log☇︎
140000+ entries in 0.078s
mircea_popescu: i dun recall the soviets ever managing such a crisp icon of "the meeting with the politruk".
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the "weaved" sf : kinda the whole point of "3d printing", as i saw it at the time. useless wankery but who's gonna make the weaved nuclear reactor.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-17 05:22 mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the "interdictor" is this item which has a railgun, a supply of pellets, and a huge array of solar panels etc to power them. this item can then shoot fast pellets towards any other ship, crippling it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the major problem immediately becomes http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-17#1556179 ☝︎
asciilifeform: sorta how terrestrial castles went out of fashion.
asciilifeform: other problem is that - orders of magnitude cheaper to shoot, than to build.
mircea_popescu: bridge too far, certainly, but not nearly as far.
asciilifeform: it's a concept in roughly same weight class of technical feasibility as martian dome.
mircea_popescu: other than that, the salyuts were 20k or so.
mircea_popescu: (the iss is about half that, for the curious, and dun do much.)
mircea_popescu: i expect the large sats to be actually weaved, but the materials aren't there yet (and no word on weaved nuclear reactor yet, either)
mircea_popescu: the exact same is true of... well... steel. wtf are you going to make the 850`000 ton megasat out of ? "um... poured concrete ?" "what the fuck!?" "hey it worked for bridge engineering"
mircea_popescu: "chitin is great, better than steel for sub-cm foils".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, evidently gas diffusion was a problem. but this was re hypothetical item which is still ant-sized in body, but has really lengthy legs, rather than proportionate scaling
asciilifeform: ( or atmosphere -- richer in o2 -- but this is well known )
mircea_popescu: if it had lungs it'd have muscles (because current system not powerful enough and because since you got all that oxygen..). ant with lungs and muscles is called rat.
asciilifeform: ant could be considerably ( though not 'toyota' ) larger if he had lungs
mircea_popescu: resistence of materials starts fucking with you rapidly. (daddy, why is there no ant larger than a toyota prius???)
asciilifeform: the expense of lifting mass into orbit is the real biter; orbital station is comparable to solid gold pyramid
mircea_popescu: maybe that's what they're training for, with the ghost towns.
asciilifeform: possibly if they quit building ghost towns...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform depends where. i don't see china clearly enough to say. maybe they got turkeyws.
asciilifeform: sahara, bottom of the sea, etc.
mircea_popescu: for the same reason it's not fulla solar panels.
asciilifeform: turned out, there ain't the turkey dollars, for even quite modest station.
mircea_popescu: the problem with terrain trackers is that eg suddenly sahara becomes mega-valuable strategically.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall how concept of 'space station' came about ( 'somebody gotta change the vacuum tubes!' - '50s )
asciilifeform: the ease of monkeying with radio nav, is why east and west empires both sank $maxint into terrain-trackers in '80s ( what, if anything, this came to, i have nfi )
mircea_popescu: not clear wtf it will need. but yes, in principle a thousand-to-million-ton satellite is warranted by the gps needs. nobody said satellite stays thinspired forever.
asciilifeform: ( iirc a few 100w or so at the emitter )
asciilifeform: in the case of nav sats, he dun have to silence -- the signal is already quite weak
mircea_popescu: but mitigation si available on both lines there.
mircea_popescu: in general -- if enemy can silence your emitters AND retransmit them stronger, there's no saving you.
asciilifeform: by some accounts this is how cia pulled the korean air whatever# into sov airspace ( albeit with conventional, vs sat., navigatronics )
mircea_popescu: dun seem likely the usg is capable of it atany rate.
mircea_popescu: but basically, a blockchain-gps will be the next upgraded version of gps
asciilifeform: heavier and still trivially fucked in ~exactly same way
asciilifeform: either on the sats or on the ground.
asciilifeform: recall that it is not physically possible to perfectly sync the clocks, either
asciilifeform: it doesn't help if enemy ~helps~ you pick up a (genuine) signal at higher strength than naturally ought to be seen
asciilifeform: usg's gps already works on this principle iirc
mircea_popescu: receiver listens to frequencies for specific quanta of transmission : "this is station X transmitting count Y", rsa-signed. IF the signature verifies, and IF the y was not before seen (and if x on unit's access list etc) THEN the item is placed into quueue, to be sorted by signal strength. otherwise, dropped as noise.
asciilifeform: which are the actual datum in question
mircea_popescu: but the discussion was re an authenticable alt-item that dfun exist.
asciilifeform: this in fact happens naturally in city envir, and is called 'multipath', makes the receiver output ~randomola
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the current way gps/glonass works is not authenticated by definition, as you correctly point out.
asciilifeform: enemy can still fuck you by getting a genuine signal from your own sat, but one which your receiver ought not legitimately to be hearing ( or hearing in the given strength ) , conveying over a fiber, and retransmitting in your loc
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well you can't "retransmit" at a time before transmission. so yes unidirectionalyl in time.
mircea_popescu: "already saw 59065409405, disregarding the newer one"
asciilifeform: satellite nav systems work by 'which sats do i see, and what order are the relative signal strengths'. neither is authenticable .
asciilifeform: how does that help ?
asciilifeform: ( iirc we had the 'physically impossible to make cryptoauthenticable navigational or time signal, as others can receive and retransmit with delay' thread. )
asciilifeform: also, elementarily, don't transmit random crapola, transmit signals receive from actual sats, with random delay.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-30#1744647 << the Right Thing would be 1) also jam the usg gps freqs 2) attach to 9000 strato-balloons, release wherever. ☝︎
asciilifeform: possibly both of these have changed.
asciilifeform: 'secret/noforn course' << last i heard , every recruit into u.s. army gets auto-seekret. and that orc mercenaries were not inducted into 'socom' to begin with.
asciilifeform: whole thing pretty great.
asciilifeform: ly fabricated event, and later verified as untrue via internal investigation. He then went behind his TAC’s back and, because he had a very good working relationship with his NG Group Commander, produced a memo directing his reclassification as an 18E. Despite all of these acts, he was not relieved, but was given a recycle into the 18E course. He would fail the SFPA and retest twice before being graduated.' << ahaha
asciilifeform: 'SPC Thomas was an 18B trainee. He was first caught attempting to bribe an instructor with beer, and then later had a panic attack during an AAR while in the 18B FTX. During his relief board counseling, he attempted to blackmail 18B cadre by telling them that if relieved and returned to his unit, he would have to annotate that he witnessed the instruction of secret/noforn course material to international students. This was a complete
asciilifeform: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/Eznv2/?raw=true << whole thing, ftr. 31333337 w4r3z !111 ☟︎
asciilifeform: reminds of : ''I was such a pure and terrifying Aryan that they even put me in a special detachment. Its mission was to find out how the Jews always knew what the S.S. was going to do next There was a leak somewhere, and we were out to stop it' He looked bitter and affronted, remembering it, even though he had been that leak. 'Was the detachment successful in its mission?' I said. 'I'm happy to say,' said Arpad, 'that fourteen S.S. m ☟︎
mircea_popescu: cake pic takes the cake.
asciilifeform: somebody give this d00d order of red star.
asciilifeform: he levied was proven inaccurate or untrue. But as a student, he was given complete top cover and left unimpeded to continue creating havoc, and was not held accountable for the numerous integrity violations he committed. He graduated with his peers.' << win.
asciilifeform: 'o CPT Jimenez, currently in 7th Group, was the single source of several 4th Battalion investigations. He wrote anonymous emails, started IG complaints, or propagated rumors about virtually every single phase of the SFQC. His continual fabrications were verifiably false, and his numerous accusations resulted in several investigations that hampered operations for over a dozen cadre and battalion leadership. Literally every accusation
asciilifeform: holy FUQ the kvm thread...
mircea_popescu gloats at just how fucking convenient everything about that piece is.
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/color-revolutions-green-or-today-in-usg-corruption-careerism-cronyism-and-malfeasance-in-the-special-warfare-center/ << Trilema - Color revolutions (green), or today in USG corruption : Careerism, cronyism and malfeasance in the Special Warfare Center
asciilifeform: every so often somebody linkes from hn, reddit, etc ( and here i was thinking 'aaah, finally permabanned' ! ) ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is the ~only type of comment i historically get. it's a snoar.
mircea_popescu: lmao alf got 50 comments from idiots. hang it there alfie, this isn't any kind of basis for judging blog. hackertards are just trying to drive wedge between man and man's tools.
mircea_popescu: no systematic effort by the army itself to issue it, sure.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amphetamine (generally not very pure, and more or less racemic) was used to treat depression in the us from about the 30s. it was also used indiscriminately along with blessed chamrs/amulets and eg pink pills by soldiers.
asciilifeform: mats: this might explain the flood of fresh liquishit in the comments just nao.
mats: also, asciilifeform finally made the front page this morn
BingoBoingo: "In the last 24 months, Commanders and/or Sergeants Major at the Group and SWCS level have systematically removed numerous fundamental SF standards, lowered and undermined the grading metrics for others, all while simultaneously ensuring that a gagged cadre population was expressly prohibited from holding students accountable for their academic, physical, and character performance."
a111: Logged on 2017-11-30 02:17 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744358 <<< this is actually a remarkably effectual approach.
BingoBoingo: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-30#1744569 << Aha, yes. Also works when you have people outside your anthropology lab to bounce things off of that won't eat your bullshit ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-30#1744619 << jp army found the natural and obvious application. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-11-30 02:56 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744508 << the problem with amphetamine in ww1 (which is what that was), then confirmed in ww2, is that it is actually a disadvantageous tradeoff. the fundamental problem of mammals, which includes humans, is that yes they can charge, but they are ridiculously vulnerable after having charged. this has shaped the face of war, is the principal underlying engine of war, and so on. in ~general~ t
lobbes: historical log-walk is next in the conveyor. still thinking through the distribution system.
lobbes: ~93% of the urls passing through both #trilema/#eulora in this time have been 'archivable' through archive.is; failures account for what you'd expect: typos in url, tar.gz files, misc. webpages that archive.is evidently barfs on
lobbes: I'm pleased to at least report my archive-to-zip engine is functional. I have zipped some 1300 links so far leading back to Nov 8. All routing through archive.is without exception
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 23:23 asciilifeform: ( also not sure how comparable is the psychology of krokodilism, which is a form of morphinism, to gabriel_laddeling. )
lobbes: in other lulz from the past that are even lulzier now: http://btcbase.org/log/?date=15-07-2014#756534
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 22:03 gabriel_laddel: the cartels are not sophisticated enough to read the logs & go "hey, if there is enough variation in alcohols for one of the world's most wealthy men to comment on them, perhaps also for our product"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744530 << note that the alcohol discussion is re taste. they all get you drunk. (arguably not the same drunk, i guess, but anyway) ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 22:01 asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: if so, why no one isolated the contaminant and sold as own dope ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744527 << the theory was as of some obscure synergy. quite possibly urban legend. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 21:59 trinque: these are not slaves in your book?
mircea_popescu: works, so to speak, like a rocket tied to a formula 1 car. those items need more thrust like i need more nose ; they need more adherence is what they need, and rocket dun help that.
mircea_popescu: this is why reserves are a thing, for instance.
mircea_popescu: he positive results from a successful charge do not come close to the potential negative results of your exhausted troop being attacked.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744508 << the problem with amphetamine in ww1 (which is what that was), then confirmed in ww2, is that it is actually a disadvantageous tradeoff. the fundamental problem of mammals, which includes humans, is that yes they can charge, but they are ridiculously vulnerable after having charged. this has shaped the face of war, is the principal underlying engine of war, and so on. in ~general~ t ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 21:48 asciilifeform: puyi famously got cleaned out, 'palace uh.. burned down, uhyea' sort of thing
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744495 << yes, it was a sarcastic reference to "they stole the stones right out of the empress' marrying diadem the same day the marriage took place". ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 21:11 gabriel_laddel: n idea, or some form of sensory input bodily electrical resonance. MP's 'women are only useful as slaves' comes to mind. Are men only useful when tweaking? 'Bennies' were readily available at Los Alamos during MP. Did no-sleep-drive-and-read-johnny use? I can't find primary sources and am also digressing... Tweaking. Something WILL grab your intere
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 21:11 asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: have some patience, ffs, post things in-chan
asciilifeform: all kinds of supposed ‘obsoletes’ are comin’ back, when time comes.
asciilifeform: and we had the phages thread.