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mp_en_viaje: i meant stronger as in "
a stronger play", they make better horses, how the hell should we introduce this concept.
ossabot: (ossasepia) 2019-10-31 whaack: lobbes: i am working on
a solution to this
http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-31#1948993 . you don't want to put any string for the b query param that is going to match
a string inside of an anchor tag. this problem occurs frequently because often the same text in
a link you want to select is inside of the anchor tag: i.e. for the text 'mp writes at <
a href="
http://trilema.com">trilema</
a>' if you try to select tri
lobbes: in other weird, I found an odd (albeit edge case) bug in the new blog selection mechanism. If you do
a select that begins with "
http" (e.g. "?b=
http&e=#select") it will mangle the selected link in the post itself when rendered
mp_en_viaje: an' now, time for
a nice long bath ; with
a bottle of pelin rosu de urlati (man... that's something everyone gotta try sometime).
mp_en_viaje: i admit that he doesn't sound altogether sane, an' if you wish to take it as
a poor reflection on my judgement that i permit insanity to stand in the light i'll have to bear it ; the alternative strikes me as outright perversity and i dun wanna.
diana_coman: there's all sorts of simple and not all of it boring; that there though would be the boring-simple, more like the simple remains of
a cut-out than the simple path to the core of an intricacy.
mp_en_viaje: "Listen, Meg. God made the angels to show him splendour. As he made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But Man he made to serve him wittily, in the tangle of his mind. If he suffers us to come to such
a case that there is no escaping, then we may stand to our tackle as best we can. And yes, Meg, then we can clamour like champions, if we have the spittle for it.But it's God's part, not our own, to bring ourselves to such
a pass.
mp_en_viaje: "Father, there's
a new act going through parliament. And by this act, they're going to administer an oath about the marriage."
mp_en_viaje: diana_coman, so paul scofield (as
a most excellent sir thomas more) talks to his daugther :
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, you realise, you'll have to read all this
weird crap in like
a decade or w/e ?
mp_en_viaje: erryone here very fucking exciting to hear from me for some reason, shall be doing
a buncha rounds of coffees and adventuretellings in the coming days.
BingoBoingo: Aren't you
a little young to be ending the voyages plural?
mp_en_viaje: not
a great film, but holy god did old new york breathe through the background.
mp_en_viaje: im reminded of this ancient paul newman thing, he's
a drunk lawyer, picks up some tort case.
BingoBoingo: And folks wonder why the people working the cash trucks here went from revolvers and shotguns when I arrived to having
a fellow this week with
a .30 caliber, AR-10 type rifle.
BingoBoingo: I mean here they'll put
a tiny girl and
a derpy, funny guy walking
a beat. Then they'll have the guy built for
a fight doing his best to hunt and pick type reports, straining all the while.
BingoBoingo: Kinda like how here the local police seccional is where old men hang out while younger men in uniforms take reports to enter into the official record as
a sorta notary.
BingoBoingo: Right, I am uncertain the extent to which things here do as claimed. "Planta de explosives" could be the exact equivalent of
a western farm kid's back shed except with uniforms and such.
BingoBoingo: There is
a faint, cottage scale, remnant of
a domestic arms industry.
BingoBoingo: They've got plenty of cellulose, now beating beef as an export in real value terms. Difficult to be certain the the extent
a "planta de explosivos" is actually
a factory.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-10-28 16:20:50 asciilifeform: moar alive nao than ever. as for mp_en_viaje , plox to post the signed addr. piz liquidators, plox to take proceedings to #p. folx who intend to continue to crib off asciilifeform's work, which continues, or want functioning hosting : to #
a. (which i'ma take is no longer official mp castle, i'ma take off the sign shortly.) next gen of FG will still be produced, on asciilifeform's dime ( and i'ma respect mp_en_vi
mp_en_viaje: i dunno why all this herpy-derp anyways, wasn't s.nsa interest in pizarro
a btc or thereabouts ? what's all the hw wank ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I understand your desire to construct
a defense, but look. I just took apart and reassembled
a hand stack of machines to get two photos at your request. You introduced
a potential competing claim to title on some of the FUCKGOATS, which I will investigate as I must. However the count and all the photos in the world don't mean shit if you sign off on
a S.NSA closing inventory that includes items other folks hold the title
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-30 06:40:40 mp_en_viaje: too heavyhanded, man, reads more like
a preacher tract. gotta give the characters life of their own, not life of the story.
trinque: the sad thing in your case is that you're so intelligent of
a particular kind, you think it excuses you to be undeveloped in all other areas.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-10-21 10:15:42 mp_en_viaje: the second, which is the hanging matter, is that i meanwhile specced
a new functioning of ratings and voicing, the to-spec execution of which being the very bedrock upon which deedbot payments even work. come april or whatever, i'm not about to do the old style lordship ratings,
diana_coman: asciilifeform: no, there is no such thing as aimed at
a level; name people if you are aiming at anyone or otherwise don't just throw words about.
mp_en_viaje: i sit here watching the redancing of
a dance you danced coupla years ago, knowing full well you'll come full circle from this, as from all other positions. it's...
mp_en_viaje: meanwhile in more practical considerations, today's log went from 2k words before you woke up to 4k words currently, while the snr went from 90% to 50% or so. it's not even simply the instant fact that none of your lines contribute on the desirable side -- it's that the whole show's
a fucking re-run!
mp_en_viaje: entirely nothing in common with any sort of european understanding of law or legal proceeding ; he was rather the guy on the porn set going "fuck that whore"/"whop that twist" whatever, or else the dude at the frat party chanting "drink! drink!", or if you prefer the boomboxing dude behind the rappers or what have you. he was the bumstcz dude, what, like at
a yupik manhut party exactly.
mp_en_viaje: all), i'll forego quoting anything ; but cliffnotes instead of likbez, comrade Vyshinsky was
a very peculiar sort of MC.
mp_en_viaje: otherwise, since ~literally~ 100% of the crap on the "free" and "open" anglo internet is ~LITERAL~ fucking restatement of the ~~~EXACT FUCKING SAME~~~ five line passage from
harvard's 1999 offering of doubleplusgood truth&realities (if you don't count
a very carefully expurgated version on "marxists.org" -- lulzily, "dog" appears exactly once ; "vulture" not at
snsabot: Logged on 2019-10-30 11:11:37 hanbot_abroad: realizes she confused
a hand-out asciilifeform kernel config for direct involvement
snsabot: Logged on 2019-10-30 10:22:55 mp_en_viaje: but we absolutely must look at the whole stack, with
a clear eye, and clean it of alf idiocy. i don't even care if some useful bits get thrown out in the process so much
ossabot: Logged on 2019-09-09 05:40:35 mircea_popescu: all sorta chuck moores, "famous" and apparently ever so good and useful, just WAITING for you to give them
a chance to strangle you.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-17 13:38:31 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: exactly like the chinese cultural rev. (which shut off like
a lamp when mao flicked switch) this one is
a 'controlled burn'.
hanbot_abroad realizes she confused
a hand-out asciilifeform kernel config for direct involvement
hanbot_abroad: mp_en_viaje: i would expect interaction with the republic at all and certainly immersion in l1/frequent discussions with you would cause
a great deal of reflection on and revision of held beliefs/paradigms, and sure, even frequently, or many times over. it's
a shame that there even exists
a specific pattern that'd make this rot, rather than revision. but i guess same can be said about any decay process.
diana_coman: mp_en_viaje: I'm surprisingly calm and collected but I'm weighing all sorts; and yes, I would rather give it
a few days.
mp_en_viaje: anyways ; i suspect now you're adequately impregnated with my wrath, i guess give it
a day or two see what the night mind dredges up ?
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-17 13:38:31 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: exactly like the chinese cultural rev. (which shut off like
a lamp when mao flicked switch) this one is
a 'controlled burn'.
mp_en_viaje: i am not for
a second saying there's nothing good or useful i nthere.
diana_coman: mp_en_viaje: I suppose there is also the same question applied potentially to the FG and FFA then; but fwiw I digested FFA as well as I could and I still think it is
a gem, perhaps
a pearl better put: quite the result of successive spinnings/polishings
mp_en_viaje: so no, there wasn't any line drawn in the sand on the basis of trying to quadrate the circle and throwing tangents at
a dangerous idiot.
mp_en_viaje: but, see, it's
a circle. past the perihelion he's coming back, so it'll ~seem~ like that "woke him up"
mp_en_viaje: then he starts moving down his circle. and you notice there's
a difference ; if you attempt to discuss it, he'll make the cost of measuring the infinitesimal difference (which nevertheless keeps growing, and at an ever faster pace) infinitely large
mp_en_viaje: at any given point, if ~you~ draw
a line, he'll translate over the place, such that your line is
a tangent. and you think, naively, "oh, this man's line and my line are clearly, look, colinear"
mp_en_viaje: hanbot_abroad, to use the geometric terminology you introduced : alf never in his life walked
a line. what he does is, he spins
a circle.
hanbot_abroad: i thought what's here is basically
a line drawn in the sand, 'will stand no further than this'.
mp_en_viaje: unless, of course, in the fractally moronic manner in which he's inhabituated us to expect things to "work", there's
a barb in there somewhere.
diana_coman: mp_en_viaje: in hardware terms, the recent tests re deploying server showed at least that we are not married to any specific arch so I'd say that part should not be
a problem
ossabot: Logged on 2019-09-09 05:40:35 mircea_popescu: all sorta chuck moores, "famous" and apparently ever so good and useful, just WAITING for you to give them
a chance to strangle you.
mp_en_viaje: but we absolutely must look at the whole stack, with
a clear eye, and clean it of alf idiocy. i don't even care if some useful bits get thrown out in the process so much
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-11 11:21:04 mp_en_viaje: because he has sexier things to do than what you need ; and, importantly, because this is WHY he wanted to be
a "craftsman" in the first place, and why attempted to scam you into buying custom, rather than standard items : so as to fuck you over by doing "sexier things", because in his broken mind the very thing that impels the "craftsman" misbehaviour also looks at your damage as implicit justification -- in that
mp_en_viaje: s.mg stands currently on
a lengthy tree of ideological. "we don't use python", "c this" etcetera.
mp_en_viaje: then ben_vulpes stepped in, and most of what he heard, for years thence, was "oh, you were so underslept you forgot one bag" ; never "i was such
a moron, you had to fly on short notice, i guess ~I~ forgot your bag"
mp_en_viaje: yeah, basically he kept dithering in typical fashion, "being conservative" or whatever, being
a moron, and the guy simply couldn't get the geat before flight time
mp_en_viaje: too heavyhanded, man, reads more like
a preacher tract. gotta give the characters life of their own, not life of the story.
BingoBoingo: diana_coman: Right, your expression of interest was when the thing went from an idea bouncing around in my headcase to
a suspected good idea.
diana_coman: BingoBoingo: as I previously said in #o, I'm all for xpollination with
a qntra-writing course for sure.
BingoBoingo: My gut isn't
a perfectly calibrated divination device, but 5 years of Qntra has helped calibrate it along certain lines
BingoBoingo: My though with offering
a short course is that it allows for
a degree of screening and mutual auditioning before committing to take on an apprentice while other folks can refer their students with the specific aim of getting drilled into producing some journalistic reports.
BingoBoingo: mp_en_viaje: Having seen the folks diana_coman is catching in her school house and the issues they have with tight writing, I am inclined to draft an offering for
a journalism short course. Maybe I catch some of my own students, maybe I get some referrals from diana_coman and others looking to tighten up the prose of their catches.
diana_coman: time packs
a lot of punch those days; march indeed.
mp_en_viaje: the
heaviness of nothing notwithstanding, it is self-evident we'll have to carry some conversations in the coming days : with BingoBoingo re the future shape of qntra (which iirc was sorta-open but then put into what at the time was intended to be
a brief abeyance) ;
mp_en_viaje: so, if you ever end up publishing half an article because your connection died mid-publish for w/e reason, and as
a result your article's comments are closed -- the one pill is to edit the db, set comment_status & ping_status to "open" again.
mp_en_viaje: as it turns out, mp-wp has
a ... well, i dunno, i hesitate to call it
a bug. it has the following issue : if the publishing of an article (which is itself handled as
a http post) gets interrupted for whatever reason (such as the connection dying, the closing packet being waylaid, anything), the article will still be publioshed, partially, ie what made it there ; however because various settings (notably, whether comments etc) ar
mp_en_viaje:
a ? trilema's supposed to be light reading, i must've done something wrong!