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billymg: what if i submitted a vpatch that adds the js-text-selection feature and the few lines of CSS to the "default" theme in mp-wp (blue header one)? ☟︎
BingoBoingo: <Mocky> it's funny to see "face whitening cream" on the grocery shelf next to shaving cream and tooth brushes. i always assumed it was just michael jackson and brown chicks with dark blemishes wanting to bleach skin << Apparently it is a big Asian thing. The prospect of it being here makes me very cautious about sunscreen selections.
Mocky: yes, a few of them. but waffles here are like a desert gimmick, covered in thick layers of chocolate sauce or the like. they don't take this shit serious
BingoBoingo: billymg: if you are really looking for something to do, there's a spiffy js text selection thing and mp-wp could use a couple themes where it is plugged in by default
Mocky: oh and in more important news, i got a line on where to buy a waffle maker here. went to the store and they actually do sell them. but ... sold out. which is probably for the best since they were selling a model worth 17$ that makes one at a time for 80$
lobbes: billymg: for #1, be sure to check out ben_vulpes' guide on the basics of v: http://cascadianhacker.com/07_v-tronics-101-a-gentle-introduction-to-the-most-serene-republic-of-bitcoins-cryptographically-backed-version-control-system
billymg: would like to get out before getting stuck in a coke machine
billymg: right now i have two items in my queue 1) figure out how to submit a vpatch for mp-wp with those few lines of CSS tweaks on the default theme 2) write a completely custom mp-wp theme
billymg: BingoBoingo: don't know if you saw this https://www.sqlite.org/codeofconduct.html << sqlite project gets pressured into adopting a CoC, publishes troll CoC based on chapter 4 of The Rule of St. Benedict
Mocky: even got a pic of indian on a ladder on my bed holding AC unit over head
asciilifeform: it gives brass a convincing illusion that they 'understand the process flow', because 'can read any particular spreadshit'
a111: Logged on 2017-04-11 00:21 asciilifeform: i can see a legit pov for the 'no sql' folx. 'you will NOT introduce programmerolade into our process flow, creating work for maggots like yerself and marrying our corp to your lazy and entitled arse' approx.
billymg: lobbes: i might be able to help with that if you're looking for hands, but i think i first need to spend a few weeks getting comfortable with V before i'll be of much use
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu had an old piece re subj ; it explains quite a bit re ameri-corporate world
asciilifeform: lobbes: many yrs ago asciilifeform worked in a biotech lab thing, was ~100% 'excel'-powered, erry bit as ugly as you can imagine
a111: Logged on 2018-10-10 16:05 BingoBoingo: In other news, today is pizarro invoicing day and hanbot's auction closed per "<lobbesbot> AUCTION # 367 has ENDED: 500usd via WU SOLD to BingoBoingo for 76mn coppers. Attn: hanbot" leading to a price of 6579 usd/BTC
lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-22#1865074 << eventually I aim to have a 'tickerbot' (which, will actually be a function of auctionbot) that will spit out a btc/fiat price based off of the results of republican auctions of a specific type (i.e. to do the price formation of e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-10#1860078, automatically) ☝︎☝︎
a111: Logged on 2018-10-22 20:16 Mocky: I've met a ton of excel lovers who think php is fantastic. seems to appeal greatly to a certain type
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 22:32 asciilifeform: 'The situation is somewhat akin to a retarded girlfriend trying to flood your apartment, that not only opens all the faucets and stops all the drains, but also takes the "extremely clever" measure of puncturing the water pipes, so she can then preciously inform you that "turning off the faucets won't help" and you must work with her to somehow create a raft out of your widescreen TV so as to navigate the marshy terrain that used to b
asciilifeform: imho sitting a dedicated cacher on php is archaetypical 'tv raft'
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu coupla yrs ago wrote about trying a caching thing
asciilifeform: billymg: afaik they dun work worth a shit
asciilifeform: rather than a complicated series of template insertions and db fetches
asciilifeform: at any given time, your www -- with the possible exception of comment-eater and search box (the latter dun even exist in mp-wp iirc) really wants to be a static string
asciilifeform: was speaking of where it recalculates what is by all rights a 100% constant value, 9000 times/hr, eternally ☟︎
asciilifeform: billymg: it's a fundamental problem with php and any similar substitution-engine thing
asciilifeform: would be major improvement, tho, if serving up a 10kB article didn't eat 500MB.
mircea_popescu: trilema ran for a decade on a lamp stack to no serious detriment.
mircea_popescu: honestly php seems a problem that least needs fixing right now.
billymg: Mocky: sort of a hand-rolled "static site generator"? i've used jekyll in the past and from what i remember this is how it worked
a111: Logged on 2018-10-22 20:20 asciilifeform: put the dressing in blog.ads as constants and be done with it. when erry couple of yrs you feel like twiddling the bg colour or somesuch -- it's a 10sec recompile, wat.
asciilifeform: dns is a decorative thing, e.g. asciilifeform , mircea_popescu , have dns names for www , but really ought to remember that it is decorative .
asciilifeform: put the dressing in blog.ads as constants and be done with it. when erry couple of yrs you feel like twiddling the bg colour or somesuch -- it's a 10sec recompile, wat. ☟︎
asciilifeform: i suspect quite a bit of the 'arbitrary substitutions for style dressing' that folx expect from blog engine, are not actually necessary; just how often does one fiddle with the dressings.
Mocky: I've met a ton of excel lovers who think php is fantastic. seems to appeal greatly to a certain type ☟︎
lobbes: would be a nice luxury to have. Every time I've used php, I wished I wasn't using
asciilifeform: lobbes: what i meant was, there is long list of actually urgent proggies, this one's definitely a luxury; thus far ~errybody is living with mp-wp and not particularly sad
lobbes: hm interesting. I too have hands tied up but have been meaning to get a few chapters of ffa under my belt. I'll jot this idea down for far off in the conveyor if someone else doesn't get to it first (and by all means, Someone: feel free to beat me to this punch)
asciilifeform: lobbes: imho a 100%-adatronic thing that could serve http and dish up blog etc. without dragging in apache.nginx,php,sql,etc., would rock. but sadly i dun have anything like the # of free hands for such a thing currently
lobbes: though nowadays the rockchip kernels in the pizarro plant have iptables enabled, so you now have a couple of options for crossing that bridge if you come to it
lobbes: btw, if you end up needing it I have a guide out on how to configure apache to handle bot spam directed at your blog >> http://blog.lobbesblog.com/2018/07/arming-your-arm64-rockchip-gentoo-against-the-hordes-of-mindless-bots/
BingoBoingo: It's Brasil, discerning whether or not they registered is probably a six month process
mircea_popescu: (this wouldn't be a very high standard clean room, but 80s level tech quite achievable. whole shtick is to have the controlled airlflow, pressurizing the room.)
asciilifeform doesn't have a 'clean room' in the chip fab sense, but did install a multistage circulating filter thing in machine room, it actually worx pretty well re cutting downtime for fan cleanings etc
mircea_popescu: but with current tech, and given airplant already there, making a den into a clean room is entirely hobby budget.
mircea_popescu: if you didn't have that infrastructure, you might balk at buying it just for a hobby.
mircea_popescu: how would ac unit solve the problem of unwashed co-dweller ? seems the application for that is a lock rather.
mircea_popescu: except if he opens a door ?
mircea_popescu: "but mp, why would anyone want that!!" "i dunno, same reason anyone would want a large icebox" "inconceivabru. the global market for cars is maybe 12 units."
mircea_popescu: Mocky the other humongo advantage of getting a central air plant instead of the piddly shits is that THEN you can get clean room at no extra cost.
BingoBoingo: Pretty sure you can do a swamp cooler with Petrol instead
mircea_popescu: feels kinda like having the perfect joke for a set-up and then... not using it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is so fucking dumb omg. central air costs 2x to install and 0.5x to run for the lifetime of the thing. A DEGREE OF MAGNITUDE SAVINGS
mircea_popescu: jesus christ he's bought a room from a nigerian prince.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-21 19:18 Mocky: no, i'm subletting a room via airbnb from a nigerian who rents it from someone who also sounds african on speakerphone. and thankfully unseasonably cool with now 2 years worth of rain in the last 2 days
mircea_popescu: you don't want to meet people over a hundred anyway
a111: Logged on 2018-10-21 17:57 BingoBoingo: "Medicaciones para niños necessitan recetas" "Es para yo mismo. Llamé a mi medico."
Mocky: I'm going to try buying a benjie's worth from one and selling it the other just to meet them
a111: Logged on 2018-10-20 20:23 Mocky: theres also a "blockchain doha" group with 103 members, I can reach out to
asciilifeform: ( or was that a different 'industria argentina' product..)
Mocky: i've lived in a couple old houses with ancient plaster. it would chip and crumble pretty easily
Mocky: they live in constant misery, mostly leaving after a short time
Mocky: in other observations, social pantsuits stand out like a sore thumb here. they can't stomach the "racism" "classism" "mistreatment" "conditions for local women". it's a constant irritant to them, they can't figure out how anyone here sleeps at night being party to such things
a111: Logged on 2014-06-13 01:21 asciilifeform: 'durasell' is a chinese battery (with correct colour scheme) sold at 'dollar stores'
BingoBoingo: Is it a Panavox?
asciilifeform: sounds like the making of a 3ring circus then
Mocky: oh hey, the 3 indians return with a new ac unit 8:30pm. now arguing with my nigerian host over having brought a different brand
asciilifeform: ( re 'furries & trannies' -- there is a hilarious wankfest going, somebody spread rumour that trump is plotting to cancel, somehow, Official recognition of trannieism, all sortsa usual suspects are busy filling their pants as we speak )
mircea_popescu: a different kind -- impersonal, they don't want to "Escape to there", but still.
mircea_popescu: which is how all woods are cut, you understand. a metal bit with an edge attached to a wooden bit they can relate to.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-20 19:10 Mocky: re meeting Qataris, I found that 30-something aged men interested in business hang out at certain places on a daily basis. if you go and hang there and get to know them, if they like you they may invite you to majalis. which is the regular practice of closing off half of the home from women in the evening and doing man cave shit
asciilifeform: iirc was conceived as a sea-going thing, but wai not adapt to modern market!11
mircea_popescu: police picking them up, you know, "you ok sr ?" "i'm fine. i'm fine. it's ok." "did you see a huge clucking airplane coming behind you flapping its wings, hopping up and down and clucking ?!"
mircea_popescu: but getting back to the hinged-wing airbus thread : you could also add a modified horn... some hydraulics...
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: why wouldja expect chinese cars in a place where only moneyed folx and their liveried servants get driver license
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it wouldn't surprise me if 'rolex watch' is eventually displaced by a wrist-strapped gold brick stamped with word 'rolex' or some other such substitute. sorta how gentleman swords were replaced with jewel-encrusted lolsticks prior to vanishing entirely
Mocky: all the cars here are normal models you'd find in the us, except there are a few toyota models I've never heard of: "fortuner" is one
Mocky: if I had my ford expedition here, I'd be the king of the road. land rovers are a good bit smaller
BingoBoingo: <Mocky> still broke, but it still isnt' a problem. fan blows on me and I sleep fine. 3 day of rain in the dessert. got soaked today waiting for taxi for 30 minutes during downpour which stopped the moment i got in the cab << The incredible similarities to Uruguay
mircea_popescu: it's a wonder they don't drive busses,
Mocky: vehicle size seems a status symbol. "if a bigger one is speeding up from behind, get out of the way!"
Mocky: to my eyes, uniform includes shiny watch and a landrover, or lexus suv (with which to intimidate slave labor on the roadway)
asciilifeform: there was an old mircea_popescu piece with gypsies living in abandoned tunnels, where they had a desk fulla old sov-era phones, with 0 wiring, strictly for 'rolexism'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform plus if it's a nice looking hedgehog could headbutt someone for max payne.
mircea_popescu: Mocky srsly now, these uber-elaborate heatsink-like items made to wear on head, out of 22 carat gold... could be a trent.
Mocky: i'd fucking rock a crown
Mocky: i'm not wise to the ways of watches, wouldn't recognize a rolex. "shiny watch" works for my description
mircea_popescu: Mocky maybe you should start a crown trend.
mircea_popescu: bitch srsly need to tell time for some reason, because wherever they're going ain't gonna just wait till they get there anyway or what is it, no woman in a loose fitted top about to point out "hey, we should get going if we're ever going to make X" ?
Mocky: well when everyone wears the exact same white robes everyday, a watch is pretty much only place on the body for bling
mircea_popescu: whereas #metoo-level tard is very "wordsmith" in her own mind, names and labesl and magic incantations all have incredible power and how would the world dare not conform! SHE WANTS A BETTER WORLD DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-20 18:50 diana_coman: Mocky, I wonder though how much those burnt partners actually catered to the qatari partner as an ongoing relationship rather than just "he gives money for my biznis" (and how the hell is a charity a business, ugh)
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-20#1864516 << it is a fact that arab man makes the best friend ; wanna-be humans (like say russkis) manage to emulate this inb software, but usually takes lengthy prison stint together / trench time / whatever such exceptional circumstance. otherwise... rare. ☝︎
asciilifeform: ( it is not currently obvious to me from the spec that this is not a legal op )
asciilifeform: or if somehow user extinguishes all of his serpent keys without immediately transmitting a replacement
asciilifeform: so then as i understand , rsa 'ddos' is not possible, i.e. 'allcomer' cannot force serv to perform a modexp simply by asking.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, diana_coman : '6.3. The server will issue type 5.2 messages encrypted to the corresponding client RSA key in response to any client messages for as long as it doesn't have a preferred client Serpent key set. The client is responsible for either maintaining or explicitly burning ~all~ of these, and will pay for them in any case' means that if a serpent key is currently set, serv won't issue another unless client explic
Mocky: I still have 4 leads to finish chasing down re not needing a Qatari to form a company. not necessarily promising leads but still need to get to the truth of them
a111: Logged on 2018-10-20 18:47 Mocky: Being as the requirement for standard LLC is 51% Qatari ownership, this new info suggests to me that having two locals who split the 51% may be the way to go. They can still close it down but not at the whim of a single person.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-20#1864509 << this is a dubious proposition, seeing how you don't have the cultural finesse to resolve disputes between orcs. ☝︎