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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo im writing up teh orlando shooting if it please teh qntra
mircea_popescu: whole "gavin got consensus" "trump don't got a chance" bla bla all over again.
mircea_popescu: by now "the powers that wanna-be" are getting raped at random street corners by random passers by.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you qntraing this or we dont' gas enough ?
mircea_popescu: it's just about all over, there's maybe a coupla million left to vote.
mircea_popescu: prolly govt collapse, elections, a few years w/o govt belgium style, stuff like that.
mircea_popescu: not like he'd have existed if there wasn't a usg.pd around. or a usg in the first place.
mircea_popescu: flywheel / time switched connections being an obvious one.
mircea_popescu: 3.5k transistors is actually not a bad model for a neuron, as bugpowder may perhaps attest.
mircea_popescu: honestly if i wanted to make a "human brain model" it'd be something like this, 10k chips sitting around 10 GB worth of ram and talking into it dirtily.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: especially as you could make a really large pile of ram
mircea_popescu: large pile of sram with a bunch of 6502s around it would make a pretty interesting parallel thing
mircea_popescu: this is one of those situations when enema is supposed to show up with 200 tanks and 5k infantry, shows up with three jeeps and two dozen streetwalkers instead. everyone just looks around in embarassment
mircea_popescu: da fuck anyone knows what goes on through the bright heads that can't light bulbs of us stem unis.
mircea_popescu: phf i thought it was gonna be slotin and his beryllium hemisphere
mircea_popescu: the problem being more that, of the ~10% miners that voted, the split is about 4:1 in favour. of the rest... well... something more like the reverse.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in other lulz, ethereum soft fork just got postponed 15k blocks (~2 days).
☟︎ mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ironically, this was great savings initiative in soviet lands 1970s
mircea_popescu: full spectrum dominance, you know ? "first we fuck up your scamcoin, on ops basis, then you spend all you got to try and prop it somewhere around 70% of what it was, then you try to attack bitcoin on fin basis, we rape you, then..."
mircea_popescu: and from the other perspective, you can have this ensemble in a baloon and solar powered. etc.
mircea_popescu: they still use the chip, however the hot glue is poured atop ya know.
mircea_popescu: i'd expect they cut corners, what's the budget for "smartening" a juicer, 15 bux ?
mircea_popescu: still, how the fuck your lookup is going to be less than 8 cycles, you need 2 to call and 2 to return
mircea_popescu: apparently mos tech actually did the "design" oilpen on paper
mircea_popescu: i seriously think if one proposed 20mhz people'd have been "you'll asphyxiate going that fast"
mircea_popescu: well i have nfi. all my memories are clearly from a different era wtf 20mhz
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so you do 4 mults which are iirc 32 cycles each + 3 shifts and 4 additions, for a grand total of ~200
mircea_popescu: and ALSO exactly homomorphic to why i said division doesn't belong in there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually long multiply as squares and sums is not half of a bad idea, because binary processor.
mircea_popescu: complete with all the sclerotic tissue of say hollywood, reproduced at scale.
mircea_popescu: there's an immense pile of these, they all sound the same, it's a whole subculture.
mircea_popescu: this is actually romanian. gypsy wanna-be sampled a video of orchestra, put his track on top
mircea_popescu: people in my (and i guess also your) part of the world did a lot of traveling around europe while staying home
mircea_popescu: well, exactly like pili, except the weak-ass l is replaced by the zdrongezt consonant known to man.
mircea_popescu: anyway, facebook apparently also does this "we'll archive by default ANYTHING linked from our pages and serve it from our own servers. this way we don't leak ips etc, and so nobody will ever figure out just how few users we have."
mircea_popescu: i've but a vague memory, i keep about as close tabs on this shitshow as i do on github.