asciilifeform: committed a hate-crime against people who appeared to have better lives << funny how when you get enough bozos together and do the very same thing, it gets called 'revolution' and suddenly respectable.
asciilifeform: not exactly masterpiece of english literature
asciilifeform: (can't say if genuine, but worth reading if only for the part where he describes devoting his life to... winning lottery.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this used to be a major chumpatron in usa. in fact, not long ago, in restaurant, i saw a tv showing a 'we help you patent your Invention 111!11!' ad.
asciilifeform: but the 100k included a good chunk of a generation.
asciilifeform: i get up for half hour and now 'lynx' is news!
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: reminds me of a time when i stowed some stuff in plastic garbage bags, then discovered they were... biodegradable. turned to astonishing quantity of dust. when vacuuming old flat, found fragments - years after the fact.☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they're usually forbidden in 'residential' zone.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: office has all the opsec of a chicken coop << funnily, i live a few km from a masterfully camouflaged, unregistered chicken coop.
asciilifeform: where is it written that these folks can't enjoy chumpatronics at home while off the clock
asciilifeform: meanwhile! end of sewer saga: city excavated street, disassembled pipe, found tree roots behind the property line - which had become clogged with backed up crud (for the 30 hours or so the city's pipe was broken.) now they will fight with landlord's insurance co.☟︎
asciilifeform: benkay: as for the remainder: since this type of distribution was customary, any unsanctioned cribbing of code would become apparent when you bought the suspected product and examined its sources.
asciilifeform: benkay: what kind of piracy, when 90+% of it would only run on that particular arch.
asciilifeform: benkay: it was a sort of product now mostly extinct - pay, get complete source (naturally for in-house use only)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: seems to me like the pill against this is to drive an ordinary auto, rather than a peculiar tractor where you still get ejected into oncoming traffic at the slightest bump...
asciilifeform: so, my suspicion, folks who want the 'l33t' of motorbike, but without the study.
asciilifeform: looked it up, they seem to cost about the same as a nice toyota
asciilifeform: resembles a tractor more than anything else
asciilifeform: takes up a full lane, yet still the same crunchy death if you wreck it
asciilifeform: as i understand, all the down-sides of a normal auto and motorcycle in one package.
asciilifeform: speaking of vehicles, there were... moto-tricycles in the parade. wtf is the point ?!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: almost certainly same reason as the various folks i know in this position - term of art, i think, is 'underwater'
asciilifeform: might sue the city, though, if this carries on.
asciilifeform: (fellow used to live in the house, unable to sell, ended up renting it out, quite possibly at a loss)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: landlord lives in CA. he's nothing to do with this crap.
asciilifeform: most likely, nothing. just read a flow sensor somewhere.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the soviet tale didn't end there. i come back, trench is filled, sewer - same state. call bureaucrats, they promise to test. wake up, there's a note, claiming that 'tested, works, if still having problem, your problem.' i pick up phone, turns out the fellow testing had no idea there was pipe work at all. it was done by contractors, see, and the city 'had no idea.'
asciilifeform: as for the paraders - from the lack of habitable building, went to see the fscking parade. and this is what it looked like:
asciilifeform: windows rattle, anything not bolted down shakes loose, etc.
asciilifeform: the result is pounded flat using a gigantic machine that sends shock waves everywhere
asciilifeform: they also have this weird custom, where a trench of an active pipe project is filled in with asphalt every time, even if work is not done - because driving is sacred. must be drivable over.
asciilifeform: (pool from destroyed pipe visible on bottom of trench)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, jurov: presently juggling CAD and... getting sewer service to my building again. (beautiful story. water contractor destroyed drain pipe on entire street, claims to have fixed it. fountains of shit from the bath! still!)
asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: re: glitches: this trick is somewhat harder to pull off with modern micros that use internal pll & clock gen. you're reduced to inducing power glitches or eldritch radiation / thermal wizardry.
asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: 'rigol' makes the finest 'trabambourghini' of scopes.
