#alethepedia | 2021-06-19

15:19

So China invents gun powder, uses it fore fireworks and making loud sounds to scare the enemy. Builds the world's largest navy, decomissions it. Captures Bitcoin mining, dismantles industry. They're really their own worst enemy.

15:24

thimbronion

billymg: should the text selection code jump to the the highlighted text? Not doing that for me here: http://alethepedia.com/Africa/?b=The%20negro&e=interior

15:25

billymg

url should end with '#select' http://alethepedia.com/Africa/?b=The%20negro&e=interior#select

15:25

billymg

since these are manually constructed urls you have to append that manually as well

15:25

thimbronion

billymg: ah ok didn't know, thanks!

15:25

billymg

thimbronion: yeah, sadly no documentation... yet

15:32

billymg

thimbronion: i've seen the reports about 'china bans mining', as with everything these days it's impossible for me to tell whether real or psyop

15:32

billymg

and if real, what the angle is

15:33

thimbronion

http://alethepedia.com/Africa/?b=Another%20peculiar&e=shelter#select

15:35

thimbronion

Come to think of it idk what his source is here: https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1406236023592529924

15:36

thimbronion

But interesting take

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16:55

thimbronion

billymg: another issue I'm running into is that somehow something about titles like this is messing up permalinks: http://alethepedia.com/Plato-(Philosopher)/

16:56

billymg

thimbronion: the parentheses?

16:57

thimbronion

billymg: I suspect, but not sure why.

16:58

billymg

thimbronion: hmm, urls get cleaned when added via the web UI. i'm guessing you're not doing that though when bulk importing

16:58

billymg

thimbronion: are you importing directly into mysql?

16:58

thimbronion

billymg: yes

16:59

thimbronion

But not importing urls, just titles

16:59

billymg

do you know where/when the urls get created?

17:00

thimbronion

I don't. There are settings in wordpress to determine whether to generate id based or title based links. I currently have it set to generate title based links.

17:01

billymg

yeah, those look much nicer

17:01

billymg

but i'm wondering how the urls get created at all, if the pages are added to mysql directly

17:02

thimbronion

For exanple in search results: http://alethepedia.com/?s=Plato

17:06

billymg

i found the method, perhaps you can write a script that bulk updates them in mysql. look for 'sanitize_title' in wp-includes/formatting.php

17:06

billymg

when pages are added through the normal plumbing the titles pass through this before becoming url slugs

17:07

thimbronion

billymg: ty I will check this out!

17:12

billymg

thimbronion: looking closer 'sanitize_title' is more of a wrapper function around 'sanitize_title_with_dashes', the latter doesn't contain any other mp-wp plumbing so could easily be copy/pasted into another script

17:13

thimbronion

The search code is monolithic btw. I haven't seen a function this long since I was an intern.

17:14

billymg

thimbronion: the code is such a mess

17:15

billymg

for my own sanity i want to run the whole codebase through a linter and publish the results in a single patch

17:15

billymg

not that would fix any of the bad patterns, but at least would make it more readable