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01:50 spyked asciilifeform, I'm hands full atm, but would surely like to work on something like that once I free 'em. re applications, maybe running other heathen progz (e.g. loading js websites, iirc there was some discussion about that when lobbes was working on archiver?)
01:54 spyked http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-30#1916277 <-- ty phf! I'll use this as a datapoint for my current changelog study
01:54 a111 Logged on 2019-05-30 18:45 phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-29#1916136 << i'm using hunchentoot-1.2.35 but that's in no way explored, that's whatever i got out of quicklisp on first btcbase deploy
~ 4 hours 14 minutes ~
06:08 mircea_popescu in other news, /me shall be going to egypt for a coupla weeks starting prolly this weekend. mwahahaha!
06:09 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-03#1916932 << da fuck, srsly ?!
06:09 a111 Logged on 2019-06-03 18:52 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the snsa pair is (dulap & spare-dulap) are snsa boxen
06:09 mircea_popescu SCAM!
06:11 mircea_popescu asciilifeform, as per tradition (sadly, the WRONG tradition, of common law title-deed), can i has logline re this or anything ?
06:13 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-03#1916934 << that's exactly what it is. i very much stand by original http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-21#1914864 : http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-30#1806593
06:13 a111 Logged on 2019-06-03 18:54 diana_coman: eh, from asciilifeform's snippets the dude's "evaluations" seem to be more mix-and-match premade expectations than actual evaluations; fwiw I met Nicole and I don't see why exactly couldn't she do those reviews she did.
06:13 a111 Logged on 2019-05-21 22:46 mp_en_viaje: makes the ~same wetware shannonizer impression irl.
06:13 a111 Logged on 2018-04-30 17:53 mircea_popescu: pinoy actually uses shanonizing as THE, not an, but THE intellectual mode of life.
06:14 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-03#1916937 << this is not schizo tho, it's the other line.
06:14 a111 Logged on 2019-06-03 18:59 asciilifeform: supposedly a coupla % ( at least in industrialized populations ) are active/latent schizo
06:17 mircea_popescu quick mp likbez on mental health : other than mentally healthy people (which is very vast indeed, and well varied, and almost universal), there I) an organic malfunction type, which sometimes ends up spontaneously organized -- much like "cancer" is "that tiny % of broken cells that end up broken in such a specific way they stay organized".
06:17 mircea_popescu this is schizo ; and from an evolutionary pov it well matches the "failure of historical mind compartment process"
06:19 mircea_popescu there's also a II) dataflow control failure. these are all the "add" (kids so aggitated they're saying something, the WHAT they're saying gets lost in dribbles). these are the manic-depressives, people so concerned with their "status" they fail to actually produce anything, like a robot that's 99% sensors and 0% servos.
06:19 a111 Logged on 2019-06-02 05:03 mircea_popescu: meanwhile in delicious nonsense, https://pastebin.com/h5HxRWa9 ; moneyshot : "A thought we had a few weeks ago during one of our low-low mood phases, that perhaps it isn't worth pursuing bodily separation since we all already know each so well and can basically form new sentient agents in this brain on a whim, with a second's effort; namely, that if any one of separated into a new brain or some other medium of mind, that a
06:19 mircea_popescu similarily, the overanxious stutterer, and so in this vein.
06:21 mircea_popescu this ~last type~ is perhaps amenable to treatment. because if you give the kid-thats-a-blur something to fix him the fuck down for five minutes he might have the breather to figure out which way the shoes go on ; and if you don't... well, esp at that age, it's perfectly possible the brain window closes, and he never the fuck will. because this is how the brain works, either learn language by ~5 or forget about LANGUAGE. al
06:21 mircea_popescu together.
06:21 mircea_popescu and this is the justification for medicating them, such as it is.
06:22 mircea_popescu this is why freud mostrly "treats" stutterers and anxious-maniacal folk. cuz they're not type-I broken in the head, they're type-II, they got "dysphoria", they thing "maybe they're gay" and such nonsense.
06:22 mircea_popescu there's also a type III that's not really a type -- sexually frustrated humans get crabby. this is perfectly healthy, and evolutionarily necessary. "if in unhappy relationship, push it till it either fixes or breaks".
06:23 mircea_popescu obviously if "society" overloads sexual relationship with "civilisational meaning" then they wanna "treat female hysteria", which is now "a condition" -- the condition of societal overload not working out in practice.
06:23 mircea_popescu but this is entirely not a mental health issue.
06:23 mircea_popescu and so there we go ; rob dude's eminently II.
06:25 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-03#1916939 << he's actually highly functioning socially, perceived as annoying by the wallflower anxiousgirlies but otherwise...
06:25 a111 Logged on 2019-06-03 19:02 asciilifeform suspects the fella's at the stage where only thing left is the folx in white coats, fixation robe, cold showers, aminazine, etc
06:25 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-03#1916941 << im pretty sure has parents (if i had to guess -- mother) somewhere creating his womb for him.
06:25 a111 Logged on 2019-06-03 19:04 asciilifeform: diana_coman: afaik not diff. only peculiarity is that he got hold of a net connection, but i suppose this is not difficult feat naodays even for hobo
06:26 mircea_popescu these days, this isn't even so rare, for a 30yo.
06:27 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-03#1916945 << a bless you very much!
06:27 a111 Logged on 2019-06-03 19:24 BingoBoingo: http://trilema.com/2018/no-such-labs-snsa-april-2018-statement/#selection-525.0-529.309 << S.NSA statement comment on the matter
06:27 mircea_popescu jeez i like #trilema, at 12:12 ask question, at 12:28 have answer.
06:31 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-03#1916957 << i guess i'm amenable to this. though of course why i sold machines to rent them for multi-years is then anyone's guess...
06:31 a111 Logged on 2019-06-03 19:45 BingoBoingo: I would like to convert both of these to clear yearly contracts that will not require a time sucking archaeology mission on both sides when renewal comes up again.
06:31 mircea_popescu diana_coman, do we actually need/use both as such and ~permanently ?
06:32 mircea_popescu asciilifeform, would you be amenable to carry 2 replacement boxes on yoru trip over, that i buy, and give them to pizarro in lieu of these two, convert them to colo only ?
06:32 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-03#1916958 << aye verily!
06:32 a111 Logged on 2019-06-03 19:53 BingoBoingo: I would like to do this in a way that leads to not every single 1U rental contract becoming a precious bespoke snowflake arrangement (beyond accomodations naturally offered and WELL RECORDED to sugar things up for big clients because "men not laws"). The idea is that by knowing what our book is on a machine, pricing can become simple in the way Colocation and Rockchips are.
06:33 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-03#1916960 << win.
06:33 a111 Logged on 2019-06-03 20:27 BingoBoingo: Once the S.MG rental billing is taken care of with a model applicable to future server rentals, the book can be closed on ugly common law billing.
06:34 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-04#1916971 << conceivably useful yes.
06:34 a111 Logged on 2019-06-04 00:56 asciilifeform: nao that i thinkaboutit, could be useful even in such application as piz shared hostisics..
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08:12 diana_coman http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-04#1917013 -> until we change OS basically; the test one was step towards Cuntoo and that's pretty much the only real reason for having 2 since playing around with the OS on a production server is rather iffy.
08:12 a111 Logged on 2019-06-04 10:31 mircea_popescu: diana_coman, do we actually need/use both as such and ~permanently ?
08:14 diana_coman to answer the q directly: not permanently, I'd hope! But it does seem to be rather long term since atm I have my hands full with SMG Comms on both client+server and otherwise we don't yet have a full Cuntoo setup to deploy and say that's fixed
08:17 mircea_popescu it's been six months or some shit!
08:20 diana_coman indeed; I suppose there might be a case for keeping the production server only and then getting the test/cuntoo one only when there is finally what to put on it
08:21 diana_coman there is the fiddly part with sjlj vs zcx but that in itself doesn't justify 2 machines, no.
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09:15 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-04#1917011 << iirc the logic was discussed, when subscriber leases machine, piz is sworn to keep him en-machined at all times ( by keeping on hand any and all necessary spares )
09:15 a111 Logged on 2019-06-04 10:31 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-03#1916957 << i guess i'm amenable to this. though of course why i sold machines to rent them for multi-years is then anyone's guess...
09:16 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-04#1917014 << asciilifeform's orcistan transport service lives to serve ! mircea_popescu do you happen to have these machines already ? theoretically could stop in cr an' pick up etc
09:16 a111 Logged on 2019-06-04 10:32 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, would you be amenable to carry 2 replacement boxes on yoru trip over, that i buy, and give them to pizarro in lieu of these two, convert them to colo only ?
09:17 mircea_popescu diana_coman, so should i release the monthly then ?
09:17 asciilifeform BingoBoingo incidentally imho would be good thing for piz, even if mircea_popescu ends up w/ cheaper subscription, cuz then vacates 2 piz boxen and these can be advertised
09:17 mircea_popescu asciilifeform, i've not been in cr for months ; no, the idea was to get you to buy them for me :)
09:17 asciilifeform a
09:18 asciilifeform could buy. think about what in particular you'd like in'em and we can arrange.
09:19 mircea_popescu i was thinking copies of extant, so as to give them to pizarro in exchange, see ? this way i don't have to move hdds
09:20 asciilifeform transport cost is 1/n per 1u of box, and iirc the airplane/bed was approx 2.5 us dubloons last time
09:20 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i will then start to search for these very same.
09:21 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: you'll prolly want hds, tho, as spares (they can travel inside boxes)
09:21 asciilifeform *2.5k
09:22 asciilifeform BingoBoingo my thinking is, moar boxes in the rack == good thing.
09:23 mircea_popescu asciilifeform, give it till the end of today to figure out what we're doing here, but in principl yes.
09:23 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: no reason to hurry.
09:23 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: you may recall, there is a small supply of spare FG here, these can go in your machines.
09:24 mircea_popescu coolness.
09:25 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-04#1917003 << this is interesting and not quite what i expected , from http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-01#1916641
09:25 a111 Logged on 2019-06-04 10:25 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-03#1916939 << he's actually highly functioning socially, perceived as annoying by the wallflower anxiousgirlies but otherwise...
09:25 a111 Logged on 2019-06-01 23:28 nicoleci: lol he didnt mention it, he was mostly being asked to leave the room though
09:25 mircea_popescu asciilifeform, there's a lot of room between "highly functioning mental case" and "socially pleasant normal person"
09:26 asciilifeform evidently! d00d sounds like early stage schizoid tho, in writing
09:29 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-04#1917019 << i'ma describe, for the l0gz, the hypothetical. suppose mips emu in asm ( the heathen item in fact compiles to a 30kB elf , not esp. complex, but would want clean rewrite really ). this'd be proggy that takes disk image and it tx/rx raw frames to/from nic, so can have own ip etc. then 1 large amd box can host coupla 100 instances of mips linux from known image. <1s teardown/bringup.
09:29 a111 Logged on 2019-06-04 10:34 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-04#1916971 << conceivably useful yes.
09:30 diana_coman http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-04#1917031 - the colo option sounds good to me as it's essentially a long-term use.
09:30 a111 Logged on 2019-06-04 13:17 mircea_popescu: diana_coman, so should i release the monthly then ?
09:30 asciilifeform this is sorta like what the heathen vps people do, but in principle could be a clean coupla-kB tmsr item w/out buggy multi-100MB turd.
09:30 asciilifeform ( the heathens use intelism 'virtualizations' for it, wins a bit of speed but at cost of 9000 nobus )
09:33 asciilifeform http://loper-os.org/pub/heathen-mips.tar.gz << for thread-completeness. (most of the ball is a sample linux disk, the sores itself is ~50kB)
09:34 asciilifeform orig was found in shithub but damned if i link to shithub.
09:35 asciilifeform item pictured for illustrative purpose only, i do not recommend its use in battlefield.
09:35 asciilifeform the only iron in this emulator is the cpu and a 16550 uart.
09:35 asciilifeform builds with no deps.
09:38 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the problem approached, is how to house 9000 heathens on 1 machine. the currently used shared hosting system presumes certain amount of literacy (and cooperation) from the tenants, it is simple unix accts thing.
09:39 asciilifeform ( incidentally, a from-ground system could support migration b/w irons, in principle. )
09:40 asciilifeform previously i considered the contemplated method impractical (in re amt of sweat req'd to construct) but from the weight of the heathen example, it begins to seem tractable.
09:41 * asciilifeform sadly atm has entirely full hands
09:44 asciilifeform would be a mighty useful thing, tho, 'drop coin in this-here slot and get root on a mips cuntoo'
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10:12 mircea_popescu only problem being "modern linux" is a 2gb pos.
10:12 asciilifeform depends what means 'modern linux'. e.g. asciilifeform's trb 'buildroot' weighed under 5MB.
10:12 asciilifeform incl. kernel.
10:12 mircea_popescu ya well
10:13 mircea_popescu "customers" right ? who knows what they come up with
10:13 asciilifeform the rk gentoo is half a GB iirc (incl. gcc toolchain)
10:13 asciilifeform the customers'd get the standard image, as they do on rk, and can then do whatever, pay per MB of disk and per cpu cycle.
10:13 mircea_popescu that might even work, actually.
10:14 asciilifeform it's what lulazon does, adjusted for http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-19#1615434
10:14 a111 Logged on 2017-02-19 03:54 asciilifeform: (iirc we had a thread where i described how corporate ameritards, if given a problem like phuctor, would happily soak up a few $mil and megawatt of iron)
10:14 mircea_popescu i suppose it is, huh.
10:14 asciilifeform it aint ~intrinsically~ retarded, imho, to buy/sell cpu by the litre.
10:15 mircea_popescu certainly.
10:15 asciilifeform problem is in how the heathens approached the problem, with the reliance on intelisms , heavy turdware, etc.
10:15 a111 Logged on 2016-05-04 17:24 asciilifeform: ''Under certain conditions it allows unprivileged users running under qemu VMs to affect the host Linux kernel in a problematic manner...'
10:16 asciilifeform 1 seekrit bonus of 'mips cluster' would be to get folx geared up for sane irons, when the time comes.
10:19 asciilifeform iirc asciilifeform's old favourite hoster (going on 12y!) uses also a handwritten emu of some type. but no one knows precisely what.
10:19 a111 Logged on 2016-11-24 23:56 asciilifeform: nearlyfreespeech co.
10:23 asciilifeform picture being able to download yer 'machine', run locally, modify, reupload, etc.
10:23 asciilifeform simulated box loses in speed, but wins back in versatility, if done ~properly~ (rather than like lulazon et al)
10:24 * asciilifeform brb:teatime
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11:32 BingoBoingo http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-04#1917036 << I am very amenable to this and getting more boxes in the rack
11:32 a111 Logged on 2019-06-04 13:19 mircea_popescu: i was thinking copies of extant, so as to give them to pizarro in exchange, see ? this way i don't have to move hdds
11:33 asciilifeform in other lulz
11:34 asciilifeform * sageprobes has quit (Quit: Page closed) << apparently ^him
11:35 BingoBoingo If we have boxes in the rack, someone will want them for something
11:36 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: indeed
11:36 mircea_popescu seems to be the experuience so far, at any erate.
11:40 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Do you have a clearer idea of when your next trip down to the land of Dairy, Pizza, and girl-looking girls is going to take place?
11:41 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: can't in good conscience pick a date before i get the irons bought an' tested, but i suspect before end of (north hemisphere) summer, likely
11:41 mircea_popescu asciilifeform, i'm ok for a coupla boxes. so the idea here is, buy copies of smg items, so that smg items become colo for smg and the new ones go to pizarro for itsef
11:41 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: start thinkin' about what we want in the 2 remaining cargo slots.
11:42 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: aha, sounds like The Right Thing
11:42 mircea_popescu if you wanna invoice me for this by thurs it's all ok, but if not, will pay upon return.
11:43 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i've begun the search. will send you spec prior to buying
11:43 mircea_popescu aite.
11:43 asciilifeform ideally you want that type with the 2 slide-out ps
11:43 * mircea_popescu shall be around today/tomorro/thurs anyway
11:43 asciilifeform a++
11:43 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: I am inclined towards more 1U boxes or the APUs
11:43 mircea_popescu asciilifeform, i don't care ?
11:43 mircea_popescu again, the idea is to give these to pizarro, in exchange of current boxes.
11:43 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: if dun care, the 1ps type is slightly cheaprr
11:44 mircea_popescu so get same ones.
11:44 asciilifeform aite, will look for precisely same
11:44 asciilifeform ( last i saw, the folx from whom i bought prev set, still alive )
11:44 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: i'm thinking to get piz 2 of the same item also.
11:45 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: think also re what else we ought to have ( spare rk ? disks? etc )
11:45 asciilifeform the small-boxen cluster thing is potentially useful, but somewhat fiddly in re: construction time
11:46 asciilifeform ideally Right Thing will be if we can a) lease out large boxen b) set up, in reasonably near term, the shared host scheme described upstack.
11:47 asciilifeform as for rk, asciilifeform is quite reluctant to expand the rk plant presently, as we lack a 100%-useful rk gnat
11:47 BingoBoingo Right, the SPU is however interesting.
11:48 asciilifeform interesting, but slightly underpowered for the $
11:48 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: presumably you were speaking of 'apu1'
11:49 BingoBoingo Ah, yeah the APU one with the msata slots
11:49 asciilifeform aha
11:49 asciilifeform they're soldered-down 2core + 4GB ram thing.
11:50 BingoBoingo But... they do beat rockchip in potential diskiness, will need to shop a bit on this.
11:51 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: plox to put some meat cycles into market survey then
11:51 BingoBoingo Aite
11:52 asciilifeform last i saw, apu1 was the only really usable x86 'small' box of which can mount several in one 1u
11:52 asciilifeform ( i'm entirely uninterested in intel's , or fritzchipped-amd, offerings, ftr )
11:53 asciilifeform ( ~those~ -- if someone wants to colo, we'll colo, but i cannot justify to spend piz coin on such atrocity )
12:07 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: The box swap sounds like a deal, would you like the colocation invoiced annually on both boxes or would you like the test box invoiced quarterly or monthly instead?
12:08 mircea_popescu anually together works.
12:08 mircea_popescu !!up kiwi_88
12:09 mircea_popescu awe no deedbot again ?!
12:09 mircea_popescu trinque, ^
12:21 asciilifeform meanwhile, in heathen lulz : crapple proclaimed a 6k usd (bare-bones config, ~34k for full!) comp; lcd for it : 5k ; ~leg~ for lcd : 999 $ .
12:22 asciilifeform even crapple hall audience, consisting of hand-picked flunkies who bought costly tickets, jeered
12:22 mircea_popescu wtf
12:22 asciilifeform seems as if the ipnoje thing did not pan out, and what remains of crapple, is attempting a return to 1990s
12:23 asciilifeform when various folx who 'i won't microshit, basta' were willing to shell out 5-6k (1990s! usd) for various irons
12:23 mircea_popescu aww.
12:23 mircea_popescu i thogjt it bought russia.
12:24 mircea_popescu in fairness, figuring inflation, that 34k is worth less today than the ~2k i paid for (14 in!!! vga crt in the early 90s
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12:42 asciilifeform http://www.loper-os.org/pub/grater.jpg << oblig, re subj
12:43 mircea_popescu heh
12:45 asciilifeform meanwhile, in asciilifeform's locale, price of tapwater has gone up ~2x.
12:45 asciilifeform 'only terrorists believe in inflation'!111
12:45 asciilifeform ( this, in 1 quarter )
12:45 mircea_popescu such terminal sovok
12:46 asciilifeform this is pre-terminal sovok, terminal is when 'tapwater worx on tuesdays and fridays'
12:46 mircea_popescu and odds are, once this new sovok is dead, people will stop remembering the insanely iiritating if entirely inconsequential idiocies of the office drones & bureaucrats
12:46 mircea_popescu and regret it.
12:47 asciilifeform prolly. they'll remember fountain soda for 1 kopeika / glass, like asciilifeform does.
12:49 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> meanwhile, in asciilifeform's locale, price of tapwater has gone up ~2x. << There's a Pantsuit movement which advocated deliquent water payers need to be subsidized by relable water payers. Seems like your locale made it policy.
12:49 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: not only, but they put in 'tiered pricing'
12:49 mircea_popescu first step to only works on thu
12:49 asciilifeform where god help you if you have a garden etc
13:03 asciilifeform upstack, apparently the 5k lcd dun come with the 999 leg. ( and won't mount to standard leg w/out a 200 $ adapter ( or, i suppose, illicit 'drm circumventing' electric drill... ) )
13:04 asciilifeform whole thing quite reminiscent of pete dushenski's plastic mercedes
13:05 asciilifeform ( betcha he'll eagerly buy this box, and post... )
13:05 mircea_popescu i doubt it
13:05 asciilifeform who if not him
13:05 mircea_popescu among the upper middle class / lower upper class the fashion is nao "frugality" (codeword)
13:06 mircea_popescu i dunno, 1-2 "creative" agencies in ny, might prefer paying 35k in office furniture than 10k/year extra salary
13:06 mircea_popescu that kinda thing
13:08 asciilifeform i suspect bureaucrats, eating kickbacks, keep alive crapple's comp div. e.g. uni of md decade ago actually bought coupla hundred of those g5 crapples (similar price), they sat around and nao sit in the surplus shop, 50bux ea., no one wants
13:08 asciilifeform iirc trinque found 1 in a surplus auction somewhere, booted it up
13:08 mircea_popescu aha
13:12 asciilifeform these also only worked with custom lcd iirc.
13:14 asciilifeform was their last, afaik, box , prior to the switch to intel arch
13:15 asciilifeform quite hungry for mains current, iirc 250W / cpu
13:18 mircea_popescu my gamin gthing is like 850W
13:18 asciilifeform sustained?! or ps max
13:18 mircea_popescu ps max. sustained maybe 200 tbh
13:18 asciilifeform right
13:18 mircea_popescu yeah
13:18 asciilifeform iirc crapple's g5 actually ate that 250, sustained
13:19 mircea_popescu ouch
13:19 asciilifeform iirc story was, they were unable to practically laptopize it , and as result gave up and went x86
13:22 mircea_popescu wait, this was a LAPTOP ?!
13:22 asciilifeform no
13:22 asciilifeform was massive tower thing
13:22 mircea_popescu ah ah i see
13:22 asciilifeform already in those days they were making most of the mac sales in lappy tho
13:23 asciilifeform subj, ftr.
13:35 feedbot http://qntra.net/2019/06/charges-dropped-against-members-of-us-dissident-group-that-refused-to-plea-out/ << Qntra -- Charges Dropped Against Members Of US Dissident Group That Refused To Plea Out
13:49 asciilifeform meanwhile, strictly for entomological aficionados, cont. of hungarian thrd : http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/YsGWy/?raw=true
13:49 a111 Logged on 2019-06-03 16:18 asciilifeform: meanwhile, in weird hungarian d00d lulz, http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/BZnL8/?raw=true
13:50 asciilifeform 'i never saw it before, but here is how you can fix!111'
13:58 asciilifeform 'I could never write serial uart code. maybe there are algorithm errors in the protocol that I don't know about or miss. I'd just use a tested library. I always have really high-level conceptual ideas, I often get lost in the minutiae.'
13:59 mircea_popescu aka "idea men" in bitcoin's early days.
13:59 asciilifeform i'm satisfied, fwiw, that d00d was ordinary crackpot, rather than professional appendage ( tho given the calibre of 'pro appendages' these days... )
14:00 asciilifeform he reminds me of r. kulisz
14:00 a111 Logged on 2016-09-21 12:26 mircea_popescu: ely neurotic self inspection, of which "transgenderism" of the alice/leah flavour is very strictly a subset, not to mention plainer nonsense of the kind displayed by eg. richard kulisz (see http://trilema.com/2016/full-loper-os-blogroll-review/#selection-847.0-851.1) or for that matter "lesswrong". between psychotic and neurotic, the beta boi is forever floating on this sea of delusional "you are special and perfect the way y
14:00 asciilifeform ( who at one time wrote to asciilifeform erry week, re also 'ideas' , until finally burned out )
14:02 mircea_popescu in other such, neighbour got himself a rented cat earth mover. something SO FUCKIN GWEIRD about little excavator caught inside microscopic garden, 2ft from builduing corner...
14:02 mircea_popescu "high level ideas" tm
14:02 asciilifeform hey, micro excavator better investment imho than 'cheese grater mac'
14:03 asciilifeform or hm rented lol
14:04 mircea_popescu rented im sure
14:04 BingoBoingo Just because it is micro doesn't mean the maintenance needs are micro too!
14:12 asciilifeform 'if I wanted to influence your RNG I would attack it at the von neumann fair toss algorithm, by ensuring that I have control over pairs of outputs somehow.' << didjaknow!111
14:13 asciilifeform 'cannot rightfully apprehend the confusion of ideas that would lead to such...' (tm)(r)(babbage)
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14:31 mircea_popescu i suspect you're paying way the fuck too much attention.
14:34 asciilifeform i do have a 'butterfly collection' of crackpots, goin' for ~two decades nao
14:35 mircea_popescu should prolly start a museum
14:35 asciilifeform my www's links bar used to be this 'museum', but cleaned it up a bit last yr
14:36 mircea_popescu i recall lol
14:37 BingoBoingo The links also only last so long as the linked stays on. Proper butterfly collection needs pinned under glass.
14:37 mircea_popescu ^
14:38 asciilifeform iirc i switched a couple of'em to archived copy
14:38 asciilifeform e.g. kokkarinen
14:38 mircea_popescu is that guy still alive ?
14:38 asciilifeform i think at 1 time i had moar dead than living in that links bar lol
14:39 asciilifeform kokkarinen ? last i knew ( yr or so ago ) he was sorta alive, quietly teaching freshman discretemaffs in some canadian shithole
14:39 mircea_popescu it's a wonder he didn't go the ususal way for these
14:43 asciilifeform drink ?
14:43 asciilifeform possibly he did. last word i was able to get out of him, in iirc 2012, it was 'my shrink told me it would be best if i did not post any more'
14:43 mircea_popescu well no, shoot the policw
14:44 asciilifeform a
14:44 asciilifeform not esp. common exit for old uni profs
14:44 asciilifeform !#s ilkka
14:44 a111 51 results for "ilkka", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=ilkka
14:45 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2014-11-16#925211 << 1st time he was gagged. iirc actually sued & won
14:45 a111 Logged on 2014-11-16 05:31 mircea_popescu: The brilliant Finnish-Canadian computer science professor / blogger Ilkka Kokkarinen has taken down his popular blog, presumably to keep his job after his campus newspaper noticed his heterodox views. His skepticism about the intellectual consistency of lesbian-feminist theory and practice would appear to have been his biggest crime.
14:45 asciilifeform 2nd time, i have nfi specifically what was done to him, but no moar heard from him.
14:46 asciilifeform hilariously, d00d had orig. moved to usa from finland to 'escape socialism'
14:47 asciilifeform ( at 1 time -- finland was alive with thinkin' folx )
14:47 a111 Logged on 2019-02-14 01:00 asciilifeform strongly suspects there's a motherlode of naggumism of finns, that could be excavated if anyone were to liberate the 'dejanews' stash.
14:47 asciilifeform err, canada, not usa proper
14:47 asciilifeform but in my head same item!111
14:49 asciilifeform http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/~ikokkari/ << uni site. but devil knows when last updated.
14:50 asciilifeform apparently he has a new www, but it's fulla graphics proggies and not very interesting
14:50 asciilifeform last change ; sept '18
14:53 asciilifeform for thread-completeness : a vintage ilkkaisms compendium, in the spirit of http://www.loper-os.org/pub/ilkka.txt
14:54 asciilifeform + only , afaik, known public copy of his 1st www
14:54 a111 Logged on 2017-12-17 03:56 asciilifeform: from same thread, http://www.loper-os.org/pub/ilkka.zip << still there, still afaik only copy of his 1st blog in existence on public net
14:55 asciilifeform and seems that asciilifeform was not only 1 who wondered where he vanished to.
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15:23 asciilifeform err,
15:23 asciilifeform and seems that asciilifeform was not only 1 who wondered where he vanished to.
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16:00 BingoBoingo !!cancel-invoice mircea_popescu 12
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16:01 BingoBoingo !!v 10A5DB3B2E2481AC647D18F27ECA92E3B76634F034716480071B5EABDA9F59D7
16:01 deedbot BingoBoingo canceled mircea_popescu invoice 12
16:02 BingoBoingo !!invoice mircea_popescu 0.6393680302 S.MG Colocation, two servers through June 2020 (141.7*2*12)/5319 USD
16:02 deedbot Get your OTP: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/y2oFP/?raw=true
16:02 BingoBoingo !!v F47FDE0355C923A25BB38B946B4391D1D9D9998AF977AD4A002F8B55876EC712
16:03 deedbot Invoiced mircea_popescu 0.6393680302 << S.MG Colocation, two servers through June 2020 (141.7*2*12)/5319 USD
16:06 mircea_popescu ...
16:08 mircea_popescu you seriously expect me to pay a year's worth of service with bitcoin evaluated 2/3 of market price ?
16:09 BingoBoingo Aite, I'll cancel it and reinvoice after the auctions
16:09 BingoBoingo When we have a new price
16:10 BingoBoingo !!cancel-invoice mircea_popescu 13
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16:11 BingoBoingo !!v C6189C73B9DF4F1C73E0442AF72B8A046B910F437E980735AA855C220072BD14
16:11 deedbot BingoBoingo canceled mircea_popescu invoice 13
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16:30 * BingoBoingo will fire off the auctions tonight after 0:00 UTC so they get top of the log page visibility
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16:59 asciilifeform BingoBoingo, mircea_popescu : also i thought this was to go when the new boxen delivered ?
17:05 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: If you can get the boxes delivered this summer (Pizarrostan winter), I am very inclined to end the awful log archaeology attempt at rental pricing the two boxes in question now. There's a bunch of logmess and little clarity on what ought to be charged for rental on the boxes until the swap boxes are priced.
17:06 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: currently can't see why not. possibly even sooner than end of summer.
17:06 asciilifeform ( i do have to buy'em and properly test before flying'em, tho, and it is ~conceivable~ that one will be a dud and get mailed back etc )
17:09 asciilifeform given what costs to transport to BingoBoingostan, cannot in good conscience put in crate an untested machine
17:10 BingoBoingo Right, they gotta be bought, tested, and entered into the datacenter before the final tally comes in we can use for basing a price.
17:10 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: well recall thread, mircea_popescu will be taking up the existing units, and at the ordinary colo rate
17:10 asciilifeform the new ones, will be for piz.
17:11 asciilifeform this way mircea_popescu & diana_coman dun need to rebuild boxes and suffer down times
17:11 BingoBoingo Right. With all of that, I am inclined to take on good faith that the boxes will arrive in a not ridiculous timeline and simply start charging a pure colo rate to S.MG.
17:16 BingoBoingo Many hours have been spent log digging and the big take away is that while overspecing a contract to cover every contingency is bad, time doesn't ever stop what happens at renewal time has to be clear.
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17:34 mircea_popescu i dun have a problem with paying rental till then
17:36 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Well, when the boxes get here and there's better price information I can invoice for however many months the gap between now and delivery ended up being.
17:36 mircea_popescu that's...
17:36 mircea_popescu generous.
17:44 BingoBoingo I'd still be invoicing colocation before invoicing the backrent. The math I am inclined to use to calculate the backrent would be is:
17:44 BingoBoingo (cost of the servers involved the swap)/2 to get the annual basis for charging rent as proposed here http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-02#1916868 and then invoicing for however many months it took the machines to get here
17:44 a111 Logged on 2019-06-02 19:19 BingoBoingo: In order to break the present state of sin and approach the proposed, more reasonable figure, going forward my inclination is to have box rental priced to recover 90% of their book cost over the first year's rents and in following years track 50% per annum as a longevity discount.
17:51 BingoBoingo http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-04#1917271 << My aim, as clumsy as it probably seems is to navigate Pizarro out of the our year one messes while preserving or creating enough goodwill to have a Pizarro year 3.
17:51 a111 Logged on 2019-06-04 21:36 mircea_popescu: generous.
17:55 mircea_popescu aite, well, if you can live with this, i have no problem paying your retrobill when the shipment's made
17:56 asciilifeform a++
17:56 * asciilifeform bbl:meat
17:59 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Thank you.
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18:15 feedbot http://qntra.net/2019/06/chinese-ministries-issue-advisories-cautioning-against-travel-to-us-over-crime-and-law-enforcement-hazards-to-chinese-citizens/ << Qntra -- Chinese Ministries Issue Advisories Cautioning Against Travel To US Over Crime And Law Enforcement Hazards To Chinese Citizens
18:18 BingoBoingo In local news: the old labor https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/ancap-paro-del-sindicato-obligo-a-importar-supergas-y-dejo-sobrecosto-de-us-2-5-millones-201964182257 and the aspiring labor https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/pension-irregular-en-pocitos-mas-de-30-inmigrantes-enfrentan-orden-de-desalojo-201964183244
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20:11 BingoBoingo !Xbuy 154mn 120 500 WFF, WU esta bien
20:11 auctionbot Buy order # 1048 created by BingoBoingo: 500 WFF, WU esta bien Opening: 154mn ecu Ending: 2019-06-09 12:19:30.974170 UTC (119 hours)
20:11 BingoBoingo !Xbuy 400mn 120 2835 WFF, Wire Only
20:11 auctionbot Buy order # 1049 created by BingoBoingo: 2835 WFF, Wire Only Opening: 400mn ecu Ending: 2019-06-09 12:19:43.167056 UTC (119 hours)
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20:38 auctionbot Buy order # 1048: 500 WFF, WU esta bien Heard: 154mn from lobbes. Ending: 2019-06-09 12:19:30.974170 UTC (119 hours 33 mins)
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