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a111: Logged on 2018-06-06 17:22 asciilifeform: the schematics whisperer d00d suggested that it also has the uart brought out on hidden pins ; i have
a test adapter cable due in this wk that will test this theory
phf: asciilifeform: yeah, i was going by various spec sites, but i have
a dongle that handles that
phf: asciilifeform: on
a rok? no i haven't, yesterday i only had time to get
a terminal out of it
mircea_popescu: anyway. i guess ima make her build
a desktop, wtf can i do.
mircea_popescu: who, dbp ? i thought he moved to rural ok to pursue
a doctor in divinity thesis.
BingoBoingo: There is
a point at which continuing to burn more time on the real estate thing yields diminishing returns. And when the days start getting longer, negative returns.
mod6: (could always find
a bigger place later once we're above water)
phf: that's the cyberpunk future we've always wanted. 2sqm room (with bathroom) and
a fat fiber line
a111: Logged on 2018-05-11 16:40 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aaa the radar thing. funny story with these, the old-world version of this was the gamma-radiograph. in su they used them to evaluate cured cement prior to finishing
a block of flat. aaand sometimes they'd forget the sr-90 brick inside the wall, and roast several generations of tenants
mircea_popescu: actually, he's hard at work with trictoscopes and things to make you
a computer.
mircea_popescu: in truth tho... something like
a boomed magnifying glass may suffice here neh ?
mircea_popescu: you can count the animal's tail hairs. the whole thing is
a coupla mm in length.
a111: Logged on 2018-04-19 01:58 mircea_popescu: in unrelated news : i can't recommend the dsc-rx100 quite warmly enough. it's
a splendid sony compact with zeiss lenses that's easily the best camera i ever saw.
douchebag: and now I have
a bullseye shaped bite wound
mircea_popescu: but yes, if you run
a php interpreter you've got
a windows box, pretty much. state of the art in empire.
mircea_popescu: spyked, there's
a reason they put all the blogs on the same one box :D
a111: Logged on 2018-04-13 16:20 mircea_popescu: spyked how about THIS definition for the operating system : "that set of code that is trusted implicitly". this then makes EVERYTHING on
a windows machine operating system, which i contend is right and proper -- the necessary result of opaque monolith systems design is universalization of the os.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, anyway, it's
a wrapper, for
a very hacky libssh.so
mircea_popescu: in strict terms, i believe that is
a pretty tight php implementation of ftp. "shouldn't exist", maybe, whatever. there it is.
a111: Logged on 2018-06-06 12:59 mircea_popescu: spyked, re the other thing, i expect the item can be both massively trimmed and significantly improved still. the discussion was carried in principle ("so manty lines!") not really objectively, "why this exact line for each line". i think it's entirely possible even the final product, as
a conceptual ideal, may exceed (reasonable!) expectations of "how long code should be".
spyked: buuut... yeah, sometimes smartphone os lets user do 2 things at
a time: listen to music while instagramming.
spyked: the downside is
a horrible drain on battery (and there wasn't much of that to go with it in the first place), but eh, they made their choices.
mircea_popescu: by now it's
a hoyota, son of used car lot owner built himself
a car out of parts.
spyked: mircea_popescu, re. smartphone, everytime I bring the "why use linux shitstack with so many layers of abstraction for mere phone" argument to certain ppl, they're all "oh, but it runs on so many devices". and I guess they're right in
a certain way. gotta keep 'em busy, give 'em "choices", or at least the illusion thereof.
mircea_popescu: ~hypertext preprocessor~. wtf are you going to do ? do you want hypertext or don't you ? do you want separable parts or don't you ? it's
a triangle, right,
a) well specified tasks ; b) separable parts ; c) no glue needed. pick two.
mircea_popescu: take the obvious "wtf is with your >80 char lines omfg". well.. php is what's with it. hence the whole "it's
a scripting language built atop
a webotron, to glue it to
a rmdbs, whadda ya want"
mircea_popescu: spyked, re the other thing, i expect the item can be both massively trimmed and significantly improved still. the discussion was carried in principle ("so manty lines!") not really objectively, "why this exact line for each line". i think it's entirely possible even the final product, as
a conceptual ideal, may exceed (reasonable!) expectations of "how long code should be".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "smart"phones for dumb people ; can only do 1 thing at
a time, and that's it. no remanence, let alone permanence.
mircea_popescu: so my question to you is : should someone who ~doesn't even own
a computer~ (because no, her retarded "iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 11_2 like Mac OS X)" eminently is not
a computer, nor anything even remotely LIKE mac os x) be allowed to comment ?
spyked: will have to give it
a second pass to make some notes, the variety of subjects discussed blew my mind
a bit.
a111: Logged on 2018-06-05 16:50 mircea_popescu: "thetarpit blog scaffolding is
a few kLoC of CL, but lacks *any* editor-side interface" << understand something : i publish more than anyone, and by anyone we don't mean solo operators, we mean whole fucking outfits. there's
a reason for this. the fact that trilema is comfortable to me provides those last edges of extra productivity and intellectual leverage that convert exceptional performance into mindblowing performance. t
spyked:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-05#1820747 <-- I dun disagree at all. as far as the thought experiment goes, I still wonder, though, whether those edges of productivity follow from *all* the lines of mp-wp code and is more than the sum of each, or whether there's
a lot of extra crud in there. perhaps overly naively/boyishly at the time, I started my (still ongoing) experiment the other way around ("what is the minimum number of lines to
☝︎ phf: heh, i need that scope feature, but also
a better query parser. (from:TomServo) (from:ascii "sshd") scope:15
BingoBoingo: I have
a pretty good idea of which corners of the feria the kitchen will be outfitted from.
ben_vulpes: place i rented had the weirdest damn nonstick pan: it had
a nonstick coating but then an elevated metal grate atop the coating
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: No, the point is that it is
a giant, visually impressive style of key, but the lock parts it engages with are palpable with the tip of the pinky finger.
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: is there
a selection anchor missing from the key link?
mircea_popescu: this'd be the problem. yes in the old days there was the lich and all that discussion. but fucking mind you that koschei was
A WARRIOR in his fucking youth.
phf: well, it's the old age comes for us all, none of them want to be césar luciani, and very few prepared to knowingly don the armor one last time and die under the hail of arrows so to speak. (and i'm giving them
a lot of credit here as far as how they lived to begin with)
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would people who ~fundamentally disenjoy~ something nevertheless want to be "high profile" in it... this part is incomprehensible. really, talking to people is something you dislike doing and then you figure you wanna be
a "high profile blogger" ? "yes mp, because it's all about shaping the landscape, not enjoying the landscape". right ? fucktard mcdullardson is going to ~improve~ upon how the world works.
mircea_popescu: hence imbecile nonsense
a la "paywall garden". because no, steve jobs ain't no fucking genius, he came up with the exact same idiocy every group of idle 18yos came up with.
phf: well, it's how many childhood games have the notion of
a charm,
a special word that gives you coveted status, without further strife. "base", "not it", "shotgun", etc. likewise the idea that once you're king, it's just wine and dancing girls for the rest of your life. the labeling game on which the whole house of cards is built.
mircea_popescu: "high profile bloggers" figure status and performance should be divorceable. this happens about 2-3 times every decade, with
a new crop of "high profile bloggers" who
a) misjudge their status and b) figure they'll discover shit.
phf: i think anti-comment is
a recent (3-4 years) argument, started by
a bunch of "high profile bloggers", who, after running into some heavy polemic, turned off the comments on their sites. the argument was then picked up by the various "minimalist" blogging systems (we can't be arsed to implement comments, but kottke said they are useless anyway)
mircea_popescu: you wanna drive cars that make you love driving and wanting to drive, not jalopys that encourage you sitting on the couch. and the same for everything everywhere. the stories about kids ruined for school because couldn't see and no glasses aren't made up, this was the scourge of
a generation. and on it goes.
mircea_popescu: there's coffee machines that make you not really want any coffee. this is not merely
a bad coffee machine.
mircea_popescu: in short, that's
a ~HUMONGOUS~ cost, if the "mechanical support" alters the result from + to -.
mircea_popescu: his is not
a small matter, but in fact the only large matter.
mircea_popescu: "thetarpit blog scaffolding is
a few kLoC of CL, but lacks *any* editor-side interface" << understand something : i publish more than anyone, and by anyone we don't mean solo operators, we mean whole fucking outfits. there's
a reason for this. the fact that trilema is comfortable to me provides those last edges of extra productivity and intellectual leverage that convert exceptional performance into mindblowing performance. t
☟︎ mircea_popescu: commentary is the heart of the european intellectual tradition ; originally it seemed like such
a step forward to have this commentary sorted by subject rather than, in the old style, by author. and the technology allowing it seemed genuinely revolutionary for this reason, exactly in the vein of plumbing.
phf: i like trinque's approach of publishing deeded hosts, requires vigilance on part of log reader, but at the end there's
a canonical place we can fallback to, in case
spyked: I'm reserving another bot for the rss functionality. but I want to use spykedbot to make
a small trilemabot example for implementing prefixed commands. spoiler: I have some code that looks up definitions in asciilifeform's ro-en dictionary (
http://www.loper-os.org/?p=2211 ), it's the smallest application that I could find that also does something useful.
☟︎ spyked: scaffolding),
a xml-rpc handling mechanism, and many many others that the wp user may find useful; it has no dedicated db, the db is the filesystem; no web-based editor, etc.
a111: Logged on 2018-04-15 04:19 mircea_popescu: hanbot / everyone : speaking of patches for mp-wp, here's something i'd dearly love :
a MASS uploader. so you don't have to upload files one by one in the webinterface.