On Sunday, March 1st 2020
dorion announces imminent publishing of weekly review; diana_coman comments on said review, emphasising need for purposeful time allocation; reckons her comments are useful for all YH members. Bingoboingo reads; decides he’ll be more productive working from home than joining in the local pantsuit election jamboree.
Lobbes announces he has nothing to say in the upcoming meeting; states what he’s gonna do that day. Diana_coman brings to dorion’s attention a post from MP on #t aimed at him – the content of which points out that things aren’t true just coz people claim ‘em to be so – whether they work for a big software company or not. People lie routinely; they don’t need a reason.
Bingoboingo and diana_coman remark on how Latin culture doesn’t value time generally, and specifically in the case of public holidays.
Bingoboingo links to a qntra article based on jfw’s lead, documenting Fiat-BTC exchange Bitstamp derping over SegShit integration into their platform. SFYL.
On Monday, March 2nd 2020
Bingoboingo and jfw discuss yesterday’s Bitstamp SegShit qntra piece. Bingoboingo notes that he hasn’t stayed up to date with the power ranger nonsense bolted ontop of Bitcoin. He notes that the currently proposed diddles are different from those originally shat forth by CIA agent Gavin Andreesen, but that different diddles are diddles nonetheless; and thus need stomping out dilligently by him.
In other stompings, diana_coman links whaack to her comment on his weekly review. The comment encourages whaak to get to the root cause of his derpery; not to skim over it superficially. Diana_coman points out that if one “uses” something one doesn’t understand, it’s usually oneself that’s being used – and without much say in how. Whaack resolves to consider what he’s currently using without understanding.
On Tuesday, March 3rd 2020
diana_coman criticizes whaack for the preceeding conversation chain, on account of lots of talk but little action. Whaack says he likes to talk, but also wants to do. Diana_coman enquires regarding jfw/dorion’s usage of clock and ledger programs; they both affirm their usage.
Dorion bigs-up jfw’s mostly-homebrewed Bitcoin computing stack, linking to a successful transaction broadcast; jfw plays it down by noting that he didn’t invent everything himself, and it’s just another day at the office, anyways.
Diana_coman couldn’t get jfw/dorion’s ledger program working on her box; criticises its dependency requirements, and recommends they genesis the program. She continues to use a simpler bash alternative.
Diana_coman berates whaack for continuting to do just enough to get by – even when responding to that fact being pointed out. Diana states she won’t comment on any more half-arsed word salad from whaack; considers reviewing/abondoning the YH project if students don’t try harder. Whaack says he understands.
Jfw retreives his bitcoin from a PRB to TRB wallet, but hasn’t been as productive wrt writing as he’d hoped.
Diana asks dorion when he’ll have the feb tmsr-os report done; “today” is the reply. Diana and dorion discuss discounts for referrals, in the context of a prospective student who wants to bring others and be taught in a group. Along with jfw, the potential workings of group teaching are hashed out.
Diana suggests BingoBoingo report on postive stuff as well as the antagonistic on qntra; encourages him to recruit more reporters.
Diana and dorion discuss the difficulty in dealing with large corporations, on account of beurocracy. Dorion wonders about presenting their services as a remedy for said beurocracy – perhaps via “augmented intelligence” branding. Diana cautions that the client might think the branding means something completely different, and remarks that bigger companies don’t so much have a problem with beurocracy as they are beurocracy. As a result, what dorion and jfw actually do for them takes a back seat to ticking the beurocratic boxes; form subordinates function.
Jfw remarks that knowledge is the only real intelligence amplifier, and that most people need less stupid – not more knowledge.
On Wednesday, March 4th 2020
diana_coman and BingoBoingo discuss the latter’s scripting progress. diana_coman splits the problem into parts – what’s working, what’s already been achieved, what’s next and how far have you got with that? BingoBoingo presents his current results; diana_coman asks for clarification as to what he’s trying to achieve and how; suggests cutting the problem into smaller pieces – divide and conquer.
Jfw posts an article after a week of no publishing, according to diana_coman. The latter asks why he didn’t ask the questions he had regarding a signatures thread in #t; jfw says he didn’t have a clear idea of the questions. diana_coman thinks the article is highly-strung/tortured, on account of the author’s frustration at its non-definitive content. diana_coman points out the absurdity in waiting til something’s figured out to ask questions: the whole point of questions is to figure things out!
diana_coman and jfw discuss the questions the latter posted in his article; diana_coman expects that jfw suffers from a lack of practice when it comes to asking good questions – perhaps because he’s been surrounded by idjits not worth the asking. Diana notes how helpful mandatory questions in academia were for practicing the skill of good questioning. Jfw and diana_coman reckon mandatory questions would be a good idea at the former’s Junto meetings.
diana_coman wonders if jfw has been reading the #e logs for the day, on account of his framing of his questions as having introduced bad assumptions because of too-much-complexity.
Jfw doesn’t know what “high strung”[sic] means; makes several incorrect guesses and notes he could’ve asked diana_coman what she meant instead. diana_coman corrects his grammar and clarifies the analogy: jfw over-tuned/fiddled with his article.
Whaack has a query regarding memory usage stats; jfw clarifies the workings of virtual memory – a course that whaack failed at MIT. Whaack commits to further reading on the subject, and heads to the airport.
On Thursday, March 5th 2020
BingoBoingo has two visits with Uruguayan document registrars – presenting his birth certificate for local ID renewal. Many lolz are had with diana_coman discussing beurocratic bullshit of various kinds; with a particular examination of the beurocratic woes of professional qualification standardizaton when moving from one orcistan to another.
Dorion is planning to write a piece documenting the history of Bitcoin, but wonders about establishing prior context first – whether this should be in the form of additional articles, or merely as an introductiory section to the Bitcoin piece. Diana points out that his main area of focus should be on the topic he knows personally, via his prior employment with Euro Pacific Bank. Many Trilema articles on and around the topic of money are linked for use as context. Among them, a 2014 contravex article; diana_coman remarks that its author, Pete Dushenski, was in the habit of rehashing Trilema articles at the time of publication. Dorion points out that nasty central bankers like Greenspan know they’re diddling, and deliberately obfuscate that fact by spouting nonsense via “syntax destruction”[!].
The relative novelty of both monetary theory and fiat money is brought up by dorian and BingoBoingo, respectively.
Jfw and diana discuss Knuth’s work on separating code from comments.
On Friday, March 6th 2020
jfw, dorion and diana_coman discuss incentives for getting students to complete their training course on time. Ideas involve a rebate for timely completion or fines for tardiness. diana_coman suggests that rather than trying to police the students’ progress, they simply refrain from promising things they can’t ultimately control.
diana_coman calls out jfw for mismanaging his time, and as a result, wasting hers. Jfw states he’ll improve; feels bad about his fuckup.
lobbes acknowledges not having posted his lasted update – due the previous day. Says he’s been busy in the saltmines all week. Clarifies that he has an indexing bot running, but it’s quicker to manually enter URLs into archive.is
On Saturday, March 7th 2020
diana_coman follows up on discussion from the previous day; notes that there are very few people who reliably, timely do their homework; and they tend to be easily noticed. Moreover, that it’s impossible to insulate the dilligent from the slowing effect of the lazies they’re grouped with. Additionally, that the cost:benefit of policing homework vs the few sessions’ worth of time it could save ain’t worth it; and everyone thinks they’re great at doing homework, so’ll pick the lower-cost-more-homework option if given the choice. All this means it’d be better to offer a discount specificially and privately to the studious, reliable, punctual students instead.
diana_coman recommends jfw use the painful memory of his wasting her time from the day before as incentive not to do it again and have to relive the feeling.
diana_coman asks BingoBoingo for an ETA on his latest plan, since his blog has been rather quiet for a while; he plans to publish that evening (and was planning to even before the prodding). BingoBoingo briefly sketches out his itenerary for the next coupla days.
Jfw is having issues downloading zip files from archive.is; lobbes hasn’t been logging his process, so can’t check – but has noticed quirks with archive.is recently. Lobbes says he’ll start logging and check the output next time he uses it.