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mircea_popescu: c. you absolutely do not want any kind of nesting, comments or otherwise. c1. you do not want
to split comment flow on pages. c2. you gotta have usage of various
things such as blockquote or li or bold or h commensurate in comments with
their use in post. comment should really look like mini-article, visually.
mircea_popescu: trilema puts articles outside comments inside ands some more
trims underneath. but i don't expect
this is
the only way
to go about it --
though perhaps it is best
to have "recent x"
things up
top.
mircea_popescu: b2.
the utility columns must include a recent posts, a recent comments, and convenient access
to archives.
mircea_popescu: once you got
that,
the size of pics preset is establshed : one
to fit well in column, one
to fit
two by each other, and one
to fit four.
mircea_popescu: trilema's a little under 640, because
trilema was made 10+ years ago. you can
take advantage of wider screens, make
the read column say 640. or 720, if single utility column.
mircea_popescu: b1. your
text column will have
to have a fixed size.
this is
the 2nd, and i suspect last decision you make.
too wide, you get horizontal scrolling, and
that sucks.
too wide, you're reading an electromagnetic beam, which also sucks.
billymg: this _may_ be a result of
the patch, in which case a regression. will dig in
☟︎ mircea_popescu: b) you will need a main column for
text on
the left, and either one or
two service columns on
the right.
this is
the first major decision in
theme making : one ? or
two ?
billymg: ok, i see now exactly what you meant by can't select
the other sizes while uploading (only original)
mircea_popescu: as far as experience illuminates, a
theme goes like
this : a) you must have a header, and a.1 you don't want it animated ;
thus i know of nothing better
than
tcurrent state of
the art as shown by
trilema : mask-png which goes with
the
theme, invite user
to
take some pictures, apply
the mask, upload
them and have
the
theme rotate
through
them by some criteria.
mircea_popescu: now ~whether~ it can or can not resize images,
that'd be part of mp-wp, and i expect it'd work, but your current
theme doesn't expose
the functionality
mircea_popescu: or,
the sizes. well, no, i expect
this is part of
the
theme setting. i dunno
that it'd work magically
billymg: the image
thumbnail generation
billymg: or something you would like
to see
billymg: do you know if
this was a regression in
this patch?
billymg: definitely, i had planned
to write a custom
theme at some point, with inputs from
the lords,
to
try and arrive at an "ideal" default
theme
mircea_popescu: if
trilema-size (560 px wide) doesn't comfortably fit in your post column, prolly
too narrow post column
mircea_popescu: since you're
touchging
that, prolly good advice
to widen it.
billymg: the alignment issues probably
the fault of
the
theme
mircea_popescu: billymg, : "Size
Thumbnail Medium Large Full size (560 × 420)" only permits me
the 560x420 upload. ideally should have also a
thumbnail or
two, you know ? sometimes
that works better. i suspect
this comes from settings
☟︎ billymg: (also saw
the same "unable
to create directory" error prior
to
that just now)
billymg: mircea_popescu: did
the necessary chmoding and usermoding, restarted apache, works for me now
mircea_popescu: will prolly go away when he sits down
to remodel
the data model after done with all
these obvious library level snips.
mircea_popescu: i can see
the "forget roles"
thing, but i expect
this is no cheap or quick move of
the scissor.
billymg: ran into
that when
testing locally as well
mircea_popescu: billymg, now "Unable
to create directory /www/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/03. Is its parent directory writable by
the server?"
diana_coman: multiple authors is one
thing aka multiple users; multiple roles
though is a different
thing
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> iirc
theoretically it was for 'multi-author' blog. but who actually uses
this. << Until cazalla retired, Qntra
billymg: yeah,
they have roles such as "contributor", "author", "editor"
billymg: updated, see if
that works for you now
billymg: i wonder if
this is a limitation of "contributor" role
billymg: in
the post edit screen, do you see an "upload/insert" label above
the editing box?
billymg: hmm, i definitely
tested
that aspect
mircea_popescu: billymg, submitterd for review, but long story short you don't have img upload anymore
that i can find ?
billymg: actually, 2x whoops, just locked myself out
temporarily -- should be good now
billymg: mircea_popescu: whoops, sorry.
try now
mircea_popescu: in fairness, common all
the way
to biology : before cell deems it can use virus,
the latter first has
to be de-capsid-ized.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-31 16:56 diana_coman: re fg inside, I suppose
that's
the "those guys don't know how
to sell" - gotta make it a collectable,
there's no use and no purpose other
than it's cool; but mircea_popescu's explanation of self-valuation seems
to me
to explain it all much better really.
mircea_popescu: this identification of "any feeling at all" with "bad" in
the mental collective is why bush needn't cary any responsability for his empire's failure in
the middle east (i don't mean, "his empire failing
to achieve something or
the other in
that locale", i mean "the empire failing, aka ending, at
that place", much like if i say "clinton's aneurism at 15th chelsea street" i mean
the dork fell in
the street, not
that
the stre
mircea_popescu: yet "o mama
teribila" is rather superlative in
the original lang.
mircea_popescu: it ~merely~ denotes something capable of striking
terror. at which point yes, esltard will readily observe "same with
terrible", and inquire interiorily "how could
this be, inspire
terror and not be
terrible, aka bad ?!?!"
diana_coman would get
the kid a
toy car since ~= "college" anyway.
mircea_popescu: it's how mom&dad negotiations work, neh ? "ok, ima go
to college (sorta) but you get new car".
diana_coman: but yes, on second pass I
think I can see it:
that's his sweat
there, "having kids",
the rest has
to compensate !!
diana_coman: I suspect
the whole
thing is more
twisted
than planeshift's code already.
mircea_popescu: i'm sorry, i misspoke. not "what more you want" but "nobody could say
there'd be more wanted", exactly in g. costanza's
terms, "she can'tr say i;m not comfortable".
diana_coman: ah, uhm; does
that mean he didn't have sex before because return would be < 100% ?
mircea_popescu: thus
therefore -- since he's given
the discount ONCE -- what more you want ?
mircea_popescu: this is, you must agree, a significant discount from his usual 10`000% of
the return for 0.01% of
the work.
mircea_popescu: he had kids.
this means (in insane esltard worldview)
that he condescended
to receive merely 100% (if
that!!!) of
the return for 100% of
the work (and more!!!!).
mircea_popescu: "isn't it enough
that i'm getting real returns on
THIS ONE
THING ? it should be. all
the rest... imaginary!"
diana_coman: re fg inside, I suppose
that's
the "those guys don't know how
to sell" - gotta make it a collectable,
there's no use and no purpose other
than it's cool; but mircea_popescu's explanation of self-valuation seems
to me
to explain it all much better really.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: diana_coman, i'd rather suspect it's "ate his motivation", as in "i already gave at
the office".
a111: Logged on 2019-03-31 16:21 BingoBoingo: billymg:
The guy used
to hang around here until
the children came and ate his
time.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-18 17:38 asciilifeform:
the bureaucracy 'codes' are sumthingelse...
there was a
time when asciilifeform slaved in a usg army research
thing, and
their 'job codes' were written in 1960s,
there was no 'programmer'. so ended up 'chemist'.
mircea_popescu: as ~evidently enough
there's not 10k earths around, but one, and as just as evidently russia ain't going along with ustarded "valuations", so even "Whole earth" is
too high
to reach, well... fellow "can't motivate himself"
mircea_popescu: and it just as genuinely explains for your benefit why "nobody made anything". for someone
to have done 100% of
the work of
the competent sunkworks engineer,
that someone'd have expected
to be paid 10`000`000%
the whole earth.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, mno,
this is, genuinely,
the self-valuation of labour.
mircea_popescu: that's
the leverage involved : for 1% or so of being a salesman, fellow would like 10`000% or so of being
the corporation's president.
mircea_popescu: the dood's self-valuation is
there very much
transparent : he wants
to do a quarter hour of unskilled work ; and he wants
to be paid 5k for it, ie about a week and a half's worth of skilled work.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-31 16:04 BingoBoingo: $ 4,999 (+$50 S&H)ix and
this Limited Edition Collector’s Survival Kit could be yours!:
a111: Logged on 2017-05-03 20:04 mircea_popescu: dude, just call. nevermind
the "questions" and rest of
the crap. spend 1/10 of
the
time you frittered away already "on"
this
to call, write up your report, "i, pete d, aspiring
to one day lordship, spent 8 hours
today cold calling. i managed a
total of 76 calls, which would get me fired from
the average call center but hey, i'm new.
these 76 calls went
to so and so, here's
the script, here's why i ammended it and when, here's
mircea_popescu: in principle
that's what utter failure
to commercialize'd look like : item sells by
the unit at 100x mark-up rather
than by
the barge at 1% mark-up.
mircea_popescu: what does image of far away greek emperor
tell bulgarian ? well...
that
the coin's made of gold.
mircea_popescu: (the above quite was re "identify what needs
to remain" comment. i guess i gotta get more disciplined with
the linerefs.
BingoBoingo: I wouldn't be surprised if he picked up more when
the decision
to hold off on more productions runs came down