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10:31 asciilifeform $ticker btc usd
10:31 busybot Current BTC price in USD: $16666.59
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11:50 phf Pluto
11:50 phf in
11:50 phf 26° 31'
11:50 phf Capricorn
11:50 phf , Mars Square Neptune, auspicious day to buy
11:51 asciilifeform lol
11:51 asciilifeform oughta wait till 6666.66 tho!1!
11:53 * asciilifeform meanwhile tested that ada xcb binding, found precisely same problem as with xlib
11:53 bitbot Logged on 2022-11-12 22:17:48 asciilifeform[6]: finally realized that fltk author's 'statically linked' claim is bogus, thing still expects dynamic x11, xft, etc. may be possible to cheat w/ e.g. dlopen tho.
11:54 asciilifeform i.e. dun link at all with musltronic gnat; links dynamically with conventional; if linker given '-static', then not at all (xcb dun seem to have a static variant, tho entirely unclear wainot, nominally it implements the localsocket protocol rather than invoking xlib)
11:56 phf asciilifeform, ah but you've failed to observe the significance of 66-59 being 7!
11:56 asciilifeform indeed
11:57 phf also in totally unrelated, when copy/pasting into tk input widget, it doesn't strip newlines (which is good), but instead it sometimes replaces them with invisible spaces (which is bad). not sure how that works, but end up with spurious newlines like above..
11:58 asciilifeform odd. wonder whether tk per se or crapple tho
11:59 * asciilifeform shit thee not, actually went and bought an arm-crapple 'disposable' outta sheer curiosity re the arch & its performance. not uncrated yet, lol
12:00 asciilifeform 'm2'
12:01 asciilifeform phf: have you tried programming the oddball neural-network coprocessor thing in there ?
12:06 phf no, my only exposure to its existence: i was porting a certain proprietary programming language that's otherwise avx512 heavy to m1, and discovered that m1 doesn't really have anything interesting exposed. i.e. they have neon which is see/avx, but there's no support for newer sve
12:07 phf and their fancy extensions like the neural-network corpocessor is neither documented on the instruction level, nor is it exposed to user, except through a high level apple style library
12:11 phf and moving from avx512 to neon obv dropped performance of some ops from cool 1-2ns to boring 10-12ns. maybe if i spent more time studying the architecture, but unfortunately i started looking at m1 at the same time as i was doing avx512 work, and at this levels (between tight code elsewhere and vector ops) m1 just seemed b
12:11 phf oring. like it's vertically integrated, so you get performance boost on unoptimized "all over the place" code, but it's not interesting at all at the tigh inner loop level
12:14 phf essentially on the level that i was looking at m1 it was just another arm, and not even the fastest on the market. where's all the cool tech that apple hackers were leveraging was apple style proprietary. maybe now people have reversed portions of it?
12:16 phf but then you have posts like https://bytecellar.com/2022/11/16/a-secret-apple-silicon-extension-to-accommodate-an-intel-8080-artifact/
12:17 phf so by the time apple moves to an entirely new architecture , we'll have a sufficiently complete picture of m1, to leverage its various hidden speed paths
12:22 phf http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2022-11-18#1016509 << apparently "entry" widget that i'm using for input is single line by design. on mac it renders single line, but preserves newline as hidden characters
12:22 bitbot Logged on 2022-11-18 11:58:40 asciilifeform[4]: odd. wonder whether tk per se or crapple tho
12:23 asciilifeform phf: for 'straight wall clock time' for e.g. compiles, seems almost on par with the 'threadripper' in asciilifeform's torture room, interestingly
12:23 asciilifeform ( per report from other fella, not tried w/ own hands just yet )
12:25 phf asciilifeform, seymour cray could've told you that without even running it
12:25 asciilifeform lol
12:25 * asciilifeform unsurprised re undocumented coprocessors, it wouldn't be a crapple, lol, if were documented..
12:29 phf there are two things going on here, and this is my very naive interpretation: short and sweet datapaths, by using system in a package design (which is where you get high wall clock times), and proprietary extensions sprinkled essentially at random (instruction here, coprocessor there) to make apple code go brrr
12:32 phf meanwhile you have x86 market working with a very modular design, that necessarily creates overhead. so the whole "m1 totally slaughters legacy intel!!1" narrative is essentially a bunch of idiots going "bauaah duuuh standard bad, ipad render new york times fast good!!"
12:33 phf just another coffin in the nail of general purpose computing
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13:21 * asciilifeform suspected ^ , will be testing with e.g. gnat, ffa, $commercialcircusware, rather than nyt tho
13:22 asciilifeform phf: which emacs didja use on that box? seems as if the traditional crapple port runs under emulation
13:22 * asciilifeform uncrated the thing & finally connected to mains
13:23 phf asciilifeform, i use macports emacs-app @28.2_0+nativecomp+rsvg
13:23 asciilifeform ty
13:25 phf i'm not saying the system is bad, i have it ~~ permanently connected to apple pro xdr, and it's a kind of ghetto desktop
13:25 asciilifeform their calibrated lcd thing ?
13:26 asciilifeform ( the 1 with the infamous $1k aluminum leg ? )
13:27 phf i dunno how much the leg costs, but the whole thing was 7k out of the box, with the "nano coating" and everything. i have no regrets
13:28 * asciilifeform not tried subj, and not even because miser, but b/c dunwork with standard displayport cards, loox to be crapple-only periph
13:28 * asciilifeform currently using 'eizo's
13:28 phf yes, ther are allegedly hacks™, kind of how you can run openbsd on an m1 also, but why not relax with a cool refreshing santori instead?
13:29 * asciilifeform uses crapples strictly as portable 'toilets', so not has much in the way of crapple-specific periphs around
13:29 asciilifeform somewhere i've that oddball touch sensor mouse, tho weak battery and can't be arsed to saw it apart to replace
13:30 phf i have exactly three crapple devices at home in general (not counting wife's iphone): xdr monitor, m1 macbook pro and a powerpc g4 laptop
13:30 asciilifeform good old g4. imho the 12in g4 -- best crapple to date
13:31 asciilifeform could even boot into the ancient '90s os
13:31 phf but the first two i use as work machine, and a toilet box, because two are the same in my line of work. i split them between accounts, and use mac os fast switch. because my whole work stack is optimized for mac anyway, there's really no reason to use anything else
13:31 * asciilifeform had 1 from salvage, rubber-malleted the mangled shell into sumthing like straight (after removing contents lol)
13:32 asciilifeform right, iirc phf was in the crappleware biz at some pt
13:32 * asciilifeform lulzily, for many yrs used crapples ~exclusively to run various infected winblowzen in vmware
13:34 phf one advantage of crappleware, is that they periodically release something extremely pimped out, that you don't need to think about much to use
13:35 phf i think that's why they fully cornered the webshit developer & related markets
13:36 phf and that their strategy of pimped vertical integration and narrow scope products works. like take eizo, which eizo should one buy so it doesn't suck? because their main line, whatever it is, coloredge, is now trash.
13:38 phf they have like 5 product lines with 10 products in each, and some of those /allegedly/ are still eizo quality, and some are just generic junk. "this dell monitor is pretty good" level of junk.
13:41 asciilifeform phf: ev3285. (but ftr asciilifeform aint an artist, and not used the colorimeter calibration pheature, has nfi how suitable for such work)
13:42 asciilifeform subj.
13:44 * asciilifeform after trying various supposed 'flicker-free' lcds, and sending back / selling all of'em, using subj for going on 2y nao, not much to complain about
13:44 phf that was a rhetorical question :>
13:44 asciilifeform aite
13:45 asciilifeform the 'generic' & 'gaming' eizos actually quite distinguishable, they have 1 digit less in price, lol
13:46 asciilifeform (not that the extra digit guarantees 'old eizo' quality. per asciilifeform the tube light ones were actually easier on the eyes)
13:46 asciilifeform at least until tube began to give out
13:46 phf same in class monitor with this apple one is CG319X, maybe worth a try out
13:47 asciilifeform not tried that 1. loox like moarpixels, can't hurt
13:47 asciilifeform ( the spectrometric thing is wasted on asciilifeform )
13:48 asciilifeform lulzily, cg advertised as having 'noiseless, fanless operation'. are fans common on lcd nao?!~!
13:49 asciilifeform (why??!)
13:49 phf i bought an eizo (but which one i don't remember now, because again after researching the options, one knows that XY1234 is the right now, good luck recalling it later though) from a russian guy in russia, and he was a genuine pauper, using his eizo to watch kurosava movies "in perfect definition"
13:50 phf was selling it because "need to pay for rent"
13:50 asciilifeform lol!
13:50 * asciilifeform fondly remembers old 'medical' eizo w/ 10bit b&w panel
13:52 phf lol i was about to mention that line. maybe one should buy a gx560, a monocrhome radiology one, and use it for work
13:53 phf only $9k
13:53 asciilifeform buy it on lulbay, minus the 'medicinal tax'
13:54 * asciilifeform wonders what a modern-chemistry 1-bit lcd might look like, in re contrast ratio
13:55 asciilifeform (hypothetically, ideal would be 'oled', and minus the burnout -- iirc it's the blue diodes which burn)
13:55 asciilifeform green-only oled @ 4k would rock imho.
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14:43 phf i can't even figure out how much that gx560 costs. i guess different configurations run between $9k above and $25k
14:44 asciilifeform phf: the ~20k one seems to be simply pair of units on 1 mount
14:44 phf (i've noticed that i had an ebay alert for one of the previous iterations, and it never triggered, so i'm not sure about that lulbay route. possibly units like that stay at one location until internal monitor/hour counter goes above some number, at which point they just get recycled)
14:45 asciilifeform and yea one aint likely to find latest model of a medicalism on surplus market
14:46 asciilifeform there were iirc gx540s on ebay etc last saw
14:46 asciilifeform if want latest, gotta wait for the counters to actually run to where 'not guaranteed medical' or watnot
14:48 phf i suspect there's not even a back of truck market, of some doctor selling his out of commission imaging monitor on ebay, because most lack imagination when it comes to things like that. "why would i want this custom appliance, when you can just buy a dell monitor for $200???"
14:49 asciilifeform phf: iirc for xrays they actually gotta use the 10+bit b&w's to get usable view
14:49 * asciilifeform saw subj even at ordinary dentist
14:49 asciilifeform it comes with the mouth sensor thing, as a kit
14:50 phf right, but my point is that they use it for xray, but then still do data entry on a dell. that's not even a bad part, it's more like this particularly separation means that "very expensive high end monitor i could use at home to read new york times" doesn't even register. i'm guessing of course.
14:50 asciilifeform prolly not erry dentist. but where oncologists etc., 10k lcd, would expect, dwarfed by cost of lawsuit, so used.
14:51 asciilifeform there's usually an ordinary 'dell' etc. standing next to it
14:52 * asciilifeform apropos, for some yrs looked for surplus digital xray sensor, cuz processing film in bathtub is a bitch. the only ones easily findable are the tiny dental ones, with bite marks lol. anyffin larger -- 5fig
14:53 asciilifeform all of'em also run on ancient winxp shitware, no 'usb webcam standard' or anyffin of the kind
14:54 asciilifeform (typical for 'golden toilet' periph)
14:54 asciilifeform finding the shitware aint trivial, either, normally not included with the toothmarked suplus boxen
14:54 asciilifeform *surplus
14:57 * asciilifeform unsurprised at cost of digital xray sensors: it aint only 'medical tax', but thing needs very high density single-crystal ccd to be of ~any use
14:57 asciilifeform (cuz there ~aint any such thing as xray optics)
15:03 phf this sbf/ftx stuff is just beautiful
15:04 phf i don't think previous goxes were this entertaining because it's just grifters grifting, but here you have the lizards in on the action, and their grift is like next level 4d chess grift. it's just beautiful.
15:07 asciilifeform phf: to asciilifeform loox like bog-standard gox ( with 3-4 additional digits of moolah in the mix from blackrock etc. via 'ministry of cooling btc exchrate' ) but admittedly asciilifeform not deeply tuned into subj
15:08 phf asciilifeform, previous gox were dirt people (depending on your inclination, possibly guided or subverted by cloud people), this is cloud people through and through in on the action
15:11 phf so there's a lot more "goldstein, the director of gold, was also the uncle of mary breker-horowitz, who is seen in this picture sucking dick on amphetamines"
15:14 phf when dirt people go bad it's usually to put spinners on rims, where's there a lot more untroubled largesse in the whole sbf/ftx affair. everything that i read (and i'm not even explicitly seeking it out, various locklins are poping up with snarky opinion pieces in my feed) elicits a kind of "god, DAMN, wooden doors?" react
15:14 phf ion
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16:23 asciilifeform wooden doors?
16:24 signpost "their houses are made of house! their offices are made of office!"
16:25 * asciilifeform never been to a sublizard's house, much less a lizard's, not knows what the doors are supposed to be made of ( niobium ? silicon nitride ? )
16:25 dulapbot (asciilifeform) 2022-04-11 asciilifeform: fwiw in asciilifeform's cosmography, a sublizard is a 'human' who directly executes orders from lizard, while exposed to 'humans' in daily context
16:26 phf asciilifeform, originally a holocaust meme, that's now a standin for a popcorn grade conspiracy theories, where you don't really have emotional attachment to details, but in it for the entertainment value
16:26 asciilifeform aa the gasenwagen doors right
16:26 signpost oic
16:27 phf asciilifeform, originally yeah the observation that doors in some gas chambers were made out of wood, which evolved into a meme where tonny sopranos and paulie are having an imaginary conversation about it "ay tone, on mu mudda, wooden doors." "geddafuckouttaheeee"
16:28 asciilifeform ( ftr per asciilifeform's model, goxen are created (by gifting some 'favoured son' 8fig of printola, uplifting him from 2nd lieutenant at $hedgefund lizard kindergarten to 'captain of industry'(tm)) for 1) cool down exchrate by minting papercoin, erryday 2) to be dropped as ballast when reich collapse turns a notch and des
16:29 asciilifeform ... 2) to be dropped as ballast when reich collapse turns a notch and desperate dampening is needed.
16:29 asciilifeform ftx per this model worked for (1) for coupla yrs, then when req'd -- (2). )
16:30 phf asciilifeform, there's absolutely more things going on here than just waterfall
16:30 * asciilifeform cannot 'proofy proof'(tm) but afaik no avail. facts contradict this 'astronomical' hypothesis
16:32 phf i don't know, it's turning into one of those ascii threads, where you're trying to convince readers of something entirely unrelated, because you have some point to make. i'm saying /i/ find the ftx amusing because i already found all kinds of extra details, that go beyond the model that you have verbalized n-times already
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16:52 asciilifeform phf: fair'nuff.
16:52 * asciilifeform not has 'new point'; only what described above
16:52 * asciilifeform also not knows 100% (even of the public) details of latest lul
16:53 asciilifeform phf: curious re 'extra details' if you've the sparecycles to summarize
16:54 signpost does look in this case that a much larger graft engine attached itself to "crypto", rather than some btc price suppression scheme.
16:54 signpost whatever animates the globohomo-aligned elites in the blue party.
16:55 asciilifeform signpost: seems logical that it would. imho a little surprising that it took as long as it did, but then again iirc participation of saecular 'hedge funds' etc. in shitcoinism was legalized in '17, and these folx work 'in geological time' (often enuff on ms-excel etc) so then.
16:56 signpost those, but also the clinton-foundation type schemes
16:56 signpost tax shelter plus "charity" that pumps reptile investments in w/e
16:57 signpost iirc SBF was second highest donor to the democrats after soros this year
17:01 signpost and christ can I not stand that infantilized sniveling voice these all have.
17:01 signpost sbf, buterin, et al
17:08 phf asciilifeform, i've not tried assembling a definitive guide to all the ftx lulz, but i'll maybe go back over the posts i read or if something new comes up
17:09 phf here's for example a fact check, if you read it through kremnilogy lense, full of interesting information, https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-ftx-ukraine-democrats-laundering-996663874380
17:09 phf brought to you by https://twitter.com/karenaphan and https://twitter.com/AliSwenson
17:13 phf apropos http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2022-11-18#1016629
17:13 bitbot Logged on 2022-11-18 17:01:05 signpost: and christ can I not stand that infantilized sniveling voice these all have.
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17:31 asciilifeform lol re apparent inclusion of ukrowank
17:34 asciilifeform signpost: this is where asciilifeform admits that he in fact never heard voice tape of buterin et al. (somehow -- avoided) -- so not knows.
17:35 asciilifeform seeing them in txt was enuff, lol
17:35 signpost lispy mommy's autistic sweetie thing. not worth confirming.
17:35 * asciilifeform vaguely recalls seeing a photo, tho, where iirc he had gorbachev-style wart or sumsuch
17:36 asciilifeform ( if only all servants of evil were conveniently marked with wart... as locklin et al seem to imagine )
17:36 * signpost heard that affectation constantly when visting mordor, CA for work
17:37 * asciilifeform believe or not, never yet been to ca
17:38 asciilifeform ( coupla times nearly had to , but each time avoided )
17:48 signpost I mostly stayed in the corporate space stations
17:49 signpost street level was disgusting
17:50 asciilifeform signpost: hm, thought that precisely 'space stations' is where the kunstkammer folx concentrate ?
17:50 signpost yep, just commenting on the limited extent of my CA tour
17:51 asciilifeform signpost: wat was disgusting on the street ?
17:51 signpost they were full of the whiners, but preferable to meth-zombie apocalypse
17:52 asciilifeform aa, hobos ? they're errywhere where no winter. ( visit e.g. montevideo , battallion of hobos per 10 or so blocks )
17:52 signpost the decay in SF is next-level, but sure
17:53 signpost de-facto legalization of e.g. fentanyl produces special creatures
17:54 asciilifeform hm, thought fentanyl is how reich pest-controls (closes eyes on cheap import from cn, then powder mixed into traditional dopes for a quick kill)
17:55 asciilifeform 'this pill was cheap but defo Does Sumthing!' , next day eats 2, drops
17:55 signpost nah, a lot of them linger, shit-covered, for a while
17:56 signpost meth also, nothing's de-facto illegal
17:57 asciilifeform well none of it was ever properly 'shoot on sight' illegal a la cn. rather was 'only approved cartels may supply'
17:58 asciilifeform ( not even speaking of sbf et al, whose dope comes straight from factory, synthesis-grade 'five nines' etc )
18:03 asciilifeform situation in reich re dope reminiscent somewhat of '1984', where lumpens & 'inner party' are similarly free to do whatever they like, only the workhorse 'middle' is actually under panopticon
18:03 asciilifeform ( ditto e.g. tax in reich, and in most other respects -- similar )
18:04 signpost yup, it wouldn't surprise me to see drug permissivity passed at the federal level in time
18:05 asciilifeform 'permissibity' in the 'not illegal to walk around in stupor' (already , lol, not... ) rather than 'meth at the pharmacy counter' variety
18:06 signpost austin almost went the way of SF, but a ballot prop (re-)banned the street camping
18:06 signpost so temporary reprieve while the carnies multiply in the woods
18:06 signpost I'm sure they'll spill back out of the woods in time
18:06 * asciilifeform recalls prohibition-era descriptions of 'speakeasies' where elite savoured the fact that their drinking dens not fulla dirty plebes
18:07 asciilifeform (after prohibition kaput, they switched to 'aristocratizing' e.g. cocaine)
18:08 asciilifeform they were addressing the 'same coke' problem.
18:08 dulapbot (trilema) 2014-01-08 asciilifeform: 'warren buffett drinks the same coke as the street bum.'
18:09 asciilifeform ( or, if you like, can go back to 16th c, 'sumptuary laws'; desire of elite to jack up their sense of 'we not only have moar, but can deny to others for better contrast ratio' )
18:09 signpost subj of opium dens, orange man now promises to kill the dealers like duterte
18:10 * asciilifeform still has somewhere his prev. brochure of megapromises
18:10 dulapbot (asciilifeform) 2021-08-02 asciilifeform: recall that brochure where listed the ministries trump promised to close ?
18:10 phf asciilifeform, sumptuary laws was also flowed as a theory for why "mask mandates for you, but not for zelenski"
18:10 asciilifeform aaha
18:11 signpost he doesn't even sell it well anymore.
18:11 signpost tired old man bawing at the podium
18:13 asciilifeform signpost: not unlikely that he'll even be installed on throne again, if lives to the age where, like the current muppet, can barely read script
18:13 dulapbot (trilema) 2014-10-24 asciilifeform: 'At the 1980 Olympics, Brezhnev begins his speech. "O!"—applause. "O!"—an ovation. "O!!!"—the whole audience stands up and applauds. An aide comes running to the podium and whispers, "Leonid Ilyich, those are the Olympic logo rings, you don't need to read all of them!"'
18:14 asciilifeform de-facto job qual nao, like in ye olde politburo
18:14 signpost hahaha
18:19 * asciilifeform quite in favour of ~genuinely~ expanding access to dope for the terminally bored morons. errywhere asciilifeform lived for past 20y, there is ~always~ 2-3 blox away a demented retiree good for 3-4 hours of leaf blower /d
18:19 asciilifeform he oughta be sitting in own juices, on dope, would be a++
18:19 * asciilifeform puts on shooting muffs
18:20 signpost the impatience on this guy. we give the world covid, we give it mrna shots, give us time!
18:20 signpost :D
18:20 asciilifeform lel
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