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mod6: As I said, I do not have much
time. I do what I can. But I know it's not good enough.
mircea_popescu was mostly looking for republican hours, rather
than everything, but nothing wrong with item as is.
mod6: The
times
that I've put in
there are a bit subject, my irc client runs on UTC
time, and
the logs
the same, and we've had DLST here
this week. I've
tried
to be as honest with
the
thing as I can be.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in
their own eyes englisher is supremely literate.
mircea_popescu: otherwise you're rather in
the position of
the fellow who's dedicated his life
to studying catholic architecture but never visited spain.
mircea_popescu: considering
that
the average-without-you was pretty sorry indeed.
mircea_popescu: contrary
to your "i have no marketable skills" claims, it
turns out you were quite successful at nontrivial
task.
mircea_popescu: yes but oddly he can never seem
to source anything locally.
mircea_popescu: at
that level of abstraction, leaking
the empire's artefacts selectively into
the frankistans is god's work.
mircea_popescu: nor diana nor can i be arsed
to dig
through mp's packed museum
mircea_popescu: (speaking of --
tmsr.net will be sane endian, not historical-endian, also)
mircea_popescu: i dunno i like alt-endian systems enough
to support
them\
mircea_popescu: in order
to support diff endianism i gotta pay
the cost of processing
twice.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform my problem with "trying" is
that you're stuck
trying your serpent keys on stuff.
mod6: Alright. I'll put
together a blog post.
mircea_popescu: "what i have been doing, nov 4th - november 11th" ; "what i intend
to be doing, nov 11th - nov 18th".
mod6: Well, in regards
to
the statement, specifically, I only got
the draft of
the statement from BingoBoingo on
the 7th. And been going
through it since
then.
mircea_popescu: gotta get into
the nitty gritty of
this, because i gotta
tell you, i publish, on
time and for years, 3x or more of
the report count you have, and it's a few hours' worth if
that.
mircea_popescu: do me a favour and publish a week's
timetable retrospective and
the coming week's prospective on your blog ?
mod6: But maybe others disagree. I don't
think it's 'a'.
mod6: Well, I
think I have a lot on my plate, and we've discussed
that. So I'd say 'c'. Overwhelmed.
Too much
to work on, and not enough
time/hands
to do it in.
mod6: I want
to do
this, and get a keccak vtree. I
think I said as much at
the
time, just wanted
to ensure
that keccak was in working order before we moved
to it. I
thought
that
to be
the most prudent
thing
to do.
mircea_popescu: having your hands on
the levers of power means
that, "whether meant as such or not", what you do is what you do.
mod6: I
think
this was just a misunderstanding, poor communication on my part.
mod6: is
this in reference
to
the keccak vtree?
mircea_popescu: i said hijach ~the foundation~
to crash ~my~ standards process.
mircea_popescu: in a most remote,
theoretical principle it'd be something like "well, he's either a) lazy or else b) committed
to not getting out of a confort zone he delineated silently and
that's
that or c) he's overwhelmed". now which of
these is it ?
mod6: what do you mean about
the 'hijack
the foundation standards process' ?
mircea_popescu: and in general, i can't fathom as we stand right now whence your
troubles come.
mircea_popescu: it's infuriating
to see movements a la "oh, ima hijack
this foundation
thingee
to crash your standards process", whether meant as
that or not.
mod6: (no offense
to BingoBoingo who's doing as good of a job as can be expected with not much
to go on)
mircea_popescu: mod6 i'll
tell you, it is fucking painful
to have
to argue n
times over
the "here's auction system fucking use it". alf in his worse days, years ago, presented similar challenges. makes me feel like i'm fucking pushing
the grain into
the chicken, why
the fuck would i, let it fucking starve.
mod6: I'm
trying
to get both BingoBoingo and myself better at
this -- but as it is, it's like
the blind leading
the blind.
mod6: The acution for instance, was just a careless oversight on my part. But
the accounting stuff,
this is something pretty far out of my wheelhouse.
hanbot: mircea_popescu: surething. i'm saying i don't
think growing pains == unreliability in any sense.
mod6: I am
trying
to learn all of
this stuff ; It has been difficult as some
things come easy for me, but a lot of what is important in what I
think you're frustrated with has not come easy.
mircea_popescu: gotta learn new
things, and be damn good at
them. gotta go new places. gotta master new
things. it's entirely what it is. all it is.
mircea_popescu: it started as a modest
token on a "magic :
the gathering" exchange, and it is moving
to
take over
the world. it requires GROWTH.
mircea_popescu: hanbot
the idea of
this here republic isn't "the cult of wearing blessed pants".
that's mormonism. nor is it "the cult of all reading
the new yorker".
that's pantsuitism.
the idea of
this republic is, "we're going
to GROW WITH IT".
hanbot: fwiw mod6 still figures as "heart of reliability, solid fellow" in my book. he stepped up
to some (afaik alien
to him) challenges lately and while it may be rough going, i've never seen a drop in commitment from
the guy. just sayin'.
mod6: mircea_popescu: I'm sorry you've lost faith in me, and if I could some how fix it, I would.
The only
thing I can figure
that is wrong here is
that I'm in way over my head.
mircea_popescu: in
the
traditional structure of business,
the manager is
the manager and
the board provides oversight. if
the ~board~ itself needs oversight, well, generally it gets reshuffled. cuz
that's what it is,
the final overseer.
mod6: jurov didn't want
to
touch pizarro or its accounting. so
that's out, I
tried
to hire him months ago.
mod6: ben_vulpes was going
to look it over, but I don't
think he had a chance.
mod6: I just have very little clue on
this accounting stuff. And other
things, it's apparent.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> mod6 coming on
the heels of
the misspecced auction and so on,
this looks
terrifying. << Yeah, I screwed up
the auction. I apologize. We had hoped
to get some oversight on
the last months statement from pizarro but it didn't happen. It might not even be incorrect, and BingoBoingo's draft might not be even incorrect.
mircea_popescu: at some point along
the way mod6 has
turned from "heart of reliability, solid fellow"
to "everything
this guy
touches will explode in shocking ways and half
the
time silently". i wish
to identify when
this happened ; i wish
to indentify how and why it happened. and i wish it fucking fixed, preferably right
the fuck immediately what
the fuck.
a111: 2018-11-04 <ben_vulpes> will be making new contacts in
the next month
to find a shared cab for racking
the foundation machine i lugged across
the continent
mircea_popescu: the grind is going
the wrong way. from "you realise
these dudes haven't managed
to publish a report on
time yet"
the expectation is "well, next month
they will", not "and next month -- new math!"
mircea_popescu: are you going for
the mismanagement
triple crown or what is it with you ?
mircea_popescu: mod6 coming on
the heels of
the misspecced auction and so on,
this looks
terrifying.
mod6: An update on Pizarro's statement for October: BingoBoingo has a draft, of which I've poured
through. We seem
to have more BTC on hand
then is adding up at
the moment. So we're going
to be auditing some previous statements
to see where
the problem might be.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-10 20:35 mircea_popescu: get
that memory in bit format before it volatiles away.
diana_coman: so perhaps I get
the *why* but I don't buy it for a communication protocol, just why
to "not know"
diana_coman: hence
try because you ..don't know in which byte order it is
diana_coman: I suppose
the idea
there was
to *not* specify byte order at all
diana_coman: I also don't get why
to do
that really, hence current code
that doesn't do it, no; (what it does is
to simply check if local machine is big endian in which case it flips octets of anything on more
than 1 octet)