asciilifeform: simply so as to squeeze out a small +ev with which to make anything next.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: economics of ic mass production are such that most-everyone ends up marketing workstation as also a table leg stand, toaster, dildo.
asciilifeform: was ~last gasp of 'you buy a comp, and it comes with the correct os for it, made by same people' thing.
asciilifeform: sun iron was honest, wholesome thing, by any conceivable standard of today
asciilifeform: this notion, that you need multi-$k gpu accelerators, tightly coupled with os voodoo, just to use a motherfucking TEXT EDITOR, is very 'modern'
asciilifeform: ( point of the story was, you can get ~0-flicker~ vga even on ludicrously and unpredictably slow machine, using a box that lets you build up, slowly, painfully, hidden framebuffer, then quickly flip to it.)
asciilifeform: recall writing games for dos. it was quite possible to have 0 flicker.
asciilifeform: more nuanced : it is not the 'fps' that matters, but how long it takes to swap framebuffers. the usb dongle gave ~7 fps in practice, but 0 tearing because it had simple doublebuffer, where it took a while to draw the hidden buffer, but flipping took a msec or so.
asciilifeform: (and static image is flicker-free at 0 fps! so long as it ~persists~ on the display. elementarily.)
asciilifeform: (starvation-cheap 'dell' boxen circa mid-00s)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not on the iron of the time, at least.
asciilifeform: enjoy, then, the nintendo. (or do as i did when i worked for usg and forced to use winblows xp box -- run gentoo/x11 in vmware, and emacs in ~that~...)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i only pointed out, that microshit's nintendo ecosystem is in fact 'friendlier' to illicit devs than crapple's.
asciilifeform: so there is no reason why it could not, in principle, be done for crapple.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i've built winblows kernel drivers, for example, without a winblows box or any microshit software (yes, incl. the rsa signature)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i have a room full of various boxen
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu -- disposed. mortals - not afaik
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: because i needed a lappy with 300 dpi lcd and working suspend mode ?
asciilifeform: i have a box here very similar to ben_vulpes's, 'mb pro' circa may '16. it is now probably running the same sw as when it will go to junkyard.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: why the everliving fuck not ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: alarm bell here rang weeks ago, Just Say No to the 'upgrade'
asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://archive.is/LnEXk >> somehow this never gets old, 'let's give our 0days to usgapple, usgmicroshit, etc. for pennies on the dollar' yet-again
asciilifeform: i have only ever seen such scene in film before, where corpses in stalingrad etc.
asciilifeform: rat, imho, is better company than roach. (incidentally, i was walking in a 'posh' neighbourhood in washington, and saw -- what no one will believe, THOUSANDS of rats, not even around a rubbish pile, but in hedges, right in the earth, SWARMING)
asciilifeform: the way i pictured bitcoin is that it is attempt at experimentally testing the hypothesis that some men are -- men, others -- roaches who were dropped into wrong bin by mistake
asciilifeform: it imho is intrinsically insectronic, it rewards bare-crumb epsilon-+ev chasing insects at the expense of men.
asciilifeform in particular would like to see more thought re the 'mining is a curable disease' direction.
asciilifeform: imho spec was quite spiffy but did not contain sufficient ddt against insects, e.g, pools remain possible.
asciilifeform: that, as i understand, is the 'nuke' on the rocket, it works best by derps being 'shown the instruments of torment' rather than by setting off
asciilifeform: .. or, some unaligned faction, will mine ?
asciilifeform: for my education, describe the mechanics -- e.g., mircea_popescu will mine it himself ?
asciilifeform: which seems like 'nobrainer', they have no reason to accept'em that fits in their 1-neuron roach brains.
asciilifeform: and, unconnectedly, there is the problem of 'miners collectively refuse signed txen'
asciilifeform: to have separate market, as in 'x prb == y trb coin', they gotta be circulatable separately
asciilifeform: in that, unless you run the deliberate separator funnel described in 'missile crisis', your own stash becomes entangled in both forkchains
asciilifeform: this, as i understand, means to launch the rockets
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what means 'peg it' ?
asciilifeform: it is not, admittedly, clear to me whether they are palpably aware of the cost of such a move.
asciilifeform: just as american airlines would remove passenger's legs if they could.
asciilifeform: in their single-neuroned brain, 'sort by fee' + 'no sigs' >ev> 'sort by fee' plain.
asciilifeform: cockroach goes to where the sugar is.
asciilifeform: it would appear to be true, in that chinese cockroach can pack more sigless txen into a block than proper ones.
