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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: aite, End of April is when we need
to get
the datacenter
the next cash infusion.
billymg: mircea_popescu, diana_coman: sorry, i misunderstood. makes sense now, will add it
to my list
a111: Logged on 2019-03-06 14:55 asciilifeform: spyked: yours for cost of postage. gpggram
to asciilifeform with where you want it sent.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-29 00:22 BingoBoingo has
trinque's bootstrap.sh running. Going for a walk myself.
diana_coman: it is in its own dir and project because
that's what it is - a project
that
tests
the code of interest.
diana_coman: billymg
the
tests I have are simply automated ada and/or c/cpp
tests for
the code, nothing v-specific really; from V's pov it's just code like
the rest.
mircea_popescu: not an emergency item or anything, but i
thought you already had it, and
that's what you meant by
testing.
mircea_popescu: billymg, no,
the idea is
that you maintain a
test suite.
billymg: diana_coman: related
to
the
test branch idea, if you have anything of yours you could point me
to, for figuring out a v-centric
testing flow, would be appreciated
a111: Logged on 2019-03-27 21:23 Mocky: billymg: if your
tinymce patch is ready
this weekend I'll
test it with my setup.
billymg: if
that's what you meant by
test suite, just
to clarify
billymg: in
terms of
test suite, i didn't actually write any automated
tests for mp-wp, i only meant
the manual
testing i did, plus reading my own patch a few
times
a111: Logged on 2019-03-27 17:14 mircea_popescu: billymg, if you're happy with it, one
thing you could do is patch your
testing suite as an alternate patch off mp-wp genesis ;
this way people looking
to
test can just use it (and patch atop it if need be) rather
than write from scratch.
BingoBoingo has
trinque's bootstrap.sh running. Going for a walk myself.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so you know i has
this very great capacity for passivization, you can in fact start a fire again from a coal fire 6 hours old
mircea_popescu: now how do you propose
to burn
three
tons of coal in a year ?
mircea_popescu: silver is 15 dollars an ounce, by consequence 240 dollars per pound ; coal is ~80 dollars a short
ton
mircea_popescu: recall ru fleet
taking 3 years
to reach japan ? "no access
to british ports"
mircea_popescu: it worked because aforesaid british embassy set, and so everyone going
to port in english ports bought coal. so
they subsidized.
mircea_popescu: million km of
trees. Germany with its over 80 million people does not have more
than 600,000 km. "
mircea_popescu: this, quite exactly ~this~ is
the substance of hitler's lament, " It is similar in
the world. It just does not work,
to have 46 million British people block 40 million km² of earth and simply declare: God gave it
to us, and 20 years ago we got some from you
too;
this is ours now, and will not give it back. And France, And France with its not very fertile earth, almost 80 people on a square kilometer, yet
they have over 9
mircea_popescu: but in any case,
the reasonably well
to do man in
the city kept dozen+ females + half dozen males in bread and shoes with little difficulty, and plenty of dough leftover for consols.
mircea_popescu: these latter were sometimes used as venereal-undiseased fuckrelief for
the older son ; but generally, it's a harem with very little fucking going around.
mircea_popescu: the male staff was generally butler, gardener, chauffeur, one or
two handymen [plus, of course, all
the military folk, in older
times].
the female staff was a maid for
the wife, a maid or nanny for each child, a main cook, possibly a help, and a pair
to n indistinct maids, brushing
the silverware, abrading
the
tables one layer each week, scrubbing
the floors etc.
mircea_popescu: the butler (head servant) generally opened
the front door ;
the head maid did not open
the back door -- usually you'd get one of
the scullery maids.
mircea_popescu: back before roosevelt and his successors permanently fixed
the quality of life, a man's household (in which he kept a single woman and her issue, plus some servants) had a front door for peers and a back door for servants and suppliers
mircea_popescu: it's like
the fucktards are
trying
to build an empire on knives, but bereft of a blade and missing a handle.
mircea_popescu: note
that
the core of
the advice
the chief practitioner of what's left of us economy consists of... !!!!!!DO NOT!!!!!!! pretend
to lordship!!!!
a111: Logged on 2018-01-05 02:51 asciilifeform recently reread 'tigerfibel', really a megaclassic of
technical writing for all
time
BingoBoingo: Lincoln winning
the war of Northern Aggression in
this respect was a European failure.
BingoBoingo: Well, how could
they when
they went from Seward
through
the end of WWII without Europe slapping
them?
mircea_popescu: i suppose one can't fairly discuss
the matter without pointing out
that
the ogilvy-derivative concept of "pr agency" is precisely
this, witness
to
the usg's self-aware failure
to develop a diplomatic service and a woprking embassy network, leaving
the english as
the last practitioner of
the florentine art.
mircea_popescu: you don't get much done, you're uncomfortable while it's happening, and
they have very strange notions of ritual purity, unparalleled even by
the shiite.
BingoBoingo: As opposed
to
the stories I have heard from US embassy.
BingoBoingo: Entertaining her with
the marketing budget is
the point.
mircea_popescu: the old woman wanted
to know if she maybe has a lot of castles-in-spain style "unknwon inheritance",
typical argentine
thought process.
mircea_popescu: when i visited
the one in argentina,
they were just entertaining a local older woman with a pile of 1910s era letters from her romanian-immigrated ancestors.
mircea_popescu: generally
there's a girly around ready
to hand some fliers or w/e
to whatever adventurous locals.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, romania does a lot of
things right
though i suspect by accident. ie, none of
the idiotic glass walsl, either, you visit you sit down in front of old style desk, like sane people.
BingoBoingo: Romania has
the obligatory "Sleep on
this stoop and you get fucked" fence
to keep
the pichis off
the porch, but otherwise clear walk
to
the door.
mircea_popescu: ie, if
the locals wanna come over, you wanna not let
them ?! wtf, are you fucked in
the head ? and
then go about spending money
to makle events
to raise profile ? while at
the same
time
throwing away
the freely had curious visitors ?
mircea_popescu: the fencing's
the other fucking
thing. who
the fuck heard of fenced in embassies anyways.
BingoBoingo: I mean it has mega fence, but...
the place is just about a country club minus
the land for golfing.
mircea_popescu: but
that "best-by" date's sometime before rhodesia's end, i guess.
mircea_popescu: ah yeah,
the uk embassies.
that was a lulz of all
time during
the "union" while it lasted --
the brits had
the first useful, and perhaps
the last functioning, embassy network.
BingoBoingo: UK embassy here is roughly equal
to a small clubhouse with pool and Satellite
tv.
mircea_popescu: (very
typically EMPTY, an eu embassy,
too. besides purely ceremonial "third cousin of president/king
taking vacation",
there's ~nothing happening)
mircea_popescu: the euros are
the saddest of
them all --
they dun have
the state entreprises, notrly, and
they dun have
the other half either, not really, it's a wonder
they persevere.
mircea_popescu: no such
thing still available, from white world embassies, at least not at
the level where it should be.
the iranis, eg, still do
this for
their citizens.
the usgtards don't because
they have no citizens, it's all govt entreprises and plebs.
mircea_popescu: anyway, one aspect of
this is fo sho :
traditional (with a view of only) function of embassy is as "den of corruption", ie,
they acquire over
time intimate knowledge of detail, can help you do
things.
mircea_popescu: ie, you can use any eu embassy indistinctly. at least in
theory. in practice --
they're fucked.