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asciilifeform: wonder how many of those accts consist solely of ivan, and a paper cutout placeholder chix 'so others come'. sorta like duck hunt decoy.
mircea_popescu: "littlems_muffin 21F sub 6d Your fantasy of obtaining already serving woman is fucking sad mate! Not even close to a reality. Go fuck yourself instead. Do not disrespect me again. Master Ivan" "LordMPofTMSR 37M Master 6d Oh sorry, I thought it was Igor."
asciilifeform: lol! that's a runway?!
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, http://thetarpit.org/uploads/2018/10/heraklion-15-thumb.jpg << is that serpentine a typical greek runway ? somehow seems oddly adequate...
asciilifeform: tho i did think the 'vaccination, eh, so 19th c' thing were a recent ('90s?) fashion
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-18#1863423 >> 'Tree A is single' << this dun tell much... ☝︎
asciilifeform: in other lulz, 'VMware ESXi, Fusion and Workstation contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in SVGA device. This issue may allow a guest to execute code on the host.'
asciilifeform: ( in prelim experiment thus far, virtually errything that aint a known trb noad, appears to show one or more obv symptoms )
asciilifeform: if node answers, it gets asked version, then getaddr, then given 10sec to issue 'inv' (for tx observatory), then (not baked this yet) gets asked to provide a block from known_blocks.
asciilifeform: i'm currently thinking of giving 'tx observatory' a rollover of 3 days ( i.e. drop all that have time older than 3d, nightly ) to keep the mass manageable there
asciilifeform: ^ and if anyone has a handy dumpblock-derived list with which to populate known_blocks , plox to sign & post, otherwise i'ma bake one laters
BingoBoingo: In other classics: "No person on earth who reads this little work will condemn it: it is only a question how many millions may look through it and benefit themselves by adopting its precepts." The preface to George Catlin's mega work titled 'Shut Your Mouth'
BingoBoingo: There is one known very priviledged duck in this world too valuable to be used to satisfy this transaction, and then there are the world's other ducks which are a tastier alternative to chicken and priced accordingly
asciilifeform pictures BingoBoingo uncrating a... duck
a111: Logged on 2014-02-01 13:05 mircea_popescu: 4. you subdivide both divisions. now you have a list of people who know you fucked up twice, this you discard ; two lists of people who think you go tone out of two. these you merge ; a most valuable list of idiots who think you got 2 out of 2.
asciilifeform: ( i betcha his cellmates laugh even today when he tells about this, over a cup of whatever-they-drink-instead-of-chifir over there )
mircea_popescu: "here's a list of gps bracelets, anklets and necklaces for people who wanna break out of the zone" "are you fucking stupid ?" "niggers usually are."
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i once bought a lamp for indoor tomato pot; still getting occasional spamola re 'growism'
asciilifeform: re 'preppers'(tm)(r), usg has a certain lulzy tradition, where they set up honeypot vendors for 'prepping supplies' (buckets, cosmoline, etc) and keep list of who's buyin', 'for later'
BingoBoingo: Promotion of the hoarding of tradable valuables is a principal republic value
BingoBoingo: And it is clear fiatists fear drugs as a more real currency than their own offering.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, Canada only allows 4 plants as opposed to every where else's 6 plants or 6 mature plants. With 4 plants a Candian could havest anywhere from 40 grams to 20 kilograms dry weight.
asciilifeform: that's the Official arg, at any rate; but i suspect a broader thing
asciilifeform: i suppose if yer found with 'stockpile', it 'proves' that you didn't get it from them ( why wouldja stockpile a thing that comes from 'abc store' )
BingoBoingo: It also is apparently illegal in Canadia to have more than 30 grams of "legal" weed. I never recall there being any limits on how many budweisers a cornfuck can keep in their fridge.
asciilifeform: in not wholly-unrelated lulz, the # of prb 'nodes' that break the protocol in all kinds of ways, is astonishing even to asciilifeform ; it's a wonder they manage to relay anyffing at all
asciilifeform: that ~anybody~ at this point 'can claim ignorance' is imho a laugh
deedbot: ave1 rated spyked 2 << wrote a scheme in Ada
ave1: !!rate spyked 2 wrote a scheme in Ada
asciilifeform: rain ? was mircea_popescu flyin' in a gilder or wat
a111: Logged on 2018-10-16 20:36 Mocky: BingoBoingo, usually by the end of winter I look like a coffee with too much cream, but slightly too much summer sun and I turn into kunta kinte for 6 months
BingoBoingo: Mocky: That sounds rather healthy. My face and ears have taken to the color red as a seemingly permanent part of their color palette
Mocky: BingoBoingo, usually by the end of winter I look like a coffee with too much cream, but slightly too much summer sun and I turn into kunta kinte for 6 months ☟︎
BingoBoingo: My arms and legs manage to tan to darker shades with sun exposure, but my face pretty much constantly stays in a state of more or less accute sunburn regardless of the quantity and frequency of "bloqueador de sol" applied
BingoBoingo has met a number of not entirely white Brazillians who managed to pick up profound beach sunburn
BingoBoingo: Well, in this southern hell afternoon walks may lead to a bit of a headache. It increases in intensity and seens to be centered around the eyes.
BingoBoingo back from paying the rent, pretty sure they eyes managed to get a bit of sunburn in spite of sunglasses
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-16#1863220 << and this is such a fucking boon... ☝︎
asciilifeform: diana_coman: if you get stuck i'ma show you how to make it go, cleanly, i have a working example of nearly the same thing you're doing ( gossip prototype thing ) that simply hasn't been cleaned for publication of yet
asciilifeform: the fs as we know it is a classic example of 'plugging funnel at wrong end'.
asciilifeform: a http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-15#1863136 - machine needs no predefine fs, you can use whatever data structures you like and they'll still be there when the power is cycled, per http://www.loper-os.org/?p=231 formula. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2018-10-16 11:51 mircea_popescu: man-drive dialogue flows always like : "i want file X" "wtf is that ?" "tell me what i told you before file X is supposed to be" "bytes 4978459876 through 50987498098" "i want bytes 4978459876 through 50987498098 please" "here you go" "are these file X ?" "fuck you" "does file X even exist ?" "little bitch..." "grep -a -C 500 'known pattern' /dev/sda | tee /tmp/recover"
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-16#1863198 << yes fs is a 1960-style db, i thought this was obvious ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2018-10-16 11:44 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-15#1863111 << thinking about this in the interim, it is EVIDENTLY the case. "files" as in ~the fucking thing REFERENCED~ in the "file"system names aren't even first class abstractions! the drive's a BYTE device! there's no fucking files ANYWHERE except in the imagination.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-16#1863191 << bonus: nobody actually sells a hdd that's 'byte device', they're addressable in 512byte blox ( and internally with 4096byte flash sectors ) and it actually makes a diff , not only in re speed but the life of the iron ( erry sector can be written ~2000 times ) ☝︎
mircea_popescu: man-drive dialogue flows always like : "i want file X" "wtf is that ?" "tell me what i told you before file X is supposed to be" "bytes 4978459876 through 50987498098" "i want bytes 4978459876 through 50987498098 please" "here you go" "are these file X ?" "fuck you" "does file X even exist ?" "little bitch..." "grep -a -C 500 'known pattern' /dev/sda | tee /tmp/recover" ☟︎
mircea_popescu: "then you want to put these '''maximal freedom''' elements in a tree ?" "it's not a tree, it's a '''directory structure'''." "wtf is that ?" "a half-baked tree." "you're really dedicated to this half-baked thing beyond all else, aren't you ?"
mircea_popescu: in any case there's no such thing as a filename anywhere at all, it's not even 2nd class, it's a sort of indian.
mircea_popescu: what passes for a "file system" currently is this attempt to force a byte-device (sometimes with some half-baked geographical allocation bolted on) through a half-baked database model. wtf is a "FAT" or a "journal" besides poorly implemented mysql/postgres dben ?
a111: Logged on 2018-10-15 19:24 mircea_popescu: s a file system AT ALL, and the "all things are files" is just a thin wraper on a turd sausage made out of "we have no data model beyond ram and our disk doesn't actually work".
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-15#1863111 << thinking about this in the interim, it is EVIDENTLY the case. "files" as in ~the fucking thing REFERENCED~ in the "file"system names aren't even first class abstractions! the drive's a BYTE device! there's no fucking files ANYWHERE except in the imagination. ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: yknow it occurs to me, one could make a likely very popular film, call it "captive" or w/e, simply through filming the male seminal canal from teste to ligature point in one of those tube-tied doods. 4 minuites of voice-over at the beginning explaining what's what ("this is joe. joe is a sperm." bla bla) and then the rest of an hour and a half just... let people watch the random walk.
ave1: Using the stack makes code less error prone and a lot more readable, please read the FFA code; http://www.loper-os.org/?cat=49.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-15 19:13 bvt: ave1, can you expand on getting rid of string allocations? I see a way to get rid of it for Mode, but not for the Path argument. i can move its c-string from heap to stack, but that would be it. anyhow, i will revise this aspect.
ave1: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-15#1863087, look at the pasted code. Yes, you move it from a dynamic allocation on the heap to a "dynamic allocation" on the stack. With the major advantage that the stack is a well defined mechanism with predictable results where dynamic allocations are not. ☝︎
mod6: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-15#1862873 << Thanks for reporting. I'll add this to the list to take a look @ & replicate. ☝︎
lobbes: but maybe you have a point. I gotta noodle on it. there's a balance somewhere
mircea_popescu: won't it be a nightmare to keep a bunch of separate bots up ?
mircea_popescu: lobbes you wanna havbe a buncha separate bots ? why ?
a111: Logged on 2018-10-15 10:20 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-15#1862617 << speaking of which, hey lobbes, feel like adding a param to !Q later tell, whereby it can tell next it sees guy but not earlier than x hours ?
lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-15#1862788 << this is a good idea for a feature. Once I get logbot-voicing figured out I'm thinking of setting up a general purpose 'miscbot' for such things as the later-tell and the duckduckgo search. I'll try and work this into the later-tell feature ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2018-10-11 17:08 asciilifeform: !Q later tell phf i recently found that lcd panel made by (defunkt) 'pixelqi co', pq3qi-01 , is still sold by chinese ( i have nfi if clones, or old stock ), ~100 $ ea; the thing toggles from 1024x600 colour/backlit into a 3072x600 greyscale reflector thing, worx with various lappies ( sadly not x60, it's a 16:9 )
Mocky: place is crawling with uber drives, never more than 3 minutes away no matter where you go, almost all driving a Kia
Mocky: uber in Qatar is cash, much to my surprise. I popped a sim into my second phone, made an uber acct, verifed with a text message, no CC, no identity verification. i was surprised
BingoBoingo: To update the binder hole count, Uruguay is a two hole binder country
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: observe that a TB of ecc ram costs approx same as tb of quality ssd.
mircea_popescu: this all leaves us stranged with such questions as "what is a file" and "what should a filesystem evben be".
asciilifeform: flash disk really oughta be simply a thing that kicks in when the power fails and box runs from capacitor and saves state.
mircea_popescu: and the deeper issue might be that there is in fact no os, just a maldesigned, half-impelemented, thoroughly buggy process emulator shoehorned into describing a disk.
mircea_popescu: right. but this wasn't because "nobody thought of file names like, ever". it was fucking because "nobody CAN think of file names, because there's a deeper issue"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform previous run into this was with the "what's a file's name" ambiguity i axed into "fully specified paths inclued". but that wasn't the problem, that was a random symptom of the fact nobody ever thought about files in unix.
a111: Logged on 2013-12-22 16:56 asciilifeform: 'what people “want” is a function of what they learn is available. e.g., do Americans want three-ring binders, and Europeans four-ring binders? or do they want binders and take whatever number of holes they come with? or do they want something that can help them organize their papers and take whatever is available? or do they really want a less cluttered office and ease of storage and retrieval of the infor
mircea_popescu: just because they all point to the coconut shop dun mean coconut shop is either a club or a place you'd take the whores.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: observe that current subj is a classic '4 ring binder' . we arent actually looking for file lock, file lock simply happens to be the only available ~working tool for machinewide-semaphore
mircea_popescu: so the situation may actually be that no computer system currently deployed actually has a file system.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's broken in a dozen major ways and definitely noticeable
mircea_popescu: s a file system AT ALL, and the "all things are files" is just a thin wraper on a turd sausage made out of "we have no data model beyond ram and our disk doesn't actually work". ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2018-10-15 19:15 asciilifeform: bvt: i find it mind-boggling that there is not a standard , portable , machine-wide locking mechanism. but apparently this is so.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-15#1863091 << at present i believe the ~entire file model~ in unix might have been subtly broken since the very beginning, and that breakage has in turn informed the way people think about the fs/os interface so as to not notice it. because it's as you see, a widening breach, what started with atomic creation moved on to permissions, and in general... in a word, it's not directly evident unix ha ☝︎
bvt: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-15#1863102 -- well they moved to another file, with tempfile implementation. i guess ave1 knows a total cure ☝︎
mircea_popescu: bvt you asking for a primer on the longstanding hatred of c strings here, or found on own ?
bvt: yes, these lockfiles are just a big mess.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-15 19:10 bvt: should set everything up till the end of the week. i didn't rent a rk; but already tested pressing mp-wp locally.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-15#1863075 << a ok. ☝︎
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Looking superficially at the law for it, it seems like a way to attract crowdfund stuff
a111: Logged on 2018-10-15 18:44 BingoBoingo: In new interesting to asciilifeform mod6 and other Pizarro folks, Uruguay is about to roll out a new type of corporate structure. Sociedad de Acción Simplificadas, going to look into it and see if it is at all interesting.
asciilifeform: uses a framework such as Gtk+ or Qt or any of the module-based APIs such as NSS, PAM, ... forget about about POSIX locking. If you care about portability, don't use file locking.' etc
asciilifeform: '...If you want to lock a file in $HOME, forget about it as $HOME might be NFS and locks generally are not reliable there. The same applies to every other file system that might be shared across the network. If the file you want to lock is accessible to more than your own user (i.e. an access mode > 0700), forget about locking, it would allow others to block your application indefinitely. If your program is non-trivial or threaded or
asciilifeform: bvt: i find it mind-boggling that there is not a standard , portable , machine-wide locking mechanism. but apparently this is so. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2018-10-15 14:00 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-15#1862785 << a working 'atomic' create-or-fail-if-exists by definition excludes this scenario. linux claims to offer one, http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-11#1860739 , but i've nfi yet whether it worx as printed on the crate
bvt: ave1, can you expand on getting rid of string allocations? I see a way to get rid of it for Mode, but not for the Path argument. i can move its c-string from heap to stack, but that would be it. anyhow, i will revise this aspect. ☟︎
bvt: should set everything up till the end of the week. i didn't rent a rk; but already tested pressing mp-wp locally. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Found out it is a thing just now through an invitation to be fed breakfast at an event discussing the thing.
BingoBoingo: In new interesting to asciilifeform mod6 and other Pizarro folks, Uruguay is about to roll out a new type of corporate structure. Sociedad de Acción Simplificadas, going to look into it and see if it is at all interesting. ☟︎
asciilifeform: i expect at some point standard usa toilet will switch into reverse gear and disgorge geisers of shit if you miss a payment
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> re structure -- they're rolling out ipnoje-style cars, that brick if they dun get keepalive from server << These have been a thing in the US for a while with the pay by week specialist dealer/lenders
asciilifeform: always pictured it as a usa thing, where they have extensive structure for beating the money out of idjits who default
asciilifeform: i had nfi that autos-on-credit were a thing in orcistans
mircea_popescu: so uber can pretend it has a power and influence other people are paying for.
mircea_popescu: the sort of imbecile moron who http://trilema.com/2017/the-day-of-failure-trilemma/#selection-403.0-407.140 can always be hit for a small bill for "the hope" that "saviour".