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(trilema) ben_vulpes: oblige with a skosh more detail?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: huh excellent q
(trilema) ben_vulpes: phf: triggered
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i am torn - on one hand, this is a marvelously spiffy box. on the other - what treasures might lie on those hdds?!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: while picking delicately through the trash in the 2br housing lord only knows how many ops monkeys it came up that the machine was in no way deprovisioned.
(trilema) ben_vulpes went to procure a server today (8 cores! 3.33 ghz! 32 gb of ram! probably the heaviest individual slice of computronium i've ever hefted) to find that it was previously operated by a local company of some amount of repute.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and until they have a representative in the forum full-time, they are each and every one gestapo, regardless of how many 'phreedom phighter' claims they make, or their handlers make on their behalf.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mk well they can show up here where we coordinate the /actual fight against statists/ and answer a whole lot of questions
(trilema) ben_vulpes: some non-wot nignogs claim to have written some 'privacy' 'software'
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-30#1459609 << more like end of july. relocating to the 'burbs wasn't in that estimate.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: noshit.jpg does that make your correlation task a bit easier
(trilema) ben_vulpes: that lines are either perpendicular or parallel to gravity
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i've read a few interesting ways of attacking the problem, and the wrinkles that crop up (brightness variation, for one), and one *hilarious* set of assumptions that some people make in the name of performance
(trilema) ben_vulpes: can't tell how poorly without actually trying to duct-tape more open sores together, though.
(trilema) ben_vulpes was idly hoping to waste time on kalman filters in preliminary research but much of the heavy lifting seems to have been done already.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the term of art is "structure from motion".
(trilema) ben_vulpes: but yes. "drones".
(trilema) ben_vulpes: tracking* possible points...
(trilema) ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: i'm talking about the integration of imu data, possible points in three-space from frame to frame, among just a few things that go into turning a set of stills into a painted point cloud
(trilema) ben_vulpes: 'lemming together'
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and it's *still* too newfangled hipster by some metrics.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: this is how software should be.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: > still works
(trilema) ben_vulpes: > latest patch to source tree from january 2006
(trilema) ben_vulpes: $up ascii_deadfiber
(trilema) ben_vulpes: really aren't "not white" streets here
(trilema) ben_vulpes: current enclave is not particularly monied. there is a trailer park less than a quarter mile away.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: but i suppose this falls under "where you live, color of skin"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: in my previous neighborhood as well.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: there are myriad small children running around off leash in my neighborhood.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltVQ7veLzNU << entirely unrelatedly, i want to know how this 3d was done
(trilema) ben_vulpes: $up ascii_deadfiber
(trilema) ben_vulpes: portland police too! imagine that.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: my local-as-in-my-ten-foot-bubble requires it.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i have removed side view mirrors for that offense.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: there's an entire small industry in the pacnw around internet uptime to arbitrary shitty buildings
(trilema) ben_vulpes: with epic contracts and such shitty delivery terms /one must actually do ones own qos over lte or something retarded/
(trilema) ben_vulpes: their 'business' packages are similarly utter scamolade.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: why would one expect 'nice' of company whose revenue is biodieseling couch potatoes?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: anyways, cable company, monopolists of net in my area, deploy 'independent contractors', entirely happy to drill holes through whateverthefuck.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: doctor + bullets, always a fun time.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: 'you have died of dysentery'
(trilema) ben_vulpes: nothere.coveredwagon
(trilema) ben_vulpes: plus then i don't have to deal with running cat5 through living spaces, because in this povery-stricken part of the world everyone wants their data pipes in the room where children should be playing for some reason
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i did that for a while, when moving frequently. its not really that much of a hassle to get it put in wherever, and to insulate the offense to the skin myself.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: much less the least inane place to pierce the building envelope.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i don't even know where the servers are going to go yet.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: america es un pais pobre! internet will come from 'xfinity wifi', eg some other sucker who paid comcast to have one of their repeaters in his house.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ask me how i know.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: no, 'tis wired. although the breaker labeled 'dryer' does not in fact shut off the dryer's 220.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: but hey the walls are actually hand-done plaster, and the door arches as well.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and the gaps in the fence an entertaining project opportunity.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i find the uneven floor charming.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ty and trinque. notquite bunker, but not mass-produced foamed petro product either, which is quite a score.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "omg none go away"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: though very much like your btc count
(trilema) ben_vulpes: house count is family secret
(trilema) ben_vulpes: photon charge, that's rich
(trilema) ben_vulpes: in entirely unrelated /america no es un pais pobre/ news, i have an address outside of portland for the first time in nearly two decades
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the pathetic "omg these cool features!" from current fanboys is endlessly entertaining.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: there's nobody to cane them into accepting the reality of the world.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: unfortunately there are like 12 functioning brains wandering around north america
(trilema) ben_vulpes: they just did, to anyone with half a brain
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: so they're pathetic stoolies, what of it. what else have they been for decades?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i ain't even mad anymore, just amused, and pleased at how easily the whole thing should melt apart.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: gimmeafugginbreak
(trilema) ben_vulpes: > responsible for plans for 'cutting edge' us jets
(trilema) ben_vulpes: > no backups
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the no backups thing is ultralarious
(trilema) ben_vulpes: they may change their mind, you see.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: well, at this time!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: tis a marvel
(trilema) ben_vulpes: there's also lockheed martin for a notbad bundle and zero risk
(trilema) ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: heh
(trilema) ben_vulpes: unfortunately, because it's in canada (and this is in no way different from the burn) there are no firearms to discharge irresponsibly
(trilema) ben_vulpes: hah perhaps five?!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: is now in year 4 of celebrations
(trilema) ben_vulpes: my multiple-week-summer-vacation is now to a house on the sound side of vancouver island where we play music extremely loudly eat all sorts of interesting things and motor about on each others motorthingers
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i just lost patience with other people's bullshit
(trilema) ben_vulpes: phf: i dun really 'burn' anymore
(trilema) ben_vulpes: but i do like my summer lake stop
(trilema) ben_vulpes: more like 10
(trilema) ben_vulpes: oh it ain't 35 hours at all
(trilema) ben_vulpes: no, one drives it down
(trilema) ben_vulpes: just looks like a decommissioned avis bus with a platform on top during the rainy parts of the year
(trilema) ben_vulpes: one bus is fully collapsible
(trilema) ben_vulpes: phf: bless the borg
(trilema) ben_vulpes: THE BESTEST RIGS
(trilema) ben_vulpes: in big hulking slow gas guzzling rigs
(trilema) ben_vulpes: 35 ish hours?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: that capital is recoupable yo
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i think that's why i like working on the mvs
(trilema) ben_vulpes: not that any bolt is reusable after that kind of fire tho
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i learned on the mutant vehicles before doing any pyreworks, so have a built-in preference for reusable steel stuffs
(trilema) ben_vulpes: factors of safety come in many flavors
(trilema) ben_vulpes: pff if you're a girl
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mnah, mortise and tenon has the beam itself shaped into tongues and grooves to sit into itself
(trilema) ben_vulpes: at right angles
(trilema) ben_vulpes: each beam has 2 bolts through it
(trilema) ben_vulpes: but it is rigid as *fuck*
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i swear i didn't invent this one!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i'm trying to dig up the original source of this design and completely failing
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the design was 3 bolts through 3 beams at each intersection point
(trilema) ben_vulpes: phf: naw i mean like overtorquing and wallowing out a destructive fastener hole.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: or perhaps some do, i never got to party with the 3lite sillicon valley crowd
(trilema) ben_vulpes: one does not haul a thing to the playa unfurled.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: perhaps, but my pyres held numerous people and were assemblableable by noobs on drugs with a minimum of oversight.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: vibration drops your axial friction, and to a degree your planar friction.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: kinda like the "don't break and turn" at the same time mantra.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: useful when you have a nut on the far side. the hammer helps to overcome static friction on the bolt/nut planes, thereby letting you twist the bolt a little further.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it is perhaps forgivable if you Swear to God to not back the lag bolt out and ever use the hole for anything ever again, but that is straight up dangerous because you cannot make guarantees about who will do what with your holes out of your sight.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: do not impact driver your destructive fasteners.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: 2020 something something egalitarian treatment of UCI nodes
(trilema) ben_vulpes: 2016, "put moxie marlinspike in gossipd!"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: 20-something, "put wifi in the cardano!"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: storage is a consumable and you...mk.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: where hdd...rots slower?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: sure, but ssd sits, rots.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: why do you dislike the plates so much?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: or 'excavator' -- with treads and arm and bucket?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: figure out? were controls marvelously different from controls of other motorized things?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what halfway curious kid hasn't climed all over an excavator
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "might be interesting to look at" as a legal problem cracked me up when i first learned of it
(trilema) ben_vulpes: path there will be bumpy for folks. in the above and other ways.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: anyways there's a whole infection to deploy between today and a world of impoverished fiatcorps.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: now i need a sophistry gas mask
(trilema) ben_vulpes not discussing asciilifeforms
(trilema) ben_vulpes: who knows how many knight capitals are waiting.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: point i was seeking to make is that as much as usians like to bitch about cost of health insurance and what it doesn't cover, they have no idea what pain is lurking in the near future
(trilema) ben_vulpes: that some can afford to live and some mustest die
(trilema) ben_vulpes: no actually.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: if it leaves me eating dust and my children picking pockets i will go to the street gladly having seen it
(trilema) ben_vulpes: oh i am waiting for the great implosion of unwrangleable complexity
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the windows shop approach is not at all bad from a resourcing perspective. 'software is complicated and sucks and we need a budget for maintaining ours. may as well just pick technologies we can staff for 60k/yr/butt and allocate integer butts.'
(trilema) ben_vulpes: americans think /healthcare/ is going to bury them in costs. they have no idea what the maintenance cost of the past 2 decades is going to be. what a burden poorly written software is on a business.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: yeah but more like diesel engine and less like mortgage origination
(trilema) ben_vulpes: man the 'not quite emacs' keybindings in weechat are killing me
(trilema) ben_vulpes: complexity in software, that is
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-10#1480694 << another take on this: the only constraint on complexity is design and discipline.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i'm a peripherial acquaintance with another cult that occasionally writes, say, templating languages in c. for use from c.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-10#1480691 << /me squints and points at the funny frenchman
(trilema) ben_vulpes: rails webshites have 10x the complexity for 1.1x the 'features'
(trilema) ben_vulpes: how can the game dynamics produce any other result?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: dude there is no head to the hydra
(trilema) ben_vulpes: each single breaking change was the result of an entirely wankatronic 'upgrade' to the compressor lib to take more dependencies on more stupid django internals
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i actually had to walk django-compressor backwards through its released versions, something like 3 whole major releases just to get it to work with the django 1.3.5 that this site needed
(trilema) ben_vulpes: *tearing noises as /me excises more sillicon valley horseshit from client stacks, fixes all problems that had previously been papered over with docker, and deploys to fresh ubuntu 14.04*
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i wanted that old ubuntu for a motherfucking reason
(trilema) ben_vulpes: bitch are you /serious/
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i went to upgrade a docker installation and they pulled this gorgeous trick where they actually deny access to repos based on docker client version
(trilema) ben_vulpes: oh it routinely fails to be useful to old installs
(trilema) ben_vulpes: no, but do you know what i'm going to do? buy a fucking laptop engrave your company's name on it charge you for it install your shit on it and keep it.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and you raise the issue with railsfolk of standing and the response is almost always "yow. that sucks. have you tried docker?"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "as it always is, pleb!"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the publically available toolchain is ~worthless.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: yeah it's fucking miserable.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "sanity" roflffufozlzozfl
(trilema) ben_vulpes: meanwhile i need to boot rails app X running ruby version Y with subtly different deps from rails app Z running ruby version Q in about five minutes.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "oh well i usually just work on one thing for 9-18 months at a stretch, jump to a new job and then wipe the entire install after a week of tearing my hair out"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it's pretty classic response from experienced ruby folks
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and how do you shuffle between ruby projects with wildly different dependencies?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "oh just" hose your box in a million interesting ways
(trilema) ben_vulpes: probably because you figured out how it worked before those became the hot new 'right' way to do things
(trilema) ben_vulpes: davout plays rails without rbenv?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and the shims shitshow
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i'm talking chruby rbenv and friends
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what, all of the ruby install?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: is it not gloriously retarded.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: have you tried to run down "best practices" wrt installing ruby and rails on a macintosh?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: because wtf managing source and packages is hard or what was it
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and burgeoningly the go environment as well
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the whole railsvironment
(trilema) ben_vulpes: docker adoption is largely driven by people who can't get it to work on their workstations
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: shipping vms around is already sop with these shitheads
(trilema) ben_vulpes: always so much fun
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ho ho ho ho ho
(trilema) ben_vulpes: > reconstruct its natural habitat
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i can't be arsed to shuck either of their inedible exteriors.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and a us college grad
(trilema) ben_vulpes: have a pineapple
(trilema) ben_vulpes: why would i give a shit about the bitterness of a cure for a made up ailment i ask you
(trilema) ben_vulpes: yeah cuz saliency dun bear or something
(trilema) ben_vulpes: not my fault you can't remember what you said two minutes ago
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i hope i don't taste like blueberries, and further how would you know?!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: generic 'i dun wanna work' excuse.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "you better tell me you have the shits, because that excuse is completely unacceptable."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: then "omg tensions were so high yesterday i don't want to come in"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: show up and start in with the unfounded ideas.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the rest have never had the autonomy over any scope to know how much better life is under a good master.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: one in a fucking million, maybe.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and others with aspirations of relevance and no historical view
(trilema) ben_vulpes: by even dumber and poorer 'j-skool' grads
(trilema) ben_vulpes: but the kill -- fresh
(trilema) ben_vulpes: yes the vendetta is old
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the bankrupting part is new to me
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ahaha so thiel pulled it off?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i was just looking at fuel consumption as an upper bound
(trilema) ben_vulpes: oh that's an interesting approach
(trilema) ben_vulpes: estimating 500 gal tank capacity
(trilema) ben_vulpes: so triggered
(trilema) ben_vulpes: triggered me
(trilema) ben_vulpes: > tmsr is making its own docker
(trilema) ben_vulpes: davout: triggered
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: well megawatt lifestyle in survival mode
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what is really at issue here is one's connectivity to the bitcoin network. so yes, power. also, shortwave.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: either provision for your "megawatt standard lifestyle" or...scramble around unplugging things to extend the tiny window before your node goes offline completely.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: either you can depend on the mains or you can't. and they're not getting better in NA.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the ups is just supposed to be a bridge to the gennie.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: (within operating envelope)
(trilema) ben_vulpes: 'power supply' to me means i dial a voltage and it holds it to a hundredth of a volt.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: heh american "engineering rounding error"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i doubt a binary-only 'bitcoinalike' would fly even were it wot-o-genic
(trilema) ben_vulpes: p much just the value of the tokens neh
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "what is the value of owning source code for a token system that everyone else must have a copy of in order to play?"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: yeah, that's not terrifically well thought-out.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "intellectual property"?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: 22-year olds from ca etc, "who the fuck are these kids"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "no ma, we were just out camping and shooting at a quarry all weekend"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: so much hilarious entertaining trouble
(trilema) ben_vulpes: oh man and the rave/burning man scene
(trilema) ben_vulpes: graph was so delightfully walkable
(trilema) ben_vulpes: approx *all* cute chicks at the local public schools had ljs
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ahaha i had so much fun with lj
(trilema) ben_vulpes: meanwhile france is usg because if yer not with us yer against us (tm) (r) ?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: yeah, i recall
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