asciilifeform: as i said, this is kinda like that time i wanted to launch a satellite.

asciilifeform: riflefman.

asciilifeform: girl smells the moneyz.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: fully covered in this dept.

asciilifeform: not sure if i got enough gold dubloons

asciilifeform: merely gedankenexperiment currently.

asciilifeform: prolly not

asciilifeform: lelz

asciilifeform: so may as well go to it on own schedule.

asciilifeform: i figure, 'war is interested in you' and will come here eventually

asciilifeform: (the derelicts, not the cuckolds)

asciilifeform: i am interested in subj mainly as an experimental test of some of my assumptions

asciilifeform: head pidor by the latrine

asciilifeform: l0l: the sp4mz0rz pushing the derelict houses called me back and offered to consolidate the tour, they actually thought i wanted to buy ~all~ of them..

asciilifeform: wtf is an alpha cuck !!

asciilifeform: we came from the cucks, who came from the trucks...

asciilifeform: i dun get it.

asciilifeform: 'hi i heard there is a party, let me stand in the corner and snort the alcohol fume plox'

asciilifeform: pablo___ et al.

asciilifeform: i always wondered.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what are the remoras even DOING here

asciilifeform will be touring baltimoralalabad and kandamore in the flesh

asciilifeform: or wat, you will tell me this EXISTS ??

asciilifeform: forfuxxsake

asciilifeform: 'lego is hard for fat children to play with' << tr0l0l0l

asciilifeform: lol i got call back..

asciilifeform: plausible.

asciilifeform: that sink

asciilifeform: HOW ^

asciilifeform: http://photos2.zillowstatic.com/p_f/ISdov0lm5hhpd71000000000.jpg << holy fuq

asciilifeform: but it smacks of 'elephant is simply a very heavy type of fly'

asciilifeform: then yes

asciilifeform: this is a defensible pov but not quite what anybody expects.

asciilifeform: i cross the road, i am in paving biz ?

asciilifeform: or - if i buy icecream - i am in icecream biz ?

asciilifeform: i thought 'in biz' were, roughly, if you intended to make money reselling

asciilifeform: a new pocket knife - in cutlery biz ?

asciilifeform: and if i buy a car i am in car biz ?

asciilifeform: ok in that sense yes

asciilifeform: sellers of derelicts that are a few $k of new carpet away from habitability.

asciilifeform: what made you think this.

asciilifeform: nah

asciilifeform actually wrote to some of the sellers...

asciilifeform: 'lose the other army! or lose yourself!11111'

asciilifeform: better ROI.

asciilifeform: go to north pole, build network with polar bears.

asciilifeform: the monkeys ?

asciilifeform: with whom ?

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: (for complicated political reasons local telco monopoly didn't rollout)

asciilifeform: fiberlessness is actually pestilential even in 'rich' baltimore.

asciilifeform: if i can get fiber there!11111

asciilifeform: wat

asciilifeform: (stallman hated him for it, even)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: noftsker wasn't really an engineer

asciilifeform: (or if you're thinking of theoretically complete replacement for the rpc - it wouldn't have to be re-written, with correct dozen lines of glue)

asciilifeform: go, read.

asciilifeform: it isn't

asciilifeform: for fucks sake

asciilifeform: yes but the glue is the only part that might vary.

asciilifeform: (or your own scheme)

asciilifeform: you could prolly replace it with, e.g., SIOD, without breaking a sweat

asciilifeform: basic idea of 'this lisp func calls this here c func' is same regardless

asciilifeform: plus how much of it is there - a dozen lines ?

asciilifeform: jurov: not really

asciilifeform: too little / too late

asciilifeform: (and lived)

asciilifeform: it is not clear that smbx would be famous and interesting today if they had transformed themselves into a sun earlier.

asciilifeform: pretty much everybody else bought the cheaper suns when they became available. and ran cruddy sun lisps on'em, etc.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was important ~for symbolics~

asciilifeform: it does appear that you can't get fiber in most of these. which is the real deal-killer for me.

asciilifeform is simply REALLY TIRED of paying rent. ☟︎

asciilifeform: noo what

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Baltimore-MD/3523_rid/0-25000_price/0-88_mp/pricea_sort/39.313,-76.570641,39.273593,-76.593129_rect/15_zm/0_mmm << i have nfi whether scamz, etc.

asciilifeform: phf: lel! was it full of Thugs?

asciilifeform: we are here <---

asciilifeform: then nothing happened.

asciilifeform: then somebody ( mircea_popescu ? ) suggested that it could be used to replace the idiot json rpc.

asciilifeform: cleaned up, released (as pedigree chain from original tinyscheme)

asciilifeform: brief overview: i had it lying around because was trying to make a mempool debugger at one time.

asciilifeform: *replaced

asciilifeform: 3) is theoretically r4rs compliant and can be reimplemented without rewriting payload code or replaces with another r4rs-compliant scheme at some future point.

asciilifeform: 2) never touches input from outside world if properly operated.

asciilifeform: then again it is 1) unaudited crud that predates bitcoin

asciilifeform: and various folks ( mircea_popescu ? ) pointed out that it is 2000 ln of unaudited crud, that ought not be used in battlefield

asciilifeform: iirc it dun do anything interesting yet.

asciilifeform cannot offer advice on placating shiva, you must call experts

asciilifeform: the hindu god ?!

asciilifeform: waiwat

asciilifeform: you don't need courage to kick a dead lion.

asciilifeform: iirc google lives in the old sgi campus.

asciilifeform: (then promptly died)

asciilifeform: sgi swallowed that market.

asciilifeform: ah 'framethrower'

asciilifeform: media lab == usg.

asciilifeform: afaik amex was the ONLY major 100% non-usgtronic customer.

asciilifeform: there were no massive rollouts.

asciilifeform: it was peanuts in '90s also.

asciilifeform: phf: that the market consisted ~100% of usg, and that it stopped buying, and the commitments smbx was locked into spending-wise remained, and bankrupted it - is not mega-seekrit.

asciilifeform takes off hat.