asciilifeform: i might not even be able to catalogue what else.

asciilifeform: but what else?

asciilifeform: incidentally i might not even ~know~ all of the assumptions which some luser somewhere might read into the text. mircea_popescu reminds me that most of'em probably think 'he has 1 computer, and 1 lan'

asciilifeform: lel

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has a point here, but i did consider 'run' to have been explained eons ago, when i publicly described my profession.

asciilifeform: (why? nfi, maybe they are in jail)

asciilifeform: even if it turns out that most folks do.

asciilifeform: just like i take a shit, you should not assume that i did it in same room i sleep and eat in.

asciilifeform: so - here you go, 'run' does not mean 'run all in one pot'

asciilifeform: neh simply forgot to explain that i 'redefined number 2'

asciilifeform: different machines, for different purposes, on different lans, etc.

asciilifeform: so consider it explained.

asciilifeform: i suppose my assumption that ~everyone~ has distinct 'circles of hell' for running proggies, is baseless

asciilifeform: *chlorophos

asciilifeform: does it mean i eat chrorophos for breakfast ?

asciilifeform: picture i were to run a pesticide shop

asciilifeform: 'run' here shorthand for 'on battlestation'

asciilifeform: have entire room of machines devoted to same.

asciilifeform: used to do it, for a living, even.

asciilifeform: hey i run virii ☟︎

asciilifeform: or 'drawing proggy'

asciilifeform: reversing is just as much a functional niche as 'music play'

asciilifeform: i have nfi what, then, is a niche.

asciilifeform: ditto 0day hunters, etc.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: used by pretty much 100% of reversers, auditors, etc. for whatever cpu ever manufactured.

asciilifeform: ida is the example of 'sole inhabitant of niche'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we're counting 'niche owners'

asciilifeform: ida is ~the~ example

asciilifeform: i've historically kept crapple boxen around for various occasions (commercial proggies for which no substitute exists, etc)

asciilifeform: fair'nuff

asciilifeform: then again he probably has a vax also.

asciilifeform: and since when did mircea_popescu keep a crappletron in his fleet

asciilifeform: http://www.winamp.com << whatddayaknow

asciilifeform: lel srsly?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on what do you run it? 'wine' ?

asciilifeform: and win95 to go with it ?

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: not same. total war, you can declare.. alone.

asciilifeform: but.

asciilifeform: yes, can haz fire...

asciilifeform: sorta like going from 'bic' lighter to flint.

asciilifeform: aha, all i get is bash history

asciilifeform: just as you cannot have a theatre that is also a dairy farm

asciilifeform: its continuation as whatever going concern is incompatible with their presence

asciilifeform: the muppets who 'i Just Want just like itunes...' must be expelled from civilized computing.

asciilifeform: FUCK 'metadata in file', 'libraries', etc.

asciilifeform: not fun, but no real alternative.

asciilifeform: i've been using command-line players ever since.

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: or 1,001 other once-commonplace breads and butters of linux world

asciilifeform: or consider the contortions you must go through, to build geda

asciilifeform: or xmms !

asciilifeform: (xpdf...)

asciilifeform: count, merely, the software packages that CANNOT BE USED today, that worked fine decade ago

asciilifeform: but today - one would have to be clinically stupid

asciilifeform: decade ago - i could even see

asciilifeform: why not 'die in a fire, scum' ☟︎

asciilifeform: why 'change subject'

asciilifeform: what does rme (who i know nothing of..) have to lose ?

asciilifeform: i dun get why more folks won't declare total war. ☟︎

asciilifeform: lel

asciilifeform: 'to examine a granfalloon, remove the skin of a toy balloon' (tm) (r) (vonnegut)

asciilifeform: any of it.

asciilifeform: as in, it NEVER had the slightest legitimate reason to exist.

asciilifeform: often there is ~whole project~ which consists of gendercommit.

asciilifeform: recall the 'flycheck' thread ?

asciilifeform: and if you dun hire, 'DISCRIMINATION!1111'

asciilifeform: mega-cv, such hireable, etc.

asciilifeform: but 'I HAZ MILLION COMMITZ!121111'

asciilifeform: by not firing the control shot, dao raper allowed mit to close own hole.

asciilifeform: hm?

asciilifeform: but am surprised that whoever took the bother of raping dao, did not follow through.

asciilifeform: didn't say that anybody in particular ought to clean up.

asciilifeform: i suppose we can add it to the very very long list of items which are supposedly 'dead' but continue to live, spraying out ecological poison left and right that will take eons to clean up

asciilifeform: i dun get it

asciilifeform: why bother with the etherape thing only to release the mouse, still alive and well, from the mousetrap later ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nobody no one ? not even on the battleship mircea_popescurora ?

asciilifeform: no one bothered to set off 'difficulty bomb' ? etc

asciilifeform: and, what, traditional-eth vanished immediately ?

asciilifeform: they fired already ?

asciilifeform: lulzy

asciilifeform: ty thestringpuller .

asciilifeform: because i sure as fuck ain't going ~looking~ for it

asciilifeform: may as well link

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: again, if you ~mention~ a thing that is happening solely on reddit, it is just the same as linking

asciilifeform: (if mircea_popescu dun feel like doing this experiment, perhaps another mechanically-literate fella ? ben_vulpes ?)

asciilifeform: it should not mention the purpose of the part.

asciilifeform: but i would like to read the essay first

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not necessarily - it is worthwhile experiment

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: please don't assume that folks read reddit unprompted. i don't

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: link ?

asciilifeform: and cut from that.

asciilifeform: he will pull the ubiquitous drawing once he realizes what you described.

asciilifeform: possibly bad experiment, because machinist will cheat

asciilifeform: i would love to see result !

asciilifeform: and have it machined.

asciilifeform: go and describe kalash bolt in words

asciilifeform: that ain't machining.

asciilifeform: what was it ? 'cut me a rod 10cm in length and 3 in diameter' ?

asciilifeform: they are here.