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phf: what a
time
to be alive
pete_dushenski:
https://youtu.be/0OJjvYPV3oc?t=1m26s << yet another reason
to avoid newer german cars (yes,
the reich-gripped really are
the worst offenders) : all-led lights. not just led drl and halogen/xenon high beams.
the entire corners of cars will soon be led clusters with sophisticated programming
that will selectively block light from shining in
the eyes of on-coming
traffic for example
pete_dushenski: should mazda also only make miata because every else
they make is garbage by comparison, even if it's class leading in a number of cases ?
pete_dushenski: also, lotsa people with money live where it's miserably cold most of
the
time. why let other companies sell you a winter vehicle ?
trinque: these fucking SUVs and sedans and whatever,
the fuck?
pete_dushenski: also, of your list, only population is a curious itch i'd want
to scratch.
the rest is sorta neither here nor
there if i'm passing
through on a road
trip or what have you
pete_dushenski: interesting. i guess i'd be skeptical of
the source of
the info at
the very least.
gabriel_laddel_p: oh okay, well anyways
that's
the
train of
thought I'm exploring.
gabriel_laddel_p: like, population count, size of government, estimated GB of
total law, # of sheriff, police, murders, rapes, assults etc?
gabriel_laddel_p: pete_dushenski: have you ever wanted your car
to list off a bunch of facts scraped from
the web when you cross into a new jurisdiction?
gabriel_laddel_p: asciilifeform: I have done very little
to CLIM
the library
thus far - mostly creating, organizing and DOCUMENTING examples of what one can do with it.
pete_dushenski: could i
think of better ways
to spend ? $125k or whatever a gt4 is ? sure. but /me can still barely fathom whether gabriel_laddel_p is sitting on inheritence or if he expects masamune
to be ~that~ big a success or if he's poster shopping for bedroom ceiling.
pete_dushenski: with
the caveat... for a new porsche. in
the breed, in
the class, it's a
tight, sexy, and sorta unrivaled package. selling over list last i checked
too.
gabriel_laddel_p: I saw
the gt4
the other day and... no car has ever
tugged at my soul before
gabriel_laddel_p: pete_dushenski: not even slightly. I wanted
to know your
thoughts. How do you /feel/ about it.
ben_vulpes: if i
tell him
there was an ice or crypto or ruin of usg
thread he'll eat a few weeks in one sitting
pete_dushenski: gabriel_laddel_p: well whaddya wanna know about
them ? and were you actually satisfied by my answer re: cayenne ??
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: and does your $bzprtnr actually read logs ??! fuck me if i new anyone in meatspace who read
these. not
that i'd be embarrased but
that i'd have so much more in common with
them!
ben_vulpes: something lawyers buy
to feel like not-new-money?
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: even $100k lexus suffers from plastikitis, esp in doors compared
to classic benzo
☟︎ liquidassets: I'm around, mostly
trying
to keep up. Doin my
thing,
thanks for saying what's up.
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: on
the
topic of dashboards, $bzprtnr got a 2012 wrx
ben_vulpes: speed, and how hard
the engine is working.
phf: hehe, girl spent minutes once hunting
through menus because was so pissed off at camera potentially putting in question her backing skills..
ben_vulpes: liquidassets: nah, just haven't seen you in
the forum for a while up until
that connection.
mircea_popescu: mandatory cam in car eh ? stop dem darn kids fucking in
there! and smoking
too!
liquidassets: ben_vulpes assuming you were
talking
to me just getting back from a 3 week vacation, back
to South Cascadia. I'm going
to go read
through your blog, haven't spent much
time
there yet, but looks like a new look? Cheers.
ben_vulpes: and
to
think, i left an entire industry because one engineer at
the firm when questioned about wasting money on a brand new vw microshitbox said "i just
think everyone should own a brand new car once in
their lifetime"
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: you may be amused, rumor suggests mandatory backup cams in
the near future
mircea_popescu: it's not altogether a bad plan, monkeys utterly unable
to resist shiny
ben_vulpes: yes please, random screen
twiddling in my peripheral vision while i drive
ben_vulpes: they make
the non automated cars utterly unsafe
to drive
ben_vulpes: heh
this is how
the industry moves
to automated cars
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: actually whole dash
turns into map. not overly distracting. big wow-factor. very responsive graphics.
pete_dushenski has seen 'virtual cockpit' in new audi s3. it's rather nifty even if i wouldn't want
to own it.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: 2003 isn't a bad cut-off for cars manufacturing date. most recent news i heard was
that nvidia was
teaming up with audi for
their next-gen vehicles and
that some of
the higher-end german models (though not just audi) have upwards of 100 ecus.
trinque: that's about all I have
to say about
those logs.
mircea_popescu: i said normative. ie,
that derpy romcoms aren't using it as "the way".
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu:
that
this ~isn't~
the norm in maga-land is cause of no small degree of sexual frustration, which manifests in everything from mommy issues
to passive aggressiveness
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: I hadn't caught up
to your witty retort yet
pete_dushenski: trinque: i watched 'sausage party' last night.
talking condom was easily creepiest character.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, it's an arrangement a lot more common
than generally realised. and not just in
the us - most underclass parties consist of hiring one whore for a platoon and fucking her among beer breaks, until daybreak. consequently most cheap whores are well used
to "the party of men".
trinque: I hope you're wrapping it up;
that
thing's not sanitary
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski given
the sardine living situation and
the sad but
true levels of machismo in
the great swamp, it's a wonder gangbangs aren't
the normative accuplation method.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo:
that was kinda my joke
to him. dude can't afford a house in sv (but who can) so buys $100k suv. hell, makes for better date nights
than 250sft loft shared with
two other bros.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: musta missed
that firmware recall but
tbh honda was never in
toyota's league.
this honda issue merely reinforces
the hierarchy. all is not lost for jp. far from it.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: did you ever figure out
the source of
the spuriata?
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-01-08 04:16 BingoBoingo does not have
time
to watch advertising videos unless
they are selling black girl pussy.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-08 03:32 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo : if/when my auto gives up
the ghost, i'm getting another ~2003, and not because cheap, but because wtf omfg firmware?!
jhvh1: BingoBoingo:
The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: !~later
tell gabriel_laddel_p Are you ready
to
take step 1 yet?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iirc i was waiting for
trinque
to ok it.
mircea_popescu: but for some reason nobody seems
to have an alt preference. such as for instance because
they don't exist or i have nfi
mircea_popescu: and i see no problem with any other or only other services be used - which iirc i even said when bot spec for archival was drawn,
that everyone making one should ideally use a diff service
mircea_popescu: i have nfi, item seems
to work is
the entire extent of
the
thing ; and i don't specifically know him
to be a hitler crony, like i do specifically know archive.org
to be a hitler crony.
mircea_popescu: right. anyway,
to dispell
the possible implication - it's not
that i like secretly know whoever runs archive.is
mircea_popescu: o yeah, cuz i lifted
the js for
text selection from his site.
mircea_popescu: well i dun
think anyone's a friend, including
the baker. i've not yet geiger-countered
the flour.
mircea_popescu: a cheap explanation would be for instance -
that archive people hosted in same place, and left for same reason.
mircea_popescu: now - wut of all of
this ? maybe it was
the same guy, i guess, maybe
there was a conspiracy
to reboot
the server, i guess, maybe etcetera. i'm unconvinced nor do i see it matters any.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: xing his code or going away ; e) so butthurt was alf over his code being no good in some particular and not
terribly relevant way, he decided
to go away.
this caused phuctor
to be offline for about a year. f) at some later point, getting a machine in
the same datacenter if memory serves, alf declared
that remnants from archive.is were found i dun recall how or where.
this is entirely possible, and in any case i've not invest
mircea_popescu: a) alf wrote a first version of phuctor, which wasn't very good.
this is excusable in
that it was a first version, and altogether irrelevant ; b) alf's version being not very good was accidentally exposed
through ordinary course of business ; c) alf got very butthurt at
this circumstance, and kept whining about it in
the logs ; d) having had enough of
the whine at some later point, i presented him with
the choice of either fi
mircea_popescu: look. i dunno what set of assumptions/convictions/determinations of fact you're operating under ehre, but
to be plain,
the situation as observed from my chair is as follows :
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude
the whole discussion was what happens if archive ~goes away~. NOT what happes if archive is down.