asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform took ride in coupla dozen 'ubers' etc , talked to the wheel-turners , found that most of'em have day jobs in bureaucracy somewhere, it's an after-hrs gig
asciilifeform: 'or would look unbeautiful' or sumthing
asciilifeform: 'uber'ist is , last i knew, req'd to buy new auto erry 3y !
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: it's 'furniture-fueled furnace capitalism' -- offloads cost of purchase (and they want the driver to buy it, ideally, via their credit service) & maintenance of the auto , on the driver , removes ~all 'fat margin' so price wildly fluctuates
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: it varies by factor of 2+x! depending on 'pressure'
asciilifeform: ( nor would have imagined that there'd be demand for 'kommunalka' cabs, where some rando d00d can end up inside with you -- why not get into the train then ?? -- but apparently this yes also ! )
asciilifeform: i would not have imagined that there are people who 'i'ma take the cab if its costs 15.00 but not 15.50' but apparently they must exist somewhere
asciilifeform: the 'uber' & related chumpatrons, also appeal to the ~penniless by precomputing the price ( and offering to seat randos for cutting cost in ~half) , so apparently slowly killing traditional cabs.
asciilifeform: iirc BingoBoingo actually investigated south asia when initial isp expedition. they have oddity where bw to ~outside~ of region is astronomically priced.
asciilifeform: rright but you wouldn't want to isp in kew .
asciilifeform 'ruined for life' re prices when went to ro, nao outraged that errywhere else seems to cost 10x moar
asciilifeform: they all seem to cost 1-1.5k $ / sq m., aha. tho BingoBoingo seems to have found that they haggle .
asciilifeform: for thread-completeness, let's put mp_en_viaje's test here ( #a-test is a garbage chan and aint logged )
asciilifeform: with previous bot, sync was gnarly, had to do each chan separately always.
asciilifeform: ty for test mp_en_viaje . there's also a raw-all knob (to make syncs easier) , contains all logged material from all enabled chans.
asciilifeform: resetting bot is painful enuff operation that would like to get these 100% nailed before deploy
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: can i persuade you to pop into #asciilifeform-test for 5min ? ( to see format of crosspost-indication-enabled bot that i'ma be rotating in tonight )
asciilifeform: diana_coman: in recent years, asciilifeform's experience was 'trb-grade box is ~100 $ / mo just about anywhere' , so consistent with this.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: do you recall what cost ssd ?
asciilifeform has habit similar to mircea_popescu's of commenting prior to fully eating $text
asciilifeform: 49 € / mo. for e.g. trb box, aint bad, imho.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: sounds notbad for a heathen shop, except for the last part. perhaps if you write to the fella and describe wot, he'll get in.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: granted you won't be building a secondary dc in the garage, with gsm, but oughta suffice, i suspect, for work
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: errywhere i set foot seemed to have ok gsm coverage tho
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: admitting that this puzzler is out of asciilifeform's paygrade -- imho getting even the smallest of these barracks would be a massive win.
asciilifeform: aha but argentards back 'in the saddle' nao
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 1-2k $ / m^2 seems astonishingly high for an orcistan. but then again i aint expert on subj
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if can ride across city were 20bux here, i'dve sold my wheeled coffin long ago...
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: that's, what, 7.3k/yr if you do it erry day. still cheaper than auto+extortions+fuel+etc afaik
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 1 immediate observation -- the cabs were so cheap , transport dun seem to be major problem ( from asciilifeform's admittedly brief expedition )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall from what they were pre-written. ocean of regexp.
asciilifeform: hell, it took asciilifeform 7+ weeks to only make the one for 'peh' !
asciilifeform: cuz i dun have 9000 slaves to order to rewrite wp code formatters for 11 langs.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this dunwork with coad displayers, so not useful to asciilifeform
asciilifeform: seems as if this oughta be doable on back end via combination of mircea_popescu's 1para and tableistic multipara
asciilifeform: well that's be quite useless. what i want is ~arbitrary~ text, as the occasion demands, whether 1 word in 1 para somewhere, or 6 para with start inside 1st and end in middle of last etc
asciilifeform: if it eats same url commands as other selectors , but able to light up arbitrary text, why would break expectations ?
asciilifeform: ( granted -- mechanically complicated, but oughta work )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i understand, mircea_popescu's current selector worx a++ to select text in 1 para where no line breaks, and does not put in any spurious. but if you want to select multiple para, wai not put the table turd where there are already line breaks ? oughta be visually indistinguishable , neh ?
asciilifeform admittedly did not spend very long experimenting with this, yet
asciilifeform: contemplated -- multiple tags. (1 per word, if must)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i fully buy that there prolly aint a way to do it cleanly with ~1~ added tag.
asciilifeform: will have to try, i'd really like to be rid of the js, ~without breaking existing text~
asciilifeform: when humans write responses to articles, typically the section being addressed goes ~above~ the reply. why not log renderer follow same form ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: anyone who wants can run the current logger and declare 'i aint syncing, mine writes to antifuse rom' etc. very easy to turn syncing into nonsyncing logger, just dun sync. but i think i get how and for what mircea_popescu's is supposed to work
