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pete_dushenski: pretty much. 4 years was 4x as long as i'd held
a btc in my own wallet. seemed like the world was spinning at
a million miles
a minute for all i knew pgp keys were as disposable as btc addresses
trinque: heh, "hm I better set this to
a long time"
BingoBoingo: The point is clear. Making
a list. Taking both cameras and extra batteries on the search.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-06 01:57 mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo phf trinque diana_coman so i'm thinking of basically getting
a dozen amd fx-8350s (because just 125w compared to say fx-9590s 220) racked in u2 mbs (say maybe ASRock 970M PRO3 ? i thinkl that fits in 2u neh ?) with 64 gb ram each and
a coupla ssds ? any complaints/suggestions ?
mircea_popescu: nfi how you'll manage to actually pay for anything locally, seeing how you very indolently allowed yourself to be painted into this corner where you have no bank account and can't sell bitcoins, but that's
a problem to be tackled later.
mircea_popescu: at any rate, the only possible moves here seem to be
a) phf see if the airline is willing to take
a ~100 kgs as cargo ; b) BingoBoingo DO THE RESEARCH tonight, as to b.1) EXACTLY, ~absolutely~ exactly what parts do you actually need and b.2) list of places you could conceivably get it at there, whatever shops. then tomorrow starting 8am you go check all of those. no words, be shown the physical item.
phf: i.e. you pack it in
a box (300kg max, 70kg each individual box), weigh and measure it, send them
a quote. i don't know what the specific prices are
phf: ben_vulpes: it's
a standard cargo service, separate from flight engagement
BingoBoingo: In
a country that is only avoiding starvation because the Brazilians like doing the Cannabis tourism thing.
mircea_popescu: even if sane chassis were to be found, you can't find weightless power supplies (why exactly the rack provides 220V rather than directly rail is
a question for another time ; and why this was't raised as
a point at any previous time.) and there's simply no way i can have phf drag 50+ kgs of ~worthless parts across the oceans.
mircea_popescu: dude how fucking long have i been asleep whjat the fuck is this never in my life have i held
a mount chassis this heavy ever.
phf: "
A rack mount case should fit in
a standard 19" EIA rack. They call it
a 19" rack for
a reason. It's not
a 19 1/4" rack. The edge of this case's ears are 19 1/4", had to grind them to fit my rack. Also one EIA space..."
mircea_popescu: anyway BingoBoingo do not omit to point to the monkeys that they're now the laughingstock of the internet as the ~only "datacenter" in the world that doesn't have enough sense to stock
a pile of mounts for the customers.
phf: it's
a vacation spot, all the recommendations people send my way involve beaches, bitches and hot springs. i don't see why i should pack anything more than
a pair of shorts
mircea_popescu: seems to me the man without
a spare in the trunk is also not going to have an engine in working order.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-08#1782932 << the only point to my eyes is that someone fucked in the head enough to run something they call "datacenter" without one ton of spare racks laying about is not distinguishable from three twelve year old white boys in
a "tree fort" running
a "porn business" through taking complicatedly filtered ipad shots of their own palms.
☝︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-02-08 22:37 BingoBoingo: Yo voy
a caminar un poco.
mircea_popescu: "“Walking into
a building should not be any different based on income status,” Ms. Glen said in an interview." << inept pantsuit wank. the only way poor people walk into
a human building is as long as they're female, before their 30th birthday and if they have enough sense not to put clothes on. what the everloving fuck is this, they're people now, the poor fucks ?!
a111: Logged on 2018-02-08 21:56 phf: ben_vulpes: nah, actually
a swanky highrise. it's some kind of social program where they rent $3000 apartments to special needs kids, i suspect with some kind of discount--tax break deal
a111: Logged on 2018-02-08 21:13 ben_vulpes: it's what you get for picking things based on "it was written by
a queer person of color" rather than "it is actually good"
BingoBoingo voy
a caminar and burn more andrenalin off.
phf: "all i know" is
a poor stance to take in
a situation that requires tactical thinking
phf: so the combination of those two points is that it's possible that dc knows about full overhead of import + they charge you for valet. considering that you're
a ~random dude~ dropping serious cash on their server rack that is of right now entirely empty, it's safe for them to assume that you have mad american cash burning yer pockets
BingoBoingo: Still, I present "here is an emergency" Let's work through this. In the most charitable interpretation they decide to do what the PUA's call
a shit test. In the most likely case an attempt at extortion. I was expecting "This pile costs X in lands with commerce, duties customs etc cost X, and transport costs Y depending on how fast we get it here."
BingoBoingo: <trinque> BingoBoingo: good luck buddy, and don't let it piss you off << This wasn't
a euphamism. Actual spanish lesson with the Venezolana dentist turned teacher.
BingoBoingo: !~later tell mircea_popescu
http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/6TNbp/?raw=true The whole email thread from this morning through their suggesting desktop power supplies to go with rackmount cases to my polite suggestion the numbers and timeline aren't acceptable. Fuck me, and fuck these monkeys with their SHHHH SHHH sounds. Fucking monkeys just have turned operation "Make BingoBoingo rich 2018" into
a clusterfuck by entertaining the "Let's
ben_vulpes: how about this us stock market blowoff: 9% loss in less than
a month! stocks clearly too volatile to be worth anything as grownup investments.
phf: ben_vulpes: nah, actually
a swanky highrise. it's some kind of social program where they rent $3000 apartments to special needs kids, i suspect with some kind of discount--tax break deal
☟︎ trinque: kinda explains why
a relation did so well on his way into an airline's training dept, only to promptly leave the job once had.
trinque: too bad,
a few generations on he could've been
a 'tarded pilot.
phf: in america they like to put "special kids" into building with normal people, and there was
a retard kid in one of the buildings i lived in, every time he saw
a helicopter he'd start yelling "belly bopter! belly bopter!"
phf had an easy in with
a certain of kind girl growing up, because my dad new sapkowski and i still have
a signed copy of miecz przeznaczenia somewhere
phf: as in
a kind of mindless high fantasy soap opera
phf: well, it's
a slashfiction fiction slash. i've picked up
a few "scifi" books and it all goes in that direction somehow
ben_vulpes: it's what you get for picking things based on "it was written by
a queer person of color" rather than "it is actually good"
☟︎ ben_vulpes: heh yeah the chronicles has
a flavor very similar to that 'heavy metal' set of shorts
phf: i reread chronicles about
a year ago, "properly" this time by tracking down the entire set in pulp
ben_vulpes: subj. of 60s/70s fiction, /me rereading zelazny's chronicles of amber for the first time in over
a decade. did not age as poorly as i expected.
phf: "For the past several years, we've moved toward
a more secure web by strongly advocating that sites adopt HTTPS encryption. And within the last year, we've also helped users understand that HTTP sites are not secure by gradually marking
a larger subset of HTTP pages as "not secure". Beginning in July 2018 with the release of Chrome 68, Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as "not secure"."
phf: this must be
a put on
lobbes: Bonus lulz if it did not, in fact, flush and next bathroom patron had
a not-so-pleasant suprise upon looking down
lobbes: "So she did what she felt was the most humane choice." My sides.. wtf. If situation wasn't absurd enough, the fact that she came to conclusion that "mammal slowly drowning in shitter" = moar humane than simply letting it loose in/around airport (or even taking
a well placed shoe to it) puzzles me the most
trinque: if only there were
a video.
BingoBoingo: There at least is
a number and
a timeline to offer other vendors to beat. That is all I want to say about the quote for cases and power supplies before mircea_popescu reads it. The suspense today has probably aged me five years...
BingoBoingo: Yo voy
a un leccion de español para un poco tiempo.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, well, if input+output are considered at octet level, there is
a case to say that reading out of the state is also done at octet level; I'll mull this over
a bit longer re speed as such (for the word-level implementation because the bit-level is just as slow either way)
☟︎ ben_vulpes: meanwhile elsewhere: "I found
a nice place where people are so stupid you can make up that an imaginary friend propped up
a knife and wounded you, and they will take you seriously. God bless r/tulpas."
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: one interesting hiccup was that when i synced in vanilla "connect to wide net" mode, this new node somehow got stuck and also i think triggered some weirdo crash/wedge on another machine of mine with
a raid array of rust that had until that moment been hanging at the tip of the spear, but when run with -connect to the self-same (restarted) node
a) the rust caught back up within an hour and b)
BingoBoingo is specing
a different power supply that will actually fit in
a 2U case, but is requesting the quote
phf: ben_vulpes: aw sucks, i'll be in portlandia in early march, wanted to schedule
a get together
mircea_popescu: phf dja see basic problems with the plan as is, taking
a dozen sets over ?
BingoBoingo: <shinohai> Te vas
a McDonalds BingoBoingo ? What has Uruguay done to you? << I had to see that the locals can indeed be beaten into doing some sort of business and made to enjoy it.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-08 13:36 mircea_popescu: phf you've not said
a word, how goes over there ?
mircea_popescu: but i have no need for
a tb of porn, scatological or eschatological.
shinohai: Te vas
a McDonalds BingoBoingo ? What has Uruguay done to you?
BingoBoingo: No creo que It took "this is an emergency" to get them to finally quote importing shit off of Amazon. Me voy
a McDonalds.
BingoBoingo: One day at
a time, Keep it simple, easy does it, working on getting that AA groove back. I can only imagine how much more alien this shit would be if I would have went "jolo presents azn bsns"
http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=jolo BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo "there is no way to" / "you can't even provide the bare bones necessary supplies for using your services" << Sent with the further reminder : "From our earliest conversations I was clear that housing customer provided hardware was the focus of my business. The quotes for new Supermicro servers have not interested them from
a cost basis perspective, and now they are getting together
a pile of hardware to
mircea_popescu: apparently spending half
a day being tumble-dried by the ocean is great for one's internals.
mircea_popescu: in other not-news, i've been shitting like
a colon courrier over here, i had no fucking idea i was that fulla shit.
mircea_popescu: aik, does the whole swarm thing where the whole beach is moving with tiny turtles, whereas i thought this was
a single nest event, as there were what,
a dozen or two all within
a few meters of each other.
mircea_popescu: so : there are four types of sea turtle known in costa rica. 1. eretmochelys imbricata, besides being VERY rare (critically endangered, too) has
a beak, which the little guy lacks ; 2. chelonia mydas as far as anyone knows lives in tortuguero natl park, which is on the wrong side of the country (limon, vs this was if memory serves some miles down from jaco) ; 3. lepidochelis olivacea, besides not looking anything like that af
hanbot: mircea_popescu i dun think the guy in your pic is
a leatherback; they have long vertical ridges on their shells, whereas tinyguy has the sorta hexagonal plates
diana_coman: asciilifeform, ahaha, I can see that; makes for
a good nightmare too
diana_coman: when
a poor tree is absolutely eaten up alive by the fat worms that fall at times with
a splat on the path underneath
diana_coman: caterpiller though ughhhhh; I have seen real fat, oozy, ugly ones several summers as
a child; horrible
shinohai: When I was in West Palm Beach once, I remember one of the most hilarious thing I saw on beach in the morning was DNR officers arresting 10-20 Hatians
a morning for digging up turtle eggs to eat.
diana_coman: and no, it's not
a case of "ughhh, SO ugly "
mircea_popescu: like
a sort of mute benevolent something. let's say for touching one i have an intuitive understanding of why the world was carried by turtle rather than calipiter.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman they're tasty, sure, but believe it or not the little animal had
a very distinct personality, in my hand.
mircea_popescu: da fuck must be rattling in the empty box above their shoulders to imagine anyone gives
a shit whether they approve or disapprove, of anything.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, sort of inept dragon-look-
a-like; I heard they are tasty though (bigger ones at least)
mircea_popescu: i just dun want you to get the impression your work's not really wanted or anything of the kind. as is perhaps very evident we have
a massive shortage of human capital in teh republic, and it's been worsening over the years.
mircea_popescu: was
a whole thing in the logs
a few weeks back that eventually lead to this structure.
BingoBoingo: In other developments tonight will be my third night sleeping in The 5. There is now
a full on multi day final solution underway in the hostel to eradicate the chinches while occupancy is low. I mean outlet covers stripped, the sweet smell of TempoXL with
a few other unfamiliar (but not organophosphate, possibly terpene) scents wafting out of the warzone.
ave1: So I've made
a new genesis with images removed and sha512 sums inserted
trinque: top-left one looks like
a dude. I thought that was haram
pete_dushenski: "“I find it easy to memorize,” said Saratu Ayuba, who won
a gold medal in
a recent contest by successfully spelling entertainment. “I know the small words. I can build them out in my head.”"
pete_dushenski: "Spelling employs
a skill many of the women honed while captive: mnemonic memory. Some spent much of their time memorizing lengthy prayers and hymns. Others composed diary entries in their heads—their thoughts, injustices they suffered—they would later log in journals they kept hidden."
shinohai: Can't run
a terrorist organization without seekrit communications!
a111: Logged on 2018-02-07 13:43 ave1: So, I've created
a vpatch of the mp-wp I'm running, would it be OK to publish this?