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(trilema) ben_vulpes: coal is not the hydrogen-rich rock dug from ground now?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: wood out of which one burns the various tars.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: specifically not coal.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: you gotta burn the gas off, so i have nfi where the "good for co2 metrics" comes from
(trilema) ben_vulpes: 'tis not 'coal', but i'd appreciate a primer on why not
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i can buy many industrial products, but am not particularly interested in more dependencies on plant-produced amendments
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: oddly enough comes from the "permaculture" wackjobs
(trilema) ben_vulpes: gasified wood, notionally provides surface area for bacterial colonization and drastically reduces fertilizer/nutrient depletion
(trilema) ben_vulpes: unrelatedly, BingoBoingo have you ever messed with "biochar" as soil amendment?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: shit must work, first, because it was designed to work. touchy-feelie boob grabs come after.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: correctness is not a thing to bolt on after the fact.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "it'll work, eventually"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: part and parcel of the "damn the correctness, all attention to developer uptake"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: not according to the DSMIX
(trilema) ben_vulpes: where "decisions" ===== "the code i produced that appeared to work a few weeks ago"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: sane and halfway intelligent folks refuse to touch it, so you're stuck with the dregs and their decisions.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: got a case of mongo. everything else follows.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i think that's indices of just the acl 'tables'
(trilema) ben_vulpes: get excited about things, support people.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: coders support tool diversity, of course
(trilema) ben_vulpes: you have to identify as "a coder" to even consider the stuff
(trilema) ben_vulpes: " if important customers lost data due to human error, Facebook engineers would manually recover it from periodic backups"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and my favorite
(trilema) ben_vulpes: persistence is slow and competence expensive, what is a sv fingertrap author to do but eschew writes to disk and hire the lowest common denominator?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: anyone remember the "no seriously flush to disk" flag?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "i.e. writes were confirmed before they were replicated"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "looks pretty, doesn't work"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "the web ui"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: wait 'till you get to "what it got right"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: buddy if you get crypto involved in your drug production it can only be to hose the state, but w/e
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: you want random words in a string, you shoulda seen the guy pitching "a cryptocurrency blockchain signature solution to the marijuana regulatory burden" the other night
(trilema) ben_vulpes: because omfg the hilarity
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: ^^ is why you're reading this
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-10#1612725 << "It also takes miners -- despite their state of the art equipment, access to electricity, and cooling -- increasingly longer to verify bitcoin transactions" oh get right the fuck out tell that to the myriad instablocks
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and to quote myself in another channel, "soz for cynicism but if it looks like madness and a tower of abstractions written by frontend devs who don't in2 systems...it probably is."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: anyways, it never worked despite facebook buying and trying to make it do so
(trilema) ben_vulpes: which to quasiquote mircea_popescu "what is even a native mobile developer"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: near as i can tell, and it tripped my retard alerts fast so i didn't invest much in determining how it works, someone used that to make a "database as a service" for mobiledevz
(trilema) ben_vulpes: bezos does this thing with the timeshare where he'll keep a virtual instance image warmish and boot it when the rest of the system says "hey we got a request for that instance"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: to revel in others suffering ofc
(trilema) ben_vulpes: you know how mobile devs can't in2 servers?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: eldritch horror
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://archive.is/idhye << to quote $wot, "try our reboot, new look, same great mongo, even more dick-holding"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: drews: mod6 operates thebitcoin.foundation, if you made that typo
(trilema) ben_vulpes: quite regular with the disconnects
(trilema) ben_vulpes: this is getting annoying.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: lol, dedication
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trinque: no, i settled for hooking into ctcp-action-message
(trilema) ben_vulpes: stormy with a chance of popescurage
(trilema) ben_vulpes: whole sentence is kinda iffy
(trilema) ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: "this coups"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i did some amount of reading, sought confirmation
(trilema) ben_vulpes: strikes me as nutty
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: can ssl or gpg be beaten into eating a specific file of entropy without patching them?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: no, i goofed. left a link to someone else's css.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: heh in other miserable names someone put "winkers" in my face last week
(trilema) ben_vulpes: snoop dog and martha stewart, in mashups from the fourth planet
(trilema) ben_vulpes: that cooking show lol
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what is the "actually said this" line?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: central theme of piece, too. 'woe is me, i wasted all this time writing for others'.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: well yeah.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "an american flag and a confederate flag on the same truck? that's like 'this tattoo is for steve, and this tattoo is to commemorate the time i tried to run away from steve. we're making the best of a bad situation now.'"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trinque: watched the "standup special" of chappelle's writing partner a few nights ago. more of a "babby's first monologue with jokes", some funny, but most remarkable for the restrained wokeness plumage on display and surprising grasp of war of northern aggression dynamics.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trinque: sad.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "you're paaaartisan haaaaacks. stop huuurrrrrting amerrrrica."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: is stewart funny again yet?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: such game, wow
(trilema) ben_vulpes: featuring a radar and iirc a teeny helicopter for neutralizing firearm threats
(trilema) ben_vulpes: heh, that'd be the paralytic's truck from /snow crash/
(trilema) ben_vulpes: in other minor lols of the great again: http://archive.is/nvFMo
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i was working to minimize dns dependency there.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: there is an a record that points at the ip for that box
(trilema) ben_vulpes: nono there is no reason you should be seeing cloudflare in between you and bvulpes.com
(trilema) ben_vulpes: can you paste a traceroute or some such demonstrating?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: if i could back slowly away from the entire internet in horror i would
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: what do you mean "call"?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: i have nfi what code you're working with, but all of those commands have an 'if fhelp' check that renders the help text instead of doing whatever the command asks for
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i am *still* working through it lol
(trilema) ben_vulpes: even 'operator' is short for 'respected gentleman who understands how to work all of the machines in our shop, produce all of our parts, be trusted with plans and some degree of autonomy in problem-solving on the fly"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i've never seen eg shop staff who were so narrow minded as some software folks.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: hm, i suppose
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i cannot fathom what is going on in the mind of somoene who is a <lang>"dev"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: phf, asciilifeform: pretty standard recruiting tactic, appeal to identity. "i am a python/rails dev".
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trinque: i don't think that anyone's using the sexp
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trinque: consider reputation returns link to wot entry?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: that's what 'boldmug' calls the 'hilarious lie that there is a nice left and a nasty left'
(trilema) ben_vulpes: rg: payscale?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ohai danielpbarron
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: "commands" as well?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i don't really want to know any more about the irc protocol than i already do
(trilema) ben_vulpes: message displayed in chan is "ping timeout: 260 seconds"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: kicked by nick? ip? other fingerprinting?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the subterfuge grows ever more obvious
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "It's obvious that this put hundreds of thousands of people into a state of great discomfort," << discomfort lol
(trilema) ben_vulpes: huh turns out the individuals are on the hook for damages, i missed that on the first pass.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: or did i miss out on yc making bank from all of the devs the rights to whose work they now own a fractional slice of
(trilema) ben_vulpes: 'like' how? isn't the yc racket a straightforward "give us a large fraction of your eyeballcorp for a pittance and some quite likely useless advice"?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what is anal virginity, rights to code produced by a carmack?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: even if carmack is still extracting the remainder of his golden handcuffs at facebook, does the penalty impact him terrifically, beyond the decline in asset value of fb stock?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: (bought moar btc obviously)
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it's not "fuck you money" if you can't actually say "fuck you".
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i'm not the kind of guy who "just wants to keep making video games", so i'd never have stuck around in the first place.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: always a shame to see people trading unhedged.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: by virtue of it being fiatola, the possessor is a tentacle?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: at this point the obvious rejoinder is "if not in wot -- tentacle"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: id software, a tentacle?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: obviously not a possible route for zuckerberg.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: nonparticipation is "all our assets are in btc, get fucked"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: carmack had to show up, new employer was on trial.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trial is marvelous expansion of moloch's reach
(trilema) ben_vulpes: would be neat to dispense with linux' entropy estimates, etc
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and /dev/random at that
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: $bzprtnr wants to know how to wholly replace /dev/urandom with $entropyfile to make gpg key with all speshul bits
(trilema) ben_vulpes: in point of fact there is! just not for people engaging in fiatola show trials
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "there should be a danger to your reputation if you are imprudent" << obvious republican rejoinder is obvious
(trilema) ben_vulpes: poor john carmack, thought juries could be reasoned with and that "expert witnesses" wouldn't lie through their teeth for a check: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/3jI4f/?raw=true
(trilema) ben_vulpes: turdmuffin: and who are ye?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: !!up turdmuffin
(trilema) ben_vulpes: phf: appcode is a mega improvement over xcode in many ways except for how i think i'm going to have to restart my ios dev box to get ac to recognize the device
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trinque: ack
(trilema) ben_vulpes: various suburban neighborhoods have excellent public schools, see lake no-negro and white lynn for examples
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trinque: not according to latest report from $not-inlaws-yet
(trilema) ben_vulpes: phf: awww. box had epic uptime iirc
(trilema) ben_vulpes: are aws hostname-embedded ip addresses even a thing?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: !~display 52.28.28.204
(trilema) ben_vulpes: !$ssh 52.28.28.204
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i'm still curious how mp *
(trilema) ben_vulpes: bit of an 'enumerating badness' race
(trilema) ben_vulpes: time to update the banhammer?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i did write an article about the material changes from each version
(trilema) ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: the most i can imagine you'll learn about the differences between prb and trb without reading the source is that the latter doesn't have a gui
(trilema) ben_vulpes: perhaps some day in peacetime i shall compare the hashes of the bins you sent over to my other archives
(trilema) ben_vulpes: hypercard decks, master of orion, dean martin show archives...
(trilema) ben_vulpes: they're in a vault with other memorabilia, what
(trilema) ben_vulpes: progress? updates? tests?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: fact: only things like you exist
(trilema) ben_vulpes: shinohai: they didn't even know it existed pre election
(trilema) ben_vulpes: shinohai: it's simple, you just have to correctly price the paper that everyone else has mispriced.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "come on down to ben_vulpes' discount lolzporium!"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: this was for entire first term
(trilema) ben_vulpes: tcha, not even worth planning for.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: if i win that bet...
(trilema) ben_vulpes: oh look at that, fed funds rate holds
(trilema) ben_vulpes: nuanced == "spilling out of head through ears"?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: forced induction is a BLESSING
(trilema) ben_vulpes: you take that back a turbocharger is not a rev bump
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "i guess that's cool if you can stomach 'new cars'"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "oh cool honda civics now come with turbos standard"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: hard to even get excited about even a brand new mercedes
(trilema) ben_vulpes: or whatever put-puts they use in bsas
(trilema) ben_vulpes: heinous abuse of capital equipment, but it beats a prius
(trilema) ben_vulpes: hey i saw a mercedes with an uber and lyft sticker yesterday
(trilema) ben_vulpes: that poll booth operators have the money for cabs astonishes me
(trilema) ben_vulpes: contains rather than starts with
(trilema) ben_vulpes: Framedragger: aye
(trilema) ben_vulpes: !$ssh 127.0.0.1
(trilema) ben_vulpes: !~echo !$ssh 127.0.0.1
(trilema) ben_vulpes: !~echo !~echo !~echo
(trilema) ben_vulpes: !~echo !~echo
(trilema) ben_vulpes: run moar ror
(trilema) ben_vulpes: > Fog gem may have cleaned out older backups.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: > while etymologists concur, there is no b in plover
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: any idea who came up with the re-alloying trick?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: nevertheless, a man in my wot republished it and so i did not have to go looking for it myself when the time came.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: right on, asciilifeform
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the specifics are irrelephant
(trilema) ben_vulpes: they probably need an app!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: nono, i said it therefore it is
(trilema) ben_vulpes: aah, i get it. ycombinator is buying their way out of the sins of refusing to disavow thiel by "funding" the aclu.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and in other what the everloving shits: https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/31/ycaclu/
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "generic/Trump-friendly phrasing"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: compact size is an excellent example of a throwaway "engineering" decision that imposes rather a lot of costs on the future
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: h1b pipeline jeopardized?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: shinohai: that is a funny tweet from gavin
(trilema) ben_vulpes: anyways, survived train ride without rupturing bladder. now to sea of dopamine, ttyl
(trilema) ben_vulpes: > insider babble
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: it's all inane insider baseball from the gilded cage
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and if it is, compiling libpq into your app and generating keys client side is trivial
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i mean what, a rest api can't be *that* damagingly expensive for a well-funded sv startup
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "db for mobile apps"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: near as i ever figured out, some heinous mishmash of "totally not localstorage" and "mongo" "in the cloud"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "our developer finger trap didn't work at all, so we're going to get you stuck in this other one"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "First, we're releasing a database migration tool that lets you migrate data from your Parse app to any MongoDB database" << oh that's kind of you
(trilema) ben_vulpes: renn fair derps could work the gate for food
(trilema) ben_vulpes: wcgw (tm) (r)
(trilema) ben_vulpes: put it a mile down the road from the amish
(trilema) ben_vulpes: living arab museum! complete with sectarian warfare!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: *present* a modal
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i recently saw a wp plugin also pull some near-mb of jsolade in to serve a modal
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it is always cobbled together out of five different wordpress themes and four javascript libraries
(trilema) ben_vulpes: no man js like that is never optimized
(trilema) ben_vulpes: this is a crapbook!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the odd surgical cut ain't so bad
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trinque: aye, witcha
(trilema) ben_vulpes: scrolling at three frames per second!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: there is so much js on that page my poor computer cannot cope
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trinque: i briefly looked at https://github.com/jorams/birch but it smells like new
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: moar spawn, moar potential
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i thought that was an ice cream shop
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trinque: i don't have the appetite for the protocol-level patch atm
(trilema) ben_vulpes: my dong has potential
(trilema) ben_vulpes: nanananananananan
(trilema) ben_vulpes: > NAN BILLION TOTAL ADA EXCHANGED BY NOW
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "why don't they like us yet?!"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ada /and/ cardano?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: wowee
(trilema) ben_vulpes: no disagreement on that point.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: so the patch is currently sitting in logbot code
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trinque puzzlingly enough subclassing logbot and defining an ircbot-connect :after method to add the relevant hook (ctcp-action-message, in case anyone is looking for cl-irc action message hooks later) did not result in a hook landing in the connection object that the message-dispatcher would poop into
(trilema) ben_vulpes waves at asciilifeform
(trilema) ben_vulpes: (maint over)
(trilema) ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: for a few days now, i think he's waiting for me to cough a mp-wp up
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