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mircea_popescu: phf um, iirc i only kept one, the one with the minimum income thing. you want that ?
mircea_popescu: funny thing is - they didn't even have the sense to USE TWO BINS
mircea_popescu: this is an unavoidable next stop on the rail that begins with "not worth repairing"
mircea_popescu: if your chip process doesn't yield three nines you get the choice of jumping 10k feet in the air or being shit.
mircea_popescu: you've seen the calculation of actual constraints above.
mircea_popescu: "oh, it is ok to leave tags on the clothes". no, it's not. fuck you.
mircea_popescu: sure. but while that is a practical problem, this is a mental bug.
mircea_popescu is smoking the "fuck you, you have no rights, engineer is not a person" blend, of the same exact make as seen in debate over "oh but proper V hurts mah self-importance of codrwriter"
mircea_popescu: this isn't the fucking 70s to have single-nine chip process.
mircea_popescu: if you have 100 components, you end up having to throw out so many motherboards of this fascinating imaginary type taking 100 chips that you increase price by 10%
mircea_popescu: prototyping dongles don't belong in production item. full fucking stop and enough of the "oh but mah convenience" talk.
mircea_popescu: if that's when you listen, the fact that you listen or don't listen no longer matters.
mircea_popescu: wouldja stop clinking to the supid idea ? antifuse my arse.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform don't make me package your 100 years from now separately.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you USED TO go broke. in you know, 1976.
mircea_popescu: basically, the "remove symbols table" tech hasn't reached hardware.
mircea_popescu: pretty fucking distant from the "magical computing owning rays" the meta-nsa afficionados keep pretending.
mircea_popescu: yes. deliberately. this is as much an "exploit" as stealing electricity from the pole is "fighting the man".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for all the jacking off and cumbiscuit eating, that thing is just a stupid "oh, jtags, can you make a windows program that keeps flashing them ???"
mircea_popescu: no but seriously, i expect polished leaded glass encased in composite material of same density.
mircea_popescu: much like temperature range mechanical resistance is obtained through "thermic allignment" ie, put items that dilate/contract same together.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i would expect "mommentum allignment". ie, engineer the parts so that sudden acceleration moves them all equally.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's suppressive fire directed at pinning down the enemy ; and then there's suppressive fire directed at silencing that little voice in own head going "you're such a fucking idiot..."
mircea_popescu: worst fucking habit of grunts, that even half-competent trainer is permanently at war with, is "fire when out of ideas".
mircea_popescu: there's no "i fired it but it dun count because isis and shiva"
mircea_popescu: no, i'm not. but if you fire the round you've fired the round.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck not, let's redefine a cultural notion of fairness unbased on reality.
mircea_popescu: fucking training sargents don't pass. then people wonder why it takes 3mn rounds/kill. 99% it's not the fucking hardware
mircea_popescu: anyway, go watch people use their sighted item, score them for corectness, be amazed.
mircea_popescu: "my rifle doesn't work in the fog" "oh you're one of those, are you"
mircea_popescu: they even make 2.5x scopes. "soo... what's this do ?" "IT SCOPES!!!1"
mircea_popescu: (no, it's not that you can do it ONCE, after prepping for 10 minutes. it is that you do it every time in .6 seconds. that's correctly. it'\s a fucking rifle.)
mircea_popescu: amusingly i've yet to meet someone who could use sights correctly.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a lot of the guy's complaints are in the direction of "this is too heavy too hard too etc" reminiscent of "beautiful one tries to go to war"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well part of derp's problem is that to her stupid head there exists no enemies
mircea_popescu: "your job is called being a whore, forget the journacrap"
mircea_popescu: there is NOTHING WRONG with tool killing SOME OF the lusers. wrong is when the tool hurts the lusers it didn't kill.
mircea_popescu: first, i will crack all your fingers in the piano. THEN you MAY be allowed to buy ancient laptop and learn to gpg, MAYBE.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: some point between now and whenever decided not to join tmsr ?
mircea_popescu: rifle of Middle Eastern goat herders, guys named Abdullah, and backwoods militia types who like the fact that it shoots cheap ammo and has ballistics like their familiar .30-30." <<< amusingly, these are actually quite good points.
mircea_popescu: "AK-47: Crude and inaccurate bullet thrower designed by and for illiterate peasants. Chambered in a caliber that manages to cut the ballistics of a proper .30-caliber battle rifle in half without passing on any weight savings to the grunt. Ergonomics only suitable for Russian midgets. Archaic cable trigger spring, crummy sights, no sight radius to speak of, no bolt hold-open device, and a clumsy safety. Favorite infantry
mircea_popescu: sure, and every other palleative conceivable, outside of the correct "if it doesn't fit in 27 it needn't be said."
mircea_popescu: "meta-alt-fuckyourmother" ? really ? i am not pushing that!
mircea_popescu: aha. because you're copying me rather than copying the idiots with their "programmer's claw" in doing it. if you wrote 50k lines of code a year you'd have it too.
mircea_popescu: that's more than a writer writes, were it the good sort that actually does write.
mircea_popescu: yes, you do. you and me both, we've been pumping out 50k+ lines a year for years now right here.
mircea_popescu: that method is "write the fucking thing out", aka "paint the snow"
mircea_popescu: and they also became literate through a means, also specific and also apparently "unknown" today, in the "nfi" sense of "unknown" above.
mircea_popescu: which means a thing, specific and apparently unknown today.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but not because you don't know. you're intelligent enough to know, and by rights should know. it's just that the stupid overrider in your brain overrides the brain. it's like so : "we need the speechwriters and ghostwriters to translate our symbols into the plaintext of they without proper huffman tables"
mircea_popescu: but in fairness, i would say i rely on a very specific sort of literacy. i have people do things for me! you lot, all of you, are the modern equivalent of a barony that is neverthelss being run by the ox-baron personally, by hand. because in the future we have this strange species of ox-man that "can". of sorts, really, only 80% of the can, but hey, who cares about broken fingers and other appednages as a result. HEAR THE OXM