asciilifeform: i thought when 'good boy went on deployment,' it is 'rear rat' who fucks his wife
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik the 'engineers' thing is from the 'dilbertian iconography' where there is class warfare between precisely two types of being, the 'dour engineer' and 'pointy haired boss'
asciilifeform: cost predicted to be ~500 mil. each, iirc.
asciilifeform: 'The Boeing-manufactured bomber has been flying since 1952 and is expected to remain operating until around 2040, depending on when it is fully replaced by the Northrop Grumman’s B-21. ' << b21 is the bomberized chumpatronic equiv. of the mega-imaginary f35. ~21 bil. usd already contracted, in 2015! for delivery in.. 2040.
asciilifeform: shinohai: i thought it was edgar poe who warned.
asciilifeform had a dream last night, that he was tending a threadbare patch of ground in afghan. and another dream that he visited mircea_popescu's house, and it turned out to be a massive derelict freighter, tastefully rockefellerized on the inside.
asciilifeform: in phf's/ben_vulpes's/trinque's chairs...
asciilifeform: i read reddit/hn, & co., for a short while because it had a subculture of commonlisp folx. then stayed tuned for no good reason for a spell, from inertia.
asciilifeform: fwiw i never saw it and don't have a feeling of having missed anything.
asciilifeform: at one point (mid-2000s) i quasi-regularly read hn. it always had a background hum of wagner/cyanide, but carefully filtered, the way slaughterhouse keeps the squeals isolated to one end of the conveyor, so as not to frighten the incoming pigs.
asciilifeform: 'Across the 18 satellites now in orbit, nine clocks have stopped operating. Three are traditional rubidium devices; six are the more precise hydrogen maser instruments that were designed to give Galileo superior performance to the American GPS network.'
asciilifeform: jurov: very difficult to explain. cult film, from 1980s. кц was currency used by oddball aliens on their planet. turned out to ~= ordinary matches from earth.
asciilifeform: + 'Плюк - чатланская планета, поэтому мы, пацаки, должны цаки носить.'
asciilifeform: or how about instead we 'demonetize' their princeton degrees. or 'scale' them.
asciilifeform: these are ~exactly~ the 'we missed the bitcoin train!111 rewind the clock!' folx
asciilifeform: e.g., 'demonetize IPv4 addresses and the problem will solve itself. there is financial inertia on the side of retaining v4 only stack networks.'
asciilifeform: things that showed up on search engines were instructions for how to turn IPv6 off.'
asciilifeform: '... the demonstrated fact that they are unwilling to make the well documented changes to deploy IPv6 because they simply refuse to make a change, or to learn something new. ... In the beta version of Windows XP I made sure IPv6 was ON-BY-DEFAULT, with no knob to turn it off, because I knew that given the option enterprise administrators would turn it off. I lost the battle in the shipping version though, and sure enough the first
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: every year in washington there is a parade of grim motorcyclists with long, white beards. they served in vietnam. and naive description could be 'patriot' but they have the specific patriotism of folx who sat in same jail together. specifically focus on 'missing POWs', parading with black flags with barbed-wire head, etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: folx with no post box dun get nuffin
asciilifeform: mats: it is quite like hanging out with d00d who runs a massive, 19th-c.-style 'hellish mill', spewing coal smoke, but objecting to the smell of his cigar.
asciilifeform: mats: the pest next to whom all other local-fauna annihilators pale in comparison, is human.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: actually i found this one a few blocks away, on a walk. spent considerable money and effort in attempt to grow it.☟︎
asciilifeform: (it will, as is well-known, cycle, but not to absurd density of 'hoarder')
asciilifeform: when carnivorous beast lives in the forest, where it belongs, elementarily its population does not explode grotesquely as in old woman's basement etc.
asciilifeform: now this is interesting, and has weight, because i actually envied the old woman her ability to get the cats to come indoors
asciilifeform: but some folx get carried away, my next door old woman turned out to be 'cat hoarder', ended up in hospital somehow, and her relatives called in the d00dz in gas masks and chem suits
asciilifeform: hanbot: at least in this respect, my monkeystan wins. my neighbours actually compete with me for cat-restaurant attraction.
asciilifeform: what can i say, i live in one of those also.
