a111: Logged on 2019-02-12 15:39 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i associate shitoverflow with articles like 'how do i cast 'fireball' in real life?' ( actual find )
mircea_popescu: im sorry i wasn't more documentary minded at the time, and so item was regrettably lost.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-12 03:02 mircea_popescu: there's this pic of some indistinct slut i posted once i'm too lazy to retrieve. she happens to be white, sports all manner of celtic cross tattoos, stylisized "SS" etc, is taking a coupla brown dicks.
mircea_popescu: "I say GENEVA, and you hear HELSINKI?!? YOU'RE FIRED BOB!!!!"
mircea_popescu: i dunno abgout that, i never felt like blogging on pico.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-18 23:20 mircea_popescu: after all, previous one took over on account of being public, from the even earlier
private equivalent.
mircea_popescu: you recall how bitcoin had a buncha ex-lumberjacks / drunks / vagrants etc suddenly become "respectable businessmen" cca 2012 ?
mircea_popescu: romania had a bunch of ~same suddenly become "bloggers" and whatnot, "influencers" cca 2007 or so.
mircea_popescu: this particular schmuck kept a little corner kiosk sellign chewing gum & such. you've seen the manner in paraguay i imagine. then went bankrupt, and "rediscovered" himself as a public speaker.
mircea_popescu: there was a bunch of them, the lulziest characters. ex port-worker (not even fucking kidding), and then ~completely ignorant~
of history, too!
mircea_popescu: kinda the lulzy thing about "popular feeling", that it is at the same time tediously trite in the objective, and then burningly personal in the subjective.
mircea_popescu: every pagliacci feels deep down a burning urge -- HE IS INVENTING CUCKOLDRY!!!! MAKE ROOM!!!
spyked: notice: feedbot, spykedbot and web facing items that I'm hosting (e.g. thetarpit) will be down tomorrow, the 20th of March, cca 8AM-12PM. apologies for any inconveniences this might cause.
☟︎ spyked: equipment is due for spring cleaning, plus I'm adding a new disk to one of the machines etc.
spyked: in work updates: feedparse is getting another patch today; and feedbot code has been heavily refactored and part one is on track to be published. it'll be a pretty heavy post, I'ma start working writing it tonight.
spyked: ^ clarification re downtime: 8:00-12:00 interval is UTC time.
a111: Logged on 2019-02-05 18:46 phf: mircea_popescu: is the idea that message like
logotron will render it as just "logotron" in html?
a111: Logged on 2019-02-05 18:46 phf: mircea_popescu: is the idea that message like
logotron will render it as just "logotron" in html?
lobbesbot: mircea_popescu: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: "contending for the faith", amirite. that dood could afford to do useful work, but with the affordability comes idiocy, and so he hallucinates nonsensical options for himself. which he'll regret, like any wastrel lives to regret -- but what's the use of regrets, neither do they turn back time nor inform the new crop of youthful wastrels everflowing from the evercunt.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile this dood can't afford to do useful work. if you somehow merged them, you'd have something, but separate they waste separately.
mircea_popescu: and on in that vein -- that dood has absolutely no compunction spending all of his time talking to the lowest possible crop of nobody on a stick ; meanwhile mod6 wants to spend all his time doing the same thing over and over again -- a little whittling of soap under the covers.
mircea_popescu: be it called "foundation" or "pizarro" or "irc server" or anything the fuck you call it, it'd better not include talking to others, and that's such fundamentally intrinsic braindamage it ain't even getting looked at, let alone addressed. if you merged them, you'd have something again, but they're separate, and well... separately waste.
mircea_popescu: the whole impediment to the republic is this slack -- that guy over there has a wheel, this guy over here has an engine, if the wheel met engine you'd have something, however... as it is you have a rotting wheel and an idling engine.
mircea_popescu: one can throw away a good chunk of the domestic budget just dirtying all the pans, not quite enough material to make a meal but plenty enough to require a washing.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-18 16:28 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ffa is 3 ch away from fieldable beta atm ; so in attempt to avoid ending up like mod6 , i'm currently 100% in it. afterwards will switch for a spell to 100% elbows in piz.
mircea_popescu: (which, incidentally, is one of the largest fucking pleasures of working with republican material -- not ~only~ do you have to test an item against an ad-hoc test suite, but ~you can also test it against other known artefacts~. it's like wot for objects.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform are you nuts or what ? can't have "rng with entirely known characteristics"
mircea_popescu: fg is exactly what diana_coman 's origina keccak was : the FIRST. obviously the 2nd suffers from only having 1 predecesor. but its sufferance is part of the solution : by the time 3rd rolls around there's 2, and so following.
mircea_popescu: much like the original lords had relatively little to check their work against, but by now there's a decent pile.
mircea_popescu: can much readily answer "am i a good lord or not really" now as compardd to 2014. and so it goes.
mircea_popescu: amusinglyt enough, irregardless is bona fide english word.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-27 03:23 lru: no... still mostly watching for now
diana_coman:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-19#1903347 -> fwiw I read with pen and paper up to and including ch10, at next round of reading will sign them too; the euloran swamps where one step ahead uncovers 3 layers to fix before coming back to same position ate a lot of my time, that's all I can say.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2019-03-19 15:17 asciilifeform wonders which is the most recent ch that anyone's had chance to read yet
phf: asciilifeform: was about to paste, also i'm not sure if you know but you have a handful of utf-8 vpatches
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform where the fuck are you pissing unicode quotes into your text!
mircea_popescu: easy to make : take file as is, hash, put file through force-8bit-unsetter, hash again. compare and report.
mircea_popescu: i dunno about esier, but more productive, you get indices too.
phf: asciilifeform: some configuration of gnat refuses to compile utf source code, that's how i originally discovered it
☟︎ phf: mircea_popescu: trying to figure it out right now, i've realized that it might be useful
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i reckon you're rtight, vdiff should check and report.
phf: it's a bug in vdiff that it produces in this case a malformed vpatch, since we standardized on ascii only.
mircea_popescu: something like "The file a is not 7-bit clean. Bytes [line, offset]:content. Continue diffing ?"
diana_coman: I would very much like a no-unicode check patch for vdiff.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-09 01:21 mircea_popescu: which is JUST AS BROKEN BY DESIGN. ctrl-d will end a file AND kill a terminal, but not touch a task. ctrl-c will kill n levels of task depth, as in her example, FOUR.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, there's no tools to be tolerant here, even if there were room for it ideologically. halt it is.
mircea_popescu: i have little faith in the separation, and especially seeing how widespread &2> inanities are.
mircea_popescu: "different streams", one monitor, ambiguous keyboard focus, etc.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-14 15:24 mircea_popescu: what is so wrong with saying "these people hate us, because we suck, how about we try something else instead of sucking even harder ???"
mod6: mircea_popescu: You around?
mod6: I've been doing a lot of thinking recently, going over our converstaion back from November 11th, other conversations as well. After taking that month or so off (was it 6 weeks?), I tried to ease myself back into TMSR~ related things, but I haven't been very successful.
mod6: This is hard, so I'm trying to put it all down here, so bear with me.
mircea_popescu: well yes, but if you want the conversation format this is the venue ; would you rather article-format ?
mod6: For whatever reason, I've been a bit off balance since February of '18 -- maybe just took some huge risks that didn't quite go my way. And since our discussion where I realized, as well as you wall, that I just don't have enough time to keep up in here; I think this is impacting my everything when it comes to TMSR.
mod6: (This is fine for the moment)
mod6: So anyway, I get ancy, trying to keep up, do helpful things, get out of the ditch, so to speak.
mod6: But everytime I try to climb, out I go right back in. I'm sort of, stuck in a nasty loop.
mod6: Well, I think my lack of overall time to consume all things TMSR leaves me at a disadvantage. And I care about it very much, and I seem to just keep getting it wrong. I don't want to be a barrier or a problem. And I'm not sure when I'll have all the time that it takes, or the time that I desire.
mod6: I'd rather protect my rating, than be on the lordship list.
mod6: Because like we discussed before, some paraphrasing "man puts in 20% of time is 20% of a man".
mod6: Something of that nature.
mod6: And with all the other things that I've got going, I'm putting in like 10-20% per day, max.
mod6: This is pretty hard to keep up with, leaving me further and further behind.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-19 22:46 mircea_popescu: why is that ?
a111: Logged on 2018-11-03 15:05 mircea_popescu: shinohai your only available position here is "here is what i now understand to have been doing wrong, and shan't be fucking doing again, as exemplified by this excessively costly self sacrifice". not fucking "hey guise, buddy-buddy, are you gonna change to fit me in THIS time or do i come back whenever later try again".
mircea_popescu: did you take some time off to change, or did you give us some time off maybe we come to our senses ?
mircea_popescu: because it is perhaps the case that the point of that discussion (and, concidentally, the reason it discussed percents rather than scalars) was that dedication, rather than actual amounts, were at issue.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> did you take some time off to change, or did you give us some time off maybe we come to our senses ? << Very much the former, I'd like to think it's not my way to put my problems onto others or place blame onto others.
mod6: I'm pretty hard on myself, I'd like to think anyway.
mod6: And for what it's worth, during that time, and since, I've done a lot of reflection, trying to adjust myself to the republic. Being in a hurry all the time, lack of time, seems to make me not think through what I'm doing, or the bigger picture.
mircea_popescu: well, so what'd be the significant difference between "i ran a foundation doing no outreach by means of this publishing now and again on this obscure cvasi-blog" and "i aim to run an irc network doing no outreach by means of running this ircd here" ?
mod6: I mean, like duh, why would I have thought that making an irc-network was a good idea?
mod6: I just started "doing things", as opposed to thinking about it properly.
mircea_popescu: but in terms of substance, rather than representation.
mod6: yeah, the irc-server thing was a good example. With the foundation, I feel like I very well executed what was in the charter. As far as the outreach, I think I had a hard time with that part.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to come the length of this circle : the point of the republic, as an intelectual construct, more generally than mere ideology, is that it'll slowly but surely ratchet into view any one participant's vulnerability. some people find this extremely interesting, perhaps as interesting as to fundamentally change the meaning of life, "i could never live without this".
mircea_popescu: some certainly do not. it's not THAT big of a deal ; but i also don't think time per se has anything whatever to do with it, or ever could.
mod6: heh, well, it could just be, as you said earlier, maybe I'm just braindamaged. lol, I probably am, I've been hit in the head enough.
mod6: But, I think you're right. The republic is getting harder to interface with.
mod6: it's not the old days of yore, and I've got to get better, I've got to improve.
mircea_popescu: to the concrete part : i don't expect your ratings are in any kind of danger, chiefly because i don't know that anyone expects anything specific of you as it is. the original "so take some time off" can still stand as such, and next april you can come off the lordship and all that.
mod6: But with a lack of serious time and focus, it's difficult to get there, right now anyway. I don't want to get neg-rated if think continue the same way for me this year.
mod6: Well, if you don't think it's any sort of problem to see if I can somehow get back on the right track with the republic, I'm willing to let it go at that, wait and see until next year.
mod6: I posted my response to your Lordship article before you made me realize about my retardation of the irc-server/network thing.
mod6: So, if I'd have waited I may have said something different.
mod6: Have you read The Foundation?
mod6: Yeah, I'm reading that book, finally.
mod6: I'm starting to make some sense of what "a stanford" means (when you say it).
mod6: Not that it's all very related, but I can draw some similarities between The Foundation, and what The Bitcoin Foundation ~should~ be.
mircea_popescu: mostly cvasi-nonfiction, "here's new paint on arab conflict" etc.
mod6: That's on my list, too.
mod6: You've got a vision, sometimes for me to see it, takes some thinking, some reading. I'm kinda slow, but I tend to get there with time.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, sure, "dark age minimization" is a legitimate way to look at republic (though not necessarily at foundation) from a historian-of-culture perspevtive.
mircea_popescu: the foundation as such would have been, in its functional extension, a sort of secular trishop.church -- exactly like a foundation works, get people to give you money, build a golf course, that sort of anchoring.
mod6: The book is starting to help me, strange as it might seem, to see how all of this might go.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the correct way to get one of those is to press into service a 60yo lawyer rather than a 30yo computer guy. but in the early stages of bitcoin there was an all-pervasive notion that "we can do anything just because we wanna, we got the range, and the machinery for change, we're uprooting banks and governments and everything in path!!!"
mircea_popescu: so it didn't seem, to period mp, that far fetched a notion.
mircea_popescu: (in fact, for the sake of transparency, the idea i quoted on dpb's blog, from 2016, came exactly as a "hmm, i wonder why foundation is stuck, could alternative path be explored maybe ?".)
mod6: I'm gonna keep reading, I'm about 60% of the way through the trilogy.
mod6: Well, when I'm done, I'd like to discuss it more with you.
mircea_popescu: if anyone recalls, at that time the intended republic-sponsored kegger party at the site of some anti-usg rebellion died over portland's apparent failure to produce beer & sluts under ben_vulpes 's direction.
☟︎ mod6: I think with some steering, maybe we can get this thing back on track.
mircea_popescu: perfect opportunity to invent a whole new "fest". but -- need the seed.
mircea_popescu: so the obvious idea was, "well, produce the seed, ready for next time".
mod6: Well, maybe this is good. Nice little chat about all of this.
mod6: It gives me a bit to chew on here.
mod6: Yeah, thanks for your input.
mod6: I've been working, in the recent few days since "irc-server!!1", on just shaving the yak of my cuntoo-kernel.
mod6: Which, to trinque's point, the tool that really helps (I had forgotton about this) is the `make menuconfig` search.
mod6: Anyway, it's not done being shaved just yet. But I'm getting there. So that's what I've been doing last few days.
mod6: I gotta step away for now, but I appreciate it. We'll keep discussing this stuff. Maybe that's 50% of my problem, not enough chats.
mircea_popescu: in other quite abstract lulz : there apparently exists a "cryptocurrency payment processor" (aka,
https://probiller.com/ ) that takes one of "Horizen", "Tron" or "VERGE".
shinohai: lol I thought VERGE got rekt already. (Got added to pr0n sites, no one bothered to use)
shinohai was given ~$100 worth that was immediately traded for BTC on cryptopia
mircea_popescu: remarkably how little press these guys get, considering how much traffic they buy.