lobbes:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-08#1870228 << the way !Xcancel works right now 'behind the scenes' is that it inserts the <auction_number> into the "closed" table. This isn't much different than when an auction "resolves" normally (<auction_number> also inserted into same table), the only difference is that the bot doesn't "announce" a winner when !Xcancel is used
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2018-11-08 15:51 mod6: i can see that arg, asciilifeform. lobbes are you opposed to an !Xclose <auction_number> : which would accept the current highest bid? mircea_popescu, et. al. is this a good idea?
lobbes: In other words, order history (along with all top bids, etc.) is preserved whether you !Xcancel or just let the auction run its course.
lobbes: in other news: I'm going to be getting all 4 of my wisdom teeth yanked out tomorrow. While I'll be near my terminal, I may be out of commission for a few days. I'll be following the logs as usual (assuming I'm not knocked out from pain meds)
trinque: that's a fun one; good luck lobbes
lobbes:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-12#1642735 << relatedly, to add anecdotal evidence to this thread I can confirm: do not try and tempt fate by leaving these suckers in.. it feels like a vice-grip has been slowly tightening on my skull for the last few weeks..
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-04-12 22:11 mircea_popescu: on the long term this pressure kills them as sure as sugar.
mod6: Hey, thanks for the info lobbes. GL with the dentist.
auctionbot: Buy order # 1006 was cancelled by mod6
a111: I haven't seen mocky
a111: 2018-11-06 <Mocky> alright, lol
Mocky: I arrived back in usa
Mocky: my flight left at 1am local time and I wasn't able to sleep on either flight. was up for 42 hours
Mocky: just waking up now from 7 hour nap. it's mid morning back in qatar, where's the sun? :D
Mocky:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-08#1870186 >> I had a toaster with cancel button a few years ago was just this. Once you add the 'feature' of smart toasting whereby turning the knob after toasting has started has no effect and then once you further add the feature that the lift handle is mechanically locked down and can't be lifted during the cycle, then yes, once you accept those things you then 'need' the red button
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2018-11-08 14:44 mircea_popescu: industrial red button very much different item
Mocky: of course 'smart toasting' was the opposite of smart
☟︎ mircea_popescu: because you know, bidirectional linkage fundamental property of proper hypertext and all that...
mircea_popescu: Mocky ftr the item discussed had neither of those misfeatures.
Mocky: no bloghack, lacks the normal actually useful things
a111: Logged on 2018-10-22 20:35 asciilifeform: was speaking of where it recalculates what is by all rights a 100% constant value, 9000 times/hr, eternally
Mocky: i think i'm going to fal backto sleep now
mircea_popescu: Mocky it's mostly slander anyway, as it stands it does that "recalculating" less than 1% of the time.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-01 00:57 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ubb = universitatea babes bolyay. cluj item. old man andreica's son was at teh politechnic. diff school.
mircea_popescu: let's say i only know the well established clans of the 80s ; maybe this guy 1st gen intellectual ?
mircea_popescu: before i forget : re
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-03#1513931 this item can be exemplared in ro, also. sane clans used the same name for the firstborn, my father was mircea like my grandfather ; but some used vocalic alternation for incomprehensible reason, so the above linked guy's son wasn't ion but "ioan". which is a thoroughly imaginary halph diphtong nonsense ~specifically created for the purpose~. there's no such fucki
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-08-03 15:40 phf: the whole font changes meaning take two is coming from the japanese. they were actively promoting this idea back during early unicode standardization days, where there was a strong drive to include every idiosyncratic version of kanji in the standard, because "that's how my family writes it in our last name".
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, hm, I knew also the approach odd/even generations i.e. same name as grandfather rather than father; onth closer home it was meant to be more like same name as godfather but whatevers
diana_coman: asciilifeform, I'd suspect the Ioan is simply because of church slavonic, yes
BingoBoingo: I don't recall a IV, at least that advertised it, but I knew a Jewish kid with a III affixed
diana_coman: that sounds like the "we can haz dinastyyy 2"
BingoBoingo: Well, II was a train conductor and him and his wife were about as 70's white trash stereotype as could be in the 1990's
BingoBoingo: III made it to college, the Hillel house took him in and now III R economist
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: These were some pretty atypical jews. Lived a 15 minute drive from town in house with normal town sized yard surrounded by farm on all sides
BingoBoingo: Well, normally when I think Jews I think more urban locations
Mocky: asciilifeform, I was almost a III but my mom won that argument
a111: Logged on 2018-11-09 14:51 asciilifeform: i'ma write to him
lobbesbot: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: thanks for the markup lol. otherwise yes, pastes go into pgptron, wtf it's broken all that.
diana_coman: I suppose the " Anyway, e-mail is the communication tool that I am most comfortable with." might be quite common for thinking people that aren't all that young anymore either
diana_coman: asciilifeform, it seems to me the guy is Bucharest-based, no?
diana_coman: well, shouldn't be hard to find next time I'm in Ro really
mircea_popescu: hey, everyonre with the z80s was trying to build cool shit.
mircea_popescu: nobody with the "smart"phones ever does, which is i guess the living proof of why "smart" phones are for dumb people and the z80 was smart even tho it didn't LABEL ITSELF SUCH
diana_coman: my understanding of the "smart phone" label was in the vein of "smarter than user" so rather accurate, yes
BingoBoingo: In other updates: The Birthday card mailed in February has been recieved!
BingoBoingo: What happened between the USPS postmark and the October 30th Correo Uruguayo stamp is a mystery
BingoBoingo: It probably sat in a pile and the pile was only recently acknowledged
BingoBoingo: I suspect it's more of a cultural thing. Someone set the basket of letters in not exactly the right spot. Being ever so off to the side it was studiously ignored because civil servants here "work to rules" deviating from the rules only when their incompetence intervenes.
BingoBoingo: And then 8 months later someone probably asked to throw out the obstacle blocking the walkway only for mail to be discovered
BingoBoingo: Then again in this land where you have to register to import packaged goods, it is in a traditional US style paper envelope as opposed to a clear plastic "sobre" the Uruguayos insist on using
a111: Logged on 2018-10-15 02:44 phf: asciilifeform: i actually forgot! i'm swamped right now, but can you remind me again in about two weeks, i have a thing for you from the dig that will help with the little piece of silicon you have
a111: Logged on 2018-10-15 02:44 phf: asciilifeform: i actually forgot! i'm swamped right now, but can you remind me again in about two weeks, i have a thing for you from the dig that will help with the little piece of silicon you have
lobbesbot: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
mod6: <+BingoBoingo> In other updates: The Birthday card mailed in February has been recieved! << lol
BingoBoingo: ^ Women's hair removal professionals gotta wax balls now
Mocky: slept another 7. not feeling fully normal, but at least not exhausted anymore
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, wedding cake doesn't touch health in the way applying hot wax to delicate skin does.
BingoBoingo: Also yesterday there was no Navidad in Tienda Inglesa. Today there was.
BingoBoingo: And just for asciilifeform: The impact of small differences on Trump's freedom to act as exemplified by Jeff Session's acting replacement "Incredibly Swole Guy" -
https://archive.is/oTq9X BingoBoingo: If that guy runs in 2024, who can the Democrats credibly put against him on a debate stage?
BingoBoingo: Their men won't look credible, and age will catch up to Michelle Obama's arms
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Completely different weight classes
BingoBoingo: Bezos was a skinny kid who turned to doping with fake testosterone late in life. Session's replacement played Iowa football and makes some of Trump's professional wrassler friends look small
BingoBoingo: They are already kinda moving in that direction
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo sounds liek a decent article illustration lol.
mircea_popescu: in otherr documentary lulz, "We who live abroad are accustomed to believe that almost all Eretz Yisrael is now uninhabited desert and whoever wishes can buy land there as he pleases. But this is not true. It is very difficult to find in the land [ha'aretz] cultivated fields that are not used for planting. Only those sand fields or stone mountains that would require the investment of hard labour and great expense to make them
mircea_popescu: good for planting remain uncultivated and that's because the Arabs do not like working too much in the present for a distant future. Therefore, it is very difficult to find good land for cattle. And not only peasants, but also rich landowners, are not selling good land so easily...We who live abroad are accustomed to believing that the Arabs are all wild desert people who, like donkeys, neither see nor understand what is happ
mircea_popescu: ening around them. But this is a grave mistake. The Arab, like all the Semites, is sharp minded and shrewd. All the townships of Syria and Eretz Yisrael are full of Arab merchants who know how to exploit the masses and keep track of everyone with whom they deal – the same as in Europe. The Arabs, especially the urban elite, see and understand what we are doing and what we wish to do on the land, but they keep quiet and pret
mircea_popescu: end not to notice anything. For now, they do not consider our actions as presenting a future danger to them. … But, if the time comes that our people's life in Eretz Yisrael will develop to a point where we are taking their place, either slightly or significantly, the natives are not going to just step aside so easily."