a111: Logged on 2018-03-12 23:53 hanbot: i think here in cr most earthquake casualties consist of old people having heart attax
mircea_popescu: and finally done with that rewrite! it ended up soaking two workdays, but seems quite worth it.
trinque: diana_coman: regarding your cuntoo build problem, net-tools upstream has apparently broken build on default gcc-4.9.4. If I pass -std=gnu99, the definer of IFNAMSIZ is included and the thing builds.
☟︎ trinque: rather than accept the insult and add tape, I lean towards basing the thing on busybox and pulling this and other redundancies out.
trinque: at any rate, this needs a longer look. we don't need to be going "oh upstream broke us" again in a month. meanwhile I don't want to hold anyone up setting up a pizarro box.
mircea_popescu: trinque how's you giving things the needed looks hold up anyone ?
trinque: she was building the thing evaluating it for her own use. still can, but will need a revision from me, which I'm working on.
trinque: if she doesn't want to wait, eventually there will be a way to transition a classical gentoo box forthcoming, since I'll be doing it to my own.
mircea_popescu: choicest bits : "Staunch Unionists in Eugene were outraged. They did not, however, feel outraged enough to brave those grim-faced Smithfield sharpshooters in an attempt to do something about it. So instead, they complained bitterly to every authority they could reach: the sheriff, the state legislature, and yes, the federal government in Washington, D.C."
mircea_popescu: "A few weeks later, one of the Smithfield rebels was caught in Eugene trying to buy supplies, and arrested and lodged in a jailhouse. Word spread quickly, and a lynch mob soon had assembled to lay siege to the jailhouse. But the rebel, who had hidden a tiny penknife somewhere on his person, put up such a ferocious fight that vigilante justice was delayed long enough for the sheriff to arrive with a posse, and soon the mob was
ben_vulpes: complaining bitterly to any mother who might be nearby is how oregonians do everything
mircea_popescu: oh, don't forget the send-off, "if anyone had shot at mommy, THE ENTIRE WORLD WOULD HAVE BEEN RAZED DOWN!!!! but since i could find no record of it happening..."
ben_vulpes: womxn is the new word in other linguistic backflips
hanbot: <ben_vulpes> womxn is the new word in other linguistic backflips << why, has the average one gotten so large you can't tell whether or not she's a plurality?
mircea_popescu: but i lolled at the fbi check through interpol. "send me an aba wire through sepa!"
mircea_popescu: and check out ben_vulpes ; he actually knows the terms of art now. been doing some reading ?
mircea_popescu: ok, why not. "catastrophes in complex systems fall out of failure cascades" is almost bibliography calc, neh ?
ben_vulpes: iirc that nugget stuck with me from a piece on five mile island i read lord only knows how long ago
mircea_popescu: well, it's how the people who make this stuff their business call things, anyway.
ben_vulpes: i think i will take the avuncular head-pat
ben_vulpes: i halfway suspect that nobody had ever looked inside that cabinet until BingoBoingo; maybe arrived from the boat preassembled even, to dimensions convenient to assemblers and not users.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i'm such a fan of crescent wrenches i actually keep them around as art objects / use them idly while walking around the house as sceptres, gesture with them and so forth.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i've had it for a year, afaik never used yet for anything in the vein of its intended utilities.
ben_vulpes: they've always been my "wrong tool for every job"; i'd rather have a set of deep sockets in pretty much every situation.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: can get them to bottom out just beyond the cracking distance!
mircea_popescu: next you're going to build elaborate nutcrackers like those doomed bavarians.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's not "a chance", it's a virtual guarantee. were you there and pissed they'd have pushed you though apologetically.
mircea_popescu: but stuck for hours with $mysteriousbag... and bored...
ben_vulpes: perhaps i'll have the opportunity to run the experiment some day and we can see
mircea_popescu: but the point is solid, you need the forum MORE when you're in the shit, not less.
a111: Logged on 2018-03-14 04:50 mircea_popescu: incidentally, i'm such a fan of crescent wrenches i actually keep them around as art objects / use them idly while walking around the house as sceptres, gesture with them and so forth.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-06 13:13 mircea_popescu: intel thinking at the time being is, "have the paperwork for mbs and chips in slot 1 ; paperwork for disks in slot 2 ; for ram in slot 3. then if asked for papers, present slot 1, offer to pay, whine and ask for discounts, etc. if that dun pass, add slot 2, whine more insistently."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as he says, they're not actually useful other than symbolically. but symbolically AND HOW
mircea_popescu: i dunno, by now we're starting towards gynecological instruments.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ben_vulpes next time, turn the damned things on for half an hour, covers off, so they suck in some dust also.
ben_vulpes: 'tis more or less what i had, but inapplicable to a bag of parts. the three new-in-box drives plus the expediter's fee plus a honking pile of taxesnfees-that-aren't-IVA was the bulk of the bill.
ben_vulpes: net tax on the miserably small pile that was actually declared ran in the 45% range
ben_vulpes: interestingly, drives bolted to trays were effectively untaxed.
diana_coman: trinque, sounds good; and I'm certainly interested in a recipe for transitioning a classical gentoo as well since I can quite see I'll need it anyway
mircea_popescu: imo much better than the baez original, specifically because it's the same pantsuitism (tho for all the bonus levels of involuntary lulz one actually needs fluent romanian)
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> o wow BingoBoingo is getting an uruguayan cedula ?! << Well, kind goes with the de-empirification process
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> but i lolled at the fbi check through interpol. "send me an aba wire through sepa!" << Apparently US law enforcement does not answer these requests from US persons, hence the WTF intermediary