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shinohai: diana_coman: So maybe individually wrap the ingredients and ship them in a box along with a microwavable pan and instructions of which dividers to put them in
mircea_popescu: 4.1. there is a philosophy section, taking 1/8 of one shelf, or ~0.625% of all floor space
diana_coman: no, no, no shinohai you don't get it; the whole point is to NOT LOOK like a tv dinner
shinohai: Or just buy a damned TV dinner.
mircea_popescu: 4. that returned this morning. the results are as follows : the library consists of a first half that's packing paper, shiny beads and well wishing cards
mircea_popescu: 1. girl introduced me to local chick who hjas a job she hates and tries to study "metaphysics" which she explains as "life" and "healing". basically a large pile of hooey (she has the disadvantage of being black , which comes packaged with a bunch of stupid fat old women and their self-sufficient notions of "life" and "healing", tribal bullshit that should have been extirpated by whip and fire but apparently wasnt).
diana_coman: quite; the next step in this company's quest for market domination and all sorts of successeses will probably be a "re-thinking of the box so that the customer can just push a button and the ingredients jump into their place in the pan" - for those who want to cook but don't want the hassle of dealing with pans and pots
ben_vulpes: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-10/inside-blue-apron-s-meal-kit-machine << i don't get this shit in the slightest. buy a wife?
trinque: it thought my naked chick was a koala
mircea_popescu: much like the cock cage on the impotent middle aged man. saves him a middle age crisis -- it's not that it dun get up, it safely can't so all is well.
Framedragger: random thing re ^ is that *for some reason*, a huge bunch of polish folks had bank loans in swiss franc. because "switzerland stable, good country for banking", something something. when swiss franc inflated by *a whole lot* vs. the zloty, they weren't exactly exalted. :/ kinda lulzy thought process must have been
asciilifeform: i don't have access to anything resembling a reality-based version of either figure.
mircea_popescu: yes. and a good way to judge what % of world hands are involved would be to divide the aggregate cost by the aggregate world gdp.
asciilifeform: iirc somebody sells a plush ebola also
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2015-06-05#1154832 << a thread ☝︎
CompanionCube: remind me why it's so bad for a somewhat-cute poo plush toy to exist?
trinque still on it, has a related item coming from pcengines sometime later this month
mircea_popescu: apparently i made a thing with two dicks by accident.
mircea_popescu: http://logs.bvulpes.com/search?q=cunts&c=trilema << gimme a fucking break, 12 cunts for 13 lords ? WHO HJERE IS A VIRGIN
mircea_popescu: start with a thing, add dicks to it after.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes a nice had nfi! what's the time profile ?
mircea_popescu: trinque you gotta understand, up to a certain point i do enjoy executive priviledges that make it easier for me, but nevertheless up to a different point you don't express yourself too well.
shinohai: "blocks" : 382067 <<< I think my ethernet cable is a dud or something, I keep dropping connection the past few days to router.
ben_vulpes: only runs through whenever mimi was jointed to a channel
trinque still basking in the "oh but yes, we want a standard library of data structures and persistence strategies"
mircea_popescu: beat the half second, win a caek!
asciilifeform: lulzy, the 1 d00d with a working searchtron, is the one with no sql.
mircea_popescu: who else was having a log ? i recall a 3rd, was it ben_vulpes ?
asciilifeform: it's still, what, a few 100 MB
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lulzy bit being that Framedragger didn't even implement a search yet, though he has the psql right there :D
deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2017/04/11/dave-the-ice-man/ << » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - Dave the ice man.
shinohai: A virtual vino will have to suffice, cheers! [~]D
Framedragger: i'd offer to go for a beer shinohai but unfortunately no portals yet. :/ sad!
a111: Logged on 2016-08-24 02:29 asciilifeform: 'As an open source project, the Yocto Project operates with a hierarchical governance structure based on meritocracy and managed by its chief architect, Richard Purdie, a Linux Foundation fellow. This enables the project to remain independent of any one of its member organizations, who participate in various ways and provide resources to the project.'
a111: Logged on 2017-04-11 01:55 mircea_popescu: in other news, i deem http://trilema.com/2017/the-lordship-list-fourth-year/ a done deal ; trinque plox to update deedbot to reflect.
mircea_popescu: trilema articles are such a pleasure to write.
ben_vulpes: dude realdonaldtrump is the only thing hanging off the twitter entry in imperial dns worth reading and that only for lolz and admiration of a grade a 'social media' mastery
trinque: only use I have for it is you know, having a lol at whatever the President of the United States of America said
BingoBoingo: <trinque> BingoBoingo may enjoy investing in a french press; great way to brew regular coffee << They don't make those in my size
a111: Logged on 2017-04-11 01:55 mircea_popescu: in other news, i deem http://trilema.com/2017/the-lordship-list-fourth-year/ a done deal ; trinque plox to update deedbot to reflect.
lobbes: btw mod6, thanks for this useful gem. It has been very useful a resource combined with the gentoo.org handbook >> http://thebitcoin.foundation/gentoo-stage3-amd64-uclibc-hardened-guide-wFullExamples.txt
trinque: BingoBoingo may enjoy investing in a french press; great way to brew regular coffee
trinque: this thing's a "Krups", old model, works great
trinque: lady friend gave me a nice, small espresso machine while back.
BingoBoingo: <mod6> she's been mainly 100% delirious. but in a moment of slurred-opiate semi-clarity, she asked me "hows BingoBoingo?" << I am doing well, celebrate 18 months of continuous sobriety later this month.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i am not proposing an alternative for that function. doctor isn't in the line of proposing replacement for cocaine, and from the "i wanna feel good" perspective the whole pharmacopoea is a waste of space. << This is why CIA popularized freebase salt of cocaine
asciilifeform: is there such a thing as a variable-ratio compressor ?
asciilifeform: you can't even ~get~ a peltier in anything like the size you would want for a room ac. would need hundred of'em.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: i always wished there were such a thing as an ac with a throttle << Not throttle, needs adjustable clutch
shinohai: I'm still hopeful I'll find something that'll run on that Dell I salvaged a few weeks ago.
mod6: ben_vulpes: so if i have a `std::map<ktype, std::vector<vtype>> stuffMap`, is it legal to say `stuffMap[k].push_back(newV)` << should be fine as long as newV is of vtype.
mod6: it was quite something to behold. here's a lady, clinging to breath, hardly moves, then gets up and fights to young women.
mod6: i think the bed alarm threw her into a rage. the thing started going off like a UPS alarm.
mod6: they came over and gave her a pretty big dose of valium<sp> or whatever.
mod6: felt so bad for the young lady. it wasn't a hard punch or anything... but still. lol.
mod6: well, she was sleeping all day on saturday. then for a moment, she woke up, got pissed off, tried to get out of bed, fell down. then wrestled two nurses, and sucker punched one in the face.
mod6: she's been mainly 100% delirious. but in a moment of slurred-opiate semi-clarity, she asked me "hows BingoBoingo?"
mod6: might give that a try tomorrow
mod6: looking forward to getting into this stuff a bit.
mod6: the chip i've got is a 'xilinx spartan XC3S500E'
asciilifeform: ( there is unfortunately no such thing as a serial port that eats arbitrary baud rates. )
asciilifeform: if your dev board crystal is a power-of-2 multiple of your baud rate -- you're ok, just gotta change the divisor
asciilifeform: you may recognize the idiom -- it's a divisor by 128.
asciilifeform: mod6: if you want to talk to a ttl-usb serial dongle, you gotta match one of the classical baud rates, or you get rubbish (and not the desired rubbish, either, but patterned rubbish -- or nothing at all) ☟︎
mircea_popescu: in other news, i deem http://trilema.com/2017/the-lordship-list-fourth-year/ a done deal ; trinque plox to update deedbot to reflect. ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: a good chunk of the pain in this kind of work is the ~total lack of anything like the customary debugger. ( that, and the constraints of the medium - the very palpable differences between fpga and actual asic, but even in the latter there are physical delays )
asciilifeform: and will give you a little ability to debug (i hesitate to use the word)
asciilifeform: mod6: build yourself a copy of 'verilator'
mod6: there's an example in here of a FIFO circular queue in verilog, neat.
asciilifeform: mod6: it's an ok b00k. there is not, afaik, a 'great' one
shinohai: All except lukejr, but he's just a contradictory blockhead
mod6: i cut apart 50 .dat files. noodle on that for a minute. and these dickweeds want BIGGER blocks.
shinohai: I need a better SSD, these girls better step up their game.
asciilifeform: unless your environment is quite peculiar ( massively overheaded cage, or a satellite, or a pile of blankets?? ) typical ssd maxes out at 40c or so
mod6: a good test either way.
mod6: i've got mine in a std enclosure and it's got a faned bp. but... if she fries, well, she fries.
mircea_popescu: a yea good point : folks plox fan your ssds when doing mass blockeat experiments etc.
mod6: wrote a perl one liner to cut them all apart with blkcut... now just gotta feed 'em in.
mircea_popescu: we even have / had a guild there
mircea_popescu: afaik the total run was a few hundred k items.
mircea_popescu: this has been a very informative discussion, i had nfi.
asciilifeform: 'VisiCalc ran on a 24K-byte machine, 32K bytes with disk. '
asciilifeform: this 800k (or 1mil, or whichever) is an amazing number, because it isn't a pile of britney records. these were ~people~ buying.
asciilifeform: bricklin became, at least until rise of microshit and its cargocults -- a cult figure
asciilifeform: to get the word out to the primary consumers, who were financial people. [Editor’s note: A total of over 800,000 copies were sold by May of 1985, when Lotus purchased Software Arts and ceased marketing VisiCalc]'
asciilifeform: '...A few dealers knew what they were doing and got their salespeople excited about it. Because of VisiCalc, one of the Burlington, Massachusetts, dealers became the most successful Apple dealer in the country at that time. Two of its salesmen ended up as two of the founders of Lotus (the original team that brought out 1-2-3). We only sold about 1000 a month for the first few months because we had
mircea_popescu: that's a lot!
mircea_popescu: got a number to save me from fishing through the memorabilia tripod ?
asciilifeform: but -- quite like the plastic scissors they issue to kindergarteners and asylum inmates, the thing ~does~ have a sweet spot in which it ~works.
asciilifeform: wouldn't be a microshit product if it did, now.
asciilifeform: it is more or less impossible in a spreadshit.
asciilifeform: to revisit upstack : present-day asciilifeform does not agree with young-asciilifeform re 'excel is what poor illiterate folx who never learned Actual Programming, suffer with'. in an important sense it is superior to a good fraction of what passes for 'actual program'
asciilifeform: and yes, there is a turing-complete basic stuffed in there. but ~no one uses.
mircea_popescu: the attempt to understand another's excel pile is not unliuke trying to grok the intended functioning of the preferred emacs setup of a rabid squirrel.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-10 18:29 phf: ok, i guess we both know what the problem is. my solution is "study db related algorithms until you know enough to write a db", your solution, unless i misunderstand, seems to be "use an existing database a lot". i don't understand how learning, say, postgresql will get you from not knowing anything about db internal design to writing your own
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-10#1641504 << From experience, there's a definite slot for learning filled by sql. i personally show girls how to use a db for their own shit, which may be simply grocery lists ("now tell me how many kgs of pepper we bought by day last year"). truthg be told the path to a structured mind is long and arduous. ☝︎
asciilifeform: i can see a legit pov for the 'no sql' folx. 'you will NOT introduce programmerolade into our process flow, creating work for maggots like yerself and marrying our corp to your lazy and entitled arse' approx. ☟︎
lobbes: That is a great summation
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if they 'banned stupid' -- would have to ban self, as a class, the entire yacht set
asciilifeform: lobbes: if you take work as a programmer where they program ~meat~ -- don't be surprised