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mircea_popescu: ah yes, exactly. alf keeps stealing my ideas and then passing them off as his!
mircea_popescu: ordeal is what your mom doesn't want to happen to you.
mircea_popescu: no point wasting effort with the current variety ; unless one's trying to learn.
mircea_popescu: at which point making a proiper driver for the bn unit singleitem will make sense
mircea_popescu: myeah. that's the other thing - once the "r&d" pretense goes away, vidcards will definitely go the way of ram, as hdds went before it. ie, centralization, 1 place in asia where they're all made, all the same.
mircea_popescu: and it seems the high water was cca 2010, not improving.
mircea_popescu: i suspect that by 2020, ~everything will cease to be supported
mircea_popescu: to be honest, i do not think the current "open source" has five years left in it.
mircea_popescu: i expect as we clean that up i'll be in a better position to make sense.
mircea_popescu: and by "major performance degrading" i mean that same machine, same os, same code runs at 150 fps with pre and ad 1.5 fps with post. no otehr symptoms.
mircea_popescu: actually i'm currently chasing a major performance degrading bug which seems to be related to directx version > 8.
mircea_popescu: and my 2004 vintage card is not even the oldest ; not by a long shot.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform except anyone who walks into a shop to buy a lappy walks out with ipad anyway.
mircea_popescu: the moore is dead. it's just as dead here as it was when i killed gavin with it. dead is dead, and objective reality means universal properties.
mircea_popescu: moreover "new" video cards make about as much sense as "14nm cpu".
mircea_popescu: so it's stable, and can continue indefinitely. they have not the power to change the situation at any rate.
mircea_popescu: this both satisfies the desire of github rats to feel connected to bitcoin even though they aren't ; as well as bitcoin's necessity to be rid of the "talented" young minds.
mircea_popescu: but w/e, after the total rout of the gavin forks in 2015 and the political rather than technological defeat of the summer of forks earlier last year the remaining hole - which is also not going to get plugged - is exactly in this vein (segwit is no different), where all comers are more than welcome to define magic versions, script meanings and paralel chains ; which everyone else is more than welcome to ignore.
mircea_popescu: anyway ; like colored coins except with a different dood pretending to authorship.
mircea_popescu: so girl bought "brazilian grapes". they're indescribably aptly named. colored this luscious black, like a brazilian chick's tone ; big, and round, and tough and sweet.
mircea_popescu: PeterL has this decided "kids interests" streak in him. he knows all the shit 12yos are liable to find cool.
mircea_popescu: sure darling. suppose you're a) dry enough and b) in a furnace, ok ?
mircea_popescu: think of starting a wood fire. "many trunks in the forest, including mine and friends' i saw, had zippo lighter approached to trunk - nothing happened"
mircea_popescu: as that pacino character aptly points out, "i'm chippin'"
mircea_popescu: well, opium adiction is very slow. you need to actually get addicted.
mircea_popescu: it was safe mostly \because lacking the social context.
mircea_popescu: we are discussing very unlikely situations here. back when i was a kid, codeine as a phosophorous salt was the child cough remedy ; i took plenty ; so did other kids. did ~nothing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but yes, humanity being what it is - this isn't a complete solution. given a large enough population, you'll find individuals capable to survive anything ; hiv even has innate immunity believe it or noit.
mircea_popescu: he mostly studied men. there's a marked difference between the genders.
mircea_popescu: surely. dope is still the best way to open up china for "trade" ; as it is the best way to get that snotty chick with "plans for the future" open for... hm. "partying".
mircea_popescu: if you're willing to die tomorrow you can have five pounds of your choice of dusts, seeing how yo ugo rob a bank.
mircea_popescu: and the beauty is, the only true boundry on the $costofdopehabit is the ceiling on t.
mircea_popescu: addiction limits that t very narrowly closer to inf. if you get her started in college she'll die before her tits sag if we're talking eg meth.
mircea_popescu: specifically, that male self-hate tends to reject the world (which is what "i hit rock bottom" always is - it is insanity to imagine the addict understands the world in your terms, and "Has seen reason" ; no such thing, he just activated a peculiar, and reasonably well understood, psychological process. no rationality involved) whereas in females tends to reject the self.
mircea_popescu: there's some biological factors to account for this, both directly (shittier metabolism ; stronger response to neurotransmitters ; the venereal 50/5 trap etc) and indirect (through the workings of sexuate reproduction women are always vandable) ; but i'm pretty sure there's also psychological factors involved.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: womne almost never hit rock bottom. this is almost entirely a male phenomenon.
mircea_popescu: much like hillary, she thinks it merely enhances her life and she could quit at any time, if the balance turned -ev
mircea_popescu: (note that the ~only punishment described is... having to leave "the country". as if not smelling the fucking farts of ustards is the worst fate.)
mircea_popescu: "protecting esper l3 comms from terrorists who don't understand how demolished world works."
mircea_popescu: it's literally what hillary clinton thought she was doing with her derpy email server. and still thinks this.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the demolished man is an excellent piece, inasmuch as it's pretty much an exact description of both the ideal as well as the practical implementation of "modern democracy, civilised & globalized" as teh bureaucrats perceive it.
mircea_popescu: vaguely related, it turns out that the per capita price for polish children cca 1942 was 25 zloty.
mircea_popescu: i suppose not enough faux "women in tech" to satisfy teh libtards.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i need an interpretation guide for your last post. what am i seeing ?
mircea_popescu: if anyone is inclined to maintain forks of any linux distro (much in the manner of trb - to clean, not to "support"/utf/systemd/etc) we can prolly work something out.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so we'll just have people run historical snapshots and that's that.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20161003/#340 << yes. as we speak diana_coman is busy at work making snapsnots of linuxen. because it's obvious from practice that the way this goes is "i can't install eulora on linux" "we tested this" "but i can't". then upon extensive and expensive research it turns out... THEY CHANGED THE FUCKING DISTRO. breaking software. because why not.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there's a fucking right way to do things, and this arbitrary "i shall now be a becoming actress" ain't it.
mircea_popescu: how is it that the republic can do just fine progressing at the clip of its own progress, no faster than that, nor slower ; and that while we don't specifically wnat to "do things" or set goals, nevertheless we do things and achieve (other people's) goals ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "i will now make apple pie out of turnips, because here in new york all we have is turnips. mmmmm delicious apple pie, new-york style. the angel morni told me so!"