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mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-10#1783178 << for the sake of it being said, nominally all difficulties are naught moar than more proffit opportunities. if you get organized to import all the shit the dc MUST have but did not in fact have, you have yet another revenue stream ready. pay $150 per chassis in saneland, plus $30 or so in shipping, sell them the dozen for 3300 (+ "iva") -- which hey, is a GREAT fucking deal seeing h
☝︎ mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so go sleep, there's little you can do this saturday anyway. we see tomorro.
mircea_popescu: yes yes. do what i told you, i don't say these things out of boredom. then we'll see.
mircea_popescu: you certainly don't have to buy him from me in any case o.O
mircea_popescu: sure it does, but BingoBoingo isn't my chattel-held slavegirl, he's a free agent, what.
mircea_popescu: yes, but that was an idea, and the idea lives equally well everywhere. you don't have to implement it on this particular stump in preference of any other.
mircea_popescu: otherwise what the hell are you buying, "the rights" ? come feb 25th or so the item is worth ~0.
mircea_popescu: well carcasses have to be bought on the spot, they rot.
mircea_popescu: i'll be here an hour later. so will be here the fact the latter approach is well known and THOROUGHLY documented to cause shocking failure in otherwise well meaning, intelligent and respectable kids. that's ~the whole history of early bitcoin.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i would certainly consider selling ; now take the next hour and consider the matter THOROUGHLY, before you come back to promise me that you're actually acting rationally, rather than psychotically trying to further a dream on the flimsy fuel of injured self-image.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, reality can only be elided at significant personal sacrifice and over short intervals. so, to repeat it : there is no future for the republic without an isp.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: i can follow with that in mind the overpoweringly loud "so what if mp said however long ago and it saying it again, my life is my own to make!!!!" disclaimer going silently with every such statement.
mircea_popescu: i know there's this generalized habit to believe one's "in charge" of "himself" and may permit or not permit reality into his autism bubble as he sees fit and with no further consequences than whatever he may deign to allow, such magic powers being the absolute minimum bar for a special person quite as superbly special as those bred of postmodernity.
mircea_popescu: more generally : i do not perceive any sort of future for the republic without an isp.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: phf feel free to not use the plane tickets you bought, if that's more convenient.
mircea_popescu: i did try throughout, up to and including yesterday, to somehow compensate for the various issues, but eventually the time comes for the observation that the situation you created for yourself there is not actually tenable. spend your remaining cash on your plane ticket out, we're putting an end here to this well meaning but ultimately ineffectual effort.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: sooo BingoBoingo there's two fundamental problems you got there. one of them is that you have significant bills hitting in a few weeks that you've made no provision for paying. the other's that you lack basic physical building blocks, a lack you've made no provision for even discovering in time.
mircea_popescu: i'm confused as whether this is the groped staffer to the anti-groping campaigner or the chin-plower sex service dollie to the tan-haired first american or which
mircea_popescu: the very definition of an orc, this. one who can subsist on pantsuit diet, one who is satisfied with facebook for his culture and with dellenovo for his hardware and with the
http://trilema.com/2018/best-of-fetlife-such-as-it-is/ girlies for his amorous needs and so on. that's what an orc is, what the fuck else would it be.
mircea_popescu: eam of reports from there, and would have already been late in the 2nd week.
mircea_popescu: but, for your own notes as well as for the strengthening of the public record, let me point out that the line "well mp... i have my doubts about the feasibility of the plan here ; casual inspection of the local orc bazaars pompously bestowing upon themselves the unearned monicker of 'computer hardware shops' resulted in a grand total of ONE identified rack, for instance." properly belonged in the ~very first week~ of your str
mircea_popescu: if your kernel is over (iirc 4.8 was it ?), you have to also nuke the csprng thing.
mircea_popescu: drivers/char/random.c is what needs changing. wipe the calls to "add_disk_randomness" and bullshit, replace with your fg feeder.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ideally you want to kill the "csprng" altogether and simply feed the entropy pool.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes wasn't enough to actually lose out 2048 bits ; besides, he's using teh fg i expect ? is he ?
mircea_popescu: (in other lulz, the price of that thing went up about 15% since it was first mentioned. hurr durr.)
mircea_popescu: and of course mind the "limit x per customer" bullshit. and so on.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ct16g3r186dm specifically. it's not simply "ddr 3". it's actually 1866, these things matter.
mircea_popescu: all the cheap heavy shit that's not really worth courriering.
mircea_popescu: what you want is everything else you might need, other than boards/cpus/rams/disks.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo nevermind asking for ssds locally, it's not worth it.
mircea_popescu is trying not to think of the obvious point that if he's buying by the dozen he's supposed to be getting fucking discounts.
mircea_popescu: (most ssds are 2.5". will you need adaptors ? THAT sort of thing)
mircea_popescu: leaving aside we don't even know what disks we're buying. eg, the rosewill chassis only usefully takes 3.5 inch ones.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea where this cavallier attitude is coming from, but the only thing it'll come to is tears, if the point's not well driven home by now.
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.
mircea_popescu: it's only available on some lines though, eg that aren't already overloaded with girly underpants.
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: BingoBoingo im tell you i'm deeply nonplussed that i discover you can't actually rack anything in the dc you reported walked through after renting it and the very fucking day i'm supposed to start ordering parts.
mircea_popescu: (the power supply is like 3kgs, and that's not fucking avoidable)
mircea_popescu: !~google snatch "heavy is good... heavy is reliable... if the dc is manned by idiots you can always hit them with it..."
mircea_popescu: so how do you feel about 76.8 kgs worth of chassis phf !
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.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo do you have weight specs for either of these ?
mircea_popescu: phf watch how five days ain't gonna even vaguely be enough sheesh.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo do you actually know what mounts you need/want exactly ? lemme know.
mircea_popescu: hard to believe uruguayan people manage to somehow eat, by now.
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.
mircea_popescu: i see. the bitch with the rack mounts is that they're heavy.
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: if they don'\t have rackmounts, why exactly am i to believe they have, eg, generators.
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.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: phf what's your guess as to your weight limit ? 20 ? 30 ? 50 ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, pick an item from the actual suppliers lessee.
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 ?!
mircea_popescu: by the time they advertise that sorta dumb shit, you know it belongs in the furnace.
mircea_popescu: my opinion is why the fuck am i working with these retardsa.
mircea_popescu: get the everloving fuck out of this planed, what the fuck is this.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ahahaa 6.6 grand pre their derpy tax for mounts ?
mircea_popescu: did you work out something with ben_vulpes re taking nsa boxes over to bb.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did you two arrange to have teh nsa boxes shipped that way ?
mircea_popescu: diana_coman seems to me on the first pass the winning combo is 1.1 / 2.1 / 3.1 ; the phf objection to bit meaning precludes anything else it seems to me ; with the exception that won't bit-extraction (3.1) be particularly slow ?
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