asciilifeform: i.e. the # of ~working~ transistors you can reliably fit on 1 die, flattened out some time even before what is ordinary thought of as 'death of moore's law'
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: these iirc tend to be dug along side railroad right-of-way. in europistan, a++. in ameristan, on other hand..
asciilifeform: ^ was the advertised rate on the billboards in timis iirc
asciilifeform: none of the stated excuses really pass laugh test, either ( 'ohnoez, expensive to rip up asphalt' -- but they do it all year long, for 0 actual reason, largely to keep up 'road work doubles traffic fines' thing they have going in many states )
asciilifeform: if you want fiber, it's 100+/mo for ~minimal~ bw , and then only in (small %) of the habitable coasts
asciilifeform: re fiber -- good % of usa is still using modem over copper. somewhere near zimbabwe level of net pipe service, overall.
asciilifeform: ( recall the story where jp in '90s bought entire steamer of old sovok bottle crates. for the cedar )
asciilifeform: there's still cedar in ru far east iirc
asciilifeform: !Q later tell phf wouldja be willing to stand up a logger instance for #pizarro ? appears that ben_vulpes and his bot, may have been lost at sea or whoknows
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: even possible that this is the torch d00d. ( supposedly they often feel irresistible desire to stand in crowd and watch )
asciilifeform: interestingly, the connection b/w great ships and serious wood , is not entirely gone in modern time -- sov type 636 submarine has shaft bearing from lignum vitae☟︎
asciilifeform: ( and prolly will disappear in not too long )
asciilifeform: what remains, afaik, is the american redwoods, but these sell for weight in silver
asciilifeform: bvt: i dun expect any oak. for 1 thing, most of the old-growth wood of the kind which built the great cathedrals, sailing ships, etc. is gone.☟︎
asciilifeform: ( possibly he also had passage re how this is so that moderntards can have time to reddit instead of cutting stones. or possibly i dreamed this, and it was implicit.. )
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu had a photo from some (argentine?) church where there was specifically sign about 'cracked stones are being replaced with plastic'
asciilifeform: presently , it aint even clear to asciilifeform that it is possible to produce a pc-iron lisp that isn't doomed to resemble that pile of shit, simply on acct of the hostility of the iron to any kind of sense
asciilifeform: then again when phf brought up 'hey didja look at the internals', and i did, barfed mightily; the notion of cleaning sbcl makes the gnat work look trivial in comparison, ~whole thing is a pile of gnarly x86 hackolade
asciilifeform: even ordinary sbcl with graphics awareness, could theoretically do the job, i.e. the item laddel threatened to produce. but this also dun exist.
asciilifeform: without it, ~impossible to bake the type of item contemplated in that thrd.
asciilifeform: while on subj, 1 of the lost atlantian technologies i intend to saw out of bolix, is the sane graphics stack
asciilifeform: for 1 thing, asciilifeform also can push button, and typically does prior to returning verdict of 'this animal appears to be extinct'
asciilifeform: ... even was instrumental in installing the xray sys, i have this 2-body harness...
asciilifeform: ( who eats maybe half of what i do , and buys ~nuffin, but at same time does 9000 chores + 100% of food-crafting + mp-style 'here's a type of cake we haven't had yet' etc )
asciilifeform: Mocky: mno, idea is that it dun suffice to read how e.g. sharpshooter or parachutist does his thing, to learn to do it.
asciilifeform: iirc Mocky was an aged fella, already had 1 ... nth , neh?
asciilifeform: nah i mean his www , where described how he goes around and chix rise from the very earth and ask to be enslaved
asciilifeform: ( we also have pretty good description of how bird flies, but so far when asciilifeform flaps arms, for some reason dun get off ground.. )☟︎
