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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in other lulz : in 80s ro was actually making
the btr-80 for east germany export. because russkis found it cheaper
to license
than
to manufacture, and
the ro had stolen it already anyway.
mircea_popescu: should be at least 7-8x, considering what "redundancy" means and how heavy
the shit is.
mircea_popescu: it's a pretty sweet item, except for one point : its
twin engines
together less power
than bartholomew.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha.
tech
transferred for i don't recall what economic deal in
the 70s
mircea_popescu: you know ? maybe
the girls recount sometime
that night i nearly drove
through a washed out road.
mircea_popescu: i was really contemplating getting
the car jacked on
those APC
tyres
they had back in soviet days.
mircea_popescu: last
trip did ~50 mi
through gravel road. you even have
those back in pinehouse lands ?
mircea_popescu: you should question
the fabled quality of costa rican road.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have
the converse problem. alternator dies on road, /me
takes car back
to (otherwise very competent, and very able) independent mechanic who charged 75 an hour for
tools and labour
to find what needs changing and
then install mp's parts (75 CENTS!!!). "why
the fuck was not
this on
the bill ?" "ah, it wasn't really broken yet, still hung on a
thread".
☟︎ BingoBoingo: If you're replacing
the sill plate might as well raise
the concrete foundation so
the sill sits further from gound level and all of a sudden
the concrete cabin out in Cerro start
to look like a good alternative.
mircea_popescu: except apparently gypsies don't grow fast enough for
the us, notwithstanding
they marry
the girls once
they bleed. so
the locals build out of pine and
then charge
to fix it.
BingoBoingo: And once
they drop
the house back down with new wood at best it has another 20 years before someone shanks
the sill plate again.
mircea_popescu: this reminds me of how gypsy
teams "fix cheaply
the roof" in
the old country.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, once
the house gets jacked
they are going
to find more problems where
the water wicked up from
the sill plate.
mircea_popescu: and yes mod6 is
the mark of all
time, always ready
to pay for such a superficial and self-evident scam. cuz he's a well bred midwestern man whom you can't help but love (notwithstanding
the cockroaches can't help but fleece).
mircea_popescu: ra new york is organized around strong-arming and
then charging "for protection"
the independent moron, aka hayseed immigrant.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo but yes, i guess if you put it out
there i have no choice but
to spell it out : of ~fucking course~
the carpenter "sticks his file in
there". it's a sales gimmick, like
the new york electrician pointing out
to people
they gotta pay him a billion
to "bring
the buildingto spec" because "otherwise he has
to report
them" because "otherwise he loses his own license". because we're supposed
to not notice
the whole mob-e
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Pine grows fast and is
therefore 'cheap'
BingoBoingo: The only reason mod6's sill plate problem is exceptional is someone looked at his sill plate. In USistan most people don't know
they have
the sill plate problem because
they never look.
BingoBoingo:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-16#1887514 << In order of structural value: Spruce (not in
the botanical sense), Douglas Fir (also not in
the Botanical sense), and Southern Yellow pine are usually
the options in contemporary US building. None of
these woods like ground contact, and yet all
they get
to prep
them for ground contact is a soak in some copper salts. After 10-20 years when
the salts wash out
the sill plate will
turn into sponge.
☝︎ BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
That sounds solid. If
the cargo is 48 Rockchips 1U of server and 1U+ of spare parts,
that's still 4U of material.
billymg: trinque: i made a deposit on sunday in order
to cover my pizarro invoice but it's not showing up in my balance yet. i'm not in a hurry but curious about
the status of it
billymg: hanbot: approved
the comment,
ty!
deedbot: hanbot rated billymg 1 <<
Thorough MP-WP patchworker.
hanbot: !!rate billymg 1
Thorough MP-WP patchworker.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-13 17:54 billymg: !Q later
tell hanbot mp-wp patches have been updated:
http://billymg.com/2019/01/minor-mp-wp-patch-updates/ --
the only "\ No newline at end of file" strings you should find in .svg refs patch are from before part of
the diff (i.e. file diffed had no newline at
the end)
mircea_popescu: "freedom" of
the hallucinated optionality flavour has costs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because
they don't believe in
the oppresive multi-generartional patriarchal home.
mod6: I'll stop back in
tomorrow when I have
the chance. :] Have a good evening.
mod6: Anyway Gentlemen,
thanks for listening. Wanted
to stop in and let you know I was reading logs while I could
today -- I'm running on nil sleep and
today was like an 18 hour day. So I'm gonna drop out and get some rest.
mircea_popescu: right, hammer/splints powered oil presses, stuff like
that
mircea_popescu: took chet
there personally ; she got
to
touch everything ; at
the end hands so full of splinters i spent an hour digging
them out.
mod6: But I put
that all aside back in November. And
then
the whole door/joist
thing started. But I'll look into when I might be able
to get it
together, but may be even after alf's
time frame. However, will advise as soon as I know.
mod6: Anyway, my original plan was actually
to go down
to UY
this week.
mod6: "If you
take care of her, she
takes care of you" or something.
mod6: Some of
the log cabins
that I've seen in
the US are pretty nice
tbh, but
they need maint! Need
to be scraped & stained every few years, etc.
mod6: This is
true, if you have masters of wood,
then you get high quality finished product, but
this stuff is shit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
this is what i mean. i saw 300 yo wooden construction, made by ro mountain folk. but
that wood...
mod6: So I had him stop work right
then and
there, and
then had
to get
the other carps in
to assess. So once
the rim joist is fixed,
then I can finally get a new door.
mod6: This all started because we need a new door, it's old as shit, and all
the weather stripping is bad, etc. So of course,
this isn't std door size. So I paid some good money
to have a custom one made
to size. When
the carp came out
to install it,
the first
thing he did was pull off one piece of molding, and stuck his file down in
the bottom area where
that joist is located, and it pushed right
through.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well, wood has its place, but a) it's very knowledge-intensive -- notice how some shipwrights make ships
that never rot, some others -- rot in a month. and b) by
the
time you're actually building complexly enough
to even have rim joists etc... wooden construction's intended for hunting lodge not
townhouse.
mod6: :] I was just about
to say...
mod6: Once
the siding is removed
then
there might be an easy way
to get at
the outer joist and pull it off -- which runs
the entire length of
the frame along
the base. Now
there could be more rotten in
there, or it ~could~ just be
the rim joist, but won't know until it's all apart.
mod6: asciilifeform: Actually, it'll be better if I do, I'm sure. Since all
three guys suggest fixing
this from
the outside (thankfully, from
the inside would be 1000s of more $), if we wait until it's warm
there's a way less chance of breaking
the siding on
the house when removing it.
mod6: Needless
to say, and I'll spare you all
the deets, but it's gonna put a dent in mod6's budget for a few months at a minimum.
mod6: Even
the house may need
to be put on jacks
to complete
the repair. I've been discussing with
three different carpenters on how
they would do
the job and approximately how much it would cost.
mod6: In short, yes, very. Especially in
the winter.
mod6: One
thing
that's been plaguing me irl for about
three weeks here is
the finding
that I have a rotten rim joist.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-15 15:43 asciilifeform: iirc mod6 has expressed a desire
to fly
the next crate. if he still wants, can haz; otherwise asciilifeform will fly it.
mod6:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-15#1887248 << Yeah, I kinda missed my window here. I'm not sure when I'll be able
to get a chance
to come down
there. Perhaps sometime
this year yet, but will look into it and discuss it again at a later
time.
☝︎ mod6: And
then when it came back up, I again restarted
the services, and
then a while later, it crashed again. And perhaps another
time as well.
mod6: Then I manually started up apache and mysql so
the blogs would be back working again. But
then it went down again, perhaps 20 minutes or so later.
mod6: When I noticed
that my blog, and hanbot's, etc were down... I logged into UY1 and found
that it had been up for only 50 minutes at
the
time.
mod6: Well, UY1 is still up, and looks like no causation found for
the reboots/crashes. Very strange. Best
to keep an eye on it. It most certainly did reboot however.
mircea_popescu: if only soviet union lasted a decade or
two more and had better notions re cs, he could have been so happy. imagine -- re-doing emacs FOR STALIN
a111: Logged on 2014-09-27 17:27 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: notice
that rms will not speak of lisp
to
this day.
the demise of lmi cut him off from
the genuine machines (there was no possibility of baking one by his lonesome, or with his band of ragged dervishes, any more
than
they could launch a mars mission)
a111: Logged on 2016-02-29 03:00 asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: you are still
thinking of rms as a self-aware creature, having a
thought process