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mp_en_viaje: fever is one thing, useful and all ; but it must not get
as high
as delirium.
mp_en_viaje: supposedly "there's a lot of statues available all around, in the shape of marble chunks. all you have to do is get them out -- but careful to not hurt them trying". it's a great story, it's been making the rounds for more than a century, but... what do you do if there actually ISNT such a thing
as a chunk large enough ?
mp_en_viaje: "and when he fell down without glamour or grace but a cry of 'attack!' frozen into his face all of Earth could not find slabs of marble so tall to carve him
as high
as he stood in his fall!"
mp_en_viaje: BingoBoingo, thing is, not like the morons are using the pampas for anything else anyway. but no, why use bsas
as a port and go inland. let's all move into "capital" and eat each other's farts.
BingoBoingo: We've got restaurants serving Argentine feedlot beef (Granted they do have to label it
as FEEDLOT lest the beef police beat them)
mp_en_viaje: i mean, their sandwiches use the same brie i use. they have pastrami with horseradish mustard i wouldn't be ashamed to offer to visiting lords at my own table. nothing's older than an hour maybe, the romaigne
as crispy
as if i just picked it myself
BingoBoingo: ^ Pizarro Price Setting Auction Live. Starting price same
as last month's.
diana_coman: asciilifeform: why though not post it on your blog really? can be with title and half a page explanations
as to how it's not-the-real-think-just-yet but still there
mp_en_viaje: romanian word is "adiata",
as in "si-or facut adiata". from greek "dieta", final dispositions.
BingoBoingo: <mp_en_viaje> the driver of the error is the desire of having a ~unique~ personality. it is not deemed sufficient, by contemporary man, to merely have the same personality
as the entire tableau of orthodox saints. there's too many of those, see. gotta be unique.
as it can't be unique and meaningful at te same time (think, can it ?)... all that's left is the getting-drunk-on-tapwater "secret parameters". << On the USG side also likely
mp_en_viaje: the driver of the error is the desire of having a ~unique~ personality. it is not deemed sufficient, by contemporary man, to merely have the same personality
as the entire tableau of orthodox saints. there's too many of those, see. gotta be unique.
as it can't be unique and meaningful at te same time (think, can it ?)... all that's left is the getting-drunk-on-tapwater "secret parameters".
☟︎ mp_en_viaje: act that little story i described (because "anyone could have done that") but rather the incidental ~exact number~ representin my height, or the ~exact numeric value~ of what i said in private sometime, or (
as per anglo-bank logic) the string that's my mother's maiden name
mp_en_viaje: i said i don't think so, and held them out for his inspection. he thanked me for my kindnss, i explained it's not so much kindness
as duty, and we parted amicably.
mp_en_viaje: this is admirably circular. but let's let it lay
as it fell for now, and instead look from the other end : give me an example of something some chick would regard
as permitting you to distinguish her from any other.
mp_en_viaje: there can't be, you see, such a thing
as a secret parameter. and this applies equally well to the "bombing stationary object" problem touched above, and to the "i will make website ban so and so after so and so" anti-mp historical fetlifish computer "engineering", and to the romcom notion of "deeply personal experience" and so following.
mp_en_viaje: here we are in 2000, still with the exact same problem, just
as unsolved.
mp_en_viaje: this, incidentally, is EXACTLY what patents and copyrights were supposed to solve, and were sold on the promise of solving : the moron 1700s "engineer" dropping his "signature secret sauce" in processes. so
as to thereby exist.
mp_en_viaje: there is tension in this question -- inasmuch
as declaring your computer TWO computers arbitrarily, and then discussing the safety of the talk over this imaginary boundry is a purely abstract exerise.
a111: Logged on 2019-04-03 17:13 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-03#1906628 << to expand on this: say you issued tx1 where input i and output o1. he sees it, it goes to back of queue,
as uninteresting, he does not mine it himself, but does relay to competitors. but if you also issue a and tx2, where input i and output o2, o2 != o1 , ~then~ tx2 goes to front of his queue,
as by mining it he can throw caltrop to the competing miners , invalidating their chain
a111: Logged on 2019-04-03 15:05 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-03#1906605 << i entirely agree that reading human text in typewriter chars is painful. gotta point out tho , that 'truetype' monstrosity is not justified thereby, it is possible to have horizontally-variable bitmap font (simply store the # of horiz. pixels
as matrix , for 'kerning' space , and otherwise same )
mp_en_viaje: which yes, being furnished from the hotel-magazine,
as opposed to the apparent coffeehouse-verboenbuche, contains sane human seating.
mp_en_viaje: ie, the circular connector to frankfurt is frankfurtring, and so this being also a ring but not really connecting to a town... they gave it god's name
as it were.
diana_coman: that being said, I actually had a nice time at various biergartens fwiw - obv, with people "brought from home"
as it were so I don't know it had much to do with the *garten itself
mp_en_viaje: specifically : in natural language, the word is the meaning unit, and it is remembered and parsed
as such by the reader portion of the brain. thus
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-21#1587276 ; but thus also "airy" characters are TERRIBLE : they suggest wordbreak (which is space) and fuck up the cache to the degree this can cost say 3x slowdown.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2018-12-19 17:09 mircea_popescu: natural language, however, ablates the trees for "convenience" so to speak, ie, uses commonly what's known in computing
as sparse trees.
mp_en_viaje is enjoying all the little things he knew he missed. such
as you know, the god damned water.
spyked: (to be clear, my issue is not of inclusion of said txen in the blockchain, but merely seeing them on nodes other than my own, even if unconfirmed; right now I might
as well assume I'm doing something wrong and my node didn't send them at all)
diana_coman: that sounds like a farawy problem still, plenty of headaches before getting there
as far
as I can see.
mircea_popescu:
as it is... wtf, make 5, 19, whatever. it's just serial amnyway.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman, how could it not be, a buncha idle virgin bois derping about "convincing pretense"
as to adulthood and whatnot. if it weren't boring
as fuck the problem of hiring schoolteachers would be merely difficult, rather than plain impossible.
billymg: so far main buckets
as i see are: 1) new tmsr/repuplican theme, 2) automated tests, 3) kill unnecessary code
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:
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.
billymg: ran into that when testing locally
as well
billymg: yeah, they have roles such
as "contributor", "author", "editor"
mircea_popescu: diana_coman, i'd rather suspect it's "ate his motivation",
as in "i already gave at the office".
mircea_popescu: competent skunkwork engineer is caen-classified
as "make own using published scheme"
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.
billymg: yeah, i knew
as much from the logs
BingoBoingo: In other discoveries:
http://www.contravex.com/2019/03/30/the-21st-century-emergency-kit-fg-inside/ "But that’s not all! In addition to being super sensible and oh so au courant, FG INSIDE doubles (triples?)
as an icon of industrial design. Like the Eames Lounge or the iPod before it, its pared-down simplicity and resolute transparency make it a work of artistic expression reflective of, and integral to, our present day and age. USD
diana_coman: " Were Trilema
as small
as you ever wish it to be, an ephemeride living its day of life in the shadow of the largest Egyptian pyramid, yet what would be the deepest difference between Trilema and that pyramid ? Not density, nor size, nor duration in time nor anything like that, but the one fundamental fact, that while the little insect lives, however shortly, however precariously, the pyramid does not, and never has." -> Caragiale ref spotted!
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-14#1896552 : smoked sprats served with penne al'olio, with vinegar pickles on the side and a sprinkling of capers is easily the most representatively venetian dish i ever had -- notwithstanding
as far
as i know i just invented it in my own kitchen
☝︎ BingoBoingo: Seriously. Lately I've been enjoying the private satisfaction of Colita de Cuadril passing "Suprema de Ave"
as the premium protein per peso cut of critter
mircea_popescu: "Gawker was an American blog founded by Nick Denton and Elizabeth Spiers and based in New York City focusing on celebrities and the media industry.[3] The blog promoted itself
as "the source for daily Manhattan media news and gossip." According to third-party web analytics provider SimilarWeb, the site had over 23 million visits per month
as of 2015. Current status Defunct
as of August 22nd, 2016"
BingoBoingo running bootstrap.sh again after neglecting to do it
as root last time
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.
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: 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.
BingoBoingo: Where no one is particularly welcome and everything uses EMAIL
as a gatekeeper.
BingoBoingo:
As opposed to the stories I have heard from US embassy.
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: supposedly, "everything", in practice same exact "everything"
as seen in marriage.
mircea_popescu: lassmates' phone numbers
as a first step to successful sexual congress, but not these dorks.
mircea_popescu: moeover, the 2nd function of embassy is to collect data. legally, not illegally, it's not the secret service, it's the diplomatic service. what confidence would you
as a putative ivan groznii put in data flowing through your embassies when these sad concoctions were manned by idiots so fucking inept, they don't even have a black book with the phone numbers of ~their fucking colleagues~. every 15yo boy has a book with his c
mircea_popescu: the item
as encountered in practice is ~equivalent to the sovok era "telephone receiver locked in box"
a111: Logged on 2014-03-19 20:59 asciilifeform: petent at dealing with the human cattle : fastfood providers, supermarkets, the government. Both
as employers and providers these specialised bureaucracies have the necessary tools, including cattle prods (or whatever they’re called now, non-lethal something or the other) to correctly handle them. They have the chemicals, they’ve done the research, know the behavioural patterns, have the walls all built to
a111: Logged on 2019-03-28 17:59 asciilifeform: ( aaand of course they marked it
as 'canonical answer' , for then google to auto-return, etc .. )
a111: Logged on 2015-12-22 14:54 mircea_popescu: the fundamental argentinian-ness of the human mind, "oh, ok, this is what i get paid, now how could i move down what i gottaq do for it ?" really needs the british imperial "fuck you, you don't eat"
as typified by lord newton.
a111: Logged on 2016-03-05 18:21 asciilifeform: stalin followed peter's 'colonization with the crown
as sole european' model.