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mircea_popescu: for all alf's hopes that
a precise ballmer point of methamphetamine with speedballs might make him visualize valuable novel proofs,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if there exists
a systematic model for ratings, the wot has failed. you understand this right ?
BingoBoingo: And the Torpey derp is papering the propaganda path for this outcome well in advance of its public unveiling, hence meriting
a neg-rating if he had the balls to exist in the first place.
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 17:34:55; pete_dushenski: actually, 'alf dog' sounds like
a great comic strip idea
BingoBoingo: I'd been trying that and upon seeing his latest derp and pete doing rating decided just to see if
a rating could stick
pete_dushenski: "Months after winning
a national title, Harvard’s debate team has fallen to
a group of New York prison inmates."
ascii_field: and i'd say more, but it is
a little bit off topic...
ascii_field: in
a few 100 lines of 'scheme' (
a lisp dialect)
ascii_field: goes from
a program, all the way to
a chip die generated by said program, AND able to run it !
pete_dushenski: for
a bit of history, when was the last clean sheet design made ? and by whom ? the gods ?
ascii_field: NO ONE has, for
a very long time, designed
a cpu in the sense of actually laying out the transistors.
pete_dushenski: well, even if new cpu was designed, it'd have to be made at one of
a handful of facilities, the odds of which are ~0, yes ?
ascii_field: really the other thing, imho, is more interesting - that modern tech is far more of
a centralized thing than anything in old su ever was
pete_dushenski: as to how far and how improbably
a culture and economy has to come to develop that which we take for granted.
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: reasonable enough not to launch
a trillion's worth of au into the sun.
ascii_field: at this time, every single copy of every variant of bitcoin in the world runs on
a cpu designed - and, in almost all cases, made - by the usg ministry of crudputing !!
ascii_field: mircea_popescu actually worked some magic to try scoring
a sample board but nothing came of it.
pete_dushenski: they could teach ethertards
a thing or two if they're ~that~ good.
ascii_field: for all i know, it is
a '90s-style chumpatron like the last elbrus !
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: i do not know for
a fact that elbrus was made.
ascii_field: if we must have
a rigorous definition, say 'cpu which can keep the blockchain'
ascii_field: modern ru was - if we are to believe elbrus co. - just barely able to make
a handful of 'pentium 1'-equiv. items.
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: But flying to intercept means getting close enough for
a bored kind at Nellis to put the drone into
a hard turn for the lulz
BingoBoingo lives
a county away from Airforce Base, see
a lot of cargo haulers and the decoy air force one fleet often
ascii_field: thing is just
a slow flying platform to drop one or two rocket bombs from
ascii_field: there are
a few hanging in the national airplane museum
trinque: I've already heard
a derp repeat "they're shooting down our drones!"
pete_dushenski: that is actually
a fascinating truth. quite revelatory of the complexity involved.
pete_dushenski: ascii_field this is perhaps
a better restatement of what i was getting at with the uniqueness of computing
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> you can't buy
a truck without plastic in it, and computerized ignition, either. << Sure you can... Just not new
ascii_field: you can't buy
a truck without plastic in it, and computerized ignition, either.
ascii_field: find me
a motherfucking laptop with ips display and room for 24G that doesn't have nvidia piece of shit.
pete_dushenski:
a role they play to this day, much to the detriment of their own long-term survival.
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: this kind of thing began in 1960-70s, where 'why did this computer end up in su' became
a thing
pete_dushenski: and toyotas have
a hard-earned reputation for lasting longer than regimes.
pete_dushenski: because what's to negotiate with ? usg is
a nebulous metastatic blob with no end and no beginning. trying to have
a conversation with it is like talking to
a tree and expecting the forest to play along.
ascii_field: in turn, no one bothers to develop an actual driver because 'dontcha know, ubuntu is linux and there is
a linux driver'
ascii_field: because it enables
a host of sc4mz0rz to peddle 'linux-compatible!!1!!!11' crud that is entirely not
ascii_field: incidentally, the very existence of 'ubuntu' is
a blight.
ascii_field: this is (or was) afaik the most expensive portable sold, and it is ~still~
a turd
ascii_field has been trying and failing to get external lcd working on
a w540 for >year now
pete_dushenski: so... you can spec
a 'microshit surface pro 4' with 1tb hd, 16gb ram, intel i7 for... $2`700 !
pete_dushenski doesn't, ftr, think alf is anything like
a 'crank' but that he's easily the foremost expert on those who are
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: sure the bar is lower for dogs, where's the alf dog ? not meeting
a stand-out example allows the others to enjoy their mediocre unexceptionalism
mike_c: Although there is that weird feeling of frustration and pride when your stubborn two year old will not do what you want, but you realize that's because he is
a lot like you.
mike_c: mhm. let's circle back on that when your newborn gets
a personality :)
mike_c: you can train
a dog to do what you tell it.
pete_dushenski: i mean, if you're going to put that much work into
a lump of flesh, from infancy on upwards, why not at least mould it in your own image ?
pete_dushenski: "For just $19.99, ShipFoliage.com will send you
a few leaves harvested from the colorful forest floors of Vermont and New Hampshire. “Each leaf is carefully picked and color balanced in
a bundle of three,” the website reads." << so $6.66 for
a generic leaf ?? what was that about money not growing on trees ?
mircea_popescu recalls many winters ago going through books, discovering $680 express charge. turns out that if you want nyc service "within three days" you gotta pay like
a week's wages. otherwise, the waiting list's 5 weeks long.
mike_c: hehe, don't lose that guy's number. I bet
a good contractor is almost as hard to find down there as it is up here.
punkman: "Like the other packages, this one included
a circled hand and the words, also written in gold Sharpie: “See, not so short!” I sent the picture back by return mail with
a note attached, saying, “Actually, quite short.” Which I can only assume gave him fits."
punkman: "There is always
a photo of him—generally
a tear sheet from
a magazine. On all of them he has circled his hand in gold Sharpie in
a valiant effort to highlight the length of his fingers."
punkman: "Just to drive him
a little bit crazy, I took to referring to him as
a “short-fingered vulgarian” in the pages of Spy magazine. That was more than
a quarter of
a century ago. To this day, I receive the occasional envelope from Trump."
mircea_popescu: it's
a typical surface-and-radius problem, and we for some reason fell on the lucky side of it.
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 04:54:48; punkman: "We try
a chest X-ray, turning up the power to the maximum setting. All we see is white: The patient’s body is just too thick to allow standard X-rays to penetrate to the bones; he is
a walking lead shield."
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 04:35:36; phf: known as блат in russian,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blat_(favors). though that word is more often used in context of getting ahead i think it basically applies to overall structure of society. when shit hits the fan you call
a your sister's husband's uncle who's
a general, "vasily mikhalich, this is such and such..."
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 04:23:01; phf: in su we were taught
a different strategy, since "having evidence" is top kek, know who to call if things go bad. if you had no one to call, you were shit out of luck
mircea_popescu: they'll get all the effort underway for
a "sting operation", easy 100k worth, then you can just point and laugh at them.
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 03:47:51; BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> wat's
a murder-duplex << In 2005 wife doused her husband in kerosene and lit
a match. Now walking free because only manslaughter
mircea_popescu: this makes it
a better thing to do than any alternative, for the guy in question.
mircea_popescu: she actually does have
a point, tho im sure she made
a mess of it. or maybe not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform my main problem is that i find interacting with meat people to be
a very mentally taxing thing. << explain ?
gabriel_laddel: if they'd just get out of the way, it would be
a lot of fun.
mircea_popescu: the happy travelling salesman is the salesman that has
a girlfriend in every town on the route and
a friendly boss at every competitor.
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 03:33:48; phf: apartment living goes well with other outsourced infrastructure, i.e. ghetto warehouse for your lathe-placement-needs. you can do it on the cheap by pulling resources at
a hackerspace
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 03:28:38; asciilifeform: then anything bigger than
a lift cabin is burned $