asciilifeform: at no point, interestingly, is there much of any kind of pressure to make a widget that ~actually works~
asciilifeform: pretty lulzy inversion of the usual corporate dynamic, where there are shareholders and they want growing profits; instead there is a printolade supplier, who wants manageable (or -- optimistically -- slowing!) bleed
asciilifeform: idea is that schmuck won't notice when they fail
asciilifeform: the way i currently understand the 'microinverter' nonsense, is that enphase found a further chineseification of the solar scamatron, by replacing the traditional massive dc-ac inverter with a multitude of small chinese turds, made for use in autos
asciilifeform: and the company is on track to make a profit in the second half of 2017. Its employees have worked to significantly cut the cost of producing its signature devices, microinverters that take DC, or direct current, power from solar panels and transform it into AC, or alternating current, power for homes.'
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/k58t9 >> gourmet liquishit, e.g., 'The energy tech company with 350 employees has reported annual losses every year since it went public in 2012, including nearly $67.5 million worth of red ink last year. Since September, it has gone through two rounds of layoffs and raised about $26 million by issuing new stock and bringing in two major investors. Enphase officials say with confidence that a turnaround is underway
asciilifeform: 'February 16, 2017 ... Enphase Energy, Inc. (ENPH), a global energy technology company, today announced that it has refinanced and extended its term loan facility with certain funds managed by Tennenbaum Capital Partners ("TCP") from $25 million to $50 million.'
asciilifeform: ( once in a while some exceptionally poorly written spamatron shows up, which ~can't~ tell, on first try)
asciilifeform: i suppose they can tell that there isn't actually a wordpress installed.
asciilifeform: the folx throwing random rubbish into the submit box, are actually quite uncommon.
asciilifeform: these don't spam, no. they just crawl.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and they also stole the ip range of google corp ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the odd thing is, it did anyway -- until somewhat recently
asciilifeform: ( aug. 3, 2016 : 'Enphase entered into a $25 million loan agreement with a lender specializing in "rescue financing" that furnishes capital "to avoid a restructuring or insolvency.'"' )
asciilifeform: that's several lifetimes worth of text, even if it consists of 1MB pastes...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i seem to recall ~200MB last time you tallied it and posted here (6 mo ago ?)
asciilifeform: Framedragger: for some reason i am reminded of a cartoon i saw when i was very small, incidentally iirc it was made in some baltic country, where an eagle decides that frog is his son and threatens constantly to 'teach him to fly' by throwing from a cliff
asciilifeform: that's what 'db' is, a massive pile of shit that pretends to be 'one size fits all' data structure
asciilifeform: ah so just lift the html you get from /phuctored . problem solved ?
asciilifeform: Framedragger: i think he wants ~only~ the ssh keys
asciilifeform: aseriousgogetta (~Kimberley@ip-64-134-144-245.public.wayport.net) has joined #trilema << hey mircea_popescu , can haz hammer ? every time that monkey's connection cycles, i feel like a chimp is throwing shit in my face
