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mircea_popescu: because that's a key ingredient of "i just want to" - deciding various arbitrary bits (especially ones the jwz doesn't well understand) are "small matter". which decision then drives poor resource allocation and is the deep reason for the festering morass of unsolved problems that should have been ; while tons of herbivores run around "revolutionizing" things that needn't on the shaky in reality but strong in perception found
mircea_popescu: because it is A LOT of work for something everyone decided is "a small matter" in advance.
mircea_popescu: autoruting beats hand routing much like google beats sedol.
mircea_popescu: apparently nobody knows key people/history for cadsoft computer gmbh
mircea_popescu: (and no - there are no whore exceptions. anyone involved in "open source" etc is a whore.)
mircea_popescu: the calorimeter incidentally is a fine illustration / symbol of science altogether.
mircea_popescu: alliloisi fucking menontes, there's passive strength in the formation.
mircea_popescu: or in the original greek, ὦ νέοι, ~ἀλλὰ μάχεσθε~ παρ’ ἀλλήλοισι μένοντες,
mircea_popescu: and so never actually got this passive "common trunk" "common sense" sort of knowledge about their chosen profession.
mircea_popescu: but they... they went to utah or w/e the fuck, and so never actually went to school,
mircea_popescu: which illustrates the fundamental problem with "self taught" or otherwise ignorant practitioners - every single fucking kid with an undegraduate degree from ro would have told the idiots that "oh, calorimetry ? and you got an outlier ? lolzk."
mircea_popescu: incidentally in physics calorimetry experiments are notorious for this "one crazy datapoint" presentation of experimental data ; so much so that ro unis taught defensive experimental physics skills on calorimetry.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha, linked for historical lulz. nice description of how that went.
mircea_popescu: whether it can be done well enough is another matter of course.
mircea_popescu: yes but the laws of the universe guarantee this can not be done well.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, some sort of resonator "drill" bit for cpus would be good to have
mircea_popescu would pay for an apu2 board to be destroyed if anyone wants to drill the fritz and report what happens.
mircea_popescu: none of the three items are functional for the stated reasons.
mircea_popescu: walter the scheme here proposed is that a project (linuxbios) which was useful on account of actually having drivers for extant hardware was killed by hardware maker conspiracy. on its now useless ruins, as it's dead, an idiot with a "sexual identity" political agenda tried to build a grassroot activism thing called libreboot ; and some unrelated packrats with a penchant for software try to build a cluttered warehouse called
mircea_popescu: yes i know scene friendly, but rar was a fucking stupid idea even in oslo 1990.
mircea_popescu: also could we use gz like sane people and wtf is this rar bs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am pretty sure that the one actually had cache and the other had more than a dozen items last i looked. but that was a while ago.
mircea_popescu: meh. this whole thing looks like it was gutted meanwhile.
mircea_popescu: you're right huh. i guess my russian is a little... approximative.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you're telling me ? i was in the phuctor team that found weak ssh keys back in my youth!
mircea_popescu: though with the whole "transsexual" derpage, i dunno how much anyone cares.
mircea_popescu: anyway ; what i linked above is a period scrape of the original website (the way this leak worked was the whole pile was found on a poorly secured taiwan server of jetway) ; the mmnt.net site generally has all sorts of useful things.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you care hurley removed that cca 2015.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at first it looked like possibly a stack smash somewhere in there.
mircea_popescu: well after wasting a coupla hours off everyone, it finally went away.
mircea_popescu: (alf would have liked this one, the rats live so closely packed they have cultural constructs re intramural participation in sexual congress - the woman is offended but subverts it as normalcy. OF FUCKING COURSE the "next door neighbour" would play music to go with our intimate discussions. this is soviet america and the walls are thin!)
mircea_popescu: total fucking casual-boner-archy that thing, and utterly unwatchable. i used to mock romanians a decade ago as "o populatie cu mize mici" ie, a population with low stakes. but lawds have mercy, the hopes, aspirations, projects and projections of the contemporaneous ustard (stanford grad & waitress-journaho) barely cover a used bottlecap.
mircea_popescu: in which vein, /me watched a half hour of something last night, because i tried to do a christina applegate retrospective. holy shit that girl has been in all the shitty snl derivative crap. how do these idiots even live, how do they get out of bed ? that ben affleck imbecile, he's like baudoinia, blackening the walls of anywhere alcohol is customarily found. unfunny as cancer, stupid as broken shoelaces, ubiquitous as a sac
mircea_popescu: check it out, you weren't late to the party after all ?
mircea_popescu: afaik the pogo is to date the only tmsr-certified digital computer.
mircea_popescu: we really should systematize the "box verification" thing, with a view to actually certify hardware configurations.
mircea_popescu: also in which vein, see the discussion re busybox and the complete trb machine tmsr created for deployment on pogos (and the whole discussion with pogos) ; also perhaps of interest the failure to create a useful gentoo and so forth.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: may want to de-__ your name first if you actually own "walter"