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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he's getting his foot in tyhe door ; it'll scale.
mircea_popescu: ncovered, 1k man-hours worth of spuriously idiotic automation down teh drain.
mircea_popescu: in other sads : one trb node was dead since fucking 22nd of august, because -- it ran into the fabled "terminate called after throwing an instance of 'DbRunRecoveryException' what(): DbEnv::txn_checkpoint: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery" which then kicked in a script to clean it up, which it did, but couldn't boot back up because for yet-unknown reasons there was a spurious .lock leftover ; corner case u
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform meaningless magic number got set to the "closest ot inexistence" available.
mircea_popescu: somehow nike manages to get its shoes sewn ; but not us
mircea_popescu: we have no isp. we can't as much as fucking hire a chinese girl.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in his case, because he wants to at least occasionally get txn out
mircea_popescu: reset does add some noise ; but it can be also filtered out otherwise.
mircea_popescu: for instance, what specific variable was to be measured, and how.
mircea_popescu: trinque i gathered you moved from knob set to x to knob set to y ; that's not the same as a "do this experiment".
mircea_popescu: "study this room" rarely works in my experience (and yes, i experienced ; we have small toys for hiding etc)
mircea_popescu: trinque the problem with "mats also reported to me that his nodes *will not keep up*, ben_vulpes also" is the ambiguity attendant. two guys walk into a diner, agree that coffee sucks there -- one's a colombian, local brew is swill ; the other's from alaska, can not stand hot beverages.
mircea_popescu: you got a blog, you saw teh fetlife/okcupid/whatever write-ups, knock yourself out in a mead of fermented detail.
mircea_popescu: can't learn the accent of a despised herd of subhuman filth.
mircea_popescu: normally i'm a total phonetic slut, but in this case i made an effort.
mircea_popescu: it's funny how ll works as j[olly]j[oker] : it's sh in the south, moves to g in colombia, it's y normally...
mircea_popescu: there;s relatively little to differentiate white teenager born 1990/2000s from african teenager born at any point. which i guess was the point, or something.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: neglect has destroyed a generation. when 50yos don't fuck 15yos culture takes a hike.
mircea_popescu: in short, two thirds or so of the neet population would actually meet mongoloid criteria cca 1917.
mircea_popescu: most of them are too anxious to actually answer a phonecall (too much pressure! i only talk to my parents!) ; most of them are actually unaware of the web as such.
mircea_popescu: anyway, in re smartphone, kids today have seriously diminished executive function, roughly speaking incapable of communicating in any manner other than arbitrary-app-reimplementing-irc
mircea_popescu: would make a pretty great sf/steampunk/altsovietrealism item
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you're missing the point. perhaps the reason YOU didn't think about it before is that YOU are malicious ?
mircea_popescu: and no, "everyone" is not a fucking answer. state exists to enforce priviledge against the mass. whose.
mircea_popescu: if you don't own it, who the fuck does ? daytime tv starlets ? fat brown women behind fast food counter ? who ?
mircea_popescu: though ALL SORTS of rank imbeciles, such as that "pirate party" fucktard, had complaints of the proofy proof flavour.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "but we were never able to find it or prove it existed." << we still never found the gnupg culprit ; and most interestingly to my knowledge NONE of the idiots with broken keys put a post on their blog, "here is the software that made it"
mircea_popescu: btw that picture of matthew green is so ridoinculous...
mircea_popescu: if i was in charge of "human services" all govt housing would have on all walls "you are here ; because you suck."