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diana_coman: more of "wouldn't pay if I don't need it" and
they might not need
the shitinsurance
diana_coman: hm, re insurance I'm not sure it is evidence of "wouldn't pay if not
tangible"
Mocky: impression i got was
totalcostofownership can't compete with how
they feel about it in
their gut
Mocky: Another example was horse needed some major surgery. owner had no problem paying for facilities, staff, ancillaries but balked at paying surgeon fee. "i pay you much less for minor
treatments, why must I pay more for your
time now". Selling
them preventative medicine or machine maintenance is a non-starter.
They'd rather pay 10x when
the emergency hits because
then
they know
they are getting something for
their money.
Mocky: because insurance was
to expensive for
the given coverage, but because "paying money
to get nothing".
☟︎ Mocky: They have a very poor appreciation for intangibles.
They want
to get something
they can hold in
their hand when
they spend money. If it's something
they can't see,
they balk at paying for it. And if
they do pay for it, it'll bother
them
to no end. One example was dude decided he wanted a car, ordered a brand new, fully customized Bentley. 350k USD. Wouldn't go pick it up when it arrived because balked at having
to pay 900 USD /month for insurance. not
Mocky: so i dug into what it's like
to be in business with Qataris and how
their attitudes are, with my 11 new acquaintances at breakfast
today. 3 of
them have had first hand experience in
their business dealings for years now and happy
to
tell stories. I'll relay
the gist of it here. on
the following points
there was not
the slightest disagreement from anyone at
the
table, only nodding heads and further stories illustrating
the exact same points.
diana_coman: ah, I don't quite distinguish between
them really
diana_coman: and re flashism...idiotic stuff
tends
to linger
diana_coman: asciilifeform, eucrypt,
that's where keccak lives
a111: Logged on 2018-10-20 14:55 asciilifeform: it will have
to be cured at some point, keccakization currently eats 8x moar memory (9x if counting
the fact
that it cannot run in-place)
than it ought
a111: Logged on 2018-10-20 15:13 Mocky:
talked
to me for a couple hours about biznis, Qataris etc. got some good info
billymg: is
there perhaps a list of "definitely don't use [feature], will never load for republicans"
☟︎ billymg: curious what
type of browser environments
the lords use -- when writing a
theme for mp-wp will need
to know what kind of font, css, js support
to expect
☟︎ billymg: and
to
trinque for giving me
the
task
billymg: many
thanks
to esthlos, hanbot, BingoBoingo, phf for helpful posts
phf: Mocky: oh yeah i didn't mean
to imply
that in qatar specifically it's only foreigners
term, seems like
the words used are entirely regional, e.g. egyptians call it shisha also. i've smoked
too much hookah, so i like
to know
the whole set, so
that i can effectively communicate with
the locals :)
phf: i suspect a
temporary solution as far as vdiff is concerned is
to spoon feed keccak smaller blocks
phf: diff's block reader doesn't necessarily attempt
to keep
the blocks small, allocates a 39098690 buffer, which crosses
the boundary and immediatelly hits
the part you've already pointed out: x8 bitstream allocator
phf: asciilifeform: i figured out what
the issue is
Mocky: i met others as well, europeans, americans, canadians but
they didn't know about biz or qataris enough
to contribute
to
the convo
Mocky: an older american lady who works in a qatari house and has authority over
the financial dealings of
the sons with business degrees from uni and because of
the status of
the father (her boss)
there are other lower station qataris
that she doesn't need
to listen
to
Mocky: phf well i've only spoken
to foreigners here about it so
that could be
the case here as well, but it does say "shisha" on
the printed menu, but also printed in english for foreigners
phf: they ought
to call it argile, but i suspect shisha is more international. in
turkey
they call it nargile almost exclusively, and only call it shisha when
trying
to communicate with a foreigner
Mocky: today was at a cheesecake factory, in a mall bigger
than my home
town in which I got lost
twice
Mocky: yes, actually, but
they don't call it hookah here,
they call it shisha. but
that wasn't
today and no humans in sight
phf: you made it
to a hookah bar
then?
☟︎ Mocky: talked
to me for a couple hours about biznis, Qataris etc. got some good info
☟︎ Mocky: oh my god I found some humans
today
phf: no no,
that's an unreleased enable sha512, so my point is
that it must be something in ada/c interop, or
the particular way i do it in vdiff: ksum works
though it uses same interface, vdiff sha512 works
though it uses an architecturally identical sha interface.
phf: so i have a vdiff
that
takes an -s flag (enables sha512), and it works fine
phf: so data would be stack friendly in
this case, which is also how ksum is written
phf: diana_coman's keccak interface uses a KeccakWholeThing(...) method (not
the actual name), in vtools i added a new interface, which follows
the classical hasher format: KeccakCtx() UpdateCtx(ctx, data) EndCtx(ctx, resultHash)
phf: hmm, i wonder if it's maybe c/ada interop? straight ksum gives me
the answer, and it uses
the same incremental mechanism (already
trie)d
phf: i also don't
think it's a stack allocation issue, ksum against
the file works, and
the integration between c diff and keccak was designed with chunk reading in mind
phf: i suspect when i was removing various optimizations from c diff, i removed something
that let it eat larger files, because regular diff obviously diffs
lobbesbot: phf: Sent 12 hours and 59 minutes ago: <asciilifeform> i found
today
that your keccak-vdiff is unable
to eat a 40MB file ( dies politely with stack overflow )
a111: Logged on 2018-10-20 01:44 asciilifeform: !Q later
tell phf i found
today
that your keccak-vdiff is unable
to eat a 40MB file ( dies politely with stack overflow )
mircea_popescu: i guess so.
there were some other items scattered about re what should go in
the config file for vtron
lobbesbot: asciilifeform:
The operation succeeded.
lobbesbot: asciilifeform:
The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo to celebrate first visual
tonsil regression with early beachwalk (They put
the lifeguard huts up
this week). Brb, voy a ver mis olas.
mircea_popescu: you know, if
they just uber'd ows over
to your house,
the us could also do 11pm
mircea_popescu: "it's cool
that 3 dudes will show up
to fix your ac at 11pm ; it's sad
that
they're not particularily qualified
to fix anytrhing, or even be indoors, really..."
mircea_popescu: <billymg>
trinque: update on progress: after several nights of heavy drinking i managed
to also catch a cold. <<< bwahahah ok
this was pretty lulzy.
Mocky: my AC compressor on
the roof had a problem. now
these clowns didn't fix it but did manage
to break
the indoor fan and circuit board as well. and i gotta get up in 6 hours for
this meet and greet. gonna be a sweaty night
BingoBoingo: And now
that Uruguay passed
tranny reparations,
they can
turn
to
the real scourge: "Gobierno quiere prohibir que se cruce la calle mirando el celular"
Mocky: i would say
that local virii stand no chance against me but
that would jinx it
BingoBoingo: Mocky: It could also be
that you hit
the 2 week mark and
the local viruses caught up
to your presence
Mocky: and i mean it's cool
that 3 dudes will show up
to fix your ac at 11pm, back in states it's 9-5 strictly, but man pushing up on 1am and
they still working and not seeing signals of competence...
BingoBoingo: The Peruana has
the sore
throat deal about a month ago, but she sought medical attention as soon as she registered a fever, because nurse has
to get
that work note
to show
the hospital