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mircea_popescu: this is why publishing and
the resulting discussion is so crucial for any sort of desirable result,
there's just no way
to know what you need help with otherwise.
mircea_popescu: b) how would anyone observing intuit
the distinction between happy case when a) above and sad case when you actually intend
to work
the ocean by hand-on-mug ?
mircea_popescu: moreover a) why would you even
try if not because you're deliberately preparing
the design of a
trawler and want
to get
the minutia correct ; and
lobbes: yeah, automation does seem
to be
the answer
to
the sifting of
the ocean problem. hard
to sift
through an entire ocean with a coffee mug
mircea_popescu: eg : ask ~every single blogger on wordpress.com~ whether
they wouldn't like
their own hosting. you know
those shitheels a) conspire
to fuck up
the internet and b) fleece
the poor noobs something fierce. why not hurt an imperial outfit while helping some rando anontards ?
mircea_popescu: other
than
that,
the other comment is, maybe you/whole
thing could benefit from automation.
a111: Logged on 2018-06-29 18:07 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one interesting
tidbit is
that
trilema autoresolves
titles, so if you remember
that, you can always go
trilema.com/lets-duckduck and it'll
take you home.
mircea_popescu: for instance, cheap
trick based on
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-29#1830756 : if i'm curious whether some slut does click a link, i just use a shorter version,
then it's evident in
the logs if she did. but anything works for
this purpose, adding a &hurrdurr say, you can
then grep for it in
the weblogs.
☝︎ lobbes: what do you mean by
tracking? as in it alerts poster if movement?
mircea_popescu: hey, i'm not saying he's a bad person. i'm
trying
to get
this
thing going whereby it actually works.
lobbes: maybe more like
that
trilema I read somewhere, and it resolved
that old question "if a
tree falls yadda yadda, does it make a sound?" "no, because sound has a explicit meaning"
hanbot: fwiw, i recall seeing sales progress reports from lobbes in #pizarro multiple
times
mircea_popescu: and it ~may~ be
the case
that
the actual definition of work is "that activity in which others can help you" plainly and directly.
lobbes: okay, I must get
this blog functioning pronto. I have defined
that problem at least, after our last discussion (established connections were simply exceeding apache max workers)
lobbes: I will work
to address
this
lobbes: to
the question of "have you published anywhere?"
the answer is "no"
mircea_popescu: what is
this claim
to an activity
that can't be explained ? in what sense is it activity ?
mircea_popescu: sand words on
the
topic you'll maybe achieve 20% of
the sum
total ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno if you appreciate
this, at all, but consider : i follow fetlife for ~purely private~ reasons. on my own
time, off my own money, for
the lulz/orgasms of my own girls, and so on. yet i've published multiple articles including summaries, schematics, various discussions, on it goes. on
the other hand, a bunch of you guys have been involved in a very comparable effort for about as long, and if
tomorrow you put out
ten
thou
lobbes: Otherwise I have no problem continuing,
though I have had 0 success
thus far. I
totally get
the nausea aspect
though; example of a post I had
to muster 3 paragraphs
to respond
to in order
to reach
the 10 'non-fluff' post count
threshold
to be allowed
to post an advertisement >>
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1710421 mimisbrunnr: Logged on 2018-06-27 02:56 ben_vulpes: during
the day: sweat! during
the night: sweat! but also stare at
the ceiling
a111: Logged on 2018-06-29 18:50 ben_vulpes:
http://logs.bvulpes.com/trilema?d=2018-6-27#388828 << i do not
think
that
this line of business is worth pursuing further, and will
tender my resignation for mismanagement if folks want it for
the wasted
time/effort. sifting
the midden pile of
the internet for people who worry about five dollars a month for hosting flies in
the face of everything i've learned in #trilema about coming anywhere near
the
mircea_popescu: which is why
they're so unprepared for it when
they bite a "shut
the fuck up and sit
the fuck down" steel girder.
mircea_popescu: it's just...
there's a bit from
tlp linked in
there, "truth dun matter, what's important is
the subject"
mircea_popescu: sometimes it feels like forever ;
then one checks and it's been 1mn unixtimes or so.
mircea_popescu: your 2014 or what was it v piece still regularly linked
today.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well, an organized article about all
this
that can be linked later for its datapoints would certainly not be a waste, neh ?
ben_vulpes: i suspect
that
the
tidal wave of people who only understand poking buttons has drowned out
the
tiny sample of people who even know how
to work ftp, and are being 'served' (as
the main course, naturally) by facebook/wix etc
ben_vulpes: i am unable
to distinguish advertising scamolade from
the genuine article. i've reached out
to an altcoin forum about advertising directly, and
to some folks who pump ICOs
to see about getting into
their designers hosting pipelines, all
to zero avail. not
to mention
that just looking at
their existing websites makes me nauseous.
mircea_popescu: teh republic needs a whole bunch of managers, as it
turns out.
ben_vulpes: public. i have high hopes
that
the rockchip will be a
thing people even want, but i'm clearly out of my depth on marketing
to
the great wide web.
mimisbrunnr: Logged on 2018-06-27 02:56 ben_vulpes: during
the day: sweat! during
the night: sweat! but also stare at
the ceiling
ben_vulpes:
http://logs.bvulpes.com/trilema?d=2018-6-27#388828 << i do not
think
that
this line of business is worth pursuing further, and will
tender my resignation for mismanagement if folks want it for
the wasted
time/effort. sifting
the midden pile of
the internet for people who worry about five dollars a month for hosting flies in
the face of everything i've learned in #trilema about coming anywhere near
the
☟︎ trinque: depends on whether
that barrier is keeping
the right folks ~illiterate
trinque: if
they had a proper writing system, might be womende by now
trinque: I can kinda squint and see stems and inflection in
that
trinque: asciilifeform: don't
they do number with "particles" ?
mircea_popescu: one of
the principal drivers of my cultural suspicion of
the yellow folk.
mircea_popescu: this because it's very strictly phonetically confined, so it works well for
the continuation of classical poetry. because yes, ro has its own, unknwon, carmina buranas.
mircea_popescu: because yes, romanian may have 4 past perfects + a bunch of past conjunctives, putatives, supines and whatnot. and
they're even intensionally distinct. but
this dun mean most speakers can even notice
the distinctions.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can reliably distinguish philologist from plain romanian, as
the latter's not going
to be able
to produce
the simple perfect form for
the "a coace" verb.\
mircea_popescu: but anyway, leaving
these nonpredicative perfects aside : imperfect (eu faceam) ; composed perfect (eu am facut) ; pluperfect (eu facusem) and simple perfect (eu facui)
mircea_popescu: and eys
the conjunctive has a perfect (eu sa fi facut)
mircea_popescu: there's
three futures (plain future, perfect future, future-in-the-past) and a counterfactual
tense (techniucally, also a future).
mircea_popescu: the cause is related
to
that "On
the basis of
the model, each linseed oil molecule appears
to displace 90 water molecules and occupy 6 hydrogen bonding sites in
the wood."
mircea_popescu: for instance. but widely applicable. for instance -- did you know gekko ~skin~ is actually bactericidal ? most gram-negatives fail
to survive
the contact.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 20:33 asciilifeform: i was recently reading about 'oilite', a
type of self-lubricating bronze,
that is still made in usa.
the factory where it was originally produced, owned by chrysler corp., lived in
the '30s.
today it is a ruin, rats live in it. oilite is still made, in usa, but for how long - i have nfi, at some point it will become difficult
to find people who will follow
the ritual (yes,
to savages, industry is ritual) and it will sail off
to china
mircea_popescu: if all you wanted
to do was shove
the cobs up your butthole... why even leave missouri ?!
mircea_popescu: i'm still digesting
this nonsense whereby some fucktard from missouri
thinks saying
the right words in
the big city will
turn his passion for inserting corn cobbs / other farm-bound implements into some kind of new life.
mircea_popescu: but yes, re evident hand-curated blind spots.
they're "having a conversation" over
there
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one interesting
tidbit is
that
trilema autoresolves
titles, so if you remember
that, you can always go
trilema.com/lets-duckduck and it'll
take you home.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: experimentally ~same situation on google, for
trilema, statistically. i suspect not specifically,
though (ie,
the space between
this 13% and
that 13% is not random but carefully hand-selected) but im
too lazy
to check
this.