asciilifeform: trinque: how might i go about determining the answer to this ?
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: at the risk of repeating the words of the cartoon yoga master (who offered the n00b a bed of 1 nail) -- 'gotta start small'
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: if you haven't spent last 20yrs programming, this chore isn't for you, sadly
asciilifeform: 'because it would be wrong' or sumthing.
asciilifeform: the ONE THING I ASKED FOR is not in the tunings.
asciilifeform: mod6: i sat for whole day with the tuning. worthless.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: no, and there is also not a ready guide on self-appendectomy
asciilifeform: reading AT MOTHERFUCKING DISK SPEED as it OUGHT TO READ
asciilifeform: we had a thread, where mircea_popescu suggested inserting in massive batches. i will eventually implement this. but i find it offputting that EVEN THEN the IDIOTIC db will prevent me from reading !!!
asciilifeform: and again i went 'surely there MUST be a knob to permit-FUCKYOU-UNBLOCKEDALWAYS-READS... i must've missed it' but nope.
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)☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: it may be the most overloaded trabant on planet3
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: whythefuck does yours have ratchet
asciilifeform: (but did not say exactly how it failed.)
asciilifeform: also mentioned a different crackpottery i had in my head -- to use pair of magnets instead of balance spring, to overcome the thermal boojum (that harrison ended up inventing bimetallic spring to solve) -- as having been tried, unsuccessfully, by huygens
asciilifeform: also must be shit. for the beetle to smell.
asciilifeform: it ain't the 'well-documentedness' that attracts.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: e.g., ada refmanual & rationale, whole talmud, is also on www... but somehow 0 rush to snatch dung
asciilifeform: it is a mistake to describe the agglomerative type of 'programming' as product of 'thought'. it is more similar to what dung beetle does.
asciilifeform: trinque: there is no tangle properly speaking ~in~ their skull. when proggy no longer fits in head, programming turns into a brute physical, rather than intellectual activity
asciilifeform: diana_coman: i will be releasing a small proggy quite soon.
asciilifeform: (for instance, prohibits pointer arithmetic, or even the use of a pointer in any context other than where it was born; or to any item not in advance marked pointable-at.)
asciilifeform: diana_coman: spiffy article, good illustration of the kind of affair ada was built to prevent
asciilifeform had 'zcash' and 'zerocoin' hardlinked in head
asciilifeform: and also 'attacker' and definitely not 'aaah but we kept the magic inflatron key, what, idiot, you believed that we burned it?!'
asciilifeform: 'We estimate the attacker has created about 370,000 Zcoins which has been almost completely sold except for about 20,000+ Zcoin and absorbed on the market with a profit of around 410 BTC. In other words, the damage has already been mostly absorbed by the markets.'
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/OwS20 << lulzy admixture of sense and nonsense. 'oh noez bit flips' but 0 mention of ecc. nor of the fact that almost all 'single event upset' are of ~earthly~ origin, ordinary beta decay
asciilifeform: afaik only the grave is 'for everyone'
asciilifeform: i am not a champion marksman, nor mega-hunter. but i do picture that duck hunt would be somewhat more difficult if you had to shoot a ~specific~ duck, rather than one from a flock; and if ducks knew how to shoot back, and call for backup..
asciilifeform: mojaheds in afghan for some reason preferred to use things other than buckshot. but is interesting to contemplate theoretically - given dispersion, how many shotgun rounds would you have to fire, from, say, 500 metres, to hit rotor.
asciilifeform: trinque: is that thing at least droppable?
asciilifeform: aha i recall that piece, it was water in the fuel
asciilifeform: in which part would you have to aim ?
asciilifeform: so i'll believe mircea_popescu's description.
asciilifeform: fwiw in fact i never once saw up close the shooting of a chopper. and subj was not covered in my kindergarten.
asciilifeform: 'with what to deal with chopper, and how' is a question some of the folx tuned in might, whether they want to or not, have to answer one day.
asciilifeform: did mircea_popescu ever write a 'likbez of partizan warfare' or similar ? i'd quite like to read it.
asciilifeform: after that, desire to hover in $multimil unarmoured toy will evaporate.
asciilifeform: to revisit upstack, i suspect that police choppers will remain a going concern right up until the first heatseaking quadcopter-cum-pyrotechnic.
asciilifeform: iirc early in ww2 instructions included 'shoot at dive bomber' but then changed to 'take cover'
asciilifeform: trinque: thing topped out at ~1km of useful
asciilifeform: (hence why real life aa gunnery works on principle of shrapnel + concussion)
asciilifeform: the 'vital organs' of the target are small.
asciilifeform: i was skeptical of 'red army d00d brought down messerschmitt with mosin' when reading as a boy, also.
asciilifeform: just as in new orleans. apparently not so easy to bring down chopper with small arms as mircea_popescu suggested.
