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mircea_popescu: ain't it always that.
asciilifeform: possibly cuz Mocky was actually asking a q. as opposed to douchebag's... well, that thing where people shout incoherently on the stake
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the lulziest part is that Mocky asked "the same question", got much better answer quicklier. http://trilema.com/2014/pro-idiotas-which-obviously-means-people-who-have-ideas-ie-idiots/#selection-145.313-145.392 prevails ; and good fucking luck to the "bayesian" hopeful aspies.
a111: Logged on 2018-06-19 16:57 douchebag: mircea_popescu: What makes someone smart enough to be here exactly then?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-19#1826872 << lulzy thread btw ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i will be sure to mark the grave of the king gnat separately. it still dies with one flick.
mircea_popescu: pantsuit imbecile of 1700 is lightweight indeed, compare the ineptly ineffectual paintsuitry of cardinal newman with the elaborately effectual (comparatively) idiocy of c s lewis or arthur blair.
asciilifeform: right, but there's 3e9 crains and 1 diderot
mircea_popescu: no argument, but i really don't need much more time or tools to send off diderot than caleb crain. ~same size object.
asciilifeform: the little was moar % faberge and less ipnoje tho
mircea_popescu: like it or not, people from long ago ~did very little~. however well, good, interesting, whatever it might've been -- they did LITTLE.
mircea_popescu: not really worth much mention. world productivity in the whole 1700s was a good modern quarter.
asciilifeform: dunno, there's still the geologic strata of idjicy from ~18~70s, demoocracies, and 1770s liberte egalite, etc
mircea_popescu: but by now we're cringing at idiocy from the 70s, we're evidently running out.
mircea_popescu: it's true that white man has neglected all things of the mind for a good half century now.
mircea_popescu: eventually removing a layer of crusted socks fails to produce an occult layer of crusted underwear.
mircea_popescu: so yes, climbs the gradient. the gradient climbs too. the hope, or at least my hope, is that the gradient climbing is self-limiting. in a manner of speaking like cleaning. yes if you neglect doing ANY housework at all, then for an interval the more housework you do, the more housework there is to be done.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'ma actually try this on a scratch box. ( but, prolly not today )
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Right, the question is what version of wordpress you are sitting on determines how much massaging you have to do to your database dump. Once MP-WP eats a correctly massaged dump your numbers counts survive and the numbers and human urls both work.
mircea_popescu: what passes for "wise man" in pashtun village is ~anyone, from ben stiller to alan ginsburg.
mircea_popescu: the previous douchebag was called kakobrekla, took weeks of all hands on deck to resove. in 2016. in 2018, it takes a minute of occasional attention freom whoever happens to be bored. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2018-06-19 16:55 mircea_popescu: douchebag looky, the place's not for you. you're not smart enough to be here. what's so hard to grok about this ? some people are smart, some people aren't smart, you're not smart. what, you have to be dragged out, your legs don't work, what is it ?
a111: Logged on 2018-11-26 22:05 BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: wp needs write access to bake the auto-redirect thing. tried. << It needs only a stanza in htaccess, provided human readable urls were used from the start
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-26#1874993 << BingoBoingo my case was ~specifically~ the one where ~not~ were used from start ☝︎
asciilifeform: but possibly this only worx on a ~very~ long timescale ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2018-11-26 22:13 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's no pill against idiocy ; and yes it's immoral to give idiots things, that's the whole fucking point -- if you give idiots things they fuck them up.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-26#1874996 << 1 of the apparent interesting things re btc was, that it seemed to climb the gradient and ~not~ concentrate in hands of idjit ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2018-11-26 22:23 mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the item you want is prolly http://trilema.com/2012/law-enforcement-never-fails-to-unintentionally-entertain/#selection-175.0-175.758 ?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-26#1874999 << yes ! ty mircea_popescu ☝︎
BingoBoingo: Doing the xml dump import into a new mp-wp (or other wp) is going to change the counts
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Mullenwaggle's wp fork constantly changed the database field structures over the upgrades. How far his version "outran" the fork determines how much massaging the SQL dump is going to need to restore it for sanity
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo why ? i don't follow it, articles go in a table, has an id field, that;s it.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the item you want is prolly http://trilema.com/2012/law-enforcement-never-fails-to-unintentionally-entertain/#selection-175.0-175.758 ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: but in digging for the item you want, ran into http://trilema.com/2013/the-bitcoiners-press-manual/ and http://trilema.com/2015/naivity-in-finance/ and http://trilema.com/2015/oil-theory/ and holy shit trilema's a great read.
BingoBoingo: Depending on how far his wordpress is from MP-WP and in which direction is going to determine how much of a pain preserving those counts will be.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's no pill against idiocy ; and yes it's immoral to give idiots things, that's the whole fucking point -- if you give idiots things they fuck them up. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: just, no particular need to expose that to the web.
mircea_popescu: it really doesn't matter, start or no start. the fake directory structure is just an indirection layer, internally articles are still referenced by counts.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: wp needs write access to bake the auto-redirect thing. tried. << It needs only a stanza in htaccess, provided human readable urls were used from the start ☟︎
asciilifeform: i am wondering where exactly is the practical diff, b/w that, and '21mn fixed supply' where unknown % is in hands of idjits who can mass dump any day of week
asciilifeform: the one where 'metallists are dumb if they think 'fixed supply', gold asteroid 20 metres diameter could hit any day of the week'
asciilifeform: can't seem to unearth it in O(1)
mircea_popescu: free bitcoin!!! the final fronteer! every one of an infinity of tards can have as many as it wants of these 21mn total things!!! OBAMACARE!
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, /me goes to check the state of the fictions.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-16 02:52 asciilifeform: tldr : heathen altcoin hash algo which supposedly 'memory hard', but then you look and it only wants 2MB ( and possibly less, with optimizations) -- evidently so that fluffypony or watshisname could use ~his~ seekrit fpga..
asciilifeform: ( in some particular cases, not hard to guess where, e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-16#1872722 ) ☝︎
asciilifeform: as i see it, it's damn near proof that the shitcoin 'exchange rates' are works of fiction -- 'if this is actually sellable for bitcent/ea., where is fpga ? '
mircea_popescu: "gotta try things out". there's a lot of this rumspringa behaviour in usg."tech". ☟︎
asciilifeform: entirely possible that whole affair is entirely like other spamola, i.e. not actually +ev for anybody
asciilifeform: considering that even coupla watt worth of fpga outweighs coupla thou. js-eaters, in general
asciilifeform finds it vaguely interesting that js mining is still worth the candles somewhere -- suggests that the shitcoins in question are uninteresting even to fpgaize
asciilifeform has a box here with stale thermal grease that reliably died when these are loaded
asciilifeform: is there even 1 usg www that doesn't have a shitcoin miner js in it yet ?
mircea_popescu: come to think, banks, also. and cars. and so on.
mircea_popescu: not in usg.web world. there, they only do what inca told them to.
asciilifeform: whether trivial lul where door left open or '0day'
asciilifeform: in point of fact ~all~ proggies 'are because told to'
mircea_popescu: "cuz you told it to" "but i mean that's not how the web is supposed to work". was a whole mega-wtf, unfathomable depth of disagrement thing
asciilifeform: i dun recall him touching that one
mircea_popescu: maybe the algo-hash thing
mircea_popescu: wasn't it my php hacked together something-or-other ?
trinque: ah that was it
asciilifeform: yea iirc start of douchebag's short 'career' was that sumbody ( lobbes ? ) turned out to have world-writable thing
trinque: actually dun think douchebag ever defaced anything, just aspired to, and "knew people that"
mircea_popescu: oh was that what that was ?
trinque: and then maybe we'll get another flood of tits out of it, even, when the 1337 haxor shows up for a month or two.
asciilifeform: lol why ty.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure if someone defaces ffa series to talk about what-ustards-understood-of-foucaults-sexnonsense-half-century-later someone'll notify you.
asciilifeform: i care in that i gotta maintain the thing with own hands, i dun have meat bots.
mircea_popescu: it's a fucking web box, who even cares at that level.
mircea_popescu: im sure you have just as much childpornyourhonor as the next citizen over.
asciilifeform: third parties flipping bits on the disk when they oughtn't, for starters
mircea_popescu: so then what diff does it make lmao.
asciilifeform: cuz i chmodded the contents, lol, to not be writable.
mircea_popescu: nfi why you think you're running php without disk write access, either.
asciilifeform goes to rtfm.
mircea_popescu: pretty sure it even gives you the option to upload the item manually.
mircea_popescu: no dude. just put the !-f !-d lines in your htaccess. da fuck does it know or care.
asciilifeform: ( possibly this is only the case if there's a set of ~existing~ posts that have old sad scheme, i'ma have to dig )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wp needs write access to bake the auto-redirect thing. tried.
mircea_popescu: and there's no requirement to auto-edit htaccess, nfi what that is about.
asciilifeform: phplade dun belong being able to change files on my disk.
mircea_popescu: see how http://trilema.com/?p=1338 resolves ? there's no url broken with sane scheme. because mp-wp is written for me not for "the web".
mircea_popescu: we discuss this periodically, and it's always coming out the same way -- i show you you're wrong and you mumble something and ignore it.
asciilifeform: ( would like to get eventually mp's wp, and human-readable urls, but promises to be painful )
asciilifeform: 1 of the reasons i haven't taken up mircea_popescu's wp wholesale is 1) i dun wanna break ~any~ urls 2) at same time, i refuse to give wp write access to disk. so that means hand-genning .htaccess, ugh
a111: Logged on 2018-11-25 16:35 mircea_popescu: fucking html, ALWAYS this is my experience with it : sink however long you want into making it do what you want it to, then write off that effort and hand-coerce things instead.
mircea_popescu: you can try and hack it so it mixes ?& and # correctly ; but iirc this was a major pile of http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-25#1874550 unpleasant decade or so ago ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://www.loper-os.org/?p=2822 vs http://trilema.com/2018/an-examination-of-conflict/ ; the thing assumes proper dir-like structure rather than simple GET-overloaded url.
asciilifeform tries to puzzle out wtf, so far stumped
asciilifeform: if selection is cancelled, url turns into bare domain
mircea_popescu: all you have to do is edit the main.php or w/e it;'s called, page template. single posts were single.php etc.
asciilifeform: ( it might be possible to make it work correctly from main pg, but the stock one doesn't , aha )
diana_coman: the selection thing? I have it but on posts, not on main
asciilifeform: the selector thingie
asciilifeform: diana_coman: dun seem like you have it on your www ? it's pretty simple to weld on
asciilifeform: ty mircea_popescu for the gadget.
mircea_popescu: i guess i'm just auto-filling "standardizes [away the need to do] unnecessary work"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no i meant, re the mp-wp
asciilifeform: diana_coman: there is no reason to rush through the material, eat it at own pace