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mircea_popescu: i suppose
the bare
truth of
the matter is
that much like bower bird building nest out of what plastic can be found, ustard also, will be fashionable ~out of pre-existing selection~, not otherwise.
mircea_popescu: in other stray
thoughts : isn't it a wonder
the "orange man" and
the "guy fawkes" memes aren't merging ?
a111: Logged on 2018-12-18 11:56 phf: asciilifeform: i saw you posted a highres photo of macivory you found on
the internet, but could you perhaps post a couple of nice photos of your current board, where one can see labels on chips and whatever
text on
the surface
diana_coman: this might be
to some extent
theme-related as well but I'm not
too keen on sinking
time digging into it really
diana_coman:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-25#1882987 -> my
tests show
that you can rely on <strong> </strong> for it
to show in bold (b, em seem
to be eaten); in further infuriating
things, <blockquote> works but ONLY if used on separate line (i.e.
this is a <blockquote>bbw </blockquote> will do nothing but
this is a \n <blockquote>biegw</blockquote ...works
☝︎☟︎ diana_coman: at any rate,
the fact
that
the summaries seem
to elicit further discussion and clarification of
the original
topics is further benefit (I did not expect it /
think of it at all initially)
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-12-25 16:56 mircea_popescu: kinda addictive
to write,
too, aren't
they.
diana_coman: perhaps unsurprisingly,
the relative lengths of logs are not quite enough
to predict relative lengths of summaries, ofc;
the 10-16 dec summary is a whopping 5.1k compared
to 3.7k 26-2Dec despite logs being 31.3k vs 54.4k respectively; anyways, I'm rather relieved it
turns out
that
the summary IS at least shorter
than
the logs!
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-12-24 15:58 diana_coman: phf, would it be a big bother
to get for me
the number of words in
the logs for
the weeks 26Nov-2Dec, 3Dec-9Dec, 10Dec-16Dec 2018? It's more
to satisfy my curiosity on whether
the relative sizes match
the variation in size of my summaries for
those weeks or not.
a111: Logged on 2016-02-03 01:53 asciilifeform: actually for many years i have
thought about
the ideal electric otp.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile i don't even consider fettards delivered
to
this world in
that same five year plan
the "reforms" came.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-05 01:26 mircea_popescu: "oh, DO WE STILL HAVE
TO DO
THIS ?!?!?! IN 2018 ?!?! EPICYCLES ?!?!?". gimme a break, you can't light a fucking lightbulb.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-26 00:25 asciilifeform: z80 of course not only costs fiddycents, but ~still made~ , and so has been photographed errywhere, prolly even in zimbabwe. whereas
there's maybe 50 'ivory' remaining
total.
mircea_popescu: today's xmas and
there's no contest. rest of
the year...
mircea_popescu: let
them do just
that. "i know your wife
thinks you're
the best she could ever do, but
truth be
told a name's wasted on your dumb ass" is way
the fuck more important, useful etcetera
than whatever else
they
thought
they were gonna do
that evening.
mircea_popescu: this is what
the internet was even fucking sold as! "this'll be a place where every fucktarded murican, coolest-guy-in-his-town goes
to find out he didn't even make
the qualifying
tops"
a111: Logged on 2018-12-25 23:19 amberglint: btw, I was considering asking
this microscopist if he wants
to help you with
the Ivory micrograph, but after
the last attempt I'm not sure if it's a good idea
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-25#1883039 << always a great idea. people ~should~ have ample opportunity
to discover how insufficient, unimpressive, etcetera
they are. i don't mean "fair" opportunity, ie, a 9mn% increase over what
their environment currently provides. i mean fucking ample.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: afaik it's new art ; but
then again, novelty in
this world.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-01 17:51 phf: asciilifeform: it ~is~
the infamous mappers and packers
thing, m&p is first chapter
mircea_popescu: eventually someone has
to do something about all
the random piling up at
the periphery. sad but
true.
mircea_popescu: much like
the romanian morons imagined in
the 80s
they want
to be "free", as opposed
to "they want romanian industrial committments
to better reflect
their own personal committments [to irrelevancy, impotence and ultimately inexistence]".
mircea_popescu: in any case,
the idea was
that
the
thing neckbeards and assorted morons ("open source" or free ranged) MOST associate with "the bad" is merely a necessary function of a working system.
mircea_popescu: 't route -- it all hinges on whether
the post office is priviledged or not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't
think it's underhanded in
the sense i don't
think underhanded means anything in
the context.
there's a very strict difference between
the priviledged and
the unpriviledged position, "only do
those
things specifically allowed" vs "do all
things not specifically forbidden". while you'd expect a customer
to only read mail addressed
to him, it's iffy whether you expect
the post office
to read all mail it can
a111: Logged on 2018-12-25 23:19 amberglint: btw, I was considering asking
this microscopist if he wants
to help you with
the Ivory micrograph, but after
the last attempt I'm not sure if it's a good idea
amberglint: btw, I was considering asking
this microscopist if he wants
to help you with
the Ivory micrograph, but after
the last attempt I'm not sure if it's a good idea
☟︎☟︎ BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> hmm, selections js
thing dunwork for comments apparently << Depends on how far
the
theme stretches
the selectable area.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> sometimes i
think
the ~only social product of females in
this country is
the yelling out of various names, sometimes interspersed with "venga" or something. <<
The retards here do "Vení" instead
mircea_popescu: oh wait, is
the expected format <a href=""></a> rather
than <a href=></a> ? (this'd be new
to both
the w3c and mp-wp_
diana_coman: from what I see in
the paste you did not use "" for
the links
though?
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, fixed
the "whe" and
thanks for
the comment! Can you believe
that summary is actually...5k words and a bit
to spare
too?
mircea_popescu: sometimes i
think
the ~only social product of females in
this country is
the yelling out of various names, sometimes interspersed with "venga" or something.
mircea_popescu: much like
the man who didn't lose
the house in MMM hysteria might be proud : naggum has a snippet with y2k
mircea_popescu: i expect i spent <week
total
to date with
them. which yes, since you ask, i am quite proud of.
mircea_popescu: not depressing me, because being forewarned permitted me
to organize my life around defense.
mircea_popescu: (there's a special settings page for listing allowed
tags, and i'm starting
to suspect
this should be standardized by now --
tho why
the fuck is it <b> rather
than <very-nice-and-thickly_bold> and wtf is <blockquote>, <bq> was
taken ?!)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm just back from dumping a >500 word comment into diana's blog ;
this
thing is going critical