretty much all e3/e5. i could perhaps squeeze
a celeron if pressed, but there's no amds.
diana_coman: myeah, I was just having
a look at the specs
diana_coman:
a lot of the deps there are not fully mandatory in that if one wants, one can run the client anyway but at the extreme this goes to "well, if one WANTS TO, one can make their own bloody text client already and run that"
mircea_popescu: also, an attempt at
a static nvidia-toolkit would be interesting regardless of results. afaik nobody even tried to any significant degree
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-13 05:05:55 spyked: ftr, I was considering doing my initial cuntoo boostrapper install on
a qemu. I've gotten disk images and kernels prepped for that environment in the past, it's pretty easy due to the absence of odd vendor-specific drivers. this is probably not appropriate for gfx work though.
mircea_popescu:
a LOT can be accomplished in ten hours, provided one doesn't pay any being an engineer rents with them.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-12 21:56:47 trinque: k, so this is little else than creating
a signed tarball of the cuntoo bootstrapper's output, and building
a livecd/usb that can unpack that item onto
a fresh system, bundled with some driver firmware and
a try-all-modules kernel.
spyked: ftr, I was considering doing my initial cuntoo boostrapper install on
a qemu. I've gotten disk images and kernels prepped for that environment in the past, it's pretty easy due to the absence of odd vendor-specific drivers. this is probably not appropriate for gfx work though.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-12 22:47:54 trinque: spyked: what about you, have
a usable GPU?
spyked:
http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-11-12#1951078 <-- I have an old thinkpad with an intel 3000 (works decently for games that don't ask for the latest shaders & crap) and perhaps I could get my hands on other GPUs. the problematic point is that I'm spending
a considerable portion of that allocated 10hrs in saeculum, without physical access to the hardware. so would have to work out some routine for
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-12 17:55:51 mircea_popescu: spyked, what sorta time could you commit on
a weekly basis, if this tmsr os megaproject actually gets going ?
diana_coman: other than that, great to read
a trinque-heavy log for once, ha.
lobbes: I'm aiming to get remainder of mp-wp logger complete in under two weeks. Then rest of Nov I want to tidy up auctionbot. So Dec 1st should be
a good starting point for me
trinque: spyked: what about you, have
a usable GPU?
trinque: but I want to know who wants to eat the thing with me, and start talking to them on
a regular basis.
mircea_popescu: plus i don't remember you throwing
a hissy fit for no apparent reason
trinque: lobbes: do you have
a machine with
a decent GPU?
trinque: more the merrier, to
a point. so long as it's *directed* effort
mircea_popescu: potentially there's
a good half dozen hands here, if ave1 & bvt can be seduced into it.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-12 16:59:38 jfw: dorion and I have
a few consulting clients that are learning linux/unix for the first time. We use the distribution ourselves for niches it's able to fill, and we considered it
a good learning environment due to avoiding various complexities
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-11 20:24:11 trinque: I'm thinking you and he could turn this into
a proper consulting gig if they like what you produce, and I'm happy to manage / advise such an endeavor.
mircea_popescu: yes, well, with all that context
a whole different thing!
trinque: it's
a derivative of something I've used in embedded machines for
a long time, and I'm seeing if it can be made into an adult OS
mircea_popescu: not necessarily.
a dvd is what, coupla gb.
a recent client could just pack its data disk there.
trinque: k, so this is little else than creating
a signed tarball of the cuntoo bootstrapper's output, and building
a livecd/usb that can unpack that item onto
a fresh system, bundled with some driver firmware and
a try-all-modules kernel.
trinque: the cuntoo bootstrapper I produced was misery in that it either produced
a booting drive, or fuck you peasant, learn moar.