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mircea_popescu: (i only bother with the reference because it's a very convenient example of many thousands extant that "nobody knows about".)
mircea_popescu: i can't quote the item for lacking a title ; romanian copies are curated and collected by ioan ursu as "historia turchesca 1300-1514), editura academiei romane, 1910 - where it's found at page 91 and urm.
mircea_popescu: ombarde, et per otto giorni si fece pruovi di haverla, si ruppero due di quelle bombarde, et quelli ch'erano nella fortezza non volsero mai haver parlamento, et tutti si difendevano con l'artegliarie et non si curavano di noi."
mircea_popescu: i fuora della terra, il quale si teneva, et era fornito, ma perche le vettovarie erano venute a manco, non si stette a perder tempo, et ritornato il campo per un'altra via, venissemo ad un forte castello, posto in monte, nel quale si trovava esser li prigioni del Turco, che furono presi l'anno avanti supra inverno, quando fu rotto Soliman Bassa, et fatta esperienza de haver detta fortezza, vi furono piantate sette bocche di b
mircea_popescu: Framedragger wordplay not present ; note that this is a work of fiction - for instance the "killing of the commander of artillery" actually happened during a siege by mahomed 2. apud giovanni maria angiolello, Venetian banker to the sultan : "Era il resto di Suzava con fossi et palanche circondata, le case et chiese erano di legname coperte di scandole, solamente un castello v'era fabricato di pietra et calcina, a coste, et d
mircea_popescu: i don't agree with his illuministic/humanitarian blaming of the hardware, i believe we can't have computers until and unless impaling every single derp currently involved in computing in any capacity, but this looks like a dispute for the ages.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: especially his discussion of kqueue and the hashtable/array duality + fd_getfile workings strictly indicates a) he's an idiot ; b) that
http://trilema.com/2016/cargo-cults-a-case-study/ 's "This is what cargo cultism is, you see : memetic stupidity, inescapable for the aculturated. Even if they try. Especially if they try." is exactly right and, sadly, c) that alf is exactly correct : we can't have computers as a continuation
mircea_popescu: incidentally, weird that the capon population doesn't come up with this, you know ? there should be The Office Slut, a magazine, depicting and discussing items of juvenile interest.
mircea_popescu: sorta like it's the job of the chick playing the cleric to go under the table once the raid's done ?
mircea_popescu: consider the practical, smaller example of blog software. you ... can;t use it ; i can.
mircea_popescu: from the other direction : while i wouldn't throw away better machines if someone offered some - nobody does.
mircea_popescu: but altogether the argument seems to me something like "stick shift vehicle will always end in a crash".
mircea_popescu: not necessarily because i'm proposing "data" ie, "here's a meaningless, unstructured pile" or "gotta do your sorting in software because we're too busy doing three level caching and besides, not like sorting is a solved problem" are workable technological choices.
mircea_popescu: sorta like "revolution was contemplated before" ; "yes, but not in the sense of beheading the king ~AND REPLACING IT WITH NO OTHER KING!~"
mircea_popescu: "in a dumnezeirei carte e scris ca omul se desparte de tot ce-i e mai drag pe lume, dar sfinta carte spune-anume ca despartirea nu-i pe vecie, ca revedere-o sa mai fie. nu-ti spun adio, la revedere! la revedere-n alte sfere!"
mircea_popescu ended up reading ancient gravestones from that translation, get a load of this :
mircea_popescu: haha. ok, ima produce an english version of the official romanian story thereof.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger btw, since we're on this : you know the story of sobieski and his siege of piatra neamt ?
mircea_popescu: (and as a general rule, never read a summary unless you own the producer.)
mircea_popescu: i dunno, maybe it's opaque without a lot of other bits not directly obvious to me ; but until i hear better i'll continue to believe it directly works.
mircea_popescu: myeah. well... read the source material. fortunately the fellows were literate, and recorded in latin.
mircea_popescu: you know that bit of history ? definitely worth reading, the fall of the republic of both nations.
mircea_popescu: what they do in the war room does not benefit from "near instantaenous". contrary to what the ustards in that position think.
mircea_popescu: whart we do here would suffer from delay ; but would not benefit from encryption. shit, there's a log anyway.
mircea_popescu: my point there is that you are confusing two incompatible things : the market and the general staff. there is exactly no overlap between these structurally dijunct items ; and entities that tried to use the same for both (example - classical polish-lithuanian commonwealth) failed miserably FOR THIS REASON.
mircea_popescu: generally, tmsr stuff is very powerfully innovative exactly for this reason : that it utterly rejects ~very well selected~ priors commonly shared by "community consensus". it's a bunch of people that "can't spell properly", but not for lack of knowing grammar.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger aha, yeah. more than that : "this is coming from my wot IF YOU ARE IN IT. maybe i'm lying to you, fucker."
mircea_popescu: "everyone tune in #trilema and listen for me saying go" ?
mircea_popescu: so you have it all, the warehouses bought, the parts delivered, drones are assembled and ready to. for whatever reason you need to syncronize this. and whaty you will do is...
mircea_popescu: my evaluation of it was "rewrite" rather than "import" fwiw. but unlike tor, i have no beef with it as of yet.
mircea_popescu: i think we broached this before ; anyway - perfect forward secrecy is not a trivial matter.
mircea_popescu: it is not clear that otp actually works ; it is almost certain nothing else in the "pfs" gargle does.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-17#1504163 << and coups organized by people who don't know each other (to the degree that they actually use facebook.whatever)... fail. though the department of state idiocy in turkey was not even accomplished enough to merit the name of failure, properly speaking.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: there's a lot of these strands of cocktopus stuck in each and every pie. how do you have "democratic" syria ? turns out that you don't - you either have "democratic" yet-another-flyover-state ; or else syria.
mircea_popescu: much like asking "how do you make working social security" skews the discussion into nonsense.
mircea_popescu: the notion that you WANT "instant" messaging is simply begging the question - you thereby and therefore DO NOT want secure, or workable, or sane.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this isn't just a happenstance. while it's probably not deliberately constructed, it's nevertheless a CONSTRUCT. ie, part of a culture, which depends on it.
mircea_popescu: the dao "could work" so therefore FUTURE OF CURRENCIEH OMAIGERD
mircea_popescu: these idiots built their entire minds on this broken equation.
mircea_popescu: see, the fetishism thing again. it "could" be so therefore ~= is.
mircea_popescu: sheep can be coaxed into bleating in tune. is this an orchestra now ?
mircea_popescu: nobody burns them down, so i suppose there's lots of space for ridiculous on the street.
mircea_popescu: the derpage of people pretending to do their copmputing on "smart" phones is, to my eyes, way the fuck more ridiculous than the attempt to you know, make a "small kernel"
mircea_popescu: a phone is, definitionally, NOT a computer. nor can it be, and arguably should not be.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform imagine for a second such a thing as a proper controlled-by-owner-computer phone existed.
mircea_popescu: this idea of "my machine" has serious problems when you're discussing a phone
mircea_popescu: Framedragger historically, location contracts come with a key for the actual owner.
mircea_popescu: depends. the latter makes a better story for burning man.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger the only guarantee life comes with is that it will have been wasted.
mircea_popescu: not doing because "You can't do" is how 15yo virgins end up 25 yo virgins. the fucking point is to go ask the girl that'"d never say yes"
mircea_popescu: anyway. while the situation is dire, no contest - the solution will be of the nature of a SOLUTION. ie, applying solvent.