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mircea_popescu: can you ~believe~ how much like something you'd read on tardstalk "investments" your workproduct ends up ?! and this in 2018 ? why, because you've been secretly saving it through
a time capsule, insulated from review, all this time ?! god almighty, last thing i want is the yahoo peterl-ism of 2013 perpetuated
a second past the end of that year.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yes hanbot remembers that time fondly ; and certainly so do i. but as things stand presently the practical choices before you are either to make
a major committment of both time and attention towards living up to the lofty position of
a lord, and catch up on that proverbial "legacy hairball" ; or else to limit yourself to testing some code here and there as time permits and publish the occasional piece. this, on the long term
mircea_popescu: the "sad" news, from this perspective (though it is boldly and fundamentally the exact opposite of sad) is that no, there isn't any "return to the grand old days" on the table. ~emphatically~ not. bitcoin ain't going back to spending
a summer at 2 dollars
a coin ; and consequentlly you're not going back to being the mod6 of 2013 on ten hours
a week and lukewarm committment.
☟︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-06-13 20:27 mod6: I was thinking that if L1/L2 people around here want to emplace
a banner on their blog to help drive some traffic to PizzaroISP.net and earn some btc, let us know.
a111: Logged on 2018-08-05 22:13 mod6: I've gotta run for
a bit here, maybe later when you're availble we can go through calculating that customer equity. i did some adding, but I came up about 50% short. clearly missing something there.
mircea_popescu: it seems to me inescapably the case that you have not been putting either enough time or enough thought into this, and continuing in like manner for year upon year. the inescapable result was accumulation, of exactly the wrong kind : every day you personally grew
a little smaller than your image in the forum, and compensating for the difference drew, as any other credit, upon your capacities to service, until eventually the g
☟︎ mircea_popescu: mod6 after
a night's meditation, I still don't see
a direct solution for your problem.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: check me out, i wrote
a whole blog article for irc ;/ anyway, here goeth :
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "we have
a legacy hairball to entangle" literally says "previous management worked for empire and against republic, created negative value we have to pour value into to bring back to 0".
mod6: Perhaps I can convince ben_vulpes to help take
a look at it with us.
mod6: Ok, so I'm gonna call it
a night. What I do know at this point is the ``surplus'' that we're seeing in the statements goes back at least through the August report. However, I'm not even certain at this point if what I'm seeing is actually incorrect, as I said earlier. Or if I just don't understand what I'm looking at. There's
a strong chance that I just don't understand it.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: trinque: We have
a legacy hairball to untangle. I encouraged mod6 to continue on with managing the cash account, decentralizing and in the process creating
a bigger mess.
lobbes: mod6: I also recommend getting
a proper mp-wp up and running. As someone who also tried to stick with the 'manual html' route, I vastly underestimated the communicative power of
a proper blogotron (the speed-up-to-post, the catagorizing, the deedbot announces, comments, pingbacks, etc etc)
trinque: and more fundamentally, consider that when you persist in doing things the wrong way (like, do you even have
a spreadsheet for this thing) you're probably caught in an avoidance loop of the "I don't even want to be doing this" variety
trinque: mod6: you don't need
a CFO to count the amount of money you guys are moving
lobbes: I'ma be doing the holiday travel thing for
a week this month and
a week next month. Other than that, just the usual $saltmine 9-5 and then squeezing in republican workload where able
lobbes: mod6: the key idea behind double-entry accounting is that for every transaction you are involving at least two accounts. E.g. If you pay your water bill from your checking account you'd record
a decrease (credit) to your checking account, and record an increase (debit) to your water bill expense account
mod6: Got
a lot to learn I guess. But this is totally something I've never even thought about before.
mircea_popescu: mod6 the problem with "accounting things" is that they're
a fundamental life skill ; i can scarcely imagine how you get through the days of your life without as much accounting as is here required. think that you're not asked to upload in head the many volumes of gaap arcana, but merely some very basic "this plus that is the other" sorta stuff, and the complaint sounds somewhat like gravedigger's disdain of readin', takes tim
BingoBoingo: The familial relationship of Concubine is recognized under Uruguayo law. I am pretty sure the icy north recognizes Shariah law (as established in Rotterdam) by now, so if the local government frowns upon the relationship you develop with
a Chileña you can tell them to respect your cultural differences.
BingoBoingo: Once the surplus is accounted for, make your next Pizarro priority
a beach vacation before fall hits and the water gets cold. Arrive on
a Friday or Saturday to get your odinsleep, we'll hit up the Feria Sunday and tour the rack Sunday or Monday. After you comfort yourself through seeing the hardware I'll put you on
a bus to see all those cool beaches on the east coast I hear so much about but don't have the opportunity to check out
mod6: I remember when keeping up with the logs + trb + v really felt like
a ton of stuff. But that stuff has been wholesale replaced + some even, by pizarro.
mod6: I'd have to say, I was just doing enough to get us by with the Foundation (library) stuff before Pizarro. Much less, even getting
a Stanford and world-class embassy.
mircea_popescu: given this articulation, i agree with asciilifeform , it's
a wonder you can keep functioning / managed as long as you have.
mircea_popescu: mod6 the two prongs of the problem seem to be, principally that you have
a lot less time available for this than ~most everyone else, by
a factor of 2 or more ; and secondarily that elementary tasks that should take an hour or thereabouts take you multiples, by
a factor of 3 or 5 or who knows.
mircea_popescu: i seriously ate hours of your combined time because forgot to send
a v ?
mircea_popescu: mod6 it seems
a necessary that you're overwhelmed, if your time budged to do TWO board jobs AND logs is about half what people use to do just the latter part.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> what's anyone's experience btw ? cca how long does it take to ~keep current~ with logs on
a weekly basis ? << I do anywhere from 2 to nearly 4 hours
a day on logs when rabbitholing is factored in
mod6: So usually that leaves 30min-1hour per night, sometimes more depending on the size. Sometimes I fall down
a well in the logs if i'm looking for something specific related to any number of things: pizarro, foundation, ada, ffa, who knows.
mircea_popescu: what's anyone's experience btw ? cca how long does it take to ~keep current~ with logs on
a weekly basis ?
mircea_popescu: how you manage to cram
a week's worth of logs in an hour and
a half for instance is anyone's guess, god knows my girls don't manage -- it eats in excess of 10 hours weekly, and noobs such as the bimbo are well over the 25 hour mark week in week out.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: For example if you want
a PPC machine to test big endian, all your choices in Uruguay are notebooks with old firehazard batteries. Argentina has "Mac Mini G4"
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> there were quite tall piles of iron at the flea market, and nobody was buying ( i walked for ~4h and it appears to have moved not an inch ) << asciilifeform has
a hell of an eye, the local ebayazon suggests richer variety of golden junk in Argentina
mod6: The times that I've put in there are
a bit subject, my irc client runs on UTC time, and the logs the same, and we've had DLST here this week. I've tried to be as honest with the thing as I can be.
a111: Logged on 2018-08-24 18:39 mircea_popescu:
a shop of used computer parts is
a great complement for
a dc op.
mod6: Alright. I'll put together
a blog post.
mircea_popescu: gotta get into the nitty gritty of this, because i gotta tell you, i publish, on time and for years, 3x or more of the report count you have, and it's
a few hours' worth if that.
mircea_popescu: do me
a favour and publish
a week's timetable retrospective and the coming week's prospective on your blog ?
mod6: But maybe others disagree. I don't think it's '
a'.
mod6: Well, I think I have
a lot on my plate, and we've discussed that. So I'd say 'c'. Overwhelmed. Too much to work on, and not enough time/hands to do it in.
mod6: I want to do this, and get
a keccak vtree. I think I said as much at the time, just wanted to ensure that keccak was in working order before we moved to it. I thought that to be the most prudent thing to do.
mod6: I think this was just
a misunderstanding, poor communication on my part.
mircea_popescu: in
a most remote, theoretical principle it'd be something like "well, he's either
a) lazy or else b) committed to not getting out of
a confort zone he delineated silently and that's that or c) he's overwhelmed". now which of these is it ?
mircea_popescu: it's infuriating to see movements
a la "oh, ima hijack this foundation thingee to crash your standards process", whether meant as that or not.
mod6: (no offense to BingoBoingo who's doing as good of
a job as can be expected with not much to go on)
mod6: The acution for instance, was just
a careless oversight on my part. But the accounting stuff, this is something pretty far out of my wheelhouse.
mod6: I am trying to learn all of this stuff ; It has been difficult as some things come easy for me, but
a lot of what is important in what I think you're frustrated with has not come easy.
mircea_popescu: it started as
a modest token on
a "magic : the gathering" exchange, and it is moving to take over the world. it requires GROWTH.
hanbot: fwiw mod6 still figures as "heart of reliability, solid fellow" in my book. he stepped up to some (afaik alien to him) challenges lately and while it may be rough going, i've never seen
a drop in commitment from the guy. just sayin'.
mod6: ben_vulpes was going to look it over, but I don't think he had
a chance.
a111: 2018-11-04 <ben_vulpes> will be making new contacts in the next month to find
a shared cab for racking the foundation machine i lugged across the continent
mircea_popescu: the grind is going the wrong way. from "you realise these dudes haven't managed to publish
a report on time yet" the expectation is "well, next month they will", not "and next month -- new math!"
mod6: An update on Pizarro's statement for October: BingoBoingo has
a draft, of which I've poured through. We seem to have more BTC on hand then is adding up at the moment. So we're going to be auditing some previous statements to see where the problem might be.
diana_coman: so perhaps I get the *why* but I don't buy it for
a communication protocol, just why to "not know"
a111: Logged on 2018-09-14 17:09 mircea_popescu: iirc we even had
a discussion re standardizing
a byte order ; though from the fact that i don't recall the results i take it i got shown broken cats.
mircea_popescu: Mocky_ incidentally, now that you've rested, spending
a few weeks publishing fleshouts / completing things / etc will be invaluable.
mircea_popescu: moreover, THIS is what
a language.io stdlib should even fucking be in the first place.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, myeah, whether there IS
a problem really or not quite
diana_coman: if it is described as
a variable length i.e. n* ... then it's variable, what can I do
mircea_popescu: the idea was to define n as
a ada-style var, "from 1 to 19"
diana_coman: for one thing the solution as implemented is perfectly fine; sure, not
a one-line record'write or something like that but not
a terrible thing either
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 14:07 mircea_popescu: the basic, and really only, rule of hermeneutics is : that then you've understood
a text when, far from its shortcomings appearing inexplicable errors, they become the actual pillars upon which the damned thing is constructed, and what originally seemed to you sensible and structural takes its true place as accidental.
mircea_popescu: then
a) ada should allocate this as
a 4 bit value and b) ada allocating space for 15 records is entirely fine anyway. with
a being
a very minor point but b being
a major point because we've reoriented ourselves to where features of the language are indistinct rather than inconvenient. this is very much the
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1505418 thing.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: point in case, defining variable in "bitsize". why am i not simply saying "this is
a counter from 1 to 19" or w/e ?
mircea_popescu: "no fucker, this isn't an "int", this is
a 15 bit counter"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can define hooks for replacement. i suspect this might be
a theme thing. mine replaces gpg code with fixed format... apparently her theme replaces :)
mircea_popescu: (i agree, it makes no sense, it's
a strong l. but english has no conception.)
Mocky: took the bike out for
a spin. had to bundle up, bit of cold shock to my system
mircea_popescu: actually, this is the correct direction -- should be collapsed into as few files as necessary (prolly three, seeing how it uses the apache access model to limit admin/users, so you'd have an admin and
a public dir), and then cut from that.