mircea_popescu: "Virtue signaling persists only because too few of us are willing to speak out against it. The good news is that I've noticed an increasing amount of opposition to political correctness culture in the FOSS world. We're fighting back, and we're winning, albeit slowly."
mircea_popescu: ~THEY~ r fighting back! and winning! so sez hackernews profile in feb 2016 ; hasn't really been heard from in a coupla years. for so much wins.
lobbes: in lobbes' hopper updates: I think I will need to refocus on first wrapping my head around V before moving too much further with my download-archive-zips-o-tron. This is due to the newly illuminated (to me) causes of: 1) in order to solve the duplicate problem (which needs solving before I can ethically charge for files), I will -eventually- need to leverage Republican authored solutions (e.g.
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-24#1785983). 2) if I'
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2018-02-24 21:40 mircea_popescu: it's going to get built tho, he'll need a binary tree model, a merkle tree-izer, and an elastic hash-er for sure.
lobbes: m going to be a proper Lord of the Republic, I need to be able to wield the most fundamental of Republican tools
lobbes: so my current side-quest is to get ave1's mp-wp pressed and working (I have php 5.6 on my test machine so this should come in handy). lobbesblog right now is all 'manual html' with 'manual comments' a la dpb's, so I'ma need a more automated comments/publishing mechanism anyway. This oughta kill two birds with one stone, with added benefit that I can publish a n00b guide with notes on journey.
lobbes: though right now I'm still stepping through alf's v99 (v.py), which has been a useful learning tool thus far
mircea_popescu: lobbes that's not even the cannonical item ; hanbot is working on a no-binary genesis for it on phf's new version vdiff.
ben_vulpes: diana_coman, mircea_popescu: i apologize for the hysteresis in server specs, but i failed to procure the cable i need for the high-throughput raid card in time to board tomorrow. i'm provisioning the machine reserved for your use with a software raid10 for installation this week, but you have the option to wait an uncertain amount of time for me to get the cable down to the dc and reprovision it with a much
ben_vulpes: faster hardware raid array. your choice.
ben_vulpes: i can also abort this provisioning run and install directly to the ssd if you'd prefer
mircea_popescu: will hafta get back to you on this, but tis kinda meh!
ben_vulpes: well there are 4 ssds in the machine, i can install an os to one of them and let you mount the other three however you'd like
mircea_popescu: i don';t get it, what's os installing to do with anything ?
ben_vulpes: 'tis at least a usable machine, if sw raid is so abhorrent; thought the option was worth offering. doesn't sound like you have any interest though.
mircea_popescu: well, this is a fundamental, at least to me, service pizarro is offering, GENUINE raid. ie, raid installed by republican hands out of genuine components etc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: pantsuit implementations, be they software or dubiola are all kinda akin from this perspective. akin to nothing at all, that is.
ben_vulpes: very useful feedback in nailing down hardware spec, ty
ben_vulpes: this is the ass end of nowhere, populated entirely by apple fanbois
ben_vulpes: think fairbanks but with even fewer useful people
ben_vulpes: i have like 2 long shots to try tomorrow
ben_vulpes: that is one of the things i'm going to try, yeah
ben_vulpes: also walking the list of craigslist server vendors emailing any that look halfway competent to see if they have what i need
ben_vulpes: kids disposing of retired servers from the office, really
mircea_popescu: who could have ever guessed this economy of the future wasn't going to be all that.
mircea_popescu: so if one day i decide to play golf in the fucking road, that's it, everyone's stuck accomodating my 10mph electric golf cart (in the best of cases, but more generally my 1.2 mph half blind 165yo caddy) ?
mircea_popescu: fuck that dumb shit, i don't care some slick scammer sold them on the idea it's a conveyance. it's not more of a conveyance than any fucking kitchen robot, that also sorta-kinda moves around on the countertop.
mircea_popescu: i don't see any fucking roman oxcarts plaguing the highways, and i'd better fucking not see any more of these hipster doofuses either.
ben_vulpes: someday riding down offending cyclists will no longer be frowned upon and the world will rejoice
mircea_popescu: word, ima get a cowgrate on my car, except for the other sort of cow.
mircea_popescu: not even ride them down per se, let nature take its course and cripple them instead.
ben_vulpes: i'm going to go for the wheel-mounted blades
mircea_popescu: hopefully get eaten by dingo pack. in the usual fashion dingos hunt, ie evisceration.
ben_vulpes off on last-ditch shot at component sourcing
ben_vulpes once did time in a shop where folks struggled to make the daily check in at 10a
mircea_popescu: sometimes i forget this land flattens out towards teh anus.
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> it's 830, actually << Ah, you are only traveling 5 hours into the future this week.
mircea_popescu: in other news, nikki cardenas (kink.com bills her "skylar price" for some incomprehensible reason) has a great gangbang personality.
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a111: Logged on 2018-03-05 05:20 mircea_popescu: which i don't even recall, was it released yet or ?
a111: Logged on 2018-03-05 05:31 ben_vulpes: yes but then no
phf: spyked reported another C attribute annotation issue since then
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-03-01#1786600 , but it's yet another compiler/system combination problem, and those who managed to build c vdiff previously should be able to do so still (sans the noreturn and 'no newline' issues)
☝︎ mod6: it was a hunting job, but pretty excited we sourced that.
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diana_coman:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-03-05#1786939 <- uhm, hmm, dunno, in South Tyrol they have those great cycling tracks *not in the road of course, completely separate* and it's absolutely great for a day thing: get on bike, cycle up and down the Dolomites for some 2-3 hours, get to a lake, have a rest and a swim, go back in 45 minutes (mostly downhill, fun like hell), sleep like a log
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2018-03-05 16:27 mircea_popescu: holy shit, ciclists aren't people.
diana_coman: sort of the skiing of summer in that region I'd say; but to the point: cyclists are perfectly people but they don't ride alongside cars - why would one *want* to ride a bicycle among/between/alongside cars, it's nonsense quadrupled
diana_coman: adrenaline: go down some forest path narrow and steep; plenty
ben_vulpes: look i'm not arguing that young me was particularly bright or that things have changed much, ok?
ben_vulpes: well, "big", 1.5M if you count most of the exurbs as well
ben_vulpes: mountain biking was a weekend trip sort of thing
ben_vulpes: there was a lot of fun unused industrial area along the river for quite some time that yielded all sorts of bikefun, but it's been largely sanitized at this point.
diana_coman used to do precisely as described cycling + swimming; that's the main part she's missing of South Tyrol
ben_vulpes: sounds great; there was also plenty of biking along the river and jumping in at arbitrary points to be done but! on segregated paths
diana_coman: so not enough adrenaline then? on those segregated paths?
ben_vulpes: gotta get into traffic if you have a death wish
diana_coman: heh, I still quite distinctly remember some crazy-speed-racing-bikes on those segregated paths; not exactly idyllic, no
ben_vulpes: "springwater corridor" is plenty wide enough for the speed demons to breeze in between groups riding two abreast
ben_vulpes: these days folks strap lipos to the bicycles and haul ass at ~motorcycle speeds
diana_coman: must be the crowded Europe then: never enough space for lack of adrenaline, lol
ben_vulpes: why not take a motorcycle on the bike track for that matter
ben_vulpes: motorbikes don't fit in the bike lockup facilities downtown
diana_coman: so then getting something almost like a motorcycle but not quite and in any case as fast but pretending to be still a bike; sheesh
BingoBoingo: And lacks cool mudding tread pattern of ATV tires too!
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