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mircea_popescu: it's "could have had, that's just as good" all the way down!
mircea_popescu: welcome, all, to the wonderful world of computers which nobody has ever used before for any purpose whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: i hope open source comes and rescues us from this shitpile.
mircea_popescu: see how much you actually pay for tyhe resources, charge 2x that for your time, and if you end up ddosed just... buy more hardware.
mircea_popescu: meter the resources as you do it, cpu time/disk io, whatever is your concern. then bill the person, and store the bill, so you can present it in the future ("the previous three bills average X, so you have an idea how much)
mircea_popescu: lobbes implement a (paid) full text search, you'll be ahead of archive.is, amazon's webarchive and EVERYONE else.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: entonces is then as in, right then. then as in, afterwards is despues or whatever.
mircea_popescu: it's a relatively easy place to get by as an aa, they're not really heavy drinkers. just say no and that's that.
mircea_popescu: dun sweat it too much bb, everyone enjoys fucking a fat girl now and again.
mircea_popescu: not on some "platform" that'll "turn it off" the moment you no longer serve their bosses.
mircea_popescu: a right medium. i mean YOURS. like, you know, trilema.
mircea_popescu: spyked well, i expect the ivf of ye olde library was epsilon. as alf says, "entomologist only". because wtf do they have, a story of two scytales ? tyvm, it's obsolete.
mircea_popescu: no-binary mp-wp is a major fucking progress ; and if we set the groundwork for eventual complete rejection of all binary formats, image and then video, holy hell we got it.
mircea_popescu: do me a favour and walk the list of binary images, applying one or the other as best fits.
mircea_popescu: hanbot o shit yeah! you just cracked this nut wide open.
mircea_popescu: anyway, you're on to something here douchebag ; work on it, with serious dedication, by the time you're as old as the rest of these guys you'll prolly be more valuable than them.
mircea_popescu: i thought the whole "memory security" shit sandwich just got blown to smithereens coupla weeks ago.
mircea_popescu: but yes, fucking up the empire's "technology" ie, websites, is a perfectly fine entry point towards actual life.
mircea_popescu: i would definitely put up with this in exchange for all-svg.
mircea_popescu: notreally ; republic mostly despises the sv-powered "tech" ; you'll find pmarca's notion of "the web" doesn't carry much water, or interest, among actually competent computer folk.
mircea_popescu: phf there's no direction re proper cuz of first principle issues, i dun want to make dumb part of the history.
mircea_popescu: let people provide their fucking own avatar favicon etc.
mircea_popescu: myeah. phf will your differ properly handle binaries by hash ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo how the hell can that thing contain NO numeric characters ?! do it properly, x - y - z - k = q.
mircea_popescu: it all comes back down to "byte is machine word but idiots wanna do dumb shit", im pretty sure
mircea_popescu: basically, 32 bit had an int type that became incompatible with 64 bit for ~no reason
mircea_popescu: trinque i can tell you it was a multi-week pain in the ass to clear the shit out of eulora codebase.
mircea_popescu: sometimes (often) wordpress manages to lose a pingback ; that thing will walk your db, spit out properly formatted xml payloads for all links in all your (published) posts. the resuilt can be run as a bash script to catch up on any missed pingbacks.