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mircea_popescu: wait, i thought i gave you two for qatar adventure

mircea_popescu: this now begs the questrion whether if i send my valkiries they would somehow manifest liquidity. god knows i had no problem dealing as much as i wanted in buenos aires. nor here. nor apparently anywhere (except when it comes to wiring to bb, which is becoming the lulz of all time, somehow)

Mocky: I can see quite clearly now that it was very stupid

Mocky: I went through all the people in person I could find

Mocky: i would have been ok too, I moved the money. wouldn't have cried over a burned bank acct. but after a month I thought I was good

asciilifeform: ( i could be mistaken )

asciilifeform: loox like ameri-banks are an item exactly like gox nao, 'keep there only what you can afford to lose' ( but i suppose this aint news )

asciilifeform: i thought hard limit for that was 6weeks or similar?!

Mocky: I sold my coin for bank-transferolade and I thought I had mitigated the risk but 2 months later transfers got reversed

Mocky: so anyway, i would totally do burma. but I have such a mess here of my own making that I couldn't even afford to feed myself burmese rice while there, much less lodging. So what then, go completely on mircea_popescu's dime? is that really desirable?

asciilifeform: ( even if it is 'custom' in the sense of being a write-once rom . these, too , saleable, i'd buy a whole crate right nao if anybody were selling )

asciilifeform: the ballast could just as readily be FG output, but i like this variant much moar ( and it removes the suspicion that 'they used prng and can trot out the seekrit formula and save 200GB of space in their seekrit miner' etc )

asciilifeform: btw i was going through my ffa notebooks and found a margin note that was actually about this, that prolly oughta go in the l0gz : if yer 'pow' is a walk-through-storage, 1 problem is that initial state of the system gives too little material to walk. so 1 interesting answer might be to include a 'ballast', consisting of, say, the first 9 yrs of classical btc blox, 1...N, that is part of the luby'd set (as raw bytes, rather than as m

mircea_popescu: i quoted for teh title

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, tho i was extending the chain of the thread we had re that piece in '17

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i quite agree.

Mocky: my opinion changed about asians. I chatted with a bunch of actually cute asians. and it wasn't even like, "weeks in this female wasteland and now asians are starting to look good." That was the africans.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-16#1872800 << i know quite well that it doesn't, hence 'perpetuum mobile' observation ☝︎

Mocky: not really that often but I was expecting qataris to express a higher level of indignation at foreigners flouting their strict conduct rules. but in actuality not even possible to achieve eye contact

Mocky: one beautiful thing I notices was that old busy bodies can't even give you a dirty look when their face has to be covered.

mircea_popescu: i don't think i appeared ~that~ fierce. i just think they were polite. ~everything i hear of qatar strikes me with an overpowering scent of what in teh old world was called nouveau riche.

mircea_popescu: see, the more i hear the more i prefer the egyptians. i took girl to evidently man-only tea-and-shisheria. lotta old dudes looked on in silence, bothered me none.

Mocky: I, evidently, sat on a girl bench at a mall that had one girl 30 feet away. was asked to move by security guard who pointed me over to 30 foot bench full of dudes

mircea_popescu: i can't find it now, but im pretty sure i recounted this tale of me + chet climbing in wrong (girls-only) car in cairo subway. made the girls giddy, but the ~dudes~ in the other cars nearly threw a riot.

Mocky: well I totally got used to it, except for on sub 5 foot chix... it looks like a halloween costume on a kid and there's no way around it

mircea_popescu: i believe it's more in the line of seinfeld's "everyone can be great friends if there's no possiblity of sex"

mircea_popescu: i dunno that's got anything to do with it at all.

Mocky: a lot of the time i was thinking, "pretty sure you look better covered"

a111: Logged on 2018-11-16 13:55 Mocky: i kind of got used to seeing what few chicks there were draped in black with only eyes showing

mircea_popescu: it wasn't urgent, but what do you mean not serious. i am seriouse guise.

diana_coman: I think they call it myanmar nowadays

mircea_popescu: i thought you hate azn cunt.

Mocky: seems less like proof and more like testimony of "i looked hard but didn't find"

Mocky: I don't feel bad about it, or regret or anything like that. I'm happy with the whole thing. It just doesn't appear to me as success.

Mocky: well that's success for you! I was looking for something and turned out either not there or well hidden.

mircea_popescu: at which point i say "bullshit!" and if the point's at all contentious i point to you.

Mocky: over there, every day was like a new out-of-comfort-zone experience and all the work involved asking "wtf should I best be doing right now?" It was exciting even though I don't see success along any dimension except personal learning.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-15#1872488 << thinking about all this, shouldn't the bot say "i don't know who X is" rather than spit out a pad it knows anyway won't be honored ? ☝︎

BingoBoingo: <Mocky> like, "holy shit, chix walking around in yoga pants and short shorts.. how could I have forgotten that these things exist?" << It's definitely going to feel weird when I finally pick up an air cooled VW and start driving again

Mocky: but those who were draped in black, covering the eyes as well with some see-thru black cloth: i never got used to that, always felt disconcerting and I don't know why. not like its that much different

Mocky: i kind of got used to seeing what few chicks there were draped in black with only eyes showing ☟︎

asciilifeform: but it'd prolly have to be in africa, and i'd rather not africa

asciilifeform: just once i gotta go to some place that's moar of a shithole than here, just to see what it feels like.

BingoBoingo: diana_coman: I prefer Bitcoin. GPGgram me a destination for the shares and I will arrange delivery with Jurov. Thank you for your interest in Journalism.

asciilifeform: Mocky: funnily enuff, whenever i go off the reservation, i ~anti~-miss home

Mocky: like, "holy shit, chix walking around in yoga pants and short shorts.. how could I have forgotten that these things exist?"

Mocky: being in qatar where so many things were different.. I never really missed home, but once I got back everything felt so familiar all of a sudden. I don't really know how to explain it.

Mocky: the cold season is a more difficult transition than normal. In a way I sort of do miss the heat.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: other thing -- i have a vague sympathy for the 'asic-resist' perpetuum-mobile folx; i dun particularly see what's so great about chinese monopoly on mining in classical btc. but it is tempered by the fact that they're some admixture of outright scamola and dumb-as-rocks -- consider, we described a perfectly-usable 'disk-hard' pow algo, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-01#1620665 , and they're still derping with 'ram-har ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-16#1872728 << the only part of the scheme that dun immediately make sense is how he drummed up exchange rate for his lolcoin; i'ma guess it was with the standard 'wash trade' sleight of hand ☝︎

asciilifeform: i knew about his lossy signatures nuttery, but not about this, it doubles the lulz

BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i beleive this Jnrrnnv Ltcmuex, esq shall become a character. << Hey, in a world where only machines can read pdf ocr hell into text, courts have to live with their illegible data writing

asciilifeform: i carved out an evening to actually read the standard docs, thinking 'maybe asciilifeform was wrong re http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-11#1823089 , http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-16#1739675 , http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-16#1739666 , etc ' but guess wat. ☝︎☝︎☝︎

mircea_popescu: i was being farcetious

asciilifeform: i went 10 times and 0 fish

mircea_popescu: "oh, cuz then you can't have ACCESS CONTROLS!!!" "oh ?" "so we won't implement those, either" "ah i see. and which is the store where they don't have fish again ?"

asciilifeform: i wrote, fwiw, a nqb 'fs'. but not battlefield-grade yet.

asciilifeform: asciilifeform's objection is not 'i dun like mircea_popescu's db, it smells of burnt trotyl and tuica' but 'why machine needs TWO?!'

mircea_popescu: i am not saying very specific applications (such as bitcoin, due to blocks being b locks) can't benefit from purpose made fs. nor am i saying the extant ~fs~ are defensible and not an atrocity against sense and taste.

mircea_popescu: yes, it's a journaling fs with indexes. which is why i like it.

mircea_popescu: i beleive this Jnrrnnv Ltcmuex, esq shall become a character.

mircea_popescu: and since you got that, you also use markup and configuration, which are similarily separate, and there you go, your naive "i am an idiot who must make his own nails by hand" "files on disk" has four... directories is it ?

deedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/11/el-chapo-im-not-the-boss-i-just-work-for-him-the-same-as-mexican-presidents-do/ << Qntra - El Chapo: I'm Not The Boss, I Just Work For Him The Same As Mexican Presidents Do

diana_coman: I can't begin to imagine what was the design idea there "oh, ALL does not mean categories because you might want to just re-categorize all your writing" or what

BingoBoingo: Ah, the export thing is a pain I have bumped into before

diana_coman: and re the wp backup from dashboard specifically, the one time when I used it on old blog it turned out to be shit because although it said "backup ALL" it failed to actually backup /restore the categories too...

asciilifeform: 'oh hi mr d , i've been saving this naval 300kV xray machine for you, surely you want'

asciilifeform: ( since sadly closed, i suspect he died, d00d was uncommonly fat even for ameristan )

asciilifeform: Mocky: i used to shop at a dealer like that

asciilifeform: mine i fished from a dumpster when i was a kid

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i used a chip puller when i was prototyping here, worked a++

BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: This is a point. I found a bandaid, gotta not let the bandaid turn into a load bearing structural member

BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Workflow thing. I don't keep a constant ssh tunnel into the server, but if there's a button of the constantly open wpdashboard which shits db for my local machine Imma hit that button at least daily.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i ended up killing coupla trees, with http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-15#1872555 , to do it, conceivably they didnt have to die.. ☝︎

BingoBoingo: Aite, I have found a ~56kb chunk of php which will let mp-wp shit out database backups from the dashboard. Going to put reading the PHP in the que, because php chunk's alleged author is this guy: http://austinmatzko.com/

Mocky: I've used online-convert.com, has an option for OCR but I haven't tested that. https://document.online-convert.com/convert-to-txt

mircea_popescu: possible ? or i got the wrong item, who the fuck even knows.

asciilifeform: ( i.e. not maffs, not scans )

asciilifeform: i suspect it only worx on pdf with pre-existing ocr track

asciilifeform: gives me line noise for pretty much anyffing i put in

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think it actually was https://pdftotext.com/

asciilifeform: ( i've seen various heathen crapola that takes pdf and makes www, but all seems to use ocean of js and scarcely improvement over orig gnarl imho )

asciilifeform: ( if not find, i won't cry, either )

mircea_popescu: i honestly believe the item linked cca 2015 is perfect answer. do you know which i mean or need i go spelunking for it ?

mircea_popescu: pdf can't "own" bits anymore than wikipedia can. if i drop a can of tuna in dogshit, it;s not now "dogshit brand tuna"

mircea_popescu: i don't think i want amber statues of pdf.

mircea_popescu: yet another exercise in http://trilema.com/2018/so-i-designed-a-block-chipher/

mircea_popescu: and by b) i mean inept shit like "this text is a picture"

mircea_popescu: by a i mean : a zip of pngs can be presented as ".pdf" and this is legal ; just as vectored text or ascii text could.

asciilifeform: i wish i could concur, but while baking ffa i had to eat a good 100GB of pdf.

mircea_popescu: i'm perfectly willing to turn the de facto "we of tmsr do not believe anything in a pdf should ever be read" into law.

asciilifeform: ( not to mention, various heathen dirt in e.g. qntra, typically i put it through ocr but result aint always edible )

asciilifeform: at times i wanna link to orig pubs of various algos, e.g. barrett, and frustrating

mircea_popescu: meanwhile kinda moved past it -- if it's in pdf it's as good as if it's in http://trilema.com/2013/the-linguistic-mark-of-cultural-failure/ language as far as i'm concerned : dead to reason and to no loss of reason for it.

mircea_popescu: iirc i even put in the logs url of very fine service in this vein, back a few years ago when i still even considered i might be interested in reading something that came in a pdf.

asciilifeform: i distinctly recall that several people ( incl. gabriel_laddel ) threatened to bake this, but did anyone bake ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, did anyone ever actually bake a pdf2www viewer gizmo ? ( i wanted to link to e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-16#1715210 and other oldstuff, at various points, but am loathe to link direct turd, really oughta be a thing which eats link to pdf and shits a http://www.loper-os.org/pub/hl/hl.html - style item ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: no one ever said last words 'i wish i hadn't made backup' heh

mircea_popescu: i'll want the coin back next year. now go forth and own stupidity no more!

Mocky: I'd appreciate it, I'm not in a position to turn it down as much as I'd like to