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scriba: Logged on 2016-11-20: [19:36:42]
<mircea_popescu> ACTION tries to read bartle because people keep insisting. aside from his tiresome cabotinism (really bitch, mud1 is a major point of reference, because why, you never heard of rogue/nethack or what) he's about as sighted as a snail. 'cyberpunk teaches designers a number of valuable lessons about the sociology and psychology of players and the
a111: Logged on 2016-11-21 14:33 mircea_popescu: and in other news nobody cares about,
https://archive.is/lh93u << microsoft management in romania as well as various politicians etc arrested for graft and whatnot.
deedbot: shinohai updated rating of trinque from 2 to 3
<< deedbot.org, trb
scriba: Logged on 2016-11-20: [19:36:42]
<mircea_popescu> ACTION tries to read bartle because people keep insisting. aside from his tiresome cabotinism (really bitch, mud1 is a major point of reference, because why, you never heard of rogue/nethack or what) he's about as sighted as a snail. 'cyberpunk teaches designers a number of valuable lessons about the sociology and psychology of players and the
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: (ticker [--bid|--ask|--last|--high|--low|--avg|--vol] [--currency XXX] [--market
<market>|all]) -- Return pretty-printed ticker. Default market is Bitfinex. If one of the result options is given, returns only that numeric result (useful for nesting in calculations). If '--currency XXX' option is given, returns ticker for that three-letter currency code. It is up to you to make sure the code is a valid (1 more message)
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> i thought it was just a campus.
<< There are cities named bloomington in Illinois and Indiana, both bloomingtons have campuses. neither are anything special
Framedragger: "emp shielding grates, power supply on wheeled rails"
<< that's just plain sexy
a111: Logged on 2016-11-20 02:43 BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> i actually planted a bunch in romania, for the flowers.
<< Different salvia. Tripping balls salvia has sparse shitty flowers if it flowers.
pete_dushenski: "it would still be unsurprising if they gave up on their fiction1 and began reporting magenta, dove gray, or old hot dog as their exchange rate"
<< lol.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> ... and it did... zero.
<< Or you were wired for addiction to that weirdo substance before trying? Lacked the apperception to realize was tripping balls.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> i actually planted a bunch in romania, for the flowers.
<< Different salvia. Tripping balls salvia has sparse shitty flowers if it flowers.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform done ty. 100 10.5G 100 10.5G 0 0 97.3M 0 0:01:51 0:01:51 --:--:-- 101M
<< gotta love real tubes.
Framedragger: owait, curl still works. apparently "
<h2 data-translate="what_happened">What happened?
</h2>\n
<p>The owner of this website (archive.is) has banned your access based on your browser\'s signature"
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-19#1571048 << it's not a matter of "cpu at 100%" nor is it a matter of free disk space. if on that os ssh hangs off eg dbus, and if dbus gets locked out by kernel because "dirty page" or "waiting on journal update" or whatever similar idiocy, your process is stalled. and these are just random examples, so much can go wrong in a modern box it's not even worth my time drawing the broad strokes.
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-19#1570951 << for the record, separate dbs for selects and inserts is the way to go. from experience it can rescue a large project / save 9x% off the hardware costs.the way you do it is that you have a master db copy which is the only one that takes the inserts, and slave dbs which are the only ones that take the selects. replication can be at dedicated sql cluster level or above, slave dbs can
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-19#1570790 << amusingly enough, this is actually true. "i would like to lecture these monkeys in modern psychology" "ok ?" "can you design a shitproof semipermeable membrane that still allows my precious words to reach them ?" "uh. not really. whatever the fuck it is, sooner or later the shit will clog it"
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-11-19 16:57 Framedragger: re. visualization, i like stuff like this (mouse over on labels around the circle), but it's a hella lot of JS, and i share the hate towards the latter:
http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/7607999 - what's nice about btcalpha visualization is that it uses by-now standard html5 canvas directives (
<path>) with no need for JS.
Framedragger:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-19#1570793 << current loggotron also runs on vps, and in itself it requires very few resources. no db use, even. at this point there's a bunch of stuff and other people's sites running on that vps, i don't feel comfortable adding additional load.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-11-19 17:30 mod6:
<+Framedragger> trinque: fine with me
<< settled then?
mircea_popescu: 31 packets transmitted, 31 received, 0% packet loss, time 30040ms
< you actually can't ping it ?
mod6:
<+Framedragger> trinque: fine with me
<< settled then?
☟︎ mod6:
<+trinque> Framedragger: ben_vulpes: it probably makes the most sense for me to do the WoT browser
<< perhaps. i'd be up for anything really at this point.
Framedragger: and yeah, i guess one should go with svgs, mike_c used
<path> and it was fine
Framedragger: re. visualization, i like stuff like this (mouse over on labels around the circle), but it's a hella lot of JS, and i share the hate towards the latter:
http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/7607999 - what's nice about btcalpha visualization is that it uses by-now standard html5 canvas directives (
<path>) with no need for JS.
☟︎ mod6:
<+mircea_popescu> Framedragger if you wanna do data visualisations, the thing to do is the wot explorer. that i actually miss.
<< me too.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> there are always organs to sell.
<< For solution to this see BingoBoingo strategy. Use substances just enough to erase market value from organs, unless grinding for sausage.
mod6:
<+mircea_popescu> in all deadpan honesty, this.
<< haha.
mod6:
<+mircea_popescu> hence the whole "i want time magazine to tell me how the shutdown relates to me" ie, "i don't want any data (ie, anything about objective reality, outside) i just want commentary, entirely baseless if possible."
<< haha