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Mocky: mircea_popescu, d. kyon is Diogenes?
Mocky: BingoBoingo, usually by the end of winter I look like a coffee with too much cream, but slightly too much summer sun and I turn into kunta kinte for 6 months
☟︎ Mocky: place is crawling with uber drives, never more than 3 minutes away no matter where you go, almost all driving a Kia
Mocky: they also have uber-knockoffs, one named careem
Mocky: uber in Qatar is cash, much to my surprise. I popped a sim into my second phone, made an uber acct, verifed with a text message, no CC, no identity verification. i was surprised
Mocky: oh, thx trinque. didn't get around to upping myself, just doing chores atm
Mocky: I get it and I agree with you.
☟︎ Mocky: the important point being that as a matter of policy, perpetuating smaller packet sizes is a bad idea
Mocky: if a program wants to send 200 byte packets only, too bad, os won't allow cuz asciilifeform says your small number not godly?
Mocky: so long as you can assume one tru packet size, you can get some ada benefits + extra simplicity, that you don't get otherwise, no?
Mocky: it's a simplifying assumption that pays off with smooth transition between program and unix, when it holds. a tactical cut
Mocky: ok so does the hardcoding need to be in-package for the preallocated buffers?
Mocky:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-13#1862167 >> I don't see how it would necessarily be any simpler aside from one `if` statement. And there's nothing to stop listening on separate ports and getting all benefits asciilifeform mentions with different sizes
☝︎☟︎☟︎ Mocky: oh shit, mircea_popescu unrated me!
☟︎ Mocky: stabbing not needed if boy can be cowwed. what, mayogendered gonna start taking the more strenuous route now?
Mocky: probably same outcome BingoBoingo
Mocky is in no danger of being suave
Mocky: yeah i better tone down the eye makeup
Mocky: in-group fashion trends, evidently
Mocky: these are the ones out on the weekend looking for night life downtown
Mocky: and the horde of scrawny indian dudes with their skinny jeans, even the fat ones still have scrawny legs and wear skinny jeans
Mocky: street food vendors, outdoor diners all safe from flying pests
Mocky: outside last night in the city, stones throw from the bay, staring up at street lights during the interminable wait at crosswalks, not a single bug circling street lights, not a spider web
Mocky: the insect situation here hard to fathom. they just about don't have any. i saw a moth here on the first day, very small. and another moth outside last night, tiny.
Mocky: she didn't say so and I didn't ask her directly, but I will. She seems like a good asset for making further media contacts and cultural info (topic of magazine) and not direct contact to locals
Mocky: local Qatari men are shoe-ins for high level company / agency / gov jobs and often inherit a lot of wealth, and only ~100k of them so they aren't exactly drawn to street crimes
Mocky: except for tourists who are very limited in stay duration
Mocky: she says that ultimately every foreigner has a single named Qatari sponsor (typically company part-owner) who has the power to kick you out anytime and who gets hassled if you cause trouble
Mocky: BingoBoingo, this is a short chick, btw, who walks around here alone on a daily basis, with a backpack for 6 years, never gets bothered
Mocky: bought me dinner at an iraqi restaurant. seems like computer security is a huge thing here. even small companies like her magazine get 'cyber threats' at least weekly. bigger companies much more so. a lot of website and network hacking goes on.
Mocky: She showed me the Souq Waqif, a large "street market" 2 city blocks in size, about half indoors (although the indoor part looks like narrow streets with a roof) it's like the cultural center for Qataris. various musical 'bands' playing traditional drum music
Mocky: I met yesterday with a chick who does the social media and photography for a local magazine. She's not a local but seems to have a good set of connections and eager to help me out.
Mocky:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-13#1861536 >> also sunk $B into building largest military base in the region for usg. 'feud' seems like public theatre to my noob eyes. US is well respected here in contrast to gulf state back-turners.
☝︎ Mocky: unrelatedly, i saw the craziest thing leaving the air port. there are a lot of indian dudes around doing public works type labor jobs. landscaping, pickup up trash, construction etc. I saw one, and i swear he was mowing the grass with a chain saw, all squatted down. now maybe he was cutting something else, but there was nothing else there! and damn if the that lawn wasn't pristine as a golf course
Mocky: with >80% foreigners all speaking english, the Qataris fear becoming ESL. signage is dual language because Arabic is mandated. in 2012 they passed a law mandating universities switch from english to arabic for all degree for all degree programs other than sci/eng/med. in 2016 further law mandating arabic for gov agencies, contracts, schools
Mocky: if you look at zoomed in version, nepal, africa, caribbean, so not countries really
Mocky: the side of that thing has the names of other countries on it...
Mocky: i can see why so few foreigners learn the language, everything is in both english and arabic, signage, food labels, store receipts, even the money
☟︎ Mocky: diana_coman, i've got to find some that speak arabic. so far Indians, Nigerians, Nepalese and Asians all speaking english
Mocky: yeah I think that was some late morning glare
Mocky: i got lost on kitchen robot, non existing item?
Mocky: mircea_popescu, the significance of keccak here is to have a better hash of same?
Mocky: oh, i didn't realize it was that much better with aggression. my prior, discouraged attempt was without aggression and looking to be substantially slower than 3 weeks
Mocky:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-10#1859947 >> btw, has there been any consideration of publishing a signed tar ball of the first, say half million blocks. not to have them set in stone, but like 'at height 550000, these were the first 500k' for purpose of eat-block jumpstart for nodeless noobs, such as myself? Log search didn't reveal it to my eyes.
☝︎ Mocky: speaking of deathless beasts in the wild, I'm curious how other people get notified when you have new blog comment to be moderated.
Mocky: 'plus' was googles chance to play the role of bing, but to facebook
Mocky: mircea_popescu, dunno: hard to tell if dancing while covered head to toe in black cloth
Mocky: i'll be damned if i came 7 thousand miles to drink starbucks
Mocky: in this neighborhood evidently 24hr coffee = starbucks
Mocky: sunrise at 5:30, coffee shops opening at 7 or 8, *grunt*
Mocky: foto blog is in the pipeline, sometime after figuring out coffee and food
Mocky: the air looks quite smoggy, but also over the gulf and away from the city to the point where I wondered if it was actually smog
Mocky: i don't even know yet!
Mocky: it was funny to fly over the rural areas of qatar and see so many traffic circles and ~25% have a branch that dead ends into desert. prepared for growth i guess
Mocky: speaking of streets, street names appear totally optional, address can be a paragraph long description.
☟︎ Mocky: the building style is very different from what I've seen before, but ~all the signs include english subtitles for traffic and store fronts
Mocky: diana_coman, no worries, prolly better to expose the issue sooner than later
Mocky: asciilifeform, nice and warm. encountered a traffic wtf. stop light in the middle of the city with literal 10 minute cycle time in one direction ~20 seconds. took 3 cycles for my taxi to get thru
☟︎☟︎ Mocky: existential issues?
Mocky: thx lobbes. and thx asciilifeform, BingoBoingo, mod6, mircea_popescu
Mocky: yeah, i get it. was just making spurious joke of my own
Mocky: mircea_popescu, knew!
Mocky: and one rating is imposter!
Mocky: wot.deedbot.org page for Mocky shows diana_away's one rating
Mocky: this is my fingerprint
Mocky: that doesn't seem right
Mocky: ugh, it's mid morning. i barely slept two hours each of last two nights. gonna be a long day
☟︎ Mocky: so many bicycles in london! roving packs of ~dozen queueing up at just about every crosswalk stop, at least where I was
Mocky: I had planned to visit imperial war museum and british museum, but didn't make it to either. I did see wellington arch, hyde park, buckingham palace and assorted others
Mocky: took them ~2hrs to fix and had to power down plane which drained the battery from some other system which then had to be recharged before we could leave
Mocky:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-08#1859485 >> we headed up the east coast from raleigh past dc, ny, and started over the atlantic at cape cod. shortly after cape cod we turned back to nyc. pilot said primary systems all functioning correctly but a backup system has a malfunction light on and they cant fly more than an hour from land like that.
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