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mp_en_viaje: maybe i misunderstand what you're saying ; but imo php and perl have little functionally to do with each other, people identify them through their disdain, and by "people" i mean people whose locus is bash. the people whose locus is excel/virtual basic or w/e don't.
mp_en_viaje: spyked, i don' t think i've ever seen php that generates html that is interpreted as php that spits out html.
spyked: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-07-05#1921771 <-- it's how html templating/pre-processing usually works, you embed one language into the other. php is perl (or whatever) interleaved with html; cl-who is very similar, only without the leaky abstractions, i.e. html trees are represented as s-exprs and can be correctly manipulated as such ☝︎
diana_coman: the one in Minsk (as in St Petersburg so I put it on -> Russian) was a. deeper (doubling as nuclear shelter?) b. accelerating for all it was worth (so more likely long-distance idea)
diana_coman: the striking difference re bucharest esp was simply that tube in Bucharest is /was clearly made for medium-long distance, a "cross the gridlocked centre" sort of thing while the one in Paris was to a large extent for short distance (or at least most lines i.e. there are some, fewer "express" lines)
diana_coman: I think it was one X with some concentric circles + north-south and east-west lines but I never really studies the map in a lot of detail
a111: Logged on 2019-07-05 22:18 mp_en_viaje: i'd just make a grid, every mile a line each way.
diana_coman: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-07-05#1921843 -> in my experience Paris was closest to this i.e. wherever one was, walking < 5 minutes gets one to a tube station ☝︎
asciilifeform: re chinese, i've not had the pleasure to ride their trains or even see up close, so cannot add.
asciilifeform: i suspect from ~tram~
mp_en_viaje: i dunno tbh how i got this idea in my head.
mp_en_viaje: http://trilema.com/2019/i-give-you-something-new/#selection-179.0-179.58 etc
asciilifeform: resembled, i think, chicago
asciilifeform: i was only in budapest subway for an hour or so, dun recall how it was arrayed
mp_en_viaje: i thought "holy shit, this is the most antique insane thing leftover"
mp_en_viaje: i thought that;'s so fucking nutty, i even photographed it in budapest
mp_en_viaje: but i mean they just loop, neh ? doesn't actually switch at end of line, just loops around
asciilifeform: i cannot say why they did not build the (youngest, i think, in world) wash. metro -- 1972 iirc -- with 100% bidir. platforms
mp_en_viaje: i dunno i ever noticed line switching. that's... kinda dumb neh ?
asciilifeform: they do not of course physically cross even here. but the trains do have to switch sides, i dun know of any subway anywhere where ~all~ stations have bidirectional platform
mp_en_viaje: i'd just make a grid, every mile a line each way. ☟︎
mp_en_viaje: i'm not even persuaded it's a bad idea. if you only have dough for that track length, making a cross possibly optimal load. and if not constrained by historical idiocy, like budapest with its 1898 lines look like they were dug by moles, might as well just make a proper grid, #
mp_en_viaje: (there's different place where i explain that romanian "business owner" ie rotto in culo making 5k/year hussing the street has no business owning car. THEREFORE I CONTRADICT SELF!!!
asciilifeform: i'ma guess that these come from same fountain of liquishit as the 'hotel' in oslo -- i.e. clients unequipped to distinguish the sham from real deal
mp_en_viaje: not even sport, not like i fucked anyone. was for blogging, you know, to draw a map gotta draw the limits. just like math analysis, go for the remarkable points of inflection etc.
mp_en_viaje: as someone having run such, i know what to look for.
mp_en_viaje: i WILL however ditch "luxury boutique hotel" across the way from construction yard.
mp_en_viaje: i would not ditch a, say, electronic parts dealer because his office is in abandoned mall by decrepit diner 20 miles off highway.
asciilifeform: only mp_en_viaje can say why did not go in. i cannot.
asciilifeform: i admittedly have possibly simplistic picture, where it's quite same as miller
mp_en_viaje: unless they make their dough at the gas station, i guess.
mp_en_viaje: so we opt out, go for 2nd best. it is a... well i dunno, basically looked like a bus stop in the distance.
mp_en_viaje: ate (very nice food, "friendship" pectopan in friendship park, a++ beerhouse, great soup great snitzel etc) ; then went for the "moulin rouge", top best cathouse-cunnyshack. driver takes us to a... well... i dunno, construction yard ? narrow dark alley betwen a concrete wall and some metal panes delimiting an earthy ditch.
mp_en_viaje: in other news, i spent the weirdest friday night out in memory
asciilifeform: i.e. cultivation of 'axe handles' in orclands using miami inhabitants as 'live bait'.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-08 15:10 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can't comment on ro emigres, but with su world there was a lulzy twist : 1st wave (1970s -- largely j000z!11) wrote home, 'i'ma full professor and it rocks, come on over', 2nd wave went, to discover that market -- glut, and hello cab
mp_en_viaje: that's the best theory i got.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, as near as i can tell plan was never to "use" in any meaningful sense, certainly not anything beyond "these are '''winners'''' of tournament market, aspire, aspire, aspire!"
asciilifeform: even when sovok croaked, i dun recall any 'emigre dissidents' being sent back into the crater to help usgificate, rather was done by entirely other folx + locally grown axe handles
asciilifeform: i have nfi how to even calculate 'worked'. at 1 time, during reign of kennedy, plan was to draft'em into an invasion army. this was done, it was turned into mincemeat, and afaik there was never any 'plan' since
asciilifeform: large zoo. e.g. 1 time i saw coupla 100 persia-flavoured 'activists' with pickets in front of wh, 'we demand bombing of teheran nao' etc
BingoBoingo: With that 2017 eclipse, I though a lot of people learned ccd's can overheat
asciilifeform: i did learn that ccd in camera can overheat, had nfi this was possible.
asciilifeform: fwiw it was such a sad chunk of sadness that i regret what spent on the train ticket, not even speaking of time.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: for all i know, this kinda thing has been 'normal' here for yrs. asciilifeform simply stays out, usually, from mass panem et circenses scenes, simply not seen
asciilifeform: i can only guess that nowadays if, in this here colony, you can 'do floating point' you will work somewhere other than the scorching swamp heat selling bottles..
asciilifeform: this was 1st such scene that i've personally witnessed
asciilifeform: i recall a mp_en_viaje article where there was detailed portrait of argentine 'academic', with bow tie etc, demanding shop credit line to buy a pair of boots or what was it
asciilifeform: i.e. can't buy it with the printolade or pyramid would topple ?
mp_en_viaje: i understand it fine.
asciilifeform: i was told 200-300 was typical in timis.
mp_en_viaje: i guess increasing salaries worst thing for the people.
asciilifeform: ( interestingly, in proper ru, i am told, not so great, 'americanization' is making inroads there )
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i picture food situation much like in ro, aha. minus the rubbish trucked in from germany.
mp_en_viaje: i expect you could get yourself free drinks for rest of life in any bar of your choice here, on the strength of "i used to live in wash dc" stories.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: will. and BingoBoingo as i understand piz is paying for transport ? ( rather , asciilifeform pays, asciilifeform owes piz, plox to credit it , when billed , against his tab )
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, yes, iirc i was held to pay for a piece of hardware to replace extant ? or was it two ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: speaking of the (entirely fair) 'customers, motherfuckers' prod from mp_en_viaje : i'ma take the smg broadcast as official marching order re the machine delivery, and make the purchases, so we've what to sell . ( and on that front, the mips item is ready for war. i'ma also need to cuntoo . )
mp_en_viaje: nor is this peculiar burden on girl. i don't stick around in idiotlands either, once it's discovered it's also abandoned.
asciilifeform: and i'm speaking of generic people, even; i imagine mp_en_viaje had to beat'em away with sticks.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i did not follow him to naggumistan, never found out what he meant. ( and fella wasn't ever heard from since. )
mp_en_viaje: pliable in what sense ? all i perceived was neurosis.
asciilifeform: tourist in any shithole country is 'king and god', i have nfi how their own ministry of tourism avoids nailing this idiot
asciilifeform: i bet losing case over even just the cost of that room would kill it
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, i dun even want the dough ; i want that thing ended.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, nowhere i know of ; not in africa, nowhere. oslo only feature, nordic system.
asciilifeform: 1st time i see this on mp_en_viaje's www. (maybe elbowed wrong button?)
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, nah, it was detailed, and much earlier. i suspect 2012
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: http://trilema.com/2018/the-principal-agent-problem-or-how-america-went-away/#selection-251.0-261.55 i think is it
BingoBoingo: This seems to be close, but I suspect not quite on its own what you are seeking: http://trilema.com/2013/compliance/#selection-37.0-77.52
mp_en_viaje: in what's becoming a god damned tradition, i can't fucking find it.
mp_en_viaje: incidentally, does anyone recall the (i suspect antique) trilema piece where various things (such as, insane us medical """costs"'") were explained in terms of "whenever one party pays and another party benefits you get chaos" ?
mp_en_viaje: i dunno man, i have fiber cable right here in minsk.
mp_en_viaje: i'm almost considering going, which'd be like the first time mustachioed advertising manages to call to action
bvt: i see, when the last person who was there when the isp was set up retires... ; the internet situation in germany is outrageous -- dsl everywhere, highest prices for shittiest quality, providers (2 or 3 that are still there) making sure that no fiber gets to the customers, etc (iirc they invested heavily in copper 'cause "isdn is the future!" in 90ties).
mp_en_viaje: ah, i'm sure you don't. just... i am starting to suspect "internet problems" will become the fish store joke of our generation.
bvt: well, i still have access to irc/inet at saltmine; and working offline is also possible, so i don't waste time in meantime.
bvt: hello. i have also prepared a work schedule document; however internet at my workplace died this week, will post the plan as soon as the internet goes back up; the plan for next two weeks is to get to ffa14b, update asm code to it; after that, i will have a look at some other work.
mp_en_viaje: http://trilema.com/2014/consent-is-a-myth-lets-see-how-it-came-to-be/#selection-309.373-309.460 for the fucking win, what can i possibly say.
mp_en_viaje: that the femstate, i say, DOES NOT EXIST, and DOES NOT MATTER. hurr. duh. omgwtfbbq, and they thought they were "periodistas", ie, cyclerers. which is somehow different from historical womanhood, they're the special cuntlets of 2019, so, so very unlikely every other generation of "grin and bear it"... empirebuilders, let's say.
mp_en_viaje: n-73.1-79.1][the natural obligation]) and i'll pay men to guard them lest anyone does the deed, and cashes the check they're writing.
mp_en_viaje: shock and awe, a bunch of idle cuntlets went to new york to "be journalists" aka "do whatever the fuck i please all day as if i were mp" only to discover mp is mp because mp, not because new york, and cowpoke girl from indiana doesn't get away from HAVING TO suck cock just because got away from indiana.
mp_en_viaje: hey phf, since i'll be in minsk for a while, how inconvenient is it to hop in a plane, come have a beefsteak or something ?
asciilifeform: audience -- maybe coupla 100k of fans, some of the fattest folx i've ever seen in person who could still walk on 2 legs
a111: Logged on 2019-06-26 19:24 mp_en_viaje: get yourself support locally, too. there's a few remnant pantsui torgs that need strangling ; i murdered one there's just a few left. they must be publicly raped, and then get the repubkican style institutions going.
mp_en_viaje: billymg, note the things i said re moving to cr, specifically http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-26#1920248 ; attempting to manalone things is a loser strategy wherever you go. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2019-07-01 10:20 mircea_popescu: and the other item in this rapidly depleting bucket of possibly useful ideas : fucking pick. obviously i'll look at a group and go "talk to that one with the tits" or w/e such, my picks are easy peasy. but this doesn't mean yo ucan't pick! look at a group, select the donkey with the more intelligent gaze, talk to that, what's to keep you.
billymg: ah, i see
mp_en_viaje: i think part of the problem is maybe a kind of literalism. i wouldn't say the thread is ~incorrect~ ; i would however say it does not relate to you in the manner you imply. it is a historical and statistical account, like say a discussion of female biological inferiority.
mp_en_viaje: well, you'll also eventually die. "not if i just keep away from the site of my eventual death" is your answer ?
billymg: and when this happens, or how it happens, is not something i'd like to predict, but rather be far enough away to watch from a distance
billymg: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-24#1844050 << this thread is what i'm thinking of ☝︎
mp_en_viaje: the general population in minsk is stuck saving all week on their miserly $100/week salary to take girlfriend out on independence day, only to get kicked out of the booth because there's some people there doing bottles. the general population sits morosely at the bar while their gf watches my whores mouth agape for half an hour only to eventually work up the gumption to come over and complain about ~the noise~. in a fucking bar. so i tell them to ge
billymg: re: timing, i'm worried that the next bitcoin spike, which feels due soon, will again create a climate of jealousy/resentment in the population towards anyone with btc
mp_en_viaje: " This being said, there is as always plenty of space for doing better at this, certainly, especially since I know very well how much worse it was before I specifically set about to make it better, step by step" << diana_coman on the everquest
asciilifeform: i'ma find out shortly
a111: Logged on 2019-07-03 17:48 billymg: re: converting all remaining fiat to coin: if i were asciilifeform or similar and had bulletproof keys then i perhaps would not mind having 99.9% of net worth in coin. but since i am not, i feel some amount of hedging against my own fallibility is prudent
mp_en_viaje: sooo... i might be the only person in the world to be hit on by their 19yo ~stewardess~, but it fucking happened. as i'm sitting in line to get a local phone sim, this bubbly chick is all "oh, i flew you yesterday, remember me ???"
billymg: asciilifeform: yes, so if i accidentally my keys, nice to at least have roof over my head still, or some benjies in a suitcase, is all i'm saying
billymg: re: converting all remaining fiat to coin: if i were asciilifeform or similar and had bulletproof keys then i perhaps would not mind having 99.9% of net worth in coin. but since i am not, i feel some amount of hedging against my own fallibility is prudent ☟︎